This Grocery Row Garden bed did horrible. Let’s fix it.
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Here are some tips and tricks for fixing a bad garden for the next season.
When your garden does bad, make it good! Today we look at a poor potato yield in a grocery row garden and add some amendments to the bed. Today I share some tips and tricks for being new life to a bad garden bed. We use rabbit manure, lime, rotten potato plants and mulch to bring a bed back to life, then we plant sweet potatoes, okra and watermelon.
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Sometimes the potatoes are SAD! Let's fix it, and grow something that LOVES our climate!
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Sure hope the rabbit bedding was free of aminopyralids. I'm pretty sure that happened to me once
I just bought a rabbit so I could get the good fertilizer but every site I have read says that after six months I have to stop feeding it alfalfa hay and switch to a grass hay like Timothy hay. I don’t want to do this do you have any recommendations.
It’s been rather dry in Florabama this season.
It's cool to see you do the type of stuff agroforestry academy does in a temperate climate.
Man, can I relate to this! We just broke a 90ft. X 25 ft. Garden in heavy clay soil. We spent all day hauling composted chicken manure, a load of chips that were nearly all the way to dirt, and the adding gypsum, lime, and Steve Solomon's complete organic fertilizer mix before retilling it and building raised rows. That seems to be the recipe that works for me, although in the past we used 10-10-10 instead of the COF mix. We're excited to have a good sized space this year, in addition to our 25 x 25 bed by the house.
I've learned so much in the last 5 years from you and others, so I'm hoping for a good yield this year.
oh m gosh, i love the sweet potato music video. totally do another one !
Baked dry rice works well instead of Silica packs 👍
Whaaaatttttt???? That intro was awesome! So fun!!!
What varieties of cannas do you grow for your chop and drop?
I have a question for anyone who knows. I have horses with unusable manure and I buy ALOT of hay. I have a stack that’s been sitting in the Oklahoma sun and rain for three 3 years and looks partially rotted. It is a sprayed hay. Could it be deadly as a mulch?
When are we getting an album release?
Would oxygen absorbers work instead of silica packets?
it is raining so much here (Oregon) that my potatoes are beginning to ROT in the ground. not good my friend, not good.
Your lessons are really helpful. Thank you ☺️
How do you keep rabbits from dessimating your sweet potato vines?
I picked a branch off of a tree downtown fort Myers Florida. I had no idea what it was, I just liked the look of it. I've had it for 2 years now and had no idea what it was. I was watching one of your videos when you went back to your old house in fort Lauderdale and you said it was called Mexican tree spinach. Thank you so much for letting me know what it was it's been driving me crazy
I love your Jersey Girls 😆
Your non-traditional planting methods are awesome. I have never been one for straight row planting either. Maybe somewhat with radishes and onions but other than that the Helter Skelter method Works awesome for me
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Maybe Dr Pinkerton can help with your potatoes
Is that bagged Timothy Hay safe to throw in compost? I couldn't find any info on it but I use it on occasion, for duck bedding, in a pinch.
Your music generally sucks, and something else is rearing, but oh well far from perfect is the norm for the commercial heads.
What are you spreading from the greenish bucket? And where do I get some?
Fully on board with the "you can't have too many watermelons" theory. I also planted a row of melons in between my sweet potato rows – because why not?
Alpalfa pellets would be no good for potatoes is too high in nitrogen it will cause too much leaf growth and take away from Roots development