NEVER pull a Garden Weed AGAIN! This ONE THING makes it possible!
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- Garden season is coming and SO ARE THE WEEDS! But, we have found an AMAZING solution to all of those weeds which makes gardening SO enjoyable. Today we share with you our secret to easy gardening without the hours of back-breaking weeding in the heat!
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...no tilling it kills the worms that airrate the soil . I heard use a Pitchfork for adding air, what do you think?
Thanks for this. I’ve always wondered where to get this stuff when I’ve seen it in nurseries. It is not weed blocker that gets emeshed when plants grow right through it. What do you use to burn in the holes of different sizes as required by different plants?
Thank you for this valuable information about the great benefits in choosing to use this particular type of ground cover. I'm not back home yet, but as soon as I can, I'm having the whole garden area tilled and fertilized. Preparing it to have healthy soil once again.
It hasn't had a large garden since 1995 when grandma lived there. After we bought it, i only had a few herbs growing. But my husband passed away in 2005 and I haven't lived there since!
I'm anxious to move back home and will be preparing the ground for a large garden again!
Rose Boudreaux You go girlfriend!
Do you plant Carrots using theground cover?
I am 87 years old and have been gardening since I was a young child. I have used woven cover sheets on a few occasions but would find it to be too labor intensive to use in my large garden. If you are worn out from pulling weeds it is because you wait too long to address the problem. The answer is to cultivate the middles of your rows very soon after each rain before the weed seeds have a chance to germinate. Weed seeds will not germinate in loose fluffy soil in major part because it will dry out very quickly. The loose soil that you create by cultivation will also serve as a mulch as water cannot move through it by capillarity. Weed seeds will germinate in the rows where your plants are growing. These should be covered with loose soil from the middles while they are less than a half inch tall with a hoe. I do not find that to be
I am a 70 year old Italian horticulturist (I live 60 km south of Milan, on the Oltrepo Pavese hills (Zone 8 A according to the USD).
Maybe you are both right. But my experience in this climatic zone is identical to yours. In my area, the breathable black fabric allows weeds to grow through it .... Unless you cover it with at least 6 inches of wood chips. So I will continue to grow using corrugated cardboard.
I tried the expensive black landscape fabric one year. The bermudagrass loved it. It grew completely through it. It kept other weeds out, but caused the bermudagrass to thrive. I guess it depends on your location. Will try your method of keeping the weeds down this year.
I live in a very rainy part of West Coast Canada/I'm gonna grow lettuce on a wall(in plastic old shoe caddy you would hang inside of a closet door) it's fun to watch the slugs crawl up and get knocked down before they do any damage/I'm 63 work with serving the public Haha haha I love tons of lettuce on a sandwich fresher the better. My parents had green thumbs, but I knew the hoe. ; D
My great grandfather was a horticulturalist and had a lavish garden that was let go for the past 30 years when he died my grandparents rented out his home and then my mother inherited it but just mowed the grass and weeds now I live in the home and want desperately to have a garden where he once did but getting it tilled up and the grass out has over whelmed Me. I wish I had been older then 6 when he passed away as I only have a few memory's and many storys about him thru family. If I had been older I would have asked him all about gardening so thank you for sharing that knowledge as I value it and feel like I was meant to read it today!
@@paolomaggi8188 I live in west Central MN...I'm planning to use cardboard this yr as well. I've been using landscape fabric under my tomatoes with pretty good results. But it's expensive for me tho.
Not going to lie I came here thinking I was going to skip to 15 minutes to get to the point but you guys are so thorough and engaging good job!
Right. Here's my kids tie his shoes for the first 15min
Same
I just moved onto my acreage and I'm trying to start homesteading. Oh my gosh, the weeds!!! It's overwhelming. Thanks for the tips. I have the professional grade woven fabric that I'll be using between the raised beds. I got cedar wood and I'm filling the raised beds with organic soil. The up front costs are also high for wood and soil with amendments. Thousands and thousands. Plus the cost of equipment. My main reason for doing all of this is for quality food that's sustainable and healthy. I'm very motivated by avoiding frankenfoods. The amount of time to get started is absolutely draining. I have another farmer taking care of half of the acreage. I have just a bit under 20 acres and after coming from the suburbs I have to say this is a culture shock. I drive 3 hours per day back and forth from work. Nothing is close, not even the grocery store. Just a lot for one person. Please read on though. My sunsets are stunning, the daily sounds of birds are relaxing, the wildlife is beautiful, and this is worth every second. It's like a piece of heaven and I feel blessed.
You rock keep it up!
Really amazed by this couple!
When one is talking,the other one is not just waiting for her/ his turn to join the conversation...they both involve in it 100% all the time!
Excellent team work!
WHAT A BLESSED COUPLE YOU ARE , MAKES ME WANT TO CRY OUT FOR JOY ,BECAUSE I AM SINGLE AND 72 🤣
You're very kind, bless you, I wish you happiness in life
-- ME TWO ...!!!!
- ME, TWO ... !!!!!
Even as pandemic is wrecking the economy, it's comforting to know weeds and dust balls are still free!
And plentiful.
agree with that💯👍
LOL, agreed!
If you don’t use weed spray, you just mulch the weeds and eat some too in salad.
Hi folks, I really appreciated that you showed the failures as well as your successes. Brilliant job.
The couples that garden together stay together ❤️❤️😂😂😂
The perfect marriage they take turns talking and she is sooo cute
Her being sooooo cute is 50% of the reason they have a perfect marriage ???
I might be a Yankee, but I love the accent of a Southern Belle ! 😍
@@robertevans8024 absolutely
@@robertevans8024 she does not have a southern accent
Yes. He obviously values and appreciates her input.
In my experience (I’m an organic gardener) I believe the quality of the soil is the key to no weeds..I keep amending the soil, as the soil improves, the weeds go away :-). I’m a southern Mo lady as well. Born and raised :-).
What ways do you amend your soil?? Any info will be helpful.
@@rlopez18m I use greensand, azomite, kelp, gypsum, wood ash, ground cover in winter that gathers nitrogen, then is turned over about three weeks before spring planting.. A good place to start is have a soil sample you take to the county extension for testing, and see what the soil is lacking in as well.
I watch a fair amount of u-tube.
This particular video......a home run !!!!
Thank you.
I'm just trying to get rid of weeds and I don't even garden. I knew that this was the wrong video in the first 15 seconds but I watched it all the way through because of your presentation style and the chemistry between you two lol! I literally watched this video because you guys haha!
Yeah, I’m not currently having this problem but this kept coming across my algorithm and I decided to watch because I like them and I like this kind of stuff
I watched a video a few years ago where the guy stages his chicken yard over a future garden spot before claiming it for the garden, then he used this material.... The chickens not only knocked down weeds that were growing there, they fertilized the ground while giving eggs! Win, win, win! He would them prep another plot for the next garden space the same way. Like you he rotated every couple of years. Of course, he had plenty of space to do this... Not all of us do. Great info! Thanks so much!
Yes, chicken scratching. Bye-bye bugs, bye-bye weeds!
Learning from other people's mistakes is a great way to go. Thank you for being so willing to admit your mistakes and share them!
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BunnySlippers great ,yes guy you are ,pretty right, let's learn from others mistakes ,and put ours too, to form a right yield .happy farming.from INdia.
my mistake was listening to these clowns
Never made one
Learning from others' mistakes and findings is a requirement to compete for jobs. Nobody lives long enough to learn from _only_ their own experience and keep up.
I’m in tropical Australia. The best method I’ve found is 4-6 layers of news paper (wet it down to hold it in place if it’s a windy day) and then a layer of straw or sugar cane mulch over the top. It’s very inexpensive and easy to put holes in it for plants using a hand trowel.
That is what I do here in New England USA. I use newspapers two ways: In late summer I start freezing food scraps. Then in the Fall, I bury the scraps a foot down in my garden, cover it with newspaper which is weighed down by bricks. Come Spring, the worms have done their job and the soil is nice and loose. I have never had a problem with rodents. The other way is what you said...I use it as a weed barrier then put mulch over it but not in my food garden; just around the other parts of the backyard. Works great!
I am doing this - my first garden - I wove cardboard together, wet it, added decomposing leaves, wet those, added newsprint (plain), wet that... straw is down and now I've started to put compost on top. Time is the main issue, however, next year (and every year after) will be a much simpler process with beautiful soil.
Where do you get that much news paper? We don't subscribe - we don't want trees wasted to make paper or vehicles used to deliver it, when we can read the news online. I'm literally trying to remember the last time I saw a physical newspaper. I think I may have seen a stack of them at the convenience store the couple of times in the past several years when I've had to go inside to pay because the gas pump's card reader was broken. So how / where do I go to scavenge 200+ square feet of paper (multiplied by 6 layers' worth)?
Vandelay Industries, I love it! Your tee made me laugh out loud. This video is awesome, thank you.
I remember helping my dad make a plastic garden back in the 60's. Grow through a hole and had soaker hose underneath. Best garden ever.
I am hearing more and more messages that our country should learn very quickly to become less and less dependent on other countries for our food
Sadly we should have been doing this all along. We have lost so many of those skills and we are now having to relearn this stuff. But we can do it! Please stay safe and healthy 🙏
Leaving the family farms to go trade time in exchange for currency is turning out to have been a huge mistake. It has made us not only dependent on someone else to feed and clothe us, but dependent on someone else now determining what our time is worth.
The price of farm land, which was fairly affordable for most of this nation’s history, has skyrocketed just in the last 30 years.
Average Americans who less than a century ago would have been “poor farmers” are now being priced out of the ability to be self-sufficient.
We never should have become dependant on other countries for ANYTHING that is vital .
@@tannertuner That's one of the unfortunate things about public-school funding via property tax. It's not enough to be self-sufficient. You also have to come up with some cash for the right to remain on the land that is yours.
@@harrymills2770 nope. The increased land prices come from the 80s tax cuts and rock bottom interest rates. For banks to continue to meet obligations at these near zero interest rates, they have to loan more money to make the same money. Since we are out of new land to loan money on, they increase the loan value of existing land, which drives up land prices. And as land prices go up ONLY THEN do tax appraisals increase.
So as the banks run the price up, the earnings of common Americans aren’t going up with it because the millionaires and billionaires (and the wannabes who never will be but think they are entitled to be) raise hell if you talk about increasing a tax rate a measly 3%. But their incomes and wealth holdings have quadrupled the past 40 years while people who actually work struggle with 2 incomes and can’t save a nickel.
Some states don’t have property taxes and still have the same problem.
It’s banks driving up the value, not the tax.
One of the things I learned in the Master Gardener program is rabbit manure is the most complete fertilizer you can use. You two are just so on it! :-)
My mother used rabbit manure too. I had rabbits as pets and she used the exhaust. She had the best garden every year.
Rabbit manure can be used immediately too, as it won't burn plants
A classic Permaculture strategy is to cover the garden with cardboard sheeting. Maybe wood chips, straw, mulch over the top. The cardboard eventually breaks down as a soil amendment and worms will consume it.
They said they tried that already and it didn’t work well for their climate
People that say putting that stuff down is so much work, haven’t weeded a garden. That is so much work and it is never ending
@@PreferredMethods this is crazy , its not easy
@@stormylyn217
Why please?
Very true statement!!
@Fun Fact indeed
Saw my neighbor put it down seems to work great next door !!
Excellent video! Both of you made me feel like I was listening to friend. Don't stop make many !
Thank you! We can't wait to try this on our very 1st veggie garden. So lucky to have found this info. Who wants to deal with weeds, ever?!
Thanks guys. This is one of the most comprehensive and well explained videos on farming/gardening I've seen. You folks speak very well to camera too. No 'umms' and everything concise and to the point. Really professional. Stay well guys.
Amen!
my family used newspapers(no magazines/glossy stuff), held down with 2" x 4" 's. a great way to recycle....it does decompose slowly, block all weeds, and essentially free.
I can't afford the magazine's lol
@@joyfulpreterist7532 they said No Magazines or shiney paper. Only newspaper type paper. :)
Yes. That would be a good idea, if the print (ink) isn't toxic.
@@MissMolly3377 yes but think of the toxic food we ingest 3 x daily, read ur tooth past warning make you think.
@@MissMolly3377 - newspaper ink is soybean based these days.
Absolutely the single most time saving addition to our homestead.
Wish I had your TH-cam channel in the 80's and 90's!! Very informative and ambitious gardeners.
Weeding sucks especially when you can't stay ahead of it and it compromises crops. You and your family are such a Grace. Sharing your hardships and successes with the world. A humble and wonderous team, editing very relatable content in a rapidly growing Market of Interest too many. We all would enjoy more of an independence and deeper gratification in working towards self sustainability. I consider you both as essential workers and thank you once again for helping us educate
I bought 3ft. wide ground cover and sewed it together on my sewing machine with heavy duty thread for outdoor use. Granted my boxes are only 10’ wide and 40’ long. It was way cheaper than buying the wider fabric and I don’t have to worry about the loss of width for the overlap.
That's really good thinking Jamie because if you have a large garden, losing six inches ten times, that's a lot of loss of area
You all are so terrific! I love to watch Sarah's face when you're talking Kevin. Y'all have such passion for what you're doing that it's contagious!. Thank you for sharing this ground cover information!
Recently moved from las cruces where I built the sand up to be very productive, grapes, figs, olives, apples, pomegranates, persimmons and all veggies. I too, moved to the Ozarks first Bella Vista AR then Carthage MO. Got tired of getting lost down in AR and no internet in the mts. Glad I found you to teach me what to do here!
I love the mention of ticks. I’m sure most people are creeped out by them as much as I am. I love that the covering helps with them as well as the weeds. Sounds like an added bonus to me.
As a fellow Missourian I love that you have such great and relatable tips especially for the horrible weeds and ticks.
Here Here!
Thank you for going public........saved my back and desire to garden.
OMG! I had to do a double take at your Vandelay Industries shirt! I had no idea there was a Seinfeld market for Vandelay! Sooo funny!
Watching you and taking your advice has changed my gardening life, all for the good! The woven ground cover was total game changer for me. Now I spend time starting seeds,
harvesting and preserving NOT weeding. Thanks you guys!
This is so awesome to know. I plan on raised gardens this spring, but can still use your suggestions! I'm excited!
I've been covering my entire garden with a thick layer of straw. Might seem like there's too much on at first but after walking on it a bit, it really presses down. Creates beautiful walkways too. So I till every year, and every ten - twenty plants I take a moment and grab my straw and cover everywhere around those plants. You'll have to pull the odd weed now and then but that's it. I will never not cover my large garden with straw. It's just the absolute best. I can't be bothered with cloth and making holes etc. This is faster, effective and it breaks down over winter as mulch. Bonus! Also a tip, try and find a worm castings farm. I got 500 lbs in 50 lb bags.. either spread it over your tilled garden before planting, spread it then till.. either way it doesn't matter.. OR if you don't have that much then add a big shovel worth into the hole before you add the plant. Best fertilizer ever! Natural, can't burn your plants, can't ever use too much so there's no worrying. I use it with all my Berry bushes, every melon and vegg. Happy gardening everyone 🌿
plus that stuff is expensive i find, 3 ft x 300 almost 100 bucks, ouch
Yes , either way its expensive. I think that I'm gonna do a combination with the canvas, straw and gonna try and grow po
Grow potatoes in tires 😊💪🌿💚🤠🌅🌷🌅🌷🌅💛🌅💛👍, We shall see. Fun fun!
Find old straw in old barns
Im told if any old chemicals they dissipate? My stash is from before 2006
It would be interesting if you could post a video of your straw garden ? Nice to actually see those pathways, sounds like a good , cheap solution.
I also live in the Missouri Ozarks. Glad to see someone from my area around here.
Great TOP OF The LINE ADVICE by two successful gardeners , great team work .
I think you just saved my sanity! I just spent 7 hours gutting my garden and starting over. Thank you!
Don't throw the baby out with the bath water...you had to have salvaged something.
I love how you both take turns speaking. You balance each other.
Thank you for this video, as I was about ready to quit gardening. Now I'm excited once again. Subscribed!
Lots of camera cuts and editing of course 😁 that's life
Me too, almost to hard last summer, 115's all summer.
Going to try again.
Most people from the South are taught not to interrupt each other.
@@christinedavis-lunn8153 So right. I also find that when I am interrupted I stop talking which some people notice and take advantage of.
I found that grass clippings, spread out to dry first, makes great mulch. I get some from a neighbor who is uses a bagging mower, and my brother mows two church lawns and brings home the clippings.
I also use a lot of cardboard, the plain brown paper kind. I press the end to get a grip on the tape, and pull it off instead of cutting it. I put down layers of boxes, overlapping to avoid a gap.
We have an endless supply of boxes because the little princess has her home care supplies shipped in, she's on a ventilator and tube feeding.
I have seedlings and saplings growing in 5 gallon buckets or 5, 10 or 15 gallon fabric grow bags, and they sit on a pad of cardboard.
I use the same ground cover and I will never garden without it again! Thanks to you guys. I have shared the ground cover with so many people, especially older folk who don't want to weed! Thanks for all of the awesome content.
I’ve never had good luck with the woven fiber. Grass grows through it and roots penetrate it; especially crab grass and bermuda grass!
yes, I needed to keep layering it, and will try straw next.
Yes I did have trouble with Bermuda grass, it seems to love to grow over/under it. But the only thing that really controls that is repeated herbicide treatments.
Biophile, I hate having to think about using chemical concoctions to control pests, weeds, or any types of UNWANTED items, in/around anyplace I want to live, or plant things to eat, or just be around, ... there are simply TOO MANY things on earth that are trying to kill us, as it is, let alone making more stuff to do so even more so, ... so please, try to find out what are the natural enemies/deterrents of the pests, or items that plague your area, ... surely, some kind of info is out there to help assist with your project, but please, do not opt to trade one bad item for another, ...
Add 3" mulch on top of your fabric to control weeds.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge of the ups and downs. No one else does this. Lot more work pulling weeds than putting down fabric...
You two are awesome!
God bless you!
Thanks. You two were terrific!
In Florida weeds grow right through these mats. I use 8" of straw and weed regularly to keep volunteers in check.
Angelina 32310 not only in Florida 😁 here too ..
Minnesota as well. I've given up using them. They rip and weeds grow underneath as well
Must be using the cheap stuff. Can you rake across your fabric with gusto like this?
@@gilmourishgilmourish6205 "Here too" is where ?
@@edmartin875 Belgium 🇧🇪
When I watched this video I realized you were telling our story. While we got good yield this year, we did lose some things to the overwhelming weeds. I think we have watched every one of your videos. So much of your life corelates to ours. I love your videos. We feel your pain too when things get rough for y'all.
I really enjoyed both of you. Soooo sincere and geniune. Thanks
TH-cam is great just happened on to your video and did not know about the fabric you use. Not surprising you have 1,520,959 views. Your presentation was professional and well done and you have a good camera. THANK YOU
When i think back on what i have learned about gardening in the last two years....most of it comes from you guys. I truly appreciate it. I knew nothing and now know something.
❤️ how you share your life and your- you can do this spirit 💪🥬🥚🐐🐄
Thank you, thank you! Invaluable information from an adorable couple😁
Been gardening for 40 years. Never have and never will till the soil.
Vandelay Industries!!! hahaha I love it!! "Say Vandelay Industries!!!" "No, no, you're way off, this isn't Vandelay Industries." I need to get me one of those shirts.
Kramer! Lolol
I just love your videos. My Girlfriend and I are progressing towards living off the land. You guys have so much insight. We work out traditional 9-5 jobs. But we really want to get to what matters most in life. And that's living life how we want at home.
Just found you and really enjoying your channel! And the fact that you and the hubby do it together is more enjoyable for my husband and I. :) God bless!!
We love your George Costanza/Art Vandalay T-shirt!
This channel is absolute gold. Your videos are immensely informative and entertaining. I grow as much food as possible, mostly in containers, but next year I will be looking to greatly expand that. Thank you!
Some tips re: woven ground covering. We've used this in our large garden now for 6 years. We mainly use it for spaces around our low beds and any messy places weeds grow. (A) it doesn't last as long as it says. (B) Everywhere you put in a lawn staple, some weed will find a way to get thru that minuscule hole. (C) I dug out all the weeds last year, placed cardboard over everything and started over with new 4' wide woven ground cloth. The first time it was 6'. I plan to try putting a dab of Flex Seal over all the holes or breaks.
(E) Lastly, we learned that growing buckwheat near our plants allows no weeds in it and our plants near it. It's pretty enough and has something that keeps weeds away.
The easiest way I found is to let grass grow between rows and hills and mow it. Use grass clippings to heavily mulch in areas where vines grow, then till it all in fall. By spring it all has some grass already, only dig where you will plant and immediately around them where it is too close to mow. A side benefit, after rain you can walk through the garden without getting muddy.
My Granpa Joe did this and so did I, the dirt was so rich after years of doing it the worms were so plentiful and we never had to buy soil.
You don't get any weeds? I think my grass is all just weeds anyway. I would rather have this, than any type of plastic, no matter how safe they say it is. Are you saying to use your grass clipping to stop any weeds from growing, by using the grass clipping as mulch? I don't understand what you are saying exactly.
@@MissMolly3377 If you till in fall, new grass and weeds will be growing by spring. You only till the rows where you will be planting in spring and let it grow between the rows and keep it mowed. You have yard between the rows and only need to weed up next to the actual garden plants. Also, yes I do use grass clippings as mulch also, especially around vining plants like cucumbers to keep weeds down so I can easily find the food.
@@sputnut your garden must be huge lol! seems like a great idea though if you have enough space.
@@seichorn4079 I just grow a few basics. 3-4 tomatoes, 3-4 bell peppers. Couple yellow and couple zucchini squash and cucumbers. Just enough room to mow between then grass clipping mulch up close. I plant by making a hole, filling with homade compost and planting in the middle. With tomatoes, I make the hole deep and put in more compost as it grows so it has deep roots. It's me, on my other channel.
Thank you guys this will make my summer so much easier you all are Awesome
Just watched this, it’s exactly what I have experienced with trying To grow naturally. I used the ground cover last year and topped with straw and was amazed how well it kept weeds out. I’ll always do it this way from no on.
LOL - This is a great video IMO, so thanks for this. I used this weedcloth around the entire perimeter of my house to prevent chipmunks, mice, snakes or any other little creature from burrowing under my house and trying to reside in my crawlspace. So far, that has worked great for me as I have no problems now. Next season I plan to use your idea for the weedcloth in my small garden. Your video gave me some good ideas, so thanks again.
We just moved to Jefferson City Missouri last year from New Mexico. I planted our garden expecting to have a wonderful garden as the weather has so much more rainfall . But being older and retired I couldn't pull the weeds fast enough and they took over the garden. I even though of not doing a garden this year until I started watching your videos on the garden fabric and drip system . I love watching your videos. And it has given me renewed hope and am excited for the garden prospect for the coming year. Prayers, Doug & Terrie Green PS I am going to try some of your recipes for crackers & bagels etc.
I live in the Seattle area. I have used the woven plastic as a permanent weed block for decades. I have a small vegetable garden that in our very wet winters I keep covered with old used carpet. It also lasts a very long time. I roll it up in the spring and put it back on when the rains start. Up here we have spring weeds and then summer weeds. The carpet protects my beds from both. It also acts as a blanket for the earthworms and keeps varmints out.
Thanks for that tip about not leaving a 1 inch strip for peas, beans, lettuce... I would have done it that way, too..
You blessed my morning. Love hearing how you are doing.
Beautifully efficient... Amazing sharing.
Oooh, Phoenix. I was there for 18 yrs. I had an amazing garden there. Recently moved to Virginia. Now buying 3 acres. New to your channel. Will follow
Thank you so much for sharing this information. Learning from other's "mistakes" makes life so much easier! When growing up I lived on 1,000+ acre farm and we had over 100 rabbits and always used their manure to fertilize our plants, trees, flowers, etc. I will be sharing your video with my sister who loves to garden. Enjoy your channel so much.
I want to be just gardening and picking wild edibles and catch fish in streams, climb trees and eat different kinds of fruits and surround my tiny wooden house with flowers and different kinds of plants and also animals... All wishful thinking as of the moment 😆
Guess I should’ve waited till the end you can answer those questions I guess I need to increase my patience thank you guys so much
I HATE WEEDING so you have shown me a great way to enjoy my gardens much more! Thanks!
Lovely to follow your “homesteading””on TH-cam - thanks, Happy Easter 🐣 and greetings from Sweden 🇺🇸🇸🇪🇪🇺
I get defeated by weeds every year☹ Excited to try this fabric!
I've been using this product for the last few years and its totally a game changer! Its amazing!
This one of the best gardening videos out the there 👏 👍👍👍👍
I've gotten my woven ground cover this year from Growers Solution! I bought some from a big box store last year. Huge mistake! We have thick grass that thrived underneath and my garden had all kinds of bulges and waves from it. That grass pushed the stakes up! So much time wasted pulling grass and weeds. At the end of the season, I ordered 2 rolls on your recommendation, as well as a drip system. Growers Solution's customer service is outstanding and helped me in every way! Wish me luck this year! Thank you for sharing your journey with us! I dont comment often, but I believe I just made up for it! Lol
When I was 18 I bought this while making a garden at my parents. It's been 9 years and it's still in the ground at their house! Not all in tact but still holding strong!
Used this when we landscaped our yard 14 yrs ago! We had a problem with nut grass for a few years but we stayed on top of it and finally got it under control! I just love that it keeps my yard looking nice with pine straw on top of the mat!
I know that a lot of the Amish farmers out here in Ohio use the woven ground cover for their vegetable and flower crops. Thank you for the tips! I've made the same mistakes as you folks when trying it on my own! Love your burning-a-hole method for making the planting holes!
LOVE this video and your down to earth style of sharing. I thought I’d heard it all and have tried everything you all mentioned at the beginning of this video, but SO GLAD I stayed tuned! Can’t wait to try this fabric!
Excellent video! Thank You both!
That looks like what we call “weed mat” here in New Zealand. Woven & we lay it down over the tilled & composted garden area & plant into it.
No need to till. Put down soil organic matter and whatever soil amendments, cover, done. Healthy soils must never be tilled. The roots of plants, the webs of fungi, and the population of resulting life forms need to never be murdered by crushing it all up.
I thought worms were important to airate the soil.
@@christinedavis-lunn8153 they do that and way more. Their tunnels provide channels to help catch rain rather than flood away or blow away. Many more. Mineral particles going through their bodies are made more digestible to plants. Ridiculously important critters.
I love your energy and sense of togetherness; it is infectious! Such great info !! Thank you for your hard work and especially for sharing.
thank you!!!! we expanded our "very tiny" garden last year and I was worried about expanding it some more this year. thank you for your information!!! love you folks!
We’re just starting out homesteading. Thank you for sharing this great info!!
It's so nice to take a break from sewing masks on this gloomy rainy day and watch a sunny gardening video. I hope you enjoy every moment in your garden.
Thank you Natalie!
Thank you for sewing masks. We were truly caught off guard with the pandemic. I had a few paper masks I gave to my son at Home Depot. He said people are flocking there and using the store as entertainment! We have people sewing masks here in gloomy Coachella Valley. Everyone is waiting for elastic. Some are using hair ties and rubber bands. We are manditoryly wearing masks. Keep seeing beautiful soul! I think our days of social acceptance of wearing masks is very far from over. 😢
Thank you for making masks!
Please check out today's (4/9/20) video on Dana Ashley channel. It's is a must watch if you want to know important information on the virus situation.
Jaded Optimist check out Dr. Shiva’s channel as well he has a natural protocol containing vitamin A, vitamin C, Vitamin D and lugals iodine iodide to boost the immune system. Staying hydrated and boosting the gut flora is always great to fill our best. Together we will get past this take care.
Just watching this today. Read your tee shirt had to laugh out loud. George off Seinfeld came to my mind. Loved that show.
Thank you for all the help. And you two are adorable together
Thank you for the education!....such an inspirational video. You are both fun to listen to..
Good information, I'm in Missouri and grew up on a farm in the boot heel. gardening was a lot of work . It would have been nice if there was garden fabric back then. I live in the suburbs now and too old to plant in the ground. But you'd be surprised how much I can grow in containers on my deck.
Good morning. Wonderful, informative video as always. I look forward to seeing your garden grow. Have a good day. God bless.
Y’all are very informative and I love how you break everything down! Thanks!
Thank you so much for this great tip for prohibiting weeds in the garden.I have had huge trouble in my garden with weeds just by harvesting time. Happy next gardening season to you.
Thanks from Ireland West Coast, great advice, will be getting that thingie woven cover and ditching the plastic. Thanks you are both brilliant.
did experience all those issues myself with the ground cover. the wind , the spaces in-between sheets / weeds , and yes the drip tape MUST be on top to spot an issue. Thank you for the video! Had same thoughts about giving up at some point but kept on going. Good to feel this warmth about others experiencing same difficulties but still pushing forward until a solution was found. Thumbs up!!!!
Love that shirt, "Vandelay Industries." Homage to Seinfeld?
I saw this video at the beginning of the season. I loved it! I bought the fabric but haven't used it yet. Somehow your video re-presented itself (I thought I'd lost it!)and I am so relieved and can't wait to use this next season after prepping the soil!!