3 1/2 year Back to Eden review and tour!

After 3 1/2 years of no till BTE gardening this is how things are coming along...Welcome to my garden!

[@mrs.broccoli4362]

I'm so grateful that I found your channel. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your wonderful explanations and tips. The best sentence ever: I don't want to be the slave of my garden.

[@itziahurtado]

Thank u for such amazing info!...

[@healthyhorticulture]

I’m glad you enjoyed it, hopefully it was helpful

[@patwisniewski8714]

p. mildew. easy peasy. one tablespoon of baking soda in one gallon of water. mix in clean gallon milk bottle with holes in the lid. shake often while sprinkling over entire garden. I did it eight years ago and no mildew since

[@MickyBellRoberts]

Your yard is very nice and neat. I love it, good job.

[@healthyhorticulture]

Lol, no, my garden is nice and neat. The rest of my yard is a mess...7 kids, 30 chickens, 2 geese and a goat, and I free range them all (including the kids). That’s why I put up the fence!!! Lol

[@MickyBellRoberts]

healthy horticulture haha, you are so funny, I like the free ranging of the kids. Awesome.🤪😂🤪 Let’s grow together.

[@SusanBaileyAmazingEstate]

The one thing i really want to try from Paul's garden is the flat growing apple tree. Did you see that? It's 5' tall and 25' feet wide. You could do it with your young trees.

[@healthyhorticulture]

I have contemplated that open center style, it definitely is pretty cool.

[@charlescoker7752]

Trace minerals Fertilize with Trace minerals.

[@memoirsofamillennialhousew3440]

My closest friend uses the back to eden gardening method and she always has the best garden and her harvest is always amazing. She’s always singing the mulch’s praises lol. your garden looks great, thanks for sharing!

[@healthyhorticulture]

I really have been impressed with this method especially from a maintenance point of view.

[@actisami1960]

Please do a video when you open up your potato boxes!

[@healthyhorticulture]

I can’t wait to make that video. It’s gonna be a lot of fun!

[@freespirit2194]

It's looking really good. Do you add fresh wood chips on top each year for the vegetable garden? I Love wood chips round my trees but am wanting to do a fenced off area like yours for veggies . Thank you for sharing. Much blessings to you all :)

[@healthyhorticulture]

Yes, I usually add wood chips in the fall and toss around some manure from my chickens and ashes from my wood stove over the winter. Then plant on the spring. I have a few other videos discussing this method of gardening on my KZbin channel. And for what it’s worth, it doesn’t have to be wood chips, you can use leaves, hay, grass clippings etc.

[@freespirit2194]

Thank you. I will check them out.

[@actisami1960]

Where are you located? We got a late start as well. It is good to see that it isn't just me as a first year gardener.

[@healthyhorticulture]

We are in northern CT. And it seems like a lot of folks got a late start this year but there’s not much we can do about that. Hopefully next year will be better.

[@clevelandastwood5584]

Would Dr Bronners Soaps be a good choice for the soap spray? Great garden, by the way.

[@healthyhorticulture]

I would imagine that it would. There are a ton of recipes out there using different soaps mixed with water for insect control. I prefer to use/ recommend actual insecticidal soap because it has been tested and is labeled accordingly. Either way be careful using soaps in the heat of the day, they should be used towards the end of the day as the sun is going down to prevent sun scald/ phytotoxicity. Hope that helps!

[@jamiebryson3826]

Do you recommend pellet limestone?

[@healthyhorticulture]

Pelletized limestone can be beneficial if your soil needs it. Lime contains calcium and magnesium and will raise your soils PH. A soil test can tell you if any of those things are necessary for your soil.

[@actisami1960]

My plants are so much smaller!

[@healthyhorticulture]

Are you using this same method? And for how long?

[@charlescoker7752]

What zone are you in?

[@healthyhorticulture]

I’m in zone 5, northern CT.