This is one reason why I’ve learned to appreciate moles. The other is that they eat grubs. We have a patch of lawn that gets really abused and it became a mud slick during rain and an ice trap in winter. Every year I manually use a step-on core aerator and it’s made a huge difference. The quality of soil that now comes up in the core is worlds away from the hard, dry clay it once was. I wish aeration was promoted instead of chemical fertilizers…it makes lawn more resilient, naturally.
Whoa! I didn’t know plants make ATP! Us mammals do to! Fun fact health tidbit: our bodies produce adenosine (sans triphosphate) to make us sleepy at night, and it takes around 2 hours for it to clear the system upon waking. Caffeine blocks the clearing of adenosine (by blocking the receptors) making us more tired for the rest of the day. So, if you delay your coffee by 1.5-2hrs, your system clears the adenosine, you won’t get a caffeine crash, and you’ll have more energy! Love your channel so much Ashley! ❤️🙌❤️
A cheap way to do core aeration is using an auger bit on a drill. It's basically a giant drill bit for digging holes in soil. I've been aerating heavy clay sections of my lawn with it whenever I get a few minutes. Not as fast as an aeration machine, but very cheap and easy. It's honestly one of my favorite garden tools. I use it to dig holes for planting or to loosen up the soil in spots where it looks like compaction is starting to happen. It's also a super easy way to mix up compost. I just go and blast a couple spots in my bin each night to keep air flowing and to bring stuff up from the bottom.
06.12 - Head UP 😁😁😁 CO2 is known as the silent killer because you can’t see, smell or taste it. It is not the CO2 that smells in the composting process. It smells bad (like sewage) from anaerobic decomposition (no air-too wet) or like ammonia because there is too much nitrogen. 🥰🥰🥰 All in all, the video came at an opportune moment and you did a very good job. Especially for those who grow in pots, soil aeration is an essential factor for a perfect potting mix. Thank you !!! All the best.
If you wanna witness the magic of oxygen for your plants, make 2 compost teas side by side. Add a lil fish tank bubbler to one and watch the amount of frothy microbe bubbles created by all the life. It happens without aeration, but its mind blowing to see how much the bubbler makes a difference in just 24hours. It's kinda gross looking, but my plants love it.
If a rabbit digs a tunnel under your garden bed, can that count as macro aeration? Just kidding. Ha! This happened to me this year. I was planting my squash starts and the bed started caving in. 🐰🤔😁
I'm doing a lot of container gardening in fabric pots and I totally believe you! Oxygen is amazing! It turbo-charges those plants! Now if only I could get the weather to be nice instead of cold and rainy!
Hi in central Nova Scotia we have had less then 2 inches of rain this year. Oh no we are back to tilling the gardens again lol I am in my sixth year of improving this stuff that is called soil up here in the hills and have been digging in wood ash compost used potting soil last years mulch of straw or hard wood leaves. Still get a decent crop but it is all the shade from trees I refuse to cut down just to increase my yield. Interesting info here I believe I heard one company who added sand to the core holes in heavy clay country. Congrats on 100, 000 subs. Please send rain. thanks
I just spike aerated an in ground bed (around the few plant starts in it) bc they’re lagging behind the bed less than 4 feet away I used a garden fork in the style of a broad fork and it worked out really well! I’m so glad you did a video on this so I can show people the method to my madness 🤣🤣
At our new house. I kind of did a core aeration on the poolside beds ( compacted and high clay/silt) with a mini auger bit and cordless drill. Then topped off with a couple of inches of good compost. I then broadcast some saved brassica seeds over it and added a little woodchip mulch. Things are growing pretty well so far. I'm hoping the soil will be decent enough to grow in next Spring. (It's winter here atm.) Thanks for yet another very informative video. Cheers!
I work as a greenskeeper at a high-end golf course, and we use several types of aeration. The most common is using deep tines. These are 8 inch or so spikes to penetrate through the root zone. No fuss, no muss, very little clean up needed. We also occasionally use a Hydrojecter. This machine uses high pressure water jets to punch a 6 to 8 inch hole. Works better than the deep tines but much slower. We will occasionally use coring but only on very compacted areas (high traffic areas usually). It's probably the most effective method but requires a LOT of cleanup.
Second year of having a broadfork. Used thru the beds last year worked great! Using on the edges of beds in ground. Also have rear tine rototiller working good. Great video. Serenade the soil! Whoa that's a different way of looking at your soil. Super examples plug in colonoscopy!!
The dirt in my garden beds is basically cement (we just moved). I added a ton of old potting soil from last year's container garden plus what felt like a ton of compost. It barely helped even after digging it up. I am just telling myself this year if anything grows and survives it's a miracle.
I'm going to cover crops the more I'm trying them. Sunflowers , buckwheat and added the tilting radishes this fall season probably will love the radishes also.Had good results with the buckwheat and sunflower for the 4th season of trying. Thanks
Should i add nutrients to my soil right away or wait till my plant is hungry? Is there enough nutrients in the soil alone? If so how long do the nutrients last in plain promix?
You could easily top dress with worm castings without worrying too much about adding too much nutrients. For the most part, plants tell you what they need and when. After growing specific cultivars so many times, you should have an idea of what you need for your specific garden environment by taking notes of their deficiencies and adjusting accordingly. I think compost is a good baseline for nutrients before planting.
@GardeningInCanada I use containers, and I use Gaia green for nutrients but the way I use it is I prepare my soil when I'm planting my seeds with 3tbsp per gallon of nutrients like it says on the bag and IL mix it with worm castings . Do u think I should only use soil and worm castings and at a later time use my nutrients? Or should I continue with my mix?
My soil chugs like anaerobic clay when wet yet blows like the finest sand when dry, with a concrete stage in between! Difficult to deal with. Rock flour from glaciation. UK
Another knowledgeable video! I had a question for you, I'm sorry if you've already covered it. Would doing lift aeration damage the mycorrhizae systems attached to the old roots?
I've used hydrogen peroxide on a house plant before and was astonished at how well it fluffed up the soil. It literally rose an inch as the liquid was bubbling. It probably did a number on the microbes though, so I don't do it anymore. It was a fun experiment.
Fascinating! I use subirrigation (which provides air at root level above the wayer). And I also love using a soil sampling tool for my transplants-it’s basically a corer. So it appears i have actually accidentally started aerating automatically. Thank you!
U are the best ❤I have to plant my garden the plants bottom to big ! Our weather has changed so much ! Next year I start my seeds a lot later ;( !March nit Feb . I am north of Barrie and just started to get nice a night some what lol
Curious, would not lactic acid bacteria contribute to soil aeration with the gases it gives off, if you had organic material in the soil? Five years ago I bought some raised bed "soil" that contained no soil, tomatoes would not take off until their roots made it to the soil below the bed. This spring I incorporated the bed with a yard of "topsoil", which turned out to be pulverized clay. I have been adding LAB every week, due to heavy rains, hope to unlock the nutrients for my newly planted tomatoes. I really enjoyed your LAB video. Stay Well!!!
Worms: adding earth worms of different types found around can help containers if kept not dried completely so they stay alive. Found in containers that openings in the sides not base help retain water and expand soil when shrunken and since sand doesn’t stink it could be sand for say 7cm then perforations around the container at that level and up and fill with then and up with soil or compost as you said decomposed without any trace of wood or something other than compost not sifted because that gives the impression it’s finished but still affects almost as incorporating wood chips and plants suffer becoming slower growing and light green in the case for dark green basil 🌿 it happened to me. If you have alternatives please critique this as I learn from your opinions
The only tradeoff with spike aeration is all the soil below the spike likely gets compacted. I’m not even sure if that’s true, but it sounds like it would happen lol.
Thinking about pine mulch/soil conditioner in a location or two to test out. I have absolutely zero clue if itll work or not, however the only way to find out is to try it.
Can you replace perlite with leca/clay pebble as soil amendments? It seems leca is superior to perlite in many aspects since it is reusable and provides better soil aeration due to its size. However, I rarely see anyone using it other than in hydroponics or am I missing some here? Thanks.
Hi i wonder if you have done side by side testing, i come from a no dig background and have seen even forking the soil has a negative effect. Charles dowding has a lot of information
yes. and too much dead organic matter deep in soil or filling a pot, creates wet anoxic conditions. on the other hand letting loads of dead organic matter dry out fully, makes a tight ball of hydrophobic mix that is very difficult to re-wet. in dry climates, raised beds pack down and water runs off the sides. you find out at end of season that a foot down is bone dry, and the top watering clogs up the top layer.
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A funny thing with this vid, when it starts, just keep hitting the left of the screen, repeatedly , and it looks like she has Tourettes. Odd how oxygen is required for aerobes, who would have thunk it
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This is one reason why I’ve learned to appreciate moles. The other is that they eat grubs. We have a patch of lawn that gets really abused and it became a mud slick during rain and an ice trap in winter. Every year I manually use a step-on core aerator and it’s made a huge difference. The quality of soil that now comes up in the core is worlds away from the hard, dry clay it once was. I wish aeration was promoted instead of chemical fertilizers…it makes lawn more resilient, naturally.
my wife: "Honey, what are you doing?" Me: "Stabbing dirt"
I've spent so many hours stabbing the dirt in my lawn
Whoa! I didn’t know plants make ATP! Us mammals do to! Fun fact health tidbit: our bodies produce adenosine (sans triphosphate) to make us sleepy at night, and it takes around 2 hours for it to clear the system upon waking. Caffeine blocks the clearing of adenosine (by blocking the receptors) making us more tired for the rest of the day. So, if you delay your coffee by 1.5-2hrs, your system clears the adenosine, you won’t get a caffeine crash, and you’ll have more energy!
Love your channel so much Ashley! ❤️🙌❤️
A cheap way to do core aeration is using an auger bit on a drill. It's basically a giant drill bit for digging holes in soil. I've been aerating heavy clay sections of my lawn with it whenever I get a few minutes. Not as fast as an aeration machine, but very cheap and easy.
It's honestly one of my favorite garden tools.
I use it to dig holes for planting or to loosen up the soil in spots where it looks like compaction is starting to happen.
It's also a super easy way to mix up compost. I just go and blast a couple spots in my bin each night to keep air flowing and to bring stuff up from the bottom.
06.12 - Head UP 😁😁😁
CO2 is known as the silent killer because you can’t see, smell or taste it.
It is not the CO2 that smells in the composting process.
It smells bad (like sewage) from anaerobic decomposition (no air-too wet) or like ammonia because there is too much nitrogen.
🥰🥰🥰
All in all, the video came at an opportune moment and you did a very good job.
Especially for those who grow in pots, soil aeration is an essential factor for a perfect potting mix.
Thank you !!!
All the best.
or smelly eggs hydrogen sulfide
You had me at soil colonoscopy...😂
🙃 I mean it pretty accurate
If you wanna witness the magic of oxygen for your plants, make 2 compost teas side by side. Add a lil fish tank bubbler to one and watch the amount of frothy microbe bubbles created by all the life. It happens without aeration, but its mind blowing to see how much the bubbler makes a difference in just 24hours. It's kinda gross looking, but my plants love it.
Yea that’s a good one. Any of the DIY liquid fertilizers do much better with bubblers
If a rabbit digs a tunnel under your garden bed, can that count as macro aeration? Just kidding. Ha! This happened to me this year. I was planting my squash starts and the bed started caving in. 🐰🤔😁
I've got moles aeration in the tunnels and cave in too went planting..
What a disaster! Growing things is difficult enough -- these burrowing stinkers are enough reason to sell a home and move on 😮!
I'm doing a lot of container gardening in fabric pots and I totally believe you! Oxygen is amazing! It turbo-charges those plants! Now if only I could get the weather to be nice instead of cold and rainy!
Hi in central Nova Scotia we have had less then 2 inches of rain this year. Oh no we are back to tilling the gardens again lol I am in my sixth year of improving this stuff that is called soil up here in the hills and have been digging in wood ash compost used potting soil last years mulch of straw or hard wood leaves. Still get a decent crop but it is all the shade from trees I refuse to cut down just to increase my yield. Interesting info here I believe I heard one company who added sand to the core holes in heavy clay country. Congrats on 100, 000 subs. Please send rain. thanks
Love your channel 🇳🇿❤️
I just spike aerated an in ground bed (around the few plant starts in it) bc they’re lagging behind the bed less than 4 feet away
I used a garden fork in the style of a broad fork and it worked out really well! I’m so glad you did a video on this so I can show people the method to my madness 🤣🤣
At our new house. I kind of did a core aeration on the poolside beds ( compacted and high clay/silt) with a mini auger bit and cordless drill.
Then topped off with a couple of inches of good compost. I then broadcast some saved brassica seeds over it and added a little woodchip mulch.
Things are growing pretty well so far. I'm hoping the soil will be decent enough to grow in next Spring. (It's winter here atm.)
Thanks for yet another very informative video. Cheers!
I work as a greenskeeper at a high-end golf course, and we use several types of aeration. The most common is using deep tines. These are 8 inch or so spikes to penetrate through the root zone. No fuss, no muss, very little clean up needed. We also occasionally use a Hydrojecter. This machine uses high pressure water jets to punch a 6 to 8 inch hole. Works better than the deep tines but much slower. We will occasionally use coring but only on very compacted areas (high traffic areas usually). It's probably the most effective method but requires a LOT of cleanup.
Second year of having a broadfork. Used thru the beds last year worked great! Using on the edges of beds in ground. Also have rear tine rototiller working good. Great video. Serenade the soil! Whoa that's a different way of looking at your soil. Super examples plug in colonoscopy!!
The dirt in my garden beds is basically cement (we just moved). I added a ton of old potting soil from last year's container garden plus what felt like a ton of compost. It barely helped even after digging it up. I am just telling myself this year if anything grows and survives it's a miracle.
You added and tilled it in? Or just on top? Have you tried mulch? In particular a heavy amount of cut grass on top?
I'm going to cover crops the more I'm trying them. Sunflowers , buckwheat and added the tilting radishes this fall season probably will love the radishes also.Had good results with the buckwheat and sunflower for the 4th season of trying.
Thanks
Should i add nutrients to my soil right away or wait till my plant is hungry? Is there enough nutrients in the soil alone? If so how long do the nutrients last in plain promix?
You could easily top dress with worm castings without worrying too much about adding too much nutrients. For the most part, plants tell you what they need and when. After growing specific cultivars so many times, you should have an idea of what you need for your specific garden environment by taking notes of their deficiencies and adjusting accordingly. I think compost is a good baseline for nutrients before planting.
Are you just in containers with potting soil?
@GardeningInCanada
I use containers, and I use Gaia green for nutrients but the way I use it is I prepare my soil when I'm planting my seeds with 3tbsp per gallon of nutrients like it says on the bag and IL mix it with worm castings . Do u think I should only use soil and worm castings and at a later time use my nutrients? Or should I continue with my mix?
My soil chugs like anaerobic clay when wet yet blows like the finest sand when dry, with a concrete stage in between! Difficult to deal with. Rock flour from glaciation. UK
Another knowledgeable video! I had a question for you, I'm sorry if you've already covered it. Would doing lift aeration damage the mycorrhizae systems attached to the old roots?
Anywhere the ground gets moved the hyphae is destroyed unfortunately
Interesting info that I wasn’t quite aware of; thanks Ashley!
I think this can really help my greenhouse grass space. Thanks for sharing.
I've used hydrogen peroxide on a house plant before and was astonished at how well it fluffed up the soil. It literally rose an inch as the liquid was bubbling. It probably did a number on the microbes though, so I don't do it anymore. It was a fun experiment.
Yes that’s true I have heard that, and it makes sense, just don’t overdue it. Obviously you did the right amount if everyone was okay
I use hydrogen peroxide to germinate seeds. It works miracles
Fascinating! I use subirrigation (which provides air at root level above the wayer). And I also love using a soil sampling tool for my transplants-it’s basically a corer. So it appears i have actually accidentally started aerating automatically. Thank you!
U are the best ❤I have to plant my garden the plants bottom to big ! Our weather has changed so much ! Next year I start my seeds a lot later ;( !March nit Feb . I am north of Barrie and just started to get nice a night some what lol
Interesting! That’s crazy it’s cold till later.
My husband made me a wicked broadfork
Curious, would not lactic acid bacteria contribute to soil aeration with the gases it gives off, if you had organic material in the soil?
Five years ago I bought some raised bed "soil" that contained no soil, tomatoes would not take off until their roots made it to the soil below the bed. This spring I incorporated the bed with a yard of "topsoil", which turned out to be pulverized clay. I have been adding LAB every week, due to heavy rains, hope to unlock the nutrients for my newly planted tomatoes.
I really enjoyed your LAB video. Stay Well!!!
Electrolytes it's what plants crave.
Sounds like a "synthetics only" catch phrase lol
@@gdutrow Idiocracy
If your plants are getting enough potassium, they will not be craving electrolytes.
I mean it is a catch phrase from the movie Idiocracy
@@dollarmatian omg I can't believe I didn't get that reference. I feel like the movie now.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Worms: adding earth worms of different types found around can help containers if kept not dried completely so they stay alive. Found in containers that openings in the sides not base help retain water and expand soil when shrunken and since sand doesn’t stink it could be sand for say 7cm then perforations around the container at that level and up and fill with then and up with soil or compost as you said decomposed without any trace of wood or something other than compost not sifted because that gives the impression it’s finished but still affects almost as incorporating wood chips and plants suffer becoming slower growing and light green in the case for dark green basil 🌿 it happened to me. If you have alternatives please critique this as I learn from your opinions
The only tradeoff with spike aeration is all the soil below the spike likely gets compacted. I’m not even sure if that’s true, but it sounds like it would happen lol.
Thank you. 💐💚🙃
You are so welcome
this is why after a heavy rain garden shots up so fast
Oh yea big time
Thinking about pine mulch/soil conditioner in a location or two to test out. I have absolutely zero clue if itll work or not, however the only way to find out is to try it.
Yup it’s very true. Experiment and be a garden scientist 👨🔬
Can you replace perlite with leca/clay pebble as soil amendments? It seems leca is superior to perlite in many aspects since it is reusable and provides better soil aeration due to its size. However, I rarely see anyone using it other than in hydroponics or am I missing some here? Thanks.
Oh yup! Absolutely. I use them as a perlite replacement all the time. I made a video on this years ago but definitely works
Hi i wonder if you have done side by side testing, i come from a no dig background and have seen even forking the soil has a negative effect. Charles dowding has a lot of information
Getting more and more unhinged I see....keep up the good work 👍
hello! what is your opinion on foliar fertilizer?
yes. and too much dead organic matter deep in soil or filling a pot, creates wet anoxic conditions. on the other hand letting loads of dead organic matter dry out fully, makes a tight ball of hydrophobic mix that is very difficult to re-wet.
in dry climates, raised beds pack down and water runs off the sides. you find out at end of season that a foot down is bone dry, and the top watering clogs up the top layer.
What’s your take on a silty loam is there a chance of compaction with rototilling ?
“Soil colonoscopy…” has to be one of the best intros I’ve ever heard. 😂
I advertised on kijiji for a fluffer to achieve a happy ending in the garden. I did not get what I was expecting.
But you never got to plant aeration! Which I personally think is the most compelling of all the methods.
Fabric bags for max oxygen.
GIVE THIS BEAUTIFUL Woman Tumb up 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Okies! Done
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Colonoscopy on soil 😂💚💚
Up the soils pooper
Sharing is caring 😊😊😊x3
My wife told me to keep my spikes to myself.
ABAHAHAHAHA 🤪
Adding worms perhaps?
8:32 hilarious. 9:23 yup here too north of Toronto. What gives?
Wendy you should see the wind in the prairies right now 😅 AB, SK, MB is honest to god three days of plow wind.
Summer: - comes up behind you - "Just wait." 😈
Question: can mushrooms grow in cow manure that been fed with Grazon??
😉😉
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Offer emotional support & expression of our Gratitude, LOVE and Appreciation ❤
Sending CRAZE OUTDOORS their ENTIRE Tribe🍀Manna, Strength & Care; Blessings, Prayers & LOVE; Mercies, Grace & Compassion and All the Luck, Favor & Joy🍀❤May All be Free from Suffering
A funny thing with this vid, when it starts, just keep hitting the left of the screen, repeatedly , and it looks like she has Tourettes.
Odd how oxygen is required for aerobes, who would have thunk it