You Have All The Soil You Need!
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- Опубліковано 29 бер 2021
- Its spring, and this is the time you buy soil for your garden - but in many cases that is totally unnecessary, because you probably already have all the soil you need as long as you have some rotten logs and yard waste! Have a watch and learn this easy trick!
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I love your frugal and practical methods. Most modern gardening is just marketing.
Yes! Thank you!
Yes, I can’t afford 10 different bags of $20 ammendments
@@sandrabeck8788 Totally! The frugality in my garden has made me much more aware of methods for achieving the same ends as some gardeners who amend with 30 different things
True! But you pay for convenience. I don’t mind doing what he does at all but I am sure there are folks out there want an easy way - buy buy buy.
@@jlseagull2.060 Yes the convenience is nice. Many people want neat garden beds. .. . yesterday; perhaps because they live in one of these neighborhoods with a HOA or competitive neighbors. .
I heard about this 5 years ago and had my grandsons dig a trench....then added horse manure, tree limbs,, small cardboard boxes filled with our crappy orange clay soil. And topped with compost. result: the talk of the town flower bed since 2016! The cardboard basically made it a worm farm! And flowers STILL love it....
Awesome!
We have clay too! Did you plant flowers only or veggies too? Which kinds?
Thank you for that.
Cardboard is also good for weed control.
Asked my neighbour if I could rake up his leaves in the fall. He said:- sure! Asked my neighbour if I could rake up his fresh-cut grass. He said:- sure! Asked my neighbour if he would like some fresh vegetables. He said:- sure! My neighbour thinks I'm crazy...
It's win - win for both of you :)
Next time, have them let you know when they did it, and it's at the trash.
I get this kind of, might be slightly different circumstances. My neighbour has an extremely overgrown garden which I know she can't manage. This year I offered to strip all the dead stuff (about 3 or 4 years worth now) as I could make use of it all. You'd think she'd jump at the chance - but noooooo. I get a yes sure to my face but never an invite to come and do the actual work. I'm itching to get in there though because it was once a beautiful garden with gorgeous plants, most of which are way too big and suffering now and would love to bring it back to its former glory. It's a neighbour who lost her gardener husband and so well it's a difficult one for sure.
@@lissyadams6497 Hey Lissy I would try again. Baby steps. Neighbours can be golden.
Elizabeth I like your way of thinking
My new fave quote: "lots of things here going about their life cycle." Isn't that what we all want?
Yes!
I buried old 2 X 8 and small logs and juniper branches which works great to help "take up space". This is the only video I have watched that shows us how to use a variety of materials. 100% USE WHAT YOU HAVE! Great advice!
Exactly
This just makes sense to me. I’m sure some think Im a bit whacky doing this but it works and doesn’t cost anything! Works for me!! Who can afford to buy soil?? The last time I did that I worked pulling thistle for 20 years in my old garden. It never went away no matter what we did.
Seems like a common corporate trend: nurseries convince you that your soil is as toxic as a tar-pit; and that you should discard your soil and buy their premium garden blend.
I bought my house a few years back, weeds galore, concrete dumping ground. Heard the rig-a-marole from multiple outfits when looking for omri-soil amendments. That's all you need: native soil, add yearly organic amendments, and rebuild the soil fertility.
Exactly
I love the way you use what you have. Instead of buying more soil, you are saving money carting away your garden waste and old logs. It's like composting and growing a garden in the same space. With much less work.
So true!
your love of backbreaking shovel work is legend.
Using this methodology can easily double the amount of soil you think you have a well as improve the quality of your garden.
My semi-hugel/wicking beds are my best preforming beds BY FAR. Thanks to this channel. I seriously don't know how others do it. I could never afford to garden, and on the scale that I do, without using your practices.
These beds stay moister, stay healthier and require less effort (after the initial labor to put in logs).
I do still ammend my soil with compost, manure, and sometimes sand (if it is for root crops) but we have extremely heavy clay soil here. But even with all that amending, the semi-hugel beds are my best.
At first it seemed daunting. Especially after needing to pull out the pick are to break up my rock hard earth. But, it's all about the long game.
I pick a few beds each year to improve and any new ones, I try to install this way from the beginning.
If I have any beds far from my house, I always make them this way to reduce their dependence on watering.
Some of my beds also are used for trench composting. Butchering scraps (blood, innards, feathers, some pelts), garden & kitchen waste, old leaves, rotted logs & branches, manure, spent hay... everything goes in. They are a bit deeper but nothing goes to waste here.
Changing my beds and plots to this method has totally changed how I garden. 🙂
Thanks for all your kind words Rachael! I'm glad to hear that its all working out for you :)
Pelletized Gypsum can break up heavy soil.
I bought two bags of garden soil at Agway at $7/ea, got a single straw bale at $7 as well. So far I still have a bag of soil left but 7/8 of a straw bale it's really helped fill up buckets on the cheap.
@@horseblinderson4747 Garden soil is not the same as potting soil.
Potting soil is mostly peat moss and perlite with for some mfr's some organic matter tossed in or even fertilizer.
If you have animal ranchers, see if they have old wheat straw they don't want (seems old stuff is not good for the animals).
Ya know, the kinds wet, 1/2 rotten stuff?
PERFECT for a top dressing.
The quality of the growing medium will directly affect your plants and production.
Are you trying to 'birds nest' your growing medium?
I just moved to a new home last year, I am the only person I know who packed up all of my chicken house materials and put them at the base of my brand new raised beds with rotten logs and leaves I gathered from last fall! Basically the same method and cat wait for three years from now when this soil breaks down over time and every year add more material... time is what it truly takes! Thank you for your informative videos!!
Lol I did the same when I moved about a year ago! Cleaned out the chicken coop and hauled it all with me!
When I move I always take at least some of my soil and compost pile with me! Besides seeding the new area, it helps also ease the pain of having to leave a beloved place!
I caught my neighbor about to take 3 whole bales of straw he used for Halloween decorations to the dump! Shared them with my gardening neighbor. So happy to get them and not have them be wasted.
Since I learned about hugelkultur 6 or 7 years ago it had been my go to method for filling my raised beds for free and building my overall garden soil. We lost most of the trees on our small wooded farm during hurricane Laura and while it was a huge loss, it did leave me with loads and loads of organic matter to build soil with along with my chicken flocks. Another trick I also use is laying down a base of cardboard in my walkways and topping it with large chunky mulch, bigger twigs branches, small logs etc to stop the weeds in my pathways and build soil in those locations that is biologically rich to top my beds with at the beginning of spring. I just remove any of the larger unbroken down logs & branches, shovel it onto the beds, and then reline the path again. It's a great way to make what can seem like an "unproductive" portion of the garden highly productive for the next year's garden. It also creates soil that is fungal dominated and very similar to forest floor that is dark, rich, and amazing.
I used to do the exact same thing with my pathways - works great! Like you, the winds here take down trees all the time - never a shortage of rotting wood :) Hugelkultur is such a great way to put that resource to work :)
Love watching you work! I totally relate to your advice about enlisting grandkids to do the heavy work. I’m 71 and can still work hard, but only for a short time. I’m expert at getting a crew started and then slowly backing away to cheer from the sidelines.
😂
Way to go! 😆
I have had fairly large gardens up until I had a heart attack and emergency triple bypass surgery 8 years ago. Unfortunately I've been in fairly bad health since then. And have had to try and find not so physically challenging ways to garden in a small area and it has been frustrating to say the least. So I went from having a garden that was approximately 120 feet by 120 feet with 120 foot long rows to a 4×10 area that my brother has tilled for me for the last few years. It was an area of the yard that had never been used for gardening but just yard area. So the first year or two nothing much grew in it except easy to grow stuff that doesn't need a lot of amending to the soil. But last year I finally had done enough to the soil that I had some beautiful heirloom tomatoes cherokee purples along with squash, cherry tomatoes, cukes, spinach, cantaloupe, and peppers. But I am getting less and less able to do the physical labor and am looking for easier ways like container growing.
@@debbiemcclellan9809 Good idea! Wish you the best.
@@debbiemcclellan9809 If you were my neighbour I'd come help you if you wanted.
I so enjoy watching other people work. ; )
SAME!!! It’s where I find the most inspiration
This method really does work well. I've used it in raised beds, container gardens, and even when I pot up trees. Just stuff that extra organic matter in there and let it all become soil. Great demonstration.
Thanks
Yard waste, last year's straw mulch, and food scraps will go under my next bed. After that, I start the no dig and just add a little compost each year.
I had previously smothered out lots of weed overgrowth on my property which I purchased 3 yrs ago, and now I am building raised beds over those areas. So, this will bring all those lovely worms back!
I hope it does :)
@@maritimegardening4887 After digging the future bed area, I found worms, already... surface and ground. I had a pile of brush on top which left some surface moisture. Now they are being well fed below and I left a big piece of cardboard on top... hoping for lots of wormies! 😄
I was planting in a raised bed recently when I dug up some beautiful broken-down woody soil. I'd forgotten that I had put branches at the bottom when I built it! We're going to have some great vegetables this year!
That is awesome!
great video. we have dolomite ground in Centurion South Africa. A tree just fell over!! I will do this. I love your video actually showing the work that goes into it. most videos makes everything look so simple and clean!! It is hard work to start a garden!!!
Thanks - yes, that's rigth - it's work - but you do it one bed at a time, a little bit every day and it's amazing what you can get done. Just like anything in life I suppose.
Greg... I called the No-Till Pope and told him what you did. He got a little upset but all he said was, "Go forth and till no more."
Was he a psalmeranian?
Since we don't live in a vacuum, there are times and places for every practice, sound reasons for mixing and matching methods.
Even Greg uses a mix of methodologies, tweeked to his situation.
I think it's a sign of a seasoned gardener. One who does what is needed to get what THEY need, not so worried about "the rules".
@@giverny28 .... I'll be sure to pass that on to the Pontiff of Ploughshares.
we have dolomite ground! Can you imagine how much money it will cost to bring soil in? We live in South Africa. Paying R1500 for 1 cube of soil may not be a lot for Americans but that money can feed a family of 4 for a whole month!!!! So yes we do what we can with what we got.
Eldon Elder, you mean Charles Dowding?
I can’t even remember how I started my garden beds LOL. I just keep adding organic matter.
You got it
We live in an area with orchards that are removed and replaced with new trees or row crops. Often they pay for the chips to be removed or burned. It seems like a better use would be to till it back into the ground add manure and replant its not exactly hugelkulture but it is recycling. I applaud your work.
Great to see someone else doing this! I've just completed a third hugulkultur bed at my allotment here in the UK, filled lasagna-style with logs at the bottom, leaves, grass cuttings, straw & rabbit poop in between layers of soil, topped with a woodchip mulch. Potatoes gone in yesterday
I've got neighbours giving me their grass cuttings from their lawns (they're not so enlightened as to get rid of their lawns and make food gardens....), the council provide some woodchip, a rabbit sanctuary provides bags of rabbit poop, the local trees provide free leaf fall. In addition I have 3 compost bins for food waste and other organic matter.
I also use the surplus grass cuttings on my paths, great weed suppressant and feels like walking on carpet.
Sounds like you've got it all figured out :) Very good!
This is a great idea. I'm 65 and have learned that even though I may be more in tune with Pa Kettle's speed [slow], hard gardening is good for body and the mind.
Your breathing is fine. I do this at 72, you ought to see me go. Still cutting my own fire wood to. Nice video.
I have a tree in my backyard that fell during the storm last weekend. You have given me inspiration!
Making the absolute best out of a bad situation! 💜
@@tinytexasgarden9420 indeed!!😉
I live in a hickory oak forest that has some clearings in pasture. I like to observe nature. And what I find is that new trees grow along the edges where branches fall and decompose. When a tree falls, as soon as it starts breaking down, more trees grow all along the trunk. If I need more soil I use decomposing branches, horse manure and whatever grows here. But the very best soil is around the trees where their leaves and branches have fallen and decomposed over the years. I think that is nature's way of creating fertile soil so when one tree dies, others spring up where it was.
I've created a 36 foot long hugelkultur bed but started out first digging a trench and planting it in red potatoes, they will naturalize in. All the soil was sifted of rocks as I worked my way down the trench and used to cover the potatoes. Then I did all my winter fruit tree pruning and got some nice logs from a neighbors cut cherry tree. The larger logs were lined up on the outer trench to hold back soil then I filled in with all my winter fruit tree branches and smaller logs I salvaged from the beach, cut back asparagus fronds, then topped with 7 compost bins. Then I topped it with my garden soil and planted one year strawberries all over it. A couple years ago I had discovered that potatoes love to be covered and grow out between driftwood so this should be interesting to watch. Should be able to harvest strawberries and the pups they put on for next year before digging in to harvest fall potatoes. You can harvest as you eat and leave some behind for next year.
Won't they decay after 1 year?
@@samiyamaza5380Yes, In a year or 2. That is the whole idea. Different rates of decomposition feed the various soil life. Also it wicks and holds water requiring less watering. I plan another new bed with next winters tree trimmings and logs that I'm collecting now. I just keep repeating the compost cycle.
Great video! If I had land, I would do the same thing, but I have to "garden" in containers, so I am composting similar to that in a brute barrel. When it warms up, I will dump it out in my driveway, put what's left of the sticks, and chunks in the bottom, and pile some soil, and newer soft stuff on,then top it off with more soil. That will give me a little bit to add into my buckets, but still have some covering the "pile"!
We just added four hugelkultur beds this year...excited to see how it breaks down.
You bring lasagna gardening to a whole new level 💖 Thanks for the video.
My pleasure 😊
I've been doing this on a slightly smaller scale for a couple of years now in my uk garden and I have managed to fill 6 raised beds while buying next to no compost. All sorts of things go in the bottom: spent crops,the hay from my Guinea pigs, cardboard and food scraps. Anything organic and my soil is now aerated and lovely texture.
This is good advice. Mulch so long as it isn't dyed and straw bales are good cheap filler that'll compost down eventually. Just make sure to keep up on your trace minerals as well and you'll be set.
One great thing about logs wood and mulch is it skirts the gra zon problem.
Just make sure you watch for blossom rot which is tums and a dash of vinegar, neutralize it with baking soda and your set.
My friend has a big patch of bamboo, I take a pick up full of fall trimmings to fill my raised bed
A man after my own heart, use what you have and repurpose what you find, Subbed
Thanks for the sub!
I love your practical and frugal ideas!!!!
Thanks so much!
This is exactly what I wanted to see. Really wonderful.
This is probably the 4th hugelkultur walk-through video of yours i've watched and I could go for another haha. I made a garlic bed using this method before the winter and just recently saw all the worms and other life doing their thing. Love it
I do at least one each year. The more people I can reach, the more people I can help to save money while still having great gardens
That's a really good idea. Last year when he built our beds we decided to lay cardboard down because I wanted to plant and grow quickly. It worked but it dries out fast and I can't have my young little seedlings cooking in hot dry soil. So I'm thinking now that we may just dig it out in the fall and throw a few logs in and cover it up! Thank you!
Thank you for helping us to have a great little garden !
Any time!
I use this concept all the time especially went i can get all the wood chip or mulch free. I'm 63 and it keep me in shape so i get a 2 for 1 on it, keep up the great work!
Right on
Good point, I have 4 raised beds and only 2 of them have logs in the bottom. Of course, shoveling is hard work but I think I'll dig up the 2 and use that soil elsewhere and to top them all off.
I live on a small island on the BC coast, basically a rock with limited soil and many large Douglas Fir. I’ve followed this method for 20 years and now have a small orchard and many raised beds. It works.
I’m so happy to see you doing the very same thing I did with my oak barrel planters when I had to figure out how to save on filling them with good soil, I filled them half way with rotten wood instead of super heavy rocks.
Thank you for sharing 🙏this wonderful garden tips 😀
Excellent video, I learned a lot from it, looking forward to more of your tips on how to do stuff.
Awesome, thank you!
I'd be more than out of breath! haha! I walk through the woods quite regularly and since the first time I saw you doing this, whenever I see a rotten fallen tree I want to bring it home to my garden! I sometimes do.
Covid taught me the same thing. I am surrounded by nice woods. I use that material and anything else we find on the property. Having a large property has been a blessing during Covid. We barely skipped a beat. Nice demo!!
This is the most helpful video I've seen this year. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
I gonna try old river wood... plenty....and freeeeee..
With green grass and fall leaves
Thanks for the reminder about burying branches and wood! I just made a raised bed with help from the hubby, in the almost only sunny place in my yard, for the tomatoes. Now to fill it with soil! Luckily I have lots of branches and due to Covid last year, I picked up about every leaf that fell off our maple trees and mowed them up small and now have two large piles of great compost to use. Haven’t ever thrown a leaf or grass clipping in the trash ever. I think folks are catching on more and more about the advantages of composting ! Finally! 👍❤️
I've watched you do this a number of times, but still enjoy watching you work! 😂🤣
I appreciate that!
Because I live in the wettest part of Scotland, I've found shallow raised beds don't work at all for me but 2 foot high ones do.
I also use No Dig (as shown by Charles Dowding), where you mulch with compost so the soil never dries out.
So glad I saw this! I was about to order compost to top up my beds, but you reminded me of this good trick. You just saved me 100 bucks 🙂
Glad I could help!
Thanks for showing the whole process, watched it beginning to end and it helps in understanding the concept and the ease of how it can be done.
Thanks - that's what I was trying to do so I'm glad you appreciate it :)
Just starting to landscape my home. Will try some of these tricks in my flower beds and garden. Thanks for the info.
Good luck!
Great stuff, building two of these beds with year !! Thanks looking forward to your updates. Subscribed
Thanks for the sub!
Thanks ,the lesson was helpful ,keep strong......cheers.
I followed your instructions on building beds like this last year and this year I’m planting into them. It looks amazing! Thanks for all the great ideas!!
Glad I could help!
Good on You, great information, I have used this method. Saves a lot of money!!!$
Always fun to watch you when digging like that. I have an abundance of fresh Spruce twigs and also loads of dried Bracken that I would like to utilize better. Have you ever tried to use any of them or a combination of them instead of hay or straw to apply the Rout Stout method? I hope it could work fine for at least growing potatoes under them!
I have so many rotting logs I can't wait to get in ny gardens. Thank you!
Good luck!
Nature returning to nature. Fabulous idea. Thanks
Yes, thanks
Thoroughly Satisfying. Thank You
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm glad you emphasized the soil already having life in it. I just dug up a place where I buried a lot of small tree branches several years ago and they look pretty much the same now as they did then. They break easier than they used to so I guess they have broken down a little. Mainly they dried out. The native "soil" here is silt with pretty much no organic matter in it. It actually repels water. You have to dig a depression to get water to soak in at all. It's never been farmed so the mineral content is very good, but it needs stuff like cow manure where it's already broken down and lowered beds rather than raised. I also have learned not to cover the top of the bed with native dirt. It doesn't let the water percolate, it gets hardened in the sun. I do have some beds now that might decompose stuff, but it's taken many years to get there. Fun to watch what it's like in other regions though!! :)
Super interesting! You know, raised beds are kind of a fad in gardening now. I think people see it as a shortcut to amending the soil they have-- just bring in a lot of compost and plant in that. With the cost of the lumber for the sides, expensive! But of course the ground underneath gets conditioned over time and the thick layer of compost does not need to be kept that thick. I live in the southwest and I try to do everything below ground as much as possible to hold that moisture in, such as composting in trenches, under garden paths, and even just holes dug here and there with plants put in around the decomposition area.
Have you considered composting tea to inject the right kind of soil life ? (the permaculture expert of Australia Geoff WhatsHisName showed one plastic barrel in this 1 hour tour video of Greening the desert - the Jordan project. it needs a pump that adds air all the time (after 6 hours they would start dying off) but it is full of organisms. And he says that is enough for the whole farm.
You can inject the bacteria, funghi - but of course they need humidity, or they will not work. As you barely rotten wood seems to indicate.
I wonder if mulching or a foil over plants or somehting like that would work better for you because the humidity is better preserved.
Where I life - rainy Austria - gardeners and homesteaders do nettle (liquid) manure. Nettles are pioneer plants, and easy to find on your land or elsewhere, and seem to have good properties (silicea).
A barrel of water, whole nettle plants put into it (the tender leaves can be eaten like spincach), and letting it stand in a not too sunny place with a lid on it (it can develop a stink - not sure if they did it correctly of course, no air added). Seems like some folks, filter it, dilute it with water, and spray it on plants to get rid of pests. and to nurture the garden. I think it is diluted with water, would be too strong in the original form.
Count your blessings - no snails ! (if you can have ducks or chicken running around they will keep the snails down, but that is a little harder in the suburbs, or if you are in a rural region but only with a house and a smaller garden that does not rhyme well with chicken and droppins all over the place (so you have mass invasions from surrounding fields and meadows)
@@xyzsame4081 So true! No snails anywhere to be found! Yes I have seen the greening the desert videos many times. When I start feeling discouraged I watch them again. I have considered making some tea. I tried it once before with cow manure and rusty metal as I had a tree that seemed to be lacking iron. I think I applied it too strong though, like you said. I probably made enough to cover my whole acre. :) My best resource is huge piles of cow manure my neighbor gives me. If buried in a trench with soil on top it also doesn't rot, the same as the wood. It just stays in dry clods. I'm seeing some good results this spring where I made double dug beds with manure worked in a few years ago. I didn't add any plain dirt to the top. No dig since then and left the previous plant residue on top to shelter from the sun and wind. For some reason dill self seeds and grows like crazy in that situation and is so tall it makes a lot of biomass to shelter the surface. There is already beautiful cold hardy spinach growing up through the mulch from seeds I planted last fall. Trying to remember to count my blessings! :)
I actually do this as well. I was trying to recreate a forest environment for my berry bushes.
"... its just a question of a soil working for you instead of working for the weeds." thats like on point of what gardening is all about. Keep the good work.
Pretty much!
Great video. I did this with a few raised beds last year worked great. Just got a tall raised bed. Instead of buying a bunch of soil I filled it half way with rotten logs and leaves.
I agree, I think above the ground needs more water and that adds work.
Yes garden debeir and dirt makes good soil
Thanks
This is awesome!
We just put up a video tour of our 32x16ft vegetable garden where we grow our annuals. We may try this technique with our smaller perrenial beds. Thanks for this!!
Sounds great!
That’s a great idea . We have several raised beds that are 2’ high so we get a lot of settling. We started them with logs and such in the bottom but never thought of bringing the levels back up in this manner. Thanks! And I like you line “ I don’t care and I know it works”.
If it works, it works right :)
You're a legit gardener. God Bless Brother
I appreciate that
I've seen this method before but it was a blast watching you and hearing your perspective 😎
Awesome! Thank you!
You are so so so correct- on purchasibg soil!
Yes indeed!
That's exactly how to do it. When we dig, we try to make a narrow, deep trench, and we spend a day filling it with everything we can find, since digging can be exhausting, and we want to do it only once in several years in the spot. We use the lawn as a source of good silt, digging enough for a five gallon bucket, then filling the hole by forking apart the sides until it spreads across, leaving a slightly lower spot that still has grass. Also part of the garden is heavy construction clay, so when we dig it out we swap out the clay for silt, and spread the clay over the lawn over such a large area that it practically disappears.
Good ideas!
I heard someone say that gardening was about moving stuff around, so that's our main task, shortening the distance to lighten the workload and get everything working in the right direction. Awesome ideas, thank you.
I soo delighted I invited his vid to join me for coffee this morning! Coffee with my gardernist ,love hiscoolness easy does it, nothing to it just do it get her done! Total practicalness. Loved reach to people. Enriching your soil with your created soil, is It!
Wonderful!
Good Stuff. Garry and Betty here in Gander Newfoundland and Labrador Canada 🧑🌾🇨🇦🇨🇦👩🌾👊🏻🤝
Greetings from NS!
Completed a Master’s degree at The Mount and a second Master’s degree at STFX!
thanks MG--i have a pile branches/logs and leaves in my back yard---gonna try your compost idea.
Sounds great!
Exactly! Best advice
No ice on my South Australian soil!
I have 2 large L shaped areas that I use for composing & making soil to add to my garden. It's a wonderful area. Almost everything goes in there from kitchen scraps to cardboard, prunings from my fruit trees, leaves, straw etc. I turn them over every now & again as it breaks down & depending what I need to add next. The soil is wonderful!
Thank you. I was starting to feel sad about buying soil in bags. Your technique is truly what was inside my heart. Thank you for awakening my desires.::) Now I will not surcome to my 15 year old thinking I am doing something wrong in getting my neighbor's scraps☺
Great tip on making soil Greg ! i have 3 compost piles but holy it takes a lot of material to make a little bit of compost , like to try this out , thanks
I love this trick and it works great!
Thank you so much for this video. I was about to throw out a bunch of good matter and just fill my box with store soil but Now I know better. Thank you again.
Glad it was helpful!
That is great! Have heard of this but never gave it much thought because we are in the Desert in SW Arizona, but re-thinking it because we have a lot of veggie compost. We will include some of the chunks of wood we had when we got wood ships - break up those chunks (wood splitting) and incorporate those along with the compost. Should last a long time. Thank you for this video reminding us of what we SHOULD do. Judi
Glad it was helpful!
Love your dry sense of humour
Genius Idea! I've never seen your videos but just subscribed based on this video
Awesome! Thank you!
its a great way to garden ive tried it and it works , good method
Yes, thanks
That’s a beautifully prepped bed.
A nice no fuss approach and delivery.
Glad you liked it!
So I don't like digging that kale roots but I now cut tops and plant besides the chop off roots and let them turn into soil.
You are a hard worker. Excellent video.
Thank you very much!
Thanks for the great video. You saved me a lot of time and backbreaking work to bundle up tree branches and dragging them to the curbside for garbage pickup. It is a lot easier to bury them in the garden. Thanks.
Glad it helped!
you may grow it when you bury it fresh. I bury mulberry branches and it grow within
Makes so much sense!
Ice? It’s 10 am in Louisiana and it’s already close to 80 degrees. Thanks for the advice. I was going to break my back building a 3’ raised bed out of concrete blocks. Now all I’ll do is line up one row and fill er up with logs, branches and leaves and come back later and plant. So much easier!
Exactly!
Great video, thanks for addressing the nitrogen issue or non-issue.
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome information and presentation, thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the ideal..
You have inspired me. I’ll report back later this year. 💜
I put manure in my pile of the wood and yardwasye. Compost and soil so it'll heat up the soil for my Winter Garden and early spring
Thanks Greg. Great job. Good info. Liked & subscribed.
Awesome, thank you!
Good idea. This is less work than getting a load of dirt and wheelbarrowing it into your garden plus bagging the yard waste for pickup. It’s also something that can be done at an easy pace. I like this.
Very true