VIDEO: 5 Ways to Help Build Healthier Better Soil
Your soil is liek a bank account. We need to make regular deposits in the account to make withdrawls. By building your soil, you can ensure a healthy garden, healthy plants, and better yields.
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VIDEO: Reviving a Neglected Garden: Soil Health, Planting Tips, and More!
if you’ve been gardening for the last couple of years and have a few beds that you’ve forgotten about, this video will help you get them back in shape in time for the season! Join @Jacques in the Garden and I as we reset a few garden beds and discuss planting / crop strategies. 00:00…
VIDEO: 3 Ways to Build Soil Health💛
Look after your soil and your soil will look after you! Healthy soil means healthy plants and NOW is the time to show your soil some love before winter sets in. In this week’s episode, Ben shows us how to protect, feed and nurture your soil with these three simple techniques. Get ready to get…
VIDEO: Cover Cropping: The LAZIEST Way to Improve Your Soil
Cover crop mix I used: https://bit.ly/3DCvP9o I am a HUGE fan of practical, efficient gardening practices, and cover cropping is an under-utilized one for the home gardener. It’s a fantastic way to prevent erosion, build nutrients, loosen soil, provide habitat, and more. Best of all, it’s DEAD SIMPLE. 0:00 – Intro 0:38 – Benefits of…
VIDEO: Healing Our Soils, Compost & Compost Tea Part 4
Soils are the basis of all terrestrial life. A teaspoon of healthy soil contains close to a billion bacteria, many yards of fungi, and thousands of protozoa and nematodes. Through decades of poor management techniques such as ongoing tillage, chemical inputs, and compaction, soil has become degraded the world over. This results in a massive…
VIDEO: Healing Our Soils, Compost & Compost Tea Part 2
Soils are the basis of all terrestrial life. A teaspoon of healthy soil contains close to a billion bacteria, many yards of fungi, and thousands of protozoa and nematodes. Through decades of poor management techniques such as ongoing tillage, chemical inputs, and compaction, soil has become degraded the world over. This results in a massive…
VIDEO: 3 Simple Ways to get LOADS More Food from Your Vegetable Garden | How I Increased My Garden's Yields
I am always on the lookout for ways to make growing food easier and more productive whilst at the same time promoting wildlife and sustainability. Often the biggest changes come from the simplest of ideas, and in this video, I am sharing with you the 3 simplest things I have done recently that have made…
VIDEO: Hugh Lovel Consultation Part 7
Hugh Lovel is the author of “A Biodynamic Farm for Growing Wholesome Food” and “Quantum Agriculture: Biodynamics and Beyond”. His articles appear in Acres USA and related organic farming periodicals such as Acres Australia and biodynamic journals around the world. Hugh is a farmer and an international consultant to dairy farms, graziers, broad-acre grain growers,…
VIDEO: Companion Planting Asparagus and Strawberries (No-till, Ruth Stout)
Consider supporting our channel on Patreon, to help us create more frequent videos. https://www.patreon.com/backtoreality — After nearly four years of gardening, we’ve finally decided to plant some asparagus and strawberries! But as usual, we’ve also decided to skip the fertilizer, compost, and manure. We also decided to flip the sod, rather than using a tiller.…
VIDEO: Regenerating Dead and Dry Soil in Minutes (Ready for Growing Food)
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…
VIDEO: Assessing Soil Health Using a Microscope with Meredith Leigh
The most essential question for farmers and gardeners to ask about their soil is, “Is it alive?” We will explore the diverse microorganism communities present in soil and why it is so important to keep them thriving and in balance. Meredith Leigh will explain the importance of a dynamic soil food web. View multiple different…
VIDEO: Soil Health: How to Improve Your Soil
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Good soil provides moisture, nutrition and support for crops. It’s essential to take care of your soil to guarantee a great harvest. Any soil type can be improved using one simple technique. In this short video we show you how to identify what type of soil you…
VIDEO: Cover Crops To Recharge Your Soil This Winter!
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Cover crops, or green manures, are a great way to protect your garden from weeds and soil erosion over the winter period. As well as protecting your soil, cover crops can be dug into the earth before spring, improving the soil ecosystem and feeding your plants with…
VIDEO: 10 Ways to Make your Vegetable Garden More Productive in 2017…and Beyond!
Our awesome sponsor: https://www.firsttunnels.co.uk – This video is packed with 10 ways for you to have a more productive vegetable garden not only in 2017 but beyond. I hope that this video will arm you with more ideas to help increase productivity so you can grow more fruit and vegetables at home and save money.…
VIDEO: 5 Components To Perfect & Healthy Soil
I get asked very frequently how “perfect” soil can be achieved, or if the soil someone has is sufficient for growing in. We will outline in this episode the 5 components that make up great soil, healthy soil, and how it affects your plants. Send mail to: PO box 131 Marysville, MI 48040 450+ varieties…
VIDEO: A Look at 5 Year Old Leaf Compost – And the Importance of Healthy Soil
About 5 years ago I built a leaf mould/mold compost bin out of chicken wire however it soon got forgotten about. Today I was making space for a new composting area, where I will be experimenting with all kinds of composting methods. I soon uncovered the ‘abandoned’ leaf mould pile from 5 years ago and…
VIDEO: How to Create an Abundance of Earthworms in Your Garden
Earthworms are the workers of the soil and are sometimes called nature’s plow. Their job is very important for the quality of soil and also decomposition. Many of you will think the more earthworms there are the healthier the soil however this isn’t always the case. But as organic vegetable gardeners we encourage an abundance…
VIDEO: 7 Super Cheap ways to add Nutrients to your Soil
I find that not all the time I can afford products like Rockdust to help my vegetables grow healthy so I put together my list of methods I use to help you save money but still give your plants a healthy nutrient boost! Thumbnail: https://www.flickr.com/photos/suavehouse113/536902862 MIgardener’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muS8eKwoZVQ How to make leaf mold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN2htdBy3e8 Thanks…