Hello Mark, your home made compost may have been too strong as well as other have said maybe not deep enough. Nice comparison and very useful for others to learn from. I personally don't thin carrots when done in a row. ♻️Happy gardening, Terry King.
Really great to see the comparison of the 2 beds. I'm contemplating no dig beds as square foot for the first year at least. So I appreciate the time you've taken. Thanks Jane
Hi Mark, I would give the huglekulture bed a year or so for the wood to die and have more mycelium, my raised beds have lovely threads of mycelium after couple of years, plants are thriving, I will give seed tapes a go next year great video... Steve
Never had much luck with seed tape on the allotment but it grew well in a raised bed in the greenhouse. Congratulations on what you've achieved because it's better than what I did 😊
We finally had some rain yesterday after about 40 days pure sun no cloud no breeze, I think the hugelkulture bed needs a deeper bed but interesting results the compost lettuce is lush, fab vlog mark have a great week 🥰
We had super loud thunder last night but no lightening and today it absolutely poured 🥳. You could teach Tony how to grow carrot tape, it’s a bit faffy but cutting the top off the one you want out is better than trying to pull them and disturb others. Perhaps microbes in the compost or 😱 fungus rot from the rotting wood underneath. 😂 you set out a smorgasbord for the critters. Happy Father’s Day happy gardening, Ali ☔️🌦️🇨🇦
Lettuces are what we'd call "knackered" we had a downpour late lastnight and early this morning. Now my garden is well watered everything has grown an inch. Including weeds. I'm going to try seed tape out of curiosity for next year..
Mark your Hugelkultur (inspired) bed seems to be a lot drier than the other one, I went back and saw how you did it and you didn't bury the material deep enough below the rootzone in my opinion, and added what looked like fresh branches/twigs and some freshly fallen leaves.. this is fine if you're digging a deeper hole and covering it with a good layer of compost/top soil but in this case the roots of your plants will soon come into contact with this material which is in fact only just starting the decomposition process.. I only use weathered branches, logs etc that have spent at least a year outside exposed to the elements.. You would see a big difference if you found some old thicker logs/branches that could be easily broken and crushed with your hands/feet, and leaves that had a spent at least 6 months breaking down (preferably a year) The lettuce looks to be suffering from not enough water and potentially root burn from the nitrogen being released, i think this bed will outperform the adjacent one next season if you add more compost on top. Thanks for the update and look forward to seeing your progress .
Im not convinced that rotting wood and carrots go well together. Last year my carrots had white mould over them and im convinced its due to the wood in the bed.
Your beds are not deep enough for hugel culture. Need at least 6” of soil/compost on top… preferably 12”. That is probably what is causing your variations on your two test beds.
I like to thin when very young its not the top growth its the actual carrot root itself if you leave it you will disturb the root you want to keep as you pull the ones you don't so i thin very soon after germination while the root is very thin to avoid disturbance
@@myrustygarden - ah, I think I saw that video. Cutting also means the scent isn’t released or something as well. Now I just have to get in under the cover and snip away. I’m so afraid of getting that darned fly again. I’m running out of ‘clean’ space for carrots, so I don’t want to lose this bed as well.
@@myrustygarden - because we love carrots I dedicated a 4 x 8 ft raised bed to them and I’ve kept them covered. They’re going great guns, but I’m terrified of letting the darn root fly in under the cover. Silly, eh? O well. When I return from the MS ride (hubby’s riding, but I can’t this year) I shall find a way to clip some tops. Thanks for the advice! Garden on, girl!
Must be careful to not bury the tape too deep, also it helps to keep the soil moist, watering the line a little every day or 2 to help the seeds germinate
Hello Mark, your home made compost may have been too strong as well as other have said maybe not deep enough. Nice comparison and very useful for others to learn from. I personally don't thin carrots when done in a row.
♻️Happy gardening, Terry King.
Really great to see the comparison of the 2 beds. I'm contemplating no dig beds as square foot for the first year at least.
So I appreciate the time you've taken. Thanks Jane
Hi Mark, I would give the huglekulture bed a year or so for the wood to die and have more mycelium, my raised beds have lovely threads of mycelium after couple of years, plants are thriving, I will give seed tapes a go next year great video... Steve
Never had much luck with seed tape on the allotment but it grew well in a raised bed in the greenhouse. Congratulations on what you've achieved because it's better than what I did 😊
We finally had some rain yesterday after about 40 days pure sun no cloud no breeze, I think the hugelkulture bed needs a deeper bed but interesting results the compost lettuce is lush, fab vlog mark have a great week 🥰
So many tomato plants! Hope you have lots of people to share the produce with 😊
We had super loud thunder last night but no lightening and today it absolutely poured 🥳. You could teach Tony how to grow carrot tape, it’s a bit faffy but cutting the top off the one you want out is better than trying to pull them and disturb others. Perhaps microbes in the compost or 😱 fungus rot from the rotting wood underneath. 😂 you set out a smorgasbord for the critters. Happy Father’s Day happy gardening, Ali ☔️🌦️🇨🇦
Lettuces are what we'd call "knackered" we had a downpour late lastnight and early this morning. Now my garden is well watered everything has grown an inch. Including weeds. I'm going to try seed tape out of curiosity for next year..
Mark your Hugelkultur (inspired) bed seems to be a lot drier than the other one, I went back and saw how you did it and you didn't bury the material deep enough below the rootzone in my opinion, and added what looked like fresh branches/twigs and some freshly fallen leaves.. this is fine if you're digging a deeper hole and covering it with a good layer of compost/top soil but in this case the roots of your plants will soon come into contact with this material which is in fact only just starting the decomposition process..
I only use weathered branches, logs etc that have spent at least a year outside exposed to the elements.. You would see a big difference if you found some old thicker logs/branches that could be easily broken and crushed with your hands/feet, and leaves that had a spent at least 6 months breaking down (preferably a year)
The lettuce looks to be suffering from not enough water and potentially root burn from the nitrogen being released, i think this bed will outperform the adjacent one next season if you add more compost on top.
Thanks for the update and look forward to seeing your progress .
Spot on, grow my tomatoes and peppers in raised Hugel inspired beds they are at knee/ thigh height built with breeze blocks, have excellent results.
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Im not convinced that rotting wood and carrots go well together. Last year my carrots had white mould over them and im convinced its due to the wood in the bed.
Your beds are not deep enough for hugel culture. Need at least 6” of soil/compost on top… preferably 12”. That is probably what is causing your variations on your two test beds.
I was just going to say the same thing!
The home made compost may have been too strong as well.
Happy gardening, Terry King.
Q: how tall can the greenery get on carrots before one needs to thin? I have to go out of province for a bit and I’m worried.
I like to thin when very young its not the top growth its the actual carrot root itself if you leave it you will disturb the root you want to keep as you pull the ones you don't so i thin very soon after germination while the root is very thin to avoid disturbance
Malcolm Kingswell used to use a tiny pair of scissors to cut the top off and stop the growth of the unwanted carrot
@@myrustygarden - ah, I think I saw that video. Cutting also means the scent isn’t released or something as well. Now I just have to get in under the cover and snip away. I’m so afraid of getting that darned fly again. I’m running out of ‘clean’ space for carrots, so I don’t want to lose this bed as well.
@@francesbatycki404 mine are in the brassica cage in a raised box last year they were decimated by caterpillars 🐛
@@myrustygarden - because we love carrots I dedicated a 4 x 8 ft raised bed to them and I’ve kept them covered. They’re going great guns, but I’m terrified of letting the darn root fly in under the cover. Silly, eh? O well. When I return from the MS ride (hubby’s riding, but I can’t this year) I shall find a way to clip some tops. Thanks for the advice! Garden on, girl!
I had no germination with my carrot tape and got 6 beetroot come up from the tape, but I think it was user error I will try again 😊
Must be careful to not bury the tape too deep, also it helps to keep the soil moist, watering the line a little every day or 2 to help the seeds germinate
@@korzer thank you will try not as deep next time 👍