Prepping The Ground For Peppers - Spring Soil Prep - Pepper Geek
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
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In today's video, we're sharing how to prepare your garden soil in spring. These simple methods can improve your garden's performance, and lead to bigger pepper yields and better tasting fruits. Prepping the ground for your garden can make all the difference in the health of your plants for the entire season, so don't skip it!
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I love your channel. It's probably one of the reasons I have started growing a bunch of pepper varieties. I am doing videos as well on the stuff I grow, though I grow a few more things and don't specialize in only peppers. Just wanted to say thanks for creating content that is very helpful.
Great video, I love planting videos that are informative and your videos are one of my favourites. 🥰👍👌👏🌟🇦🇺
Thank you! Cheers ☺️
As many of us have clay base soil so glad you mentioned building up mounds or ridges for us that have clay base soil.
I'm starting with clover this fall
Thanks
Mix kitchen scraps into the clay soil, over the years it'll get worked to perfection by worms ❤
From you find the shades covering from the hot weather temperature
As you were showing the compost in the bucket I was leaning in to smell it... lol gotta love compost!!
Can you do a video on grafting pepper plants?
You covered everything that I do. As you mentioned you can use leaf mulch which is what I do. As you mentioned it is a free resource, especially for me and you don’t have to worry about any chemicals on it. I actually don’t recommend asking neighbors or using community composting sites for things like grass clippings or leaves because they could have treated their yard with chemicals.
Other than a few amendments that I get at the store, everything else is from my property where I have 100% control of knowing where it came from.
Yep, that is the way we're leaning. Some of our neighbors use mosquito chemicals and weed killers, so probably won't be asking them for any material ;)
Nice video again as always! I'm a big fan on using compost and a nice mulch layer to suppress those weeds and keep the moisture in. A living soil teaming with life produces great plants.
Niceee. Was just about to do this myself
mine have been in the ground for over a month. I'm pulling flowers off already trying to slow them down. 😂
I add a layer of organic garden soil on top of the existing soil where I’m planting to add nutrients and improve my soil. Also I use chopped leaves to cover my garden during the off season to protect it and suppress weeds
Tomato and tomatoes so many talking about tomatoes
I'm loving my stuff peppers and they are having a space before the tomatoes are allowed in my garden
Thanks for helping my peppers
Thanks for the video! Always informative. I planted shishito peppers on mothers day, I have fruit forming, plants are around a foot tall, is that early?
It is a bit early, but you can sometimes get 2 flushes of fruits out of the faster growing varieties like shishitos!
Hey geek, I live in the same general area as you (Massachusetts) and wanted to throw out there that Ocean State Job Lot (if there us one close by) usually carries a 27 lb. bag of Espoma's Garden Tone for $21. Hope this helps!
Cheers! Yep we were recently at a local job lot and saw them for sale. Definitely a good deal
"Avoid horse manure if you can."
I started a new garden here in GA and it’s clay and sand so I have had to till it up, added horse manure from a trusted farm, added blood and bone meal, then added some old grass clippings as mulch and my peppers so far have been the best ever. They are also on mounds which seem to work the best here.
Thanks for you information
Just a tip the sticks you have in your soil need some kind of cover on the tips as when you bend down you could have a nasty accident with your eyes
And also the rake should lay the other way when not in use
Regards Anthony
That's good advice, I've never officially poked my eye out on a stick but there have been some close calls that scared the crap outa me. You can cut down a screwed on capped water bottle, or even just put the sticks on a belt sander to flatten the top. Maybe even spray paint the stick top white so it's visible.
Can you do a vid in regards to prepping soil for containers? Especially past seasons soil.
We made a video on our other channel here: ruclips.net/video/M_pLJpJarX0/видео.html
Wow the size of your garden area! It must take many days to remove all the weeds, throw all that compost on there and plant all those veggies. That’s insane.
I have 40 pepper plants, in pots and I find it’s a lot! Lol. Nothing like you!
I have to garden in grow bags or other containers because I can't dig in the ground. I've read a lot about companion plants and what not to grow together if they are in the same garden in the ground. Does it extend to container gardens if the plants are in separate containers? Will they draw the same pests if they are in containers next to each other. I don't have a whole lot of room for my containers. I have 4 pepper plants and 4 tomato plants so far. I'm going to be doing carrots, bush beans, peas, corn, watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew, cucumbers and pumpkins in my limited yard. Any ideas would be MUCH APPRECIATED!
Yes companion plants will still attract those good insects to container plants. Some of them can even be planted around the base of peppers/tomatoes (such as alyssum, it stays short and produces lots of flowers)
Love your videos! Very informative and practical! What is the brand of straw that you use for mulch?
That’s a good mic. Couldn’t hear any wind
I heard I should take off the flowers off the small pepper plants so they can grow, then produce.
Yes we do recommend this, but not too late into the season. To make it easier you can just pluck any flowers that start turning into peppers
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Hey there, am a newbie and I germinated cayenne seeds recently. I covered the pot with aluminium foil (like humidity dome) and check on them 8 days later. They all sprouted ( thought it would take longer) but all without exception have yellow cotyledons with no true leaves yet. I think due to low light and oxygen. Are these sprout still able to grow true leaves or I can consider them dead plants? thank you for the help
I think they were yellow because your foil humidity dome blocked light, if you put them by a window or under a light, they would turn green There are clear humidity domes or you can use an old clear plastic cup
Soo I just need to add 2 inch of compost in my backyard where I’m planting make my holes and I’m set?
Can I use a compost mix along with a chem. fertilizer ?.....thanks...
Of course, just be sure not to over do on the synthetic nutrients - they can easily burn!
@@PepperGeek ....thank you !...
What if you live in Florida and your topsoil is all sand I live in Central Florida 110 feet above sea level and my backyard under the grass is all sand I know this because my pitbull runs back-and-forth in the same spot every day and there’s a huge sandpit on one side of my backyard by the fence where she’s always stopping I was thinking of building a raised garden with cinderblocks or something and filling it with organic soil but during the rainy season the heavy rains will probably flush all the nutrients out of the soil
My younger sister lives in Titusville, FL., aka Sand City like rest of the central part of the state. The answer for her was raised beds with an excellent planting mix carried by The Sodfather (U.S. Hwy 1, Scottsmoor).
One look at her soil made me introduce her to David the Good, RUclips genius/expert on building and improving horribly crappy soil in the south. His methods are sound, sensible and practiced. But, by the way my sweet sister's eyes bugged out while we viewed his excellent videos, I knew she wanted to plant her vegetables in ready-made soil -- NOT create the soil. She has a life. Best decision for her. She now enjoys gardening and conserves her lousy back by not having to bend over all the time. I got her started on 2 beds -- when she's ready she fill more with The Sodfather's lovely planting mix. Raised beds will enhance your enthusiasm and grow stuff. I am from California, an avid gardener with clay soil and my answer was the same -- raised beds. Good luck!
Have you ever considered growing peppers in a living organic soil
Of course - it is ideal to cater to the soil and keep the beneficial bacteria happy :)
Hey geek I think I have problem with one of my Habanero plant. It’s a month ago that I put my plants outside in a growing house and that Habanero plant is not bigger than this🌱( not bigger than the top of my little finger). Do you have any tips or do you now what’s going on or what I’m doing wrong?
Hey guys. I am new to growing peppers but have grown things in the past, peppers are harder to get started from seed I see.... I germinated late ... but have 20 different varieties of plants in the ground now I purchased from different places , counting 6 seedlings I purchased from some exotic seed place online... I was wondering , 🤔 living in east central Alabama, where it may get cold in October then again it may be November before it starts getting 50° most years, will that be enough time for the little 4 leaf seedlings I planted to produce fruits ?
Word of advice, if you have slugs in your area...do not use straw for mulch!! Straw mulch works great but it creates an inviting habitat for slugs. I do use straw for wintertime mulch of perennial crops like asparagus, but I remove the straw as soon as the snow starts melting. Compost is my mulch during the growing season. Planted my peppers yesterday, zone 4 AK.
How come you don't want weeds to break down in the garden soil? Isn't that good for the soil?
I was waiting for him to say why. Expected the reason was that decaying matter robs, in the short term, nearby soil of nitrogen while breaking down. Long term benefit tho. I’d figure if weed mass was left on surface, roots would be below the nitrogen robbed zone.
Is this garden part of ur lot or a community garden?
It's a community garden
Hi We think your channel is really great ....but PLEASE could you put eye savers / soda bottles or something on your canes. We cringed every time you bent down near them !!!
Oo yikes…never really though about that. Thanks for the tip we’ll think of something
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Get rid of the alarming pepper cruch attack in your intro. I try to avoid your channel as much as I can. Also... get rid of all pop sounds. Nobody does those. Another random attack on the senses. Listening to your voice, though, puts me to sleep. So, try to be a better speaker and you won't need to have annoying pop-ups to keep us awake. Hopefully you adapt a bit more, but if you don't, I'll still drop by as little as I have to because the content is fairly good.