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  • čas přidán 16. 07. 2022
  • In today's video I discuss some the ways in which people who grow food professionally start their gardens.
    Some things I discuss: how to start a garden from scratch, how to turn over the soil, how to plow with a BCS, When to plow, how to start a no dig garden, how to start a no till garden, never till gardening, can you till before going no-till, mulching a garden, can you plant into compost, how professionals start gardens, using cover crops to start a garden, how to start a garden fast, how to start a garden right, etc..
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Komentáře • 677

  • @notillgrowers
    @notillgrowers  Před rokem +223

    Hey all - I usually try to take an hour or so on Mondays and answer everyone's comments but holy cow there are a lot of comments on this video already! I will try to get to more but I gotta get to work on the next video. Just know you all are awesome.

    • @TheBelrick
      @TheBelrick Před rokem

      Your kind of channel is very upsetting. There is this modern myth that humans should subsist on sugar and sugar only (and insects.) This is evil.
      Here is how humans go off grid. 1. grow grass. Pastures. 2. have your food eat grass until large. 3. Harvest your crop of fit for humans to eat food.
      Plants are just sugar and sugar causes inflammation, diabetes, obesity. Heart disease and premature death.
      Every single part of a plant is sugar in one form or another (and only two matter, sugar we can digest and sugar we can't.)

    • @georgeyoung2990
      @georgeyoung2990 Před rokem

      I would like to start the preparation to plant a garden on 1/2 archer. I live in Conroe Texas. I will start by tilling and using a tarp, then mulch, then give it until September. If all goes well I would like to plant Greens and Squash beginning September 15, 2022. Do you think this will work? Oh this is my first time to plant.

    • @nathanthompson4600
      @nathanthompson4600 Před rokem +2

      ​@@georgeyoung2990 Squash is a warm season crop and is frost sensitive, so unless your area doesn't receive freezing temperatures during the winter I would wait to plant squash until the soil warms up in the spring. The name "winter squash" can be confusing, it doesn't refer to squash that are grown over the winter. Instead it refers to squash that can be grown over the summer and stored through the winter. I hope this helps and good luck with your garden!

    • @agriculturewallah9307
      @agriculturewallah9307 Před rokem +1

      Sir, Can you please add Subtitles in Video

    • @johnkings2030
      @johnkings2030 Před rokem

      Plowing is good and injecting soil ammendments is effective especially when the soil is not at its best.

  • @johnsonr9
    @johnsonr9 Před rokem +177

    "Dogma is not going to help you in farming..." perfect advice. Great channel. Smart man.

    • @chanc9737
      @chanc9737 Před rokem +2

      What about dogpop?

    • @jimadair9305
      @jimadair9305 Před rokem

      You don't want to use carnivore manure on edibles. That increases your risk for disease.

  • @elvisynk8305
    @elvisynk8305 Před měsícem +9

    Thanks for your videos. Iwas born in a small village located around Cameroon 🇨🇲 and Nigeria 🇳🇬 border centre/west Africa. Growing up there was no Internet connection nor roads we had to trek for 3 hours to get to Nigeria or 9 hours to get to Cameroon, in other to see good roads or sell our crops, but trust me it was fund and it really made me stronger. My parents where small farmers till 2009 i lost my dad, we had to moved to Lagos Nigeria in 2011. I can remember in my small village my parents didn't have to go through a lot of stress because the land was very fertile and any crop they ever planted was doing extremely well, without fertiliser or watering the crops. 2 years ago I started watching alot of videos on how to farm, because prices of food stuffs in Lagos for the past 2 years has really been going up, and I realised how blessed my small village is lol. I'm happy because my dad's houses are still there. I'm 26 years old and I've been saving up, I can't wait to go back to my village and start up my farm with all this experience I've had in watching different videos and learning more about different virity of crops. I'm really greatful🙏

    • @jayoue1515
      @jayoue1515 Před 19 dny

      Wonderful!! I love that you appreciate how you were raised - eating like royalty!!

  • @blake9574
    @blake9574 Před rokem +257

    One of the most dense, no bs, educational channels out there. Keep it up y’all. And thank you for sharing all this hard earned knowledge!

    • @ChadnRanda
      @ChadnRanda Před rokem +2

      Well just a little bs ing lol 😅

    • @harlankraft578
      @harlankraft578 Před 11 měsíci

      I totally agree love Jessie’s content and mannerisms as well. Lots of facts nearly no BS!!! My favorite Growers channel!

  • @alliwantedisapepsi1492
    @alliwantedisapepsi1492 Před rokem +130

    First time garden. I took a 50 year old lawn, tilled it, spread 4 inches of manure/ mulch and tilled it again in the late fall. Planted garlic and now I have 60 of 70 sprouts growing well in February. I think this is going to work. Thanks Jesse.

    • @brandontekahu4663
      @brandontekahu4663 Před 10 měsíci +2

      Tilling is definitely not good

    • @alliwantedisapepsi1492
      @alliwantedisapepsi1492 Před 9 měsíci +23

      Ground was hard as a rock. High clay content. A shovel only dug in an inch with a good jump. I hope tilling in compost a couple of times gets matter into the soil so I can go no till. Farming on a rock is hard to do. Thanks though.

    • @IPursuePeppers-CTH
      @IPursuePeppers-CTH Před 8 měsíci +4

      @@alliwantedisapepsi1492yeah that’s fair, it’ll take a year or two to do no till or no dig, I know this because my garden was crappy before I planted, and even after tilling and using a hoe to loosen up the dirt, my dirt settled and it filters horribly, I just started compost this year, so I hope that helps the next.

    • @KhalidAl-Shammari
      @KhalidAl-Shammari Před 8 měsíci +2

      ​@brandontekahu4663 it is good and work for centuries

    • @brandontekahu4663
      @brandontekahu4663 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Oh damn I've heard all about those areas. Very sad sorry dude good for experience though.

  • @marisa5426
    @marisa5426 Před rokem +19

    I'm an experienced flower gardener but completely new to veggies. Started my first two veggie beds this year. One is ridiculously slow-growing. The other is taking off. Almost double the growth in the second bed.
    Bed 1, the slow growing disappointment:
    Started with overgrown lawn that tended to flood, broke up the clay soil with a fork. Added bagged black earth (2-3 inches), built my raised bed frame on top of that and tossed in some yard waste and more bagged black earth. Planted immediately.
    Bed 2, the efficient success:
    Started with overgrown lawn directly beside bed 1 on a drier day. Mowed down the lawn, forked it, added 1-2 inches of yard waste, dug it in very slightly (I'm on clay soil working with hand tools), covered well with cardboard, soaked and let sit for a week, covering holes with more cardboard when a few small weeds made it through. I then brought in 4-5 inches of rich, living compost (filled with worms and other life) from my boss' manure heap. (Benefits of working at a stable, bonus that my boss grows his own hay, chemical-free). I let the bed sit for around a month before I planted into it at all.
    Bed 1 does not retain water well. At all. Seeds took forever to get true leaves, growth is slow and disappointing. Weeds aren't bad though, almost nothing came up through the soil, only what blew into the bed to remove. Definitely will need to amend the soil this fall though.
    Bed 2 holds consistent water levels without becoming flooded but does require a lot more weeding unfortunately but I just chop and drop the weeds for more organic material. Lots of dandelions so at least they're not competing too badly with what I have in there.
    My plan for this fall is to put in 1-2 more beds doing the slow method and redo the failed bed entirely. I definitely will not be using bagged soil for in ground growing or raised beds ever again. It's just dead dirt. I'll use fresh, living compost that I can source locally. Way cheaper too.

  • @Tidnull
    @Tidnull Před rokem +4

    I quit my job to become a market gardener a month ago, took out small loans for living expenses and starting the gardens. I am doing the quick risky method of no-till-->paper-->compost-->seed in midwinter Zone 7b. Sod was mostly eaten down by horses, manured, and had years worth of oak leaf grounds on the surface, full of earthworms. I laid down two layers of builder's paper, and built beds 4 ft wide with 4 inches aged horse manure/bedding compost that my neighbor cooks up in huge piles. I would be more apprehensive if it was hydrophobic mulchy stuff, as I had hell trying to grow in that stuff before. This specific horse compost is some of the most friable I have ever seen. It almost never loses moisture and drains well. I then immediately broadcast a "cover crop" polyculture of mustards, carrots, turnips, beets, radishes, chard. I am starting indoors heading brassicas, cilantro, lettuces, peas, green onions, spinach to plant into the polyculture after thinning. I admit this method will be difficult for predicting yields/quick harvesting, but my hope is that the reward will outweigh the risks/cons. Will report back in a month.

    • @valentinaestrada2128
      @valentinaestrada2128 Před 4 dny

      How did it go?

    • @Tidnull
      @Tidnull Před 4 dny

      @@valentinaestrada2128it was very good! I ended up getting a job in the city after the summer heat and grasshoppers killed everything. I had a great customer base at the farmers market but it just wasnt meant to be.

  • @EvanMorgan7
    @EvanMorgan7 Před rokem +30

    One method I have had success with is using potatoes as a sort of cover/food crop to prepare new ground. You can disturb the soil or not. Potatoes love fresh decomposing sod, and they seem to attract such a plethora of microorganisms and earthworms that you get a decent tilth after they crop. I simply lay the potatoes out at a decent spacing, and I might make a slight hole and dig them into the sod, especially recently as the vole pressure has gotten out of hand, then cover with ideally a weed free mulch like straw or second cutting hay or compost, but usually I use a combination of compost and hay I can acquire cheaply. Hill the potatoes with hay or compost throughout the season, and after harvest the grass will be totally dead and worked up by critters, and the beds can be planted into a cover crop, or fall crop.
    This is pretty much the ruth stout method of growing potatoes, and lends itself to breaking new ground while growing a crop.

  • @TeacherMom80
    @TeacherMom80 Před 9 měsíci +1

    It took me 2 weeks of intense manual labor to dig up a 12x12 area of my lawn for a tomato garden with a shovel & my hands. I moved about 30 wheelbarrows full of thick, heavy, compacted, clay soil. The soil had an insane number of rocks, which I used to line the garden for drainage. I recall ONE hole for one plant taking 10 minutes to dig! I thought I was escavating a rock the size of a massive bowling bowl at one point. I then moved many more wheelbarrows full of composted horse manure to use as topsoil & hand built tomato cages with old metal farm fence. Then tonight, I dug up a 10’x4’ area of sod to build another garden beside it & it took less than 2 hours! It’s amazing how different areas of the yard can be SO different to work with! We live on a huge hill & I can’t afford to buy the lumber to build raised beds for root crops. I find that growing potatoes in old chicken feed bags works amazingly well!

  • @Organicagain
    @Organicagain Před rokem +46

    This is my favorite gardening channel. Yep, I have an autographed copy of your book. I would like to see more cover cropping for idiots and the time-deprived type of content. Tarping tips and tricks. The different depths and levels of soil loosening and cultivating, and appropriate techniques. The pollinator/habitat rows, and keeping varmits off your crops. Troubleshooting mid-season. Living pathways updates.

    • @notillgrowers
      @notillgrowers  Před rokem +7

      All good ideas! Thank you!

    • @boysrus61
      @boysrus61 Před rokem +5

      "Cover Crops for Idiots". This is an excellent idea. I have no idea what to plant as a cover crop in my area. A few weeks ago, I put a 30x30 black plastic over an area to kill off my grass, and now I am thinking I will put cardboard and straw down (which goes first the cardboard?) then some mulch from a local farmer and a cover crop and let it sit all winter. Wish I knew what I was doing...

    • @sanschmidt6727
      @sanschmidt6727 Před rokem +3

      Cardboard first. Look at me. I know something 😂

    • @tracycrider7778
      @tracycrider7778 Před rokem +4

      @@boysrus61 cardboard, mulch/compost & I use red clover for cover crop

  • @ronaldcummings6337
    @ronaldcummings6337 Před rokem +135

    I have always been a very visual learner. So your videos coupled with your book helps it to sink in. Then applying cements the lesson. Thanks Jesse and thanks Hannah for sharing your soil nerd!

    • @notillgrowers
      @notillgrowers  Před rokem +13

      Oh awesome, Ron. We definitely wanted to create a dynamic array of content for everyone for that reason, so we're glad to hear that it's helpful that way!

    • @je9417
      @je9417 Před 5 měsíci

      "thanks Hannah for sharing your soil nerd!"
      Love this, haha!

  • @mariskascheepers4133
    @mariskascheepers4133 Před rokem +10

    How don't you have a million subscribers? Your content is great👍

  • @trumpetingangel
    @trumpetingangel Před rokem +2

    It's hard to believe how much great information is on CZcams. Just discovered your channel and subscribed. I want to offer a humble addition: wet the cardboard! It starts the decomposition method quickly without relying on the damp compost or hoping for rain to come through.

  • @johnmurphy2617
    @johnmurphy2617 Před rokem +15

    I've experimented with 3 different types of beds thus far! The deep compost, beds built with native soil from around the farm, and then building beds in place with the soil that is there! I'm adamant about bringing my native soil to a standard that will grow any crops i want to grow and that crop be healthy!! So far I rather enjoy building the beds in place.
    Having 100 acres of farmland i am able to go i to the woods and gather leaves as well as leaf mold at will whenever I want. This is proving to be a great way to add organic matter and microbiology to the native soil i am turning into garden space!! I am also adamant about making my own liquid fertalizer and have been studying the jadam techniques alot. I think the inspector will be pleased when we finally do go to get our organic certification!!

  • @flatsville1
    @flatsville1 Před rokem +72

    I've started many gardens due to career moves. Those I started in the late summer early fall were always the best having 10 mos or so for worms, compost, covercrop & mulch to do its thing. I never had great success with gardens slammed together in the spring unless I was at least able to cover the area in deep mulch some months ahead.

    • @mathisrobinson9042
      @mathisrobinson9042 Před rokem +6

      Agreed .. was going to make my own comment post, but will just piggy back. This video is perfect timing for folks, as I am a big advocate for starting gardens in the fall, too. You mentioned one method that almost overlapped from fast/slow .. which was (depending on the native soil) layers of cardboard (3 at least for me, which will EVENTUALLY kill the grass below .. & actually I recommend cutting the grass as low as possible 1st, to map out your garden area), and then spreading many inches of compost on top (aged cow manure being best choice in my opinion). This way, you can plant fast if youd like, and will have a great garden waiting for you next spring, as the cardboard should be broken down.

    • @harrykersey3181
      @harrykersey3181 Před rokem +8

      I use tree leaves primarily for compost and milch and I use mostly oak , and other hard woods leaves along with rotted pine needles as they are an excellent addition to my compost and the old saying that they acidify your medium is just not true and studies made by several universities have debunked the old wives tale that they do . the reason nothing hardly grows under them is that they mat and dont allow air water or sunlight to penetrate over time . I also use them in my Isles as they are slow by themselves to breakdown and are easy to resource here in the South East where I'm at in N Eastern Georgia . I use dolimite , hybertite rock powders, Seaweed when I can get it , or any aquatic's when available as they all are great sources of potassium and nitrogen . the more diverse your compost the better off your medium.

    • @InnerSunshine
      @InnerSunshine Před rokem +3

      I was on a big garden where we used humanure and urine. This issue issue is people contributing get sick. When they are sick you want a second place to put urine and manure where it will NOT get into compost. Always compost urine-manure, ideally in hot manure. Any temperature compost probably okay for most situations. There is a book on Humanure.

  • @GalacticFarm
    @GalacticFarm Před rokem

    Super awesome info. Changing the world and saving soil.

  • @abmermaid
    @abmermaid Před rokem

    OUTSTANDING video. Thank you so much !

  • @jeannet9592
    @jeannet9592 Před rokem

    Thanks for the chuckles, and for the good information.

  • @markpennella
    @markpennella Před rokem +1

    Excellent garden. Perfect timing!!

  • @cuznclive2236
    @cuznclive2236 Před rokem +20

    Love seeing the kiddos helping out. Our three-year-old granddaughter, who lives with us, helps me daily with planting, weeding, and eating the fruits of our labor. Great stuff!

  • @dawndan1866
    @dawndan1866 Před rokem +1

    Loved the information and the since of humor. I will definitely be watching more videos.

  • @ESVAGROWER
    @ESVAGROWER Před rokem +3

    I just wanted to say thank you guys for the knowledge and expertise when it comes to no till growing. I can’t believe I just found your account, I’ve been nonstop catching up on all the vids I’m behind on haha!

  • @apricushill
    @apricushill Před rokem +3

    Well I’ve subscribed for his humour, been laughing the whole way through, and learning! Brilliant 😊

  • @672nita
    @672nita Před rokem +2

    Your videos are extremely informative. Thank you so much. Keep up the amazing work 😊

  • @thisoldproperty
    @thisoldproperty Před rokem

    It just hit spring here. Perfect timing. Great advice.

  • @havenbailey6555
    @havenbailey6555 Před rokem +2

    Thank you! So excited to start my garden!

  • @HuwRichards
    @HuwRichards Před rokem +7

    Looking forward to this one!

  • @texasprairie662
    @texasprairie662 Před rokem

    Superb Video!! Thank you so much for sharing. You are a wealth of Garden knowledge.

  • @75blackviking
    @75blackviking Před rokem +5

    Love your channel. Great content, and very, very relevant. I've always agreed with the notion of no-till. Your experience helps folks like me understand the "whys and wherefores" when it comes to getting the details nailed down.

  • @waynesell3681
    @waynesell3681 Před rokem +6

    Moving away from heavy rototilling. Listening to you Farmer Jesse is great and you sure are awesome!!!! Making compost and have garden divided in to 6, 4*12 ft beds,plus few larger areas. Bought my first broadfork this winter and excited to see how compacted the soil is.. thanks for your inspiration!

  • @Kilimanjaro67
    @Kilimanjaro67 Před 2 měsíci

    My favorite gardeners! You guys make the absolute best videos for no till. Great content, thank you for sharing 😊

  • @doncook3584
    @doncook3584 Před rokem +1

    No question…Farmer Jesse is addictive to listen to. Always enjoy and learn and am motivated

  • @godricfamilyfarm
    @godricfamilyfarm Před 4 měsíci

    Well said and excellently put together. Thank you

  • @tonycorrao7807
    @tonycorrao7807 Před rokem +5

    Just started watching you, and i feel like I hit the jackpot to what i needed, I've always always loved gardening and always wanted own farm. over the course of 4 years my father in law has introduced me to plants and crops and i've falling in love with it. I've been jotting notes down all day, looking forward to drowning myself in learning.
    Also really digging the cardboard method as well and can't make to start making my own compost tea

  • @BalticHomesteaders
    @BalticHomesteaders Před rokem +5

    Very good video with a lot of great info. I've switched from hay to straw because of the seeds issue, it's made a big difference. Just had to up inputs a bit to compensate. It's good to see someone talking about tillage to make no-till beds, we need more of that!

  • @johnrosier1686
    @johnrosier1686 Před rokem +24

    I followed your example on the cardboard method and it’s been a good first year so far. We just moved here around the first of the year so I mowed the grass down to the ground, used all our cardboard boxes from the move, and put a garden soil mix from the local landscape nursery on top of that. So far we are doing well and hopefully next year even better.

  • @southernroots2229
    @southernroots2229 Před rokem +1

    Great video. In my four years of gardening I believe this video can help anyone from the backyard gardener like myself, to someone wanting to start a farm.

  • @sosnatursos
    @sosnatursos Před rokem +1

    Endlich mal jemand der das super erklärt, ich weiß das zwar alles schon, aber einigen ist das bestimmt eine große hilfe.🤠🙏

  • @mx.olivia
    @mx.olivia Před 23 dny

    Wish i could like this twice, just came back to watch a second time and learned even more. Thank you!

  • @Soul-sage
    @Soul-sage Před rokem +2

    I would have liked more talk about the damage to soil micro organisms as a result of covering beds in plastic, and the damage to soil structure caused by even one till.

  • @joem7572
    @joem7572 Před rokem +4

    Not to throw a fly into the ointment but be careful where you source your cardboard from. A lot of it is sprayed with chemicals that you may not want in your food gardens. Flowers or ornamentals may not be an issue.
    Great videos! My wife and I just purchased our future homestead and plan to start working it asap. Thank you for all the great advice.

    • @mar1video
      @mar1video Před rokem

      Same with the compost . Sometimes there are herbicides in the commercial compost.

  • @lukelave8615
    @lukelave8615 Před rokem +17

    Loved the longer video! I know it takes a lot of work to make so thank you! I have had luck with just a couple of layers of cardboard covered in compost and left to sit over the winter, by spring the cardboard is soft enough to plant right on top of.

  • @TurtleColonel
    @TurtleColonel Před rokem +16

    Jessie I’ve been watching for the last two years (subscribing on patreon too) and I just wanted to say thank you for the time and effort you put into your videos. I appreciate you and your team. 🧡

    • @nedbelberski7919
      @nedbelberski7919 Před rokem +3

      I like your videos,Jessy,keep doing the great job👍

  • @conniecasale3593
    @conniecasale3593 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Don’t worry take your time if people don’t understand that’s crazy there’s so many people asking questions a little bit at a time and you’ll get through it don’t go crazy because then you won’t like it now it’s enjoyable I’m enjoying watching you a little bit at a time we will all get our questions and answers so far. I’m enjoying you thank you very much Connie from Staten Island, New York.

  • @strongereveryday1891
    @strongereveryday1891 Před rokem +1

    Thanks! This is my very first time homesteading and just threw stuff in the ground in the spring. I will start working on my beds for next year!

  • @dizzlecookie
    @dizzlecookie Před rokem +1

    New subscriber! This was immensely helpful thank you!

  • @joycemiller7908
    @joycemiller7908 Před rokem +3

    I'm so glad to find this video! We're hopefully closing on a large property and I'm moving from my raised bed gardens in the city. The new property has a giant field of hay that I want to use a portion of for a big garden, and a grassy area I want to start a smaller kitchen garden in. I'll be starting with the late summer-fall crops. This is a helpful video for me.

  • @margarethewende4187
    @margarethewende4187 Před 11 měsíci

    I Like your humor, I learnt heaps great info and I am experienced in garedning. KEEP THESE UP PLEASE

  • @stingray43550
    @stingray43550 Před rokem

    Hey thanks for all the content!! much appreciated

  • @carralumsden8853
    @carralumsden8853 Před rokem +4

    I fought to sign in to leave this comment.
    That compost is absolutely lovely. It looks very very healthy. I cannot lie, this does make me somewhat jealous. I thank my nan especially for showing me many gardening and agri techniques.
    Happy growing.
    Peace and Blissings

  • @Holodomor4.0
    @Holodomor4.0 Před rokem +17

    Man this is such a ripper of a video! Thankyou so much for putting this one up! Some of the best information I’ve come across in my years of gardening.

  • @lauragillespie189
    @lauragillespie189 Před rokem

    loved your explanations!

  • @GeoffPowell65
    @GeoffPowell65 Před 8 měsíci

    Nice delivery dude, and lots of goof info. Thanks!

  • @LA-mn7jr
    @LA-mn7jr Před rokem

    You're so entertaining! Great info too! Thank you

  • @MynewTennesseeHome
    @MynewTennesseeHome Před rokem

    Really good video. So much information, I watched it twice.

  • @billg4630
    @billg4630 Před rokem +1

    Did my quickest garden this year..im 60 and was given small plants unexpectedly and late in spring...more like start of summer..mowed on shortest setting..then sprayed weeds with trimic waited 3 days and used drill auger and plated..not best garden ever but doing pretty well..and I used fish emulsion after 2 weeks from start..i love that stuff

  • @debbiehall3759
    @debbiehall3759 Před rokem +2

    Excellent video! My mind is blown absorbing so much information and the possibilities! 🙌👏

  • @kevinmalone6132
    @kevinmalone6132 Před rokem +2

    Super informative video, thanks so much! 👍 we are trying our hand at growing plenty this coming spring-i use my hens manure and spilled feed with the used straw and pine shavings for compost material. I find it amazing.

  • @hismrsaustin
    @hismrsaustin Před rokem

    Excellent content. Thankful -- soooooo thankful.

  • @jpage1331
    @jpage1331 Před 10 měsíci

    I do all my garden rows that way.. I dig ditches between rows .. I learned this from gardeners from other countries.. was worried about droughts.. plus most my property is down hill and washes away.. when I did get rain.. and man the amazing difference it made.. 💯❤

  • @Gkrissy
    @Gkrissy Před rokem +2

    I love using cover crops and compost in combination. Also I love the lasagna gardening method, all these things have built my soil health in a short period of time.

  • @cbdfarmersofamerica2058

    growing at 8500' in Colorado, 20 years and loving it !!!

  • @kurtmanshardt9825
    @kurtmanshardt9825 Před rokem +1

    Hey there thank you for your videos I just watched my first one it's entitled from Pastor to production dated July 17th of this year so I love gardening so I'm looking forward to watching lot more of your videos I'm sure I can learn a lot once again thank you and happy gardening

  • @enekuda05
    @enekuda05 Před rokem +3

    Funny enough, I'm looking to start a garden NEXT spring, and am doing research now in order to plan and make sure it had the best chance of success (as it's going to be a remote garden on a peice of land I own about 15 minutes from my house, and thus I can't be there EVERY day.)
    This is been a GREAT resource and I'll be Coming back through the next few months as I get stuff going!

  • @l.dschick-inn-palacecrafts6174

    I'm loving your helping videos. Full of knowledge. Chickens adopted me 3 years ago which lead to composting to gardening. I am now thinking of my 1 acre back behind the chicken yard, to begin row gardening. I will tarp it asap. I'm 8a and will going at this slowly as I am learning still. I just need more chickens lol for more black gold. I think I will use their back yard gate to set a poultry netting up, for their guidance in the future, after my cover crop has grown. I'm excited. Ty 4 your helpful videos.

  • @ronnyvbk
    @ronnyvbk Před rokem +2

    Very informative, entertaining and a cat, what more could one want 👍🙂

  • @sandraconner6968
    @sandraconner6968 Před rokem

    I had a newngarden area picked on when we moved to new home. The soil is clay, so I layed dark tarps down at end of summer, left on til spring. I applied compost and mulch, and used raised beds for some crops and planted directly into soil for others. It worked great! I continue to add leaf mold to level.area and the soil is much improved.

  • @rogertyler8804
    @rogertyler8804 Před rokem +1

    What's great about your content is the principles you emphasize work in those lush deep black soils in KY, but they ALSO apply to desert farming poverty grass dryland no-till and gardening at a mile elevation and days in the 90s and 100s with no water.

  • @marcob1729
    @marcob1729 Před rokem +10

    Amateur grower at 7,200' in Colorado here. Thank you for emphasizing location dependencies! For example, we laid some cardboard down in an attempt at a fast living pathway. Two years later, and you can still read the labels on what were the boxes. We just don't have the decomposition rate in the high desert for that to always pan out

    • @brendamaggio9189
      @brendamaggio9189 Před rokem +4

      I found it also harbors cockroaches. They really like the shade and dampness it provides here on the West Slope of CO in these blazing summers! One summer was enough for me with that experiment!

    • @kolafoltin
      @kolafoltin Před rokem +1

      I have found that weeds enjoy the cool relief as well

    • @brendamaggio9189
      @brendamaggio9189 Před rokem +1

      @@smas3256 For cockroaches? No, I use Borax and chickens for roach control. I've heard the beer works good for slugs, but those aren't a problem for me here in the desert. I had tried the cardboard for blocking weeds in paths with mulch between beds. Bind weed grows well under it too! I find the living pathways work better for me, using white clover.

  • @johnkings2030
    @johnkings2030 Před rokem +4

    I find the double dig method, it's a form of plowing, but found that extremely effective especially when you have poor soil and are in a hurry. It's hard work without machinery but it works.

  • @NorthernGrownProduce
    @NorthernGrownProduce Před rokem

    THIS GUY!
    Solid video Solid channel Solid advice
    Still reference The Living Soil handbook
    Great resource

  • @bioboertuur
    @bioboertuur Před rokem +2

    This is perfect timing :-)
    We have cut our last hay today, baling in about a week and then, veg beds prep :-)

  • @alexpresent8907
    @alexpresent8907 Před rokem

    Love your video and Bought the book. Can’t wait to read it.

  • @coleenstowell9643
    @coleenstowell9643 Před rokem +3

    Hi, great info. Glad to know I am on the right path. Started a new garden this spring on an overgrown field of brambles and grasses. Originally, I wanted to create a lasagna bed to plant in but couldn't find affordable supply of compost, so ended up getting the plot tilled. Had it rototilled twice about 1 week apart and then put in landscape fabric 4' wide/bare earth 4'/landscape fabric 4' repeat all the way across. I planted in the fabric with transplants and then in between the fabric rows for direct seeding. The fabric helps to keep the weed pressure down. I also planted lots of melons and squash this year so the plants are helping to keep the weed pressure down too. Its going good so far. At the end of the season I plan to add manure and cover with straw so it will be ready to plant next year without tilling again.

  • @tarnr5713
    @tarnr5713 Před rokem +8

    Perfect timing for this video, thanks! :) I am in the Southern Hemisphere (NZ) where we are in the depths of winter and I am planning an expansion, starting nowish to be ready for planting early summer (December).

    • @didanz100
      @didanz100 Před rokem +2

      Hi fellow Kiwi. I'm starting a few shared community plots here in Matapouri.

  • @rustancalapatia3599
    @rustancalapatia3599 Před rokem

    From the Philippines. Thanks!

  • @ceedee2570
    @ceedee2570 Před rokem +18

    I really appreciate that you provide multiple methods, calling out the ideal, yet knowing things are not always ideal. I moved cross country and was able to put a garden in starting in June. Well, it has been a humbling experience. I went from lovely loam to yellow clay. I now realize much of my garden prowess was the soil I had. I expect I can get there again with a multi-year approach. Happy growing.

    • @davidvickers8425
      @davidvickers8425 Před rokem

      My wife is dissapointed with my garden, hard clay loads of weeds, last year i added all the fall leaves and this year it was better, but still quite sad, she is the drop a seed in and let it do its thing, everything that "succeeded" (lol) was container grown 20 tomatoes and 10 melons 20 cucumbers with 1 bag of ammendment $5. And some herbs. Its a multi year process.

    • @papapetad
      @papapetad Před 11 měsíci

      I had a similar humbling experience trying to throw a quick wing-it garden together late spring in France with little water, a bit of manure, heavily compacted clay and weeds. Maybe more water would've given me some sort of harvest... I got a bunch of sprouts, some crops went as far as healthy seedlings, but the sprouts all got munched by these tiny black bugs that appeared in swarms and everything else couldn't make it with the lack of water. I had thrown in a bunch of cover crops hoping they'd sprout in unison and help each other get through the roughness but it just wasn't to be. I quickly realized after that the only way I would've had a chance was to throw a fat layer of manure and mulch to shape the beds, then put seedlings in and have at least one LARGE watering event plus a few decent rains. I went in with the idea of no till and absolutely minimal watering to naturally select the toughest plants from whatever seeds I planted. I realized some plowing and tilling to get started before a large application of manure/straw was key. I had put some solid hours into it. Sometimes, one learns the hard way 😅

  • @steverobinson5492
    @steverobinson5492 Před rokem +2

    Great content.....thanks!!! My gardens have been built using these types of methods. As a resource I have used Charles Dowding as well as you guys.... all to great success. And BTW...."digressions", Keep them to a maximum. I always get a kick out of your quick witted twists and turns. Cheers.

  • @bernadettejohnson7430
    @bernadettejohnson7430 Před 10 měsíci

    Love your shirt! Their bagels are so good!

  • @theburnhams2925
    @theburnhams2925 Před rokem +1

    Just "discovered" your videos Jeffrey, and enjoyed each one! Even tho I have tractors/tillers, my "go-to" tool for starting a new bed is my ol' Gravely walk-behind rotary plow. Engine speed determines how far it throws the soil, and amendments can be incorporated at that time (automatically burying 'em). Since our local lime is Dolomitic, Mg levels can become elevated over time, so Gypsum can help. Cover crops are Iron/Clay Peas and/or weeds/grass clippings. If grass clippings are picked up in a timely fashion, and piled high enough, they'll go through a heat and break down much faster than if you let them dry out in the (Fl.) sun before collection. Ideally, pick 'em up within a few hours of mowing and after a good rain---the bio-activity a hay producer dreads and prevents to the best of his abilities are the very ones the gardener appreciates.
    About the Gravely walk-behind tractor; that plow is spinning well out in front of the machine, not right in front of your feet. (I have a BCS 715 early model with roto-tiller and sickle-bar mower, but seldom use it---that tiller grinding away just inches in front of where I step is intimidating....) The Gravely roto-tiller (not plow) almost has to be used in reverse due to serious wheel/tire ruts. but the rotary plow throws to the side, so tracks aren't much of a problem.
    About once every five years or so I'll drop the 4' tractor-mounted tiller on a "resting" bed just to kinda introduce whatever is on the surface into the soil. I have sandy soils over yellow clay so occasional application of gypsum seems to help (especially with blossom-end rot in tomatoes) but elephant garlic is my main crop (and it's not "finicky" at all...) The gypsum isn't needed for soil flocculation just for Ca and S. I "religiously" broadcast "split-pea" Sulfur (over new areas, especially...). I don't think it does quite the same thing as calcium sulphate dihydrate.
    Keep up the good work! (It looks like I have about roughly a hundred videos to watch....) btw, where'd you get the Caturday shirt? I want one!

  • @dandan8333
    @dandan8333 Před rokem

    No matter the amounts of views, I've found that you can always find different items that will give you a new outlook about doing gardening.
    Sir, we must be prepared to accept the information to benefit from your videos!
    Like I always said, ask a question 100 times until, the answer is understood by you!
    Have a great 2023 season! TY.

  • @nicky9589
    @nicky9589 Před rokem

    From Australia, Thankyou. Excellent advice, I can use in my optimal time. Cheers. 👍

  • @Maddy_might
    @Maddy_might Před rokem +9

    I love your quick start method, because in my opinion, no matter what, second and third year gardens produce like crazy.....but you have to get the first year garden started! (I'm on my third year garden at the location!)

    • @carlaephotography7096
      @carlaephotography7096 Před rokem +1

      Thank you for this comment. As I was feeling like I was too late to start, since didn’t see this video in the fall when it was published. Just start! Great advice, thanks again!

  • @TheHonestPeanut
    @TheHonestPeanut Před rokem +7

    July is a great time to do a pop up no dig garden for a fall crop. It's a perfect time put together a hoop house too to get ready for the fall and winter. Also i tried reading those choose your own adventure books straight through. It's SO disorienting lol

  • @erincarr9411
    @erincarr9411 Před rokem +1

    Last small front yard garden I made was in a yard. I put cardboard down, then kitchen scraps and yard trimmings (in fall/late summer) then another layer of cardboard and watered until it started raining. In the spring it was ready to plant.
    I did something similar with tomatoes. Cardboard, then homemade well aged compost. I planted tomatoes. I actually cut through the cardboard. For the tomatoes. It worked great.
    We are moving onto our forever homestead this week. My plan is to till the garden and plant cover crop that will die back on winter. This is the first time I've ever tried cover crop. 🤞

  • @jonahdav9589
    @jonahdav9589 Před rokem

    Thank you for the shared experience. Will card board with leaf mulch for the winter.

  • @gangofgreenhorns2672
    @gangofgreenhorns2672 Před rokem +12

    Started another 3x50 ft bed this year with just a 1" till and a bunch of grass clippings, planted right into it. Added 4 last year in the fall with free hay and a shallow cultivation till. Both are working great, expect both to only increase in fertility next year. Also I finally have compost finished--been using that for stuff I want to direct seed into (remove and compost the mulch, put down finished compost, plant). I love my living pathways btw, it's like I kept the utility/mobility of a yard, while turning the whole thing into gardens.

    • @notillgrowers
      @notillgrowers  Před rokem +3

      Nice--love to hear that about the living pathways!

  • @EDLaw-wo5it
    @EDLaw-wo5it Před rokem +3

    Perfect timing for me. Great information and I like your presentation. I am a new gardener at 80. I wish I had started earlier but chasing the almighty dollar I lost out. I am in zone 6b and have a hard pan about 6” down so I am trying to overcome that issue. I already tilled 900 Sq ft. With a front tine tiller but had little success with that. I think I have found a tractor with a big tiller and was wondering if I could do this in spring and still have some success as I lready have a cover crop planted. I woul appreciate any help from other commenters since I know your busy. Thanks ahead. Y’all havagudun and God Bless.

  • @user-yc7sg7xj4f
    @user-yc7sg7xj4f Před rokem

    Amazing videos, love the humour ...

  • @TheUltimateAcres
    @TheUltimateAcres Před rokem +1

    Great show! Everything is looking awesome. #Keepupthegreatwork

  • @janebennett9062
    @janebennett9062 Před rokem

    Love you and your content

  • @thepeopleplaceandnaturepod8344

    Keep up the fantastic work! 👏🍀

  • @joeypilgrim-dk2le
    @joeypilgrim-dk2le Před rokem

    I actually mixed compost ,leaf mold and top soil from the forest in 6 huge raised beds. This will be my first time planting in this. Worked pretty good in the one bed I used last year. I also used alfalfa hay to mulch with.

  • @saschathinius7082
    @saschathinius7082 Před rokem +1

    I like your approaches, the most I like that you are not saying that there is only one 'right' way to get it done... and that you are telling the 'reasoning' behind it... people learn to understand soil this way

  • @carolleimbach6407
    @carolleimbach6407 Před rokem

    The shirt and the dirt. Best garden channel. 💯

  • @amberalfaro1586
    @amberalfaro1586 Před rokem +8

    Best gardening video by far! Thanks! Zone 8b here. We squared off our large garden with logs cut from our yard. That holds all ingredients in and keeps weeds out. Then, we cardboarded the area with thick layers, overlapping generously, found free chick and/or horse manure as a bottom layer. It was quite a stench for a while there, but worth it. 💩 After that, we covered it with about 12" of free mulch (branches, bushes, etc) from the county. We have done this twice now. When it sits over the winter, covered with a tarp, it is just right for spring and beyond and the soil is beautiful not to mention the behemoth worms and a couple of snake surprises. When we do this at spring time instead, the wood chips bind up too much of the nutrients before beginning to compost and the plants struggle to start off, sometimes becoming to an early demise, but most get there eventually. All the shoveling is worth it. Soil is great and weeding takes about 5 minutes per week.

  • @wreay2240
    @wreay2240 Před rokem +1

    My kids and I did a garden bed for them which was compost on brown packing paper with woodchips on cardboard for paths. It worked really well in the same season. Need plenty of water

  • @manolopapas
    @manolopapas Před rokem +1

    Awesome. Love your style

  • @EvolutionWendy
    @EvolutionWendy Před rokem +22

    gosh, your videos appear exactly when I need them. I am severely handicapped but determined to convert my quarter acre to a no-till permaculture garden.
    A few days ago I laid down some painters plastic to solarize an area, just like you recommended it in a video. I'm so excited to watch this video because this land is super fertile, but has hard summer-compacted clay weed soil.
    I think the soil is actually quite healthy, when it's slowly moistened with a soaker it smells great and clings to roots properly. But in the summer it's too hard to get a pickaxe through, so I wanted to do something to prepare it for the coming winter planting season.
    Location -- Northern California/Sacramento valley

    • @amberalfaro1586
      @amberalfaro1586 Před rokem +5

      My mother is severally handicapped, too. She uses cardboard and/or mulch as weeding is not much of an option for her. She has a great garden every year. Good luck! 👍

  • @chriskimber7179
    @chriskimber7179 Před rokem +6

    Thoughts on solarizing?
    I removed hoop house plastic last week and put it on the lawn to give it a rinse and wash it off.
    That was at noon.
    Forgot about it until the next day when my wife realized what I had done.
    By 2 o'clock on a bright sunny day in July it had totally cooked the grass in a perfect rectangle, killing it completely.
    I was pretty impressed by 26 hours of solarizing!
    I am now trying this on a couple of weedy garden beds, it probly won't do anything at all...

    • @simd510
      @simd510 Před 9 měsíci

      Did you ever try it? I'm trying to decide if clear or black tarp would be better for killing grass.