5 Easy Ways To Build Soil Health For FREE
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Date: 2022-07-18
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Eli
Thank you for such wonderful videos!
Would sunflowers also be considered dynamic accumulators? Also, I have a few composting questions ( if you dont mind it being misplaced on this video) all winter, I buried my food scraps directly into the garden dirt. Even when there was snow on the ground Each time my container of food scraps would get full, I dumped in to a new hole in the garden, cover it with the dug up dirt, pour wam water over it, and then just leave it. Was this OK?
I'm really new to composting, and I've been super lazy about it thus far lol I just watched your video on the different methods, and plan to make some changes. but in the mean time, I've switched back to my first method I started last summer. throwing every thing in an old square recycle bin outside, covering it with crappy dirt, sometimes any worms I might find, and of course water. I keep repeating this process, which results in a big bin of layers. But I never turn it. Does this mean Im creating an anaerobic environment when I don't turn it? Is that bad?
Last year, when the recycle bin would get full, I would simply dump and bury the entire contents into an unused flower bed wth undesirable clay soil. I thought the soil would be amazing by this time of year, but it's hard to tell lol
Long story short, i know my super lazy method isn't the best way to do composting, but was it better than doing nothing at all? What happened to the soil by doing it this way?
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Thank you for such wonderful videos!
Would sunflowers also be considered dynamic accumulators? Also, I have a few composting questions ( if you dont mind it being misplaced on this video) all winter, I buried my food scraps directly into the garden dirt. Even when there was snow on the ground Each time my container of food scraps would get full, I dumped in to a new hole in the garden, cover it with the dug up dirt, pour wam water over it, and then just leave it. Was this OK?
I'm really new to composting, and I've been super lazy about it thus far lol I just watched your video on the different methods, and plan to make some changes. but in the mean time, I've switched back to my first method I started last summer. throwing every thing in an old square recycle bin outside, covering it with crappy dirt, sometimes any worms I might find, and of course water. I keep repeating this process, which results in a big bin of layers. But I never turn it. Does this mean Im creating an anaerobic environment when I don't turn it? Is that bad?
Last year, when the recycle bin would get full, I would simply dump and bury the entire contents into an unused flower bed wth undesirable clay soil. I thought the soil would be amazing by this time of year, but it's hard to tell lol
Long story short, i know my super lazy method isn't the best way to do composting, but was it better than doing nothing at all? What happened to the soil by doing it this way?
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Ruby
I believe that Borage would also be good to use as well. Wish I could find a list of old medicinal garden plants that would be good for my soil & I do have a compost pile & 2 red wiggler worm bins as those casting are black gold. As far a chickens poo, a bit scared on burning my plants as not sure how much to use during the winter time, but with the worm castings & a little horse manure, that's aged makes me feel more comfortable. What do you think please, as I've only had raised beds for 2 years & get a bit nervous that I may do damage to the plants/soil? Great video as always, thank you.
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I believe that Borage would also be good to use as well. Wish I could find a list of old medicinal garden plants that would be good for my soil & I do have a compost pile & 2 red wiggler worm bins as those casting are black gold. As far a chickens poo, a bit scared on burning my plants as not sure how much to use during the winter time, but with the worm castings & a little horse manure, that's aged makes me feel more comfortable. What do you think please, as I've only had raised beds for 2 years & get a bit nervous that I may do damage to the plants/soil? Great video as always, thank you.
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Tehstool
If I had a lot of space, I would just trench compost my food scraps. It's just an idea, but I would have multiple beds and I would rotate which beds I was growing in. The beds that I'm not growing food in would probably have some sort of cover crop/mulch and I would just bury my food scraps from left to right as I go through each bed. If I did use a cover crop, it would probably be a type of grass because those root more deeply than the nitrogen fixing ones and I'm already adding a ton of nitrogen into the bed from the food scraps. So I probably wouldn't need more.
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If I had a lot of space, I would just trench compost my food scraps. It's just an idea, but I would have multiple beds and I would rotate which beds I was growing in. The beds that I'm not growing food in would probably have some sort of cover crop/mulch and I would just bury my food scraps from left to right as I go through each bed. If I did use a cover crop, it would probably be a type of grass because those root more deeply than the nitrogen fixing ones and I'm already adding a ton of nitrogen into the bed from the food scraps. So I probably wouldn't need more.
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CLTserendipity
These are great tips, but I have a much cheaper way to compost. Get a black plastic trash can with lid. Drill holes around the sides and a couple on the bottom for air flow. Set it up on bricks and fill with layers of brown and green materials. I use coffee grounds, all veg peelings, eggshells, leaves, grass clippings, etc. You can attach a bungee cord across the top, turn the can on its side and roll to circulate. Put back up on bricks for air flow. Keep damp to appropriate level. Cooks compost fast, it's economical, and easy.
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These are great tips, but I have a much cheaper way to compost. Get a black plastic trash can with lid. Drill holes around the sides and a couple on the bottom for air flow. Set it up on bricks and fill with layers of brown and green materials. I use coffee grounds, all veg peelings, eggshells, leaves, grass clippings, etc. You can attach a bungee cord across the top, turn the can on its side and roll to circulate. Put back up on bricks for air flow. Keep damp to appropriate level. Cooks compost fast, it's economical, and easy.
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angela
I just moved to a new house. The soil here is pure sand. Did I say pure sand? Like at the beach. I have to grow. I left a garden of 40+ years of building up that soil. So here's my thinking. Cut up the cardboard from my moving boxes, moisten and lay them down on the area that I want to improve, put grass clippings on top. keep them moist, add kitchen scraps below the wet cardboard, introduce some worms from my worm bin and start building my new soil. What do you think. I'm pretty sure there are no worms in this sandy location.
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I just moved to a new house. The soil here is pure sand. Did I say pure sand? Like at the beach. I have to grow. I left a garden of 40+ years of building up that soil. So here's my thinking. Cut up the cardboard from my moving boxes, moisten and lay them down on the area that I want to improve, put grass clippings on top. keep them moist, add kitchen scraps below the wet cardboard, introduce some worms from my worm bin and start building my new soil. What do you think. I'm pretty sure there are no worms in this sandy location.
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Dave
It is the new growing season for 2021. I grow in
containers such as storage bins. At the end of last growing season, I chopped up alot of cucumber and tomato plant leaves and sprinkled them into the soil of those bins, then turned and mixed them into the soil. It is all an experiment, but I hope I have enriched the soil by degrees. I will fert.
and see how things go.
Conditions are not quite consistent yet for transplanting my seedlings(southern N. H) but soon!
Good luck to all for 2021!
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It is the new growing season for 2021. I grow in
containers such as storage bins. At the end of last growing season, I chopped up alot of cucumber and tomato plant leaves and sprinkled them into the soil of those bins, then turned and mixed them into the soil. It is all an experiment, but I hope I have enriched the soil by degrees. I will fert.
and see how things go.
Conditions are not quite consistent yet for transplanting my seedlings(southern N. H) but soon!
Good luck to all for 2021!
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Arianna
Thank you for the video, but (unless you know what youre doing) FOR THE LOVE OF GOD dont plant stinging nettle in anything but a container by itself! Nettle is super invasive, growing super, will take over everything, and the process to remove it from your garden is super complicated and takes forever to accomplish! If you are inexperienced with stinging nettle make sure you wear gloves when coming into contact with it, cause like the name suggests it will sting, so please be careful with it!
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Thank you for the video, but (unless you know what youre doing) FOR THE LOVE OF GOD dont plant stinging nettle in anything but a container by itself! Nettle is super invasive, growing super, will take over everything, and the process to remove it from your garden is super complicated and takes forever to accomplish! If you are inexperienced with stinging nettle make sure you wear gloves when coming into contact with it, cause like the name suggests it will sting, so please be careful with it!
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SpiceyNanaSim
I just use large totes, put holes in them, leave the lid on them, add some cheap top soil and then cut up my veggie/fruit peals really small and throw them in, then cover them up with some top soil. We have a neighbor that doesn't care if her tree overgrows into others yards so with the leaves we get (that fall from the tree in the fall/winter. I put those in the compost as well. Very nice dark compost when I need it.
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I just use large totes, put holes in them, leave the lid on them, add some cheap top soil and then cut up my veggie/fruit peals really small and throw them in, then cover them up with some top soil. We have a neighbor that doesn't care if her tree overgrows into others yards so with the leaves we get (that fall from the tree in the fall/winter. I put those in the compost as well. Very nice dark compost when I need it.
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skinnyWHITEguy
You can also just put shredded leaves in thick layers on your garden over winter and save all your urine and use a watering can and sprinkle it on the leaves. It provides more than enough nitrogen to break the leaves down. Laugh if ya wanna but it works and makes compost right on top of your soil for friggin free. Drink a couple coronas every evening and double your urine output to speed up process
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You can also just put shredded leaves in thick layers on your garden over winter and save all your urine and use a watering can and sprinkle it on the leaves. It provides more than enough nitrogen to break the leaves down. Laugh if ya wanna but it works and makes compost right on top of your soil for friggin free. Drink a couple coronas every evening and double your urine output to speed up process
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kimponics
Thanks so much. I've been making a lot of mistakes that you have cleared up. Sometimes its about how a person says it. Bingo, I've needed to cover my soil and protect it. I will also work in the various composting dynamic accumulators, and mulch. This will help with the very hot So. Calif. sun that seemed to be intensely wilting the things I was growing even though they want lots of sunlight.
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Thanks so much. I've been making a lot of mistakes that you have cleared up. Sometimes its about how a person says it. Bingo, I've needed to cover my soil and protect it. I will also work in the various composting dynamic accumulators, and mulch. This will help with the very hot So. Calif. sun that seemed to be intensely wilting the things I was growing even though they want lots of sunlight.
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skinnyWHITEguy
Bury a bunch of fish and kitchen/garden scraps in trenches about a foot deep in your garden rows in the fall. Add grass clippings and shredded leaves about 4 inches deep and let it all break down over the winter. Come spring your plants will have super plant steroids and grow better than you have ever seen. Easy peezy and very effective.
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Bury a bunch of fish and kitchen/garden scraps in trenches about a foot deep in your garden rows in the fall. Add grass clippings and shredded leaves about 4 inches deep and let it all break down over the winter. Come spring your plants will have super plant steroids and grow better than you have ever seen. Easy peezy and very effective.
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FrozenWolf150
Dandelions also make great dynamic accumulators, as they have one of the most robust taproots, capable of reaching several feet below the surface. Dandelions are one of the most nutritious greens you can grow, and every part of the plant is edible and has a lot of culinary uses. It's too bad most people consider it a weed.
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Dandelions also make great dynamic accumulators, as they have one of the most robust taproots, capable of reaching several feet below the surface. Dandelions are one of the most nutritious greens you can grow, and every part of the plant is edible and has a lot of culinary uses. It's too bad most people consider it a weed.
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John
Soil health balance is in constant flux. the acidic rain creates a build up of clay in your soil and every now and then lime needs to be added to counterbalance this. Make a fist with your soil. If it holds form after a poke its too much clay. Time to add some garden lime. Beware. Builders lime will kill everything
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Soil health balance is in constant flux. the acidic rain creates a build up of clay in your soil and every now and then lime needs to be added to counterbalance this. Make a fist with your soil. If it holds form after a poke its too much clay. Time to add some garden lime. Beware. Builders lime will kill everything
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Mark
Goat poo with hay. Our friends have a goat ranch that they're GLADLY encouraging us to take away as much as we want. We use the aged stuff that comes from their enclosures. It's not as hot as other manure and smells earthy. The hay works as mulch. Anything that grows from the hay is easily weeded by hand.
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Goat poo with hay. Our friends have a goat ranch that they're GLADLY encouraging us to take away as much as we want. We use the aged stuff that comes from their enclosures. It's not as hot as other manure and smells earthy. The hay works as mulch. Anything that grows from the hay is easily weeded by hand.
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John
GREAT bunch of info Kevin Thank You. I've wanted to do composting for years now but I don't know how to go about it, I watched a show once on it but the guy made it look so involved I said the heck with it. I'll have to look into it again. Thanks again. (John from California)
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GREAT bunch of info Kevin Thank You. I've wanted to do composting for years now but I don't know how to go about it, I watched a show once on it but the guy made it look so involved I said the heck with it. I'll have to look into it again. Thanks again. (John from California)
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