HOW TO TURN BAD GARDEN SOIL INTO GREAT GARDEN SOIL!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2020
- While we'll be growing vegetables in 3 of our 10 plots, a majority of our focus this fall/winter will be improving our soils through composting and cool-season cover crops. Join us as we'll show you how we do it.
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Man, I’ve followed your gardening for awhile now. Enjoy it and i started buying all my seeds from you!!
We appreciate your business Jeff!
Another good video! Always good scripting, audio, editing and content. Thanks so much for passing on all your knowledge.
Thanks for watching!
I got the seeds from your shop for the squash you had in the video last week today! You are fast! Thank you! I can't wait to plant them in the spring, and I may even try to do a few now because we don't really have a frost date here in So. Cal. Can't hurt to try, right? That Algonquin winter squash looks amazing!
Go for it!
Right on
Glad you like this Russell.
Have you ever demonstrated how to chop up a cover crop? I’d love to see how that is done
Yes we have. Push mower, riding mower, flail mower, crimper -- lots of good options just depending on what you have.
Love the show long time watcher but first time to comment. The Old Testament Law in the Bible called for letting your field rest (no planting or tilling) for one year every 7th year. Do you ever recommend letting a plot go for a year? Maybe once in 7 years?
We let our plots rest all the time with cover crops. We don't let them rest for an entire year, but each plot gets a seasonal rest at least once a year.
Hmmmm.... maybe I should try this spicy mustard in my areas that I had the heaviest root knot nematodes. 🤔
Thanks for sharing all your knowledge. 👍🏻
For sure!
When you roto-till your garden in between seasons, how deep do you typically till ? All your videos are great !!
6" or so.
Love all your advice. I live in same zone as you, and had a first time raised bed to give us something to do this spring and summer during this Covid 19 season we are in. Planted tomatoes and okra, which are still producing. I listened to you talk about the Kodiak brown mustard cover crop. Should we plant it on our raised bed? Thanks
You could if you have a way to "turn it under" with a fork or other hand tools.
Great video. With us doing no till, I can’t figure out the best way to use cover crop; we do use peas and broad leaf both for eating and chop and drop but we have to silage tarp for a season
If you're not tilling, it does take a bit more time because you have to wait on the silage tarp to do its thing. A close mowing and heavy layer of compost might help to speed that process.
Hoss Tools thank you sir! Always enjoy your videos! We’re a farm in zone 8b too so it helps to see what y’all do!
I'm jealous, but I had a great growing year. I have my marigolds still looking good and a 15' row of beets left. Garlic went in yesterday here in 6a, Buffalo, NY. I subbed this year and watched from spring til now, it was a great season, I learned LOADS from you and Greg. Thanks to you both.
Thanks for the support and watching!
I live in southwestern Colorado and have extremely alkaline soil. What type of fertilizer and cover crops will work best here. Our growing season is only about 130 days. I really enjoy your videos and advice. Thanks
It's easy to raise pH, but tough to lower it. Using salt-based fertilizers like our 20-20-20 or Chilean Nitrate in moderation will help.
Thx for the overview!!! Saw a pink Bee Hive near ur garden. Do u keep bees? Did u evwr have a problem with squirels, rabbits, possum?
Yes, we have a bee hive on the far side of the gardens. We do occasionally have a rabbit or two in the fall, but they're pretty easy to eliminate.
If this sounds like a silly question please forgive me. When you plant something like chickpeas as a cover crop, do you actually harvest the peas or do you just chill everything under?
We usually just incorporate them into the soil as soon as they start flowering, because we don't want them to become a weed in the future.
In the case of the chickpeas, however, we do plan on harvesting some to see how they taste.
Speaking of pest, what can I do to get rid or at least downsize the # of stripped cucumber beatles I’ve fought all summer and now going into fall! They eat more than a teenage boy!! Lol. I need some advice please. Thanks
BT?
Crop rotation, cover crops and start spraying early when you plant them next. Rotate spinosad and pyrethrin (Take Down Garden Spray).
Travis....Do you still put chickens out on your gardens as a fertilizing method? I remember a video you did years ago where you planted crimson clover and once it came up pretty good, you put your chickens out on it. Thanks
I wished I did. My chickens got picked off one by one a couple years ago. While I don't really have issues with animals eating my garden, I do have issues with predators eating chickens.
Have you tried overseeding the clover in a lawn?
Have not. We generally try to keep clover out of the lawn.
Hey Travis I’m in South Louisiana. I bought some green onions from our small town grocery store and cut the greens off and planted the bulbs. Will they mature into an onion?
Cherelle Lee they’ll make you more greens! probably won’t make more bulbs
No telling if those are short-day, intermediate-day or long-day onions. I would just use them for green onions and not count on a big bulb.
Why are you not doing the Market Garden?
Because I wanted my weekends back so I could spend more time with my kids -- play tee ball, go camping, all that fun stuff.
Dang Bo!
17 minutes to say rotate beds and use cover crops?!? Lol
Is there a good reason to consider cover crops on raised beds?
Sure. If you need a placeholder between growing seasons or if you're having some pest and disease issues.
I see you grow a lot of annual plants. What types of Perennial food crops do you have on your land?
We have fig trees, blackberries, blueberries, a mulberry tree, muscadines and even a granny apple tree.
Hoss Tools muscadine yum. I miss sculplins. Probably misspelled. Lol
Hey Travis, I've had a tarp on a new fall spot since August and I've tilled it with compost since September. My transplants are ready to go but we got hurricane delta headed here to west Tennessee. Forecast are 1 to 8 inches. Im only in town for a few days . Should I wait?
I really need to move my tarp to cover my summer garden before I go out of town again.
I would leave the tarp where it is until the rains pass.
@@gardeningwithhoss I figured you'd make too much sense about it.
Are yall a online store only? I'll be working in Albany during the months of December and January and figured it would be a good time to pick up some seeds and supplies.
Yes, we are online only. Being that close, you'll usually get your order in 1-2 days.
So do y’all till all cover plots back into soil is there any cover plot you shouldn’t like radish or carrots
all are different, this information can be found in the description of each cover crop
hosstools.com/product-category/premium-garden-seeds/cover-crops/
What is the compost you always mention, and where do you get so much of it?
Gin trash compost. It's composted material from the leftovers of the cotton ginning process. We get it from a local cotton gin by the truckload.
Hi Travis, I have added 100 sq ft of raised beds and added a mix of sandy loam and planting mix (which had 70% compost). Well I sowed a few seeds which germinated, then nothing, just stopped growing. What kind of compost do you use or do you make your own?
We use gin trash compost that we get from a local cotton gin. But any good compost should work as long as it has been cooked properly to remove any weed seeds or fungal spores.
Hoss Tools thank you!
Compost question. I ran into problems with herbicide this year, ruined most of my stuff. Fortunately I was gardening in raised beds so I didn’t ruin my actual dirt on my property. I’m looking for compost ideas, I need more than what I can make. (I’m starting a 120’ x 100’ spot that I will divide into sub plots.)
Hard to find a bulk commercial source that isn’t compromised with racetrack manure (sprayed hay). I’m in central Arkansas any thoughts?
Check with any local dairies or chicken farms. They usually have good stuff.
How far away from Covington Georgia is your vendor for the cotton burr? I’ve been trying to search online but I online see prepackaged bags to order from Home Depot. Thanks in advance for a help
They're a good ways from Covington, probably close to 3 hours.
Travis, have you ever ran into any Eastern Diamondbacks? Cottonmouths? or Copperheads?
Down there in South G.A., while working your land during the year?
I've got kinfolks from The Carolinas, Georgia, & Florida, and I've heard that farming
& gardening can be dangerous in the deep south. Not to mention the gators, if you live
near a marsh / swamp / inlet area.
Darius Diamante I'm from southeast Alabama. You look where you're stepping and don't stick your hands where you can't see what's there. We were raised to be very aware as kids. I'm in an area now where there aren't poisonous snakes, but I still adhere to those practices....
Same Here Melissa...I'm a southern transplant, living in Ohio now.
We have our fair share of Eastern Diamondbacks and Cottonmouths. Never seen a Copperhead in person -- they seem to be a more north of us.
Travis you sure do like the cotton hulls here of lately. What changed your mind on using it. I've made reference to you the last two or three years just wondering.
It was just a matter of finding a source that sold it at a reasonable cost.
@@gardeningwithhoss I get mine 12 dollars a ton.
Wow! That's a good deal.
How do you cure your sweet potatoes?
We just put them in a cool, dry place, which is underneath our pole barn.
can you tell me what type transplants you growing for fall.
Here's a recent greenhouse tour we did to give you an idea of what we've got growing: th-cam.com/video/E7lrttz44nM/w-d-xo.html
@@gardeningwithhoss Thank you.
What size are the beds on the Dream Garden? I hope you don’t mind my asking.
Not at all. Each plot is 35' x 30'.
Hoss Tools thank you!
Are you done market gardening for good or just for the season?
Pretty much done for good. Might sell a little extra stuff here and there, but not a priority.
Sorry to hear that. That’s a direction I think I would like to take, but it’s not in the cards for me LOL.
Thanks for your videos and all the advice. I love what y’all do there.
I live in North GA and our "soil" is pure clay. I've done container gardens with success but I have areas I'd like to do in ground gardening but I have no idea how to amend the clay to be workable and I'd prefer not to have to add 8" of garden soil on top to make it work as it is a large area and it would be expensive. Any suggestions?
Compost and cover crop -- especially with tillage radish in the fall/winter months. The more organic matter you can add, the better it will get.
How late can cover crops be planted? I am in Texas in zone 8.
Some of the more cold tolerant ones can be planted as late as November and December where you are.
@@gardeningwithhoss OK, but which ones are they?
Frosty Berseem Clover, Impact Forage Collards, Winter Rye
i found i have a reniform nematoed i cant get rid of, it deforms my yams and turnips, how can i get rid of it, ive used other good nematode to attack it, ive used crab and lobster shells also. All together it will slow it down for a year but not much. please help. Ron
We use cover crops in our garden. Great article below about combating them
www.canr.msu.edu/resources/nematodes-and-cover-crops
Did you win the sunflower competition?
Our customers won. Many of them grew much bigger sunflowers than any of us TH-camrs.
@@gardeningwithhoss
It was a cool competition.
no forage radish?
Oh we'll have some mixed with our cocktails.
@@gardeningwithhoss : whilst i got your attention thanks to alcohol ;) 20:20:20 is one teaspoon per gallon for seedlings but using similar measurements (not pounds per acres) how much for grown veggies, fruit trees etc, please?
I usually use 1-2 lbs per 1,000 sq. ft. of garden. For fruit trees, I'll mix a 1-2 cups per 5 gallon bucket of water and apply via a pitcher or watering can.
@@gardeningwithhoss : thank you, from down under.
Hey Hoss enjoy the video. I live in new Mexico 7a and we get some cold weather. You are talking about planting cover crop as nitrogen fixers. I've never done this. Would I just plant the cover crops and let them grow all winter then till them into the soil or pull them and compost them. I planted pole beans where my corn was as a nitrogen fixer. We are supposed to have our first frost with in the next 10 days. Do I just let the beans die where they lay and till in after winter or till in while they are still green and plant cover crop over them.. Thanks so much for all your help
Yes, you'd plant the cover crops and let them grow all winter just like we do.
I got suckered by clickbate. This was a garden tour not a video about turning bad soil into good soil.
Sailing Lucy Daye cover crops
You might have missed it, but we talked a good bit about applying compost and cover cropping -- two essential pieces of the puzzle to improving garden soil.
He did talk multiple times about adding compost! That’s the ticket....Compost!