You could use a paper mulch that would block all those weeds and biodegrade over time (worms love it)...as you get older this might be helpful to cut down on the weeds you have to pull.
Last year I put cardboard under the mulch in my pathways and didn’t have a single weed in them. This year the perennials like grape hyacinth and daffodils are pushing through so it’s time to dig them up and transplant them where they should be.
@@brandonstahl3562 I’m thinking about putting some more down this winter if the weather permits to make another in ground bed for the spring. Figured I could till it in in the spring, or plant through it.
@@Gardeningchristine plant through, if you till it the next batch of seeds will come up, your cover will be broken undoing the work you did. Plus it looks like someone littered your garden with cardboard.
Great to watch someone else doing the weeding!😃 Your notebook, and I remember it from other videos, is inspiring me to work on my own, before the spring rush.
You guy's are BY FAR my go to when I have questions about my garden!!! Whenever I have a question I just look back at your videos! I have been making my own growing soil because Y'ALL TAUGHT ME HOW and it gives me courage to try. God has surely Blessed us with y'all and I'm thankful and glad for it. Please let Nancy know that I am making Kimchi this week because she is so encouraging.❤️🙏 BLESSINGS TO Y'ALL.
In my case I sat on a milk carton with an old square cushion as I couldn’t go on my bad knees and I pulled it what ever defection I had to go and used my hand spade to dig up the whole garden saved all I dug up put in in a plastic bag though it in the garbage and did that till I sold the the house and moved to where my Son and family lived now I miss my garden so much I watch you all now. I had about a 100 foot garden and I gave so much away but I so enjoyed even the weeding. And no grass clipping I agree. Awesome video. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💙💚🥰🤗
Smiles and joy are good. Thank you for the garden ideas during winter here in NY. Nice to see your garden growing! Last year I bought a silage tarp. Very handy to cover a section when not planting and unroll a row when ready to plant. This spring, once I unroll the silage tarp, I will cover it with weed fabric and burn holes where I want to plant as my weeds restart as soon as there is sunlight and water. God bless!
Binge watching your videos as I recover from a week & half in the hospital. Learning sooo much. Can't wait to get enough energy to be back in the garden. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 💝🌻💐
Welcome home from the hospital!!!! May God heal you completely 🙏. Rest up and recover. The garden will provide plenty of exercise and joy for you. Enjoy our videos as you recover and for many years ahead. Peace to you Julie. Have a blessed day❤️❤️🐶
Thanks again for another great video! I like to toss my weeds in a rain barrel and let it ferment in the hot sun for days, it gets so stinky, then I use it as compost tea around the fruit trees. I wish I had chickens, I would also feed it to them. And I've seen some homesteaders use pigs as their tiller / cultivators. :-)
Love your set up and layout (VA and now FL). The grow tables, prep/wash stations and fence/borders that you build. Combine those with the success of growing so many things and how you compose your videos…Hollis and Nancy are #1 in my book!
Sometimes some people are just putting in more work than you… and, it shows. You’re definitely putting in more work than most and reaping what you sowed. Your channel is awesome. Everything you do to perfection and it shows. Thanks for sharing.💚 Love your channel.
Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge with everyone else. You and your wife are helping others learn, not only in gardening, but in so many other ways. I look forward to viewing your videos.
I remember someone saying they always wondered how a neighbor kept their flower beds so weed free all the time, until one day they were out very early and caught sight of the neighbor out pulling weeds. Doing it so early in the morning to beat the heat, of course. 😉
GREAT tips! Thank you so much for sharing them. Your gardens always look perfect to me! I've known that it's through your forethought, planning, and hard work. I appreciate your work, your results, and your sharing. Good health and happiness to you, always!
Thnx for tips. I'm a lazy gardener, so containers really help. I also place newspapers (free from local store) & place between my rows. No weeds there & less mud when I must get out on those days. I once patched my tomatoes. I had placed the newspapers down, but was in car accident & didn't get tomato cages out. But thankfully the weather was kind & plants flourished. Harvest I picked a wheelbarrow full every other day of pear tomatoes (mismarked, supposed to b rutgers). My salsa & sauces were pale colored, but yummy
Number 6 is what gets me the most. I have a fence around my garden (to keep my dog out) and I'm contemplating putting up shade cloth on the fence to keep the grass clippings from getting into my garden. I burn my weed pullings out of pure spite of them. Lol
Thx for this timely info! God bless and so appreciate your wisdom and fun comments! Just so happy to watch you, Nancy and dear BingBing. Have moved to my homestead in SW VA and will marry my farmer, cattle man in May. God is Great!
I put down newspaper and/or cardboard, then top it with mulch. I have almost no weeds and it helps my soul when it breaks down. . But, my garden is a lot smaller than yours Hollis and Nancy. PS how is Bing Bing doing?
My garden aria was horse pasture for half a dozen years that got seeded in annual ryegrass every fall. The seed bank is rough every year I'll get just the rain come through and the stuff is ankle high in a day. This is three 50 ft by 200 ft gardens. I always try to cultivate just hours before the rain knowing it can bring a flush. If I miss it the tractor won't go back on till dry and I'm not physically able to cover that much ground manually. I usually end up with a part of it looking more like pasture and having to beat down the weeds in case there's a water moccasin, copperhead, or rattle snake laying in the bed.
I have had to move a few times in recent years, so, haven't had any of these gardens for more than 2 or 3 years at the most, but I've had great success with no-till gardening. At least, great success with having very minimal weeds, and from poor to awesome success, depending on the crop & location ( low spot frequently "flooding" in our northern IL garden, or too much shade in parts of recent WI gardens) & in spite of my not having had great (or near enough) compost & other factors of sub-par-ness of the site or my resources. I have used papers and cardboards or a few weeks under a tarp 1st, then just mulches of old hay or woodchips or grass clippings, and put the compost in little ( barely enough) rows or hills to plant into, and most things have done really well, and I had basically no weeding. I did have to learn not to be tardy with mulching on top of my rows of compost, as it was poor, dry, sandy-ish and kept drying out way too fast, & my beets and some other things really struggled too long, as I was sick or something and had been tardy realizing that just watering until they got established wasn't taking care of it those times. Squashes and peppers, & most greens, seem the most fail-proof for me, but most everything has done quite well. BTW - I had been having HORRIBLE problems, increasingly worse every year, with cuke beetles, several years ago. Nothing helped until I tried the trick I'd read of in "Carrots love Tomatoes" , originally for squash bugs I think. I put about a palmful of tobacco ( plain, dried & chopped - my hubby bought me a bag of pipe tobacco) in the hole at planting or transplanting time for my cukes, and all squashes, as they'd started bothering those more and more too.... who has a shortage of zucchini in summer ??! Ever since, no more hordes of beetles or the downy-mildew killing the plants, which these cuke beetles bring on. O still see the beetle or 2, around, but not bothering my cukes etc. ! I'm now growing my own tobacco, saved my 1st dried leaves last fall, we'll see how it does. Got the seeds for "native tobacco" from Pinetree.
Admire your persistent and methodical approach to gardening and totally agree with your spiritual outlook. Weed control in Fl soil is easier than clay but the heat and long growing season are challenging. I've learned that if I wanted a weed free garden I would have to drastically reduce the size due to time constraints.
I'm currently resting most of my garden beds so they are weed heaven right now. Gonna be fun to fix in a months time lol. Cause I grow Cucamelons they crop up everywhere so that's fun. Good for snacking on at least.
Excellent video I work with koi in my backyard and some of the tank's get in the way but your homemade solution will make my chores a whole lot easier and don't worry I can watch the salt and soap around the tank's 👍
You work for that gorgeous food you grow. I'm looking into higher raised beds as I can't get on my knees any more. Hand pulling is the only way to get that weeding done.
Thanks Hollis. Weeds are just one of those things with no quick fix. Got to be consistent and vigilant. My question is about another pestulance that I hope you have an answer to and that’s fire ants. As you know, here in South Georgia, they’re awful. Boiling water...a pain, poison... poisonous, Guineas...too loud even if they work....thanks for any insight? God bless my RUclips friend!
I hae stinging nettles, when my daughter and her husband bought their placethe garden bed was full of them, I dug them all out, twice with my grandads big garden fork, but I got them all, also a tip I learned recently concentrated white vinegar will dry out any weed grass also, to concentrate it you leave it out in the sun for a few days in a bucket or bowl
Permatil by Stalite is expanded Carolina slate and will promote drainage and aeration. Compost added as well for nutrition with Permatil Address the soil structure. Permatill is expensive so try in a smaller area first. Continue adding to additional growing area. Prefer bags of only permatill for garden. Can purchase container soil mixed with permatill for containers. This is not perlite nor is it sand. but light weight stone. Clay is nutritious. Should you have bull tallow clay - recommend building raised planters. BT clay is grey in color w/ blue pockets. Some refer to it as chewing gum. Best to run from it. As the host does and advises soil is a held with high value. Stalite is located in Salisbury NC and could direct you to retail source in your area. Here it is available in bags from big box store and then bulk from stone and soil yard / Landscape materials. Hollis appears to have a sandy loam which they have enriched with organic material. Quite beautiful and well worth their effort. Take Care 🌿🌎🌿
Bing Bing has fully recovered from the Rattlesnake bite. He is back on duty as head of security but we don’t allow him to run free anymore. He is getting older now so he prefers to stay close to Mama. We have 4 raised beds at 4’x55’ 1 at 6’x55’ 1 at 8’x55’
@@HollisNancysHomestead Gm glad bing bing is well and thanks for responding wishing you,Nancy and bing bing have a wonderful day and thanks for all your videos 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Hollis and Nancy: enjoy your videos and planning our 2023 Garden. Can I ask what is the benefit of the Perimeter Garden? Like your Carrots, Onions, Garlic. Thanks!
It allows me to plants small crops that are tough to maintain weeds so I can work them easily. It also serves as a perfect border to stop grass encroachment into the main bed
Yes sir. If it is working for you then job well done. For me, my grass is wild grasses full of seeds as well as many different weeds. I think that is typical of most folks living in a rural setting. My grass clippings are not suitable for my garden. Anything that works in your particular area and conditions by all means do it👍. Thanks for your comment❤️
ME TOO!! The only thing I have heard that helps is black plastic on the ground over the area and that is supposed to suffocate the Bermuda. I'm trying it this winter to see if this spring/summer can be any better. :)
I got mine under control by covering the soil with black plastic in between plantings. I'll cover for a month before planting Spring garden, then, I'll reapply it after harvest. If you want to kill a really bad patch of whatever, cover it a few weeks, cultivate, cover the soil again. Rinse and repeat until it's dead.
We have Florida Sandy Soil. Very difficult to grow in. I add approx 3” Black Kow cow manure and cultivate to incorporate with the sand. Works very well for all my root vegetables.
Hollis, I have a larger garden but not as big as yours so do you think garden weed fabric is a good choice to prevent weeds and allow water to filter through? I will be 70 yo when I do this year's garden and I will not deal with weeds again.
Nancy had weed free fabric before in the urban garden and it still had bunch of weeds growing in it and made a terrible mess. Do more research. What we did is put the silage tarp and put holes for the melon patch and it worked really well and did not have as much weed
I had that problem. I dug up the bushes put them in containers for a year while I worked out all the grass. Then I laid down weed cloth barrier and transplanted them back in the bed. May not be the most scientific method but it worked for me
I like a bit of deep mutch lol 😊 it just looks nice. I think we will always have a few weeds and that’s ok! Like you said we we will always have them lol
Hello friends, I'm a new sub looking for tips to control weeds in my perennial gardens. Assume the same principals apply? I make my own mulch from approx 3 acres of hardwood trees. After turning with my front end loader every 6mos, in 18mos the leaves turn into usable mulch. Even after the composting process the mulch produces a lot of weeds. Frustrating... God bless...
Hi your wife is wonderful she work hard like do ❤ . I look at all of you videos. I live in Maryland. 7a. How wide and what the measurements your onions and sweet potatoes 🍠 beds . My father was big hands like your father and can do any like your father l learn a lot from papa.
Yeah, we have a lot of fire ants down here too. It’s a good idea to remove the tarp once per month and saturate the area with water then return the tarp. 👍
Building Vegetable In-Ground Garden Perimeter Box
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Can u do a video on watering potatoes
You could use a paper mulch that would block all those weeds and biodegrade over time (worms love it)...as you get older this might be helpful to cut down on the weeds you have to pull.
Last year I put cardboard under the mulch in my pathways and didn’t have a single weed in them. This year the perennials like grape hyacinth and daffodils are pushing through so it’s time to dig them up and transplant them where they should be.
Cardboard and mulch helped me get a jump on the weeds for a couple years.
@@brandonstahl3562 I’m thinking about putting some more down this winter if the weather permits to make another in ground bed for the spring. Figured I could till it in in the spring, or plant through it.
@@Gardeningchristine plant through, if you till it the next batch of seeds will come up, your cover will be broken undoing the work you did. Plus it looks like someone littered your garden with cardboard.
Great tip I’m going to try that this spring .❤️
Great to watch someone else doing the weeding!😃 Your notebook, and I remember it from other videos, is inspiring me to work on my own, before the spring rush.
You guy's are BY FAR my go to when I have questions about my garden!!! Whenever I have a question I just look back at your videos! I have been making my own growing soil because Y'ALL TAUGHT ME HOW and it gives me courage to try. God has surely Blessed us with y'all and I'm thankful and glad for it. Please let Nancy know that I am making Kimchi this week because she is so encouraging.❤️🙏 BLESSINGS TO Y'ALL.
You made our day! ❤️
Silage tarps are my favorite tool to kill any weeds in between seasons or when starting a new bed. I've learned so much from your videos.
Yes this video brought a smile to my face and joy to my heart as confirmation that it's not just me fighting weeds! I love you videos. Thank you guys!
Your penmanship is beautiful.
In my case I sat on a milk carton with an old square cushion as I couldn’t go on my bad knees and I pulled it what ever defection I had to go and used my hand spade to dig up the whole garden saved all I dug up put in in a plastic bag though it in the garbage and did that till I sold the the house and moved to where my Son and family lived now I miss my garden so much I watch you all now. I had about a 100 foot garden and I gave so much away but I so enjoyed even the weeding. And no grass clipping I agree. Awesome video. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💙💚🥰🤗
Smiles and joy are good. Thank you for the garden ideas during winter here in NY. Nice to see your garden growing!
Last year I bought a silage tarp. Very handy to cover a section when not planting and unroll a row when ready to plant.
This spring, once I unroll the silage tarp, I will cover it with weed fabric and burn holes where I want to plant as my weeds restart as soon as there is sunlight and water.
God bless!
Keep up the good work on them weeds. Thank you so much for watching ❤️❤️🐶
Binge watching your videos as I recover from a week & half in the hospital. Learning sooo much. Can't wait to get enough energy to be back in the garden. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 💝🌻💐
Welcome home from the hospital!!!! May God heal you completely 🙏. Rest up and recover. The garden will provide plenty of exercise and joy for you. Enjoy our videos as you recover and for many years ahead. Peace to you Julie. Have a blessed day❤️❤️🐶
Thanks again for another great video! I like to toss my weeds in a rain barrel and let it ferment in the hot sun for days, it gets so stinky, then I use it as compost tea around the fruit trees. I wish I had chickens, I would also feed it to them. And I've seen some homesteaders use pigs as their tiller / cultivators. :-)
Thank You Hollis for the great tips. We don't want dangerous weed chemicals on plants that we grow for our family and friends.
Love your set up and layout (VA and now FL). The grow tables, prep/wash stations and fence/borders that you build. Combine those with the success of growing so many things and how you compose your videos…Hollis and Nancy are #1 in my book!
Thank you so much for watching! God bless you❤️
Thank you both and God bless you both
Sometimes some people are just putting in more work than you… and, it shows. You’re definitely putting in more work than most and reaping what you sowed. Your channel is awesome. Everything you do to perfection and it shows. Thanks for sharing.💚 Love your channel.
God bless you❤️🙏
@@HollisNancysHomestead Thank you. God Bless you as well.💕
Hard & tedious work in your garden but the fresh taste & knowing it's yours makes it worth wild. Tks need all the help we can get.😅📝
Hollis, it's good to see you and Nancy are doing great! I will have to try this out!
Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge with everyone else. You and your wife are helping others learn, not only in gardening, but in so many other ways. I look forward to viewing your videos.
God bless you ❤️❤️🐶
I remember someone saying they always wondered how a neighbor kept their flower beds so weed free all the time, until one day they were out very early and caught sight of the neighbor out pulling weeds. Doing it so early in the morning to beat the heat, of course. 😉
GREAT tips! Thank you so much for sharing them. Your gardens always look perfect to me! I've known that it's through your forethought, planning, and hard work. I appreciate your work, your results, and your sharing. Good health and happiness to you, always!
Thnx for tips.
I'm a lazy gardener, so containers really help. I also place newspapers (free from local store) & place between my rows. No weeds there & less mud when I must get out on those days.
I once patched my tomatoes. I had placed the newspapers down, but was in car accident & didn't get tomato cages out. But thankfully the weather was kind & plants flourished. Harvest I picked a wheelbarrow full every other day of pear tomatoes (mismarked, supposed to b rutgers). My salsa & sauces were pale colored, but yummy
Number 6 is what gets me the most. I have a fence around my garden (to keep my dog out) and I'm contemplating putting up shade cloth on the fence to keep the grass clippings from getting into my garden.
I burn my weed pullings out of pure spite of them. Lol
Thx for this timely info! God bless and so appreciate your wisdom and fun comments! Just so happy to watch you, Nancy and dear BingBing. Have moved to my homestead in SW VA and will marry my farmer, cattle man in May. God is Great!
Congratulations ❤️❤️❤️
A pleasant attitude and true tips for long term success. Thank you.
I put down newspaper and/or cardboard, then top it with mulch. I have almost no weeds and it helps my soul when it breaks down. . But, my garden is a lot smaller than yours Hollis and Nancy.
PS how is Bing Bing doing?
As always, thank you for the information!!
And you have a blessed day too. Great video as always, thank you : )🙏💜
My garden aria was horse pasture for half a dozen years that got seeded in annual ryegrass every fall. The seed bank is rough every year I'll get just the rain come through and the stuff is ankle high in a day. This is three 50 ft by 200 ft gardens. I always try to cultivate just hours before the rain knowing it can bring a flush. If I miss it the tractor won't go back on till dry and I'm not physically able to cover that much ground manually. I usually end up with a part of it looking more like pasture and having to beat down the weeds in case there's a water moccasin, copperhead, or rattle snake laying in the bed.
Thanks for sharing
I love that you feed the weeds to your chickens. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
I have had to move a few times in recent years, so, haven't had any of these gardens for more than 2 or 3 years at the most, but I've had great success with no-till gardening. At least, great success with having very minimal weeds, and from poor to awesome success, depending on the crop & location ( low spot frequently "flooding" in our northern IL garden, or too much shade in parts of recent WI gardens) & in spite of my not having had great (or near enough) compost & other factors of sub-par-ness of the site or my resources. I have used papers and cardboards or a few weeks under a tarp 1st, then just mulches of old hay or woodchips or grass clippings, and put the compost in little ( barely enough) rows or hills to plant into, and most things have done really well, and I had basically no weeding. I did have to learn not to be tardy with mulching on top of my rows of compost, as it was poor, dry, sandy-ish and kept drying out way too fast, & my beets and some other things really struggled too long, as I was sick or something and had been tardy realizing that just watering until they got established wasn't taking care of it those times. Squashes and peppers, & most greens, seem the most fail-proof for me, but most everything has done quite well.
BTW - I had been having HORRIBLE problems, increasingly worse every year, with cuke beetles, several years ago. Nothing helped until I tried the trick I'd read of in "Carrots love Tomatoes" , originally for squash bugs I think. I put about a palmful of tobacco ( plain, dried & chopped - my hubby bought me a bag of pipe tobacco) in the hole at planting or transplanting time for my cukes, and all squashes, as they'd started bothering those more and more too.... who has a shortage of zucchini in summer ??! Ever since, no more hordes of beetles or the downy-mildew killing the plants, which these cuke beetles bring on. O still see the beetle or 2, around, but not bothering my cukes etc. ! I'm now growing my own tobacco, saved my 1st dried leaves last fall, we'll see how it does. Got the seeds for "native tobacco" from Pinetree.
No two ways about it. Weeds = Work. The challenge is to make it the least amount as possible. Thanks for the great videi...... Jeff
Admire your persistent and methodical approach to gardening and totally agree with your spiritual outlook. Weed control in Fl soil is easier than clay but the heat and long growing season are challenging. I've learned that if I wanted a weed free garden I would have to drastically reduce the size due to time constraints.
what a blessing to have you,nancy and Bing Bing on youtube. just found you and im here to stay.subbed :)
Welcome to the homestead family
I don’t weed because I do the Charles Dowding method of No Till No Weed Gardening. Best method ever.
Everything has its pro and cons
I'm currently resting most of my garden beds so they are weed heaven right now. Gonna be fun to fix in a months time lol. Cause I grow Cucamelons they crop up everywhere so that's fun. Good for snacking on at least.
Excellent video I work with koi in my backyard and some of the tank's get in the way but your homemade solution will make my chores a whole lot easier and don't worry I can watch the salt and soap around the tank's 👍
You work for that gorgeous food you grow. I'm looking into higher raised beds as I can't get on my knees any more. Hand pulling is the only way to get that weeding done.
God bless you and keep yourself safe
God bless you and yours❤️❤️🐶
wow! thanks for the entertaining tips and music, your joy~ You handwriting is amazing too
I'm loving your teamwork to make your garden a success! Great tips. Your garden is NEAT and productive. Lovin IT.
great tips I grow In Rasied beds so weeds do appear every so often of course not as many as If you were to grow In the ground
11 great tips! Thanks for the video!
BEAUTIFUL garden. ❤️🥰
Thanks for visiting
Thanks Hollis, great tips that I will certainly implement. SE Oklahoma is weed heaven and the humidity and sun just makes them thrive.
It’s a never ending job. 🥵
You are the best!!!! Blessing to both of you!
Thank you brother. I expose them to the sun in the bucket to dry for a week or more. God bless you
Good stuff
Thanks Hollis. Weeds are just one of those things with no quick fix. Got to be consistent and vigilant. My question is about another pestulance that I hope you have an answer to and that’s fire ants. As you know, here in South Georgia, they’re awful. Boiling water...a pain, poison... poisonous, Guineas...too loud even if they work....thanks for any insight? God bless my RUclips friend!
Very beneficial video, even for us long time gardeners. I do admire and applaud your well managed gardens. Thx vm.
I hae stinging nettles, when my daughter and her husband bought their placethe garden bed was full of them, I dug them all out, twice with my grandads big garden fork, but I got them all, also a tip I learned recently concentrated white vinegar will dry out any weed grass also, to concentrate it you leave it out in the sun for a few days in a bucket or bowl
Thanks for sharing. Stinging nettle has lots of help benefits you might want to check on it. Blessings 🙌🏻
I wish you would make copies of that notebook that you write in and make it for sale!!. I would definitely buy it.
Thank you for all the amazing and important information you share with us. May the Lord bless you richly.
Thank you for all your tips. I will be using them come Spring and Summer.
Another good tip for pulling weeds is pull the weeds when the soil is moist and softened from the rain. You will get more of the roots out.
Very good tip. 👍. Thanks for sharing
You inspire me
I do compost my weeds so I think of it as a bio harvest. The weeds will feed my plants next year. Makes it more bearable anyway.
That’s a good way to look at it. ❤️
Thanks Hollis for sharing 😊
You are very welcome my friend ❤️
I wouldn't mind weeding nearly so much if we had your soil! Here in Tennessee we have heavy soil. Lots of red clay!
We have to work the soil to get this level. In our urban homestead earlier videos we started with a lot of clay too
Permatil by Stalite is expanded Carolina slate and will promote drainage and aeration. Compost added as well for nutrition with Permatil
Address the soil structure.
Permatill is expensive so try in a smaller area first. Continue adding to additional growing area.
Prefer bags of only permatill for garden. Can purchase container soil mixed with permatill for containers.
This is not perlite nor is it sand. but light weight stone.
Clay is nutritious. Should you have bull tallow clay - recommend building raised planters. BT clay is grey in color w/ blue pockets. Some refer to it as chewing gum. Best to run from it.
As the host does and advises soil is a held with high value.
Stalite is located in Salisbury NC and could direct you to retail source in your area.
Here it is available in bags from big box store and then bulk from stone and soil yard / Landscape materials.
Hollis appears to have a
sandy loam which they have enriched with organic material. Quite beautiful and well worth their effort.
Take Care 🌿🌎🌿
Hi Nancy and Hollis!
🙋♂️🙋♀️
What cultivator do you have? It sounds very reliable.
Good day how’s bing bing and what’s are the measurements of your raised beds thank you looking forward for your next video have a wonderful day
Bing Bing has fully recovered from the Rattlesnake bite. He is back on duty as head of security but we don’t allow him to run free anymore. He is getting older now so he prefers to stay close to Mama.
We have 4 raised beds at 4’x55’
1 at 6’x55’
1 at 8’x55’
@@HollisNancysHomestead Gm glad bing bing is well and thanks for responding wishing you,Nancy and bing bing have a wonderful day and thanks for all your videos 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Have a peaceful day sir
Hollis and Nancy: enjoy your videos and planning our 2023 Garden. Can I ask what is the benefit of the Perimeter Garden? Like your Carrots, Onions, Garlic. Thanks!
It allows me to plants small crops that are tough to maintain weeds so I can work them easily. It also serves as a perfect border to stop grass encroachment into the main bed
Hello Hollis! What are your thoughts on mulch!
I like to learn about gardening
We have many videos on our channel to help you learn❤️
Thank You Hollis - appreciate the tips :)
Really like the beds you've created .
Thank you! We love our raised beds. ❤️
#10 is right on. #1, 4 & 5. Thank you ❤️
I pile lawn clippings deep between rows.
It keeps the weeds away and feeds the soil.
Yes sir. If it is working for you then job well done. For me, my grass is wild grasses full of seeds as well as many different weeds. I think that is typical of most folks living in a rural setting. My grass clippings are not suitable for my garden. Anything that works in your particular area and conditions by all means do it👍. Thanks for your comment❤️
Thanks for the tips!
Thanks Hollis
Great tips Hollis.👍☘️
Thank you.
So much great information. But unfortunately I have a never ending battle with the devil weed(Bermuda Grass)😢
ME TOO!! The only thing I have heard that helps is black plastic on the ground over the area and that is supposed to suffocate the Bermuda. I'm trying it this winter to see if this spring/summer can be any better. :)
I got mine under control by covering the soil with black plastic in between plantings. I'll cover for a month before planting Spring garden, then, I'll reapply it after harvest. If you want to kill a really bad patch of whatever, cover it a few weeks, cultivate, cover the soil again. Rinse and repeat until it's dead.
Me- with the bindweed. 🌱 Let this be the year none grows back. 🤞
Those are some great tips Hollis.
Excellent and helpful tips! Thank you 😊
You're so welcome!
What is the ratio of sand to soil in your beds? I like the sand making it easier for the roots to spread plus it gives a nice smooth look to the bed
We have Florida Sandy Soil. Very difficult to grow in. I add approx 3” Black Kow cow manure and cultivate to incorporate with the sand. Works very well for all my root vegetables.
All very good tips!
Thank you sir! ❤️
Great tips, thank you.
Wish I lived in awesome Florida 😢
Thx
❤ Have a blessed day 🥰🤩😍
Hollis, I have a larger garden but not as big as yours so do you think garden weed fabric is a good choice to prevent weeds and allow water to filter through? I will be 70 yo when I do this year's garden and I will not deal with weeds again.
Nancy had weed free fabric before in the urban garden and it still had bunch of weeds growing in it and made a terrible mess. Do more research. What we did is put the silage tarp and put holes for the melon patch and it worked really well and did not have as much weed
most weeds are herbs... which i love
Sounds crazy, but I find it relaxing to pull weeds. I've never sprayed anything for weeds.
Lol 😂 😂😂 it’s a great.
I like to use a stirrup hoe for weeding. I’ve only cut down a couple plants on accident. But not have to get on my knees is worth it.
I love getting on my knees. Keeps me humble. 🥰
I always say whatever works for you in your garden, keep doing it❤️
@@theurbanthirdhomestead getting down on my knees isn’t that bad, but getting back up is harder all the time.
Same here😂
Any tips for Bermuda grass in with an area of blackberry and blueberry bushes???
I had that problem. I dug up the bushes put them in containers for a year while I worked out all the grass. Then I laid down weed cloth barrier and transplanted them back in the bed. May not be the most scientific method but it worked for me
I have no problem with weeds but I'm out there every other day and soon as I see one I dig up the root an get rid of it.
Good job
Many of those weeds are not only edible but make good medicine brother….♥️🙏🏼✝️🇨🇦👍🏻
I use 45% vinegar full strength to take care of weeds.
Thanks for sharing
What advice would you have for me , my soil in North Carolina is red clay?
Hollis worked with soil in our urban homestead for years to get it great for growing vegetables
Howdy Homestead Homies 🤠🤠
What about the back to Eden way of wood chips or other with a no til way
Everything has its pro and cons
You mean to tell me I've got to "work"!!! 🤭😂 Love your videos!
"WORK" Still laughing. My mind took me back to the Dobie Gillis show,
and his friend Maynard G Krebs. lol "WORK"
I like a bit of deep mutch lol 😊 it just looks nice. I think we will always have a few weeds and that’s ok! Like you said we we will always have them lol
Hello friends, I'm a new sub looking for tips to control weeds in my perennial gardens. Assume the same principals apply? I make my own mulch from approx 3 acres of hardwood trees. After turning with my front end loader every 6mos, in 18mos the leaves turn into usable mulch. Even after the composting process the mulch produces a lot of weeds. Frustrating... God bless...
Yes sir, very frustrating. That’s why I moved away from that. I only use animal compost with green vegetable matter. Lots less weeds.
Weeds... LOL. Gotta love em. ❤️
I'm trying to mulch with leaves. Seems to help so far.
Hi your wife is wonderful she work hard like do ❤ . I look at all of you videos. I live in Maryland. 7a. How wide and what the measurements your onions and sweet potatoes 🍠 beds . My father was big hands like your father and can do any like your father l learn a lot from papa.
Where did you get your silag tarp?
Greenhousemegastore.com
Farmers Friend is another good option for silage tarps
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Hoss Tools sells them also.
Amen .........
I put down a tarp one time. The fire ants moved in under it and I had a 4 x 8 foot ant bed when I pulled it off.
Yeah, we have a lot of fire ants down here too. It’s a good idea to remove the tarp once per month and saturate the area with water then return the tarp. 👍