5 EASY Things To Do TODAY For The Best Soil!

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The Garden Nerd

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@reer5340 8 ай бұрын

so refreshing to hear someone talk about 'soil' and not about 'dirt' 🙂

@TheGardenNerd 8 ай бұрын

Soil is alive, dirt is dead! We want live soil in our gardens and yards. Thanks for watching!

@edvanbomfim6772 8 ай бұрын

Good soil, great seed, excellent plant and finally healthy food 😊

@chasingagreenlife9527 8 ай бұрын

I love throwing things on the ground in my backyard. Whenever I trim my plants I throw it down or in a bare area. Composting is great. One issue I deal with is because my backyard is so small, all composted material is so close to my back door and the flies love all the ooey gooey decaying organic matter. I love this video. I continue to garden even with a tiny backyard. Thanks for doing what you do 👍

@TheGardenNerd 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and the great comment. It's very rewarding to garden, even in a small backyard. Keep going!

@blahdeblaaah9445 8 ай бұрын

Awesome video! The past year I’ve been doing some of what you mentioned. It has changed my ability to use parts of my yard for plants that were formerly crumbly dry garbage soil topped with weedy sod.

@TheGardenNerd 8 ай бұрын

That's awesome, great work! It's amazing what happens when we bring the soil to life.

@michelle-vl3me 8 ай бұрын

My tip is very simple. Get a pet rabbit. Rabbit manure left on the ground will attract worms. You will literally see hundreds of worms if you turn a rabbit manure pile or dig where rabbit manure has been. Worm castings (worm poop) is ph balanced and the number one all time best fertilizer. People pay a lot of money for worm castings or worm castings tea, but all you need is a rabbit. Rabbit manure itself is a warm fertilizer which means you can use it in your garden without aging it to kill bad bacteria. Rabbit poop plus worm poop equals magic dirt. I learned about the rabbit poo from a man who raised worms for fishing bait.

@TheGardenNerd 8 ай бұрын

Great tip! Thanks for sharing. I may have to take you up on that tip!

@Lysgreenthumb 8 ай бұрын

I’m def going to try this. But also I do have rabbits sneaking up in my yard so hopefully they give me a lot of poop lol

@gigiartstudiowithartistvir3919 8 ай бұрын

We have a few cotton tails around our garden, so I make sure to have plenty of trap crops. I like that they leave droppings behind for the compost bins and worm bins. Everything in symbiosis is a glorious thing.

@gigiartstudiowithartistvir3919 8 ай бұрын

I take every weed I pull and put it in a large bucket. When it's about half way full, I add water and let it sit for a couple of weeks. I call it my stinky swamp water. It makes a great tea to put back minerals, nitrogen, and microbes into the soil. I have all kinds of compost going on at all times. I have bags of leaves creating leaf mold, I have a hot pile with fresh veggie scraps and carbon materials such as cardboard, paper, etc... and I have several cold piles. Recently I was gifted a dump truck full of horse manure compost from a nearby farm. We have cows, wild rabbits, quail, geese, chickens, etc as well so there is NEVER a short supply of compost. I am waiting for my red wigglers to arrive and gonna start up vermicomposting again. One thing I would make new gardeners aware of is too much compost can be counterproductive. Testing soil ph is absolutely an important component of growing vigorous veggies and fruit. Happy gardening everyone!

@TheGardenNerd 8 ай бұрын

This is awesome! Thanks for the great comment.

@mootoochunasamy389 8 ай бұрын

awesome information thank you

@TheGardenNerd 8 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching.

@lilmacschalkshop351 8 ай бұрын

Thanks😊

@danielfisch655 8 ай бұрын

Great video, thank you for sharing.

@TheGardenNerd 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and supporting, as always!

@reer5340 8 ай бұрын

pine woodchips decomposing on your soil should also bring the PH down. In my area i need to bring it up so I use egg shells powder (i am not a fan of buying stuff 🙂 )

@ooulalah4333 6 ай бұрын

I learned somewhere pine needles are excellent to increase acidity to alkaline, mineral dense Phx dirt

@FarmerCheryl 8 ай бұрын

People are now using silage tarps. The soil is bare under the tarp. How does this help? Are microplastics a concern?

@introtwerp 8 ай бұрын

Yes I find it stops water from going though also creating dry spol

@etiennelouw9244 8 ай бұрын

Yes, I agree that you have to feed your soil, but being a pensioner over here in Cape town, South Africa, that's not so easy. Limited funds for one, Kikuya grass and Cape royal grass with it's seeds that are both a constant battle to control, these grasses are both tough and difficult to get rid off. So into the trash bin they go. I cut my veggies level to the ground and then leave the roots to compost in place. I cover the unused soil with cardboard while this goes on. I currently have 6 pieces for my veggies that I use, one being a sweet potato survival patch and a small strawberry pact in another piece. In the USA Kikuya grass is an invader species so that's one problem that you do not have. Chop and drop will happen when my front yard food forest takes off. Kitchen scraps also go into my compost bin that's quite small, time is on my side as I feed my soil.

@ooulalah4333 6 ай бұрын

I have Bermuda grass as my biggest problem in Arizona. Anywhere I water it tries to take over. Some roots I've tried to dig out went over 4 feet deep so gave up at that point. Going to try the cardboard buried with mulch once my mulch drop gets here!

@ooulalah4333 6 ай бұрын

I found "kikyuyu" grass from E Africa is grown in S California for lawns being somewhat drought tolerant but is considered a noxious weed in most of US. Looks pretty like bermuda and no doubt tough in a garden!