Name: How to build a MASSIVE Raised Garden - For Wheelchair Users!
Uploaded: 2020-04-29T18:25:45.000Z
Duration: 9 min 21 s
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-[Zack] So one of our quarantine activities that we already had planned before this whole

thing happened was to build a garden in our backyard. We have some chickens right here

next to like a little barn that we're going to put some horses in later. But we have this

little area where we want to build...what is it called?

-An accessible garden...but with like raised platforms in it so that Cambry can reach all

-...without having to like bend over toward the ground.

-Right. It just makes it a lot easier. So we have an idea and I hope it works. But first

we have to make sure this whole place is level. Remember what we do next?

-There used to be a bunch of weeds back here but we piled them all up and burned them which

[Zack] So we've been planning on making this garden for...ever since we got this house.

And now is the time. And it's like the first really warm day of the year. And I think we've

already missed a couple of the planting vegetable things.

-Yeah, I think we're a little, yeah, delayed on when we were supposed to plant them but

-As you can see we're not experts at this so we're just kind of hoping for the best.

What we're really trying to accomplish though is build it in a way that Cambry can use every

-Alright, so the plan is to raise the beds up so that I'm not having to get out of my

wheelchair onto the ground to try and like weed and trim and whatever else you have to

do for plant life. Anyways, so we're going to lift it up so that it's about my height.

They're about 2 feet off the ground, so I can reach over and grab the plants and weed

and take care of them and water them. And it'll be at a level that's not staining on

my back. We're not going to put concrete down. I'm not sure what we're going to put down,

-...Yeah, pavers between the aisles and around the beds so it's totally accessible for my

wheels and I'm not getting stuck in the dirt.

-One cool thing is we chose to go with redwood for the outside of this because redwood apparently..

-...Looks really good, but it's also a hardwood that bugs don't like to eat for some reason.

-But it's also...it can last for 30 years out in the elements. Which, we know, it's

a flower garden...it's going to be a vegetable garden...it's going to be outside in the elements

for hopefully 30 years. Hopefully it stands up that long.

-If you compare it to pine, it's not treated. Because you don't want it to be treated, it's

not good for the soil. But if you were to do a pine flowerbed, it can only last like

-And we don't want to use chemical wood. Remember I built my large table saw table thing out

of treated wood. Some parts of it. And there's like chemicals and stuff in there that we

just don't want around our vegetables. So we decided to go with 2x12's because we knew

that Cambry's wheelchair wheels are about 2 feet tall and we don't want to have her

leaning over a whole lot when she's working in the garden. And the less pieces of wood

that we have to work with, the faster the project goes. So two by twelves by 12 feet

So right now this is where the dirt's going to go. And this is going to be an aisle where

we can walk and, you know, have wheelchair access. This board right here is going to

be the start of the next dirt finger. Redwood is probably the most expensive kind of wood,

but because it lasts for so long, we splurged a little bit and got it. Also, when you're

working with wood it has a tendency to bow or, you know, flex in certain directions,

so we're using these metal plates to hold the boards together lengthwise and at the

joints where we but two of them together to keep them from separating. The metal plates

hold them in place much better than a screw or a nail would.

So right now we're getting closer to finishing these fingers. So once again, this is going

to be where dirt goes. And right now we're just propping it up on spare boards that we

have that we're going to use as braces in a minute. And that just keeps it level while

We're using a 4x4 at each of the joints that we can just screw into from either side to

keep the joints solid. And then here we can put it on the inside of the flowerbed.

So we are finished with the construction for the most part. We just need to add supports

on the inside to keep it from bowing out when we add the dirt. We are putting this black

cloth between the seems, so you know, a couple years down the road if the boards ever do

warp a tiny bit, we won't have dirt seeping out through the sides. So that's where we're

So here's a quick little update. Right now we have these boards in the center to keep

the sides from bowing out if there's too much dirt inside.

-And then we put in our first layer of dirt and the rest is soon to come.

-So the dirt we added up to this point has just been like dirt we scraped down from when

we were building this uh...flower pot...large flower pot.

-And my brother in law is going to take the camera and show how we get the manure for

this project. Cambry works at a barn that has a lot of horses, and these horses have

-A lot of compost. So you can't use fresh horse manure. It has to be marinating for

a while...? I don't know, I'll let Riley explain a little bit more. He's my brother in law

and he's going to be the one in charge of showing how the compost works.

-[Riley] That's right. I'll go get the good stuff. Let's get started! So I'm here picking

up the compost for the garden boxes and this behind me is a massive mountain of compost

that has been sitting for over a year, just marinating and breaking down, making it the

perfect compost for a garden. When you're planting a garden what you really want is,

you want it to be really moist and you want to keep moisture down at the roots of what

you're planting. And that's what this manure or compost is really for. It's better than

just dirt that you'll find on the ground because dirt is really dry. This compost really holds

in the moisture and makes it a lot better for planting stuff.

We have probably enough for now. We got our trailer full and our truck bed full. I mean

look how low that is to the ground. That's a ton of weight right there so we're just

going to haul it off and start throwing it in the garden boxes. Here we go. Also make

Those are the guys who have worked hard to give us the compost. All of it came from them.