How to improve clay soils for gardening.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 เม.ย. 2016
- How to improve clay soils for gardening. This video shows how I have heavily amended my black gumbo type clay soil with huge amounts of compost so that it can support an awesome vegetable garden. I Show the full process of how I prepare virgin backyard for food production. These steps will also help improve drainage, reduce compaction and also promote health microbial growth and earthworm activity.
Keywords:
Improve clay soil
Amend clay soil
Working with clay soil
Clay soil how to fix it
Improving soil structure
Tips For Organically Improving Clay Soil
Improving Clay Soil In Your Yard
How to use Compost - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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This is the best video on you tube for how to deal with clay soil. None of that ‘measure the pH’ shite. Respect man!
I’m impressed with this guy. This yard was clearly a challenge with the clay soil & all of the rocks & his old tiller. Bless his heart. He is not lazy! This gives me motivation & hope for my clay soil area. Thank you sir!
I have not tried it myself but i have been told a way to correct clay soil if you cant get your hands on cheap compost is to plant every 10 or 20cm apart a daikon radish. Saturate the garden in daikon radishes. Those grow deep and break the clay up. Then when grown kill them off and they all turn into compost. You could rotavate them in. You end up with a lot of organic material in the soil and the soil breaks up deep
Thank you for not making this complicated like so many others do!!
Hello Ben. Love your presentation. No ego, nonsense and common sense approach. Very refreshing and a pleasure to watch. Thank you Ben.
Thank you for such a simple and easy DIY gardening video! Sometimes people just over complicate things, but yours was so easy to watch 🙌🏼
Finally, a quality video on how to work with heavy clay soils on youtube.
the way you edited this and had the voice over the top describing made this so easy to understand and enjoy. Thanks from Australia!
Really great demo video - mostly because it really shows how it really is in most gardens. Far superior in production value too compared to many pro commercial videos - with good cutaways and close up details of relevant elements. Simple concise and informative narration too. But regardless it really did the job - it really did help! I have watched so many videos and been so disappointed but this was excellent. Thank you :-)
Came to search how to use a tiller. Found myself watching your video. Coming from someone that has always wanted a garden but possesses little very little gardening talent, this inspired me. Well made, to the point and encouraging.
All compost videos on TH-cam: $200 - $5000!
Your video: $17 bucks!
The mark of a genius 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😂
Woodchips in your backyard may help with flooding. The fungi will consume the the wood chips and break up the compaction in the soil creating soil structure that will act as a sponge when it rains.
I buried cardboard boxes, food wastes, and coffee grounds in my soil. IT WORKED! I TIP MY HAT AND APPLAUD YOUR HARD WORK!!!
Great production, Ben!! Well done. Loved the sequencing and narration. I'm gonna subscribe!
Love the cinematography! Brilliant.
Great editing and finding solutions with that flooding. Lucky enough to have my garden on top of the hill. Subbed.
Dude, this was really well made.
Agreed.
1. Delightful narrative technique. Not a ton of "uhs"! Nice volume level.
2. Very humble, non-assuming to include difficulty starting the @#$%!! tiller.
3. "Meditative time." We are cut out of the same cloth.
4. I've got some black clay, so this vid very helpful.
5. Drowning strawberries at end: I feel your pain--you are a humble man.
What an awesome video. You're the type of dude I'd happily have a beer with. Thanks buddy.
Agreed!
This guy is awesome. "You gotta steal it from your local recycling company" lol I can respect your honesty
Man , this was a great video about clay soil. I live in Maryland with clay soils. this helps a lot. Thank You. Ben
Great video Ben....fantastic, practical and well demonstrated steps.
Love the video! Very easy to understand and very informative. Not an overload of information like so many others. Just enough for the video topic. Tfs and again great job!
Great video man, putting my garden together now in Northeast Texas. Subscribed. I dig that old Toyota truck too
I'm just so obsessed with this video !! I love your voice and love that youre so interested in what youre doing!!
Beautiful truck!
This was great to watch, entertaining and helpful! Thanks so much!
can't wait to see what your garden will look like when it's all in bloom
Spent my morning hacking tiny planting holes into my ground, cursing my own clay soil (which i believe could be made into a sweet set of dishware) and snapping tool handles to pieces.
Oh-muh-gawsh, time for me to stop complaining and count my blessings! Thanks for the video, And the perspective. Good Luck.
Really like it for a wannabe gardener like me.
Very simple
Not too much technical
Using pretty what one has on hands
Thank you for the video
Great video. I really appreciated your editing, not to mention some excellent content. Thank you!
You fit a lot of good information in this little video. Thanks for making it.
nice easy voice. you should do audio books! well done. i need to do this, but for my lawn! the clay soil in missouri is awful.
Thanks for your suggestion .
Same conditions are prevalent in my backyard also.
best gardening video I've ever seen!!
I love seeing the whole process. Great job getting shots of everything you did along the way (esp. the compost dump), then narrating over it.
nice video, man. I live near Denton too and I feel you on the crazy amount of rocks and clay in the ground. I've heard great things about dyno dirt. ill have to give it a shot.
I always appreciate knowing the state or you’re located in. We have red brick 🧱 clay soil in Georgia. Quick tip: check the weather before you dig a 3 x 3‘ hole for a tree. I hate when it rains before I get the all the clay soil amendments together and the hole fills up with water😖
Nicely produced and informative video. :)
Hi Ben, Thanks for a great simple and informative video.
Excellent video. Loved your editing and narration.
I wholeheartedly agree with you Sir. You have added a couple of years' worth of natural humus. Modest use of fertilizer will not hurt your soil.
Great Video, I get my dirt from the same place. Cant beat it.
You should consider going with the raised bed garden, it sure solved a lot of problems for me. , great video too!
Awesome Video! Thank you for sharing!
I like your style! 👍🏻
Thank you, that was helpful.
This video is well made thank you
Love ur video!!!
Wow, very resourceful. Well done!
Good stuff Ben!
Great, easy to listen to video! How could I not subscribe? Good job young man.
What a great video!
Thank you for being the first person who knows what they’re talking about on this subject!
Wow! Free pond!
Great video.... straight to the point, no bs......
Great garden work! Wish I had a tiller!
WOW, compost got your tiller to start...:-)
Really nice video! Thank you!
I also work in shredded junk mail, egg shells, coffee grounds. Anything to break up that clay pack and provide nutrients. I've worms the size of pencils.
I've never thought to add all the shredded junk mail.. You're a genius!
@@MrEunderwood nothing glossy
Thank you for the great ideas
i have the same type of soil, and the same tiller, to get the tines of the tiller to go deeper i took off the wheel/wheels, and made the drag bar longer to go deeper and that brought the handles back up also, i still have to make 2 and sometimes 3 passes to break up my heavy compacted soil. all organic, no chems at all, compost only, bumper crops. canning, drying, and freeze drying most everything.
Solid work
Hey Ben I have clay soil and it's no picnic, thanks for the information and good luck with your garden
Very good video. I didn't know you could get compost and mulch there.
Nice job. Thanks
Awesome! You can add beneficial bacteria and fungi such and mycorrhizal to your plant roots when you plant them. It will help the absorption of nutrients in the soil
truck load of compost for 17 bucks? I'd be in raised bed heaven if we had that.
Agree. The quality is not super though, but it's still worth it IMO, and then just amend as you go.
In the UK, you can pick up 60 litre bags for the equivalent of $2 each at this time of year (mid October) at all the supermarkets, I don't know how that compares to a truckload for $17 exactly but it's still pretty cheap. Is it not the same in the USA? (They even come with a small amount of added plant fertilisers mixed in to give an extra boost).
There's a mushroom farm near my house that gives away free compost. I pay a dump truck driver $100 to bring me 15 cubic yards at a time.
@@sooocheesy i wish!
do all cities have a trash dump to buy compost from? Richmond, Katy or Sugarland Texas?
Dude, that’s one bad ass garden
We have very similar soil. When we first got our house, the soil in the back was so bad that when I tried wetting the soil down (hot dry summer in Utah), the water ran right off.
To amend even deeper, we've also been using a broadfork. That gets us at least a foot down. Then I turn in organic matter and mineral amendments, especially sulfur. We've gone to our municipal dump for compost too.
After a few years, all the work has really made a difference.
sbarr10 you could of just lowered the ph of the soil mate, would of saved you hours of labour
@@Happy_Smiles246 please explain? Also, sulfur acidifies soil.
thanks to your video it can really help especially for me ..more video soon
that was easy to watch and listen too !
Very nice!🙂
You didn't steal the cardboard sir you commandeered it. Good post, I'm in Texas and have the same issues, flooding and clay soil.
Damn dude my buddy in Oak Lawn Illinois has that heavy clay and flooding problem too.
This is okay for quick crops. I like that you used the sources around you instead of buying big box store amendments.
The 8" depth is okay + a 8" rise, It's plenty of room to grow what you want.
Where the tiller comes in handy, is breaking up the hardpan that is a few inches deeper than you tilled in the video. It is packed full of minerals and keeps water from draining deeper into the earth. It is probably best to hit that with fork before you till. (If you decide to go deeper).
Thanks for the advice. I'll go deeper next time. Now a few years after this video was made the yard has a much faster absorption rate of water. It still floods but only says flooded for a day and a half instead of the two weeks it used to.
oh hey, youre local to me (according to the name on the carboard container) seems ive finally found someone with similar circumstances here. subbed !
Right on man. thanks
Wish i could get a truck load of compost for $17 in the UK
maz 90 I am not in the uk, but I know a bunch of horse people that have piles and piles of horse manure that's sat a long time naturally composting. I usually can stop by and fire up their tractor and load my pickup. I'm sure there are livestock farmers there willing to hook you up. compost is just a combo of carbon and green. this horse bedding is mostly saw dust mixed with horse poo which is the green. good quality stuff. chicken farms would be good as well. I use my small amount of home made compost in my planter boxes and the manure in my garden beds.
I’m in the UK in Hertfordshire and pick up old composted horse manure for nothing. Take bin bags and a shovel. Easy.
Nice!
Great work
Great video.
I would use the soil that the grass was growing on and just organically fertilize it and that would make plants super happy.
Looks like my yard. Good thing I came here, lol
I live in the south so the soil here is really good so I normally use the soil in the back of my yard
You did great.. love it.. soil is expensive.!
thanks, great video ! I would've liked to have seen an after video showing the yard not flooding / water draining away though ;)
The soil you tilled up looked good to me
Nice video need more on homes in areas like that and clay too phew
idky...but this video calms me...
❤
Nice truck
Man you are lucky to have access to a landfill like that. Every year you should add thickness & richness to your garden, eventually getting rid of flooding & ending up with awesome soil.
Almighty Yak you need a pick up too
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really great editinh
I saw a video where they discussed dandelions and what their natural function is on a garden...to break up compacted soil...maybe introduce those from seed collected from the wild?
Would probably help encourage bees and other pollinators to stick around too.
Great video I'm interested in the rotivator do you happen to know what's the hp the reason I'm asking is because I'm looking at a 3hp and 4hp unit and there is a £100 difference in price. Cheers again for your straight
talking approach
Good job
This was cool and shortly after it started I was thinking this guy in in Denton Texas and I was right. You should get coffee grounds and get some worms you can buy nightcrawlers at Walmart
When you plant from small containers before you put it in the ground you should cut the root ball so the roots can get out of the ball faster
This time-lapse style video is an excellent effort. I was impressed that you were able to buy community compost and get the cardboard but not so impressed by your use of commerical fertilisers. Perhaps next time you would consider getting a truckload of manure from local horse stables or similar. It's excellent stuff and would give your project 5 stars. Best to be eco... becuase it's healthier and better for you, the birds/bees and gives less to 'the man'.
In the farming world a subsoiler would be the tool of choice ,as far down as you could go ,one for drainage,two for aeration roots need oxygen ,also feeds good microbes , anerobic-bad microbes and fungus . He's got it looking very nice hope it doesn't float away.
I'd make raised beds with the bottom at ground level as the trench you are digging with the rototiller will fill up with water during the next flood and because the surrounding soil is still solid, it will not drain away, or the water on the surrounding ground will drain into you newly composted trench making the slightest rain another root rotting flood in the trench!