This couldn't have been better timing. Our tunnel will go up in March. I get to watch you build before I do. Your a great teacher. I'm in Zone 6, ordering and organizing seeds, received my first order from hoss tools. Something positive to look forward to.
My last two no dig beds I had craft paper as the bottom layer, on top of that was double shredded mulch and the top layer was compost. Held up great in rain storms and my plants thrived. Think I only pulled 2 weeds out of them last year. I buy mulch and compost in bulk, I pick it up with my truck. It’s so much cheaper that way than buying mulch and compost from box stores. Great video!❤
Josh! I'm so glad you addressed the slope of your land. It's been stressing me out. LOL. And you are so right about asking people questions and getting different answers. I'm a big fan of context! Cheers & Happy New Year!
Still watching you Josh from Michigan! Always learn so much even if not selling commercially but growing for yourself (and neighbors). Am avid perennial grower but good dirt is good dirt and we all hate weeds!!! Husband is doing veggies so more fun and hard work to be had all around.
Just did a "before and after" video review of your work at RCF. It is simply amazing. The RCF videos are must viewing for anyone starting a market farm in my opinion. Actually come to think of it, all your videos are!!!
Happy new years. been following you since last year when I started my gardening adventure. I'm in Greensboro NC. Love your work, so helpful, especially since I'm just a hop and skip from where you are.
Looking good Josh. You have gotten a lot done in a short period of time. Won't be long and you will be harvesting. The days are slowly getting longer and things will grow pretty fast.
Looks good, Josh. Best wishes on this endeavor. You'll do well. Thank you for continuing your video series. We enjoy learning from you. I am looking forward to learning about your scissor door system in your tunnels.
@@JoshSattinFarming I went to RUclips and found a video of their installation and have downloaded instructions from Johnny's Seeds. It doesn't look hard but I'm looking forward to see how you build yours.
Loves me some regular, non-waxy, non-glossy cardboard. Cut it up into little bite-sized "crackers", a great big ol' can of cheese-like-product Spray Cheese and we're off to the races with a TastySnack™ !
Josh, the tunnel environment looks great all around! How correct you are sometimes, waiting a bit the land will showcase things for you, listen/observe and follow through... have fun growing as you enjoy some vitamin D3. 😉
Plan your work and work your plan. I don't know everything about gardening being a master plumber but I know everything worth doing is worth doing right the first time. I always enjoy watching a craftsman pouring their heart and soul into a project because I know the results will be worth the wait. Great job on your forward progress. 👍👍
Doesn’t cardboard have glue adhering the corrugated side to the smooth outer sides? Also, what do you think about the ink that’s printed on cardboard? Do you slice those out?
I really can’t wait to build my own small farm garden. We’ve bought 3 acres for our home and garden. We will be growing heirloom varieties in our garden from seed savers exchange. With the exception of green onions and strawberries
Wow, that tunnel looks like it will be awesome... Leaf mold is awesome fertility, so 50/50 should work out very well, plus the good soil and chicken manure already. Can’t see not having a bumper crop of anything in there.
Hi Josh l am wondering if you have any ways to deal with a whole lawn of couch grass when starting beds, l have layed cardboard, compost, really struggling with the couch, appreciate your take on it, cheers from Australia
I must have seen so many bed building videos you've made but there's always something new to learn. Repetition is the mother of all learning a wise person once told me.
Nice video, Josh. We sell vacant land that can be developed into farmland. We will surely share this with our customers who would love to start farming.
Hey Josh great fan here from overseas. Your work on the farm and the tube is beautiful. Would like to leave a test for you (and us) if you wish: Your soil is already rich clay. Have plenty chicken manure. And run off from the ultra rich beds you made above. And cardboard. And other fertilizers and manures you added. And lots of compost....and they are protected from Rain and wind. Would say you have fertility for years . In my homestead (and others - including comercial veggie farms - i known) i have seen great harvest in much much much poorer soils. My sugestion is: leave a few beds without any other fertilization for 1or 2 years as control beds. And compare the produtivity. Bet that on most small leafy greens - specially the low feeders like lettuce - you dont need to spend money and work for a few years... Maybe just a bit of nitrogen ... In a few years... Maybe you could try some less irrigation too. I do no irrigation tomatos in much hotter weather (10a) and poorer soil with great results (specially on flavour). Same with peppers and others. Some crops seem to like less water and even compost and fertility in general. Sometimes seems to help the grow of deeper stronger roots, avoid some desease, faster flowering and fruting...The soil it self seems to like to just not being touch, it reestablish it self in a natural equilibrium of fertility....sometimes less is more. Great to see you comercialy farmming on your land again. Hope you and your family have a great year.
I have been trying to buy a green house from farmers friend for over a month. Now I know why they were sold out. Thanks Josh!!!! Lol Proud to say I bought one two days ago finally and a stack of wiggle wire.
Everything is looking great. You are correct-in your situation paying a bit more on the front end for the compost you want will yield dividends for years. I did 50/50 leaf mold/bedding mix for my raised beds and was very pleased. The cost per yard is comparable to what we have here, pity you had to pay a large delivery fee. You'd think for that volume at this time of year they'd give you a break. This is off-topic, but could you share the kind of tarp you used at RCF? I have a lawn area I am converting to a garden either late this year or early next year and I'd like to tarp it to get it ready. Did you like that tarp or would you have used another kind if you were able? Thank you.
Since you are starting the farm up again, can you talk a little about the selling part of it. Like what kind of permits you need and such? I know it varies by state, but it would be cool to hear how you go about that. Possibly even getting certified.
I do the same except I put alot of shreaded greens(comfrey is great) with small amount of chicken manure pellets(to help feed microbes aswel as soil nutrients) with fish blood and bone meal down before cardboard, then roll on with the soil let it cook for 2weeks min but I allow for 4weeks then plant up, great way to add another inch of compost on what I work with clay soil
Hi Josh, you mentioned that you put your chickens in the hoop house before the beds. How long did you have chickens in the hoop house? Did you have chicken wire around the bottoms of the hoops to create a fence to keep predators away? Thanks for your time.
Great video Josh...love your content. Question: Will you assume the compost mixture meets the fertility needs of your plantings? Or are you amending with anything? Seems like even though it should be good, it's a little bit of a shot in the dark.
I am south of Raleigh. Do you mind saying where you get your compost and woodchips? I am planning a no till garden this year and looking for material to put on it.
Hello Josh. Try to find the electronic copy around your area, they do clearing of trees around the cable lines. I was lucky to chat with a crew that were doing some mulching on the side of the rode, and got their number. Now I send a text to a guy and instead of them dumping at the land fill they dump wood chips on my yard. I'm in Texas though. Chip Drop was not working in my area, but maybe it can work for you. Hope this helps you getting wood chips.
I agree. I have a tree trimmer come in annually to think my jungle. He is more than happy to dump a load of shredded stuff for free to neighborhood users and save a trip to the city’s composting site. And he does it frequently, but only to those folks (mostly commercial property owners) who don’t have any time constraints. OTOH, his loads vary quite a bit. Being in SoCal, he can have loads that vary between pines, oaks, eucalyptus, palms, and everything in between. What you don’t want in a garden is a load of shredded palm leaves or eucalyptus. But they would work just fine for other top dressing applications.
Another awesome video, I've seen several beds built but none from the ground up like yours. Will you broad fork the beds again when you flip them or just add more compost and amendments?
Good evening Josh. What part of NC are you in? Where did you find your Compost? I live in NC near Charlotte and would love to find some where I could get good Compost. I really enjoy your Channel. Do you like the peaked Hoop house over the rounded hoop house? Have a great day.
I'm putting in a 1/4 acre garden right now, and I did not want to spend the time cleaning up a million boxes or driving all over the place all the time to pick up what may or may not even work- I was first going to buy 4x8 packing sheets at $2/piece, but also discovered that Lowe's has some latitude with giving it away (home depot does not)- they gave me a lot of big appliance boxes and packing sheets.
What, wait!? There IS no exactly right way to do things in farming? You mean that there are hundreds of different ways that it works? And works well? Are you saying that arguing about the "right" way to do it is kinda pointless? That actually getting out there, getting your hands dirty and trying things out for yourself is better than sitting here arguing about which piece to do first? Hahahahahahahahahaha Nice high tunnels! And Happy New Year!
Sad that there has to be a . Don’t know why people rush to take everything so seriously or are so set on proving to others they are the most experts of experts with knowledge that will always apply accurately for everyone
Great video as always. I know the compost helps control weeds and make the soil better. Wonder what it would be like mixing in lots of good topsoil with poor clay soil or mixed into subsoil?
subsoil loves compost. where i am from we really don't have much topsoil- it's subsoil we're working with. clay= minerals, increased surface area for biology, and a higher CEC potential. with enough compost there is no such thing as poor clay. unless its white clay, and then you would be better off moving. the redder the better. if its blood red you've hit the jackpot for nutrient potential.
I use a lot of compost and it can be very beneficial to add it to the soil to assist in growing vegetables. If you mix it in instead of laying down the deep compost layer on the top then you won't get the weed suppression. If you have solid clay then you would need A LOT of compost to make a difference tilling it in. You might want to think about other amendments such as peat moss to increase organic matter and improve the structure of the soil. It depends on what you can get, how expensive it is, what your soil is like and what your goals are.
Just wondering if you’ve tried chip drop? I’ve just found the service and and I’m not sure if it will be in your area however it’s a free service where arborist and Tree Service companies will deliver loads of their wood chip to you
Hey Josh you mention that you wouldn't touch biosolids compost. I'm very interested in your reasons as we're going to be ordering compost this year and one of the places we were looking at uses biosolids.
Thank you for your videos! I appreciate seeing your solutions and understanding why you make the decisions you do. I made beds last year with 30inch beds and 12 inch walkways. But something wasn't right...my walkways and beds both ended up too narrow. I think they were too tall and the sides so steep they fell into the walkways. How tall are yours? Are the vertical sides part of the 30 inches or the 12?
I always keep a 3’ aisle so I can get a small skid steer between my raised beds, but then again, I’m a home gardener and not a market gardener so space/profit isn’t an issue. And over time I’ve realized that a 4’ wide raised bed is too wide, I have to work both sides of the bed in order to harvest. So I have evolved into 3’ wide beds with 3’ wide aisles.
Question on woodchips and cardboard. Ever seen or heard of any pest issues from use? Like termites in the chips and cardboard attracting cockroaches? This way is very new to me since I've only done raised beds but wouldn't mind putting chips down in my walkways instead of dealing with grass.
I’ve seen you start growing right after building the lasagna beds in previous videos. Is there a time when the cardboard gets in the way of root growth or does it decompose that quickly?
Is there anywhere in particular that you get cardboard from? We go through a lot at my job, but we actually get paid to to bale it and ship it back, so I imagine a lot of other places do the same thing.
Hi Josh, I'm from Italy and we don't have access to all that compost, I'm trying to do some by myself but with 2,5 acres it's quite hard to make it with no tools. What would you do to build the beds? Thanks for all you videos!
It depends on what your soil is like and what it needs. The cheapest solution would be a combination of cover crops (biomass, nitrogen, carbon, etc.), compost teas (biology) and tarping to kill the weeds.
@@JoshSattinFarming thanks for the quick replay! We have heavy soil, pure clay. That's what I thought, we will use many different cover crops and KNF for soil biology. Hopefully nature will do the rest😁 thanks again!
In New England compost prices are insane. Throw in seaweed and lobster shell and they are getting up to $75 per yard! We did find a place that sells if for $12 per yard and the plants love it. Unfortunately most of their organic ingredients come from a nearby hydroponic lettuce factory. There are shiny colored remnants in the soil that I assume have come off of twist ties. So when the sun hits it just right, our beds do sparkle!
I assume you are referring to a deep compost system as a new no till bed. I generally grow shallow rooted crops for the first round, but you can always punch a hole through the cardboard to plant things like tomatoes.
I think you're going to get some good feedback about eating cardboard :) I've been using cardboard for years for paths under woodchips or at the bottom of very raised beds (I'm old, ha). But I can't remember what you've said about transplanting bigger plants, like squash or tomato, where right away you would "hit" the cardboard when putting in the seedlings. Do you just break through it? or use something like newspaper in those beds? My husband stacked the Amazon boxes in my potting greenhouse so I need to have a battle plan for using them soon. (but we're zone 5a, so not that soon. I have time to check out Osborne in the meantime.)
Haha yeah. If you want to transplant those types of crops then you can punch through the cardboard and transplant them into the soil below the cardboard. I have done that before, but would rather grow some shallow rooted crops on the first round. The cardboard will be gone and the soil a bit more integrated.
I'd like to know a little more about why you don't like or wanna touch the biosolids compost. We got a place here in NM that sells it for $25 a ton. It's done through the water authority, and the claim its ready to plant into for farmers and the like. Do you have a video on it already, or could you do one where you discuss that?
I need to first admit that I don't know that much about biosolids compost, but the big concern that people have is about residual pharmaceuticals in the biosolids. Even if the compost was tested to be free of anything harmful I couldn't imagine a customer being happy about my farm using it to grow their vegetables. There are lots of other applications for it, such as landscaping. It's just a personal choice that I made for my farm and my customers.
@@JoshSattinFarming Thanks for the reply. That makes sense. It's like the idea of using various animal poop, sure you can get the temp up and "kill off whatever" but there is still psychological uncomfortableness with some people, so from a business standpoint it's worth avoiding. Plus, in the case of residual pharma stuff, it may not be "dangerous" but that doesn't make it good by default. So I get it. Excited to watch your farm get growing. I am hoping to do one myself here in New Mexico later in the year once I find some land. Your channel has been a treasure trove of info!
So I'm not the only one having trouble getting wood chips. Even the guys that I buy beer for in exchange for delivery haven't provided this fall. Have renewed my chip drop 4 times.
Happy New Year from Bulgaria ! I wish you success and for all people on the Earth health.
It's bed time in Australia too, almost 11pm. Thanks for sharing.
eyyy from fnq !
josh is the man, love his work and his ethic !
Adrian Barnard better start counting your sheep/girlfriend. Aussie Aussie Aussie oi oi oi
Looking good. I'm starting my first market style garden this year wish me luck. Thanks for sharing your way.
You're welcome. Thanks for watching and good luck!
Josh, you talk so fast and have so much good information, that I have to keep hitting rewind in order to catch all that you say. Good video!
Great Video Josh, it's nice to see you back at the home farm👍
Thank you!
This couldn't have been better timing. Our tunnel will go up in March. I get to watch you build before I do. Your a great teacher. I'm in Zone 6, ordering and organizing seeds, received my first order from hoss tools. Something positive to look forward to.
I excited for your tunnels.
Thanks Josh for making the videos. I get useful information from each one.
You're welcome. Thanks for watching!
Lovely looking compost!
My last two no dig beds I had craft paper as the bottom layer, on top of that was double shredded mulch and the top layer was compost. Held up great in rain storms and my plants thrived. Think I only pulled 2 weeds out of them last year. I buy mulch and compost in bulk, I pick it up with my truck. It’s so much cheaper that way than buying mulch and compost from box stores. Great video!❤
Josh! I'm so glad you addressed the slope of your land. It's been stressing me out. LOL. And you are so right about asking people questions and getting different answers. I'm a big fan of context! Cheers & Happy New Year!
Happy new year to you too!
@@JoshSattinFarming do your beds run with the slope of the land or perpendicular?
Can't wait till you go through the overhead irrigation in another video :)
Not sure I’d eat that cardboard, but maybe with some spicy mustard
Pardon me. Could you pass the Grey Poupon 🤣🤣
Still watching you Josh from Michigan! Always learn so much even if not selling commercially but growing for yourself (and neighbors). Am avid perennial grower but good dirt is good dirt and we all hate weeds!!! Husband is doing veggies so more fun and hard work to be had all around.
Thanks for watching!
Just did a "before and after" video review of your work at RCF. It is simply amazing. The RCF videos are must viewing for anyone starting a market farm in my opinion. Actually come to think of it, all your videos are!!!
Thank you! Glad you have found them valuable.
Excited for you to be back at your own place!!!
Happy new years. been following you since last year when I started my gardening adventure. I'm in Greensboro NC. Love your work, so helpful, especially since I'm just a hop and skip from where you are.
Thank you. Happy new year to you too!
That looks so satisfying. Great work. Looking forward to seeing what you grow in the tunnels. 😎
Thank you!
Another great vid Josh. It's nice to see you back "home."
Thank you!
Looking good Josh. You have gotten a lot done in a short period of time. Won't be long and you will be harvesting. The days are slowly getting longer and things will grow pretty fast.
Really appreciate your videos Josh.
Thank you!
That mix of soil looks awesome just right for what you’re using it for to guy! All the best for the new growing season cheers 🍻
That's some beautiful compost
Thank you for sharing Josh.
You're welcome. Thanks for watching!
Looks good, Josh. Best wishes on this endeavor. You'll do well. Thank you for continuing your video series. We enjoy learning from you. I am looking forward to learning about your scissor door system in your tunnels.
Thank you! Scissor doors video coming out soon.
@@JoshSattinFarming I went to RUclips and found a video of their installation and have downloaded instructions from Johnny's Seeds. It doesn't look hard but I'm looking forward to see how you build yours.
Thanks Josh! Loving your videos :)
You're welcome. Thanks for watching!
Loves me some regular, non-waxy, non-glossy cardboard.
Cut it up into little bite-sized "crackers", a great big ol' can of cheese-like-product Spray Cheese and we're off to the races with a TastySnack™ !
They are looking great Josh. Thanks for bringing us along.
Congrats on the sponsor deal Josh. Good that you are doing it! Love the lasagna beds with cardboard, great way of growing! Cheers
Josh, the tunnel environment looks great all around!
How correct you are sometimes, waiting a bit the land will showcase things for you, listen/observe and follow through... have fun growing as you enjoy some vitamin D3. 😉
Great looking beds Josh.
Thank you!
looks like a wonderful project
Happy New Year from coastal Carolina! Looking good my man..
Thank you. Happy new year to you too!
I'm up in PA, which gives me time to watch your videos and steal your ideas without getting too far behind on the season. Thanks! ✌😁🤣🤦♂️🤷♂️
You're welcome. Thanks for watching!
Omg that compost looked amazing!
Plan your work and work your plan. I don't know everything about gardening being a master plumber but I know everything worth doing is worth doing right the first time. I always enjoy watching a craftsman pouring their heart and soul into a project because I know the results will be worth the wait. Great job on your forward progress. 👍👍
I like that saying. I also know what you mean about watching a skilled craftsman. It doesn't matter what their field is, so cool to watch them work.
@@JoshSattinFarming Thank you.
Thanks Josh. Just bought 2 100 ft classic tunnels. Looking forward to scissor doors and irrigation.
You're welcome. I'm working on the scissor doors video. Should be up next week.
Beautiful!
Sending good vibes from Charlotte N.C. 👍
Hey Josh, how often do you lay done cardboard? Is it just the once when initially making the bed? Or do you do it seasonally? Thanks!
We’re just outside of Raleigh. What company are you using for compost now?
Doesn’t cardboard have glue adhering the corrugated side to the smooth outer sides? Also, what do you think about the ink that’s printed on cardboard? Do you slice those out?
I really can’t wait to build my own small farm garden. We’ve bought 3 acres for our home and garden. We will be growing heirloom varieties in our garden from seed savers exchange. With the exception of green onions and strawberries
Wow, that tunnel looks like it will be awesome... Leaf mold is awesome fertility, so 50/50 should work out very well, plus the good soil and chicken manure already. Can’t see not having a bumper crop of anything in there.
I think so too!
Hi Josh l am wondering if you have any ways to deal with a whole lawn of couch grass when starting beds, l have layed cardboard, compost, really struggling with the couch, appreciate your take on it, cheers from Australia
I must have seen so many bed building videos you've made but there's always something new to learn. Repetition is the mother of all learning a wise person once told me.
Hi how are you? Approximately how much compost is needed per bed? 30-inches x 10-metre bed. In cubes.
Nice video, Josh. We sell vacant land that can be developed into farmland. We will surely share this with our customers who would love to start farming.
To bad your not in OK. Been searching for over a year.
Hey Josh great fan here from overseas. Your work on the farm and the tube is beautiful.
Would like to leave a test for you (and us) if you wish:
Your soil is already rich clay. Have plenty chicken manure. And run off from the ultra rich beds you made above. And cardboard. And other fertilizers and manures you added. And lots of compost....and they are protected from Rain and wind.
Would say you have fertility for years . In my homestead (and others - including comercial veggie farms - i known) i have seen great harvest in much much much poorer soils.
My sugestion is: leave a few beds without any other fertilization for 1or 2 years as control beds. And compare the produtivity.
Bet that on most small leafy greens - specially the low feeders like lettuce - you dont need to spend money and work for a few years... Maybe just a bit of nitrogen ... In a few years... Maybe you could try some less irrigation too. I do no irrigation tomatos in much hotter weather (10a) and poorer soil with great results (specially on flavour). Same with peppers and others. Some crops seem to like less water and even compost and fertility in general. Sometimes seems to help the grow of deeper stronger roots, avoid some desease, faster flowering and fruting...The soil it self seems to like to just not being touch, it reestablish it self in a natural equilibrium of fertility....sometimes less is more.
Great to see you comercialy farmming on your land again. Hope you and your family have a great year.
Unfortunately I don't have extra beds that I can experiment with at that level. I am only planning on having 16 50' beds to make money off of.
Compost exactly the subject I was researching this week
im looking forward to next year..2022 LETS GO!!
I have been trying to buy a green house from farmers friend for over a month. Now I know why they were sold out. Thanks Josh!!!! Lol
Proud to say I bought one two days ago finally and a stack of wiggle wire.
Congratulations. Enjoy the tunnels!
Everything is looking great. You are correct-in your situation paying a bit more on the front end for the compost you want will yield dividends for years. I did 50/50 leaf mold/bedding mix for my raised beds and was very pleased. The cost per yard is comparable to what we have here, pity you had to pay a large delivery fee. You'd think for that volume at this time of year they'd give you a break.
This is off-topic, but could you share the kind of tarp you used at RCF? I have a lawn area I am converting to a garden either late this year or early next year and I'd like to tarp it to get it ready. Did you like that tarp or would you have used another kind if you were able? Thank you.
Its a sileage tarp. You can get it from lots of places. Works great.
@@JoshSattinFarming Thank you so much!
Since you are starting the farm up again, can you talk a little about the selling part of it. Like what kind of permits you need and such? I know it varies by state, but it would be cool to hear how you go about that. Possibly even getting certified.
I do the same except I put alot of shreaded greens(comfrey is great) with small amount of chicken manure pellets(to help feed microbes aswel as soil nutrients) with fish blood and bone meal down before cardboard, then roll on with the soil let it cook for 2weeks min but I allow for 4weeks then plant up, great way to add another inch of compost on what I work with clay soil
Another wonderful video
Thank you!
ive seen some folks put cardboard and thick compost straight onto grass and then plant- how important do you feel killing weeds is first?
Hi Josh, you mentioned that you put your chickens in the hoop house before the beds. How long did you have chickens in the hoop house? Did you have chicken wire around the bottoms of the hoops to create a fence to keep predators away? Thanks for your time.
Great video Josh...love your content. Question: Will you assume the compost mixture meets the fertility needs of your plantings? Or are you amending with anything? Seems like even though it should be good, it's a little bit of a shot in the dark.
ruclips.net/video/uGN6LO57gp4/видео.html
any info on the glues used in cardboard? I've looked into it a bit, but there was a lot of conflicting information.
rocks are good they provide of a lot of phosphoric content for fruiting plants
Must have been a monster dunk on that backboard
I am south of Raleigh. Do you mind saying where you get your compost and woodchips? I am planning a no till garden this year and looking for material to put on it.
I get the compost form Brooks. I get wood chips from a variety of tree companies. Whoever can get me free ones. Call around.
Why did you switch from putting compost directly on the ground to putting cardboard followed by compost?
Hello Josh. Try to find the electronic copy around your area, they do clearing of trees around the cable lines. I was lucky to chat with a crew that were doing some mulching on the side of the rode, and got their number. Now I send a text to a guy and instead of them dumping at the land fill they dump wood chips on my yard. I'm in Texas though. Chip Drop was not working in my area, but maybe it can work for you. Hope this helps you getting wood chips.
Good tip for sure. I have contacts for a bunch of arborists and tree companies, but nobody has any for me right now.
I agree. I have a tree trimmer come in annually to think my jungle. He is more than happy to dump a load of shredded stuff for free to neighborhood users and save a trip to the city’s composting site. And he does it frequently, but only to those folks (mostly commercial property owners) who don’t have any time constraints. OTOH, his loads vary quite a bit. Being in SoCal, he can have loads that vary between pines, oaks, eucalyptus, palms, and everything in between. What you don’t want in a garden is a load of shredded palm leaves or eucalyptus. But they would work just fine for other top dressing applications.
Hey Josh with the whole card board and compost how long does it take until you can plant or seed ? Doesn’t the card board need to break down first
If the compost is done then you can plant immediately.
@@JoshSattinFarming Even if the cardboard is not fully broken down? Thanks for the reply btw! You’ve gained two new subscribers (my wife and I) :)
Another awesome video, I've seen several beds built but none from the ground up like yours. Will you broad fork the beds again when you flip them or just add more compost and amendments?
Thank you. Here is a video all about how I flip beds.
ruclips.net/video/5Cr6E0Xsp-8/видео.html
Good evening Josh. What part of NC are you in? Where did you find your Compost? I live in NC near Charlotte and would love to find some where I could get good Compost. I really enjoy your Channel. Do you like the peaked Hoop house over the rounded hoop house? Have a great day.
What kind of compost or mixture of compost do you use?
I'm putting in a 1/4 acre garden right now, and I did not want to spend the time cleaning up a million boxes or driving all over the place all the time to pick up what may or may not even work- I was first going to buy 4x8 packing sheets at $2/piece, but also discovered that Lowe's has some latitude with giving it away (home depot does not)- they gave me a lot of big appliance boxes and packing sheets.
Score!
Rock it Josh
That compost looks awesome. I’ve been searching for good leaf mold in Raleigh. Where did you get this?
What, wait!? There IS no exactly right way to do things in farming? You mean that there are hundreds of different ways that it works? And works well? Are you saying that arguing about the "right" way to do it is kinda pointless? That actually getting out there, getting your hands dirty and trying things out for yourself is better than sitting here arguing about which piece to do first? Hahahahahahahahahaha
Nice high tunnels! And Happy New Year!
Sad that there has to be a . Don’t know why people rush to take everything so seriously or are so set on proving to others they are the most experts of experts with knowledge that will always apply accurately for everyone
Great stuff! Keep up the good work! Here's to 2021! :D
what is the drilled controlled tiller thing you have called? Dont think it was in this vid but Ive seen you use it in the past
Tilther
@@JoshSattinFarming thank you sir! best of luck on the farm
Great video as always. I know the compost helps control weeds and make the soil better. Wonder what it would be like mixing in lots of good topsoil with poor clay soil or mixed into subsoil?
subsoil loves compost. where i am from we really don't have much topsoil- it's subsoil we're working with. clay= minerals, increased surface area for biology, and a higher CEC potential. with enough compost there is no such thing as poor clay. unless its white clay, and then you would be better off moving. the redder the better. if its blood red you've hit the jackpot for nutrient potential.
I use a lot of compost and it can be very beneficial to add it to the soil to assist in growing vegetables. If you mix it in instead of laying down the deep compost layer on the top then you won't get the weed suppression. If you have solid clay then you would need A LOT of compost to make a difference tilling it in. You might want to think about other amendments such as peat moss to increase organic matter and improve the structure of the soil. It depends on what you can get, how expensive it is, what your soil is like and what your goals are.
@@JoshSattinFarming ok, thank you!
Just wondering if you’ve tried chip drop? I’ve just found the service and and I’m not sure if it will be in your area however it’s a free service where arborist and Tree Service companies will deliver loads of their wood chip to you
Great video as always! Will corrot roots go through the cardboard if I sow them with this method with 6” compost on top of the cardboard?
I talk about that in this video ruclips.net/video/0OQkVuKOAoQ/видео.html
Hey Josh you mention that you wouldn't touch biosolids compost. I'm very interested in your reasons as we're going to be ordering compost this year and one of the places we were looking at uses biosolids.
Thank you for your videos! I appreciate seeing your solutions and understanding why you make the decisions you do. I made beds last year with 30inch beds and 12 inch walkways. But something wasn't right...my walkways and beds both ended up too narrow. I think they were too tall and the sides so steep they fell into the walkways. How tall are yours? Are the vertical sides part of the 30 inches or the 12?
Raised beds will get wider over time and that's one of the reasons I fill the walkways with wood chips.
I always keep a 3’ aisle so I can get a small skid steer between my raised beds, but then again, I’m a home gardener and not a market gardener so space/profit isn’t an issue. And over time I’ve realized that a 4’ wide raised bed is too wide, I have to work both sides of the bed in order to harvest. So I have evolved into 3’ wide beds with 3’ wide aisles.
Makes sense! Thanks!
Now that’s some good dirt
Question on woodchips and cardboard. Ever seen or heard of any pest issues from use? Like termites in the chips and cardboard attracting cockroaches? This way is very new to me since I've only done raised beds but wouldn't mind putting chips down in my walkways instead of dealing with grass.
I have not had that problem.
@@JoshSattinFarming thank you for the reply.
Great video editing
Thanks Gene. Great bed building!
Josh I'm so excited on your behalf and we are not further North. We are further east. East part of South Africa 🇿🇦 respect!
haha, that means it's full summer there :D !
@@Blackadder75 yes mid summer
I’ve seen you start growing right after building the lasagna beds in previous videos. Is there a time when the cardboard gets in the way of root growth or does it decompose that quickly?
If you water it down heavily before adding compost it doesn't get in the way.
the idea is (correct me if I am wrong) that the wet cardboard will be weak enough that crop roots can go through it before it's decomposed entirely
@@Blackadder75 It breaks down really quickly. It is not a problem.
Thanks Josh!!!
I would totally watch a longer video with more time-lapses included.
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Looks like what I put in my greenhouse
Is there anywhere in particular that you get cardboard from? We go through a lot at my job, but we actually get paid to to bale it and ship it back, so I imagine a lot of other places do the same thing.
Lately we have been getting the cardboard from a furniture store. Always go and ask them first to make sure it's cool.
Hi Josh, I'm from Italy and we don't have access to all that compost, I'm trying to do some by myself but with 2,5 acres it's quite hard to make it with no tools. What would you do to build the beds? Thanks for all you videos!
It depends on what your soil is like and what it needs. The cheapest solution would be a combination of cover crops (biomass, nitrogen, carbon, etc.), compost teas (biology) and tarping to kill the weeds.
@@JoshSattinFarming thanks for the quick replay! We have heavy soil, pure clay. That's what I thought, we will use many different cover crops and KNF for soil biology. Hopefully nature will do the rest😁 thanks again!
You're a wizard. Nice touch at 11:58
In New England compost prices are insane. Throw in seaweed and lobster shell and they are getting up to $75 per yard! We did find a place that sells if for $12 per yard and the plants love it. Unfortunately most of their organic ingredients come from a nearby hydroponic lettuce factory. There are shiny colored remnants in the soil that I assume have come off of twist ties. So when the sun hits it just right, our beds do sparkle!
The struggle is real for finding good quality and reasonably priced compost.
Is there anything to avoid in the first year(s) with a new no till bed? like Tomatoes or things that want to be planted or that root a little deeper?
I assume you are referring to a deep compost system as a new no till bed. I generally grow shallow rooted crops for the first round, but you can always punch a hole through the cardboard to plant things like tomatoes.
Compost is more than 3 times the price here
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What was the name of the place where you got your compost?
Hey Josh, how do you keep the sides of your caterpillar tunnel up?
There is a system built in to the tunnel between the ropes and the clamps they provide.
I think you're going to get some good feedback about eating cardboard :) I've been using cardboard for years for paths under woodchips or at the bottom of very raised beds (I'm old, ha). But I can't remember what you've said about transplanting bigger plants, like squash or tomato, where right away you would "hit" the cardboard when putting in the seedlings. Do you just break through it? or use something like newspaper in those beds? My husband stacked the Amazon boxes in my potting greenhouse so I need to have a battle plan for using them soon. (but we're zone 5a, so not that soon. I have time to check out Osborne in the meantime.)
Haha yeah. If you want to transplant those types of crops then you can punch through the cardboard and transplant them into the soil below the cardboard. I have done that before, but would rather grow some shallow rooted crops on the first round. The cardboard will be gone and the soil a bit more integrated.
What kind of compost did you use and how deep and where did you buy it from
Where you get your compost from
I'd like to know a little more about why you don't like or wanna touch the biosolids compost. We got a place here in NM that sells it for $25 a ton. It's done through the water authority, and the claim its ready to plant into for farmers and the like. Do you have a video on it already, or could you do one where you discuss that?
I need to first admit that I don't know that much about biosolids compost, but the big concern that people have is about residual pharmaceuticals in the biosolids. Even if the compost was tested to be free of anything harmful I couldn't imagine a customer being happy about my farm using it to grow their vegetables. There are lots of other applications for it, such as landscaping. It's just a personal choice that I made for my farm and my customers.
@@JoshSattinFarming Thanks for the reply. That makes sense. It's like the idea of using various animal poop, sure you can get the temp up and "kill off whatever" but there is still psychological uncomfortableness with some people, so from a business standpoint it's worth avoiding.
Plus, in the case of residual pharma stuff, it may not be "dangerous" but that doesn't make it good by default. So I get it.
Excited to watch your farm get growing. I am hoping to do one myself here in New Mexico later in the year once I find some land. Your channel has been a treasure trove of info!
So I'm not the only one having trouble getting wood chips. Even the guys that I buy beer for in exchange for delivery haven't provided this fall. Have renewed my chip drop 4 times.