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26 Comments
Thank you very much for sharing. Those potting mixes are so expensive so it's the best to produce your own soil if you can.
Loving my compost pile I’m actually out filling 5 gallon buckets of water today to bring home and damping it to keep it working well going through a bit of a drought up here and upstate New York
Great video as usual, thanks Luke🍅🍆🥬
PS You can compost in a plastic bin, i do it yearly for over a decade.
I moved into a place with an huge established blueberry bush, it made awesome berries the first summer. But nothing for two years now, what did the previous owner do?
I have a mix of grass clippings, chopped leaves, pine straw, and added forest soil and soil from a gulch I brought in with my garden wagon on top of hard red clay. I add all my grass clippings around my garden green when I mow. There are huge worms under it. I had to do it this way because it`s all I have. Topsoil was bulldozed away decades ago down to hard red clay.
Luke! I always ❤your vids! So I learned one thing in this video, that I don’t need to buy raised bed mix for my raised beds. Excellent! But I didn’t quite learn what I can fill it with instead: other than getting compost from somewhere. Do I just put compost in my raised bed?
When I started my raised beds I got some bulk "raised bed mix", but it was native topsoil and compost mix that they composted themselves. That year I also planted super late, but it was also one of my most productive years, especially for sweet peppers. Obviously it's not a bagged mix, but it was significantly cheaper to get started that way, with the drawbacks being a 3 yard minimum and a small delivery fee.
Do u have a video on how to begin compost
You can just mix sand into your clay and the nutrients will be available
I've been mixing a little fertilizer, with Black Kow manure/compost, and my natural soil. I have a trashcan full of leaves, compostable waste, but I haven't been turning it or anything. I have a large storage container tub, and I think I'll move those contents to that, start regularly turning the compost, and see how that works out for me. Thanks for all the info.
Great information! You have inspired me to take out my mulcher in June to properly create mulch! I usually only do this in the fall
Thank you for the information.
I use a trash can with holes for compost
I use bumper crop
Great stuff here, Luke! I’ve been dredging soil out of my woods on my property, plus making compost like crazy. The garden is thriving this year!
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Could you do or have you done an indepth video on making compost. Building a compost area and how to compost that does not attract critters. Please.
Do leaves have To be shredded to make compost?
Shedded leaves how?
I have tried to do compost in the past. But living up in zone four and in a small city, I do not have the materials to get enough compost to make any difference. Also, we do not get the heat to break down compost in an efficient manner. I use chopped up leaves in the fall and sometimes some grass from the lawn cuttings. I also recycle potting mix from my wife’s many flower baskets to put in my raised beds. A person has to do what they can do to build up their soil and it may not always , work the way down in the lower or warmer climate.
Ibags of Miracle-Gro raised garden bed last year and it was the worst decision I've ever made ….it was like the bags were just full of yucky mulch. What a waste of money.
Thank you very much for your time and information do you have any videos or info on soil-borne Wilt disease 4 out of 5 of my Giant Crimson's got stunned hard and are diying slowly how can I fix my soil for next year, (this also happened last season with Early Girls)
When i need dirt i go to the river flats near me and fill buckets
Rip to all the plants that died in this heatwave 🙏
I have used Miracle Grow Potting Soil and Compost for several years in my raised beds and I have had AMAZING productive gardens. I wouldn't change a thing.