Our SECRETS to Container Gardening!
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Danny is planting pepper plants in containers. Everyone can grow in a container. Danny shows his secret tips for his container gardening.
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I enjoy your videos and wouldn't worry about the few naysayers that get upset for you calling it dirt. I personally like you and Mrs. Wanda calling it dirt, that means you're true to yourselves. DIRT, DIRT, DIRT, DIRT, I ❤❤❤ it.
Great video. It's dirt. When you're in the garden you get dirty not soily. Lol.
I live solely on city water. I use API dechlorinater to remove the chlorine and heavy metals. This water then goes into my fish tanks. When I change the tanks with new water the old fish fertilized water goes on my plants.
Morning Y’all , learned a couple of things, .. I put holes in bottom.. no no , .. rocks in bottom.. no no .. had used our city water... no no no !! ..thanks y’all, I’am excited bout this season, I’ll make a deal with ya, y’all keep teaching and I’ll keep learning ! Thanks Danny & Miss Wanda!
Some things are different if you live in a different climate. The deep south is a much dryer hotter climate than the north. I put holes in my containers. I live in Ohio so we don't have a dry climate. Remember gardening isn't a across the board type thing! Lots of different variables. .
@@Jomama02 we may be hotter but definitely not dryer with our humidity everything stays soaking wet every morning.
@@DeepSouthHomestead yes but you have the high heat and more intense sunshine to burn off the humidity. We get the humidity also, the difference being we don't have the sustained high heat and sunshine that you do so our container plants don't dry like yours does.
I have to put holes in my pots in Michigan, so do my neighbors, family and friends. Our plant roots would rot in a week or two if we don't. I've lost plants to root rot and it's aggravating and can be expensive.
@@paisley1134 cause you watered too much. Let the soil suck up that water on the bottom otherwise it goes sour. If your soil is dead or old it will not soak up. Earthworms help alot.
I grow everything in containers like these. I don't like using heavy soil, or even heavy compost, so I mix a LOT of peat moss in with it. It helps to make it much fluffier than that from the very start. I used to add manure for that purpose, but can't anymore, unless you have your own that you know isn't contaminated. You could also use bags of hardwood mulch, pine bark mulch, or cypress mulch if you can find it small enough. It is usually a little too large at first but will compost down in the tubs over a little time. You can use sawdust, too. You might need to add some nitrogen if you use sawdust immediately. Or wait a few months, or a season or two. Believe it or not, Mittleider gardening method uses straight sawdust, so can't see that mixing in a bit for fluffiness can hurt if you balance it in the beginning. Grass clippings have high nitrogen, so do coffee grounds. You just have to balance sawdust with nitrogen until it composts down in the tubs over a few months. Commercial bags of peat moss are not as environmentally bad as a lot of people say. Some of it is farmed, or created, not from ancient deposits, so check it out.
Sorry this is so long, and I'm glad Dannie does well with this, but I'm 68 and like to work in easier "dirt." LOL. So I fluff it up. Some of you may like this better if you do that. My recipe, and many others online: 1/3 peat moss, 1/3 topsoil, 1/3 cow manure compost, maybe a little more peat if needed to make it fluffy. He mentions Hugelkultur in this video. Some people add some wood and large wood mulch pieces in the bottom before adding soil. I have started doing this after years of just using soil. Trying that to see if the wood will hold some water like a sponge.
"Peppers Love to Hold Hands" I love it
We use dirt in our yard, I say "fixin to", we eat supper, say ya'll. I'm from the South and proud of it!
I'm from Nova Scotia and I use dirt,say" fixing to" and eat supper. ❤
Me too😀😎
But I'm from Arkansas🤭
I love a southern accent .....most of my most watched content creators have an accent , there has to be some type of crazy science behind it.
Reminds me of my childhood.
Born and raised in Northern New York
Went to North Carolina during the summers
Id always come back with a twang 🥰
Virginia folk use dirt..Mon thru Fri dinner with Sunday supper
I love sewing, so I make my own grow bags from my fabric stash. They all turn out so beautiful, mostly 100 per cent cotton which has millions of tiny holes for drainage. God is good!
@Sally Merrell - do you use just regular cotton fabric from bolts at a fabric store? I have a bunch that I've used for various sewing projects (clothes & quilting, etc.). Could grow bags be made from that? Thanks for any info!
@@oldbroad7672 Hi, yes, cotton fabric from the fabric store is excellent, that's what I've got in my stash and that's what I use for my grow bags. I also put handles on the bags just in case a cold snap comes through, I can move them indoors.
@@sallymerrell2558 Thanks! It's cold & wet here today, so I'll be getting out the fabric to play with LOL
@@oldbroad7672 Cold and wet here too in Virginia. I thought the weather would be warming up and stayed warmed up but I guess not. Will start my seeds indoors in the next week to 10 days. I made several dozen bags so far and need 75 so I'll be sewing for the next week. Blessings!
Hi from South West TN. Thanks for the tip. I will have to give it a try!
God gave us Mother Nature. We need to work with it, not against it. Thanks for reminder that peppers benefit from some evening shade. 💕from Ky.
You mentioned water. I only have tap water available but I fill buckets and let it sit in the sun for a few days to a week then use that to water my plants. Seems to make a difference
In the south we call it dirt. If it comes in a bag then it is soil. I’ve never heard of worm soil, but worm dirt is a thing and it’s amazing! Your pots, Mr Danny, sure have some nice dirt as evidenced by those worms. I add soil to my dirt too because of the compacting that occurs.
I didn’t think to raise the holes on pots though. That’s useful information for those of us in the south. Thanks so much!
Worm dirt is called worm CASTINGS. Basically worm poop and it's very rich in nutrients and does wonders for a garden!
@@Jomama02 The worms live in dirt and poop castings. I will not comply to political correctness because some choose to redefine words.
@@pinetreehill586 Isn't that what you did on your post? Redefine words? Lol.
@@Jomama02 No. I did not. My comment is my point of view. I don’t care if you do not agree. I never asked anyone to agree with me. I’m not one of those who seeks to disagree by gaslighting on comments. Seriously. If you have something to say then post your own comment and leave people with different opinions alone.
TRUE. ALWAYS remove the wood from your compost. Wood and wood chips will lock up the Nitrogen in the soil. Just say'n. lol
I make my own fish emulsion in a five gallon bucket with a lid. About half full of water, 7 or 8 lbs of fish, and some molasses or brown sugar. Let it sit, stirring every couple weeks or month. Works great.
Haha, just as I was thinking "Danny leave some of that wood at the bottom, it's good for the plants." You mention hugelkultur. Great minds think alike
I use coffee filters in my pots to minimize the amount of soil running out of the pot. ♥️
Danny, you have a wealth of info regarding growing food, Love your videos ! I'am a city guy, but I respect you for recycling all the pots and stuff.
I do the same, I think its smart not cheap ! I watch as much of your videos as I can, along with others that grow, because I like seeing how people grow food.
Even though I cannot do much, I'm trying to grow a little the past couple of years. Take care
Mr Danny I want to thank you for all you and Mrs Wanda does on this channel, especially bible study, I wanted to tell everyone something, I was taking a nap earlier today and before I got up the THE LORD SAID TELL THE WORLD THIS IS IT, GET READY GUYS, he's coming, thank the good gracious father in heaven, this was a warning, time is up
Plants that love to hold hands. That is one saying and practice that I use that I can remember my grandma saying. When I explained it to my granddaughter last year she thought it was so sweet and checked on them everyday to see if they were still holding hands 😊. God bless.
just a tip for 5 gallon buckets. I work at a Mexican restaurant. we build up way more buckets than we can use from sour cream that comes in. I take the extra and use them in my garden as well. It dont hurt to stop by one and ask for the manager. most times they will be happy to give them to you just to get them out of the way.✌❤
Beginners to gardening like myself benefit greatly from these videos. Thank you so much!
That's how I got my dad's yard corrected. Chop n drop.
Lovely stuff to put one's hands in!
Have you considered painting the black planters a lighter color, to keep them from getting too hot from sun? I buried mine with mulch half-way up. Just set them on top of the ground and mounded up the mulch. The added bonus - earthworms thrived in this! I had probably 30 earthworms under every big black planter the same size of what you have.
With almost two hundred comments I doubt you’ll see this but that’s okay.. your video came up as a suggestion and I’m sure glad it was! I’m in Ontario Canada and love the way your approach is and way of sharing what y’all do to do the best you can! Definitely subscribed and I’m sure looking forward to seeing your other videos! All the best.. Cindy aka.Red.🌻🇨🇦
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Terrific video. Thank you Danny and Wanda. I'm using filters on the ends of my hoses to remove the chlorine, fluoride and other crap in the municipal water (terrible stuff, I don't drink it anymore); I can smell it twenty feet away. I never throw away organic matter. I have a stack of shipping cardboard in my garage that is over six feet tall; I'll use every bit of it, after removing tape and staples, of course. It's work, but it's worth it.
Filters are great, but won't remove flouride unless you have an expensive reverse osmosis system. If it claims it roves flouride, they are lying.
Unless you're worried about someone cutting themselves on the staples, I'd leave them in. I figure they would slowly leach into the soil and provide some trace minerals. Of course, as Danny says, "moderation in all things".
What kind of filters please
When I went to FSU they had several LARGE (8ft+) pepper shrubs surrounding a rock garden. They must have survived many winters. Every year they were LOADED with peppers.
My horticulture teacher in high school said that soil is what you put plants in and dirt is what you sweep off the floor!
Great video Deep South. Thanks for sharing.
Nice! Love my worms. Very important little critters
Bassed on Scott and Helen Nearings recommendation I put double handfull of granite dust for minerals for plants to leach into soil. Also added a double handfull of lime to each bucket. Some gypsum for calcium helps plant absorb nutrients.
That’s some beautiful, nutritious Mississippi dirt! Should be able to grow anything in that dirt! ❤️🙏
Danny, I melted a hole in the bottom of my Solo cup with a soldering gun!
That works also.
Trash pile. 🤣🤣🤣 That’s black gold.
I plant in tubs like doing it that way very few weeds and easy to get out. Don't have to bend over and crawl around.
I was lucky enough to have rancher friends that gave me bunches of those tubs and most of my garden is done in them. Love your videos.
I'm 70 years old and have lived my entire life in Alabama and I was raised calling it dirt.
Good morning Danny!
It ain't "dirt" till it comes in the house!🤣
♥️♥️♥️ Beautiful dirt ♥️♥️♥️
That is amazing and so confirming of God and telling of who is he is and the word I'd the truth. He made us out of the dirt and you will compose and go back the same as the limbs go back to compile to the dirt. Macooma Mata.. The circle of life...
The worst garden I ever had was when I lived in town and watered my garden with city water. I learned my lesson!
From best to worst: Rain water, pond water, well water, city water.
How have you been.havent heard from you lately,
Did really see a difference in the water? Our city water smells like chlorine.
Your land is so beautiful. Looking at your dirt, I'm thinking we can harvest what you are using from our woods. A tornado came through years ago and nobody cleaned up from it. There are heaps of rotted trees and limbs, leaves that are not necessary for feeding existing trees. Hook the garden cart up to the ATV and go!
That’s how I made my raised bed I filled it wood from the trees then added my soil
I have a whole house water filter system but have rain catching barrels about 10 on my property. I use that up first before using water from our house
That sun scald can get bad. This is the reason I have 3 different garden spots. They all get the morning sun shaded in the heat of the day and only one gets the full evening sun and that bed has my heat lovers like okra. It’s well worth the time of moving around all day. My watermelons and cantaloupe are planted close to my well house for a bit of shade around 3:00. Then get a filtered sun from a small tree around 5:30 till sunset. Plus a volunteer pumpkin patch where the cows and goats got snacks last fall from all the pumpkins friends dropped off from porch decorations. So two pumpkins this year. 😊
I'm very impressed with your knowledge and willingness to teach so thank you
Ha this is cool and you dont have to pay for the dirt! And they tell people not to get dirt from the ground! The dirt industry is making a lot of money off people especially people with patios! Im in a apt so im not allowed to go dig the ground up!
People thought I was NUTS for lining plastic in containers, and even in flower beds. I put up 4 large raised flower beds (one on top of cement) with plastic liners, added about 2 inches of rabbit and llama poo, then black soil on top. When the newly planted plants start growing and hit that (now composted) manure, they grow super fast! And my favorite method of "extending" soil is using peat moss with topsoil, and then topping off with manure and a slow-release fertilizer. The nutrients run down from the top as well. Earthworms are numerous! I did nothing but containers on top of landscaping fabric, only mulch, and earthworms were reproducing faster than any other method I ever used.
You need to get a sump pump to take up your pond water. I do water changes in my aboveground 50 gallon fish ponds and use that in my pots. Works grate! I have a minuscule garden but do what I can with what I have.
You must have tons of life in your soil for that wood to break down so quickly. Another great lesson!
Hello guys, hope you are having a great evening!!
I just realized whereabouts you're located. I have family who lived in Wiggins, MS for many, many years. You just call it what you do... God have you good dirt! So use it. 😉
Great channel, great content. Thx. I can't say I know more than you on soil mixing, but one thing I do to mix my soil is a home made electric concrete mixer on trailer.( It can handle 3 80lb bags of concrete.) I use 1 shovel full of soil 1 shovel full of potting soil turn it on it does a fine job in 30 seconds or less. Saves time when your mixing large quantity for big pots. I can easily dump in wheelbarrow or directly in the pots. I'll make a video and send it to you. We aren't getting any younger. So I like to make things as easy as I can. Once again love the channel, keep up the good work. Thx for all your knowledge on farming. God bless.
Hot dang….you’re the best. 😃
Loved this video Danny. Held on to every word as I try to learn wisdom of this stuff. Took the city leaf compost and screened it from all the junk. We found fishing bobbers, swimming shoes and everything so i am guessing the lake dredged seaweed and mixed it with the compost. We added lime and perlite. All containers planted today. We will see what this compost does for us as it is our first year.
Next is learning about nutrients and diseases.
Did the same many years ago had an amazing 25x50 garden
I always save & wash our egg shells collect enough than I grind them in a food processor about a quart or so and mix it with dolomite lime then mix it in my soil it's great for the plants and keeps slugs and incects away from the plants
Thank you for another great video with so much helpful information! God bless you and Wanda!
When I go to my grandparents house they have a BIG burn pile and the composted ash and wood is excellent for my garden farm
I loved that you stated you give your "Honest Opinion" its up to the individual to follow the advice or do more research. I live in the city so I don't have a choice with my balcony garden. TY
Gypsum, calcium sulfate, is a good source of calcium and sulfur when mixed in. It has a nice medium speed release, a bit faster than lime and much slower than calcium nitrate.
I still use some dolomite lime for pH and very slow release calcium and magnesium. "Agricultural lime" is coarser and slower than lawn and garden lime. Garden lime is a flour that has to be mixed into pellets to broadcast, ag lime is more like fine sand so it can be spread without pelleting.
Thank you. You make the important videos so I don't have to 😊. In a world of misinformation it's so refreshing to hear information I recall from my college days and my major. It's soil science, plant science, for a reason. Understanding why things work the way they do is achievable through doing, at one level, but there is no sense in wasting time failing when you can learn and know what variables you can work to control for SUCCEEDING with high yield. You have amazing components to your homestead and I am on my own journey now and I am listening and paying attention. Thank you again Mr Danny and Ms Wanda I appreciate every bit of the hard work you are doing!
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We are experimenting on some of our beds this year. There is a product called Bio-Si it's just microbes it helps bring over processed dirt back to life. They use it on many golf courses. Anyway, we are going to use that in our beds and then feed those microbes with Alfalfa. Of course we still have to feed the plant... but I'm anxious to see how this works. I love experimenting.
I love that phrase you said about the green peppers like to hold hands lol. That's a good one..
Your dirt looks absolutely gorgeous Danny and Wanda
Nice it's going to rain real soon.. plants love a good rain well especially in the old days when it was much cleaner..
Now for some relaxing time by the pond.. maybe you'll even catch a few fishies
Love you Danny and Wanda you have such a wonderful place..
Great you're showing an helping people learn how to grow good stuff
Many Blessings 💖💖💖
You just keep on calling it dirt. Don't give in to the political correct bunch. That's the problem with society now. I love watching you and Wanda and learning more things. GOD Bless y'all.
I had to mix up a ton of potting soil this year and I used the bed of the pickup truck to mix it. Then ,I ran it through a rabbit wire screen box I made to sift dirt that I used years ago to find my oldest sons’ wife wedding ring. My truck has a bed liner so it doesn’t mess it up. I bought a dump truck load of topsoil and mix it with a cheap bagged potting soil which is basically 50% plus wood chips for organic matter. For my house plants, I use promix, no wood chips in it!
I have 12 of those black pots and waiting a few more days (Ohio frost) to plant peppers and tomatoes. Fish emulsion will be used. Cant wait to get plants outside
Thank you a lot for sharing tout expériences about gardening in pots !! From south France !! Bénédictions+++.
Great tip on full sun.
I do the same with the limbs from my trees. Throw them into a big pile, along with grass cuttings, use the soil for planting the next year.
I have all my tomatoes in grow bags. It allows me to control all the diseases longer before the inevitable happens late in the season.
Thanks for sharing your container gardening, Danny and Wanda. I appreciate this. I have a pile I get my dirt from and finally after being here a few years I can get the dirt from it for my pots. I definitely need to get me some fish emulsion soon.
I use the water from the two ponds I made and also catch rain water for the plants. If worse comes to worse I can use my water run through the Berkey. I have my pots so they get sun in the morning and then they get shade. They always do much better with the hot sun we're having here.
Thank you both again for sharing. I always learn so much.
Rich blessings to you!
Sir, watched you the other night and in that epsode you were having deer probs in garden... We here in ours do what the old farmer told us, that being, use a half bar of Irish Spring cake soap. Put soap in an old sock and hang it on wire or post about waist high about every 70 or so ft apart and deer will stay out as they smell "man". We put it on our fruit trees also and so far is working. Keep up the good work and share with us as you can. GOB bless you and yours.
Your heaven sent. Thanks Dan.
Enjoyed, learn a few things that I forgot that I will use.
Thanks for sharing all your knowledge!!! Blessings!!!
Informative video. I raise rabbits and the manure makes a great cold fertilizer which I just top the beds yearly and let God do the rest.
Lol I had a professor at Northwestern In Natchitoches Louisiana that would not be happy when the students said dirt - but he was a Soil Scientist. - he was a great teacher though.
Yeah, I grew up dirt too. Great video as always. Thank you Mr. Danny.👍
Your dirt looks so good. I am planting in containers this year, so what you are doing is great info to me. Thank you
From a composting perspective, we are dirt rich and material poor but we wouldn't have it any other way. 🥰
Love that solo cup tip. I’ve become very frugal the last few years and even built a 33’ x 16’ fenced in garden this year with all recycled materials. Even composted everything I could have so many worms. Some I rehomed to the garden when I took down the pool (that I never got in because it was growing algae while I spent all my time on the garden). Even though I had to build the garden to help get food on the table this year, it has taught me so much! God has given us all we need.
Tried potatoes in containers last year, but my leaf bins made using chicken wire did better for potatoes than the containers. I'm gling to expandthe number of my leaf bins. I do mix a little soil into the bottom of the leaf bins, not much but it works great. That soil you made looks fantastic. I have a pile I've been working on to but takes longer to break down here in northern Ohio. Thanks for sharing guys!
I like doing leaf bins. This year I am stacking sticks from the trees around where my last compost pile was. I played the potatoes right on the ground then leaves. As the plants grow, I am building it the same adding sticks and leaves. They are doing great! Happy gardening in 2021 Rhonda
I just love y'all. I love the way you talk because I understand everything you say. A lot of folks don't understand the way southern people speak. I love the way you do real things and it's a real farm and you do real work, Not just talking about work to make a video. MY garden is made of dirt. I'm from Kentucky and we call it dirt. Dirt dirt dirt dirt dirt.
Jude, from Kentucky ✝️🥀🐴🇺🇲💚
I use those pots for most of my planting. One thing I wish I had done was raise them up like y'all did. Maybe next year I will get a handle on it. This year I didn't get to it with all the freeze clean up that needed done.
God bless y'all
I figured I was about as good as it gets growin stuff but I gotta admit you got some pretty slick idears...preciate ya
Not trying to take over your channel here (LOL) but you're covering all the subjects that I like in this video! :) Right now I'm experimenting with plastic 50-pound feed sacks, it's all that I have to work with. I turned the top half outward so it showed white (not the label). Then two days later, I decided to redo them. I pulled them back up and cut off the top half, then triple folded and stapled the ends. Then triple fold a small "lip" on the top so there is a slight handle/edge to pick them up and move with. Although the original bottom half of the feed sacks are sewn, and the stitching may rot, I don't plan on picking them up to move very often, if at all. This also allows drainage, if the right soil / dirt mix is in there, or holes can be cut / punched a few inches up for added drainage. I find this is excellent for potatoes, ginger, and shallots. Will also do garlic this way for the first time this year. This year I'm trying to grow acorn squash in the feed sack method. So far, so good, maybe try watermelons and some other things. I have NO NUTRIENTS in the ground here; so it's "spot" planting - with a lot of prayers that God will bless the efforts to be productive.
That's so funny, Danny, when you showed how you take little cuts out of the bottom of your yellow Solo cups. You'll laugh when I tell you what I do. I heated up my soldering gun and melted a hole in the bottom!!! But it worked, it's working great! Lol
Oh man! I bought 16 17-gallon containers and drilled holes in the bottom. Everything is planted and growing. Oh well, next year I will put in plastic liner and drill 3 inches up the side. Great video, Thank you.
I had no idea about soil vs dirt!! Geeze people sure are sensitive. It's dirt!!
My grandmother use to call that woods dirt it will grow anything. We compost in bins and we do the brush pile method like you and also burn piles.
Great informative content , Thank you Danny & Wanda
I have started saving rain water , I'm still getting California green peppers & Serrano hot peppers I'm growing for my oldest Son , I'm gonna keep these pepper plants over winter & placed an order with Hoss already as the other day he had a lady on talking about seed shortage ,because so many people started gardening last year due to the .........God Bless you ,I always learn something new in each very informative video You both put out .
God bless you 🙏🏻
Josette
I just filled containers the same way. Alot of people told me I would get root rot. I have a couple containers set up like that, along with some earthboxes. That method works great.
I love learning new things and being inspired.
This year I am doing more veggies. We don’t have the resources to purchase tons of potting and top soil. So, we mulched our leaves we used as the bottom layer, then the dirt from yard work, then compost and top with the potting soil. God is an AWESOME God, because things are growing. The worms are in abundance, it is so cool!
For our 1/4 acre lot, we still have beautiful flower and herbal gardens, and now with a repurposed gazebo turned green house and as many containers I can find, it is looking like we will have fresh goodness!
Despite life health challenges, as a result of not finding quality produce at the stores, I get up every day and get working.
LOL the fishing break comment LOL that is what my husband and I have been saying. Time to go fishing.
Blessings to you both.
I used a kiddie pool to plant my potatoes in. I just drilled holes in it for good drainage.
Love these videos! I'm so ready to get my garden going. Still have about 2-3 weeks to go here in Southern Indiana.
Mr Danny I put old sticks and branches in the bottom of my container sorta like hugelkutur in containers.
I never knew that about smilax, the asparagus part.
All I do is container gardening. Just cant have enough compost. I use mushroom compost. Unfortunately I have to buy it. $2.00 a 1 cubic foot bag. Which doesn't go very far. I also use all fabric bags for growing.