This video is full of autumn/fall gardening tips that are going to really help make your vegetable garden super productive next spring! When it comes to organic gardening it is crucial that we only use 100% natural ingredients and amendments, and one of the most impactful tasks we can carry out in autumn is making the most of a technique called nutrient banking. The more we do in our vegetable gardens over autumn, the better prepared we are to hit the ground running come spring.
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Setting the scene 0:00
A different compost attitude 0:22
Using Woodchip in the Garden 0:43
Using Leaves in the Garden 1:16
How to Speed up Compost 1:54
The Golden Principle 2:13
An Opportunity Awaits 3:02
Advice for New Beds/Gardeners 4:00
A Word on Liquid Feeds 5:09
Big Liquid Amendment Benefit 5:45
What is Nutrient Banking? 6:06
3 Things to Make in Autumn 6:39
The Priority for Fall Gardens 9:08
Planning Next Spring 11:18
would love to see a video on how you sow all of your items, specifically onions im having trouble. thx for the content, your spot on with a bunch of stuff people dont know and providing crucial content for people.
First, beautiful video. Well done! Second, we don't use raised beds (we just plant in the ground i rows) and we use wood chips in between rows. I never thought if these wood chips as being a composting method! So cool! They really do break down over time, retain moisture, and provide a place for good bacteria + fungus to grow. Thanks for opening my eyes to that! 🙂
Why would you want to reduce the use of home compost? I missed the explanation of that, why it would be better to have foreign material shipped in. Compost is keeping your garden a closed system, in my mind, and when it's a closed system you don't have the draining of the nutrients. When you have a massive drain on the land, like growing a ton of food, it's composting and humanure practice which returns ALL of those nutrients to the soil. Including chop and drop, if you ever do need to trim something up.
So useful about carrot tops food! Don’t put it on too strong my mistake with comfrey feed.
Excellent!!
love the one at 5.09 on liquid feeds,great idea
Compost teas are an excellent way of getting rid of stubborn weeds like dandelions, ivy, nettles etc. Basically anything plant based you don't want in your compost turn into liquid tea. One thing about putting a veg bed to sleep if you add the compost before winter the nutrients in that compost will be washed out by the time you plant. I would add that to pre plant bed prep instead.
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Great vid as always. Isn’t it a bit late to be cutting back comfrey plants? I’d read that they shouldn’t be cut back after September, to allow the plant to prepare itself for winter
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Hey Huw, I've come across a number of articles about letting plant material sit in water, and I've found that it causes the bacterial process to become anaerobic. The beneficial bacteria that work with plants need air. By steeping nettles in the water you're effectively killing those bacteria off and harbouring "undesirable bacteria including pathogens like salmonella and e-coli". To make proper compost tea you need to suspend compost and plant matter in a big muslin bag and aerate the water with a bubbler or a jacuzzi pump. I hope this helped.
What do you think of covering all of my in-ground garden beds with fallen leaves, and then covering everything with a tarp until Spring. Would that work well?
I know this is controversial since cardboard uses glues that may not be 100% pure organic, but every autumn I lay a layer of leaves, covered with brown cardboard weighed down by the compost. The worms love the leaves and cardboard. I plant by punching holes through the cardboard. By June, the leaves have decayed, and by July the cardboard's gone. Like I said, it may not be by-the-book, but think of all the boxes I've saved from the landfill. 🙂
What I love is that you are so well balanced and practical. Thanks for mentioning that it's okay to do things short term to have healthy plants!
Thanks for all the great information- time to put my beds to sleep.
Thank you for these timely tips! I now have a weekend to-do list! Question: can rotted chicken manure 3 years scold be safely used with veg?
Composting almost everything is a waste of time and energy. That market gardeners trick/mantra (with lots of external compost) is not the way to go for backyard growers, I prefer to use garden waste and kitchen scraps right away as a mulch. It suppresses weeds and reduces the amount of watering needed. Of course I still make compost, but that bin is a last resort.
I rake up the leaves in Autumn and lay them in rows w" deep where I'm going to be planting next year.
Do it the EASY way, let the worms and insects chop them up and break them down.
Spring time comes around and the leaves have been taken into the soil by the worms etc. KISS
Challenging for me to understand what you said. You’re applying a technique you learned from azorba(?) by mixing something with mulch? lol My hearing is pretty bad dude. Dig your garden, no pun intended.
Outstanding advice Mr. R., thanks! Subscribed!
Ok, the trick for the weed juice is the frost free place… where do folks keep this in practice? I live in Michigan– Nov. 1 went to 26F & snowed. By Feb the high will be 10-20F.
Good tips!
Hi Huw, I noticed that once again you mention FPJ as a source of mineral nutrition. Just a comment: FPJ (if done the KNF way) is actually mainly a source of enzymes, hormones and bio-tracers. Incidentally, it also contains minerals.
It's good that you have reassured me because I am doing all the things u are but I didn't think of doing the buckets and bottles to store:thank you brilliant idea
I just posted the making of liquid fertilizer on the
The Prepared Homestead channel, I also passed this video title onto the same channel . I use this liquid for my house plants during the winter, and as you say, I have this on hand in the Spring to give the plants an early boost. It is amazing how sturdy my sweet peas and morning glories were this summer-plus all of the other plants.
I use a variety of techniques, compost in bins, barrels, and make tea for each location, but, this year I also composted in place, and the earthworms I found when turning the plots this year were Amazing!
My current kitchen compost practice is to save up a day's materials, chop them fine in one go in the food processor (not to paste, just fine chop), and put it in a bokashi bin. Once the bin is full, I take it's predecessor out to the main compost, let the one I just filled sit, and start filling the empty one. One of the biggest advantages of this system is that I get the bokashi liquid to use on my garden, but I have enough to share with friends, who all LOVE it. And because the material spends time in the bokashi system, it finishes composting outside much more quickly. I have two mid-sized tumblers, and I do a similar process with them–I use one in the spring, and then start filling it, while the other one cures for the rest of the year until I use it the following spring. I could use them faster, probably, but this gives them time to really decompose, so I get something that feels quite close to soil in the end. Now I just need to find a way to double the output! 🙂