Soil Rehab 101: Hydration
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2021
- The first video in a deep dive series on revitalizing soil for in-ground growing spaces!
Calculating how to rehydrate your soil for those larger spaces and/or the curious: oldweb.hortau.com/2017/05/reh...
Soil Web Apps to learn more about your soil type: casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.e...
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So brilliant
On a Veronica Flower youtube binge-- this is the good stuff!
One of my favourite topics done by my favourite gardentuber 😉
Welcome Back Veronica!!! I've missed you and your gardening/farming videos.
Looking forward to watching this one!
Glad to see you back Veronica, you do a lot of great work for the gardening community! Please Keep putting out the great content!
Glad your videos are back. One of your pruning videos I think was fundamental in getting me interested in forestry. Cheers!
Glad to see a new video. It's been a while
Great information. Welcome back.
Glad I found this video, since I do a lot of container gardening and raised bed gardening.. Thanks V.F.
Hi Veronica, good to see you making new videos.
Great stuff Veronica.
Great video! Please do more. I have been a home gardener for many years but just started getting into more detail on soil life/health. I want to nurture the other living organisms not just the plants so that one will benefit the other.
Welcome back. Sounds like good series.
I'm already loving this series!😀👍
Excited for this series. I don't understand my soil at all!
Great examples to explain hydration. Thanks!
Sooooo missing seeing you Veronica. Hope you have been healthy and happy during your absence. Cheers!
Ty
Excellent. Glad I don't have that problem (NC Indiana, deep black tall grass peraire soil). Looking forward to aeration.
You have an amazing way of explaining things! I really learnt a lot. Amateur vegetable gardener working with unused soil of 15-20 years, and this is EXACTLY the information I was looking for. Many thanks from Australia 🇦🇺
I find that mulch is one of the best ways to not only manage soil moisture but also a good way to add organic matter which also helps conserve moisture.
Hugelkultur is also a good way to maintain moisture and add organic material to your soil.
Absolutely! And that's a key part of my process as well.
I have found that hugelkultur doesn't work as well in arid climates unless the beds are dug down. Even then, they may still require irrigation in order to function properly. But they're great in places that get consistent rain!
@@VeronicaFlores I agree, mine are dug down but still require some irrigation but not nearly as much as my other regular beds do.
A wealth of information you know your stuff
Veronica, thanks for the great links. Now I have all the technical information about the soil on my property! Slightly acidic and more sandy and less clay than I would have guessed... and unfortunately not much organic matter. But now I have a roadmap to better soil.
Yay! Was hoping someone would use those links
Great topic, nice to see a new vid:)
Just what I needed after moving my grow tubs to Oklahoma in the summertime!!
Thanks Miss Veronica l need it this explanation. Thank you for inspiring me to garden.
Very good infro Thanks
Awesome Vid!
I didn’t know you where back! Haha welcome back! You always have great advice and tricks! And go into great detail! And my ADHD brain appreciates the detail haha
Is this where composting could mixed in as well with the right nutrients for my zone? Should I also watching for mold or Fungi in the compost great topic for fall !❤️🙏👨🏼🌾
Yes we'll be covering adding compost and other amendments in future videos in this series! But I like to assess existing structure first before digging into it 🙂
@@VeronicaFlores my garden is on a hill with comfrey and horseradish at the lowest drainage point ,some shade from mulberry trees, rows facing east and west , thinking of weep hoses but don’t want pooling or fungi ?planning for spring ❤️🙏👨🏼🌾
Do you have any tips for really rocky soil? I live on an old glacial lake bed, so our "soil" is 50% to 70% rock/gravel, about pea sized up to bowling ball. Of course, most people just buy bags of the garden bed stuff from the box stores, but I'm wondering if you have any tips for building from scratch that will be healthier with more microorganisms than the bagged stuff.
What John suggested is a great tip! If your rock ratio is really that high, it may be helpful to go with raised beds and layer in organic matter. If you have areas that are less than 50% (like a lot less lol) I often pick out the really big stuff but leave the smaller gravel and add organic matter and well aged wood chips. It probably won't be great for very straight root veg though unless you're able to remove a lot of rocks or just build it up. (I would probably still sift some native soil free of larger rocks and mix that into my beds, like 10-20% or so, just to get more microbes working through my growing spaces.) Compost is going to be your best friend here if you're set on working in ground.
you doing any fall planting? Bottom end rot on tomatoes, I used potting soil and other store bought soils for raised beds and still got it. What can I do for next year
Get your watering schedule in order - most BER is due to irregular watering patterns. And yeah I have an entire fall garden, just dealing with tech issues
I can't even imagine no rain all summer. Here in Mid-Missouri, I start to irrigate if we don't get a rain every 10 days.
Yeah it's tough, but it's most of what I know at this point!
How has the drought effected your watering?
I definitely underwatered this winter because I wasn't prepared to water as much as I needed to in some areas. It effects the intentionality of my planting more than my watering though - I'm currently not doing large wild fields or strips of cover, as they would need more irrigation than the landscape can support. I'm still watering established gardens the same, and making good use of both drip irrigation and mulch.
Dog be like "Let me help hydrate this dust bowl!"
We don't have to worry about dry soil in the UK 😅
You look like you got rid of some stress, hope you feel better
Thank you! Definitely getting there! I have a really good new therapist and am feeling stronger about my daily routine now that I'm more settled, which helps a ton.
@@VeronicaFlores I'll keep you in my prayers Keep your chin up and always smile
Thank you for sharing this experience with us, and I just wanna tell you are so beautiful.
😁😁
I am curious is there a reason you move so many times and such a great distance apart?
she does seem like a gardening Gandalf who pops up in different locations inexplicably!
Sometimes you have to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short one correctly. 🙂
Anything new coming
Yeah at some point! Having technical difficulties and still sorting them out (aka I need to get a new laptop)
I tried to bring up your instagram link and it wouldn't load. :(
instagram.com/flavorkit/
@@VeronicaFlores Yep. Says it's unavailable.
You must have blocked me. :D
@@earlbrown if you created an issue in DMs or comments at some point on my IG, it's very likely. I have a zero tolerance policy for drama and bs there. (But I don't block without good reason.)
@@VeronicaFlores Nope. Never messaged you before.
I just recently found your 'how to prune pepper plants' video, and then watched this one.
@@VeronicaFlores Nope. I just recently found your 'how to prune pepper plants' video and then watched this one.
I'm more of a lurker and don't do drama either. Like you, I'd much rather go outside in the sun than argue with strangers on the interwebs. :D
Welcome back Veronica!!! I fenced-in a section and rodents came in to eat some of my fruits. A new wild hog problem destroyed some more. But anyway, yay your back!!
Omg noooo! Sorry to hear. But yay I'm back!
Wouldn't it be better to avoid this dry soil to being with by having a drought resistant cover crop?
Here in Texas, it's amazing how well grass can get by on virtually no rain from April till late September, providing it doesn't have to be cut too short.
For sure - but this is more what to do if that's not in place
@@VeronicaFlores Just wondering if you ever noticed the 'Advancing Eco Agriculture' channel. Seeing the insect related videos really got me thinking. Measuring sap to know the plant's health and that bugs don't attack healthy plants.
I lost some of my favorite kale to aphids, but I knew the plants were struggling.
I don't know why you're not chopping and dropping that tall grass around you and watering with JMS. That soil needs organic matter and microorganisms.
Not into the beds because it's foxtail grass - and not on the hill slopes because leaving it upright helps to protect the soil from wind erosion and slow monsoon rains that we get here in the high desert. It can be helpful to think of solutions holistically in terms of the overall ecosystem, rather than be tunnel vision results driven for a singular focus. As for microbes, many actually exist in this space already thanks to the OM and gut diversity that comes from composted manure - getting it back up to speed with bokashi and compost as well, but water is the most critical first step.