@@loriturner9038 I’m curious too. The bag he’s pouring from is ‘coarse’ - I see super coarse, coarse, and fine online … does it matter? - I’d love to know too.
Thank you @jamesprigioni for all the lessons. You are a very inspiring educational channel. This is my second year practicing growing in the yard. I always rely on your lessons to find the best way to grow my own food. I love Tuck too! You are doing a great service to teach people gardening including me. Thank you for all your hard work and sharing your knowledge. Everyday the sun comes up is a good day.
Great video. I make my own seed start mix which is excellent! I dabbled in potting mix during covid. It did ok. This will def be my general guide. I think I hv all of the ingredients too.
James' videos are just phenomenal! I've been following the channel since 2019 and he is the reason why I didn't quit my plot back then having discovered his transformational journey building the food forest, use of permaculture techniques using woodchips, awesome constructions such as the hoop houses and his great 'How To' videos like this potting mix one. I've adopted so many of his ideas and they work wonders even here in the UK! Keep up the amazing work!
I’m using peat moss, cow manure alfalfa bales with blood meal, earthworm castings and I’m making bio char with charcoal briquettes..this is only my second year gardening...so I’ll let you know.
James I saw the clip of the raised bed you had the in ground pest and immediately thought of the spicy mustard treatment . You can grow that bed full of the spicy mustard and chop it into the soil and let it break down in the soil and that bed will be pest free, it even gets rid of the bad nematodes that attack the roots of the plants. I'm a firm believer and it works! I'm a lot older than you are and have been gardening for most of my life. Give it a try, yes it will tie up that bed for a few weeks but it's so worth it.
I have my soil in my beds already and will be adding some of my homemade compost from grass clippings and veggie scraps. Has been good for my for past 5 years. I can't afford all that other things
If you have basic, good soil, you should be good. I'm in the desert southwest, so creating my own soil is vital. This should really help people like me 😊
Truth be told I feel like I need a gardening for dummies book 😂. Seems like every plant wants something different. I know they don’t do all this at the farm up the street 😂 I can’t keep what’s fertilizer, drainage, moisture retention, nitrogen, ph, phosphorus, potassium etc etc etc 🤪 I’m just going to wing it and see what happens. And you’re right all this sh is way too expensive. I’m sure it saves money but damn. I need soil mix recipe for paupers with this economy and inflation. lol
I love your videos I’m a disable 78 yr old lady from NYC and I love my potted plants. Thanks for showing us how to make a good soil. Right now I’m also growing a Fig tree indoors hoping it gives me lots of figs🤞. I like the way you teach us the right way way to take grow and care if ours plant. Thank you God bless.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ for Tuck! 💋💋💋💋💋💋💋 for the soil mix! I am doing this soil mix this year. Already have the vermiculite, sphagnum, mushroom compost, homemade compost and worm castings. This is my first year square foot gardening, too!
I recently mixed soil batches using Black Cow for the first and Timberline compost for the second (both purchased from Lowe's) I found Black Cow to have far more rocks and sticks in it than the Timberline brand. I'll be sticking with Timberline for now until Black Cow tightens up.
Have you ever tried to plant is plane old garden soil? I grew up in the wilderness with the closest store hours away that required a dirt mountain road, a ferry and another mountain road. Driving to town was done only a few times a year and my mother successfully grew enough food that she preserved for our family of 6 to eat well all winter, spring and into the summer.
Good for her, made do with what she had. You can still do that some places. Your Mama might have been the first person growing there so the soil wasn't depleted. A lot of us city folk inherit worn out soil so it needs some TLC to get it back in shape. Also for raised containers just tossing dirt in doesn't tend to work too well. It also leaves you with a pit somewhere else.
@@renel7303 You make some very valid points that I never thought about. Thank you so much. Yes, my parents landscaped a rock slide behind the log house to create all the terraced gardens up the hill side and the earth that they brought in was from the nearby forest. That truly was a GREAT life.
It can be as simple as your folks did it. Even crappy soil with just compost and leaf mold would suffice quite nicely. All these fancy schmancy designer ingredients are not required. Dirt, water, sun. Funny how nature does it all for free and quite well. Side by side comparison of my soil and his and I guarantee they would perform the same. I make my own worm castings, bokashi compost, regular compost, JMS microbes, leaf mold, and raised beds from free pallets. virtually no cost and incredible results works for me.
James.. You are amazing.. I hope you realize that! Here in NE Florida, we garden 12 months a year. your mix is great. Also use it as an amendment for our sandy soil We live on Amelia Island Fl. and our soil is basically all sand. We container grow Tomatoes and peppers, 10 months a year. everything else 12 months. Your great advise works here in Florida as well as the North East. Thanks so much.
7 months ago i followed your soil advice and now i have tomatoe trees with huge tomatoes waiting to mature. Im in your same grow zone and this is incredible. Its October and im still picking bowlfuls daily.
I'm brand new to gardening. I mean brand spanking new and I am scared. I don't know a thing and I've been down a YT University rabbit hole so when I finally come across a video that has value and is not evasive I subscribe immediately! New subbie here. Wish me luck everyone.
Fail fast. 🙌 Make a local friend who is ahead of you. Call your local AG extension office for info and how to find my and Grey's and local gardens where you can learn and make a buddy to learn from. 👍 🌲🎄
you are such an inspiration! we dont really have much space, we only have a balcony, but i tried putting a tomato seed from a tomato we had in the fridge in november or so, and now its 2 meters tall! standing by our window, i cant believe it. first time planting tomatoes and it got so tall we had to put it on the ground. I also planted peppers and now a few months later, i have about 12 flowers on only one plant! thas my story and i thank you and tuck for suck amazing quality content that i can watch over and over again! many hugs!
Mushroom compost that are used to grow mushrooms are not depleted by the mushroom itself,mushrooms recycle nutrients so it can be more available to plants
Your an inspiration. I have learned so much from you over the years. If everyone just did 10% of what you are doing in their yards it would change the world. I am trying to start a movement in my neighborhood to get proper to turn their yards into food forests!
Perfect timing on this video, JP. Thanks for giving us the rationales for your choices. That helps immensely! Love Tuck ❤ and your food forest. You are an inspiration.
Lol I've used this mixture Make sure it depends on what I'm growing. I also add in once in a blue moon once I get it how I want and for which plant I sometimes will add Epsom salts for certain things and other minerals or some extra sand depending on where I'm growing in my garden whether it's a raised garden or it's on the ground
Thanks James for this timely revisit of your soil mix!! I have had some good luck with coconut coir myself too. Coconut coir doesn't carry the bug or bacterial risk that peat moss does, and I like this better. No problems with seedlings, fungus gnats, mold, etc from too much moisture retention.
Thank you, James and Tuck♥, for explaining the how-and-why at each step!🌠 I appreciate that you included how you add to an established garden bed. I will try your formula to top my existing 10'x20' no-till organic slightly-raised-beds leased in a city-run organic gardening site in Seattle, WA.
This channel is the top best for gardening and projects I have watched and researched so many I have learned so much and am so thankful and blessed to have this channel to refer back to I have been so inspired to keep going I rate this channel a top 10. ❤❤❤❤for Tuck!! An extra living addition to The Garden of Life ❤
Boom! You just made the best soil ! Cannabis growers have been doing this for years. And never replace it. Just add compost and scratch in organic dry amendments. Great video James! 🌱👊😃🌱
I started on the raised bed book you referenced. I think you are spot on by reducing the 1/3 vermiculate ratio from the book. Definitely going to follow suit this year. Thanks for the video.
I bought a small cement mic per to turn and mix the soil and it works great. I have to grow all in bags because we live in sand and nematodes so it’s all containers. Takes a lot of soil. I fill the bottom with logs and leaves and greens then soil. A small hugelculture. Ps, it’s not cheap. Wear a mask because of what those components are made of.
Tuck ❤ Tuck i bet the ladies love your style little bro Youre looking smart and proper in that sweater Any little lady would be impressed right away. Keep styling it
I teach a horticulture class to middle schoolers in Florida. We have no budget and I am always in need of good potting soil and mix. This video is awesome and I will be teaching my students how to make it next school year. Does anyone have the receipe in detail? Thank YOU!
I remember watching some of your videos about grafting and growing apple trees from seeds. My trees have to be 13 or 14 years old now. The one I have five different apples on is going strong, but it still doesn’t produce tons of apples. The tree started from a Honeycrisp seed. That tree produces apples that taste just like Honeycrisp but they’re probably 2/3 less of the size. I gave my buddy a tree while it’s too, that I twisted the trunks together. He gets giant apples off of both trees that taste awesome! Apparently, the odds of getting good apples from seeds were better for me than expected. I do have a couple of the trees that grew, but also turned into the crabapple trees. lol I planted those out on the boulevard.
❤for Tuck! LOVE your mix recipe! I just add Azomite and an organic 10-10-10. I have a huge garbage can with an aeriator in it, where I added liquid kelp, and molasses (it drives worms into my garden) and then fill it with rainwater. This is what I fill my watering can with. If I tun out of rainwater I fill a 2nd can and wait 3 days for the chemicals to dissipate before I add it to my BIG can.
Perfect timing on this video. I’ve got the coco coir, vermiculite, perlite. Great tip on the other additions and ratios! ❤❤❤ for Tuck. Love his snazzy sweater.
If you read a Lettuce seed pack the plant spacing is suppose to be 8 inches, I get large Romaine hearts with 7 inch spacing and woodchip compost with a lot of sifted chips mixed in.
A good source for food grade buckets is bakeries and donut shops. Sometimes free, my donut shop sells them for $3 each, lid included. They are 4.4 gallon, a little shorter and wider. Great for storing amendments and fertilizer. I have my cat's kibble in them.😊
That's what I use. I bought 20 last year. Make sure you drill drainage holes in the bottom!! I then add a few rocks bigger than the holes so I have drainage but don't lose my soil through the holes. Make sure you leave the handles on the buckets too. They come in very handy!
When we built my garden beds we used cheap top soil that we bought by the dump truck load, along with peat and compost. Didn’t use any vermiculite or pearllite and it was honestly the biggest mistake ever. I wish I had seen your channel before we started building the beds because last year the beds essentially solidified and went hydrophobic. Nothing grew well at all. It was very upsetting 😢 I did add some manure at the end of the year and then topped off with leaf mulch, and it’s looking a lot better now. This year I’ll be adding an irrigation system so I can keep it watered better. I’ll also be adding more compost as I get stuff planted. Hopefully it retains moisture better this year and I don’t have to do anything drastic to fix it at the end of this season.
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James, does it matter if the vermiculite is fine or coarse? I can find the big bag but only coarse?
What are the sizes of the beds at Team Grow? No contact number at team grow to talk to a lperson to place an order.
@@loriturner9038 I’m curious too. The bag he’s pouring from is ‘coarse’ - I see super coarse, coarse, and fine online … does it matter? - I’d love to know too.
Thank you @jamesprigioni for all the lessons. You are a very inspiring educational channel. This is my second year practicing growing in the yard. I always rely on your lessons to find the best way to grow my own food. I love Tuck too! You are doing a great service to teach people gardening including me. Thank you for all your hard work and sharing your knowledge. Everyday the sun comes up is a good day.
Great video. I make my own seed start mix which is excellent! I dabbled in potting mix during covid. It did ok. This will def be my general guide. I think I hv all of the ingredients too.
Tuck is adorable in his sweater. Best and cutest little helper. Love your videos.
And he looking out over the garden dreaming of what’s to come🥰
Mel would be proud of you JP
And here is a ❤ for Tuck
Your gardens are proof your soil mix is perfect 😊 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
And the size of his plants and harvest
James' videos are just phenomenal! I've been following the channel since 2019 and he is the reason why I didn't quit my plot back then having discovered his transformational journey building the food forest, use of permaculture techniques using woodchips, awesome constructions such as the hoop houses and his great 'How To' videos like this potting mix one. I've adopted so many of his ideas and they work wonders even here in the UK! Keep up the amazing work!
I’m using peat moss, cow manure alfalfa bales with blood meal, earthworm castings and I’m making bio char with charcoal briquettes..this is only my second year gardening...so I’ll let you know.
🤗❤TUCK IS TOO CUTE!!❤🤗
Thanks James for sharing your knowledge of gardening!! 👍😁👍
James I saw the clip of the raised bed you had the in ground pest and immediately thought of the spicy mustard treatment . You can grow that bed full of the spicy mustard and chop it into the soil and let it break down in the soil and that bed will be pest free, it even gets rid of the bad nematodes that attack the roots of the plants. I'm a firm believer and it works! I'm a lot older than you are and have been gardening for most of my life. Give it a try, yes it will tie up that bed for a few weeks but it's so worth it.
Thanks for the tip 👍
I have my soil in my beds already and will be adding some of my homemade compost from grass clippings and veggie scraps. Has been good for my for past 5 years. I can't afford all that other things
I agree. I’m a pauper. Grass clippings, chopped leaves and dairy cow compost. 🌱
So long as you keep adding that compost you'll be fine. 👍
If you have basic, good soil, you should be good. I'm in the desert southwest, so creating my own soil is vital. This should really help people like me 😊
Yes no kidding. How is this video "cheap and easy" ?? Great advice but the prices of these products are completely out of my budget.
Truth be told I feel like I need a gardening for dummies book 😂. Seems like every plant wants something different. I know they don’t do all this at the farm up the street 😂 I can’t keep what’s fertilizer, drainage, moisture retention, nitrogen, ph, phosphorus, potassium etc etc etc 🤪 I’m just going to wing it and see what happens. And you’re right all this sh is way too expensive. I’m sure it saves money but damn. I need soil mix recipe for paupers with this economy and inflation. lol
Great and much needed update to past hints in other videos. You’re the best, LONG LIVE THE GARDEN KING TUCK! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Others of your Golden Age gardeners might find the orange Home Depot 2 gallon bucket more manageable than a 5 gallon bucket. Love the mix idea!
He suggest that you don’t use the orange buckets as they are not food grade
@@shanjimenez6032 which ones are food grade?
❤ So, so glad you finely got the little boss a sweater. ❤ ❤
Seeing Tuck makes me miss my little silky terrier, who lived until 17 years
I love your videos I’m a disable 78 yr old lady from NYC and I love my potted plants. Thanks for showing us how to make a good soil. Right now I’m also growing a Fig tree indoors hoping it gives me lots of figs🤞. I like the way you teach us the right way way to take grow and care if ours plant. Thank you God bless.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ for Tuck!
💋💋💋💋💋💋💋 for the soil mix!
I am doing this soil mix this year. Already have the vermiculite, sphagnum, mushroom compost, homemade compost and worm castings. This is my first year square foot gardening, too!
I love seeing Tuck working so hard!!! He's the best of the best!!! ❤❤❤❤
I've seen a number of videos on making your own soil and I think your's is the best.
It is a great recipe, and it is an easy recipe, but by no means is it cheap. Still an informative video.
I recently mixed soil batches using Black Cow for the first and Timberline compost for the second (both purchased from Lowe's) I found Black Cow to have far more rocks and sticks in it than the Timberline brand. I'll be sticking with Timberline for now until Black Cow tightens up.
Thank you James for using your gift to serve others faithfully , God bless you and Tuck❤❤❤
FASHION FOCUS TUCKIE!!!!!! WOOD CHIP CARPET RUNWAY MODEL!! You will have to buy him some TUCKET shirts!!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥
Have you ever tried to plant is plane old garden soil? I grew up in the wilderness with the closest store hours away that required a dirt mountain road, a ferry and another mountain road. Driving to town was done only a few times a year and my mother successfully grew enough food that she preserved for our family of 6 to eat well all winter, spring and into the summer.
Wow I’d love to learn.
Good for her, made do with what she had. You can still do that some places. Your Mama might have been the first person growing there so the soil wasn't depleted. A lot of us city folk inherit worn out soil so it needs some TLC to get it back in shape. Also for raised containers just tossing dirt in doesn't tend to work too well. It also leaves you with a pit somewhere else.
@@renel7303 You make some very valid points that I never thought about. Thank you so much. Yes, my parents landscaped a rock slide behind the log house to create all the terraced gardens up the hill side and the earth that they brought in was from the nearby forest. That truly was a GREAT life.
It can be as simple as your folks did it. Even crappy soil with just compost and leaf mold would suffice quite nicely. All these fancy schmancy designer ingredients are not required. Dirt, water, sun. Funny how nature does it all for free and quite well. Side by side comparison of my soil and his and I guarantee they would perform the same. I make my own worm castings, bokashi compost, regular compost, JMS microbes, leaf mold, and raised beds from free pallets. virtually no cost and incredible results works for me.
❤❤❤ hearts and love for Tuck! Lots of admiration for you too- sharing all your knowledge. God bless you!
I've never seen a harder working dog than Tuck. There's no doubt he keeps your garden safe from squirrels, rabbits, lions, tigers and bears. (Oh my!)
Tuck, you poshie little thing 😍😍😍 so adorable
I fell off the face of the earth 6 years ago 😢..but I'm back and your my inspiration 😊
Hi Jennifer🌹🌹
How are you doing?
Welcome back 🤲
James.. You are amazing.. I hope you realize that! Here in NE Florida, we garden 12 months a year. your mix is great. Also use it as an amendment for our sandy soil We live on Amelia Island Fl. and our soil is basically all sand. We container grow Tomatoes and peppers, 10 months a year. everything else 12 months. Your great advise works here in Florida as well as the North East. Thanks so much.
7 months ago i followed your soil advice and now i have tomatoe trees with huge tomatoes waiting to mature. Im in your same grow zone and this is incredible. Its October and im still picking bowlfuls daily.
Just found this as i am retiring and fixing up my house. I am so grateful for your teaching technique
For Tuck the best boss and guardian of the garden❤❤❤❤ and he is cute in his sweater
I'm brand new to gardening. I mean brand spanking new and I am scared. I don't know a thing and I've been down a YT University rabbit hole so when I finally come across a video that has value and is not evasive I subscribe immediately! New subbie here. Wish me luck everyone.
Fail fast. 🙌 Make a local friend who is ahead of you. Call your local AG extension office for info and how to find my and Grey's and local gardens where you can learn and make a buddy to learn from. 👍 🌲🎄
@@groundedinfirstprinciples383 Thanks so much for the tips!! Will do
James is all you'll need. And...don't be scared, we all screw up sometimes
@@normanshadow1 thank you
Free soil is the way We go and works great in our gardens and love sharing how. Nice video & hi to Tuck
you are such an inspiration! we dont really have much space, we only have a balcony, but i tried putting a tomato seed from a tomato we had in the fridge in november or so, and now its 2 meters tall! standing by our window, i cant believe it. first time planting tomatoes and it got so tall we had to put it on the ground.
I also planted peppers and now a few months later, i have about 12 flowers on only one plant! thas my story and i thank you and tuck for suck amazing quality content that i can watch over and over again! many hugs!
I just seen Tuck step into view with his new sweater!! Boss man looking good.
Blessings for the little Tuck ❤❤😊 in his sweater.
Garlic loves mixes like this, you will get huge garlic when the soil is fluffy and rich.
Mushroom compost that are used to grow mushrooms are not depleted by the mushroom itself,mushrooms recycle nutrients so it can be more available to plants
Good stuff!
Thanks for the generous contribution my friend. Me and Tuck appreciate ya 😁🐕❤️
❤❤❤ Tuck in his jumper!
Please be careful of breathing in the vermiculite and perlite dust.
Your an inspiration. I have learned so much from you over the years. If everyone just did 10% of what you are doing in their yards it would change the world. I am trying to start a movement in my neighborhood to get proper to turn their yards into food forests!
Thank you very much for this video. You are an angel. Stay blessed and happy. We all love your great job.
I always get something out if everyone of your videos. You make it so interesting that I don't want them to end
Looks like a great combo 😀 Hey Tuck in your cute sweater❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Good to see you and tuck out getting ready!! I'm so excited to get going!!
Perfect timing on this video, JP. Thanks for giving us the rationales for your choices. That helps immensely! Love Tuck ❤ and your food forest. You are an inspiration.
Looks Awesome! Thanks for all you teach and share. Tuck is a cutie pie!
Love for Tuck! Spring has come early this year! LETS GO!!!!!!!!!
❤❤❤🐶🐾 Cute doggy sweater. He knew he had to keep it clean for his photo op. Helpful video 👍
Tuck sure does have a good thing goin here ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Lol I've used this mixture Make sure it depends on what I'm growing. I also add in once in a blue moon once I get it how I want and for which plant I sometimes will add Epsom salts for certain things and other minerals or some extra sand depending on where I'm growing in my garden whether it's a raised garden or it's on the ground
Love❤❤❤❤❤Tuck! Thanks for the update on soil.
Thanks James for this timely revisit of your soil mix!! I have had some good luck with coconut coir myself too. Coconut coir doesn't carry the bug or bacterial risk that peat moss does, and I like this better. No problems with seedlings, fungus gnats, mold, etc from too much moisture retention.
James is so cheerful 'lets go,' great instruction thank you
Thank you, James and Tuck♥, for explaining the how-and-why at each step!🌠 I appreciate that you included how you add to an established garden bed. I will try your formula to top my existing 10'x20' no-till organic slightly-raised-beds leased in a city-run organic gardening site in Seattle, WA.
This channel is the top best for gardening and projects
I have watched and researched so many
I have learned so much and am so thankful and blessed to have this channel to refer back to
I have been so inspired to keep going
I rate this channel a top 10.
❤❤❤❤for Tuck!! An extra living addition to The Garden of Life ❤
Tuck is looking out for the garden bandits..lol lo e seeing both of you. Peace and love from Ohio ❤❤❤❤
Boom! You just made the best soil ! Cannabis growers have been doing this for years. And never replace it. Just add compost and scratch in organic dry amendments. Great video James! 🌱👊😃🌱
I started on the raised bed book you referenced. I think you are spot on by reducing the 1/3 vermiculate ratio from the book. Definitely going to follow suit this year. Thanks for the video.
Just started watching you a few weeks ago… You have given me lots of ideas! Thank you! Love Tuck!❤❤❤
Tuck is adorable!! ❤️
I’m glad this channel blew up. U deserve it
Your videos inspired my parents to start gardening :)
Let’s Gooo!!!
Looking dapper in that sweater Tucky..... 💚💙💚💙
I bought a small cement mic per to turn and mix the soil and it works great. I have to grow all in bags because we live in sand and nematodes so it’s all containers. Takes a lot of soil. I fill the bottom with logs and leaves and greens then soil. A small hugelculture. Ps, it’s not cheap. Wear a mask because of what those components are made of.
The Little Boss Tuck - The Garden Master !♥♥♥♥♥♥ Soil looks great!
What an adorable pup! Such a good helper 🥰
Tuck ❤ Tuck i bet the ladies love your style little bro Youre looking smart and proper in that sweater Any little lady would be impressed right away. Keep styling it
Another fantastic video and much appreciated! 💓💗💙💜💕💞 down low for angel face Tuck! Sweater is adorable 🥰
I teach a horticulture class to middle schoolers in Florida. We have no budget and I am always in need of good potting soil and mix. This video is awesome and I will be teaching my students how to make it next school year. Does anyone have the receipe in detail? Thank YOU!
I like that you make it on the tarp!!! Easy mixing! ❤❤❤ Ya Tuck, Mama Kristy from Missouri 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I love tucks sweater he looks so cute!
I love seeing Tuck in the videos! ❤🐕
Thanks!
Tuck is the Most Enthusiastic helper ❗
keeping the Pests 🐛 away , as usual
The Little Boss is looking dapper! ❤❤❤
Tucks so cute in his sweater ❤❤❤
❤❤❤ Tuck!! You're so handsome in your sweater!! ❤❤❤
Great topic JP! Thank you!!
I learned to definitely not use straight Peat! When it kinda dries out! OMG… Hydrophobic is a fact! I now mix with 1/3-1/3 peat with coco coir
what a great mix. I have about 4KG of coco coir left. this gave me a great idea. Thank you! Tuck is adorable!
Great video! Thanks for the recipe.
love your mixes, this is how i do all mine now… and stuff finally grows 😂
Let's Gooo!!
Wow! Amazing videos! I love your diy info. Thanks!!!!😊
I use equal parts of peat moss, potting soil, Black Kow, and premium topsoil with a little bit of perlite- Steve zone 6 b.
This has worked for me in raised beds, but this year I’m also using a tower garden. I feel like it’ll need to be lighter! Suggestions!?!
I remember watching some of your videos about grafting and growing apple trees from seeds. My trees have to be 13 or 14 years old now. The one I have five different apples on is going strong, but it still doesn’t produce tons of apples. The tree started from a Honeycrisp seed. That tree produces apples that taste just like Honeycrisp but they’re probably 2/3 less of the size. I gave my buddy a tree while it’s too, that I twisted the trunks together. He gets giant apples off of both trees that taste awesome! Apparently, the odds of getting good apples from seeds were better for me than expected. I do have a couple of the trees that grew, but also turned into the crabapple trees. lol I planted those out on the boulevard.
Thank you so very much for such clear information! I just built new beds and have been waiting for this. You’re the best!
for chili cultivation you should try Soil, Pumice, Perlite, Worm Castings and you should also try Scoria.
❤for Tuck! LOVE your mix recipe! I just add Azomite and an organic 10-10-10. I have a huge garbage can with an aeriator in it, where I added liquid kelp, and molasses (it drives worms into my garden) and then fill it with rainwater. This is what I fill my watering can with. If I tun out of rainwater I fill a 2nd can and wait 3 days for the chemicals to dissipate before I add it to my BIG can.
been anticipating this video!!! had a feeling it would come out today 🎉
Perfect timing on this video. I’ve got the coco coir, vermiculite, perlite. Great tip on the other additions and ratios! ❤❤❤ for Tuck. Love his snazzy sweater.
❤❤❤ For Tuck and James.
Hi Cindy🌹🌹
How are you doing?
This is the video I've been waiting years for. Thank you SOOOOO much for this!!!! (Also, please make food forest stickers again. Thank you.)
Tuckie!!!! Good to see you dude❤❤❤❤ you look so cute in that sweater❤️❤️❤️ Keep up the great work guys❤❤❤
Hey James, how do you recondition the soil after the growing season? I am making this similar mix and wondering about that
If you read a Lettuce seed pack the plant spacing is suppose to be 8 inches, I get large Romaine hearts with 7 inch spacing and woodchip compost with a lot of sifted chips mixed in.
Time I've gotten some food grade 5 gal buckets! This is great. You're the best. Tuck's the King! ❤❤❤❤Thanks! 🥰
A good source for food grade buckets is bakeries and donut shops. Sometimes free, my donut shop sells them for $3 each, lid included. They are 4.4 gallon, a little shorter and wider. Great for storing amendments and fertilizer. I have my cat's kibble in them.😊
That's what I use. I bought 20 last year. Make sure you drill drainage holes in the bottom!! I then add a few rocks bigger than the holes so I have drainage but don't lose my soil through the holes. Make sure you leave the handles on the buckets too. They come in very handy!
Can you reuse the soil every year, add some compost and amendments or start over every year?
❤❤❤❤ for Tuck and a great video!
When we built my garden beds we used cheap top soil that we bought by the dump truck load, along with peat and compost. Didn’t use any vermiculite or pearllite and it was honestly the biggest mistake ever. I wish I had seen your channel before we started building the beds because last year the beds essentially solidified and went hydrophobic. Nothing grew well at all. It was very upsetting 😢 I did add some manure at the end of the year and then topped off with leaf mulch, and it’s looking a lot better now. This year I’ll be adding an irrigation system so I can keep it watered better. I’ll also be adding more compost as I get stuff planted. Hopefully it retains moisture better this year and I don’t have to do anything drastic to fix it at the end of this season.
❤❤❤ Tuck!...been watching a few years now 😃! Thankful!
It would be cool to a comparaison between normal soil and a mix soil
Amazing videos . Thanks for sharing