Soil can make or break a garden. The best soil is pure compost since it
contains all the essential things or success. The other type of soil is
potting mix or bagged soil, and the very last type of soil is mother
earth native soil. Pick one, or mix them. Either way the soil is what
gives the health of the garden.
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your soil can be fixed even tho its look like that. The only way it becomes not economical to grow is when you have toxins in the soil or extreme ph problems.
I love this 3 part series your doing.
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Just curious, I seen on other YT videos that to have good soil you should have coconut coir or peat moss & perlite or vermeculite & rock dust with wormcastings along with compost. Or is that not critical for healthy soil?
I know raised beds are the "gold standard", but for those like me who don't want to go that route, the main thing is to get lots of organic material into existing soil. My soil is rock hard, but not in the garden. I add neighbors' grass clippings, coffee grounds, peat moss, compost, and leaves. I should mention that grass clippings can be more challenging in other locations, but my area is quite dry, so they're no problem for me. Since I started this garden, the oldest parts have gotten to be quite nice. Newer parts aren't so nice, but now I know how to work on them, so they're catching up. Digging by hand ensures that all this soil amendment is done at a pace I can keep up with.
my yard has sand only, so i took the sand out about 5 inches below the grass line and made a raised bed about 12 inches. filled it to the top of the raised bed with compost. my questioned is , will my garden be productive or not because i am concerned about the sand bottom?
Hello MIgardener! I really appreciate your videos.
I live in central Indiana, and perhaps I'm a bit biased but I believe the soil in this area and my yard have sufficient properties for growing vegetables. I have gardened in the past, but I have not yet gardened in MY yard, SO my soil has never been turned, and is currently an average mix of whatever grasses grow here. I am ready and willing to add supplemental compost, but I'm worried that it may not be enough to prep the earth for growing this year. I have heard a term, I think it was "sod-bound," which describes soil after it's just been broken and which doesn't allow plants to grow very well.
In your professional opinion, would I be safe to prepare and use this plot this summer, so long as I till it as soon as the ground is unfrozen, till it fairly excessively a few times, and add extra compost/organic matter to mix in while I'm tilling?
Organic growing is all about the loam game. That perfect mix between sand and clay. Mixed with compost, manure or green manure and you're set.
Do I just put compost in the bed, or do I mix it with other soils? I live in Utah
you are my absolute favorite youtuber. it's as if you're speaking directly to each of us!
Another reason why I have my own worm bed. Raise fishing works while having some great soil with awesome nutrients for the raised garden bed.
I have a 12' x 16' garden that is really not doing well. It was pretty good the first year but not doing well at all now except for the weeds of which I have a bumper crop (I live in zone 5b and it is mid-Sept). From what I can gather from all the youtube videos, it would seem that I have depleted the soil completely of all nutrients. In your opinion should I pull all the remaining plants and weeds, spread a thick layer of manure, a layer of compost and then till it before winter and then in the spring create the "beds" for the starters?
What about using so called "mushroom soil" or "gardening soil". Do you have it in your area?
What am I supposed to do about my vary Hydro scopic soil?
Hi there! I’ve put too many wood chips in my garden….is there something I can add to make it ready for planting soon?
Compost does make superb soil and you can check out Pete Kannaris channel where this guy Jim Kovalesky has an amazing front yard garden where he uses only local compost. He orders truck loads from the city for cheap and his results speak for themselves.