A Cheap and Easy Way to Make a New Garden
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- Опубликовано: 9 май 2021
- In this video I make some new garden beds very quickly over weedy soil, using only old logs, old lumber, some pegs, yard waste and potatoes.
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Hey I don't usually comment on videos but I just wanted to let you know I really appreciate the videos! I'm in my early 20s and picked up gardening during the pandemic and your videos were a huge help. I find gardening relaxing and a good way to get fresh veg.
That is awesome man thanks and I hope your garden does well this year!
Simple and sustainable, I am shocked at the price of plant boxes here in Ontario and then they still have to be filled, we love your videos, thanks!
Check your city for recycled stuff. I'm in Florence Al and I'm getting leaf mulch, all I want free from the recycling place.
Thanks
Cardboard is great. I am the cardboard lady in town
I had potatoes growing in my compost heap. Just goes to show you only have to throw them somewhere and cover them with waste! It’s that easy.
I so appreciate your style of gardening. No nonsense. I believe that this approach doesn't scare people away and gets more people into their garden. Good job.
Thanks
Thanks. This information is very helpful. I have tons of boxes but no logs. I've been using bricks to hold the boxes down.
I'm in NB, and really enjoying your videos lately. I don't know anything about gardening, but I love your no-nonsense just-get-it-done-cheap approach to gardening.
Awesome, thank you!
Omg a place where "weed" killers aren't allowed?! What a dream! I'm in colorado and have convinced my next door neighbor not to use them anymore but a few other people on our block still do unfortunately.
I planted potatoes today and I added shredded leaves. I already had a few in the ground that I purposely left in the ground last fall. I carefully dig down and found perfect potatoes with sprouts! Let’s see how they go.
sometimes they make it through the winter and sometimes they don't. I wish I could solve that mystery!
Hello Greg, I have so much rock here I tend to grow in big tubs, till about 2-3 years ago when I saw you put potatoes down. I had wood chunks from power line cleanup crew I saw working in the greenbelt and I asked the gentleman for the trunks, they were even kind enough to ask what size I wanted and told 2-3 foot because I figure I could handle that weight.
So with that wood, I made the edge of the planting bed, my potatoes weren’t anything to write home about, but they were delicious but the most satisfying and surprising thing was, the beautiful planting bed the left me with! ☺️
I did had to go and work a whole lot of rocks out but there’s so much organic matter that, in the fall it became an onion and garlic bed.
I planned on making a second bed this way this spring/summer I even had everything needed, but life happens even my 4 bags of leaves collected were taken from the side of my house. So next year God willing, meantime I put them in grow bags.😉
By the way Greg, about being beautiful, as the saying goes, ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’. Your way of gardening might not fit in an English garden, but it will in a Country garden magazine or even our Southern Living. ☺️
Great story! Glad to hear it worked for you!
I love your clever and, in this case, economical ideas for the garden...it will be beautiful once the shoots come up! Thanks, Greg!
Thank you!
Greg, please do a video on leeks. I’d like to learn more about growing leeks!
I'm growing them for the 1st time this year so I don't think I can speak with authority on how to grow them yet.
@@maritimegardening4887 I value your guesses more than most podcast directions. You’re honest and perceptive. I am willing to wait on your video. At the same time, I believe if you just show us what your doing, win or lose, your followers will benefit from your thinking.
So I'm doing potatoes this year, following your method here... I also have an abundance of horse manure, so I put a layer of it down, mulched it heavy, I am shocked by how well their doing...
Just wanted to say thanks, because I've tried for 5 years with no luck. This method WORKS...
Fantastic!
This video came to me when I needed it bad. . I had topped a raised bed with with super compost last year to over winter cabbage and kale under mini hoop house. (It worked..SE MI.)Early spring I removed cover and it was overtaken by what I call "super soldier grass". You'll break your fingers trying to pull it out. (Leaving fabulous compost wide open was not smart.) Love a good lazy gardener experiment as I'm patient and like to work as little as possible. With my hedge shears, I took the grass down in layers chopping it into mulch. Then sliced into it with shovel and nestled the taters down under. I like to get my straw bales a year or so before I need them and let them sit out and get funky. People give them away after halloween and you can park them in the weather. So it's planted now and smothered with straw and grass clippings. I first thought I should smother this grass and wait on using bed till late summer, but if this works, I'll have potatoes to show for it! This all depends on the potatoes having more fortitude than the super soldier. Best of luck, Potatoes!
That's amazing! I have all the materials to do that in the back of my garden almost exactly like you did (minus the seaweed). I didn't know potatoes were deer proof. Since it's in the back of the garden outside the fence it wouldn't matter what it looks like either. You'll have to do a follow up video in the summer so we can see how they did.
will do
I wanted to share with you that I asked you a couple of questions about starting a no-till no-water potato garden last fall and winter. I put in a small potato patch in my backyard. I got started a little later than I intended to but my potato plants a looking great!!!! I’m very excited!! I may have planted them a little too close, but I wasn’t so sure they’d all grow. They look more and more beautiful every day!!!!
Thanks that's great to hear Beth - I hope I answered your questions. I don't always get to all of them - so apologies if you didn't get an answer
I would have sent you pictures of my plants but if there is a way to attach pics I haven’t figured it out yet! 😊
Looks comfortable enough to sleep on 🌻. Love your channel ❤️
Thanks so much! 😊
I planted mine like this, but used woodchips. Love the simplicity
Thank you for sharing. This is exactly how I started an extra gardening space last fall. This spring I pulled off the mulch (leaves) and planted potatoes. Then put the mulch back on with more mulch and now I have more gardening area. The amount of worms in the soil was amazing. There was a very herd lawn surface underneath it. 💚🌱🇨🇦
Great job!
I put dried leaves on my potatoes just to protect them from the late frost from this week and I keep having to add more because they're growing right through them.
Love all your videos, Greg - very inspiring and helpful!
Thanks so much!
Ok. Now I'm officially excited about this growing season! Thanks for another inspiring video.
You are so welcome!
Love your idea with the branches. It can get really windy here too
Grabbed a few 5 gallon buckets of seaweed this week and tried this trick. Over a foot of green growth in a year placing the potatoes on the surface and burying them in seaweed
Another great video! I planted my potatoes last week here in Cape Breton. Covered mine with straw but I must confess I did buy it. :)
It's not a crime to buy straw :)
In March, I planted potatoes. I waterlogged them, thinking they needed a lot of water. 😳
They looked bad. So i ignored them.l didn't pull anything up. They died and disappeared. In August, they popped up again! Healthy.
Sooooo I think I might get some potatoes after all. 😁
Am going to try your way next spring, using big cardboard with holes for them to grow.
Tks!
Think like a plant, live like a plant, and be like a plant! I will be sleeping on a bed of aged horse manure, hay, and leafbags from now on.
That is exactly how I’ve been doing it for years, Greg. Literally the same. I haven’t used potatoes as a pioneer crop, simply because this is the first year that I’ve tried growing potatoes at all.
But I do like pumpkins and hard squash as pioneer plants,...cardboard, deep mulches, wood from the environment as edging,....you name it.
I I don’t make whole beds to nourish a few plants I do like you do with cutting through the cardboard but I use a post hole digger and I feed that spot where the plant will grow. Meanwhile, the rest of the growing area enriches itself in the same manner that you have described.
In fact, I have my first pepper bed put in over the weekend, where i used a grub hoe to pull up all the weeds that had grown there - then laid THEM down as a mulch once I separated them!
Your garden is my garden, sir.
Thank you for this video.
David
South Carolina
I will do the same thing when I cut the hole for the squash - namely amend the soil a bit to give the squash a jump-start. Great to hear that others do the same thing
Another great tater video. I am so excited to begin harvesting my 1st crop of them. I'll wait til August to plant my fall crop. This method is THE easiest and as always so much fun.
You lucky to have seaweed nearby.
Don’t usually comment but love your no nonsense content - i garden in a completely different climate - Australia/temperate where I can overwinter eggplant, tomatoes & sweet potatoes outdoors but your approach and ideas are absolutely relevant (glad I don’t have to deal with the cold) - wild man of Nova Scotia -that thought made me laugh ! scenery looks stunning though
Thanks. My approach (permaculture) is actually borrowed from an Australian - bill mollison!
Great ideas, once again. Thanks!
Glad you like them!
Wild man!!!!
Hahahaha...I KNEW YOU WOULD make it bigger!
And I have to say I am adding a couple more beds this year as well.....🤣
Have a great day my friend!
Mike 🇨🇦
Yep, it was only a matter of time!😁
The long term plan is to have more room for onions & sunchokes
I would love my garden to be magazine worthy, but until I can afford to keep a full time gardener on staff, it will have to be functional, lol. I'm with you on the lawn raking. No thanks. I always wonder at the people who rake leaves out of the flower beds, and then buy mulch. Where is the sense in that, lol.
Well said!
Greg, I think we both need to join Gardener's Anonymous, and admit we have no control over our desire to expand our gardens. ; ) I have over 2000 strawberry blossoms out there right now, and I'm looking forward to trying yet another variety next spring. And it's so pretty in bloom, I'm wondering if I can get away with converting the whole front yard to a strawberry bed too.
Letting mother nature do the prep work is a good way to establish your garden bed. I’m mulching all my garden beds this year, and it’s all being done based upon Maritime Gardening. Depending upon the fertility of the soil, will you, at some time in the future, be burying logs in this garden bed? Please do a follow up video on your potato success and your garden maintenance for this potato patch. Thanks for the follow garden update and your ideas about cardboard and gardening.
I usually bury logs if I see the soil level dropping - or if I find a bed to be performing poorly
Love Your Style Brother. Thank You Very Much
My pleasure!
Thanks for the inspiration!
You are so welcome!
Thanx Brother!!!
You're welcome!
Exciting!!
Inspiring as usual Greg!
I appreciate that!
Year 3 for me growing potatoes like this with heavy mulch based on watching your videos. It is so easy, that I almost feel guilty. However, this method works well and harvest is a cinch too. But the real benefit was the soil improvement the following year when I stuck seedlings in the ground. Heavy grey clay soil was much darker and friable. That made me a convert . Now every new bed is a potato bed to start, and every bed gets yard waste mulch, during the growing season and every fall as well. Like you, I grab those paper bags left out in the fall at the curb and believe me when I tell you that I get butterflies in my stomach when I see them lined up for the taking. Thank you man for the low/no cost approach.
I'm gonna be trying to beat the city trucks to get leaf bags this year. Thx you
There's nothing more frustrating than being late for work and having to drive by perfectly good leaf bags :)
@@maritimegardening4887 I used to spend a few hundred dollars at least a year or more on my garden. Now it's the cheapskate Greg method that I employ. Make my own compost, utilize seeds that people toss into our community garden compost pile (yes I have plots there as well) for my cover crop seeds, and only purchase seeds and a single bag of alfalfa feed pellets as fertilizer. When rich people toss out their corn stalks from their lovely fall decorations, I grab the full corn cobs and strip the seeds. as soon as I harvest early potatoes or my peas or bush beans have gone by, I plant that corn seed heavy getting about 40 or so days of growth. Chop and drop that cover and mulch the snot out of the bed. Great organic material addition for the winter and the soil bacteria has plenty to eat. When I call you a cheapskate, it is a term of endearment. Appreciate every no cost hack you show me.
I followed your method for mulching with leaves. And I was just wondering today if I can use this for potatoes. Thanks for the video you answered my question
Yes, absolutely - enjoy!
It's a pick-mattock.
Thanks for this idea!
You bet!
I love your gardening method! Just get it done and start growing. I may try this to stay a new bed this year. I was not wanting to dig or till or find soil to fill a new bed. Thank you for the idea!
Go for it!
You rock Sir...will surely look at all you r videos and change my ways..of growing, Thank you so much...
So nice of you
Autumn, nearly winter here in NZ, so it's nice watching you plant out Spring veges Greg👍
I'm planting some veges that will survive through winter - brassicas, snow peas & broad beans.
Sounds great!
Thanks I was gifted seed potatoes and was at my wits end as how to plant all these darn potatoes 👊🌱💥👍🥰thanks!!
You are so welcome!
Potatoes are crazy good at coming out of thick cover. They pop up in my compost beds all the time. Also the leaves will stay. I use them in my compost year round.
I agree appearance isnt important to plants. I mainly do container gardening (sip containers). Most of the containers I use were rescued from the trash or given to me (Tidy Cat litter buckets) They are all different colors and the size differs a little, but the plants dont care. The only thing I care about is the veggies I will get.
Thanks for sharing!!
Pretty sure I went back and "watched all five hundred"... 😂😂😂 I laughed at that! 🤣 Anyways, I do this too! New garden is always potatoes. Just SO easy!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Do you ever gift your neighbors bags, so they keep gathering your future mulch? Lol that is what I told my neighbors I would do
That sounds like a good idea :)
The only time I rake my lawn is when I need the mulch. I don’t have neighbors who rake leaves or lawn, unfortunately! Wish I did!
I’m wondering, do deer/bunnies etc. bother Jerusalem artichokes? I’m thinking of planting some outside my fence.
I have found them to be deer/rabbit proof. I have some outside the fence that have been growing for years
Help. I planted my potatoes March 17 and covered them with 1 1/2 ft of hay. Chicken poo was put down October 2020 and mulched 6 inches. I've been visiting my little beauties at least twice daily and at first everything was grand. 42 babies planted the Ruth Stout way (more or less). Now the majority of them are all curled up like little baby fists and I feel like I'm going to cry. Virus maybe I suppose. What the hell? Now what? By the way. Dude- good videos- I intend to watch them all!
Are you getting frost at night? It's hard to say what the problem is.
i'm gonna start another bed with stump grindings off the shared fence.
❤️🔥
I havent seen any black flys since I moved bacl from Winnipeg 4 years ago. Good video though. I should try that way. Hey if I go in to the woods around me and scrape up the ground will that make good mulch. my 1.3 acres hasn't much trees on it. just the border
Hello from NB! I'm curious how this harvest went. Was there a followup video?
I love your podcast and video content. Thanks for sharing this amazing free brain juice. 😂
I can't remember if I made a video but they did fine. I think a fire ant nest got established in that bed - so the harvest was a little dicey :)
@@maritimegardening4887 eat at your own risk! Hahaha.
Thanks for the response.
Greg, thanks for another great video. Off topic question for you....flea beetles! Do you have them and if so how do you control them? Thanks!
I have them anywhere I plant cole crops - I use safers end-all to control them. Once the plants are about 4" high you don't need to control them anymore - the plants deal with them on their won somehow
Greg, I wish I could safely use your method for planting potatoes. Last year we tried the Ruth Stout Method and boy did we kill snakes. We killed about 8 that got into the wheat straw. So now we have straw that we are going to spread and just let it breakdown for a few years, then turn it and plant. I like your gardening success.
Urban gardener here. Where do you get your stakes? They look hardier than the shims I see at the local box stores.
They are usually from spruce trees on my property
If your seed potatoes grow sprouts during the winter do you remove the sprout before chitting and planting.
I don't but some people do
So where are you located if you are so far from civilization?
A two day walk?
Can you drive out?
Given you've grown like this before, is the taste of the spud ever tainted with what you grow them in?
Great videos by the way, very easy to follow, I'm very encouraged that I'll be able to grow my own food when I eventually get off the grid myself.
it's a couple days walking in that direction, but of course, there's a paved road on the other side of the property. The nearest corner store is about a 5 minute drive; the nearest grocery store is about 15 minute drive. The forest behind the house is a protected 4,551 hectare wilderness area that goes all the way to the ocean
Deer might like pumpkins.....
My deer leave them alone... but I agree - any year they could get smart and all of that could change
@@maritimegardening4887 last year was very dry in MI. Deer and voles tag teamed me. Green beans! Who knew? Love your content, watched for years.
@@maritimegardening4887 Our spring has been extremely dry. Last night I was planting out some fresh plants and watering them in and had a strong feeling that many animals are VERY thirsty now with their sources drying out. I had just given them a source of wet tasty food. Last year same dry conditions. Lost all my 2nd planting beans. Voles, bunnies, even deer. I'm planting them a sacrificial garden to see. I have a hard pan bed that I haven't conditioned yet. I had tried to hugel it with logs and mulch and it became a vole colony. So I took it all out down to the dirt. I'm going to plant it for them. Not sure what to plant but sorrel, jade beans, maybe kale comes to mind. I could just feel them out there. It clicked in to me while watering that I was creating a water source and had to give them water somewhere else. Might even till up something further back that they would prefer. I keep losing the vole battle. Tried everything. Mulch made it worse. Huge regrets over that decision. They leave raised beds alone. Thinking about trenching gravel around other ground beds as I hear they won't travel thru it. Might be easier than burying hardware cloth. They are making me work with shovels and I'm a no dig girl.
Do you return the bags to your neighbors?
nope :) Often the bottoms are torn anyway
Would this work the same for Sweet potatoes?
Probably - I can't grow them here (not enough heat) so I can't say for sure
I see a lot of wood chips around the side of the roads lately from tree trimming companies. Is this stuff safe for gardens or would it be a bad idea to use anything near ditches?
I'd probably use it
My husband bags up grass clippings when he mows. Should I be using that to mix in with the dirt in vegetable and flower beds, or would that be too much nitrogen?
put it on top as a mulch - works great
I trench grass clippings where I plant warm weather crops like tomatoes. I’ve not seen any issues but the tomatoes when I set them out are so small that their roots would not reach the grass clippings until they’ve had several weeks to rot.
Have you visited Oak Island?
I've never got further than the Oak Island Inn :) My wife loves it there
So the leaves don't have to be shredded?
No - not necessary
Spell chit real fast for the newbies, before the comments start, lol!