I've found that coffee grounds increase productivity, but the plants can get really jittery, and tend to lose focus and become irritable in the late afternoon.
Hahah!! Yes I have found the same thing to be true. Sometimes you need to give them a second feeding in the late afternoon, because they can quickly become dependent on it
ArchEnema 67: I’ve experienced extremely decreased productivity because the plants stay up all night watching RUclips videos and then sleep all day when they should be making tomatoes. I prefer to feed mine crushed melatonin tablets and gin toddies just before bedtime.
How true! Same with red wigglers! ; ) So, I'm sure you know what the elderly gentleman in the nursing home asked when someone knocked on his door. "Friend or enema?" ; (
All my coffee grounds, egg shells, and veggie scraps get mixed with old newspaper and either stuffed into our compost pile or buried into a grow bed to break down for next year. Good to reuse what we can, and let nothing go to waste whenever possible! I'm starting to think that Tuck's appetite was the inspiration for expanding into another food forest! Lol, he sure can eat! 🥒🐕😁
@@johnrobertford8049 try out Bokashi, it's fermenting instead of composting (anaerobic so with no air instead of w air) you put all ur food in a container which u can tap for juice. U fill it and wait 2 weeks while tapping until all juice is gone from ur food scraps. After 2 weeks u can add it to ur compost and I've read that animals don't like fermented food so they won't be attracted by it! Furthermore I don't think composting twigs and grass will be an issue with roaches etc?
I lost my fur baby a month ago and I miss her so much. I do enjoy watching Tuck snack on the vegetables. He's a beautiful little guy. I'd like to have another little fur baby when I get over losing Mandy. She was 15 years old and had a good life, but I wasn't ready to give her up. I use coffee grounds around my blueberries, they really like it and put on a lot of berries every year.
Today we learned... Modify your garden soil with used coffee grounds that will increase fruit and vegetable yields resulting in a more productive gardening experience. Thx
@@jamesprigioni Do you dry your coffee ground before applying them or use them wet? By the way, I had neighbors surnamed Coffee. The sign on their acreage read, "Coffee Grounds"! Of course ~ what else??? I used to have an old table in my patio where I dried coffee grounds for over-wintering. The sign on it said, "Coffee table"! Again, what else?
I actually ran some experiments on used coffee grounds as a soil amendment back when I studied soil science. As a fan of permaculture I got the results I expected, but the department was surprised with how good they were. Off the top of my head the best results were when the soil was 1% coffee, and the gains fell off when the levels started approaching 5% although it was still better than the control group of 0%. I even used Tomato plants for the experiment as well, which as you mentioned some speculated would be a problem, but in practice it just made the results that much more compelling. Love the channel, keep up the good work, and keep spreading the good word of building soil.
I haven't noticed much in my own experiments, which are faulty, but I really appreciate what they do for my soil structure. They turn almost any soil into a kind of loamy humus. In the compost heap, they separate different materials and retard clumping. Also, rare pepo.
Great info! I do add coffee grounds to my compost. I just dug up my compost pile recently. I used lots of grass and leaves, sticks, kitchen scraps and such last year. I got two wheelbrarrows full of real nice black compost ! Smelled really nice and earthy. The garden will do well this year.
Thx. I'm in FL and planted a grafted avocado tree in March. After putting a shade cloth over it, it's doing well. But, anything extra I can do will be awesome. I'm anxious to get it well established and reap the benefits of babying this cute, little tree.
Kudos to brother Tuck! I'm an equal fan of homegrown sometimes also being a glutton! Go Tuck! Big fan of James as well! haha Thanks for your great teaching by example!
James, just LOVE your channel! Just moved to a house with about 1/2 acre back yard and I am using your ideas to turn it into a food forest! Just ordered one of your shirts to show mt support! Everyone should! Thanks!
Thank you for the good information. Your fast speaking is great so I get lots of good info on a compressed time frame. More importantly, they are loud and clear.
Thank you very much for the video my brother I love your energy and your dog is wonderful I’m glad to see how proactive he is in the garden. You are an inspiration for me to become more self sufficient.🖤💜💙
Garden Of Origins: Best of success to you! Unless the trees are very young you’ll probably need to cut them back quite drastically to compensate for root loss, and will likely lose production for a year or two. Happy gardening in your new home!!
Garden Of Origins: I once transplanted 4 plum trees that were about two years old and got mediocre production for the next few years. Apparently the year I moved from the house they produced a bumper crop, lol.
@@rayray8687 We are not focusing on production right now. All we are focusing on is relocation and building amazing soil and the production will follow :).
Garden Of Origins: Sounds like you know what you’re doing. The soil could be your biggest challenge if it has never previously been gardened or farmed. As forest land it will likely be too acidic to support garden vegetable plants and might need a bag or two of lime to tone it down a bit. But then, here I am offering opinions on a piece of land I know nothing about, lol. At less than 2 years old I’m sure your fruit trees will be perfectly happy campers in their new home!
Iast year I pulled the mulch back on my blue berrie plants and dumped about a inch thick layer of coffee grounds and then re covered with wood chip mulch and it was the best year I’ve had with the berries by far! I will be repeating this again this year.
I discovered hanepoot vine in my olive grove because I saw the dogs eating the grapes. I had to fight the dogs off to get a taste, seriously. This year Im waiting patiently for ripening...no dogs allowed near this rambling bush vine. Ok I will share some...☺ greetings from Cape Town.
At the VA hospital they go through buckets of coffee at the end of the day they have garbage cans full of coffee grains they are nice enough to give them to us for free. Thank you so much for sharing now I know exactly what I’m gonna do with mine.
I save my espresso grounds up in a bowl and dump them on my blueberries--- in a big blob Doesn't hurt them a bit. I don't gingerly broadcast. I just plop it down and smush it in with my shoe.
Love seeing the dog in the garden. He is so sweet. Our golden use to pick off raspberries from our raspberry bushes and eat them. He was so gentle doing it.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️Tuck is such a cute sweetie! That was so funny him climbing the fence to get his 🥒 cucumber. I have lots of blueberry plants so I’m glad to have you confirm that I can scatter coffee grounds under them. I love my coffee ☕️ so I don’t have to go far to get it 😁. Thanks for another great video!
Your Yorkie is the best. We had one, Scooter, for 14 years - looked just like yours. I miss that guy a lot. He was our traveling buddy. Right on my lap and head out the window if we were traveling slowly. Thanks for having him with you. Our dog friends are precious people.
Love your handsome Yorkie. Tuck you look like my furbaby Rocky and remind me of Joy my other Yorkie that used to pick cherry tomatoes and enjoy them. Great video! I like seeing young people garden.
I have one dog who loves green peppers and hot peppers the other one just loves playing ball with tomatos your dog is cute he knows what's good for him. Thanks for the info.
aww Tuck picking his own chew toy! Love it. My grandmother used to take her coffee grounds each morning and bury them around various plants out her back door. She had an amazing green thumb, everything she touched grew beautifully. Thanks for your composting information!
I tried to make hot compost this year and failed, probably because it wasn't 3 cubic feet. I think mine was 3x1x2 so it was too small. Its harder for myself to get green material rather than brown material but then again most of our brown material is available in the fall. Coffee grounds do mat when they dry out which I found out when I put some to the side. Turning the compost pile does help though.
It takes some practice - insufficient mass makes it more difficult to get it to heat but it depends what the temperature is outside. I have tumblers that are smaller (40 gallons each) and they are much harder to get to heat up and it means you have to be more particular regarding your mix and when it starts to get cold (hitting below 0 C here now) the heat will be lost. The balance is moisture, nitrogen and carbon. Smaller the pile the more critical it is to get this all right. Moisture - wet enough to stick together but not too wet as to drip with a squish nitrogen - enough greens (kitchen scraps, coffee etc) carbon - your browns (dried up dead material like leaves) This fall a mix of dead leaves (chopped up with a lawn mower) layered with coffee grounds gets it going. pretty good and very quick. 2 buckets of chopped leaves to 1 bucket of coffee (and other mish mash) got it going Finally, make sure you get a good microbial seed from healthy soil or some other compost source. Keep trying! you'll get it It took me a few tries to figure out how to get a balance and "feel" for the process
I had a dog that would search for carrots and would pull them up and eat them. It was so cool when we would find out where she was getting them. Love your channel.
A new coffee and donut shop just opened, about a mile from my house. I've been thinking about stopping by there and asking for their bagged coffee grounds.
First video, which I enjoyed & learned a bit but Tuck climbing the fence to eat the cucumber, had me subscribing & hitting the 'all' bell. Yep, gotta share it, too 😘 💞👵
Well, you’ve got me! I had my first load of wood chips delivered yesterday and plan to start my own “food forest” this fall. I have a question for you. Should I wait until the fall leaves have covered the lawn before I start applying wood chips, or put down the chips and let the fall leaves cover them? Thanks for all your valuable information. I have been bingeing your videos for several weeks now. In your early vids, you seem very serious and academic, but as time has gone by, your true personality has surfaced- outgoing and lighthearted, and a lot more comfortable on camera. Tuck was a natural, the camera loves him, and I think the feeling is mutual. Greetings from SW Ohio!
Thanks Jackie, you’re to sweet! I would put the chips down before the leaves, you don’t want the leaves getting to thick and forming a mat on the ground. They are different then wood chips, they will prevent air and water from getting to the soil if they are big leaves like an oak. Best to put dish chips first, and cut the leaves up with something like a lawnmower then put them over top, or you can layer. Wood chips, leaves, wood chips. 👍🏻😁❤️🐕
Wood chips will rob the nitrogen from your soil.. The microbes that break them down need 30 parts of nitrogen to break down one part of carbon.. Wood mulch is ok for flower beds but trust me Keep them out of your vegetable garden unless they have been composted for 16 months..
Are you doing the Berkeley method (hot composting)? IIRC, Geoff Lawton recommends 4’ x 4’ for the Berkeley Method. Love the pup out grazin in the garden. It reminds me of Paul Gautche’s dog pulling up his own carrots to eat.
I empty my tea bags and coffee grounds into a 5 gallon, and when ever I harvest my root vegetables I’ll mix in the bucket with a small bit of sand to make the soil looser and richer! My radishes LOVE it my best harvest this since I started doing that. There is some normal dirt from the previous compost in there for microbes, and it can also drain.
@@jamesprigioni Actually I have been using coffee grounds on my Castor Bean plants and they are 8.5 feet after 3 months (Ottawa, Canada) - almost 1 inch per day ! and there is an abundance of seeds nearly ready for next year's harvest! I plan to use compost next year as per you videos!
Greetings..this is my first time watching your videos and Tuck is so adorable and he loves his veggies 😍❤️.. I've heard of foraging but never a good forest..this just proves that God will provide for us no matter where you are.. blessings to you 😇😇
I want to echo this. The SBUX I go to sometimes will put out bags of them in a common area and sometimes I have to ask. I've never been there that I asked and didn't get grounds. They produce prodigious amounts of grounds. I'm never sure if, on the days I didn't ask, they had grounds and simply threw them in the solid waste stream and that's an abomination, in this composters opinion.
@@truests9859 Not to start a huge debate, but do you have a list of what all these "heavy chemicals" are? As a Horticulturalist myself and I have had a "mostly" organic garden for over 20 years and have my soil tested all the time, and honestly the worst thing I test for is actually toxins from the rain and air. I live in the DC area, so LOTS of cars, industry and pollutants in the air. No one ever addresses this when they are talking "organic Gardening" which I am sorry, if you live in an area with more than a million people in a 100 mile radius you are screwed. Starbucks may use "heavy chemicals" I have not heard that and in years of research I have not seen that, but also not sure what these "heavy chemicals" you are referring to are called. Yes they use pesticide/fungicides and fertilizers, but nothing that i have not seen that is in general use by the public. Another part of this conversation though should be the cooking/heating process of the grounds. Honestly the majority of chemical residues are washed away during this, and the only person being hurt is the consumer for drinking it. If you are seeing other test results for coffee grounds from commercial roasters i would love to see that research, so if you could point us to a link where that is being done, that would be great. I know in our research you gain way more good, than harm. The grounds consist of a mainly a touch Nitrogen and many macro/micro minerals. But yeah, if you could point us to your research on what your test results are showing along with a list and sources of the "heavy Chemicals" that would be awesome!
@@venomsailor If you are not aware of the difference in foods between small, local and organic farms(Starbucks is not organic at all) and those giants that do not care about anything but money than I could never even have a conversation with someone as naive as you. They do not have to tell you all the bad things they are doing to the food. Camille on the youtube channel 'Please stop the ride' might open your eyes a little..
Great video. Love little Tuck. Just something to note... That tarp you have over your compost pile will suddenly start to break down and will leave all kinds of plastic threads throughout your compost. Keep a close eye on it. It happened to mine very quickly.
Our black lab used to pick green peppers and eat around the seeds. She also sat by the sink, and as we trimmed our salads, she caught the ends of carrots, broccoli, green beans, soy beans ( no salt).
Thanks for info on coffee grounds. I really needed that. Your dog is sweet- our dog helps himself to cherry tomatoes off vine. He never touches any other tomatoes. We grow more for him to eat as much as he wants from those low enough for him to reach. It's fun to watch him gently pull them off vine. Thanks again & God Bless you from grandma Katie in Oregon
Another great video. Love love love watching Tuck !! We add tea leaves to our compost, we have 4 cups of tea a day each, there's two of us. And now we are both in our 60's we use a mulcher to mulch every tree branch, all the weeds and even the straw mulch we put on the garden, by mulching our green waste and putting it in the compost, it brakes down quicker but more importantly, it's easier for us to turn the pile over ! Some times when we buy straw mulch it's too long and by putting it through the mulcher means it covers more ground, is easier to spread, goes further and doesn't blow down the street in the wind...buying a mulcher is the best thing we did other than buying a spade of cause. For 35 years we gardened without one and now we have one we will never part with it, even our neighbor comes over to use it, but he didn't replace the petrol last time so my hubby was not impressed !
Heather, I was thinking of getting one. I probably will now, we’ve got loads of twigs here so it makes sense and would as you say help composting.Thanks.
@@wudgee Don't just use it for twigs and branches, you can put green garden weeds in it, but not fiber type plants like palms, because the fibers chock the blades, and you will find as you age it will be a great help in the garden. You can put a small tarp on the ground and pin it down with 4 tent pegs, then pick up the tarp and carry it to the garden or compost. Having it serviced every two years with keep it sharp and working properly. Ours is petrol driven it's a Cox brand and it's not really load.
I've found that coffee grounds increase productivity, but the plants can get really jittery, and tend to lose focus and become irritable in the late afternoon.
Hahah!! Yes I have found the same thing to be true. Sometimes you need to give them a second feeding in the late afternoon, because they can quickly become dependent on it
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ArchEnema 67: I’ve experienced extremely decreased productivity because the plants stay up all night watching RUclips videos and then sleep all day when they should be making tomatoes. I prefer to feed mine crushed melatonin tablets and gin toddies just before bedtime.
How true! Same with red wigglers! ; )
So, I'm sure you know what the elderly gentleman in the nursing home asked when someone knocked on his door.
"Friend or enema?" ; (
Love seeing Tuck pick his own veggie snack! ❤️
And he loves doing it, and appreciates the love your sending Lynn ❤️🐕❤️
Is Tuck Vegan? Does he eat dog food too?
@@jhirschi57, great question.
Like all of us animals, if left to the natural state, our bodies will lead us to our best nutrution.
that is really cool
@@jamesprigioni great video man, you definitely know your stuff 👍
James your companion Tuck eating his way through your garden makes your educational channel extremely charming!
Tuck is the perfect dog for a gardener. Looks like you're both living the dream!
All my coffee grounds, egg shells, and veggie scraps get mixed with old newspaper and either stuffed into our compost pile or buried into a grow bed to break down for next year. Good to reuse what we can, and let nothing go to waste whenever possible! I'm starting to think that Tuck's appetite was the inspiration for expanding into another food forest! Lol, he sure can eat! 🥒🐕😁
I would. like to have a compost pile in my back yard, but am afraid it would just attract cock roaches.
@@johnrobertford8049 yeah mine just has roaches in it. I cant turn it because its so far away
@@johnrobertford8049 try out Bokashi, it's fermenting instead of composting (anaerobic so with no air instead of w air) you put all ur food in a container which u can tap for juice. U fill it and wait 2 weeks while tapping until all juice is gone from ur food scraps. After 2 weeks u can add it to ur compost and I've read that animals don't like fermented food so they won't be attracted by it! Furthermore I don't think composting twigs and grass will be an issue with roaches etc?
"I am a coffee drinker". I never would have guessed.
😂😂😂 James is always so excited in his videos right? LETS GOOOOO!!!
When I was a kid we used to use wet coffee grounds to draw worms to the surface before fishing it never failed.❤
Quite the "artist" you were! ; )
Poor worms!
@@unplannedjourneys4066 Lucky fish! Oops! No! Lucky human... Interesting is the ecosystem :)
we used soapy water
My dad had a worm bed, and put coffee grounds on it.
Tuck knows his stuff! That was the cutest thing ever to see how he picked his own cucumber! His coat is so shiny...😄
Both you and Tuck are living the dream together, it's so lovely to see
Awe you’re too sweet Anita. We are just a couple of guys growing food in our backyard 🐕🙏😁❤️
I had a Tucker too. I miss him terribly! Thank you for the gardening lessons!
Doggo needs his own channel, he is ADORABLE !!!
Yeah he does. Or he should just take over this channel 😂
Tuck’s adventures in gardenland
It could be a kid’s channel about gardening (and eating your veggies)
Separate the comments of the dog as the real information gets bogged and lost. Select and reduce one..pleeeeeas
I love your little 4 legged helper!
"The more we know, the more we can grow." I like your attitude!
I stopped drinking coffee and just watch this video 2 times a day.
Hahah!! Best comment of the year lol!
Definitely infectious, passionate joy❣
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Love seeing Tuck in the garden.
Hi James, was not expecting a compost pile flip in the coffee grounds video, very cool, thank you.
I lost my fur baby a month ago and I miss her so much. I do enjoy watching Tuck snack on the vegetables. He's a beautiful little guy. I'd like to have another little fur baby when I get over losing Mandy. She was 15 years old and had a good life, but I wasn't ready to give her up.
I use coffee grounds around my blueberries, they really like it and put on a lot of berries every year.
Big hugs to you. It's never an easy thing to lose a loved one.💚
@@Here_Today_ Thank you dear.
Tuck is hysterical the way he just helps himself
Today we learned... Modify your garden soil with used coffee grounds that will increase fruit and vegetable yields resulting in a more productive gardening experience. Thx
Yup! You're welcome my friend. Thanks for watching :)
@@jamesprigioni
Do you dry your coffee ground before applying them or use them wet?
By the way, I had neighbors surnamed Coffee. The sign on their acreage read, "Coffee Grounds"! Of course ~ what else???
I used to have an old table in my patio where I dried coffee grounds for over-wintering. The sign on it said, "Coffee table"!
Again, what else?
@@annieb7919 I think it probably doesn't matter either way...
Oke my friend
I love Tuck! He’s adorable!! Dogs are the best!
I actually ran some experiments on used coffee grounds as a soil amendment back when I studied soil science. As a fan of permaculture I got the results I expected, but the department was surprised with how good they were. Off the top of my head the best results were when the soil was 1% coffee, and the gains fell off when the levels started approaching 5% although it was still better than the control group of 0%. I even used Tomato plants for the experiment as well, which as you mentioned some speculated would be a problem, but in practice it just made the results that much more compelling.
Love the channel, keep up the good work, and keep spreading the good word of building soil.
Great channel! Love the pup in the background. I got a bit nervous when he started sniffing around the coffee grounds-coffee is poisonous for dogs.
What about 100%? After letting the microbes and fungi build up (after about a month or two), then planting into them
I haven't noticed much in my own experiments, which are faulty, but I really appreciate what they do for my soil structure. They turn almost any soil into a kind of loamy humus. In the compost heap, they separate different materials and retard clumping.
Also, rare pepo.
Hmm id be interested in the details of your experiments. Others I’ve read have reported growth inhibition.
Tuck knows what’s good! ❤️❤️❤️
Great info!
I do add coffee grounds to my compost. I just dug up my compost pile recently. I used lots of grass and leaves, sticks, kitchen scraps and such last year. I got two wheelbrarrows full of real nice black compost ! Smelled really nice and earthy. The garden will do well this year.
I love that your dog loves to eat veges out of your garden. Super cool dog
Organic coffee is great for avocados over mulch too and loose leaf tea works in the same way. Thanks for the video
Ohhhhh avocados, those must be fun to grow Catherine ❤️
@@jamesprigioni You can grow bananas and avocado in metal drum with straw and soil the extra thermal mass helps warmth as matter breaks down
Thx. I'm in FL and planted a grafted avocado tree in March. After putting a shade cloth over it, it's doing well. But, anything extra I can do will be awesome. I'm anxious to get it well established and reap the benefits of babying this cute, little tree.
There is not a better garden companion than a Yorkie like Tuck, I have had 2 of them and they both loved being out in the garden!
"I myself am a coffee drinker..." I'd say many of us picked that 😂
Great video as always! 🙂
I have noticed Tuck guarding your flank while you work. That is a good buddy to have! Thanks for your videos.
Kudos to brother Tuck! I'm an equal fan of homegrown sometimes also being a glutton! Go Tuck! Big fan of James as well! haha Thanks for your great teaching by example!
My grandmother Neeley used to add coffee grounds, egg shells, and scraps also dish water to her garden. I miss her so much. 💙💙💙
James, just LOVE your channel! Just moved to a house with about 1/2 acre back yard and I am using your ideas to turn it into a food forest! Just ordered one of your shirts to show mt support! Everyone should! Thanks!
I get super sized over producing tomatoes with coffee grounds and crushed egg shells. They LOVE them.
Those fresh veggies are giving your dog a nice, shiny coat.
Thank you for the good information. Your fast speaking is great so I get lots of good info on a compressed time frame. More importantly, they are loud and clear.
Thank you very much for the video my brother I love your energy and your dog is wonderful I’m glad to see how proactive he is in the garden. You are an inspiration for me to become more self sufficient.🖤💜💙
I love Tuck.. he is so sweet and you never get upset when he digs or pulls on the plants. He enjoys gardening too.
Love you guys :). We are moving into a tiny home in the woods and are digging up all our fruit trees and moving them into the new soil!
Garden Of Origins: Best of success to you! Unless the trees are very young you’ll probably need to cut them back quite drastically to compensate for root loss, and will likely lose production for a year or two. Happy gardening in your new home!!
@@rayray8687 Thank you! They are all under 2 years old and have not produced anything yet :).
Garden Of Origins: I once transplanted 4 plum trees that were about two years old and got mediocre production for the next few years. Apparently the year I moved from the house they produced a bumper crop, lol.
@@rayray8687 We are not focusing on production right now. All we are focusing on is relocation and building amazing soil and the production will follow :).
Garden Of Origins: Sounds like you know what you’re doing. The soil could be your biggest challenge if it has never previously been gardened or farmed. As forest land it will likely be too acidic to support garden vegetable plants and might need a bag or two of lime to tone it down a bit. But then, here I am offering opinions on a piece of land I know nothing about, lol. At less than 2 years old I’m sure your fruit trees will be perfectly happy campers in their new home!
I need a compilation of tuck picking and eating veggies from the garden!❤
Amazing how Much this sweet little Tuck loves the garden and all its goodies💜🦋
Iast year I pulled the mulch back on my blue berrie plants and dumped about a inch thick layer of coffee grounds and then re covered with wood chip mulch and it was the best year I’ve had with the berries by far! I will be repeating this again this year.
Well b-berries adore acidity!
High standards sure do 👍
Great to know info James, thanks for the great details. Nice to have a buddy like tuck helping out in the garden also.
You have the right enthusiasm for gardening and some nice knowledge.
I ADORE Tuck! My pup picks veggies off the vine also. It’s so healthy for dogs to eat fresh foods, they def live longer
I discovered hanepoot vine in my olive grove because I saw the dogs eating the grapes. I had to fight the dogs off to get a taste, seriously. This year Im waiting patiently for ripening...no dogs allowed near this rambling bush vine. Ok I will share some...☺ greetings from Cape Town.
At the VA hospital they go through buckets of coffee at the end of the day they have garbage cans full of coffee grains they are nice enough to give them to us for free. Thank you so much for sharing now I know exactly what I’m gonna do with mine.
💙💚TUCK IS A CUTIE PATOOTIE!💛❤️
Thankyou James for teaching me. I've learned alot this past month. I love Tuck❤️
I save my espresso grounds up in a bowl and dump them on my blueberries--- in a big blob Doesn't hurt them a bit. I don't gingerly broadcast. I just plop it down and smush it in with my shoe.
@@juanitadoe4057 AHAHAHA
@Cenepk101
Just curious ~ then does your shoe keep you up all night with all that caffeine on it, or do you keep "that" shoe outside?
@@juanitadoe4057
Glad you don't use your shoe like Cenepk101 does!
“The more we know, the more we can grow.” Your info is very helpful.
Love that little boy...💕💕💕🤗🙏
Love seeing the dog in the garden. He is so sweet. Our golden use to pick off raspberries from our raspberry bushes and eat them. He was so gentle doing it.
your such a good teacher😘😘😘
You're to kind, thank you Joan :)
I just get the best vibes from you and Tuck. You two brighten my day!
My Dogs ate cabbage leafs, Strawberries , Rasberries , and Corn ! I love Tuck !!!
Thank you for clarifying coffee grounds in the compost.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️Tuck is such a cute sweetie! That was so funny him climbing the fence to get his 🥒 cucumber. I have lots of blueberry plants so I’m glad to have you confirm that I can scatter coffee grounds under them. I love my coffee ☕️ so I don’t have to go far to get it 😁. Thanks for another great video!
Your Yorkie is the best. We had one, Scooter, for 14 years - looked just like yours. I miss that guy a lot. He was our traveling buddy. Right on my lap and head out the window if we were traveling slowly. Thanks for having him with you. Our dog friends are precious people.
Love your handsome Yorkie.
Tuck you look like my furbaby Rocky and remind me of Joy my other Yorkie that used to pick cherry tomatoes and enjoy them.
Great video!
I like seeing young people garden.
YEs, I love see Tuck munching on the cucumbers!
Who else is checking if the playback speed setting isn't on 1.5x when watching this channel?
I actually appreciate that about him 😅
I always watch at 0.75% of the speed haha
@@courtneylee2187 Same! The pacing is great on this channel. Because I prefer 1.25 on most of the other channels I watch...
Just checked before I read your comment 😂. God Bless him !!
That little fella is soooo cute!Keep him around....Doggies always add so much to your kind of programming.
Tuck is a similar in size to my old dog so I really get sentimental when I see Tuck
Last season I buried a couple pennies and when I use my spent coffee grounds I mix it with Dehydrated milk works great
Thank you for making this video
Haha!! Yup ❤️
I have one dog who loves green peppers and hot peppers the other one just loves playing ball with tomatos your dog is cute he knows what's good for him. Thanks for the info.
thanks, james and a big shout out to tuck.
aww Tuck picking his own chew toy! Love it. My grandmother used to take her coffee grounds each morning and bury them around various plants out her back door. She had an amazing green thumb, everything she touched grew beautifully. Thanks for your composting information!
💙 Tuck ! He's a beautiful soul~
I love seeing Tuck in the garden 🐕
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James, your compost pile would finish quicker if you cut up the larger pieces and lanky material
So long as air can still get in there.
Love the dog in your garden and the fact that you let him share your bounty with him
I tried to make hot compost this year and failed, probably because it wasn't 3 cubic feet. I think mine was 3x1x2 so it was too small. Its harder for myself to get green material rather than brown material but then again most of our brown material is available in the fall.
Coffee grounds do mat when they dry out which I found out when I put some to the side. Turning the compost pile does help though.
It takes some practice - insufficient mass makes it more difficult to get it to heat but it depends what the temperature is outside. I have tumblers that are smaller (40 gallons each) and they are much harder to get to heat up and it means you have to be more particular regarding your mix and when it starts to get cold (hitting below 0 C here now) the heat will be lost.
The balance is moisture, nitrogen and carbon.
Smaller the pile the more critical it is to get this all right.
Moisture - wet enough to stick together but not too wet as to drip with a squish
nitrogen - enough greens (kitchen scraps, coffee etc)
carbon - your browns (dried up dead material like leaves)
This fall a mix of dead leaves (chopped up with a lawn mower) layered with coffee grounds gets it going. pretty good and very quick. 2 buckets of chopped leaves to 1 bucket of coffee (and other mish mash) got it going
Finally, make sure you get a good microbial seed from healthy soil or some other compost source.
Keep trying! you'll get it It took me a few tries to figure out how to get a balance and "feel" for the process
Thanks for the info! I enjoy seeing Tuck enjoying the garden too
YES, WE LOVE TUCKER ❣❣❣
AMAZED EVERY TIME HE GETS VEGETABLES OUT OF YOUR GARDEN!!
I had a dog that would search for carrots and would pull them up and eat them. It was so cool when we would find out where she was getting them. Love your channel.
A new coffee and donut shop just opened, about a mile from my house. I've been thinking about stopping by there and asking for their bagged coffee grounds.
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Great info. I get coffee grounds free from my local Starbucks. Tuck is the cutest! He stole my heart.
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First video, which I enjoyed & learned a bit but Tuck climbing the fence to eat the cucumber, had me subscribing & hitting the 'all' bell.
Yep, gotta share it, too 😘
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I wish my dog would eat vegetables like Tuck ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Haha!! Tuck is definitely a rare little guy lol 😂🐕
I absolutely adore seeing Tuck digging in the garden! One of the reasons I watch 😊
Well, you’ve got me! I had my first load of wood chips delivered yesterday and plan to start my own “food forest” this fall. I have a question for you. Should I wait until the fall leaves have covered the lawn before I start applying wood chips, or put down the chips and let the fall leaves cover them? Thanks for all your valuable information. I have been bingeing your videos for several weeks now. In your early vids, you seem very serious and academic, but as time has gone by, your true personality has surfaced- outgoing and lighthearted, and a lot more comfortable on camera. Tuck was a natural, the camera loves him, and I think the feeling is mutual. Greetings from SW Ohio!
Thanks Jackie, you’re to sweet!
I would put the chips down before the leaves, you don’t want the leaves getting to thick and forming a mat on the ground. They are different then wood chips, they will prevent air and water from getting to the soil if they are big leaves like an oak. Best to put dish chips first, and cut the leaves up with something like a lawnmower then put them over top, or you can layer. Wood chips, leaves, wood chips. 👍🏻😁❤️🐕
Wood chips will rob the nitrogen from your soil.. The microbes that break them down need 30 parts of nitrogen to break down one part of carbon.. Wood mulch is ok for flower beds but trust me Keep them out of your vegetable garden unless they have been composted for 16 months..
Havein your little buddy in the garden is so cool i do the same thing but my garden is tiny
Are you doing the Berkeley method (hot composting)? IIRC, Geoff Lawton recommends 4’ x 4’ for the Berkeley Method. Love the pup out grazin in the garden. It reminds me of Paul Gautche’s dog pulling up his own carrots to eat.
I empty my tea bags and coffee grounds into a 5 gallon, and when ever I harvest my root vegetables I’ll mix in the bucket with a small bit of sand to make the soil looser and richer! My radishes LOVE it my best harvest this since I started doing that. There is some normal dirt from the previous compost in there for microbes, and it can also drain.
I used coffee grounds on my Venus Fly Trap and it hasn't stopped yapping since :-(
Hahah!!! Is it jittery too?
@@jamesprigioni Actually I have been using coffee grounds on my Castor Bean plants and they are 8.5 feet after 3 months (Ottawa, Canada) - almost 1 inch per day ! and there is an abundance of seeds nearly ready for next year's harvest! I plan to use compost next year as per you videos!
Greetings..this is my first time watching your videos and Tuck is so adorable and he loves his veggies 😍❤️.. I've heard of foraging but never a good forest..this just proves that God will provide for us no matter where you are.. blessings to you 😇😇
💚💚💚 Tuck picking his own cucumber 😍😍😍
that puppy is so cute and so smart!! look at him go for the natural food and pick it himself!! he knows what's good for him!!
My local Starbucks saves me coffee grounds and I run by about every other day to pick them up. I compost them before I add them to my garden.
Probably not a good idea to use Starbucks coffee. It's not going to be organic and as healthy as a local and honest coffee company.
I want to echo this. The SBUX I go to sometimes will put out bags of them in a common area and sometimes I have to ask. I've never been there that I asked and didn't get grounds. They produce prodigious amounts of grounds. I'm never sure if, on the days I didn't ask, they had grounds and simply threw them in the solid waste stream and that's an abomination, in this composters opinion.
STARBUCK GROWS THEIR COFFEE WITH HEAVY CHEMICALS. NOT ORGANIC AND HEALHTY. HELLO!
@@truests9859 Not to start a huge debate, but do you have a list of what all these "heavy chemicals" are? As a Horticulturalist myself and I have had a "mostly" organic garden for over 20 years and have my soil tested all the time, and honestly the worst thing I test for is actually toxins from the rain and air. I live in the DC area, so LOTS of cars, industry and pollutants in the air. No one ever addresses this when they are talking "organic Gardening" which I am sorry, if you live in an area with more than a million people in a 100 mile radius you are screwed. Starbucks may use "heavy chemicals" I have not heard that and in years of research I have not seen that, but also not sure what these "heavy chemicals" you are referring to are called. Yes they use pesticide/fungicides and fertilizers, but nothing that i have not seen that is in general use by the public. Another part of this conversation though should be the cooking/heating process of the grounds. Honestly the majority of chemical residues are washed away during this, and the only person being hurt is the consumer for drinking it. If you are seeing other test results for coffee grounds from commercial roasters i would love to see that research, so if you could point us to a link where that is being done, that would be great. I know in our research you gain way more good, than harm. The grounds consist of a mainly a touch Nitrogen and many macro/micro minerals. But yeah, if you could point us to your research on what your test results are showing along with a list and sources of the "heavy Chemicals" that would be awesome!
@@venomsailor If you are not aware of the difference in foods between small, local and organic farms(Starbucks is not organic at all) and those giants that do not care about anything but money than I could never even have a conversation with someone as naive as you. They do not have to tell you all the bad things they are doing to the food. Camille on the youtube channel 'Please stop the ride' might open your eyes a little..
I understand Starbucks gives away there used coffee grounds.
@ 7:00 ,the star takes his lunch.
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Great video. Love little Tuck. Just something to note... That tarp you have over your compost pile will suddenly start to break down and will leave all kinds of plastic threads throughout your compost. Keep a close eye on it. It happened to mine very quickly.
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Great show I’ve learned so much.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Our black lab used to pick green peppers and eat around the seeds. She also sat by the sink, and as we trimmed our salads, she caught the ends of carrots, broccoli, green beans, soy beans ( no salt).
great info,i use coffee ground for worms, 👍😜👍😜👍
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So good for you 2 to share your garden 😊 Going to save & use some of my coffee grounds. Thanks
Coffee grounds are great, so are tea grounds. It also attracts worms, worms are good!
Thanks for info on coffee grounds. I really needed that. Your dog is sweet- our dog helps himself to cherry tomatoes off vine. He never touches any other tomatoes. We grow more for him to eat as much as he wants from those low enough for him to reach. It's fun to watch him gently pull them off vine. Thanks again & God Bless you from grandma Katie in Oregon
nice video love you.
Thank you my friend! Me and Tuck Love you topn🐕💕💕
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Another great video. Love love love watching Tuck !! We add tea leaves to our compost, we have 4 cups of tea a day each, there's two of us. And now we are both in our 60's we use a mulcher to mulch every tree branch, all the weeds and even the straw mulch we put on the garden, by mulching our green waste and putting it in the compost, it brakes down quicker but more importantly, it's easier for us to turn the pile over ! Some times when we buy straw mulch it's too long and by putting it through the mulcher means it covers more ground, is easier to spread, goes further and doesn't blow down the street in the wind...buying a mulcher is the best thing we did other than buying a spade of cause. For 35 years we gardened without one and now we have one we will never part with it, even our neighbor comes over to use it, but he didn't replace the petrol last time so my hubby was not impressed !
Heather, I was thinking of getting one. I probably will now, we’ve got loads of twigs here so it makes sense and would as you say help composting.Thanks.
@@wudgee Don't just use it for twigs and branches, you can put green garden weeds in it, but not fiber type plants like palms, because the fibers chock the blades, and you will find as you age it will be a great help in the garden. You can put a small tarp on the ground and pin it down with 4 tent pegs, then pick up the tarp and carry it to the garden or compost. Having it serviced every two years with keep it sharp and working properly. Ours is petrol driven it's a Cox brand and it's not really load.