A complete guide to prepairing your beds for spring. This guide covers
cover crop, growing perennials, mulching, and even tarping your garden
beds. This is easy, organic, and will save you lots of money and hassle
in the long run.
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Those plants are huge! I totally remember when they were planted 🙂
It's a Mustard Monster. Perfect for a Halloween video!
Chuck
The amount of compost that I can make is not enough for my large garden what can I do? Great video!
I'm missing summer. Frost got us in Illinois about 3 weeks ago near Chicago.
Dont forget the cover crops from Peaceful Valley you used a couple years ago. I still use them. Vetch, beans, oats
Are you going to be making maple syrup videos in the early spring
Should you loosen the compacted soil before adding the compost?
live in Ca., and want to enrich my garden, plus help it in any way with the drought, even though they are predicting el nino–anysuggestions on keeping water in the gardens without drowning the plants if we do get el nino would be greatly appreciated.
That's a big Pak Choy alright jeepers – it looks like a giant silverbeet… Good advice on rejuvenating a garden bed – well done 🙂
Very nice video. My garden is upstate New York. We can get lots of snow. I prepped my beds for winter with leaves and compost. Then covered the beds with black woven polypropylene. This will keep the beds warm into hard frost and preserve soil moisture encouraging earthworm activity. The same in early spring. Good gardening.
Hey luke what's up dude quick question any advice on a compost tumbler for the cold winter in Chicago…
Are you selling any of those italian tomatoes yet by any chance ??
I planted cover crops (Rye, Vetch, Fava, Red Clover) then chopped and laid down leaves, compost and cardboard. The rest got tarps or hoop houses, anything to keep the nutrients and amendments from being flushed out of the soil. That Pok Choy reminded me how good it was, I think I'm ready to start a winter garden with all the yummy greens.
See you on the garlic
More good information Luke. Best wishes Bob.
I've found that most of my compost gets washed away through the soil or out under the boards. It's certainly a constant battle keeping them full. Also, the more compost in the mix, the more it breaks down and leaches out. I don't do cover crops because I use my beds to direct layer kitchen and yard waste over the winter rather than pile it up now. But cover crops are good too 🙂
What's up on your website you say you have over 200 heirloom varieties coming soon for sale do you know about when that will be
I live in England the place where snow is almost as rare as finding a £10 note lying on the floor randomly
Great video. First year growing in raised beds. This is my first fall season so I don't know what to expect. Wonderful information. Thank you
Good tutorial!! We forget about the raised beds that many people have in their backyards that need to be addressed. I also like to advocate creating your own compost…its so easy..even in a urban setting with a small backyard!!
But fall preparation as you said really the the key! And good advice on the cover using something like clover! Thanks for the good tips!
Thank you once again you are the man.
Great Job, thanks for sharing, but you took most of the nutrients and trace minerals out of that bed, I would have chop and dropped all of that but the seeds.
At the least, leave the roots intact and don't disturb that soil. For that bed I would have cut everything to the ground, harvested a little of the greens, place everything back, less the seeds of course, then top with a layer of wood chips, leaves or grass clippings.
Why always plug Trifecta??
Luke last winter I did a mulch method with leafs as well as a tarp on top of that. Was this the wrong choice should I just do mulch this upcoming winter?
Here in 2019 hoping he revisited this topic.
I have a garden and I covered it with leaves for the winter should I uncover the leaves for spring or leave them there
Are these instructions good for any type of vegetable bed? I had a lot of aphids, and some other bugs, this year and just ripped up most my summer crops (that they ruined). What should I do to the soil to have success in those beds?
Where do you think all of the organic matter you just harvested came from? You took a lot of the soil out in the form of Pok Choi and mustard greens.
Can I amend the soil AND tarp?