Stop Buying Soil & Use What You Have!
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- Опубликовано: 10 дек 2018
- I'm always amazed to see bags and bags of soil being sold at garden centers each year, when it's literally right under our feet, just waiting for a little TLC. In this video I show how I employ a hugelkultur technique to build a no-till garden that will be productive for years.
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Music: "Sad But True" by Metallica performed by Steve'n'Seagulls
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Watching how diligent and patient you are, even in cooler weather, makes me think I can do it too! Thank you
You can :)
My neighbour is a new gardener and she made a hugelkulktur bed last year. I was very skeptical, and I was astonished how well it worked for her!
Oh yes, very economical and very effective.
Thank You for sharing. Great use of time and space. In a few days, the daylight hours will begin to get longer......
Love the way you are doing this. Have made a hugelkulture bed myself, and I find it works like a charm!
So glad I ran across this video. I have been collecting large branches that my line of 100 year old oaks and sugar maple, have been dropping for years, in my small wild life habitat area. I can take some from there to my vegetable beds in the other side of my yard and try this. I also have leaves composting from last year that should be ready for the bed, so I can use my composting area for this year's leaves once winter is over. Hopefully that will make the vegetable beds productive again. Seems simple enough for an old lady like me to do. Thanks.
I did this when I took apart my old garden bed that was framed with cedar. I buried the rotting cedar, some wood ash and various other rotters and planted asparagus crowns over top and some asparagus seedlings I started from seed. This spring will be year number 3. I'm hoping I might be able to harvest a few spears this spring. But my darn tootin dingleberry dog dug up a couple of my plants this summer. I will see what happens.:)
Keep um commin' my friend. Good vid, great info, killer tunes!
Thanks!. Band is called "Steve N Seagulls"
My way of gardening nowand it is so organic . Thanks for this video. I have a large pile of buddleia stem that we trimmed five years ago. Must be
Thanks to great information from wonderful people like yourself I have found that no till is the way to go.
Awesome man :)
Thanks for making this interesting gardening video !!!! I'm trying to do the same thing in our community garden !!!!
You can do it!
Great idea, I have higher raised bed I use the wire hog fences to make it and they are 3 ft high and round, all fall and winter I fill them with yard waste, leaves.
Thank you for this video. Really inspiring and useful information. I'm using this method for the next few beds I'm going to put in. Cheers!
Glad it was helpful!
I did that last year. I grew beautiful squash in that bed.
I also started collecting and shredding fallen leaves, grass clippings from my lawn mover bag and dumping in into a new bed.
That's great - glad it's working out for you :)
We grow rocks in our soil too lol. This makes sense in the forest branches drop from trees [with our wind here] along with the leaves. Back to the soil it goes.
Exactly!
Happy to find a gardener in my climate , I’m in central NB. I have just finished my first hugelkulturish bed, cant wait to see how it turns out. I also love the idea of using what you have, I have a small pond so have been experimenting with composting cattails. I’ll let you know how that turns out.
Cattails should be awesome. I've often thought of trying them myself
Thanks so much. Great work.
love the idea....
Yes good thing I watched this. The city is not selling truckloads of compost this year so I’m using what I got here. Thanks.
Glad to help
I’m out of wind for you. I just found your channel and I hope to get some great ideas! Thanks! Be blessed & much love from Kentucky USA!
Thanks for watching!
LOVE the idea of small beds next to the fence. Am imagining pole beans, small squash and melons, tomatoes (with daily tucking), cucumbers, berries, luffah, peas, limas, climbing flowers, gourds, passion fruit, red malibar... or even make those small beds my herb garden!
The tiny beds in between the big ones have become herb gardens :)
We started in the spring with brand new raised beds, bought cheap bags of soil to fill them because well, it was cheap... but we put compost in the bottom of the beds and soil on top... and even with horrible cheap Walmart $1 bag top soil the beds did well!!! Now this fall we added more compost and mulched the top of the beds with hay... can’t wait to see how well they do next season!! This method totally works!
I think you'll be happy with your results!
Gardening needs to be fun and easy, as you say. I like your new beds.
Thanks!
Wonderful !
Awesome video!!
Thanks!
Great video! Interesting to learn that the wood doesn’t tie up nitrogen when it’s already rotted. The construction looks good, can’t wait to see your garden in spring! Cheers!
Oh I can't wait to start planting again :) Thanks for watching!
Another point, the logs are deep, whereas most of the plant roots that take up nutrients are near the surface. Deep down, where I have the logs - that's where root often go to find water.
Thank you for your channel! It’s very practical and informative. I’m about to take over 3/4 of an acre of grassland and I really look forward to the journey ahead. In the first year I’m planning a big clean up (the current owner is not a gardener) , some tree planting and there’s a polytunnel on site which is in desperate need of some tlc inside.
I may just set up a channel and document my journey too! 😄👍
Sounds awesome! A clean slate. I can't wait to see what you turn it into!
Must get my Veseys order in!
Using an almost identical system here in Northern Mexico, desert country....2 years on, superb crops without buying any fertiliser or soil....use what you can find lying around....great work.....English Guy in Mexico.
That's great to hear. I get so many who will not even try because they don't get as much rain as me. Even if you have to water, you're still better off with a system that retains it well. What is your go-to mulch for the majority of your garden?
Corn stalks and palm tree branches with a living green mulch that I trim back until the vegetables get tall enough.....summer temps here are 40 to 50 degrees celsius in the sun, ouch, so I need to keep the soil shielded unless it turns a powdery white colour. I have mushrooms growing from my buried wood, so I know it is breaking down.....slowly. Glad I spotted your channel. @@maritimegardening4887
Love it! I’m also in N.S., Fall River!!! Great info video and it’s exactly what I did with the rotten wood but I feared it might eat the nitrogen. Now I feel excited for next spring! Thanks so much. Subscribed.
That's great - yes, the hugelkultur technique was a game-changer for me. Glad you like the channel :)
Excellent
Fantastic information. Now I know what to do with the piles of rotting wood around. Last time I tried to burn them the neighbours called emergency services so this time I will bury them!!
Yes, this puts them to much better use than burning :)
I just got my husband and son to watch a gardening video because of your choice of music. Both are Metallica fans and swore they had never heard that song before! Glad it was my favorite garden guy! Great video, as usual!
Cool - it's a band from Finland that plays h-metal using a combination of bluegrass and traditional folk music styles.
Tell them to check these out:
Pantera: ruclips.net/video/ngMJTWUanCA/видео.html
G n R: ruclips.net/video/8S_Ja5DYn1o/видео.html
Love your work
Thanks :)
and coffee grounds banana peels etc. by the following spring the warms were feeding off of them and breaking everything down till you can’t tell what everything was and that’s how you know that it’s ready to put your plants in it. I also line the outside of it with weed blocker that covers most of it takes about two liners 2.00 total cost from the dollar tree store. Wire fence is cheaper and last longer than the wood, I can start planting right in it by April 30 May the latest. I’m in zone 6b.
I really like the precise placement of the leaves so they will compost faster , plan on doing this when the layer of ice is melted here outside Saint John. Keep em comin.
Dunno if anyone gives a damn but if you are bored like me during the covid times you can stream all of the new movies and series on instaflixxer. Have been streaming with my brother for the last few days =)
@Reese Benedict Definitely, been using InstaFlixxer for since december myself :)
When the shovel came out I could hear howls of anger from the no - dig Nazi's , but then out came the pick , inhuman wailing and screams of agony … good stuff brother , keep it up =)
He hee! Well that's the thing - hugelkultur is still permaculture.
I won't be digging in that garden for at least 5 years now!
You are a bit confused, no-dig does not mean don't dig EVER. More like not dig with a machine that can kill earthworms and other beneficial organisms, silly child. How do you think the plants get on the ground? Teleportation using your psychic abilities? lol Some people are funny!
@@1caramarie You might as well scream helplessly at the sky , I can't hear you over the sound of my tiller anyway …
@@CoastalGardening Hard time reading? Do you need me to type S L O W? Get real, I have a tiller that I have used in areas that were growing the garbage patch known as "lawn" planted by people like you. First of all, most life has already been decimated by your poisoning and "lawn" is almost impossible to kill. Tilling the first time, make it possible to dig most of it out, so you don't have to till anymore.
Forgot to mention, I can tell why you use a turkey as your avatar.
A rock the size of PEI, LOL! I love the music you used for speed sequence.
It's a group called the Steve n Seagulls. They play heavy metal music using traditional Finnish folk instruments & music styles.
If you can't remove a large boulder, you might be able to dig it deeper. Dig around the boulder's parimeter in warm weather, soak the hole with water, and the dirt plinth under it will turn to mud. Gravity will do the rest. 👍 Not fast, but it works.
My grandpa had a big one he was having campfires on top of
This is an interesting idea !!!! I'll try it !!!!
along the lines of doing things cheaply and frugally, several yrs ago before I even knew what a huglekulture was, we had some large wooded crates from my husbands work, about 4 feet high....well we didn't have enough dirt to fill them so me, thinking about saving money, threw a ton of pine cones in the bottom about 2 feet up....then we added our peat moss and soil....the pine cones settle and you end up adding more soil each year, but you do that anyway with beds......its all about using what resources you have....
Some of us have to buy soil for container gardening as we can't use shovel or get down as you can. Once I get the soil in I do as you do but at double 5-gal bucket height. Edit 1 bucketful at a time.
Have you thought about making a hugelkultur in a bucket. It might save you some money on soil. I intend to do that next growing season and I've started putting aside all sorts of kitchen scrap goodies. I reckon if I put the bucket on bare soil then the worms will migrate in and do their stuff. That's the idea anyway, hopefully it will work cos I'm tired of heaving bags of compost from the store. 😀. Stella
Erefuro Stella Amaso-Nedderman I already do that but best to start in fall for spring.
@@samasonedderman I think that's a great idea. This winter I was thinking about keeping a tote inside with some soil in the bottom then add my two week old bokashi fermented compost then put some more soil on top then keep adding the bokashi compost every time it's ready and then have a nice tote full of compost. Am I crazy? Lol I can't stop thinking about having a great garden one day. Lol
Where abouts in NS? my garden is built on subsurface clay in New Ross area. They skun the top of when the put the road thru. I have been working it on and off for 20 years or so. Finally gettinng it how i want it.
I'm out near Hatchett Lake (past Exhibition park)
Hi there (from NS also). Thank you for the great video! I wasn't as proactive as you getting out to prep last December. I was hoping you could tell me where you got your row covers from?
I made them. I have a couple videos on that topic so have a look for those
Interesting channel, I will subscribe. I'm going to have to see the parsnip harvest to really believe you can grow nice long straight parsnips on a few inches of soil over logs😇. Perhaps the logs in Nova Scotia are more spongy than the logs in Ontario 🙂.
Take care
Klaus
If you look back you'll see that I did the same thing last year exactly where my parsnips were this year.
Thanks for subscribing :)
I am gonna have a whole lotta blackberries come September. Can't wait. Eat them by the pound.
I watched this video originally when it dropped. My best soil here is questionable so I did something like this as well as buying some pear and scrounging random organic stuff together to cover the logs. I cheated and add triple 13 and it worked. My okra were awesome and this winter I grew the best greens I’ve ever seen. So this spring I have an area that’s about 2,000 sq feet of “not soil”. It’s a weird red clay sand mix left over from gravel mining. I’m going to buy some random cheap organic matter and start trenching with logs. I’m hoping with enough chemical fertilizer and irrigation I can make it productive. Next winter I’m planting it heavily in daikon radish and mustard greens for a cover crop. I really appreciate your videos. Along with another publisher on here you’ve really changed the way I view garden potential and lowered my grocery bill as well as my body weight 😂.
Thx again.
That's great man - just so you know - I do all this without chem fertilizers, and the original soil was just clay and rock. Keep the soil covered with a mulch and you will never need to buy fertilizer again. Also - no need to buy organic matter - just use people's yard waste. Same thing.
Maritime Gardening oh yeah, if I had the time to do that I would. Planting season is about six weeks away for me so I don’t have time to gather very much compost. I mean not enough time for this much area. My new garden has expanded from 2,000 to 3,500 sq feet in the past few days. Using chemicals for the first crop and following with cover crops this winter seems the fastest way to jump start production. I’ll work on turning it into no til next spring. That’ll give me a year or so to gather enough mulch. Right now I’m using no till in about 600 sq feet and it works great.
@@coopgb Cool man - nope you have a great season
I’m watching this from Sydney Australia and it’s so hot here, it’s our summer. No jeans, jumper or beanie for us this time of year 😊
It always amazes me that you have summer when I have winter. It's simple geography, but I'm still amazed :)
Simply make 2' wide beds next to the fence. And turn the other beds long wise instead.
I have raised beds about 3 ft high. If the bed is empty I fill it for months with weeds. I love weeds. I pack more and more weeds into the bed until it seems unable to take any more. Then I cover the bed with about 8 inches of soil from another bed and plant it with any kind of veg. By the time the veg are ready the weeds will have composted and I end up with a large amount of new soil. I repeat this around a series of beds, moving soil from bed to bed. I estimate I have manufactured at least 10 cubic meters of new rich soil this way.
I'm with you and I do the exact same thing. Weeds are not as big a problem as people thing they are!
Does this guy's voice remind anyone else of Norm McDonald?
I guess you're on your own :) I can do a pretty mean impression when I want however, and am a huge fan :)
@@maritimegardening4887 nah I was just thinking this guy's like a wholesome norm. Part of it's the accent haha.
You could even spread worm castings and rock dust.
thank u
Great video. 5:10. Compost pile? Maybe
No - just leaves :) They aren't there now :)
I see what your saying but I live in a giant slab of granite under 3 inches of soil I had to do raised beds and bring in dirt. I'm open to suggestions.
Use horse manure - you can source that for free - just bury it under your topsoil
Is ... is that ... Metalica? Done bluegrass style ? WHOA ...
Band is called "steve&seagulls" - all heavy metal - maiden, g&r, metallica, etc :)
Does the wood have to be rotted? I have chopped some trees and shrubs down there is quite a lot but it is not rotted. I have added some more beds for vegetables they are quite deep so I was hoping to part fill them with that and compost on top.
It just takes it longer to be a benefit to the soil if it's not rotted
Where do you live in the maritimes? I'm in Moncton and have 2 feet of snow and it's -14, you are living in paradise
I shot that vid last weekend. It's a winter wonderland here now - though we don't have 2 feet of snow - my condolences :)
What do you think about going to the forest and getting the soils thst have been there for years? I’ve just started with leaves this year
The soil in the forest where I am is usually not very fertile. You'll notice it's all spruce trees behind me - they grow in anything.
Great video. Why just a trench down the center? Why not under the whole raised bed?
You can do that too, and I have (see other hugelkultur vids) , and that works great. I was just trying to keep it as quick and simple as possible.
Only things I'm doing in my garden now is laying cardboard where the crabgrass is growing to hopefully kill it and dumping coffee grounds, orange peels and banana peels in areas to improve the soil! Also adding all other kitchen waste to compost bin! Everything else is covered in snow and frozen! :-)
Since I shot that video it's been frozen solid. I think the jig's up for this year :)
Good luck with that. I did that years ago and then the crabgrass started coming up through the cardboard and the newspapers and the compost. Hint: Pull the crabgrass first, other less tough plants you can cover.
Jim19826301
First cardboard over crab grass.
Then 2-4 inches of compost.
Then 6-8 inches mulch. Wood chips are good.
If using leaves as mulch- 12 inches is better.
Peace
@@reformationinc.3376 You forgot the newspaper. That is good, but try to do that to something else bigger than a raised bed surrounded with wood, and you better have big pockets and LOTS of very tall trees. Plus are you are aware that what makes crab grass really, really bad in the garden is that it's roots spread a long way UNDER the soil. But if people think that you can get rid of crab grass that way, just wait one or two years to see what happens. Peace.
1caramarie
Chickens could take care of crab grass. Have fun
I make a lot of compost/soil each year and you will see how on my video "Why I love weeds".
Can you use any type of wood, from a tree that was cut down? As in pine or spruce. Thank you.
I use spruce and pine all the time :) Avoid any treated wood, cedar, and toxic species, such as black cherry and black walnut.
@@maritimegardening4887 Awesome. Just had two giant trees cut down and looking for a use for all of the branches. thank you so much!
This is a good idea. I can foresee two drawbacks with it.
1. The large pieces of wood may interfere with the growth of things like carrots and parsnip.
2. As the material decomposes, the bed will sink and you'll have a depression down the center of the bed.
As for doing things like that this time of year. Gardening work is never done. So leave this kind of work for this time of year, when you can do that but not the other things.
Answers, sorry for point form, not being rude, just efficient:
1. Check out my parsnip results this year - they were grown in a similar garden - no problems.
2. That does happen, but it happens slowly. You compensate by bringing the sides in to even it up, and adding a lot of much to build the soil. The worms do the rest of the work :)
You're right - fall is the best time for the heavy lifting!
I have used beds like these and the carrots were great ... but, added a 2 by 4 [3.5 inches more] on top of the bed in addition to the bottom piece of wood. Gives more depth for the carrots to grown down. Cheers.
I read the description and it would seem like that but everywhere within a 300 foot range of my house is just clay so I can’t plant anything on it
Clay gets a bad rap. Most of my soil is clay. Work some manure into it and you should be able to grow in it.
I need to get back out there to finish spring prep but it’s so cold! 🥶😩
The Adventures of Elizabeth Marie yes. We have a foot of snow.
You get warm pretty fast when swinging a pick axe!
Maritime Gardening darn...there goes my excuse 😏
Good video my husband just built my first raised bed 18 inches high now I know how to start filling
You mean start digging!
Maritime Gardening empty now
"Making soiiiiiiil out of nothing at all...out of nothing at alllll...out of nothing at all.. " by Greg Air Supply
I though long and hard about using that song and risking the copyright infringement! LOVE air supply.
@@maritimegardening4887 Do not get a strike! But you can keep Weird Aling it up! How bout this one... We built this soil... We built this soil on rot-ting wooood!
If my son ever read my comments to you he would tell me I'm "cringe worthy." Lol
Another classic!
The frames of my 7 raised beds are starting to rot away and was thinking about turning the section over to row gardening once the lumber is gone. I’m totally BTE so I could move paths around as required without having to formally box things in. Wondering what your long term plans are and if you will maintain your lumber long term. Agreed I can’t believe people buy soil!?!? Your don’t know what you are getting and there’s a lot of good alternatives for zero $ soil. by the way it’s a long ways from Dixie to a Nova Scotia but we will get used to the new music.
I don't know. There's no good reason for it, but I prefer defined beds.
I like the rocks, especially that they don't need to be replaced.
Not sure - always changing my mind about these things :)
Definitely, I think the big change I'd make would be to use sand in the walking paths instead of woodchips. It's more weed-proof, dries quickly & doesn't need to be replaced.
p.s. That band is actually from Finland, and they're playing Metallica :)
Glad you have done a soil video again, because there's a related question I've wanted to ask. How much compost is too much? If you have a lot, is it OK to add a lot to the garden? I mean like 6-8 inches or more? Or should you stick to a couple of inches no matter what?
Love your channel!
I don't think there's much to gain by adding more than an inch or two, but I also don't think you'll do any harm by adding more.
@@maritimegardening4887 Thanks, that's something I've wondered about for quite awhile. Main concern was if I was just adding too much N to the garden. I'm a retired farmer but still have a dozen cows and tend to make it by the ton---making compost is kind of addictive . . .
Still trying to figure out what part of the province you are in.
Near Terence Bay
Bro, where I live the only shit I can make from the soil is pottery. It's pure clay. Seriously, you dig down and you can get some good clay. My mom used to make pottery with it!
So put a box on top of the clay and fill it with soil or even horse manure.
@@maritimegardening4887 Yep, that's what we do!
I wish u started with how u create your soil.!
I know, I was really making two videos in one I guess: one on my garden redesign, and another on burying rotten logs to create soil.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. Your garden design was quickly apparent to me!
@@marilynrandall9337 OK cool :)
F=Good to see a mess as well all have mess its part of gardening. Time is limited sometimes I dont have visitors in my garden and having a mess doesn't bother me. It just doesn't look good in video. Does buried wood encourage termites?? Please advise. I have a lot of termites in my area. I dont want to encourage them. In a sense you are using the wood like a sponge like wicking where there is a resevoir of water under the ground.
I don't have termites here so I've not researched that problem
Its key hole gardening .
That's right - I should have mentioned that term
The rotting material is on the surface breaking down and feeding whats under it. If u pull back the rotting material on the surface u will not find it in the ground
I really don't know what you're driving at
@@maritimegardening4887 It just seems to me if your plants are living in rotting wood and leaves , what stops it from rotting your plants and its roots also, plus does not the rotting process eat up all the nitrogen that the plants need
The best place to get more soil is your pathways and Eileen your beds. You can refill those areas with free (hopefully) wood chips. This can go on as long as you want because the wood chips make beautiful soil underneath you could even add old leaves.😊
That's a great point! I think I can make a whole episode on that when things thaw out next spring!
Please tell me sources for free wood chips. Everything that has gone in my raised beds so far, I had to purchase. It would be lovely to improve the soil from a free source instead. I do get coffee grounds from Starbucks from time to time.
@@linab8847 Do you live in NS?
@@maritimegardening4887 No, I live in zone 8.
@@linab8847 OK, then I can't recommend my woodchip guy :). Basically you need to get on the phone and start calling tree services until you can find one that will delivery for free. Where I live, they only give them to you for free if they are working next door. If you want them to drive to your house, you'll have to offer at least $50 in my experience. Once a year I have a guy drop off a massive truckload and I have to pay him because he rarely gets work out where I live, and is usually working about a 30 minute drive away.
Where did that soil you put in from off to the side come from?
That soil was about 1/4 of the soil that had been in that box where it was before. If you don't have any top soil, you just dig a bigger and deeper trench and fill it with more rotten wood.
OK, thanks a lot. You must have done that digging before the hard frost we just had.
@@annestudley8235 Yes I filmed that on Dec 1
how much days it prepare
I don't understand your question. It took about 10 minutes to prepare and it's ready top plant as soon as the weather is warm enough. If it was spring right now I could plant in it right away. I hope that helps :)
I had six inches of fresh cow manure dumped on my garden. It sat over the winter and then I tilled it in. We had an amazing garden with incredible yields.
I would imagine so!
How high is the frame around this garden?
I mainly use 2"x6". I don't find any benefit to going higher than 6"
@@maritimegardening4887 thanks!
If you cant move the rock with lever a then use the lever b method. Lol
You could add some newspaper and tiny Styrofoam bits?
Newspaper yes - Styrofoam, no :)
Music is too loud.
Metallica.......Sad but true! 🤘🎸
You got it!
I knew it at those first 5 notes! Was going to comment, but had to check if anyone beat me to it lol ...and you did! Is that you on the banjo Greg?
Great job - ‘size of PEI...’ ha!
I like that music.
Cool music greg
Thanks - great band from finland that plays bluegrass versions of heavy metal music- link to their stuff in the description box.
If we can.t live in rotting material, why do we think plants can live in rotting material. Plants are living things just as we humans
Because plants live in rotting material :) Show me any forest floor in the world and I'll show you rotting plant matter
Do you have many worms in your garden !!!!????
Yes, all kinds
Prefer your previous music !!
Sorry - was just trying something different.
I don't understand why people spend so much time building all these beds just put your stuff in the ground in an organized way. This way too much work for me I just plant in the ground with enough space to walk through everything.
I suppose its just a preference thing. Having dedicated walking paths keeps me and my kids off the soil. Many no-till gardeners have dedicated beds and walking spaces; and building the bed is a one-time deal, so it's not like you're doing it every year.
LOL, you have no idea, having said that your strategy obviously works for your environment.
You sure do plant a lot of parsnip. Maybe someday you could do a video on ways that you cook it.
Shirley G use anywhere you do carrots
Will do - planning on it :)
I made potato pancakes for supper last night and for the first time I mixed in grated parsnip with my grated potatoes, 50/50. Very good results. They were pleasantly lighter in taste, texture and weight. Topped with sour cream as usual and a little onion and garlic chopped into them.
Save all that work and go no dig
Most of my garden is no dig - and so will this garden be going forward. With practice and experience you'll find that no-dig works best with an aggressive head start.
maritimegardening.com/057-its-ok-to-till/
@@maritimegardening4887 I use to go mad diging in loads of compost in all sorts of ways. evan like you was doing it till 3 years ago wen I went no dig. now I only dig soil over if it needs leveling out first.
You better make your own soil cause the mess I seen in that mess make wonder what on earth I put n it I though they got it from a grave site it's best to make your own I found bones baby plz...yuck you never know...
Why are you amazed to see bags of soil being sold? I'd like to remind you that a majority of the population lives in cities with no acces to land. If you live in an appartment, which most people do (unfortunately), you are stuck with buying bags of low quality soil. What about mites, flies, and bugs, that comes with the soil your using? Using this type of soil indoor is not for everyone and bugs can be hard to control inside unlike outdoors. I wish we had no bugs and that plants were more efficient.
Dude too much time about nothing. Use what you have to stop buying soil is the title.