I'm impressed with the way you take care of your garden. Most want you to buy this or that and do this or that. You garden like we did as kids.growing up here in Michigan. We did add some broken down cattle manure bcuz we had so much of it and we grew so many plants in such a small space. But our harvests were so bountiful. They had to be to feed our 3 generational homestead. And to barter, and help out some elder friends who couldn't do it anymore. Please make more videos with more advice for gardeners.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and techniques, A total eye opener and very pertinent information. It seems so obvious once you say, Mother nature is absolutely the original master gardener. Hey hay do you think it would be ok to mulch in the first year with a bunch of shreaded gardening books?...half seriously.
Bowman, soo funny! What else are they good for, right? Years ago there was the wave of using newspapers as mulch but I think is was discovered that the ink and dye were not a good addition to the garden.
Delilah, While pine shavings will help retain moisture and help control weeds, it contributes very little to the soil web required for growing good vegetables.
Yes, but the soil will still be fairly firm with sod that hasn’t had time to break down. Good for setting out plants like peppers, tomatoes, squash, and herbs.
If im gonna plant carrots or other seeds, do I do it the same way you did the sunflowers, make a furrow and bot cover the soil with hay so the sun can reach it?
Quinton, if you are starting with thick turf then it may not be completely decomposed for small seeds like carrots. A lot depends upon what you’re starting with. By the second season you should be good to go.
I looked at your video’s part 1 and 2. I ‘m new to gardening and have a small backyard and want to get the best start as I can. Your soil was already prefect. What about us with sandy soil and is there a way I can contact you to ask questions. Thank you.
I love your method of gardening. I have been gardening 3 yrs now and love it. I started out the way i was taught which is tilling, adding 10-10-10 and gardening lime. All the weeding and bending was terrible on my body. I am limited due to medical conditions. I went to raised bed gardening (with open bottom) and did the huglekulture method but was using organic fertilzers and such. My garden did beautifully! However, we are selling our house in maryland and moving to Tennessee so i will be starting all over and at least the first yr of gardening would have to be in-ground gardening. Your method seems wonderful and easy. I still need to do raised beds (18" + high) due to my physical limitations/disabilities and will be adding them in slowly over a yr. My questions are: 1. Do you feel i could adapt this to my raised beds, seems as it would do the same? 2. If so, do you see any issues with using the huglekulture method to fill my beds? The worms loved this method and they break it all down extremely fast. So long as i have a foot or two of soil on top then add the 8" of hay, seems like it would be good. But curious what you think? 3. What about feeding the plants throughout the growing season? Feed every few weeks or let it go and let the soil, broken down hay and worms and their castings😢 feed the vegetables? Btw, would love to see many more videos from you. Thank you for your videos.
Hi Tonya! The mulching method should work very well for raised beds. Huglekultur is unnecessary since the hay and microbes will accomplish the same thing. There is no need to feed the gardens anything, just keep the hay 6 to 8” deep.
Slugs and mulch go hand in hand. The small DeKay’s brown snake also loves mulch and its main menu is slugs so we have a natural control. It’s native to the whole east cost and it will find your garden and settle right in. This miniature snake is docile and completely harmless.
@@connor4010On the west coast and started using beer traps this year for slugs in addition to a few night patrols to hand pick the tiny buggers off.. worked really great! If you haven’t heard of beer traps you simply place a small open top container (like a ramekin) of cheap beer on top the soil near your plants, it attracts them and they can’t get out of the liquid. Hope that helps!
Hi Clif, I love your videos and your success! Do you think Tractor Supply hay would work ok? They have bales and rolls. They have Timothy Compressed Hay or Alfalfa/Orchard Hay. Would one be better than the other?
Hi Denise! The king of hay you apply is not nearly as important as how it way grown. Applying herbicides to the hay field is the rule-of-thumb for conventional growers. Ask if the hay was grown with 2-4d or Grazon before you purchase. If so, don’t put this on your garden! Cliff
I've already started my garden before I seen your videos. Can I still add hay? Do you pull your plants up after harvest? What can I do about squash boars? I hope you don't mind so many questions, do you compost?
Hi Delilah! Put your hay on at anytime and keep it on. I pull plants after harvest. Squash borer can be controlled by spraying young sprouts with kaolin especially around the ground and stem, and I keep hay pulled up really snug around the plant to keep the nocturnal moth from finding where to inject her eggs. I don’t have a compost pile since the hay composts right on the gardens. Cliff
I pull the spent plants that go into my landfill. It keeps the mulched gardens neat for the winter. Additionally it breaks the life cycle of over- wintering insects that may have established themselves.
I found a farm in Waycross, GA that is harvesting un-sprayed wheat this week and making bales and rolls available by the end of May, 2024. I assume they will be available every year around this time. It's about 1.5 hour drive for me, so I am still searching to see if something is here in Jacksonville, FL. Anyone know of clean hay here?
After threshing wheat, only straw is baled. Although it will conserve moisture and suppress weeds it contributes very little to the feeding of the soil and plants. You really need hay!
@@jarheadfarm6811I’m in Wisconsin and I’m so excited to have found your videos. My garden is continually run over by weeds and creeping Charlie. I’m going to use your method, but have to find some clean hay first. After you mulch in the winter do you mulch again in the spring?
Hi Hippie Mom! I’m glad you like the videos. Yes, keep the hay thick all year as it breaks down and the worms pull it into the soil. Happy easy gardening to you ✌🏻
Roy, although ants are an aggressive ally in the garden, fire ants can be a big problem. I found that as a last resort diatomaceous earth does a good job of controlling them.
My fiance and I just bought a 9 acre property. I am going to try your method, but unfortunately the land is covered in trees right now. Do you think it would be ok to use wood chips instead of straw? The trees are just part of the woods and are not tested. Thank you and God bless ❤
Wood chips will suppress weeds and hold a lot of moisture but the decay rate is so slow that they don’t substantially contribute to a healthy soil web. If they’re oak tress then the chips keep the PH fairly acidic.
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I live in Toccoa, excellent videos.
Good job, Cliff❣️
Oh my goodness,
I am going to try this method.
This IS the simplest way to garden.
Thank you
I'm impressed with the way you take care of your garden. Most want you to buy this or that and do this or that. You garden like we did as kids.growing up here in Michigan. We did add some broken down cattle manure bcuz we had so much of it and we grew so many plants in such a small space. But our harvests were so bountiful. They had to be to feed our 3 generational homestead. And to barter, and help out some elder friends who couldn't do it anymore.
Please make more videos with more advice for gardeners.
Hi Cliff long time no see you always had nice gardens hope all is well your way!....Terrie
Could you make a video showing how and when you collect and use the kaolin clay?
Yes I need to do that. Give me a few weeks!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and techniques, A total eye opener and very pertinent information. It seems so obvious once you say, Mother nature is absolutely the original master gardener.
Hey hay do you think it would be ok to mulch in the first year with a bunch of shreaded gardening books?...half seriously.
Bowman, soo funny! What else are they good for, right? Years ago there was the wave of using newspapers as mulch but I think is was discovered that the ink and dye were not a good addition to the garden.
@Jarheadfarms Cliff can I use pine shavings for mulch?
Delilah,
While pine shavings will help retain moisture and help control weeds, it contributes very little to the soil web required for growing good vegetables.
If you mow and mulch now in May, when can you start planting? Love your lifestyle!!
Yes, but the soil will still be fairly firm with sod that hasn’t had time to break down. Good for setting out plants like peppers, tomatoes, squash, and herbs.
If im gonna plant carrots or other seeds, do I do it the same way you did the sunflowers, make a furrow and bot cover the soil with hay so the sun can reach it?
Quinton, if you are starting with thick turf then it may not be completely decomposed for small seeds like carrots. A lot depends upon what you’re starting with. By the second season you should be good to go.
I looked at your video’s part 1 and 2. I ‘m new to gardening and have a small backyard and want to get the best start as I can. Your soil was already prefect. What about us with sandy soil and is there a way I can contact you to ask questions. Thank you.
Stephen, call or text:
706-244-4105
Cliff
I love your method of gardening. I have been gardening 3 yrs now and love it. I started out the way i was taught which is tilling, adding 10-10-10 and gardening lime. All the weeding and bending was terrible on my body. I am limited due to medical conditions.
I went to raised bed gardening (with open bottom) and did the huglekulture method but was using organic fertilzers and such. My garden did beautifully!
However, we are selling our house in maryland and moving to Tennessee so i will be starting all over and at least the first yr of gardening would have to be in-ground gardening. Your method seems wonderful and easy. I still need to do raised beds (18" + high) due to my physical limitations/disabilities and will be adding them in slowly over a yr.
My questions are:
1. Do you feel i could adapt this to my raised beds, seems as it would do the same?
2. If so, do you see any issues with using the huglekulture method to fill my beds? The worms loved this method and they break it all down extremely fast. So long as i have a foot or two of soil on top then add the 8" of hay, seems like it would be good. But curious what you think?
3. What about feeding the plants throughout the growing season? Feed every few weeks or let it go and let the soil, broken down hay and worms and their castings😢 feed the vegetables?
Btw, would love to see many more videos from you. Thank you for your videos.
Hi Tonya!
The mulching method should work very well for raised beds. Huglekultur is unnecessary since the hay and microbes will accomplish the same thing.
There is no need to feed the gardens anything, just keep the hay 6 to 8” deep.
Thank you, i love the simplicity of it all. Thank you again!!
Any tips for dealing with slugs especially when first starting PNW gardener here
Slugs and mulch go hand in hand. The small DeKay’s brown snake also loves mulch and its main menu is slugs so we have a natural control. It’s native to the whole east cost and it will find your garden and settle right in.
This miniature snake is docile and completely harmless.
@jarheadfarm6811 ok being on the west coast maybe our resident opossum will eat them but I will be on the look out for any snakes too thank you
@@connor4010On the west coast and started using beer traps this year for slugs in addition to a few night patrols to hand pick the tiny buggers off.. worked really great! If you haven’t heard of beer traps you simply place a small open top container (like a ramekin) of cheap beer on top the soil near your plants, it attracts them and they can’t get out of the liquid. Hope that helps!
Hi Clif, I love your videos and your success! Do you think Tractor Supply hay would work ok? They have bales and rolls. They have Timothy Compressed Hay or Alfalfa/Orchard Hay. Would one be better than the other?
Hi Denise!
The king of hay you apply is not nearly as important as how it way grown. Applying herbicides to the hay field is the rule-of-thumb for conventional growers. Ask if the hay was grown with 2-4d or Grazon before you purchase. If so, don’t put this on your garden!
Cliff
I meant “kind of hay”.
@@jarheadfarm6811 Thank you for that reminder Cliff!
How are things? Will you make any more videos about your farm?
Yes, we will be making more videos!
@@jarheadfarm6811 Fantastic! I look forward to them.
I've already started my garden before I seen your videos. Can I still add hay? Do you pull your plants up after harvest? What can I do about squash boars? I hope you don't mind so many questions, do you compost?
Hi Delilah!
Put your hay on at anytime and keep it on.
I pull plants after harvest. Squash borer can be controlled by spraying young sprouts with kaolin especially around the ground and stem, and I keep hay pulled up really snug around the plant to keep the nocturnal moth from finding where to inject her eggs.
I don’t have a compost pile since the hay composts right on the gardens.
Cliff
Hi Cliff! Do you mulch your spent plants back into the beds under the hay or do you discard them elsewhere?
I pull the spent plants that go into my landfill. It keeps the mulched gardens neat for the winter. Additionally it breaks the life cycle of over- wintering insects that may have established themselves.
@@jarheadfarm6811when you say landfill, do you mean compost pile or do you just throw away in city landfill? Thank you.
I don’t use the spent plants in a compost pile. They go into the land at the edge of the farm to help control erosion.
I didn’t see through all that greenery how you supported your tomato plants.
Ooops! I use tomato cages cut from 36” or 48” tall roll of fence wire.
I found a farm in Waycross, GA that is harvesting un-sprayed wheat this week and making bales and rolls available by the end of May, 2024. I assume they will be available every year around this time. It's about 1.5 hour drive for me, so I am still searching to see if something is here in Jacksonville, FL. Anyone know of clean hay here?
After threshing wheat, only straw is baled. Although it will conserve moisture and suppress weeds it contributes very little to the feeding of the soil and plants.
You really need hay!
Do you continue to add hay during the growing season?
Because the worms pull the hay into the soil you need to add hay through out the season, and then add a nice cover of hay for the winter.
@@jarheadfarm6811 thanks
@@jarheadfarm6811I’m in Wisconsin and I’m so excited to have found your videos. My garden is continually run over by weeds and creeping Charlie. I’m going to use your method, but have to find some clean hay first. After you mulch in the winter do you mulch again in the spring?
Hi Hippie Mom!
I’m glad you like the videos.
Yes, keep the hay thick all year as it breaks down and the worms pull it into the soil. Happy easy gardening to you ✌🏻
Do you have a problem with fire ants? I'm NW Mississippi they are a real problem and will invade hay bales left in the pasture over winter.
Roy, although ants are an aggressive ally in the garden, fire ants can be a big problem. I found that as a last resort diatomaceous earth does a good job of controlling them.
Stephen, message me on Facebook for my phone number. I’d be glad to talk or text with you.
My fiance and I just bought a 9 acre property. I am going to try your method, but unfortunately the land is covered in trees right now. Do you think it would be ok to use wood chips instead of straw? The trees are just part of the woods and are not tested. Thank you and God bless ❤
Wood chips will suppress weeds and hold a lot of moisture but the decay rate is so slow that they don’t substantially contribute to a healthy soil web. If they’re oak tress then the chips keep the PH fairly acidic.
@@jarheadfarm6811 thank you very much! I hope you have a great day ☺️