How To Till A Garden Without A Rototiller Double Dig Gardening Method
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- Опубликовано: 14 мар 2018
- You want a garden but you don't have a tiller to till the soil. Nor do you want to wait three weeks on a rental list. Do you have a shovel? Then use this, the double dig gardening method, and get out there and prepare your gardening spot today.
"That's what homesteading's all about, isnt it? Getting a workout while growing your own food" Finally, someone who says it how it really is!
Just did this today for my new garden bed....took 10 hours...I hurt all over and even after a bath I will be in PAIN tomorrow...but it was worth it!!!
You sir have earned yourself two count em two subscribers
The double dig is such an amazing way to improve soil. We used it when I started a community garden space in Florida and in one year it turned our sandy vacant lot into a luscious garden space. :) Great video!
Yes, it's a lot of hard work, but it's very effective. Thanks for the positive comment. We just subscribed to your channel!
This is exactly something I was looking for I was not willing to go buy a tiller or rent one greatly appreciated thank you
Thank you for watching, commenting and subscribing Deanna! We hope that over time we share some more good ideas with you that you can use.
Thanks for the help, first time Gardner at 19. Appreciate you making a college students life cheaper.
What a fantastic way to till , I surly can't afford a tiller lol , thank you for teaching us different ways we can have a garden .
Thank you for this video, now I have more confidence in what I'm about to do
Thank you so much for sharing this. It's exactly what I needed. Im broke but I really want to garden.
Thank you for the great tips. My family and I have been gardening without a tiller for the past 3 years but we were considering renting or buying one this year. I came across your video right before heading out to do some work in the garden and I'm EXCITED to implement your techniques today!!😁
Perfect, First Year garden this spring, don't want to spend to much and already have to get garden fence because of wild rabbits. This is going to be very helpful with not only saving money but explaining how to till without a tiller
I love it!.. I dig out all my holes
.put huge piles on each end....whatever floats your boat..thank you for sharing!
Thanks so much man. This was an extremely well done and detailed instructional video.
KISS as could be. So simple I can't mess it up. Going to be checking out some other videos. Thanks again!
I simply bought an electric cultivator and run an extension chord out to it. I have several extension chord's anyway since I work construction and they weren't an extra expense for me. The cultivator wasn't a huge expense either and is easier than using a shovel. This year I plan on digging my rows far enough apart that I can run my lawn more between then to cut the grass and save a lot of work weeding.
I'm an author, trying to write a brief gardening scene without offending everyone who knows gardening. Thanks mate
Me to, mine is a fan fiction tho XD
Go do some landscape work, plant some crops or flowers, get first hand experience
Hopefully 3 years later from when you commented, this helps lol
@@patchesuwu453 cringe
"he tilled the garden" ... Look I'm an author too.
Such a simple, direct video. You've earned my sub. :)
Thanks for sharing this! This will be our 3rd year planting a garden in our yard and I want something simple and this looks smart and simple! I'm growing a couple veggies but I think my carrots and potatoes will do great doing this method!
Love it Great work. I'll try this during this pandemic to save me a trip to the supermarket. Thank you
this is more than what i was searching for. the plus minus and anything wow. thanks a lot
This is a great tutorial, thank you. Going to get started on this right away. I was looking at my plot I wanted to plant and was thinking how I was going to til it all up.
This is wonderful! I want to have more of a 'patchwork quilt' than rows, but I can totally see doing this method in blocks rather than rows! Thankyou
Simple and effective. One of the best videos I've watched. Thank you.
Wow, thanks!
I was double-digging 1978 but I never saw a video or read about it. It makes sense, I did not have a tiller and my ground was hard-packed red clay.
dynamite works the best i found
I'm totally using this idea for a bible study! We need to till our hearts. It's not an easy task but it's worth it!
Laura Kausek the hell you talking about
@@andrewcoxx500 😂
Exactly what I was looking for! Subbed!
That you for this. I'm tilling my garden by hand and was worried I was doing too much, I was tilling the entire spot, walking areas and everything. I'm going to take a step back and sort out my walk ways and stop doing it there. Also, I found a bunch of trash. Fast food bags and soda cans from like 15 to 20 years ago. It even still smells like trash.
Handy dandy method actually pumped towards physical work thanks bud
This, sir, was an excellent video! SUBSCRIBED!!!
Thanks! Looks like this year I will need to use this method.
Thank you for this video🙋🏻♀️❣️I don’t have extra money and we live in rental home but I want a garden. I will do this today
I was going to buy a tiller & then I got to thinking “many centuries ago they didn’t have a powered tiller and they were effective so I looked this up.” How did it work out for you? We're starting today.
thank you. i am beginninger gardener with community garden plot and i tried to prepare it but didnt know what i was doing. now i have a better idea
And one more subscriber from me. Thank you sir..you are a legend and your bootlegger char was top notch
This is great... if you don't have rocks literally everywhere
Oklahoma?
Oof not where I live
Massachusetts
I spent days sifting all the rocks out of my garden i made, I know exactly what you mean. We used chicken wire, pallet boards, and a wheelbarrow. Time consuming, but it gives my wife and I some time together outside of worrying about the world.
All land has rocks strong backs clear them.
Thank you for this explanation it was very helpful.
Perfect no B.S. video! I have been searching for common sense simple videos and almost everything is over complicated and no visual examples were provided. I cant wait to get started on our backyard restoration, I ordered some native plants for our California soil and now have to prepare our degraded land for the new plants! Thank you!
I'm glad you found us Jabeth.
Thanks so much for this video , it has helped a great deal . cheers .
Thanks I'm going to give this a try this year
fantastic video. learened several things. thank you.
Thank you so much for the information.
never knew about this with soil I almost went to by another tiller. I tried pots last year because our till broke. but it didn't go to plan at all. I absolutely hate pots. this will help me greatly this year. now just need to find some muscle to help.
Good video straight to the point
Nice work !
bro your brilliant, thanks for sharing
This is what i needed to find. I dont have a rotortiller and those broadforks seems nice but are $250 for a decent one. I'll definitely be starting a garden soon now.
I just did this today but I only did an 4x10 lol. Tomorrow I will do a couple more 4x10's. This is my first outdoor garden. I raked some leaves and put a good 8 inch layer and a week barrel of home-made compost. I also had some broken up pumpkins that I threw in there as well. I turned it a bit and tomorrow I will put a small layer of straw then cover with cardboard. Then put a little dirt on top of that.
Fantastic video
This is awesome, thankyou!
Helpful indeed just learning today lol.
great video!
great video thanks
Great advice! I was considering buying a tiller, but I think I will try this method instead
After spending all yesterday with a sub standard tiller....I was looking for a larger electric start model. But let's face it...as you age, that equipment isn't easy to run either. This is probably simpler and easier in the long run. (and a great shovel is a WHOLE LOT cheaper!)
I'm planting my elderly mothers flower beds for her today.....I think I'll try this method there. The smaller raised bed as well. Buuuut....I'll see about the 30'x6' by 3 beds and another 8' x 30' area. If I do 2 rows each it might be doable. (my parents didn't think of these things when they were much younger lol)
I’m jealous of your soil! We have super dense clay soil. Can’t even break it up! I’ve had to dig it up and literally fill rows like that with garden soil because it’s just garbage
Yep
I like this video
Definitely subscribed❤🙌🏽
Yay! Thank you!
Thank you. Great video!!
You're welcome. Rosaura. It's a lot of work, but you can do it. Thanks for commenting.
Wow thank you so much!
Thanks for the video good stuff. I've always tilled/turned up the entire area and it never dawned on me to do rows instead (to go with my 2 raised 4x4 beds by the way.)
Thanks for watching, Marv! Glad you enjoyed it.
Awesome Thank You.
Great video, think I will try this since I can't afford a tiller right now. Also you got a new subscriber.
Home depot rents tillers in my area starting at 21 dollars for 4hours more than enough time to work a small garden. God Luck.
Love the idea. But I would have burned the dried weeds off the surface first. Great video. I think I will go out and try this, since my tiller has died.
Also subscribing
Thanks for subscribing, and that's a good idea to burn the weeds first. We'll do that in the future.
Squash bugs hid ubder my cardboard last year. I used it to prevent weeds. Is it too late for me to apply that black plastic over my rows if they are producing fruit but also weeds in between plants and weeds in the rows. Tge weeds are 2-5 inches high.
Great job
Thank you, Sir! I really appreciate your compliment.
Thanks for this video! I was thinking about the earth worms and other critters And trying to find an alternative way other than using a tiller. It’s my first garden so wish me luck, I got some mushroom soil from a local farmers market so I will be using that as well.
Gonna do this!
thanks man , i learned a great deal from this . i gotta till tomorrow . my veggies are rooted heavy in SOLO cups and ive been puttin it off . LIKED & SUB"D !!
Good luck!
Thank you👍
Thank you!
Thank you sir
Yes every hole I dig in my yard is nothing but broken glass and pottery gloves are needed
Do you have a method to keep ground vermin from digging under my garden? I heard wire but not sure how to apply it to something like in this video.
Would a trench axe or a pic axe be easier for the trenching part?
Thanks!!
Ideally would you use a garden fork, instead of the spade to pierce the bottom layer to encourage the deep roots?
very helpful :-)
as I was shopping for a rototiller I thought to myself stop being a lazy bitch dig it by hand. Then I found this video! Thanks, I did lean something and I did sub!
Thanks Norm McDonald
What if my whole lawn is weeds? Should I try a manual till to kill off all the weeds first then try this method?
Ima plumber and live on a 40 acre farm in the middle of no where. I can confirm the glass lol. I find glass all the time on customers and my own property. very common.
What should I do if I only have one row? Get new soil? I e had three good years but last year I had the most issue with leaves in tomatoes getting yellow and than degrading the plant.
You mentioned glass in the soil and what would be recommended when the soil has tons of glass everywhere ?
I'm a 49 year old woman with a herniated disc but I am gonna give it a try.
If your soil is naturally clumpy won’t it harden back up after a couple of heavy rain days?
How long do you think it would take to double dig a 20’x20’ garden? I’m starting a garden this year in my backyard. I was going to rent a tiller but glad to hear the disadvantages beforehand. I have 4 days to do it and I can work 4 hours per day. Is that realistic?
Can you have smaller gaps between the rows?
I remember digging up asbestos that had been buried when I was a kid
Goes great on salads! Lmao seriously though, really hope you had proper PPE. Lots of well wishes
How wide are each of your rows and how much space between each row?
He threw the worm 😂😂😂
What if we save our yard clippings. Let them dry out in the sun in a pile. Like core gardening i could bury my grass clippings 30%clippings to 70% soil on top. Then it would make them more raised. I have a garden now and i didnt space my squash or vining plants but 12 inches apart now im wondering should i dig them up and transplant them to another bed?
Yes, Kimmie, grass cuttings are an excellent addition to compost. You can bury them, or pile them up and be patient. They'll rot in time. Also, 12 inches apart is fine for squash. I'd recommend just training the vines as they grow to spread the way you want them to rather than digging the plants up and transplanting them.
Homesteading Off The Grid thank you so i wont put them on until they are dry
Homesteading Off The Grid how is your family enjoying the garden, my family is kind of blessed with alot of huge seedy veggies since I did not know when to harvest them. We thought wow a huge Zuchinnie we can win the fair's largest zuchinni award but holy moly. So that brings me to next question how do you know when your squash and zuchinni are ready to be ate (i now know you pick them at medium size when the bloom starts to die) but i have a shelf full of squash unrefrigerated. Thinking of givibg them away because I blanched amd froze all i could and now just want to taste the fresh squash because by the time i go throughthe old squash that are dark yellow and bumpy im not sure at all how it works.
Quick question boss. So do I need to pull all the grass away from the area before I go diggin..I'm planning on making a 20x40 garden like this
Not necessarily.
1. If you remove grass ahead of time, you won’t have to do much removing of it later.
2. You can burn the grass & weeds before digging. That’s most effective.
This is awesome! Question--- how early can you do this before planting your seeds and starts?
Any time but it's better if you do it once more before seeding
250 square feet down.. 1,500 to go. 😭 And then I have another garden after that to do. Pray for me.
what if the area you want to till is full of grass?
I still don't get it. Can you come over and do it to my garden? I'll watch and absorp all info😇
My father and grandfather used this way for decades. But actually dug out the second spade as wel. Their gardens were huge but soft and sandy. They dug everything, left no space for paths.
I only dig one spade deep but must aknowlege your way of the second spade deep is something i should copy.
My yard is fenced, do i still need a fence around the garden to keep out rabbits? totally ignorant here ...
I live in Colorado, compacted clay soil. Is this method effective here too. Any additional tips? Thanks
Hey man I live in colorado also, near the southwestern corner and there's an awful lotta compacted clays within my alotted diggin space too, not sure if you have ready access to some of the materials helpful here, but do yourself a solid and look up 'lasagna' style gardens. Can't beat this with a dang stick, especially iffin ya consider soil solutions should set you up for easier future seasons.
+homesteading off the grid if O sent you video or photos of my familys garden can you reccomend your advice.
Sure. I'd love to.
how bad is small stones in a garden bed?
I wish my soil was this loose. Ive got a goo amount of clay so it's tough to do this. Really trying to avoid using a rototiller though. I've definitely been getting a workout!
Me too! How is it going for you? It’s definitely a tedious process!
@@rekinatrotter612 Added in some peat moss and still working it in by hand. Will need to add some compost soon before I start planting. My garden is 14x14' . How's yours?
@@VintageAthletic thank you! It’s actually my first year planting in the ground and I tried this method. I honestly didn’t know if I was trying to start a garden or make pottery. It was a little overwhelming, but researching videos like this, I compiled a list of things to do. Your reply made me feel better about the choice to use peat moss, soil conditioner, and compost. We shall see how it comes together. I’m working with a 24x24’ and hoping for the best!
@@VintageAthletic wouldnt working in some sand and leafs with a rototiller make it a tad bit more loose?
@@conceptofeverything8793 I would think so. I ended up using a rototiller and manure after digging up my plot and my garden did incredible this year!
Is there a herbicide that kills weeds and not veggies. Ill google but curious what you and your subscribers and family think. As always thank you in advance.