I'm a retired soil scientist and am really pleased to see you testing your soil. So many people skip this step and wonder why they're having soil fertility issues. I'd say no to the chickens in the greenhouse. Not only is it messy, but chicken litter is extremely high in phosphorus. Too high in most cases. You can get most of your nitrogen needs with organic fertilizers. Don't over water. It causes excessive leaching of nutrients. Sandy loam is a great soil texture for gardens. You should have many years of successful gardening.
My Wife suggests staggering the planting of the snow peas so you have fresh ones for a longer part of the season. She also votes for the organic fertilizers. :-)
I would use as much natural additives as you can. We grow are food to stay away from chemicals when possible. At least that is what I try to do. TAKE CARE and STAY WELL and WARM HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL
Awesome segment! Soil is the key! I love the oyster shell/blood meal combo.. its all organic and will define contribute to your cation exchange. Keep it organic if you can! When we process chickens, we like to drain the blood over sawdust. The sawdust absorbs the blood and makes it easy to spread over the garden/orchard soil once it dries. The sawdust adds organic matter to the soil, too. Just be careful to use sawdust from something like a birch or Cottonwood that will decompose quickly. Not cedar, and probably not walnut, which have allelopathic qualities. I love our North Idaho sandy loam.
Chicken poop can be a little too hot for plants. Usually, you want to compost it first. I would honestly recommend you look up lasagna gardening, too. It will help give you a good idea how to maintain a healthy soil. Rabbits, however, are great at producing an instant fertilizer. It can go directly into your soil without burning your plants' roots. Unfortunately I have no videos of my own yet to show you what Im talking about. But I will be making some next year. Last year was just a terrible year for me. Can check out Simple Living Alaska. They have some AMAZING gardening tips, especially for cold climates.
On several days will some second plantation in your a eclusive greenhouse. I think expensive also that for The Lab-greenhouse of mine Mrs Julies, like menntion from Mr. Johnson. Good luck all activity a Martin Johnson Family.❤
Hey brother Martin, here is how to get information on any object. In your case plants. 1. Take a picture, 2. Select share image, 3. Select Google search image, 4. Select search, 5. Scroll down at the bottom of the page and you will start seeing your images. I hope that helps you and then you'll never have to ask us information about what kind of plant is this or anything else. So have a wonderful day and bless you in all that you do
Good to see you have the greenhouse all done now 👍, Green brown green brown takes a long time to get good compost, I prefer the organic myself :) I use a lot of strippings from my yard with a lot of small root & leaves top soil 12"s deep & it grows fantastic 😃, If you have seen some of my garden videos, Just always rotate where you plant things each year as they all use different minerals from the soil,
Plant Broad beans, you can eat them, remove outer skin and boil or eat raw, delicious. Leave the roots, stems, in the ground and dig them in, this will provide you with natural Nitrogen. Two for the price of one. UK viewer.
I think the chickens are a great idea! Did you ask the lab? I know nothing about blood meal, but I do know most beef cows here in the midwest are injected with growth hormone when they're calves.
Looks like a looks like a lot of work but once you have it you will love it :) I put the soil with all the little roots so as they rot down they create great fertilizer 👍, Merry Christmas & a happy New Year !
Good Luck With The Greenhouse. God Bless Merry Christmas And Happy New Year To You and Your Family Have Great Holidays With Your Family And Friends.🙏🕊️🥀🌹🌻🌼☕❤️💜🎄
Check acidity, moisture, and nutrients. Moss and algae love acidic, wet soil with lots of shade. Weeds! And, in our raised garden beds, for the first three years, I purchased, in a ratio of 1:1:1, 1 back of composted manure, 1 bag of raised garden bed soil (mostly finely graded mulch), and top soil. Mix them all together and spread across the planting area. I lightly turn it over each fall and cover for the winter (don't have a greenhouse). I treat the yard with lime annually and toss some into the raised garden beds as well. We also use leftovers from the dinner table, garden leftovers, and a scoop of manure and garden soil into our compost pile when turning. The food decomposes quicker than leaves and branches. Hope you get it figured out.
Chickens poop needs time to compost “cool down” or it may burn your new veggies. It may be 6 weeks they have to be out of the greenhouse before you plant.
During growing season my free-range chickens are contained in a very large area; however, once the garden is finished I surround the garden with a portable chicken fence from Premiere 1 and contain them within the garden. They completely clean-up all the remaining plants, weeds, etc. which gives them good nutrients. I keep them there until early spring when I’m ready to prepare the garden for tilling and getting it ready for planting. I think allowing the chickens in your greenhouse during the winter months would be very beneficial to your garden soil and the health of the chickens; however, keep the cats out…
I had are chicken coop was right next to the garden and I used to put the chickens in the Garden at least once every couple of days and are Garden did fantastic
Chicken poop needs to cure 45 to 60 days before it can be used in your garden. There are some that say it takes even longer. I personally would do it because it won’t have time to break down withe the cold temperatures. But I by far am no expert.
Para lugares con riego artificial, siempre es mejor el suelo con mayor proporción de arena. Usen fertilizacion en el agua de riego, entonces ya se incorpora en forma liquida. Los fertilizantes sinteticos, son mejores porque tenemos mas certeza de la composicion real de cada elemento. Se puede usar NPK (usado para agricultura) y carbonato de calcio espolvoreado. Tambien es necesario ver los niveles de hierro en un invernadero. Lo que necesiten, me pueden consultar!
Ur compost needs manure to keep it warm & working. A combo of carbon & nitrogen is what keeps it working. Plus u should turn it constantly. The temp should be above 100 for it to b breaking down.
Chickens overwinter in the greenhouse, have to keep cats out, especially not using the soil as a bathroom. Very bad ammonia, and germs. Here in Florida, sandy loam soil is great. I use 20-0-0 here for nitrogen, some potash, and compost. Love what ya'll are doing ❤
i went to a local garden center/landscaper (SW Montana) and bought a few yards of their bulk garden soil mix. where i put it, my plants were at least twice as productive. the cost for a cubic yard was about the same as 3 bags of soil from home depot. so much cheaper with better results than the big-name brand stuff. also the cat/dog poop is unhealthy for you and your garden, it is equal to human poop. it takes a couple of years for it to breakdown. chickens, rabbits, horses and cow poop all breakdown real fast and become healthy soil as long as it is not over done.
Awesome green house. I’m not a gardener so I cannot answer your questions. However, have a Blessed Holy Merry Christmas celebrating the birth of the Savior of the world. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄👏👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Marty an Julie get a big load of cow manure that's well high in manure with straw mixed from local farm and dig a ditch at all three ends put manure in and turn over soil then repeat all down each row till they have good bed of manure leave over winter ghen in the spring the rows will have well rotted down rich in nutrition for the vegetables you will get bumper harvest .for sure . And do every fall with cow manure every year . Your soil needs much needed nutrients
We use blood meal to help our gardens. We put our chickens underneath our apple tree and the next year we harvest 600# of apples that hardly had any bugs cuz they helped with that too. Worth having them in there for a month or two. Roost bars and a sharp slanted board over your growing box so they don't roost on that... they'll eat anything left but just poop some good stuff.
Living in SoCal my father raised more than 350 Rabbits as a Part-Time Business and then bagged up their Poop and Sold it to people at work... And we had the Best Garden, with no real Science behind it!
Eggshells in the compost pile. Chicken Poop is pretty high in natural fertilizer. Macronutrients: Nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) Secondary nutrients: Calcium, magnesium, and sulfur Micronutrients: Copper, zinc, manganese, chlorine, boron, iron, and molybdenum Could be the FREE solution to your soil issue.
organic fertilizer take longer to be effective but will last longer and will have better long term soil health benifits. Remember your not growing vetables your growing soil. You can always apply other fertilizers if needed.
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I'm a retired soil scientist and am really pleased to see you testing your soil. So many people skip this step and wonder why they're having soil fertility issues. I'd say no to the chickens in the greenhouse. Not only is it messy, but chicken litter is extremely high in phosphorus. Too high in most cases. You can get most of your nitrogen needs with organic fertilizers. Don't over water. It causes excessive leaching of nutrients. Sandy loam is a great soil texture for gardens. You should have many years of successful gardening.
Chicken's in greenhouse for sure , keep cats out of greenhouse.
As a calcium additive, I save my egg shells, put them in a blender to create a powder.
I find it as a quick release source for the plants.
No cats in the garden!!!
the first plant you wanted identified is common thyme, and it's over watered. the second plant is Oregano
You need to keep cat's out of your green house from using it as a bathroom not good for growing food.
Seconded
I would recommend to plant some Chard and Palm cabbage for your next Season
I agree
Cat feces is bad for growing food in or around it , not good for you to eat food grown in cat poop
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! As always, God bless you and your families from your long-time California subscriber 🙏 🤲
The channel Simple Living Alaska has many videos on gardening in the playlist. They prepare soil two times for two gardens all naturally.
Yes on chickens. Justin Rodes put down wood chips then added chicken
My Wife suggests staggering the planting of the snow peas so you have fresh ones for a longer part of the season. She also votes for the organic fertilizers. :-)
I would use as much natural additives as you can. We grow are food to stay away from chemicals when possible. At least that is what I try to do.
TAKE CARE and STAY WELL and WARM HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL
I would strongly suggest building raised garden beds in there and not using the ground. Otherwise the frost is gonna just keep decimating it.
Since you have spent so much on your greenhouse, consider fully contained raised beds and purchase good soil. You will better control over everything.
Merry Christmas
And Happy New Year
God Bless you all
Thank you for sharing, and have a Merry Christmas.
U and Marty are blessed to have the kids there helping U!!
I believe a natural fertilizer would be that compost pile. Make it bigger and tend to it so it stays active. Til that into soil in spring .
Awesome segment! Soil is the key! I love the oyster shell/blood meal combo.. its all organic and will define contribute to your cation exchange. Keep it organic if you can!
When we process chickens, we like to drain the blood over sawdust. The sawdust absorbs the blood and makes it easy to spread over the garden/orchard soil once it dries. The sawdust adds organic matter to the soil, too. Just be careful to use sawdust from something like a birch or Cottonwood that will decompose quickly. Not cedar, and probably not walnut, which have allelopathic qualities.
I love our North Idaho sandy loam.
Enjoyed the video. Thanks for sharing
Chicken poop can be a little too hot for plants. Usually, you want to compost it first. I would honestly recommend you look up lasagna gardening, too. It will help give you a good idea how to maintain a healthy soil. Rabbits, however, are great at producing an instant fertilizer. It can go directly into your soil without burning your plants' roots. Unfortunately I have no videos of my own yet to show you what Im talking about. But I will be making some next year. Last year was just a terrible year for me. Can check out Simple Living Alaska. They have some AMAZING gardening tips, especially for cold climates.
Merry Christmas to all your family god bless you all.
I have a raised beds ever since I put alpaca manure in my beds I’ve had the best garden.
merry christmas and happy new year Johnson family greetings from the netherlands
Use your egg shells for the calcium and Pineneedles for your nitrogen
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to your wonderful family! God bless you all
We have some goat barn clean out. We could load your trailer up.
On several days will some second plantation in your a eclusive greenhouse.
I think expensive also that for The Lab-greenhouse of mine Mrs Julies, like menntion from Mr. Johnson.
Good luck all activity a Martin Johnson Family.❤
Merry Christmas to you both and family.
Hey brother Martin, here is how to get information on any object. In your case plants. 1. Take a picture, 2. Select share image, 3. Select Google search image, 4. Select search, 5. Scroll down at the bottom of the page and you will start seeing your images. I hope that helps you and then you'll never have to ask us information about what kind of plant is this or anything else. So have a wonderful day and bless you in all that you do
Look forward to the test results
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first plant is thyme, i think the second plant is pond-water starwort
The first is thyme but the second looks like Oregano.
I agree with Martin, sometimes I don’t!!😆
Latte are for all!🎄 Merry Christmas Johnson family🎄
Marry Christmas pak Martin and bu sarah🎉
what size is your green house and how long will the poly siding last ?
My dad used chicken droppings for many years to fertilize his huge garden with excellent results.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas ❤
hope you all have a lovely christmas from england
Looks like savory and oregano but it’s hard to tell without seeing them in person and smelling them too.
Weeds
Good to see you have the greenhouse all done now 👍, Green brown green brown takes a long time to get good compost, I prefer the organic myself :) I use a lot of strippings from my yard with a lot of small root & leaves top soil 12"s deep & it grows fantastic 😃, If you have seen some of my garden videos, Just always rotate where you plant things each year as they all use different minerals from the soil,
I liked your idea of letting the chickens in green house their mature high in nitrogen . Timing needs to be address, like how long etc.
Plant Broad beans, you can eat them, remove outer skin and boil or eat raw, delicious. Leave the roots, stems, in the ground and dig them in, this will provide you with natural Nitrogen. Two for the price of one. UK viewer.
I think the chickens are a great idea! Did you ask the lab? I know nothing about blood meal, but I do know most beef cows here in the midwest are injected with growth hormone when they're calves.
Merry Christmas guys and a great new year 🎄🇦🇺🥂✨💥
Looks like a looks like a lot of work but once you have it you will love it :) I put the soil with all the little roots so as they rot down they create great fertilizer 👍, Merry Christmas & a happy New Year !
Andersons - DGL DARK GREEN LAWN™ 25-0-0 is an excellent soil fertilizer
I grew up in Parma, Idaho in the 60s. We always called the Western Laboratories the Experiment Station.
Merry Christmas Guys
Natural fertilizer only.
Good Luck With The Greenhouse. God Bless Merry Christmas And Happy New Year To You and Your Family Have Great Holidays With Your Family And Friends.🙏🕊️🥀🌹🌻🌼☕❤️💜🎄
Check acidity, moisture, and nutrients. Moss and algae love acidic, wet soil with lots of shade. Weeds! And, in our raised garden beds, for the first three years, I purchased, in a ratio of 1:1:1, 1 back of composted manure, 1 bag of raised garden bed soil (mostly finely graded mulch), and top soil. Mix them all together and spread across the planting area. I lightly turn it over each fall and cover for the winter (don't have a greenhouse). I treat the yard with lime annually and toss some into the raised garden beds as well. We also use leftovers from the dinner table, garden leftovers, and a scoop of manure and garden soil into our compost pile when turning. The food decomposes quicker than leaves and branches. Hope you get it figured out.
Watching today from Rexburg Idaho.
Chickens in greenhouse excellent idea. Have a roosting bar in there
Good morning and Merry Christmas. I think putting your chickens in the greenhouse over winter will take care of most of your soil issues.
Chickens poop needs time to compost “cool down” or it may burn your new veggies. It may be 6 weeks they have to be out of the greenhouse before you plant.
I personally would try all organic fertilizers.
Great idea, it wld be putting nutrients in soil
love your videos, don't stop sharing 🙂 ty
blood meal has always worked for me potash is another
During growing season my free-range chickens are contained in a very large area; however, once the garden is finished I surround the garden with a portable chicken fence from Premiere 1 and contain them within the garden. They completely clean-up all the remaining plants, weeds, etc. which gives them good nutrients. I keep them there until early spring when I’m ready to prepare the garden for tilling and getting it ready for planting. I think allowing the chickens in your greenhouse during the winter months would be very beneficial to your garden soil and the health of the chickens; however, keep the cats out…
Merry Christmas
I had are chicken coop was right next to the garden and I used to put the chickens in the Garden at least once every couple of days and are Garden did fantastic
i always have a Latte with lots of milk. 70 yr old male.
Take the trailer and by some cow manure and tilit in the garden.. Marry christmas from a farmer in sweden 🇸🇪
Chicken poop needs to cure 45 to 60 days before it can be used in your garden. There are some that say it takes even longer. I personally would do it because it won’t have time to break down withe the cold temperatures. But I by far am no expert.
Hehehe No cat poop. I would use the chickens. I would try the organic Way first, and see how that goes. Good job.
yes should have done that before you pulled the weeds
The unknown herb is Thyme.
Para lugares con riego artificial, siempre es mejor el suelo con mayor proporción de arena. Usen fertilizacion en el agua de riego, entonces ya se incorpora en forma liquida. Los fertilizantes sinteticos, son mejores porque tenemos mas certeza de la composicion real de cada elemento. Se puede usar NPK (usado para agricultura) y carbonato de calcio espolvoreado.
Tambien es necesario ver los niveles de hierro en un invernadero. Lo que necesiten, me pueden consultar!
One looks like Thyme in the raised bed
Cow or and sheep dropings best for veggies
Be organic as much as possible. Keep cats outta there! Love em, but it's not their litterbox
Nitro-phos is what we use in Texas and they do have a 21-0-0. It’s the best fertilizer I’ve found.
Ur compost needs manure to keep it warm & working. A combo of carbon & nitrogen is what keeps it working. Plus u should turn it constantly. The temp should be above 100 for it to b breaking down.
Chickens overwinter in the greenhouse, have to keep cats out, especially not using the soil as a bathroom. Very bad ammonia, and germs. Here in Florida, sandy loam soil is great. I use 20-0-0 here for nitrogen, some potash, and compost. Love what ya'll are doing ❤
i went to a local garden center/landscaper (SW Montana) and bought a few yards of their bulk garden soil mix. where i put it, my plants were at least twice as productive. the cost for a cubic yard was about the same as 3 bags of soil from home depot. so much cheaper with better results than the big-name brand stuff. also the cat/dog poop is unhealthy for you and your garden, it is equal to human poop. it takes a couple of years for it to breakdown. chickens, rabbits, horses and cow poop all breakdown real fast and become healthy soil as long as it is not over done.
Como gosto do tio da construção americano, ele é top,aprendo muito com ele. Um ótimo natal e um abençoado ano novo.
Awesome green house. I’m not a gardener so I cannot answer your questions.
However, have a Blessed Holy Merry Christmas celebrating the birth of the Savior of the world. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄👏👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Marty an Julie get a big load of cow manure that's well high in manure with straw mixed from local farm and dig a ditch at all three ends put manure in and turn over soil then repeat all down each row till they have good bed of manure leave over winter ghen in the spring the rows will have well rotted down rich in nutrition for the vegetables you will get bumper harvest .for sure . And do every fall with cow manure every year . Your soil needs much needed nutrients
I used a big bale of green hay, but I have raets beds, and I give half the vegetables away because I can't eat it all
Natural fertilizer is better. It's more available in the soil for the plants. Like blood meal will decompose while synthetics only dissolve.
Thyme (I think, but it was hard to see clearly)and oregano.
greenhouse bagus pak martin hope banyak tanaman buah strawberry and tomato
We use blood meal to help our gardens. We put our chickens underneath our apple tree and the next year we harvest 600# of apples that hardly had any bugs cuz they helped with that too. Worth having them in there for a month or two. Roost bars and a sharp slanted board over your growing box so they don't roost on that... they'll eat anything left but just poop some good stuff.
Living in SoCal my father raised more than 350 Rabbits as a Part-Time Business and then bagged up their Poop and Sold it to people at work... And we had the Best Garden, with no real Science behind it!
Organic all the way
Yes on chickens in the greenhouse. They can be there now, even after you have cleaned up.
Chickens definitely in the greenhouse. If you don't want them on top of anything, put a board at a steep angle so they can't sit on it.
As a gardener, I've witnessed that when I used natural fertilizers, I had insects in the garden. Then, when I used synthetic fertilizers.
Then? What happened?
We’re guessing, oregano and rosemary
I agree with Marty. raised bed are the best, and definitely keep the cats out of the garden.
small leaf is herb time round leaf is herb Oregano fresh need more then also work well dry
I agree. First one you asked about was thyme. Second one was oregano. Or that is what it looks like to me on the camera.
you would need a mobile chicken coop for the greenhouse.
Get a good book or video on Organic Gardening .
Chickens will eliminate any bug problems in the greenhouse and introduce certain byproducts
Eggshells in the compost pile. Chicken Poop is pretty high in natural fertilizer.
Macronutrients: Nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K)
Secondary nutrients: Calcium, magnesium, and sulfur
Micronutrients: Copper, zinc, manganese, chlorine, boron, iron, and molybdenum
Could be the FREE solution to your soil issue.
organic fertilizer take longer to be effective but will last longer and will have better long term soil health benifits. Remember your not growing vetables your growing soil. You can always apply other fertilizers if needed.
Sow the Land put their chickens in the greenhouse to clean it up and fertilize.