Very cool! Thanks for tuning in Yuwen, glad my videos have been of help to you!

Really appreciate your affirmation, thank you friend!

@@AustinTexasGardening You're welcome, it's been a pleasure

Yep, wish I started years ago!

Great Video Matthew! Do you use any worm castings? Worms create the best fertilizer on the planet! I raise millions of worms for fertilizer for my garden, and to teach others how to care for them :)

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Appreciate you Sinni!

That’s a great plan, good luck with prepping your gardening space for the spring!

Howdy neighbor, glad youve joined us!

I could have done the bed for $500 if i sourced my soil better, but yes still expensive! Thanks for the peach/strawberry companion advice!

Glad to have you, hope you find my videos helpful!

Yes, I've told my friends that my garden only looks so good because its the 30% that didnt die, and ill definitely look into Kaolin clay, thanks Terry!

Heck yeah! We gotta film a spring garden tour there!

Happy to help! One of the things I’ve discovered from hobby gardening is an appreciation for store-bought produce. I’ve harvested well over 50 pounds of peaches, carrots, radish, cabbage, tomatoes, and cucumbers this year, but at least half of them died on the vine/tree from fungus, or were attacked by pests like wasps and sparrows. Yes, food at the store is covered in poison, but strangely that’s better than no food at all. If I could only eat what I grew, I’d become a carnivore nine months out of the year or starve to death.

I appreciate your affirmation! I enjoyed making this one!

Thanks for watching, I’m happy to help!

Howdy Neighbor, happy to help, thanks for watching

Thanks for watching and commenting, I'm happy to have helped!

Ha yep, the wood isnt even what killed me, it was the granite and soil. In the future ill definitely do steel raised beds and get a few cu.yds from a soil yard

Great feedback, I agree, watering your leaves is a great way to get fungal infection. I’ve learned a lot about gardening since I started making these videos back in the day

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Thanks for watching! I'm glad to hear you are getting started with the hobby, I hope your garden and flowers turn out great!

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Howdy, thanks for subscribing! I suppose we are in 9a now, but recently austin was 8b

@AustinTexasGardening // Thanks for letting me know. This last summer was torture to my plants. Meaning...lots of $$$$ down the drain, and I tried to fight with them hard. I'll have to start over.

It is different! Recently we were recategorized from zone 8b to 9a, but I haven’t noticed much difference. We still got a hard freeze down to the low teens this winter.

For sure! Im planning on filming on sunday when we finally dont have so much wind

Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll have to check them out

I started inside in January, but planted seeds outside in late feb and early march, dealing with the late cold snaps is easier than the early drought and heat

Kelloggs is like 3/10, id recommend supporting a local nursery or soil yard and buying compost and/or black loamy soil, but as long as you’re not going for the cheap $2 soil bags your garden project will probably do okay

@@AustinTexasGardening Thank you. I will take your advice about going to a local nursery.

Yellow pine 2x12s for the boards cut into 5 foot pieces, and they are anchored by cedar 4x4s, I made a video on how I built it in the fall of 2021

We have really dense clay soil in my suburb (lots of Austin suburbs are like this too), its easier to build and grow above ground than to deal with drainage issues in ground, because in order to improve drainage, the the amount of soil you need to amend is huge. Sometimes amending isnt even possible, in my circumstance, the neighbors yards drain through my lot, and then that drains to the street at a very slight gradient, so digging a drainage ditch wouldnt work and the clay is 10+ feet deep in most locations for sewage pipes I do plan on doing way more in ground stuff in the years to come if we ever move out to a more rural spot!

The soil is too thick and sticky. It sucks. I wanted to plant right in the ground.

In the suburbs, they bring in yellow clay for landscaping, which is totally nutrient void. In my yard, I’ve got 1.5” of turf before the clay, so tomatoes, strawberries, cucumbers etc won’t grow there. I’ve brought in bagged dirt from Home Depot to fill this garden bed. In the future, I may bring in soil from my relatives land. The biggest reason for raised beds is this: in the suburbs, all the round up, weed seed, and dog poo washes through your yard when it rains heavily. With a raised bed, you avoid this fallout. The con is, the heat and cold will be harder on your garden’s roots. If I was in the country with black soil, I’d till it and plant in ground, but because I’m in the suburbs with yellow clay, I do raised beds.

Bangin out ya 808s

Agreed, I’m in a suburb of Austin Texas, so I’m pretty used to aggressive HOAs, but I could’ve probably gotten away with more