Starting a raised bed garden can be an exciting and rewarding experience. Still, there are some common mistakes even experienced gardeners can make. Before planting, here are five raised bed garden mistakes to avoid so your gardening journey is successful.
Introduction: 00:00
Mistake one: 00:27
Mistake two: 01:36
Mistake three: 02:53
Mistake four: 03:38
Mistake five: 05:49
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39 Comments
Just ordered a watering grid based on your recommendation – my beds have rounded corners so it’s great that they have cornerless options. Great video – thank you!
Awesome advice! I'm still a relative newbie here in the Phoenix area, and I love the calendar I bought from you.
I have started with "portable" raised beds on legs so they could be moved if necessary. My gardener added drip outlets to the beds. But I have the tools now to add more if needed.
I've learned the hard way about soil and timing. Shade too.
Thanks so much!
Thank you for putting out great gardening information! I've learned so much from your channel! I'm in zone 10b, so I watch a lot of southern gardeners for what to plant and when 👍🏽
Hi Angela, I look forward to all your videos. You have such great information. I live just north of you in Tonto Basin and its a little cooler up here but not much. We’re in 8b/9 here. I put in those watering grids last season and they worked amazing. I’m getting ready to add a few more beds and will be adding more of them. Happy Gardening. 😊
Good Afternoon
Thanks you for sharing garden tips.
Good advice!
Very helpful – thank you!
Wow! sister, I love your work
This year has taught me how much the frost date can change! I live in AZ too, zone 8b and we usually have our last frost mid February…. And there is snow covering my beds today March 3rd 😢 no fun! All my little starts are looking so sad!
Great advice, I use raised beds and really appreciate you sharing your knowledge on this subject! 😊
I'm here in East Mesa and have been binging your content; my one raised bed that got me into gardening at my new house last year didn't do so hott, in fact, all it did was provide some cilantro that my dog enjoyed….. Definitely think it was bad soil from home depot; I'm putting up 5 more garden beds this weekend and took a note from you, having a delivery of AZ worm farm bed mix being delivered, hoping to have SOME sort of harvest this season to get the confidence up.
You know, when looking for love in the past, I always sought out a gal with her own fishing boat. I believe I’ll be adding a new addendum to this criteria. She must also have a awesome garden with raised beds. 🤣😜😇
I living in San tan/ florence area, you’ve inspired me to start a garden this week!!
Thank you so much for the good information.
With this crazy weather lately her in southern Az, when would be a good time to start seeds? I am, i just dont want to do it too soon because of the cold/freezing weather.
I’m 9b in Florida. A lot wetter but still your advice works here as well. Thank you
I have some raised beds on a hill slope… do drip hoses and grids HAVE to be level to distribute even watering pressure? (I.e. will they water too much down hill and not at all on the upper slope?)
I have one bed which I made every single one of these mistakes with 😂. I named it my “bed of disappointment.” It’s for the iitoi onions now.
Thank you, Angela, for your great gardening videos. With your advice I think I’ll try a second raised bed and will order those really nice looking drip irrigation systems for the 2 beds I’ll have this year. This has been a cold start this spring in the desert valley near Phoenix.
Great advice, very informative. I use the same techniques 😊
farmers almanac is handy but planting times are way off in my area for 90% of what I grow if I went by farmers almanac recommendation I would not have much success fortunately I was obsessed with doing research when I first started 6 years ago and figured this out before using these suggestions for seed starting and planting in ground it may be correct in other locations but not in Western Washington
How do you keep those structures from rusting. At my nursery they are all rusted.
Thanks so much for information. Will try drip system used last year but different watering system.
The beez kneez of raised garden beds has to be the 'wicking garden bed' ~ think bath tub with a fill and a drain point (a tad too simplistic but helps with the visual).
Basically its primary advantage is with your plants, not you, and their individual watering needs, not your ability to guess when your plant need watering.
Lotsa different sites to learn from.
Grows heaps of veggies under less stress than most ~all~ alternatives.
So true!
Thank you for sharing ❤
Great info. Soil is the most important for sure. Thank you!
I think that Ill do little hills as raised bed! I think it will help with water etc
Best indoor and outdoor fertilizer…
I would love more information on your worn bucket
Thank you so much Angela! I’m in central Phoenix and the timing has been the hardest for me to get down. Going on 3 years gardening and I’m still like “can I plant that now?” Cause so many things will grow but the heat will just kill it off. I just ordered your calendars and labels! Thank you so much cause now I’ll have a better chance and won’t spend as much time growing things just to see them suffer lololol
I live in California how do I find out which zone I live in
By the way I am new to your site. You share very good content for me as a beginner. Thank you
This is Awesome!! Such great advice and very informative! Thank you for sharing this with us.❤❤
How wide is your raised bed. I have 8ft x 4ft x 16 inches high. I am 5' tall and reaching middle of this bed is little difficult. I've noticed others in community garden have smaller raised beds e.g. 2'x2' or 4'x2'. Even 8ft x 3ft I imagine it feels more comfortable.
Thank you from Ohio, still to early for us. I have seen on other videos that using logs as filler in the beds can cause an imbalance in the soil????
May I ask. Have you ever had any failures with you're garden? Its not a hate comment, I just wanna know if I ever run into an issue were I do the exact same steps, but one or two of my plants don't make it for some reason
Great advice. Thanks Angela.
This year is my 40th yr growing 💗
In water based systems – hydro/dwc pH and nutrient solution temperature are critical
In soil – feed the soil & Not the plant 🌱 the plant will do what plants have already done for Trillions of years ❤️👍😎 But they Cannot do that if your soil is 💩☹️🌱☠️
… It's simple as that,but humans just love to over complicate things in life and growing 🌱 plants is no different 🤔 Keep it Simple 👍😎
If using bottled nutes I'd always recommend using Less than it says on the label , if I read 10ml per litre I'll perhaps go as little as 5ml & see how the plant goes 🌱 … Any yellowing then I'll increase to perhaps 6 or 7ml per litre & again see how it's going 🌱♥️
… Always remember companies are interested in money , more nutes used = More products sold = more profit 🤔👍👍 that's basic model for most buisness's 😂