I totally agree with you Danny. I pick up bags of leaves in the town near me , probably 100 bags a year. I put them in my chicken house about 2 feet deep then put it in a compost pile the following year. The price of shavings got to be to expensive and the leaves are free and much much more higher in minerals and organic matter . If you would run for president of the UNITED states l would vote for you. Thank you.
Danny, I grew celebrity tomatoes for the first time this year. I saw Jess from Roots & Refuge put grass clippings around the bottom of her tomato plants so that when you watered the dirt would not Splash up on the lower leaves. Lord have mercy I have 21 tomatoes on one plant and still blooming. I will definitely be growing celebrity tomatoes from now on
So true. I looked into the untouched woods around my house saw how beautiful these 100 year old trees had the most natural soil below them and started collecting the leaves and grass clippings on my 1 acre home site. I gathered them and started placing them around every fruit tree. In only one year as they decayed I saw mold form worms and little baby worms would cover the ground buy the thousands when I moved the leaves. When I free range my chickens they go and scratch eat worms and mix it for me and I get eggs from them. Then my satsumas tree has given me more fruit than ever. My chickens have cover from the hawks even eagles that nest near my place. Nature is good and God is so good to open my eyes to his creation!
Nature happens in our barn every day....pesticide free spent hay "enriched" by sheep and goats. We built our garden soil with it. Every year our garden production gets better. Out potting soil is the rotted hay from where the cows feed on roll bales in the pasture during the winter working their "organic" magic. High germination rate and strong seedlings. All started with my daughter's research and insistence on returning to 1800s practices.
I remember on the "Plant Abundance" yt channel, he showed in a video how he "chops and drops" hollyhock plants, and lays them down in the garden areas of his "Food Forest" backyard. And he explained that hollyhock is loaded with good minerals and nutrients, because it has a deep taproot that pulls up these minerals, etc. from deep in the ground. Another video I watched from a different yt channel, was showing a garden where this man planted a comfrey plant amongst the vegetable garden... for the same reason, to pull up vital nutrients and minerals to the other plants, so they'll have more nutrition. He didn't "chop and drop" the comfrey. Just planted it near vegetables and fruits/vines.
I have been using leaves and grass clippings for years. I would use it for weed control too. All my neighbors at this house we moved to ask my why I use a push mower with a bag when I have the tractors and zero turns. Well, it's because those grass clippings are like gold. IT WORKS! Only one problem, once you start using it, you can never get enough.
We’re looking for a sweeper to pull behind the zero turn...made hay Amish style last week with a rake, fork and wagon for mulch and compost. Great topic Danny - take care of yourself and thanks for all the knowledge 👍🏼👍🏼
@@TheMujiFuji we were looking for a sweeper to pull behind the tractor. We couldn't find anything that would work and the vacuum ones that connect to the PTO are ridiculously expensive. So, as of now, it's a push mower with a bag.
I'm with you. I want ALL the "added" stuff out of my gardens. Have been reading up on things like you. Cheaper and healthier. Will be watching for your viseos to learn more. Thanks for putting in the time and getting the messsage our there.
There is much truth to this. My property is half covered with Oak trees that lose their leaves during a 2 week period in the spring after I put my spring garden in. I rake up as much as I can a stack it deep (about 6”-12”)to cover my entire garden. I don’t fertilize or weed EVER and get large quantities of healthy vegetables. The only thing that I contend with is snails. I pick them off each morning and drop them in a bucket of soapy water to kill them. Works for me here in Texas! Edit- This also greatly reduces my need to water and brings a TON of toads that set up camp and keep the bugs under control.
@moma bare This year we were inundated with rain so as of now I have watered my garden 5 times total. I run soaker hoses through the garden before I put the leaves down so this is my main method of watering. I occasionally give an extra sprinkle from the hose if it’s a really hot day. In a normal year I typically give them a good and deep watering about every 1.5 weeks and occasionally I can go 2 weeks depending on the temps. The plants are good at letting you know when they need it.
My mom would clean out the fridge and all the other scraps after meal's out side dig out a hole and pour it in and cover . She had a beautiful yard and flowers
You have given me so much to think about, Danny. I'm looking forward to this "series". It makes perfect sense about not having to fertilize anymore but I hope you discuss pest control too.
my mothers father was a wise man he raised rabbits chickens he had 2 gardens a winter garden and a spring garden and when the garden he would burn it off he than he would put leaves in the corner of the property to compost in the spring he would put that rich compost with the rabbit poop and chicken poop mix it in and let it set 5 days then spread it out all over his garden i am still use those gardens
Thank you Danny! I've ask some of those questions and didn't get an answer for a long time until God said just look around you then you'll find what you need! You're so right about the big money! As a society (not individuals) we've bowed to man instead of God! We're reaping the consequences of those choices. I'm looking forward to more of this conversation! Blessings to you both.
Mr. Danny .. truly cannot remember a video I enjoyed this much . Please please take us on your journey . This seems like such a perfect and respectful way to garden . Thank you so very much
Coming from a farming family and farmer neighbors and a son who sells chemicals, I can tell you that some of the same chemicals are sprayed on non organic AND organic food. All they do is get it approved for their crops. It is best to grow your own and use your own manure like they used to. My son gardens organic without sprays even though that's his job to sell chems. I got him to switch over to DE instead of sevin for tomatoes and such a long time ago.
I love this, Danny. For about 19 years, I've been using nothing but my own clean compost in my small suburban garden on about 4mx10m. I've had bumper crops. Now I am in a Retirement Estate, with food planting space of about 10mx3m if I calculate the pieces together. Was cutting all the grass of surrounding vacant plots by hand, and working it into my little garden, only to learn later that maintenance sprays the vacant stands with poison! I am still determined to grow my vegetables organically. Keep up the good work!
My wife and I are praying 🙏🙏 for your health Danny, and Ms Wanda's strength 🙏🙏 Thank Y'all for sharing this information with us, we are Very excited to learn more!!! 😊 Have a blessed day y'all 🙏🙏
I cannot wait for your future videos on organic gardening. I try very hard not use anything at all on my plants. I want a true organic farm. And you are so full of knowledge 🥰 we can a learn alot from this
We use leaves and are chicken poop👍❤️🙏🏼 my dad never use fertilizer at all he just wouldn’t go there, I still turn are soil over with a 2 row bottom plow, i remember dad talking about helping bring the good stuff back to the top and and we turn it up for the winter and let it rest
Weeds make excellent mulch and fertilizer. As long as they're not in seed, chop and drop and let them feed the garden 👍 Free and abundant. If they're in seed, brew the weeds into a tea and feed that to the gardens. It's what we do here.. it's gotten to the point that I actually go looking for weeds to feed to our gardens haha. Weeds are helpers!
Sounds like you’re going to implement ‘no till’, Geoff Lawton and maybe Ruth Stout style? I have some disabilities so I compost in place and use the no till and grass clippings to top my plants in containers and I have a raised/key hole garden. There’s a whole microscopic city in the soil that does the work for us 😉 Jesus created it for us.
@@ruralqueen1568 I apply grass clippings right out of the bag while I am cutting grass. Been doing it for years with no ill effects. Its an excellent mulch. My garden does very well.
Quick question: my neighbor's cats love using my front lawn as a litter box. I'm leery of using grass clippings from this yard because I don't want to introduce cat feces into my garden. Any advice?
I appreciate this topic. I have a few thoughts/experience. Every year, we blow all the leave to the back corner area and let them do there thing. We have done this for 10+ years. That soil is very rich, Digging some of that up, putting it in a container and growing tomatos, it was fantastic. We also had a container growing tomatos with Miracle grow type mix It produced but nothing close to the old decomposed leaves.dirt. Now this year. I planted 2 Delicata squash plants maybe 6 weeks ago. I started them from seed, transplanted one in the ground and one is a grow bag. The grow bag has a mixture of compost, leaves, Milorganic and just yard stuff and a can of sardines(in water). That plant took off! It is flowering. The other one in the ground is alive, it is a turtle, it may or may not produce.
I have been researching Milorganic. It is actually biosludge from sewer treatment plants near Milwaukee. It is full of thousands of chemicals that the treatment plan is not designed to remove. Basically you're using human waste for your vegetables. Please don't use these things.
I turned 78 this month and I want to start gardening early spring next year. I look forward to your videos about true organic gardening. Sure makes it simpler.
The past couple of years if raked every leaf on two properties for piling on my gardens. The past five years I’ve studied mycorrhizae, lacto ferments, manure applications. Soil building has become an addiction for me.
I had to work this morning so I couldn’t elaborate more. Layering leaves, manure and old grass hay simulating a natural cycle allows soil to be healthy and living. Ferments either sugar or salt based of different materials from grain to grass and also bio char with added soil from a location in the woods helps give a super boost to the soil life.
You're spot on, Danny! We, as a society, have been indoctrinated to think that for any good outcome, some "product" must be purchased. Developing a product is only the beginning. The most important part is to develop a NEED for the product in order to sell it. Remember, people didn't know they "needed" cars, until Henry Ford convinced them that they did. Henry Ford said that if he'd asked the people what they needed, they'd have said that they needed "faster horses"!
Back when my family was young I grew a garden to help feed my family of four. In the fall I offered my kids a quarter per trash bag of leaves they brought home. I put my garden to bed in the winter with a foot of leave piled on the beds. It was invisible by spring. Many meals were made from those leaves.
Thank you! I believed this because of my mom, but thought she was too old school and didn't understand the new ways. Now I know better and am grateful to you for reminding me! GOD BLESS YOU 🙏
Danny, in my humble opinion, this is one of your best videos. I am willing to beg every leaf available for our garden. Folks that destroy, carry off, or burn them, do not appreciate God's fertilizer. We also do a mixture of cover crop seeds. We plant a mix that contains Daikon radish from WalnutCreekSeed. (No connection, just like what they offer). The moles/voles moved to another area this season when the radish's decomposed. Being north of you, ( mid Tennessee), our cover crop is mowed in early January and tarped. No fertilizer, insecticide or chemicals ever applied. Been using the same weed cloth you use for years and it beats pulling weeds. I roll the cloth up and store it in the garden shed until the following season. My aging back doesn't appreciate pulling weeds and you two are younger than I. Wanda, I love your recipe book and may send you another on sweet potatoes. God Bless you both, and keep posting this type of video.
so excited for this series! I absolutely want to garden organically, the way our forefathers did, and I can't wait to learn from yall! :) Thank you for doing this, I truly appreciate it!
Mr. Danny and Wanda we had those big maple trees in Kentucky and we have them in a big pile when we were little and Ron jump on them and everything else but we did side them and trimmed them back and put in our garden it did make our soul look good and we love playing in them but you’re right it really helps a soul how long so much from you and all of our neighbors that talk to you like me God bless all of you
Oh Danny- Wonderful video- I am 70yrs of age & yes grew up with a backyard vege garden & chooks (as we call them). We didn't use chemicals then, but yes as time progressed I know for a fact the chemicals were & still to this day are sprayed. Life was simpler many years ago & wish I could wind back time. I have listened very carefully to this video & you are so correct " We need to go back & Listen to nature"- I am !!! starting NOW !!!. Thankyou so much for your wisdom. Cheers Denise- Australia
It really comes down to understanding your soil and what your crop needs. Meals or maunders, crop residue or cover crops all just ways to put the things into your soil so you can give your crops what they need.
Debbie-Texas. Thank you!! Makes perfect sense. Robert and I were talking there didn't used to be soo much cancer. It what we eat. Can't wait to hear!!!!
Nailed it!! Awesome video and you explained it perfectly. It's right in front of everyone's noses and they miss it. Looking forward to more videos Danny. God bless.
We bought an electric push lawnmower just for me to use to gather all the grass this summer. I put it into my compost pile so far, but now I will use it around all my plants. I also collected the leaves which the lawnmower mulched really nice and I added it around all my fruit trees. This fall and spring I will try to use only the grass that I have and the fallen leaves plus any compost that I have. I will not use fertilizer and see how my raised beds act towards this style of growing vegetables. I am excited to start and excited that it will be free. I thought your video was really eye opening and I think this type of thinking and growing should work really well There is another channel called Mark in the Garden. He used really thick grass as his mulch. He hadn't had any rain for a long time and his plants were able to survive and they looked beautiful and produced so much food. So I really believe in what you are saying and teaching. I thought this series was so interesting. Thank you for this great information. Stay well. Ellen, Florida Gardener Zone 9a
🐈Nature is set up to take care of itself. By intelligent design. I had learned companion planting in the 70's. We were forced to grow everything here with what could be put back into the land as we had no money to speak of, so, like you, I learned by accident how lush the gardens were by draining the muddy water from my duck pool, straight down a small stream trench I dug to funnel into the flower & herb, & strawberry beds & the worm farm that sprung up next to the pen...my husband saved a bit of $ to grow a "proper" garden & was trying it the way he learned by stripping the soil & trying to add store bought products. He was envious asking me how is it my iris were vibrant, huge sweet strawberries, 4 ft tall herbal plants & his strawberries struggled with less flavor...he realized some things about letting nature decide, his garden this year is incredible & he is ecstatic..its like a circle, I think.💞🙏
One thing I tried this year was interplanting beans throughout my garden. I did it withy peppers and tomatoes. Putting bush beans and pole beans in between them. Figured the nitrogen fixing of the properties of beans would help grow them.
When I was a little girl and even before I was born the town that we lived in was West Bountiful, Utah, it was really close to the Great Salt Lake, and because of it being so close we dealt with mosquitoes like you would not believe, so the city would come through in the sixties and seventies and they would put notes on our doors close windows and door closed or stay inside where spraying, and they would come with big trucks and spray the neighborhoods for the mosquitoes, both of my parents have passed away from pancreatic cancer and all of us kids attributed to spraying for mosquitoes, we had a huge garden growing up and I guarantee the spray got on the food.
I can remember my Dad always saved grass clippings for his backyard garden area and fruit trees. Now I really am understanding why he did some of the things he did. Thank you. Looking forward to this series
I use comfrey & stinging nettle tea. Just put leaves of these plants & let sit in 5 gallon bucket for days depending on how powerful you want it to be.
Excellent video. I hope more will listen. This will make sense for why some folks grow okra in the same spot, corn in the same spot, with less disease 🤔 Thanks for sharing
Thanks Danny for this video. Will be looking forward to more. This year I put in a small garden and have learned a ton. I actually put so many crops on top of each other and close together and saw how my beans, for instance, created shade for my tomatoes and when they were done producing i let them wither and dry up and used them as mulch. Whenever I mow I catch the clippings and put them in the garden too. Like I said, looking forward to more. Prayers for You and Wanda.
That is so funny. I had the same experience last week. Almost giddy shoveling that onto my garden beds. It was like black gold to me. No one around my area even understands my joy being in my little garden. It’s my sanctuary at this season of my life. (55)
You are exactly correct , thanks for speaking the truth . I have a small city lot and I grow everything as organic as I can , I use all my grass clippings and tree leaves every year
I absolutely love your method. I’ve asked myself the same questions! Why pay more for less.,I’ve never understood, until now. Thank you so much for caring about humanity and nature. It’s a rare opportunity for all to learn. 😊 Hugs to you and Wanda. I’ll be watching. 🤗🤗
Farmers used to put the chicken manure on their gardens!!! We didn't used bought fertilzer. In the fall, we would rake all the oak leaves unto the garden after we run off the garden. We always had a great garden. I plan now, after listening to you, put my grass cuttings on my gardens and my leaves too. I will till all this into the soil and plant some fall/winter plants. This winter I plan to sdd some aged chicken manure. I have put it in the open rain and sun to break down and age. Put on a small amount only.
Good morning From The Low Country !!!!! Darn it I'm at work and don't get off til 7am 😔 But Imma watching y'all when I get off!! Y'all Have A Very Blessed Day!!
My neighbors do not spray their yards and I rake their yards for free every fall to pile up the leaves in my back yard. It is THE best thing for my backyard garden. I cannot get enough of them. They fertilize my soil and they keep down the weeds.
Leaf mold works!! The soil in my raised beds is full of life earthworms, and mushrooms. I also mulched with shredded leaves and it is so easy to remove the weeds.
This is awesome. I started more of this Fall of 2018 without even thinking about why. Just sections of the garden area at a time, of course, because it's a pretty big area, especially adding in the raised beds (that's where I started). In that first 12x12 ground plot and the raised beds that were added to then, I noticed a big difference in production, growth and health of the plants. It'll take a good minute to get the whole area done but I'll keep at it, especially now. No real reason I started doing it. Well, maybe not quite accurate...I used grass clippings to help keep weeds back. The leaves just made sense. There's also a lot of peat in our woods, which kinda got me more consciously thinking about it. It's really simple when you break it down. Nature will teach us almost everything we need. We just need to watch and "listen". Random babbling, but something I noticed this year that I've not seen here in the years I've been here...red clover is now popping up in areas around the farm. Some interesting things are happening, all for the good, and it's from less synthetic inputs. Thanks, Danny. Looking forward to more of this.
I started my no till garden last year. Using paper and mulch and making my own compost. I've noticed way less bad bugs this year and MANY more ladybugs. The wasps, dragonflies, armored beetles, and ladybugs have helped so much that its noticeable.
🌞 Good morning Danny that's what I'm starting to do I have all the leaves from last year waiting for it to break down completely and use it in my garden I enjoyed watching the video today.
You are exactly correct. I used a box scraper in my forest to get dirt to fill my raised beds. I was shocked when I tested the soil and seen it had no NPK. I realized, the natural process was for rain to carry nutrients down into the sub levels and rock to release minerals. Looking forward to the rest of these series. Great job!
Been watching your channel for quite awhile now, always get great information and ideas. Knowledge is power! I'm looking forward to seeing more through this series. Great topic, many thanks.
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I totally agree with you Danny. I pick up bags of leaves in the town near me , probably 100 bags a year. I put them in my chicken house about 2 feet deep then put it in a compost pile the following year. The price of shavings got to be to expensive and the leaves are free and much much more higher in minerals and organic matter . If you would run for president of the UNITED states l would vote for you. Thank you.
Danny has too much integrity to be a politician!!
Danny, I grew celebrity tomatoes for the first time this year. I saw Jess from Roots & Refuge put grass clippings around the bottom of her tomato plants so that when you watered the dirt would not Splash up on the lower leaves. Lord have mercy I have 21 tomatoes on one plant and still blooming. I will definitely be growing celebrity tomatoes from now on
People have been gardening for thousands of years whitout chemicals. Makes sense Danny🌻🌻
So true. I looked into the untouched woods around my house saw how beautiful these 100 year old trees had the most natural soil below them and started collecting the leaves and grass clippings on my 1 acre home site. I gathered them and started placing them around every fruit tree. In only one year as they decayed I saw mold form worms and little baby worms would cover the ground buy the thousands when I moved the leaves. When I free range my chickens they go and scratch eat worms and mix it for me and I get eggs from them. Then my satsumas tree has given me more fruit than ever. My chickens have cover from the hawks even eagles that nest near my place. Nature is good and God is so good to open my eyes to his creation!
Having a food forest in the desert every year we put leaves in it. Leaves cool the ground and makes beautiful soil.
Nature happens in our barn every day....pesticide free spent hay "enriched" by sheep and goats. We built our garden soil with it. Every year our garden production gets better. Out potting soil is the rotted hay from where the cows feed on roll bales in the pasture during the winter working their "organic" magic. High germination rate and strong seedlings. All started with my daughter's research and insistence on returning to 1800s practices.
I remember on the "Plant Abundance" yt channel, he showed in a video how he "chops and drops" hollyhock plants, and lays them down in the garden areas of his "Food Forest" backyard. And he explained that hollyhock is loaded with good minerals and nutrients, because it has a deep taproot that pulls up these minerals, etc. from deep in the ground. Another video I watched from a different yt channel, was showing a garden where this man planted a comfrey plant amongst the vegetable garden... for the same reason, to pull up vital nutrients and minerals to the other plants, so they'll have more nutrition. He didn't "chop and drop" the comfrey. Just planted it near vegetables and fruits/vines.
I have been using leaves and grass clippings for years. I would use it for weed control too. All my neighbors at this house we moved to ask my why I use a push mower with a bag when I have the tractors and zero turns. Well, it's because those grass clippings are like gold. IT WORKS! Only one problem, once you start using it, you can never get enough.
We’re looking for a sweeper to pull behind the zero turn...made hay Amish style last week with a rake, fork and wagon for mulch and compost. Great topic Danny - take care of yourself and thanks for all the knowledge 👍🏼👍🏼
@@TheMujiFuji we were looking for a sweeper to pull behind the tractor. We couldn't find anything that would work and the vacuum ones that connect to the PTO are ridiculously expensive. So, as of now, it's a push mower with a bag.
I'm with you. I want ALL the "added" stuff out of my gardens. Have been reading up on things like you. Cheaper and healthier. Will be watching for your viseos to learn more. Thanks for putting in the time and getting the messsage our there.
There is much truth to this. My property is half covered with Oak trees that lose their leaves during a 2 week period in the spring after I put my spring garden in. I rake up as much as I can a stack it deep (about 6”-12”)to cover my entire garden. I don’t fertilize or weed EVER and get large quantities of healthy vegetables. The only thing that I contend with is snails. I pick them off each morning and drop them in a bucket of soapy water to kill them. Works for me here in Texas! Edit- This also greatly reduces my need to water and brings a TON of toads that set up camp and keep the bugs under control.
@moma bare This year we were inundated with rain so as of now I have watered my garden 5 times total. I run soaker hoses through the garden before I put the leaves down so this is my main method of watering. I occasionally give an extra sprinkle from the hose if it’s a really hot day. In a normal year I typically give them a good and deep watering about every 1.5 weeks and occasionally I can go 2 weeks depending on the temps. The plants are good at letting you know when they need it.
Now that’s true permaculture! I look forward to seeing this series unfold.
I think you would thoroughly enjoy One Straw Revolution by Fukuoka.
Amen
My mom would clean out the fridge and all the other scraps after meal's out side dig out a hole and pour it in and cover . She had a beautiful yard and flowers
You have given me so much to think about, Danny. I'm looking forward to this "series". It makes perfect sense about not having to fertilize anymore but I hope you discuss pest control too.
my mothers father was a wise man he raised rabbits chickens he had 2 gardens a winter garden and a spring garden and when the garden he would burn it off he than he would put leaves in the corner of the property to compost in the spring he would put that rich compost with the rabbit poop and chicken poop mix it in and let it set 5 days then spread it out all over his garden i am still use those gardens
Thank you Danny! I've ask some of those questions and didn't get an answer for a long time until God said just look around you then you'll find what you need! You're so right about the big money! As a society (not individuals) we've bowed to man instead of God! We're reaping the consequences of those choices. I'm looking forward to more of this conversation! Blessings to you both.
Mr. Danny .. truly cannot remember a video I enjoyed this much . Please please take us on your journey . This seems like such a perfect and respectful way to garden . Thank you so very much
Coming from a farming family and farmer neighbors and a son who sells chemicals, I can tell you that some of the same chemicals are sprayed on non organic AND organic food. All they do is get it approved for their crops. It is best to grow your own and use your own manure like they used to. My son gardens organic without sprays even though that's his job to sell chems. I got him to switch over to DE instead of sevin for tomatoes and such a long time ago.
I love this, Danny. For about 19 years, I've been using nothing but my own clean compost in my small suburban garden on about 4mx10m. I've had bumper crops. Now I am in a Retirement Estate, with food planting space of about 10mx3m if I calculate the pieces together. Was cutting all the grass of surrounding vacant plots by hand, and working it into my little garden, only to learn later that maintenance sprays the vacant stands with poison! I am still determined to grow my vegetables organically. Keep up the good work!
My wife and I are praying 🙏🙏 for your health Danny, and Ms Wanda's strength 🙏🙏 Thank Y'all for sharing this information with us, we are Very excited to learn more!!! 😊 Have a blessed day y'all 🙏🙏
That is really sweet
I can't wait!
I cannot wait for your future videos on organic gardening. I try very hard not use anything at all on my plants. I want a true organic farm. And you are so full of knowledge 🥰 we can a learn alot from this
I have always wanted a garden full of soil from the forest floor. That is the best stuff there is.
We use leaves and are chicken poop👍❤️🙏🏼 my dad never use fertilizer at all he just wouldn’t go there, I still turn are soil over with a 2 row bottom plow, i remember dad talking about helping bring the good stuff back to the top and and we turn it up for the winter and let it rest
Weeds make excellent mulch and fertilizer. As long as they're not in seed, chop and drop and let them feed the garden 👍 Free and abundant. If they're in seed, brew the weeds into a tea and feed that to the gardens. It's what we do here.. it's gotten to the point that I actually go looking for weeds to feed to our gardens haha. Weeds are helpers!
Good morning Mr. Danny and Ms. Wanda 🙋♀️
Sounds like you’re going to implement ‘no till’, Geoff Lawton and maybe Ruth Stout style? I have some disabilities so I compost in place and use the no till and grass clippings to top my plants in containers and I have a raised/key hole garden. There’s a whole microscopic city in the soil that does the work for us 😉 Jesus created it for us.
Can I ask when you apply the grass clippings?
@@ruralqueen1568 I apply grass clippings right out of the bag while I am cutting grass. Been doing it for years with no ill effects. Its an excellent mulch. My garden does very well.
@@gonzaga45377 Good to know, thank you! It couldn’t be more abundant and free. 😉 I’ll be doing that.
Quick question: my neighbor's cats love using my front lawn as a litter box. I'm leery of using grass clippings from this yard because I don't want to introduce cat feces into my garden. Any advice?
I appreciate this topic. I have a few thoughts/experience. Every year, we blow all the leave to the back corner area and let them do there thing. We have done this for 10+ years. That soil is very rich, Digging some of that up, putting it in a container and growing tomatos, it was fantastic. We also had a container growing tomatos with Miracle grow type mix It produced but nothing close to the old decomposed leaves.dirt.
Now this year. I planted 2 Delicata squash plants maybe 6 weeks ago. I started them from seed, transplanted one in the ground and one is a grow bag. The grow bag has a mixture of compost, leaves, Milorganic and just yard stuff and a can of sardines(in water). That plant took off! It is flowering. The other one in the ground is alive, it is a turtle, it may or may not produce.
I have been researching Milorganic. It is actually biosludge from sewer treatment plants near Milwaukee. It is full of thousands of chemicals that the treatment plan is not designed to remove. Basically you're using human waste for your vegetables. Please don't use these things.
@@kd5499 Thats disgusting, Thanks for the heads up, I hadnt found that info, I will look again.
I turned 78 this month and I want to start gardening early spring next year. I look forward to your videos about true organic gardening. Sure makes it simpler.
The past couple of years if raked every leaf on two properties for piling on my gardens. The past five years I’ve studied mycorrhizae, lacto ferments, manure applications. Soil building has become an addiction for me.
I had to work this morning so I couldn’t elaborate more. Layering leaves, manure and old grass hay simulating a natural cycle allows soil to be healthy and living.
Ferments either sugar or salt based of different materials from grain to grass and also bio char with added soil from a location in the woods helps give a super boost to the soil life.
Good morning Danny
You're spot on, Danny! We, as a society, have been indoctrinated to think that for any good outcome, some "product" must be purchased. Developing a product is only the beginning. The most important part is to develop a NEED for the product in order to sell it. Remember, people didn't know they "needed" cars, until Henry Ford convinced them that they did. Henry Ford said that if he'd asked the people what they needed, they'd have said that they needed "faster horses"!
Back when my family was young I grew a garden to help feed my family of four. In the fall I offered my kids a quarter per trash bag of leaves they brought home. I put my garden to bed in the winter with a foot of leave piled on the beds. It was invisible by spring. Many meals were made from those leaves.
Thank you! I believed this because of my mom, but thought she was too old school and didn't understand the new ways. Now I know better and am grateful to you for reminding me! GOD BLESS YOU 🙏
I do organic gardening in containers. I use compost, peat moss, worm castings, and vermiculite. I also use natural fertilizers like fish emulsion.
Good morning beautiful couple! I am excited about the new series! Thanks from your North Mississippi neighbor
Danny, in my humble opinion, this is one of your best videos. I am willing to beg every leaf available for our garden. Folks that destroy, carry off, or burn them, do not appreciate God's fertilizer. We also do a mixture of cover crop seeds. We plant a mix that contains Daikon radish from WalnutCreekSeed. (No connection, just like what they offer). The moles/voles moved to another area this season when the radish's decomposed. Being north of you, ( mid Tennessee), our cover crop is mowed in early January and tarped. No fertilizer, insecticide or chemicals ever applied. Been using the same weed cloth you use for years and it beats pulling weeds. I roll the cloth up and store it in the garden shed until the following season. My aging back doesn't appreciate pulling weeds and you two are younger than I. Wanda, I love your recipe book and may send you another on sweet potatoes. God Bless you both, and keep posting this type of video.
so excited for this series! I absolutely want to garden organically, the way our forefathers did, and I can't wait to learn from yall! :) Thank you for doing this, I truly appreciate it!
I’m looking forward to it as well . Makes so much sense .
Mr. Danny and Wanda we had those big maple trees in Kentucky and we have them in a big pile when we were little and Ron jump on them and everything else but we did side them and trimmed them back and put in our garden it did make our soul look good and we love playing in them but you’re right it really helps a soul how long so much from you and all of our neighbors that talk to you like me God bless all of you
Great coffee time with you this morning Danny! Thank you!
I rake oak leaves and pine needles from our oak hammock to use for mulch in my gardens for that exact reason.
Oh Danny- Wonderful video- I am 70yrs of age & yes grew up with a backyard vege garden & chooks (as we call them). We didn't use chemicals then, but yes as time progressed I know for a fact the chemicals were & still to this day are sprayed. Life was simpler many years ago & wish I could wind back time.
I have listened very carefully to this video & you are so correct " We need to go back & Listen to nature"- I am !!! starting NOW !!!. Thankyou so much for your wisdom. Cheers Denise- Australia
It really comes down to understanding your soil and what your crop needs. Meals or maunders, crop residue or cover crops all just ways to put the things into your soil so you can give your crops what they need.
I can remember my Granddad and Dad burning off the gardens b4 spring planting. In th he Fall leaves were piled on th he gardens.
Debbie-Texas. Thank you!! Makes perfect sense. Robert and I were talking there didn't used to be soo much cancer. It what we eat. Can't wait to hear!!!!
So excited to hear more on Natural Gardening!
Nailed it!! Awesome video and you explained it perfectly. It's right in front of everyone's noses and they miss it. Looking forward to more videos Danny. God bless.
Thanks, Danny! I look forward to the next video.
Man, this is heavy. Thanks brother. We need more Danny’s.
Thanks for sharing and God’s blessings for you and all your family
That’s right! Good talk. Look forward to more.
Thank you for sharing this! It really has me rethinking my gardening techniques. I'm excited to see the rest of this series!!
We bought an electric push lawnmower just for me to use to gather all the grass this summer. I put it into my compost pile so far, but now I will use it around all my plants. I also collected the leaves which the lawnmower mulched really nice and I added it around all my fruit trees. This fall and spring I will try to use only the grass that I have and the fallen leaves plus any compost that I have. I will not use fertilizer and see how my raised beds act towards this style of growing vegetables. I am excited to start and excited that it will be free.
I thought your video was really eye opening and I think this type of thinking and growing should work really well
There is another channel called Mark in the Garden. He used really thick grass as his mulch. He hadn't had any rain for a long time and his plants were able to survive and they looked beautiful and produced so much food.
So I really believe in what you are saying and teaching. I thought this series was so interesting. Thank you for this great information. Stay well.
Ellen, Florida Gardener
Zone 9a
Thanks Danny.form making this video
Amazing words of wisdom. We thank you 🙏
Right on target, as usual Danny.
Thanks! I’ve been using grass clippings this year. 😁
Thank you for sharing your wisdom
I'm late seeing this, however thank you for talking about organic gardening.
Love this!! This is my thinking!! Thank you, Danny. I've been watching for this series to start!! Please keep going with this!
🐈Nature is set up to take care of itself. By intelligent design. I had learned companion planting in the 70's. We were forced to grow everything here with what could be put back into the land as we had no money to speak of, so, like you, I learned by accident how lush the gardens were by draining the muddy water from my duck pool, straight down a small stream trench I dug to funnel into the flower & herb, & strawberry beds & the worm farm that sprung up next to the pen...my husband saved a bit of $ to grow a "proper" garden & was trying it the way he learned by stripping the soil & trying to add store bought products. He was envious asking me how is it my iris were vibrant, huge sweet strawberries, 4 ft tall herbal plants & his strawberries struggled with less flavor...he realized some things about letting nature decide, his garden this year is incredible & he is ecstatic..its like a circle, I think.💞🙏
One thing I tried this year was interplanting beans throughout my garden. I did it withy peppers and tomatoes. Putting bush beans and pole beans in between them. Figured the nitrogen fixing of the properties of beans would help grow them.
I look forward to more videos about real organic gardening. Thank you
looking forward to this new series of vids Danny. I observe everything you say. lets get this principle in our gardens.
Love the video! I agree. I always wondered about the organic stuff they started putting in the stores.
Love this ❤️ thanks so much 🙏🏻 you are sooo right !!!
Super excited! Can't wait for more!
When I was a little girl and even before I was born the town that we lived in was West Bountiful, Utah, it was really close to the Great Salt Lake, and because of it being so close we dealt with mosquitoes like you would not believe, so the city would come through in the sixties and seventies and they would put notes on our doors close windows and door closed or stay inside where spraying, and they would come with big trucks and spray the neighborhoods for the mosquitoes, both of my parents have passed away from pancreatic cancer and all of us kids attributed to spraying for mosquitoes, we had a huge garden growing up and I guarantee the spray got on the food.
I can remember my Dad always saved grass clippings for his backyard garden area and fruit trees. Now I really am understanding why he did some of the things he did. Thank you. Looking forward to this series
Thanks for sharing. 😎🏖🏝
This makes total sense. The fertilizer is naturally built into the whole ecosystem.
Great video , remarkable discussion , thank you ! Stay safe !
Been using grass clippings from my non fertilized backyard for a few years now, garden loves it! Go No Till!
I use comfrey & stinging nettle tea. Just put leaves of these plants & let sit in 5 gallon bucket for days depending on how powerful you want it to be.
Excellent video. I hope more will listen. This will make sense for why some folks grow okra in the same spot, corn in the same spot, with less disease 🤔 Thanks for sharing
Great video Danny!!! I can't wait for the next one!!
Thanks Danny for this video. Will be looking forward to more. This year I put in a small garden and have learned a ton. I actually put so many crops on top of each other and close together and saw how my beans, for instance, created shade for my tomatoes and when they were done producing i let them wither and dry up and used them as mulch. Whenever I mow I catch the clippings and put them in the garden too. Like I said, looking forward to more. Prayers for You and Wanda.
Last weekend our first batch of compost was ready. You’ve never seen a 60 year old so excited over decomposed kitchen scraps. 🤣🤣
That is so funny. I had the same experience last week. Almost giddy shoveling that onto my garden beds. It was like black gold to me. No one around my area even understands my joy being in my little garden. It’s my sanctuary at this season of my life. (55)
Lovely topic
You are exactly correct , thanks for speaking the truth . I have a small city lot and I grow everything as organic as I can , I use all my grass clippings and tree leaves every year
I’m so excited, thank you
Ps every weed serves a purpose in the soil to correct it most don’t know that
Morning y’all
I absolutely love your method. I’ve asked myself the same questions! Why pay more for less.,I’ve never understood, until now. Thank you so much for caring about humanity and nature. It’s a rare opportunity for all to learn. 😊 Hugs to you and Wanda. I’ll be watching. 🤗🤗
I’m really looking forward to seeing your next videos, thanks for all the information that you share with us!
Farmers used to put the chicken manure on their gardens!!! We didn't used bought fertilzer. In the fall, we would rake all the oak leaves unto the garden after we run off the garden. We always had a great garden. I plan now, after listening to you, put my grass cuttings on my gardens and my leaves too. I will till all this into the soil and plant some fall/winter plants. This winter I plan to sdd some aged chicken manure. I have put it in the open rain and sun to break down and age. Put on a small amount only.
The sun will draw most of the nitrogen out of it if it's not covered.
This makes perfect sense. I had the worst garden ever in decades. I used commercial fertilizer and composted manure heavily this year.
Great info, very interesting!
Good morning From The Low Country !!!!! Darn it I'm at work and don't get off til 7am 😔 But Imma watching y'all when I get off!! Y'all Have A Very Blessed Day!!
I think my property here in eastern TN is perfect for gathering the leaves and soil for growing vegetables.
My neighbors do not spray their yards and I rake their yards for free every fall to pile up the leaves in my back yard. It is THE best thing for my backyard garden. I cannot get enough of them. They fertilize my soil and they keep down the weeds.
Thumbs up from the Dooleys of Michigan
Can't wait to see more of these kind of videos
Leaf mold works!! The soil in my raised beds is full of life earthworms, and mushrooms. I also mulched with shredded leaves and it is so easy to remove the weeds.
This is awesome. I started more of this Fall of 2018 without even thinking about why. Just sections of the garden area at a time, of course, because it's a pretty big area, especially adding in the raised beds (that's where I started). In that first 12x12 ground plot and the raised beds that were added to then, I noticed a big difference in production, growth and health of the plants. It'll take a good minute to get the whole area done but I'll keep at it, especially now. No real reason I started doing it. Well, maybe not quite accurate...I used grass clippings to help keep weeds back. The leaves just made sense. There's also a lot of peat in our woods, which kinda got me more consciously thinking about it. It's really simple when you break it down. Nature will teach us almost everything we need. We just need to watch and "listen". Random babbling, but something I noticed this year that I've not seen here in the years I've been here...red clover is now popping up in areas around the farm. Some interesting things are happening, all for the good, and it's from less synthetic inputs. Thanks, Danny. Looking forward to more of this.
I started my no till garden last year. Using paper and mulch and making my own compost. I've noticed way less bad bugs this year and MANY more ladybugs. The wasps, dragonflies, armored beetles, and ladybugs have helped so much that its noticeable.
Danny, truer words were never spoken! Thanks again!
I am so looking forward to this series!! You have MUCH to share and I thank you because managing all those bags of additives was daunting!!
🌞 Good morning Danny that's what I'm starting to do I have all the leaves from last year waiting for it to break down completely and use it in my garden I enjoyed watching the video today.
Valuable video, enlightenment, this will be your legacy !!!
You are exactly correct. I used a box scraper in my forest to get dirt to fill my raised beds. I was shocked when I tested the soil and seen it had no NPK. I realized, the natural process was for rain to carry nutrients down into the sub levels and rock to release minerals. Looking forward to the rest of these series. Great job!
Been watching your channel for quite awhile now, always get great information and ideas. Knowledge is power! I'm looking forward to seeing more through this series. Great topic, many thanks.
I will be implementing a hugelkulture bed in my garden this fall :) I live in the desert , so I’m trying new , better ways !