BEWARE of Garden SOIL Watch Before You Buy to GROW & SEE FIX, Container Gardening, Raised Bed Garden
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Easy Free FIX for BAD SOIL, This is for Container gardening, raised bed garden, growing tomatoes, growing squash, growing zucchini, growing cucumbers and simply saying this can be a must know for growing any vegetable garden. Here I show you how to fix un-growable soil so you can later grow flowers or vegetables. Make sure you know the soils you are using are good, if you have issues growing, it may be the soil, not your weather or set up.
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Robbie ❣️ so glad hearing and seeing you again ❣️❣️❣️ Great video full of informations as always 👏 I had problem once with a bag of soil that it had many pieces of plastics. I put it all to my pots that I collect all the dead leaves and use it again... I can't throw away any soil.
Now I'm using a soil from a company that costs 12euros 70ltr and its the best. This spring I only used one bag fir my entire balcony gardens. Cause I already have great soil from the whole winter that I planted and composted in place, like you tought us🌟 with some leaf matters and kitchen scraps it will be fine.
I have earthworms now too Robbie ❣️ I've bought some plants from the flower shop and they had earthworms!!! I have them in my biggest tote with a zucchini and some layerings and feeding them. I hope they are happy 😊💗
Thank you so much Robbie for everything you teach us❣️ God bless your family 🙏 So happy to seeing you again ❣️🌟🌻
Everything you were doing now is so amazing, your garden, Your balcony garden sounds perfect.❤️ How wonderful you ended up with some earth worms from flower shop in a plant you bought, I am sure those of the happiest earth worms in Greece ❤️ Every thing sounds as perfect as it can be 💕❤️ how great you are creating your own soil, that all you need to do is buy very little now. Thank you for the Super Thanks 😊 💕❤️💕❤️
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasyyou are always so kind and sweet❤️❤️❤️ I don't know if these earthworms are the happiest in Greece but I sure know that I'm the happiest gardener when I see my balconies full of life thanks to your precious advices ❣️ Thank you so much Robbie ❣️🌟🌻 for keeping teaching us ❣️
This used to happen to me until I accidentally discovered layering. I left a potted plant on top of my open air compost bin 3 year ago, and i noticed it growing really vigorously. When I found your channel last year, I felt awesome because I saw this was a real way to grow. I don't really buy soil anymore, because I make my own too! Thank you for all of the encouragement and the awesome videos. I pray you and Gary are doing good. Much love from one of your biggest fans in San Diego!
Hi, we are doing okay, I think we are a bit slow these days, but we are doing one day at a time. SO glad we can help you to take off and grow and even not to buy soil, Gary does not use any bagged soil, I many times use just a bit, Thank you to You in Beautiful San Diego!
This is my first year gardening and I had no idea how different potting mixes are. I bought the cheapest that Home Depot had and it was full of rocks and plastic and trash. I bought Miracle Gro and my plants are massive. I bought some organic mix from Target and it looks more like mulch than potting soil. Lesson learned and I’ll be more discerning next year.
"Lawns can be treated with it"
I think that is a clue to the problem right there!
Municipalities are starting green waste collection to keep organic waste out of the landfill.
Way too many people use herbicides on their lawns. So any compost coming from Municipal organic collection is suspect.
I currently have sick pepper plants potted in purchased potting soil.
I will be making all my own compost and potting soil from now on.
Hi Robbie, I learned from you how to grow in totes. I put sticks, leaves, chicken bedding, grass clippings, veggie leaves, toilet paper rolls and it works. Yay, I have earthworms and I make my own stinky compost tea!!!🥰
Your lettuce is doing so good. It’s already too hot here in Missouri
Move them in the shade, in a cooler area
Miracle grow is the best i use it all the time dollar store soil is awful ive tired that too your a smart cookie
Thanks
I just had to come find your latest video to tell you that I have watched a lot of your videos and you encouraged me to go get a hummingbird feeder and try to attract them to my yard. Well, I have had my feeder up for only 3 days and today I saw my first hummingbird at it! I am excited about it. I'm in upstate NY right on the shore of Lake Ontario.
Anyway I just wanted to share and to thank you. 😀
Wow awesome ... I bought one too because of her ... Haven't set it up yet
I purchased some miracle grow potting mix this season and it was containimated with herbacide...my tomato plants have deformed, small leaves....
Making my own next year
Now that is a first, I will watch for that, like I said, they making them in batches, so each batch is different. Thanks for sharing this!
Can you provide the batch number from the bag??? Miracle Grow has a lot on the line if they are garbage. They can't demand a premium price if it is trash.
The last couple times I bought miracle grow it was like heavy wet mud and plants did not do well, I only buy pro mix or make my own compost
@@ChristynO nope. Threw the rest out, but it was my fault for purchasing it in the first place, I knew better.
@@kimmchenry4383 or its super bulky with wood chips
I bought a bag of soil and haven't used it yet. I saw that I got one of the bad soils that is going back tomorrow. I would never have know if not for you Robbie. Ty 🤗
THANK YOU FOR SPREADING THE WORD ABOUT PERSISTANT HERBICIDE!!! We bought bulk compost from a local nursery. My son's first garden. He thought he did something wrong! I called the nursery. She said they made their own compost and had never heard of this herbicide problem. It was "a lot of work" to send for testing. We don't buy from them anymore.
Robbie I use Miracle Grow too, I've never had a problem with it. I'm like you I add so much compost material from my house and garden. Having chickens has help my clay soil grow better vegetables. I love this video and all the tips.
I got some bad soil at Walmart, and I will never buy it again. Thank you for teaching us about soil! ❤😊😊❤
What brand was it? Thank you! :)
@a. c. It was the Expert brand in the yellow bag.
My friends get a kick out of saving their toilet paper rolls for my worms! Thank you!!! All of them aren't going into a landfill.
Hi there! I moved to GA from the north in 2008,- yes, 2008 (recession). It has been a process and it was challenging sometimes, but Georgia is now "home". I would say that all 10 of your reasons are true but anyone can overcome them. All said, Georgia is a beautiful state and it is on my mind😊.
BTW....potting soils are produced regionally for where they are sold. The ratios are set by the company. However up here in NW Oregon a lot of cedar is used in potting mixes...not a great thing.
PROMIX has an organic potting mix that is organic and comes in 2 cu ft blocks and was $11.89 per block! It's an annual sale they do I guess.
Pro-mix is the only soil I will purchase if needed, my plants love it
Jess over at ROOTS AND REFUGE was hit by the herbicide at her place. She found out it works fastest to plant green beans are a good test crop for persistent herbicides and will grow odly. I had 3way soil mix that had a HUGE amount of POTASSIUM in it that tied up the nitrogen so lettuce wouldn't grow in it. Egg plant LOVED it though. I grew a cover crop that fall and in spring tilled it under. These are raised beds, abot 200 Sq Ft of planting space. The second year was better. The only way to get rid of the excess potassium was to wash it out, which for me took 2 full seasons before it was at a balanced amount in that soil. I recommend if you buy a bulk soil mix to fill larger garden boxes or make raised garden areas...get it tested for nutrient levels!
Beans and tomatoes are particularly susceptible to that grazon, so testing with either of those plants gives a fast answer as to whether soil is safe or not.
I always test with beans or black eyed peas. They grow fast. Grazon sprayed on hay, which i used as a mulch three years ago, wiped out 1/3 of my in-ground beds and all my containers of tomatoes and peppers. I also used the hay in my chicken coop so my composed was compromised. I was so mad! I tested the compost with the grazon hay this spring and my bean testers look pretty good. Ill still probably leave it another year and then eventually use it for flower beds. Grazon is a crime!
I accidentally bought too much top soil and ended up with some extra bags. I mixed it with some of my crappy yard dirt, compost and kitchen scraps. I got things to grow in that mix.
Hey Robbie 🥰
HI!
Robbie l just love your videos. I am 62 and used to love plants but haven’t for sometime. Thanks to you l have my fingers in the dirt again and love it. My husband laughed at me this morning because I was so excited to take six tomatoes outside. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience with us. God bless you
My squash and zucchini have powdery mildew! They say it's harmless but I'd sure like to get rid of it. Love, love Robbie and Gary's gardening.
Our squash and zucchini have powdery mildew, due to the weather and it’s still growing tons of fruit. When the weather starts to dry, that will go away. You can go out early in the morning on a sunny day wash it really good and hope it dries quickly and you may be able to get it off, but I don’t bother.
I believe the herbicide you are talking about is grazon. I have only recently learned about this issue. So anyone that fed hay that was treated with grazon to their horse or cows, that herbicide is passed into the manure you may be using as fertilizer for your garden. I also used the bagged cow manure/ compost just recently as an amendment when planting seedlings this year. I mixed it with worm castings in each planting hole. So far I'm not seeing any problems maybe because it was such a small amount and the rest of my garden soil is compensating for it. I will not buy it again. I'm told it is safe to buy chicken manure/compost because chickens don't eat hay. But what if they used hay as bedding and it would be mixed in the manure. So for many reasons I am glad I found your channel and your all natural approach to growing healthy food. I have a bag of that garden line brand of soil I will be isolating to its own tote and like you amend it with scraps and leaves and such. Thank you so much for mentioning this issue.
Thanks Robbie!
You are so welcome, Thank you
Thanks again Robbie. Love the tips. I finally am growing lettuce by following your instructions in dish pans. Also pickup up a stock tank and it happen to have a dent and got a decent discount. I have saved on soil by how you showed us how to fill it. Thank you very much 😊
Oh Perfect! Thanks
Yes, I read all the labels on the potting 'soil". I also look at the opened bags to see what is inside
I’m happy to see you hope you feel better God bless you and Garry sending love from Las Vegas
Off soil topic. I put tulle around plants today. Robbie makes it look so easy when she does it. Some are wrapped and they are not pretty LOL
My tulle hoods like like poop, but they really help with the slugs. I use a glue gun to make it even more bug proof.
Its either fashion show or pest-free plants. Your pick
Hi Robbie,. I just love your videos. I have learned that herbacides do not kill grass and corn is a grass. Saw a video that said people buy manure or use it if grass is growing in it and it kills the garden. U could grow corn in the other soil as u let your scraps break down and use it in couple years. Don't remember if it takes two or three years for herbicides harmful effects to die. Thanks for all your uplifting videos. I agree about maggots...I feed them to my Chickies.
I think the best is to produce your own soil. I've once bought soil in which were some amphids 🐛 that ate all the 🍃 leaves of my plants. I could save my plants (lemon trees ..) only because I've changed the soil completely. Thanks for addressing this topic.
The brand I will never use again is the Kellogg brand of potting soil for raised bed garden soil. I went out and bought bag after bag to start my garden. I used it to fill huge pots and nothing ever grew. The problem I found was the top of the soil was bone dry and the bottom smells like sewage and was sopping wet. I then had to go out and buy bag after bag of other products to add to that horrid mix. You can complain to the company because this has been a huge problem for many and the companies gave refunds.
HI ROBBIE, I Love your hat. I'm listening and learning. We have already got zucchini and squash. It was delicious 😋 Thank you. LOVE YALL. ❤
Oh Wow, your garden is ahead of me, my squash are still small, I have used the unpollinated ones for smaller dishes, but waiting for the big Squash, Thanks!
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy yes ROBBIE MY hubby is so happy. He said we have worms in all the totes. YAY
Wow, Robbie! (New subscriber here) This was just the best video! I helped my daughter build her raised bed a several years ago. She had great growth for about 3 months and we wondered why. Now we know! Im going to make my own compost tea and I'm going to watch your videos on making my own soil. Thank you so much!
Thank you for this video! I didn't know they could get away with selling like this people are so dishonest these days
Great info, Robbie! I had no idea. Thanks
Glad to give you Ideas,
You’re such a great, experienced Gardner. I appreciate all your help!
Thanks 😊
This is my second year watching your videos and following your brilliant methods! But I don't know how you make soil so fast. I collected kitchen vegetable peelings (a whole bucket every 2 days) and took them out to the tubs all winter. Still, by spring I still felt I needed a generous layer of Miracle Grow potting mix on top. Maybe I'm filling it up too high. Still, your methods are much more economical than the old way I used to garden. My neighbors hate the tubs but I'm already eating lettuce and radishes I planted by seed and they just put in their starts. (Virginia, zone 6a)
There is lots of construction going on around my neighborhood and they tend to dig very deep into the ground. They will put most of that dirt on the side of their work area. Ask if you could have some or just take it because they want to get rid of it anyways. Mix that dirt with wood chips and leaf matter like Robbie was showing you in this vid and you should be good to go. I have been doing this for over the past 4 years and now all of my totes are completely broken down into fluffy soil full of worms and other microbes. I also did this with a 8'x4'x4' compost bin that I built from large slabs of wood. tons of scraps that still had seeds from squash, sweet potatoes, and other plants have grown without me doing a thing. I even never watered it. It ended up producing 20 butternut squashes and 25 sweet potatoes. And that happened in the first year of me setting it up back in 2021. I have since been letting the weeds grow in it so that I can use them to feed my other plants. I plan to plant lots of food in my compost bin this year. I hope this help you on your journey. Good luck.
It takes awhile to get enough compost, continue using Miracle Grow. Ask your neighbors if you can come by and pick up their kitchen scraps every couple days, repay with some of those tons of zucchinis you will be harvesting. Ask people for their bagged leaves in the fall and grass clippings if they don't spray their lawn with chemicals. People are all about recycling these days you might be surprised by strangers just showing up with stuff because of a neighbor mentioning what you need!
WOW...wish I saw this video before I spent hundreds on soil!...well so called soil!...I was wondering why I was seeing cloth and what looked like wire in some of the bags!! Thought it got in there by accident!! Will def have to start making my own!
I have been lucky....i have used the homedepot manure...the 2 dollar bags😮 and all my plants growing good... still use it because is cheap and my dirt here its just sand..florida
your channel is the only one that really makes gardening simple to understand. it shouldn't be rocket science, just common sense science. and you really have to wonder how in the world farmers grow crops in soil that is so depleted year after year, and then fed to us. there can't be much real life in that farm soil.
I use the miracle grow potting mix only. I used to forget which one to get the mix or soil.
I get mix & use it for plants and vegetables. If it says grows twice as big I no I have the right one.never had a problem. Wow good info Robbie ty
Hi Robbie!! I'm starting a compost tote using lots of kitchen scraps-food like fruits veggies etc and some paper. I have lots of ants and fruit flies. I dont see yours like that so im getting discouraged. Is that normal and how can I fix this issue? Please help. Thank you kindly!
I do get fruit flies, and they are doing a great job breaking down the matter into compost, so do not worry, and for ants, that is hit and miss here, and I do not worry about ants, they are doing the same thing. Hummingbirds eat the fruit flies.
Oh thank you so much! I'll keep going then! Happy Gardening!
This happened to me this year. I made my own mix with peat and compost / manure and topsoil mix brown save money filling large grow bags. Two out of my five 15 gallon had no seedlings grow. They germinated and then completely stopped and some turned yellow or red. Other containers had no issue. I didn’t write down what was different in those two but specifically but I’m thinking the culprit was a chicken manure/ compost mix from Walmart.
I use the yellow bag & I have a lot of success🌱Very informative video 🤗Thanks Robbie 😊
Well that explains why I have a miniature garden!!😂
For years I've had very good luck with Kellogg products, and will continue to use the Patio Pus potting mix. It's still a family-owned company that was originally in Southern CA. I've also found Miracle Grow to be good, but it's much higher-priced. Right now, the 1.5 cubic-foot bag of Kellogg is just under $8 at Lowe's (it's gone up at Home Depot). I've never considered the Dollar store product as it's such a small quantity it's not worth it.
Just want to share my experience purchasing bagged topsoil from Home Depot last year. It was FULL of junk, lots of bits of plastic, even found a full plastic fork.
Thanks for sharing
Hi Robbie. The "bad" soil just might do for flowers and other non-food items.
Good info for those not aware of toxic soil. Thank you.
Your compost is very resourceful. My compost is mainly food for the local animals.
Horse manure from the barn needs hot composting to kill off weed seeds.
I’ve learned so much from you Garden Robbie. I’ve been watching your channel since I started my pandemic Garden 🪴 Thank you 🙏
This year I went with an Organic Soil. I usually buy Miracle Grow
The herbicide is called GRAZON and if you get it through store bought soil mix . It will take 2 plus years to recover your garden if you mixed into your soil. Or shovel it all out and start over. Been there do it and it sucks!
Thank you so very much for taking your time to share with us. I have learn a ton with you.
Thank you Robbie+
You are so welcome, Thank you
Great idea to use the ? soil as a composter and test bin. Bet it grows great with all that compost you put in! lol I was nervous when I saw the MG potting mix cause I used that to start my seeds this season....almost all my starts did well in it with a few additions to the mix like worm castings, a bit of vermiculite.
Thanks for sharing this video very helpful
You are SO welcome, Thank you!
Thank you so much for the information.
That's great that you're using the pepper tree's leaves as you said that it goes after the water in your totes
You are amazing Robbie!
I been enjoying making my own.
I love this channel, its just full of valuable information, great education that is well taught. Certainly deserves their own T.V show..point blank.
Hi Robbie. I haven’t written in a few days. Hope you and Gary are doing better by now. Hugs
Thank you for making this video, liked and subscribed.
I think you are honest and are really here sharing how you succeed through the years of gardening. I watched many gardening channels and what they share is the knowledge that is out there in the books and online, not though real experiences and failures, it is like many cooks out there, they just don't want to share the real recipe. Your videos really help beginners gardeners like me that keep failing and spent too much money with little results.
Thanks Robbie, and God bless
The big green bag of garden soil is sold at Walmart, and I have bought several bags of it to mix with top soil and to refresh potting soil. I grow houseplants and outdoor flowers. I have never tried to grow food plants in it. My cannas and gladiolus bulbs are popping up like crazy in it. I also amended it by placing the mixture on top of pooped on hay, courtesy of my cousin’s cows.
Thank you. I got some of the same ones last year and put in some of the totes. Things came up, turned yellow and died. I didn't know if I had done something wrong or what happened. Then I got some of the Miracle-Gro and put in other totes and those did great. But, I was so discouraged by the other thinking I wasn't doing it right that I wasn't going to do much this year. But, I just had to try again. This really helped me understand what happened because some of the bags you had were the same kind I had gotten last year. Including the Miracle-Gro. So now I am going to get some more of it and try more. The tomatoes and cucumbers are doing good so far. Going to fill up some of the other totes with some good stuff. And try again. You are so very helpful and I appreciate what you share with us. Thank you.
Thanks very much. This is very helpful.
I had bought some of the Dollar Tree potting mix. After it didn't work in my ini😂testing, I mixed the rest of it in with compost, perlite, and good potting soil.
I’m new at gardening and it’s amazing how much I don’t know. Thank-you for sharing all your knowledge. I’m finding it to be very helpful. 🌸
Thank you so much for the follow up video at the end on how to try to salvage bad soil.i hate to throw soil out!!
You are so welcome, thank you 😊
We have a tomato coming up in a tote we just started 😁
Thanks for sharing! Blessings to you❣️
Thank you for sharing Robbie, I'm here trying to cover everything I can, we're supposed to get a frost tonight.
I moved to a new house, so I will be setting up a new garden in containers and will have to use bagged soil. I plan on using Miracle Gro and Pro Mix because I’ve always had good results with them. I tried soil from the Dollar Tree last year and nothing grew in it. I plan on gathering up weeds and leaf matter and also using kitchen scraps, paper and cardboard in the bottom and then using potting mix on the top. After this first season, I should be able to make enough of my own soil and hopefully not have to buy any more. Thanks for all of the great information you share with us!
I've had contaminated soil. I actually didn't throw it out. Sunflowers will grow in it, & suck out the contamination (over a long period).
Hemp will do that too, and it doesn't have to be medicinal hemp! But can we compost those sunflowers then?
Excellent info!
@kleineroteHex now that's a good question. I did use the stalks for various things involving composting. So far this year it hasn't affected my plants. When I had the heavily contaminated soil, I noticed within the first few days. Maybe if you composted 50 stalks it would have an effect, I had about 10 total.
@@The_Remnant86 good to know, thanks.
Oh shoot, I have been growing with that HD manure and raised bed soils!!!!!!!😮
Farmers also use Grazon on there hay and grass fielsds, if the manure is used it will kill your veggie plants dead but they may grow to a certain level then wilt over and die. Great video.
Eager to see how your experiment works. I recently purchased some of the Miracle Grow Potting Mix, like 6 bags, and some Schultz Garden Soil from Menards. I will never buy the Schultz Garden Soil again, even though I only used two bags of it in with the six bags of the better stuff, it was so completely full of huge pieces of wood, barely any actual dirt in it at all! Don't buy it guys, unless you'd rather pretty much have mulch with a tiny bit of dirt.
Hey Robbie I am dealing with this now my tomato’s have deformed all this season and not producing they sprayed GRAZON on the Hay they fed the cattle and it came out the cow still in it they bagged and sold to me at Lowell big box store. It can last up to 5 years so now it will cost me 2500.00 to get rid of it all and buy all new clean organic soil, I’m very angry this is my 2nd year dealing with this mess. These farmers don’t seem to know their manure is tainted and not good for gardening. I hope it comes back to haunt them because they’ve cost me a fortune that I cannot afford. Thank you for the heads up we need to share this and spread it to everyone.
Awesome~👍
Thank you for sharing these tips~🤗
Thank you😊
Im having issues with clay dirt in my backyard. I've added garden soil, peatmoss and perlite last year but my veggies still had a severe slow growth. Ive decided to just plant flowers instead but I do have veggies in pots
You are adding the wrong things! You need to cover it with a foot or more (deeper is better) of arborist wood chips during the rainiest time of year. Leave it break down, but if you want to plant into it right away just make a pocket in the chips until you reach the clay, add a double handful of gypsum, some food scraps or garden waste, and finally some compost or potting soil. Find or buy some compost worms and add them to your first few holes. It is similar to the way Robbie layers her containers only in the soil. You will need to top up the chips at least once a year, but if you are lucky you can get them for free. I have been able to create a lush food forest on difficult clay using this technique.
Clay is magical stuff - full of nutrients - but you need to improve it's structure to make it available to your plants. Wood chips and gypsum will help you do that.
Hi Robbie great tip on the soil. I started sifting native soil. So far so good dear. Thank you for your video today I learned a lot. God bless you and Gary love you 😘 both. How's the weather there??? It's going to freeze here in Pennsylvania. I do have a question I did plant a few things like sweet corn in red solo cups there outside. And transferred flowers. I did cover everything with sheets. Now in the morning do I water them as soon as it gets warm out or should I water the plants after I take the sheets off my plants?? Please help me
Thanks for sharing 👍 😊
Thank you Robbie so much 🥰
I use weeds (ones that haven't gone to seed yet) as a top mulch in all my veggie garden areas. I figure the weeds have stolen nutrients from my pots they may as well get cut up and put back on top to help keep the top covered and cooler on these hot days ahead. Everyone with a yard has tons of free weeds to use if they haven't been sprayed with an herbicide.
Thank you Robbie, i have always used miracle grow in my raised tomato beds, but I did not know the other soil could be that bad to grow in.
Hi Robbie, great video! I wish I had known this last year when I was getting my totes up and running. I bought soil from Aldi and from $Tree thinking I was saving money. I had a plant 'disaster rate' of about 95% until I wised up and bought Miracle Grown and started a few things over again. All that time and $ wasted....SMH. Thank you for all of your wisdom and tips and tricks that you share with us!
Kelloggs Patio Plus all the way for me! I have also used many bags of that steer manure and its been 100% fine. But I make most of my own soil, use all the leaves and such from the yard, compost in place & 2 system/pitcher method like you too.
I bought that dollar tree soil and couldn't grow a thing in it. my lettuce was exactly like the one you showed.
I was wondering could you please do a video on stack containers I have a very small patio I live in a senior apartment I'm wanting to grow kale spinach and strawberry. Do I still compost my little dividers and add worms and feed them compost tea? Thank you
I never garden successful. How do I figure out how many plants to plant if I want to eat a pound-and-a-half of kale and spinach a day or more.😊 do you give classes?
You help me soooo much !❤
As for the 18gal totes, I’m growing (4) zucchini per tote. Each plant has 4-5 zucchini growing crazy on them. Not sure why you said you can only grow 1 in them. I can’t get mine to stop growing…..LoL
Much appreciated explanatory video, Robbie. So I've realized I'll be ending up with way more cherry tomato plants than I'll require this season. Great news for the food pantry, however they've NO garden space...so I'll be the one growing them. Anyhow, most my totes are 18gal., some are 20 or 30gal. I want to utilize the totes best I can w/o crowding anything. Do you have any suggestions of what to plant or links to previous videos that provide examples??
Our food pantry is struggling because grocery store corporations are no longer allowing their stores to donate most foods. This means something as basic as a loaf of bread is getting returned instead of marked down or donated. I found out this malevolent news after yelling at my grocery store managers because my friend at our pantry is also a manager & she couldn't understand why the store had all but ceased donating food. I've NEVER been fond of dealing with the Corporate office of any business, however....this stunt is beyond despicable! Much love & healing, ~ Covah
I use miracle grow and I mix it with my compost, paper rolls , and garden leaves 🍃 I have no problems.
Thank you for this information. I do use the yellow bag and it works for me. Ive been starting doing the layering in my containers and it absolutely is marvelous darling. Lol. Thank you sgain. Take care and just do one day at a time.
mushrooms could potential be used to breakdown the persistent herbicides , as they have the ability to change there adaptive enzymes in order to eat new food sources , and commercially they are often grown on straw which is likely to contain the persistent herbicide , mixing wood chips into soil then introduce mushroom spore then mulching surface with wood chip ..
I bought a tape roll of lettuce to put on the soil. It has been on the ground for about a week and nothing….it had some kind of green dust under it scary,,,
I'm from France. But here, I've heard from users to avoid buying seed tapes. Low germinating rates overall. That was a complaint for every brand. Of course, some people have success, but the majority of the feedback is negative. Homemade seed tapes seem to work better, as people at least have a better knowledge of where their seeds come from and what type of tape they are using.
Thank you so much for explaining this thoroughly. I have been trying to do what I watched you do a long time ago and this clears up a lot of things for me.
Thanks so much
I started several different tomato starts and used a mix of various soils. I had collected some potting soil from someone giving it away because they were moving from a rented apartment. I was suspicious because there were no worms and it was very sandy dense. Sure enough the seedlings in that soil are stunted compared to the others. I've re-potted them in my compost and they are doing better. Crossing my fingers. I'm trying what you are with the problem soil . I'm using it layered in a Compost-In-Place tote system and then putting a 2nd layer of pots I know have many worms in them. I'm hoping that will improve the quality of the problem soil over time. But I wonder really if its safe to salvage. . .if the food grown in it will be ok. If herbicides kill off plants, and if it passes thru in the manure, then if we consume food from that soil, does it kill off our own good gut bacteria? Not sure of this invasion of chemicals not part of the natural processes.