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Come hang out with us as Wil and I make compost tea! As Wil says, it’s basically a probiotic for your soil and your plants. And when we have healthy soil, we get healthy plants! For the written directions, visit the blog post here: https://rootsandrefuge.com/how-to-make-compost-tea LINKS MENTIONED: – Check out Wil’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/HoneybeeHollowGardens – Nature’s…
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, the soil has become degraded the world over. This results in a…
💛 📖 Find out about the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx Love your soil and the worms in it, and everything else will follow! Learn how to attract more worms for a healthy, thriving garden. In this video, Ben gets his hands dirty (and his elbows, shirt…) and gets stuck in where the action truly happens……
Bone meal, bat guano, gypsum…what ARE all of these organic fertilizers and how do you actually know WHICH to use, and HOW to use them? Enjoy this long-overdue organic fertilizer breakdown video. SPONSOR: Espoma Organic Espoma Organic has been organic from the start and makes absolutely epic potting mixes, and organic fertilizers. They make awesome…
In today’s episode, I’ll go over 2 practical uses for worm castings that pretty much everyone will find helpful. Shop our Teespring store and support the show: https://teespring.com/stores/als-homestead Check out our website: https://maplehillfarmchann.wixsite.com/homestead Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/als_homestead/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Maple-Hill-Farm-2168919243206387/?modal=admin_todo_tour And read our homesteading blog: https://homesteadingchickens.wordpress.com/ Some links here may be affiliate.
in this video we go through how to amend your soil for fall. We also are showing you the different soil amendments I use to amend our soil. Check out our new clothing line! http:www.freshpickedapparel.com
Applying Worm Castings and Epsom Salt when you are transplanting your tomato plants into the garden are two very easy ways to get a sweeter and more bountiful harvest. In this video I will explain how to use these two ingredients, and why they are beneficial for your plants. Below are links to products used…
In today’s episode I will go over how I made my own potting soil with just worm castings and perlite. Buy some worms from the place I got mine: https://unclejimswormfarm.com/ Buy the perlite that I bought from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Espoma-PR8-8-Quart-Organic-Perlite/dp/B002Y0AK6S/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=perlite&qid=1585343283&sr=8-4 Shop our Teespring store and support the show: https://teespring.com/stores/als-homestead Check out our website: https://maplehillfarmchann.wixsite.com/homestead Follow me…
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Wonderful wiggling worms are the starting point to healthy soil and can create truly awesome compost. Put worms to work in your garden by making your own wormery. It’s easy and inexpensive, and will yield nutritious worm compost and worm ‘wee’ to enrich your soil. In this…
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Turn food scraps into free compost with the help of worms! The average household throws out 2,000 pounds of food scraps per year, these can be broken down by worms and turned into free fertilizer for your garden. Support the show and get your worms through this link: https://amzn.to/2GHDiYI Check out our new clothing line!…
Best Worm Castings that feed your plants longer then Chemical Fertilizers Worm castings: Super soil +음악 Slow Times Over Here +카메라 아이폰6S +편집프로그램 : 프리미어 프로 +촬영/편집 : Black네모 #흰점박이꽃무지 #WormCastings #지렁이분변토 + Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/kr/deed.en
In my last video on vermicomposting, I went through a simple setup of a single-tote worm bin from Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm. Pretty soon, that bin was full and it was time to redesign the system to be more scalable and easier to work with. A 3-tote stackable system has a few advantages: – Bottom…
I will answer which is better by showing some simple facts about Worm Casting vs Compost.
Vermicomposting, or composting with worms, is one of the best ways to integrate food scraps into your garden. Worms make short work of most food scraps and create wonderful BLACK GOLD, or worm castings. Castings are one of the best soil amendments you can ask for, and better yet…worms are easy to care for! In…
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So how did I create a large no till garden space once we moved up to our mountain top farmstead? Easy. I tell you how and you can do it, too! Enjoy & thanks for watching! xo Like, Subscribe, Comment & Share! Aqua Cones from Gardener’s Supply Here:http://amzn.to/2stZOwl ~Ladies & Gentlemens Luncheon Tickets HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ladies-gentlemens-luncheon-with-patara-tickets-34923440952…
Part 2 of garden progression and planning.
Walk through of half of the Garden beginnings and it’s progression.
The must have tools in my garden tool bag and how I like to organize them so that they are there (in the garden) when I need them. See below for links to the supplies I use in this video. Thank you to Fiskars for supplying their tools and for partnering with us on this…
Making a batch of worm tea to spray on the garden. It is good plant food, and we read it might help with the aphid problem as well. This was the earliest batch we made. We’ve made two more batches since this one. I believe that it has helped with the aphids. Either it helped…
Transplanting vegetable seedlings from the $10 Garden seed kit into your garden is quick and simple! I’ll show you how to prepare your garden bed for planting vegetables, what to amend your soil with to help your plants grow, and how to get the seedlings you started indoors planted outdoors in your garden. It couldn’t…
We are transplanting the tomatoes we have growing in the red solo cups into the garden. We create a mixture of peat moss, blood meal, bone meal, Epsom salt, worm castings, and Azomite to put around the tomatoes when we plant them. We water them in with fish water and fertilize around them with chicken…
The rainwater collection point needed rebuilding.
We are harvesting our black gold. The worm castings are ready after 2 years and we want to get them in the garden and growing tons of food for us! We can’t wait to use them in worm tea, in seed starting mixes, and as a very gentle fertilizer. Worm castings can cost up to…
One of the keys to Jean-Martin Fortier’s small farm, “Le Jardin de la Grelinette,” is sourcing high quality compost. In Part 5, he discusses implementing composting strategies that allow them to build natural soil structure while adding organic matter to each growing bed for maximum yield and highest quality produce.
Shot this video a week ago. We are now getting some much needed rain and it is coming down nice and easy. Has been going on for more than 24 hours now. Should soak in well and has already filled our empty rain barrels. Has cooled us off as well. A big relief after almost…
Thinned my beets and collect seeds from the peas. A little on the carrots for seed saving and other things. Lots of major changes about to take place here.
Trellis is installed and a quick look around. Talking a bit about my priority of work this summer and fall. 1. Get existing beds planted and improved to a point that is satisfactory for the next two years. 2. Divide the property into sections, determine what improvements or builds will be done and do them.…
