You can just use cover crops, fertilizer and time and get there with patience instead of hard labor. It also helps to lime if you have very acidic starting soil.
I've been doing the same with dead dry sand soil. The neighbors think I'm crazy as each Autumn I collect all the leaves they drag to the curb and haul them back to my yard. It's been five years and I'm no where near where I want it to be, but I get lots of root veggies each year from my garden and the roses gave me a handful of hips last harvest. The blueberries should start producing this year. ❤ Keep going.
Mine was sand as well I would feed one plant one weeks worth of kitchen peels on rotation and cover it with soil The soil is beautiful now roses are thriving Add any wood ash to the soil too
Try sunroots/ sunchokes ( tubers in the sunflower family that taste like artichokes, but aren't related, and come from the U.S. Midwest. They grow in difficult soil and help aerate it. Plenty of videos about them, too. Fair warning: they might make people gassy, but leaving them overwinter before harvest, and boiling twice might reduce possible digestion challenges.)
oh! I just started doing this 2 wks ago!..lol! saw 2 bags and I stopped and took them.. felt a little weird but then I was like who cares. I have clay and i’m going to try and amend my soil on the shade of my house. it grows nothing because it only gets 2 hrs oh sun and it stays very dry.
It is hard to explain to people who are choose not to believe it. We have a plant store/greenhouse( it is not mine and I volunteer to help for free for my sister.) I would love to so such things and sell our own plants and seeds using our own soil/compost. But he thinks dead leaves are garbage and keeps throwong them out. 😅
Early eighties, I was an aspiring horticulturist apprentice. There were still some old (Great)hardliners around. At lunch one day after a discussion on Permanent Agriculture. He said, that’s fine, but double dig initially, then go no dig. To this day I have initially double dug all my garden beds and then applied the no dig method. I will never turn away from this method as it helps every thing you do later on
@@molly5292 double digging can best be explained by inputting the word double digging into RUclips or such. Simply put you dig about a spades depth in a line across the chosen bed, placing the soil beside. I then break the subsoil up with a pick(don’t kill yourself ). I then replace the topsoil into the trench with some sort of compost added. I then move to the next spades width and do the same. Till this action has completely covered the chosen bed space. After that I don’t dig into the bed much at all. Doing this once allows the bed to breath and drain. Clay soils are hard to do, but sandy soils will always spill into the trench, you just do your best. In the late 70s early eighties this was still common practice in the horticulture industry. In Australia however, the permanent Agriculture movement that started in Tasmania was becoming increasingly more applicable
Clay soil is just like a star waiting to shine, we have lots in Wales, lots of nutrients locked up. You just give it a good high fibre diet and lots of hugs till it goes all soft and giggly 😂 Make soil your friend 💚
My friends all know how I love to brag that I may not have the “prettiest” or cleanest looking yard around, but I know for a fact that I got the best soil in the neighborhood! Leaf litter is a gardener’s treasure!
@@Blossomandbranch would you be able to give a rough estimate of how long this took you? I have horrible clay soil. And for that reason my husband built raised beds for me. I have 7 of them and I am running out of room. 😅😅
@@ChristieAdams-pb2ti It depends on how much work you put into it. I've been 20+ years on good clay based gumbo, and it'll grow anything I put in/on it, but drainage is still an issue and digging planting holes for perennials can be tough. (David The Good - RUclips)
Great job! Love how you did it all by hand - getting free stuff from the neighbors, building a strong, longer-lasting body while building a longer lasting garden to make you even healthier!
Excellent work! I've been slowly improving my allotment over many years now, learning all the time. Whilst others dump their waste, I compost everything (I do have a HotBin now) and feed it back to the earth. Other plots are still covered with black membrane whilst mine is full of life and food. Yesterday I witnessed a veritable ladybird orgy on a hard pruned (inherited) buddleia which I kept for the butterflies. My broad beans will be grateful when the blackfly wake up. 😊
@@jamescuttler8047 Are tools the same as machines? Maybe in engineering speak (I remember the screw is considered a simple machine), but in Real Life we generally think of a machine as something that needs to be turned on or is powered by something other than muscle. I would think that at least 2 moving parts would be necessary for most people to call something a machine.
You made it look so easy, but only I can understand and many of us who got to cultivate our vegetables or fruits. They would know how much of hard work you have put into this. I could say you know putting your blood and sweat into your garden. Great work and a great admiration & respect from my side, from 🇮🇳 India.
That system: civilization 😂😂😂 Farming is not a trend. It’s back breaking and often thankless work. It is only glorious on social media. The reality is not this cute little post where some chick dressed like it’s the 1800s hacks it out of the wilderness through subsistence agriculture. No plow. Just grit 🤡 Gardening is fun But most of this stuff on social media is just cosplay. Get real
@@kunalshah5950 Yes, but also no. It's hard work to feed yourself with anything. Do you want to be dependant on other people making sure the supply chain keeps going? Sure. It's nice to grocery shop and pick up interesting things you'd never get locally. But, really? Always have a backup plan and work your backup plan. A lot of the stuff on gardening, especially with people who aren't red-faced and sweaty and covered head-to-toe in mud is done for clicks. Doesn't mean they aren't doing it, just that the pretty pictures in the well-planned scenes are well-planned and done artistically. Gardening is work, but it can be fun work. It's better than Physical Therapy, or a gym membership, plus you get good food.
@@goldengryphon I do garden. I literally came inside just now from working on my veg garden. I am under no allusion however that in the case of societal collapse my little plot is going to matter at all. That’s just escapist fantasy. Yes. I want to be dependent on others. That’s society. That’s civilization. That’s community. I want people who are better and more passionate at other things to do them and for me to trade my skills and goods with them.
@@kunalshah5950 It sounds suspiciously like we agree. You gave the pretty vision of gardening a hard no, for whatever reason. I'm giving the pretty vision a hard yes, for getting more people interested in maybe doing something in the dirt. Either way, more people gardening is a Good Thing (tm), in my opinion. I ~think~ in your's too. Whether said gardeners are doing it to be rebels, eat fresher food, have more control over their supplies, or honestly think they'll make a difference if TEOTWAWKKI happens, meh. I don't care, as long as they're growing stuff and playing with dirt. It's the playing with dirt that gets them outside, gets them away from the social media of all types, and means they learn a bunch of different good things. Good on ya for having been outside, playing with dirt.
I'm here too but I've got clay. And the most tenacious deep-rooted (2 ft +) grass I've ever come across. Through a ground cloth AND the pool liner.. into the above ground. And that after clearing the site. 🙄
We had smiliar soil when we bought our house. We found if we planted winter rye and let it rot in place it built the soil up immensely, and the long, long roots brought more nutrients deeper into the soil. After three years we had gained a foot of topsoil. Your process is amazing, too.
Mine’s all rock and clay. I too, grab the neighbors leaves, the tree trimmers wood chips and my chickens manure. My layers are about 12 inches in the deepest spots to about 6 inches everywhere else. A swale at the lowest part to retain maximum water.
I am so fascinated by your great enthusiasm for the right or rite, write things to do you are the shiz-nizel lol bravery in just standing tall in like I said before right write things to do inspiring....thank you😂 for helping me ...smile and do better...
Best thing I could have done for my yard's fertility was adding leaf litter and composting manure from my chickens. When you go out at night into the deeply covered beds you can actually hear the earthworms moving under the leaves. Breaking the leaves down and turning it into rich worm poo
You can also litter some clay soil under your garden to control the way water drains and make it run more slowly and abundantly down the landscape, this doesn't work for small beds
This really works. I did this to my beds. I used to ask neighbors for their grass clippings and leaves from the curbside and added it to my beds and eventually it turned into good soil. I used to add cow manure to it too. Now I have earthworms in my soil.
Pretty sure this is the same lady that posted the quote about "I just plant and harvest, and spread mulch. I don't water or weed or work at it in any way..." 🙄
Hi! These videos actually are congruent. The point is that once you get your soil healthy using heavy mulch systems and cover crops you barely have to weed or fertilize, you can watch our recent video which explains. Or you can be negative, up to you but it doesn’t disturb my peace ❤️ ✌🏻
you could try using a mixture of your own urine and water (ratio of 1:10) a watering can. And water the soil that you want to revive 1-2x per Week for several weeks. I did that on soil that was bare and had no grass growing. Now after about 1 1/2 months almost all of it is covered in grass again. 🌿✨❤
Those amendments depend on soil type. Biochar isn’t good for alkaline soil like mine and we don’t make enough compost to use our own and the kind you purchase is full of microplastics so we tend to stick to cover cropping to amend soil.
@@Blossomandbranch we picked one up at a farm auction and it was 100 years old in 2018. My husband replaced the original handles so we wouldn't break them and we use it every year. We're learning we aren't spring chickens anymore lol!
I need to boost organic matter in an area of my yard ive always wanted to have a garden. There is a white fungus in the hard soil that eventually kills whatever i plant there, and ive been told the only way to fix it other than removing all the dirt and replacing it, is beneficial organisms that overwhelm the fungus What is the seed mix you used?
She makes it look easy. Hard labor dealing with clay
I think she shows the work.
Better than going to the gym!
You can just use cover crops, fertilizer and time and get there with patience instead of hard labor. It also helps to lime if you have very acidic starting soil.
@@owendavies8227you should still be working your soil. Broad forking is definitely worth it.
@jeanallen7468 it really is, best shape I've ever been in was when I worked outdoors
I've been doing the same with dead dry sand soil. The neighbors think I'm crazy as each Autumn I collect all the leaves they drag to the curb and haul them back to my yard. It's been five years and I'm no where near where I want it to be, but I get lots of root veggies each year from my garden and the roses gave me a handful of hips last harvest. The blueberries should start producing this year. ❤ Keep going.
Mine was sand as well
I would feed one plant one weeks worth of kitchen peels on rotation and cover it with soil
The soil is beautiful now roses are thriving
Add any wood ash to the soil too
You're not crazy.
It's a beautiful thing you're doing.. I wish you more strength and good harvest...
Try sunroots/ sunchokes ( tubers in the sunflower family that taste like artichokes, but aren't related, and come from the U.S. Midwest. They grow in difficult soil and help aerate it. Plenty of videos about them, too. Fair warning: they might make people gassy, but leaving them overwinter before harvest, and boiling twice might reduce possible digestion challenges.)
oh! I just started doing this 2 wks ago!..lol! saw 2 bags and I stopped and took them.. felt a little weird but then I was like who cares. I have clay and i’m going to try and amend my soil on the shade of my house. it grows nothing because it only gets 2 hrs oh sun and it stays very dry.
It is hard to explain to people who are choose not to believe it. We have a plant store/greenhouse( it is not mine and I volunteer to help for free for my sister.)
I would love to so such things and sell our own plants and seeds using our own soil/compost. But he thinks dead leaves are garbage and keeps throwong them out. 😅
Early eighties, I was an aspiring horticulturist apprentice. There were still some old (Great)hardliners around. At lunch one day after a discussion on Permanent Agriculture. He said, that’s fine, but double dig initially, then go no dig. To this day I have initially double dug all my garden beds and then applied the no dig method. I will never turn away from this method as it helps every thing you do later on
Watch our full length video, we address first time establishment :)
(And I’m with ya, sometimes you just have to work it to establish!!)
@@Blossomandbranchis there a link to this video?
What's a double dig?
@@molly5292 double digging can best be explained by inputting the word double digging into RUclips or such. Simply put you dig about a spades depth in a line across the chosen bed, placing the soil beside. I then break the subsoil up with a pick(don’t kill yourself ). I then replace the topsoil into the trench with some sort of compost added. I then move to the next spades width and do the same. Till this action has completely covered the chosen bed space. After that I don’t dig into the bed much at all. Doing this once allows the bed to breath and drain. Clay soils are hard to do, but sandy soils will always spill into the trench, you just do your best. In the late 70s early eighties this was still common practice in the horticulture industry. In Australia however, the permanent Agriculture movement that started in Tasmania was becoming increasingly more applicable
Clay soil is just like a star waiting to shine, we have lots in Wales, lots of nutrients locked up. You just give it a good high fibre diet and lots of hugs till it goes all soft and giggly 😂 Make soil your friend 💚
Based comment
My friends all know how I love to brag that I may not have the “prettiest” or cleanest looking yard around, but I know for a fact that I got the best soil in the neighborhood! Leaf litter is a gardener’s treasure!
I have super dense clay soil that looked just like that and now it's so much healthier from using the same tips. ❤
Wonderful!❤️❤️
@@Blossomandbranch would you be able to give a rough estimate of how long this took you? I have horrible clay soil. And for that reason my husband built raised beds for me. I have 7 of them and I am running out of room. 😅😅
@ChristieAdams-pb2ti in my estimation, by the second spring, your soil will be unrecognizable.
@@ChristieAdams-pb2ti It depends on how much work you put into it. I've been 20+ years on good clay based gumbo, and it'll grow anything I put in/on it, but drainage is still an issue and digging planting holes for perennials can be tough. (David The Good - RUclips)
You can never be more proud of what you grow in there knowing you created everything by hand. Great job!
Thank you 🙏
I’ve learnt to keep every square foot of soil covered with green matter to combat our brutal sun here near the equator!
Great job! Love how you did it all by hand - getting free stuff from the neighbors, building a strong, longer-lasting body while building a longer lasting garden to make you even healthier!
Congratulations for becoming a gardener👍🏽
Right?! 🤣🤣 The vanity is wild
Beautiful woman, beautiful music, beautiful gardening techniques, beautiful garden❤❤❤❤
I love your shorts, I love gardening but also, I love your outfits. Where ate you finding these clothes!?
Excellent work! I've been slowly improving my allotment over many years now, learning all the time. Whilst others dump their waste, I compost everything (I do have a HotBin now) and feed it back to the earth. Other plots are still covered with black membrane whilst mine is full of life and food. Yesterday I witnessed a veritable ladybird orgy on a hard pruned (inherited) buddleia which I kept for the butterflies. My broad beans will be grateful when the blackfly wake up. 😊
Ladybird orgy 😂 way to go!!!
Proud of you! My garden is 3 years in and i could cry at the progress. Its not perfect but its abundant and beautiful.
Yes! Mulch and compost can transform dirt! (And it’s ok if you use machines instead of doing it by hand 😉)!
Just do it!
David the Good has a great YT channel on Just Doing gardening stuff. (David The Good - RUclips)
Those are machines it doesn’t have to be powered to be considered a machine
@@jamescuttler8047 ok. you win for pettiness? I think my point still stands.
@@jamescuttler8047 Are tools the same as machines? Maybe in engineering speak (I remember the screw is considered a simple machine), but in Real Life we generally think of a machine as something that needs to be turned on or is powered by something other than muscle. I would think that at least 2 moving parts would be necessary for most people to call something a machine.
You made it look so easy, but only I can understand and many of us who got to cultivate our vegetables or fruits. They would know how much of hard work you have put into this. I could say you know putting your blood and sweat into your garden. Great work and a great admiration & respect from my side, from 🇮🇳 India.
Hard working young lady! What a beautiful example for all to see!
I always love your vintagey clothes and look
Super yes, way nice touch 👏
Did almost this same method with my backyard. Solid clay that now has a thriving garden with soil that’s alive :)
I love how she makes farming a trend again. People nowadays are too dependent on the system
That system: civilization
😂😂😂
Farming is not a trend. It’s back breaking and often thankless work. It is only glorious on social media. The reality is not this cute little post where some chick dressed like it’s the 1800s hacks it out of the wilderness through subsistence agriculture. No plow. Just grit 🤡
Gardening is fun
But most of this stuff on social media is just cosplay. Get real
@@kunalshah5950 Yes, but also no.
It's hard work to feed yourself with anything. Do you want to be dependant on other people making sure the supply chain keeps going? Sure. It's nice to grocery shop and pick up interesting things you'd never get locally.
But, really? Always have a backup plan and work your backup plan.
A lot of the stuff on gardening, especially with people who aren't red-faced and sweaty and covered head-to-toe in mud is done for clicks. Doesn't mean they aren't doing it, just that the pretty pictures in the well-planned scenes are well-planned and done artistically.
Gardening is work, but it can be fun work. It's better than Physical Therapy, or a gym membership, plus you get good food.
@@goldengryphon I do garden. I literally came inside just now from working on my veg garden. I am under no allusion however that in the case of societal collapse my little plot is going to matter at all. That’s just escapist fantasy.
Yes. I want to be dependent on others. That’s society. That’s civilization. That’s community. I want people who are better and more passionate at other things to do them and for me to trade my skills and goods with them.
@@kunalshah5950 It sounds suspiciously like we agree.
You gave the pretty vision of gardening a hard no, for whatever reason.
I'm giving the pretty vision a hard yes, for getting more people interested in maybe doing something in the dirt.
Either way, more people gardening is a Good Thing (tm), in my opinion. I ~think~ in your's too.
Whether said gardeners are doing it to be rebels, eat fresher food, have more control over their supplies, or honestly think they'll make a difference if TEOTWAWKKI happens, meh. I don't care, as long as they're growing stuff and playing with dirt.
It's the playing with dirt that gets them outside, gets them away from the social media of all types, and means they learn a bunch of different good things.
Good on ya for having been outside, playing with dirt.
I already enjoy your videos and shorts, but I got so excited to hear a Lord Huron song. They're one of my favorite bands!
I'm doing this with the sugar sand in central Florida! The areas I'm working are definitely improving! It's so satisfying 💜
Wonderful!
I'm here too but I've got clay. And the most tenacious deep-rooted (2 ft +) grass I've ever come across. Through a ground cloth AND the pool liner.. into the above ground. And that after clearing the site. 🙄
That's a lot of hard work. You should be very proud😊
Love the outfit! Working hard while looking cute too! ☺️
Great work. Respect from Mississippi!
Nothing more beautiful than a women working the earth. 🌳💚🌱🌲
Awesome stuff!
Thank you!
I love your Channel, and your pants! Where did you get them?
Props to you doing it by hand!! That's hard work
That’s amazing! I know how hard that work is! I love that lifestyle and I can see that you do too, it’s so good to see this I’m the world! Awesome ❤
love this. revitalize that gorgeous piece of earth you got!! the garden looks so beautiful
So inspiring. I'm trying to plant a small kitchen garden. And I've feel like giving up many times😢
What are your seed mixes? I’m hand garden like you and use mulches, but I’ve never planted cover crops. Thank you! Loving your videos.
Wow, this is SO inspiring and makes me feel like my backyard has more potential than I thought.
You are such an inspiration ❤
Such an amazing video! You’ve done a lot of hard work! 🙌🏻✨
God bless you girl, that’s hard work.
Wow! Black gold you got now!❤
Make biochar and add to improve the soil even more
Can I ask where you got those pants? ...and shirt...and shoes...😂 But especially the pants!
Hard work but it paid off. Well done
Whoa, how long did it take you to transform that soil?!
Bonus points for playing Lord Huron in the background!!
Came here to say this!
We had smiliar soil when we bought our house. We found if we planted winter rye and let it rot in place it built the soil up immensely, and the long, long roots brought more nutrients deeper into the soil. After three years we had gained a foot of topsoil.
Your process is amazing, too.
Working with the earth to create your own food. Much healthier ❤❤❤❤
LoveLoveLove! ❤ Nothing is more satisfying than turning dead dirt into microbiome rich soil... ❤
Beautiful ❤️🌎🌐♻️🌾🪱
#SaveSoil ❤
Mine’s all rock and clay. I too, grab the neighbors leaves, the tree trimmers wood chips and my chickens manure. My layers are about 12 inches in the deepest spots to about 6 inches everywhere else. A swale at the lowest part to retain maximum water.
❤ well done, great job 😊
I am so fascinated by your great enthusiasm for the right or rite, write things to do you are the shiz-nizel lol bravery in just standing tall in like I said before right write things to do inspiring....thank you😂 for helping me ...smile and do better...
🥰❤️❤️
Superb🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Girl Keep it up
Best thing I could have done for my yard's fertility was adding leaf litter and composting manure from my chickens. When you go out at night into the deeply covered beds you can actually hear the earthworms moving under the leaves. Breaking the leaves down and turning it into rich worm poo
Your comment brought a smile to my face! Thank you😁❤️🇨🇦
You can also litter some clay soil under your garden to control the way water drains and make it run more slowly and abundantly down the landscape, this doesn't work for small beds
BEAUTIFUL!❤
Thank you #SaveSoil #Consciousplanet
Wow. Hats off to you...
love this so much 💗
Inspirational ❤❤❤
So inspiring!!
This really works. I did this to my beds. I used to ask neighbors for their grass clippings and leaves from the curbside and added it to my beds and eventually it turned into good soil. I used to add cow manure to it too. Now I have earthworms in my soil.
This is the same thing I'm doing here in South Central Kentucky with silvopasture Food Forest
What seeds/seed mixes do you like to use for cover crops?
Amazing! ❤❤❤❤
I love this!
How long did it take for you to transform the soil like this?
Years!
It’s a slow process but definitely worth it. Mine took about 5 years
Pretty sure this is the same lady that posted the quote about "I just plant and harvest, and spread mulch. I don't water or weed or work at it in any way..." 🙄
Hi! These videos actually are congruent. The point is that once you get your soil healthy using heavy mulch systems and cover crops you barely have to weed or fertilize, you can watch our recent video which explains. Or you can be negative, up to you but it doesn’t disturb my peace ❤️ ✌🏻
Would love to know where you got those trousers!
you could try using a mixture of your own urine and water (ratio of 1:10) a watering can. And water the soil that you want to revive 1-2x per Week for several weeks. I did that on soil that was bare and had no grass growing. Now after about 1 1/2 months almost all of it is covered in grass again. 🌿✨❤
good job!
try mixing it with fresh biochar and compost too
Those amendments depend on soil type. Biochar isn’t good for alkaline soil like mine and we don’t make enough compost to use our own and the kind you purchase is full of microplastics so we tend to stick to cover cropping to amend soil.
How long did it take you?😮🤔❤️
Keep going sand
Anything green
Kitchen peelings
And cardboard
And ash from fires
That layer will get deeper and deeper
Get a wheel hoe if you want to keep doing it without a tractor. Life changer!
❤️ will look into it! 5 years in now my back is used to it 😂
@@Blossomandbranch we picked one up at a farm auction and it was 100 years old in 2018. My husband replaced the original handles so we wouldn't break them and we use it every year. We're learning we aren't spring chickens anymore lol!
Excellent ❤
Easy heck is add gram flour and jaggery mixture to get more fertile soil
I need to boost organic matter in an area of my yard ive always wanted to have a garden. There is a white fungus in the hard soil that eventually kills whatever i plant there, and ive been told the only way to fix it other than removing all the dirt and replacing it, is beneficial organisms that overwhelm the fungus
What is the seed mix you used?
This feels too much like using gardening as an ✨️aesthetic✨️
You must be new to social media
You got any resources on cover crops?
Did you grind up the leaves or put them down whole?
I love this song! I would like to know the name of it!
I want this kind of life. I will have this kind of life.
How long did it take for you to transform
How long does it normally take before the soil improved?
I have heavy clay soil as well. What cover crops do u recommend for a first year gardener??
Oats and peas are great and easy to terminate ❤️
How many years did that take?
All in one day, in the same outfit, with a professional photographer on hand.
Can seeds still germinate with the mulch on top?
Yup, just don’t do it too thick. Just like in nature ❤️
It’s all about the soil. Lots of soul in your sool restoration project. Magnificent ❤
My back could never... I wish though
What is the grass like seedpod you showd at first?
Love the Lord Huron!!!!!!!
It’s hard to read could you please make the letters black & not put them low as not to be behind other writing? Just found your channel subbed
Too bad I can't see most of the instructions because of description covers them up
I garden in florida sugar sand, its a pain but at least its easy to dig😂
What kind of seed mix?
yes that is my mission to, to give. back to the earth
How can we get rid of rats ravaging the garden beds?
What was in the seed mix
How long did it take, is the real question
5 years
Ran out of leaves. So some of my soil got exposed this spring after i aerated it