Dirt Poor Farmer: Harvest Free Garden Bed Soil
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- Опубліковано 12 кві 2024
- 2 cu feet of soil barely covers one 17 foot row and costs a pretty penny. I decided there is a better way, by cleaning up my driveway edges and producing fine shifted soil for my garden area! See how I did it.
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Great idea and the weeds and grass will make great compost to amend back to the soil for next season
I like the way you think!
I always say I'm not cheap, I'm frugal!
Grow a winter kill covercrop on that soil this fall. It will add organic matter above & below ground & help bust up clay via root infiltration. Peaceful Valley makes a good winter kill covercrop blend for sale in small quantity. Just web search.
I have acres of clover, but my soil is still very heavy!
@RockinBarBRanch Web search the online SARE covercrop guide. Some covercrops provide massive root depth & above ground mass. Sorghum sudangrass is one of those, if you do multiple cuttings. It is not a winter kill crop generally speaking.
You can ask your state extension service for recommendations on covercropping heavy clay soil. I was also referring to your garden beds, not fields. It will be much easier to manage & requires little machinery. I have terminated over-winter Covercrops by hand on garden beds. The advantage to CCs is the so the hard work for you both above & below ground (where you need to bust the clay & provide organic matter the most.)
One Word: Wormcomposter
those things make the best soil out of your food-scraps
Even the most dead earth gets revitalized with some wormcastings
All you need is a DIY wormcomposter out of some bins/buckets
It's on my list of projects, that seems to grow and grow over the years!
Thank you for sharing!
My pleasure!
Gypsum, unfinished compost & perlite (or the soil you've got) should work, but there's a series of videos by a female canadian gardener who has some great videos on soil rehabilitation that I think would help you massively.
I'll check it out, thanks!
Sure would help if you identify this Canadian UA-camr
It's literally "Gardening in Canada". That is the name of the channel. Watch and learn.
You can also dry out your grass, and (provided it hasn't gone to seed) compost it to make dirt. Do you compost your leaves and grass clippings? What about lint from dryers? Thanks for sharing!
I use my leaves for the chicken coop and then put in garden for organic material. I use lint to start fires and then use ashes on garden. Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment!
Can you throw some logs, the chunky clay and all that other stuff including the grass on the bottom to fill and then use the bagged nice stuff for the top to plant into? Kind of like hugelkultur.
I have used hugelkultur in more of a raised bed situation but for these in ground rows it would seem to be more work than I want to do. I maintain a large amount of property so my labor and time needs to be used at maximum efficiency given a limited budget and thirty mindset.
Could you put the hard clay stuff on top of cardboard maybe it would soften it... but you are doing an awesome job you don't have to spend any money and that soil you are grating looks nice and damn just like at the store!!!!!
@@haleyoneil9172 That is a good idea I will try in the future All one can due is try different things until we find the answer. Yes, free is good!
@@RockinBarBRanch yup I do some gardening not as advanced as you are by far but I also don't buy soil from the store!!! I love love love growing strawberries and I gather my soil from our old fire pits and I cut up my clippings and leaves really fine and it works so very good for my strawberries I hand scoop every little shovel of the fire pit I use and inspect it thoroughly... good for the soul!!!!!
@@haleyoneil9172 Sounds like you do a great job recycling nature's resources. Gardening is definitely therapeutic and free sound mental break!
Add some gypsum. It will help break down the clay
Where do you buy that, unfamiliar with that amendment.
Farm fleet, Tractor supply, Amazon or any place you get soil amendments.
I gotta ask - which dinosaur was making that ruckus?
The gander, of course, he is a real screamer!