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what is the structure you are standing in?
awesome video, I'm from canada going to attempt my own gardening as soon as I can how do I know if my soil is contaminated? I have 5 acres of land plan to use just a small portion to practice on. Subbed! looking forward to more videos really helps me learn keep it up 🙂
Hi Curtis, I bought five acres before I learnt about what you do and I had already begun doing aquaponics so I wasn't too worried about the soil on my block but now think otherwise. My soil is terrible mostly clay, I basically have to buy soil and plant above the ground. Apart from creating a truck load of compost what else would you recommend to help me get started on Urban farming?
That makes since 🙂
"A few thousand dollars for topsoil and compost " ?
I get tons of FREE paper, cardboard (no staples or tape), from Costco… NO CHARGE…. If I plant anything, I can dig a hole into the cardboard, and plant something. You don't have to put a huge layer of mulch / soil on top. I just put a thin layer of dirt or mulch on top of the cardboard or paper. Doesn't take much time….
new sub here and i cant take it anymore, whats the 4 inch dryer vent tube for? The ones near the ceiling on the shorter wall.
makes a lot of sense. good vid
Do you sell this as Organic?
What's the stipulation/laws regarding claims of 'Organic' and/or 'Organically Raised' in BC?
Do you get a higher price with organic?
Please don´t use cardboard or paper. It´s totally unecological. Vast regions are destroyed for eucalyt plantations, energy waste and pollution. Use local woodchips instead.
BIG THX FOR THAT VIDEO!!!
I sheet mulched an area of 4 x 8 meters and i worked there for 10 whole days (!!!!) (alone)
It will be the area for my green house – for the Rest i will do it like you did.
YOU inspired me to run my own business – hope IT will run well.
Greetings from Germany ^"^
sincerely yours,
Michael
instead of cardboard, why not use newspaper instead? it breaks down a lot faster…
true I'm renting .I bought Weed fabric planting begonias
I'm on a budget so it's like I'm not gonna spend money on property not mine.
My landlord told me I can do what I want.. 10ft by 3ft. what do u think?
I'm curious how Curtis Stone knows if property owners have used pesticides on their lawns.
I dunno about this "context" thing. My context is that I'm a hobby gardener. I'm also cheap and lazy. Your "context" is simply a grander scale than mine. Our interests are coincident in that you want to get the best product with the least amount of inputs (labour and material). That's my "context" too (although I may want my operation to be "pretty", I don't think you invest a lot of your resources in aesthetics, right?)
That's why I like to watch your videos! No "magic" ingredients or unnecessary effort. Works for me just fine! Cheers.
Trying to gather info before starting, but don't want to wait any longer than I should haha. I just bought a house with intentions of growing in the backyard. The first space to begin growing in is about 60 x 120 ft. I want to get the soil fertile asap. Should I look to raise the bed and just grow from them or sheet mulch and/or till and fertilize. I want speed in starting to grow as the top priority over cost. I've looked at A LOT of your videos and similar ones, but I think I'm still not sure of how to get to fertile soil quickest. Thanks
half a day with five or six people to strip enough cardboard for 2k square feet? how the actual hell do you make money with lazy shits like that…you taking a camboucha break every ten minutes???
Wouldn't cardboard break down faster than the weed tarp, and isn't rain porous?
I want to start a garden in the backyard of my new house. It’s about a quarter acre and my original plan was to dig up weeds and cover with a tarp untill spring and then till in some organic compost and fertilizer.
Upon further inspection though, I realized my yard is pretty covered in weeds and invasive grasses.
In this context, give that it is a small plot of MY land, would sheet mulching and planting a cover crop be effective or would you still recommend my first approach?
I prepare the land the same way every year, regardless if i was there last year or will be there next year.
Carpet everything with cardboard. Dump a gallon bucket of compost for every plant to grow in. Then cover everything with wood chips.
I spend most of my time looking at the plants and enjoying watching them grow since i did all the preventative and prep work ahead of time.
Cardboard is free from Costco. Compost is free and you can make it yourself. Wood chips are free from Chipdrop.com and you can make them yourself.
Free everything including gym membership, just add your own transportation and elbow grease.
I hear that landscape fabric kills soil microbes and doesn't allow worms to work their way up through the soil naturally. I also heard that if you get any type of weeds or anything above the fabric, and they root, that they are impossible to pull up without messing up the look of the fabric. Is this stuff just not important since you will be there a short time?
Omg! A comment section that hasn’t been disabled!? Lol.
context
This helped thank you
I understand your point and is totally valid. I myself would go with free cardboard and free mulch, plus compost. Is a day or 2 of work and I dont think that just because its not my property Im not gonna do it. For me is actually an extra reason to do it… probably same price or less and a positive action… probably better for the enviroment and building soil is inportant, we tend to separate plant from soil and orher things… But again, your business is doing amazing, very neat and I appreciate you sharing this side of it too, why not? It is probably more neat and easier to manage in a long term, even if you have the land only for an year. Not worring about mulch being washed making a mess, debris being washed away, slugs, etc… also, it is urban.
Such complex situations we face nowdays…example I saw you growing so much good food, hiring people, but also I saw plastic all over and other things…but at the same time it is the reality nowdays… cant judge anyone. I myself had to pour so much resin at work, gallons of it, so bad….
I like your channel, thank you for posting and keeping the horizon open for discussion, not hiding anything. Never know, next year you may changr your mind… and then few years later change it again kkkk is all good. Shooots
Fair enough! Thanks
“I won’t be here next year” sounds like a selfish mindset – grow the soil’s fertility wherever you are.