If you’re dealing with digging pests like moles, voles, gophers, or rummaging pests like skunks and raccoons, or even birds and insects, we’ve got you covered. Join @Jacques in the Garden and I as we show you how to perfectly pest-proof the bottom of your bed, and build a frame to hold any time of top cover to your bed, like shade cloth, bird or insect netting, or frost cloth.
00:00 – Intro
00:55 – Leveling Soil
01:36 – Landscape Fabric
02:50 – Hardware Cloth
03:21 – Cardboard
04:44 – Top Frame
08:54 – Filling Bed With Soil
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Wow, you have flying deer? ("If you have deer or other flying pests") 😂 great video thanks, my main pests are my own 2 cats digging and 💩 in my veggie garden 😰
My pests are tree roots! I had never even thought about it until this year when I started preparing my beds. Little thieves… I didn't want to disturb the soil too much, but it looks like I either have to suck it up and get them out or only use containers
Fabric will prevent earthworms and may hinder drainage. Hardware cloth is all you need to keep out gophers and moles.
When working with shade/frost cloth, also consider that your'e losing the advantage of natural pollinators.
Hardware cloth does contain lead in it, when I found this out I took it out of my raised bed over concrete and opted for a wood base to hold the soil in.
Awesome tips and tricks for raised bed gardening! Planning on implementing these techniques in our gardens this year ♡
Your mural looks great! 🌞🌈🌻
If you have the $500 or more to spare on doing something like this….then add the seeds and time it takes to grow a crop the require Jack and Jill….would starve before they got some food….PS….you add no nutrients to the soil that you have there….no composted manure Zero…
My raised beds are set up almost identically to this, even with the hardware cloth underneath because we have a mole problem around here. I bought PVC to build a cage like you did with the metal, but I'm wondering how best to add the cloth/wire to it, while still being able to easily access the bed. I was really looking forward to you explaining that in your video…but then it just ended. Help, haha!!
I know you're selling these beds but while I do like them, I don't think the aesthetic fits my house very well so I REALLY appreciate the tips for wooden raised beds.
half inch hardware cloth entails the size of the squares
"Deer and other flying pests" -Love it
I watched this a few days too late (for gophers and moles)
OMG you literally did this video days after I put up my raised birdie beds. I searched all over your site and even reached out via email on your shopepicgardening site for instruction. I know it's probably just a coincidence, but seeing this up only days after I inquired makes me feel like you and your staff are really listening to the needs of your followers. Thank you so much for this video! Although I didn't get a chance to view it before my attempt, at least now I know I did it correctly (for the most part). I just didn't install the weed barrier, and probably should have tried to level a bit better. But hey I'm a beginner and you learn from your mistakes (LOL). I'm just thankful to see a step-by-step to keep those nasty gophers out of my beds, as they've taken over my entire back yard 🙁
Another important point about leveling is watering. If it is unlevel the soil will settle uneven and the water table will be offset.
Budget Hillbilly version…
Level, build up edges with whatever available material, layer from bottom with gravel and or logs, leaves, grass/green leaves, soil, manure, work in soil and manure, top with hay or mulch. Plant after a few good rains. Surround with hog wire and or chicken wire, top with nylon netting.
Aww 6:15 💕
I'd really like to see some rhubarb growing. I haven't grown it in my area yet. I live in NH and just started growing fruit trees and things that are difficult to grow in my zone. I have a dwarf cavendish banana, dwarf valencia orange tree, dwarf gala apple tree and a montgomery cherry tree. My orange tree and banana tree are growing like crazy indoors but my cherry and gala apple being outside got forgotton about and suffered during our winter. I bought a jabuticaba tree sapling, grumichama tree sapling, and i'm really trying to grow mangosteen "the queen of fruit" trees of different varieties, so far so good they are growing indoors, slowly of course, but growing nonetheless! I have a lemon drop mangosteen, purple mangosteen, and an orange mangosteen all started as saplings so far and i love them! It'd also be cool to see if you could grow mangosteen in your area! I watched Mark Valencias self sufficient me channel and learned of you through him.
If you put a plastic sheet on top of the wire mesh the mesh would last longer.
i always watch your vedios. one of them you have mention you are half asian. just curious so much wich asian? chinese,vietnamese,japanese,thai,korean? im a filipino tho! and i so much love your vedios not just learning but amuzing! amazing! your my idol Kevin!!
The main (above ground) pests in my garden beds are deer, raccoons, rabbits, opossums, rats and mice. A more in-depth video on how to construct something to exclude these from the beds but still allow easy access would be very much appreciated. I don’t have the Birdies beds yet but ones constructed from wood planks and the concrete block corners sold at HD that you slide the planks into, which means there aren’t true “corners” to the beds (difficult to describe but if you know these blocks, you’ll understand). Many thanks for your great videos, I’m always learning something new from them.
Why didn't you use wood, other stuff on the bottom like you want people to do? Tom
Can’t you use cardboard instead of landscape cloth then hardware cloth? Skip one step.