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You all read our DIY list for our new house, in yesterday’s post. Well, here’s the first item to mark off the list!
Do you all remember my first raised bed gardens? They were so beautiful and productive! Then we went two summers without a garden, because of all the moving. I’m so excited to be settled and have the space to begin, again. The weather has definitely not been cooperative, but we’re giving it the good old college try, in spite of getting a late start.
My very first raised bed gardens (square-foot gardens). We had to leave them behind in a previous move. We enjoyed two years of abundant harvests from them.
As much as I loved those first raised bed gardens, I am even more enthusiastic about the Double Raised Bed Garden from the Greenland Gardener. I didn’t make even one trip to the lumber yard to purchase 2×6′s. There was no cutting or nailing or stapling or hammering. Each garden box is made from a wonderful composite wood blend, right here in the United States. I know a little bit about wood composite materials, now, since the deck at one of our previous homes ( in the picture above) was made from it. The boards are rot and insect resistant and they don’t require sanding or staining to maintain them. I’m looking forward to a long life from my Raised Garden Beds from the Greenland Gardener.
The pieces you will need to assemble your garden are all included in this handy kit from Greenland Gardener.
What a blessing to have had the opportunity to review this high-quality, simple to assemble garden bed! With my nine-year-old snapping pictures and about ten minutes of free-time, I was able to assemble this beautiful double bed with ease. The double bed kit includes 7 boards, 4 two-way corners, 2 three-way corners and 4 clips which can be used to stack the boxes vertically and create a deeper bed. My kit had the clips missing, but since I wanted to connect the boxes horizontally, I didn’t need them. The only other thing that surprised me about the kit was that it contained NO paperwork — not even one line of instructions. Fortunately, it was so easy to assemble, they were probably unnecessary, but I will admit I was somewhat surprised not to find any. That being said, I would not only recommend these sturdy square-foot gardens, I intend to purchase more of them to finish out our garden area, next summer.
It was easy to slide the corner posts over the grooves in the boards. I used the three-grooved posts on the corners that the second box would attach to and the two-grooved posts for the outside walls of each box.
Sliding a board into a two-grooved corner post.
One side of the double-bed garden, completed. I, then, slid boards into the grooves on the two corner posts you see, pictured, to make the second box.
Sliding the final board into the two corner posts, completed my Greenland Gardener Double Bed Raised Garden.
Tomorrow, I’m going to show you how I leveled out the ground underneath the bed, tacked down some landscape fabric and planted my garden over the top of it. I’m also going to share some of the benefits of square foot gardening and some links to fantastic resources, but in the meantime, I want all of you to have the chance to visit the Greenland Gardener and order your own garden box kits. I have compared their prices to other sites and other brands of raised bed gardens and in my opinion, they are an incredible value for the price. Other square foot garden kits, that I have priced, are $50 or more for wood and over $100 for vinyl. Those prices are for a single 4×4 box. The Greenland Gardener double bed raised garden (That’s TWO 4×4 beds.), made from a long-lasting and durable wood composite, is only $72! Plus, they offer free shipping within the United States! It’s a great value and a frugal, one-time investment in grocery-savings and healthy food for your family.
More good news? You bet! Greenland Gardener has generously agreed to sponsor a giveaway of one of their excellent Double Bed Raised Garden Kits. One Busy-at-Home reader will win one for their own backyard.
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You must be 18 or older and a US resident to enter. Mandatory entry must be completed before any optional entries will be counted. Winner will be selected in a random drawing using random.org. Deadline for entry is midnight (CST), Sunday, July 10, 2011.
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- Tweet this giveaway (maximum of 1x per day, please). Grow your own fresh vegetables! Win a complete DOUBLE raised bed gardening kit from @greenldgardener and @busyathome http://ow.ly/5rHbt Leave a comment below with a link to your tweet.
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I received a double bed raised garden kit from the Greenland Gardener, in order to test it and conduct this review. No monetary compensation was received and a positive review was not required. As with all Busy-at-Home reviews, the views and opinions expressed are wholly my own.
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Would love to win this! Their tip of the day was good, I need to look under my potted plants to see if the roots are clogging the drain holes. Good idea!
Time to re-pot if the plants drainage holes have roots coming out!
I love raised bed gardening, would love to win this! I will be checking under my potted plants for roots. I’ll be checking back often to see other great ideas.
i truly love mine, and went to get another at sams club and they were out and i was forced to try to make my own.
i would love another so that i can plant more veggies, we all need more veggies!
I really enjoy Greenland Gardener’s facebook page. I enjoy the photos others share and have also posted my own. My favorite ideas are on how to get rid of garden pests without using products that are harmful to the environment, people or pets.
Thanks for all of your gardening tips on Greenland Gardener. After your comments on growing red potatoes in used whiskey barrels, I will be planting grape vines in my old, cut in half wine barrels. BTW, were those Jamison’s or Old Bushmill barrels?
I would love to win this! I’ve had to replant my garden twice this year due to flooding during planting season. This would allow me to see if the raised beds would fix that problem!
I now know how to keep caladium bulbs til the next year….YAY !!
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I learned: Make mental notes when you visit botanic gardens and parks, so you can remember what you like when it?s time to order them in the fall.
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Gardening tip from Greenland Gardens: “Lift up and look under your potted plants. If the contents have been thriving, roots may have filled the entire container and be clogging the drainage holes. If water cannot drain properly, performance declines and rot can follow. Two solutions: repot the contents in something larger, or remove a plant or two.”
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Since I am a novice gardener, ALL advice on their website is valuable. However, their information on how to keep critters out of the garden was very educational. Critters getting into the garden was something I never really thought about before researching raised bed gardens and reading the site.
I “liked” your site and the Greenland Gardener site on Facebook and subscribed to your newsletter. Thank you for the giveaway contest. Looking forward to reading more on your blog.
“Lift up and look under your potted plants. If the contents have been thriving, roots may have filled the entire container and be clogging the drainage holes.”
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would love to win also. we have a table top garden and it is a lot of fun and the garden this year is absolutely beautiful.
I learned that you can wrap newspaper around the stems of your plants,a few inches above the ground and 1 inch below the ground to keep the cut worms from eating them.
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I learned that a potted plant needs to drain water properly or rot or low
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I learned the kits are only $30 and free shipping – I thought they’d be a lot more expensive than that. This is a great value! http://shop.greenlandgardener.com/products/single-bed-garden-42-x-42-x-6
I checked out the sight and a tip for keeping bunnies away from plants is to install a low fence with small holes and spray plants with cayenne pepper to repel the bunnes.
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I learned that bats make up about 20 percent of all mammal species in the world. Interesting!!
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What a great giveaway! Greenland Gardener has taught me that it is REALLY easy to think out of the box when it comes to gardening. No longer do I even think about tilling and getting the earth ready…I can just win a handy raised bed garden and start from there. Good luck to everyone!!!!
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With the raised gardening knowledge I have gained from this site I am planning gardens in support of my local food bank for next season. Sure could use another raised bed planter please.
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The tip I got was for container gardens: Great color combinations are created by using hues of the same color, contrasting colors, or different colors close to each other on the color wheel.
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too funny that your current video is on starting seeds… I have my trays, soil and seeds sitting on the kitchen counter so I will not forget to plant them… they are still waiting, guess I better get it going… thanks for the primer …
learned about container gardening for shady areas this is always helpful to learn what grows best where
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Need to get some Neem oil to spray on my squash plants to get rid of the squash bugs! Good tip! I love my garden boxes, and need to expand my garden!
I used to have a hydrangea that would never bloom. It has since been dug up but I always wondered why it wouldn’t bloom. There is an article on Green Land Gardener that gave some pretty plausible explanations. It could be leaf hardy but not flower hardy to my area or there was too much shad. Apparently, hydrangeas like shade, but do need a little bit of sun to bloom. Morning sun works best. Good to know!
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One tip I learned on their site is that you can add taste repellant to seeds to keep birds from pulling them up.
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I did not know that the heat could make the blossoms fall off my tomatoes, peppers, cumcumbers…..I thought I had done somehting wrong…..always learning something
Love the one where they tell us to mix cayanne pepper in a spray bottle with water and spray it on the plants. Won’t hurt the plants, veggies must be washed to get pepper residue off, but is kind to the eco. thanks greenland.
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I learned that I can start seeds in egg shells… the shells will add calcium to the growing plant. Interesting.
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I hadn’t thought about looking in the bottom of the squash plant for bugs! I look other places but I have some leaves withering….
I learned that you can protect your seedling transplants from cutworms by wrapping newspaper around the stems a few inches above the ground and 1 inch below the ground.
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I learned that it’s not too late to plant annual seeds.
I learned that you can control rust on roses with sprays of Neem oil and Serenade.
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I love those raised beds. One tip I learned is this: Keep a close watch on your rosebushes. Summer’s higher humidity conspires with higher daytime and nighttime temperatures to cause all sorts of fungal disease problems. You can spray preventatively with a fungicide; just follow the label directions carefully, and be sure to work on a windless day.
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My roses had what was described from the cold/warm spells and thanks for pointing me that way!!!
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I learned that, when planting a butterfly garden, you should plant several different varieties that have staggered bloom times (during mid and late summer especially) so that you can attract many visitors to your garden.
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What bizarre timing, but someone I know just asked about Squash insects, and I just found on the site that it is best to pick them up and remove them by hand. How odd. And you can spray them with Neem oil. I’m a novice to the gardening thing, so I have no idea how that works, but I want to enter!!
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I learned that the best way to water vegetables is by drip or soaker hose, especially in the summer when overhead watering can quickly evaporate or cause burning on leaves.
Greeland gardner is Interesting website. Suggestion of using NEEM oil for garden pests is interesting as has been promoted for use in pets for a while. Unfortunately NEEM products are pricey and not easy to fine, and did not find they worked better than other options, when used in pet shampoos. Believe neem products come from trees native to India and were used there for many purposes including insecticides.
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To control cucumber beetles, employ a multipronged approach. Clean up plant debris well in fall and rotate crops each spring. Grow varieties of cucumbers, such as ‘Olympian’, that are disease resistant and less likely to succumb to cucumber beetle–transmitted diseases. Cover plants with a floating row cover early in the season. These cheesecloth-like fabrics let in air, water, and light, but block the beetles.
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I learned that watermelons are pretty easy to grow. You just need a six-foot circle for each vine, and lots of sun!
Watermelons are 92 % water, and contain Vitamin A and C…a great food snack!
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I learned To control cucumber beetles, employ a multipronged approach. Clean up plant debris well in fall and rotate crops each spring.
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I learned a lot about pruning. I didn’t know I should pop off the bloom to make more grow there. What a thought!
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Tip: To control cucumber beetles, employ a multipronged approach.
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I like the piece about okra. I’m an okra fan and it is an undervalued veggie (even disliked) probably because of it’s gelatinousness but there are variety that are less so. This year we are growing Burmese okra which is a very short okra variety that starts producing at just 1 1/2 feet tall. The pods are light in color though which is unappealing to some.
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Lift up and look under your potted plants. If the contents have been thriving, roots may have filled the entire container and be clogging the drainage holes. If water cannot drain properly, performance declines and rot can follow. Two solutions: repot the contents in something larger, or remove a plant or two.” My advice is to be careful when doing so, I found a cotton mouth under one of our potted plants….
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I liked the cantaloupe tip the best: Harvest when the stem slips readily from the fruit. Pick it up—if the vine falls away, you are free to walk away with the cantaloupe.
Mostly, I’m a pretty good gardener. I’d love to try a raised bed, though.
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Public gardens are great places for kids to blow off steam after being cooped up in a car for hours.
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My favorite tip is to rotate, and make sure to clean up good to reduce the chance of cucumber beetles.
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I learned that I really don’t need to worry to much for my okra in my garden because all okra needs is hot weather and minimal watering to produce those delicious pods.
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One tip I found was to plant strawberries and Rhubarb together for a great growing pair.
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Strawberries like deep, well-draining, loamy soil, so if you’re planting in the ground, make sure to amend the soil with compost, peat moss, or shredded bark.
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I would love to begin raised bed gardening. Right now I have a few vegetable plants in pots. I will use raised beds next year. My house has stale air so I like the tips about cleaning indoor air using plants. The tip to use 15 to 18 good sized houseplants per 1800 square feet will help me plan the placement of houseplants in my home. Thank you for all of the great information.
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“Solarize” a garden bed in preparation for fall planting. This technique uses the heat of the sun to kill weed seeds and diseases
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I enjoyed reading about the different kinds of potting mix you can make for different kinds of plants! I would so love to win this, because it’s my birthday today. yay!
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I have never tried raised bed gardening. Tomatoes in a pot is about it, but these beds would fit in my little lot and hopeful cut down on the grocery bills since I’ll be on social security soon !!! Thanks for a great contest and website!
I learned that cucumber beetles come in two types: black and yellow spotted, and black and yellow striped.
WoW!! That’s a really fun website! I learned that Okra produces flowers like a hibiscus and the flowers only last a day and to view them in the morning. I learned that the slime from okra is good for the digestive system and other really cool things!
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Look under your potted plants to see if their roots are clogging the drain holes.
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I learned an easy easy way to stake tomatoes. And he was so right about the wire tomato cages.
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I learned that well-grown tomatoes can grow up to 8′ tall and 8′ wide!! No wonder they tell you to stake them early before they get too large. They also have a great video on staking techniques.
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To control cucumber beetles, employ a multipronged approach. Clean up plant debris well in fall and rotate crops each spring. Grow varieties of cucumbers, such as ‘Olympian’, that are disease resistant and less likely to succumb to cucumber beetle–transmitted diseases. Cover plants with a floating row cover early in the season. These cheesecloth-like fabrics let in air, water, and light, but block the beetles. Just check periodically under the cover to be sure none have snuck in. Place yellow sticky traps above the young plants. Adult cucumber beetles are attracted to the color yellow and will fly to the trap and get stuck on it. I’ve even taken a used yellow margarine tub, lined it with vaseline, and placed it on the ground near the plants. The cucumber beetles fly in, get stuck, and die. Mulch heavily with hay or straw. This seems to slow their progress. As a last resort, try an organic spray such as kaolin clay, Neem oil, or pyrethrum. Spray early to prevent damage. Also, spray on cloudy days or in the early evening when honeybees are less active. In this way, you’ll avoid harming them.
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A tip I learned is In order for fall vegetables to have enough time to grow to produce a crop, most need to be put in the ground by mid-August.
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I learned that container plants will need water every day, bedding plants will need it two to three times a week, and large landscape plants can really appreciate a slow drip at the end of the garden hose while you’re performing other garden chores.
Some seeds are larger and have a hard exterior, like morning glory seeds—these will need to be soaked overnight in order to soften them up so they germinate quickly.
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I learned you can use ayellow margarine tub lined with vaseline, and placed on the ground near your plants to catch cucumber beetles
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I like busy-at-home on facebook
I follow busy-at-home on twitter (@euregirlsandboy)
I tweeted about the giveaway http://twitter.com/#!/euregirlsandboy/status/90365631144275968
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http://twitter.com/#!/notimeMom/status/90676976246996992
andrea.kruse at gmail dot com
those look like they would work well!