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There are many benefits of raised bed gardening.

A raised bed that is about 1.5 to 2 feet tall

will be ideal for people with back pain

because they don't have to bend as much.

While growing in a raised bed,

you will spend less time pulling weeds out.

Gardening in raised beds

prevents soil compaction, because you won't be walking on the soil

and it provides good drainage

For all these reasons raised beds are great for growing vegetables

and flowers in a small backyard garden.

You can build raised beds using many materials

such as wood, concrete, metal, or even plastic based on your budget and preference.

Here is an example of a raised bed built in 2015

using cinder blocks or concrete blocks.

The advantage of cinder blocks is that you can just

place them on the ground and quickly build a raised bed.

and they last longer than wood.

However, because they are not held together by anything,

gravity and weight of the soil can push down on them and create gaps between the blocks

especially in a garden area that slopes just like mine.

This requires some realignment to close the gaps every season.

This raised bed is made up of two layers of cinder blocks

and this gives me a good working height

so I don't have to bend a lot.

The next bed I have in my backyard was built in 2016

using untreated lumber bought from hardware store

it is not very high but it still helps in controlling weeds

What you see here is a 2 feet tall keyhole shaped

raised bed under construction

I built this in 2017 and

it was also built using untreated lumber bought from hardware store.

I started off this raised bed by clearing the ground of grass and weeds and then I leveled

the ground, placed the first level of lumber,

and joined them together using galvanized screws.

I then placed some hardware cloth

or wire mesh on the ground. On top of the wire mesh I placed some cardboard.

Because it was going to be a two feet tall structure, I filled it up to a good

height with a layer of twigs and garden waste on top of the cardboard.

I then topped off the raised bed by adding compost, premier sphagnum peat moss,

perlite, and azomite rock dust and mixing them well. After about a year of growing

vegetables, the level of soil went down by four to six inches. So I have topped

it off again as you can see here. The other thing I have done on this bed is

added irrigation drip irrigation as you can see here.The one thing that was

common in the three raised beds you saw till now was that I had to spend money

to buy the materials required for constructing these raised beds.

It does not always have to be that way.

This year that is in the year 2018,

I'm constructing a raised bed with some wood logs that are lying around in my backyard.

These wood logs were delivered last year by ChipDrop along with the

wood chips that you can see here and I'm going to use these logs to construct a

raised bed. The location for this raised bed is at the north end of the garden by

the fence; not an ideal location for growing sun-loving vegetables, but I can

try to grow vegetables or plants that love partial shade or the

plants that can climb up the fence, and reach out for additional light.

I cleared the ground of grass and weed seeds, and loosened the clay soil like you see here.

There after I removed the soil from this location and placed a hardware cloth on

the ground. This helps to discourage critters from

making burrows and reaching the raised bed from underneath. The ground had a

slope, but I did not level it. I'm just going to place the wood logs along the

slope in a rectangle shape and form the raised bed structure. This is how it

looks like after the wood logs are placed. Next, I am going to fill this

raised bed with different materials to form the growing medium. I placed a layer

of cardboard on top of the hardware cloth as it helps to block sunlight and

prevent the growth of any grass or weed roots or weed seeds that may still exist

on the ground. I placed a layer of vegetable scraps from a kitchen on top

of the cardboard. I reused the clay soil removed from this location earlier to

cover these vegetable scraps. Eventually, the vegetable scraps will decompose and

provide nutrition to the plant roots The other ingredients used to fill this

raised bed we're mushroom compost, organic planting

soil from Costco, coarse premium grade perlite to provide better drainage in

the soil, Spagnum peat moss as it helps to loosen

the soil and retain moisture and Azomite rock dust used to replenish trace

minerals. After adding all the items shown earlier into the raised bed, I used

a pitchfork to mix them well. That is how I constructed

a raised bed using wood logs already available in my backyard. It got dark by

the time I completed this raised bed, and I apologize for the lower visibility

towards the end of this video. Recently, a friend of mine had requested me to

upload a video on raised bed. I hope this video is helpful for that friend, and

also for all the viewers of Parna garden channel. If you like this video on

raised bed, please hit the like button. Also, subscribe to Parna Garden Channel

to get notified of video uploads in the upcoming growing season.

Thank for stopping by. Enjoy gardening!

For more infomation >> How To Build a Raised Bed Garden - Duration: 7:56.

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How to build an igloo for snow camping - Duration: 5:51.

Hello there! Welcome to the Northwest Sisu Outdoors YouTube channel!

I hope you are doing great today, and I hope you will enjoy

this video about building a real wilderness igloo!

if you have trouble understanding my accent,

you can always turn on closed captioning

It is winter here in the Pacific Northwest and

that means, it is time to build an igloo!

The last two winters I have built igloos in my front yard,

very cool ones, with features such as windows

made of ice, and cozy little stoves.

But those igloos were more a type of recreational igloos

and not really suitable for wilderness conditions.

This time we are building a real igloo ,

in which you can actually sleep well

and survive even the coldest nights!

We don't get much snow in the valley where I live,

so we had to drive up to the mountains

to build the igloo.

We skied up to higher elevations,

carrying everything we needed in our backpacks.

We found a nice open spot in the forest,

with an about five feet snow cover.

In the days prior to our snow camping trip

the days have been well above freezing,

and the nights have been below freezing,

creating a four-inch hard crust on the snow surface.

We cut up and removed the crust from our building

spot. The snow below the crust was soft and just

perfectly wet for making blocks for the igloo.

We compacted the snow and let it sit a while,

so it would harden up so it can be cut into blocks

We decided to build the igloo with an eight feet

inner diameter, just right for two people.

We used one of our ski poles as measuring stick

to maintain a consistent four feet radius

through the building process.

The saw is a basic 15 inch wood cutting saw.

It is lightweight and perfect for cutting

snow blocks an firewood.

The walls were going to be about a foot thick,

which was easy to keep consistent,

when cutting the blocks with a 15 inch saw.

A one foot thick wall also gives plenty of insulation.

First, we used the cut-out crust blocks to build a base.

We then cut the first set of actual blocks from inside

the igloo, lowering the floor to below the snow surface.

Once one floor layer of blocks was cut out from inside

the igloo, we left the sleeping areas at that level

and continued cutting out the trench from the center of

the floor and out through the entrance opening.

The entrance would ideally be a fully below the

snow surface for better heat retention.

But not being that cold this time, we built

it a little higher to make it easier

to enter and exit the igloo.

Music: Sequence of Art, by Origen Music. http://www.origenmusic.com

The blocks need to be cut and shaped

so they lock in smoothly to the mating surfaces,

and any gaps between blocks need to be filled,

in order for the blocks to stay in place.

Also, make sure that you smooth out the inside walls.

You can do this during the construction,

or once the igloo is completed.

This is to prevent any melt water dripping

on your sleeping bags and other gear.

When compacting the snow for the blocks, it is

much easier when the snow is wet, as it was today.

Last time we built a wilderness igloo, it was

below freezing and the snow was dry and powdery.

After packing the snow, we had to wait much longer for

the snow to recrystallize and harden up, and the

blocks were still fragile and more difficult to handle.

Today it took us three hours to build this igloo,

but we started early in the day, and we were in no rush.

If you are building an igloo with dry snow,

be prepared to spend much longer time completing it!

I had my GoPro 4 camera recording the process but

the batteries did not last as long as I thought they would

So I didn't get any video footage

of the final part of the construction.

We were both able to work independently for most

of the construction. But once the walls started leaning

inward at a steeper angle, we worked together

block by block, completing the ceiling.

One person holding the block

while the other person locked it in.

The ceiling ended up being more than six feet

off the floor, tall enough for us to stand inside.

Ok, we completed the igloo, let's take a look inside!

We added a vent hole off to the side, up in the ceiling.

Igloos require some air circulation,

to prevent suffocation.

We stayed warm and dry, and slept well all night

in our zero degree sleeping bags.

Thank you for watching our wilderness

igloo construction video!

Hopefully you enjoyed it. Have a great day!

For more infomation >> How to build an igloo for snow camping - Duration: 5:51.

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