I find using fine vermiculite added to my seed mix to be a really good topping on seeds for germination. It holds water better, and perlite doesn't. I can then mist or a fine tube squirt bottle to only water the top which means the lower part of the seed cell isn't soaking wet, say if you bottom water. It works well for me anyway.
Thanks for your videos.. I created a raised bed.. grew pumpkins from seeds.. they are going off! Now have planted capsicums and zucchini’s from seeds.. waiting for them to sprout.. you have been a huge inspiration.. thank you.. wish we could post pics!
Another great video! Love the amount of science in your videos, enough to be interesting but not so much that the videos are too dry, thanks for your time and effort
Thank you, I think that top layer of science actually makes gardening more interesting and enjoyable. - I'm not adding compost, I'm feeding the microbes to grow my plants for me 🌱
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Great vid. Lots of information here. Every time you mentioned "pot plants" I thought "oh awesome, this should be great for my cannabis!" (I'm in Oregon, USA, where we can grow 4 plants per household.)
I built some raised beds this season and topped with top brand bagged compost, cow manure and sugar cane mulch. My vegies are growing well but lots of tomato and parsley seedlings appeared "from nowhere" but very few weeds. I pulled all tomato and most parsley out. I assume this was in compost mix?? Any comments?
Legit this is a problem. the tomato seeds especially I found survive both my composter and worm farm so I end up with tomatoes popping up everywhere once I use it. It's generally pretty easy to pinch them out young though
So, sometimes when farmers have produce rejected from.bloody colesworth, its better vlaue for them to feed the produce to cows. They also sometimes do this intentionally to drive up prices by reducing supply. hence why tomatoes are often in it.
Very interesting. Can you do a video on watering the garden? Super hot and dry here already in NZ, has been for all November too. I find it hard to know how much, how often etc to water. We're on water restrictions- no sprinkler systems, only hand held hose after 7pm each day for 1 hour
Add a fairly small amount of shrooms to your compost and let it cook for a month or so. Don't use a lot of fresh fungi. Much like a vaccination for a disease, the mushrooms have been growing on rotting plants. The shrooms are selected based on how quickly and readily they grow. Your garden plants were not selected based on how well they resist attacks from fungus, they have been selected from thousands of years by how easily people can cultivate them. A huge dose of mushrooms will cause your soil to retain a huge amount of water. (Mushrooms are %90 water.) Your crops will almost instantly suffer black rot. Always stir your compost while it is overcast. Only till it in while it is overcast. The reason for this is that the textbook on nitrogen fixators is actually wrong, nitrogen fixating bacteria can't feed the plant directly, but fungi can.
you can grow plants in litterally anything if the plant gets what it requires. Oxygen, water and nutrients. I explored this subject thoroughly for indoor plants a while ago and heard of people growing plants in glass shards. Each plant just needs to be balanced with more watering and feeding than others so thats why you need to balance aeration with water retention. i have plants growing in nothing but rock atm. They will never, ever succumb to root rot because they cant. but they need to be watered daily - which is more work than most people will accept. So thats where you start to sacrifice root health for convenience of not needing to water on a daily basis by adding ingredients that retain water for longer. its an interesting subject and worth learning if you love your indoor plants.
They need about 9L per KG. But that doesn't mean anything to anyone because they come in all different sizes. So I just say handful for the sake of conveying the concept without getting stuck on the topic for too long. Just read the packet 🪴
Most of the contents are chopped up pallets. They do try to get domestic heat treated pallets rather than export fumigated ones. Sometimes they don't get stamped, Sometimes the stamp or colouring comes off, Sometimes they just miss it.
Apart from some raised garden beds, the rest of my garden is a container garden because I've contaminated my ground forever with glyphosate (I didn't know know how nasty it was then). My front and back yards are overwhelmingly paved over because of the contamination and I also hate mowing the lawn. Anyway, when I use potting mix, I push down with both my fists to compress it as much as I can. The reason is that the rain is going to compress it anyway. When I first started gardening, I hated that after I've potted a plant, only to find the potting mix level has dropped a few centimetres due the the rain.
I thought that glyphosate had a half-life of around 6 months and was pretty much gone in 2 years. It's not as bad as aminopyralid for gardens. Do you have links to studies that show different? Seriously interested. (I got aminopyralid in the garden and now mostly use raised beds.)
@@ausfoodgarden Depending on soil and climate the half-life can be as low as 2 days. It also only affects living foliage, it does nothing in the soil besides breaking down...
Cummon... it didn't cost you $200 🙄 I just bought Soil (compost), Coir, Sphagnam Moss, Sugar Cane (whatever they call it - it looks like dead grass clippings), Perlite, Vermiculite, Sand, Worm Castings, Peat Moss, Charcoal, Hydro Clay Balls, and some rocks and it was less than $80.
mate dont be let down the garden path, the wrong path, peat moss is totally sustainable, just about every green house uses peat moss, not coco, their is plenty its just another con...
I find using fine vermiculite added to my seed mix to be a really good topping on seeds for germination. It holds water better, and perlite doesn't. I can then mist or a fine tube squirt bottle to only water the top which means the lower part of the seed cell isn't soaking wet, say if you bottom water.
It works well for me anyway.
By far the best video on potting mix i have seen
Great info,thanks🌶🥒🥦
Can you read my mind? You always present content that is exactly where I am at at that time!
Thanks for your videos.. I created a raised bed.. grew pumpkins from seeds.. they are going off! Now have planted capsicums and zucchini’s from seeds.. waiting for them to sprout.. you have been a huge inspiration.. thank you.. wish we could post pics!
Another great video! Love the amount of science in your videos, enough to be interesting but not so much that the videos are too dry, thanks for your time and effort
Thank you, I think that top layer of science actually makes gardening more interesting and enjoyable. - I'm not adding compost, I'm feeding the microbes to grow my plants for me 🌱
Learning so much from your videos. Thank you.
Thanks for your posts! I really like your sensibility and insights. ❤😊
Very useful information thanks
Great topic!! Thank you!! Your videos are my favorite of all the RUclipsrs…
Such good info , thank you 🙏🏼
Thankyou for another great video. I use vermiculite on top of seed raising mix for fine seeds that need light it doesn’t blow away like perlite
Thanks for the great info!
Love your informative content thanks
Thank you for the gypsum tip! Im going to try to add it to my clayish ground.
Thanks for the potting mix up and breakdown, no nonsense knowledge, love it!
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Awesome vid, as always 🤩
Have a great weekend in the dirt!
Thanks for the great information.
Super..thanks..that was really helpful
Great vid. Lots of information here.
Every time you mentioned "pot plants" I thought "oh awesome, this should be great for my cannabis!" (I'm in Oregon, USA, where we can grow 4 plants per household.)
Wow! So much info in a short clip!
Great video. I’ve learnt so much. Thanks 😊
10:51 Potting Mixes might be designed to come sterile. But if you buy from Bunnings, you forgot to mention that they also come with Fungas Gnats 🤣
Here's to the algorithm :)
Thank you for these videos they are helping me a lot.
garden humor love it
Could you do a video on improving your potting mix if youve bought bottom shelf potting mix
great video mate. Keep up the good work
Great information.
Helpful. Thanks.
Great info thanks
Oooh!... Been wanting to know this for a long time.
Love your videos
Thank you! Terrific information, as I'm getting ready to do raised beds. What kind and height do you recommend?
saw ur reddit post, nice video!
Love your videos. What vege seeds should I be starting now . I'm in Tassie.
I built some raised beds this season and topped with top brand bagged compost, cow manure and sugar cane mulch. My vegies are growing well but lots of tomato and parsley seedlings appeared "from nowhere" but very few weeds. I pulled all tomato and most parsley out. I assume this was in compost mix?? Any comments?
Legit this is a problem. the tomato seeds especially I found survive both my composter and worm farm so I end up with tomatoes popping up everywhere once I use it. It's generally pretty easy to pinch them out young though
This explains why I had tomatoes coming up everywhere this year.
So, sometimes when farmers have produce rejected from.bloody colesworth, its better vlaue for them to feed the produce to cows. They also sometimes do this intentionally to drive up prices by reducing supply. hence why tomatoes are often in it.
Bunnings should be sponsoring you after this one
I don't think Bunnings would ever sponsor me with all of the shade I throw at them haha. They're just the only choice we have sometimes.
@@CulinaryGarden1 I don't think they need to sponsor anyone, they basically have no competition. They deserve a ton of shade for multiple reasons.
Very interesting. Can you do a video on watering the garden? Super hot and dry here already in NZ, has been for all November too. I find it hard to know how much, how often etc to water. We're on water restrictions- no sprinkler systems, only hand held hose after 7pm each day for 1 hour
Great vid, thanks. I have to say the chunks of wood in premium potting mix really annoy me.
Here’s a 👍 and a comment to help pay your Bunnings bill :)
There's a mushroom farm local to me, and I was contemplating getting a ute load of mushroom compost for my veg garden. Do you agree with this?
Yeah mushroom compost is great. Just don't freak out when you dig up your soil in a year and find it all white. It's completely expected
Add a fairly small amount of shrooms to your compost and let it cook for a month or so. Don't use a lot of fresh fungi. Much like a vaccination for a disease, the mushrooms have been growing on rotting plants. The shrooms are selected based on how quickly and readily they grow. Your garden plants were not selected based on how well they resist attacks from fungus, they have been selected from thousands of years by how easily people can cultivate them. A huge dose of mushrooms will cause your soil to retain a huge amount of water. (Mushrooms are %90 water.) Your crops will almost instantly suffer black rot.
Always stir your compost while it is overcast. Only till it in while it is overcast. The reason for this is that the textbook on nitrogen fixators is actually wrong, nitrogen fixating bacteria can't feed the plant directly, but fungi can.
What if I leave it for months before applying it.?
you can grow plants in litterally anything if the plant gets what it requires. Oxygen, water and nutrients.
I explored this subject thoroughly for indoor plants a while ago and heard of people growing plants in glass shards. Each plant just needs to be balanced with more watering and feeding than others so thats why you need to balance aeration with water retention.
i have plants growing in nothing but rock atm. They will never, ever succumb to root rot because they cant. but they need to be watered daily - which is more work than most people will accept. So thats where you start to sacrifice root health for convenience of not needing to water on a daily basis by adding ingredients that retain water for longer. its an interesting subject and worth learning if you love your indoor plants.
I use the garden basics $3.98 bag and find it ok
A Handful of water to coconut coir? I don’t tink so, more like a bucket or two, depending on size of compressed coir brick
They need about 9L per KG. But that doesn't mean anything to anyone because they come in all different sizes. So I just say handful for the sake of conveying the concept without getting stuck on the topic for too long. Just read the packet 🪴
@ thanks for your reply
Most of the contents are chopped up pallets. They do try to get domestic heat treated pallets rather than export fumigated ones. Sometimes they don't get stamped, Sometimes the stamp or colouring comes off, Sometimes they just miss it.
Apart from some raised garden beds, the rest of my garden is a container garden because I've contaminated my ground forever with glyphosate (I didn't know know how nasty it was then). My front and back yards are overwhelmingly paved over because of the contamination and I also hate mowing the lawn.
Anyway, when I use potting mix, I push down with both my fists to compress it as much as I can. The reason is that the rain is going to compress it anyway. When I first started gardening, I hated that after I've potted a plant, only to find the potting mix level has dropped a few centimetres due the the rain.
I thought that glyphosate had a half-life of around 6 months and was pretty much gone in 2 years. It's not as bad as aminopyralid for gardens.
Do you have links to studies that show different? Seriously interested. (I got aminopyralid in the garden and now mostly use raised beds.)
@ausfoodgarden All I knew at that time was that it causes DNA damage in plants & humans, and I thought it was forever.
@@ausfoodgarden Depending on soil and climate the half-life can be as low as 2 days. It also only affects living foliage, it does nothing in the soil besides breaking down...
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Bunnings is a rip off!
Yeah haha, where I live they're the only option for a range of products
Cummon... it didn't cost you $200 🙄
I just bought Soil (compost), Coir, Sphagnam Moss, Sugar Cane (whatever they call it - it looks like dead grass clippings), Perlite, Vermiculite, Sand, Worm Castings, Peat Moss, Charcoal, Hydro Clay Balls, and some rocks and it was less than $80.
It all depends on what size of each he bought , you may have bought the smallest packages of each , he might have gone bigger
Did you get it from Bunnings? He’s also a fully organic gardener, so he won’t always buy the cheapest option if it’s not organic.
Not from Bunnings, mitre 10 or Bowens or a nursery in Melbourne. It's definitely close to $200 to get all that stuff.
mate dont be let down the garden path, the wrong path, peat moss is totally sustainable, just about every green house uses peat moss, not coco, their is plenty its just another con...
no its not. well known its not sustainable. stop with the conspiracy theories
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