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I have three compost bins our front in our yard. Luckily my apartment manager just admires the hard work(and I ensure it never smells bad). So every scrap that isn't used for vinegar, stock or dried teas…goes right into the compost. It is incredibly rich soil. We have an agreement with the landscapers- they won't spray or prune anything in our front yard area, as long as I keep it all tended to. Our Father has blessed us so greatly and has helped me tend to the gardens we make every year in our itty bitty space.
I just love my Borage Heidi! if it was not hearing it from you! I never would have known about this beautiful flower. The bees just love them. I remember you getting the horse manure and I can't wait to use my chicken bedding with the manure for our garden. It is awesome Heidi to listen to you again on the ways of saving on gardening. It never gets old, and it is good to renew my memory.
We don’t have many slugs, but we dare not use grass clippings. Bermuda—is it even a grass or is it a noxious weed? It can have seed heads when it’s 4” tall, plus it sends out runners above ground. It isn’t worth the risk of unintentionally planting it in the rare spot one isn’t fighting it.
I should have added that we use sawdust & wood shavings from my husband’s cabinet shop that is on our property. We’ve shared it with friends who are willing to shovel it out of the dust collector.
I appreciate all your information!! Thank you so much!! God Is So Good ❤
We just went and bought some fruit trees and bushes. The couple we bought from had large containers that they grew most of their vegetables in. He had a system for how he grows potatoes. He has soil in the bottom giant pot, then adds a pot on top that has the bottom almost completely cut out and fills it with dirt and plants his potatoe seeds. Once his plants grow taller than that pot, he adds another pot on top again with the bottom almost cut completely out and the fills it with soil and grass clippings to cover the potatoe plants…. and on and on if needed. So really he has potato towers. They said that they've had huge crops using this method… I'm going to try this next year…. I'm assuming that the initial investment with the giant pots may be high… idk, he has connections with nursery owners that give him the pots once the bottoms start to give way… I'm mean these pots were probably 50lb sizes for plants….👍👍✌✌🦋🦋🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩
My fresh scraps go right into the garden, and banana peels and limes for blueberries 🙂
This is all so great Thanks Heidi and everyone else commenting with more great ideas. Lots I use and lots of new to try~I appreciate it!
God bless you all! 😊
Great info Thank you. Blessings
This year we found a tree care company that is looking to get rid of their wood chips. We have been hauling home truckloads when it is convenient.
Thanks for the tips Heidi!
I love that you mention slugs. This is kind of silly, but having grown up in Kirkland where we, also, got lots of rain, I LOVED seeing all the slugs around. I remember feeding them, even, lol when I was 10 at my mom's boyfriend's place in Big Bend, I'd feed them broccoli and strawberries and it was SO fascinating to watch them eat because they seemed to just disintegrate it right before my eyes. 10 year old me was completely in awe as if they were magicians. Such a silly thing, but I still have special spots in my heart for banana slugs because of that lol. They are HUGE garden ruiners, almost as bad as chickens, but they were pretty cool when I was a kid.
About composting, the ones we had growing up were just a tall box in the yard made from some old slats of wood, probably 5×5 feet and maybe 2 or 3 feet tall, and we just tossed kitchen scraps in there, covered it with grass clippings when we mowed the lawn, and repeated it until it was full. By that time, it was usually time for next year's garden to start, so then my mom would just scoop it up and spread it over the garden bed. We didn't turn it, didn't officially ferment it, we just let it run its course naturally, and it worked well.
Although I do want to add that it WAS in very rainy Kirkland, WA and worms and slugs are common all over the western part of the state, and they all made their home in and around the compost. So that may have contributed a lot. Now that I think of it, that method might not do so well in warmer/hot climates with little rain. But if you are lucky enough to live somewhere that gets a decent amount of rain, I don't think you need to do much turning. I know those compost bins that stand on legs and you turn, people mainly have when to keep critters like raccoons and skunks out of their compost gardens, because they will ravage a compost.
That said, if you have enough land and don't mind possible nocturnal predators and critters snooping your compost, you can totally have an open area for a compost, and a natural garden will grow all on its own the next spring. I did this method around the time my kids were born, just chucked everything out back behind the shed – all the food that had gone bad in the fridge, the old Halloween pumpkins, the tail end of soups that no one wanted to eat, turkey bones, etc, and every rotting plant that I put in there, as long as it had seeds, grew into a new plant and produced new fruit that following spring. Specifically I remember white pumpkins sprouting up and we got about 4 of them. That's not a lot, BUT it had been store bought and I doubt organic so I didn't expect it to grow at all.
My momma used wood ashes to keep bugs off her squash and other plants, it worked well for her.
I save feed sack strings to use in my garden, for building trellis, & to tie up plants. I also use my plastic bottles to slow water my plants. Save my own seeds, looking for SEEDs to trade mine to someone for theirs.
I'm so glad you said,marshmallow. I've gotta get more order from you again. Last year only a very small amount came up. Not sure what ate it.
One thing we've done to save on fertilizer is making compost tea and biochar, soaking the biochar in the tea works as a slow release fertilizer. Our garden is doing amazing with those additions. We also use the chop and drop method for mulch and fertlizer, chicken compost from the chicken run, grass clippings, leaves, and the occasional free woodchips.
Another great video, thank you. Such good ideas and points. I just wanted to add that using chickens in the garden to roto-til the amendments into the soil works great when the garden is resting. I usually do this in the early spring before things start coming up
I know it's a little off-topic, but you did mention it. And this is a new video, and I have been wondering about it for a while since I can't seem to get a straight answer online. Lol my question: is Mallow the same thing as Marshmallow? We have been looking for a while, but we already have Mallow seeds. They're the Vulcan variety though. I put the same question on the Marshmallow video you did just in case this one doesn't get through or seen or whatever. Cool video by the way. I haven't seen one yet that isn't cool or useful. 😁
I can confirm beer does not work in WA.
I sell plants and recycle pots.
Is cat poop good as a fertilizer? I have cats that like to poop in my garden. If it's bad for the plants, what can I use to deter the cats from this area? Any suggestions please?
Tips I've learnt in the 3 short years of gardening: 1) making leaf mold out of leaves in fall makes the richest and most aerated soil 2) collecting seaweed and adding it to compost provides trace minerals to soil and 3) make worm castings if you can. If not, encourage worms into your garden by having the ground covered ny leaves, twigs, cardboard etc most of the year
Thank you Heidi! I will try your suggestions. Thank you for all of your useful information!
Wonderful vlog; thanks for sharing! I live on a town lot with so many trees in my back yard, so have a few raised beds, peppermint patch in an old sandbox, raspberry patch, strawberry patch. So I got hubby to build a raised bed in the front yard; it’s taken a few years to get the soil rich but we keep getting farm compost. I also had many little bushes like cherry plum, Seabuckthorn berries, etc. there but was hard to mow around, so I put down cardboard, covered with sawdust (free from our neighborhood) & farm compost. I edged the beds with old poles covered with landscape cloth stapled on so they didn’t look so bad. Last year we grew about 50 pounds of potatoes & started many perennials & herbs in between the bushes. I also use comfrey leaves for fertilizer. Our winters are long & very cold in Alberta, Canada, so I bought straw bales to sprinkle around for insulation. We still have about a foot of snow so I don’t know how they did but even my baby Elderberry trees produced berries last summer there. I seed save as well. Blessings to all.
I'm watching your videos, and I've been making vinegar for a while, thank you for all your informative videos. I love gardening, and I'm going to try a lot of different tomatoes this year. I would love to make the floral vinegars, I have a lot of lavender and I want to try that. All I could find online was to start it in fruit juice. I believe you said I could use 1/2 c. of sugar.
What about the weed seeds from the yard?
Thanks so much for sharing 💜 I am trying to incorporate all of this in my little house homestead 😂🥰
Hey Heidi🥰
I didn't know that it was edible 💞
Ya'll got some beautiful gardens🥰