Issues: Re-use Potting Soil, Fixing Garden SOIL, Rehydrating, Container Gardening, Raised Bed Garden
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- UPDATE and Q&A. Easy Free FIX for BAD SOIL, This is for Container gardening, raised bed garden, growing tomatoes, growing squash, growing zucchini, growing cucumbers and simply saying this can be a must know for growing any vegetable garden. Here I show you how to fix un-growable soil so you can later grow flowers or vegetables. Make sure you know the soils you are using are good, if you have issues growing, it may be the soil, not your weather or set up.
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You always make me feel happy 😊😊. I love you for making me feel happy 😊😊❤😊
Always every single time I feel happier Robbie’s wonderful for my sad days, 😊
@@lsusantitus7319thank you❤
Thank you Robert 😊
Well Robbie I did it. I got all my totes filled start with branches then leaves & chicken pine shavings which we compost oh then dirt, then kitchen scraps. And today when I went out to see what was growing I looked in my tote and there was something green that popped up out of the soil. I stood there for a second and thought huh wonder what that is. So I put my finger tip on it and wiggled around and wouldn't you know it it is celery growing in my tote lol. What an amazing day it was I was so excited when I seen that. If you can grow in totes anyone can grow in totes. It sure beats getting down on my hands and knees pulling weeds. What an amazing thing to do is grow in totes everyone. It's so simple just follow Robbie and Gary's instructions and I guaranteed yinz will grow at least something. Happy day everyone 😊♥️😊
One year I dug a small hole in my yard and started putting produce table scraps into it. To my surprise, a bunch of potatoes 🥔 grew!!
WoW that’s way cool. Possibly they grew off your potato skins.
@@juliel.bateson4971 I think I was lazy and just threw an old potato in, not imagining that it would sprout into a whole clutch of new potatoes!
@@pollytiks3885 It’s amazing how things will grow from our garbage throw~away
Either a bird or something had gotten in one of my totes, I'm growing tomatoes in and broke the stem. Prior to watching your videos, I would have simply given up on the plant. However, I simply stuck the broken piece in the soil, and it's growing. I saw my first Baltimore oriole on a hummingbird feeder today. They don't stick around very long in Northeast Missouri, but it made my day. 😊
Not sure what went after your tomatoes but those stems should grow ❤ love that an oriole came for a visit, we love ours ❤😊
Very interesting! Thank you for valuable information!!!❤
You are so welcome ❤ thank you😊
Good point on the heat treated.
Thanks 😊
Hey Robbie & the chair garden looks great🥰🥰
Thank you ❤
Awe that Rabbit 🐇 is so adorable
Funny Rabbit, I so love our rabbits❤
Thanks for the information!
You are so welcome 😊 thank you❤
Thanks for sharing
You are so welcome
I am so happy I ran across this video! I have a bag of Miracle Grow that is dry. I'm going to do as you said and add water before I use it.
Oh yes, just add water and the soil will rehydrate nicely 😊
Thanks for the balanced answers to the issues around potting soils.
Property so beautiful ❤
Thank you 😊
I have had no problem with miracle grow. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks ❤😊
Ribbie you and Garys gardens are really nice Thank you for sharing
Thank you ❤😊
Thank you, I have had better luck with miracle grow.
Thank you for going into detail it helps so much. Lettuce this year for me tomatoes for my husband and other veggies. 😊
Oh perfect 😊 thank you❤
At least in my area of Southern CA (Long Beach) Lowe's has a good sale on the Miracle Grow potting mix through the weekend.
I've used Miracle Grow without problems.
I now have 9 totes growing! Adding more intermittently. Enjoying my lettuce. Will soon start making mint drinks. I've learned so much from you, Robbie + Gary! Greetings from West Tx! 75-85 during the day. 50-60 @ night. I'm collecting rain water! Glad for the rain😊
Mint water frozen as ice cubes is good too during seasons when you can't get it fresh.
All sounds so wonderful ❤️
Thank you, I was one that complained about my Miracle Grow and the water just running through. I really appreciate you addressing this, as I thought it was like the grocery store vegetables, Just not going to work the way it should any longer. I do still have the bag, so I will give this a try. I appreciate your addressing this as I was about to give up. I put egg shells, and banana peels in the water I water my plants with so I will try to get the life back in my soil. You are appreciated.
I'm growing another accidental potato plant in my compost, got to love nature 😊
You are an amazing earth angel. I look forward to seeing your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.❤
some of my best plants grew in miracle grow mixed with black top soil
I grow in pots
That works great 😊
I make my own growing compound I use compost vermiculite and coco coir or peat moss i soak it real good when i pot it i put it in my raised beds with twigs and leafs and some cardboard last fall and i have living things in my beds Since i started watching you i save my scraps and putting that in my pots before i plant in them .
❤❤great lesson from my soil sister. 👍🤗❤️
Robbie. Sorry im phone misselled your name earler. I am watching your older videos. Thank you from all of us for all the great info. I love composting in place. No turning no extra hard work. Love it. ❤❤❤❤
One last thing. I bought potting soil a few years ago And it was full of spiders. Uggg. I never bought from them again. I like how you encourage us to make our own. Start slow. Lol
Thank you Robbie for all of your helpful information. I have a friend I've tried to show how using her food scraps will help her garden and bury the dead leaves on her plants. She chooses to listen to Master Ggardener information which of course doesn't teach about decaying food matter. This is my 3rd year container gardening. I have a dinosaur kale that is still growing and producing from 2 years ago. Some friends iv helped get started say it doesn't work. I found the reason to be lack of proper watering.
Aw Little Rabbit, just darling. Robbie your garden is beautiful. We are still learning. Hubby cut off some tomato branches and is soaking them in water till they root. Thank you. LOVE YALL. ❤
How wonderful 😊❤️
Hi Robbie, new to gardening. I have a raised -elevated mini bed. I put cardboard on the bottom, kitchen scraps, greens, potting mix on top. 1) How long do I have to wait to be able to plant potatoes in the bed? I have slips that are ready to be planted. I also have potatoes that have chitted and ready to be planted. Thank you, for your help!
What about the soil that you get from the garden kits
That bunny is just too cute.
I must agree 😊❤
Hi Robbie. Your so creative so hopefully you can help me. I’ve planted table tops into the cloth potting bags. How can I create a trellis type of something in a grow bag. Thank you.
Hi Robbie 🙋🏻♀️
Hi ❤😊
Yeah, one year we bought EarthGro and tried to grow in that. Everything we planted either was stunted or outright died. It was a wasted season. I don't trust any commercial soil in Southern California except Top Pot. Top Pot soil is beautiful and doesn't contain any shredded bark or wood chips.
I have something eating my plant what's the best repellent please help 😢 and thank you. You so amazing
Robbie...I know this is off subject but I love your solar fountain birdbath videos. I used a large tomato cage that wasn't busy...LOL..., a Dollar Tree oil change pan on top, some rocks and your drinking cup idea. Just add water! 😏
All bagged soil here is stored outside the stores, the bags are so heavy from water I can barely lift the large bags! I will not get mulch from our local recycle, though it is free. Tried it once, not happy! And we are not allowed to put grass clippings to the recycle, still junk in there. The only thing to mix with my soil and own compost is mushroom soil.
Going to look for some pitchers😊
These are the problems I'm having. Slow growth, blossom end root
Thank you so much for your informative videos. I love to see how much food you grow and the slight differences in style by you and Gary yet amazing results. ❤
Great topic Robbie! Some garden centers sell earthworms. I am pretty sure bait shops sell worms too. But we must remember to feed your worms the good stuff :-) Funny little bunny.
In France, there's a site that helps people contact each other to donate red wigglers. Last year, I started getting interested in soil and gardening. My area was under heat waves from spring to autumn. I found not one earthworm in our garden. Our soil is clay, hard and dry as stone. In retrospect, I realized that for years now, there were no earthworms surfacing after a rain whereas there were plenty going up the ground when I was a teen. I decided our soil needed regeneration. Last summer, my family discovered the advantages of growing in containers, rather than in the ground. This year, we are mostly growing in containers. Robbie and Gary have been great inspirations.
Last year's spring and summer, I prepared outdoors worm bins, naively thinking I'd find worms in my garden and in parks around that I'd transfer to the bins. But not a worm to be found, still I kept composting in those bins, sure I'll get worms at some point. Via the site I mentioned, I sent messages to 3 people in my town but none replied. Then in the end of autumn, one person who was previously listed as inactive became momentarily active. He was a dear old man who offered me a bucket of red wigglers. I realize after her gave me the worms that he went offline again on the site. I was very lucky to catch him the few days his account was active.
@@little_dandelion I’m so happy you found some worms. What a sweet old man he is to help you out. Best wishes with your red wrigglers :-)
I agree with what you said about peat moss! I have had that happen to me when I forget to water my pots. I try to water the middle of the pot numerous times so the water absorbs. My pots are too big to soak. I gave up making my own potting mix because I can't find the bags of vermiculite in any of the stores. And if I purchase it online it is extremely expensive so now I buy the sunshine mix in a big 2. something cubic foot bale. Everything is growing beautifully for me now.
THANKS - I opened a bag of Miracle Grow last month and it looked 'funny' - really dry and totally different from any other bag I've used before. I ended up mixing it with my homemade compost and compost tea, used potting soil from last year and another bag of potting soil that looked and smelled OK. So far, everything I planted is going good. Your explanation let me know what had happened to that one bag. Also, one of my zucchini plants had its first 'baby' over the weekend. Yea!
If you need earthworms, there are two ways to get them if you don't have land. You can go to a bait shop and buy some earthworms. If you don't have any bait shops around, you can buy earthworms online from various worm farms. That is pricey, but they do reproduce like if you feed them leaves and scraps and such and will soon be a lot of them. Those are the ones I know of.
Thanks for sharing 😊
I just love your videos Robbie (and Gary)! I am in the Phoenix area, so my climate is way hotter than yours is. I started to test the waters of growing food a few years ago because of you and your videos! I was initially interested in your hummingbird videos ( and still am!) as my Mom loved hummingbirds, but now love all that you teach us! I have been able to grow lots of tomatoes, peppers, chives, spinach, lettuce, celery, cabbage and more from plants I have bought. I need to now try starting from seeds, as the plant prices at Home Depot and Lowe's are insane. I have had lettuce go to seed last year and it started growing on the ground, no problem, which surprised me, as I thought our dirt was lousy. Same with parsley and mint. We had quite a few nice salads with the 'rock lettuce' as I call it! You gave me the confidence to grow food here in the desert and for that I thank you! It's tough growing here in summer, but I am learning what works and what just won't make it here in the heat. I am so sorry about your sweet Kitty. I hope your hearts have been able to heal a bit. I know it's hard to lose them, they are part of our family. Thank you for sharing her with us. Bless you both for helping us learn to grow our own food without breaking the bank. You are the true and honest 'green' earth angels!
Lovely comment. My father in law in phx has the most glorious veggie garden. Blows me away.
@@emac1177 That is so great to hear! I have only known one person that has had a garden here in the Phoenix area and her dad from Wisconsin used to come down here in the winter months and plant it for her. Even my parents stopped growing gardens after we moved from Wisconsin to Arizona and they always had beautiful and very productive gardens back home. They had no clue how to garden in this hostile climate. Maybe they just got older and tired of doing it, especially trying to learn an entirely new way to garden out here. Back then people had no idea what container gardening was either, at least I can speak for myself. I remember the massive beefsteak tomatoes that came out of our gardens in WI...yummy! Nothing in the stores these days comes close to the taste of a fresh homegrown tomato! I miss the good old days.
The channel, Growing in the Garden, is from Phoenix. She will give you tips on when to grow stuff in that region.
I prefer Robbie's method, but I do mix and match some things with other gardeners. 😄
Robbie you and Gary are awesome. I have learned so much from you. Thanks a million for all the great information. I do gave a question. Are the buckets and dish pans from the Dollar Tree safe to plant veggies in? They don't have numbers on them. Thanks,
Diann
Will morning glory weeds regrow if you use it in compost? I also have other weeds. Can I use them in compost? I used my garden vegetable plants from last year and added in dirt and shredded paper. It turned out wonderful. When I was digging and planting my flowers, last year, when I came across earth worms, I added those in too.
Hi Robbie, I'm in Chicago and "almost" had my hummingbirds time of arrival correct. I was just one week early and was about to take the feeders down when one appeared landing on one of the "buffets". I know you've been asked a thousand times about the nectar and I'm going to make it 1,001! Do we have to refrigerate their food for freshness? Do they like it cold or at room temperature, especially when the temperature starts getting warmer? Thank you and love what you do!
Hi Robbie, im so confused about the totes and compost tea collection at the bottom. Should I put a bunch of holes on the bottom? Or should i put ONE drainage hole where I can collect the compost tea with another bucket or plant at the bottom? 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 please please help! I got all my totes from walmart already.
I know that peat can dry out. That's why I like making my container soil mix with pine mulch (pine fines, not nuggets). The worms also like it too even years later.
I finally found some pine mulch at one of the Ace Hardware stores. It's nearly twice as expensive as it was about a decade ago but worth picking up a few bags.
You get a better deal if you get half or yards from a dirt yard, but I don't need that much now.
I'm curious about the series of arched trellises that quickly showed in the video. I'd like to get a better look at them and see how they're used.
Not sure if the Miracle Grow Organic is that great. Only my garlic is growing. Not sure if I would use it for big containers but for one little pot it works fine.
So I think what you’re saying is Go All Natural 🍁 when ever possible.
I MIGHT try getting some topsoil and compost next year.
I did find some leaves laying around and put it in my drainage buckets to make Leaves Compost Tea like you suggested for me to do. Thank You Robbie. God Bless You for all the help/ videos you make for all of us ❤
Than you for another informative video ... on a side note, I was wondering if you like the Black Eyed Susan flower?
A question, if you have time. I've been loading several of my totes/pots with cut tall grasses - meaning the majority of the compostables i put in the bottom are green. and maybe some kitchen scxraps . .then topped with good soil. Is it a problem that there are no "browns" in the bottom part? Is it too much nitrogen? (from fresh greens).
What are those pink flowers or tree? They look very pretty!
Can I throw pureed vegetable waste from kitchen directly around my tomatoes and garden vegetables? I through into my garden year-round kitchen waste, pureed. But , it stays a few months before I plant spring vegetables.
It's scary what we put in our garden without knowing it. Thank you Robbie for sharing your knowledge.
If you are trying to rehydrate potting soil or peat moss that is super dry add a drop or two of mild dish soap to your watering can before watering the dry soil. The surfactants in the soap alter the surface tension of the water and make it more easily absorbable by the soil. This also works for super dry garden soil that won't absorb water properly after a long dry period.
How much dirt do you need to grow seeet potatoes in. I see tou dont need so much dirt. I spent so much money on dirt filling my beds to the tippy top,
Looks like you guys have a pet bunny 😂😂😂
And we leave plants/totes for it ❤ So he/she will leave the others alone 😊
I don’t have a problem if I have ants but my husband does. Why is it I never see ants in your bins? With all the food scraps I’d think you’d get them.
Read the ingredient lists. If it has poultry litter or any other animal products, you will be eating what ever the animals were inoculated with. Choose wisely.
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Robbie and Gary ❣️ my sweet friends 🙏 I m so huppy I am watching you again Robbie ❣️🌟 We had the idiot elections here in Greece.... I so hate their fake elections 😤😾 I wish all the politicians would just leave from the country and never see them again....
The weather here is just the same as yours. One day we have wind and no sun and the other it's warm and sunny 😎 You are making my day watching your videos and hearing you Robbie❣️ Thank you for your kind words 💕you are always so kind to everyone and so encouraging ❣️
Everything you said is absolutely the truth! I always wanted to grow my food , not just having some flowers on my balconies, wich I also love them. But every video I watched, every single one was leading you to buy products... By that period unfortunately I didn't had any job so it was so difficult for me to buy even the totes that I needed or the soil etc.
And then I discovered your awesome channel 😍 I've seen all your videos from the beginning...ALL of them!!! Of course I believed you ❣️ You weren't selling anything but instead you were showing ways to make our gardening life easier AND cheaper 👏 And that's the point I believe cause in nowadays that we are facing all this economical crisis we have to find ways to deal everything spending less or no money!
And you do it Robbie AND Gary ❣️ You are always proving us that the best way to grow our food cheap and easy is to work with nature. So I've watched ALL your enjoyable and informative videos and I did what you're telling us. Yes no earthworms for me...but I had all the other microbes that I needed to make my own soil and grow in that😊 And it worked!!!! I was growing my veggies and underneath I was making beautiful rich black soil! And that cost me nothing!!! No fertilizers, no composts, not even big bags of soil to fill my pots...
Now that I have a part time job I just want to thank you for encouraging us too, who we don't have enough money to buy all these products that all these "fantastic" channels promote and doesn't really provide us any real information but the ones that will lead the people to buy those products 😉
And yes ❣️ I've finally got earthworms two months ago. From a potting flower that I bought ❣️ this season I will have many flowers for the bees to come to my balconies 😊 I'm so huppy and excited 💞🤗
Thank you so much Robbie for keeping gardening simply and easy BUT with success 👏👏👏 And thank you for your kindness and support to all of us❣️❣️❣️
OMG, all this here is so beautiful to read, except for the political stuff that I have to solution for a Fix. That goes on here too 🙁. Your life and story is so inspirational to Me and I know others too. Glad your gardening is going great, nature’s way so little or to cost. Happy to hear you got a part time job, hopefully you are enjoying it. You take care, and as always thank You for your kind words. Days here for me are still hard as I miss Kitty so much, how a tiny Dog could become such a big part of my life is really unbelievable, the inside of the house and the deck garden are a sad place for me still, as that is where she always was, hard to believe she she not here. Oh well, one day at a time. Thank you so much for the Super Thanks 😊❤️❤️❤️❤️ You have a wonderful beautiful day, thank you again for everything ❤️
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy it takes time to accept the loss. But we never forget ... You must always communicate your feelings with your people and friends. You can make a live too❣️ do what makes you feel good. It's not a good thing to bury those feelings. We are human beings. It's in our nature to need each others ❤️
They say people who smile a lot hide a lot of pain inside... One step at a time Robbie ❤️ we have to give ourselves as much time as we need to go through each process. Don't force yourself❣️The deck and everything will be there. You will reach the right time to make it a green paradise again. Kitty will always be in your thoughts and your heart wether you are on the deck or in a super market....we can't forget...🥀💕
I tried to grow all organic but nothing was really growing. Then I tried Miracle-Gro and in one week everything was growing. Maybe I wasn't doing the organic thing right but all I know is that Miracle Grow really works good for me. For now anyway 😎🌱