Get Olle Raised Beds Here: bit.ly/3qB7j3Q Use code "lazydogfarm" for 10% off 0:00 Intro 0:42 Why Did We Plant More Squash? 2:32 8 Plants NOT TO COMPOST! 4:34 Where Do We Put These Dead Plants? 5:00 Why is Garden Sanitation So Important? 7:16 Checking on Our Raised Bed Worm Farm 9:55 Adding Worms to Our Raised Bed 14:04 Planting Ageratum in Our Raised Bed 14:47 Why Should You Be Composting with Worms?
I've heard about gardeners saying not to compost certain organic matter but I'm trying all and everything even plants with fugus or disease and so far since 3 years now seem to be doing well. Making sure the compost goes through that hot process to try and eliminate those bad guys hopes this helps
All those plants you name go into my chicken run. What they don’t/won’t eat gets turned into compost in their run. I dig out portions on that run every year or two and it’s never given me any problems when used as a garden amendment.
I had a very large compost bin. 16x16. We put the tomatoes, peppers, squash and cucumbers in the bin. To assist with getting the heat high enough and long enough, I used black polly in the winter and clear polly in the summer. Now, I did spray all of those plants with Copper, while they were growing.
I follow a few gardening channels from various climates/zones. One of the most mentioned commonalties between them is (loosely) "These starts/transplants have been in the tray too long." Thank you!
I compost two ways, a pile and a barrel and I have a worm farm. It is my understanding that worm castings do not have nutrients in it, however they do have the organisms that break down nutrients so plants can uptake it. I try to add worm castings every planting. It has really helped my garden. Cheers...
Great info! I pull zucchini plants as soon as they look week and feed them to the chickens, have replacements ready to go to keep up production, just in a new spot in the bed.
I like the idea of having a place to put kitchen scraps. Do you have to do any special things in the winter? Maybe a video o that would be helpful. If you have one I have not found it. Thanks
A couple years ago, I installed a tall, 1/2’ opening hardware cloth cylinder, in both half’s of my raised bed. I dumped in some red worms and between them and soldier fly larvae did pretty well. I may do that again next year.
Zone 10B zucchini flowers just fall off tomatoes are about naked from all the blight it seems that it wants to rain for at least an hour every night powdery mildew all over zucchini then during the day it's so hot my lettuce went to flower decided to just go straight to sweet potatoes and black beans
Subscribed! This is exactly the kind of channel I need to follow. Out of fear lol, we put a garden and two raised beds in our yard. That first year was rough cause we didn't have clue what we were doing but this year we have all kinds of perrieniels like asparagus and herbs growing back and that's very exciting and encouraging to keep going. I still have lots to learn but that's what it's all about!
@@LazyDogFarm Thank you! Not sure where you're from but you speak like us here at home. I think you may be a little further south but here in southwest Virginia, our last two winters have been so mild that it doesn't freeze out the insect pests that cause disease like you said in this video. I like that worm bin you had buried in your raised bed. I'm thinking about making one of my own. Take care!
Your vegetable garden & feedback about does and fonts is always so helpful no matter where one lives in this great big world. Thankyou for the inspiration
I compost all of those, I just run them through a shredder first, I’m in Northeast Texas, I don’t seem to have giant issues diseases, but if they do I’ll cover the compost piles with black 6 mil plastic and get it hot hot!
One of the first mistakes I made was trying to sow seed in the lower priced bagged potting soil. As you all probably know, the big chunks of wood don't allow for the little seedlings to push up through so that first year only the strong survived. Now I'm doing the compost thing. I'm new to all of this but it's fun to learn and grow my own food, and it's nice to walk out and grab my own produce and not have to run to the store for certain things that's so expensive. Nothing beats a homegrown tomato! Maybe a big bunch of homegrown tomatoes!
Good example of this countries Lost Principales ... You should have returned the crap and called... Not emailed the company ... or they will keep deceiving the public ...aka...Goy.
@@chipsramek3868 Aww. It'll be ok chip. I don't need to go through all of that because now I have a sifter (screen with frame) that my goy Man built for me on the very day that happened. We adapt and overcome because they deceive and we thrive every single time! Praise The Lord!
Great tips! Please consider this point, the plants we grow for food in our gardens are not "natural" humans have created these plant forms through selective breeding.(i am not even talking g.m.o.) Human gardeners and farmers are creating ideal conditions for certain "pests" to grow. Selective growing creates perfect conditions for selective pest and virus breading. Perhaps something to consider here is the actual "sustainability" of the entire garden system we are using? If gardeners create a waste steam of pests and viruses by providing ideal conditions for growth (organic food sources). we should have a strategy in place to "neutralize" that "waste" In my opinion (25 years gardening) hot composting is an essential gardening skill worth the time to learn. To me turning a waste stream back into useful material is the point of organic growing. Generating unusable waste and pests is counter productive, and not much different then irresponsible industrial agriculture.
Good point. But even if we composted every single plant in our garden, we wouldn't have enough compost for all our plots. That's why we also get a dump load a couple times a year.
Lol men a such children when it comes to sport teams. I do not keep up with any sports. As a nurse men giving each other concussions is not appealing to me. But I love learning about gardening and I think you are excellent at teaching and making comparisons. Have a Blessed Day. (’Gig em’ Horns Lol)
Looking good Travis, Several years ago I started a second compost pile for cucurbits and night shades. I use that compost around trees and bushes. Bye-the-way I harvested my On Deck Hybrid sweet corn yesterday. Plants grew 4 1/2 feet tall and little 7 inch ears. They were delicious. But I think regular sweet corn like my Delectable or Silver Queen does fine. Just remember to go out for a minute a couple times a day and give plants a shake for pollination, I fit about 15 plants in a 7’ x 3’ bed.
It’s worth it to do the hot compost method imo. I’m a 5’3” 140 lb 41 year old and I turn my compost every couple of weeks to get the hot compost going to put into my beds. With this method, I get compost that’s ready in 3 months. You can get compost faster if you turn more often and if your compost materials are more shredded to begin with. I had to cold compost during the winter bc I got pregnant and i don’t like it as much as the hot compost method. Lots more weeds with cold compost. Though the positive of a cold compost are the volunteer tomatoes and pumpkin plants I got in the compost bin this spring.
Chicken cultivation is the best for gardens. You get turned over soil, they eat all the bugs and weeds, and they leave behind fertilizer. Highly reccommend to all gardeners. Even a small flock of 4 can do wonders for your garden. I let my chickens into the garden right at the end of winter, up until I start planting.
I've got a couple hundred feet of Hugelkulture berms in the wooded parts of my property. That's where I throw my cucurbit and nightshade plants. It still goes back to the soil, just not the soil I'm going to grow veggies in.
i got rid of my two large composting bays, and am very happy without all the work and headaches that come with composting. have several large tubs to pick up and store all the green waste, which is easily and conveniently got rid of via council green waste collection. they're happy to have the inputs to produce compost products commercially. home composting can quickly become a black hole that takes your time and energy, instead of just growing great veggies. the time can be better spent looking after what is growing.
I don't spend much time on our compost bins. I mainly just throw stuff in them and flip them 2x a year. I could probably make compost faster if I took more time with them, but lately I've been leaning more towards letting the worms do the work for me.
@@LazyDogFarm : yep, dont sink more time in them. the compost dogma is a waste of time, in terms of return on investment. you know the deal, and i learnt from you, to evaluate things in more realistic terms. i'm sure i wasnt the only one that got duped into sinking more and more time/effort/money into composting. saving kitchen scraps, buying a shredder, etc. not worth it.
I noticed that you tend to do a lot of trench composting in your raised beds (even that worm farm is really a version of trench composting). I have always wanted to do a comparison of trench composting vs "no dig" (i.e., only compost on top) sometime when I have two raised beds that I can grow the same thing in all year. I have a feeling that utilizing "smart" trench composting (i.e., just adding scrapes to the middle or certain spots while limiting breaking up old root structure would win over strict no dig. I feel that there is a lot of wasted nitrogen and other micros making composting outside the bed.
We do the furrow or trench method with almost everything we plant, whether that be in ground or in the raised beds. I've found that adding some pre-plant fertilizer in the furrow can go a long way to helping you get a bountiful harvest.
The highest I’ve gotten my compost is 128. Thank you for sharing what plants should not go in our compost bins. Perfect video as my tomato and squash are finishing their season. We are heading to 114 degrees this week in southwest Arizona.
That climate down there like a curse and a blessing at same time what if any food plants can you grow in this time the year down there?? I was told some squash is very hot tolerant and drought tolerant.
To get a pile really hot requires moisture, oxygen, fixed nitrogen, and enough bulk to retain the heat. The edges of the pile won't heat as much, which is part of the reason for turning the pile (the other important reason is to reintroduce oxygen to the center). If by "bins" you mean a tumbler type bin, it's no surprise you haven't gotten much heating as those are really too small to retain the heat. You need a volume of at least a cubic yard. A geobin like the one Travis has will do that, provided it's near its maximum size and full.
@@bobbun9630 My bin is about 3 ft by 4 ft. It is just in the ground. I have two piles going all the time. As I have been learning they are getting hotter with every pile. Thank you for the tip and will try some more browns.
Another entertaining and informative video. I'm wondering about that "worm gadget" you're using. Wouldn't it be just as easy to dig a large hole in the middle of your raised bed, fill it with a variety of worm food, then cover it with soil?
You could probably make one by drilling holes in a 5 gallon bucket with a lid. The key is being able to lift the lid and add more scraps every week. Those worms are hungry! lol
I had an attack of blight on my tomato plants. I pulled them all out after unsuccessfully treating them with fungicide, and took the green tomatoes and pickled them. Can you please advise me on how I need to treat the soil, so that I don't see it again in my next planting in that bed?
Try growing a cover crop of mustard where you want to plant your tomatoes next year. Grow the mustard in the cool season and incorporate it into the soil.
Unless you were to start having some persistent soil-borne pest issues, I'm not sure you ever need to replace. We just top off the tops of our beds as they sink down over time.
I’m some 6B and my sungold tomato I put our early but she’s thriving now I got my first ripe tomato here before anyone in my town even had there tomato flowering. My trellis is almost full already and it’s like 5 foot trellis ladder too! I if I wasn’t bending and trellising the tomato back and forth it’s be easily 5 foot tall if I let it grow straight up. I took a risk for my region and had to cover the tomato once in spring but now bc that risk my tomato got Huuge jump start for my region but my zucchini ball plants are about in time with yours but my spaghetti squash has been fruiting recently I’m just trying to hand pollinate cause had couple fruit fall off from not being pollinated but I’ll quit rambling on now lol. Wishing you abundant harvests and peaceful growing!
A red bucket with the University of Georgia logo on it. My wife and I went to school there, so we like to have a little fun with our viewers who may not be the biggest "Dawg" fans.
Have a question. Those eight plants. Just the plants or the edible parts also? Also blueberries and goji berries are suppose to be in the Nightshade family.
Using the lawnmower to chop up the diseases/insect infested plants is a good idea if it's done away from your garden areas. Leaving the debris on the grass doesn't get rid of it. It will only reinfest the soil with the same issues you're trying to get rid of. Best to just throw it in the fire pit.
The caveat is if you don’t get a freeze severe enough to knock out bad bugs then don’t put them in the compost pile. I’m in zone 8a (Texas) where we do get some freezes. I use to throw out diseased tomato plants when I lived in California (what’s a freeze?). Here in Texas I pretty much compost almost all plant materials.
Have you heard that new song called 'Tennessee Orange'? It's about some Georgia girl that traded in her Dogs bucket for a Vols bucket. Love will make you do some crazy things.
Every year, I place my diseased squash plants on my rock driveway. They are diseased and full of squash vine borer pest. So, I use my truck to run/roll over my squash plants many times to squish the life out of the squash vine borer pest that is alive in the trunk, branches and some attached squash. This applied method keeps next years pest to a minimum.
Do you have another supplier of the pantheon zucchini now that Johnny's has discontinued carrying them? I'm looking for a parthenacarpid squash/zucchini and that is about the only one I can find?
Have you experimented with bio char?? You mentioned burning stuff, so you may have a good source of it. I have a burn pit for fallen branches and add some bio char here and there. But i dont know if it really helps
@@TheRealWattLife moisture retention is probably where I noticed an improvement. I don't have to water quite as much. However I also use wood mulch and chicken manure for fertilizer
Curious if your worms are “red wrigglers” or some other composting type of worm, or just regular old garden worms? I had thousands of red wrigglers growing in large 90 gallon composting bins. The red wrigglers would plow through stuff quickly. Good video.
@@LazyDogFarm Great. Ive had great success with red wrigglers. They are great composters & thrive on cuttings and really churn “stuff” quickly. Ps - I just ordered a Conandria & it should arrive this coming Saturday. Ive had many many fig trees over the years & we loved our Conandria! So, hoping this one lives up to our expectations! We grow mostly Hardy Chicago & Celeste.
So you can add the leek leaves to the worm bin, but not the squash or tomato leaves. Is this because the leek leaves did not seem to have much insect/microbial damage?
We usually don't have any pest issues with alliums (leeks, onions, garlic), so I'm not worried about that kind of stuff. I just don't want the plants in there that usually give us issues.
Hi Travis. Can I get my starter worms from the bait shop, ie. nightcrawlers or red wigglers, or do I need to special order a specific type? I'm converting an old milk crate to start mine in.
I have read that you shouldn't put onion and citrus in worm bins. I put them in my compost piles and have worms in them, but I don't have a worm bin to check this information out. Any ideas?
I am delivering a sermon to you 🙏😊 please read Consistently Pray for forgiveness, guidance in a good (positive) direction, and for help against evil. Pray to be saved from hell (whatever that may be). Pray for your friends and your family too, it only takes a minute or so/less at a time to pray. Do it and your life will slowly get better, or maybe quickly. It probably just depends on you and the kind of person you are/have been. Don't wait until its too late and you have to suffer the consequences of built up bad karma from immoral acts/unrepented sins. Maybe together we can help make the world a better place by changing ourselves for the better, and changing things around us for the better. And addressing/thanking the CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, LORD GOD at the beginning and end of your prayers would be a good idea. Be my friend and I will pray for you, but I do not know how much help me doing so will give you. You should try to practice daily prayer yourself. I'm trying to help you get right with the LORD 🙏 Amen. I have worded a short prayer for you to say if you are not sure what words to use, it may not be the best but here it is 😊 '' CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, LORD GOD, Please forgive me and my friends and my family for our immoral acts, please help guide us in a positive direction and please help us against evil. Please save us from Hell and have mercy on our souls. Thank you for everything CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, LORD GOD. Amen. '' Please say this at least once a day for at least a month, do it longer if you want to and can 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 You should prostrate yourself if you don't want to do spoken prayer, or do both 🙏😊 Please worship the LORD GOD and not any idol. Please put your hands together 🙏 bow your head and say this prayer: "CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, LORD GOD, please know that I worship you and not any idols. Thank you for everything CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, LORD GOD. Amen" Say ' Om Namah Shivaya ' out loud or in your head 108 times, or try to do it 1008 times 😊 try to do it everyday if you want repeat this aloud for as long as you want to, try to do it for like an hour a day or say it in a prayer "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner" You can also say this prayer once a day or repeat it aloud as many times as you would like to: "Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen." Thessalonians 5:16-18 "Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you." Philippians 4:6-7 "Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." "O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of mercy for us, I trust in You!" Repeat this aloud at least 3 times or as many as you want, do it everyday if you can I apologize for all the words 😊 I know how it may look If you can't look and remember the words to any prayer, just pray the words as you read them until you can 🙏
I garden in 5B and our winter temps often hit below zero, and yet many varieties of disease pathogens and insect pests still survive very nicely. Pretty sure that the Colorado Potato beetles don't snowbird it down to Arizona every winter. As soon as nightshades and cucurbits finish their production, out they come, roots and all, for a final journey to the landfill. Cheapest and easiest cultural practice I know of to help break the pest reproductive cycle. My wife prefers her leeks trimmed with about 8" of green leaves included. Her cooking validates that wisdom. I was pretty sure that by now we would have seen a segment or two from the tomato patch. I know that indeterminates have been a disappointment this year, but maybe we can all help to dry your tears.
I rarely have disease problems in my cucurbits. I do get bug pressure but I run them my chickens before compost piles. Nightshade are a different issue. Nope, my chickens don't get to go through them at all
Those plants are all fine for the compost pile. The diseases that occur on the plants dont live on unless there's living plant material, and basically everything is dead in the compost pile. Especially if you can get a 3x3x3 cube going, or a 5ft mound with all your material.
Yeah, everything goes in my 3x3x3 bin....we all have pest issues from time to time and we should know now-from all the research being done- it's from our soil health. Just like slugs are attracted to rotting leaves, aphids/flea beetles are just taking care of the plants that have less to offer...everything has a purpose
@@LazyDogFarm 😂😂that’s ok. Love listening to you and have learned a lot from you about gardening…..your explanations are easy to understand and doable for the average home gardener and we appreciate that…….and MomGeneral, I get the working elbows too!!!! Sending best wishes to all….. 🥰👵🏻❤️ Happy Gardening
We can't do anything about viruses/diseases that are vectored by insects. It just takes one thrip or aphid to transmit a virus to a plant. You can have the healthiest soil imaginable and still get diseases.
Put them all in a steel barrel and boil them with tree trmmings and unwanted brush you have trimmed and removed, then use the water and everything on the compost
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0:00 Intro
0:42 Why Did We Plant More Squash?
2:32 8 Plants NOT TO COMPOST!
4:34 Where Do We Put These Dead Plants?
5:00 Why is Garden Sanitation So Important?
7:16 Checking on Our Raised Bed Worm Farm
9:55 Adding Worms to Our Raised Bed
14:04 Planting Ageratum in Our Raised Bed
14:47 Why Should You Be Composting with Worms?
I've heard about gardeners saying not to compost certain organic matter but I'm trying all and everything even plants with fugus or disease and so far since 3 years now seem to be doing well. Making sure the compost goes through that hot process to try and eliminate those bad guys hopes this helps
All those plants you name go into my chicken run. What they don’t/won’t eat gets turned into compost in their run. I dig out portions on that run every year or two and it’s never given me any problems when used as a garden amendment.
I had a very large compost bin. 16x16. We put the tomatoes, peppers, squash and cucumbers in the bin. To assist with getting the heat high enough and long enough, I used black polly in the winter and clear polly in the summer. Now, I did spray all of those plants with Copper, while they were growing.
I follow a few gardening channels from various climates/zones. One of the most mentioned commonalties between them is (loosely) "These starts/transplants have been in the tray too long."
Thank you!
There isn't much that's more satisfying than mowing over a pile of garden scraps like that.
I agree!
I compost two ways, a pile and a barrel and I have a worm farm. It is my understanding that worm castings do not have nutrients in it, however they do have the organisms that break down nutrients so plants can uptake it. I try to add worm castings every planting. It has really helped my garden. Cheers...
Great info!
I pull zucchini plants as soon as they look week and feed them to the chickens, have replacements ready to go to keep up production, just in a new spot in the bed.
I like the idea of having a place to put kitchen scraps. Do you have to do any special things in the winter? Maybe a video o that would be helpful. If you have one I have not found it. Thanks
A couple years ago, I installed a tall, 1/2’ opening hardware cloth cylinder, in both half’s of my raised bed. I dumped in some red worms and between them and soldier fly larvae did pretty well. I may do that again next year.
"...till the fire out of it..."
😂😂😂
Thank you for the reminder.
Zone 10B zucchini flowers just fall off tomatoes are about naked from all the blight it seems that it wants to rain for at least an hour every night powdery mildew all over zucchini then during the day it's so hot my lettuce went to flower decided to just go straight to sweet potatoes and black beans
Subscribed! This is exactly the kind of channel I need to follow. Out of fear lol, we put a garden and two raised beds in our yard. That first year was rough cause we didn't have clue what we were doing but this year we have all kinds of perrieniels like asparagus and herbs growing back and that's very exciting and encouraging to keep going. I still have lots to learn but that's what it's all about!
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@@LazyDogFarm Thank you! Not sure where you're from but you speak like us here at home. I think you may be a little further south but here in southwest Virginia, our last two winters have been so mild that it doesn't freeze out the insect pests that cause disease like you said in this video. I like that worm bin you had buried in your raised bed. I'm thinking about making one of my own. Take care!
Your vegetable garden & feedback about does and fonts is always so helpful no matter where one lives in this great big world. Thankyou for the inspiration
I compost all of those, I just run them through a shredder first, I’m in Northeast Texas, I don’t seem to have giant issues diseases, but if they do I’ll cover the compost piles with black 6 mil plastic and get it hot hot!
One of the first mistakes I made was trying to sow seed in the lower priced bagged potting soil. As you all probably know, the big chunks of wood don't allow for the little seedlings to push up through so that first year only the strong survived. Now I'm doing the compost thing. I'm new to all of this but it's fun to learn and grow my own food, and it's nice to walk out and grab my own produce and not have to run to the store for certain things that's so expensive. Nothing beats a homegrown tomato! Maybe a big bunch of homegrown tomatoes!
Good example of this countries Lost Principales ... You should have returned the crap and called... Not emailed the company ... or they will keep deceiving the public ...aka...Goy.
@@chipsramek3868 Aww. It'll be ok chip. I don't need to go through all of that because now I have a sifter (screen with frame) that my goy Man built for me on the very day that happened. We adapt and overcome because they deceive and we thrive every single time! Praise The Lord!
Fun video.
Great tips!
Please consider this point,
the plants we grow for food in our gardens are not "natural" humans have created these plant forms through selective breeding.(i am not even talking g.m.o.)
Human gardeners and farmers are creating ideal conditions for certain "pests" to grow.
Selective growing creates perfect conditions for selective pest and virus breading.
Perhaps something to consider here is the actual "sustainability" of the entire garden system we are using?
If gardeners create a waste steam of pests and viruses by providing ideal conditions for growth (organic food sources).
we should have a strategy in place to "neutralize" that "waste"
In my opinion (25 years gardening) hot composting is an essential gardening skill worth the time to learn. To me turning a waste stream back into useful material is the point of organic growing. Generating unusable waste and pests is counter productive, and not much different then irresponsible industrial agriculture.
Good point. But even if we composted every single plant in our garden, we wouldn't have enough compost for all our plots. That's why we also get a dump load a couple times a year.
Thank you, awesome information!!
Lol men a such children when it comes to sport teams. I do not keep up with any sports. As a nurse men giving each other concussions is not appealing to me. But I love learning about gardening and I think you are excellent at teaching and making comparisons. Have a Blessed Day. (’Gig em’ Horns Lol)
Looking good Travis, Several years ago I started a second compost pile for cucurbits and night shades. I use that compost around trees and bushes. Bye-the-way I harvested my On Deck Hybrid sweet corn yesterday. Plants grew 4 1/2 feet tall and little 7 inch ears. They were delicious. But I think regular sweet corn like my Delectable or Silver Queen does fine. Just remember to go out for a minute a couple times a day and give plants a shake for pollination, I fit about 15 plants in a 7’ x 3’ bed.
First time viewer here. You have a great setup. I like your personality and the way you explain the processes.
It’s worth it to do the hot compost method imo. I’m a 5’3” 140 lb 41 year old and I turn my compost every couple of weeks to get the hot compost going to put into my beds. With this method, I get compost that’s ready in 3 months. You can get compost faster if you turn more often and if your compost materials are more shredded to begin with.
I had to cold compost during the winter bc I got pregnant and i don’t like it as much as the hot compost method. Lots more weeds with cold compost. Though the positive of a cold compost are the volunteer tomatoes and pumpkin plants I got in the compost bin this spring.
Love the video!
Chicken cultivation is the best for gardens. You get turned over soil, they eat all the bugs and weeds, and they leave behind fertilizer. Highly reccommend to all gardeners. Even a small flock of 4 can do wonders for your garden. I let my chickens into the garden right at the end of winter, up until I start planting.
I've got a couple hundred feet of Hugelkulture berms in the wooded parts of my property. That's where I throw my cucurbit and nightshade plants. It still goes back to the soil, just not the soil I'm going to grow veggies in.
Love your videos and the knowledge you share. Can you do a video on your large worm bin?
Squash, Cucumbers, Pumpkins, Watermelon, Tomatoes, Potatoes, Peppers & Eggplants
i got rid of my two large composting bays, and am very happy without all the work and headaches that come with composting.
have several large tubs to pick up and store all the green waste, which is easily and conveniently got rid of via council green waste collection.
they're happy to have the inputs to produce compost products commercially.
home composting can quickly become a black hole that takes your time and energy, instead of just growing great veggies.
the time can be better spent looking after what is growing.
I don't spend much time on our compost bins. I mainly just throw stuff in them and flip them 2x a year. I could probably make compost faster if I took more time with them, but lately I've been leaning more towards letting the worms do the work for me.
@@LazyDogFarm : yep, dont sink more time in them. the compost dogma is a waste of time, in terms of return on investment. you know the deal, and i learnt from you, to evaluate things in more realistic terms. i'm sure i wasnt the only one that got duped into sinking more and more time/effort/money into composting. saving kitchen scraps, buying a shredder, etc. not worth it.
@@Chris-op7yt I still like using my shredder to recycle paper and cardboard. But the worms get more of it than do the Geobins.
Did not know that about worms and dog buckets. 😀
I would add bean plants, especially pole beans, to the list of plants not to compost. Rust hits my pole beans every time I plant them.
I noticed that you tend to do a lot of trench composting in your raised beds (even that worm farm is really a version of trench composting). I have always wanted to do a comparison of trench composting vs "no dig" (i.e., only compost on top) sometime when I have two raised beds that I can grow the same thing in all year. I have a feeling that utilizing "smart" trench composting (i.e., just adding scrapes to the middle or certain spots while limiting breaking up old root structure would win over strict no dig. I feel that there is a lot of wasted nitrogen and other micros making composting outside the bed.
We do the furrow or trench method with almost everything we plant, whether that be in ground or in the raised beds. I've found that adding some pre-plant fertilizer in the furrow can go a long way to helping you get a bountiful harvest.
Sup! Thanks for the info
The highest I’ve gotten my compost is 128. Thank you for sharing what plants should not go in our compost bins. Perfect video as my tomato and squash are finishing their season. We are heading to 114 degrees this week in southwest Arizona.
That climate down there like a curse and a blessing at same time what if any food plants can you grow in this time the year down there?? I was told some squash is very hot tolerant and drought tolerant.
To get a pile really hot requires moisture, oxygen, fixed nitrogen, and enough bulk to retain the heat. The edges of the pile won't heat as much, which is part of the reason for turning the pile (the other important reason is to reintroduce oxygen to the center). If by "bins" you mean a tumbler type bin, it's no surprise you haven't gotten much heating as those are really too small to retain the heat. You need a volume of at least a cubic yard. A geobin like the one Travis has will do that, provided it's near its maximum size and full.
@@LovingDeantheGodMachine333 shade cloth and lots of it. Okra beans cantaloupe peppers sunflowers and many heat loving flowers.
@@bobbun9630 My bin is about 3 ft by 4 ft. It is just in the ground. I have two piles going all the time. As I have been learning they are getting hotter with every pile. Thank you for the tip and will try some more browns.
Those raised beds are quite impressive.
Information starts at 3:50
squash, cucumbers, pumpkins, watermelon, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers , egg plant.
Kudzu top of list
Another entertaining and informative video. I'm wondering about that "worm gadget" you're using. Wouldn't it be just as easy to dig a large hole in the middle of your raised bed, fill it with a variety of worm food, then cover it with soil?
You could probably make one by drilling holes in a 5 gallon bucket with a lid. The key is being able to lift the lid and add more scraps every week. Those worms are hungry! lol
here up north our squash plants will not go bad til around september.
Awesome advise as usual thanks travis
Would the in bed worm work in north Idaho?
Might be too cold for them up there.
To help your compost get hotter and get done quicker. Just add the chicken manure and mix it in.
I had an attack of blight on my tomato plants. I pulled them all out after unsuccessfully treating them with fungicide, and took the green tomatoes and pickled them. Can you please advise me on how I need to treat the soil, so that I don't see it again in my next planting in that bed?
Try growing a cover crop of mustard where you want to plant your tomatoes next year. Grow the mustard in the cool season and incorporate it into the soil.
How long can you keep the same soil in the raised beds?
Unless you were to start having some persistent soil-borne pest issues, I'm not sure you ever need to replace. We just top off the tops of our beds as they sink down over time.
Zone 7a for me. Zucchini is still 3-4 weeks from producing. Tomato’s about 4-6 weeks out.
I’m some 6B and my sungold tomato I put our early but she’s thriving now I got my first ripe tomato here before anyone in my town even had there tomato flowering. My trellis is almost full already and it’s like 5 foot trellis ladder too! I if I wasn’t bending and trellising the tomato back and forth it’s be easily 5 foot tall if I let it grow straight up. I took a risk for my region and had to cover the tomato once in spring but now bc that risk my tomato got Huuge jump start for my region but my zucchini ball plants are about in time with yours but my spaghetti squash has been fruiting recently I’m just trying to hand pollinate cause had couple fruit fall off from not being pollinated but I’ll quit rambling on now lol. Wishing you abundant harvests and peaceful growing!
This may be off topic, but what is a dogs bucket?
A red bucket with the University of Georgia logo on it. My wife and I went to school there, so we like to have a little fun with our viewers who may not be the biggest "Dawg" fans.
Georgia Bulldogs bucket
I have no problem with potatoes but with all other you mentionemd. I do not put them in my compost too, except the potatoes.
Have a question. Those eight plants. Just the plants or the edible parts also? Also blueberries and goji berries are suppose to be in the Nightshade family.
I'll put rotten fruits in the compost bin or in the worm bin.
Is there anyway to treat the soil for bug larvae before you replant?
Yes! Milky Spore. I get mine from Natures Good Guys.
How much are these dog buckets with lids shipped to Canada 🇨🇦
Using the lawnmower to chop up the diseases/insect infested plants is a good idea if it's done away from your garden areas. Leaving the debris on the grass doesn't get rid of it. It will only reinfest the soil with the same issues you're trying to get rid of. Best to just throw it in the fire pit.
Are you going to do a video on saving some potatoes to use for seed potatoes?
I'll take some of our spring potatoes and plant a few for the fall, but I'll start with new certified seed potatoes in the spring.
The caveat is if you don’t get a freeze severe enough to knock out bad bugs then don’t put them in the compost pile. I’m in zone 8a (Texas) where we do get some freezes. I use to throw out diseased tomato plants when I lived in California (what’s a freeze?). Here in Texas I pretty much compost almost all plant materials.
Yeah california kinda sucks cause of that, cant really compost everything. I am moving to Texas though.
I compost everything in CA 9b. No problems. The keys are lots of earthworms and black soldier flys.
@@jlseagull2.060 Im in zone 9b but composting isnt possible here.
Have you heard that new song called 'Tennessee Orange'? It's about some Georgia girl that traded in her Dogs bucket for a Vols bucket. Love will make you do some crazy things.
It's a catchy tune, but we all know better! lol
Have you ever heard of Asian Jumping Worms? Do you have them in your garden? Do you have any suggestions for getting rid of them?
Have not heard of those.
Every year, I place my diseased squash plants on my rock driveway. They are diseased and full of squash vine borer pest. So, I use my truck to run/roll over my squash plants many times to squish the life out of the squash vine borer pest that is alive in the trunk, branches and some attached squash. This applied method keeps next years pest to a minimum.
Do you have another supplier of the pantheon zucchini now that Johnny's has discontinued carrying them? I'm looking for a parthenacarpid squash/zucchini and that is about the only one I can find?
My second planting of squash is in full production. I'll probably plant a few more hills in mid-July.
Have you experimented with bio char?? You mentioned burning stuff, so you may have a good source of it. I have a burn pit for fallen branches and add some bio char here and there. But i dont know if it really helps
By adding biochar to garden soil, it can help replenish nutrients and retain moisture.
@@TheRealWattLife moisture retention is probably where I noticed an improvement. I don't have to water quite as much. However I also use wood mulch and chicken manure for fertilizer
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Curious if your worms are “red wrigglers” or some other composting type of worm, or just regular old garden worms? I had thousands of red wrigglers growing in large 90 gallon composting bins. The red wrigglers would plow through stuff quickly. Good video.
Red wigglers
@@LazyDogFarm Great. Ive had great success with red wrigglers. They are great composters & thrive on cuttings and really churn “stuff” quickly.
Ps - I just ordered a Conandria & it should arrive this coming Saturday. Ive had many many fig trees over the years & we loved our Conandria! So, hoping this one lives up to our expectations! We grow mostly Hardy Chicago & Celeste.
So you can add the leek leaves to the worm bin, but not the squash or tomato leaves. Is this because the leek leaves did not seem to have much insect/microbial damage?
We usually don't have any pest issues with alliums (leeks, onions, garlic), so I'm not worried about that kind of stuff. I just don't want the plants in there that usually give us issues.
I'm in 9a and I will throw just anything in my compost stations. no problem folks
Hi Travis. Can I get my starter worms from the bait shop, ie. nightcrawlers or red wigglers, or do I need to special order a specific type? I'm converting an old milk crate to start mine in.
Yes. Get Red Wigglers
Funny shaped spade compaired to uk
I really like your worm bin. I will have to check into that bin
I have read that you shouldn't put onion and citrus in worm bins. I put them in my compost piles and have worms in them, but I don't have a worm bin to check this information out. Any ideas?
I've read that too, but our worms don't seem to mind them.
I thought you weren’t suppose to put onions in the compost, am I wrong?
I would be worried with store bought onions since they may have non native disease. I think he grows all his onions on site. So likely less disease
I've heard a lot of things not to put in that worm bin, but we feed them just about any scrap we have and they devour it.
Go Dogs! 😆
The dog bucket makes all the difference..
I figured out one of my gardening problems, I don’t own a “Dogs Bucket “.
That could be a huge problem. lol
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Consistently Pray for forgiveness, guidance in a good (positive) direction, and for help against evil. Pray to be saved from hell (whatever that may be). Pray for your friends and your family too, it only takes a minute or so/less at a time to pray. Do it and your life will slowly get better, or maybe quickly. It probably just depends on you and the kind of person you are/have been. Don't wait until its too late and you have to suffer the consequences of built up bad karma from immoral acts/unrepented sins. Maybe together we can help make the world a better place by changing ourselves for the better, and changing things around us for the better.
And addressing/thanking the CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, LORD GOD at the beginning and end of your prayers would be a good idea.
Be my friend and I will pray for you, but I do not know how much help me doing so will give you. You should try to practice daily prayer yourself.
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Amen.
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'' CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, LORD GOD,
Please forgive me and my friends and my family for our immoral acts, please help guide us in a positive direction and please help us against evil. Please save us from Hell and have mercy on our souls. Thank you for everything CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, LORD GOD. Amen. ''
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Please put your hands together 🙏 bow your head and say this prayer:
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Say ' Om Namah Shivaya ' out loud or in your head 108 times, or try to do it 1008 times 😊 try to do it everyday if you want
repeat this aloud for as long as you want to, try to do it for like an hour a day or say it in a prayer "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner"
You can also say this prayer once a day or repeat it aloud as many times as you would like to:
"Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen."
Thessalonians 5:16-18
"Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you."
Philippians 4:6-7
"Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."
"O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of mercy for us, I trust in You!" Repeat this aloud at least 3 times or as many as you want, do it everyday if you can
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If you can't look and remember the words to any prayer, just pray the words as you read them until you can 🙏
Peas not doing two good this year
Amazing how much soil dropped in raised beds.
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you got all that beautiful organic beds going on right next to the dyed mulch that’s a no NO IMO
Do you know what they use to make that red mulch? Iron oxide. Basically iron dissolved in water ... something that's already in your soil.
I garden in 5B and our winter temps often hit below zero, and yet many varieties of disease pathogens and insect pests still survive very nicely. Pretty sure that the Colorado Potato beetles don't snowbird it down to Arizona every winter. As soon as nightshades and cucurbits finish their production, out they come, roots and all, for a final journey to the landfill. Cheapest and easiest cultural practice I know of to help break the pest reproductive cycle.
My wife prefers her leeks trimmed with about 8" of green leaves included. Her cooking validates that wisdom. I was pretty sure that by now we would have seen a segment or two from the tomato patch. I know that indeterminates have been a disappointment this year, but maybe we can all help to dry your tears.
Go DAWGS!
Since I don't use any sprays on my plants/tomatoes I assume it's okay to put those in the compost. I do.
Average Joe who can't stop wiggling. COKE ? Meth ? Coffee ?
My chickens absolutely “LOVE”cucumber leaves and cucumbers.
I rarely have disease problems in my cucurbits. I do get bug pressure but I run them my chickens before compost piles. Nightshade are a different issue. Nope, my chickens don't get to go through them at all
I feel that David the Good would disagree. He even has a book called Compost Everything, which if you think about nature is true.
Those plants are all fine for the compost pile. The diseases that occur on the plants dont live on unless there's living plant material, and basically everything is dead in the compost pile. Especially if you can get a 3x3x3 cube going, or a 5ft mound with all your material.
Yeah, everything goes in my 3x3x3 bin....we all have pest issues from time to time and we should know now-from all the research being done- it's from our soil health. Just like slugs are attracted to rotting leaves, aphids/flea beetles are just taking care of the plants that have less to offer...everything has a purpose
you have nothing left to add to your compost. I never had a problem with it and live in NC
Our compost bins get tons of additions with the fall/winter garden when we have more brassicas growing. No major disease issues on those.
Well damn, wth ya gonna compost then ?
Last fall I turned my dirt a couple time and let the chickens in to eat all the grubs and other unwanted bugs. It has seemed to help a lot.
@everyone
The “hands”…….are you Italian?
It’s the elbows for me. Southerner.
Not Italian, but I do talk with my hands. lol
@@LazyDogFarm 😂😂that’s ok. Love listening to you and have learned a lot from you about gardening…..your explanations are easy to understand and doable for the average home gardener and we appreciate that…….and MomGeneral, I get the working elbows too!!!! Sending best wishes to all….. 🥰👵🏻❤️ Happy Gardening
I would not even put them in the yard. They go in plastic trash bags and then to the county incinerator or city dump. I don't want them on my "dirt".
If you have pest and disease that is so bad that you don't want in the compost, you are doing something wrong in the garden
Not true.
We can't do anything about viruses/diseases that are vectored by insects. It just takes one thrip or aphid to transmit a virus to a plant. You can have the healthiest soil imaginable and still get diseases.
If it was recently alive or is edible it goes into my compost bin. I've been doing it over a decade with no issues.
I throw those plants on the campfire insects and all
Put them all in a steel barrel and boil them with tree trmmings and unwanted brush you have trimmed and removed, then use the water and everything on the compost
Why not burn them
That works too.
Well, they are GEORGIA WORMS, so of course they prefer being moved in a Dawg's bucket!!!!
One could always char the diseased or seedy weeds, then add it to the compost
Those eight plants never to put into compost. I put them on the burn pile and they are gone within hours.....not by fire but by pigs....LOL
Cucurbits and nightshades are about 90% of what I grow in the warm season.