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[Music] i ain't afraid of word i ain't afraid of play [Music] if you mess with my freedom i'll tell you just what you can kiss that's right oh boy hey there folks this is josh stoneyridge farmer welcome back to the farm today we've got something awesome going on so guys if you follow the channel you'll know that we just milled up all these beautiful white oak boards on the sawmill a couple days ago we'll get you a little bit of footage of that this was a dead standing tree that i milled up and i have built every one of these raised beds with that one dead standing tree it's unbelievable just one tree provided all this lumber right here so what we're going to be doing is building raised beds just like you see right here for the garden we're going to walk you around and show you the raised beds that are currently being used and today we're gonna build some raised beds these beds will be approximately four feet wide by eight feet long and we're gonna build hopefully five of them enough to get us all the way to the chicken coop let's show you what we already have in place here guys so it's early in the morning right now and it's going to get hot today so we've got a big pile of lumber uh these are shallots we planted those shallots they were only about this tall that was probably back in february or march in this plant bed you can see right now we've got a few sprouts coming up got some weeds too we need to get those weeds out we've got a few sprouts coming up these are squash okay so this bed is yellow squash and this bed is zucchini okay and you can see some of the zucchini coming up all over here we also need to weed this bed now this bed does not need weeding because i've been treating this bed with something pretty cool you probably saw in a past video this is from starbucks okay so i've got this bed mulched out for weed prevention with coffee grounds that you can get for free from starbucks i'll post a link to that video at the end of this video so these are tomatoes these are big boys and these are better boys and this is what it looks like when you don't put everything in appropriately so i've still got to put in my tomato cages over here but first we've got to build out all these boxes so i've got this space right here in the garden i've got this awesome garden soil we're going to bring the little tractor down here we're going to fill up these beds and we're going to make some more room for some raised garden beds now you guys might be questioning this is white oak okay white oak will last white oak will last a very very long time so these beds should last somewhere in the neighborhood of eight to twelve years they are really really stout and white oak is very rot resistant so without further ado let's go ahead and get measuring and check this out see what we can do get started man that looks good look at that lumber awesome i can't say how good of a purchase buying that sawmill was it was a huge uh purchase for me but man it has paid its dividends forward over and over and over again so we'll pull out our measuring tape right here and there's the nine foot mark what we're gonna do nothing goes to waste here okay so we're gonna cut off trim off the ends right here the ends need to be flush and flat so we'll mark them and we'll cut them off we'll square off one end and then we'll square off the next end then we'll pre-drill our holes because this is white oak and you won't get a screw in that at all and the screws we're going to use i'll show you they're a heavy duty type deck screw premium wood exterior three inch screws i'll show you real quick so this comes with uh the little hex head deal right there the torx and these are torx type screws you can see some of the galvanization is worn off of these i've used them for several projects and what these will do is they'll drive right down into the wood right here and into the next board right there okay they're a little bit on the short side we'll only get an inch or so into the next board so we may have to countersink these just a little bit however all the cutoffs on the end will be used as supports in the corners just like this one has the tools we're going to be using this is called the steel msa140c that is an electric chainsaw we're going to be using this is rough cut stuff and it's a rough job so it's no biggie we're going to square off the end basically all i'm going to do is take my square first of all get that set up doesn't matter what the measurement is right now because we'll measure off the next one and we'll just go ahead and get this dude marked and then we'll lop it off with the little steel chainsaw so basically i know where my screws are going to line up right here all i'm going to do is take my drill and pre-drill my holes now reach over here take my screws get them into place and we'll just gently lower these down in and we'll do that on both ends [Music] basically the goal here is to do most of the prep work while i'm not bent over and that way all i have to do is bend over and go zip zip zip and i'm done cool let's get you a time lapse of this whole process i'm hot but i'm done so we got one two three more boxes and this one all cleaned out ready to go we're gonna go grab the little tractor and we're gonna fill these guys up with this awesome soil that i have if you don't have access to soil like this contact a local landscape place you probably can buy a dump truck load of soil and build your own boxes just like this for pretty inexpensive okay so we're talking about maybe 250 bucks for a dump truck load of soil that's going to last you forever let's go grab the tractor fill it up plant some maters so [Music] man how nice did that turn out guys super nice these are the tomatoes i'm planting holy cow they're huge um i didn't anticipate having this many extra tomatoes so what i'm gonna plant in here are called beef steak tomatoes and all i'm gonna do i'm just gonna take my hand and these need about 16 to 18 inches of space i'm just going to take my hand part the waters give a little squeeze like this and drop myself a tomato plant in that's a pretty weak looking tomato plant right there we'll get one more right here and we'll just basically go every 16 inches or so and put ourselves a tomato plant one cool thing about tomato plant is that you can bury them all the way up the stem so you can bury them all the way up to here and they'll set roots out so that's it don't plant them too close together if you're planting tomatoes it doesn't do you any good you don't get any more tomatoes you just get a hassle the closer you plant them together the harder it is on you for weeding and picking the tomatoes awesome each one of the tomato plants i basically just press down in the ground and make a little moat around them and i'll go back and water them as soon as i put them in the ground that's it guys so that's what today was all about on the stoney ridge farm building these awesome raised beds right here for my family's eating pleasure for my eating pleasure so this is all you need to start a garden if you don't have a source of lumber like this just go to lowe's or home depot pick yourself up some good lumber that's designed to be in contact with the ground okay that's basically it guys thanks a lot for joining me here on the stoney ridge farm it's a beautiful day i've got work to do and it's hot and i'm hungry uh by the way this is the little tym t254 tractor best little yard tractor ever perfect for doing stuff just like this see you next time hope you enjoyed the video