DON'T WASTE TIME GARDENING! Simplify For Abundance. The Best Method For Success.
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
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Hello, I was the only one where I live who was saving all the leaves in a big heap to use in my then just started vegetables garden, now more and more wake up. Lived in France for 23 years before coming back to the Netherlands in 2014. Learned a lot from the French, they called the leaves the black gold. You leave one heap for 2 years and use what you need and start another. All my kitchen scraps go into a recipient I made from a pallet, mix it with green and black you just scratch it a big and you find a mass of worms feasting, don’t believe all the idiots who tell you, oh no don’t put in meat, fish or citrus peel and so on. I start another on after oktober and if my bed are empty I put the ready one on my garden beds for the winter and cover with the leaves. Free and very intelligent.😂😂😂😂😂😂
So true. Just about everything goes into the mulch and fish is absolutely wonderful fertilizer. I don't throw meat in mine anymore because we have too many bears coming to the yard but we used to where we lived before.
Back to Eden baby, back to Eden ❤!
I still recall a video of yours from many years ago - you were growing pumpkins and had to leave your homestead for an extended period. You came back to a full on pumpkin patch that had required no care from you at all due to your deep mulch method. I love it!
Remember that too 👏👏👏
That's what I love about this method. It's plant and pick with no work in between :-)
A lot of homesteaders are having problems getting chemical free hay the last few years. So ev1 be careful because some hay is being treated with Grazon which will kill your plants. Love you Boss & Lorie please be well🙏🙏🙏Blessing’s
Agree. I mulched some tomato plants with hay and they all shriveled and died. Hay was sprayed in the field.
I was just gonna mention that we he said "cow manure", itll pass thru the cow if the hay was sprayed
@@TheYellowrose21So sorry. It takes years to fix that soil🙏😇
@@reidcrosby6241Exactly what happened to a utuber recently that used the manure! 🙏😇
Happened to me also.
Boss, another method I've used with leaves is to put them in a barrel or large trash can then use a weed eater/whacker to chop up the leaves more which will accelerate the compost breakdown. Thanks for the video sir.
Love that
Just got my garden in this weekend , and iv'e use your method with mulch for years now . What a difference it made .
I’ve missed you, Boss! Glad to see you!
Manicured gardens are just another way we humans try to change nature to suit ourselves. Nature will always prevail. Great advice, as always!
So Ture.
Growing vegetables is also another way humans change nature to suit ourselves.
Your point is ... @@woodspirit98
I just want fruit and veggies. Gotta manicure it some .
My garden is a jungle but there`s no weeds. I occasionally chop up the more packed area with a hand pick ax, make a small hole for transplants, or dig a trench for potatoes, and I sprinkle my green grass clippings, mowed over leaves, leaf mold, cardboard and pieces of rotting logs all around the garden to keep a thick mulch layer everywhere.
I haul in rich forest soil and leaf mold in my garden dump wagon to make piles for growing squash, melons, potatoes, carrots, beets, rutabagas etc. Food grows in my garden all year here in central Louisiana and I`ll cover plants if a very bad freeze happens to keep them healthy.
I also fill cardboard boxes with forest soil on top of a packed, gravel parking area here that`s a dead zone and continually expand that area into a growing zone. I put leaf mold, chunks of rotting branches, some living compost with worms and green grass clippings in the boxes before filling with soil and planting.
The Creator knows what He has created. :) There is a season and reason for everything. Thanks for sharing Jim and Lori.
My local town residents bag up there fall leaves for pickup..and me to pickup and move to my garden. First year I got and mulched in 170bags useing my lawn mower to mulch in. Now I only get about 60bags a year to keep weeds to a minimum and a lush garden.
Boss, everything that you said is spot on. The garden shouldn't occupy a ton of your time during the growing season, it should be set up to do it's own thing. You the Man. Take Care Now
The Set it and Forget it garden. :-))
Hi Boss, Hi Lori & of course Tildy. What a nice surprise to see you today! Your gardens are top shelf, just amazing. God Bless you all 😊
God Bless.
The Boss for President!!!
Well, that’s not saying much. Anyone would be better than the choices we have.
This is just what I needed to watch. My 3rd year of gardening chasing my tail. Thank you very much.
Hello Boss! You are so intelligent! No xtra work no extra equipment! I hope you know how much you help people sharing your knowledge! I also hope you are well and have a great week ahead! Love seeing my friend!btw, I just told channel “Bri from scratch” about this video.
Doing well Jeanette and thanks for sharing my video :-)
I eat most weeds!!! They are welcome free food, and yes, mulching makes them come out so easily! Tilling? Nope😊
My pain reliever is concentrated weeds. Wild lettuce is my friend
Just what I needed. A video from the Boss! Informative and appreciated as ever,
Only thing I would say is leave the Dandelions. They only grow in soil where there is a Nitrogen deficiency. Once they have brought it up to par they die off. Besides the young leaves are good in a salad.
Never heard that about the nitrogen but I never really cared to eat these.
You can make dandelion tea from the flowers
@@roseoreillysievers6057 It is what I call "an acquired taste" . However pick them good and yellow and dry them and steep in hot water.
And the proof is DEFINITELY in your Garden. BEAUTIFUL. The Green colors of your Vegetables in your Garden is beyond any Garden I have ever seen. 🥰❤️ So happy to see you both doing well 🥰❤️
You’re a smart man, Boss. Good seeing you.
I appreciate that. Thank you.
Boss what a beautiful garden
Thanks :-)
You are so RIGHT about the Leaves and hay. THAT IS ALL I USE ! Has not me yet.
TAKE CARE and STAY WELL
It’s the simple things in life ❤
That's exactly what I did last fall, cover everything with a thick layer of leaves and hay. This spring it was moist and weedless!
Thanks for the details. What do you do if the winter is very windy?
I've been looking into this method for my gardens and my grass using nature's mulch, wish I knew about it before as it works so well, my gardens are thriving as is my lawn, I throw compost on my lawn when I aerate it, which i do myself. Your a smart man Boss loved this as your method does work.
That's just good Backwoods Logic...., YeeeSirrr!
just yesterday me and my neighbor mowed lawns, i collected her grass too!! as soon as it dries out and i have a pile of leaves decomposing from last year.. its natures replenishment, in NW ohio we have horrible clay that doesnt drain well, some plants dont like wet feet.. grass clippings leaves all that makes the dirt so much more airy and nice, and its free!!
We are going to try this in our high desert garden. Thank you kindly for the information 🙏
Double, triple and quadruple Thumbs Up! 👍👍👍👍, Mr. Ed from the wilds of southern Ohio
Thank you :-)
I really enjoy the wealth of knowledge you always share. If you find the time you should write a book with illustrations about your gardening methods. I'd buy it! Nothing can go wrong when you use 'logic' especially 'backwoods logic'.
That Makes sense.
Boss? the more insulation you have the better it will be. God bless.
Good to see ya Boss, Thanks for taking us along, all the best
So happy to have found your channel today! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and wisdom! Aloha
You are so welcome and thanks for taking the time to comment. Aloha to you too :-))
You got me hooked, I am now a follower of your wise logic, thank you.
Awesome, thank you!
Yes, I do this in Northern NV !!!
I love to watch your program, please don’t ever stop. You 2 Have an awesome day
Thank you and an awesome day to you too.
Good to see you smiling and looking well. You are in Gina and my prayers daily. I am a believer and I trust the plan for our lives…and I believe any fears will be washed away!
We were introduced to Paul Gautschi and his back to Eden gardening method years ago. I just works and once again, we see the proof!
Lovin the “good backwoods logic”!!😊👍🏻❤️
Thank you Keith. Your prayers are appreciated.
Leaf…it to the Boss to come up with the best and easiest gardening method! :-)
All the best and God Bless
Thanks
Gardener's gold for sure. Here in Australia, our native flora is evergreen. We can only get leaves if introduced deciduous trees and shrubs are nearby.I have happily bagged leaves from public parks, ignoring ignorant stares. Mostly, I have had good luck except for high winds in spring. Love leaves!
Good teaching thanks😁👍👍
First time I have seen your channel.
WOW what an AWESOME garden you have.
We live in South Africa 🌍 So we are new to gardening. We had to start from scratch in this new garden. We moved from Johannesburg to Kwa Zulu Natal two and half years ago.
Had to get used to a new climate which is quite different to Joburg. Flooding, hail and wind storms. Extreme weather.
Very challenging. But I love gardening and you have to pick yourself up and start again.
Here where we live they don't leave bags of leaves on the side of the road's. I have to rake up the leaves and bring the bags home.
We have a huge Maple 🍁 tree in the complex we live in, and I spend about an hour raking up the leaves. There is a local park a few mins drive from here, about 20 Maple 🍁 trees are growing there. Tons of leaves to be had. Last year collected many bags of Maple 🍁 leaves there.
Our daughter and son-in-law gifted me a vacuum/blower for Christmas last year.
Much easier than using the lawnmower. But the downside, I got plastered with dust from head to toe, and I have and have a bath. 😂
I started last year collecting leaves. Wonderful how the leaves have broken down, pitch black about 1 foot underneath the leaves. Lots of busy earthworms and grubs broke the leaves down. They did a great job.
I have shared your video with my gardening family, friends and my neighbours next door.
I love to experiment and try different things in the garden.
Its fun to explore and experiment, I have learnt a lot.
I have watch many videos on RUclips and have learnt a lot
Love to see how people all over the world garden. So interesting 🤔
Thank You for sharing your knowledge and experience with us. Very grateful.
Much love from South Africa 🌍 Peace and blessings ❤️
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This method has served me well over the years and you're right, as you dig into the leaves, the richer the mulch becomes. It's gardener's gold for sure. We sometimes rake the woods to get leaves and ground fodder. Raking is good exercise. Everything we rake up goes on the garden, leaves, grass clippings, tree bark, you name it. Thanks for sharing my video. Many blessings to you.
Hello J.C. and Lori! It's funny how as a kid, a garden was also one of my chores, and one I didn't really "relish" ;-)!! It interfered with baseball, and bike riding too much! Now, as a senior citizen, I enjoy gardening and tending to the plant life, sage advise, BTW.......!!!
I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your filming and editing of your vlog; I really honed in on this aspect with this one! It comes off being very fluid, and "backwoods logical" all at the same time! Well, here's to hoping your garden grows well, and that you get to pop open a beer to celebrate it all! Cheers! to you both, and God Bless! ~Lou
I appreciate the Lou and thank you for saying so. The videos take a lot of time to make so I like hearing this.
Corn's growing like a weed. Weeds aren't growing. Life is good ;-)
i have used that method for a long time on my raised garden beds and, i get the same results . i also do have a watering system that shots the water on the soil not the plants if it needs to have water
Im just goona come out and say it.
Boss I hope your sitting down for this.
Ten minutes is simple just not enough Boss of the swamp.
45 mins of the Boss sounds like good backwoods logic to me.
Cheers Boss
Additionally. I am having a barnyard manure in stock and All my leaves from vegetables&fruits i am continuously giving in it. After approx. 3 days All leaves are “eaten” there. I mean the barnyard from horses. ❤
Thanks for sharing your experience.
My pleasure!
That sure made sense. I'm in a city but I'm going to try and get hay, that would probably be my best bet. Thanks
I'll collect leaves in the fall and bag them up for chicken bedding, and put that in the gardens. It has a little extra zing to it.
I do the same with the chickens.
Like your style sir… thanks.
Thank you too!
Wonderful 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Always gaining knowledge and the simple way of using it.
Glad to hear it!
Where I live now there are very few trees that drop their leaves in the fall. What I've found is that if you cut your grass every week, before the seed heads can mature, and put a thick layer of the clippings on the garden it will work the same way. Grass breaks down faster than the leaves will so I'm always adding more. A good thick layer prevents new grass and weeds from growing and my hubby is happy to not have to dispose of his clippings or weed wack around the beds. I'll place about a 4 inch wide layer of clippings around the beds and that gives the lawn mower enough room to get right up to the bed and not disturb anything in the bed. Anything that blows into the garden wont take root because the mulch is too deep. When something actually finds a way, it comes out very easily. Usually it's the ants bringing in seeds that grow and not seeds that came on the wind.
All my grass clippings go on the garden too. Great stuff -)
Please advise! How do I mulch the garden if growing from seed. My garden was so cracked and weeded last year ..that was the firsr year. This year I mulchhed in fall..not many leaves have broken down..we are at -35 in the winter.
Yap, it works. It is what mother nature does ever year. Can't improve on what God dose. 😀
👍 doing a great job keep up the great work love it❤
Thank you! Will do!
Another Look to Nature solution. Well done Boss!
Thank you for this information. Great video!
Glad it was helpful!
Wow you look great! I thought it was an old video I missed. You look heathy and happy!
Thank you kindly.
Ruth Stout has a great book on this.
Ha , 1st video of yours ive seen and it is one that sums up my gardening methods 100% 😅. Its just commons sense, use what you have and work with Mother Nature vs against. Ta Da !
Simple and effective is a win win :-))
Good advice. I'll try it this 🍂🍂🍂
This gives me hope. If the stuff hits the van there are not going to be stores to buy fertilizer and soil etx. We will need to find our own way to grow !!!
Agreed.
Mother Nature know how to care for the soil , I do a no dig garden and try to mimic Mother Nature
I make compost on top of my garden. No till and plants grow like crazy.
if you like this video, he has 1 or 2 older videos on deep mulch gardening that are really cool with results.
Your gardening methods make a lot of sense and seem so hassle free. A lot of us will be doing the same this year! Thanks, Boss!
It's definitely a no fuss garden.
What a brilliant teacher you are Sir thank You
Many thanks.
Thank you for the update boss hope yall are doing well!
Thank you very much. I have a nice manicured Garden but next year im going to start doing it this way.
Best of luck with your garden.
I like this video. I do change it up from time to time. I plant turnips, kale and mustard on my garden in the fall sometimes but I have an acre of yard so I put grass clippings on it as well as sometimes I burn all the bushels of leaves I put on it. I'm talking about a foot deep. I have won many contests at wo for the biggest vegetable. I once grew a German Johnson that was almost 3 lbs and was as big as a paper plate. Many 7+ pound zucchini in this NC clay. Thanks for sharing!
Changing thing up is good indeed and congrats on the prize winnings.
Thank you, this makes sense and I'm going to try and am now subscribed to your channel
Thanks for the sub and best of luck with your garden ;-)
I have been gardening for more than 50 years. I started at age 9. I negelcted to mulch for many years, and had lots of problems. I became much more successful when I started muclhng! My biggest problem is having enough mulch. I live in the NM desert and it is bone dry. I don't have enough leaves so I'm going to take your advice and try a layer of hay or straw 4 inches thick! Helpful video.
If you buy hay, be sure it's not sprayed with chemicals. Lots of folks sharing that suggestion.
Dandelions are GOOD weeds and they actually help replenish soil biology.
They are but I prefer to keep my raised beds unclogged.
Dandelions also put down a deep taproot that pulls minerals from below so all the plants can utilize them. Dandelions also are medicinal, from the flowers & seeds to the roots, the entire plant!🌱 🌿 Tea, tinctures, leaves in salads, and we can even make wine with the flowers. Dandelion is one of the most valuable plants!❤
Truth!!
Awesome awesome advice
Thanks :-)
Thks fo great advise
Glad it was helpful!
Boss, You're exactly correct! Wishing you guys the best this growing season!
Much appreciated.
Hay Boss & Lori ; Really Enjoyed Your Shared Tips Here ! Have A Swell Week Ahead ! Hugs For Super Charged Tildy ! ATB T God Bless
Thank you and all the best to you and yours.
Hey, hey has a lot of pesticides sprayed on it, but love the leaves idea.
Yes but not all hay fields are sprayed. Best to know where your hay is coming from.
Good afternoon from Copperhill Tn
Remember, we'll leave the light @@😊
Good evening.
Thank you for sharing. Love seeing your videos. God Bless you all❤️
God Bless.
Same for grass off your lawn. It’s high in nitrogen. The next week gets put on the priviouscweeks so it all rots. No weeds and cuts way way back on potatoe bugs.
Same here. Clippings always go on the garden.
Is there a risk of grass seeds?
I gardening 13 years .i Don't use fetelizer too expensive. I am getting free horses 🐎 manure ➕️ free compost from compost facility .I like what you are doing . Learning something new .Thanks.
Do you like the horse manure?
@raymcdonald731 Yes, you can mix with garden soil in October or add to the compost pile one or 2 years before breaking, then add to the soil .Can't use March or April before planting ,too strong horses manure can burn plants 🪴.
Yup! It works! I do this too! Cheap good stuff!
Omg it’s been so long since RUclips gave me a notification for your channel!! Ahhh glad to be back! Another awesome video, tysm 🌻
You guys always have nice vegetables.
More great advice from the Boss!!
I agree with your gardening methods bcuz thats the way I've done it for years. I also use ground up wood chips, saw dust, and the old hay waste. A little homemade charcoal wood ashes, and coffee grounds are great too.
Don't forget the epsom salts on the strawberries. They like the relaxing "bath" and become "excited" to bloom & grow. LOL
I do pretty much the same except I put down a layer of cardboard under the hay . It really knocks back the quack grass .
That’s great backwoods logic JC. Take care and catch you on next one. Debris from fishing trips after clean up is great for your garden soil also.
I must admit, that's one reason I've never chosen to garden. I despise pulling weeds, and am not a fan of large water bills. I've been told that horse manure is some fantastic fertilizer and seems to be a great mulch base too.
Good video. I like watching it.
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Great video as always. I was happy when you mentioned hay for mulch as I live in an evergreen forest where there’s no leaves! Only needles and tons of pine cones. But I can find hay…so I’ll give that a try this year. It’s amazing that you don’t have to water!!!
Leaf mulch is a great place for slugs to live. Had to remove all my mulch from planting area.
I have no issues with them.
Great tips Boss, no watering and a great garden.
Mornin Boss, Lori and Tildy 🖐🏻. Love and Appreciate your Backwoods Logic, makes perfect sense to me. Hope to one day have a little place to grow food. I try to grow wherever I go, currently in a noisy city and have an apple seed sprout growing nicely, thankful Our Heavenly Father has blessed me with a little something to keep me smiling. Looking forward to seeing the garden this year. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us Boss and Lori, greatly appreciate y'all. Stay safe. Love and Prayers For All ❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻💚
Sounds like a small container garden would work well for you. We grew lots of lettuce and spinach in window box style containers in the greenhouse.
@@thebossoftheswampI am visiting with family to help out and help myself heal. I have been floating around to help where and when I am able to help. Since Steve passed away, I am housless and I'm ok with it. Living simply and debt free on a little budget has freedoms to go where I am needed. Keeping my faith Our Heavenly Father will guide me to my forever place, so I can grow food and be with nature. I will take life one day at a time and be thankful for every day, family and friends that let me help while keeping me safe. Positive thoughts bring positive results. In my thoughts and prayers ❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻
@@sandrathomson1084 Wishing you the very best with your journey.
@@thebossoftheswamp thank you ❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻
Great video as always. Thank you.👍🏻👌🏻
Thanks for the video Boss! I got an education on gardening!!
Right on JD!! 🐾🙏🏻✌🏻
You actually quoted Bill Mollison. We usually went back to tilling as our garden has been over 1 acre. Each year reducing but Bill suggested as a start 12 trees, 3 of each kind. Maybe 3 walnuts, 3 hazelnuts or chestnuts, 3 cherries, 3 apples. Far less work & results for hundreds of years. We can't grow nuts well here however. Well unless we build a 9 foot fence my 18 deer kill most everything by rubbing or eating even my tomatoes last year. Easy would be to consume them but I mentioned CWD. So working on repairing my 1600 foot rail fence for a beef as I think Alberta Beef is better than potatoes for health & builds soil. We sowed clovers & alphalpha
Thanks Boss, simple, effective, tasty and it works ! More proof that you Keep on Keeping ok on. Better and better every year.
God bless and please keep on.....
God Bless.
call, me stubborn but after three growing seasons with sketchy results this is the way i'm going after 'harvest'.
Your sketchy results may not be your fault. The rain is super toxic now.
@@thebossoftheswamp Gulp !.