An old rock quarry guy here (Vulcan Materials Company).. I believe dust is good for trees. It holds moisture and airways for the roots. One bad thing about rock dust is that it clings together (its gritty) and makes things hard. Thats probably why your soil is sandy, but still heavy. We grew peach trees from seed in the bottom of the hole in pure rock dust. Its good stuff. The best thing for your garden is probably pine bark mulch. It provides air, and decomposes very fast, which in turn will feed the soil. Plus most veggie plants like slightly acidic soil that pine bark mulch provides naturally.
I've got to tell you this, SRF, My grandfather (mom's daddy) had been a Shriner and in charge of their "mounted patrol." The guys would come over to grampa's house and practice their parade maneuvers and then coral the horses and go inside for some refreshments. After 30 years he retired from the mounted patrol, sold his horses, and tilled the coral and turned it into a garden. The vegetables that came from that garden were absolutely amazing! Grampa would take bushel baskets of tomato's and cucumbers over to the local country club and sell the produce to the restaurant. It was absolutely amazing how wonderful the vegetables were. I hope that you have the same success with your garden as my grandparents did. Peace, love and happiness to you and your family.
I finally saw one of those things mowing a hill not far from our place that thing works good we have tons hills just like your part of the country I bet that thing will be your go to tool for most things on your property
This is why you need your town to do yard waste recycling. Ours does and it is a great place to get rid of yard waste without filling up trash dumps. All residents can get free ground compost. Make at least two trips a week. I keep mine about 2 years under a tree first for further decomposition. Some new stuff is used to keep weeds down. I have a drought resistant lawn and weeds easily pull out of the garden. And the tomatoes!
Love the video Josh. Just wish it had been longer. I like to watch you playing with your toys. Lol. Lots of folks can learn alot just by watching. God bless.
When deer hunting first started, after deer were reintroduced in central North Carolina in 1950's and 1960's on a cold day you would find an "on location" saw mill saw dust pile in the woods, after the job was done. It could be eight to fifteen feet high, dig out the top three or four feet deep big enough for a chair or board to sit on and the heat would be almost sauna like on a 20 degree day.
I would analyze the rock dust to see what is there and add what is needed. I would feed rock dust to red wiggler worms in my worm bins. Feed them coffee grounds to produce nitrogen. Wash and sterilize egg shells to add calcium. The worms turn the chitin in eggshells into chitinase which is an enzyme that eats the exoskeletons of aphids. Worm castings should never be fed to germinating seeds. But worm castings are the best for plants.
The rock dust will change the texture of your soil now, BUT, it will not break down and release minerals for 2-3 years. It's a long term investment, but a good one.
If you have a place on your farm where you cut and there’s a lot of leaves like around the edges of the field leave mould is awesome for gardens, just drive around the edges of the field and scrape it up
Wish the tree trimmers that was trimming for the power company in my area, and my place, would done that. I got one load. Not even all they got at our place. They lied. You're lucky. 👍
My dad thought me a lot about gardening he was definitely good at it he used the almanac and right amounts of fertilizer and lime I remember our garden producing so much we had to always give vegetables away, also he could grow the heck out of potatoes but we would hill them a lot
Hey Josh great video I enjoyed it now that's the way you run a farm and by the way Happy Father's Day for tomorrow take a load off enjoy yourself you deserve it
Man that a lot of compost info you just dumped on us! 😂Gotta have it, Good stuff👍 After watching your vids and seeing the yield of those tomatoes & such it looks like Your garden info worked & did great! Appreciate all this golden info fer sure! 🚜🐐🐷🐔
I really like learn this stuff thanks for the information I like the educational part and the explanation of how stuff works. Keep up the good work my friend.
None of that “compost” is anywhere near being finished. It looks more like mulch to me. You want to maintain temperatures below 160 as above that the thermophilic bacteria begin to become inactive and can even be damaged or killed. Once that happens you essentially have to start the process over again.
For compost, you cannot beat pigs just before winter spread it on then plow it in leave it till spring then break it up with a cultivator of some sort best growing ground ever that is why where I come from they keep pigs on straw
Rock dust is also very good for making a great drive way. We got a few loads of them for our driveway. All you have to do is spread a tin layer pack it down and water it. Repeat a few times and keep it packed down and water it. Let it set up for a few days and it is almost just like concrete. Also baling hay is just like the compost heat if you bales it to fast after the cutting the hay will catch on fire. I guy a few miles down the road did his baling way to fast and put the bales in his barn and that night you could see the blaze from my yard. Another great video man keep up the great work and hope you hit 1 mill subs soon.
The local Ventrac dealer has offered me a free test ride. I haven't been on a tractor since the late 1960's. I'm overdue. What better tractor to test? And here I thought compost was that stuff you buy in the bags from the big box store. I'm learning, Josh.
Here is a question for Ventac: why not run the tiller forward. I know the tractor would leave tracks but, that could be solved with a simple rolling basket.
Fixed me some scrambled eggs and toast, sat down to see whats going on on RUclips and there was your video!! You made my breakfast EPIC!! WOOOO!!!! (burp)
Did the same at my garden spot at my factory:incorporated compost and mulch to increase bio-mass in old wore out industrial clay dirt. Years long process btw because as the high amount of compost and mulch breaks down is sucks all available nitrogen from the soil. All of it. You can speed things up a bit by introducing a straight nitrogen fertilizer. Next is lime: acidity of the soil goes through the roof and lime applications will help with that.I found that pea crops (or bean) do well during the adjustment period. Purple hull peas,creme peas,pinto beans,etc Squash does OK with lots of nitrogen fertilizer. Corn:nope. Sweet peas: nope.taters:nope. Maters can do well if you create little micro grow zones: use a post hole digger and dig a hole 18" deep,put in a coffee can of good manure,add another 10" or so of dirt,plant the mater plant. Stand back and have your basket ready as when the roots hit that manure in about 6 weeks the maters will be jumping off the plant.
Hi sir. I subbed not long ago, and see you have many subscribers. This may be an unfair question seeing ventrac is a sponsor, but if you find faults or downfalls with it or attachments would you share them? Thanks for your videos, I really enjoy and learn from them.
do you still have the Buick I don't see it, I seen the cutlass, but I just put all of my seeds in good dirt I lil buckets and my seeds haven't came up, do you know why? god bless
Josh, I came across a MF 235 gas tractor. Needs some work. Body looks as good as your 240. It needs some motor work. They want $1200. what do you think?
@@dj-nr8nm The diesel would be a better choice but the reason I was looking at the gas was that it was what I found and also i don't know squat about working on a diesel. The gas i can figure out.
Just my 2 cents. I have a compact tractor and a ventrac. If you need to lift things high the ventrac isn't the machine of choice. If you want a machine that mowes, blows snow, rakes, field mowes, also slope mowes, plowes snow, vacuum leaves, etc. Its a great peice just expensive. I got mine from a estate that had lots of attachments at less than half price. I really like mine. I'm actually thinking about trading it on a new 4500 with a cab for future snow removal. The thought of blowing snow in a flannel shirt has my interest as I get older. As for finish mowing it's probably not as efficient as a zero turn but quality of cut and striping is second to none. If you have a larger property not a 100 acre farm it's worth considering as its a 4 season machine.
Ok.... Now on to planting..... are you using the Farmers Almanac... certain plants will grow if planted at different times of the month... You think this is medieval but it is not...root crops grow better when planted different that above soil plants... MSRF will be promoted in this next year!!!!!!
With regards to rock dust you should check out "Alberta Urban Garden Simple Organic and Sustainable" ruclips.net/video/mwF3TFOzIik/видео.html He has done lab tests using rock dust grown food. His conclusions will be enlightening, it's well worth the time for the home gardener who is looking for answers on how to grow a better garden and where to spend money improving your soil.
Well it would if it came from a limestone quarry. If it came from a granite quarry it would be full of granite dust, a slate quarry and it would be full of slate dust. etc etc
@@Miko_Jones It looked like limestone dust to me. I live within 5 miles of 2 different quarries here at my house and they are both full of limestone. I just assumed because of the coloring it was limestone dust.
We been trying to condition clay for 8years damn near impossible your better off just dumping a foot of fresh dirt on top you water the clay it doesn't drain then After the top of the clay is dry as a bone 2in down it's still sopping wet and heavy as hell. And doesn't mix well with other soil you mix in half compost soil with half clay plow it in and the clay clumps up in balls.
Composted sawdust, river sand, and manure. Till then add the sawdust till it in then the sand manure last. Do it in the fall and mulch should be decent by spring
An old rock quarry guy here (Vulcan Materials Company).. I believe dust is good for trees. It holds moisture and airways for the roots. One bad thing about rock dust is that it clings together (its gritty) and makes things hard. Thats probably why your soil is sandy, but still heavy. We grew peach trees from seed in the bottom of the hole in pure rock dust. Its good stuff. The best thing for your garden is probably pine bark mulch. It provides air, and decomposes very fast, which in turn will feed the soil. Plus most veggie plants like slightly acidic soil that pine bark mulch provides naturally.
Hi.... Thank you 🎥👍👍👍
Love the channel! Great content and helps us newbies learn and get to farming and building our homesteads. Thank you.
I've got to tell you this, SRF, My grandfather (mom's daddy) had been a Shriner and in charge of their "mounted patrol." The guys would come over to grampa's house and practice their parade maneuvers and then coral the horses and go inside for some refreshments. After 30 years he retired from the mounted patrol, sold his horses, and tilled the coral and turned it into a garden. The vegetables that came from that garden were absolutely amazing! Grampa would take bushel baskets of tomato's and cucumbers over to the local country club and sell the produce to the restaurant. It was absolutely amazing how wonderful the vegetables were. I hope that you have the same success with your garden as my grandparents did. Peace, love and happiness to you and your family.
I finally saw one of those things mowing a hill not far from our place that thing works good we have tons hills just like your part of the country I bet that thing will be your go to tool for most things on your property
Wow! Comparing this "before" footage to your "after" footage with the bedder ... great job Stoney Ridge Farmer(s)
This is why you need your town to do yard waste recycling. Ours does and it is a great place to get rid of yard waste without filling up trash dumps. All residents can get free ground compost. Make at least two trips a week. I keep mine about 2 years under a tree first for further decomposition. Some new stuff is used to keep weeds down. I have a drought resistant lawn and weeds easily pull out of the garden. And the tomatoes!
The rock dust adds absorbable minerals to the soil. Your garden really will be rockin.....and the compost mixed in.....awesome.
Love the video Josh. Just wish it had been longer. I like to watch you playing with your toys. Lol. Lots of folks can learn alot just by watching.
God bless.
Josh you need to turn your compost about once a month I turn mine with my tiller using a fork is a pain . you have the perfect tiller for the job
When deer hunting first started, after deer were reintroduced in central North Carolina in 1950's and 1960's on a cold day you would find an "on location" saw mill saw dust pile in the woods, after the job was done. It could be eight to fifteen feet high, dig out the top three or four feet deep big enough for a chair or board to sit on and the heat would be almost sauna like on a 20 degree day.
I guess I have always been lucky. Till up dirt and horse crap first year I had more veggies and tomatoes than I could handle.
I would analyze the rock dust to see what is there and add what is needed. I would feed rock dust to red wiggler worms in my worm bins. Feed them coffee grounds to produce nitrogen. Wash and sterilize egg shells to add calcium. The worms turn the chitin in eggshells into chitinase which is an enzyme that eats the exoskeletons of aphids. Worm castings should never be fed to germinating seeds. But worm castings are the best for plants.
The rock dust will change the texture of your soil now, BUT, it will not break down and release minerals for 2-3 years. It's a long term investment, but a good one.
If you have a place on your farm where you cut and there’s a lot of leaves like around the edges of the field leave mould is awesome for gardens, just drive around the edges of the field and scrape it up
Wish the tree trimmers that was trimming for the power company in my area, and my place, would done that. I got one load. Not even all they got at our place. They lied. You're lucky. 👍
My dad thought me a lot about gardening he was definitely good at it he used the almanac and right amounts of fertilizer and lime I remember our garden producing so much we had to always give vegetables away, also he could grow the heck out of potatoes but we would hill them a lot
Arthur Dewith no I live in Mississippi lol
Arthur Dewith maybe idk
Arthur Dewith do Dutch people tend to have green thumbs?
Hey Josh great video I enjoyed it now that's the way you run a farm and by the way Happy Father's Day for tomorrow take a load off enjoy yourself you deserve it
I love the soundtrack you made for this video
Thanks for sharing with us compost is looking good can't wait to see more of the garden
Must be great weather there now hope you get all your projects done.
Take care, positive vibes to everyone.
Nice machine Brother Josh
Josh, enjoyed this video. Very instructive and informative.
Man that a lot of compost info you just dumped on us! 😂Gotta have it, Good stuff👍
After watching your vids and seeing the yield of those tomatoes & such it looks like Your garden info worked & did great! Appreciate all this golden info fer sure! 🚜🐐🐷🐔
Sixth Avenue Heartache now makes me think of tractor montages
I really like learn this stuff thanks for the information I like the educational part and the explanation of how stuff works. Keep up the good work my friend.
None of that “compost” is anywhere near being finished. It looks more like mulch to me. You want to maintain temperatures below 160 as above that the thermophilic bacteria begin to become inactive and can even be damaged or killed. Once that happens you essentially have to start the process over again.
Great recipe for a garden
For compost, you cannot beat pigs just before winter spread it on then plow it in leave it till spring then break it up with a cultivator of some sort best growing ground ever that is why where I come from they keep pigs on straw
looks good
Your right, I have never seen a piece of crap garden like that, but live and learn.
Great job good ideas. The results will be proven in the harvest!
Hey Josh love the videos buddy. Keep up the great work. Showing love from northern Pennsylvania
Also, love the intro music your so talented
Great video josh
Rock dust is also very good for making a great drive way. We got a few loads of them for our driveway. All you have to do is spread a tin layer pack it down and water it. Repeat a few times and keep it packed down and water it. Let it set up for a few days and it is almost just like concrete. Also baling hay is just like the compost heat if you bales it to fast after the cutting the hay will catch on fire. I guy a few miles down the road did his baling way to fast and put the bales in his barn and that night you could see the blaze from my yard. Another great video man keep up the great work and hope you hit 1 mill subs soon.
The local Ventrac dealer has offered me a free test ride. I haven't been on a tractor since the late 1960's. I'm overdue. What better tractor to test? And here I thought compost was that stuff you buy in the bags from the big box store. I'm learning, Josh.
Here is a question for Ventac: why not run the tiller forward. I know the tractor would leave tracks but, that could be solved with a simple rolling basket.
brilliant little bit of kit does a fantastic job :)
Fixed me some scrambled eggs and toast, sat down to see whats going on on RUclips and there was your video!! You made my breakfast EPIC!! WOOOO!!!! (burp)
Did the same at my garden spot at my factory:incorporated compost and mulch to increase bio-mass in old wore out industrial clay dirt. Years long process btw because as the high amount of compost and mulch breaks down is sucks all available nitrogen from the soil. All of it. You can speed things up a bit by introducing a straight nitrogen fertilizer. Next is lime: acidity of the soil goes through the roof and lime applications will help with that.I found that pea crops (or bean) do well during the adjustment period. Purple hull peas,creme peas,pinto beans,etc Squash does OK with lots of nitrogen fertilizer. Corn:nope. Sweet peas: nope.taters:nope. Maters can do well if you create little micro grow zones: use a post hole digger and dig a hole 18" deep,put in a coffee can of good manure,add another 10" or so of dirt,plant the mater plant. Stand back and have your basket ready as when the roots hit that manure in about 6 weeks the maters will be jumping off the plant.
Hi Josh the Honey Badger does a great job nice little machine 👍🏻
sure have seen it... TTWT! lol ( sorry Neighbor couldn't resist ) Greetings from the Boone area
Great info,Man I can't wait to see that stump grinder in action!!
Love your videos
Hi sir. I subbed not long ago, and see you have many subscribers. This may be an unfair question seeing ventrac is a sponsor, but if you find faults or downfalls with it or attachments would you share them? Thanks for your videos, I really enjoy and learn from them.
Our garden was about the same size as yours we grew 3/4 of it potatoes and would produce 900 to 1000 pounds of potatoes
that ventrack is amaasing
It does a great job for sure!
That rite, great stuff!!!!
do you still have the Buick I don't see it, I seen the cutlass, but I just put all of my seeds in good dirt I lil buckets and my seeds haven't came up, do you know why? god bless
Hi from Australia I am a hay grower and I do a bit off veg I love how u guys to it over there
Awesome!
You could also get some cow manure put it in a box and put some worms in it and the will break it down and you can keep doing that over and over
good job thumbs up shared
Thanks Drew!
Snapped belt in a hurry, "Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast" makes sense to me.
Lol I wish I had that thing for about a day!!!!
Awesome
What about a dump truck to spread stuff out quicker? Just drive with it up and go....just a thought. That ventrac looks awesome
Arthur Dewith yes I know. What does that have to do with spreading it out ?
Josh, I came across a MF 235 gas tractor. Needs some work. Body looks as good as your 240. It needs some motor work. They want $1200. what do you think?
@@dj-nr8nm The diesel would be a better choice but the reason I was looking at the gas was that it was what I found and also i don't know squat about working on a diesel. The gas i can figure out.
Try no till some time. I would like to try it.
That intro song 🔥 wow amazing man
✌🏻💛🇨🇦
I can just hear the Knuckleheads. “ that ain’t a tractor, that won’t work”
That ain't a tractor that won't work hahahahaha
justin whitley 😂
Good evening. Doesn't Limestone reintroduce Lime into the soil? Thus letting the Lime help breakdown poor soil? Appreciate any feedback.
Hey Josh, you and OLF should play some music together next visit together.
Hey I like your channel.
Josh, you can have your soill tested at a CO-OP!😊
do you have ventracs loader for that machine? if so does it work well?? i’m asking for just general purpose use of course nothing HD lol
Yes....we've used it a few times on the farm...they also have a "High lift " bucket that you can load pickup trucks with
I’ve used one for 14 years - It was a main reason I got Ventrac. It’s great with the larger mulch bucket. Very maneuverable!
How deep does the honey badger till?
Since this garden was done months ago what does it look like now
garden was done about 3 weeks ago....more to come soon!
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Build a glasshouse grow your food all year round
How do you keep deer and squirrels out of your garden?
How do you like the ventrac
Just my 2 cents. I have a compact tractor and a ventrac. If you need to lift things high the ventrac isn't the machine of choice. If you want a machine that mowes, blows snow, rakes, field mowes, also slope mowes, plowes snow, vacuum leaves, etc. Its a great peice just expensive. I got mine from a estate that had lots of attachments at less than half price. I really like mine. I'm actually thinking about trading it on a new 4500 with a cab for future snow removal. The thought of blowing snow in a flannel shirt has my interest as I get older. As for finish mowing it's probably not as efficient as a zero turn but quality of cut and striping is second to none. If you have a larger property not a 100 acre farm it's worth considering as its a 4 season machine.
Looking back is the only way to know whe you break so ething and how it's looking so no different then any other machine
In the intro, are ya sayin ya was is South WV or South west VA? Lol
yep
Could I listen to the roar of the engine once in awhile?
was here
Ok.... Now on to planting..... are you using the Farmers Almanac... certain plants will grow if planted at different times of the month... You think this is medieval but it is not...root crops grow better when planted different that above soil plants... MSRF will be promoted in this next year!!!!!!
Did you buy that ventrac or is this an infomercial
We leased the Ventrac.....this is a gardening video
With regards to rock dust you should check out "Alberta Urban Garden Simple Organic and Sustainable" ruclips.net/video/mwF3TFOzIik/видео.html He has done lab tests using rock dust grown food. His conclusions will be enlightening, it's well worth the time for the home gardener who is looking for answers on how to grow a better garden and where to spend money improving your soil.
That rock dust is full of lime also because it comes from limestone.
Well it would if it came from a limestone quarry. If it came from a granite quarry it would be full of granite dust, a slate quarry and it would be full of slate dust. etc etc
Don't confuse rock minerals with rock dust they are two completely different.
@@Miko_Jones It looked like limestone dust to me. I live within 5 miles of 2 different quarries here at my house and they are both full of limestone. I just assumed because of the coloring it was limestone dust.
We been trying to condition clay for 8years damn near impossible your better off just dumping a foot of fresh dirt on top you water the clay it doesn't drain then After the top of the clay is dry as a bone 2in down it's still sopping wet and heavy as hell. And doesn't mix well with other soil you mix in half compost soil with half clay plow it in and the clay clumps up in balls.
Look into back to Eden
Composted sawdust, river sand, and manure. Till then add the sawdust till it in then the sand manure last. Do it in the fall and mulch should be decent by spring
I love composting and breaking down stuff. Watch self sufficient me here on you tube. He has good info On composting
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Awesome channel awesome people awesome content hope to see you in the comments again and hope to see on live stream's have a wonderful day bud
Two wives too?
Can hardly handle one!