Think growing vegetables is hard work? Pam & Paul built an easy vegetable garden with raised beds on their farm in upstate South Carolina. Pam shows you how we built and planted our vegetables plus gives you some tips on growing organic vegetables without a lot of time and fuss. Pam Stone, Sharon Decker and Ramona Holloway host the radio program “The Satisfied Life” out of Charlottle, NC. www.thesatisfiedlifenetwork.com. Paul Zimmerman is Pam’s other half and owns Ashdown Roses. www.ashdownroses.com.
Very? ordered…..loved the dogs…they just love cameras don’t they lOL
At the end of the video you mentioned that you are running out of room to plant? more in your garden. I couldn’t tell for sure but it appears that you are still thinking in terms of row gardening. Unless you are using a tractor you should forget about rows. If you use the techniques of Square Foot Gardening you can grow more crops in the same space. There is a Square Foot Gardening book as well as a website. (The website name is obvious.)
I think she said in the video that the wood is 3 years old so I imagine all the chemicals have leached out? and are gone by now. It might be a good idea in the future not to use the treated wood though. For natural alternatives something like Cypress, Cedar or Redwood could be? used.
Regarding the beds being pressure treated lumber. It used to be treated with a product that contained traces of arsenic. The code was CCA.
New products no longer contain that. They use Alkaline cooper quaternary (ACQ). After research including speaking with colleagues at Texas A&M this is what we used.
They found it to be safe? and other studies I researched found the same. Not all pressure treated lumber is the same. Look for lumber treated with ACQ and avoid those treated with CCA.
@AshdownRoses Thank you so much? for posting this information about CURRENT pressure treated wood. I suppose people get excited when you say “pressure treated” because they grew up with the Arsenic type treatment. Kind of like the old wives tales: If you shave your legs more hair will grow back. Erm, not really a great metaphor is it.
@AshdownRoses receint studies have shown that ACQ, while not as harmfull does give off? bad things.it’s not perfect either.what I do is use natural wood and treat it with 2 applications of linseed oil..my beds show no signs of decay after 5 years.
Like your garden. Very neat! Thanks for sharing.?
Two words: Compost Tea.
For some excellent advice? on it checkout Praxxus55712 ‘s channel
Awesome Garden and great tips AshdownRoses
Compost Tea? = excellent advice. Thanks!
I really like your little garden, it? looks organized and pretty.
You can “chop and drop” to create valuable mulch!. You should not chop and drop dead tomato vines because they have a chemical in them that suppresses other plant’s growth. So take them out and compost them separately to be used only in “tomato only” containers. If you keep dropping the vegetable cuttings back into the raised beds (and NEVER allow your soil to be uncovered) you can boost production greatly without ANY fertilizer. Add red earth worms! And use the suggested? compost tea.
You can “chop and drop” to create valuable mulch!. You should not chop and drop dead tomato vines because they have a chemical in them that suppresses other plant’s growth. So take them out and? compost them separately to be used only in “tomato only” containers. If you keep dropping the vegetable cuttings back into the raised beds (and NEVER allow your soil to be uncovered) you can boost production greatly without ANY fertilizer. Add red earth worms! And use the suggested compost tea.
Y’all have to look into “combination? planting”.
your garden? looks very nice!
awesome life style may i suggest adding some grape vines around and over your shower , i have been building above ground self watering vegetable boxes and there? is no weeding , worms , bugs etc totally organic , Happy Gardening
does pressure treated lumber not bleed cancer causing chemicals in the food we consume? i only use cedar and untreated spruce/ pine, i dont believe studies? are 100% correct takes to long to prove, better safe than sorry i guess
nice tits,? mom
you can? use flour as a pesticide .put it on in the evening and it gets wet and the bugs eat the flour and thats it no more bugs great safe pesticide
I’ve never heard of that but will try it.? Thanks!
@GreedIsYourGod I am interested in this system, but don’t understand “never allow your soil? to be uncovered” Can you explain a little more? Thanks, Lynn
@Ja72corbin Great? idea, thanks.
a really wonderful video. really nice? thing to do.
cucumbers don’t go? with tomato’s, bad companions there so it’s wrong
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