Preparing soil for vegie success
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- Tino is down at The Patch looking at the great soil that’s the result of years of compost and manures making it friable and delicious to vegetable crops. The quality of your soil reflects directly of the quality of your vegetables, so if you’re starting a new patch, try Tino’s simple steps to success.
You’ll need (based on 1 x 2m vegie patch):
- Agricultural lime
- 5 handfuls of gypsum
- ½ bucket of charcoal
- 2 x 25 litre bags of cow manure
- 2 x 25 litre bags of poultry manure
- 1 x barrow of compost (substitute mushroom compost if you don’t have your own)
- 3 handfuls of blood and bone
- 3 handfuls or worm castings
- A selection of vegetables. Tino used 6 seedlings of kohlrabi and 6 seedlings of perpetual spinach.
Method:
- Mark out a 1m x 2m patch somewhere in the sun where you want to grow vegetables.
- Apply agricultural lime as per instructions on bag then wait a few weeks.
- Turn the soil over using a spade to about 30cm deep (more if your soil is very heavy).
- Remove any rocks and roots.
- Spread gypsum, charcoal, manures, compost, blood and bone and worm castings evenly across the plot, then fork over thoroughly and mix well.
- Water thoroughly and let sit for a few weeks if possible before planting.
- Plant vegetable seedlings and water well.
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Thank you for sharing this. I am new to growing vegetables and I have always been a tad shy at starting because I didn't know the amounts of each things to help it come together right - so thank you!
Mulch is a good option. Especially in australia when season gets hot
Good luck with Logie Awards!
Specially Thanks Tino Carnevale - good,warm and professional presenter!
What are Logie Awards? For gardening?
@@loopy7057 Australian TV awards.
Came for gardening tips. Stayed for the accent. Hi from Kansas, USA
Hi from arizona ! What part of Kansas are you at ?
@@rosemarymurray8256 Near Wichita
@@BlueblueBananaretirement cool my husband is from king man ,do you know where that is ?
@@rosemarymurray8256 yep 😊
@@BlueblueBananaretirement yay ! It's been years since we have been to Kansas, I hope all is well with you and your family ? Stay safe ,
If thats the soil,anyone can grow anything, love it.
Nice video. "A little bit of work now, will pay dividends later" Brilliant!
good knowledge for planting, well done max
That dirt on your hands..... Now that's what makes gardening touch your soul.
I’ve been driving around for months now Tino & I still haven’t found any cow manure on the side of the road :)
loogiemistress you did it wrong it worked for me
agree, maybe in the country, but not in suburban melbourne.
😂
Hi Tino, I laid down a patch, following your instructions, but it does not receive much sunlight during the day and it is the only spot in my small garden where there is enough room to grow veggies. Since planting a week ago, a variety of autumnal vegetables and then watering them in, the soil has not dried, it is saturated and doesn't seem to be draining. I haven't seen any growth so far, a week, but am not sure if the water logging will discourage the seeds from germinating. Thank you for your video, Nick.
Hi Tino, just asking your opinion to dig to no dig gardening?
I’ve been a dig gardener.
What a useful video; thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Love your video man
You should only use chicken poo because cow and horse poo is usually full of weed seeds
You should try some NEUTROG Giganic, is brilliant for the vegies, herbs and my favorite, Rhubarb.
Hi from the UK. On your Permablitz video where comments are not permitted, there are cement wall planters with hex fronts. Never seen them before. Do they have a name? Never seen them before and I have the perfect use for them in my garden. Thanks from Dartmoor Permaculture.
A lot of inaccuracies in this video (pretty common for Gardening Australia, unfortunately).
Mushroom compost is the second-most expensive compost next to certified organic.
Lime AND gypsum? No. Only add ammendments if your soil is deficient. Too much calcium can actually ruin your soil if you have enough calcium already.
All that digging will only loosen soil temporarily, and make compaction worse in the long term (even cause "capping") leaving you in a perpetual cycle of having to dig and fork your soil. This is all remediated by all the organic matter, but why not avoid all the sore backs and just dump the compost on the soil and let the worms do the work? The only time you should be digging garden soil is if you have to remove something (like old tree roots).
I KNEW you were going to push no-dig. You guys are the vegans of the gardening world. There is little benefit to be no-dig or dig when it comes to annuals. Perennials yes, but for most veggies digging in amendments does have benefits to the soil. They don't require fungi relationships as much as the perennials.
@@matthewfarrell317 I agree there are a lot of hippies pushing ideas that have little-to-no basis on fact, and there are occasions where digging is beneficial. But you assume I'm just echoing the permaculture rhetoric with no scientific knowledge. I've had the scientific uni education, mate, and the stuff I teach has been scientifically proven for decades and decades. No hippie classes, here. ;) But, you can look into things further if you want, or leave it, I don't mind. :)
Could you recommend what compost or manure to buy? I agree that mushroom compost is expensive about $5 a bag of 25L at Bunnings. Maures almost $7 a bag. There is Ricardo organic compost which is $4. Osmocote premium potting mix seems like good value $13 for 50L with red ticks but has inorganic fertilisers added to it. Thanks!
@@tuzan9582 That varies wildly depending on where you live. I prefer to buy certified (ACO) organic compost from a local permaculture farm, I know what goes into it, works out to be $40/m3. I make my own as well, but I don't have the space (or time) to make compost in the volume I need.
If you Google "Certified organic compost" with the suburbs/cities near you, you'll probably find a distributor of municipal compost that has been tested for contaminants to meet certified organic standards (be sure to get the lab results- they'll give you a printout). Order enough compost to get you through a year and you'll probably get an affordable price for it. Will almost certainly have some plastic/glass/metal contaminants, but at least you won't be spreading aminopyralids or some-such on your garden (as has been found in "budget" Bunnings manures/composts). :) Sorry I couldn't be of more help!
Inspiring
Cheers for this vid, mate. Can I ask, what kinds of shops sell the ingredients in this recipe? Hello from America
Bunnings.
Garden centres should have them
Kudos for the video content! Sorry for the intrusion, I am interested in your thoughts. Have you heard the talk about - Parlandealey Impetigo Goodbye Process (Sure I saw it on Google)? It is a great exclusive guide for learning how to grow your own organic vegetables using hydroponics without the hard work. Ive heard some unbelievable things about it and my GF finally got excellent results with it.
That heavy labour is enough to deter or exclude a lot of people. Try 'no dig' methods and avoid turning the soil
This is glorious, I have been researching "how to make organic soil at home" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Fonillian Uncomplex Future - (just google it )?
It is a smashing exclusive guide for discovering how to add breathtaking landscaping designs to your home minus the normal expense. Ive heard some interesting things about it and my cousin got excellent results with it.
Sigh. A lot of no-dig people will do an initial till of the soil to get them started. Very few people are starting with good enough soil unless you want to wait a year. Hence why the first till.
Second, no-dig is far better suited for perennials than annuals. There is little benefit for plants that live for 3-6 months. Now fruit trees etc with feeder roots, no-dig is better. Not everyone is lazy, or have a health condition that stops them from doing work, and even those of us who do, my bad back, enjoy the digging a lot. You should try it.
thats a LOT of single use plastic from all those bags of compost and manure, have you thought of doing a video on a waste free garden? no plastic waste etc? nice videos though, just found you guys and you're giving me loads of ideas.
And cruelty free.
we use our bags over and over again. I doubt anyone uses them just once? My husband even washes them and hangs them on the line to dry. if we don't need them, they go to the red cycle. yesterday, I delivered 6 asparagus crowns to various people, using those bags
@@gippslandfires I don't know anyone that DOES use them again lol
i really get great point
How I can come to your garden
This video was shot just next to 'Pete's Patch' in the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens. You should definitely visit, it's amazing!
Does anyone know what those pink flowers are at the beginning of the video?
Good super man
White stuff in the turned soil at 00:52 mark ? Beneficial fungus ?
It was, he just destroyed it.
Hmmm, frankly sourcing all the given components is far from obvious (where I live, ie Canberra)
Bunnings? I'm sure there are cheaper options around but I'm pretty new to gardening so it's Bunnings at the moment 😁
what road do you live on ??????????
This video was shot just next to 'Pete's Patch' in the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens. You should definitely visit, it's amazing!
Wat is vegie.?
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don't work your soil if it's dry. check your ph before adding lime
What's wrong with rocks and roots. Don't remove, loosen and keep.
Bone and blood?? God
Don't worry, it isn't human 😂😂
$50??? Bull. This show is good for basics but the less you spend the more cost effective it is.And isn't that really the point behind better quality and health??
Too much manuer could burn the plant roots..that's way too much