If you are aiming for only loose soil, you should consider the downsides to loose soil. As they say, too much of any good thing can be a bad thing.
VIDEO: Loose soil can be TOO Loose!
If you are aiming for only loose soil, you should consider the downsides to loose soil. As they say, too much of any good thing can be a bad thing.
So I live in GA. And have red clay, should I mix with sand down by the creek? Is the red clay good ? Should I throw in some vermiculite in?
I believe broccoli likes more dense soil and does poorly in fluffy soil, i imagine there's many more just like it.
TYSM for always covering the growing topic with such useful information
Loose lips sink ships!
Very helpful!
I bought some seeds from you just a month ago gave my mom your info thank you so much for all your videos we live in zone 5 so pretty much everything you do we do.! 🙂
Thank you Luke! Having this issue in one of my raised beds now. I just wasn’t sure what was wrong with it. Just knew it wasn’t right…wasn’t holding water etc. I did add our own compost a couple of weeks ago but still not fixed. Should I add some clay?
Will purchased compost work.
On the bottom of my raised garden beds is very compact compost. The 12 inches+ on top seems perfect and delivers great produce every season
Should I turn it from the very bottom or is that layer suppose to be dense to hold water better
So helpful – how far down you can dig with your hand. I thought my raised bed had compacted too much, but it looks like it is just right.
The information was excellent. I just didn't need to listen to the same points repated 6 to 9 times in the 13 minute video.
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Very helpful as always Luke!
Thanks Luke for the visual demonstration. I just ordered a cubic yard of garden soil and noticed some clay in there. I was worried and wondered why they added clay in their blend.
Hi Luke, I have a sand based growing media. What can I add to it so there is some clay material? Would adding top soil solve my problem? Thanks!
Loose soil like you showed does NOT water well at all ……unless it gets a good amount of rain and even then, like you said, it really does drain faster.
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I don't remember how Goldilocks and the three Bears story goes, so I couldn't understand this video
It's funny you post this today. I was concerned about my soil being too loose… Thanks for the tip.
Thanks for another video ☺️ from Adelaide, South Australia
I got the loosest soil thinking it would help my carrots, beets, radishes grow. Nothing will grow in that bed. my other bed is so compact that plants are having a tough time to grow and take forever. My other bed is in the middle and things grow great. Goldilocks is right! Lol
It'd be interesting for you to swap some of the soil from those two beds and see how it helps them both!
Extremely informative! Thank you sir.
Silt generally just refers to a particle size that is in between clay (tiny) and sand (fairly large, any larger and it would be qualified as gravel). It' usually refers to inorganic material. I think it's actually desirable to have more than 10% organic in the top soil layer.
That loose potting soil was stressing me out.
Leave it to a virgin to tell us all that too loose is a problem.
I enjoy the channel and watch virtually every show. What I have not seen or maybe overlooked is an explanation of how growers of veggies available at big box stores have such fantastic root development in the individual cells. My cells in a 72 cell flat barely have enough roots to hold together when up potting into 3" pots and today when I up potted from those to 6" pots, roots were circling unhealthily at the bottom with very little root activity in the rest of the pot.Start with potting soil mix in seed starting tray and transplant into finished compost/soil mix and they have been outside in sun for 3 weeks. How can I go from brown thumb to green thumb?
Hi Luke.. I have 3 raised beds that I used bagged raised bed soil to fill about half way combined with composted manure, some native soil about 5 years ago. I add amendments, compost and composted manures every year at the end of fall crops and apply fertilizer in early spring to ready for planting. The soil looks like and does not retain moisture like the bed that you have. Besides adding more compost, composted manure and other organic matter as I have been doing without much difference would adding some clay to the bed possibly be helpful? I am thinking about removing half and replacing with native soil from a prior pasture area which is sandy loam from my property and mixing together to see if there is any difference. I just don’t want to make it worse.