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The secret to a successful garden is right beneath your feet. Show your soil some love and you can expect bigger, better harvests.
Soil that’s in top-notch condition is the secret behind successful harvests, and now’s the time to prime your soil for the coming growing season.
In this short video we demonstrate five simple yet highly effective ways to improve your soil to give your crops the best possible start this spring.
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Another great video. Thanks for sharing.
What about dog manure
I got this in my inbox the day after I was thinking about exactly this. 🙂
What a helpful and professional video. Thank you so much, sir.
Brilliant advice. Thank you. We have covered our two veg patches with a thick mulch of horse manure, and covered the beds with breathable black polythene for the winter (to kill off any lingering weed seeds in the manure. Looking forward to taking off the covers in a month or so, to begin planting!
hey dude I just went to the big bug hunt and reporter to bug it was much easier than last year you guys are fixed all the bugs in the bug hunt!
any tips on keeping areosol injection out of your soil?
Hi thank you this video has been SUPER helpful!!! but i have a question!! I just bought a home and am trying to plant flowers for spring (in bulb form) and the dirt is SO hard and dry that i can barely dig to mix the dirt up a bit to plant anything! Ive been watering the dirt every other day (along with the help of the rain) to soften the dirt so that i CAN dig but other then that i dont know how to prepare hard, somewhat rocky soil WITHOUT digging?? any thoughts??
I live near a beach so I collect sea weed but only harvest from the middle of the beach as it's illegal otherwise then I soak it for a week at a time in buckets & each week I use that stuff & since starting my plants have gotten really dark green. I only rinse it once before using 1st time. I also rake up leaves from the neighborhood for natural mulch.
I have a leaf blower that also has a vacuum setting which shreds the leaves as you collect them – I use the shredded dry leaves as a mulch covering & if I have any left over, add it to a leaf mold pile to use next season… We have a large worm bin in our basement as well so we can toss our veg scraps into the bin & create amazing worm castings year 'round to add into the garden soil too.
When I'm working poor ground I double dig it while forking in compost/coir to the sub soil. I add in an organic compoud fertiliser like blood fish and bone to build soil fertility. I place blight resistant seed potatoes (var. Sarpo Mira) into the trenches and then cover the area with compost to protect it from compaction caused by rain. I earth up with more compost as they grow and then while I'm harvesting I'm digging in that compost into the top soil, I'll then surface dress a slow release fertiliser like seaweed meal, raking it in while working the surface to a fine tilth. I then broadcast a mixed green manure/cover crop while strimming it and digging it into the soil surface before it matures. Follow that nitrogen rich green manure crop with a brassica like cabbages (var. Kilaton). This should get the beds off to a great start.
Hello! I'm super excited to try many of your suggestions. I am also very interested in the garden design app you were talking about in the video regarding early start veggies. How can I locate it?
I adore this channel. I use buckwheat as a covercrop between growing! The bees like it. 🙂
why did your leafy plant had holes in them?….is that bad
I am absolutely new to gardening. Can you help me to take those baby steps and start somewhere.
Can I work organic matter into my soil now, mid march, with a view of planting my first vegetables in a few weeks time? Or am I too late?
Alder trees fix nitrogen into the soil, so placing an Alder tree or two around the garden will increase your fruit tree crops and the fertility of the whole area. Mycorrhizal fungi will develop underground, which are symbiotic with plants, helping them get deeper nutrients and actually physically connecting the root systems of different plants, redistributing nutrients from high concentration areas to low concentration. This means the fungi will literally transport nitrogen from your Alder trees to your vegetables and to the roots of your demanding fruit trees. You can buy mycorrihizal fungi to put in the soil to start off with, and it will grow from there 🙂
Thank you so much for all the wonderful videos! It is snowing here today, in North East Pennsylvania, and I have been binge watching your videos, dreaming about this years garden. I have finally subscribed to the growveg garden planner and I couldn't be happier. I do believe with a bit of planning now, I am going to have the best garden ever. Have a great day. Happy Gardening! Catherine
Well, my suggestion to everyone who gardens is to establish a worm bin and recycle all of your vegetative and fruit waste from your kitchen through it and let the worms turn that into liquid gold fertilizer. Mine is a 27 gallon DMX rectangular plastic container for $10 at Home Depot. I drilled a hole in one enc near the base & screwed in a valve & filled it with bag soil & shredded newspaper and a bag of soil & some "Red Wriggler" composting worms (available on Amazon) and some kitchen scraps. Then every morning I pour about 5 gallons of water through it and catch the runoff in a 5 gallon bucket. And then I cut up about 10 of my Comfrey Leaves into the bucket & hit it with a water jet every morning and after a few days, the leaves are dissolved and the remaining liquid is the best Natural and Organic Fertilizer you could ever wish for.
i purchased some bagged garden soil and manure for my first time raised bed. . I also was told i should add bone meal and lime to my soil. is this correct?
came from minds nice video
jelly looking at your soil and especially compost hehe
pvtc8 for soil enrichment
You load your soil with compost and material in the fall! By April everything is ready to go and you did less work! Pile it all in the garden in the he fall and let it rot!
Leaf mould!
Actually, you start fixing your soil in the fall not spring like nature does so that the organic matter is properly incorporated in the soil through the winter
Can I use comfry fertilizer for my green leaf vegetables like spinach and amaranth?
İm using cow and sheep manure composed work veryr well no need add anything else
Why do you say ( toe – maw – toe ) instead of ( toe – may – toe)???????
I simply want to know the name of this gardener, because he has so much wisdom and I’d like to know if he has written any books.