I Built and Grew a Kitchen Garden in 8 Months
Video Overview & Insights
Building a Yakisugi (shou sugi ban) raised garden bed and turning it into a productive kitchen garden in one growing season. This is my journey from the first sketches and building the DIY raised beds, to preparing the soil, planting the seeds, and finally harvesting fresh veggies.
you know that feeling when you finally reach a specific area of youtube that does it for ya? that's what I'm feelin
This project combines woodworking, natural building, and regenerative gardening to create a productive garden space.
Please share your thoughts, I would love to hear what you think.
Since climate and location are big factors for this kind of thing, I wish creators would put that information somewhere.
Much love
Timestamps
love this
0:00 Introduction
0:46 Yakisugi
That is a very lovely put together video! Enjoy the food of your labour!
2:04 Preparing the Soil
3:11 Building the Frames
i somehow watched this while fully focused ! i love this video
3:55 Filling the Beds
5:18 Installing the Trellis
Storytelling 👌
Music choice👌
Gardening skills👌
Editing skills👌
I have always wanted to do exactly what you're doing, like exact content & feeding my family - but my biggest enemy is procrastination (pray for me people 😂).
5:48 Creating Pathways
6:29 Making Hoops & Seeding
I have been growing veg in my garden for a number of years but I have learned a bunch of things from your video. Growing anything is just an experiment, sometimes works, sometimes it doesn't. 👍
8:21 Harvesting Food
9:57 Outro
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Music (intro only): "Julia Florida"
Against slugs my grandma used to put crushed eggshells around the plants.
Composer: Agustín Barrios Mangoré
Performed by: Edson Lopes
Just found out about your channel today, as I am reparing my very neglected veggie garden. Kudos to you, this was beautiful! Instant subscribe! :)
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This guy is cool.
Changes: trimmed and edited for this video.
I love the simple one-line trellis for the tomatoes, I used to use a standard trellis, so I was surprised at how effective yours was. And learning about the charring method for wood... this would be amazing to do here in Halifax, where the constant dampness makes us all fight off mildew and rot
More User Perspectives
Will any of them survive the winter? Can you share what you do with them during the winter? I also live in Northern Europe.
@dara-ngI like the Stardew Life but it takes so much effort and hardwork irl DAMN
@maxbeats8146Qué hermosa quedo la madera!🤩
@harufau2372amazing video. thank you for sharing. so much time, energy, attention and effort spent into building this beautiful garden and you also documented it and turned it into a beautiful video for us too. thank you for your efforts. cinematography was on point! the colours, pacing, audio, frames, everything was perfect about the video. such unbelievable talent in one single video!
@alexnim4873This is beautiful! Thank you for taking us along. I would love to see how you preserve the bounty from your garden! 🏡 All the best to you and yours.
@rawdaaljawhary4174I recently found a new place where i will move soon, for the first time ever I will have a pretty large patio, so I've been on a rabit hole of home farming, hydrophonics and all that and I want to say that this is the best video I've seen this year so far, brings me so much joy to watch it even now that I can try to do something similar, thank you so much for sharing.
@GermanBuhioDet ser godt ud👍🏻
@JKOOLDK7:40 Use starw mulch or a local leaf/grass mulch store bought wood mulch will always with bugs or diseases. I bought a mulch from homdepot it brought earwigs, Japanese Beatles, and 2 different diseases im still trying to decrease the bug populations
@1upu361Themodernwish is on other things, great to see you still making great shit. Sad to see the old montages go but can adapt to what's coming ;)
@youngjesussWhat did I just watch? I felt so warm and fuzzy inside. It made me feel like a kid again. Your video even cured my short attention span! 😄 Great choice of music, voice-over, and awesome storytelling skills. By the way, aside from using mesh, how did you control pests in your garden? Did you use any organic pesticides?
@raymondalfredlopez3134Looks amazing
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@MinimalSpaceLabWow!! Your editing, your filming, your comments… you are so creative! What an absolute joy to watch. Keep up the awesome work.
@cdiehr-xm3mcI subscribed within half a minute of watching!
@miffychiaSGI've never seen proper gardening before, but I can tell this guy is a master
@AtraxaApologistloved this
@Sidreallifebeautiful video. loved your ideas.
@JohnnySmacker❤
@ericksonobasuyi6177Wonderful work! For assembly to avoid rot and water pooling in the screw holes you can screw from the underside or just flip the boxes.
@PatrickDoty-z2dThis video grabbed, and held, my full attention throughout. The effort you put into this really shows - both in the garden and the thoughtful editing/narration. it's actually inspired me implement some of your techniques in my own videos. You may not see this comment but thank you for making this video. Love from the North Scotland (where i'm trying to grow my first ever veggies [tomato + kale]).
@SamsummitsHello! thank you for this beautiful video. Where in Scandinavia are you located? I´m from Sweden:)
@inyoursleep04just beautifull
@MadushanHettisingheAs someone who used to study agronomy and work with farmers, I'm usually not a huge fan of these type of projects as they have a tendency to completely abuse resources by just dumping high quality top soil, (obviously) get a huge amount of produce, film it and leave it at that. It really ignores the biggest challenge of agriculture, having a productive, healthy soil every year, sometimes year round. Also, if you look at carbon emissions and resource usage efficiency metrics, farms are much more efficient than individual gardens in almost everything. That being said, this was great. I love how you used local resources to make a complex soil ecosystem and I guess watering with a hose isn't a huge problem in a humid and mild Scandinavian summer. Although I chuckled at the depth you left for those carrots, but I don't think you would've got much more mass anyway. Cold and dense soil is not the best for carrots. You should maybe try choosing short rooting varieties or go with parsnip instead. If the place you got the top soil from offers a more sandy mix, I would also go with that for carrots.
I'm just curious, how did you manage to use all this produce?
And, as everyone else said, great editing style!
That wood chipper seems so compact and quiet. Are you able to share the brand/model?
@tristeangeloafter watching this video now i want to grow veggies and everything in my garden tooo
@lalit4788Loved this video, keep up the great work!
@HasnaMiss-m2ywhy dont you put down the woodchips becasue of slugs?
@dayummaya6373Tilling and aerating the soil does not improve soil quality or microorganism health. It only worsens it. Do not do that step.
@HubbzZtvSomething says me that after first 20m/s wind warning this 2m tall construction is doomed
@timkins9674top! danke
@matweiss2529How do you deal with aphids without chemicals?
@RHaney2012Beautiful garden!
How long do you compost the animal manure?
slugs... the past three years have been a pest. I'm used to start and grow everything outside, not in a gardenhouse. Nothing gets a chance here anymore.
@FrankGiulianiI’ve watched this video 5 times. Thanks!
@HatuIsMeALWAYS mulch your soil or it will become lifeless
@DeezGuitarzsubscribed, this video was beautiful
@elijahluckey7852Fantastic video, really appreciate your effort!
@AbubakarGambo-j2rbeautiful
@sandeep_ediary