Cover Your Survival Garden With Hay And This Will Happen
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- The amazing results of simply mulching your garden with hay or straw may surprise you.
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How cool to come to this video after neglecting the comments for two days and find such rich and informative conversations happening. Thanks everyone for making the comments sections so good. You rock!
Have you just put the hay onto lawn? How you get to that stage under the mulch how much time it took? Please
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I like your Gardening tips! I grow as much of my food as I can my artichokes are going crazy
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Most important you need to do fermented on it
Thank you for sharing your experience. 20 days ago I planted 30 seed potatoes in spoiled hay and they are already poking through. I did a very successful no watering back to eden garden last year and am in the process of replanting this year. Been gardening for 50 years and wished I knew this a long time ago. I guess 81 is not to late to learn.
zpoedog every day’s a school day
I heard someone say you never stop learning no matter how old you get....I believe it!
I wish you all the best
First time I am trying to garden this year. Much info out there. But this compost/mulch system does look promising.
Question....do you use any poo compost like chicken or cow manure?
Or does the grass hay and or just compost from other plants such as leaves from trees have enough nutrients in them to feed the garden?
@@flatout5815 Just hay.
Love the nasturtiums! I had not noticed them before. Great peppery flavor in the leaves and the blossoms are fabulous in salads as well. Kudos!
I've been binge-watching your videos since I discovered your channel yesterday. Truly a source of inspiration, as I am planning to get a house with land in the next two or three years. Plus you two seem so kind, it's hard not to want to be friends with you!
What a lovely episode :) You are making your dreams come true and I want to follow the same path with a big garden in the future and provide our household with greens.
All these tips on how to keep a homestead is really inspiring :) Lots of love from Denmark
I like how both you and Bri make great videos, so I'm happy to watch all of them! Thanks!
Great job. I have been mulching for many years now no more back problem. What a simple solution.
Thank you for sharing another great day with us. Blessings...
Utterly brilliant method for vegetable growing. Years ago, I had a load of old hay available. I spread the old hay all over to a depth of abut 3-4 inches, wetted it down and let the worms, microorganisms, and fungi do the hard 'spadework'. An easy, quick start is to simply dibble in good quality plantlets from a reputable nursery, or pop in a line of bean seeds or potatoes. When the inevitable weed pops up, heel it to destruction. Soil condition soared.
I am so excited to see how your garden is doing!!!!! Can't wait to see ya'll do winter veg!!! Blessings to all on your homestead ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks, this is what we're doing with the garden this year. Looking forward to seeing the results!
Thank you so much. No matter what I tried in my suburban garden, it never worked well. My soil is great but the weeds are horrible. I will try this this spring in my vegetable beds. I love how you work through your soil with your hands. I have a lot of rocks in our beds which I’m trying to weed out. Again, this is s great video! Looking forward to looking at your next ones.
Love how he literally "gets his hands dirty' - - nothing better... and the ideas are so simple and work. Cool - thanks.
I'm so excited to be getting a big delivery of old hay bales in couple of weeks for our veggie garden down under. I've got hard sand stone sandy infertile soils surrounded by Aussie bush and many eucalypts on my block. Building good soil is just in year 2 and it is hard work. This hay method looks like to will work well for me too. First I used free wood chips and after a year they are only beginning to compost. Surprisingly some things survived in the eucalyptus chip mulch.
Ruth Stouts deep mulch looks great like what you guys have done. I'm also growing woolly vetch again to create more biomass and mulch even more and have a good feed for my chooks! Love all your videos and your garden looks great! You have a beautiful family.
Hugs and love to all of you guy's. Miss the kids and also Briana. You are a good gardener Arthur love it.
You have such a kind nature. It is refreshingly relaxing to watch your videos. Thank you for sharing your research and expertise 🤗
I wholeheartedly agree. Great video lovely comment
Omg! I was saying the same thing to myself. Thanks for sharing🙌
I love to see such nice soil! Someone couldn't believe I was harvesting potatoes with my hands last year
Heavy mulch is the single best thing one can do for their soil. I once decided to make a “raised bed” on my heavy clay soil with St. Augustine grass. I outlined the area were I wanted the raised bed and laid down a few layers of newspaper right on the grass. Then I added about 8” of mulch down to create a fake “raised bed”.
I planned to come back and move the mulch back and improve individual holes to plant in rather than the whole bed. I put one plant in, and then sort of forgot about it. It stayed weed free, and about a year later when I went to plant in it, the whole bed was nice rich, black soil down for several feet!
My soil went from a very dense, stinky grey sludge, to beautiful rich soil with almost no effort on my part. I have been using the technique ever since. I am working on mulching my new place. In the past I have hired people to do it, but they never do it well at all.
All my new gardens are made this way now.
Awesome!!! 👏👏👏
Thank you for sharing !
Good video, you show how to look cool by making gardening easy! Bet your crops love the cooler temperature of the soil when it is a baking hot day with the added bonus of moisture retention. I don't throw my food waste away and keep topping up the borders with shredded leaves in winter and grass clippings in summer. Garden here is proper blooming booming.
Thank you for this very informative video. Short, sweet, and to the point just the way I like it!!!
I love this method. I tell people it's the lazy way to garden. But my soil looks better than anyone around me.
Work smarter not harder 😁
We are feeding our goats, cows, and horses organic round bales in the garden right now. Between the hay and manure, our soil should be super rich by the spring. We're in NW Fl so our soil was pretty much sterile sand when we started our garden last summer (new homestead, we moved from Va.). I'm so excited to see how rich it is when planting time comes around. :)
Ruth Stout was a No-Till and No-Bare-Earth gardener who became quite famous in organic gardening circles in the 1970's and 1980's. She wrote several books-- still available (used) on AMAZON. She had numerous entertaining articles published in Rodale's "Organic Gardening" magazine. She was one of the first to teach the hay/straw method of organic gardening. No tiller ever. And intensive heavy coverage of the earth with straw/hay all year long. I call her a pioneer because back then, even organic gardeners plowed/tilled and used cover crops. She basically planted her seeds and transplants the same easy way that Art demonstrates in this video. The long-term benefits of heavy hay/straw mulching are astonishing. The "Back to Eden" gardening method is the same exact concept except he uses wood chips instead of hay. Either way you will have amazingly alive, rich soil in just a few years (usually faster with the hay because it decomposes quicker) and it just gets better each year! I use both methods. Ruth Stout was a lovely brilliant woman. her books and articles were an informative and fun read.
Mary Mercedes I have all of her books, and a lot of her articles. I just love her method, and it's better than anything I have ever used where I live.
Sheila6325, Great! We need to keep Ruth Stouts spirit and methods alive. Few people seem to know about her "lazy" gardening methods anymore. I lost her books somewhere along he way of my many moves in life. I see that Amazon still has them and they have held their value. I wish I had saved all those Organic Gardening magazines.
I use woodchips and fallen leaves for my garden. Go around the block on trash day grabbing all the leaves. I pile them all up in the fall cover them with some branches to keep them in place and then plant in the spring just like the video above.
Will the Ruth Stout method work if the best open space in your garden is surrounded by trees?
Lina B
So much the better, they need abt 6 hrs of sun and tree shade helps them keep moisture
I think I will do that in my garden this fall. Thanks for sharing your garden tips.
I use hay and started using it 4 yrs ago. My soil is loose and wonderful. I keep adding hay as the other breaks down. Sometimes in the spring I use my garden fork to aerate the soil, plant, and add more hay. I would use grass clippings but the bag on my mower doesn't work very good.
ps to previous post, I have tree trimming companies bring loads of wood chips and let those decompose for 3 years until they make a rich nutrient filled mix to add in the garden and flowers. the chips are also used in the garden paths to keep weeds and grass down
Short, sweet, and packed with knowledge. ~Smile!
Great video my grandmother did this also growing up in Kentucky as a kid she showed us all kinds of stuff wish we could go back to that generation it seem to be a lot smoother little harder but it went a lot smoother
I find straw to be friendlier than hay...less weed seeds to deal with but when you mulch deep enough the seeds are less likely to germinate anyway. Are, you're so calm that you make me too relaxed to work!
Vicki ulrich - I am in South East England. I covered all my fav newly rooted rose cuttings and bulbs with more compost and then a layer of straw to help them thru the winter but it's raining quite heavily almost everyday here. Just worried my plants / bulbs might rot due to excess moisture from straw.. Pls advice
Thank you for this simple nugget of pure gardening gold
Amazing what can be learned in a few minutes of wisdom. God bless your precious family--you have the right way of thinking to make a home sweet home!
Always so relaxing watching your vids! I'm definitely looking at doing something like this. While there is something special about seeing our vegetable fields ploughed by horse the weeding that follows over the course of summer is quite an effort. Already started a Hügelbed but mulching with hay also looks effective on so many levels.
I have never used hay but it looked wonderful when you showed the soil under the hay...very impressive.
I lay manure and then compost then mix it rake it and then lay hay down .
Also I use bark chippings . Keeps it warmer in winter time
I live in NE Florida and have been using pine straw which comes in typical bales. After planting vegetables, I put down a thick, fluffy covering which blocks our most weeds. It's great for moisture retention. You can buy bales from Home Depot, Lowes.
I have been grass mulching since 1969. I just moved away 2 years ago to a southern state. I have to start all over and it is hard. My ground was so fertile and fluffy. Now I have clay and had to start over with raised beds. I already put down grass, hay and straw. Thanks for your video.
Thanks for the mulching video! Your vegetables look beautiful.
Ive been a big yard person but with landscape plants/shrubs the last 15 years. I have over 300 daylillies , irises and all kinds of over stuff. All these years I dont know why I have never planted a veg garden. This year I plan on doing it. Ive been doing something very similar to your method here but with bermuda clippings I bag with my mower. I pile all the clippings on a tarp and wheelbarrow over to a spot I just cleared off and spread it like mulch(3-4 inches thick) I like to do this when the bermuda goes dormant. The clippings are light brown just like your hay, except the clippings are super fine so they break down alot faster, Been doing this method for about 3-4 years and the soil is solid black. This spot is where I will be planting a small garden this season. I am expecting hopefully a good harvest.
I am in the end of the second year of using the Stout method in my kitchen garden. She said in her book, the magic year is year three. The longer it goes, the blacker and richer the soil becomes. I started out with red, sandy soil and now, under the hay the soil is black and rich and if I rake the hay back like you did in the video, worms go in all directions. I planted 20 pounds of seed potatoes this year, simply pulled the hay back, dropped them on the dirt then covered them with more hay. Got 200 pounds when I harvested and only had to rake the hay back and pick them up, no digging for them!
Maggie Reese wow thats wonderful
That's super exciting!!!
Maggie, it looks like you are getting quite the feedback here! haha. Ok so my question...does the Ruth Stout method say hay or straw? I can't remember. ***Oops, the CZcamsr asked a question when he could just "CZcams it". hahaha!! I am a nerd, sorry.
But does hay encourage grasses to grow due to the hay seeds in there? Our hay here is Bermuda hay usually.
Thanks for any of your advise!!
Oh and Art...of course thank you to YOU my man for another killer video! I don't know how you make a 10min video feel like a 3min video...and a 3min video have so much great information that a 10min video would take to teach. You da man!! :)
I think she's talking about Ruth Stout. It seems like she got older hay from surrounding farmers and layered it around her garden plants, maybe paths and all. Blocks most weeds, but if a weed pops up, she'd bend it down and toss another block of hay over it. I'm pretty sure she tossed any vegetable trimmings in place as she harvested too. Sorry, I can't remember the name of the book I read.
Love it. I know we are just beginning. Our soil has a long way to go. Every thing I add makes me happy.
yes! i live in norway and do this all the time in my veggie garden with all of my plants. also fertilize with chicken manure pellets and comfrey. i use tarps to cover the mulch in between planting to avoid weeds growing and also keeps the soil moist en ready to plant. love ruth stout!
What about slugs? Are they not a problem for you?
@@ciaranosullivan7791 Ducks. Ducks are the answer to slugs.
@@Feezwa yes ducks eat slugs but they also love little fresh seedlings and all kinds of veggies too... frogs eat slugs as do hedgehogs and beetles eat slugs eggs.. I'm in Ireland so temperate climate and lots of rain so in this system the main issue is slugs so I'm wondering had these folks discovered a way of dealing with them that works well.... anyway I've kinda figured out that this method isn't the best solution here and compost mulch is the way to go.
@@ciaranosullivan7791 I live quite far into Eastern Europe, at a bottom of a mountain, where the climate is quite harsh most of the times. Sometimes deers are to be found in my garden, early in the morning.
Varies between rain, cold rain, frezeeing in the morning and warm during the day. Maybe not that far from yer climate.
I do use ducks in my garden. Around 12 at number. But I let them freely around 20 minutes at max. Then I circle them out, back into their place.
I use my chickens in my garden but only after autumn falls and I harvested my garden. They are the best "workers" after my work has been done. Because these little dinosaurs are such scavangers, ravaging everything into their way.
@@Feezwa sounds like you manage it very well. I think I need chickens and ducks. I love to watch the little dinosaurs working their magic..
Great video, it's a lot easier to spread hay then till that field. Homestead is looking good!
Yeah, but it's also a lot easier to till the first field, than to till a second field, grow hay on it, harvest it, and then spread it over the first field and wait until next Spring.
I just love your intro Sir & the invaluable information. I would like, however, to see a tour of your whole homestead & other farming projects you're doing. I'm from Swaziland
Oh...and your garden is beautiful!! Nice work!!!
Thank you for sharing. Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard? You reminded me again of something I always try to remember although waiver from every so often. This also shows how minimal your tool list can be if you let nature help you. Carry on and enjoy!
I'm so excited to see how our garden performs this year. Our heavy winter and early spring mulch are going to make this year our best yet, I have a feeling! Your garden was beautiful so I assume your deer fence made a huge difference?? We have that battle as well and just amended our fence AGAIN so are praying for success. Fingers crossed!
In the deep south we only mulch crops that are permenant.Garden veggies are up and over in a matter of weeks due to the heat.Plus it requires all seeds be planted by hand which is fine for a small garden.We plant 3 acres and must use equipment to plant it and tend it.We do this because we dont go to the store and buy anything we can grow.Our food must last till next years harvest.Your garden is very nice looking.
over in a matter of weeks due to the heat?
are you saying the plants do not live long because it is so hot there?
if that is the case then mulching would be the way to help as it helps the soil to stay cooler and retain moisture a lot better than bare soil ever could.
I did it with leaves....First the dry leaves and then in monsoon , wet leaves and twigs....My bed has responded wonderfully to my new flowering plants.
I use pine needles to do the same. Hay/straw had too many weeds after 4 or 5 months.
Pine needles deffinitely stop my grass from growing 🤣🙄
We use that way of doing it too....we have a 10 ac hay field next to our garden....we bush hog some of it down ,we have the side cut out of the bushhog so it spreads the hay out to dry...then blow it in a wind row with the bush hog...then pick it up with the front end loader and take it to the garden and spread it by hand.
Yes sir! It ain't rocket science, just mimic nature! Beautiful garden, love the nasturtiums at the end! (think that was a flower you ate earlier too, great in salads!)
Thumbs up thank you, our local supplier has sold out of pea straw so resorting to hay this year... we’re in New Zealand zone 9b. I think we may end up with lots of seeds germinating out of the hay but we’re currently in a drought and summer has only just begun so anything is better than nothing. I’ll try tilling the hay when the unwanted seeds begin to grow and hope our pumpkin, melons, corn, etc out compete the seedlings. Do you green manure cover crop at all? Our winters we get a few light frosts but we can still grow year around. We’ve made a wildlife pond fenced off for safety beside our vegetable garden with wild flowers and we’ve found beneficial insects seem to be protecting our crops from unwanted pests I highly recommend trying this, we’ve even had tadpoles appear so hopefully we might get little frogs eating the white butterfly caterpillars and slugs. I’d prefer to use a no till method to encourage the beneficial fungi in the soil but will just have to try this method. Thanks again for sharing!
This is our plan this year. We covered one area of our garden last fall and let it sit over winter and plan to cover the rest once the snow melts.
After recking I used them , the leaves n twigs ,. in my compost bag and leaf mold bag for coming year.
Simple, insighful and absolutely spot on!!!
Greetings from Australia.☺👍
Also you can use grass from your lawnmower etc and it makes it very nice awesome video
i put down straw last year in the fall to prepare my garden is straw and hay different in the sense of nutrients in the ground.. it still hold moisture in the ground makes it easier to work with and i dont have to till unless its the deep root veggies but that it the rest is just growing
"it's almost unimaginable just to be able to take your hand and stick it down into the soil". The best line I have heard from any gardener/homesteader. Well said.
We have used straw for mulch and dead oak leaves as an experament to mulch potatoes
i started using straw about 12 years ago before hearing the benefits. I was desparate to keep in moister and cut down on weeds and straw was the most economical thing I could think of. My soil is very rich
Here in zone 8B, it's not very feasible to mulch annuals in our vegetable garden because the crop turnover is so fast. We are constantly pulling out old crops and adding new ones. Also, mulching lends to planting seed by hand. We mulch perennials like asparagus, blueberries and blackberries because they are in the same place every year -- and it works great for those crops. Great video and great looking garden!
Good info. Thanks Hoss Tools.
Hoss Tools
I’m zone 8b here and I’ve found mulch so helpful.
Actually much to my surprise, our horrendous slug problem has nearly disappeared! Not sure why, woodchip mulch could supposedly be a possible cause of aggravating it. I suspect may be because more slug egg predators.
Anyway, we’re 8b and have really benefited from mulch. Has helped with growing year round. More insulation when things get colder, less watering in summer.
Also- Back to Eden guy lives in WA, zone 8.
I️ personally only use wood chips in my isles, didn’t have luck with them in my beds, but I️ love mulch. We use other mulch in the beds, like thick compost. On new “beds” in the ground, we do use wood chip mulch.
I am in the same zone but I can still mulch in the winter for annual which means the beds stay insulated, weed-free and moist so they are ready to plant in the sprint. After that you can rely on the plants to shade out the weeds and by the end of the year the mulch has become soil.
Thanks for letting us know what zone you are in. It helps to know what works and where.
I'm live in England and I'm guessing zone 8b is hot? If so would it not better to provide and grow your annuals in a partially shaded area? At least in some respect the low light may help to slow the growth down?
I just started this this year and with compost it’s really a great way to go
Awesome tips! I love the beginning with the flower lol
This method is great it provides a cover for the ground so you don't get weed growth and it feeds your garden every time it rains
We have farmers around here that will give away last year's hay and straw. So this would be a great idea just use thrashed so you don't get the seeds. Great video!
Just figured this out this year!!!thanks for reinforcement. Chicken charged biochar and mulch in fall. Pull back and plant.
You are right , we have been doing gardening the hard way .
I used hay one year as a winter cover, then as mulch during the following season...all I got was a slug population explosion. They ate every last little germinating plant for half the year. Raked all the mulch out, let every dry up, and planted again and fought slugs as best I could. 2nd year, I still had lots of slug damage...I switched to greenhouse fabric with pre-determined holes for planting and then add amendments and cover for winter with black construction plstic....finally 4 years later, not many slugs, and my soils are hand-diggable every spring.
Miles Thompson I had terrible results using wood chip mulch because of slugs too, straw was only slightly better. But it did improve the soil underneath
I enjoyed that vid Art, I even imported some worms for my Garden. but the Chickens had other Ideas. Lol.. Briddy
I use red mulch in my garden because its beautiful. I also love the hay also. Heck, I love it all!!! Lol
Just put grass cuttings on my small veg patch to stop the casts from doing you know what on the soil hope it works 🇬🇧
I used rotted straw to mulch in my garden in the damp West of England and it just provided too many places for slugs to hide. Some living organisms are of course very useful, some, at the wrong time, can be devastating. Until I removed my mulch I could get literally nothing past the seedling stage. As with everything in gardening you have to adapt to your local conditions. Still, I'm sure mulching is great in the right place.
Use hay not straw Jake.
: )
I am having the same problem with slugs hiding in it and eating my seedlings. So discouraging
Perhaps you could try a dusting of diatomaceous earth. Look it up on the Internet. I have never used it so this is just a suggestion, not a recommendation. It's inexpensive and non-toxic to large animals. On the other hand, it might kill your earthworms. You'll have to do some research.
For those particular conditions, I prefer to compost whatever organic matter I get my hands on. Then use the "finished" compost. This way slugs usually are not an issue! Cheers from damp Norway. ;-)
Jake, get a pet duck, or set up beer traps for the slugs as well as broken eggshells. If not, use compost as your mulch layer like Charles Dawding.
Great video. Having seen a lot of success with rice straw I've decided to do this to replace all of my grass this year then put in sprinklers, instead of the drip lines I'm currently using. I have several acres of council land next to my house and I can scythe it for free hay (no herbicides are used there). Best thing is then I can put it down while it's green and full of nutrients. Makes me excited for next season!
Also you probably know more than me but you might want to look at a broadfork instead of raking. Or use broadbeans in the off season to loosen the soil. It'll get down deeper.
I use straw rather than hay to avoid introducing unwanted seeds such as Bermuda.
I've used straw for four year's it works well but this year. I think the straw I bought had grass seed in it and I'm struggling to get ride of grass
Anthony Pawlowski how did you get rid of the grass? I am ready to cover my beds with plastic and give up for a few weeks.
@@MidnightMixx How do you get rid of the grass seeds introduced. They sold the straw and it has so many seed. After a week the grass is growing and I am so frustrated. If I till it under I think this will only enhance the problem. I think I am going to cover with plastic and pray that it dies. what a horrible mess!
Leon i have straw growing everywhere now 😢
Thank you from England most entertaining I have subbed you like a great guy I bet your mum is proud
this too funny, i was just at a hiking trail and someone just dumped a load of what looked like decent mulch. i plan on going back to get some.
I totally agree! We live in WV and have red clay everywhere on our place. After years of fighting with dry, cement-like conditions and terrible weeds by late summer, I was VERY interested in mulching to amend our soil, retain water and help w/ weeds. I called our local tree service, they dumped two huge loads of fresh wood chips (that same week I called!) for FREE and we covered our garden 6-8 inches deep around our plants. I think we had an acidity problem (some Roma tomatoes with blossom-end rot) but it was easily corrected with calcium and WOW! What a difference! Have not hauled one single bucket of water to the garden and the weeds that do pop up here and there are easily removed without using a jackhammer! Hopefully in time, our red clay will transform into something better for our crops, but for now, I'm definitely seeing positive results from only a few months! Love your channel!
TN here (home of clay) but my soil is extremely rich. I'm a cook and have lots of scraps so I start at one end and go up and down the rows. I built a circular herb garden (one large circle, one small one) and everything grows incredibly well. I also use free wood chips from local tree cutting services that become great dirt in a year.
I’m from Morgantown wv and I use stray and it does make a huge difference I’m big on persimmon trees and fig trees I bury in the winter 2 great fruits to grow here!!
I had clay soil too so instinctively, I amended the clay with sand. Sometimes instincts suck! Mixing sand with clay gives you cement... literally. It turns out that humus is the recommended amendment for clay. The "lazy", long-term way to get there would be to mulch with hay. Had I that knowledge earlier, I could have saved myself years of unnecessary toil.
@@kariselin1484 what fig trees would you recommend for zone 7a in Northeast Arkansas? I'm wanting fig trees so bad this year. And do you have a good Nurseries to buy from? Thank you.
I’ve tried lots of different ones and Chicago hardy is always my winner for great taste and by far the most cold hardy you can buy it from edible landscaping.com they will ship to you also in your climate asain persimmons should do great as well!
Another great video on the homestead
Farmers in Southern Ontario will turn over a hay field and grow Corn in the field it help with water retention and adds fertilizer to the soil. This is changed every so many years to keep soil conditioned.
Watching you put your hands through the ground it's a beautiful thing,back in Cuba my grandpa used to say, if you don't touch the ground with your hands you put in poison on it, thanks for the video
Thanks for the great video, greetings from Greece.
I loved using hay to mulch my vegetables, but the following year I had so many new weeds and hay growing everywhere. The plants that were mulched LOVED it though. If you keep a deep layer of hay all the time like you do, I suppose you could keep the weeds from ever sprouting. Thanks for the video! :)
I agree with you my friend absolutely thanks for this great video
Great video. Mulching is a must.
I have been using mulch for years and I find that it does improve the soil but the moles love all the worms and grubs, living in it. I have almost gave up vegetable gardening. I now do it in sections so that I can put a lot of sticks and stones in the ground.
Love it ! Nice! God bless you so much. Hoping someday I'll wake up in that garden .it hurts knowing even $1000 for one acre I can't raise even for 5 years.pray with me
Finaly a face and a voice that relaxez you ....also great advice , i never used this ,, ill try it now ,,, thanks
You should see @therustedgarden his voice and the info...can watch all day!!
I mulched my garden, with hay. I immediately got grass growing, which worked out wonderfully for me. I fed it to my bunny
You work so much! Beautiful!
Wow I just ran across this and you seem like such a pleasant person. New subscriber!
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That's great! Mulch is wonderful :)
Thank you so much!! Just what I needed to know
Awesome wisdom my friend! Thanks
Wow! Great information. Thanks.
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the video, it's awesome!!
A day in your garden was great
I enjoy your videos however some of them do not offer closed caption. Would love to hear as well as see all of them.
Thank you
I believe that is a CZcams setting and has nothing to do with who is posting the video.
Awesome. Now I know what to do with the bales of hay I purchased.
Totally agree!!! Nice work.
Awesome!!! Thanks for the tips !
Loved the corn in the background!