I see the Black Kow as being necessary. Dont listen to the haters your gardens are alway beautiful. Also seeing fish as being necessary for a wonderful garden. I make my own compost and like to use fish also.
I started using Black Kow after noticing buyers at Lowe’s buying it over all other products, even tho their other soil products were “bargain barrel” products. I was already using peat for lightness and water mediation. Once I got black kow mixed up with the other soils, it felt right. It sells out early, too. This year, however, the chase is for finding that good Canadian sphagnum peat moss! Convoy! Yea, Canada!
@@mousiebrown1747 Hi! I hav been buying peat for yrs and its always been so dry looking and dusty but I assume that's what it looks like right? Well last night I got some peat at Lowes and got it home opened the back and it was absolutely beautiful! It was coal black! And wasn't full of chips and all that other garbage! I couldn't even tell the dif in color from my dirt!! It's the same bag I always get (brand) green bag, Did I finally hit jack pot? Is this what peat is supposed to look like? Real nice and black? My regret is there was only one bag!! Hopefully I will be able to get more of this beautiful black peat!
Oh and just for the record I've always got my peat at walmart, this is the first time I've gotten it at Lowes. Could that hav been the reason for it being so georgous and black? I'm trying to hav the perfect garden this year!
Thank you so much .bought my stuff and am ready to 🪴 plant my tomatoes 🍅 and 🌶 peppers. First time gardening. I'm so excited 😊. Thank you, Lord, for Hollis and Nancy. May you continue to use them for your Glory Amen 🙏
I’m so glad I found your channel, your videos are the most instructional and informative for gardening I’ve ever watched and I appreciate seeing the start to end of the planting! Thank you!
I have watched several videos on mixing your own soil. Thank you for keeping yours so simple, it is the best one I've found. May God continue to richly bless you and yours.
I will just starting out next spring hope to do it for many years I'm 78. I was going to buy a cheap cement mixer at harbor freight. Love your recipe. Thanks jim
Been watching your videos for years and they are always amazing! Adding some large containers to the garden this year so I came to the container king for potting mix advice! Thank you, sir. Keep up the great work!
Thank you very much sir. My kids and I love all of your videos. Especially my kids they love how Miss Nancy say “ Have a bless day!” at the end of the video. We love and looking forward to the end of the video to find out which Bible verb will be😍 Most of all, we pray for your good health to make more videos in the future 🙏😇🙏 Have a bless day! 🙏😇🙏
Im new to this gardening thing and i made the mistake of using potting soil mix to transplant my seedlings and nothing else, no compost or perlite of fertilizer, and was wondering why my plants wasnt growing and ultimately died... So now im here looking at your video again and im going to make my soil just like you and try again ... Thank you for so much insite on gardening in containers...
I am planning for my container garden and you are the first person I thought of!! You give fantastic advice! Thank you and may God continue to bless your family.
I wish I had seen this. I was tryna scramble to find stuff like vermiculite and all that complicated stuff. This is stuff that's readily available at my nearest Lowe's for about $33 bucks (off sale). This helped a ton! Thank you so much.
Wow! You two are 👍🏾! Keep on doing what you are doing. A total newbie, but loving your videos. They are so easy to follow and comprehend. God Bless both of you! 🙏🏾
Hollis I really enjoy your videos I've been trying to do container gardening the last two years last year We just had Tomatoes and Peppers & I had 3 plants that grew a nice stalk They were as tall as the eve on our house But didn't bear hardly any fruit I wanted to top out the plants at 4 ft But my wife said leave it alone we got busy taking care of the grandkids & 4 weeks later they were taller than me & I'm 6 ft 3 this year hopefully will be better
This year add more phosphorus. Be careful what you fertilize with. Too much nitrogen will cause them to grow tall and leafy with no fruit. I recommend Bone Meal for the phosphorus (organic). If you prefer something else look at Rock Phosphorus
I'm SO excited to be growing a small container veggie garden on my back deck this year!!! It's my first time growing anything, so wish me luck! lol (I'll be using your methods mostly...so i've been watching your videos and taking notes...lol) God Bless!
Great video, Hollis! I added some Black Kow to a new okra bed this spring and it is doing quite well. With all the pots you have to fill, have you tried mixing your soil on a tarp instead of in the wheel barrow? You can at least triple the quantity and lift up the edges of the tarp alternately to mix it. Just a thought...
I have watched so many of y’all’s videos and I love how you bring us through the whole process of something you are doing. I just watched Mrs. Nancy’s USA Kimchi video this morning and I can’t wait to try making it. I just started my own RUclips channel and hope to one day be as great at gardening as you two. Thanks for y’all’s videos and keep teaching us beginners. 👍🏻
I planted a banana plant, Moringa, mango and pineapple all on Florida soil. With a bit of bone meal and potash for my bananas and everything is thriving!
Thankbyou you for.deciphering the difference between container mix and potting soil.. there seems to be some lack of concern in many other videos.. to add to other comments,, Fish is a great additive to a garden. May God bless!
I know this is right, my container mix us compacted. So many people say different things.But, from experience I know this is right on! I'VE LEARNED ALOT FROM TRIAL AND ERROR!! EXPENSIVE, BUT, IT'LL PAY OFF.
Thanks Hollis going to start using this for our containers. Also made one of your raised beds and will be getting the soil mixture in it soon and start planting.
Hollis your videos are easy to understand and very informitive so disreguard the nay sayers and keep doing things your way your garden always looks great and you bring in a great harvest on most things...some flops due to climate conditions are bound to happen from time to time But we learn from those things we dont submit to those things thats part of gardening from season to season Thankyou for sharing your wealth of knoledge with a younger generation who needs to know these things to keep growing their own food Im so glad that you always praise God because God does make everything possible for us and God sends good men and women to teach others to insure a better future May you and nancy always be blessed with great health and prosperity you certainly deserve it..
This is exactly how I've been making my potting mix, with the perlite and all. Good stuff. I've grown some very nice veggies in 5 gallon buckets with this stuff. I like to mix a little blood meal in as well. I also make my own fish emulsion to fertilize with.
@@dannypalma8159 I usually add specific nutrients according to what I am planting. You can also add Garden Tone which is an even mixture. Can't go wrong with that stuff.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! Your channel is a treasure trove of hands on learning for everyone that wants to take advantage of your knowledge. God bless you and your beautiful wife for sharing what He has enabled you with! ✝️🇺🇲
this is exactly what i was looking for! going to plant 20+ tomato plants in containers this year and buying the premixed stuff seems really expensive for all that
So glad I came across your video. We just recently moved and the ground here is all rock. We have obtained a lot of large tubs for planting until we can get a good garden bed going over the next few years. However, the cost of potting soil was really discouraging us this year. Your video has given me hope again that we just may be able to afford filling these containers and getting going with our garden finally. Thanks
I came across your video and found it most informative as to home made container soil. I would like to ask i you have a past video on how to amend yard soil, as my back yard soil has the consistency of dry clay. Thank you for any help you may be able to provide me on how to help me amend my soil. I am looking forward to view your past views. May you and your wife be Healthy and Safe during these times we live in.
I recommend turning in Black Kow with dry oak leaves. Any left over green vegetables leaves are great too. Our soil in Virginia was clay, it took me about 3 years to get it right but it improved each year
I love what you have there that's my ambition you start epic looks great and you always have good results so is right I been struggling to have it right with Florida weather even when I am north I been learning a lot thank you
Thank you so much. This year we are in the process of making our very own containers. I needed to see this in order to know what soils needed. God bless
Nice video,,,,, baby steps. This is just the growing medium, for the plants to take root in. Some, (very little but balanced nutrients) that all plants need, and good aeration, moisture retention, even drainage, slightly acidic, and balanced N-P-K. I suspect, what we'll see next is amendments, for individual plants needs. Different N-P-K's for different plant needs. Don't know, might be wrong. We'll have to wait and see!! TYFS, Stay Safe and Well Mark and Rosa
You are spot on. I will use the mix in container grown plants and add in some basics to promote good plant development. Tuned in tomorrow at 4:00pm for our first vegetable growing video from our new homestead❤️
We use similar methods of making our poting mix except it is soilless. Instead of potting mix, we use compost and we sift everything with the added vermiculite, perlite, bone meal, blood meal, kelp meal, and worm castings. Thanks for sharing.
Hollis, I do your mix, it is great. I do mix it differently. I use a concrete mixer I purchased from Lowe’s. I have major back and pelvis issues and the mixer works great. If you want to see reply to me.
Thank you very much. I'm ready for fall planting. If my 1st attempt is only partially as nice as yours and Nancy's I'll consider that a success. Take care.
As i can now no long mix up container soil and seed starting mixes by hsnd, could a new, unused cement mixer be a substitute for the mixing? Provided its still all clump free and the ratoos are still the same?
Finally a gardener with simple practical advice for gardeners like me who don’t know what the heck I’m doing in my garden.
Friendliest people on RUclips - Simply the best gardening knowledge available
My 14 yr old grandson and I are using your channel to teach him container gardening for homeschool. Thanks!!!
I see the Black Kow as being necessary. Dont listen to the haters your gardens are alway beautiful. Also seeing fish as being necessary for a wonderful garden. I make my own compost and like to use fish also.
Thank you Pamela❤️
I started using Black Kow after noticing buyers at Lowe’s buying it over all other products, even tho their other soil products were “bargain barrel” products. I was already using peat for lightness and water mediation. Once I got black kow mixed up with the other soils, it felt right. It sells out early, too. This year, however, the chase is for finding that good Canadian sphagnum peat moss!
Convoy! Yea, Canada!
@@mousiebrown1747
Hi!
I hav been buying peat for yrs and its always been so dry looking and dusty but I assume that's what it looks like right?
Well last night I got some peat at Lowes and got it home opened the back and it was absolutely beautiful! It was coal black! And wasn't full of chips and all that other garbage!
I couldn't even tell the dif in color from my dirt!!
It's the same bag I always get (brand) green bag,
Did I finally hit jack pot? Is this what peat is supposed to look like? Real nice and black?
My regret is there was only one bag!!
Hopefully I will be able to get more of this beautiful black peat!
Oh and just for the record I've always got my peat at walmart, this is the first time I've gotten it at Lowes.
Could that hav been the reason for it being so georgous and black?
I'm trying to hav the perfect garden this year!
@@mousiebrown1747 where did you find Black Kow? Which Lowes? I am in GTA.
Thank you so much .bought my stuff and am ready to 🪴 plant my tomatoes 🍅 and 🌶 peppers. First time gardening. I'm so excited 😊. Thank you, Lord, for Hollis and Nancy. May you continue to use them for your Glory Amen 🙏
I’m so glad I found your channel, your videos are the most instructional and informative for gardening I’ve ever watched and I appreciate seeing the start to end of the planting! Thank you!
I love that Nancy always wishes us a blessed day, even in the videos she does not show up in.
I have watched several videos on mixing your own soil. Thank you for keeping yours so simple, it is the best one I've found. May God continue to richly bless you and yours.
Thank you for sharing both the how to and God’s word
I will just starting out next spring hope to do it for many years I'm 78. I was going to buy a cheap cement mixer at harbor freight. Love your recipe. Thanks jim
I’m thinking about getting me one of them too!!!
Been watching your videos for years and they are always amazing! Adding some large containers to the garden this year so I came to the container king for potting mix advice! Thank you, sir. Keep up the great work!
Thank you very much sir. My kids and I love all of your videos. Especially my kids they love how Miss Nancy say “ Have a bless day!” at the end of the video. We love and looking forward to the end of the video to find out which Bible verb will be😍 Most of all, we pray for your good health to make more videos in the future 🙏😇🙏 Have a bless day! 🙏😇🙏
Your videos are great! I’m 68 but feel even I can have a big garden!
Thank you so much. I'm really learning a lot from your channel since I found it recently. God bless you.
Its a good recipe. Used it when you posted about it years ago. Worst mistake i have made is having my containers getting way too compact
I absolutely love your gardening channel!!! I learn so much useful information!! And, yes GOD IS GOOD. Without Him nothing would exist!!😊😊😊
Peat moss, Black Kow, potting mix and Perlite.
I love your gardening skills, how you share. I have learned so much from you and Nancy. I watch your videos over and over..thank you for all you do.
❤️❤️🐶
You are amazing! and you're a good teacher! continue to stay blessed
We used this method this year and our plants are FABULOUS! It's AMAZING! Thank you!
You are my favourite person to watch concerning gardening…
Im new to this gardening thing and i made the mistake of using potting soil mix to transplant my seedlings and nothing else, no compost or perlite of fertilizer, and was wondering why my plants wasnt growing and ultimately died... So now im here looking at your video again and im going to make my soil just like you and try again ... Thank you for so much insite on gardening in containers...
I am planning for my container garden and you are the first person I thought of!! You give fantastic advice! Thank you and may God continue to bless your family.
I wish I had seen this. I was tryna scramble to find stuff like vermiculite and all that complicated stuff. This is stuff that's readily available at my nearest Lowe's for about $33 bucks (off sale). This helped a ton! Thank you so much.
Thank you! Blessings back at you both.
Wow! You two are 👍🏾! Keep on doing what you are doing. A total newbie, but loving your videos. They are so easy to follow and comprehend. God Bless both of you! 🙏🏾
👍
Great video how to make the container soil at home, thanks for sharing to us such amazing lesson for gardening work
Good morning! God
blessed you both. Thanks for helping my garden out. You both are the best.
Great this is why the plants look great, thank you for teaching us it is so rewarding to grow our food.
So true!
I watch this video this morning as that is what I'm doing today So thanks for the information I would have forgotten to add the perlight
1 part Peat
1 part Black Kow
1 part potting mix
2.5 qt perlite
Hollis I really enjoy your videos I've been trying to do container gardening the last two years last year We just had Tomatoes and Peppers & I had 3 plants that grew a nice stalk They were as tall as the eve on our house But didn't bear hardly any fruit I wanted to top out the plants at 4 ft But my wife said leave it alone we got busy taking care of the grandkids & 4 weeks later they were taller than me & I'm 6 ft 3 this year hopefully will be better
This year add more phosphorus. Be careful what you fertilize with. Too much nitrogen will cause them to grow tall and leafy with no fruit. I recommend Bone Meal for the phosphorus (organic). If you prefer something else look at Rock Phosphorus
I always wait until the end of the video to pray with you. Even if the video is from awhile ago!
I'm SO excited to be growing a small container veggie garden on my back deck this year!!! It's my first time growing anything, so wish me luck! lol (I'll be using your methods mostly...so i've been watching your videos and taking notes...lol) God Bless!
Thanks! Been doing this since the potato container video. Great results!!!
Great video, Hollis! I added some Black Kow to a new okra bed this spring and it is doing quite well. With all the pots you have to fill, have you tried mixing your soil on a tarp instead of in the wheel barrow? You can at least triple the quantity and lift up the edges of the tarp alternately to mix it. Just a thought...
Hey long time sense I saw yall. How is everything. God bless and I'm doing well. Thanks for dirt tip. Love you guy's. Reggie
Two years later, thanks so much for your helpful advice 🙏
Greetings from Texas. 🙂
Thanks for watching ❤️
I have watched so many of y’all’s videos and I love how you bring us through the whole process of something you are doing. I just watched Mrs. Nancy’s USA Kimchi video this morning and I can’t wait to try making it. I just started my own RUclips channel and hope to one day be as great at gardening as you two. Thanks for y’all’s videos and keep teaching us beginners. 👍🏻
Our pleasure!
I love this channel and your faith!!!!! Thank you!!!
You are so welcome
I love watching your channel very useful and easy to follow thanks
I planted a banana plant, Moringa, mango and pineapple all on Florida soil. With a bit of bone meal and potash for my bananas and everything is thriving!
Very nice!
I used your 1/3, 1/3 and 1/3 v Combo and it just produced a ton-over and over again. It definitely works.
Thank you for this simple potting mix recipe. I needed this.
👍
Thankbyou you for.deciphering the difference between container mix and potting soil.. there seems to be some lack of concern in many other videos.. to add to other comments,, Fish is a great additive to a garden. May God bless!
I know this is right, my container mix us compacted. So many people say different things.But, from experience I know this is right on! I'VE LEARNED ALOT FROM TRIAL AND ERROR!! EXPENSIVE, BUT, IT'LL PAY OFF.
I would like to say thank you both and Bing too! Enjoy all your videos.
Glory Be to Jesus.
Peace from 10A!
Thanks Hollis going to start using this for our containers. Also made one of your raised beds and will be getting the soil mixture in it soon and start planting.
Great video, very helpful and concise. Thank you!
Good video. Smart choice of materials. Thanks for posting.
I scored a free cement mixer recently to mix my blend with
@d.b.Sorenson, That's a great idea! I never thought of that! Thanks for sharing that tip!
I'm learning so much binging on all your videos! Thank you so much - you're a great teacher!
Hollis your videos are easy to understand and very informitive so disreguard the nay sayers and keep doing things your way your garden always looks great and you bring in a great harvest on most things...some flops due to climate conditions are bound to happen from time to time
But we learn from those things we dont submit to those things thats part of gardening from season to season
Thankyou for sharing your wealth of knoledge with a younger generation who needs to know these things to keep growing their own food
Im so glad that you always praise God because God does make everything possible for us and God sends good men and women to teach others to insure a better future
May you and nancy always be blessed with great health and prosperity you certainly deserve it..
Love everything you both are doing. I learned a lot from you both. Thank you both so much 💕💕
Your video is GREAT! Cute opening, thorough demonstration, not too long! (edit: ... and what an awesome ending!)
Glad you liked it!
This is exactly how I've been making my potting mix, with the perlite and all. Good stuff. I've grown some very nice veggies in 5 gallon buckets with this stuff. I like to mix a little blood meal in as well. I also make my own fish emulsion to fertilize with.
Do you add bone meal as well? Any other amendments?
@@dannypalma8159 I usually add specific nutrients according to what I am planting. You can also add Garden Tone which is an even mixture. Can't go wrong with that stuff.
Used this mix...1st time i have been successful with my tomatoes.ty.
Thanks Hollis and Nancy.
God bless you both 💕💕
Man, I sure do need one of those outdoor grow tables!
Thank you Brother 🙏🏾. May GOD continue to Bless you and your Family.
Same to you!
Great instructional video on making container soil. Thank you.
Thank you God bless you and Nancy
THANK YOU SO MUCH! Your channel is a treasure trove of hands on learning for everyone that wants to take advantage of your knowledge. God bless you and your beautiful wife for sharing what He has enabled you with! ✝️🇺🇲
Thank you so much for watching. So glad you find our videos helpful 👍
Hi guys, I really love your videos. Would you please make a video on how to re-use your container soil? Thanks!
this is exactly what i was looking for! going to plant 20+ tomato plants in containers this year and buying the premixed stuff seems really expensive for all that
You sure got dark pretty fast working in that Florida sun! Love ur vids I learned a lot!
So glad I came across your video. We just recently moved and the ground here is all rock. We have obtained a lot of large tubs for planting until we can get a good garden bed going over the next few years. However, the cost of potting soil was really discouraging us this year. Your video has given me hope again that we just may be able to afford filling these containers and getting going with our garden finally. Thanks
Hollis thanks again for so good advice.I always enjoyed your podcast.🙏
Keep up 👍 job you both are doing. Thank you so much 💕💕
Thank you so much. So soothing. Simplicity.
You are so welcome!
Thank you for this! I have been using a similar mix to this this year, prepping my flowerbeds raised beds containers.
I came across your video and found it most informative as to home made container soil. I would like to ask i you have a past video on how to amend yard soil, as my back yard soil has the consistency of dry clay. Thank you for any help you may be able to provide me on how to help me amend my soil. I am looking forward to view your past views. May you and your wife be Healthy and Safe during these times we live in.
I recommend turning in Black Kow with dry oak leaves. Any left over green vegetables leaves are great too. Our soil in Virginia was clay, it took me about 3 years to get it right but it improved each year
this video is very helpful God bless, im learning how to garden and your videos are wonderful!
I love what you have there that's my ambition you start epic looks great and you always have good results so is right I been struggling to have it right with Florida weather even when I am north I been learning a lot thank you
Thank you for the recipe and prayer
You are so welcome
Thank you so much. This year we are in the process of making our very own containers. I needed to see this in order to know what soils needed. God bless
Best of luck to you with your garden this spring ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for showing this video.
God bless you both...
Our pleasure!
Good morning My first year doing garden Love to watch u and your wife vlog Great tips for all gardeners Love from Idaho ❤️👋
❤️❤️🐶
almost the exact mix i use, good stuff
Great video Hollis! Thanks for posting! God bless!
thank u...for showing how to prepare your pot. ..am a newbie in gardening and love it....stress free..
Thank you for sharing this video!
Your videos are so informational and helpful. Thank you guys so very much!
Getting my beds started thank you for this.
This is actually real good. Thank you. Peace
Thank you great video you helped me a lot. I learned from you.
Nice video,,,,, baby steps. This is just the growing medium, for the plants to take root in. Some,
(very little but balanced nutrients) that all plants need, and good aeration, moisture retention,
even drainage, slightly acidic, and balanced N-P-K. I suspect, what we'll see next is
amendments, for individual plants needs. Different N-P-K's for different plant needs.
Don't know, might be wrong. We'll have to wait and see!!
TYFS, Stay Safe and Well
Mark and Rosa
You are spot on. I will use the mix in container grown plants and add in some basics to promote good plant development. Tuned in tomorrow at 4:00pm for our first vegetable growing video from our new homestead❤️
@@HollisNancysHomestead To windy tomorrow to go fishing, will be here
my Friends
How many 5 gallon buckets do you get out of this mix? Also, I LOVE your videos
I love your channel. Can’t wait to see more progression videos!! Where do you get those heavy 3 gallon pots?
We use similar methods of making our poting mix except it is soilless. Instead of potting mix, we use compost and we sift everything with the added vermiculite, perlite, bone meal, blood meal, kelp meal, and worm castings.
Thanks for sharing.
What kind of compost?
@@adriankap2978 we do hot compost. cold compost and vermicompost
Hello Hollis & Nancy I miss y’all.
That’s very sweet. Thank you ❤️. Are you not seeing our videos on your feed?
Hollis, I do your mix, it is great. I do mix it differently. I use a concrete mixer I purchased from Lowe’s. I have major back and pelvis issues and the mixer works great. If you want to see reply to me.
Would you like to share which one?
Sounds great!
I will post a video to you over the weekend. We will be doing some soil amendment. Have a great week.
Mine is from Harbor Freight; best gardening tool I ever bought!!
Great idea. I am a 73 year old woman gardening and any tips that keep me gardening are a big help. Thank you!! Happy gardening!
Great job I will try this be blessed
Thank you very much. I'm ready for fall planting. If my 1st attempt is only partially as nice as yours and Nancy's I'll consider that a success. Take care.
Blessings
Thank you, mine looks great🤗
Really enjoy watching you two!!
Did the same thing this year. Thanks for the help!
Glad it helped!
You both rock
As i can now no long mix up container soil and seed starting mixes by hsnd, could a new, unused cement mixer be a substitute for the mixing? Provided its still all clump free and the ratoos are still the same?
I use a small mixer to do mine. It holds enough to fill a 5 gal bucket as that is what I grow my veggies in. Perfect for me.