My dad swore by sheep manure. I haven't used any of that as sheep aren't raised in my area really. I really like using bunny poo since it can go directly and doesn't burn the plants.
Horse manuer creates more loft because its more fibrous. But of you're talking horse barn cleanings, the urine and any type of alphalfa does wonders for getting the composting action going.
Our neighbor has horses. He puts it in cubicles (mini stalls) and has pipes running through it with hot water to kill the weed seeds. Then piles it up for the neighbors to use freely. It is wonderful black gold!
@@annsmith8343 We used to be able to get barn cleanings from a stable where the horses either didn't have access to weeds or, they were eaten down quick enough there wasn't much for weed seeds. If y0u got it fresh, sometime it would grow alphslfa which wasn't too bad IF you got it pulled early. They were wood shaving, not cedar so I would guess pine, based and let me tell you with the right mix of other stuff those shavings broke down quite a bit pretty quick in the dirt, on the dirt, or in a pile.
Since these are first year strawberries, cut those runners off and remove all flowers so the plant puts the energy into growing roots and leaves. You will be thankful you did next year!
I am so happy you posted the answer. I purchased a dump truck full of compost from the same source. I am having the same problem. Now I know what to do to fix it. Thank you soooooo much. I have learned a huge amount from your channel through the years.
We experienced the same result using compost from same source. We added fertilizer but after watching this will add the other product you suggested. Thanks again!
@@shirleydodd1953 Google npk 20-20-20 water soluble fertilizer. There are a handful of 20-20-20 fertilizers available. None of them are liquid that I know of, they are granular but are easily dissolved in water, then applied to the plants. Most of them are not organic, so keep that in mind if organic is important to you. I like Jack's Classic 20-20-20. I have a small container garden and don't need a lot. I mix it by hand in water and pour it on my plants. I don't use the 20-20-20 fertilizer all the time, just every 3 weeks. I also use Medina HastaGro 6-12-6 liquid plant food the weeks I don't use Jack's fertilizer. Happy gardening.
@@shirleydodd1953 Google npk 20-20-20 water soluble fertilizer. There are a handful of 20-20-20 fertilizers available. None of them are liquid that I know of, they are granular but are easily dissolved in water, then applied to the plants. Most of them are not organic, so keep that in mind if organic is important to you. I like Jack's Classic 20-20-20. I have a small container garden and don't need a lot. I mix it by hand in water and pour it on my plants. I don't use the 20-20-20 fertilizer all the time, just every 3 weeks. I also use Medina HastaGro 6-12-6 liquid plant food the weeks I don't use Jack's fertilizer. Happy gardening.
Suggestion: Your raised beds will lose about 1/3 of their mass over the year, requiring that more compost be added. Buy that amount of new compost NOW, giving it time to break down and mature.
As you found out you can't just dump new compost into beds and expect a lush green garden. You need to make sure you have a good amount of worms living in each bed. If not, dig some from other gardens and add them to the bed. Add amendments a couple of months before growing. That being said, you are also still leaving out the most important thing. You should be adding a thick topping of leaf mulch to each bed for the winter. Come spring you'll find some wonderful worm castings with rich fertile soil.
I did the leaves last fall over compost. And YES!! You are soooo right!!!! WoW is the soil lush! In fact I planted potatoes in those deep bins that I did this in, and now I've got potatoes growing that look months ahead of the normal timeline. I hope they see your comment, very wise!!
When I was young and single, on most nights I would start a fire in the BBQ pit and then water my garden, eating what was ripe along the way. By that time the wood would be down to coals and I'd toss a piece of meat on the grill. Great times. My neighbors got a kick out of what they called my "grazing".
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ You know God always sends wisdom to deal with anything in and for our lives. So thankful He helped you save your precious garden for your food supply.🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌♥️
I had the same problem 2 years ago with compost from the same company-good company but compost needed a boost. This last fall I planted half my raised beds with cover crops. I covered them with weed fabric early in the spring to kill cover crops. Then I planted transplants through the dead material. I can't believe the difference that made.
I had the same problem in a new garden several years ago. What I did was watered with fish fertilizer and it solved the problem right off the bat. Then the next year I added old chicken manure from the last owner had. Added sheep pellets and all was fine. Glad you worked it out---enjoy and blessings.
You need to add microririzal, fungi, and the bacteria that makes NPK available to the plants is missing in your brand new compost because there was none there to begin with. They have "inochulants" available that help with that.
I made a comment in the fall that I thought your plants would struggle being planted directly in 100% compost. You guys have done a lot of good research and taken good steps to turn things around and your plants look amazing now, excellent job!
This is why I always like to amend mineral soil even in raised beds instead of using pure compost because you never know what micronutrients the compost might be missing but most actual soils will have them.
Please keep an eye on the hard water deposits that accumulate in your drip system as a result of the liquid fertilizer drying after each water cycle. It can easily block drip emitters. Yep, I had this problem too.
New gardener here (2nd year). I am learning so much from your experiences with your raised bed garden this year. I have the same problem with my two new beds and the organic manure and compost soil mix. My beans looked exactly like your beans. Now I know how to amend my soil for this year. You both are great teachers.
Good morning 🙏😊 What a blessing you guys are. You always share such good advice and let us know not just the good but the struggles and how you have overcome them. I know when I have a question about my little homestead I can look up a solution on your site. Thank you and have a blessed week. 🙏😊
The word gymnastics to keep your friends compost is commendable and I understand. You are good people. I plan on producing my own compost and willing to travel to get horse manure and mix it with my chicken manure on a yearly basis.
I bought same bed as you have last year I had the same problem with my hot peppers. I added a potting mix and compost and stirred all the old soil together. I used Garden Tone and put peppers back in there again this year. They are doing great and here in New York have had alot of rain.
I hate how you can sort of find information online so it's better than nothing, but most local knowledge was lost and stopped being passed down through generations. My grand-father always had a huge lush garden when I was a kid but he died in 2002 and I started my first garden in 2020.
I too have all raised beds. I use Argothrive fruit and flower on my seedlings and the transplants. Neutrients are available immediately.This stuff is fantastic and it's organic, I highly recommend it.
We grow in compost in our raised beds and never have failure to thrive problems. But we fertilize every plant with high nitrogen OMRI approved fertilizer when we put the starts in the ground. Then every 3-4 weeks we top dress until mid summer before fruiting we chsnge to low nitrogen higher phosphorus and potash. This works with tomatoes and peppers. Root veggies get balanced fertilizer every month. Also, we used 50/50 mix top soil and compost on the bottom layer when we filled the beds with 100% compost on top 8 inches. We add 1-2 inches fresh compost every year. I add plenty of worm casting to my mix of Plant Tone and Tomato Tone brand fertilizers which have 8% calcium, micro nutrients and biology built in.
I forgot to add that I use bagged compost from big box store and let it sit for almost a year before I spread it out. This lets the decomposing process get well started before using.
I Had the same experience with my raised bed garden. Stunted was the best way to describe what was happening. I too had tested and showed no problem areas. The second year was better, but the third year it had really flourished. I amended and covered the beds with a thick layer of leaves and left over winter. In Spring the most beautiful looking black soil with microbiom. Good luck.
❤My 92 yr old dad always said that if you didn’t have a tomato before 4th of July that you weren't a very competitive farmer....also the gold nugget was my favorite of all...very sweet..no salt for me...still praying for your dad and mom❤Lord Jesus come quickly ❤oh and I like your foo man chu mustache
Rabbit manure has made a huge difference in our plants this year. We have raised beds as well and I really notice a difference. The plants are fuller and greener. We are struggling with getting the pH to go up in our raspberry beds. I just worked sulphur pellets into the beds a few weeks ago so hopeufully this will help. I had not realized when I became a gardner that I was also going to have to be a chemist, LOL. Thanks for sharing about your struggles - it makes me feel good to know that there are others having issues as well, and it really helps to share what we have all done to fix our problems. Thanks again!
Wow after hearing this I now know what is happening with my 2-year-old garden and my new addition that was planted this spring. So much appreciate you both.
We totally ruined our garden using horse manure . Horses don't chew their food well so all the grass and weed seeds are passed through. We were actually planting grass in our garden . Had to abandon the garden spot . It was composted horse manure . Chicken and rabbit and cow manure works best for us .
Another great day on the Homestead! Thank you for the great tips and information! Blessings on your family and your growing season Kiddos! 🌻🐛Carolyn in Ohio 🌿💚🙏💕
I said on the last video,with only watching a few minutes that you need to liquid feed your plants,make comfrey tea,nettle tea,pig manure tea,whatever you can,have a barrel of it at hand,1 part tea to 10 parts water,hand water once a week..chicken manure pellets if you can get them,scatter on beds,they break up quickly and nutrients go down with watering
Great follow up! I grow the jade beans also (seeds from baker creek). Thanks for sharing what you learned about your “new” compost. This info will help so many.
It’s the microbes in your soil that make things plant available. They probably went dormant when the compost dried out over the winter. I would foliar feed with the synthetic fertilizer for now and try to increase the microbes in the soil. Aerated compost tea with fish emulsion and Jadam microbe soulution. I also throw every worm I find into my raised beds in the first couple years.
Woo hoo!! I'm so glad to see this. I like this garden so much and am looking forward to how it does during the rest of the season. Thank you for showing us the issues, and the solution.
Wowza, good sleuthing. I am pretty sure that I used the exact raised-bed mix. Awesome discovery and recovery. You are totally babying your babies.... good job. FUN. Awesome gardening information. Good job !!
Kevin, you're so cute eating your tomatoes.. I always get the first one's too. Both my husband and brother make sure i get those nice warm tomatoes..mmm
Getting a months jump with a greenhouse is a game changer, and an extra month at seasons end doesn't hurt either👍🏻 Happy growing Kevin & Sarah .... take care🚜🍅🥒✌🏻
Thank you for the video. It makes sense. When my purchased compost finishes going through the hot stage, compared to finished soil, it still has larger pieces and those will take another year or two to break down with the parts on the surface taking longer.
Makes 100% sense to me!! I went through much the same situation with three all compost beds I put in last year. I amended at the end of last season and again when I planted this season and everything looks awesome so far. I had no doubt you'd figure it out. So happy for you! God bless you and the family always. Love, hugs and blessings always ~ Lisa Ps. I wanted to tell you I've grown the Geranium Kiss the last several years and they are prolific little plants. The tomatoes are pretty tasty as well. They're not something super amazing but I definitely think they're worth growing. Excellent for small spaces because you get big bang for the size. Just thought I'd share in case someone with a small space like myself would like to know. ❤
Thankyou so much for the information. We made container plants using protein containers. And we have the same issue. We used cow manure in the bottom and pine and bark compost for the top. Crush stone and weep holes for the base. I mixed the two components together and had same issue y’all did . We also live in East Tennessee. Keep up with the great videos . God Bless
I am wondering if you would conduct an experiment for me. I know you guys prefer organic gardening and was wondering if you would be willing to put earth worms in a couple of your above ground containers to see if the castings improve the soil and growing of plants. I believe in God and nature and believe it takes care of its own. Thanks guys for the content and God bless you.
Glad to see you have the problem figured out, things are looking up and better. Great little harvest from the greenhouse and such a refreshing meal it will make. Thanks for sharing with us, stay safe and keep up the great videos. Fred.
Great to hear you figured this out, I had no idea about first year compost! My solution was EZ-Flow with Neptune's Tomato and Veg. works every time, so simple and hands off.
Ooooh this was such a cool video!!! The first harvest of the year is always so exciting!!! And thank God you guys found a way to save the raised bed garden! I am so happy for you!! Enjoy your meal and God bless!!! ❤❤❤
Thank you for taking us along in your gardening. I think everyone’s situation in gardening is different so it’s great you found a solution. Your gardens are going to be great!
Your plants in the greenhouse are phenomenal!! Also, I'm si glad you figured out what the raised bed plants needed. They look great too! You both definitely have green thumbs. 😊 Much love to your family. 🥰
I also filled my raised beds in the fall 2023 with 100% compost so I was particularly interested in this topic. After a terrible cool season spring planting I pulled all the plants and added peat moss and more fertilizer. Summer veggies are doing better. I use Agrothrive fertilizer. Smell isn't as strong as plain fish emulsion and it comes in NPK 3-3-5 and 3-3-2. Right now I am also adding a little bit of 20-20-20 water soluble fertilizer. Best wishes on your garden and harvest. Thanks for sharing!!!
Glad to hear you got the garden issues straightened out and saved your crops. It's always scary when you have a garden starting and have issues. God bless y'all and stay safe on the homestead. May God bless your garden.
My raised beds took about 4 years, with organic compost, to finally flourish. Same thing you are experiencing. The soil on its own got better, with a little whatever manure to amend with. So glad your garden is much better! ❤
Soooo glad you shared this detail! I’m a little north of you and have been copying exactly what you are doing … and am having exactly the same issues! Can’t wait to do this too and turn my garden around too!❤
Hi Kevin & Sarah your garden and greenhouse are looking amazing. With your garden beds I have got similar to you in Australia, and over our hot summers here in Queensland they tend to dry out very quickly. I mulch my beds with lucerne mulch in summer to hold the moisture in, it also breaks down into the soil.
Thats some good info about the new compost glad you were able to save the harvest. We got our first tomatoes and 2 cucumbers last Thursday market more 76 early girl and sun gold variety's
Glad you had a great turn out with the greenhouse. Knew you were going to figure out the problem with the raised beds and it looks amazing. Thank you for sharing. God's blessings
No doubt you guys would figure it out. Nice harvest of beans and zucs. I've picked 8 zucs already myself and 2 harvest of peas and one harvest of greenbeans. Lots of lettuce . First year for onions for me as well and they are almost baseball size. I'm so impressed with our gardens. I think I've found my life's passion. I've learned so much from you two. I'm going to get me a drip system next year. Anyways, another awesome video, thanks for letting us tag along with you guys. God bless!!!
Yay! I really wasn’t sure what to do with my raised beds, and what I ended up doing was mixed the following into the soil under each tomato and pepper plant was: About 1/2 cup Neem husk powder, 1/4 cup of my homemade bone meal, and about 1/4 cup crushed egg shells. My plants seem to be doing well, so they must like it. (WHEW!)
Great information on how to save your garden. Awesome green beans!!! All the best. The Jade beans are so pretty. I've never heard of this bean. Lovely zucchini! All the best and God Bless.
I remember when I was a kid, my mom got a trailer full of old old sheep manure. She had a fantastic garden for years!
My dad swore by sheep manure. I haven't used any of that as sheep aren't raised in my area really. I really like using bunny poo since it can go directly and doesn't burn the plants.
@2blessed2 bunny poo tea is what one of my gardening friends loves to use! Recently got rabbits and made some bunny poo tea for my gardening mom.
Are you guys still eating a Carnivore diet??
We had the best garden ever by adding horse manure in the fall. It was amazing. There is a big difference between cow manure and horse manure
Horse manuer creates more loft because its more fibrous. But of you're talking horse barn cleanings, the urine and any type of alphalfa does wonders for getting the composting action going.
Our neighbor has horses. He puts it in cubicles (mini stalls) and has pipes running through it with hot water to kill the weed seeds. Then piles it up for the neighbors to use freely. It is wonderful black gold!
@@annsmith8343 We used to be able to get barn cleanings from a stable where the horses either didn't have access to weeds or, they were eaten down quick enough there wasn't much for weed seeds. If y0u got it fresh, sometime it would grow alphslfa which wasn't too bad IF you got it pulled early. They were wood shaving, not cedar so I would guess pine, based and let me tell you with the right mix of other stuff those shavings broke down quite a bit pretty quick in the dirt, on the dirt, or in a pile.
Our garden magic began with goat manure.
Try some netting so you can keep bugs away from your plants.
That garden looks like you have a team of gardeners on full time payroll. Spotless, perfect, not achievable for this lonely boy. Congratulations.
The weed fabric makes all the difference. We are barely having to work out there at all to keep up with everything. Makes it so much more manageable.
Yes you can with a little effort you can have a garden as well even in pots just give it a try. Good luck
Since these are first year strawberries, cut those runners off and remove all flowers so the plant puts the energy into growing roots and leaves. You will be thankful you did next year!
I am so happy you posted the answer. I purchased a dump truck full of compost from the same source. I am having the same problem. Now I know what to do to fix it. Thank you soooooo much. I have learned a huge amount from your channel through the years.
SAME!
Me three. But where did you find the water based products?
We experienced the same result using compost from same source. We added fertilizer but after watching this will add the other product you suggested. Thanks again!
@@shirleydodd1953 Google npk 20-20-20 water soluble fertilizer. There are a handful of 20-20-20 fertilizers available. None of them are liquid that I know of, they are granular but are easily dissolved in water, then applied to the plants. Most of them are not organic, so keep that in mind if organic is important to you. I like Jack's Classic 20-20-20. I have a small container garden and don't need a lot. I mix it by hand in water and pour it on my plants. I don't use the 20-20-20 fertilizer all the time, just every 3 weeks. I also use Medina HastaGro 6-12-6 liquid plant food the weeks I don't use Jack's fertilizer. Happy gardening.
@@shirleydodd1953 Google npk 20-20-20 water soluble fertilizer. There are a handful of 20-20-20 fertilizers available. None of them are liquid that I know of, they are granular but are easily dissolved in water, then applied to the plants. Most of them are not organic, so keep that in mind if organic is important to you. I like Jack's Classic 20-20-20. I have a small container garden and don't need a lot. I mix it by hand in water and pour it on my plants. I don't use the 20-20-20 fertilizer all the time, just every 3 weeks. I also use Medina HastaGro 6-12-6 liquid plant food the weeks I don't use Jack's fertilizer. Happy gardening.
Suggestion: Your raised beds will lose about 1/3 of their mass over the year, requiring that more compost be added. Buy that amount of new compost NOW, giving it time to break down and mature.
As you found out you can't just dump new compost into beds and expect a lush green garden. You need to make sure you have a good amount of worms living in each bed. If not, dig some from other gardens and add them to the bed. Add amendments a couple of months before growing. That being said, you are also still leaving out the most important thing. You should be adding a thick topping of leaf mulch to each bed for the winter. Come spring you'll find some wonderful worm castings with rich fertile soil.
I did the leaves last fall over compost. And YES!! You are soooo right!!!!
WoW is the soil lush! In fact I planted potatoes in those deep bins that I did this in, and now I've got potatoes growing that look months ahead of the normal timeline.
I hope they see your comment, very wise!!
I’m with Kevin nothing better than eating out of the garden when harvesting
I laughed at the gleam in his eyes as he popped that tomato in his mouth.
When I was young and single, on most nights I would start a fire in the BBQ pit and then water my garden, eating what was ripe along the way. By that time the wood would be down to coals and I'd toss a piece of meat on the grill. Great times. My neighbors got a kick out of what they called my "grazing".
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ You know God always sends wisdom to deal with anything in and for our lives. So thankful He helped you save your precious garden for your food supply.🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌♥️
I had the same problem 2 years ago with compost from the same company-good company but compost needed a boost. This last fall I planted half my raised beds with cover crops. I covered them with weed fabric early in the spring to kill cover crops. Then I planted transplants through the dead material. I can't believe the difference that made.
So very happy things turned around so quickly. The joy you show in your garden is a blessing for all of us.
The best part of the video was Keven’s expression on his face when he ate the tomato.😂🤣😆
I think that Kevin's shirts are so awesome. I wish I could stock up on them.
You guys are perfect examples if why it's so important to have eyes on our plants every day. Good job!
No matter the adverse conditions you've been faced with...both weather and soil...you consistently grow some of the most amazing gardens.
Love the grey streak in your hair, Sarah. The garden is going to make it. You've got this!! Nice harvest of greenbeans.
I had the same problem in a new garden several years ago. What I did was watered with fish fertilizer and it solved the problem right off the bat. Then the next year I added old chicken manure from the last owner had. Added sheep pellets and all was fine. Glad you worked it out---enjoy and blessings.
I'm so happy you were able to figure out the in ground garden problems 😁 I enjoy watching the two of you so much!
Thank you and God bless
Never to old to learn, thanks.
You need to add microririzal, fungi, and the bacteria that makes NPK available to the plants is missing in your brand new compost because there was none there to begin with. They have "inochulants" available that help with that.
Love your T-shirt,... Kevin,.. Kevin? funny! I have another variation, "I'm starting to agree with you; it's time to increase my medication!"
Kevin's smile eating that Tomato is Picture worthy.....
Sarah, you look like a perfect garden catalog cover model in that hat with your side pony tail. =)
Your garden is so clean
Worm castings help supply the plants with the enzymes and bacteria needed to uptake the nutrients in the soil. An amazing amendment!
What a frustrating dilemma! Glad you got it figured out.
I made a comment in the fall that I thought your plants would struggle being planted directly in 100% compost. You guys have done a lot of good research and taken good steps to turn things around and your plants look amazing now, excellent job!
This is why I always like to amend mineral soil even in raised beds instead of using pure compost because you never know what micronutrients the compost might be missing but most actual soils will have them.
Please keep an eye on the hard water deposits that accumulate in your drip system as a result of the liquid fertilizer drying after each water cycle. It can easily block drip emitters. Yep, I had this problem too.
New gardener here (2nd year). I am learning so much from your experiences with your raised bed garden this year. I have the same problem with my two new beds and the organic manure and compost soil mix. My beans looked exactly like your beans. Now I know how to amend my soil for this year. You both are great teachers.
helpful for other people to know that even someone as experienced as you can have a problem like that. Truly you never stop learning
So happy you got it all worked out. ❤
Wow! My raised beds are struggling like yours were. I’m RUNNING to get the fertilizer and foliar feed! Be right back 🏃🏻♀️
I did the same. 2 12x4s new this year not doing great. The other new one with my quail compost is doing great.
Good morning 🙏😊
What a blessing you guys are. You always share such good advice and let us know not just the good but the struggles and how you have overcome them.
I know when I have a question about my little homestead I can look up a solution on your site.
Thank you and have a blessed week. 🙏😊
The word gymnastics to keep your friends compost is commendable and I understand. You are good people. I plan on producing my own compost and willing to travel to get horse manure and mix it with my chicken manure on a yearly basis.
I wish I had a dollar for everytime you two say "right"! Love you!
Water soluble fertilizer is a must in the garden! Lesson learned. Good gardening to you!
Amazing updates❤
I bought same bed as you have last year I had the same problem with my hot peppers. I added a potting mix and compost and stirred all the old soil together. I used Garden Tone and put peppers back in there again this year. They are doing great and here in New York have had alot of rain.
This is useful information. I am glad your garden is doing better. Thank you for sharing!
I hate how you can sort of find information online so it's better than nothing, but most local knowledge was lost and stopped being passed down through generations. My grand-father always had a huge lush garden when I was a kid but he died in 2002 and I started my first garden in 2020.
So glad everything is growing better for you.
I too have all raised beds. I use Argothrive fruit and flower on my seedlings and the transplants. Neutrients are available immediately.This stuff is fantastic and it's organic, I highly recommend it.
A visual of the two products you used would have been helpful.
We grow in compost in our raised beds and never have failure to thrive problems. But we fertilize every plant with high nitrogen OMRI approved fertilizer when we put the starts in the ground. Then every 3-4 weeks we top dress until mid summer before fruiting we chsnge to low nitrogen higher phosphorus and potash. This works with tomatoes and peppers. Root veggies get balanced fertilizer every month.
Also, we used 50/50 mix top soil and compost on the bottom layer when we filled the beds with 100% compost on top 8 inches. We add 1-2 inches fresh compost every year. I add plenty of worm casting to my mix of Plant Tone and Tomato Tone brand fertilizers which have 8% calcium, micro nutrients and biology built in.
I forgot to add that I use bagged compost from big box store and let it sit for almost a year before I spread it out. This lets the decomposing process get well started before using.
So glad to see that your garden is doing well, now!
I Had the same experience with my raised bed garden. Stunted was the best way to describe what was happening. I too had tested and showed no problem areas. The second year was better, but the third year it had really flourished. I amended and covered the beds with a thick layer of leaves and left over winter. In Spring the most beautiful looking black soil with microbiom. Good luck.
❤My 92 yr old dad always said that if you didn’t have a tomato before 4th of July that you weren't a very competitive farmer....also the gold nugget was my favorite of all...very sweet..no salt for me...still praying for your dad and mom❤Lord Jesus come quickly ❤oh and I like your foo man chu mustache
The garden is amazing! I’m so happy you found out what the issue was!
Rabbit manure has made a huge difference in our plants this year. We have raised beds as well and I really notice a difference. The plants are fuller and greener. We are struggling with getting the pH to go up in our raspberry beds. I just worked sulphur pellets into the beds a few weeks ago so hopeufully this will help. I had not realized when I became a gardner that I was also going to have to be a chemist, LOL. Thanks for sharing about your struggles - it makes me feel good to know that there are others having issues as well, and it really helps to share what we have all done to fix our problems. Thanks again!
I think you mean the ph went down with the sulphur, not up. High ph is very alkaline.
Wow after hearing this I now know what is happening with my 2-year-old garden and my new addition that was planted this spring. So much appreciate you both.
Same!
We totally ruined our garden using horse manure . Horses don't chew their food well so all the grass and weed seeds are passed through. We were actually planting grass in our garden . Had to abandon the garden spot . It was composted horse manure . Chicken and rabbit and cow manure works best for us .
Agrothrive! It's organic, immediately available, and AMAZING!
Another great day on the Homestead! Thank you for the great tips and information! Blessings on your family and your growing season Kiddos! 🌻🐛Carolyn in Ohio 🌿💚🙏💕
I said on the last video,with only watching a few minutes that you need to liquid feed your plants,make comfrey tea,nettle tea,pig manure tea,whatever you can,have a barrel of it at hand,1 part tea to 10 parts water,hand water once a week..chicken manure pellets if you can get them,scatter on beds,they break up quickly and nutrients go down with watering
Great follow up! I grow the jade beans also (seeds from baker creek). Thanks for sharing what you learned about your “new” compost. This info will help so many.
Good Morning to All. So happy you were able to save. Hope you have a nice day. Lv and Prayers to all.
I'm so happy to see the plants doing so much better in so little time.
It’s the microbes in your soil that make things plant available. They probably went dormant when the compost dried out over the winter. I would foliar feed with the synthetic fertilizer for now and try to increase the microbes in the soil. Aerated compost tea with fish emulsion and Jadam microbe soulution. I also throw every worm I find into my raised beds in the first couple years.
Thanks you two. This answered some of my own questions about compost.
Glad you figured out what was wrong and fixed it. Nothing worse than loosing your garden.
Looking good u guys!! Prayers for a great harvest. And ty for giving me some more great advise
Woo hoo!! I'm so glad to see this. I like this garden so much and am looking forward to how it does during the rest of the season. Thank you for showing us the issues, and the solution.
Wowza, good sleuthing. I am pretty sure that I used the exact raised-bed mix. Awesome discovery and recovery. You are totally babying your babies.... good job. FUN. Awesome gardening information. Good job !!
Kevin, you're so cute eating your tomatoes.. I always get the first one's too. Both my husband and brother make sure i get those nice warm tomatoes..mmm
Getting a months jump with a greenhouse is a game changer, and an extra month at seasons end doesn't hurt either👍🏻 Happy growing Kevin & Sarah .... take care🚜🍅🥒✌🏻
Thank you for the video.
It makes sense. When my purchased compost finishes going through the hot stage, compared to finished soil, it still has larger pieces and those will take another year or two to break down with the parts on the surface taking longer.
So glad you guys figured the garden issue. Love watching yall.
Makes 100% sense to me!! I went through much the same situation with three all compost beds I put in last year. I amended at the end of last season and again when I planted this season and everything looks awesome so far. I had no doubt you'd figure it out. So happy for you! God bless you and the family always. Love, hugs and blessings always ~ Lisa
Ps. I wanted to tell you I've grown the Geranium Kiss the last several years and they are prolific little plants. The tomatoes are pretty tasty as well. They're not something super amazing but I definitely think they're worth growing. Excellent for small spaces because you get big bang for the size. Just thought I'd share in case someone with a small space like myself would like to know. ❤
Thanks, Lisa!
WoW everything looks beautiful. So exciting.
Thank you for the vid. I always thought compost was a soil amendment. I learned something new today. Thank you!
Thankyou so much for the information. We made container plants using protein containers. And we have the same issue. We used cow manure in the bottom and pine and bark compost for the top. Crush stone and weep holes for the base. I mixed the two components together and had same issue y’all did . We also live in East Tennessee.
Keep up with the great videos . God Bless
I am wondering if you would conduct an experiment for me. I know you guys prefer organic gardening and was wondering if you would be willing to put earth worms in a couple of your above ground containers to see if the castings improve the soil and growing of plants. I believe in God and nature and believe it takes care of its own. Thanks guys for the content and God bless you.
This was one of my concerns when they didn't leave a hole in the the weed fabric under the beds.
Glad to see you have the problem figured out, things are looking up and better. Great little harvest from the greenhouse and such a refreshing meal it will make. Thanks for sharing with us, stay safe and keep up the great videos. Fred.
Happy you found the answer
Great to hear you figured this out, I had no idea about first year compost! My solution was EZ-Flow with Neptune's Tomato and Veg. works every time, so simple and hands off.
So glad you figured it out. I am having the same experience, so you have given me hope. Thank you.
Ooooh this was such a cool video!!! The first harvest of the year is always so exciting!!! And thank God you guys found a way to save the raised bed garden! I am so happy for you!! Enjoy your meal and God bless!!! ❤❤❤
I grew the spoon tomatoes last year and loved them. very bountiful harvest.
Thank you for taking us along in your gardening. I think everyone’s situation in gardening is different so it’s great you found a solution. Your gardens are going to be great!
So glad that you fixed the soil and shared with us! Nice harvest! Blessings!
Your plants in the greenhouse are phenomenal!! Also, I'm si glad you figured out what the raised bed plants needed. They look great too! You both definitely have green thumbs. 😊 Much love to your family. 🥰
I also filled my raised beds in the fall 2023 with 100% compost so I was particularly interested in this topic. After a terrible cool season spring planting I pulled all the plants and added peat moss and more fertilizer. Summer veggies are doing better. I use Agrothrive fertilizer. Smell isn't as strong as plain fish emulsion and it comes in NPK 3-3-5 and 3-3-2. Right now I am also adding a little bit of 20-20-20 water soluble fertilizer. Best wishes on your garden and harvest. Thanks for sharing!!!
Glad to hear you got the garden issues straightened out and saved your crops.
It's always scary when you have a garden starting and have issues.
God bless y'all and stay safe on the homestead. May God bless your garden.
Glad your gardens going better.❤
My raised beds took about 4 years, with organic compost, to finally flourish. Same thing you are experiencing. The soil on its own got better, with a little whatever manure to amend with. So glad your garden is much better! ❤
Soooo glad you shared this detail! I’m a little north of you and have been copying exactly what you are doing … and am having exactly the same issues! Can’t wait to do this too and turn my garden around too!❤
Great video and great detective work!
Hi Kevin & Sarah your garden and greenhouse are looking amazing. With your garden beds I have got similar to you in Australia, and over our hot summers here in Queensland they tend to dry out very quickly. I mulch my beds with lucerne mulch in summer to hold the moisture in, it also breaks down into the soil.
Thats some good info about the new compost glad you were able to save the harvest. We got our first tomatoes and 2 cucumbers last Thursday market more 76 early girl and sun gold variety's
Pass the salt! YAH!!! My compost is all new this year also. GOOD to know!!!!
Glad you had a great turn out with the greenhouse. Knew you were going to figure out the problem with the raised beds and it looks amazing. Thank you for sharing. God's blessings
I'm so glad you figured it out! That's awesome!❤ thank you for sharing 😊
glad you figured out the problem.
No doubt you guys would figure it out. Nice harvest of beans and zucs. I've picked 8 zucs already myself and 2 harvest of peas and one harvest of greenbeans. Lots of lettuce . First year for onions for me as well and they are almost baseball size. I'm so impressed with our gardens. I think I've found my life's passion. I've learned so much from you two. I'm going to get me a drip system next year. Anyways, another awesome video, thanks for letting us tag along with you guys. God bless!!!
Deep south Homestead and Pecan Grove fellow You Tubers are great with compost and fertility. You guys are on the right track now.
Kevin your shirt gave me a chuckle! Congrats on the garden saving!
Yay! I really wasn’t sure what to do with my raised beds, and what I ended up doing was mixed the following into the soil under each tomato and pepper plant was:
About 1/2 cup Neem husk powder, 1/4 cup of my homemade bone meal, and about 1/4 cup crushed egg shells.
My plants seem to be doing well, so they must like it. (WHEW!)
Great information on how to save your garden. Awesome green beans!!! All the best. The Jade beans are so pretty. I've never heard of this bean. Lovely zucchini! All the best and God Bless.
Yes. I agree. Beans picked young have a natural sweetness.