John McCarley Organic Gardening Cardboard Magic!
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- John McCarley sets up a simple method for growing organic vegetables easily. Cardboard is placed on the ground in the place you wish to garden. Watch as he installs a fall garden and shares his amazing horticultural technique and breath of knowledge of soil, earthworms and more!
Getting ready to retire. Moving out of an apartment back into a home. Haven’t done any real gardening for a good 20 years. I always had a beautiful garden. But I’m going to use the cardboard method. No weeds to kill this old back. Great video. Thank you!
I started doing this last year and it works amazingly well and the best part about the cardboard is it’s free. It works better than any of that weed guard material. It’s the best
What is the stuff that he used in the metal container after the compost and newspaper?
@@kaitlinwhited2444 I believe it is a type of mushroom compost you can only purchase from nurseries. It may also be available to order online.
@@trinhzphotography350 thank you! Looking to try this out in my flower beds this year. They got overrun with weeds last year unfortunately.
Wow! That is cool and very simple🥦🥒🥝🍓🍇
What a great thing to see John McCarley again I haven't seen him in years. Is he still doing fine?
Did this in my garden last fall, covered it with wood chips and things are growing beautifully. Love this system!
Thank you for sharing about your experience!
"Little Swiss Chard?"
"YAY!"
I heard ya! Love swiss chard as well. Great video!
Loved the video, John. I can remember being young enough to squat and make my Lasagna Gardens. I am getting ready to expand my front gardens a box width as soon as the leaves fall. Keep up the good work.
the young generation should be required to learn this especially when their population is booming and food shortage is inevitable
u cant garden with a phone in ur hand and face
@@oldman9164 im 25 bro and I've been gardening for a decade LOL thats crazy to think how time has flown since that first horticulture class.
Agree.
I cant wait to plant my garden... so many ideas!!
Melody Hess the xx 😘
Melody Hess it is so productive that it becomes addictive. Have gardened all my life and at 80 last September, I have become a huge advocate.
Great job! Thank you🙋🏾♀️
N addition to what he said.....I use shredded cardboard with the leaf mulch and wheat straw (increases water retention). Makes a great medium to grow in.
Been doing this for 6 years, slowly replacing wasteful putting-green lawn with productive raised beds. I call it 'committing herbicide.'
This is great, but you have to buy compost. Or you have to make your own compost, a huge amount for a bigger garden, which is not so easy and fast to do.
Great guy, however it would have been nice not to have some people talk over the gardener
This is so cool.im gonna do it.
with the cardboard, mulch method you still get weeds... the difference is when your not pulling them from compacted dirt it's quite easy... I dig a deep hole and place the weeds I pull in it.. watering this hole works as a sponge and fertilizer producer as it decays. Local gardens are things that freedom and health are built on.
we use chicken, or rabbit compost, but I know what my animals are fed and what comes back out. Mushroom compost is another Id recommend
mushroom manure is horse manure...
I suggest Googling “Deep Green Permaculture, No Dig Gardening.” The ingredient list is diagrammed after you scroll down a bit.
Thank you!
Bff Entertainment This formula if lain out now, will be ready to plant in the spring. I had and am having amazing results. I suggest when planting to plant much closer than you are accustomed to. The soil will have all the qualities you need. Additionally, this will create a shade mulch, to add to your straw mulch.
mushroom compost is the discarded soil medium from mushroom farms. The nutrients have been extracted to the point that even mushrooms will no longer grow in there. the name, Mushroom Compost, sounds like a wonderful lush soil full of mycelium. it is misleading at best. selling bags of dirt is big business and most of it is poor growing medium. there are a few good soils available but the price reflects the high quality.
the gardener here is promoting a wonderful method of building a garden and I applaud and encourage his work. keep in mind, if you are new to gardening. a lot of what we do is based on hearsay so, for example, he doesn't like to use animal manure. nothing wrong with that but it's a safe and ancient practice. they spread chicken manure on the fields here in NC. But follow his teaching and you are on your way to a rewarding past time that doesn't require any money to be spent.
Well said. Probably the best way to get "Mushroom compost" is to put down wood chips and wait. Nature will make it for you.
Or put down leaves every fall.
The mushroom compost I use has horse manure in it.
I’d read somewhere that rabbits don’t like to get their feet tangled up. They were attacking my snow peas. So I put in a sort of “playpen” around my snow peas; made of bamboo sticks, and tied string around the whole square patch. They left those snow peas alone! So I’d bet they wouldn’t like your chicken wire.
I really wish you could list the 'ingredients' for those of us that need that info for our gardening center. THANK YOU for sharing this video, and all this info, and beauty!
Get ready with pen/pencil and paper to write down the ingredients for the garden, if you miss something just keep rewinding till you get the ingredients you need to make a garden for yourself......?
I strongly Googling Deep Green Permaculture, No Dig Gardening. I did mine just this way, and wow. They have the layers diagramed. The No Dig Gardening part is nearer the bottom of the piece.
This can also be done with wet newspaper. About 8 sheets thick or more overlapped.
I laid years worth of paper sheets, letters, paper maps, nothing glossy, on a compost bed I'd already laid on weedy grass today and spread a wheelbarrow full of compost over it.
I have broad beens and spinach seeds to sow. It's late September in the UK.
I did garlic cloves a couple of weeks ago into a bed made with flattened cardboard boxes laid on weedy grass.
I picked up more cardboard boxes today and shall prepare another 8' x 5' bed for use in the late Winter.
Yes that is what I do
This is what I needed to know. That I can start the cardboard mulching in late summer (very near to fall), and then plant next Spring! Lots of the other videos forget to mention the timing. Thank you!
The Manillegirl Manillagirl. That’s exactly right.
I have extended my garden this spring I used a lot of newspapers and straw and a few bags of compost lots of grass clippings I will layer it all summer hopefully I am doing this right I guess I will know next spring 🌱
Great method, really enjoyed watching this. Thank you!
Manure is great as long as it's aged, broke down to beautiful healthy dirt. A friend of mine taught me to put down a loads of grass clippings , piles of leaves in place several months before I planted fruit trees or vegetables..worms will come.
Terry Leblanc You. An count on it.
I did it!! it's incredible! Thank you !!!
Paolo Maggi Please tell us your experience?
Great video.
Thank you so much for shering
Great job sir
I did this with the cardboard a couple years ago and had a terrible time with snakes wanting to stay under it. We rarely ever have snakes around so I was very surprised
Better snakes than fireants @
Claudia Herd snakes eat voles and mice and other pests
Master Gardener!!
Thanks so much for sharing about your garden
Try bone or blood meal around the garden perimeter to keep the herbivores away from your garden!
Rabbits hop along with their noses down. Even arctic hares don't seam to bother jumping a low chicken wire fence
Is there a part 2? I’d like to see how it grew! 🥰
I did mine about 4 years ago. It has grown beautiful veggies for us.
You can created a circle bed for nicer look.
Spring cannot come fast enough for me..
So I did this two years ago and now the ground squirrels, mice rats and moles have flourished underneath this...any suggestions on getting rid of these without harmful scary poisons...I refuse to use them. Thanks Much!
5 gallon bucket filled about half way with water, add bird seed to cover top of water. Place bucket next to short wall or set of stairs or next to a couple of cinder blocks so rodents can get into bucket easily. Check daily with small rake for dead rodents and remove them. Refresh water and seed when things smell foul.
Dol l .....sounds like it would work...eeekkk do I have the heart...I know these cute critters carry ticks and disease as well...when populations get out of balance I guess it’s them or us
@@ayla8343 yes..it's pretty difficult at first but if you watch the historic rodent invasion of Australia here on UA-cam you won't have any problem dealing with your drop...in the bucket...🙃 It will help you realize how very quickly these cuties can take over and how imperative it is to curb their population. I'd also suggest getting a cat or two (that you let outside) if that is a possible. It's amazing how valuable outdoor cats are for rodent control.
This is great! Thank you! Will you (or did you get a pic of the outcome of the half & half worm juice you can point us to?) God bless!
Thank you gonna do this . Watching from ireland send some sun ill send you rain
Most dogs love carrots! You can donate them to local shelters and rescue organizations. 2019
That worm juice is called leachate and not worm tea. It can actually have bad microbes in it that can make you ill as it is not from the worms but the juice of the fruits and vegetables. Worm tea which is what you should be using is castings mixed into water and aerated and unsulphered molasses added to it if you like to get the microbes going.
Alaskan Sourdough Worms, Gardens, Etc. You call it one thing, I another. It’s still based in worm castings.
Should I worry about termite attack the card board ?
Isn't the cardboard or the newspaper ink toxic?
Sidonie Winter Pasternak that was my question too.
Here in Europe, modern printing methods use only vegetable based inks. Check the regulations where you are - hopefully they're the same.
David Mynne Thanks. I’ll do that.
1mikon It’s typically soy based ink.
I didn't understand this completely this video I understand that you started it with mushroom compost but what was the second thing you put on I didn't understand that at all
He also used leaves and newspaper shredded and rich garden soil as well as compost
Thank you ! I tried to listen but so noisy!
Have a problem in Florida with Dollar Weed taking over. What would you suggest to get rid of it in gardens.
Mushroom is at Wal-Mart
That worm was an Alabama jumper
Black Kow is very good composed manure and can be bought at Home Depot.
He said he is totally against composted manure, but I do like and use black Kow.
I would love to do this but we have termites everywhere, and they love cardboard. How do you feel about termites in the ground/garden?
Problem is, he didn't double/triple layer that cardboard, he will have grass and weeds pop up between the flaps of that box. Overlapping those flaps with second layer is HUGE, keeps the crabgrass from poking its ugly head thru-
You are SO right! I did the same thing - just used 1 layer - and boy! did I ever have a bumper crop of weeds! I'm still trying to get rid of them!
I put layers of cardboard and newspapers but eventually the grass did come up.
Yes it will work adding 2 layers of the cardboard and same with newspaper weeds are persistent, better than no barrier, easier to pull the unwanted weed
great system
lol I wish he told the lady that asked if it could be framed no ,,, no u cant not it wont work if u do lol. I would have had to mess with them lol. All the questions where just silly haha
I used that technique to start a flower border
Me too I created large crowing areas with card board and paper on top of grass and weeds,
How toxic is cardboard made from recycled paper? Is your organic plants still considered organic, or have you contaminated them?
Idid..this too..in my garden...
How did you make the cone shaped hole punchers in different video?
What I would do is lay the cardboard out and edge it with stones or bricks and use that large compost bin to plant things in. And forget about the mushroom stuff. The compost is fine alone.The cardboard could define the garden area and keep it free of weeds.
Cool video. Thank you.
Wow! To bad the ladies didn’t time you as you created this garden
I never understood how newspaper with INK on newspaper is organic and ok for plants .
I believe the ink used on newspaper is a soy based product.
He's working out his body, exercising, to keep his body biologically blessed!
Charles Davis I am 80+ and gardening has improved my body in better shape than in my 60’s.
I am concerned about the ink on the cardboard and the paper.
What is that 2nd layer? I could not understand with everyone talking.
The bottom layer is cardboard middle layer is mushroom compost from the store and the top layer was compost he made from letting leaves compost for about a year
Seems like these are all city folks oh mine
easy way to get rid of slugs is get you some ducks and chickens.. they fertilize as well get a free meal!
Very cool. Where are you located? Dry or wet region?
I'm trying to think of where to score some big sheets of cardboard, now.
Any furniture store
Your local city recycling center
@@mildredwilkins5781 I guess I should have been more specific: "I'm trying to think of where to score some big sheets of cardboard, here in northern Thailand now." But, you're right, I might be able to get some from a recycling center. I'd probably have to buy it, though.
There really aren't any weeds with this method. What does grow on top is very easy to remove.
What's the point if we can't see the end product?
we ate it!
@@GardeningWithPoppy yea yea that was the goal....but it would be good to see the results.
I use GOAT Compost that is more then awesome...
Does it take long until the goats are composted?
Goat poo composts quite quickly because it is pelleted like rabbit poo. My milkers are fed very well and their urine gives a lot of nitrogen to the bedding as well. I use wood shavings and it breaks down quickly. We cant get straw here in the south. I have a garden with a foot of goat compost and just laid down some card board and put more on top. Have some winter greens and garlic growing quite well. Easier her to grow in winter then summer. So darn hot and humid, a lot of plants die from fungus.
Sounds great. :)
My main concern about cardboard is the slugs it attracts. So, can I still use this method if I don't use a slug killer? I'm trying to stay organic or as close to that as possible.
I used a lot of newspapers and straw
worms ‘love’ the glue in cardboard so congregate under it. Microbes, fungi, worms, etc, etc break up soil. This has been the plan for centuries.
@Goyim Unite World Wide , slugs only attack plants that are stressed. They are composters. Along with snails and pill bugs.
If using this method can i plant strainght from seed? If so do i put seed on top of cardboard or inside ?
Joe Joe Yes. But you need to pull the top mulch back a few inches and plant the seed in the soil, not the mulch.
Joe Joe. Never directly above the cardboard. Put compost and /or rotted manure over the cardboard. Wet each layer down, then straw. Pull the straw back from the planting medium and plant seeds. Leaving the straw pulled back a few inches. As it sprouts, then slowly pull the straw or other mulch slowly back around the plant. However, never pull the mulch directly around the plant, it will create stem rot.
We need to know what kind of soil you have and how much precipitation you get. Because there will come a point when a region is too dry for this method or the soil is too permeable.
Don't weeds grow in the compost on top?
If weeds grow just pull them out , simple as that.
What about adding in some bonemeal?
Loutina Scott sure if you have it
Loutina Scott Please google bonemeal before you do. It attracts all sorts of varmints.
Can you do this type of garden if you have blue clay soil?
Nancy James Given your soil, I would lay out the cardboard to define a garden area, and use that largest bin full of compost to make a raised bed in it. You could edge the cardboard with bricks or stones to hold the cardboard down. With all that lovely compost he has made using dead leaves, grass clippings, kitchen vegetable peelings, and Garden worms you would have excellent soil. To make it even prettier think about using paving stones to cover the cardboard. And the cardboard would keep weeds from springing up between the pavers which can be found At Lowes or Home Depot.
Libby Workman thank you!
One NOTE: If you live in the southeast US, contact your State/County Department of Agriculture Extension Agent's office or go to their website and inquire about using Wood, Bark mulch, Leaves, Paper, Cardboard (Cellulose, all) in your garden and /or near (40 ft or less to any structure as it relates to SUBTERRANEAN TERMITES. I mean NO DISRESPECT to Mr. John McCarley OR Ms Mary Palmer Dargan but you need to know about this subject. As a LEO friend of mine says: DO IT NOW!
Can you use this same method for flowers
yes!
can i use japonese beatle jucce?
What was that material you scattered on top of the leaf compost very sparingly..(sorry I've bad hearing and couldn't make out the words), was that fertilizer.. if so what numbers please ?
Wayne Hennie , my hearing is good but the broad taking the video just wouldn't shut her pie hole, I had to watch 3 times and still missed it
Wayne Hennie 4:38? He says: Slug Bait. Hope that helps :-)
that's a petty for the slaugh bay...
what do you do about Asian Jumping worms?
Rabbits clear our 3 ft wall.
Would this work with wood chips thank you
Wood chips are great as the last layer and over time it will decompose then you add new wood chips. Make sure the wood chips are not too large.
Too many people talking I couldn't hear where to buy mushroom compost?
Linda Auerbach Pretty much any garden store.
I use only certified organic cardboard.
I use Walmart card board good stuff lol
You can't be against manure compost and use mushroom soil which usually starts as manure of one kind or another.
People make sure there are no coloured pictures in your news papers
Most now use a soybean-based ink which is safe.
Most soy is GMO and will have traces of glyphosate in it. Use with caution
I wouldn't use any soybean products at all ever very bad as is all GMO foods.
What about the ink on the card board?
That ain't organic gardening if using slug pellets !! Harms birds and hedgehogs .
Jean greenfield l agree , but ì did find him interesting .
I just said that to my daughter. Turned it off
If you like this, check out Charles Dowding
Sub #356...luv'd the organic gardening ideas....wanted to learn from you DIY organic gardening, can't wait to see more of your ideas. Will learn from you am sure. Thnx for subbing back. Take care, God bless....
Philippine Islands Adventure Milo USA Best referred to as Permaculture method. It is organic, but otherwise not the same. I suggest Googling “ Deep Green Permaculture, No Dig Gardening” scroll down to yellow diagram of the formula. This is what I did with my first test bed, and am still hyperventilating over the success. This fall I have converted my entire back yard into permaculture. 😎.
@@jimwilleford6140 wooowww 😍
Doesn’t make a lot of difference on how much just keep adding to keep your compost growing
in our place huangpu china we use all natural resources including human poop but we compost it properly before going to garden. that's why we have large crops being exported around the world.
Bulging Underwear I was always taught not to use feces from any meat eating animals because you can get very sick
yes I agree but we are lacking of it, so we need to control disposal of our human feces, instead we use them in our crops. who knows the one you buy in groceries are made in China.
Bulging Underwear I check the country of origin and buy organic whenever possible. however, this is just one more reason to continue to grow my own food!
+garden addict my back yard is forest. I get year round supply of leaves and rotten wild fruits. I hit the jackpot. Anyone up for free compost? Just take a field trip in the fall and get a whole truckfull of free goodness!
Bulging Underwear and I'm so glad my store labels the country of origin! No China grown, nor Mexico grown produce for me. They both use hama feces on food crops.
What’s the purpose of putting compost on top of the cardboard? The roots aren’t in that nutrient rich soil?
I holds the cardboard in place (obviously, but very important); and it decomposes and it will filter nutrients down into the soil; it also (most important) keeps the soil moist.
Ditto Grumbling Gonard....The weight holds the cardboard down. Each layer of added material, including the cardboard, needs to be evenly watered in.
Ants in garden. How can I get rid of them organically please.
I use sugar and borax. It works. But will be gone when it rains. I put mine in a sheltered dry area. The ants will find the mix and take it back to the nest.
The Green Alchemist thank you. Two questions. What ratio sugar to borax do I use? Also, are you talking of using borax laundry detergent or chemical boric acid? Thank you so much. How long should it take to work, so I am not giving up too early.
Should I mix dry and do it put straight over ground or in container?
truthgha The sugar masks The taste of the borax. Try 20 Mule team Borax from the laundry section.
I loved your video until you said you don't believe in manure compost. That is all I have ever used, and all I ever plan to use. It is free, abundant, and wonderful stuff! Here on the homestead that is all we use.
He said commercial compost was bad there can be some badd stuff in that period he did say to source it locally and it's fine
I only used to use rabbit or composted chicken manure and my fruit trees, berries and vegetable garden LOVE it. Never bought any form of fertilizer. No need for it. Last year for my garden in the city I had to buy mushroom manure and my tomatoes went crazy, never had so many tomatoes in my life.
Design the border with bricks to hold the soil in place and they make nicer edge.
Jacquelynn Stroup Up to individual, I am a substance guy,
No it does not , once you incorporate it in the soil , how could it possible attract rats. I been using bone meals for years plus I save all bones from the kitchen and .