Regenerating Dead and Dry Soil in Minutes (Ready for Growing Food)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 เม.ย. 2019
- As a gardener, seeing a really light coloured soil, which is as dry as sand and has no organic matter (or hardly any), tells me that it just won't nearly be as productive. Our solar tunnel has suffered from not enough organic matter being put into it so this year I thought I would take drastic action to add loads of nutrients to it and improve the water holding capacity. Watch to see the comparison between watering the soil before and after.
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I saw once where a farmer had a pig sty and he moved the sty yearly and left it over winter and in the spring it was the site of his new garden. Produce was great and the pigs did all the work
Rats
I love pigs. They are great to have.
Chicken coop with worms in is great for compost
@@girlnextdoorgrooming any TH-cam videos on this. Pretty curious
This does not help
As a beginner i would just like to say i found this video really helpful. I have just moved into a new house and for the first time have a garden! Can't wait to get growing using all the advice from your channel :)
I have also ordered your books from my local library (don't have the money to buy them yet, but will ask for them as a birthday present from the family).
Greetings from Down Under Huw! I have been binge watching your videos since I started to rejuvenate my garden in March of this year. I applied your technique to a 6m bed. I double forked it and found out that not only was it a clay soil but that it was also heavily compacted. By the time I was done with the forking, my fork prongs looked like wicket keepers fingers (none of them pointed in the same direction). The handle also came off so now I have a dibber just like the one Charles Dowding uses. I applied your permaculture principle of observation and noticed that where leaves had accumulated over the years, the soil was more friable. So I added a layer of manure and compost and hand watered it every day for a month using a 9l watering can and going up and down the bed 4 times. I am happy to report that I am now growing Turmeric, Galangal, Butternut Squash, French Lavender, and Red Onions all in the one bed. I am putting in a pair of arches so that my Butternut Squash can grow vertically. Stay safe and test negative my learned friend.
Something I learned this year: I usually throw wood chips as mulch over my soil to protect microbiology, moisture, etc. when an area isn't used for 365 growing. Doing so helps prevent the soil degradation we witnessed on this video. Well I had none. So I chopped up my dead marigolds and had no other choice but to mulch the flower bed with that. Amazing results! It is a fantastic hay replacement! Ground cover perfection! Wanted to share because I know it's a popularly grown edible flower.
And it has the benefit of warding of many pests!
Thank you so much! I will be running trials with a woodchip mulch to see how it goes! :) That is so awesome! Best wishes
BaltimoresBerzerker i had never heard anyone eating marigolds in the u.s. Is this a common edible flower where you are? thank you for sharing! I love growing marigolds.
@@thehomeplatespecial597 it's not very common for people to eat them in the USA. But there's people around eating flowers. Nasturtium etc. Glad I could help you guys!
You can expand this to be for almost any green plant or plant material.
For example, check out "trench composting" or "chop and drop" method of composting right where you need it.
Thank you young man ,this explains what was happening to my garden areas not being used fir a couple years. I have folowed your seps and it sure makes a difference.
No matter what anyone says I liked this good old proven style. Thank you.
Lots of hate on this video for no apparent reason.
Thanks for the tips, Huw. Appreciate the video.
People that post hate ticks on videos like this, are nothing but trolls, who randomly surf the net, with the mission of pissing others off. In short.. poor sick sad f...s.
As always, incredibly useful information presented clearly and succinctly. Thank you so much for so generously sharing what you know and are learning with us all, Huw!!! So appreciated! 🙏🏻🤗
GREAT vid Huw.
So are yours 😊👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻
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I love your style and your content. Thanks for making these. I'll be following from now. Wishing you all the best with your channel mate.
I only came across your channel this past week, and I love your videos! I have been watching Charles Dowding's channel for some time, but this year I've been very discouraged and frustrated trying to water and finding that my water is not absorbing at all. I have been trying very hard to go "no dig", but I know you are leaning that way as well, and still find the need from time to time for digging. I am from Pennsylvania in the US, so my growing season is significantly behind yours, and we have just finished a very long and dry winter season, but now I know what I need to do to fix my garden beds. Thank you!
Congratulations on another excellent video! I've watched your videos for several years ( since you were a kid ) and have always appreciated your passion for gardening. You have a way about you that inspires even the old geezers like me to get out and turn the soil ! You are absolutely spot on about the soil. HEALTHY SOIL = HEALTHY PLANTS.
I bury the kitchen scraps that my chikens and ducks don't eat in my gardens. This adds nutrients and moisture to the soil and actually creates compost right beneath the plants. I also bury fish heads and left over meats in the gardens. It all decomposes and creates healthy soil. Keep up the good work !
Just watched this today and it was exactly what I needed to know. I have two original raised beds that are outside and they have become compacted. I will rework them this week. Thanks.
Hiya Huw, one of my ever so kind subscribers (Ac S) bought your book off our amazon wishlist, and my youngest daughter (deputy head gardener Ruby) is so excited that she now has her own bed to follow your book with. It's a cracking book, thank you and also thank you for producing something which is actively encouraging one of my children to grow their own food. I know your book isnt aimed at children, but if my ten year old can follow it then theres hope for all of us! She is at the lettuce, radish and transplanting broad beans stage. Thanks again Huw, good luck to you and keep doing what you do. Oh, and I enjoyed this video too!
Brilliant video. So thankful for the kid's rake idea. A really smart answer for those of us with limited ability to lift heavy adult ones. Clever, thanks!
Thank you so much Debra :)
It is not the size of the tool that matters... It's how you use it!
Thank you, I have the same problem , very informative, I will do the same tomorrow.Keep gardening and posting .
Another great instructional video. Thank you for this. I've had this same problem in the past and did what you've done with great success. Have an awesome weekend.
Thank you so much! I did it was all spent in the garden :) Best wishes
Huw Richard's soil study lesson an important part of revitalizing the world's soil, the earth! Yay, for this bit of information, so important. 👏
Thank you for sharing so many different ways to garden in your videos!
Huw, this was a worthwhile video. I enjoyed seeing the process. Much appreciated.
Suprised to see you standing in the bed, I try to keep mine reachable from the sides. Thanx for the vid. 🙂
Love this. One side of my garden is so dry and dead. Thanks for your expertise!
Finaly someone who provides me with messurments in cm. Thanks Huw and good luck at theaching next sunday at Lizses place.
Marica Plasmans food tastes better if you grow it in inches and feet. :P
this was a massive help, bud! thank you!
I'm all for no dig gardening, but sometimes a good turning is what's needed. Thanks for the video.
I think people get too caught up with one way or the other when it comes to digging or not. For me: As long as you have fun and grow food then hey, go for it! :)
@@HuwRichards I agree. When it comes to gardening, the proof is in the results. At least that's how I see it, too.
same here
As far as I understood no digging is basically about letting microorganism and things like worms live undamaged beneath the earth. The real problem is excessive digging and use of chemicals, not necessarily a surface scale digging to fix the soil.
Why not just let the worms do it? If you dump some tasty compost on the surface they will have it partially turned in within days, no need to disrupt the fungal network with a spade.
Great job Huw🍀
Great video and you seem like such a nice chap. Thanks!
Good show Huw. Good u teach the basics.
this is great timing to see this video! thanks for sharing
I add manure and compost every year and it’s made a world of difference to all my beds. Soul is much looser and rich in organic matter.
Definitely I’ve started out gardening I love it and your video is very useful thank you for this 😃
FIVE STARS !!!!!! These should be some Happy Plants !!!!! Do a Part two and show us the results , please ???? Thank you , John
Thank you very much. This was very helpful and encouraging for its simplicity, to solve a repeating topic. Sincerely from Germany.
Another great video Huw.
Great demonstration thanks.
You always shine.
Thanks so much! This is exactly what I'm going to do!
Great quick remediation. Thanks very much.
Mate, you took 7 minutes to inform us that to improve smoky soil you add manure and compost. I was waiting for some magic formula
Yup this drove me crazy i kept skipping and skipping and just WTF? Oh, add compost.... Wow...
I think the watering process is important
The ease of the process show us we can improve almost all soils, this only need hard work (and a lot of water and compost) =)
I love the detailed information
i got 5 minutes in and thought so to fix dry soil add water ... great advice. glad to see he at least gets to something that will improve the soil by the end.
Awesome update thank you for sharing Huw
Thank you so much Linda!
Native Americans used to dig a hole and put 2 things under each tomato plant: fish & dried empty corn cobs.
That is so cool!
My little plot hasn't been gardened for a few years, and it was pretty dead.
This year, I did just backwards of what you showed us... I got all the weeds out, turned the soil,
covered it with three bags of steer manure and half a bag of chicken manure,
then watered it down with a sprinkler for a few hours, so that the biotics would wash down into the underlying soil.
Then I turned it again, tilled it with a hand tiller, put my walkway in, formed my rows,
and seeded my carrots, beets, and radishes! I just forgot to work in my homemade compost!
But I can use that for the potted plants I'll be doing later! Maybe for my winter crops if I do that!
♥️ Keep your doing to inspire others God bless you. From Philippines 🇵🇭
Great timing, I've just had a dig about and found nothing but dust!
Hahaha thank you Jeff and good luck with the regeneration! ;)
Hello, this was the state of our soil in our tomato glasshouse at work. So I tried it on one bed this afternoon. It looks and holds the moisture so much more now and looks a lot better? As you showed in the video, my soil was just floating on the surface of the water too. It took a lot more water than I thought it would. Great tip, thank you very much. Keep up the good work
How can I use this method in a really large area, like the lawn? it is not possible to dig it in when the grass is still in there. Plus, it would be too much manual digging.
@@sunflowerhk100 You can get compost, make sure it's fine (can sieve it and take bigger parts out) and sprinkle it over your lawn. Use a rake to lightly rake it into the grass so it settles on dirt floor. Just water it in heavy and water your lawn every other day. The compost will meld into your soil and should have it in much better quality overtime. This is a great way to fertilize your lawn too
I have two acres with soil exactly like this - compacted and dry. Thanks for the tips.
I have an area in my yard where the drainage ditch has poured drainage water and the grass has died. I was trying to figure out how to amend the soil and your video has given me plenty of ideas as well as 'Baltimores Berzerker' input. VDOT, Virginia Department of Transportation is responsible to repair within the ROW-Right-of-Way however I have been battling VDOT for years. They are impossible to follow-up on their responsibilities. I plan on now, so to speak, "Fighting City Hall". In the meantime I can keep myself busy planning amending the soil. Thanks for a really great and simple to understand video.
Quick and Easy straight to the point!
So helpful Huw! Thank you!
Wow. Incredible man.
Thank you :)
Thank you for this information, I will now dig in manure next time rather than just put on the top for my next batch of growing veg.
Wow. Thank you for this tutorial. I wouldn’t have expected that so much water is needed. Water of course, but not this much. But it is a shame to let precious soil rotten like this. If it‘s autumn and someone just have no nerve to work in the garden - just water the soil and put hay on it to protect it. When I see a soil today without being covered with Woodchips, Hay or something I think „Why is this soil unprotected?“ Love your soil like you love the plants. (And the little heroes - the earthworms!). The more love you give and the wiser you become, the more veggies you will get.
Yeah get the soil right and that's half the job done..
So right! :)
Learned a lot. Thank you!
Velmi se mi vaše videa líbí a je skvělé, že automatický překladač je dokáže přeložit i do českého jazyka. Na zemědělské škole jsme se učili hospodářství ve velkém a jen samá hnojiva, vápnění, orání... Líbí se mi, jak produkujete různorodé druhy zeleniny a zároveň pečujete o půdu. Ve vašem podání to prostě člověka nadchne, vypadá to neskutečně jednoduše a také s využitím místních zdrojů a nízkých finančních nákladů.
Thanks for another great video
Thanks for the video Huw! I have a lg. bed that's been baking in the sun all year (lg. bed but only 3 Hemlocks thus far) w/o mulch. I'm going to rejuvenate the soil here the same way as I'm sure any 'life' that was in the soil is probably fried now. Perfect timing! Love all your videos & insights, T Y.!!
Very helpful and informative - Thank you 🌱
Thank you. This video is very helpful.
Huw's nasality is utterly amazing!
We just bought our first new house that already has a gardening area however the plants are near death. Thank you for your video! I am new to this. This was very educational. I'm praying that with baby steps, I can bring the garden back to life
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I have been having a problem with my garden drying out for a few years now. The soil would literally be dry dry and no amount of watering would help. It would just run off and waste water actually. Thank you for sharing this wonderful solution to my problem.
Thanks so much! Just what I needed today.
Hi Huw and thanks for this video - the soil in my polytunnel is exactly like that - dry and dusty, I will have to try this method and get it fixed 😊
Thank you so much and hopefully it'll be all fixed and ready for a productive growing season :D
Nothing beats a fresh garden tomato Sammy!
I'm thinking " who's Sammy?" haha
I found it easy and simple to do. Definitely trying this.
Great best of luck :)
Very good video. Thanks!
Greetings from Windermere, Florida zone 9b 🇺🇸
That was a terrific video.
What a big difference 👏
Great video Huw, really informative and love your child’s rake 😊
Very nice! I love tomatoes also.
Lord I needed this video ‼ Thank you ❤🌱😊
One of our raised beds was aquaphobic just like this. We didn’t work any water into the compost (super dry) when we filled the box for the first time which definitely caused issues. I appreciate seeing the quick fix as well as a longer term solution of adding the manure.
This actually helps alot! I love it! Also love the kids rake😂
Haha!!! I've been using "kid size" tools since my "kid size" person outgrew them!!! :D They ARE very handy to use....and for people that have strength issues: it gives them an opportunity to work with soil at their own pace and ability. If you need to purchase some for yourself: it's a worthy investment.
oh youtube recommended me this video at a good timing.. soil in my potager dries up really quickly
It looks good.
That looked EXACTLY like my dirt! I dug it up and added some organic material (and some water), but it didn’t work well….plants fail to thrive (I have mostly raised beds). Can’t wait to try your technique! Thanks!
detail information very beneficial for garden lovers
I thought this video was very well done. Subscribed. The final watering after a ~1" layer of compost is added will release nutrients to the bacteria below and get the soil microbiome working again. Exiting to see what looks like a nice bed unfold. Everyone needs a cow for all that wonderful peat-free compost.
to me that soil is dried out, not dead. that soil is like moondust, being static, rejecting water. using a slow fine water spray would moisturise the soil better than trying to throw a can onto it. If the soil is this dry, I stick bamboo into earth causing holes, spray the soil and do that a few times, eventually it will get wet without having to break your back turning the soil (the holes from bamboo can be spaced so they can be used for putting seeds in directly as well)
The littke kids rake 😂 love it! Good tips on reviving soil.
Great information Huw thank you 😊
Thank you! :)
Thank you. Most helpful.
I live in a very dry area. At home we no longer do strictly drip line irrigation for this reason. Too much of the soil is left dry, and it doesn't strike me as maintaining good soil health. We supplement with an oscillating sprinkler, which not only gets the soil more evenly moist but also manages to cool down the area effectively during the summer.
We also try to get the organic matter dug in well before planting, to have time to get everything wet down and give time for the worms to move in and do their work.
Superb vid and well presented. I needto find myself some well rotted manure to sort the soil at my plot 👍
So I saw a video the other day that was free or $7 later. I was busy so did not watch the whole thing But the gist of what I got from it was that the way to save the planet is to save the soil and the way to save the soil is to keep something anything growing on the surface and then plant without disturbing any of the surface stuff.
Apparently when you turn the soil all the nitrogen, carbon dioxide is released and other stuff which kills the soil. Apparently by keeping stuff growing it helps absorb needed CO2 from the air and puts it into the soil where it is needed.
What I can tell you is that when I was in Fiji the indigenous people did just that. Everything looked like wild forest except for a small corn field and they never tilled it or took down the left overs. Everything grew together and it was wonderful. Even their decorations in the village itself were some fruit tree or another.
I tried it in my own way and planted Mint all around to keep bugs away and I did something else as an experiment so I would not have to water the garden. I put large sheet of black plastic down and put bricks on it in the fall. At the time I did it as a lazy mans way of killing the weeds grass and what not. In the spring I made a hole puncher by sharpening a metal (pvc works too) and sharpen the edge really sharp. Then I simply pounded it through the plastic into the ground about three inches. Pulled the plug threw the seeds in and put a little mulch from a pile of leaves the the winter winds blew into a corner. Watered it, Put the plug back in and went to the next space.
Results? Awesome... the best tomatoes ever and they kept producing. I never watered it after they popped up and the next year there was a hidden benefit. My neighbor was always weeding her garden and never had the same results. So the next year we had a very wet season and most all her roots rotted from the wetness. The plastic caused the bulk of the water to run off and shield the ground from too much water and again I had a great crop.
By the second year there was grass that started invading and covering the plastic. I left it there except whatever was growing too tall and taking over but left the roots. Completely the opposite of what I was taught, "get the roots out or the weeds will deplete the soil of all the nutrients...". Not so in reality.
I admit I tilled the soil the first fall before putting the plastic down and did not the next two years and concluded basically what this video I can't find, was saying. Leave it alone and let it grow. So it makes sense now, to keep the good stuff in the soil. I think of a worm and how it dies if it is brought to the surface.. it dies. Apparently there is a whole ecosystem under there and when we till it, like vitamin C, when we open it up to the air... its is gone in 30 seconds, which is why "Nature and Natures God" made all those tiny sweet sacks to keep the air out and the vitamin C in.
My three cents worth hope this is useful. What I like most about it is that it frees up my time to give thanks to Creator and be happy and shhhhh talking to plants really works too... shhhhh. :-} Blessings
I do the same thing during late winter or early spring before i plant my seedlings for the summer crop.
A great video!
Gives me hope!
Superb thank you very much
Very well done. Thank you sir!
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I would plant a diverse cover crop to encourage soil biology. And leave the roots in the soil after terminating the cover crops to increase organic matter.
Found this while looking into how I start from nowhere on some ground under the windows on my ground-floor flat. Will be applying this and will report back .
Hi Huw great informative video. There was such a great difference between those beds with just a bit of work. We have worked in loads of manure and will top with our homemade compost this year, especially on Tomato bed we growing about 30 plants so want to make sure the soil is the best it can be. Thanks for sharing Jan 💐
That was helpful and interesting because my full garden with clay soil gets to wet at winter and too dry at summer. I've added wood chips to see if that helps by spring
Great tips, thank you so much bro👍
Thank you for this video.
First time I've seen someone use a toy rake in there garden makes me want to try that insted of useing my larger tools
Those boots look really good on Huw. damn....
No need to turn over your Soil Huw! Here in Perth, Western Australia we grow on beach sand that turns hydrophobic at the look of a cloud. Industry here has to pioneered the use of wetting agents that help break down the waxy layer formed by microbes of all things and allow the soil/sand to absorb some water. These wetting agents can also promote beneficial results in plants with the addition of liquid compost, soil humates, seaweed solution etc.
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I used the no-dig method until I realized I was breeding some of the nastiest garden pests year after year. Tilling has always been a necessary task for a reason and one of those reasons is to reduce pest pressure. You till at the end of the season and then again at the beginning of the season. So in an area where you have cold winters, the first tilling in the fall brings up some of the pupa and it freezes in the winter and they die. Then in the early spring, you till it again to bring up more pupa, which are destroyed by the sun and/or eaten by birds.
The criticisms below reminds me of when I opened a beautiful rustic high end restaurant in the countryside. Immediately every self-styled "critic" crawled out of the dirt to tear it down with their mind-numbing, ignorance inspired attacks. Nothing attracts these microbes quicker than success. Great work Huw! Incidentally, where are you? Haven't seen you for several weeks.