Turn any kind of native soil into rich garden soil
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- How to build fertile raised garden beds with your native soil. No need to spend money when you use local resources. If you don't have your own, drive around in neighborhoods before the brush and leaves are picked up by the local services and bring their hard work home to your garden!
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I had two newly made 17” deep beds last spring that I needed to fill. Here in SW Michigan, my base soil is sand-dune sand. Calcium rich, but poor in almost everything else. The soil tends to be acidic in this locale, and we grow a lot of berries (especially blueberries), though most fruit does quite well, as do potatoes. I had short 3-4 foot long hunks of aged pine logs (8-12” in diameter) that I rolled into the bottom of those beds. I bought a small amount of amended soil for the top layer, and used grass chunks, wood chips and sticks for the middle layer. Wow, did those beds go! The pine logs seemed to act like sponges, or like floral foam, in that they absorbed water from our rather heavy rains and held it where the roots could access it plus the nutrients that seeped in from the soil above. Even though our rains were far apart, I watered way less than in my other beds. Oh, also explore using biochar, natural charcoal infused with nutrients and micronutrients (by soaking it in compost tea before application) - I am just beginning to check it out, and I think it will be a real boon to those of us with chronically poor soils. Some of my hügelculture logs were partially burned, and since I added a fair amount of compost, followed by 3-4” of rain, it created a sort of biochar. This next spring I plan to buy a couple of bags of natural (chunk) charcoal (not briquettes, and with no chemical additives), and will soak it in compost tea for a few days before burying it in one or two garden beds as an experiment in increasing soil fertility.
Thanks for sharing. It's amazing how it works.
In Ohio we deal with the clay.. I have been mixing in old barn sawdust mulch from the neighbors horses for years and also tossing in several tons of sand we dug out from under the garage concrete that we replaced.. The only thing I wish I had done was to put some of the old corrugated flexible plastic drain pipe a couple feet deep in the raised beds for both deep watering and drainage during the rainy months.. In March or April I will dig at least one up and toss in that pipe, thinking the tomato patch..
It's a lot of work but worth it:)
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Oh my goodness i love the intro..
Great video. I am in Southeastern NC and started with sand and clay. UGH! What a mess! I tried horse manure and it was thee worst for weeds. I never had an issue with chicken poo. I also use straw to help mulch my pants, it helps ķeep the dirt in place during heavy down pours and helps with my plants not getting fungus from the splashing under leaves. It adds nutrients as it breaks down. I am raking leaves and pine straw in my yard next week and will add to yhe garden as you have done. I NEVER thought of that. Starting seeds as well. I do not plant until May because Mother Nature, often has very different plans than I do 😂 new subscriber!!!❤
So glad I came across your channel. I'm in North Florida and finding someone who deals with the same conditions that I do is wonderful. I finally have a good use for those invasive China berry trees!
Thank you, Debbie. You are an inspiration. Good like with your gardens.
I live in Minnesota. I am listening.
I got such important learning from this video.
When we lived in MN we had very sandy soil. One thing that worked great for amending the soil was cocoa bean hulls. They were pretty expensive at regular price, but Menards would put them on sale occasionally and it made it affordable. They would get slimy and slippery when it rained so putting them in a walking area was a bad idea, but they broke down fairly quickly and made the best garden soil. I have not even seen any down here in the south. If you do see them, give them a try. 😊
I never heard of that! I don't think it's available here. Menards must be a store in your area-I don't think we have them here. Thanks for sharing. I'm sure other viewers will appreciate it.
Thank you Debbie. Great information 😊❤
I'm in Oklahoma, and my native soil is very sandy also, it's from all the sand stone here I guess. I would like to use this technique, but first I do need to test the soil. I've had container garden with self wicking watering systems, it does work ,how ever I hate having to redo the soil every year. I just retired and I have plenty of time on my hands but alot to learn also. Also I have a lot of rodents on my property, they seem to like taking out my plants after the reach about a foot tall , gona have to make it a structure with wire cloth. I don't have a lot of funds to take on this, so I'm using what I have on hand. Wish me luck , lol
We also have rats, mice and squirrels. The rats and mice don't bother my garden. I keep squirrels out with pinwheels from the dollar tree. It really does work. I keep birds out of strawberries and tomatoes with netting from a fabric store. I have a video on that covered under tomatoes or pests.
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Sandy soil can be both a blessing and a curse at the same time depending on what you are growing and the method you use.. If you get a little biomatter mixed in to around a foot to two feet then lay down drip irrigation and cover that with landscape cloth you can feed the plants through the drip irrigation and the sandy soil will prevent any chance of over watering while the landscape cloth will prevent drying out.. If you can get a lot of biomatter/mulch into the soil then it will retain some nutrients and water preventing rain from leaching it away.. Parts of Florida have swampy water that is around 10 to 20 feet deep that as long as it is not salt contaminated can be pumped onto the garden raw pretty much like natural fertilizer.. It is easy to grow your own mulch in the warm wet Southern States that have huge amounts of sand in the soil.. Start a patch of that super fast growing grass in the corner of the yard where you can constantly water it and feed it with cheap fertilizer.. Then every couple days go to it with clippers/hedge trimmer and toss that in a hole you dug in the garden and keep repeating this patch after patch making sure to get it a couple feet deep to 6 inches under the top.. You can also throw in leaves and food scraps and whatever else you can get.. This stuff will rot and enrich the soil, if you have a huge garden you can trench an area and get a couple truckloads of stuff to toss in there.. In this manner even a piece of desert property can be reclaimed as long as you can get enough water then retain it with mulch in the sand and a some kind of cover.. If the area is very hot and sunny you may also need shade netting over the garden..
Thanks for sharing. Good idea.
Thank you for the bed size rationale
Florida soil is interesting! 100% sand! I am is sandy loam so I still fight sand but it is not as bad as you. No till and hugleculture definitely is a great way to go.
Ty!
Thank you for your video,very informative 😊
Thanks for the informative video.
I also had a bad experience with cow manure being contaminated with herbicides and while my plants grew a little, they turned into twisted, thick mutants that never produced food. Oddly enough, they stayed alive till I pulled them out and disposed of them. It's sad that we can't use manure anymore and it's truly become a waste product instead of a resource that helps people connect in their communities.
I've got extremely rocky soil, and want to do Hügelkultur raised beds.
If you are not on any medications, you could soak the leaves in your urine before adding them which will both lower the pH and add nitrogen to balance out their carbon.
I actually tried urine and it affected the plants negatively. IDK why. I do not take medication.
@@debbiesorganicgarden good to know. thanks.
Did you dilute it? I would think with sandy soil your soil would drain well so you would be less likely to have a build up of salts, but maybe it's already high in salts if you are near the coast.
My property does not have good drainage so I am worried about that. At my last location, I gave my urine mostly to nettles and comfrey, and they seemed able to handle quite a bit and grew like crazy in clay soil. I would put those plants and weeds in a bucket with water to decompose for a few months and give that 'tea' to the vegetable garden as fertilizer. It seemed like well established, fast growing plants could handle it, but it could overwhelm slower growing ones.
@@debbiesorganicgardenUrine has to be diluted 10:1 ratio❤
What to do if you don't live in Florida? Colorado soil is just so hard.
Please look up Anne of all trades. She turned hard clay soil into good garden soil. Her method may work for you. It doesn't work for me as I need the body building of the logs and brush. ruclips.net/video/GicG2aDPfXw/видео.htmlsi=rdim6zSKVd6VBKn3
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What is tree mulch?
Ground up limbs from trees. Comes from companies trimming trees away from power lines or from someone who no longer wants a tree.
Lady; you need to look up FREE companies who can dump free wood chips, free logs, free left over leave litter and cut branches. Companies literally will pull up a truck and give you over 1 ton or more free organic matter from service CONpanies who clear cut trees or clean up rich peoples yards.
@@CapitalismDeathSpiral I wish that were true here. Most of the ones I talk to only respond to a very healthy "tip". I will keep trying to find tree mulch tho.
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I'm curious, have you heard of Asian Jumping worms? 🤔
Yeah. I'm looking into seeing if that is what I have. If it is, I have no idea how they could have gotten here. That kind of worm is under another area that I have not cultivated, so now I am confused.
I used my coconuts once I make sure they won’t sprout since I just get so many
This woman has way too much sand. There should only be less than 10% sand for 1 pound of hummus soil. All animal manure must first break down in a compost pile for a year before mixing into your garden.
@@CapitalismDeathSpiral that's so funny. Did you watch the first part? The whole video is about turning native soil into rich garden soil. Florida sand is what I have! Can't change that fact. It is very rich soil. So much for scientific theories about soil formulas!
@ sand has no nutrients. Sand is only to help keep soil a tad loose so that roots can spread easier. You have zero knowledge about nature. Face palm 🤦
Sand ( glass particles) will never turn to organic matter.
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I used my coconuts once I make sure they won’t sprout since I just get so many