I Re-used Old Amazon Boxes in my Garden and here's what happened!

I Re-used Old Amazon Boxes in my Garden and here's what happened! Come along with me as we plant this year's garden and edible landscape on the farm! Hope ya'll enjoy! TOOLS USED Today Here: a.co/28Se4DV (Stoney Ridge Amazon Affiliate Page)
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[@lancegross2263]

Maybe that's a big enough garden to feed 50 people.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

or to preserve and feed 2-3 all winter long right....for about $30 bucks!

[@chunglow7646]

Eggzackly so grasshopper

[@jerseystotler3615]

Yep! I repurposed my Amazon boxes for growing potatoes in and onion's!!!

[@HenrietteAndersen26]

I LOVE how enthusiastic he is about spreading knowledge 😁👍

[@bevdixon9615]

In the beginning you showed a plant and called it Plantain. The plant is actually called Wild Lettuce (common name) and can be used in herbal medicinal ways.

[@deanl4193]

That really happy worm looked exactly liking a super invasive asian jumping worm.

[@squadaimat2923]

Excellent video,thanks

[@ThrillbilliesFishing]

Josh the one thing a retentive farmer should have mentioned while planting tomato plants is to plant some basil in between them, to keep out mater worms and basil great to have to cook with too!

[@ShortbusMooner]

This is my first year of raised beds, they're not full of soil yet, but the bags are ready. I need to cut up some of the rotted stump pieces we're putting on the bottom, and the greenhouse 'roofing' is supposed to be here tomorrow.. 😁👍

[@iinezlee6534]

Awesome Thank You!

[@greatcountryliving]

Save your plantain plant!!! Very good medicinal. LOVE your videos ❤

[@pennynealeigh6557]

I think the plant indicated as "plantain" might be dock ,both it and plantain edible, best when young. Your place is looking great!

[@markrodrigue9503]

Great video when compare the cardboard bed to the chickweed one you said much nicer but that’s just your personal ideal this is a perfect chance to get a microscope and see the difference and send a soil sample off to check nutrients I also think the cardboard one looks nicer

[@williamhanna5224]

Excellent!

[@FreeAmerican-mm2my]

Worms love the cardboard. Once you plant everything, put the cardboard around the plants and cover with leaves and grass (as the year goes on) and you will have a great mulch and less work weeding.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

I think to a point this would work...however...the carboard will also restrict the water that the plants can get in some ways too. We may try one bed with carboard this year over the summer

[@natevanlandingham1945]

If you put grass clippings and don't have a turf lawn but a lawn like normal people filled with weeds you will put so much weed seed in your garden you will wish you never did. Also most people don't bag their grass clippings, you would be spending so much time emptying a bag you would never get anything done. If you have a ring city yard maybe you collect your grass?

[@tb7280]

Plant the tomatoes 3/4 of the plant deep and it will develop a great root system.

[@sheliapeters2082]

Thanks for the helpful video ive been trying ro learn alot about getting the soil right. I love those raised beds they look great. Like the pepper beds notice those are on sale . Good time to get some . Happy Gardening 😄

[@DontStepInTheGrease]

Did not see Oly Gardens raised beds in the links.

[@greenwoodsbushhogging6704]

Plantain, not sure about spelling there, is an awesome medicinal plant. Look up everything it can do, then add a few to your herb garden. We dig it up and plant it around our vegetable garden to act as a natural barrier for animals and to utilize it for everything.

[@dorismiles3897]

Wish I had space for raised beds. Yours are beautiful

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

grab a few 5 gallon buckets and go to it! At least that's something! You don't need alot of space

[@terrypomatto907]

Back in my younger years I had eight 4' by 16" raised bed garden because of a bad back injury making it painful to bend over. We raised our food for our family of five. After the season is over we covered our gardens to let the soil rest. We had chickens that would get in the garden and pick around all season. It was a very good way of being able to garden and we alway had a ready supply of compose because we raised feeder calves on pasture. That was back in 1970--I believe in regenerative farming back then.

[@christinashawgo6510]

That chick weed that you pulled out of the garden…. The chickens love it❤ I see you gave it to them😁

[@gracewashburn8276]

Oh it’s a good day Josh I love watching you plant those raised beds. Sorry I haven’t been around. I’ve been a little out of cycle for a while not been feeling well but anyway it’s good to see you back up and doing everything you and the sweetie she’s a big help for you. Glad somebody put that smile back on your face.❤

[@brenda9140]

⚘We need more of you and more like you. You are a very great teacher.and a wonderful man. I am so glad that you and your ex wife are back together again. With love, Brenda

[@Carycares1817]

Top notch garden boxes.❤😊

[@terresiagregg9326]

Happy gardening Josh love it

[@akbychoice]

The hoop hoe is my favorite manual weeding tool. Josh’s link is a better price by far than what I paid for mine.

[@Shane_O.5158]

3:18 that's not plantain, it's called dock ( unless the names are mixed up between Australia and America ) , plantain is edible it has finger width leaves with ribs that run the length of the leaf , it will grow in drier soil or moist. ( except for broad leaf type that are almost round leaf ) Dock is very moist, it grows in wet to boggy soil .

[@wandalohr7731]

Good morning! Raining here on Ohio River at Fly, Ohio!

[@satnambawa0711]

living on a farm is a lot of fun. I live on my own farm.

[@scottsmith6846]

Hey Josh thank you for the video I enjoyed it and great information thank you woo

[@Saviour3]

Good stuff

[@brucemattes5015]

If I was putting those beds to rest in the fall after harvest, not to be planted with a cover crop, I would place an evenly incorporated 6" layer, containing a mixture of 75% shredded hardwood leaves & 25% green grass clippings. I'd cover that with a 4"-6" thick layer of freshly chipped ramial wood chips from branches measuring no more than 1.5" in diameter. I'd cover the wood chip layer with a flattened piece of heavy 6" × 6" mesh concrete reinforcing wire to keep everything in place, and to prevent any strong winds from blowing the mulch layers off of the beds. This should be done sometime in September/November. That heavy layer of mulch will accomplish several things. First of all, it would prevent 99% of any unwanted weed seeds already in the beds from sprouting. Second of all, it would also prevent at least 90% of any wind bourne, or bird bourne, weed seeds from becoming established. Third of all, it will prevent the few weed seeds that inevitably sprout and take hold, from firmly establishing themselves. And, they will be easily pulled out in spring with 100% of the root structure coming out of the beds intact, along with the stem & leaves. Fourth of all and most importantly, the leaves & grass clippings will break down into incredibly rich humus with the sugars & minerals in the fallen hardwood leaves providing abundant nutrients for soil biology. By spring, the ramial wood chips will have been colonized by various mycorrhizal fungi species, and the bottom of the wood chip layer will have decomposed into a rich, humus-like substance. In spring, just before planting, remove the undecomposed wood chips, and whatever else you do *MINIMIZE BY EVERY POSSIBLE MEANS NECESSARY* disturbing the soil structure, and it's biology. Use various sized dibbles to plant seeds or a right-angled planting tool to plant transplants. Mulch with a thin layer of grass clippings or well shredded hardwood leaves left over from the previous fall. If the transplants are large enough and spaced far enough apart, then reuse the partially decomposed wood chips that you removed to ready the beds for the initial spring planting. The number one mistake that I constantly made back in the 80's when I had beds nearly identical to Josh's was constant tillage throughout the season. *VIRTUALLY EVERY SINGLE PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO ANY ASPECT OF ORGANIC BACKYARD GARDENING PROMOTED SOME FORM OF TILLAGE.* Ruth Stout, and her disciples, were considered to be *FRINGE NUTTERS* who were not to be taken all that seriously, regardless of how successful her methods were. Tillage destroys soil structure and annihilates all forms of soil biology. Worms, the gardeners greatest friend, simply can not survive constant tillage. It matters not whether one is using a hand trowel, a hand fork, a 3-tine hand cultivator, a garden spade, a garden fork, a long-handled pointed blade shovel, a gasoline powered Mantis rotary cultivator, a front-tine rototiller, a rear-tine rototiller, a mold board plow, a chisel plow, a disc, a harrow, etc. The tool that disturbs the biology of the soil, *ALWAYS CAUSES MORE HARM THAN ANY POSSIBLE GOOD.* *PERIOD.*

[@ClickinChicken]

only thing i can think of is maybe the chic weed took some goodness from soil? but it fed the chucks!

[@chipprice1174]

I think the anazon gardens looked a bit better most due to moister content. I'd say it's also better because the weeds growing took some of the nutrients out of the soil.

[@shawntyree6870]

actually, the weeds growing put sugars into the soil that the amazon boxes did not receive. the comparision is much deeper than our shallow disagreement lol.

[@chorlesteajones6794]

That was what my thoughts were too! More nutrients still in the soil plus helped keep the moisture instead of it being absorbed by the weeds. The weeds are a good way to multipurpose for some of them though. Farms in Iowa do that sort of thing. One year they will do Corn and the next they do Beans so that it rotates the nutrients. Plus you have good food stock for the chickens that is sort of like a special treat for them. :)

[@lambsquartersfarm]

I hear you about time and the Farmers Market, how about setting up a roadside stand?

[@TheSleepingonit]

I use Amazon boxes for fires, no recycling where I am, and imagine my landlady would defecate bricks if I had a garden

[@dirty3893]

It would drive me absolutely nuts. I have an odd number of beds like that. And I guess that’s just me. Great video Josh

[@sunshine3914]

Ha ha. Best you stick to city living.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

I also have a 3 wheel bicycle! AHHHHH!!!!

[@RodneyLinzay-lf7ls]

Good stuff!!!

[@garyhennessey3621]

Watering leaves will create insects/fungi/blight, hence a dead plant. Straw for mulch.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

huh?

[@janfranceschi8458]

Awesome! Do you have a link for the Amazon boxes? 🤣🤣🤣

[@stephaniewilson3955]

Deer lack binocular vision so they cannot judge distance. A wide field of vision is of more use to them. Thus they cannot work out how far it is from one fence to the next.

[@ricks2907]

Electric fly swatter. Hey hey whao. Cheers buddy Ricky 🎸👩🏻‍🦼🙏🇺🇸🐈‍⬛💥🐓🦎

[@gunnutmike]

Great video, as always. Did you put anything in the bottom of the raised beds when you made and filled them to keep out burrowing critters?

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

no sir....just placed them right on the ground

[@gunnutmike]

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer We had something come up and eat our potatoes in our raised bed, so we need to figure out something to stop them that will last and not rust out. We have lots of moles, voles, and gophers here in East Texas, and they're a big problem.

[@essentialcomforts2166]

have you used this deer fence before? Do deer still get in? Sounds like a great option since it doesnt zap kids.

[@danwilkening888]

50 years ago when I was a kid it was called a hula hoe. Saw it on TV for a few years.

[@chickenonbiscuits1459]

All is good until the deer come around, a constant battle.

[@lourdesdoty7765]

That was Dock, not plantain in the beggining of the video. Also a medicinal herb.

[@majorpayne5289]

👍

[@petermavus4131]

Get those pigs for that BLT sandwich.and pepper and egg sandwich will be great too.

[@bogofishmusic]

Those beds that were darker. Weren't those the ones that you put coffee grounds in? Maybe that's why they are a little darker?

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

put coffee grounds in all the beds..among many other organic things....I think the boxes just allowed the soil to rest and compost appropriately

[@Melike1hit]

Maybe the darker soil had more moisture cause of better “mulching”

[@akbychoice]

Didn’t have weeds taking out nutrients.

[@patstewart2145]

What did you treat the wood with on your garden beds?

[@akbychoice]

I don’t remember what he used but he did a video on them.

[@shelbydonaldson5862]

I was curious about that as well! We're pretty wet here and interested in anything that would preserve materials used. But that is safe and as close to natural as possible possible, that is! 😊

[@nlitenurmind]

I hope you weren't zapping bees at the end. "Work with nature," he says 😆. Wasps are very beneficial for the garden, too. But you can kill the yellow jackets. You should learn the difference between them.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

thanks this is really super helpful 🤔

[@Mr.XYZ6775]

I watched your video "Pole barn vs steel building your............." is this video part 1, 2 or 3. And I could not find the continuing video. Did you name the next video from "pole barn vs" a different name. I was interested in that type of building. Has it next video not been released?

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

here's a link to the entire playlist. This is everything related to the new shop building kzbin.info/aero/PLWWdn2d8DzsWY5hWafa_9uvILqfr5k867

[@juliebuczkowski1028]

👍😊

[@iinezlee6534]

Do you sell your beef? If yes, can it be bought on a website?.

[@tannenbaumgirl3100]

That was a baby snake, not a worm.

[@debbienolan656]

May I ask why you painted the raised beds? If you explained that in the video I totally missed it.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

to preserve the wood...if not preserved they rot faster...just like any wood

[@markrodrigue9503]

Microscope time compare different soil like soil food web

[@mikedavis2969]

You don't use garden lime ?

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

why would I need garden lime if the Ph of the soil is 6?

[@mikedavis2969]

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer I didn't know it was 6 .

[@ronnieschwa2214]

I read not to use Amazon boxes near animals because they are treated with a chemical pesticide to stop them from getting roaches not sure if that concerns you using them over your food soil

[@curtwhite876]

That worm, the bees, the skink and all the other little critters looked pretty healthy and vigorous.

[@sunshine3914]

Chemicals that have an effect on exoskeletons, usually don’t effect endoskeletons.

[@curtwhite876]

@Sun Shine in this video, we saw endos (skink) and exos (beds and beetles) and critters with fully exposed mucus membranes (the wiggly worm) which are the most sensitive to chemicals, and all were thriving. Logic dictates the box chemical thing is a myth.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

funny...I pulled up the boxes and they were covered with roaches, wasps and worms as well as lizards. Seems the "chemical" didn't quite work. Maybe it oxidizes

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

amen! Look at the folks ripping me in the comments about the wasps nests on the bottom of the boxes..."but they're good for the enviroment" lol...not on my front porch or in my garden they aren't. They then become fertilizer...ashes to ashes..dust to dust.

[@dannygoin6552]

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[@TediBare]

Cockroaches love the cardboard to BUT NOT as much as I love you I know you're probably🤣🙃 married and I'm just DROOLLING over my phone for nothing. But DAMN... your googooogogood