How to Grow a Victory Garden with No Compost and no Fertilizer
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- In this video we show you how you can grow a victory garden in desert soil without having to purchase any compost, fertilizer, or other soil amendments. While not the most conventional method, this technique will allow you to start a vegetable garden in your yard with absolutely no up-front costs.
Please check out our website for more information on backyard gardening in desert climates:
www.southwestvictorygardens.com
For a list of desert gardening resources visit:
www.southwestvictorygardens.com/documents
5 Things Every Desert Garden Needs: 4:15
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1. Sunlight
2. Healthy Soil
3. Water
4. Garden Buddies
5. Love
This is something soooooo many expert gardeners forget to pass on to new gardeners. YOU CANNOT DO IT ALONE. It's smarter to attract "garden buddies" to help your garden. Great advice!
I appreciate the back-to-basics approach. Super helpful for a new desert gardener. I hope you put out more content like this! Thanks!
Thank you so much! I havent had time to work on this channel very much, but i've been doing some videos with the community food bank and will be doing a 5 part video series in the new year. Check out: ruclips.net/user/Communityfoodbank
appreciate your work & insights on growing in the desert, much love from the great basin
It’s especially hard since moving from an urban area like Chicago to a desert climate where growing in soil is not only challenging but can be expensive to start out for a novice such as myself. I am really grateful that I not only can I find desert gardening hacks including weed usage in sunken gardens but also particularly happy that you posted regarding current events with a green thrifty thumb! Thanks so much I’m subscribed and will tune in regularly now👌
Thank G#D for this desert gardener! I live in Phoenix and I want a garden so bad but I had no clue how to do a garden in the desert. I grew up on a farm in Iowa and heck stuff just grows there but not here. LoL thank you Brandon! I needed to learn how to deal with a desert garden! ❤
I am spending more time with my garden ❤!
I hope it's been peaceful!
You can take those weeds and put them in a 5 gal pail. Add whatever kitchen scraps to the pail and fill with water. Cover with a trash bag and tie it down. Wait a week or two, giving it a stir every few days; add more stuff to the pail. Then, add this 1 part compost tea to 6 parts water. Excellent fertilizer!
I'm less of a weed water soaker person, and more of a compost person.
I want to grow up to be like you brother!
These are super helpful tips. Great use of the winter weeds. Free nitrogen fertilizer!
Free is always good with me. Thanks for checking out the channel!
All we have is cholla, so we had to scrape our entire lot. I am still picking needles out of my shoes. I have no green material except creosote.
You know
I recently viewed a post from an Australian gardener that buries his food scraps directly into soil including whole chicken eggs freshly lain from live poultry and whole fish heads, rather than just adding to compost- do you recommend such methods in desert soil like in Las Vegas, Nevada where I currently reside?
I used to live in Las Vegas, i remember how tough it was to garden there! Throwing food scraps in the garden is a common way to compost, it's sometimes called "sheet composting", however in my experience the best way to compost food scraps in desert climate is either to use worms or to do a traditional bin or heap type of set up. You'll end up with a better compost and a healthier soil in the long term and attract fewer pests too your garden.
Love your stuff here. It's really difficult to find info for growing things in the desert. Thanks
Glad you enjoy it! My last name is Merchant too, maybe we're cousins lol!
@@SouthwestVictoryGardens Whoa!!! is your family from Iowa?
Get on with it!
thanks for the tip, maybe some day my channel will have 6 subscribers like yours :)