WOW! Your analogy on 'why' obesity? Excellent! The body saying "I'm still hungry" due to lack of needed nutrients (not volume of foods) - such a negative statement on today's corporate food production ... scary ... foods were so much more nutritious, and better tasting, when I was a kid, growing up in the 50s. No wonder sooo many folks are going to homesteading today! Wish I could, but advanced age and infirmities necessitate city life for me. Thanx!
My grandparents grew much of their own food when they were young enough too. I just haven't had tomatoes as tasty as they grew. They weren't always pretty...birds and mice often pecked/nibbled at them...they grew vines on the ground...nothing fancy...but man were they good!!! My Granny would peel them too! She could peel one without breaking the skin with her old pearing knife. When they were in season...we had them at every meal...a little salt and pepper...or tomato sammich...white bread, Miracle Whip Salad Dressing (kinda like Mayo) and a big ole slice of juicy tomato. They grew several varities...but one variety a slice would cover the entire slice of bread. Maybe Beefsteak type tomatoes???
We had that samach when I was a kid. Mom canned, froze, pickled,and candied different garden goodies. She would prepare all the different greens from beets and carrots. The chickens and hogs got the left overs. They also got the excess eggs and butter milk. Growing up on the farm was cool memories.
@@mikewoods897 u bring back some awesome memories with your tomato sammiches...we ate tomato sammiches as well...my dad & grandmother also loved mustard & onion sammiches...I didn't appreciate them then but do now...my grandparents on both sides had gardens...my dads parents grew personal food whereas my mom's parents grew for themselves & sold excess to stores...my grandfather was known for his Hanover tomatoes...Hanover is a county in Virginia...he farmed on a commercial scale but in a small farm way...we'd walk down the rows of corn etc & pick bugs off & drop them in cups of terpentine...no poisons were ever sprayed on the garden...those were the best tomatoes I've ever eaten...nothing like a freshly picked warm tomato right off the vine
Science is fabulous! Good soil levels means better for you with your nutritional intake from your garden! Kudos Ariel. You work hard at your garden and are reaping the benefits!
Ariel , I am happy you got the results from your Soil Test . Its YOUR Garden and it gives you an idea of where your at ,and what you can do to further improve your soil. I had a feeling you would be pleased with the results . You are already on top of things in general. Very well read. And, you are open to listening to advice. Thanks for the update and glad it was a positive one . Stay warm . : )
Great content Ariel. Nutrient dense foods are so important. And soil is the basis of all life. Nature has a very efficient way of showing us how interconnected all life is.
It's interesting to hear the correlation between the soil and body. I learned a lot from you. I have to do a little more research, then off to nutritionist in January with my questions. Thank you for a very informative video.
Makes good sense, some extension agencies will perform soil testing if you live close to agricultural areas for low cost. Great information, thanks!!! Gardeners are a generous sort 🌽🥕
Hi again ARIEL! Nice job! Well researched and your presentation was excellent as always. You'll be helping many with their gardening and bottom line their health!! This will definitely help you when you start again at your new place! Thx as always for sharing...
I always figure anything I learn I can take anywhere with me. :) And grow and nourish soil anywhere I ever end up in life. I've left gardens at every home I ever lived in, even for a single year.
I learned a lot via this video and it corresponds with what my local organic farm has communicated about their own soil health evidenced by both the yield and taste of the vegetables from their farm … which I support vs gardening (except minimally: herbs) on my own. I heartily concur with your passion for soil health!
The kelp has all of those trace elements because it comes from the sea. The sea has every mineral in it. My mother, and grandmother, always claimed we should eat something from the sea once a week for this. Trace elements are in kelp in the perfect proportions for plants because kelp is a plant. Fish emulsion is good too, it's not from a plant but usually from the sea (I like Alaska fish emulsion) it has more nitrogen than kelp. They can both (if you get the liquid kelp extract) be diluted in water and sprayed as foliage feed. I just count this the same as adding it to the soil. Whatever gets rinsed off the plant ends up in the soil, and what doesn't gets in the plant. You are on the right path and have given great advice that will work for everyone in their overall gardens. The next step to getting the optimal crop, (I'd bet that you are on to this already, but it'd take a lot of videos to explain), is different requirements for different plants, and at different stages of growth. For example, corn is a high nitrogen user when it is shooting up, it's a grass, but the ultimate product that we want from it is the seed, which needs high potassium. So the optimum conditions for corn are not the same NPK in the Spring and Fall. When you are after the roots and fruits of plants, especially big fruits, like say pumpkins, you need lots of phosphorus, but first you need a big leafy plant that needs a lot of nitrogen. The perfect soil for any crop in a garden is not the perfect soil for the rest of the crops there, so we look for the best overall soil for everything which turns out not to be the optimum soil for anything. It's still good enough, but can be better. Studying up on each plant and it's individual needs and using certain things, foliage feed, some bone meal, a little pee, a little extra cow pie top dressing, etc. here and there according to what grows there, and what you need there at a stage of growth, in addition to that good soil you have already, will get you closer to optimums for different crops.
Very interesting results and test procedure. After watching the collecting episode, good to see the results. Even more relative, interesting and knowledgeable , is your explanations. Thanks!
I am really happy with the soil test results. Very interesting. I live near salt water, my now deceased neighbor used to gather seaweed, dry it on the clothes line and crumble it into his compost. He was one of those people who always knew what he was doing. I learned a lot from him.
Humus = “Hew-muss”. Hummus = “Hum-Us”. Humus is what is left over after other things have broken down; hummus is made from garbanzo beans and is a luscious dip. Thanks for the tip on the book! I will get a copy.
Good morning! Congratulations on your healthy soil report! I remember that u sent off samples of your soil earlier. Where im at currently i cant have a garden but its definetly a goal of mine in the next 5yrs. I miss working in my grandmas garden, theres just something very satisfying in getting your hands into it...the smell of the earth. That sense of accomplishment,I miss it. Have a wonderful day Ariel, looking forward to your next video!
As I'm listening to your video📹, I'm amazed at what I don't know🤔...lol.🙂 This was a very informative 📓 learning session for me in learning about soil health. Who knew, so much that went into creating a great soil base for your plants.🌱 Thank you for the time ⏳ that you took to educate us.📚 Have a great weekend my friend.👍😎
Good job on the explanation. Most greens (ex. Lettuce) like a ph range of 5.7-6.2 we teach that most garden vegetables 🍅 are happy there also. (Ag Teacher 35 yrs exp.)
I'm on your 3rd video & I appreciate the way you explain, in plain English, a technical report that would totally confuse many of us. I started with a tour of your nest which led to your channel & I picked your garden cloth covers for under $200 . . . . . Both, AweSome! Table salt is toxic! Switching to pink Himalayan Crystal salt eliminated several problems, like swelling. I also don't eat commercially processed food, & as a vegan, I'm healthier than most others. Not even a cold in almost 50 years. Here I see you have a marvelous companion, please, mention a bit & give us a name? I truly admire your knowledge & work ethic, as well as your frugality & entrepreneurship. You've walked your talk & are a fine example of have more by getting by with less. I distill my water to make Colloidal Silver for health, healing & cleaning, as well as adding minerals back for drinking ( pets, too) & cooking. I'd love a link to your dining/working table. I've seen others but none with drawers (brilliant). This is long but I'll probably only click to like your videos, & share them, too, rather than take up your time for my opinions👵 May GOD continue to abundantly bless you 💞
Welcome to the channel! I'm so glad you are enjoying the videos. Yes, if you watch my cooking videos you will see I always use and recommend real unrefined salt. My dog? That's Burley, find out more about him here - ua-cam.com/video/0OdF9BVuXrM/v-deo.html You can find that table, and most other items I've been using for years here - www.amazon.com/shop/fynyth . Thank you again.
Ariel, this was a very informative lesson. I will be buying the book to read up on this subject. I will wait until next year before I run the test as I just rebuild my garden beds and things have not had a chance to settle in yet. I may just use the Trifecta+ from MIgardener this this year to get things started. I really like how you took the time to research the information to make this presentation. You make a wonderful teacher. Thank-you.
I think there are a lot of general principles that will give good results without testing for sure. After all, that's what I've been doing my whole life. Now I'm justing interested in learning more about little details, checking in on how well that program has been doing, and fine tuning things. :) I'm really excited to see what your garden looks like next year with the new beds, and hopefully a lot less grasshoppers!
Brilliant, I've been looking forward to hearing about your soil results. It's a fascinating subject and you seem to have learnt an awful lot and from what you say your soil is pretty much perfect 😀. I can't grow a great deal in my very small garden so when I do its usually lots of different herbs, tomatoes and lettuces. I'm also very careful with ehat 'fresh fruit and veg' I buy. One thing that I have stopped buying is corn in any form. Since I've been on a keto eating plan and stopped putting all the rubbish in my body I've felt great. Its been a bit like my body wanting gas but I've been putting diesel in it so I wasn't working properly.
Hi Ariel! Love your videos so much... always look forward to the next one. We just started veggie and berry gardening this year. Had pretty good results (except for berries)... was curious, if you could recommend only one book for beginner gardeners, what would it be?
Aww thanks. Congrats on the food production! Whew, that's a hard one. It would depend a lot on what you want to grow and what kind of space you're working with. And what climate or growing conditions. You can see a bunch of my favorites at amzn.to/32ROJap and probably guess from the titles which situations each one would be best for. :)
Your correlation of healthy soil to healthy plants to healthy bodies is very well put. I think we often forget how tightly woven into the world we are. It irritates me to hear people talk about 'colonizing' Mars. I think you articulate the reasons why it bothers me quite well. We clothe ourselves in civilization and set ourselves apart from the world and we should do much less of that. You're like a pleasant dream Ariel. You like to read books, have you written any? If not, you should consider it.
I would say the soil test gives you an "A+" for all the hardwork you have put in! Add a few minor nutrients and you will have you an "A+++" garden. 🤠Doesn't surprise me a bit...you seem to be doing everything good gardeners reccomend. The thing about being hungry all the time from lack of nutrition is very interesting! I know their are certain meals I can eat that seem to keep me not craving things...one of the best for me is a nice portion of salmon, steamed brocilli, rice and water to drink. I feel good after eating it too.
I do alot of soil tests. Your soil out there in Wyoming is probably on the alkaline side of things. 6.9 ph is within normal range, but is approaching alkalinity. Sulfur will bring ph down. While lime pushes ph up. When your ph is in this good range, it allows the plant to uptake the nutrients. You can have all the nutrients in the world in your soil, but if the ph of the soil is too alkaline or acidic, the plant is unable to uptake those nutrients! When you buy fertilizer in a bag, most of them only contain the NPK, which is nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Those are the macro’s. I’ve found that soil health is best when you concentrate on the micro’s or micronutrients. People want more nitrogen and the macro’s, but would help themselves better if they concentrated on the micro’s. The copper, boron, magnesium, etc.. Finally, you can add humic acid, which is like a carbon to the soil, and is cheap to buy. I add epsom salts in the spring, because I’ve found it gives vegetables a nice taste and makes fruits sweeter! Not much beats compost, but believe it or not, depending on what you put in it, it still may be deficient or low in some of your micro’s. A soil test is always good every few years to see if you can improve things!!
Good tips! As you probably know, epsom salt has a lot of magnesium, so I would just caution others to not add too much if their soil already has a lot of magnesium. As in excess it can make soil hard and sticky. Having enough it very important too though especially for taste as you mentioned!
Great video Ariel as always...i garden and have for years ,i use no chemical fertilizers never have and never will (the thought of it makes me cringe farmers use it for high yield but what is it doing to peoples bodies?..if mother nature doesn't make it i'm not eating it :)..the yield that you get from your garden is amazing (much higher than mine considering your climate)...vegetables produced in volume sure don't taste like mine in fact i don't buy them,don't eat them and have no desire to :)..just my opinion...love your site and your wisdom...thanks for sharing
Wonderful! One of my biggest concerns with the use of a lot of chemical fertilizers is the way most who use them totally neglect the overall health of the soil and rely on them alone.
@@FyNyth how very true,i live in a farming community and if one mentions the harm of using "roundup" to a farmer they get furious. (all for volume ,less work and higher profits...sad i think?)
Would you have to test your soil every year to see if your "amendments" took or can you just call it good? Great video, tons of knowledge nuggets as Doug and Stacy say. Lol😉💜
Depends. Yes if you were really wanting to keep close tabs or fix a major issue, that would be best. If you are pretty happy with they way things are and just want to generally know if they are staying that way, you could probably test every few years. Or never, unless you start to see an issue. So it kind of depends what you are going for.
all this talk of soil took me back to my Agricultural mechanics class in high school back in the 80's our teacher was a burned out Alcoholic but for some reason he was Passionate about soil ? the first thing he said in the beginning of class was never ever call it dirt unless your like writing 1000 word Essays about soil needless to say most of us fell victim to that . We did plot Surveys of all the farms in our town and then we Survey them for lot lines and Hedge row placement Which Rekindled some long lost land rights fights from long ago . some of the farms in my hometown have been handed down for almost 200 years.
Excellent Video and great info . You and Burley are the ultimate Litmus Test to what you are doing in your garden and the wild game your eating is correct ( with added Sardines ) Shame you can't raise Chickens and Rabbits because of your climate and the native preditors as not only would they be a great addition to your diet the fertilizer could be used .
Well.... most vitamins are made by plants out of the minerals etc in the soil. I'm not sure the plants can really uptake and use the vitamins themselves. :) Though some of the soil microbial life might enjoy them.
Lol what happens if they find Gold in the soil samples would we see videos on panning at the tiny house called Fy Nyth haha just joking, lol I'm sorry I didn't understand any of that but if you do I hope it helps your garden next year. Me I plant, if it grows then hallelujah if it don't well there's always next year haha, I needed to lose weight anyway haha and I love your K9 awesome animal. Thank you
Darn it Ariel, you have just gone and taken all the fun out of gardening for me , think I will just read old Einsteins theory of relativity for relaxation from now on.
@@FyNythAw, so do I really. They say we are what we eat, just the thought of being just another spoonful of star dust scares the hell out of me. Best Regards
Great information, Ariel! The bounty produced in your new beds, sans gophers, indicated you probably didn't have any significant soil issues. A few thoughts. I always have the soil tested just before I start a new garden. Add needed soil amendments before first planting. Test again, only if there are issues. I follow another channel, Simple Living Alaska. They put in a brand new garden, this year (2019) and had an amazing harvest. - Their mid-October video shows them putting their garden to bed before the winter snow. Looks like they put about 2" of compost, about 2" of manure and about 4" of timothy (because they couldn't get straw) on top of the soil. Reason, something about never leaving the soil bare, under heavy snow ... spring melt leaches the soil of nutrients. - Your thoughts? I grew up in Ohio, not far from your home in PA. My family, and all of my grandparents, aunts & uncle's had food gardens ... to this day. - I say YAHOO to Victory Gardens and backyard gardens and roof-top gardens and balcony gardens and community gardens. Congratulations for your amazing garden and thank you for sharing with us.
Thanks! Yeah I just mulched my garden with horse manure and my compost as well before everything froze solid. I don't add straw or hay on top as I've found my rodent population is so high here, it's a bad idea to give them a nice cozy spot to live in the garden. :) And it's always lovely to hear others are growing their own food too!
@@FyNyth Thanks for responding. Didn't know the extent of your rodent issues. Will be interesting to learn if Simple Living Alaska has rodent issues, year 2 in Alaska, next year ... using their winterizing methods. Best wishes to you.
Interesting stats. Being a stats guy I love stast.... But have your tried no dig? Cross reference Charles Dowing (see his channel here)? If you try it, then these issues about soil tests may be irrelevant as your "soil" is your compost,, and that "soil" should have all it needs for your garden to grow.... Just saying.. 👨🌾
No dig is what goes on in my beds other than last year when I dug them all up to put the soil into the new beds. :) I love Charles Dowdings work! He has a few different challenges with his much warmer and more humid climate of course. Of course for compost to have everything you need, the right mix of material would have to go into the compost which he is very good at. My soil is not all compost yet, but about 11.5% right now. :)
This is a college drop out's suggestion so take it with a grain of salt but I'd recommend Ariel not add anything to the soil beyond her current normal routine or just whatever she'd do if she hadn't looked at this soil test. Then this time next year do a second soil test and compare the results. Sounds like there's no emergencies here. The soil should be ready next spring for at least one more year without tweaking it, but comparing next year's results to this year's results would be two points on a graph, and if there's any trends or bad news, it would be revealed better with twice the data. Failing that, the powdered kelp sounds like something safe and productive to add if she can't resist the temptation.
Ok, I guess I understand the analogy that you find "a horrible example", i.e. the "concentration camp". BUT as a descendent of German Jews … that fled Germany as well as a friend of several who's parents survived concentration camp conditions, I find the analogy accurate. Incredibly sad, but still credible to anyone who has studied that time in history. Respectfully, yes … I understand that the analogy is possibly insensitive to many and agree that there might be better metaphor/analogies.
I listened to your explanation on trying to justify your method for gathering and testing but the facts are you have a bogus test. The test samples were not gathered correctly. IF you had tested the soil at the time you installed it, before you grew anything the way you did it would be fine. However after growing the garden with different plants the soil is no longer the same as different plants use different minerals at different rates. Rotating the crops does not make the different beds equal. Again you have bogus, inaccurate test results.
John Smith The soil is in the same yard! The compost she makes comes from the same pile! Yes, the plants use different nutrients, but if Ariel were to continue crop rotation and only test the soil coming from compost, she only has to do one test. Not a soil test for each bed, which is unnecessarily expensive, and I guarantee is not going to be very different. I disagree with you on saying Ariel is getting bogus results. She already gets tremendous results, and obviously has had alot of experience growing since a child. I have done tens of soil tests and I even have checked different labs using the SAME soil, and guess what? I get different results from using the same soil, sent to DIFFERENT labs! This is why I use Hyr Brix fertilizer and humic acid, so I never worry about anything, but the ph!
Scott Goodwin thank you for sharing your thoughts. That being said you are incorrect. The purpose of a soil test to know if a particular area is lacking in something. No farmer is going to test one field to get the results on 10 fields just because he has rotated crops regardless how close together the fields are. If she is getting such tremendous results, as you claim, then even doing a test was unnecessary. Again, you CANNOT mix soils from different plots and come up with accurate results for each plot when there are different variables like she has. If you could you would not even need to take soil from each plot. Just take it from one plot and be done with it. The test is bogus. Lastly your claim of getting different results from the same soil is just plain false. We ALL know that you did not use the same soil at different labs. You used different soil, perhaps from the same are, but different soil sent to different labs which proves my point. Her test results are false and do not correctly what her soil is like in each different plot.
Man, by that token the tests are bogus unless she individually tested samples from a couple dozen of areas where each species of plant had been grown.. totally cost-prohibitive for someone a growing a large variety. Mixing evenly collected samples together for a single test is a valid way of getting the average concentration of each nutrient in the entire growing area, which was the goal. Correct that rotating the crops does not make the different beds equal but it does put higher concentrations of particular nutrients at the roots of the plants that really slurp em because last year's plants in that particular spot probably didn't..
John Bilyeu, no the cost of doing it right IS NOT cost-prohibitive. However doing a test improperly and getting a bogus result IS cost-prohibitive. The only reason to do a test is because you want the best results from your soil as possible. There is no such thing as getting average. What you are suggesting is like a person needing several blood tests and taking their siblings along mixing the blood and averaging the results. She got bogus results.
Nice! Amazing that people treat the garden better than themselves 😉
I believe treating the soil and garden is treating yourself. I need to be more motivated to doing more gardening.
Young lady, you are a star in every sense of the word. The world is a better place with a person like you. ❤👏
I knew the result's would be very good, congrats Ariel, so glad all your hard work has paid off. Well done indeed.
Like a mini cram session on soil health! Very good info and I like your rhythm of talking
WOW! Your analogy on 'why' obesity? Excellent! The body saying "I'm still hungry" due to lack of needed nutrients (not volume of foods) - such a negative statement on today's corporate food production ... scary ... foods were so much more nutritious, and better tasting, when I was a kid, growing up in the 50s. No wonder sooo many folks are going to homesteading today! Wish I could, but advanced age and infirmities necessitate city life for me. Thanx!
My grandparents grew much of their own food when they were young enough too. I just haven't had tomatoes as tasty as they grew. They weren't always pretty...birds and mice often pecked/nibbled at them...they grew vines on the ground...nothing fancy...but man were they good!!! My Granny would peel them too! She could peel one without breaking the skin with her old pearing knife. When they were in season...we had them at every meal...a little salt and pepper...or tomato sammich...white bread, Miracle Whip Salad Dressing (kinda like Mayo) and a big ole slice of juicy tomato. They grew several varities...but one variety a slice would cover the entire slice of bread. Maybe Beefsteak type tomatoes???
@@mikewoods897 I've spent much of my adult life trying to find a tomato that tastes as good as the ones I ate as a kid :D
We had that samach when I was a kid. Mom canned, froze, pickled,and candied different garden goodies. She would prepare all the different greens from beets and carrots. The chickens and hogs got the left overs. They also got the excess eggs and butter milk. Growing up on the farm was cool memories.
Isn't is amazing what a difference healthy and un-depleted soil makes in the flavor of food?
@@mikewoods897 u bring back some awesome memories with your tomato sammiches...we ate tomato sammiches as well...my dad & grandmother also loved mustard & onion sammiches...I didn't appreciate them then but do now...my grandparents on both sides had gardens...my dads parents grew personal food whereas my mom's parents grew for themselves & sold excess to stores...my grandfather was known for his Hanover tomatoes...Hanover is a county in Virginia...he farmed on a commercial scale but in a small farm way...we'd walk down the rows of corn etc & pick bugs off & drop them in cups of terpentine...no poisons were ever sprayed on the garden...those were the best tomatoes I've ever eaten...nothing like a freshly picked warm tomato right off the vine
It didn't take long to get the results. Thanks for the detailed breakdown.
Science is fabulous! Good soil levels means better for you with your nutritional intake from your garden! Kudos Ariel. You work hard at your garden and are reaping the benefits!
"Doing math for fun". I love it. Hope more people will realize that too. Thanks for all your vids.
Ariel , I am happy you got the results from your Soil Test . Its YOUR Garden and it gives you an idea of where your at ,and what you can do to further improve your soil. I had a feeling you would be pleased with the results . You are already on top of things in general. Very well read. And, you are open to listening to advice. Thanks for the update and glad it was a positive one . Stay warm . : )
Great content Ariel. Nutrient dense foods are so important. And soil is the basis of all life. Nature has a very efficient
way of showing us how interconnected all life is.
It's interesting to hear the correlation between the soil and body. I learned a lot from you. I have to do a little more research, then off to nutritionist in January with my questions. Thank you for a very informative video.
If you would like a good correlation to the body the ocean is almost the exact same chemical makeup as your blood
WELL DONE LASS! THANK YOU FOR SHARING!
Makes good sense, some extension agencies will perform soil testing if you live close to agricultural areas for low cost. Great information, thanks!!! Gardeners are a generous sort 🌽🥕
That's a good tip for those who live in area with a lot of agriculture going on!
Hi again ARIEL! Nice job! Well researched and your presentation was excellent as always. You'll be helping many with their gardening and bottom line their health!! This will definitely help you when you start again at your new place! Thx as always for sharing...
She'll have to take all that good dirt with her! 🤠
@@mikewoods897 Lol that's called a project for sure lol! Thx for the smile Mike.
I always figure anything I learn I can take anywhere with me. :) And grow and nourish soil anywhere I ever end up in life. I've left gardens at every home I ever lived in, even for a single year.
@@FyNyth Leaving a nice garden is a true blessing for the next person living there!
Oh goody, I have been waiting for this video. Lots of good info. Happy your soil's good. 👍💖
Congrats on 30K
Thanks to all of you!
I learned a lot via this video and it corresponds with what my local organic farm has communicated about their own soil health evidenced by both the yield and taste of the vegetables from their farm … which I support vs gardening (except minimally: herbs) on my own. I heartily concur with your passion for soil health!
That's wonderful to have a good source of food nearby!
The science is fascinating! Thanks for sharing these figures with us!
Good tutorial. I am lucky to have a excellent county extension office that does testing reasonably and good follow-up instruction.
Nice!
Who's have thought that talking about dirt could be so fascinating
Isn't it though? :)
Very cool test results =)and health explanation it all makes sense thanks.
The kelp has all of those trace elements because it comes from the sea. The sea has every mineral in it. My mother, and grandmother, always claimed we should eat something from the sea once a week for this. Trace elements are in kelp in the perfect proportions for plants because kelp is a plant. Fish emulsion is good too, it's not from a plant but usually from the sea (I like Alaska fish emulsion) it has more nitrogen than kelp. They can both (if you get the liquid kelp extract) be diluted in water and sprayed as foliage feed. I just count this the same as adding it to the soil. Whatever gets rinsed off the plant ends up in the soil, and what doesn't gets in the plant. You are on the right path and have given great advice that will work for everyone in their overall gardens. The next step to getting the optimal crop, (I'd bet that you are on to this already, but it'd take a lot of videos to explain), is different requirements for different plants, and at different stages of growth. For example, corn is a high nitrogen user when it is shooting up, it's a grass, but the ultimate product that we want from it is the seed, which needs high potassium. So the optimum conditions for corn are not the same NPK in the Spring and Fall. When you are after the roots and fruits of plants, especially big fruits, like say pumpkins, you need lots of phosphorus, but first you need a big leafy plant that needs a lot of nitrogen. The perfect soil for any crop in a garden is not the perfect soil for the rest of the crops there, so we look for the best overall soil for everything which turns out not to be the optimum soil for anything. It's still good enough, but can be better. Studying up on each plant and it's individual needs and using certain things, foliage feed, some bone meal, a little pee, a little extra cow pie top dressing, etc. here and there according to what grows there, and what you need there at a stage of growth, in addition to that good soil you have already, will get you closer to optimums for different crops.
Yeah there are a ton more details once you get to looking at what each thing needs most at each stage!
Very interesting results and test procedure. After watching the collecting episode, good to see the results. Even more relative, interesting and knowledgeable , is your explanations. Thanks!
I am really happy with the soil test results. Very interesting. I live near salt water, my now deceased neighbor used to gather seaweed, dry it on the clothes line and crumble it into his compost. He was one of those people who always knew what he was doing. I learned a lot from him.
That would be a great way to do it if I lived near salt water!
Hi Ariel well it sounds like you got good numbers so I guess you're doing pretty good with your garden.
Good news indeed darlin, a tweek here and a nudge there and you'll have awesome happy vegies next season.
I sure hope so! :)
Humus = “Hew-muss”. Hummus = “Hum-Us”. Humus is what is left over after other things have broken down; hummus is made from garbanzo beans and is a luscious dip. Thanks for the tip on the book! I will get a copy.
Good morning! Congratulations on your healthy soil report! I remember that u sent off samples of your soil earlier. Where im at currently i cant have a garden but its definetly a goal of mine in the next 5yrs. I miss working in my grandmas garden, theres just something very satisfying in getting your hands into it...the smell of the earth. That sense of accomplishment,I miss it. Have a wonderful day Ariel, looking forward to your next video!
Best wishes as you work toward your goals! Spending time with plants and soil is wonderful.
Thanks Ariel, lots of good info here. Happy to hear how healthy your soil is, kinda figured it would be good and healthy though, just like you. 😊
2019, glad to see your thriving.
Thanks for all the great info!! Very good :)
As I'm listening to your video📹, I'm amazed at what I don't know🤔...lol.🙂
This was a very informative 📓 learning session for me in learning about soil health.
Who knew, so much that went into creating a great soil base for your plants.🌱
Thank you for the time ⏳ that you took to educate us.📚 Have a great weekend my friend.👍😎
hi ariel have really enjoyed your videos this week alot of good stuff well be using alot of it when i find a place in the UP and start living my dream
Best wishes as you work toward making your dreams happen!
Thanks for sharing!
I had no doubts that you have great soil.
Good job on the explanation. Most greens (ex. Lettuce) like a ph range of 5.7-6.2 we teach that most garden vegetables 🍅 are happy there also. (Ag Teacher 35 yrs exp.)
Great information. Thank you!
Wow! Thank you
Great explanation. You're my favorite person that I know of.
Aww thanks for your kind words!
@@FyNyth just sent a chat on MeWe.
I'm on your 3rd video & I appreciate the way you explain, in plain English, a technical report that would totally confuse many of us.
I started with a tour of your nest which led to your channel & I picked your garden cloth covers for under $200 . . . . . Both, AweSome!
Table salt is toxic! Switching to pink Himalayan Crystal salt eliminated several problems, like swelling. I also don't eat commercially processed food, & as a vegan, I'm healthier than most others. Not even a cold in almost 50 years.
Here I see you have a marvelous companion, please, mention a bit & give us a name?
I truly admire your knowledge & work ethic, as well as your frugality & entrepreneurship. You've walked your talk & are a fine example of have more by getting by with less.
I distill my water to make Colloidal Silver for health, healing & cleaning, as well as adding minerals back for drinking ( pets, too) & cooking.
I'd love a link to your dining/working table. I've seen others but none with drawers (brilliant).
This is long but I'll probably only click to like your videos, & share them, too, rather than take up your time for my opinions👵
May GOD continue to abundantly bless you 💞
Welcome to the channel! I'm so glad you are enjoying the videos. Yes, if you watch my cooking videos you will see I always use and recommend real unrefined salt. My dog? That's Burley, find out more about him here - ua-cam.com/video/0OdF9BVuXrM/v-deo.html You can find that table, and most other items I've been using for years here - www.amazon.com/shop/fynyth . Thank you again.
Ariel, this was a very informative lesson. I will be buying the book to read up on this subject. I will wait until next year before I run the test as I just rebuild my garden beds and things have not had a chance to settle in yet. I may just use the Trifecta+ from MIgardener this this year to get things started. I really like how you took the time to research the information to make this presentation. You make a wonderful teacher. Thank-you.
I think there are a lot of general principles that will give good results without testing for sure. After all, that's what I've been doing my whole life. Now I'm justing interested in learning more about little details, checking in on how well that program has been doing, and fine tuning things. :) I'm really excited to see what your garden looks like next year with the new beds, and hopefully a lot less grasshoppers!
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Brilliant, I've been looking forward to hearing about your soil results. It's a fascinating subject and you seem to have learnt an awful lot and from what you say your soil is pretty much perfect 😀. I can't grow a great deal in my very small garden so when I do its usually lots of different herbs, tomatoes and lettuces. I'm also very careful with ehat 'fresh fruit and veg' I buy. One thing that I have stopped buying is corn in any form. Since I've been on a keto eating plan and stopped putting all the rubbish in my body I've felt great. Its been a bit like my body wanting gas but I've been putting diesel in it so I wasn't working properly.
Nice work doing what you can where you are. It is fascinating how well the body can care for it's self given the right fuels!
Do you think Burley tells his friends that his mama talks to herself a lot?
..?..., what an idiot I've been, All this time i thought Ariel was talking to us.. ; )
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very interesting!
Hi Ariel! Love your videos so much... always look forward to the next one. We just started veggie and berry gardening this year. Had pretty good results (except for berries)... was curious, if you could recommend only one book for beginner gardeners, what would it be?
Aww thanks. Congrats on the food production! Whew, that's a hard one. It would depend a lot on what you want to grow and what kind of space you're working with. And what climate or growing conditions. You can see a bunch of my favorites at amzn.to/32ROJap and probably guess from the titles which situations each one would be best for. :)
Your correlation of healthy soil to healthy plants to healthy bodies is very well put. I think we often forget how tightly woven into the world we are. It irritates me to hear people talk about 'colonizing' Mars. I think you articulate the reasons why it bothers me quite well. We clothe ourselves in civilization and set ourselves apart from the world and we should do much less of that. You're like a pleasant dream Ariel. You like to read books, have you written any? If not, you should consider it.
No, never wrote a book, but thanks! :)
I would say the soil test gives you an "A+" for all the hardwork you have put in! Add a few minor nutrients and you will have you an "A+++" garden. 🤠Doesn't surprise me a bit...you seem to be doing everything good gardeners reccomend. The thing about being hungry all the time from lack of nutrition is very interesting! I know their are certain meals I can eat that seem to keep me not craving things...one of the best for me is a nice portion of salmon, steamed brocilli, rice and water to drink. I feel good after eating it too.
Isn't in amazing how different the body feels when given good food?
19.74! Woohoo. Of course you have a good garden. It's interesting to hear the science of it.
I do alot of soil tests. Your soil out there in Wyoming is probably on the alkaline side of things. 6.9 ph is within normal range, but is approaching alkalinity. Sulfur will bring ph down. While lime pushes ph up. When your ph is in this good range, it allows the plant to uptake the nutrients. You can have all the nutrients in the world in your soil, but if the ph of the soil is too alkaline or acidic, the plant is unable to uptake those nutrients! When you buy fertilizer in a bag, most of them only contain the NPK, which is nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Those are the macro’s. I’ve found that soil health is best when you concentrate on the micro’s or micronutrients. People want more nitrogen and the macro’s, but would help themselves better if they concentrated on the micro’s. The copper, boron, magnesium, etc.. Finally, you can add humic acid, which is like a carbon to the soil, and is cheap to buy. I add epsom salts in the spring, because I’ve found it gives vegetables a nice taste and makes fruits sweeter! Not much beats compost, but believe it or not, depending on what you put in it, it still may be deficient or low in some of your micro’s. A soil test is always good every few years to see if you can improve things!!
Good tips! As you probably know, epsom salt has a lot of magnesium, so I would just caution others to not add too much if their soil already has a lot of magnesium. As in excess it can make soil hard and sticky. Having enough it very important too though especially for taste as you mentioned!
Great video Ariel as always...i garden and have for years ,i use no chemical fertilizers never have and never will (the thought of it makes me cringe farmers use it for high yield but what is it doing to peoples bodies?..if mother nature doesn't make it i'm not eating it :)..the yield that you get from your garden is amazing (much higher than mine considering your climate)...vegetables produced in volume sure don't taste like mine in fact i don't buy them,don't eat them and have no desire to :)..just my opinion...love your site and your wisdom...thanks for sharing
Wonderful! One of my biggest concerns with the use of a lot of chemical fertilizers is the way most who use them totally neglect the overall health of the soil and rely on them alone.
@@FyNyth how very true,i live in a farming community and if one mentions the harm of using "roundup" to a farmer they get furious. (all for volume ,less work and higher profits...sad i think?)
Would you have to test your soil every year to see if your "amendments" took or can you just call it good? Great video, tons of knowledge nuggets as Doug and Stacy say. Lol😉💜
Depends. Yes if you were really wanting to keep close tabs or fix a major issue, that would be best. If you are pretty happy with they way things are and just want to generally know if they are staying that way, you could probably test every few years. Or never, unless you start to see an issue. So it kind of depends what you are going for.
U should get a nice , warm bed for BURLEY
Well I could, but when I had a nice cushy one, he's never sleep on it. He seems to prefer to cold and likes to sleep in my bed. :)
@@FyNyth AWWWWWW TOO FREAKIN CUTE 💕💕💕
all this talk of soil took me back to my Agricultural mechanics class in high school back in the 80's our teacher was a burned out Alcoholic but for some reason he was Passionate about soil ? the first thing he said in the beginning of class was never ever call it dirt unless your like writing 1000 word Essays about soil needless to say most of us fell victim to that . We did plot Surveys of all the farms in our town and then we Survey them for lot lines and Hedge row placement Which Rekindled some long lost land rights fights from long ago . some of the farms in my hometown have been handed down for almost 200 years.
Sounds like good memories!
Excellent Video and great info .
You and Burley are the ultimate Litmus Test to what you are doing in your garden and the wild game your eating is correct ( with added Sardines )
Shame you can't raise Chickens and Rabbits because of your climate and the native preditors as not only would they be a great addition to your diet the fertilizer could be used .
Yeah with less predator pressure I would love to raise some more things like that.
Does it list selenium?
No, this one does not. Though plants don't seem to need it to grow, humans certainly do!
When you moving to your land?
Still the same plans discussed here - ua-cam.com/video/9WuHfQFjmkk/v-deo.html
By the way, "HUM-mus" is a Mediterranean chickpea and tahini dip. "HYOO-mus" is the top layer of soil. Spelled similarly, pronounced differently.
I just kept thinking.....why don't I just dissolve a whole bottle of multivitamins in a gallon of water and sprinkle it on my garden soil next spring?
Well.... most vitamins are made by plants out of the minerals etc in the soil. I'm not sure the plants can really uptake and use the vitamins themselves. :) Though some of the soil microbial life might enjoy them.
@@FyNyth 😊
Lol what happens if they find Gold in the soil samples would we see videos on panning at the tiny house called Fy Nyth haha just joking, lol I'm sorry I didn't understand any of that but if you do I hope it helps your garden next year. Me I plant, if it grows then hallelujah if it don't well there's always next year haha, I needed to lose weight anyway haha and I love your K9 awesome animal. Thank you
I don't think this soil test checks for gold. :) Best wishes with all your gardening!
Seems as if you have a good grasp what I did for 23 years working for the. Lab soil rocks sand concrete asphalt Steel we tested all of that
I could imagine that being an interesting job!
Never consider chicken rearing 😁👍👍👍
Have I considered raising chickens? Yep. It's a no go here due to the massive amount of predators. Otherwise I would love to!
Oh!... boy, do I need help.
Darn it Ariel, you have just gone and taken all the fun out of gardening for me , think I will just read old Einsteins theory of relativity for relaxation from now on.
Hey, if you're not into fine tuning details, no worries. By all means keep growing in whatever way you enjoy! I just find this stuff fascinating. :)
@@FyNythAw, so do I really. They say we are what we eat, just the thought of being just another spoonful of star dust scares the hell out of me. Best Regards
The bases of a spiritual life is food.not what we eat is who we are..but whom we feed.
Ah the art of permaculture, you reap what you sow 🍏🍎🥑
Great information, Ariel! The bounty produced in your new beds, sans gophers, indicated you probably didn't have any significant soil issues.
A few thoughts.
I always have the soil tested just before I start a new garden. Add needed soil amendments before first planting. Test again, only if there are issues.
I follow another channel, Simple Living Alaska. They put in a brand new garden, this year (2019) and had an amazing harvest.
- Their mid-October video shows them putting their garden to bed before the winter snow. Looks like they put about 2" of compost, about 2" of manure and about 4" of timothy (because they couldn't get straw) on top of the soil. Reason, something about never leaving the soil bare, under heavy snow ... spring melt leaches the soil of nutrients.
- Your thoughts?
I grew up in Ohio, not far from your home in PA. My family, and all of my grandparents, aunts & uncle's had food gardens ... to this day.
- I say YAHOO to Victory Gardens and backyard gardens and roof-top gardens and balcony gardens and community gardens.
Congratulations for your amazing garden and thank you for sharing with us.
Thanks! Yeah I just mulched my garden with horse manure and my compost as well before everything froze solid. I don't add straw or hay on top as I've found my rodent population is so high here, it's a bad idea to give them a nice cozy spot to live in the garden. :) And it's always lovely to hear others are growing their own food too!
@@FyNyth Thanks for responding. Didn't know the extent of your rodent issues.
Will be interesting to learn if Simple Living Alaska has rodent issues, year 2 in Alaska, next year ... using their winterizing methods.
Best wishes to you.
Interesting stats. Being a stats guy I love stast.... But have your tried no dig? Cross reference Charles Dowing (see his channel here)? If you try it, then these issues about soil tests may be irrelevant as your "soil" is your compost,, and that "soil" should have all it needs for your garden to grow.... Just saying.. 👨🌾
No dig is what goes on in my beds other than last year when I dug them all up to put the soil into the new beds. :) I love Charles Dowdings work! He has a few different challenges with his much warmer and more humid climate of course. Of course for compost to have everything you need, the right mix of material would have to go into the compost which he is very good at. My soil is not all compost yet, but about 11.5% right now. :)
This is a college drop out's suggestion so take it with a grain of salt but I'd recommend Ariel not add anything to the soil beyond her current normal routine or just whatever she'd do if she hadn't looked at this soil test. Then this time next year do a second soil test and compare the results. Sounds like there's no emergencies here. The soil should be ready next spring for at least one more year without tweaking it, but comparing next year's results to this year's results would be two points on a graph, and if there's any trends or bad news, it would be revealed better with twice the data. Failing that, the powdered kelp sounds like something safe and productive to add if she can't resist the temptation.
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Love your soil analysis , but think your metaphor was a horrible example to use , particularly when you could have used so many other examples.
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@@joshreece9796 listen again and if you don't hear it then your deaf.
@@bobthebuilder2778 I guess I am deaf … honestly … just say what you mean!
Ok, I guess I understand the analogy that you find "a horrible example", i.e. the "concentration camp". BUT as a descendent of German Jews … that fled Germany as well as a friend of several who's parents survived concentration camp conditions, I find the analogy accurate. Incredibly sad, but still credible to anyone who has studied that time in history. Respectfully, yes … I understand that the analogy is possibly insensitive to many and agree that there might be better metaphor/analogies.
I listened to your explanation on trying to justify your method for gathering and testing but the facts are you have a bogus test. The test samples were not gathered correctly. IF you had tested the soil at the time you installed it, before you grew anything the way you did it would be fine. However after growing the garden with different plants the soil is no longer the same as different plants use different minerals at different rates. Rotating the crops does not make the different beds equal. Again you have bogus, inaccurate test results.
John Smith The soil is in the same yard! The compost she makes comes from the same pile! Yes, the plants use different nutrients, but if Ariel were to continue crop rotation and only test the soil coming from compost, she only has to do one test. Not a soil test for each bed, which is unnecessarily expensive, and I guarantee is not going to be very different. I disagree with you on saying Ariel is getting bogus results. She already gets tremendous results, and obviously has had alot of experience growing since a child. I have done tens of soil tests and I even have checked different labs using the SAME soil, and guess what? I get different results from using the same soil, sent to DIFFERENT labs! This is why I use Hyr Brix fertilizer and humic acid, so I never worry about anything, but the ph!
Scott Goodwin thank you for sharing your thoughts. That being said you are incorrect. The purpose of a soil test to know if a particular area is lacking in something. No farmer is going to test one field to get the results on 10 fields just because he has rotated crops regardless how close together the fields are. If she is getting such tremendous results, as you claim, then even doing a test was unnecessary. Again, you CANNOT mix soils from different plots and come up with accurate results for each plot when there are different variables like she has. If you could you would not even need to take soil from each plot. Just take it from one plot and be done with it. The test is bogus. Lastly your claim of getting different results from the same soil is just plain false. We ALL know that you did not use the same soil at different labs. You used different soil, perhaps from the same are, but different soil sent to different labs which proves my point. Her test results are false and do not correctly what her soil is like in each different plot.
Man, by that token the tests are bogus unless she individually tested samples from a couple dozen of areas where each species of plant had been grown.. totally cost-prohibitive for someone a growing a large variety. Mixing evenly collected samples together for a single test is a valid way of getting the average concentration of each nutrient in the entire growing area, which was the goal. Correct that rotating the crops does not make the different beds equal but it does put higher concentrations of particular nutrients at the roots of the plants that really slurp em because last year's plants in that particular spot probably didn't..
You've said your piece. Enough.
John Bilyeu, no the cost of doing it right IS NOT cost-prohibitive. However doing a test improperly and getting a bogus result IS cost-prohibitive. The only reason to do a test is because you want the best results from your soil as possible. There is no such thing as getting average. What you are suggesting is like a person needing several blood tests and taking their siblings along mixing the blood and averaging the results. She got bogus results.
What do people in concentration camps concentrate on?
James Parlane - Was your comment an attempt at humor? Or lack of World War II knowledge? Either way, the comment is extremely tone-deaf.
Perhaps you should join a focus group and focus on making the world a more friendly place?