Coffee Grounds, Cardboard & Seeds - No Till Vegetables Gardening Series for Beginners - 101 Pt 1
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- Опубліковано 27 жов 2024
- Just using Used Coffee Grounds, Cardboard & Seeds No till Garden Soil Improvement. Gardening for Beginners Vegetables Plant Series 101 Part 1. These items will help your plants grow.
Your videos are MAGNIFICENT and a valuable resource to me as a new gardener (three months now). Please keep producing material because I look to you as a reliable and experienced organic farming resource. Thank you!
I like that you are trying simple things to improve the soil. Something anyone can do.
THANK YOU for your kind note...
One very important note...gardening is all about constantly experimenting...most folks don't experiment for fear of failure...don't be shy give it a try!!!
GREAT ADVICE...THANK YOU.
i grew up in country and around farmers but never learned about gardening. now i'm planting an area at my house and i appreciate you saying this!! i have been making a binder with all my garden notes. this is going to be on the front of the binder album now!!!
Coffee grounds were one of my very first gardening hacks, they saved my pumpkins. ;)
THANK YOU, so glad to hear... thanks for sharing
I love this idea. I can only do container gardening, but I’m going to experiment with this idea in some of my containers. Thank you for a good idea and a well-done video.
I planted lettuce seeds directly into an inch of coffee grounds and the lettuce is growing really well !!!! No till gardening works ok for me !!!!
Very glad you wrote in and shared that.. THANK YOU very much
@@iamorganicgardening : I'm volunteering in a community garden near a Starbucks that supplies all the coffee grounds we can use ; our budget is limited , so the grounds really come in handy !!!! I don't till , just make shallow rows and fill with coffee grounds, soil , and potting mix !!!! Our soil is like construction zone soil ; so , essentially, I'm making row planters in between ground cover like clover and alfalfa !!!!
Hi, Marc! Concerning the lawn topic at 2:40, those rotational grazing guys (or holistic management) have done great research on this and found out that cutting the grass down by more than 50% of its highth leads to a lack of root growth. So cutting it down by less than 40% and leaving the clippings as mulch will help building root mass in the ground.
Same goes for cutting winter rye for the same purpose.
THANKS. That is why lawns do not have deep roots, I AGREE. The Only thing I would cut back is the winter rye because it gets to tall. But after it grows over the winter and early spring I will replace it with something else..
Absolutely correct, I have even changed the way I mow my grass based on what I found out when I took my online Holistic Management course!. Amazing results both for my lawn and my soils! First off I vary my mowing, never mowing twice in a 5 day period no matter how "rough" my lawn looks. Second I let it get taller before I mow. And probably the biggest change was setting the mower height to 3 inches or more. And by mid summer 4 - 5 inches! Then in fall when things start to die back I mow again back to 2 inches. In winter all the way back to 1 inch one time to completely eliminate the top growth of warm season grasses and let the cool season grasses a chance to get some sun.
After only a couple years of this I have a green lawn all year and many species of grasses (and a few weeds) are coming back making my yard bio-diverse. It may not look like most yards, but it is green when others are brown, both mid summer and mid winter. And that green means photosynthesis and feeding the soil food web. Sure enough massive improvement in the soil is seen. Huge number of new species of clover vetch new grass species etc are coming in without me planting them. And the overall thickness of the sod is increasing too. Really is interesting to watch the change.
Caution though. My Rose HATED IT at first. She would nag me incessantly about how "ugly" the yard was and tell me to go mow! But gradually over time she came around, especially when during the heat of a Oklahoma summer, all the yards around us turned brown and our yard was bright green and lush thick and soft to walk in barefoot.
Hey, That box is from Bay Corrugated in Monroe Michigan. That's where I'm from 😅👍
Small World.. Glad you notice it. THANKS. Have a great weekend.
Very valuable information along with hands on demonstrations. Thanks mark
My pleasure to Share... Enjoy your day.
Another great video, you are so kind to do this to help other people, I can wait to see the results. Well done : ))
THANK YOU. I am learning so much from everyone writing in about things they face while gardening..
You have convinced me to stop mowing my orchard! What do you suggest I add besides clover?
Thank you SO much for all you have taught me... two months of snow = lots of time to watch your channel!
Would you like to plant Sunflowers..? They are very helpful. You need 2 seeds ever 4 feet square. This will improve soil and feed the bees etc. Thanks.
@@iamorganicgardening where do you get your sunflowers seeds? I tried the Black Oil Sunflower Seeds that I feed to livestock/poultry, but it did not do well....thank you....
I turned down for Lowe's this year of wood chips. I now use the process called Chop and Drop
Thanks for sharing..
Thanks for the video. I'm trying to make some red clay plantable soil for next year.
Hope this helps. If any question please do not hesitate to ask.. THANK YOU
This was very informative. Thank you!
THAT is very kind of you to say.. THANK YOU.
Thank you! These videos are just great and I am going to try to remember to always have a living cover on my vegetable garden soils to protect soil microbial life.
I have been collecting coffee grounds and using them on my soils in Southeastern Australia for several years where they seem to attract many worms.
Great to hear . THANK YOU for sharing.
Thank you very much for the great information, I always heard of using coffee grounds in the garden, but I guess I just needed a good reason to do it, and you gave it to me, didn't know it was good for mold and mildew, I'm in.
The mold or mildew you see is really fungi. This type of fungi breaks down all types of organic matter. THIS IS GOOD. Because it release nutrients to the soil then the plants roots can feed on it. THANKS.
You didn't say, so I wonder if you know. Cardboard made in America is almost exclusively made with cornstarch glue. It's biodegradeable, and many composting creatures will eat it. The glue is a composting green, by the way.
THANKS, even some of the handles they put on large cardboard boxes are made 100% from corn...
This is an option. I just wanted to note that sheet mulch gardening systems do not all require digging up the lawn unless you have Bermuda grass, which you would definitely want to remove entirely. Many successfully sheet mulch right over the top of a lawn.
Great point! THANK YOU.
I am so curious how this is going to turn out. I'm doing something just like it down in the New Orleans area. I'll be looking forward to the next video session with coffee grinds.
Glad you hear you started this too.. Keep me up to date PLEASE... THANK YOU
I be there in like 20 mins
We make some of the worlds finest cardboard here in Sweden and i def use any brown or white cardboard with little to no print without caring where its from. I dont order much from far away any how.
Nice video, thanks!
THANK YOU, for watching...
Thank you.
Binge watching your videos and I keep thinking about this one.
I'd like to try this but I haven't seen you do it since.
Would you still recommend using cardboard, or would you seed the whole area with cover crops?
Thank you brother for sharig this inexpensive method of gardning. And I need to adk you if I can use this method for growing vegetables such as lettuce, carrots and greens?
thank you in advance.
YES, it can. THANKS.
Mohd Kurdi look into Lasagna Gardening. You will be amazed.
There is a problem i fell with the the lasagna method. I will show you this in the part, PART 2. THANK YOU.
Mark, Thank you for your video -- I am fascinated by the comparison of the no-cardboard vs. the cardboard cover/mulch.
Question: What would happen if yo changed the size of the cardboard? E.G., 1. chopped/shredded,
2. 2" X 3" pieces, 3. 6" X 6" pieces, or 4. ???? I think that a good layer of soil would prevent the pieces from
blowing away. Has anyone tried this? I would like feedback on this idea because I want to learn. Thank you.
Cardboard will act like wood chips.. If you keep it in place all will be fine. The soil on top will just grow weeds again. The only downside. So keep large pieces of the whole box is better. THANKS
Starbucks gives all of their coffee grounds for free.
THANK YOU for this info.
Shhhhh lol!
Canadian boxes are also clean.
THANK YOU for this information.
Thanks for this great video! I am planning to start growing my own food this spring/now, as a beginner. But I live in Europe and I have a tiny backyard lawn and it is shady; few rays of light on sunny days but no direct sunlight on this spot, yet it’s not completely dark or covered by trees etc. Could anyone with gardening knowledge and experience, please advise 1) what vegetables can grow here successfully? 2) If I can literally just use this method of placing only 2 items, coffee/compost and cardboard, no additional manure, grass, wood, leaves, top soil etc which lasagna/other videos suggest? Thanks in advance for a quick and comprehensive response and any useful information and tips!
Any of your cool weather crops. Spinach and any brassica types. ( kale ). Like cooler areas.
Don't get me wrong, I fully appreciate your advise and helpful videos, however, showing what it's supposed to look like when it's finished would be a huge improvement on this video.
There is a part 2 and 3 ... did you see them yet.. THANKS
I didn't see when you put the coffee grounds on it.
At the time make 4:15 I spread them. Thanks
@@iamorganicgardening 👍
I seem to remember that rye roots can penetrate down to 2,5 meters or 8 feet.
This is correct . Love to plant this for that kind of results. THANKS
How does used coffee grounds affect the acidity of the earth? Thanks for doing these videos. Subscribed.
They do not change a thing ,, just a myth. Thanks for asking.
So cardboard will break down in the soil and be fine?
A very small part will go in the soil, maybe 1%. It cardboard is a quick mulch to protect the soil from natures elements. Wind, rain & heat. This keeps the soil food web alive underneath. Just a cover...
Hi, do you have an update on this experiment ? Eager to know how it's going
We just got snow.. But if it warms up I will try to do a update.. At least a picture on my google page.. THANKS
Thanks :)
THANK YOU.
I remember an older lady using same technique growing some of her veggies. I suggested same to my partners in Pakistan and experiment with it but they never applied it (cardboard is expensive there)
On a side note I pull fenugreek and shot a small video, I am looking for a video editor to mix three films and couple of stills and post it as soon as possible.
THANKS. This is my point exactly.. If is so important to grew something on the land you live at to keep that soil healthy and not let it go to waste. That even cardboard is a huge expense to get because they used up all the natural resources... LOOKING forward to the video..
I AM ORGANIC GARDENING I did posted but somehow all text was gone. Have a look at it, I don't have any video editor, you tube didn't work and windows movie maker is not supported. Have a look at it, what editor you are using so I can properly post it again.
I use Everio Media Browser 4.. I will LOOK..THanks
When did you plant the seeds? and what USDA zone are you in? THANK YOU in advance.
I AM ORGANIC GARDENING I think they were planted in July as no planting dates were kept, I suppose to pinch a few shoots and cook with potatoes but nothing was collected. I am in Calgary, zone 4B, the location of these pants is north facing along with a fence with about 4 hours of peak sunlight.
What about piling up hay on top of each other?
I am not sure what your question is about?
Did the hole-punching make anyone else laugh?? 😂😂
THANKS it really is, when I see it later.
Is there a particular type of winter rye that you use?
This is just one type... THANKS..
THANKS for sharing, did you find it on Amazon?????
THANK YOU for watching.. If you are speaking about the winter rye, I first google it is find lots of sources...
Update pls, how did it go?
Hello, it is winter time now for us.. Not much to update on. Will start videos again in the spring time (End March ).
THANK YOU for asking...
How often will this need watering? I want to use it at our soon to be farm but we don't have water down there yet and only go on weekends to work.
If you are just relying on rain fall on your land this will save/ adding at least 1/3 more water.. Watering all depends on the amount of rain fall and heat you get..THANKS
What about colors on boxes? Isnt that chemicals?
Yes, never us glossy color boxes or wax boxes
Isn’t brewed coffee grounds acidic?
No. It is in the coffee only.
So it didn't work?
Yes. There is other parts, The key is to have a living root all the time in the soil to harvest the power of the sun.
I got a 5gal of coffee grounds every day from D D for my blueberries.
VERY NICE.. it will be very helpful. THANKS
would roast chicory work in place of coffee?
I will look into that.. Not Sure. THANKS
I AM ORGANIC GARDENING 👍
can alfaalfa reclace winter rie?
On;y if it does not go dormant or brown in the winter, THANKS
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