I Grew Edibles 4 Different Ways and Found the Cheapest Method
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- I grew edibles 4 different ways and found the cheapest method so you can save money and have success.
The cheapest method is in the ground if you already have quite good soil. Most soils these days will need a good dressing of compost, aged animal manures, blood and bone with potash.
My favourite method is no dig or bale gardening. It takes longer to get started but is much easier to manage down the line. Also in my opinion Iit grows healthier, tasty crops.
Raised beds are great and I love mine but they are expensive to fill so it's something I recommend down the line if you're trying to save dollars.
Growing in recycled containers in a premium potting mix or compost is the best and cheapest way to get started and is how I got started straight away when I moved here.
If you truly want to get started watch my Cost of Living Victory Garden series. It has everything you need and more to get started no what part of the world you live in.
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Good morning Marty and fam, i like having my gardens in/on the ground. I have small raised beds on the ground i feel it is better for me to have the plants connected to the earth. I personally don't have very much success when growing in pots or containers, as you mentioned they need more watering consistently and feeding regularly.
But the most important part of any gardening for great success and results is water, the soil must stay moist as once it dries out too much it is really quite hard to re-wet the soil adequately. I haven't started my bale garden as i can only get very expensive bales. But once my own grass grows more i go around and rake up my own grass for use in my gardens. This way i know for sure that my mulch is definitely organic with zero contamination of anything.
Happy gardening everyone around the world, Green love from Queensland Australia 💚🌲🌏🙏🌊✌️
Cheers for sharing your thoughts and gardening wisdom. My bale garden is connected to the ground and it's definately the most productive and fertile.
Onya fellow QLDer, and yep I have also learned over the years that the biggest barrier is usually just water (in my particular growing experience and ESPECIALLY in the dry season). Good reminder.
Surprised you are not doing a few wicking beds from IBCs. One place in SE QLD currently doing food grade IBCs for $50 each. Cut them in half and you have two raised beds which require watering only every few weeks once set up. The 6 beds I just recently put together from them came in at about $110 a piece fully built and filled with a good mix of Mushroom compost and good dirt. Some very happy Corn, chilies, cucumber, tomatoes and egg plant going crazy in them. The blue barrels cut in half also make two great cheap wicking beds.
I have thought about it. But haven’t taken it on
What a great buy. Not cheap here in TAS
Yes, a basil video would be great, I already have seeds :) Thanks for the video
Thanks, I'll add it to my list of videos!
Mate, this is downright useful info! Putting the "carbon down on the ground" never even occurred to me as one of the reasons for doing cardboard sheet mulching in the no-dig, I just did it because of the weeds; multipurpose, love it!
Thanks, from my experience it’s the best but takes a little longer to get going. But over time the easiest to manage
Hey Marty can you do us a video with a seed raising soil recipe with ingredients that are readily available? I’m having a very low success rate with a mix of Bunnings bought mushroom compost, vermiculite and river sand. My seeds are good. I’m finding it discouraging. Seeds are supposed to be the cost effective way to go! Looking forward to getting my raised garden beds filled and growing so I can give the supermarkets the victory fingers!!
Give coco fibre a try. I raised some seeds in it recently and got great results. Light liquid feed when they come and transplant as soon as second leaves appear
Thanks a bunch! Will give it a whirl. Blessings!
Hi Marty😊
Remembering raised beds do need more watering than a traditional garden bed.
A advantage of the raised beds it is easier to work in the garden, but also if you have lots of moving water in heavy rains your soil and nutrients isn’t washed away.
Yep, raised beds are really handy when you have a lot of rain.
Handy if you are disabled too@@martysgarden
My raised beds are old fridges and washing machines
Nice
We have a mixture of methods. Inground for fruit trees and herbs, raised beds for seasonal crops and containers for things like blueberries. Our raised beds are in a fully enclosed in an insect proof enclosure to keep the grubs of my salad greens and more importantly keep the bush turkeys out of my sweet potato bed.
Those Brush Turkeys are a pain!
Correction. There not their. Not started basil seeds. Your are doing a great service for all that have no experience. Their is always a fear of something. I have started more basil seeds for 2nd crop. Zone 6b. USA. V. Keep sharing updates.
Second crop nice!
Hey Marty, great video. It's good to see views increasing.
I've had decent success growing potato's in 42L Ezy Storage buckets from bunnings, they are cheap, have handles and only need a few holes drilled in the bottom, I expect them to last several years.
Good on you for finding a cheap and easy method!
Just seen this show thanks 👍👍👍 Les from Perth
Hi Les, cheers!
The answer is simple, buy everything from Marty!
Your too kind hahah
My mum dug up some of her betel leaf plant for me. Shes got so much of it in her backyard. Looking foward to having my own established plants.
It's great plant, once it's established you have it forever
Yes please, full tour! I have a couple of raised beds. Did have 2 others, but onion weed got in.
Onion weed is a pain!
@martysgarden worse than a pain - a curse, I'd say!
I have used Hügelkultur combined with raised garden beds to keep the costs of filling it down. It can be very good as the breakdown of the wood and leaf matter adds to fertility. You can also use Hugelkultur without a raised garden bed. The largest logs are at the base. Sticks and twigs are the next layer. Leaf and green matter (like garden clippings) form the next layer. Then you might use straw for the next layer. Followed by compost and then a soil or potting mix. The structure forms a mound or hill which you then plant into. Doing it this way is a no-dig system. You kind of end up with a system like your bale gardening but over a longer period (because it takes a long time for the center to break down). It is a clever gardening system because it deals with poor soil issues and sets you up for better soil profiles in the long term. Combined with raised beds like you are doing it can save you a huge sum.
Thanks for sharing your method. Sounds like a good way to make the most of resources.
Love the look of the raised beds, have a base of old water tank. Took forever to fill and it seems to take constant topping up.Am mostly using it for my sweet potatoes and chillis these days. Love all your videos
Thanks Kerry, Stoked you love the vids. Sweet Potatoes and chili's love it!
Yeah digging is for chooks.
Funny
Agree. But they NEVER dig where you want them to.
Raised wicking beds (s.i.p.s)filled with layers of crushed stone sand clay loam compost ect
Cheers, I like wicking beds
Basil boxes please
I'll add it to the list!
Wow, Marty, you covered a lot of options there Followers are increasing so you are providing a worldwide widecommunity service. Thus I will try and support with my Tps being mindful here in WA Coastal with lots of sandy hungry soils I also have in-ground no-dig beds some BIG pots and 15 old bathtubs just placed on the ground where nutrients and excess water flow out to plants or pots placed around them. So BATHTUB most have a bigger hole or square cut out over the years I now have a surplus of compost and good living soils and the food tastes like it used to and NO chems ever they go ONTO the ground like a mini hugalculture I tos in mulched up prunings sticks stalks plain brown cardboard mulched up paper to just under a third of the depth . Then in goes 5 layers of wet newspaper. Then my magic mix; in a big wheelbarrow 25 litres of mushroom compost 25 of my own compost out of tumblers 1 25 lt bag of cow manure $4 from local 25 Lire of coco Pete then 2 ice cream containers of Kayolin clay 2 ice cream containers of worms and castings and mix well then into the Bath tup water well (probably best to add the worms and castings after the heavy water Jump in he tub and dance the mix in water again then add the worms and castings bit more mix on top which leaves about a grand span to the top plant in ether seed or seedlings and apply mulch water lightly . 2 days later hit with Seaweed light strength liquid fert or worm tea 20:1 I find that after harvest or things like chilies capsicum last up to 3 seasons and worms microbes are still going gangbusters.
Wow, thanks for sharing your methods!
Hopefully it helps take a bit of your workload. Yours and others contributing is forming a good knowledge base no man is an island or all soils the same take care ace
Which method are you using at home and is it a cheap option?
Aquaponics. Higher setup costs, but much more cost efficient than my raised garden beds: requiring less space and far less water, an output of faster and more frequent yields, and you get fish to eat with your harvests. Highly recommend you give it a go. I would really enjoy seeing you on your aquaponics journey.
@@MitchR-nk6yp I'm going to be trying aquaponics on a big scale once I get water in my fish ponds then I intend to just put a solar pump in so I can use the fish pond water to irrigate my gardens. But I have only just had my pond dugout, now just waiting on the spring and summer rains too fill up the holes. Happy gardening, green love from Queensland Australia 💚🌲🌏🙏
Hard sandy soil so our first few years our garden was tilled. Then we got old. Converted to no dig and extended garden space with buckets. V. Inground is cheapest.
I have fruit and vegetables growing in pots and raised garden beds, as I have a dog that would run through plants if they were in the ground :)
Can use the side of the raised beds window box planters ect
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Thanks
Is the cheapest way to make fertilizer Humus?
Cheap option yes
@@AutismoGamer a cheap and effective home made fertilizer is really very easy. Just put some weeds and plant material in a bucket of water add in a handful of some manure, or some dynamic lifter. Let it sit for a couple of weeks, it will smell very bad, but the garden will love it. I generally put about a cupful into a watering can. I have also added prawn shells to my bucket, but if you think the liquid weed tea stinks, well you definitely won't like what the prawn tea stinks like. But I left it for a year and now all my buckets of my homemade liquid fert. has a sweet almost pleasant aroma, not offensive at all. Disclaimer, probably not a very good idea if you have neighbours close by. Unless they like beautiful fresh organic herbs, fruit and vegetables and love gardening.
@@aaronhopkins6697 concentrate fertilizer is really good but like you said, stinky !
@@aaronhopkins6697 Funny. Reminds me of my neighbor's son whispering to his dad, "did you smell the skunk last night?" "Don't worry son, we won't be eating from their garden". Victory.
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Yew!