This Ancient Japanese method of preserving wood will help your Raised Bed last much longer, and it’s all natural! This technique is known as Shou Sugi Ban.
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It looks gorgeous! Built to last! Thanks for breaking down the process! ????????????????
Hi James is master Tuck doing? Oh and you two I been wondering about the master. ????Carmen
Cedar fence pickets cost about $3 a piece in here Tx. That's what i usually use for my raised beds. It's naturally kinda resistant to a lot of bugs. In my experience even the cheap fence post last longer then most of the other woods i have used.
Great video, James. I wish I had seen this video a few years ago when I built my raised beds. You're right. It does look great! Thanks for the instructive video.
So what is the raised bed oil you used? I found a product on Amazon, but I just used it last year on pine boards.
how much was that wood? Cedar is not cheep
I made a raised bed just like yours several years ago, using quality fence boards from Home Depot. However, it only lasted about 3 years as it rotted from the inside. Hopefully the added charring and finish will make yours last much longer than mine did.
Great video! Thanks for a good step by step video. I really want to try this, these came out so good. Also, just want to say Hi, Tuck! Still a show stealer ????????.
Beautiful! Like a treasure chest of garden goodies! But why does burning it make the wood last longer?
We've been doing this in rural areas to protect wood against the elements for quite some years now. The technique I grew up with was putting the wood/stomps/planks directly into a fire – and pay attention!! to ONLY char them and not burn. But blow torches were rare and harder to find (in some areas they still are) – but I can vouch that with proper supervision having a yard fire to do this is fine also. Might not be as uniform, but the effects are virtually the same.
I like the look of your cedar beds, I have used cedar, fence, pickets, and cut off the dogeared end for very inexpensive cedar wood.
❤I love it!! I’ll have to make some this year. I think I’ll redo the beds from last year. Thank you James for this great idea!
Great! How much to FILL?
Oh my gosh! My brother did that once! Been several years ago but I should check with him to see how they're holding up. I recall I thought he was nuts till he explained why he was "burning" wood!
Wow! The goth (lol) raised beds look fantastic ????
On the point of price – The first 4 raised beds I put in are cedar and still look basically brand new after 6+ upper midwest winters. I've slowly added a couple pine ones each year and those are starting to look rough. My point being, ~$300 may seem kinda steep (I'm cheap) , but even my untreated cedar is pushing a decade so I'd imagine cedar after shou sugi ban & that other treatment should last quite a while. That $300 would be relative peanuts, if you can do the up front cost of course. I've been wanting to try this and you made it look so easy but I'm a little too clumsy for a flamthrower sooo maybe not quite yet????
Quite striking garden beds.
Stapling landscape fabric to inside would provide another layer of protection between soil and wood.
A flamethrower ????? Holy moly ????
That looks amazing…well done! And thanks for all the great videos to help us amateurs out…I love them! ????????
Still waiting for a video on how you grow your cannabis