Planter Box Fill CHEAP - Planting Seed Starts - Giving Chickens Grass

With a deep planter box use free wood chips and hay in layers to roughly half full. Our local dump puts free woodchips out for customers to pick up. Call around to your local tree service companies to find free woodchips.

Then call around to your nearest landscape business and ask them for their cheapest screened dirt. The one nearest us was only $20 a yard! If you don't have a truck or trailer ask a family member or a neighbor to help you out because getting it delivered is expensive!

We put the fill dirt on top of the hay and woodchips between 8-12 inches deep.

Then we used the chicken homemade compost on top of that between 4-6 inches. The store bought bags will work just fine if you have no homemade compost.

Your dirt needs to be alive not just full of fertilizer. Use homemade compost as much as possible but store bought bags are next best. Till your kitchen scraps directly into your garden bed soil to give the worms and other microbes food!

Timeline:
0:19 - Letting chickens out in the morning
1:03 - Dug our 12 year old dog playing a little
1:32 - Planter box fill
3:33 - Cost breakdown to fill boxes
3:48 - Showing how much chicken/homemade compost we got
5:09 - Giving chickens the grass clippings
5:46 - Planting seed starts
6:19 - What we are planting

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