Six cubic feet of soil, two two-foot, and two six-foot 2x6's and plants or
blocks is all we need for this project. All right. The first thing we're going
to do is just lay out the planter blocks. So these things have 2x6 or sorry, two inch slots where you basically just
feed in the 2x6's and you pretty much don't need to use anything at all.
You've got no nails, no glue, no nothing. I just put that thing together
in about a minute or so. It's super transportable,
super affordable. It's really, really good to use in a
quick situation. All right, so I'm adding the six cubic feet of
soil right now, smoothing it out, just making sure that
it's level everywhere. And I'm going to get all
the clumps out of the soil. So I didn't buy the highest quality soil, I know some of you might be
saying that in the comments, but it's not a big deal. I'm going
to be amending this over time. So I'm just smoothing it out right now
before I go ahead and lay down my wires. So what I'm doing here is
I'm just measuring one foot
increments and drawing a little dot because what you'll see in
a second is I'm going to be nailing in some nails. Now I don't
nail them in all the way, I nail them in halfway because
I'm creating a two foot
by six foot grid so I can plant in this raised
bed a little bit easier. So some of you might be
familiar with this method. It's called the square
foot gardening method. I actually worked with
Mel Bartholomew, uh, cause he was a San Diegan for a
while before he passed away. And uh, it's just a beautiful
method for beginners, especially people who are throwing
together their very first raised bed, which is who this video is for. People who are doing their first
raised bed and they want the cheapest, lowest effort, lowest
cost thing out there. So I've got the whole thing set up and
start to finish this thing took about 10,15 minutes. Right now I'm doing spinach and spinach
and the square foot gardening method. You use four per square foot. So I'm just transplanting in real quick. Packing them back in and I'm going
to move on. I've got spinach, chard, and I believe butterhead
lettuce going on in here. So again, the square foot
gardening method is beautiful. You can use this for just about any plant, although some of them are planted more
densely like radishes at 16 per square foot or cabbage, usually one, maybe two per square foot if you're like
extremely lucky and you want to grow like a baby cabbage head. So all I'm
doing here is just laying these in. All of these plants are spaced
at four per square foot, which is why you see them
in this spacing here. Just packing them down a bit and in a
second you'll see me just watering them in. So that is it guys.
It is the 20 minute, under $50 raised bed, I believe
was the final cost for this, although I will put everything in the
video description. So if you liked this, please send me a note in the Comments, uh, hit me up on the blog or follow me on
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keep growing. Thank you.
