Hi I’m thirteen and I have my own garden I love gardening and I have my own TH-cam channel.gardening is my favorite hobby.😃mlgardener is really an inspiration😊
Aaaaaw! I'll sub. If you haven't done microgreens yet you should. It's fun and healthy and gives fast rewards. Also cloning is super fun. It's a way to take a plant you love and make as many from that as you wish fo free!!! How cool is that?? Also something I have been wanting to try is hybrids. Have you seen that guy who grows so many different fruits off one tree? Its like 20 fruits it's crazy what you can do with hybrids and cloning
Luke, I am the lead of our community's Organic garden here in Brevard,NC. We have 60 gardeners I am in constant communication with and use your videos full of advice as a great addition to my email newsletters. Thank You so much for doing what you do. You truly are a master and I can't tell you how many times I send one of your emails to inquiring gardeners. You make my job manageable, you've always got the perfect video to explain an answer to the many questions I receive. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
I thought it said "How to Amend Your Soul...." so I clicked on it. LOL my vision is a bit blurry. It really is time for me to amend my garden soil. gardening amends your soul over and over too.
I started my own worm bin last year, and I bought a big bag of azomite. I have to say, I had the best garden I have ever had this year. Also, I used neem oil when I got my first blight and I have held off the majority of blight this whole year. I used neem oil 1 time rather early on. I put castings, azomite, and organic fertilizer in each whole when I planted plants. Whatever I did, it worked great. Worked for everything but I think I over nitrogenated my peppers. They got black spots in the beginning, I thought it was blossom end rot from lack of something but almost everything got the same treatment in my garden. As the year went on my peppers got much better and even still today they are doing wonderful. I love having diced peppers in the freezer.
I purchased MIgardener worm castings. Very VERY high quality stuff. My plants love it. Def not in the same league as other castings sold in big box home improvement stores.
Thank you for letting me know what bugs are not good, luckily only found in the untouched parts of my yard! I recommend adding seaweed to your compost if possible. My garden has been good with the seaweed, eggshells, leftover ground coffee, veggie scraps, etc. Never too much compost 💚
What about clay soil that my perennials love, south facing but the varied weeds love it the most!! How do I amend this facing south soil where I live in Spokane, Wa around my perennials for fall? Pull all these very invasive weeds again first, then add these amendments, my compost, straw, glass clippings or what? I have almost given up on my clay soil and just let the weeds grow in my south facing front yard. Help!!!!
@@sherristevens5584 I use Google Lens and a local seeds database to identify the ones I have in my garden and zone and them I find out when this weeds are popping out our going to flower or seeds and I make a place to get rid of this in my agenda. I try to pull off the most I possibly can by hand or a fork or garden tool. I NEVER throw it on my soul, because they are able to reroute themselves and grow up in a vigorous way and reseed faster. I also clip all large grasses, sterile blueberries branches and prunes I get from healthy plants, spent flowers or crops and cut it all in small pieces and put it on the ground out off may beds and let it to compost it self on the ground and after a few months I mix it on my clay soil, I realized that this help my plants to keep moisture in hot summer and also helped drainage in raining winter days. And also help seedlings to establish because the soil is no longer like a block heavy like a stone. In spring to autumn my annuals flower beds are gorgeous due to all the vegetables matter that are in the soil, and then from autumn to spring the perennials and biannual, grasses and hardy one have their own show. They look healthy and with vibrant colors I doing this I get taller crops with strong stems. I also use to buy organic vegetables compost from the council that came from all the prunes that take in the city's trees, etc and mix it with the top soil of my beds when I do a new border or design a new bed. Just 2 years ago I can't plant almost nothing, now I can plant almost everything I want, the soil is more soft, oxygenate, I get a lot of good worms & beetles, and they are turning all my prunes into humus. Also I learn don't let my soil with no crops on the top, to don't make the good fauna dye or go away from my soil. So I plant cat grass, or ray, wheat, and get mulch from they in summer or hay, or just plant a soil covering plant, like alyssum or matricaria chamomile... soil the invisible fauna still living on my soil all year round and improving it by keeping it fertile. Good look and happy gardening!
Thank you for this video! I've been gardening for years and every year I learn something new. Didn't know the value of the red clay that is my backyard (front yard, roads, etc.) I'm in NC and this year we had something known as a "Straight Line Wind Event." It's like a tornado but without the spiral (in February; 2020 has been a very interesting year). This event toppled hundreds of trees in our area - red clay everywhere! After watching this video, I added some to my garden beds. Thanks so much for all the info. you share.
“Then they need composted” 😂. That cracked me up. Thanks again for all the great information. I’ve watched all different kinds of gardening channels but yours is by far the best. Keep growing big!
Luke, have you considered growing Comfrey in the corners of your garden? The non-spreading Russian bocking works great...cut and throw leaves. The plant burrows deep and brings up minerals in your own soil and the leaves decompose wherever placed and deposit absorbed minerals to the surface.
Luke, I understand that to help get rid of and/or fend off nemetodes is marigolds planted throughout garden. I've seen marigold in your gardens I believe. They add beauty and bug repellent for some insects also.
Hi. Big hugs that you stay as safe as possible. Your side is burning, my side is hurricane n raining. We all have our trials to go thru this year. Peace to you and yours
LUKE, you are such a blessing! I have learned so much from your informative videos. Thank you for all the time you spend making them to help others. I just ordered seeds and trifecta from you for the spring and I am so thrilled. God bless you!
Thank you! I just watched it a second time as a refresher as I am beginning to prepare my containers for my fall garden. I have amended with worm castings and azomite (power dust) but thanks to you I now know how much to add. I think I might have been overdoing it. I enjoy your videos and am enjoying using the gardeners planner as I begin the planning and growing of my fall garden. Thank your wife for pulling all the info together. I would like to be able to get hold of more harvest sheets. I like to keep track of all my produce, to help know which varieties are more productive and what it might have cost if I had to buy it all, of course, the store produce doesn't even come close to the taste of home grown!
I've been growing in my bed for 3 summers without ever amending (or knowing how to amend) and this year was ok but not great. I planted my first fall garden about a month ago, and it was a complete fail. Small thin radishes brussel sprouts that stopped growing at 4 leaves, greens didn't even come up. So yea I'm going to amend and get ready for the spring. Thanks for the info!
I buy alfalfa pellets (much lower cost than alfalfa meal) at the feed store and sprinkle it on top of the soil, cover it with leaves, and let it all break down over winter. Alfalfa contains a growth hormone called triacontanol, and of course slow release NPK, etc. I switched to no-till gardening and I'm amazed at how much healthier and more productive the plants are. It turns out mother nature knows what she's doing. In nature dead plant matter stays on the surface where it breaks down and adds to the fertility of the soil, layer upon layer, year after year. No need for compost piles.
That sounds like a great idea.... but dont they harsh weed.control on alfalfa ...its like usinfnhay or animal manure that ate the hay sprayed....u never know what your getting.
When starting new garden beds in the fall, I build two lines of fencing 6 ft apart & fill with chopped leaves about 3 - 4 ft deep. I use chicken wire ends on what becomes a big leaf mould cage. I cover with landscpe fabric to over winter...and walk away until Spring. I then open the chicken wire ends & rake off leaves that have not decomposed & leave the T Posts & wire fencing in place for trellising. The system yeilds 2, 30 in beds with room for a 12 in path in the middle which I dig out to a depth of about 18 in & throw the soil on the rows & then wood chip the dug out path. I am now thinking adding a heaping helping alfalfa pellets before the 3 - 4 ft of leaves might be a good improvement.
I’ve been using your worm castings and Trifecta+ for the last 2 years and my garden is ROCKIN!! So much great information in this video!! Thank you so much! I literally feel smarter after I watch your videos! Keep up the great work!!
I grow in containers. With that being said, when growing season is over, all my containers become composting bins. I also bury the dried plants and when leaves fall, I put them on top
I was thinking, what am I going to do with all the dirt in my 5 gallon buckets when the season is over. How will I get it ready for planting next season? This idea about using for compost is wonderful! I live in a subdivision and have 30 buckets. What is the best way to use as compost? Just bury kitchen scraps throughout the fall and winter? I'm in MI, so there will be snow. Any advice is great. Thank you!
@@katdunn7934 That's what I do. If you have a garage, I would put the buckets in there and add red worms in the buckets. As long as it doesn't get too cold in there, the worms will survive and break everything down. I'm in the Texas panhandle and even though the worms die off every year, they lay enough cocoons that when it warms up, I'll have worms for next year.
@@simpleman806 thank you! I may have room for a few buckets. I wonder, maybe my shed would work. I assume I have to keep it moist, so probably need to put pans underneath to catch some of the water.
For my grow pots each year I have used this mix: 2 gl. worm castings, 2 gl. coco coir, 3 cps. Azomite, and 1.5 gl. Vermiculite. I simply use compost the next year to amend the soil mixing around 50/50 compost to previous years soil.
Vermiculite may contain asbestos and/or arsenic. Replace with perlite, pumice, green sand, clay pebbles, coco coir, or rice hulls. If you need more water retention add peat, worm castings, and other compost. Vermiculite is a thing of the past for gardening that unfortunately hasn't gone away yet. Do yourself a favor, find a better soil additive.
Hey someone else I just watched says she just CUTS the stems of like brocolli or tomatoes to leave the roots in the ground. She says it keeps the soil IN the garden and keeps the ecosystem (or something like that). What do you think of that? Then in the spring you'll have to pull it out anyway, yes? THanks!!! You're a joy to watch and learn from.
I learned something new about the humid acid thanks Luke. I need to replenish my garden bed that got hit wish squash vine bores. Tomatoes are still growing
I'm throwing in things whenever they are abundant or available. Homemade compost Kitchen scraps Washed up sea grass Wood charcoal from the bonfire Sea shells A rusty metal piece Fish bones Animal manure Grass clippings :)
Thank you this was a very beificial video as are all of your videos. Just received another order of seeds from Migardener. Egar toget my fallseeds planted. I am in zone 9 am behind you in cooling down. Such good results with your seeds♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
My garden was ruined by root knot nematodes. Now Im going to be gardening in growbags. I used your trifecta+ for the first time and my plants are loving it!
Love ur channel ! I was talking to another random gardener here in Ontario Canada about some issue and we both started talking about a TH-cam garden channel video and it turned out we were both referring to your channel 🤣!
I'm adding chicken coop litter, Alfalfa and covering with wood chips for winter. I will collect lots of leaves that I compost with garden debris hay & straw. I'm on a fixed income so I have to use what I have access too. My woodchips have been decomposing for 1.5 years already because got in a bad car accident and didnt get the chip drop load all spread before I got hurt. We gets tons of rain here in the Pacific NW Oregon so I dont add kelp until spring.
Hello, This is my first time viewing your channel...Soooooo amazingly fantastic depth of information in a concise manner...Thanks so much for taking the time to provide step-step insights and tips, in an understandable, insightful way 🙀😉! Take care, Miss Marva
Who knew...my Dad raised worms in our basement for years. All that time I could have had worm castings, too bad I was a kid and didn’t care about gardening then.🧐 Dad fed his worms vegetable scraps and oatmeal. He was quite popular when he would go fishing as he used the worms for bait. Dad’s gone now so no worms.😢
This is what I was trying to figure out on how much more compost or amendments to add to my 18" beds which have compacted over the spring/summer to about 9" ? They started at 12 to 14"!
thanks I needed to know how to put my garden bed to bed for the winter... I will be planting garlic in one bed in another month or so but the other beds I will be put down for the winter....
My soil here in central PA is insanely rocky. Any digging at all is a major chore, and the rock-to-soil rate is probably at least 2-1. So, with all of those rocks, I'm wondering if I really need to add rock dust; it seems like there should be plenty of minerals in there already.
Most people don’t know this, if you live on a gravel road you get free rock dust distributed all over your property for free. Also if you want to grow in clay add wood chips, and coffee grounds in a year you can grow in it as long as it’s kept moist not drenched. Also if you want free worm castings burry veggie scraps in your garden, you can also blend up veggie scraps for faster worm digestion and castings.
Then I have a TON of rock dust, so never going to worry about that again :) Also, I have a lot of earthworms in my raised bed and in my compost, so not worrying about that, either.
Luke great video I am so glad you mention azomite everywhere I go I see azomite and I did not even know what that was used for and now I know I well definitely be getting me a big of that
I just bought 3lbs of Trifecta+ from the Migardener store so my soil will be nice and spicy for next grow season. Also, there are lots of good seeds for sale on the Migardener website, so you better jump on it before the seeds are gone (they sell out fast!!).
Thank you so much, Luke. Always super informative. I had no idea worm castings can be different. And also, I was always curious how you prep grow beds for planting. You are amazing at what you do!
I put peeling in empty pots all winter in a shelter area. The worms migrated to them. I in zone 6a. In the spring I spread it in the beds. In spring when soil can be turned I add kitchen scrapes between rows. I don't have a big area.
Can you comment on using cover crops like legumes and clover that add nitrogen to the soil? Can it replace the items you have in this video? I am a new veggie gardener and everything I know is from guys like you said n youtube😉I am retired so am on a budget so I have just planted Dutch clover at a cost f $10 and intend on leaving it over winter. I will trim in spring and use the tops for mulch. Any guidance is appreciated.
I got my own worm bins, i collect my own kelp and sea weed which also has all trace minerals known to Man kind, i just reamend my beds with them as well as a little good clean fire wood ash and free horse manure. I also drenched my beds in a lactobacillus drench i make my own the stuff breaks down the old roots and organic material as well is great for soil microbes and good bacteria it out completes bad bacteria and any pathogens plus many more bennifets, i also use it during the season and sence i started using it ive got some huge results bigger fruits than ever,
I send a sample of my soil in for testing, some will even tell you what you need for a Particular plant that you will be putting into a particular raised bed in my case. And as far as the Cost goes, I don't think I've ever saved money growing my own vegetables. But it's a great hobby, and I know I've got healthy food. As opposed to not knowing where the food comes from in a grocery store.
@@RC-rk2xs I'm looking forward to the day I don't have to build anymore raised beds and hoop houses, so I can start collecting on my investment also. It all has to be done before I retire.
@@RC-rk2xs I don't bend so easily anymore, so all my beds are 36 to 40 inches tall. One nice thing about tall beds the rabbits aren't an issue anymore. I have found a local horse ranch near by. Need to get a trailer for hauling.
I really enjoy your videos and I owe so much of what I’ve learned to everything you’ve shared with us here. I’d like to ask if you would consider adding simple subtitles when you introduce these products. The names of many of the amendments and other stuff that you use in and around your garden sometimes sound so foreign and new to me that it doesn’t stay in my memory from only hearing you say it. To see it spelled out on the screen would be so helpful for me both to remember it, and to actually find it when buying it for myself.
Great video! Wish you would have done a recap and went back over what you layered on the soil..I'm taking notes n missed what was in the 1st bag... thanks for the info!!
I learn so much from watching your channel and I'm very grateful to be a subscriber! Just ordered grow lights, shelves, and a few other items to grow indoors. Watched your other video that covered how much soil is needed for different indoor veggies so I'm giving it a try. I built two 4x8 raised beds but got a late start and had limited light. Barely had any fruit from my heirloom seeds. I'm chalking it up to a learning experience. That's why I'm moving my gardening indoors so I can practice and get an earlier start next spring I'm taking copious notes and I WILL get this perfected. My plants looked so healthy but I think my nitrogen was too low. I built higher raised beds bc of a bad back and used organic soil. Nothing flowered. The only thing I had luck with was green beans. If anyone has suggestions outside of my late start and using heirlooms which take longer I'm listening. My tomato and pepper plants are gorgeous and huge. I planted about 15 tomato plants and 8 pepper plants which yielded 4 tomatoes and zero peppers.
"My plants looked so healthy but I think my nitrogen was too low." I know this is from a year ago but you're describing my strawberry plants this year. There are other variables involved but based on your description (healthy leaves, poor fruit production) your nitrogen might actually be too high. Hope you had better luck this year!
Have bought your trifecta plus, azomite and worm castings in the past not to mention some garlic and other seeds. Have always done well for me and waiting on my shipment! Can’t wait.
After watching your video last year… It took me DAYS to try to find Azomite online And even with all of my connections as a construction inspector with quarries, etc. but I FUNALLY found a place and it was free shipping for a 50 pound bag! I couldn’t of been more excited!
Don’t know if you’re aware or not but if you do a fall bed of Oyster Mushrooms on straw, the mycelium of Oysters mushrooms actually captures nematodes in clamps and digest them for their nitrogen. The compost left over has been shown to have better NPK ratios than bacterially digested compost.
Thanks for mentioning clay soil. I am in Texas 7b/8a with clay soil and struggled with my first large ground gardens this past spring/summer. I’m researching to amend and building raised beds this fall.
I'm in texas 8a. I've dealt with the clay for 3 years, so have only done raised beds. This year will be my first in native soil, as well as. I tilled a 12×12 for my son to grow a watermelon vine. Wish me luck! I'm also hoping to till a row in june/ july for okra in the soil. We'll see!
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Hi I’m thirteen and I have my own garden I love gardening and I have my own TH-cam channel.gardening is my favorite hobby.😃mlgardener is really an inspiration😊
Grow big! Thanks for watching.
You too😃
Aaaaaw! I'll sub. If you haven't done microgreens yet you should. It's fun and healthy and gives fast rewards. Also cloning is super fun. It's a way to take a plant you love and make as many from that as you wish fo free!!! How cool is that?? Also something I have been wanting to try is hybrids. Have you seen that guy who grows so many different fruits off one tree? Its like 20 fruits it's crazy what you can do with hybrids and cloning
Thanks I’m sure I have micro greens if I don’t I will.and that’s really cool that you can lots of prune different fruits on one tree
Dude....its the age of the new...put your channel link in the comment so people can look and sub!
Luke, I am the lead of our community's Organic garden here in Brevard,NC. We have 60 gardeners I am in constant communication with and use your videos full of advice as a great addition to my email newsletters. Thank You so much for doing what you do. You truly are a master and I can't tell you how many times I send one of your emails to inquiring gardeners. You make my job manageable, you've always got the perfect video to explain an answer to the many questions I receive. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
In addition, I don't know how many times I've sent this very informative video out to my gardeners!! You're the best!!
He reminds me so much of my son! I just love this young man and his love for gardening! He's taught me allot!
I thought it said "How to Amend Your Soul...." so I clicked on it. LOL my vision is a bit blurry. It really is time for me to amend my garden soil. gardening amends your soul over and over too.
The soil feeds the soul. 😇
I always learn SO MUCH from you. You are a blessing from the Lord in these times. Thank you. ,✝️🌍❤️
I started my own worm bin last year, and I bought a big bag of azomite. I have to say, I had the best garden I have ever had this year. Also, I used neem oil when I got my first blight and I have held off the majority of blight this whole year. I used neem oil 1 time rather early on. I put castings, azomite, and organic fertilizer in each whole when I planted plants. Whatever I did, it worked great. Worked for everything but I think I over nitrogenated my peppers. They got black spots in the beginning, I thought it was blossom end rot from lack of something but almost everything got the same treatment in my garden. As the year went on my peppers got much better and even still today they are doing wonderful. I love having diced peppers in the freezer.
I would have really liked to see the mechanics of it all. You breaking up your soil as well as raking it in... or even a short demonstration of it
Yeah I don't get why they didn't show that
I purchased MIgardener worm castings. Very VERY high quality stuff. My plants love it. Def not in the same league as other castings sold in big box home improvement stores.
Thank you for letting me know what bugs are not good, luckily only found in the untouched parts of my yard!
I recommend adding seaweed to your compost if possible. My garden has been good with the seaweed, eggshells, leftover ground coffee, veggie scraps, etc.
Never too much compost 💚
Good old rabbit manure, hay and yard clippings are the secrets to my success.
What about clay soil that my perennials love, south facing but the varied weeds love it the most!! How do I amend this facing south soil where I live in Spokane, Wa around my perennials for fall? Pull all these very invasive weeds again first, then add these amendments, my compost, straw, glass clippings or what? I have almost given up on my clay soil and just let the weeds grow in my south facing front yard. Help!!!!
I compost my backyard chickens manure.
@@sherristevens5584 use wood chips
@@sherristevens5584 the answer to clay is just digging in as much organic matter as you can.
@@sherristevens5584 I use Google Lens and a local seeds database to identify the ones I have in my garden and zone and them I find out when this weeds are popping out our going to flower or seeds and I make a place to get rid of this in my agenda. I try to pull off the most I possibly can by hand or a fork or garden tool. I NEVER throw it on my soul, because they are able to reroute themselves and grow up in a vigorous way and reseed faster. I also clip all large grasses, sterile blueberries branches and prunes I get from healthy plants, spent flowers or crops and cut it all in small pieces and put it on the ground out off may beds and let it to compost it self on the ground and after a few months I mix it on my clay soil, I realized that this help my plants to keep moisture in hot summer and also helped drainage in raining winter days. And also help seedlings to establish because the soil is no longer like a block heavy like a stone. In spring to autumn my annuals flower beds are gorgeous due to all the vegetables matter that are in the soil, and then from autumn to spring the perennials and biannual, grasses and hardy one have their own show. They look healthy and with vibrant colors I doing this I get taller crops with strong stems. I also use to buy organic vegetables compost from the council that came from all the prunes that take in the city's trees, etc and mix it with the top soil of my beds when I do a new border or design a new bed. Just 2 years ago I can't plant almost nothing, now I can plant almost everything I want, the soil is more soft, oxygenate, I get a lot of good worms & beetles, and they are turning all my prunes into humus.
Also I learn don't let my soil with no crops on the top, to don't make the good fauna dye or go away from my soil. So I plant cat grass, or ray, wheat, and get mulch from they in summer or hay, or just plant a soil covering plant, like alyssum or matricaria chamomile... soil the invisible fauna still living on my soil all year round and improving it by keeping it fertile.
Good look and happy gardening!
Thank you for this video! I've been gardening for years and every year I learn something new. Didn't know the value of the red clay that is my backyard (front yard, roads, etc.) I'm in NC and this year we had something known as a "Straight Line Wind Event." It's like a tornado but without the spiral (in February; 2020 has been a very interesting year). This event toppled hundreds of trees in our area - red clay everywhere! After watching this video, I added some to my garden beds. Thanks so much for all the info. you share.
“Then they need composted” 😂. That cracked me up. Thanks again for all the great information. I’ve watched all different kinds of gardening channels but yours is by far the best. Keep growing big!
Luke, have you considered growing Comfrey in the corners of your garden? The non-spreading Russian bocking works great...cut and throw leaves. The plant burrows deep and brings up minerals in your own soil and the leaves decompose wherever placed and deposit absorbed minerals to the surface.
Luke, I understand that to help get rid of and/or fend off nemetodes is marigolds planted throughout garden. I've seen marigold in your gardens I believe. They add beauty and bug repellent for some insects also.
I plant them every year and collect the seeds for next year.😊
This year I'm just collecting ash from the sky because I live on the west coast.
I wish I was joking...
Compost...stay safe
Same here brother. Go California
Hi. Big hugs that you stay as safe as possible. Your side is burning, my side is hurricane n raining. We all have our trials to go thru this year. Peace to you and yours
We'll, ashes technically give nitrogen to your garden. So, something benefits 🤷🏽♀️ sorry you have to go through that
be safe. keep calm and garden on..
LUKE, you are such a blessing! I have learned so much from your informative videos. Thank you for all the time you spend making them to help others. I just ordered seeds and trifecta from you for the spring and I am so thrilled. God bless you!
Thank you! I just watched it a second time as a refresher as I am beginning to prepare my containers for my fall garden. I have amended with worm castings and azomite (power dust) but thanks to you I now know how much to add. I think I might have been overdoing it. I enjoy your videos and am enjoying using the gardeners planner as I begin the planning and growing of my fall garden. Thank your wife for pulling all the info together. I would like to be able to get hold of more harvest sheets. I like to keep track of all my produce, to help know which varieties are more productive and what it might have cost if I had to buy it all, of course, the store produce doesn't even come close to the taste of home grown!
I always do manure in the fall and compost in the spring.
I've been growing in my bed for 3 summers without ever amending (or knowing how to amend) and this year was ok but not great. I planted my first fall garden about a month ago, and it was a complete fail. Small thin radishes brussel sprouts that stopped growing at 4 leaves, greens didn't even come up. So yea I'm going to amend and get ready for the spring. Thanks for the info!
I buy alfalfa pellets (much lower cost than alfalfa meal) at the feed store and sprinkle it on top of the soil, cover it with leaves, and let it all break down over winter. Alfalfa contains a growth hormone called triacontanol, and of course slow release NPK, etc.
I switched to no-till gardening and I'm amazed at how much healthier and more productive the plants are. It turns out mother nature knows what she's doing. In nature dead plant matter stays on the surface where it breaks down and adds to the fertility of the soil, layer upon layer, year after year. No need for compost piles.
That sounds super easy. I'm going to give it a try this fall. Thanks!
That sounds like a great idea.... but dont they harsh weed.control on alfalfa ...its like usinfnhay or animal manure that ate the hay sprayed....u never know what your getting.
I hear alfalfa works better than straw to for covering your garden. It has a lower carbon to nitrogen ratio so it breaks down faster.
When starting new garden beds in the fall, I build two lines of fencing 6 ft apart & fill with chopped leaves about 3 - 4 ft deep. I use chicken wire ends on what becomes a big leaf mould cage. I cover with landscpe fabric to over winter...and walk away until Spring.
I then open the chicken wire ends & rake off leaves that have not decomposed & leave the T Posts & wire fencing in place for trellising. The system yeilds 2, 30 in beds with room for a 12 in path in the middle which I dig out to a depth of about 18 in & throw the soil on the rows & then wood chip the dug out path.
I am now thinking adding a heaping helping alfalfa pellets before the 3 - 4 ft of leaves might be a good improvement.
You need to use horse alfalfa pellets. Rabbit pellets contain salt.
I’ve been using your worm castings and Trifecta+ for the last 2 years and my garden is ROCKIN!!
So much great information in this video!! Thank you so much! I literally feel smarter after I watch your videos! Keep up the great work!!
I grow in containers. With that being said, when growing season is over, all my containers become composting bins. I also bury the dried plants and when leaves fall, I put them on top
Same for me, each year
I was thinking, what am I going to do with all the dirt in my 5 gallon buckets when the season is over. How will I get it ready for planting next season? This idea about using for compost is wonderful! I live in a subdivision and have 30 buckets. What is the best way to use as compost? Just bury kitchen scraps throughout the fall and winter? I'm in MI, so there will be snow. Any advice is great. Thank you!
@@katdunn7934 That's what I do. If you have a garage, I would put the buckets in there and add red worms in the buckets. As long as it doesn't get too cold in there, the worms will survive and break everything down. I'm in the Texas panhandle and even though the worms die off every year, they lay enough cocoons that when it warms up, I'll have worms for next year.
@@katdunn7934 I ahve my own yard, so, I use a corner. Perhaps a large wheel barrow?
@@simpleman806 thank you! I may have room for a few buckets. I wonder, maybe my shed would work. I assume I have to keep it moist, so probably need to put pans underneath to catch some of the water.
For my grow pots each year I have used this mix: 2 gl. worm castings, 2 gl. coco coir, 3 cps. Azomite, and 1.5 gl. Vermiculite. I simply use compost the next year to amend the soil mixing around 50/50 compost to previous years soil.
Vermiculite may contain asbestos and/or arsenic. Replace with perlite, pumice, green sand, clay pebbles, coco coir, or rice hulls. If you need more water retention add peat, worm castings, and other compost. Vermiculite is a thing of the past for gardening that unfortunately hasn't gone away yet. Do yourself a favor, find a better soil additive.
Hey someone else I just watched says she just CUTS the stems of like brocolli or tomatoes to leave the roots in the ground. She says it keeps the soil IN the garden and keeps the ecosystem (or something like that). What do you think of that? Then in the spring you'll have to pull it out anyway, yes? THanks!!! You're a joy to watch and learn from.
I did everything right early last spring and waited to plant and got 1/3 of everything than what I got the year before!
I learned something new about the humid acid thanks Luke. I need to replenish my garden bed that got hit wish squash vine bores. Tomatoes are still growing
We live on an island in Alaska. We put kelp and seaweed on our beds every winter. We have a lot of rain which depletes nutrients.
I can’t thank you enough for sharing! I love your book! I’ve given your book as gifts! Your a blessing!
I'm throwing in things whenever they are abundant or available.
Homemade compost
Kitchen scraps
Washed up sea grass
Wood charcoal from the bonfire
Sea shells
A rusty metal piece
Fish bones
Animal manure
Grass clippings
:)
Thank you this was a very beificial video as are all of your videos. Just received another order of seeds from Migardener. Egar toget my fallseeds planted. I am in zone 9 am behind you in cooling down. Such good results with your seeds♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Just in time! Thank you Luke.
My garden was ruined by root knot nematodes. Now Im going to be gardening in growbags. I used your trifecta+ for the first time and my plants are loving it!
ugh. They are the worst literally.
Wouldn't planting Marigolds help deter them???
@@lepidlover0557 it did not.
Where does one get this wonderful trifecta +, not seeing the bag or title he showed in the video?
@@SuperHeroSewing on the migardner website.
Luke, we love you, all the way from Regina Saskatchewan! 🍻
thank you for your help , I have started worm compost garden.
Love ur channel ! I was talking to another random gardener here in Ontario Canada about some issue and we both started talking about a TH-cam garden channel video and it turned out we were both referring to your channel 🤣!
I'm adding chicken coop litter, Alfalfa and covering with wood chips for winter.
I will collect lots of leaves that I compost with garden debris hay & straw.
I'm on a fixed income so I have to use what I have access too.
My woodchips have been decomposing for 1.5 years already because got in a bad car accident and didnt get the chip drop load all spread before I got hurt.
We gets tons of rain here in the Pacific NW Oregon so I dont add kelp until spring.
Thank you so much for making this...I spent the first few minutes cringing at myself because I have used just my backyard compost.
Perfect timing and super easy to understand-thank you for this!
This is just what I needed to know right now! Thank you!
I'm always learning about what it takes to grow the best garden! Thanks
Holy buckets .. You just quadrupled my food cost. Lol
Slow Dragon Bonsai Maybe he just quadrupled your abundant harvest as well!
@@cynthiafisher9907 I would bank on it
For organic food?
For real.
Natural compost is fine,,and free manure,,plow under let soil mellow for spring,,,my god he is killing my budgets all this ..good gardening everone
Hello,
This is my first time viewing your channel...Soooooo amazingly fantastic depth of information in a concise manner...Thanks so much for taking the time to provide step-step insights and tips, in an understandable, insightful way 🙀😉!
Take care,
Miss Marva
Who knew...my Dad raised worms in our basement for years. All that time I could have had worm castings, too bad I was a kid and didn’t care about gardening then.🧐
Dad fed his worms vegetable scraps and oatmeal. He was quite popular when he would go fishing as he used the worms for bait. Dad’s gone now so no worms.😢
Viewer: Hey Luke, I have so much compost that I can't reach the top of my beds anymore. Is this too much compost?
Luke: *No.*
This is what I was trying to figure out on how much more compost or amendments to add to my 18" beds which have compacted over the spring/summer to about 9" ? They started at 12 to 14"!
Just good seeds from you for my fall garden! I'm down the rabbit hole now!
Perfect timing. I’ll do this for sure!!!’
I love this kind of stuff. great information. thank Luke.
Thank you MI gardener!!!✨🙏🌿🌀
thanks I needed to know how to put my garden bed to bed for the winter... I will be planting garlic in one bed in another month or so but the other beds I will be put down for the winter....
My soil here in central PA is insanely rocky. Any digging at all is a major chore, and the rock-to-soil rate is probably at least 2-1. So, with all of those rocks, I'm wondering if I really need to add rock dust; it seems like there should be plenty of minerals in there already.
Most people don’t know this, if you live on a gravel road you get free rock dust distributed all over your property for free. Also if you want to grow in clay add wood chips, and coffee grounds in a year you can grow in it as long as it’s kept moist not drenched. Also if you want free worm castings burry veggie scraps in your garden, you can also blend up veggie scraps for faster worm digestion and castings.
Then I have a TON of rock dust, so never going to worry about that again :) Also, I have a lot of earthworms in my raised bed and in my compost, so not worrying about that, either.
Luke great video I am so glad you mention azomite everywhere I go I see azomite and I did not even know what that was used for and now I know I well definitely be getting me a big of that
Thank you. This was super clear information. Just what I needed.
Love the information Luke ;) Thank you for all that you do for all of us!!! God Bless you and Yours...
Yahuah Baruk you!
screaming that i found your channel, thnak you for the gardening help!
I love this video! I’m inspired to work in my garden now. Thank you for the information.
Just the video I was looking for and this popped up on my TH-cam feed 🤣🧐
Perfect !
I have earth worms in my raised beds and keep them fed all year. Seems to keep bed fluffy and healthy
I just bought 3lbs of Trifecta+ from the Migardener store so my soil will be nice and spicy for next grow season. Also, there are lots of good seeds for sale on the Migardener website, so you better jump on it before the seeds are gone (they sell out fast!!).
I'm just about to plant my fall garden. This was excellent advice! Love your channel. Best from Maryland!!
Thank you SO MUCH.. you have been a HUGE help! 👍
“Your garden, your rules!” Luke you crack me up!
Thank you so much, Luke. Always super informative. I had no idea worm castings can be different. And also, I was always curious how you prep grow beds for planting. You are amazing at what you do!
And he cares
I put peeling in empty pots all winter in a shelter area. The worms migrated to them. I in zone 6a. In the spring I spread it in the beds. In spring when soil can be turned I add kitchen scrapes between rows. I don't have a big area.
Love watching your videos and I have learned so much! Thank you!!
Thank you for sharing!
Can you comment on using cover crops like legumes and clover that add nitrogen to the soil? Can it replace the items you have in this video? I am a new veggie gardener and everything I know is from guys like you said n youtube😉I am retired so am on a budget so I have just planted Dutch clover at a cost f $10 and intend on leaving it over winter. I will trim in spring and use the tops for mulch. Any guidance is appreciated.
He has a video on that.
Thank you Luke! Now I know why some of my plants were small this year. Time to amend the soil!
I got my own worm bins, i collect my own kelp and sea weed which also has all trace minerals known to Man kind, i just reamend my beds with them as well as a little good clean fire wood ash and free horse manure. I also drenched my beds in a lactobacillus drench i make my own the stuff breaks down the old roots and organic material as well is great for soil microbes and good bacteria it out completes bad bacteria and any pathogens plus many more bennifets, i also use it during the season and sence i started using it ive got some huge results bigger fruits than ever,
This was a perfect video. You hit on all the questions I had. Thank you.
Very educational! Thank you!
Thanks for sharing Luke
I send a sample of my soil in for testing, some will even tell you what you need for a Particular plant that you will be putting into a particular raised bed in my case.
And as far as the Cost goes, I don't think I've ever saved money growing my own vegetables. But it's a great hobby, and I know I've got healthy food. As opposed to not knowing where the food comes from in a grocery store.
@@RC-rk2xs I'm looking forward to the day I don't have to build anymore raised beds and hoop houses, so I can start collecting on my investment also.
It all has to be done before I retire.
@@RC-rk2xs I don't bend so easily anymore, so all my beds are 36 to 40 inches tall.
One nice thing about tall beds the rabbits aren't an issue anymore. I have found a local horse ranch near by. Need to get a trailer for hauling.
I really enjoy your videos and I owe so much of what I’ve learned to everything you’ve shared with us here. I’d like to ask if you would consider adding simple subtitles when you introduce these products. The names of many of the amendments and other stuff that you use in and around your garden sometimes sound so foreign and new to me that it doesn’t stay in my memory from only hearing you say it. To see it spelled out on the screen would be so helpful for me both to remember it, and to actually find it when buying it for myself.
Turn on the captions🤗
That helps me!
Great video! Wish you would have done a recap and went back over what you layered on the soil..I'm taking notes n missed what was in the 1st bag... thanks for the info!!
It snowed in Colorado yesterday, had to cover my garden 😅
Bobby Lewis yes it did isn’t crazy and ya you don’t want a bunch of snow on your plants 🌱
Yes, saw that. Quite a surprise!
My cousin lost her outdoor tomato plants but everything in her green house/tunnel survived ok. She's near Denver!!
Fanstastick advice thank you
Fabulous video, Thankyou!
I learn so much from watching your channel and I'm very grateful to be a subscriber! Just ordered grow lights, shelves, and a few other items to grow indoors. Watched your other video that covered how much soil is needed for different indoor veggies so I'm giving it a try. I built two 4x8 raised beds but got a late start and had limited light. Barely had any fruit from my heirloom seeds. I'm chalking it up to a learning experience. That's why I'm moving my gardening indoors so I can practice and get an earlier start next spring I'm taking copious notes and I WILL get this perfected. My plants looked so healthy but I think my nitrogen was too low. I built higher raised beds bc of a bad back and used organic soil. Nothing flowered. The only thing I had luck with was green beans. If anyone has suggestions outside of my late start and using heirlooms which take longer I'm listening. My tomato and pepper plants are gorgeous and huge. I planted about 15 tomato plants and 8 pepper plants which yielded 4 tomatoes and zero peppers.
"My plants looked so healthy but I think my nitrogen was too low." I know this is from a year ago but you're describing my strawberry plants this year. There are other variables involved but based on your description (healthy leaves, poor fruit production) your nitrogen might actually be too high. Hope you had better luck this year!
What a great information my brother I needed it thanks
As usual, some good and practical advice. Thanks!
Have bought your trifecta plus, azomite and worm castings in the past not to mention some garlic and other seeds. Have always done well for me and waiting on my shipment! Can’t wait.
How did it all work for you?
Excellent video!!
Thank you so much! New to gardening & really appreciate your information!
Thank you so much. Very informative 👏
Wonderful video-- very enlightening! Thank you as always-- be safe!
I’m fortunate to live near the coast to harvest my own kelp
Definitely will buy worm castings when back in stock!
After watching your video last year… It took me DAYS to try to find Azomite online And even with all of my connections as a construction inspector with quarries, etc. but I FUNALLY found a place and it was free shipping for a 50 pound bag! I couldn’t of been more excited!
I did NOT know about Humic acid! You CAN teach an old dog a new trick! Seaboost Liquid Kelp is popular here in Atlantic Canada.
Watched video, then bought 10 pounds of azomite for $16. My garden will be so productive this Fall and next year and the next, and....
Jeez that's expensive with all of those products but I'm still gonna garden in pots
Wow. Gardening can be really expensive 😮. Thanks Luke
Don’t know if you’re aware or not but if you do a fall bed of Oyster Mushrooms on straw, the mycelium of Oysters mushrooms actually captures nematodes in clamps and digest them for their nitrogen. The compost left over has been shown to have better NPK ratios than bacterially digested compost.
please make some videos about sun gold tomatoes cause im growing them next year and i know your the best gardener
Hello friend. Nice to meet you. Have a nice day my friend
Thanks for your guide. Helps alot
Thanks for mentioning clay soil. I am in Texas 7b/8a with clay soil and struggled with my first large ground gardens this past spring/summer. I’m researching to amend and building raised beds this fall.
I'm in texas 8a. I've dealt with the clay for 3 years, so have only done raised beds. This year will be my first in native soil, as well as. I tilled a 12×12 for my son to grow a watermelon vine. Wish me luck! I'm also hoping to till a row in june/ july for okra in the soil. We'll see!
@@jackm4714 Yes, I've been making my own compost to add to soil. I also have wood landscaping timbers laid out in design for raised beds.
Magnifique!!!!
I didn’t know your supposed to do all this 😝 I’m learning