Preparing a New Garden Spot - FHC Farm Bulletin #16
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- Опубліковано 9 тра 2024
- A newly established garden plot can be planted immediately after plowing or tilling the soil. But a better method of beginning a productive garden spot can be realized with an investment of time-along with materials that are conveniently acquired around the farm or homestead. In this Farm Hand’s Companion Bulletin #16, Pa Mac explains how to begin a new garden plot while at the same time preparing it for a fertile future.
For more about gardening, see Pa Mac’s other videos on the subject:
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Preparing Land for Cultivation with Hand Tools, Pigs, and Plows ( • Preparing Land for Cul... )
Building an Old-fashioned Fence for the Garden ( • Build an Old-fashioned... )
Clearing Land for Cultivation ( • Clearing Land for Cult... )
How Do You Keep Deer Out of the Garden? ( • Keeping Deer Out of th... )
How Do You Garden on Sloping Ground? ( • How to Garden on Slopi... )
What Should You Plant in the Garden? ( • What to Plant in Your ... )
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Nice presentation and packed with information.
Very enjoyable.
Thank you!
Who said old dogs can’t learn new tricks. Didn’t know about the plowing depth for fall vs spring. Great video and appreciate all the time you spent giving us great content!
Using hay in between rows will help with water retention
I remember when I was a little kid and walking in my grandpa's garden, picking peas and cherry tomatoes and eating them with him. I got the garden bug way back then. My youngest son is planting his first time in his new house, hope he gets the bug too. Thanks Pa 👍
I'm not big on patience...🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
but gardening has been a great teacher over the years.🥹
A lot of before planning is necessary, great job!
Be sure and not use glyphosated straw or hay as mulch. Ask the feed store person if the bales you purchase are guaranteed sterilized. If so, that hay is toxic with chemicals. Do not incorporate any straw or hay into your garden soil, regardless. It's decaying during winter isn't long enough, probably, to be complete. As such, it will tie-up nitrogen when sown with seed in spring. Use clean straw as mulch in summer.
Thanks for this great advice Pa Mac. really helpful ideas and easy instructions that will help on new ground to plot your garden. Thanks so much for sharing with everyone. Fred.
Thanks for sharing,have a great weekend
Our family always covered the garden in tobacco stalks, sawdust and manure in the fall and turned it in the spring. That worked really well.❤️🐝🤗
Great video!
My dad is a fan of fall plowing as I'm the spring plowing kind of guy waiting on the rain to stop and dry some here in WVa always want to get everything in the ground by may 15th even got hay ready to cut this year busy time of year god bless you and keep up the good work
Excellent tutorial Pa. I have a friend that has been doing this on his farm and he has built some excellent soil.
Great vid
After a year or two of tilling in plenty of organic matter, I just top dress my beds with a generous layer of compost/mulch in the fall. I had neighbors when I was little that started doing this with their corn and soy fields, avoiding tilling and just "cutting" narrow slots into the soil for seeding. I don't know what that's actually called, but it didn't disturb the soil or the decaying roots of the previous season's crop. As I understand it, it helps avoid erosion and leeching of nutrients. This was old Senator Jim Clark in Maryland, who mostly grew feed for his dairy cows back in the 1980s. I learned an awful lot from that guy. Thanks for keeping this knowledge alive, Pa Mac.
The senator's method, shallow tilling or no-till, combined with fertilizing using animals moved from paddock to paddock, not to over graze, was called sustainable, but Joel Salatin calls it regenerative farming.
@@elizabethjohnson475 Yes, I'm familiar with Salatin, but hadn't heard of him back when I was a teenager in the 80s. As I understood it, Senator Clark, old codger though he may have been, was also very open to advancing agricultural science, not just for short term productivity, but for long term stability. I think some of his kids and grandkids, maybe even great grand kids, still own and work that farm.
Great stuff, thank you for making these?
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What can be done with an area that tend to puddle up? Most of my land is flat, with no real natural drainage creeks or culverts. Therefore it is very hard to find large spots that don't get puddling in the spring rains, making it difficult to plant seeds.
With land, one must add a few tools, and lots of work to thrive. Too bad that there is less land now with more people competing for it. Add to that the problem of special interest groups buying up everything available for their own agenda, and the outlook is bleak at best.
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I think Americans are competing for land along with BLM, Bill Gates, and the wealthy. Red Emerson from Southern Pacific railroad has huge land-holdings. Most of Idaho is federal lands.
Some real nuggets in there
No need to plow at all. Just plant right in the compost and watch ‘er grow. It really works just ask @CharlesDowding.
Agreed, sometimes the new ways are better than the old ways.