Build your soil…feed your plants. It’s a mantra that all gardeners should know. Your soil is the #1 factor in the health of your plants, and it’s a living thing! Well…it houses billions of living things, all of which work together to help you get truly EPIC harvests.
1. Use Dynamic Accumulators
2. Compost, Compost, Compost
3. Mulch
4. Cover Crop
5. Use Chickens!
There are MANY more methods than these, but I find these to be my go-to’s in the garden. Comment down below if you have a favorite method!
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Be careful with it, but I bury kitchen scraps directly into the garden bed. Especially when I'm in between composting, or when I let a bed rest I bury a fair amount about 10-12 inches below the soil and let it naturally decompose over time.
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If comfrey is included in cover crop blends, that may not be a good thing. I've found once a comfrey starts in my yard, I cant get rid of it. Digging it up results in broken roots (since the roots go so deep) which results in more plants. At least they don't spread in a creeping way….just are indomitable. So make sure you actually want comfrey where you would spread fall cover crop blends containing comfrey. Similarly with stinging nettle, if that is included in the fall cover crop blend….make sure you're prepared to deal with the sting in the nettle. I love both plants, just placed where I want them.
I've got cedar shingle siding. Wondering if you painted yours for a specific reason. I'm gathering opinions on the subject. thanks.
what do we do if the daikon radish won't grow?
Excellent advice as always.
If I had a lot of space, I would just trench compost my food scraps. It's just an idea, but I would have multiple beds and I would rotate which beds I was growing in. The beds that I'm not growing food in would probably have some sort of cover crop/mulch and I would just bury my food scraps from left to right as I go through each bed. If I did use a cover crop, it would probably be a type of grass because those root more deeply than the nitrogen fixing ones and I'm already adding a ton of nitrogen into the bed from the food scraps. So I probably wouldn't need more.
I'm a new zone 7B gardener…and I committed the #1 soil sin: I left it bare this winter. (smh) Can I still use it? What can I do to replenish it for the coming planting season?
I love yoyr channel but I am confused by all the gardening methods, not sure which to choose dig vs no dig…home made compost vs bought
You had mentioned that you can use old leaves for mulching. Does this create disease? I save my leaves in piles in my woods. So could I dig those up for cover for my plants?
How long do you have to wait to use the soil after cutting your cover crop?
Thank you! Can you repeat what are the plants for dynamic ? I got only daicon, what is the other one? Thank you
It is the new growing season for 2021. I grow in
containers such as storage bins. At the end of last growing season, I chopped up alot of cucumber and tomato plant leaves and sprinkled them into the soil of those bins, then turned and mixed them into the soil. It is all an experiment, but I hope I have enriched the soil by degrees. I will fert.
and see how things go.
Conditions are not quite consistent yet for transplanting my seedlings,(southern N.H.) but soon!
Good luck to all for 2021!
Dandelions also make great dynamic accumulators, as they have one of the most robust taproots, capable of reaching several feet below the surface. Dandelions are one of the most nutritious greens you can grow, and every part of the plant is edible and has a lot of culinary uses. It's too bad most people consider it a weed.
If I buy land and make a garden, how do I know it won’t have chemicals or roundup in it or depleted nutrients ?
Thank you for the video, but (unless you know what you’re doing) FOR THE LOVE OF GOD don’t plant stinging nettle in anything but a container by itself! Nettle is super invasive, growing super, will take over everything, and the process to remove it from your garden is super complicated and takes forever to accomplish! If you are inexperienced with stinging nettle make sure you wear gloves when coming into contact with it, cause like the name suggests it will sting, so please be careful with it!
Do you have a video how to get rid of soil bugs? My garden bed has these small warns looking bug and ant looking thing with feathers. Not a termite. Or do they live in dirt? How to keep them out organically
Can I use colored mulch in my vegetable garden?
I use my chickens for everything soil getting rid of waste turning the compost eggs meat fertilizer you name it they are so worth it
I believe that "Borage would also be good to use" as well…Wish I could find a list of old medicinal garden plants that would be good for my soil & I do have a compost pile & 2 red wiggler worm bins as those casting are black gold. As far a chickens poo, a bit scared on burning my plants as not sure how much to use during the winter time, but with the "worm castings" & a little horse manure, that's aged makes me feel more comfortable. What do you think please, as I've only had raised beds for 2 years & get a bit nervous that I may do damage to the plants/soil? Great video as always, thank you…
Should I cover crop my grow bags over the winter too? True winter here, zone 6b.
Everyone should watch "Kiss the Ground" on Netflix !!!! They teach about Regenerative Farming and growing !!!!
Currently trying composting in a pile and mixing every few days with a pitchfork in an area of our property… fingers crossed.
My chickens are the hidden gold in my garden
Soil health balance is in constant flux….the acidic rain creates a build up of clay in your soil and every now and then lime needs to be added to counterbalance this. Make a fist with your soil. If it holds form after a poke its too much clay. Time to add some garden lime. Beware.Builders lime will kill everything
Yayyy I needed this videoThank You
Feed Your Soil
What a handsome smile he's got 🙂