Eleventh reason for raised-bed gardening: Adequate cover in the event of gunfight with outlaws and armed possums. Twelfth: Painting wicked flames on the sides of the containers to prove you haven't gotten old and lame. Thirteenth: Empty out a bed, hop inside, pull layer of mulch over yourself. You are now less likely to be spotted by Australia's native fauna and eaten by giant spiders or roving land-trilobites. Fourteenth: The Man says you can't, and you'll show him! Fifteenth: Raised-bed gardening enables you to make pretty cool videos about raised-bed gardening. Sixteenth: Even if your crops are crap, they look like you brought them up crap on purpose, as opposed to sticking them in the dirt and forgetting about them. Seventeenth: Get to use the word "Huglekultur" or whatever it was. Eighteenth: Bottom of beds is an excellent place to hide bottles of alcohol from your wife/kids/sponsor. Nineteenth: Get the chemistry right -- You could be the first human being to cultivate truffles in a subtropical climate. Twentieth: Dump out dirt, fill with hot water = Budget Jacuzzi

I have been slowly switching over to raised beds because of my health, but found out the true benefit when my daughter was paralyzed 2 years ago. She doesn't have to depend on me to get fresh veggies and fruits...she can reach them herself (and her chair doesn't get bogged down in the dirt like it does in our main garden).

We raise bed garden in Africa, but have to do it more with rows of piled dirt. We dont have access to the nice containers and the indigenous people could not even afford bricks to outline the beds. So, we just use heaped up compost/soil. The things you teach are very useful, and actually work even with rows of dirt mounds.

I just realized I've been watching your channel for 7 straight hours. Hahaha, love ya Mark! You're a bloody legend and have gotten me back into my passion for gardening after a real dark period in my life - with your enthusiasm and great advice!

I started using raised beds about 25 years ago. Only 12 inches high, they still allowed me to sit on the edge to weed and my knees thanked my son for building them every time I weeded. Now I'm 70. I've built a single story (as opposed to a three story) home and am looking for something higher. My son is married in California and your link takes me to a product that looks like it might be suitable for a lousy DIYer like myself. I can't wait to get some dirt under my fingernails again.

I live in a flood prone area of South Thailand. Raised beds are an obvious choice for all but the most flood resistant crops.

Well done for making the effort to speak nice and clearly and using lots of gestures. Makes such a difference for viewers who don't speak English as their first language or who aren't used to an Aussie accent. Top work.

Great video mate. I loved raised beds especially at my last garden, this one I haven't got around to building them yet but they are on the agenda. Reason number 11. In cooler climates, the beds warm much quicker than the ground does too. Fab stuff

I couldn't manage without raised beds, mark. I can pull the scooter up alongside and either weed or plant with very little effort.

Just found your site. I've lived on a small farm in North Carolina, USA all my life and depended on the garden produce and livestock I raised myself for most of my families needs. I'm just turning 70 years old and the ability to work large areas with a mule has become so difficult that I am cutting the garden spaces down considerably and I am building raised beds. Your videos are interesting to me so I subscribed and will be watching more.

I am starting with raised beds as it's easier on my knees.

I just love how cheerful you are when greeting us with your "G'day" at the beginning of your videos, it's not much but to me, it makes me want to listen even more.

This is my favourite KZfaq channel! Just waiting for the temp to come up above 0°C to get filling my new beds.

As I was preparing to build my raised beds I started searching for ideas and your site gave me the most ideas. Over and over again I took your ideas and morphed in my own. Love to show you pics and video of what I have come up with.

They raise your garden game for sure.

Ah man, I love KZfaq when you come across channels like this. Just binged for the last four hours!

Great episode, thanks. No one, that I can remember, explained it as you did, I always hear “ with raised beds you have more control” and that’s it. On the other hand, you explained what that control is and how to enjoy and appreciate the raised bed gardening concept. Thank you again.

I live on “ wet land”, this is my reason for doing raised beds.

I just love your realness, Mark! Truly appreciate your authentic, concise, down to earth expert advice!!!

I just bought my first raised bed - Birdies - because of your videos! You've reinvigorated my interest i gardening and I can't wait for it to arrive. Thank you for all you do.

You are my hero. Stay green. Better drainage is an additional advantage.

We are adding 20 of the 6 in one beds to our budding garden in Florida thanks to you Mark and Kevin (epic gardening)!! Love your channel... we watch all the time!

I enjoy your videos so much. Your whole personality is just so encouraging and helpful , you're a ray of sunshine!

Hi, fellow gardener just starting out professionally, I love the fact you literally are just sharing how much fun you have in the garden and explaining why! I can relate and thus trust your videos more than a LOT of KZfaq, thanks!

I'm starting my veggie garden with 8 ft long water troughs (stock tanks) that I've placed on blocks due to concerns about the neighbor's sloping yard towards mine and didn't want to worry about chemicals leaching from their lawn (should the treat). I've also ordered 4 birdies containers for the other side of my house, very excited to get them here in the U.S. now! :D I'm all in with container gardening!

It's been lovely to watch your garden grow and change through the years you are such a trier and we Aussies love a trier good on you mate your such a pleasure to watch you always make me smile

Your videos are so uplifting and encouraging. Even though we haven't met, your garden videos comfort me like the presence of an old friend. Thank you for sharing your passion with us. Peace and Love from Alabama.

Putting up a 16' greenhouse dome (Pacific Domes, Oregon, USA) w. earthen floor in the sun-drenched high desert of New Mexico next year. Very sandy, rocky soil. Was planning on container gardening, but raised beds w. the tall Birdies and a greenhouse dome (special covering w. a solar fan for circuation) will be a killer combo !!! Love this guy!!

I was just telling my daughter in law about raised beds the other day, and recommended your channel to her, as she would like to grow some veges, but has a bad back that limits her doing any bending. will be sharing this video with her to show her the advantages of them. another great video as always :-)

Because of your hugelkultur video and other videos my 2 children and I in rural QLD (hard dry clay sand soil) use your methods and advice. We now have multiple raise beds growing tomatoes, beans, watermelon and pumpkin with plans to do many more. So thank you for you time and effort!

Thank you! Always inspirational. Awesome advise and quality delivery. I use layered, heavy cinder blocks for my raised bed garden. No tools, no nails, no screws, no stakes, no posts...just stacked bricks. I can reshape beds if needed also. I live in northern California, USA. I look forward to more input from you, thx again!

Love the enthusiasm

When I grow up I want my garden to look as great as Marks! ;)

We use raised beds in areas where there's underground pipes or electrical lines that we can't risk digging into. And if someone ever needs to dig up those lines for whatever reason, they can tunnel under the beds and not disturb what's growing in them.

Thanks for all the informative videos. My husband built 2 large hugelkulture beds this spring and we are really enjoying growing in them. Really like the taller raised beds.

Awesome man, super video. Your enthusiastic voice and tips are great.

We've been using raised beds in many forms over the last few years but have progressed to wicking beds made from IBC boxes cut in half, very successfully, in South Burnett. Love the effort you put into your videos.

G'day, if you are interested in one of these steel beds and reside in the USA some types are now available - Go here to get Birdies Raised Garden bed in the USA: @t and use SSME2020 for a 5% discount. Cheers :)

Thank you so much. I just love your videos. This one is outstanding. With much appreciation for the work and effort you put into this to share with us all! 🌿❤️

Incredible and informative Sir!! I just watched another video of yours an asked in comment section about benefits to raised garden, that prompted a search and BAM there you are!!! Thank you!!!

Great video! Answers a lot of questions, thank you.

Thank you. I love your videos. I love raised beds. In my country, our soil in our backyard are not that good anymore and you are right for so many reasons why our natural soil turned bad. Have a nice day. 👍😊

Thank you. I've figured this out, myself, too. After years of struggling. But, fields of farm land still look prettier.

love what you do Mark

I love how wholesome this account is

I really love your videos! Thank you so much for all the great gardening tips, techniques, and advice.

It snowed here today, so here I am gardening vicariously through you.

This video really gives me hope to fullfill my dream of my own food garden! I LOVE IT!

Firstly: Thank you so much Mark, for the advice, for the way you give it, and, of course, for the videos - I find them inspirational, and you seem to be bang on the money. And timely too - you must be getting the same rains I've been getting. I've been living in Northern NSW planting out a food forest for 10 months now, and, with the help of many of your videos, raised-bed hugelkulture gardens have sprung up all over the place here, made of saplings, corrugated iron and star pickets, filled with small trees culled from the bush adjacent to the house. The topsoil is just a few mm, under which lays hard clay with even harder rocks. The amount of carbon that has been safely put UNDER growing medium, to eventually BECOME growing medium, by using raised garden beds is incredible. That's a lot of carbon that doesn't get into the atmosphere. As you mentioned - raised beds are a much more functional height - i have a few as high as my kitchen benchtop - they are SO easy to plant in, weed and water. Hugelkulture beds, which are raised beds, are supposed to require less water - as the wood breaks down it creates a thick, moist layer of spongy mass, holding water and keeping a more constant temperature. On land like this, there is no way I could grow a food forest without improving the soil, and Hugelkulture raised beds are the perfect way to do that. And they DO look good!

Sweet Mark, thanks .... you’ll get a “rise” out of me ....for raised garden for sure. Such a super idea to go with, and NOT having to knell down either. The gears are turning now ..... Cheers

Thank you for this wonderful explanation! I wondered how you made all of those beds and how much soil it would take to fill them all. Getting on up in years and encouraged to garden without hurting the back and knees! Brilliant idea that I can put into practice. Love your videos

Thanks for your wonderful videos , got me building my first raised bed today! Keep the great ideas comings

I am in the process of converting all my gardening to raised beds. Thanks for the great video

I just recently started watching your channel and subscribed to your videos. I love your garden. Your knowledge and helpful tips on gardening are amazing. Thanks Mark!

We are definitely making the transition to raised beds! Not only because my husband and I aren't getting any younger, but because we have many oil wells in our area and I'm concerned for the eventual toxicity in our soil. Thank you for sharing these tips with us!

Rewatching this after a few months and dreaming of post-moving gardening...I can't wait...it's going to be lovely. I have mobility problems, my joints have pretty heavy arthritis damage, and standing for too long is pretty painful. I'm excited the more I think about raised gardens, especially when I consider the fact that I can get some sort of seating to work alongside them. A bench seat, a pathway made with pavers or concrete and a seat with storage and wheels, or something along those lines, alongside the raised beds, would be absolutely amazing.

Such sound advice!! Thank you.

Great video, thanks for sharing your knowledge & advice! 🌱

I’m getting one for my birthday to start growing my own food! I found a supplier in the UK that sells them. Thank you for the tips, it really helped me to overcome the fear of failure and get started on being more self sufficient :)

Thanks Mark for wonderful,and useful tips about raised bed...continue to encourage people how to do good gardening.....more video from you are truelly appreciated....God bless you

One of your best videos. Can't wait to give it try

We built raised beds so we could put hardware cloth UNDER them to keep voles out of our garden ... and poor soil. Thanks for the video!!

Great video and even better channel! No really. The raised bed idea is awesome. This is my second go around with a garden. Last season I tilled and planted a very small garden. Didn't know much about much really. Getting a bit better after some teaching and learning from videos like this. I'm using live stock water troughs. 2'×4'×2'. And I live in town so I had to order out for top soil. Had ten yards dropped. I've got ten of the troughs and numerous other containers and buckets. Bought a bunch of local bagged top soil and bagged compost and manure and have been mixing in a hand barrel. A bit of blood meal. Piled lots of black willow in the bottoms of every container. Buckets and all. Sowed last week. And everything I sowed cept some onions are coming up. Very very short growing season here in Northern Michigan. Best of to all! Thank you so very much Mark for using your time in a edifying way!!! Happy growing!

You are my raised bed inspiration. ..

We have just finished our 10th raised garden bed at waist height using second hand corrugated iron and recycled wood. As always, continually inspired by your videos

This is Excellent Info.

This was thoughtful and persuasive. Thanks for sharing.

We used boards for raised beds but took them out last year. So we planned on ground level gardening. After watching your videos - especially this one - I will have to save up to get these Birdies raised beds. So if I can get one kit every 2 to 3 months I may have enough for next years veggie gardens. At 76 now and knowing I will be another year older next year these Birdies raised beds will help my back and knees considerably. Mark, THANK YOU SO MUCH for putting THIS so very important video out. Judi

Thank you for all of the helpful information! :)

Great job!! Your videos are a joy to watch.

Thank you mate people loved this idea in the Philippines.

Great videos! Awesome advise!!

Great video! Thanks!

Hi from Japan. Haha... "Climbing the garden fork"! Indeed. I'm ordering those boxes right now, for the coming spring. Thank you for your wonderful videos.

Your videos are just amazing ! Well done ! This will save a'lot of lives !

Love your work bro

love the idea

Just got my first delivered! Planning to buy many more! Thanks for all the tips Mark!

Thank you for all your videos ! Very much appreciated:)

Love raised bed gardening. I envy your garden. It's beautiful!

Great idea!

I do LOVE the really large and impressive garden beds shown here. And, the larger raised garden beds are going to be the most impressive garden beds of course. But, it is best that the company "Birdies" is shown here that it is their best garden beds shown to bring up here and NOW. SO, is that acknowledged here and now. But, I must mention that I have bought 1 of my beds from "Birdies". It was my 6 feet long, 3 or 4 feet wide,,AND 36 INCHES high. And, I have already filled it up with good soil,., and all is GREAT. BUT, it is not always clear that everybody is willing to support their RELATIVES all "easy peasy'.

I really like your idea of that type of raised bad

I love these, thank you for the info!

Great video Mark we are buying some today my husband and I are first time growing vegetables 😊👍

Thank you for sharing the idea of raised beds. I'm forward to start building them. This is fantastic idea. May the love of God be with you. God bless.

Brilliant video .you never fail to inspire ..

Plenty good tips there i found this year my rosella plant boomed compared to last year when i had it in the ground. Even got to make rosella jam this year first time and tastes amazing!!!

Another great video Sir!! When I buy my first house this year witch will be in the city I've already decided to go with raised beds!

So glad you helped get these available in the US. I bought 2, not sure when they will get here. I hope this works out well for all of us.

Your info is very helpful thanks! I use to think that I’ll make my garden directly on the ground but you made me change my mind :)

Great video!

You're the best mate.

Oh my gosh... birdies in the US. Thanks, Epic Gardening. I can see myself getting these over time. And I can take them with me when I need to move.

Hey Mark , Just wanted to say a BIG thank you . I’ve learnt so much from you Chanel and really enjoy all you tips , and wicked sense of humour . The ten tips for raised beds helped me out today as I too was feeling frustrated with floor beds . Also in a sub tropical climate , tablelands Herberton QLD , but the best place to grow plants . Thanks again , I look forward to your upcoming videos. Sam

Love your post. I ritually watch one to two a day. This one particularly hit home. I was a professional firefighter for 21 years.(so was my husband and son).. I Fell off a ladder when it collapsed under my weight and i fell 10 ft in a sitting position breaking my back in 2 places and was paralyzed. 3 surgeries, respiratory arrest from blood clots due to surgery I had to learn to use different muscles to walk. Learned to walk with a year of physical therapy and 4 years later I'm a force to be reckoned with. I have PTSD from the fall and gardening has calmed my inner soul. I always say if you want to get closer to God get on your knees and garden, God will talk to you during that time. But raised beds are the way for me. My husband built them all so I don't have to bend to garden. But I have purchased 4 Birdie raised bed to expand the garden. And funny, my granddaughters name is Birdie so it was meant to be. Keep them coming. It's my mental health late at night when my nerve damaged legs hurt too much to sleep. Hugs from Texas Mark. ....Doti ( using hubby's acct. But you're adored by the Texas woman)

You're an inspiration.

I have MS and rely on an electric scooter/wheelchair for mobility. These containers are just what I've been looking for. The only problem, the seller here in the USA only offers the 5'3" long option (width only 24")...I want longer/wider containers like you have, Mark.

Excellent vid! 😎😎😎😎

And your videos get better and better.