Thank You Sir. There is a serious lack of information and skillsets being passed down from generation to generation. Yourself along with a few others have taken the time to share your knowledge. You have to know that it has not fallen on deaf ears. My family stumbled across your videos and now, a few weeks later, 17 homes in our area are growing, with GREAT SUCCESS, their own food that is far more nutritious, satisfying, and delicious than ANYTHING they could by in a store. That along with bringing the family together, outdoors, putting in a little good old fashion dirt work is doing wonders beyond description. Thanks again to both yourself, your family, and your hands. Blessings to you, them, and you crops. Cheers!
Zach Slater praise God that’s a good payday to know I am helping to get people growing again!! Thank you for commenting and letting me know it is working!!!😀😀😀🙏🙏
Thank you Mr. Leon!! We need your knowledge, wisdom, and experience. You have a lot of people’s attention and we are listening and watching. I sure do miss my PawPaw. Wish UA-cam would have been around when he was alive. God Bless.
We are so encouraged!! We have tree trimmers in our area and are a drop location for their woodchips. Again..perfect timing. Your knowledge is so important to us. Thank you! 👍❤🙏😊
Mr. Leon, you remind me of my grandpa, he was such an avid gardener and I miss him dearly. Please keep teaching the younger generations , thank you so much!!
JUST LIKE MY GRANDFATHER!! youngsters forget when men like him growing up a big majority grew all their food, raised an butchered meat, smoking, canning, curing. no shopping malls an ordering online. the knowledge you learn along the way you pass to your kids an grandkids
Thank you Leon for explaining more! I love how you interact with Daniel and Houston. I wouldn’t have known about your channel if it wasn’t for watching them!
You’re a great gardening teacher. I’m learning to garden here in Florida. Thanks for your garden tips! Appreciate you sharing your knowledge. God Bless!
Love watching your videos.. you are amazing and so informative.. can't wait to see more .. love and prayers to you and your family .. from Northern Territory, Australia xx
All great info. Another source to mix in is leaves, most cities have curb collecting service for the residents leaves and they pile it up like that and offer it back usually free after it has aged. That is what we have amended our clay soil with through the years, and it will grow anything now, we add leaves to the garden every year and plow them in, they decompose over the winter. They are great to mulch the rows with as well (once they have aged awhile).
Thank you sir. I did not realize that hardwoods would pull the nitrogen out of the soil. I guess it's kinda like a snake, If you don't realize it it's gonna bite you. I am starting a small wicking garden next spring. Your a good man for taking the time to educate. Thank you again. Have a nice day and a successful grow and harvest.
Loving your channel I am getting great ideas on how to improve our compost pile. We get woodchips from our local township so I am going to get extra to add to the compost pile in addition mulching our garden.
I live up here in Manitoba Canada and mix peat moss into my soil it is really cheap up here and comes in bails. I live on a homestead and have chickens, ducks, geese, bee hives, a big garden and of course a dog and cat to finish it all off.
Thank you Leon I'm still blessed to have my grandmother she is 100 yes young and still gardening while she has never used this type system she does make the tea from the barn when I clean it out and definitely has a green thumb thank you for sharing this knowledge I'll will be making tubs
Thanks so much. Your video's are wonderful and I am taking your ideas to teach our alternative school students how to grow their our vegetable. Teaching simple business models, helping students realize they can become entrepreneurs. This is so great. Thank you.
Thanks Mr Leon. Always a pleasure to see your videos come up. Just found you today and so glad I did. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge with everyone.
Thank you Leon! You have cleared up so many questions I had. Looking forward to you next video. FYI I contacted a local goat farm about the feed barrels. They told me no we don't have any. When I asked If they knew anyone in the area that might have them I was told they usually just keep them and let them rot. So sad... This is in North Carolina. People don't realize we do have local cattle farms, you just have to look. Question can I substitute Azomite for Sustane?
Wonder if you could critique my plans. I have constructed large raised beds-using Pallets. I also have purchased 33 gallon plastic barrels from Car Washes; from their soap distributer's. Removing one bung plug; affixing PVC refill-spout.. and then perforated holes, down the side; which will be towards the bottom; as I lay it in side ways inside the box. Then; I have a mini PVC; for overflow; (OR... wouldn't the rill spout act as an over flow if I use the upper bung hole-running it directly out the side; with a 45 end.?) at the top portion of the barrel, extended to the edge of the box, with packed Potting Soil.
Thank you Leon. Love your informative videos. You are awesome! I've watched a lot of your older vids but don't recall if you have any on natural bug deterrent. My grandparents use to use things like tobacco juice, mouthwash, flour,Cayenne, baby shampoo etc. But I don't remember exactly what and how much. Or which during which part of the season. Do you use any natural deterrents for outdoor plants
I do have a few questions, in the beginning you said, maybe find a tree company and get them to drop of the ground up trees and branches, and then when mixing with pet moss don't put hardwood in it, I might answer my own confusion but I want yo make sure, it's ok to use hardwood when making compost but not when mixing your bucket material, 2nd when you make the bucket and have the watering pipe, how does it water you newly planted plants, they're 7 to 8 inches from anywhere near the lower part of the bucket or should you water until it gets some roots down in the soil, thank you for your vids and God bless
Leon thoughts on combing these two ideas. Compost and self wick? I'm going to try it:) Reduce food waste Reduce water use No need for fertilizer Grow healthy food Plants will be watered and fed daily, just like you teach us! :)
Got it. Great practical insights. Question? It seems that the soil would rest on some sides of the covered pipe and thus in water below the 3” or 5” drip hole. This would make anaerobic bacteria active plus stinky water. Is that a problems?
Leon, hopefully you will see this. I only have access to compost at $65/cu yard! Clearly crazy. I have vernal pools in my woods, plus some areas where I have put leaves and grass in the past in a large burning pit. I am thinking of using this soil in the vernal pools and the burning pits in place of compost until I can make my own this year. This would, of course, be added to other amendments like peat moss, chicken manure, etc. Would this work well? Hope to hear from you because I'm building two new raised beds and I need to mix my soil to get them filled.
If you use the milk jugs in the bottom of your tubs without the weed cloth do you still use the PVC pipe to water from the bottom? Could you use aged pine shavings mixed with with chicken manure in the bottom of the wicking tubs or should it be mixed with the soil?
Ok. I have a question for you or anyone to answer. I don't understand the purpose of creating the air space either with the bottles or pipe. The roots cannot enter the bottles or the pipe so it is not an air pruning situation. Since the soil goes down around the pipe or bottles, it stays saturated because of the water level. Is it to have less saturation because less soil is in contact with the water? I really appreciate your information and effort to help all of us.
I have a green belt behind my house, the leaves and tree limbs have been decomposing for 20 years. I was curious if the soil would be good to grow plants in, I dug some of the soil up it is really black and fine. Do I need to mix something in the dirt to help it wick, or could I just use it the way it is?
Do yall sell your soil? If so how much? Im fixing to go get a couple loads of horse manure, its mixed with hay and wood chips. Im getting it for free from a racehorse ranch hut im curious to see how much yall sell it for. I plan on coming to get some of your fertilizer
Ok,I flowered you tubs advice , but when done I want to put store bought corn plants in ,you put water in tube but little corn plants are in dry soil, do you put a quart water around corn plant?
Leon, if the compost you used had weed killer in it which caused those leaves to curl, if the plant lives and produces fruit, is the fruit safe to eat since the weed killer systemically entered the plant causing those leaves to curl?
will 33% compost,33% pine fines,33% double hammered oak bark soiless mix work? I have a place locally that sells it for $54/yard and wanted to see what you think before buying.
Thank you, Leon!. I have question about the wicking fabric. I dont want to buy the commercial grade landscape fabric, as its expensive and in bulk quantity. Can I use the weed blocker landscape fabric that I get in Home depot or Lowe's? Will it work the same?
Not sure what the ink is made of on newspapers and toners from SHRED IT trucks that recycle shredded paper from companies. Thanks for the Pro tips though Mr Leon.👍🏼👍🏼🇺🇸🇺🇸
I believe this is an alternative to growing in the ground. Watch some of his earlier videos, he shows plants in his greenhouse, some in the ground and some in tubs. Have a great day.
I'll be doing an experiment with store-bought liquid fertilizers vs. compost tea using wicking tubs. Anyone else thinking along the same lines or used compost tea instead of fertilizers added to the watering?
Steve Crim Leon said he just happened to pick a few up from some of the ranchers, maybe you can look at the feed store or some ranchers around your area! He isn’t sure he has any orange left
This Young Fella is so full of Knowledge, Children you better be taking notes folks. He is the Fort Knox of knowledge to growing food.
Leon I think you are wonderful and I so appreciate your knowledge and teachings! God bless and please keep them coming!
glad to see another young man teaching how to grow food I am 74 and loving life
Thank You Sir. There is a serious lack of information and skillsets being passed down from generation to generation. Yourself along with a few others have taken the time to share your knowledge. You have to know that it has not fallen on deaf ears. My family stumbled across your videos and now, a few weeks later, 17 homes in our area are growing, with GREAT SUCCESS, their own food that is far more nutritious, satisfying, and delicious than ANYTHING they could by in a store. That along with bringing the family together, outdoors, putting in a little good old fashion dirt work is doing wonders beyond description. Thanks again to both yourself, your family, and your hands. Blessings to you, them, and you crops. Cheers!
Leon is a very knowledgeable garderner thank you
Zach Slater praise God that’s a good payday to know I am helping to get people growing again!! Thank you for commenting and letting me know it is working!!!😀😀😀🙏🙏
Thank you Mr. Leon!! We need your knowledge, wisdom, and experience. You have a lot of people’s attention and we are listening and watching. I sure do miss my PawPaw. Wish UA-cam would have been around when he was alive. God Bless.
Thank You Leon! I hope you keep on keepin on BECAUSE --your knowledge is absolutely Priceless!!
Thank you Leon for the recap on the wicking tub!
We are so encouraged!! We have tree trimmers in our area and are a drop location for their woodchips. Again..perfect timing. Your knowledge is so important to us. Thank you! 👍❤🙏😊
Leon you do a great job showing and explaining . Thanks
Leon, thank you for your love of gardening and your love of teaching the knowledge you have gained through a lifetime of experience.
Mr. Leon, you remind me of my grandpa, he was such an avid gardener and I miss him dearly. Please keep teaching the younger generations , thank you so much!!
He reminds me of my grandpa too. He farmed and gardened in Muleshoe, Texas. He always wore overalls, also. Be well, Leon.
Thank you for clarifying where to drill the hole in relation to the pipe.!!
JUST LIKE MY GRANDFATHER!! youngsters forget when men like him growing up a big majority grew all their food, raised an butchered meat, smoking, canning, curing. no shopping malls an ordering online. the knowledge you learn along the way you pass to your kids an grandkids
Thank you Leon for explaining more! I love how you interact with Daniel and Houston. I wouldn’t have known about your channel if it wasn’t for watching them!
thanks, please keep the videos coming if you have time
Good morning Leon, I must say your doing a great job of sharing your knowledge. Thank you
You’re a great gardening teacher. I’m learning to garden here in Florida. Thanks for your garden tips! Appreciate you sharing your knowledge. God Bless!
Love watching your videos.. you are amazing and so informative.. can't wait to see more .. love and prayers to you and your family .. from Northern Territory, Australia xx
All great info. Another source to mix in is leaves, most cities have curb collecting service for the residents leaves and they pile it up like that and offer it back usually free after it has aged. That is what we have amended our clay soil with through the years, and it will grow anything now, we add leaves to the garden every year and plow them in, they decompose over the winter. They are great to mulch the rows with as well (once they have aged awhile).
There,'s nothing like experience! You 're one of the best . You are so appreciated!
Thank you sir. I did not realize that hardwoods would pull the nitrogen out of the soil. I guess it's kinda like a snake, If you don't realize it it's gonna bite you. I am starting a small wicking garden next spring. Your a good man for taking the time to educate. Thank you again. Have a nice day and a successful grow and harvest.
Thank you! This was lots of help! Regina😊
You’re are amazing ....you are to an encyclopedia of gardening
Loving your channel I am getting great ideas on how to improve our compost pile. We get woodchips from our local township so I am going to get extra to add to the compost pile in addition mulching our garden.
Thank you for answering my questions. Hope you are doing well Leon. Thank you for the video's.
I live up here in Manitoba Canada and mix peat moss into my soil it is really cheap up here and comes in bails. I live on a homestead and have chickens, ducks, geese, bee hives, a big garden and of course a dog and cat to finish it all off.
Thanks, Leon. Best video yet. Answered so many questions about the soil and making the tubs.
Thank you Leon!!!! Laura from Illinois. 😃
Thanks Leon. Love all the information you give. ❤️
Thanks you sir for sharing your knowledge!
Thanks for the clarification. This video answered every question , I had. Keep the videos coming, looking forward to a trip to Kingston soon.
I love the know how this guy lays on us!
Talk about a wealth of knowledge !!! 👍,,,, OMG ,,,
Thank you Leon I'm still blessed to have my grandmother she is 100 yes young and still gardening while she has never used this type system she does make the tea from the barn when I clean it out and definitely has a green thumb thank you for sharing this knowledge I'll will be making tubs
Ah! I just love this man😊 Keep the videos coming; container gardening made easy. Thank you sir!
Cow poop is great stuff, the pat right off the paddock. The grass comes out already composted.
Thanks for sharing your valuable knowledge 😁😊
Thanks so much. Your video's are wonderful and I am taking your ideas to teach our alternative school students how to grow their our vegetable. Teaching simple business models, helping students realize they can become entrepreneurs. This is so great. Thank you.
Loving these videos Leon! Thank you so much. This video exactly answered the question I had.
Question......Strawberries, can they be grown in a wicking tub? they dont have deep roots
Thanks Mr Leon. Always a pleasure to see your videos come up. Just found you today and so glad I did. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge with everyone.
Thank you very much Mr. Leon!
Thanks Leon for imparting your wisdom with us. I found 20 year old mushroom soil. Can I use it for the containers?
I'm surprised you only have 8.5k viewers and 10k subscribers. Ur videos are fantastic and you can tell you know what you're talking about
Thank you Leon! You have cleared up so many questions I had. Looking forward to you next video. FYI I contacted a local goat farm about the feed barrels. They told me no we don't have any. When I asked If they knew anyone in the area that might have them I was told they usually just keep them and let them rot. So sad... This is in North Carolina. People don't realize we do have local cattle farms, you just have to look.
Question can I substitute Azomite for Sustane?
How about a kiddie pool with floating cucumber boats.....lol.......irrigation ditch becomes the crop row.
Thanks for the inspiration !
Thank you and, God bless you Leon.
Love you. Keep the info coming
Thank you sir for sharing. You are an amazing person 👍🙏💯
Wonder if you could critique my plans.
I have constructed large raised beds-using Pallets. I also have purchased 33 gallon plastic barrels from Car Washes; from their soap distributer's. Removing one bung plug; affixing PVC refill-spout.. and then perforated holes, down the side; which will be towards the bottom; as I lay it in side ways inside the box. Then; I have a mini PVC; for overflow; (OR... wouldn't the rill spout act as an over flow if I use the upper bung hole-running it directly out the side; with a 45 end.?) at the top portion of the barrel, extended to the edge of the box, with packed Potting Soil.
Thank you for the videos you’re an inspiration. Keep up the good work
Thank you Leon. Love your informative videos. You are awesome! I've watched a lot of your older vids but don't recall if you have any on natural bug deterrent. My grandparents use to use things like tobacco juice, mouthwash, flour,Cayenne, baby shampoo etc. But I don't remember exactly what and how much. Or which during which part of the season. Do you use any natural deterrents for outdoor plants
Check out the books by Jerry Baker. I think you can get them on Amazon. He used to be on PBS and his books have all of the old time recipes.
I do have a few questions, in the beginning you said, maybe find a tree company and get them to drop of the ground up trees and branches, and then when mixing with pet moss don't put hardwood in it, I might answer my own confusion but I want yo make sure, it's ok to use hardwood when making compost but not when mixing your bucket material, 2nd when you make the bucket and have the watering pipe, how does it water you newly planted plants, they're 7 to 8 inches from anywhere near the lower part of the bucket or should you water until it gets some roots down in the soil, thank you for your vids and God bless
Did you get your questions answered?
Thank you I learn something every video
Great video
Leon thoughts on combing these two ideas. Compost and self wick? I'm going to try it:)
Reduce food waste
Reduce water use
No need for fertilizer
Grow healthy food
Plants will be watered and fed daily, just like you teach us! :)
Got it. Great practical insights. Question? It seems that the soil would rest on some sides of the covered pipe and thus in water below the 3” or 5” drip hole. This would make anaerobic bacteria active plus stinky water. Is that a problems?
Thanks so much! I going to try to find some of those large plastic grain containers 🥕🥦🥬🥒🥒🍓🍋
Leon, hopefully you will see this. I only have access to compost at $65/cu yard! Clearly crazy. I have vernal pools in my woods, plus some areas where I have put leaves and grass in the past in a large burning pit. I am thinking of using this soil in the vernal pools and the burning pits in place of compost until I can make my own this year. This would, of course, be added to other amendments like peat moss, chicken manure, etc. Would this work well? Hope to hear from you because I'm building two new raised beds and I need to mix my soil to get them filled.
Great video , thank you .
If you use the milk jugs in the bottom of your tubs without the weed cloth do you still use the PVC pipe to water from the bottom?
Could you use aged pine shavings mixed with with chicken manure in the bottom of the wicking tubs or should it be mixed with the soil?
Thank you Sir.
If I am understanding, you can use almost anything as a growing medium other than top soil or dirt from you yard.
Do you always place the pvc pipe close to the hole in the side?
Thank you leon
Ok. I have a question for you or anyone to answer. I don't understand the purpose of creating the air space either with the bottles or pipe. The roots cannot enter the bottles or the pipe so it is not an air pruning situation. Since the soil goes down around the pipe or bottles, it stays saturated because of the water level. Is it to have less saturation because less soil is in contact with the water? I really appreciate your information and effort to help all of us.
I have a green belt behind my house, the leaves and tree limbs have been decomposing for 20 years. I was curious if the soil would be good to grow plants in, I dug some of the soil up it is really black and fine. Do I need to mix something in the dirt to help it wick, or could I just use it the way it is?
What about using “worm castings”?
I am wanting to know how much fertilizer and how much do you add to the wood chips and cow manure
What about using soil from a Mushroom grower? How much should use in a red container that you use? Thanks in advance
Can you add pine needles, coffee grounds and eggs?
Does it have to be just the bark of a pine tree or can use the whole badly rotten tree.?
Do yall sell your soil? If so how much? Im fixing to go get a couple loads of horse manure, its mixed with hay and wood chips. Im getting it for free from a racehorse ranch hut im curious to see how much yall sell it for. I plan on coming to get some of your fertilizer
do you need to control the rain water going into a wicking tub or does it matter ?
Ok,I flowered you tubs advice , but when done I want to put store bought corn plants in ,you put water in tube but little corn plants are in dry soil, do you put a quart water around corn plant?
Leon, will chicken manure work the same way instead of the cow?
Leon, if the compost you used had weed killer in it which caused those leaves to curl, if the plant lives and produces fruit, is the fruit safe to eat since the weed killer systemically entered the plant causing those leaves to curl?
will 33% compost,33% pine fines,33% double hammered oak bark soiless mix work? I have a place locally that sells it for $54/yard and wanted to see what you think before buying.
How about setting a bucket with holes into another bucket ?
I have been told wood is to acidic an will pull the nitrogen is there anything else will be good to use in place of it
Can you use charcoal from fire place
If are only option right know is to buy from a Big company could you recommend brand ect? Thank you
Hi, what kind of wood chips you used white or red wood chips?
You can use gin trash is what we call it in Louisiana. Any gin that gins cotton will have it.
Thank you, Leon!. I have question about the wicking fabric. I dont want to buy the commercial grade landscape fabric, as its expensive and in bulk quantity. Can I use the weed blocker landscape fabric that I get in Home depot or Lowe's? Will it work the same?
Lucky Gardens in another video, he said you can but it may only last a year or two.
What about chopped Straw; instead of pearl lite?
How about adding a little dirt ?
How about gravel, lava rock with straw ?
What do you put in garden soil to eliminate all weeds?
euclid taylor not possible. Pull the weeds
Not sure what the ink is made of on newspapers and toners from SHRED IT trucks that recycle shredded paper from companies. Thanks for the Pro tips though Mr Leon.👍🏼👍🏼🇺🇸🇺🇸
when your plants have gotten big , do you take them out of the tubs and plant them in the garden
I believe this is an alternative to growing in the ground. Watch some of his earlier videos, he shows plants in his greenhouse, some in the ground and some in tubs. Have a great day.
I'll be doing an experiment with store-bought liquid fertilizers vs. compost tea using wicking tubs. Anyone else thinking along the same lines or used compost tea instead of fertilizers added to the watering?
what size hole are you drilling in the side of tub
You also didn’t put a fill pipe in them other buckets why not?
Do you ever have problems with poison ivy in your wood chips?
IS THE INK IN THE NEWSPAPER SAFE TO BE IN THE COMPOST?
Can I use maple chips?
Where do you get the orange tubs???
Steve Crim where are you located?
Steve Crim Leon said he just happened to pick a few up from some of the ranchers, maybe you can look at the feed store or some ranchers around your area! He isn’t sure he has any orange left
@@gardeningwithleon2816 I'm down on the Gulf Coast. By the way thank you for your wonderful information.
I am in Southern California. Where can I get the orange tubs as well? Thanks!
Can I purchase wicking tubs from You? 25 Maybe?
Are you afraid of termites or bacteria in the mulched wood