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Organic Gardening 101 for Raised Beds Vegetable Gardening



Urban gardening in raised beds can take a while to build a quality soil ecosystem. In the meantime, seasonal pick-me-ups with soil amendments and slow-release organic fertilizer are likely necessary. This organic gardening basics video by Elise Pickett of The Urban Harvest will explain 4 different fertilizers for vegetable gardening including compost, worm castings, and meals to improve your garden soil. This Florida gardening 101 lesson will get you growing food in no time.

0:00 What are Soil Amendments?
3:08 Kelp Meal Fertilizer for Garden Beds
3:44 Crab Meal Fertilizer for Garden Beds
4:35 Worm Castings for Garden Beds
5:58 Compost as Fertilizer for Garden Beds
6:40 How to Add Soil Amendments to Garden

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29 Comments

  6. B Lambert

    I was looking for the Down to Earth brand, got the info from Simple Living in Alaska, they have used that brand and really like it.

    I started my romaine lettuce from the base of what I bought at the store ( I have a brown thumb most days) and surprisingly it is growing as well as celery in water. I'm going to transfer to containers and was looking to see what dirt I need to get as well as plant food.

  10. Davd D'Ambrosio

    If your bed is already finished ,can you just spread the amendments on top or do they need to be worked into the soil ?

  12. Robert Tuttle

    Great videos! I also live on the Florida coast, would you rinse and/or compost kelp before adding to your garden?

  13. She's my President

    Learn about Guerilla composting . you'd be surprised how much fertilizer you 're actually throwing away and flushing on a daily basis

  15. Sonnie Greenwell

    So interesting! I live in the North West Florida area (Pensacola) what would you say would grow good here with all the heat!!!!! ☀️ was wondering about turnip greens 🥬 tomatoes 🍅 cucumber 🥒 peppers 🌶 (red, yellow or green) onions 🧅 etc. thanks for your help!

  16. Victoria C

    Do you have more tips on dealing with nematodes? Or is the crab stuff sufficient enough? I’ve been planting nematode deters (sorghum, pinkeye purple hill, velvet bean, French marigolds) 2 seasons now and tried solarizing last year. Still pulled out a couple tomatoes and okra with rotten knotted up roots:(

  18. jose ramos

    thnx 4 this vid, very informative. I'm a newbie, but studliest. I live in Miami and would love 2 meet other like minded folks.Any suggestions? Stay safe and mindfully in peace. Jose

  20. Hope Love Marisol

    Hey hello this angel am from Florida to I was yes watching one of your videos and I yes need your help to start my raised bed what I need

  22. Purple Notes

    I just subscribed to your channel. I am thrilled that I found you. I live in the Tampa Bay area and have been gardening for a while now. I have a large raised bed garden and last year for the first time we had a grub infiltration. I did not spray, my husband and I started to let our chickens into the garden and have them go to town. Of course, they didn't get all the grubs because it seemed they were deep into the soil, so we tilled the soil as much as we could. We left our fall season and cleaned out the plants, except our pepper plants. The pests and grubs seem to ignore the pepper plants. We started to take out the soil in the garden and throw it down under our big oak tree. We then started to pull soil from out chicken coup run, which we were surprised to see that it was mostly sand with the wood chip shavings. We haven't replaced all the soil in the garden, it is quite BIG job. Do you recommend us completely replacing all the garden soil? We had the worse growing season last year because of the grubs and possible other pests. I hate to redo the soil, because it would be a lot. Is there a way to build up the soil without pest control? Any thoughts? Thank you!!!! Also, where do you recommend getting bulk soil? I do not have enough compost to full my garden. Thank you!!!! Krissy 🙂

  25. Lynn Schmidt

    Hi. I'm really enjoying your channel. Your little trainee is so cute!
    I live in zone 5b Pennsylvania. Last frost May 30. We are semi rural with 1/2 acre. Our number of growing days last year went from 120 to 100. I extend the season at both ends but the cruciferous veg don't get enough of a cool portion (for a few years now) so I will try container gardening some this year for Fall through early winter.
    Question. I have fish meal to include in refreshing my raised beds and container dirt. Will this be as good as the kelp? I do have a powdered kelp.
    Another question: Last year husband mowed part of an empty field. Owners no longer live here and it is early stages of going back to woodland. This was put in our compost. I don't know why but we didn't get the usual amount of leaves we normally do which has been our brown. Probably the crazy wind we get now. I saw a video where a gardener (The Rusted Gardener on YT) title video How to Make Compost from Inexpensive Wood Pellets & Alfalfa Pellets in 30-60 Days: Full Experiment!
    I added the wood pellets to increase the brown. In the long term, should this make a healthy soil?
    Thanks so much.

  26. patrick mcdonald

    I'm an IT guy in Orlando who is about to have a yard for the first time and i am SUPER excited that i found all this. All your videos are great and super informative and easy to follow.

  28. Lauren

    Thank you for keeping it simple!! So many YouTuber videos out there with peat and manure and bone meal and blood meal and garden lime….it is too confusing!! I'll stick to your videos 🙂

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