In this back to basics episode we are talking about soil! What is good soil, the importance of goof soil, what makes up soil, and the difference between soil and dirt.
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I can grow seedlings just fine, that's fairly easy, and so it transplanting. It's what happens next! I have buggies or slugs/snails that annihilate my seedlings as soon as they get put in the ground especially along fence lines or along the edges of the raised beds. I no longer plant veggie seeds right in the ground because they get wiped out in a matter of a few days. The tops are chewed off. I am not sure what causes this, I have tried getting rid of slugs, earwigs and cut worms, but I'm NOT sure how to keep them away for long periods of time. Please help? Thanks!
Where's Waldo lol. Sorry, couldn't resist.
How do you buy large quantity ar cheap prices.
So where do you get the compost to fill your beds?
Is seeding his wife?
How would you till your raised beds for the next year? I know a garden in the ground is easy to just take the rototiller to, but I was wondering how it would be done for the beds.
So I am a little confused. In one part of the video you say you plant in straight compost. Then you talk about mixing it with native soil. I assume that is the way to go. Mix the compost with the native soil. Correct?
This guy has some useful information, but I hate the way he speaks down to his wife in this series of videos, almost like she is a child, or intellectually inferior. This is what is popularly called "mansplaining". He is so eager to get to his own talking points, that I don't think he is even aware of how aggressive and condescending he appears. it's not just this video. This theme runs through all the videos where she appears with him.
Sindy is beautiful! You guys make a great team. Bless yall. 🙂
Luke, thank you! You are such a blessing to my life and my garden! You and Cindy do such a good job. Cindy always asks you questions I have. I need these basic lessons for my very first garden, as I am learning. I want to do good job. You definitely teach me so many new things. thank you guys so much!!! I feel like we are family! watching you guys every day when I come home from work and making lists of things to get done and do, per Luke!! Thanks!
my planting area is dirt then. just plain sand. I have woods next to my place can I just take the top soil from that. will that be enough or should I get compost from the store. should I mix it up break every chuck up in too the sand oh just. place in top.
Heres a good question. How much concern is there for local municipal compost that most likely contains chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides that were used on peaoples propertiea, uptaken by their grass and trees which are cut and bagged to be added to the mix of local compost?? Since I've read those chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides can remain in local compost for a long time and that there is no testing done whatsoever for chemical residue, before the compost is distributed to residents…. Would be a shame if such a good free resource of compost would be tainted but what isn't chemically tainted in our society….
would there be any harm, in using pure compost in the raised beds?
Question…
Do you remove the grass and roots? How do you prep the existing ground?
Great info Luke. Could you please tell us your recommended ratio of the various soil components you recommended? Thank you very much. I live in TX but get great info from your videos.
What is the difference between granular humus and the humus of a compost?
how much does it cost to fill one of those beds
Cindy is so sweet.
we travel a lot, so are thinking of investing in self watering containers, do we need any special soil for these?, of course they reccomend and sell some for $10/bag! (no names rgiht?)
Hey Luke, I just re-watched this video hoping you would mention where to get my soil from. I live in a trailer park, in Oakland County. Im going to use 5lb. cat litter buckets on my deck. I am not allowed to take dirt from the property. You said you get yours from a community composting site. Any other ideas? I dont have much money to start with, but I already have seeds, the buckets, and a soil starter I got at ACE at the end of last season, when it went on sale. Its made of peat moss, perlite, poultry litter, and yucca. Any suggestions?
Soil test are good too.
When you put compost in the raised bed Mrs. MI Gardener just built, then according to the video you would mix the native soil and the compost. Did you break up that grass and dig out the grass roots first. I wish you would have really made a bed (with time lapse obviously) and showed us the actual "fine tuning" of gardening. No one seems to do that. Having a person(s) there in your video with you that wants to start a garden for real and has very little experience would have been invaluable!
Thank you.
Luke you may want to inform your subscriber's about the herbicide aminopyralid a persistent problem with manure's which I used to love but stay away from now. One of my favorite gardener's Elliott Coleman called horse manure an straw one of the best soil amendments ever, an I agree, but their's no way to know unless you know the farmer an he or she is honest.
i have the same size bed the 48 square feet. i got access to chicken compost, i heard its easy to overuse it. how many pounds should i use for this size bed? Thanks
So how expensive was this compost?
i tried making a bed with just compost but its still not as soft as a peat based soil.
I am doing my own compost as much as possible.
Where is Waldo ?
I’m a little confused. Did he just dig up his back yard to supply the beds with the native soil/compost mixture? Or does he dig up the soil underneath each bed?