Will This Lifeless Soil Grow Anything?
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- Join us on a journey to see if lifeless soil can truly grow anything! Watch as we take on the challenge of planting sweet potato plants in poor quality soil - will it be a success or a total flop? Don't forget to subscribe for more gardening experiments and adventures with the Lazy Dog fam!
CHAPTERS:
0:00: 🌱 Planting sweet potatoes in poor soil, nurturing them back to health, and providing updates on previous plantings.
2:01: 🌱 Reviving neglected sandy soil for potential growth in a work-in-progress garden plot.
4:18: 🌱 Reviving soil for sweet potato cultivation through basic methods for a successful harvest.
6:25: 🍠 Improved sweet potato variety Orleans yields higher quality produce and consistent performance.
8:17: 🌱 Planting sweet potatoes in shallow soil to aid in future harvesting and growth.
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Great video. About two weeks ago, I planted about 50 sweet potatoes slips in a lifeless sandy plot. I added some bone meal and blood meal. We'll see how they they grow and produce in about 100 days. Thanks and keep up the great content.
I’m very consistent with my sweet potatoes harvests.
5 years trying, never got anything. BUT I’ve always used good soil. I’m gonna make one of the raised beds more lome and sand this time. We’ll see!
Oh, that’s the story of my gardening life: Fiddle-farting around and paying for it later! I’m SO glad I’m not the only one that happens to!
That lifeless soil as you call it looks exactly like my whole garden here in SE North Carolina where I have raised literal tons of vegetables. Year after year some things do great, others not so much, but it always amazes me at how much can be grown in what is basically sand. I just planted sweet potatoes for the very first time so we'll see how they do. I ordered the porto rico variety that you recommend. Great video by the way!
Watermelon does well in my dead sand plot, cow manure peps it up but then the weed seeds.
Thank you for sharing your experiences 🙏🏻
Thanks Kevin!
I like planting in the evening I was planting some beet seeds and walla walla onion starts the other night with a head lamp on in the dark lol roots don’t get exposed to the sun and it’s nice and cool out lol was a roofer for 23 years and don’t care for roasting in the sun anymore
Came back to say that dealing with sandy soil is the biggest pain ever. I have a vineyard planted in my soil which is basically an ancient sand deposit on the side of a mountain and its the worst soil I have ever seen, been throwing tons of humic acids and etc at it since compost around here is so bad its useless. Also been throwing fertilizers at it and finally have been making progress amending it but everytime i fix one problem soil tests have another.
My sweet potatoes in 9A seem to thrive on neglect.
Man, that's my kind of gardening. I gotta try growing some sweet potatoes. Added bonus, my dirt is dead. I mean dead, dead. So those sweet potatoes should be happy as larks!!
My understanding after more years in the garden than Greg ( I'm old) you use your poor soil for sweet taters and okree. It's always worked pretty good for us and we didn't have to have a ladder to cut the okree, it usually stayed around 4 to 5 ft tall and produced like crazy. My daddy was a firm believer in 10-10-10 but didn't give much of that to the okree and very little to the sweet taters. If he was alive today he might think me a crackpot for using organics. Makes me smile to think of what he might say. We learned so much more about soil health than they had access to in the fifties and it's proven to me that it works for healthy plants and less disease issues
My king of garden seed from the same company didn't do well this year or last year. Maybe I should try and germinate them before planting
My best harvest was when I planted a row in between the tomato plants in a raised bed. I used the puerto rico bush and once the tomatoes were done I cut them off and let the sweet potatoes take over. I got 3 lbs per plant.
Treat 'em like a dirty dog... like ya hate 'em... abuse 'em and ignore 'em. That's how I grow 'em in my un-fertilized sand run, in the direct sun in Ocala. Cuss 'em in the morning over the walk-about with coffee.
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@Detour4it, great comment, so funny!!!
Watching everything you tape. Please tell me what zone you are growing in. You tips are extremely helpful. 🎉
My granddaddy always grew them in sand and they did well. My entire property is like your “sand plot” but once you learn to amend that sand with copious amounts of organic material it’s tough to beat!
I tilled up a new spot for my sweet taters this year. Trying Orleans and Georgia jets. I had a few extra slips and I planted those in grow bags which I'll try to run up a teepee style trellis I saw on millennial gardeners channel.
Damn that was a great run down on start to finish on sweet potatoes. Thank you. I literally have nothing to fear, that was great!
Number one today. I’m sure you can make that soil work just right for you. Can’t wait to see the progress.
Good luck with your sweet potato crop 👍
They grow tomato’s and asparagus and a lot of other vegetables and fruits in NJ and that is all sand
Both are deep rooted plants. Asparagus especially.
My father-inlaw used to plant sweet taters in lifeless sandy red clay and I didn't say anything out of respect but I thought it was crazy. Harvest time came and he had wheelbarrows full. LOL Glad I didn't say anything.
He would cover corn seed with a hoe and pack down the soil with his feet as he moved down the row. I thought to myself that he was overdoing it but I remained quite. I covered my rows with a hoe and went back down the row tamping the soil with the back of a hoe. His rows came up faster and had better germination. I walk down the row and pack the seed in tight now.
Works well for carrots too. A fine soil shallow finger trench and a gentle tamping with you hand after covering seeds.
My quess is they will do fine , feed and water them ,a little compost on top
I have still noticed that beauregard out performs orleans everytime I have planted them to experiment with different locations, I get more from beauregard, less disease and the tubers are also bigger.
The folks at Steele tell me that Beauregard does better for them in Tennessee, but they have other customers like myself that gets more from Orleans.
@@LazyDogFarm Im growing them in southern california zone 10A so I tend to be able to over winter plants and they keep growing year round lol
It can definitely be done. I grew in some of the worst soil you can grow in which is sand by the beach. Not only did I have to deal with soil that didn't perk well if water was sprayed at the surface but I also had to deal with salty soil and humid salt air. I figured out that mixing some black kow directly into the spots the plants went in with nutrients did the best. I also had to water more frequently underground with tubing that had drip emitters. Top watering did not work well as it would just roll away from the plant and sit on the sand and evaporate. Cotton, tobacco and some corn grows really good in that soil but not much of anything else other than weeds without a bit of work. I remember doing an NKP test on that soil and found that it had absolutely no nutrients and was loaded with copper and iron which is typical of beach sand.
zone 10b with white sand - yeah I tried sweet potaoes and had a really hard time keeping them watered over our early summer 98 deg and burning sun, so the plants really struggled. this year trying again in a sand plot but with a layer of home-made mulch from shredded palm leaves and it's working better for me, holding the moisture a bit more and not going hydophobic. Also resigned to watering a lot more - next time going with drip irrigation. Last year I could not keep the plants hydrated so they did not produce that much and had lots of soil pest damage so a lot of tubers were poor quality. Hopefully a harvest this year!
@@TheWheelTurns dont be afraid to mix some compost in with the sand and use underground emitters. That worked well for me
@@johnbrzenksforearm8295 thanks I'll try that - I'm also growing Boniato for the first time which is really similar to sweet potatoe will be a good experiment
Down here in North Florida, we “piddle fart”. Would never in a million years be caught “fiddle fart”ing😉
Is this a gardening or a gun show? 💪
I have always heard that sweet potatoes grow best in lousy soil. This will be my first year to try growing them but I am planting them in the worst soil I have. Will let you know how that goes.
Peanuts or sweet potatoes will grow in that sand really good!!
Travis. I’m having trouble with my fertilizer injector tank. Is it possible for me to sprinkle triple 20 granules around the base of each plant? Will that suffice as far as fertilizing goes?
Sure!
Field peas aka cowpeas,watermelon,eyc
This is off topic, but how’s that brown Turkey log that you rooted?
We'll have an update early next week. It had some green growth, but not looking that great at this point.
Sand is the best medium. Perioid.
Does the turmeric need part sun? My leaves got sunburned in full sun (western NY). Didn’t know if I hardened them off too quickly.
It does like some shade if you can provide it.
High tunnel greenhouse?
Something like that
did you try elctrocuting the soil before planting them ?
In my area onions are grown in sand
I live in zone 10B and my soil is basically beach sand, much lighter than this video. I had a lot of extra onion plants and had started a new plot unamended for later use after cover cropping, but decided to try all the extra onions in the raw sand. I added alot of chicken manuer fertilizer and to my shock the bed performed equally top my raised beds growing the same variety. I had nearly identical yields from a bare sand plot as with a 3 year old raised bed with lots of compost. I tried sweet potatoes in sand and it was really tough to keep them watered enoughm so the plants did not doo that great, but the onions grew like crazy with plenty of organic ferts over the winter.
@@TheWheelTurns i tell people onions like sand . thanks for info
Sandy soil too and I actually had my best yield last year from the edges of my plot where there’s the least fertility. The end of every row and the two outside rows were phenomenal while the rest was pretty sad. Think you’re doing it right!
He fiddle farted and found out!!!
The easiest way to grow in sand is to put raised beds on top of it
Ima gonna guess okree.
Sand doesnt grow anything well without a lot of amendments and organic stuff doesnt work well on sand pretty much have to stick to chemical fertilizers.
Sweet taters rule because they not only don'r need awesome soil, the prefer crap soil!!!!
Too bad no one in this house but me will eat them
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