9:33 there can be no expert for a garden except the gardener that works there! I'm not sure if I'm understanding you but, did you plant two different crops in one row for "double planting"? many would call that "interplanting" I would call planting two rows close together, leave a space, then another two closely spaced rows, "Double planting". Which should work and give double the harvest in fertile soil.
I plant the main crop very heavy and then use a cold weather green as a green mulch/weed barrier. The main crop is the zucchini, tomatoes, or potatoes. I use the greens to feed the animals during the summer as I thin them out for the main crop. For the summer harvesting we cut the greens instead of digging them up. If the green is swiss chard it grows back from that cutting. At the end of the year when the warm weather main crop dies back I harvest the greens fully by digging them up for the pigs. If the main crop was a root then everything gets harvested together. Not sure what to call that but it works so I hope the information is helpful. Maybe I should change the name of the video to 'Using Greens as a Weed Barrier for Summer Crops'
I agree. Now that I have a few basics down I am really wanting to get a bit for variety...brussel sprouts and other colder weather crops are my target for 2022. Thanks for watching!
Awesome job there on your homestead! Sounds like you do have a very short season. I am learning alot from your videos. Thank you and Yah Bless your family.
You work so hard. Here is a little piece of unsolicited advice, when digging up produce, put the produce directly into a box, basket, or whatever you will use to carry it. It will lighten a little bit of your work load to move things once rather than multiple times. Beautiful garden. Thank you for sharing the double planting idea!
Good advice. I need to get myself one of those four-wheeled wagons that has a bigger capacity than what I have now. Would make a WHOLE LOT of chores around here easier.
@@dirtpatcheaven great I'm trying to teach what I know and connect people who want to learn more The mushroom channels in my comments are great helpers for me to And it's good to confirm I try not to show toxic ones on my channel because of my name I don't want to confuse people Unknown mushrooms I use?? So people know I don't know It's hard with people of all languages watching
Hmm, this double planting method has me thinking. I have a subtropical climate but a very small space. I'm wondering how I could leverage this kind of system not to maximize crops relevant to a short season, but to maximize output from a tiny space. Thank you for this video, gets the gears turning in my head.
Especially if you get full sun, more sun in spring/fall/winter than us northerners, they're getting enough energy from the sun to feed the soil life enough, to sustain close plantings - probably. From what I know so far. ( see " feed the soil, not the plants" vlogs by Charles Dowding I think, plus others on the topic such as Singing Frogs Farm and the No-Till growers podcast - they're on YT too - , and Elaine Ingram ( or Ingraham ? ) on cutting edge soil life science. ).
The front garden doesn't have rocks. We have silt in the front and rocks in the back. So the garden is silt and now has a lot of mulch on it and that opened things up a lot!
Making two hotbeds like yours, lined with tin. Each bed is 4’x20’ parallel to each other, separated by a 3’ walkway. Next come 16’ cattle panels and plastic. I may add a storage area at one end for tools and feed storage. Praying for enough money to get the top on it next month. I plan to fill it with rotting logs (free), straw (free), branches (free), sawdust (free) and topsoil (free). The pallets and tin were free. So far I’ve just had to buy screws & nails, corner braces. Plus gas for the truck to haul everything. Oh and tons of cardboard (free). Wish I could find free cattle panels and a hog ring pliers. Who knows? Mine aren’t even close to as pretty as yours, but it will still be functional. And now I’ll have rabbit droppings!
@@dirtpatcheaven Just got a quote from BTL Liners. Their super duper strongest stuff will cost just under $200 shipped. Considering my garden will be 12x20 and nearly 7 1/2 feet high, I think it’s a fair price. Just hope I can get it installed by myself. It is supposed to be tear resistant as well as strong in high wind, plus it has a coati g or layer to reduce condensation. Here, in West TN it’s very humid.
You gave the kohlrabi leaves to the chickens. I chop the chewy stem into really fine slices and the leaves in to bigger ones then I add those to a salad.
I know, I was floored by how much food we got out of these rows. It helped that we had a very wet Fall for our area, it loosened up the soil a lot. The first two rows we did in October dried out so much it was horrible to harvest them.
I don't have what I need for compost to build what I need for garden beds, so it's a slow process building up a garden.. This year I planted a potato patch on top of my stony ground. I was given 2 round bales of very decomposed hay, and I just layered it into a frame my husband built. I got a small harvest from what I planted, but when you consider that we had a drought; I have nothing but rain water to use and nowhere near enough to water a large garden bed, the fact I got 10lb of potatoes out of it is quite remarkable. Hay and straw hold water, and it allowed the potatoes to produce at least something.
Always so happy when you post something!👍 Want to learn as much as possible from you,love your efficiency! I am kind of curious if you have a video about the layout of your farm?
I haven't made that kind of video in years. People get sea sick and complain when I walk around with my camera instead of using the tripod. We have 1.65 acres in Southeast Idaho.
I think the health of your soil has a lot to do with how well your seed can grow But your right some disease might spread too you need to becareful but you need to use what you got too
I think scab is a reaction to nutrient variability (too high or too low), not a disease. Where I live, there's "canker". That's a bacterial/viral infection. Certified seed potatoes are guaranteed free of such infections.
Out of interest do you seed save Swiss chard? We find it a prolific self seeder which is fine because our chickens love it & it survives the Winter here 🙂
Hey! So fun to see you comment here. I believe swiss chard is a biannual right? I never remember to let them stay in the ground for the second year so I can harvest it. Same with carrots, beets, and onions. I SOOOOOO need to do that this year because I am fed up with buy seeds! Thanks for popping in!
Yes, it was really hard to get a word in without noise! It is a quiet little road that is supposed to be 40 mph speed limit but we have a lot of construction in our area so we get some good noise in the garden. Thanks for liking the garden, it means a lot to me when people get excited about it.
Those are some great looking potatoes! I have never eaten Swiss Chard. What is your favorite way to cook it? Always interesting and a pleasure to watch your videos.
White potatoes don't do very well for me in zone 7. I have back to eden garden so soil is loose. But they mostly stay small. I must be doing something wrong because I see deep south homestead does well in even hotter climate. Maybe mine need more bone meal or higher ph, I dont know but they keep coming back in the same places every spring and late fall just not very big. Lol I try to get rid of all the seed. But yours look so Awesome and soil not so loose.
I struggled with my back to eden garden as a food garden. It worked for my orchard but not for annual crops. Even my orchard struggled with back to eden until I added huge flocks of ducks to add manure and weed for me. I till my garden in spring and add fertilizer and mulch throughout the season and I water well. The method is Mittleider. This is the second year I have used it and it is AMAZING. I don't stick with it 100% as I don't believe in just using chemical fertilizer by itself, I believe in feeding the soil and soil life. So I do a tilled, mulched, animal manure-fed Mittleider garden.
I have done very minimal rotation, mostly just expanding the garden and adding a lot of mulch. This Fall we have the goats grazing weeds and dropping manure until planting time. Next year I plan to move all the prickly plants together to the spot where we had the pigs we just butchered. So corn, sunflowers, and squash will be together in that really pig manure and bedding rich spot. Not sure how it will do but that will leave the front garden to potatoes, peas, tomatoes, beets, carrots, swiss chard, onions, and beans. Sounds like a long list when I have to type it, that is the dream goal, we will see what actually happens. Thanks for the great question.
I bet you don't have much of a pest problem since you have cold weather for the majority of the year. My biggest problem here in Florida is the stink bug and the infamous squash bug when trying to grow organically.
what do you use for winter cover crop . If any ? to keep the soil working . feeding . how far is frost deep ? it was 6' deep in NY UPSTATE . on HILL TOP WERE WIND BLOW
I don't do a cover crop, I can't afford the seed. We mulch heavily as we can and I put the goats on the garden during the winter to add manure and their bedding to the top. Our season is so short that the only cover crop that will survive has to be perennial like alfalfa and it never gets enough growth on it to make a difference before I would have to till it in. Good question.
man love david the good! SAdly i wish he had a series where he was in a climate more like me/you (im zone 3a) have over foot of snow, been going -30c off n on and such, my areas "plant seeds in spring" time is typically around may long here. seems hard to find good creators for it. youtube n such seems to love alot more "Warm" ur more likely to find someone claiming cold climate in areas like david the good (judging by crops and such) then people actually in a cold climate.... its pretty painful for that "RElatable" Sure can "take info over all, and change a few things like i cant grow a orange... but i could try with a apple tree? Type of stuff, but its also random plants That may not be known or realized and how to make them work better for the area.... like david getting "more tropical" and making it work ... Nice video btw
@@dirtpatcheaven yeah, I really have to get some set up, Ina rental and budget, but have access to make some I didn't realize before ;p like your pallet ones,.. and yeah weather's been..different past few years, as a kid I've had snow for Halloween...
@@dirtpatcheaven your welcome I love your hot beds I've heard about them from Charles... No dig guy can't remember his last name Anyway a way to lengthen the season We got Gifted a large metal and wood thing lol looks like a kidney shape pond But the bottom leaks it's wood so it would need a liner or.... :) raised bed I think drilling holes in the bottom it would make a great hot bed
You need to make a map and show us these things in a magazine . location spicif .with diagrams how to build a pallet compost garden . ! I'm in central Florida . Resently I cleaned off my grandmother's metal roof on her trayler and WOW I found more potting soil than the hole depot has ..!
Since you're in FL, you may love the vlogs on Jim Kovaleski put out by Pete Kanaris's channel " Green Dreams " or something ( just use search bar with Jim's name to find ). He does a rockin' no-till market garden in an urban yard with homemade compost ( has bought some too ) in New Port Ritchie, in the winter. He goes to ME in the summer and grows there too. He's awesome.
9:33 there can be no expert for a garden except the gardener that works there!
I'm not sure if I'm understanding you but, did you plant two different crops in one row for "double planting"?
many would call that "interplanting"
I would call planting two rows close together, leave a space, then another two closely spaced rows, "Double planting". Which should work and give double the harvest in fertile soil.
I plant the main crop very heavy and then use a cold weather green as a green mulch/weed barrier. The main crop is the zucchini, tomatoes, or potatoes. I use the greens to feed the animals during the summer as I thin them out for the main crop. For the summer harvesting we cut the greens instead of digging them up. If the green is swiss chard it grows back from that cutting. At the end of the year when the warm weather main crop dies back I harvest the greens fully by digging them up for the pigs. If the main crop was a root then everything gets harvested together. Not sure what to call that but it works so I hope the information is helpful. Maybe I should change the name of the video to 'Using Greens as a Weed Barrier for Summer Crops'
Thank you, Julie. You're the best.
Is that like being The Good?
I grew buttercrunch following your recommendation after 2 years of bitter gormet mix. Buttercrunch is everything I wanted, thanks 😸
Oh I am so glad! It was a game changer for me too!
Yes, it was may favorite lettuce for years. I also like green ice and a few others too now.
Great seeing you guys
Hey Danny!
Nothing as tasty and good for you, as fresh produce from the backyard, right away to the kitchen and for dinner the same day.... DELICIOUS 😋
I agree. Now that I have a few basics down I am really wanting to get a bit for variety...brussel sprouts and other colder weather crops are my target for 2022. Thanks for watching!
Thanks Juli. I love learning from you :) God Bless !
You are so kind to let me know! Thank you.
Hello from Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪 very nice work good video sharing
Thank you very much!
Awesome job there on your homestead! Sounds like you do have a very short season. I am learning alot from your videos. Thank you and Yah Bless your family.
Thanks for watching!
Love seeing your videos, you always inspire me so much!
Hey! How are you guys doing?
@@dirtpatcheaven pretty good, we bought property in KY. I'll probably be asking you questions come spring time regarding hotbeds/gardening!
I love seeing the taken apart one!!
You work so hard. Here is a little piece of unsolicited advice, when digging up produce, put the produce directly into a box, basket, or whatever you will use to carry it. It will lighten a little bit of your work load to move things once rather than multiple times. Beautiful garden. Thank you for sharing the double planting idea!
Good advice. I need to get myself one of those four-wheeled wagons that has a bigger capacity than what I have now. Would make a WHOLE LOT of chores around here easier.
Happy bunnies they love garden veggies
Yes they do. I have been loving your mushroom videos!
@@dirtpatcheaven great I'm trying to teach what I know and connect people who want to learn more
The mushroom channels in my comments are great helpers for me to
And it's good to confirm
I try not to show toxic ones on my channel because of my name
I don't want to confuse people
Unknown mushrooms I use?? So people know I don't know
It's hard with people of all languages watching
Hmm, this double planting method has me thinking. I have a subtropical climate but a very small space. I'm wondering how I could leverage this kind of system not to maximize crops relevant to a short season, but to maximize output from a tiny space. Thank you for this video, gets the gears turning in my head.
Especially if you get full sun, more sun in spring/fall/winter than us northerners, they're getting enough energy from the sun to feed the soil life enough, to sustain close plantings - probably. From what I know so far. ( see " feed the soil, not the plants" vlogs by Charles Dowding I think, plus others on the topic such as Singing Frogs Farm and the No-Till growers podcast - they're on YT too - , and Elaine Ingram ( or Ingraham ? ) on cutting edge soil life science. ).
Go for it!
My grandma us put small potatoes in green beans and onion s and little bacon grease for taste yummy!
I remember rocky soil at your place! Where did all the rocks go? Your soil is so beautiful--I know it is not by accident! I love this video.
The front garden doesn't have rocks. We have silt in the front and rocks in the back. So the garden is silt and now has a lot of mulch on it and that opened things up a lot!
Good ideas! Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Making two hotbeds like yours, lined with tin. Each bed is 4’x20’ parallel to each other, separated by a 3’ walkway. Next come 16’ cattle panels and plastic. I may add a storage area at one end for tools and feed storage. Praying for enough money to get the top on it next month. I plan to fill it with rotting logs (free), straw (free), branches (free), sawdust (free) and topsoil (free). The pallets and tin were free. So far I’ve just had to buy screws & nails, corner braces. Plus gas for the truck to haul everything. Oh and tons of cardboard (free). Wish I could find free cattle panels and a hog ring pliers. Who knows?
Mine aren’t even close to as pretty as yours, but it will still be functional. And now I’ll have rabbit droppings!
Oh wow that sounds epic! I want to see. Send me some pics:
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I just put the plastic on mine this morning...now we get to see if it can withstand kitties, turkeys and 40 mph wind!
@@dirtpatcheaven I’ll send some pics when I get it a little farther along. Starting the second bed tomorrow.
@@dirtpatcheaven Just got a quote from BTL Liners. Their super duper strongest stuff will cost just under $200 shipped. Considering my garden will be 12x20 and nearly 7 1/2 feet high, I think it’s a fair price. Just hope I can get it installed by myself. It is supposed to be tear resistant as well as strong in high wind, plus it has a coati g or layer to reduce condensation. Here, in West TN it’s very humid.
Didn’t get around to starting the second one. Need to drywall first.
You gave the kohlrabi leaves to the chickens.
I chop the chewy stem into really fine slices and the leaves in to bigger ones then I add those to a salad.
That is a great idea! I will have to try that!
Wow that was a great amount of potatoes in that small area. Thanks for the educational video.
I know, I was floored by how much food we got out of these rows. It helped that we had a very wet Fall for our area, it loosened up the soil a lot. The first two rows we did in October dried out so much it was horrible to harvest them.
I would love to see the finished soil under the hotbeds!!
I don't have what I need for compost to build what I need for garden beds, so it's a slow process building up a garden..
This year I planted a potato patch on top of my stony ground. I was given 2 round bales of very decomposed hay, and I just layered it into a frame my husband built. I got a small harvest from what I planted, but when you consider that we had a drought; I have nothing but rain water to use and nowhere near enough to water a large garden bed, the fact I got 10lb of potatoes out of it is quite remarkable. Hay and straw hold water, and it allowed the potatoes to produce at least something.
Oh that is a great idea! I tried that in tires and sawdust this year and it worked!
Wow nice potatoes
Nice and big right? Second year we have done it this way and I am sold.
Excellent my friend!👍335
Thank you!
Inspiring! Love your videos!
Thank you so much! I love the feedback!
Always so happy when you post something!👍 Want to learn as much as possible from you,love your efficiency! I am kind of curious if you have a video about the layout of your farm?
I haven't made that kind of video in years. People get sea sick and complain when I walk around with my camera instead of using the tripod. We have 1.65 acres in Southeast Idaho.
@@dirtpatcheaven Thank you!🤗
I think the health of your soil has a lot to do with how well your seed can grow
But your right some disease might spread too you need to becareful but you need to use what you got too
I think scab is a reaction to nutrient variability (too high or too low), not a disease.
Where I live, there's "canker". That's a bacterial/viral infection. Certified seed potatoes are guaranteed free of such infections.
@@ecocentrichomestead6783 thanks looking into these things helps us grow much better
Out of interest do you seed save Swiss chard? We find it a prolific self seeder which is fine because our chickens love it & it survives the Winter here 🙂
Hey! So fun to see you comment here. I believe swiss chard is a biannual right? I never remember to let them stay in the ground for the second year so I can harvest it. Same with carrots, beets, and onions. I SOOOOOO need to do that this year because I am fed up with buy seeds! Thanks for popping in!
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Good morning! Thank you, I think they are nice too.
shame about the road noise, used to live near a main highway never got used to it myself. BTW love your garden etc
Yes, it was really hard to get a word in without noise! It is a quiet little road that is supposed to be 40 mph speed limit but we have a lot of construction in our area so we get some good noise in the garden. Thanks for liking the garden, it means a lot to me when people get excited about it.
Those are some great looking potatoes! I have never eaten Swiss Chard. What is your favorite way to cook it? Always interesting and a pleasure to watch your videos.
We love it steamed and eaten like spinach.
@@dirtpatcheaven Thanks!
Swiss Chard is the best tasting green, you'll love it. It also cooks quickly and tastes good chopped ( raw ) & added to omelet mix.
White potatoes don't do very well for me in zone 7. I have back to eden garden so soil is loose. But they mostly stay small. I must be doing something wrong because I see deep south homestead does well in even hotter climate.
Maybe mine need more bone meal or higher ph, I dont know but they keep coming back in the same places every spring and late fall just not very big. Lol I try to get rid of all the seed. But yours look so Awesome and soil not so loose.
I struggled with my back to eden garden as a food garden. It worked for my orchard but not for annual crops. Even my orchard struggled with back to eden until I added huge flocks of ducks to add manure and weed for me.
I till my garden in spring and add fertilizer and mulch throughout the season and I water well. The method is Mittleider. This is the second year I have used it and it is AMAZING. I don't stick with it 100% as I don't believe in just using chemical fertilizer by itself, I believe in feeding the soil and soil life. So I do a tilled, mulched, animal manure-fed Mittleider garden.
Do you guys have well water? Soo planting any fruit trees to block wind and root system suck underground water and perspire and condense concepts?
We have well water but water the garden and trees from irrigation water from the Snake River.
Do you found crop rotation good for the soil nutrients?? Nail down which plants concentrate which mineral and organic compound vitals for success?
Her interplanting/relay planting would require less or perhaps no crop rotation depending on the row. That's part of the beauty of it.
Hey thanks!
I have done very minimal rotation, mostly just expanding the garden and adding a lot of mulch. This Fall we have the goats grazing weeds and dropping manure until planting time.
Next year I plan to move all the prickly plants together to the spot where we had the pigs we just butchered. So corn, sunflowers, and squash will be together in that really pig manure and bedding rich spot. Not sure how it will do but that will leave the front garden to potatoes, peas, tomatoes, beets, carrots, swiss chard, onions, and beans. Sounds like a long list when I have to type it, that is the dream goal, we will see what actually happens. Thanks for the great question.
Just found your channel and I love watching this stuff . Are u in the U.S. ?
We are in Idaho. Thanks for watching!
I bet you don't have much of a pest problem since you have cold weather for the majority of the year. My biggest problem here in Florida is the stink bug and the infamous squash bug when trying to grow organically.
Cabbage moths, potato bugs, and nematodes can be a problem. I can't grow good carrots because of the nematodes.
what do you use for winter cover crop . If any ? to keep the soil working . feeding . how far is frost deep ? it was 6' deep in NY UPSTATE . on HILL TOP WERE WIND BLOW
I don't do a cover crop, I can't afford the seed. We mulch heavily as we can and I put the goats on the garden during the winter to add manure and their bedding to the top. Our season is so short that the only cover crop that will survive has to be perennial like alfalfa and it never gets enough growth on it to make a difference before I would have to till it in. Good question.
man love david the good! SAdly i wish he had a series where he was in a climate more like me/you (im zone 3a) have over foot of snow, been going -30c off n on and such, my areas "plant seeds in spring" time is typically around may long here. seems hard to find good creators for it. youtube n such seems to love alot more "Warm" ur more likely to find someone claiming cold climate in areas like david the good (judging by crops and such) then people actually in a cold climate.... its pretty painful for that "RElatable" Sure can "take info over all, and change a few things like i cant grow a orange... but i could try with a apple tree? Type of stuff, but its also random plants That may not be known or realized and how to make them work better for the area.... like david getting "more tropical" and making it work ... Nice video btw
I plant my garden in January and February here in my zone 3/4. I use hotbeds because otherwise my last frost date is June 28.
@@dirtpatcheaven yeah, I really have to get some set up, Ina rental and budget, but have access to make some I didn't realize before ;p like your pallet ones,.. and yeah weather's been..different past few years, as a kid I've had snow for Halloween...
Hi from brasil.
Hello!
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You like it? I thought it was fun too. Thanks for watching.
Respect!
Ok, you never finished telling us why the child didn’t like the method, something about watering?
Lol, she hated that she couldn't harvest one without harvesting the other. She didn't like doing double the work in one spot.
We enjoyed your video this morning thanks
Much love xoxox
Thank you!
@@dirtpatcheaven your welcome
I love your hot beds
I've heard about them from Charles... No dig guy can't remember his last name
Anyway a way to lengthen the season
We got Gifted a large metal and wood thing lol looks like a kidney shape pond
But the bottom leaks it's wood so it would need a liner or.... :) raised bed
I think drilling holes in the bottom it would make a great hot bed
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@@dirtpatcheaven The algorythm gives you credit for a comment, no matter what is said.
Just remove the weeds the normal way. This "tricks" wount work.
What trick is that? Growing extra food to feed my animals?
You need to make a map and show us these things in a magazine . location spicif .with diagrams how to build a pallet compost garden . ! I'm in central Florida .
Resently I cleaned off my grandmother's metal roof on her trayler and WOW I found more potting soil than the hole depot has ..!
Since you're in FL, you may love the vlogs on Jim Kovaleski put out by Pete Kanaris's channel " Green Dreams " or something ( just use search bar with Jim's name to find ). He does a rockin' no-till market garden in an urban yard with homemade compost ( has bought some too ) in New Port Ritchie, in the winter. He goes to ME in the summer and grows there too. He's awesome.
LOL! Yep, use it in your garden, bet it's super rich!