Hello Jon. That should be some good soil. Do you ever use any pulverized lime?

Excellent way to prepare. I see the chickens are doing their part as well.😊

Excellent information as always. Thanks for sharing Jon.

Great advice! Last spring was an odd one for us. Way too much rain too early, followed by hardly any rain at all after that. Both almost did us in, but the early rainy season really limited & delayed what we normally like to do. Anyway, I think I am going to start working on some of my amendments now!

Great show. Thanks for the knowledge. Right now is also a great time to amend with alfalfa meal. I just hit all the raspberry rows, potatoe beds, and strawberries. Cheers!

Very good advice here, Jon…I like the way your methods give the soil time to settle in and break down the amendments. It’s nice to have the garden ready to go in the Spring, rather than scrambling around to get it done. I’ve been spending my time gathering next year’s mulch…and through Christmas I’ll continue burying our kitchen scraps in the garden.

I think these are great reasons to get a jump on your garden, but if I missed a good, please share it in the comments. Thanks for watching.

I use fresh manure but it’s rabbit 🐇 💩

You haven't said what compost actually is to you. To anyone else aged manure is compost. Manure becomes compost. I think really you need to do some research before hitting the screen.

I use both. Best of both worlds 😁

I discovered this by accident. I have two jersey cows that i milk and then make tradition compost with their manure. But mostly i dont have time to do that, so i would leave large piles of our cow's manure in random spots. And months later, its better looking, better smelling than the best compost i ever made. More people should know about this!

Any shit will do.

It depends on the c:n. 30:1 minimum. And of course the animal manure type. But generally, a carbon input would still be needed

I've been using aged manure for a while, as you said, I belive it is better because it's low effort, you just pile it up and let it age for a few months then dunp it wherever you need

What about aged's manure?

I have a free source of cow/horse/goat manure just down the road. Very useful in all of my gardening. We do make compost out of our chicken manure and kitchen scraps …definitely like having all this compost at our disposal. Not sure if either is better..but I will say I’m more likely to incorporate the manure into the soil than the compost..because it’s usually more broken down. The compost usually goes on as a mulch.

Aged manure is better as long as the cork doesn't dry out.

Yes it is 💯 %.Try aged chicken manure next

I think aged manure is better, but let me know what you think.

My corn snapped just above the ear, before tassels had fully formed :( Suckers started growing at the break, is there a chance it might recover and the tassels will grow back?

Very informative. It looks like the temps must be dropping there as well.

Love the gas powered auger. great idea

I really like the fact that you’re using your native soil in the mix..so many people think you have to buy bagged “soil” which really isn’t soil. And the sulfur is a great idea knowing your native soil and manure is alkaline. I do something similar for my potato buckets…I go into the woods and sift ancient compost mixed with our native soil..and add horse manure. One thing I do is make sure to mulch the buckets heavily..and water them deeply, especially in the heat of summer.

It's going to take a few months for all this to break down, but I've got until April. I can't wait to try it out. Thanks for watching.

Hey Jon, for some reason this video just fell through the cracks, and I just got around to seeing it! Sorry I’m late to the party 😂…. Nice russets! If that was just three hills you did very well..and had some giants. That’s the result of lowering the number of eyes per seed potato. This year in my potato buckets I had the best harvest ever reducing the eyes down to one or two per seed. Did I notice a difference between one or two? Not really…but interestingly enough, I did not see a reduction in potatoes per bucket…the one eye buckets still had lots of potatoes….and my largest russet came from a one eyed seed potato. The overall size was much better in all the buckets. I’m going to continue the experiments next year to learn more. Thanks for inspiring us to learn more..and again, sorry for the delay in responding. God bless!

My man, you are creating holes for your plants to drown in. Raised ridges or individual mounds are the only way to go.

I thought that I am only one planting tomatoes in the clay soil using this method :) . I named "planting in a 'natural pot'" and usually I plant around of 28 (seven of 4 variety)

I grew a 6x6 area with plants spaced every foot and 2 of the plants took up the whole trellis and the rest barely grew.

This makes sense. I think you could also add some wood chunks for longevity, similar to a mini hugelculture

Looks like a great idea I will try that .

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I like the fact that you’re experimenting with one row to see if there’s a difference. Can’t wait to see the results 👍

Between the large amount of nutrients and the consistent watering, this really works well. Let me know what you think. Thanks for watching.

Another great video. Less work, with good results, is the name of the game. My garden gets fresh cut grass clippings all summer long, between the rows of vegetables. In the fall, about 4 to 6 inches of leaves are added. The leaves have been run thru a chipper/shredder. They are actually plowed into the soil. Come spring I add several inches of composted cow manure and a good supply of alfalfa pellets. Disk the ground and it’s ready to plant. Have used the garden area for the past 25 years or so, can’t say have ever been dissatisfied with the results at the end of the season.

A very enjoyable video, well presented. Not sure why it popped up for me, but glad it did. Am now subscribed to your channel. Need to go back and check out your other videos. Am sure there will be more of interest to me. I am in south central Washington state. This part of the state is extremely dry, eight inches of rain is about all we can expect. Thus, irrigation is a must to grow anything. We have fairly good climate, usually a couple months in the summer, where temperatures will get above 100 degrees (no humidity), generally winter temperatures don’t go below minus twenty degrees. About two feet of snow is the limit. I like your style of gardening. I do about the same, only with raised rows to plant in. Use garden tractors for most of the work, from ground preparation, to planting, to cultivating. (At age 83, this takes the labor out of gardening) We grow all of our own vegetables. Garden is in the area of 2000 sq ft. We do sell a lot of beets each year. Generally somewhere over 400 lbs. For just the two of us, two forty foot rows of spuds do the trick. Very blessed, my wife of 64 years, is a fabulous cook. We eat pretty darn healthy around here. Thanks again for the work you put in making the videos. Have a lot of catching up checking out your other videos.

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You should never grow potatoes in the same space every year. Move them around so that they are only grown in that space every third year. Grow beans where they were planted the previous year to enrich the soil.

I've been watching gardening videos for the past 3 years, first time you appeared on my radar. I've not heard anyone mention PH before. My taters are always the size of a lemon, so next year I'll try dropping my PH from 7 to 6.5 and see if that helps. I also have a vole problem, but keep them at bay by spraying caster oil and dish soap around the garden. What state are you in? WHat part of the US are you located?

I can hardly grow any root vegetables because of gophers.

Powdered gypsum is a better option than straight sulfur

Why would I grow these i can get them from the hutterites for next to nothin all year long

Thanks for Sharing Jon. Lots of good info here. You know your stuff.

Hey guys, I really have got great results from doing this. I hope it helps or maybe give you an idea to try. Let me know what you think and thanks for watching.

Great information, Jon….I like your method of improving soil, giving the soil life something to eat, and then covering it. I’ve noticed worm activity goes off the charts when I do this…

Thanks for this honest review. I agree that having the plug under is a strange design choice…

I really do suggest buying a solar powered coop door. Let me know if you think this brand is a good coop door or not. Thanks for watching.

I want to grow blueberries too but I’ve been worried about the clay soil. I was thinking about using the whiskey barrrls in our front garden being my blueberry pots but MAYBE I could try some in the ground 🤔 thanks for the ideas

Thanks for dispelling this outdated advice. There's an actual sharing of electrons at the atomic level with this mixture resulting in a magnetic effect which can be very powerful. It's how we make bricks. With enough moisture/water, though, that sharing of electrons can be broken such that it causes landslides of fully saturated soils.

Several years of mucho, mucho 100's of bags of leaves then really coarse sand worked in the clay soil of Colorado.

Sand is sort of dead