Crazy Gardening Trick To Dig Holes In Hard Soil And Condition The Earth

34 Comments

1. Maria Craddock 4 years ago

   Hi! I am so happy! I order some seeds from you I hope you stil have those abalable.

2. Nancy Webb 4 years ago

   I run a sprinkler for awhile on my clay soil and it makes it so easy to dig. No mote pickax!

3. Shaun Yip 4 years ago

   Gotta agree 100% with the folks here who say its more efficient to burn old stumps/branches and use the ash. Not afraid of hard work, but digging holes just to bury old wood – how long does that take to break down! – will not yield the benefits compared to the effort required.

4. Team ArVes 4 years ago

   Dig and utilize soil. Happy gardening. Let's try gardening

5. jane doe 4 years ago

   Great vid of garden ideas with the bonus of watching someone not afraid of a little excavation, though wouldn't it be fun to invent an auto-mattock mattock?

6. Daily Life and Nature 4 years ago

   Good video uploading, thanks for sharing to us such an amazing gardening looking forward to see more posting

7. Chantal Tulliez 4 years ago

   Brilliant idea…I agree with you that everything organic coming from your garden should stay in the garden chop and drop, kitchen scrap, tree trunks…etc…keep up the good work and thank you for sharing…regards to Alice

8. Don Isenberg 4 years ago

   I find that a mattocks is easier to use when on my knees. Saves my aching back from hunching over.

9. Urban Country Films 4 years ago

   I love this idea

10. Apm 4 years ago

    Man if this is hard soil, I got soil like brick

11. T Montero 4 years ago

    Right there with you. Better outside being productive, than stuck in a gym. Thanks, Dan.

12. GeneralFrankenberry 4 years ago

    This is hard soil??

13. MJ 4 years ago

    Sooooooo, what was the trick to dig a hole?

14. Jody Hakala 4 years ago

    Great video! I like that your mentioned how bury these helps rid bugs 🐛 🕷 🐜 above ground and of you bury will help the soil! Also good to give that tree 🌳 a burial!

15. Jody Hakala 4 years ago

    Found a nickel ha

16. Laricia Jones 4 years ago

    THANK YOU!!! I've been trying to dig up a deep cactus root in a rocky garden bed with a shovel and ho with little progress. I would have never thought to use a pic ax to get that done. saved me hella time

17. Aaron Brown 4 years ago

    Bad description

18. Michael Love 3 years ago

    Your suggesting is great and I think it can be like a centerpiece for some bunched plantings. Good idea. I have started using an adapted Hugelkultur as well. It works great. In my raised beds I dig a center trench deep enough for the waste timber I have then fillet in with leaf decomposing and smaller sticks limbs, etc. It really improves the performance of raised beds. Thanks for the great videos.

19. jr1001jr 3 years ago

    👨‍🌾… it ain't much … but it's honest work.😉

20. Kristin Minner 3 years ago

    Thank you for sharing your knowledge and positivity.

21. PoleGem 3 years ago

    Gardening for me was impossible until I got one if those tools…. and starting burying .

22. Ree Purpose 3 years ago

    I found all the many, many bricks I have in my garden by tilling the soil first.😊

23. Gabby’s Goods 3 years ago

    Hey 👋 I was wondering 💭 how I was going to get those stumps up. Who wants to look at stumps ?? My parents left them in the ground. It looks ugly and nothing can grow there. Hmm 🤔 I’ll have to wet the soil. I have to get those nasty 🤮 stumps out !!! Or I won’t be able to plant 🌱 anything there !!! Do you want to come over and remove the stumps for ME ??? Lol 😂 This is going to be a hard job !!! Why do you want trunks in the ground ?

24. Gardening With the Rabbit Lady 3 years ago

    The ground 2 inches under my grass is all clay. It sucks trying to grow in. Our neighbor has a dead tree that keeps dropping limbs over here. Great idea to use those limbs. Thanks.

25. Simple-Earth Self-Reliance 3 years ago

    Super helpful, going to apply some of these methods on our terrain too. It's been daunting planting posts. PS: Don't worry about "pests" moving into the wood, there is no such thing. Just composters and pollinators 🙂

26. Ismael Gonzales 3 years ago

    Great it was great I'd love to what you put on I got actually more than what I wanted and I'm going to keep this one and watch it over and over cuz I love what you explained and thank you very much you got me hooked thank you. 👍🙂

27. Private Private 3 years ago

    Thumbs Up

28. Scott Downey 3 years ago

    I wish my yard soil was as soft as yours. I have some dryish hard compacted clay near a massive multi trunk silver maple. At least have not found roots for the fence post hole I am digging now. Just one hole is needed to extend my fence where a PO maybe gave up digging and did not finish the length of fence to the corner. I have found slamming a digging shovel in and forcing the handle over to scrape against the dry clay slowly, very slowly loosens the dirt, then use my hand to pull it out. Top 6 inches was not a problem as it was like soft loam soil. I am going to try to get down 16 inches, but I suppose I may give up and use cement to hold it in a shallow hole.

29. Servants of Christ Alone 2 years ago

    Hello Dan, I have some questions pertaining to water for my garden but didn't want to be off subject here. Do you have an email?

30. Harambe 2 years ago

    wtf is hoogle culture?

31. 50hellkat2 2 years ago

    Backbreaking work. If you want your back to last I would suggest another way.

32. Allen Hu 2 years ago

    Best way is to give away as free firewood

33. Caleb Malychewski 2 years ago

    Wow, that soil really is hard….

34. hillock10 2 years ago

    Your soil is butter compared to the clay "soil" in my yard. That pick axe would make the job harder.