How to Build Soil over Winter Ready for Spring to Grow Amazing Vegetables
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- Опубликовано: 12 янв 2017
- As an organic vegetable gardener it is essential to build healthy soil over winter ready for spring to grow food. The nutrients of the soil come from free and organic ammendments we use. Soil fertility is the most important thing when it comes to sustainable vegetable gardening, and in this video we cover our method of ensuring that come next spring, the soil is ready for planting without having to worry about adding compost or weeding.
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Hi there, I have watched your videos for a while now and have been most impressed. Yesterday I showed my wife one of your videos and her comments prompted me to send this message. BBC take a camera down to this young mans garden and watch what a proper gardener does. You have a gardeners world program already made with the "know how" that gardeners really want to know, not just going to a garden centre and spending a fortune on plants to stick in your designer garden. Well done Huw this is what gardening is all about. Regards.
thank you! it's going to be nice this year so see everything from beginning to end. i can't believe it's the middle of january already! i am looking forward to your next video!
I can recommend using old and disused vinyl banners from festivals, truck sides or scaffolding. It can be hosed down and reused year after year. Often you can get it for free, or buy it cheap or find it in the skip.
We're going to try this method this winter. Your videos are inspirational 🙂 thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I do the same thing and the results are incredible. Little to no weeds either. Keep videos coming
Great advice as always Huw. Thanks you for sharing
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
Thank you for that good tip . I will use it this fall. God bless you for sharing .
Yes! Great idea! Ty
I’m in the process of filling all my beds. It will be so rewarding once it’s done
Great tip! Thanks for sharing!
Another great vid. Thanks Huw. :)
Great video Huw! Looks like a quite mild winter there!
Great video and thank you for sharing
I love your videos Huw!!
Thanks huw I've been mulching with straw maybe I will try this we are a bit later getting some things done here in scotlan😀
will try this
hi huw another great video and information really useful thanks for your time 🐞🐝🐔👍👍
Like your channel first time watching gonna try this next autumn
Great to see this video. Ill share it. I've use rabbit manure too.
Cool idea thankyou
Great video Huw🌼
Love this growers series. We are on Vancouver Island wit an almost similar climate as South England. This series is very helpful and well produced. What about crop cycling and rotating differing plants into different beds in sequential year?. What sequence or cycle is best to get the most out of soil and healthy permaculture planting? E.G. beets, broccoli, beans, corn, carrots, parsley, potatoes, etc.
Great tips !
In Florida we do this in July and August!
Wow, just want to go get my yard ready for next year but it's dark and snowing right now.
Great tips
well done!
Hi Huw great video thanks for sharing :). I've done something similar with my plot, could you leave the sheets on throughout the summer? was thinking it would stop any weeda from coming through and protect my squashes. take care jenny
We live where we have great river loam soil. We are wanting to built some raised bed gardens where we currently have a lawn. My plan is to use a sod cutter to remove the grass over a large area and remove the soil down a few inches to fill the garden boxes. Then use landscape rock to fill the area of soil removal around the boxes. I'm planing to do this n the fall so that I will have everything ready by the spring for planting. My question is can I just use the loam soil to fill the boxes and then use the method from the video do have the soil ready for spring? Do I need anything else mixed in with the soil? Again we have great soil. Our neighbor has a great garden every year with standard planting (no raised beds). Thanks in advance for you thoughts and input!
Do you have a video on how to build the beds. What boards and etc to use?
Hi, thanks for the idea! I am curious Can this be done directly on ground or is a raised bed better for some reason? Thanks!!
cover mine with a thick layer of fresh woodchips with leaves included...and just leave it...I didn't want to buy the plastic...the soil is great in the spring.
great video cheers
Gilly in norfolk uk
Hi Huw, I am new to your fab chanel I also live in Wales what type of watering can do you use?
Hi Huw, this was helpful. I see different approaches for putting the garden to bed in winter but yours makes sense as it allows for creating a living soil throughout winter. Do you pull your larger plants first, or just cut them off at ground level? I've heard to do the latter, and then cover it with compost or mulch. Thanks!
Very interesting. If I'm starting a new regular ground level garden, could I add manure, compost to the top of my soil, and cover it with black plastic, and leave it until spring planting ?
This exactly what I do on my current small allotment, but now I have been given a part of a field , 6m x50m it's all ope ground and I want to make it into raised beds so can do what you do but not sure how wide I should make the beds, I already have the plastic in two widths 1m and two metre, I will be g owing all sorts but mainly stuff that takes longer to grow like onions garlic and brassicas, as I will be growing the quicker stuff at home, what can you suggest, cheers , Steve
How about just planting through the plastic in early spring? Leaving it there would continue suppressing weeds.
can you put compost and then manure onto the beds a the same time if the beds need topping up.
Hugh, could I use a black tarpaulin instead of black plastic? We live in a very exposed position on a south facing mountainside in North Wales, any natural mulches such as leaves would not stay on our beds for very long at all.
We dry our lawn (converted to white clover,) clippings and add those to our garden as mulch. We also have access to clean horse manure.
Can we add 3” of well rotted horse manure, then cover it with the dried clover?
OR
Would it be better to add 3” of home made compost covered with the dried clover or leaves?
Enjoying your channel.
Thanks for the great videos. Just a quick question, I have just covered my raised beds with a layer of leaves to mulch over winter. Would you cover the beds with plastic and should I have shredded them first? Which I didn’t!
I do the same thing, but I do shred leaves with mower to help breakdown quickly
Will this work if it's February and 3 months left tell planting? I also have access to alfalfa hay.
Will covering the surface with leaves stopweeds growing - I don’t use plastic :)
Depends on seeds and wind
Your genius practical ideas , never cease to amaze me,
While, all others , try to complicate soil creation, your methods are so practicality understandable.
Q. 1 : Any alternative to cow manure?
Q. 2 : GMO- fed cows manure, producing GMO crops?
I think , serial dilution takes place, but not 100% GMo - free
Thankyou for sharing
Gosh, this video is already three years old. Just found your channel Huw and can't watch the clippets fast enough. Really enjoyable and informative videos. Thank you. Great job! Keep it up Huw. p.s There are lots of questions in this section but I can't see many answers. Is there a link to another section somewhere that I've missed may be !?
AH HA!!! I've just seen the Snapchat@huwsnursery address. 🤗🤗
curious that you put this on in January, saying that it should be done in autumn. wouldn't it have been more useful to do it in September? or did you do that too?
Can you tell me what the intro music is called please? Thank you
I do this
Hi Huw, I'd like to see how you grow some vegetables from seed, which types of pots, soil you use and how often to water them, where to start them off i.e window sill or green house? I hope you are doing well. ;)
how does the grass in the paths not creep into the beds?
What do you do about rhizome weeds?
hi
what is the thickness of the wood which is used here
How about green manure? Cover crop
Would rabbit manure mixed with straw and hay be good compost for this application? I am in the United States and raise rabbits. New to gardening.
ABSOLUTELY. GO AHEAD! YOU WILL BE GLAD YOU DID. I put my rabbit poo in the garden and my no dig garden beds. rabbit poo is cold fertilizer and can be used immediately anywhere.
All manure is good for composting!
The good thing about bunny poop is it’s a cold manure, so you can add it to your plants at anytime. Tomato plants love rabbit poop. I have a bunny that works for my garden too. Another good fertilizer is Timothy pellets. So if your poop has rabbit food too, don’t worry because they will both work to feed plants
Do you ever run into problems with the wood rotting? I really like the wood on the sides of each bed it looks a lot neater than just a patch. But I’ve had a smal raised bed before and the sides started rotting after 1 year and into year 2 the sides kind of collapsed and attracted a lot of bugs that also liked my crops:/. So idk I was thinking of just doing patches with some rocks around as a visual barrier instead of wooden beds.
I’ve found I need more sun in my raises bed for next year so I need to move the whole operation. Should I amuse manure now, wait until spring then move the entire thing?
Sorry for spelling!
Wouldn’t landscape plastic work better because it would allow the rain to seep in for the soil life? Does the black plastic kill the soil life?
Would it be ok to just add wood chips cow manure and compost all year round and during the winter?????
But you will eat a lot of black plastic particules and this is very healthy.
could i use duck manure
what about O2
Is this more effective than a cover crop, or have you any research on these 2 methods?
Is it too late to start this now?
Oops, I put leaves first then compost on top with a sprinkle of coffee grounds in between. Will that still work?
It should be fine. Just give it a good turning a few weeks before planting.
why do you play with the soil in Spring? I thought people usually do it in Fall?
VT
I can’t get animal manure.
It’s sold, plus you can look up farmer markets.
Many volunteer gardens get manure for free
Some cities give free compost. (Not manure based)
Easy to look ok up
That much cow manure would cost me a small fortune
Why not use Mypex instead of plastic - its porous !
sorry - no plastic....use thick layers of leafs
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