Stretching Your Potting Soil TO LUDRICROUS LEVELS
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- You can stretch potting soil so far you don't even need to buy any... though I still did.
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I've found bags of potting soil in the woods in the past. That type of gardening is legal now.
LmAo! Nice
I don’t think those are tree roots lol
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The first minutes of this video is why I love this channel!
I was thinking the same thing! I love just watching him dig and hack stuff.
Need that on a t-shirt! "Do you compost ham?"
lol @ bag of potting soil in the woods, that can only mean one thing :P Cool video on stretching potting mix, it definitely gets expensive. Leaf mold, rotted wood, mosses, charcoal and ash, sand and other beach stuff like shells, all good choices to make thing stretch further. You are doing God's work man!
And here I thought I was the only one using wood chips and forest gleanings.
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Stone soup is exactly what I thought of too! lol You definitely made some quality stone soup there David.
Prepare for *_Ludicrous Potting!_*
We have rotten pine. That's good!
They're all frozen now. That's bad.
But we can use it for the blueberries. So that's good.
Like -- David the Good good.
your comment reminded me of the old Hee Haw "that good, that's bad" skits :-)
LOL mail you a cement mixer...Next best thing is...get a round trash can with a locking lid and just roll it around your yard. works great and fun too IF you're on a hill Love the rotted pine but remember...Termites did that
A garden fork works good mixing all those amendments together.
Love it! Stone soup!
Finally! A proper sifter.
I have made ones that were too small before. Never again.
Great, now all I have to do is drive about an hour north being in trans Pecos Texas
Great video David. Basically what I do except I don't use rotted pine or the machete 😊
I use coconut coir instead as it's very cheap in Australia.
I'm sure this video will help many people 👍
Becca from Green bees sent me. We're right down the Road in Milton
Me too!
I also am in the Milton/Pace area - suburban, but I've started gardening in the back yard - any particular fruits or perennials you find do great in your homestead?
@@jasonthegentleman2992 we just started in March 2020 and only planted limited. Cucumbers, tomatoes, beans, Arugula and Kale did great in summer. Broccoli and Cabbage did amazing in fall. We planted tangerine, apricot and apple trees, but no production yet.
I've got seeds started now to put out soon.
We used raised beds last year. Going to experiment with in ground this year.
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@@jasonthegentleman2992 Maypops (native passionfruit) grow like weeds here, I've also had good luck with malabar spinach, luffa, and my stevia dies down to the roots but comes back every spring
@@HiddenOaksHomestead We've got a peach tree that has just become a monster and pumps out TONS of peaches each year now - I'm actually needing to prune it back as it's growing a bit too much. I'd be happy to save some pit's for you this year if you'd like some! Or provide some cuttings for grafting if you'd like. Just tried my first grafting a few days ago, no idea if it'll stick or not (I suspect not as my skills are horrible). Had great luck with Zuchini's (don't tell David) last year too, Kale over the winter (purple russian Kale - blue skotch or something like that). Didn't actually eat the Kale though....never have, and now it's just sitting there in the yard guilting me for not eating it.
Have you thought of a $25 augger attachment for your drill it's good for digging holes andmixing.
Don’t try it in my rocky West Virginia soil!!! I tried!
"mail me a concrete mixer" reminded me of Herrick Kimball getting blocked by the USPS from printing a package contents label for the words "Whizbang hoe parts"
Not only is making your own soil cheaper it's also way better environmentally.
That was just soothing
You can also add crushed basalt sand btw
I love that idea.
I couldn't get potting soil with the pandemic so trialed 8 different combinations of deep litter compost (with biochar mixed in), punky wood, clay, and coffee grounds. I was worried that the compost might have poor water retention qualities, but pure compost produced hands down the best seedlings at least 2 to 3 times the size of the next best. Maybe it won't work for everything, but it's been simple and effective for everything I've tried so far. You have to sift the deep litter, but there's no mixing.
That is excellent. The best seedlings grow on a compost pile, so your observation makes sense.
Hmmm...from watchin ya Sir David The Good, would it be equal parts of everything? Good to know, now I just have to learn to make charged biochar! Missed the IRIE 'stream but I'm here, listening in! :)
Love Rachel at the end!
Nice job. God bless y’all
Rotted Pine + Machete = boom soil. easy right?
Rotted Pine + Dynamite = BOOOOM!! soil. 🎆
Now that's a DTG video! lol
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So 1% bagged potting soil + 99% good stuff = good muscles and good potting mix!
David the Good should do a big collaboration with Matt Powers
LOL 9 hrs later 😆
Did I hear someone talking about Miracle Grow potting mix just a few days ago?... lol
Woo hoo! A wealth of info! Thank you 🎵
Thanks David!
would somebody get this man a wood chipper
Did you use MiracleGro just to troll that dude again?
I think that was just to make it clear to us that he was truly trolling.
I actually don't think a cement mixer would fit in a P.O. Box. 🤣🤣 Best wishes Bob.
Everything fits in the box.
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Great Video David, always gotta stretch that potting soil :D does it have to be pine or will any old rotten tree do?
Yep.
Maybe use a barrel with a lid and roll it or a heavy duty bag to mix? Guess it all depends on your resources and personality, huh?
Good ideas!
You could do like the companies who make these prepared mixes, and add sand.
We do alot of this on our hemp farm. I use a paint mixer attachment on a dewalt cordless drill to homogenize the mixture.
What about adding 6” of wood chips in the bottom of a 12” raised bed then bagged soil on top? Should I hit the wood chips with a blowtorch first?
Wood chips go on top as mulch in most places. Acts like soil armor
@@gillsmoke I will do that too. I'm trying to save money though from buying bagged soil to fill up my beds.
Thanks for the info man!
Where is your shovel? Much cheaper than a cement mixer haha! 😁🥬
Great video were gonna try this in the morning. What do you think about adding reindeer moss to potting soil or the garden instead of peat moss? I don't have any peat moss but I am surrounded by reindeer moss, Its everywhere. I've tested the soil under the reindeer moss it is slightly acidic. The soil that is not under the moss is slightly alkaline and the moss itself also appears to be acidic when added to cabbage water. Is this a good source of organic material for our garden?
I wonder if the airy Biochar might be an alternative to vermiculite to help sprouting? Seems fluffy enough to me and would have the added benefit of keeping the soil fertile
That's a great question, sounds like a great experiment.
I use deep litter compost from my chicken system which happens to contains biochar. Out of 8 different mixes that I trialed, that's what produced the best results. I figured the compost would be too soggy to start plants in by itself, but I think the biochar helped on that front.
@@stonedapefarmer I have read in a comment on another Video, I think also One of DTG's, that a gardener in Alaska Uses their chickens to charge and process biochar, letting the chickens have their way with it for a while before using it as both a soil amendment and fertiliser. Seems like a really succesful combination. Glad to hear it's giving good results for you! Seedlings really seem to love that airyness.
I need to get some chickens finally...
Yeah. I've got the beginnings of what seems like the perfect fertility management system. The birds have a good size run where I put all my garden wastes, kitchen scraps, feathers, dead mice, or any other organic material , making sure there's an abundance of carbon rich material like straw and wood chips to soak up all the nitrogen. I also add biochar so that it can charge, keep the nutrients from leaching out of the compost, and control odor from the birds. The birds scratch and manure everything so it breaks down really quickly (I had an 18 inch thick 12x18 foot layer of straw that composted down to practically nothing in 4 months without any turning or management of any kind. When it gets towards the beginning of the season I move the birds into a chicken tractor in the garden to start clearing weeds and fertilizing the beds. While they're doing that, I sift the compost out of the run through a screen made from quarter inch hardware cloth. I have plenty to add as much compost as Steve Solomon recommends and start all of the things I don't direct sow, plus some perennials. The mix of compost, biochar, and little bits of straw that make it through the screen makes the perfect soil blocks all on its own or works just fine in pots. Once everything's sifted I use some of what's left behind at mulch... My garlic got a couple shades darker green a few days after trialing this mulch on it. Bits of straw, charcoal, feathers, dog fur and what have you... and I suspect all of the animal smells might prove to be a deterrent for rodents. Then I just add a fresh batch of biochar and the cycle begins anew. The chickens pay for their own feed until I can produce it all on site. All of the bedding/organic matter is from on site.
@@stonedapefarmer That sounds fantastic!
I hadnt thought about the Charcoal helping to stem the odor from the birds, using the birds to compost seems like a great way to get the most out of their products; manure included. If the animal smells deter mice too that sounds like a great unexpected benefit to the system. I guess the only drawback is how quickly the organic matter rots down, but for how much of the work involved is done by the birds themselves, so long as you can get a good source of it it works out.
A YT guy in Florida puts a whole fish under all his plants he sets out.
I did that a few years ago and had great tomato production. Gotta sprinkle with some lime or else you’ll have every animal for miles digging them up lol
@@moniquegebeline4350 That is what the YT Guy did as well.
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Do you have to condition the wood charcoal? I have wretched sand in south Florida. No place on our tiny lot to stew and brew stinky liquids, and rats moved in and chewed off the lid of my 5 gal. Compost bucket. The county here does not seem to have composting, although they have wood chips for free. I’m finding it very hard to do make any diy amendments on this small yard, but hate hauling it all in from Home Depot! Is the bagged stuff my best bet?
I have a 5 gal. Home Depot bucket with lid I keep in my kitchen and we use that for coffee grounds herbal tea bags paper towels egg shells banana peels.
I have an old dead stump of a tree that’s about 4 1/2 feet tall at the end of my driveway that is a terrible eye sore. I was all ready to cut it down to the ground until I notice I could take the inside of it and crumble it in my hand I instantly though I bet something will grow in this. Sorry stuck up suburban neighbors
Where did you get your machete blade from?
The store... maybe
I only grow in compost I have for years I am now to the point that I have to give it away and with that being said Do I add the bio char to the compost pile or to the sifted compost just before I use it?
If you add charcoal to compost pile, it charges and aids the composting process a bit too!
How did the seedlings go?
Great. They are planted in my gardens now.
How much was the expensive potting mix? Lol
I don’t think you stretched as much as you replaced with other things. Great things.
Dang, you didn’t even need the potting soil added.
Make more noise next video,
"Secret sauce" ? . ... Is it vegans?
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Pine doesn't change pH huge garden myth !!
Blueberries do love it.
Nice big root for somebody gorilla farming
Stone soup
Magic machete turns logs into soil!!
That didn't seem so simple.
I just grab some vermiculture soil and plant the seeds.
The worms do most of the work.
You have to set up a worm bin first.
@@davidthegood My salad, herb and strawberry off ground garden is a vermiculture bed. They commingle. I am zone 9b, Sacramento, CA.
Running your bare hand into compost makes me cringe. My compost got a lot of centipede.
If we had those I would wear gloves!
Nice gloves. Gave your hands a work out to break in I'll bet.