Today we look at blowback from the Trump verdict, Tucker Carlson is saying exactly what I have been saying about Ukraine, Bitcoin is now in a state pension fund, Fauci says “the six foot rule and masking just sort of appeared”, why is the west begging for WWIII and more.
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They found Trump guilty on 34 counts the results seem to confuse them, a lot – link
I actually want the Orangeman to win, simply because the left deserves to lose
Tucker Carlson just said exactly what I told you last week about Ukraine – link
Fauci says “the six foot rule and masking just sort of appeared” now he’s being questioned in congress nothing will come of it, again. Let’s discuss the real lesson here. – link
Why in the world is the west literally begging for WWIII?
The US is not spending more on interest than it is defense or Medicare – link
Bitcoin is now in Wisconsin public pension funds, teachers, cops, etc. – link
The road is going to get hard, that spells misery or opportunity, choose your hard
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I have been promising you guys a sale on the air since last week. I was going to do 15 bucks off your first year but I decided to do better than that.
Better? You bet! Instead of 15 dollars off your first year, I am making it a locked in rate as long as you stay a customer. Yep you can support the show and get all the discounts for only 35 bucks and that rate locks in for life.
I set up MSB from the beginning with the hope that it would not cost my members a dime in the long term. So I set out and locked in about 70 discounts on tons of stuff you likely buy all the time. Simply by using these discounts a few times a year I can’t see how anyone living a modern survival lifestyle won’t get their money back at least two times over a year, especially at 35 bucks.
And yep that headline is correct, I had MSB on sale a LONG time when CoVid started and so when that sale ended I just didn’t do many after it. The last time I marked MSB down was in Nov. of 2022 for a Christmas sale, so don’t expect this great price back any time soon. Get in while you can.
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I do still take PayPal but they have been really buggy with a ton of failed renewals and problems when people are trying to sign up and they have been NO HELP in fixing it. So while you can use PayPal I prefer that you sign up via Stripe. And if you have a PayPal debit card you can of course use it that way.
Note – This is a simple, accurate and very easy to use Sous Vide circulator from the same people who make the famous InstaPot and today it is on sale for the stupid cheap price of only 69 bucks and change. Get it while it is on sale!
Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is the Instant Accu Slim Sous Vide Precision Cooker. Long time listeners know I have talked about Sous Vide cooking a lot on the show because it is just an amazing way to cook and sous vide circulators do a ton more than just cook steaks. You may also note for a few years I have recommended the Anova circulator.
I am not taking back my recommendation but my Anova just semi died. What does that mean? It still heats water but the circulation fan won’t run and is not fixable. Now with a little redneck engineering I made it work with a 10 dollar nano fish tank pump, but I also want one that just works. It so happens in the same week my Anova died my friend David’s Anova died too. He had a true death where the thermostat failed and his started boiling the water like mad. So it seemed time to find a new one to recommend.
So I found the Instant Accu Slim Sous Vide Precision Cooker. The Instant is in the title because it is made by the same folks that make the InstaPot that is so famous now. The retail on the Instant Accu Slim Sous Vide Precision Cooker is 99 dollars which about the same as the Anova Nano and 40 bucks under the Anova AN-500. I actually got mine on sale for 69 bucks but that sale ended before I got to try it out and decide if I would recommend it.
In short I love it, simple to use and it works really great. Setting it is simple and it also has a timer you can set as little as an hour and as long as 3 days (72 hours). One great thing about that is the unit has enough intelligence built in that the timer does not start until the set temp is reached. As to accuracy I tested the water temp with both my instant read thermometer, a candy thermometer and a Meater probe. All were with in one degree of the set temp.
Sous Vide is a method of cooking that I describe as a dry poaching. Poaching of course is holding a food item in a liquid until it is cooked to your liking. This keeps foods moist and prevents over cooking. It is also simmering in water when you get right to it, for some stuff that is fine.
There are a few primary differences with Sous Vide. First it uses a precision cooker, meaning if you want 137 degrees you get exactly that, if you want 165, and you might, say for chicken, you get EXACTLY THAT. Not 162, not 166, not 163, you get precisely the temperature you want. Most poaching is a best effort process. It also in general uses higher temps say 180 for instance for eggs.
Next Sous Vide is dry, well not exactly dry but the food doesn’t contact the heated liquid, it is instead held inside a food safe bag. This can be done with a quality zip top bag but I prefer to use a vacuum sealed bag. The meat or other item is seasoned as you choose, then cooked to the exact temp you want. After that it is finished with a quick sear, about one minute per side or less.
For steak the results are a perfect cook to your preferred temp, we are talking end to end pink or red or what ever you want. Not perfect in the center and darkening to the outside.
Overall I resisted Sous Vide when I first heard about it. I considered it the realm of hipster types and what have you. I have become a full on convert, in some ways it has changed my life a little bit. I don’t use it every day, I do use it at least once a week though. Over time you find the things that work best for you with this method and the things you prefer to do more conventionally.
I also figured this was sort of a fussy pain in the ass method until I tried it. I was wrong! Compare it to conventional cooking in a real world scenario. Say I want to make steak tonight. We have my grandkids, my wife is busy, I am busy, etc. My daughter-in-law some days has to work late, we don’t usually know that until about 4PM, then we don’t even know how late, late might be some days. Then there is my wife, after a day of taking care of kids she doesn’t want to eat right away when they are gone. We just want some peace and quiet for a while.
So I have to wait until we are both ready. Then fire up the grill, then try to get my steak perfect for me and her’s perfect for her. The entire time dealing with “I’m not really ready to eat just yet”, soon followed by, “well now I am really hungry”. The later it gets the more likely we are to end up eating left overs or something.
Contrast Sous Vide. Toss seasoned steaks in bag, heat pot to 137 (my preferred temp), cook 1 hour, 15 minutes. Remove my steak, turn up heat to 150 (her preferred temp) cook 20 minutes. Turn temp back to 135, throw in a handful or ice to drop the temp then toss mine back in. It can now sit there an hour, nothing is going to happen, it can’t over cook. When she is ready, take out steak, heat carbon steal pan, and or grab torch, sear, takes bout 3 minutes tops.
You tell me which way is more fussy and a pain in the ass? So if you have been looking to try sous vide then the Instant Accu Slim Sous Vide Precision Cooker may be right for you. Again I am not saying there is anything wrong with the Anova. Sous Vide cookers seem over all to have a life expectancy and I am sure that will get longer as tech improves with them.
Yes my Anova died but it was ridden hard many times. I for instance once cooked three briskets for 2 days in a igloo cooler with it as one example. I got two years out of mine but likely had the milage on it that a normal household might put on it in 4-5 years or more. So either way, consider making sous vide part of your life.
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P.S. – Wanted to add a bunch of additional things Sous Vide cookers can do for you. Here we go.
Make Yogurt – A follower of mine on facebook today wanted to get a yogurt maker because they are spending so much on yogurt drinks and such. I pointed out you just put water in something, set the sous vide temp to what you want for your yogurt. Set a timer and done. Best part is my follower already has a sous vide cooker, just never thought of using it this way.
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Make Cheese – Similar technique but you put your milk in a second container and use the temps and time for your cheese recipe. This can be done for hard aged and pressed cheeses made with rennet and for super quick farm cheeses made with simple vinegar. Here is an example of a quick cheese in a youtube video.
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Egg Bites – They are all the rage at coffee houses especially with the explosion of keto and low carb eating. You can make them with sous vide, super easy and super cheap. If you eat these a few times a week a Nano will pay for itself in a month. Here is a video on making them.
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Boil Eggs – Let’s stay on eggs for a while. Boiling eggs is tricky especially if you want the yolks perfect, and perfect is a personal choice. With sous vide you can set a specific temp and time, once you get “perfect” as you consider it you have a formula, it will never change and you will always get perfect eggs. Here is a video on that, however you like your eggs it will give you a great starting point.
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Creme Brulee – Want a bad ass cheffy desert but want it to be super simple, make Creme Brulee. Here is a video on that, are you low carb, well, use Lakonto Sugar and you can have Creme Brulee, just don’t make it a daily habit.
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Prep Steaks in Advance – This is a go to move for me. I will season steaks, put them in a vac bag, vacuum seal them and write the seasoning and date on the bag, toss in the freezer. When I want to cook said steaks, I take them strait from the freezer into the sous vide. It will take about 30 minutes to defrost so just add that much time to your planned cook.
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Defrosting Meats and Other Items – Because the water moves around there is a ton of efficiency in moving the temp of frozen items. The water doesn’t have to be hot for this. If I want say a package of burger or a roast defrosted fast I will simply sous vide it at about 50 degrees, it will defrost even a large hunk of meat fully in less than an hour.
I love TV Chef Alton Brown and one thing we both really agree on is unitaskers suck unless they are the only thing that works for the intended purpose. Screw yogurt makers etc. The Sous Vide circulator can make boiled eggs to the exact level you want, make cheese, make yogurt, make dessert, make egg bites and still cook a perfect steak. It has become one of the single most useful tools in our home. Oh and man you gotta try the cheese.
In this episode from 2011 I was joined by Tawnya Sawyer of Colorado Aquaponics. Tawnya is a Colorado native who grew up in the mountains raising plants and animals for food. Tawnya joined me in this podcast to discuss aquaponics, growing local food and entrepreneurship.
The show notes for the original episode with all relevant resources can be found here.
Welcome to Friday Flashbacks, after 15 years and hundreds of interview shows we decided to run them as flash backs every Friday, beginning with the oldest of them going forward.There is a tremendous library of wisdom in all the great interviews we have done over the years.
So sit back and enjoy, whether this is your first or second time around with today’s episode I am sure you will enjoy today’s episode and learn a lot from it.
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Today on The Survival Podcast the expert council answers your questions on economics, foreign policy, pregnancy, solar well pumps, food forests, dog training, food activism and more.
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De-Dollarization and The Globe Trotting US Government – Chris Rossini & Ron Paul
Cheat days and rest days when training and dieting – Andy McCann
Dealing with pregnancy induced nausea with nutrition – Dr. Ken Berry
Installing and building a solar well pump – Shawn Mills
Thoughts on a failed food forest attempt – Geoff Lawton
Stopping excessive dog barking but not losing their ability to alert to threats – Joel Ryles
State sovereignty though state level food sovereignty – Jack `
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Today’s Item of the Day is from Vevor—it’s their 5-Tray Worm Composter. Remember to use the code VVPROMO to get 5% off anything you buy from Vevor with my links. I mentioned this item in a recent podcast about various methods of composting. Enough of you guys got one that my Vevor rep literally reached out and said, “Hey, let us send you one for a proper review.”
I figured this one was safe to recommend without a review, as screwing up a worm bin isn’t easy to do, at least not from a manufacturing standpoint. Now, management of worms you can screw up, but that is on the worm keeper, not the bin maker. (More on that in the video at the end.)
I have to say, I am very glad to have accepted a sample of this worm bin. This bin is well-made and well-designed. Every aspect of it is well thought out. And, ole Jack discovered something for you guys on this one that makes it a hell of a good pricing deal. Here is the deal: one of the top-selling all-time worm bins is the VermiHut Plus 5-Tray Worm Compost Bin. The ViermiHut has over 1600 reviews with 4.6 stars overall on Amazon. It is all over groups and forums about worm composting, and everyone loves it. They sell for about 100 bucks on Amazon and other sites.
Well, what if I told you the Vevor bin, at $59.00 when bought directly right now, was the exact same bin? I don’t mean almost the same; I mean THE SAME. Same accessories, same parts, same instructions, same everything. My instinct from my research is the only difference is the color; the VermiHut is green and the Vevor is black. It isn’t a car, folks; the color doesn’t matter. When I say the same, I mean they are likely made on the same molds in the same factory.
So out of the gate, you get one of the best-thought-of worm bins on the market for $40 off the cost of the competition, meaning you could literally run two bins for say $120 vs. one for $100 if you wanted two bins. Can I be 100% sure they are the exact same bin? Yes. How? Because I know how private label products work, because I read the instruction manual for product reviews fully, and because we all know documentation from China on products is something that can miss things in translation.
In this case, the name of the private-labeled product I am sure mistakenly remains in the user’s manual. Click the image on the right to enlarge it, and you can see right in the product manual it is referred to as the VermiHut Plus. Clearly, Vevor made a deal with VermiHut to private label this product which means you get it for $40 less. Then don’t forget to use my discount code VVPROMO for an additional 5% off.
Now let’s talk about the bin itself. First, I was impressed by two things included that you normally need to buy separately. First, there is a brick of coco coir—call that about a $10 bonus item. It also includes a fiber top mat to cover the top tray of worm food. Additionally, they provide a small rake that may not be a big deal, but it is perfect for scraping off layers of the coco coir when soaking it for initial setup.
This system is designed in a way that should make the vermicomposter think a bit like a beekeeper. What I mean is the instinct of many will be to put it all together and fill it up fast; don’t do that. As you will see in my video, the best thing to do is start off with good bedding and one tray. As that tray begins to fill with castings, add a new tray on top with some bedding, food scraps, and inoculate it with a handful of castings from the lower tray.
Follow this method until you are working on the 5th tray as new; at that point, remove the bottom tray’s castings, and it becomes your top tray. Once you get a system running, you will be harvesting castings say every couple of weeks. Again, think a bit like a beekeeper; you add those supers on top of the hive as the lower areas are full of brood and honey. Do the same here as the worms have almost filled the lower tray; add the next one.
Again, I give more tips in the video, but I want to say something here about any worm bin. There are two reasons for most worm bin failures (other than murder by invading fire ants). They are, in order, too much liquid and too much food, and sometimes too much of some foods that have a lot of water in them, is part of the first one. This bin, like many, has a spigot for removing leachate. This is a good thing, and leachate is a great thing to water down and spray on your plants or drench soil with (an ideal dilution rate is 10:1), but it is NOT something you want to produce in high quantity with a worm bin.
Look, folks, the more leachate you get, the more you are overwatering your bin. Now some say you should get exactly none. Like many things, I am in the middle on this issue. I expect to get some drainage over time; when I do, I back off the moisture, but I don’t freak out and simply see the leachate as a resource. I have never had issues with this approach. And as well as this thing can drain, I can’t see why anyone would.
Problems arise when new worm compost folks think leachate is something you want on an ongoing basis, so they add moisture until they damn well get it daily. Then the worm bin becomes too active, active composting starts, like compost pile style with HEAT, and your worms fry. Unlike a pile outside, they have nowhere to go; you made a worm oven. You can also end up with just being too wet, then they drown or create anaerobic pockets that are bad for worm health.
Next, on overfeeding, most new folks totally overfeed, and one of the reasons is really a surprise to many. Here we go, worms don’t even eat most of what we feed them. This is the real key and why new worm keepers often have catastrophic loss very quickly. We tend to think of a worm bin like, say, a mealworm farm; you feed the worms, they eat it. But compost worms, and honestly, most earthworms do not actually eat the stuff we put in bins, just as they do not eat the mulch on top of your gardens.
No, worms partner with microbes, many actually, that pass through their guts. These microbes break down the food; the worms eat that food partially broken down, they eat the microbes’ waste, and they even eat some of the microbes. I found this fascinating when I learned it; check out this video from Ray Archuleta of worms on a farm literally “farming microbes” by pulling corn refuse just slightly into burrows.
What this means is a new farm should start light on worms and lighter on food. Allow the microbe population to come up as the worm population does. Once you get going, just keep an eye on things, and you will, in time, learn what to look for. One big thing is if you feel significant heat when you open your bin, you are likely overfeeding; again, you have gone from a slow compost to fast thermophilic compost. To correct this, remove some food and add some carbon and stop feeding for a time. Again, more tips in the video.
Let me finish with one more thing here, the value concept. Many pride themselves on “homemade bins” for their worms, and if you are a major operation doing 100 giant long beds and selling commercially, well, you may very well want to do that. But for the average person, you need one or two of these tops, and blatantly, you can’t make anything this good, with 5 layers using something like Rubbermaid tubs for less than 50 bucks. Just price 5 tubs in the 3-5 gallon size, and you will see what I mean, not to mention the drainage and spigot, separation screen, etc., for bottom leachate removal and the ant traps for the feet.
Y’all know me, I am all for making things yourself and DIY and such, but I am not for spending more money to get something that doesn’t work as well as an off-the-shelf purpose-built product like this. It just makes no economic sense and has a bad price to value ratio. Once you take the additional 5% off, the cost of this item is $56.99; it comes with bedding and a mat to cover the top tray, so you don’t have to buy those. You can set it up the day you get it with zero tools. If you build your own instead of getting this, I will say what I say often, “You hate money, and if you hate on money, it will hate on you.” This is a well-respected $100 product for $60 bucks; you just can’t beat that in 2024, and if well cared for, it is also a very long-term investment.
So, check out the 5-Tray Worm Composter (Remember to use code VVPROMO to get 5% off anything you buy from Vevor with my links) and up your composting and fertility game today. Again, check the video for more tips on bin management, including how to accelerate microbe inoculation, where to locate your bin, and more.
And remember you can alway help us out by beginning your online shopping starting at TspAz.com first and when you do so, on Vevor items always use discount code VVPROMO to get 5% off anything you buy.
Check Out this Video Review with TONS of Griddle Tips Even if You Already Own One
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Remember My Discount Code Works for ANYTHING in the Vevor Store, just use my links to get there and use VVPROMO at check out for 5% off literally anything they sell.
Today Cody Groenewold joins us to discuss his work as a self employed metal fabricator and rough terrain fence installer/builder in off grid and very rural environments. As you might guess working in such environments has taught Cody a lot about self reliance and getting things done where there is no grid to plug into.
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Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.
Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is something I feel no one should be without. They just do too much, for too little cost to not have some. They are Releasable Cable Tiesand at only six bucks and some change for 100 pieces they are a steal.
Get a few bags and do the following. Make up bundles of about 20-30 a bundle. Just use one tie to hold the rest together. Put a bundle in your BOBs, put one in every glove box of your vehicles, put some in your garage where you can see them and just grab them, etc. Heck I keep half a dozen as part of my EDC, you don’t even notice them in a cargo pocket until you need them.
The key is the releasable part! We even use these for keeping gates closed on our low fences for our ducks. I keep a few tied on top of various fences all over the property, so if you need one there is always one close by. They are very strong and stay flexible a long time. They tend to last about 1.5-2 years if in direct sun before becoming brittle. Otherwise they seem to last forever.
I use them for many other things as well. I use them to tie up new seedling trees for say a month until they stiffen up. Since you can remove and reuse them it is cheaper than plant tape. I use them to tie 4 large hog panels into a square and make an on the fly animal pen. There is no limit to how useful these things are. They are my go to for tying up my peppers to bamboo stakes. Fast and reusable, while I use mule tape for more vining crops for peppers or egg plants that need a bit of support these are just super fast and effective.
And a listener just gave me another use recently. They use this to hold up plant lights for starts, as the plants grow they just keep taking in the slack, this lets you pull the lights 100% up to the top shelf giving your far more vertical growth area then the adjustable clips I have been recommending up until now.
So just how versatile are cable ties in general, okay I am going to tell you a story, I am NOT SUGGESTING THAT you do it, it is just what happened. Many years ago when I was in the Army I had two friends, Brad and Dean. Dean was the one that owned a truck and he was a “character” to say the least.
Dean would just toss Brad or I the keys anytime we needed his truck. One day we wanted to run to the PX, so Dean tosses Brad the keys. In we jump and to the PX and back we go, beer run of course. Brad is a typical guy from Southern Louisiana so he bends speed limits till they break and loves tight turns. We get back an Dean says, “oh yea, I should of told y’all to take it easy until the new tie rod gets here”.
Brad and I get down and look and see that fricken Dean had used 4 tie wraps to hold a broken tie rod together. As in it had broken in two and he tie wrapped it back together. For those that don’t know, the tie rod holds the front searing brackets to the frame so you can turn. Kind of an important function! So Brad almost kills Dean but later we laughed about it, because when you are 20 you are stupid! And we were SOOOO 20 at the time and SOOOOOOOOO stupid.
That has always stuck with me and while I would not replicate it as a “temporary repair”, I would replicate it with great care and driving very slowly to get a vehicle to safety in a similar situation. Trust me and if you don’t keep cable ties in your preps, start doing so and the best ones for flexibility and usefulness are Releasable Cable Ties.
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P.S.– I have brought this item back a many times, the reason is simple, if I made a list of the top 5 most useful things on my homestead, I am sure it would change over time, but these would never fail to make the list.
Today we take a look at some current events that tell the tail of an empire at its end. We discuss how quickly the Libertarian Party can convert a W into an L, our 320 million dollar Gaza pier is falling apart, the four stages of modern journalism Fnords, the 6 commonalities of failing empires and more.
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Libertarians reject the Orangeman showing they have no idea how to win with politics – link
We spent 320 million to build a pier in Gaza that is now falling about and sinking
In 2024 the four stages of journalism are gaslight > dismiss > cope > attack – link
What I think Nostr needs to move beyond just being a “twitter clone” – link
It looks like an ETH ETF is coming, will it matter, what might it signal – link
Russia has started taking territory as I predicted here is what I think comes next – link – link 2
How the left has no wins possible in the Trump verdict
Remember the 6 Commonalities of Empire Collapse
Economic Decline
Military Defeat
Political Corruption & Inefficiency
Social & Cultural Decay
External Pressures & Invasions
Environmental and Health Crises
We have them all and extreme denialism is the only way you can not see it
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Special Note – Vevor has these 4x8x2 raised beds on sale again for under 100 bucks a piece. There is still time to get your garden established or expanded in 2024 and these are the long lasting easy button to get it done. And they have their 1 foot deep beds on sale for only 47 dollars, so if you don’t require the depth of the larger beds this is just a stupid cheap price.
Today’s Item of the day is Galvanized Raised Garden Beds by Vevor. There are many options here but the two I feel TSP’rs will be most interested in are standard 4×8 dimensions at two different depths…
Today we have a brand new type of item of the day. Up until now all Item of the Day reviews have been for items you can get on Amazon. Recently Vevor reached out to me about working with them and we came to an agreement. I will be receiving some free products in this agreement for review for disclosure I will tell you when ever that is the case. It is the case here but this item is so great I also bought one myself because I want two for my coming project.
Here is the best part, this product is awesome and I am going to save you a lot of money on it. Retail on this product is 140 bucks, but if you use my links you can get it for a LOT LESS. Just by registering as a customer with Vevor through my link before you buy and your cost will go down to only 99.99 then at check out just enter code VVPROMO for an additional 5% off.
Now let me tell you about this product and why I love it. First I love raised beds for gardening and we all know why. You get space to build new perfect soil and things like ducks and dogs tend to stay out of beds at least 20 inches high and these are just a hair under 2 feet high.
Next last year I sold a metric ton of this product by Frezone. They are awesome and were costing you guys between 120 – 160 plus dollars a pop. Here we have what I consider a better product for less money. Why do I say it is better?
Painted – mostly aesthetics but they do look great
Rectangle vs. Oval – simply put this gives you more total square feet to plant
Horizontal Reenforcement – There are six reenforcing straps that prevent bulging
Heavy Steel – Most beds of this type are made with .01 thick steel, these are made with .04 thick steel
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Now in general since this form of garden bed showed up, all steel, shipped in panels so they can ship cost effectively I have been all in on them. You are talking a garden bed that will stand up to the test of time better than anything built from pressure treated lumber. And let’s look at the cost of building a 4′ wide x 8′ long x 2′ deep bed with lumber that will rot in time to one of these.
For each bed you would require…
16 2x6x8 pressure treated boards (at my local Lowes that is 120 dollars)
A box of good stainless or deck screws about 12 bucks
Likely some coroner reenforcing lumber we can call it 10 bucks
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All in building a 2 foot high bed with 4×8 dimensions with lumber at todays prices is about 140 ish bucks or for just under a hundred bucks, a box will show up at your house with every thing you need, bolt it all together and fill it up and just start growing.
And folks NOW is the time, spring is springing as we speak. You know those beds you were going to build but didn’t this winter, order today and by the weekend you can be assembling all the beds you want for the coming season. And the best part is these beds will LAST. I am not going to say forever but certainly 3-5X longer than a wood based bed that costs about 40% more to build along with a trip to box store hell on your weekend.
Yea look at it that way, you want to build your beds next weekend right? So you can get up early, go to the box store, blow 1-2 hours of your time, come home, then get to work. Or you can assemble one of these in about 30 minutes with simple hand tools while spending less money and getting a better product.
Remember you can get this deal in two different sizes depending on the depth you want. I went with 2 foot deep beds but they are pretty massive. I do this because it is a nice working height and because it keeps the ducks out of my gardens. The tradeoff is fill volume, a 4x8x2 box will hold just about 1 cubic yard. If you don’t want the higher working height or are not worried about animals the 1 foot tall option may be bette for you. Again the options are…
4Wx8Lx1D 65.99 less 5% with my special code VVPROMO
4Wx8Lx2D 99.99 super deal and you still get 5% more off with code VVPROMO
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So get registered as a Vevor Customer today and get this great deal and just know I will be bringing you a ton more or personally selected awesome products from Vevor as we move forward. But there is a reason I am leading off with these awesome garden beds, now is the time and this is one of the best deals I could find for you on the Vevor website.
Video Review of These Awesome Beds
Two questions were common when this video was released. They were about the supports and their location. To that one there are a total of 6, only two are installed here as we are going to reconfigure the beds as described. `
Next was is the top of the bed sharp? No it is rolled but there are edges on the corners so right where they panels connect you have some potential for scratches. Vevor does provide a top cover of thin material to cap the box with. We didn’t use it and have no plans to, but you may want to or to do something with the sharp corners.
P.S. – With this new partnership I will be expanding TspAz.com to include products from both Amazon and Vevor and will continue to recommend the best options regardless of source. As always anything I would not spend my own money on, I will never recommend to you. I will always continue to disclose any products I am given as samples, etc. Integrity is why you know you can trust my recommendations and that will never change.
* Note – This Item is available on Amazon but you will pay about 20 dollars more for it if you order it there. Still I wanted you to know about this in case you simply prefer to buy from that channel.