As a gardener, seeing a really light coloured soil, which is as dry as sand and has no organic matter (or hardly any), tells me that it just won’t nearly be as productive. Our solar tunnel has suffered from not enough organic matter being put into it so this year I thought I would take drastic action to add loads of nutrients to it and improve the water holding capacity. Watch to see the comparison between watering the soil before and after.
Produced in Partnership with Eifion Jones from: http://www.torchydesign.co.uk/
Instagram: @huws_nursery
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HuwsGardenNursery
SIGNED COPIES of Veg in One Bed: https://huwsnursery.shop/
Seed sponsor: https://www.organiccatalogue.com
Tool sponsor: https://www.bulldogtools.co.uk
Main Camera: https://amzn.to/2KCbn0k
Second Camera: https://amzn.to/2KkRoUA
Laptop: https://amzn.to/2KjT4hj
Drone: https://amzn.to/2tUYZy6
Microphone: https://amzn.to/2KvTikz
Second Microphone: https://amzn.to/2yXuRYJ
Tripod: https://amzn.to/2lQ77g1
HuwsNursery is a channel which dedicates itself to teaching you how to grow an abundance of food at your home. Videos are uploaded every week and cover a vast range of subjects including; soil health, sowing, transplanting, weeding, organic tips, permaculture, pest control, harvesting and low maintenance growing to name a few.
Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/user/HuwsNursery?sub_confirmation=1
Become a Patreon and help HuwsNursery GROW! https://www.patreon.com/huwsnursery
With thanks to the support of my top tier patreons; William Shidal, Ben Porcher, Namaste Foundation, Valeria Letelier and Mike Moore
Thank you for sharing so many different ways to garden in your videos!
Would you be able to give advise on how to revive soil without any animal matter?
Like maybe for example only using hummus could be?
Or what you would recommend?
Thanks!
That wonderful
Had the manure been aged before you mixed it in? We are starting new garden beds and wondering if cow or chicken manure from this last fall would be to strong…
Thank you for the video. Why do you specify to use peat free manure?
Great quick remediation. Thanks very much.
Hello! I’ve been watching a lot of your videos and I think they are great! I’m learning a lot and it’s not scaring me away lol. I’m trying to find a solution for my yard. It’s really neglected in comparison to what it could be but fruit trees and grapevines and other plants are still able to grow. I would like to revitalize the soil, or basically the dirt, in some way but how do I do it with trees and plants in the ground already?
Btw the beard really looks good on you
Why not mix the compost in?
this is great timing to see this video! thanks for sharing
Found this while looking into how I start from nowhere on some ground under the windows on my ground-floor flat. Will be applying this and will report back .
We have to many pestilence inside the soil and outside the soil
Common hen and ant colonies are destroying the agri in la borinken Puerto Rico
This video is AMAZING!!! We have hydrophobic soil as well (in Connecticut, zone 6a). Unfortunately we have already planted vegetables in our raised beds and it became hydrophobic while we were away for a week, no rain at all. Anyway, I do have a question: My husband purchase raised bed soil and is using it. Would just aerating it do the trick? Or would you recommend composting as well. As for me, I have established flower gardens and I’m experiencing the same thing. I would assume I could aerate around the plants and apply manure and compost as well? One more thing to ask- I plan on purchasing mulch. I’m not sure if I should use hardwood or this new mulch called agri-mulch. It seems to me the latter would do many things as well as protecting it from drying out. I look forward to your thoughts. Thank you much!!
I add manure and compost every year and it’s made a world of difference to all my beds. Soul is much looser and rich in organic matter.
Thanks.
Do you have a video about when you add amendments like worm castings, blood meal, bone meal…. or do you find them unnecessary? Thanks this was very helpful as always!
he is a cute boy 🙂
this was a massive help, bud! thank you!
Cheers from U.S.A.
Thanks so much! Just what I needed today.
Thank you for this much needed video…. What brand compost are you using
That was helpful and interesting because my full garden with clay soil gets to wet at winter and too dry at summer. I've added wood chips to see if that helps by spring
Source of your manure? Type?
I'm so happy to be one of subscribers , highly attracted to agriculture & farming and anything related to the environment..
Thanks for your informative videos
Gives me hope!