Herrick, thanks for this series. I converted to raised beds and mini beds last year to great success. I still have some traditional row garden space for potatoes, squash, and corn, but the mini beds are so much more manageable for all my other crops.
If you were starting a new bed with fresh soil, or growing organically in pots with soilless media, the inoculant would be more helpful. Chances are, since your soil looks well cultivated, whatever bacteria is in the inoculant is already established in your soil. Adding fresh compost is more effective, in my opinion. It serves as a wide range inoculant while being beneficial in other ways as well, and can make some of the best mulch for vegetables available on top of being a great soil amendment.
My peas are about 4” high, I planted them the middle of February because the weather was so warm. I might have don’t it this way if I had seen this first.
Hi Herrick: Are you going to provide some sort of support for these peas when they come up? And protection from critters that might enjoy peas? BTW, regarding cover cropping... I tried this last fall for the first time, (in my niece's garden), but when the shoots came up they were all eaten away by some thing. I don't know what, may be raccoon or rabbit. She has them in her area. How disappointing. I don't think I could/should have covered them. Any suggestion on what I should have done?
I'm not one for using any supplements in my garden. beyond compost. But sometimes I get curious about a different approach. So I'll dedicate a bed in my garden to compare the different approach (with identical plants) with my simple approach. I see you are an "experimenter" and that you're using some kind of a supplement or inoculant for germinating your seeds. I would think that you're in an ideal situation to do an informal test. Maybe you're wasting your time and money by applying that supplement? And it would be so easy to prove it one way or another.
Herrick, thanks for this series. I converted to raised beds and mini beds last year to great success. I still have some traditional row garden space for potatoes, squash, and corn, but the mini beds are so much more manageable for all my other crops.
Good luck on your garden Mr. Kimball. I enjoy learning from you about so many great topics.
If you were starting a new bed with fresh soil, or growing organically in pots with soilless media, the inoculant would be more helpful. Chances are, since your soil looks well cultivated, whatever bacteria is in the inoculant is already established in your soil. Adding fresh compost is more effective, in my opinion. It serves as a wide range inoculant while being beneficial in other ways as well, and can make some of the best mulch for vegetables available on top of being a great soil amendment.
My peas are about 4” high, I planted them the middle of February because the weather was so warm. I might have don’t it this way if I had seen this first.
Hi Herrick: Are you going to provide some sort of support for these peas when they come up? And protection from critters that might enjoy peas? BTW, regarding cover cropping... I tried this last fall for the first time, (in my niece's garden), but when the shoots came up they were all eaten away by some thing. I don't know what, may be raccoon or rabbit. She has them in her area. How disappointing. I don't think I could/should have covered them. Any suggestion on what I should have done?
Thank you so much for the gardening video! It's so hard to find any 4b youtuber gardeners, let alone a fellow upstate New Yorker!(ADK area)
Do you put the leaf mulch back over the planted peas? Thanks.
What kind of difference does an inoculant make, and is it for peas only?
I'm not one for using any supplements in my garden. beyond compost. But sometimes I get curious about a different approach. So I'll dedicate a bed in my garden to compare the different approach (with identical plants) with my simple approach.
I see you are an "experimenter" and that you're using some kind of a supplement or inoculant for germinating your seeds. I would think that you're in an ideal situation to do an informal test. Maybe you're wasting your time and money by applying that supplement? And it would be so easy to prove it one way or another.