NEVER pull a Garden Weed AGAIN! This ONE THING makes it possible!
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Garden season is coming and SO ARE THE WEEDS! But, we have found an AMAZING solution to all of those weeds which makes gardening SO enjoyable. Today we share with you our secret to easy gardening without the hours of back-breaking weeding in the heat!
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...no tilling it kills the worms that airrate the soil . I heard use a Pitchfork for adding air, what do you think?
Thanks for this. I’ve always wondered where to get this stuff when I’ve seen it in nurseries. It is not weed blocker that gets emeshed when plants grow right through it. What do you use to burn in the holes of different sizes as required by different plants?
Thank you for this valuable information about the great benefits in choosing to use this particular type of ground cover. I'm not back home yet, but as soon as I can, I'm having the whole garden area tilled and fertilized. Preparing it to have healthy soil once again.
It hasn't had a large garden since 1995 when grandma lived there. After we bought it, i only had a few herbs growing. But my husband passed away in 2005 and I haven't lived there since!
I'm anxious to move back home and will be preparing the ground for a large garden again!
Rose Boudreaux You go girlfriend!
Do you plant Carrots using theground cover?
Learning from other people's mistakes is a great way to go. Thank you for being so willing to admit your mistakes and share them!
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BunnySlippers great ,yes guy you are ,pretty right, let's learn from others mistakes ,and put ours too, to form a right yield .happy farming.from INdia.
my mistake was listening to these clowns
Never made one
Learning from others' mistakes and findings is a requirement to compete for jobs. Nobody lives long enough to learn from _only_ their own experience and keep up.
Not going to lie I came here thinking I was going to skip to 15 minutes to get to the point but you guys are so thorough and engaging good job!
Right. Here's my kids tie his shoes for the first 15min
Same
Really amazed by this couple!
When one is talking,the other one is not just waiting for her/ his turn to join the conversation...they both involve in it 100% all the time!
Excellent team work!
Hi folks, I really appreciated that you showed the failures as well as your successes. Brilliant job.
Even as pandemic is wrecking the economy, it's comforting to know weeds and dust balls are still free!
And plentiful.
agree with that💯👍
LOL, agreed!
If you don’t use weed spray, you just mulch the weeds and eat some too in salad.
WHAT A BLESSED COUPLE YOU ARE , MAKES ME WANT TO CRY OUT FOR JOY ,BECAUSE I AM SINGLE AND 72 🤣
You're very kind, bless you, I wish you happiness in life
-- ME TWO ...!!!!
- ME, TWO ... !!!!!
People that say putting that stuff down is so much work, haven’t weeded a garden. That is so much work and it is never ending
@@PreferredMethods this is crazy , its not easy
@@stormylyn217
Why please?
Very true statement!!
@Fun Fact indeed
Saw my neighbor put it down seems to work great next door !!
Watching you and taking your advice has changed my gardening life, all for the good! The woven ground cover was total game changer for me. Now I spend time starting seeds,
harvesting and preserving NOT weeding. Thanks you guys!
This is so awesome to know. I plan on raised gardens this spring, but can still use your suggestions! I'm excited!
I am 87 years old and have been gardening since I was a young child. I have used woven cover sheets on a few occasions but would find it to be too labor intensive to use in my large garden. If you are worn out from pulling weeds it is because you wait too long to address the problem. The answer is to cultivate the middles of your rows very soon after each rain before the weed seeds have a chance to germinate. Weed seeds will not germinate in loose fluffy soil in major part because it will dry out very quickly. The loose soil that you create by cultivation will also serve as a mulch as water cannot move through it by capillarity. Weed seeds will germinate in the rows where your plants are growing. These should be covered with loose soil from the middles while they are less than a half inch tall with a hoe. I do not find that to be
I am a 70 year old Italian horticulturist (I live 60 km south of Milan, on the Oltrepo Pavese hills (Zone 8 A according to the USD).
Maybe you are both right. But my experience in this climatic zone is identical to yours. In my area, the breathable black fabric allows weeds to grow through it .... Unless you cover it with at least 6 inches of wood chips. So I will continue to grow using corrugated cardboard.
I tried the expensive black landscape fabric one year. The bermudagrass loved it. It grew completely through it. It kept other weeds out, but caused the bermudagrass to thrive. I guess it depends on your location. Will try your method of keeping the weeds down this year.
I live in a very rainy part of West Coast Canada/I'm gonna grow lettuce on a wall(in plastic old shoe caddy you would hang inside of a closet door) it's fun to watch the slugs crawl up and get knocked down before they do any damage/I'm 63 work with serving the public Haha haha I love tons of lettuce on a sandwich fresher the better. My parents had green thumbs, but I knew the hoe. ; D
My great grandfather was a horticulturalist and had a lavish garden that was let go for the past 30 years when he died my grandparents rented out his home and then my mother inherited it but just mowed the grass and weeds now I live in the home and want desperately to have a garden where he once did but getting it tilled up and the grass out has over whelmed Me. I wish I had been older then 6 when he passed away as I only have a few memory's and many storys about him thru family. If I had been older I would have asked him all about gardening so thank you for sharing that knowledge as I value it and feel like I was meant to read it today!
@@paolomaggi8188 I live in west Central MN...I'm planning to use cardboard this yr as well. I've been using landscape fabric under my tomatoes with pretty good results. But it's expensive for me tho.
You all are so terrific! I love to watch Sarah's face when you're talking Kevin. Y'all have such passion for what you're doing that it's contagious!. Thank you for sharing this ground cover information!
I just moved onto my acreage and I'm trying to start homesteading. Oh my gosh, the weeds!!! It's overwhelming. Thanks for the tips. I have the professional grade woven fabric that I'll be using between the raised beds. I got cedar wood and I'm filling the raised beds with organic soil. The up front costs are also high for wood and soil with amendments. Thousands and thousands. Plus the cost of equipment. My main reason for doing all of this is for quality food that's sustainable and healthy. I'm very motivated by avoiding frankenfoods. The amount of time to get started is absolutely draining. I have another farmer taking care of half of the acreage. I have just a bit under 20 acres and after coming from the suburbs I have to say this is a culture shock. I drive 3 hours per day back and forth from work. Nothing is close, not even the grocery store. Just a lot for one person. Please read on though. My sunsets are stunning, the daily sounds of birds are relaxing, the wildlife is beautiful, and this is worth every second. It's like a piece of heaven and I feel blessed.
You rock keep it up!
I'm just trying to get rid of weeds and I don't even garden. I knew that this was the wrong video in the first 15 seconds but I watched it all the way through because of your presentation style and the chemistry between you two lol! I literally watched this video because you guys haha!
Yeah, I’m not currently having this problem but this kept coming across my algorithm and I decided to watch because I like them and I like this kind of stuff
In my experience (I’m an organic gardener) I believe the quality of the soil is the key to no weeds..I keep amending the soil, as the soil improves, the weeds go away :-). I’m a southern Mo lady as well. Born and raised :-).
What ways do you amend your soil?? Any info will be helpful.
@@rlopez18m I use greensand, azomite, kelp, gypsum, wood ash, ground cover in winter that gathers nitrogen, then is turned over about three weeks before spring planting.. A good place to start is have a soil sample you take to the county extension for testing, and see what the soil is lacking in as well.
Thank you! We can't wait to try this on our very 1st veggie garden. So lucky to have found this info. Who wants to deal with weeds, ever?!
I’m in tropical Australia. The best method I’ve found is 4-6 layers of news paper (wet it down to hold it in place if it’s a windy day) and then a layer of straw or sugar cane mulch over the top. It’s very inexpensive and easy to put holes in it for plants using a hand trowel.
That is what I do here in New England USA. I use newspapers two ways: In late summer I start freezing food scraps. Then in the Fall, I bury the scraps a foot down in my garden, cover it with newspaper which is weighed down by bricks. Come Spring, the worms have done their job and the soil is nice and loose. I have never had a problem with rodents. The other way is what you said...I use it as a weed barrier then put mulch over it but not in my food garden; just around the other parts of the backyard. Works great!
I am doing this - my first garden - I wove cardboard together, wet it, added decomposing leaves, wet those, added newsprint (plain), wet that... straw is down and now I've started to put compost on top. Time is the main issue, however, next year (and every year after) will be a much simpler process with beautiful soil.
Where do you get that much news paper? We don't subscribe - we don't want trees wasted to make paper or vehicles used to deliver it, when we can read the news online. I'm literally trying to remember the last time I saw a physical newspaper. I think I may have seen a stack of them at the convenience store the couple of times in the past several years when I've had to go inside to pay because the gas pump's card reader was broken. So how / where do I go to scavenge 200+ square feet of paper (multiplied by 6 layers' worth)?
I think you just saved my sanity! I just spent 7 hours gutting my garden and starting over. Thank you!
Don't throw the baby out with the bath water...you had to have salvaged something.
When i think back on what i have learned about gardening in the last two years....most of it comes from you guys. I truly appreciate it. I knew nothing and now know something.
I am hearing more and more messages that our country should learn very quickly to become less and less dependent on other countries for our food
Sadly we should have been doing this all along. We have lost so many of those skills and we are now having to relearn this stuff. But we can do it! Please stay safe and healthy 🙏
Leaving the family farms to go trade time in exchange for currency is turning out to have been a huge mistake. It has made us not only dependent on someone else to feed and clothe us, but dependent on someone else now determining what our time is worth.
The price of farm land, which was fairly affordable for most of this nation’s history, has skyrocketed just in the last 30 years.
Average Americans who less than a century ago would have been “poor farmers” are now being priced out of the ability to be self-sufficient.
We never should have become dependant on other countries for ANYTHING that is vital .
@@tannertuner That's one of the unfortunate things about public-school funding via property tax. It's not enough to be self-sufficient. You also have to come up with some cash for the right to remain on the land that is yours.
@@harrymills2770 nope. The increased land prices come from the 80s tax cuts and rock bottom interest rates. For banks to continue to meet obligations at these near zero interest rates, they have to loan more money to make the same money. Since we are out of new land to loan money on, they increase the loan value of existing land, which drives up land prices. And as land prices go up ONLY THEN do tax appraisals increase.
So as the banks run the price up, the earnings of common Americans aren’t going up with it because the millionaires and billionaires (and the wannabes who never will be but think they are entitled to be) raise hell if you talk about increasing a tax rate a measly 3%. But their incomes and wealth holdings have quadrupled the past 40 years while people who actually work struggle with 2 incomes and can’t save a nickel.
Some states don’t have property taxes and still have the same problem.
It’s banks driving up the value, not the tax.
I watch a fair amount of u-tube.
This particular video......a home run !!!!
Thank you.
I love the mention of ticks. I’m sure most people are creeped out by them as much as I am. I love that the covering helps with them as well as the weeds. Sounds like an added bonus to me.
I love how you both take turns speaking. You balance each other.
Thank you for this video, as I was about ready to quit gardening. Now I'm excited once again. Subscribed!
Lots of camera cuts and editing of course 😁 that's life
Me too, almost to hard last summer, 115's all summer.
Going to try again.
Most people from the South are taught not to interrupt each other.
@@christinedavis-lunn8153 So right. I also find that when I am interrupted I stop talking which some people notice and take advantage of.
Excellent video! Both of you made me feel like I was listening to friend. Don't stop make many !
We just moved to Jefferson City Missouri last year from New Mexico. I planted our garden expecting to have a wonderful garden as the weather has so much more rainfall . But being older and retired I couldn't pull the weeds fast enough and they took over the garden. I even though of not doing a garden this year until I started watching your videos on the garden fabric and drip system . I love watching your videos. And it has given me renewed hope and am excited for the garden prospect for the coming year. Prayers, Doug & Terrie Green PS I am going to try some of your recipes for crackers & bagels etc.
I've been using this product for the last few years and its totally a game changer! Its amazing!
Weeding sucks especially when you can't stay ahead of it and it compromises crops. You and your family are such a Grace. Sharing your hardships and successes with the world. A humble and wonderous team, editing very relatable content in a rapidly growing Market of Interest too many. We all would enjoy more of an independence and deeper gratification in working towards self sustainability. I consider you both as essential workers and thank you once again for helping us educate
Just watched this, it’s exactly what I have experienced with trying To grow naturally. I used the ground cover last year and topped with straw and was amazed how well it kept weeds out. I’ll always do it this way from no on.
This video is exactly what I needed right when I need it! My garden is being taken over by weeds and I have decided to start laying down the weed fabric. A lot of the mistakes you guys covered are a lot of the things I was planning to do, like leaving a space between the fabric sheets to grow certain veggies. Thank you so much for this information, this is a great video!!!
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Recently moved from las cruces where I built the sand up to be very productive, grapes, figs, olives, apples, pomegranates, persimmons and all veggies. I too, moved to the Ozarks first Bella Vista AR then Carthage MO. Got tired of getting lost down in AR and no internet in the mts. Glad I found you to teach me what to do here!
Wish I had your UA-cam channel in the 80's and 90's!! Very informative and ambitious gardeners.
my family used newspapers(no magazines/glossy stuff), held down with 2" x 4" 's. a great way to recycle....it does decompose slowly, block all weeds, and essentially free.
I can't afford the magazine's lol
@@joyfulpreterist7532 they said No Magazines or shiney paper. Only newspaper type paper. :)
Yes. That would be a good idea, if the print (ink) isn't toxic.
@@MissMolly3377 yes but think of the toxic food we ingest 3 x daily, read ur tooth past warning make you think.
@@MissMolly3377 - newspaper ink is soybean based these days.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge of the ups and downs. No one else does this. Lot more work pulling weeds than putting down fabric...
I just love your videos. My Girlfriend and I are progressing towards living off the land. You guys have so much insight. We work out traditional 9-5 jobs. But we really want to get to what matters most in life. And that's living life how we want at home.
Great TOP OF The LINE ADVICE by two successful gardeners , great team work .
I live in the Seattle area. I have used the woven plastic as a permanent weed block for decades. I have a small vegetable garden that in our very wet winters I keep covered with old used carpet. It also lasts a very long time. I roll it up in the spring and put it back on when the rains start. Up here we have spring weeds and then summer weeds. The carpet protects my beds from both. It also acts as a blanket for the earthworms and keeps varmints out.
Just moved into my house a year and a half ago and finally got started on some gardening! You’re so motivating and educational. Thank you!!
I've been covering my entire garden with a thick layer of straw. Might seem like there's too much on at first but after walking on it a bit, it really presses down. Creates beautiful walkways too. So I till every year, and every ten - twenty plants I take a moment and grab my straw and cover everywhere around those plants. You'll have to pull the odd weed now and then but that's it. I will never not cover my large garden with straw. It's just the absolute best. I can't be bothered with cloth and making holes etc. This is faster, effective and it breaks down over winter as mulch. Bonus! Also a tip, try and find a worm castings farm. I got 500 lbs in 50 lb bags.. either spread it over your tilled garden before planting, spread it then till.. either way it doesn't matter.. OR if you don't have that much then add a big shovel worth into the hole before you add the plant. Best fertilizer ever! Natural, can't burn your plants, can't ever use too much so there's no worrying. I use it with all my Berry bushes, every melon and vegg. Happy gardening everyone 🌿
plus that stuff is expensive i find, 3 ft x 300 almost 100 bucks, ouch
Yes , either way its expensive. I think that I'm gonna do a combination with the canvas, straw and gonna try and grow po
Grow potatoes in tires 😊💪🌿💚🤠🌅🌷🌅🌷🌅💛🌅💛👍, We shall see. Fun fun!
Find old straw in old barns
Im told if any old chemicals they dissipate? My stash is from before 2006
It would be interesting if you could post a video of your straw garden ? Nice to actually see those pathways, sounds like a good , cheap solution.
I’ve never had good luck with the woven fiber. Grass grows through it and roots penetrate it; especially crab grass and bermuda grass!
yes, I needed to keep layering it, and will try straw next.
Yes I did have trouble with Bermuda grass, it seems to love to grow over/under it. But the only thing that really controls that is repeated herbicide treatments.
Biophile, I hate having to think about using chemical concoctions to control pests, weeds, or any types of UNWANTED items, in/around anyplace I want to live, or plant things to eat, or just be around, ... there are simply TOO MANY things on earth that are trying to kill us, as it is, let alone making more stuff to do so even more so, ... so please, try to find out what are the natural enemies/deterrents of the pests, or items that plague your area, ... surely, some kind of info is out there to help assist with your project, but please, do not opt to trade one bad item for another, ...
Add 3" mulch on top of your fabric to control weeds.
Im glad that you are actually amending and tilling your soils before you cover your soils. If I could give you a trick…… use the same fabric to make wind walls around your gardens. The weed pressure will drop drastically. Weed pressure is very location specific. Wind is the worse enemy! Create windbreaks !
I found that grass clippings, spread out to dry first, makes great mulch. I get some from a neighbor who is uses a bagging mower, and my brother mows two church lawns and brings home the clippings.
I also use a lot of cardboard, the plain brown paper kind. I press the end to get a grip on the tape, and pull it off instead of cutting it. I put down layers of boxes, overlapping to avoid a gap.
We have an endless supply of boxes because the little princess has her home care supplies shipped in, she's on a ventilator and tube feeding.
I have seedlings and saplings growing in 5 gallon buckets or 5, 10 or 15 gallon fabric grow bags, and they sit on a pad of cardboard.
LOL - This is a great video IMO, so thanks for this. I used this weedcloth around the entire perimeter of my house to prevent chipmunks, mice, snakes or any other little creature from burrowing under my house and trying to reside in my crawlspace. So far, that has worked great for me as I have no problems now. Next season I plan to use your idea for the weedcloth in my small garden. Your video gave me some good ideas, so thanks again.
I get defeated by weeds every year☹ Excited to try this fabric!
I've been following you guys for a while and I "borrowed" this idea when you first posted about the fabric. Took my market farm from 1/3 of an acre up to nearly 3 acres with less work. Lots more time to care for plants. It's working well in south Louisiana. Thanks for sharing your experiences!
That stuff is fine and I am glad that you have discovered a method to help you. My wife’s family have used it for years with a fare amount of success. Depending on location is determinate on coast effectiveness. All weeds really are are unwanted plants. The fact you had weeds is a good thing. Yes it is time consuming to pull them and everyone wants easier and quicker. I myself have thought about using is but have chosen not to thus far for a few reasons. 1-it can be time consuming to lay out the amount I want and to make the holes for the plants, 2-I reuse the weeds to feed the plants, 3-I don’t see the cost effectiveness of the weed barrier vs the size of garden I currently have and plan on having, and 4-I am still experimenting on what location is best for my garden for the sun exposure amount. But if it works for you, glad you found it to use.
I can see the benefits of this for such a large scale property. I’m working on finding ways to use my weeds as beneficial parts of my garden 🪴
The perfect marriage they take turns talking and she is sooo cute
Her being sooooo cute is 50% of the reason they have a perfect marriage ???
I might be a Yankee, but I love the accent of a Southern Belle ! 😍
@@robertevans8024 absolutely
@@robertevans8024 she does not have a southern accent
Yes. He obviously values and appreciates her input.
I bought this fabric last year, yall convinced me then. I left it down over the winter. It has held up extremely well. Ordered more this morning to expand area.
Thanks! Have a good day.
I've used black plastic, in the past. It will suppress weeds, but will not add organic material to the garden. The sun will break it down, after about 5 years. Now, I use nothing but leaves and grass clippings. I like an organic cover much better than black plastic.
For years i was of similar thoughts to use organic cover. Then started trying diff cheap plastic coverings but most fell apart before season end.
Last year i decided enough.. getting older with hard disabilities & not wanting to be pulling weeds under the hot texas sun. Looked around.. this vid hooked me into wanting to try this type of weed cover. Settled on some found online.. its done me well.
The backyard here is fairly new.. several feet of blek clay with rocks. When i moved here most of the 1" of topsoil the builders had put over the clay had worn off. Over the years i have added alot of soil to have crab grass which is much better than having a good old fashioned slip and slide. Last year i redid one of the raised beds.. it goes down to 12" or so deeper than soil level.. i fully removed that clay. Its best i can do as i have tried mixing this clay with bagged soil but result is quite heavy soil. Not plant friendly.
I hope to hire someone to dig out my other beds.. they were taken over by the crab grass.. irony that lol. The shovel work is bit much for me this year. Heh or just cover them with the newly ordered covering.
Have a awesome evening Derek. Be well & stay safe.
Makk is Looking Great that the fabric has done well for you! One thing to consider is that if you leave the fabric on year after year, the weeds will eventually grow through it, or dirt and weed seeds will blow onto it and sprout on top and grow down from the top. It’s best to take the fabric up for the winter and put it down again in the spring.
@@cynthiafisher9907
Its best for you perhaps, idk. Not one piece of the fabric in my back yard is the same length. Not one area back there is square. You are suggesting that i pull up a jigsaw puzzle of many pieces of diff lengths of fabric & relay the next year.. oh my! Onward to the clay that has a grip on those staples. Its hard clay that does not give up staples easily. Twas a chore working with the hard rocky clay putting in those staples. Plus all the holes the first staples will have created.. alot of weed entrances if i did that. Would need to purchase many new staples. As is the fabric is down and firmly in place with more staples than most would use, literally. Best is to leave it as is.
If i outlive the fabric that will be awesome. If the weeds bother me too much i will weed eat or pull or spray them with the chemical of my choice. No worries.
I wish you good health & to be at peace.
@@dereka8041 good if you have a ready supply of that mulch material. However, if you don't keep adding to it then the mulch will break down after about 2 years and then the weeds return.
Some tips re: woven ground covering. We've used this in our large garden now for 6 years. We mainly use it for spaces around our low beds and any messy places weeds grow. (A) it doesn't last as long as it says. (B) Everywhere you put in a lawn staple, some weed will find a way to get thru that minuscule hole. (C) I dug out all the weeds last year, placed cardboard over everything and started over with new 4' wide woven ground cloth. The first time it was 6'. I plan to try putting a dab of Flex Seal over all the holes or breaks.
(E) Lastly, we learned that growing buckwheat near our plants allows no weeds in it and our plants near it. It's pretty enough and has something that keeps weeds away.
This is what I did in my garden but instead of making holes I made beds on top of the fabric. This way there is no need for tiling.We call the fabric geo textile. Love your channel ! Thank!
You two are so wise, you’re saving me so much time, money and mental anguish with this valuable knowledge.
It's so nice to take a break from sewing masks on this gloomy rainy day and watch a sunny gardening video. I hope you enjoy every moment in your garden.
Thank you Natalie!
Thank you for sewing masks. We were truly caught off guard with the pandemic. I had a few paper masks I gave to my son at Home Depot. He said people are flocking there and using the store as entertainment! We have people sewing masks here in gloomy Coachella Valley. Everyone is waiting for elastic. Some are using hair ties and rubber bands. We are manditoryly wearing masks. Keep seeing beautiful soul! I think our days of social acceptance of wearing masks is very far from over. 😢
Thank you for making masks!
Please check out today's (4/9/20) video on Dana Ashley channel. It's is a must watch if you want to know important information on the virus situation.
Jaded Optimist check out Dr. Shiva’s channel as well he has a natural protocol containing vitamin A, vitamin C, Vitamin D and lugals iodine iodide to boost the immune system. Staying hydrated and boosting the gut flora is always great to fill our best. Together we will get past this take care.
Good information, I'm in Missouri and grew up on a farm in the boot heel. gardening was a lot of work . It would have been nice if there was garden fabric back then. I live in the suburbs now and too old to plant in the ground. But you'd be surprised how much I can grow in containers on my deck.
That looks like what we call “weed mat” here in New Zealand. Woven & we lay it down over the tilled & composted garden area & plant into it.
No need to till. Put down soil organic matter and whatever soil amendments, cover, done. Healthy soils must never be tilled. The roots of plants, the webs of fungi, and the population of resulting life forms need to never be murdered by crushing it all up.
I thought worms were important to airate the soil.
@@christinedavis-lunn8153 they do that and way more. Their tunnels provide channels to help catch rain rather than flood away or blow away. Many more. Mineral particles going through their bodies are made more digestible to plants. Ridiculously important critters.
I have never had a food garden because of the weeds. I am now so excited to try your new method of gardening. thank you for sharing !!!!!!!!
Thank you so much for this great tip for prohibiting weeds in the garden.I have had huge trouble in my garden with weeds just by harvesting time. Happy next gardening season to you.
I've gotten my woven ground cover this year from Growers Solution! I bought some from a big box store last year. Huge mistake! We have thick grass that thrived underneath and my garden had all kinds of bulges and waves from it. That grass pushed the stakes up! So much time wasted pulling grass and weeds. At the end of the season, I ordered 2 rolls on your recommendation, as well as a drip system. Growers Solution's customer service is outstanding and helped me in every way! Wish me luck this year! Thank you for sharing your journey with us! I dont comment often, but I believe I just made up for it! Lol
Thanks purchased the ground cover a while back. My garden was plowed yesterday I was to tired to plant before it rained last night. I guess that was a good thing. So when it dries up it will be ready to put down and plant. Planning on using for cabbage, tomatoes, peppers and zucchini. Great information.
Omg omg I have been on the hunt for months to find someone who can explain how to do this fabric!! You’re life savers!!
Moved here from OR (after 5 yrs in Malaysia). Oregon; growing was easy. Long growing season, fairly moderate temperature's, easy to control weeds.
Hello MO, also in the Ozarks. Year 3, and hoping garden does better, isn't consumed by weeds. Recently put down cardboard, covered it with dirt, 😂. Will try this landscapes fabric next year.
Also looking at getting rid of grass. Looking for a low growing ground cover that can replace it. Have never lived any place where people had so much grass, lawn; spent so much time mowing, 🤔. A garden in every yard, fruit and nut trees, berries, etc. Makes a lot more sense.
Thank You for the tip on weed control. Am sure we'll be back into weeds sooner than we want to be.
Happy Homesteading!
We got chicken last year... Used to have 'em as a kid, really fun little critters to have around! We fenced our city garden in the backyard and split it down the middle. The hens have their pen on one side and we garden the other and we rotate each year. Last year was the first year rehabilitating that garden that had fallen into disuse these past years. Gardening was tough, but the chicken just nuked all the weeds off their side and this year we'll be gardening in a well tilled and thoroughly weeded plot!! Also, they take care of our food scraps and fertilize the ground for us!! Can't wait for this summer to kick off!!
We tried this last year, and like you we left a small space between the fabric. Weeds were not as bad as in previous years. I have started using this in all beds. Thanks for your help. Caren in Arkansas
Great content! I used the weed fabric and drip system from your recommendation and it is a game changer for controlling weeds. I did like you leave 1 row open about an inch to plant carrots, beets, turnips, onions and kohlrabi. I did have some troubles keeping the weeds down at first. Once the plants were established it wasn’t quite as bad but still had to weed. I suppose now you guys are using the black tubs most of the types of plans are in them and not in the main garden. Thank you for all your knowledge. Take care and stay safe!
I use that in my garen when I had a garden. I had 3 weeds thru the whole season. I also use mulch in the walkways. Now I've found that white clover in the walkway is better bcuz it adds nutrients back to your garden.
Dumb question, but you can plant and walk on the white clover?
@@firehorsewoman414 Yes you can. No question is stupid if you don't know the answer. Always ask. And if anyone tries to make you feel dumb, just ignore them bcuz they are the dumb one. We are not born with answers. We all have to learn by reading, asking questions, trial & error.
Denise Wilson thanks. Absolutely correct. Always ask. Appreciate the share
I find that what weedmat is best at is stopping new seeds entering the soil, from wind, birds and critters. Once seeds are in the soil though, they'll come up through the road/ cement... Then when you pull the weeds out, the roots snap and stay under the weedmat... "Jute matt ", which is about 1cm thick is made of plant fibre is excellent stuff, and ends up adding to the soil composition, and needs replacing about every 2 years. More expensive though... Good on you guys :)
The couples that garden together stay together ❤️❤️😂😂😂
My mom started using this in the late 80 s to control weeds.
Thank you for the education!....such an inspirational video. You are both fun to listen to..
I like to use cardboard from big-box stores.. also have 20 horses giving us many large paper feed bags.. the worms love it and it's free.. plenty worm castings is best for gardening!. At the end of the summer it's mostly decomposed.. nothing to pick up.
No synthetic or plastic, well done 👍🏻
This is what I'm using now too. Weed barriers don't work well in my zone but this woven fabric smothers the weeds while allowing me to still grow in rows. It's not cheap but it works great as an alternative mulch.
Lovely to follow your “homesteading””on UA-cam - thanks, Happy Easter 🐣 and greetings from Sweden 🇺🇸🇸🇪🇪🇺
Oh, every other year...that's good. The "wait for a rain" was a great tip. Wish I'd known about that before.
Billy Bass best thing to do is to take a torch and burn the weeds it works very good for me try doing it when weather is hot they will die
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@David Needler I don't know any of my dad's people. I only met a few of them. They were from around Hartford, AL. I'm sure some of our ancestors probably ate out of the same trough though.
Billy Bass you could always hose it down instead of waiting for rain ...some places you could be waiting a long time for rain.
If you don’t have rain, you probably don’t have usnea either. It’s hot and humid here; rains a lot. I go out after rain and find usnea all the time.
Thank you so much for this, I enjoy going out into my garden in the morning and eating peas right off the vine. I have been overwhelmed so much with weeds that I just gave up. Going to try again this year with the ground cover, your ideas have helped me skip a few bad ideas I had. I never saw anyone use a torch to cut the ground cover.
I'm glad to know that you are from Phoenix because I'm living in the valley now. I'm new to gardening/lawn care. My lawn is RIDDEN with weeds, and I really want to start a garden. Thanks for being here.
You guys are great! My wife and I live a little south from you in Elizabeth Arkansas and your videos are a fantastic reference for us to use before we plant our stuff. Keep up the good work!!!
I wish I’d known about this a couple of weeks ago as I just planted my garden yesterday. I’m 70 yrs old and this is my first garden ever. I do worry about the weeding process
Kathy Bunch I’ve been trying the no dig method with corrugated paper/cardboard packaging.
I tried a small plot of 10ft x 10ft last year.
I simply cut back the overgrown vegetation as low as possible, saturated the ground, laid out the cardboard, saturated that, then laid soil and compost over.
It didn’t kill off all the weeds, but was easily manageable.
Just a month ago, I raked back the old soil and compost, laid down more corrugated paper, rolled back the old soil/compost, then replenished with fresh compost.
Unfortunately I can’t tell you how the weeds are as yet, the growing season has only just started here in the UK.
By the way, worms eat the corrugated cardboard, and it degrades into the soil, so there is no need to take it up for the following season.
If you have trouble kneeling down, weeding can be made easier by using a long-handled "dutch" or "loop" hoe. You draw it over a weed and it cuts the roots. You'll probably still have to get down to deal with weeds that grow among close-growing crops (like peas and carrots), but using a hoe for everything else makes this easier to put up with.
I got around this by having some two foot high garden boxes which were filled with an organic compost and soil mixture. There is a ground cover on the bottom of the boxes and so far the only weeds I have had to deal with are wind blown or bird carried, very few.
Put grass clippings down your rows.
I always use liner I thought everyone did :\ I have only mini alpines in my four lined corners the rest it's white chips and rocks and not a lot get through!
(I am in rainy very weed loving Scotland)
I love watching and learning new things ! Thanks a bunch !
We are looking at a homestead in your area. We have been binge watching your you tube videos. We can't thank you enough.
This was very helpful thank you! I hate picking weeds! You both did a great job of experimenting with this!
Oooh, Phoenix. I was there for 18 yrs. I had an amazing garden there. Recently moved to Virginia. Now buying 3 acres. New to your channel. Will follow
The first time you did a video in the woven ground cover, was sceptical but desperate. I bought a roll anyway since nothing else worked and by the beginning of August our weeds were taller than me, and so thick there were critters in there. I couldn't harvest anything.
This woven ground cover, WGC) works so well! There is nothing I can say to describe how easy it is use. The lines painted on it make the garden look so nice and .. professional. It completely changed how we garden. We were able to grow things I've never grown before!! Out temp ais hot, hotter and snow, lol! Not much rainfall, so the weeds are very hardy and overwhelming.
Thank you so much for that first video on the woven ground cover! I, too was ready to give up untill we tried it.
I am so excited, my husband agreed to let me order the woven ground cover. We are both in our 60’s and don’t really want to be bending over and pulling weeds anymore...lol
Lea Ann Carter this stuff will change your life. It's a game changer. ❤️ All the joy of gardening with little to no weeding. You can walk on it barefoot and it won't burn your feet. I love it!
Lea Ann Carter Is suggest growing in straw bales then with drip hoses. Make rows far enough to mow between. When I got sick from mold, it was the easiest way when I couldn’t lift or bend over.
I'm in my 70s and use weed material -- the weeds grow right through it! I'm in Florida, the land of the insane weeds!
You guys are of phenomenal help! I’m a newbie veggie/fruit gardener (bc of COVID) and I’m certain that by following your “tried ‘n true” suggestions, I won’t be disappointed and discouraged! You just may become my gardening go to “BIBLE!” I love that you are so straightforward and to-the-point with info you provide! Thank you so much! I’ll definitely share my gardening experiences with you! ❤️🌱🌾🥦🥬🥝🍅🌽
Thanks from Ireland West Coast, great advice, will be getting that thingie woven cover and ditching the plastic. Thanks you are both brilliant.
I love it..I bought on your recommendation..I will never look back
Thank you so much for this! I was about to give up on having a garden at all this year because of all the weeds I’m excited to try this this year 😊
A classic Permaculture strategy is to cover the garden with cardboard sheeting. Maybe wood chips, straw, mulch over the top. The cardboard eventually breaks down as a soil amendment and worms will consume it.
They said they tried that already and it didn’t work well for their climate
Just watching this today. Read your tee shirt had to laugh out loud. George off Seinfeld came to my mind. Loved that show.
You blessed my morning. Love hearing how you are doing.
We just got half of our garden covered with the ground cover. This evening one of our infamous Kansas storms blew in all of sudden and now all of our ground cover is off. Looks like tomorrow we start over.
Thank you so much!
I feel like you saved me from 2 or 3 years of bad gardening...
Bless you guys 🙏
welcome to missouri, weeds grow quick! i did the back to eden method. i hated it. its not for this zone. this is my first year for my first raised bed. i can not till my garden one more time! i dump so much fertilizer/manure/compost to make my clay soil healthy. loving the raised bed!
Full of great information. I like that you showed the do's and don't that will help people out a lot. You both always have great information and it's a joy to watch, can't wait.
That would probly also work in flower gardens..
"She walks barefoot in the garden" she left out the fact that she walks across hot coals during her morning routine😂😂😂..
Stumbled across your channel.. can't wait to watch more of your videos. Thank you.
Thanks for the garden lesson.
I have started using the woven plastic this year.
It really helps!
I really like your T-Shirt the rosy red color is so pretty
I want one
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We used grass clippings 2 years ago and it was amazing! We tried straw last year and it was huge flop. Think we will do grass again this year.
I actually found you guys in my research on being more self sustainable. I'm turning my slice of suburbia into a micro homestead including dual purpose chickens, a few cornish cross and muscovy ducks for meat and eggs. And a garden.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! My husband, and I have been working towards becoming debt free, with the hope of having a small homestead. We are getting older, and were concerned that a big garden would be too much work. This video gives us so much hope!
I did have a question. I have seen other gardeners flame weed their fence lines, and also their garden, before putting down the weed fabric. Have you tried it? If so, what was your experience?
Thank you again! I appreciate your teaching hearts!
Flaming will burn off zinc galvanizing from a wire fence, resulting in fast rusting. Run a string trimmer to cut weeds off as close to ground level as poss, then throw down the barrier fabric
Again, great content! Living in the Ozarks does bring extra challenges like the weeds you mentioned. Another issue that I experienced with my raised garden was the bugs here...they are voracious and will decimate your entire garden in 10-14 days...ask me how I know! I am going to try this method as I think it will keep more of them out. Glad you addressed the line seeding as we love our greens...I was thinking of leaving the strip but glad you covered that or I would have been in the same boat. Thank You! I just found ya'll and subbed, keep up the great work!
You spilt the beans on them secrets. Last year I saw this video, but I wasn't using ground fabric, this year I'm using the fabric! only thing is I'm having a hard time holding it down. I guess I'll have to water it down sense it aint gonna rain down here in south Texas. This is 2021 and I'm looking back to what advise ya'll had on the ground fabric, fertilizing and planting and watering with ground fabric. Thank y'all for sharing This is a big help! God Bless!
We have super weeds in NY also. I am putting down the weed fabric over everything this year with overlaps in the seams. Good luck!
I hope Dutch doesn't end his video's, he kicks off from the get go.