How to Fix Your Soil
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- Forest Gardening is a fantastic way to cultivate a healthy, hands-off organic garden. Here, I'll show you the first step in the "How to grow a vegetable garden" query with this video: How to fix your soil. We can take all kinds of helpful cues from the forest on how to best manage our own gardens, big or small. From garden design and plant spacing to using wood chips, weeds, and composted material to build up your soil, if you pay attention, everything you need to know about your garden is all available in the forest. Learn to make your own compost tea, fertilizer, and soil amendments using free things readily available. A take on the Back To Eden gardening method (for more on this check out the Back to Eden Documentary • Back To Eden Gardening... and Paul Gautschi), this method uses wood mulch and all kinds of mycelium, microbial and helpful fungal growth to create vibrant, healthy soil and a self-watering, no-weed garden! We re-create the conditions on the forest floor by using wood chip mulch. As wood chips break down the add to and condition the soil, we top dress with composted animal manure and green waste, fertilize with home brewed compost tea, and grow delicious organic vegetables. What used to be bare dirt, our organic vegetable garden is full of rich soil mulched heavily with free wood chips from local arborists.
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I'm Anne of All Trades. In Seattle, I have a woodworking, blacksmithing and fabrication shop, a selection of furry friends, and an organic farm. This channel is aimed at sharing my passion for working with my hands, being a good steward of the earth, and preserving antiquated skills and traditions.
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We as humans need plants to survive, but plants don't necessarily need us. It's nice to see someone truly understand what nature really means to us and how grateful we are to have plants all around us.
I have plants all around my home. A nuclear plant, a manufacturing plant, a waste treatment plant.
Great to see another gardener actually getting her hands dirty and dealing with the soil itself. The best piece of advice I ever heard was "Don't feed the plants, feed the soil." and this videos hows how to do this without any nasty chemicals. Excellent.
Aaaaaamen!
i used to live in maryland and gardened with my mom a lot, but georgia is a whole different beast! thank you so much for all the tips
Good tip Anne, nature has been at this game for waaaay longer than us.
Hear hear! It's great to use the resources around us to learn.
Lovely garden and amazing woodland. Love using leaves. Hate making the compost tea. The smell is bad enough to get the neighbours complaining. I found that not adding water the plants still rot down and the liquid doesn't smell. I have one bucket without holes into which I put some small egg sized stones. Into that bucket a put another one with holes and that one I fill with the chopped leaves, topping it up when a couple of times. The liquid drops down to the bottom bucket which I then put it in bottles and dilute for feed in the water. My neighbours are now more grateful.:D
When I was a young man at home, my job was to clean the chicken coop. Our garden had sandy soil which is not only nutrient starved but always water starved. We would use newspaper to and fiber to the soil and keep the moisture trapped better. We composted our garbage with straw and grass clippings. we couldn't use sawdust or wood chips because it would encourage termites. we added the chicken manure to the mulch and stir regularly. In the spring the extra manure would be lightly scattered over the garden plot as was shreddered straw. We did this for a few years and the sandy soil gained body and health. We even till in the plant tops to let them rot over the winter.It became a pretty good garden plot. We even got a few earth worms to live in there. Amending the soil is a necessity for good gardens.
Glad you were able to put in the time and effort to find good results. It's amazing what can happen with a little care and some elbow grease.
Nice video! I studied horticulture in Canada and now moved to Thailand. I will use your idea of innoculating my gardens with some soil of the jungle.
Oh and the wonderful things you will grow there! I wish I could move my garden to Asia ;)
New and determined grower o love n beautiful space, I have respect for everything you've accomplished, I'm into exact things but only have a few victorious years o great growing, I gotta cram as much as possible n short time , I'm n love with a little lady who is your dopleganger o green and love for healthy life, faith n American women restored!
Very good video thanks for your clear language I'm Egyptian and I understand you
Many great videos but this is my favorite. I hope your passion is contagious. Very well said.
Lady, you are just all kinds of inspiring!
Thanks for the information about how to fix the soil. I will pay more attention to what the plants are telling me.
I rarely watch TH-cam videos twice. I did with this one. If my opinion is worth anything...that's high praise for you Anne. :)
So glad to hear it was helpful for you!!
This is great info on how to look to nature for advice and support in our goals of supporting nature..
As always, your knowledge amazes me. I have an area of my property that I have been trying to manage, without luck, and this video will be watched several more times, to help me remember, as I learned a lot about what I am doing wrong or what I should be doing. Thank you very much.
Glad to hear it was helpful Ken! Thanks for watching.
Wow, thanks a mil for your experience n info, I'm off to my back yard forest to get some white stuff
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I LOVE the new intro!! The picture spacing feels much more fluid and timed better. I love how it touches on a little of everything you are doing and working towards! It's perfect! It was so pleasing I watched it over and over again, five times total. lol This is a great video as usual! You truly put out nothing but top notch videos! There is a lot of great information in here and I have saved it for later to keep coming back to as we continue our garden this year!
Thanks so much Bob! I really appreciate all the support. I really love the new intro too!!
You are the greatest. What a great talk about real world organic gardening on a big property. I look forward to more videos like this.
Can’t wait to see some fresh cooking from your garden. Keep up the great work.
Thanks so much! I love sharing videos like this, though I know a lot of folks miss my woodshop projects when I do, but the farm takes up a whole lot more time and energy this time of year than the shop does ;)
So helpful thank you 😊
You're so welcome!
Glad I found your channel. I love permaculture. 👍🏻
Me too!
It's my first time watching your channel, you do amazing work!
Awesome video!
You know what it takes to grow a great garden. I learned a lot today. Thanks for the info, really enjoyed,
Thanks Lee!
This is an well explained video full with lots of information. This will help a lot of people! thank you so much !
So glad you found it helpful!
This information is going to be so very helpful as I attempt to get my back garden growing the way I would like it to! Thank you!
Glad to hear it!
Nice, informative and precise.
It was good to see the consistency in methods across time. I guess they've proven their correctness if you're still doing essentially the same thing! Small incremental changes over time for extra efficiencies :)
Iteration is the key to development :)
If you’re a reader, one of my favorite books on the topic is called the Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
Well Anne of all trades, this was my first video of yours and I found it very informative, down to earth, and well done! Subbed. Cant wait to see more.
Thanks so much for taking the time!
Thank you
Great video
Awesome garden
Nice!!! I heard that same fungus inoculation thing on David the goods TH-cam. I'm really hoping to get out on a bike ride today to go to the forest to collect chantrelle mushrooms to bury in my yard and hopefully I can get some edible mushrooms coming up!!
Heck yeah! I’ve been trying to cultivate chanterelles for years with no luck. Some varieties are easier than others to propagate.
@@AnneofAllTrades i will let you know if it works! I am going to take a look at the debris it's growing in. If I remember right it was pine. Hoping to get some wood chips soon too!
Great advice on looking for what the soil needs. I have lots of vines growing in my new greenhouse so I will look to add nitrogen.
Thanks
Hi Anne, Great videos! I'm learning a lot's of cool stuff. Thanks again for showing us your awesome tricks. M. K. S.
Just found your channel and so glad!!! Great information!!! Thanks so much!!!!
So glad you found it helpful! Welcome!
Excellent primer, with clear thoughts and practices, very well done, thanks
Great looking garden Anne. We are just getting started with our urban homestead and gardens so this was very helpful.
So glad to hear it! Thanks for taking the time to watch.
I really enjoyed your videos,
Keep up the good work.
Thanks so much!
Weeds with deep tap roots tell you the soil is compacted. Weeds with fibrous roots are telling you the soil is very loose.
Very succinct way of putting it!
not true. I have a asparagus bed with loose soil conductive to asparagus and I fight wild violets and two other tap root weeds with roots a foot deep. 50 years of gardening here and I will say much of this video is best practices.
I have an infestation of thistle weeds!, what does that tell you? I have been fighting them for years, mulching, they burst right through, they do not care! help!
@@sandylong3024 I am not quite j sure what function thistle weeds perform in the eco system .However I would do my best to removing all the seed head that you can and let some goats finish them off ;) if the thistle returns, try to remove them with goats before they set and release all their seeds
@@sandylong3024 Thistle have deep tap roots which make them difficult to get rid of.first I would remove all the seed head that you can. If you can get your hands on some goats let them munch on the thistle after removing the seed heads.If or when the thistles return let them grow until they start to form a seed head and let the goats at em again.If you can not get a hold of some goats it leaves you to removing them manually.By letting the thistle grow until right before putting on a seed head you are depriving the plant of energy the plant has stored in its tap root. P.S. Thistles usually indicate compacted soils , mainly from overgrazing
Anne, you are amazing.
Love it. And the kitty.....awesome. Love watching your vids. Have a great week.
Many people dont have access to a forrest for a small garden, you can get fantastic mulch from your house gutters in some cases especially if its been a couple of years since they have been cleaned
Anyone has access to a forest, some just have to travel father to get there ;)
Love your vids woman, no matter what subject.
Thanks for all the support!
Goooooooood garden tips! Gracias👍✌️😊🙏🏼
Glad you liked them!
Ok.... Don't know how I missed that you had a TH-cam channel! Teach me, teach me!
Melissa
Ha! Welcome to the fold my friend. I feel like I've got plenty to learn from you as well!
Thanks so much, for teaching me a new ideas for my farm. I lived in Africa/ LIBERIA
I'm always learning something new from you!
Awww shucks! Thanks friend.
Great info!!! Thanks so much for posting!! We are always trying to build up our gardens!
Good on ya!
Thanks a lot for all these explanations. It realy helps !
Awesome video Anne!
Good to know I wasn't the only person who saw you petting the lovely green poison ivy plants in the forest.
Not all areas of the country are created equal. Here in the Ozark Mountains, there is a very shallow amount of top soil sitting on top of the hills, then it goes straight to rock. Going to the forest for inspiration is pretty tough. For the best organic gardening, we need to build raised beds to get the depth for good root structure.
Douglas Siemens that is not poison ivy, it’s salmon berry, a native Washington berry. I do have a video on raised bed gardening as well, hope you find it helpful.
@@AnneofAllTrades, thanks for correcting me. And I did find this video informative. I will look at the raised garden video. Thanks again.
Douglas Siemens cheers!
wow.. excellent info!! you usualy only hear that you have to buy sprays or different fertilizers.... going mostly natural is the best way!!
Nothing beats black gold. Dead leaves and sawdust with chicken manure or used coffee grounds make excellent compost. No need for that store bought garbage.
IMO. Love it.
First one of your videos I've seen and I really enjoyed it. Thank you 94K+1
Love your videos. I suggest you try Tromboncino an Italian climbing summer squash. Really cool looking fruit that tastes great.
I'll have to see if I can find some seeds!
Where are you located? I can go into our woods. That have been in forest since before America. I can rake back the leaves twigs etc. And I find White Beach sand. I have tried putting horse litter, leaves grass clippings on my garden. I put it over 6 inches thick. Left it like mulch. Even tilled in the same. By the next growing season . It is gone. No sign I put anything on it. What do suggest?
I will have to go out and check into your forest soil theory, sounds interesting. Right now are use worms to break down a natural mixture of leaves. And then to make my soil, I willAdd whole teabags used, spent coffee grounds and filter, and banana peels! That is my organic mix that I used to amend my soil every spring and fall! The coffee grounds not only feed, but they Detour pests, If put on topically around the plants as well. It will also draw large numbers of nightcrawlers to your garden!
Vermicompost is fantastic! As is coffee and tea. The caffeine stimulates growth and also helps keep slugs and other pests at bay
New Sub here, thanks for the insight going to start my raised garden here shortly, excited and can't wait. BTW, I Love that black truck in the background as well by chance in plans on selling it.
Good luck with your garden! The truck is definitely not for sale ;) but you can watch me restore it on the channel!
So much good information. Thank you!
The thicker the layer of wood chips the better...
Your garden and soil is looking healthy, and going to really show when you hit it up with the tea and fertilizer👍
Awesome job. 👌
ayyy dat cat is cuuute
Great vid again Love your vids Take Care
Great video and I like our attitude to using nature as a guide. You make great videos. One thing - is it just me or are those poison ivy plants surrounding you in the forest shots?
They are salmon berry saplings, not poison oak or poison ivy, as many people have mistakenly identified them.
Thanks for the info.
Great video.
Your soil looks great, we have some here as well, Denmark
Gone Zapatero you have some soil in Denmark? That’s interesting:) I never would have guessed.
@@Backhoebb Farmlands all over, not boring skyscrapers
Informative and inspiring as always. What a gorgeous property y'all have.
It's getting better by the day! It makes me so happy to see the transformation that has come with a lot of hard work.
Not forgetting that the lady working the land is rather beautiful to ;)
Great video Anne! Thank you for sharing it with us.👌👍😎JP
That walk in intro.. 👍
What jeans are you wearing 😊? I need those! Thankyouusss
It seems that with everything that you have going on in life, you have found a way to make a day more than 24 hours long HA! Although as you just mentioned in your video, knowing what the soil and plants are telling should give you a wee bit of time. Beautiful property and of course I LOVE the old truck in the back ground. Thanks for sharing!
Ha! The trick to living a MAXIMUM life is to raise MINI animals ;)
@@AnneofAllTrades HA! My only animal is a 15 year old lab, and most days she is taking care of me HA!
Great job!
Thanks for the info! ! 😀👍
Where do I get a hat of yours ? Me and my mom watch your videos and I'd like to buy 1 for my mom., sorry I do see where to get merchandise in the description thanks, I hope your keep making these videos.
I don’t have hats for sale quite yet, just the T-shirt’s, but thanks so much for the interest!!
Can you do a video on your composting? Or do you have recommendations of other videos?
There’s not too much to it honestly, you just pile up poop and yard or chicken scraps and stir it on occasion with a pitchfork. The pile will break down and after a few months, you can use it in your garden. I’ll see if I can’t come up with a little more to say about it and make a video though ;)
A 30 gal lawn bag full of mulched/crumbled leaves and 8-10 lbs of used coffee grounds makes excellent compost for a small garden.
If using manure (greens) with your browns, you want to get your compost pile cooking to kill pathogens and parasites (130-150 degrees farenheit) for 3-4 days. If the temperature drops, mix and turn it.
Composting isn't hard.
thank you Anne . question please most of the animals i understand the use for what do you use the donkey for . in the past it was used for caring light loads .
Stay tuned for the donkey video! They are flock guardians when they are “off duty” and working animals when “on duty.” They have been trained to pull small carts and farm implements.
@@AnneofAllTrades thank you i had no idea
@@AnneofAllTrades neat and thank you
Hi, what is that big beautiful leafy green plant you are growing ?
Rhubarb!
Outlaw Maijuana farmers are really going to love this video ;-) and us kitty cat lovers are going to like it too ( cat cameo in the beginning ) ;-)
hahaha... I don't know about that first part, but glad to make the kitty farmers happy :)
Thank you.
Very interesting, I have 400 sf garden and would like to expand if I can learn how to manage it.
Check out the Back to Eden documentary, linked in the video description, that's what got me started down this crazy journey.
Know your wood chips. Don’t use cedar chips. Cedar is so good for building with because it naturally resists bugs and microbes. The cedar chips don’t break down rapidly so it works well as a weed barrier, but not so much for intentional mulch.
Love this and you’re so close to me
Nice looking rhyubarb. Did you take some to Tenneesse with you?
I wasn’t able to bring any plants because of our moving situation, but you can bet I planted more here as soon as we’d moved!
@@AnneofAllTrades good for you.... I hope it grows excellent for you!!!! It makes great pies and ice cream toppings!!!
@@donaldmcdaniel1773 I love it! this isn't the *best* climate for it, it gets a little too hot here, but I'm doing some experiments planting it in the shade that will hopefully help get me where I need to go with it.
I was afraid to use too many wood chips in the vegetable growing area because I was told it would make the soil too acidic. Since then I have discovered that, yes the chips themselves as decomposing are acidic. But that does not make the soil underneath become acidic. So, no worries going forward about wood chips in the vegetable garden.
No such thing as too many chips! Well. I suppose there could be, but generally speaking, we can always stand to heap a few more on ;)
Subbed! Excellent 'down to earth' info ;-)
I first read this video title as "How to Fix your SOUL" and I thought is there nothing Anne can't do!! :)
Hahahaha well i bet time in the garden could help with that too.
What kind of rhubarb are you growing?I I noticed you my own the soil up on your group board if that's okay to do!?I live down here on the stove and you know it's very hard to go because it's hot but I managed to grow 3 rhubarb plants here. But I forgot to turn it back up one day and it was really hot and they wilted some. But they stood it back up but I did notice they have spots on the leaves what can I do?
Awesome work, thanks for the info Anne! 😃👍🏻🌱🍄💩👊🏻 ..... Initially I thought for sure you were going to say nanorobotics, but I suppose mycelium, compost, and wood chips will do the job! 😁 ...... P.S. , make sure not get your teas mixed up! 🍵💩
hahahaha gross! I'll do my best.
Me too, I can never remember which is which.
Am commenting @7:45 . First thing that comes to mind is compost 'tea'! See that you have it under control.
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🇬🇧 My new allotment plot has no worms in it, is this bad?
I liked this video, please do more in the future 💕
There are lots on this topic already on the channel ;)
OMG, I thought that was poison ivy that you grabbed for a minute. 1:55
Does anyone know how deep in the ground poles should go to support a fence for cattle?
That depends on a lot, what your ground is like, how many metal posts you put up between wooden posts in the ground, how strong your corner wooden posts are...
Does the manure need to be treated in any way to prevent the spread of anything harmful? This is assuming it is used on something to be eaten by people.
Aging it in a compost pile that is stirred regularly will kill anything harmful. The pile gets very hot due to the chemistry of the things within it breaking down and building up heat.
I read that as fix your soul I was like wuut
Ha! That too ;)
Anabel is great
How do you keep ants from taking over when you use wood chips? Maybe mine was too thick.
We don't really have problems with ants. You might find this article helpful, however. renegadegardener.com/myth-of-the-week-archive/wood-mulch-attracts-carpenter-ants/
Great info. But how do you deal with pests? Like rodents gophers, mice, squirrels, etc. Thanks for sharing.
Barn cats. There is a great local rescue that rehomes spayed and neutered cats to local farms.
Alejandro Ruiz you did notice the cat didn’t you?
Hasn’t rained in weeks?????? You sure ur in Seattle Anne? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 As always Anne, great video. Ur videographer does a great job btw. Your garden is looking great. What have you got planted there?
It's been a really weird spring to say the least. I've got EVERYTHING planted! You name it. If it grows in 8b, I've got it in the ground :)
Great tips. Just subbed. Any more like you at home !? LoL