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RE: no dig raised garden beds

Posted 778 days ago

You only have to put "no dig garden" into your search engine and heaps will come up. Give it a go.

RE: no dig raised garden beds

Posted 777 days ago

Here is a new product that is made of the plastic that they make poly rainwater tanks out of. It is UV stabalised and good grade. The beauty of this product is it has a built in water receptical in the base of the planter. This captures the water and nutrients and allows you to then recycle these back onto your garden.

It is also at a nice height so you don't have to bend over to garden. These are great for a balcony or patio.

Take a look: http://www.ezygrow.com.au
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RE: no dig raised garden beds

Posted 777 days ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, BUT , what has plastic flower-pots got to do with a no-dig garden????? None of my raised no-dig beds has plastic anything in them. Question : why would you wish to take all the nutrients OUT of the flower-pot and bung same elsewhere?
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RE: no dig raised garden beds

Posted 775 days ago

HI Hutcho your are funny made me lough and you are right about flower pot in regards of rised garden and I will answer you question Bron 77 would like to save some money on buyng extra fertiliser which it is good cause sometimes you can have too much therefore use it elsewere
regards tomatojoe48
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RE: no dig raised garden beds

Posted 758 days ago

I've built myself a large no dig garden in raised garden bed.

I build it out of pine sleepers, lined with plastic to stop the arsenic from getting into the soil.

The garden is working fantastically, the no dig garden holds so much more water than normal soil, and plants can be spaced closer together.

Plus weeds are extremely easy to pull out.

The main thing to remember with making a no dig garden is to get the carbon (dry leaves, pea straw anything solid and dry) and nitrogen (manures, grass clippings) mix correct. Too much carbon and the manure won't be able to break it down, too much nitrogen and it'll get too dense and water won't be able to penetrate.

The tricky thing I had was keeping costs down. There is a local equestrian horse paddock close to me, where all the horse owners dump all their poo into one area where people can just drive in with a trailer and load up at any time, and there is more then enough. So I think I carted about 20 trailer loads of horse manure. And I also went to one of the fodder stores and bought pea straw from there (It's a tenth of the price of buying it in bunnings.). Then I layered it with pea straw and horse manure, I threw some grass clippings and dynamic lifter for the fun of it.

Also, another important note. Water down every layer well before putting the next one in, and with every layer of carbon, give a good dose of blood and bone (preferably with potash), otherwise the bed will be lacking nitrogen while its all breaking down.

Also, one thing I did wrong, don't plant things that are more than one season yet, I planted rhubarb and asparagus , but the bed has broken down and sunken to a quarter of the original materials, so it'll all need to be topped up again, which means transplanting all the rhubarb and asparagus :(

After layering the bed, give it 3-4 weeks (about the time before everything stopped dying after it was planted) before planting anything, and even then buy a cheap bag of composted cow manure from bunnings, make a hole and pour the manure into the hole and put the plant into the middle.

Just remember to keep it semi wet for the first few weeks, it'll help speed up the breaking down and make it better.

Also, a fun note. I've got a long raised garden bed, and I built up a chook pen on part of the garden, I keep on giving them scraps and bails of pea straw, and they are slowly making me another raised garden bed. :D

I can take pictures to show you if you'd like.

Hope this helps.

RE: no dig raised garden beds

Posted 758 days ago

Hi Wendy
We are a company called Birdies Garden Products and we produce a modular raised garden bed system which makes vegetable growing eaiser for the Backyard Farmer. The bed is easy to assemble and can be set up in 4 different styles. It also comes in three different heights and colours. Bunnings stock them but you can also get more information, ask us more questions and purchase them directly from our website http://www.birdiesgardenproducts.com.au

Cheers
Simon

RE: no dig raised garden beds

Posted 757 days ago

You can buy a DVD called PATCH FROM SCRATCH from the ABC Shop which has great info on this topic. We love it!
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RE: no dig raised garden beds

Posted 742 days ago

Hi Columnmn

Thanks for all your tips and advice, I can get sheep and cows manures from my partners farm, so that is not a problem it was to know how to layer etc, to which I think you have covered everything, but may I ask, do you get weeds, as I know my parents didin't?