Aged horse manure, worked until fluffy and light is what I use. A 12”x20 foot carrot bed produces a heaping wheelbarrow of carrots (my last two harvests). Helpful hint: if you have neighborhood cats, lay a sheet of small-spaced chicken wire or mesh atop the bed after seeding it to keep cats from using it as a “litter box”🤢. Carefully remove the mesh once the carrots’ leaves are large enough to deter digging.
that seed board thing is amazing and got me thinking - make a few of those on a continuous plank, but instead of holes just use bolts or screws. walk on it to drill seed holes in the ground.
Pre seasoned bio char works really good my best results have been with pro mix,myco,castings,coco and Gaia greens 444 along with dumping in a bunch of red wigglers from my bin
For anybody that sees this comment, do NOT put landscape fabric or weed fabric underneath your raised garden bed before filling the bed. Worms can’t get through it and the fabric prevents organic matter from getting into the soil, which makes it unlivable for those worms and beneficial microorganisms.
The more years the better! Just keep adding 1" of compost to it and when you plant add worm castings and organic fertilizer like our 444 Superfood and it will be great!
The leafs and one little potato some selderij,pepper,salt water. Than cooking and mix the soup with a mixer,ready is the soup. Full of fibers verry tasty.
We rototilled 6" of compost into the native soil to make it a nice and homogenous blend. We also sprinkled elemental sulphur. Moving forward we'll just add 1" of compost!
Certain beds are enough for certain crops. All depends on what you want, how much you want, and the size of crops you want. It doesn't look that shallow tbh
Carrots don't have a huge root system, kinda carrot sized. Obviously these beds worked just fine for this particular carrot. If you had a longer variety of carrot, sure you might want deeper beds.
@@roses_diary well no, we only know the average weight of the carrots, not how much Weight in carrots each bed produced, he also didn't say what the optimal soil composition is for carrots
Sulphur is used to reduce pH rather than raise it. Optimal pH for carrots is between 6-7
I misspoke!! Thx for spotting that
@@MindandSoil Wait, was the second bed with 75 25 was a bust??? How come it was worse than all dirt????
There was still soil on the carrot-
@Rodney1015 wait really?
I rarely wash my vegetables - a little extra immune system booster! :D
Non farmers be like
its just dirt.
@@MindandSoile colin
Aged horse manure, worked until fluffy and light is what I use. A 12”x20 foot carrot bed produces a heaping wheelbarrow of carrots (my last two harvests). Helpful hint: if you have neighborhood cats, lay a sheet of small-spaced chicken wire or mesh atop the bed after seeding it to keep cats from using it as a “litter box”🤢. Carefully remove the mesh once the carrots’ leaves are large enough to deter digging.
that seed board thing is amazing and got me thinking - make a few of those on a continuous plank, but instead of holes just use bolts or screws. walk on it to drill seed holes in the ground.
This carrot is the best, it grows in every kind of soil, bigger or smaller but grows always 😂
Good to know! Thanks for watching :)
I love those raised beds
Pre seasoned bio char works really good my best results have been with pro mix,myco,castings,coco and Gaia greens 444 along with dumping in a bunch of red wigglers from my bin
For anybody that sees this comment, do NOT put landscape fabric or weed fabric underneath your raised garden bed before filling the bed. Worms can’t get through it and the fabric prevents organic matter from getting into the soil, which makes it unlivable for those worms and beneficial microorganisms.
Adding sulfur LOWERS the pH.
How many times can we use pure compost bed
The more years the better! Just keep adding 1" of compost to it and when you plant add worm castings and organic fertilizer like our 444 Superfood and it will be great!
As many times as you want to! Just ad some firtilizer (not too much, just a bit) before each planting and you're golden!!!
I want Ashley on MY team
Do you mate soup form the leafs?
I haven't tried that before!
I use them when i make veggie stock
The leafs and one little potato some selderij,pepper,salt water. Than cooking and mix the soup with a mixer,ready is the soup. Full of fibers verry tasty.
And the taste? Weight doesn't mean much if the taste and texture are lacking
Price of each please
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I need more details on the third one
We rototilled 6" of compost into the native soil to make it a nice and homogenous blend. We also sprinkled elemental sulphur. Moving forward we'll just add 1" of compost!
These beds are kinda shallow
Certain beds are enough for certain crops. All depends on what you want, how much you want, and the size of crops you want. It doesn't look that shallow tbh
They're about 10"!
Carrots don't have a huge root system, kinda carrot sized. Obviously these beds worked just fine for this particular carrot. If you had a longer variety of carrot, sure you might want deeper beds.
Grams per carrot is a stupid metric!
How about grams of carrot per cubic foot of planted space?
His video teaches absolutely nothing.
it taught that science prevails, even in nature.
@@roses_diary well no, we only know the average weight of the carrots, not how much Weight in carrots each bed produced, he also didn't say what the optimal soil composition is for carrots
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Nature has some pretty good systems
Come on man 😮you think we old ladies can garden like you ? Gee so much work just sell the dam dirt 🤷🏼♀️