Gardening on the Cheap: Wow! Amazing Garden!

[@rmarkosian]

I've used the Mitleighter method for years and here is the downside: you need to buy the bags of fertilizer. If the SHTF (stuff hits the fan), there might not be any access to fertilizer nor the petrochemicals required to transport it long distances. I also don't like fertilizer because there is a factory in our valley and it pollutes the air-- i'm supporting this. I'm now on my third year of organic gardening using backyard chicken's manure for their fertilizer building compost throughout the year. So far, the results aren't as good as Mittleighter, but I love the fact that every year my soil is improving not depleting. When fertilizers are used the natural soil building micro organisms are killed off, as well as the worms. I'm not putting down everyone who uses the Mittleighter Method. It works....still there is a better way.

[@wiseandfunfox]

Thank you for sharing, that is really powerful.

[@heartshape7]

It is a 75 year old myth, encouraged by J. Rodale, that correct fertilizing, measured precisely to needs of plants, harms micro-soil life, worms, beneficial fungi….. Healthy plants support healthy soil life. Worms fill my mittlieder beds, always have. Look at LDS Preppers video list. He shows it in his own garden.

[@bihbgm5858]

David I have been following your channel for a while now and I just want to thank you for all the help you and Sue have given our family. I have been gardening for about thirty years. Many years of hit or miss gardening almost made me give up. I have composted and amended and changed methods trying to figure out how to grow food. The soil here is black clay and it is either wet and gooey or so dry and hard you can't dig it. The last two years I have used the Mittleider gardening method and have been overwhelmed by the success and food production. One example that blew me away was at the end of last summer the tomatoes I planted and usually pull out were looking sad and dried up. I decided to kick up the watering and add the weekly feed not expecting much. I started seeing flowering and before the first frost had a bumper crop of forty pounds of tomatoes on two plants! In my opinion the Mittleider Gardening Method is a miracle! Thank you again for sharing this amazing process with all of us.

[@Cabmaker]

You are adding soil amendments with all the chemicals to make up the feed. I accomplish just as good of a garden with good compost and worm castings from my worm bed and don't have to feed my garden weekly. If you have healthy soil that you take care of you won't need a concoction of stuff applied constantly.

[@LDSPrepper]

+VirtualLife Adding clean compost, worm casting, organic matter, etc. is great. But Jacob Mittleider found in over 10,000 gardens in over 34 countries over a 50 year period that you can grow nutrient dense food without doing all the work of mystery fertilizing using compost, etc, not knowing what and if any nutrients or toxins are in those items. Plus you don't have to spend the time and work to build compost, etc.

[@PreppingAngel]

+LDSPrepper What do you do with the throw away things like the corn stalks, plants once pulled out of the garden and peelings from the kitchen? We feed them to our animals and compost the manure.

[@LDSPrepper]

+Prepper Angel I distribute them around my 2.3 acres to decompose and let the wildlife munch on them. I don't make piles just spread them around the ground.

[@irish-medi-weed-grower5240]

+LDSPrepper what if you ever find yourself without a chemical supply of fertilizers ? the time you put into delivering ferts to your plants daily would be no less work than supplying a organic worm derived compost which is absolutely proven to be rich in all the right nutrients . as for the work and time to "build" compost... worms "build" compost ,you would harvest said compost, and the time you save spreading it all around your 2.5 acres would be time putting it in a pile plus a bit more time as well ... so win win really... vermicomposting is way healthier ...oh by the way, Jacob Mittleider , cant find him on the inter web...who was he ?

[@LDSPrepper]

+uk-medi-weed-grower Thank you for asking. Just an FYI, I give my plants nutrients once a week, not daily. As long as you can guarantee that your plants are getting the right amounts and correct ratios of nutrients than the source is not important. I have found for the time, money and effort and not having to guess if there is enough of the nutrients in my source I have gone with the Mittleider weekly feed and pre-plant nutrient mixes. By doing so I don't have to mess with animal or worm feces. I don't have to guess how much feces to apply or how often. I could also run out of food to feed the worms or the worms could die then I would be without fertilizer. No matter how you feed your plants the nutrients have to come from some where. That source could always become unavailable. Since, currently , I have all sources available to me and I don't have to worry about messing with worms I choose to use the clean, inexpensive, measurable, no-guess method from Jacob Mittleider. But as long as you can guarantee the right amounts and ratios of nutrients to your plants use any method that works for you. I do currently have 5 years supply of all nutrients for my garden. I already have them on hand. I don't know of anyone using worm castings, compost, etc. that has 5 years supply on hand in the corner of their garden shed like I do. That is a comfort to me. To learn more about Dr. Jacob Mittleider go to MittleiderGardening.com

[@brownarola]

I wish KZbin would allow image uploads because you would be blown away. I actually had at least a dozen 12lb Tiger Baby Watermellons. I also had tons of peppers, tomatoes, beautiful pumpkins, squash, zucchini, and snap beans. Those were just a few things I planted. This method is incredible. Thank you LDS Prepper for showing me this new gardening method.

[@jimsivigny7215]

I will add another Wow! We have built our own Mittleider garden in Montana thanks to your videos and the results are really great. This is our first year of gardening and are learning so much. THANK YOU!!

[@LDSPrepper]

Jim Sivigny Awesome. Thank YOU.

[@belindalopez45]

love your garden ! I'm a Texas girl in an Indiana world who loves gardening wish I counld do it all year long . Happy gardening to you and your wife .

[@strong_simplenurturing9983]

I feel like ones attitude towards food changes when they start to garden. It's eaten with more gratitude, it's simpler and even real food fast!!

[@arth1491]

Thanks Dave for sharing that update on your garden. Yes, we too are enjoying the Mittleider method down here in southern AZ. We did our corn by seeds and are growing well, soon to be harvested. We started another batch on our warming pad and will transplant it when its ready after the first harvest. Our rows are only 8' long so we continue to experiment with the small plots we have in our yard. Thanks again for promoting the Mittleider gardening method.

[@jycfrnkl]

You've sold me. I went to the website and bought the book. I've been a subscriber for a few months now and am amazed at your results. Thanks for taking the time to create this channel. I never would have learned about this method otherwise.

[@BREGGREN]

I've Been Away for a While- From Way Back into NG Generator Conversion to Today- & MAN, Your Delivery & Information & Videos are 'SUPERB!!' Super-Duper! Thanks

[@LDSPrepper]

BREGGREN Papadoo Thank you for your kind comment. I'm glad my videos are helpful. Stay tuned for more.

[@DallasARCH79]

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL GARDEN! SO LOVELY

[@jacquelynnstroup6134]

Wow! My dream place to live. Love your garden and the area. So peaceful and beautiful.

[@ryanhall1504]

Great garden. I'm happy that I was able to see it in person 3 days ago when my uncle drove me & my boys out there. Very impressive. Thanks for sharing some of your info with me.

[@sandhollowhomestead6972]

I just bought 2 two-way hoes and love them! I was able to do the entire garden except for the outer rows which I do deeper in 1/3 the time it took me before. Now I can easily pull small starting weeds by hand which start up at the roots of my plants. I'm using T-tape and it only waters the roots of the plants and the rest of the garden is dry. I going to look into the Mittleider gardening method because you can make it work in different freeze zones and you do a wonderful job. I enjoy your videos and I thank you for taking the time to help folks like me. I might be 63 but I can still learn new tricks. It's been really hot here in Sand Hollow Idaho but I know you're getting this heat too. Keep safe!

[@sandhollowhomestead6972]

I started watching Ruth Stout Gardening and it's wonderful! thanks for sharing this information Ben. :)

[@ilanmagen]

Very impressive results, cannot ignore the effort promoting the book

[@LDSPrepper]

ilan magen Thank you. Yes, I try very hard to encourage people to buy the book. I can only make so many videos and I can't be there to answer everyone's questions. The book does that. It is simple and it works. Just follow the recipe. But you need the book to know what to do. So, yes, buy the book. :) You'll be glad you did. growfood.com/Mittleider-Gardening-Course-Book

[@ilanmagen]

LDSPrepper Just got the book :)

[@shelakroes990]

wow im so jealous with your garden,i love gardening its make me happy to see the green every morning..thankyou for sharing this video,beautiful garden.

[@1994abbygirl]

Beautiful garden.. I am so sick of weeds.. Its nice to see a weed free garden!

[@meehan302]

Your garden is well organized and is the best garden that I have seen in the US for a long time. The plants look very healthy .

[@silvervelocity07]

That garden is spectacular! 👍

[@WhiteHorseStudioArt]

I've found your videos very inspirational.. we live in the city, so don't yet have the chance to garden. Someday we hope to get out to the countryside. When we get the chance, we'll definitely implement the Mittleider method. We might use the "back to Eden" on one area, and the Mittleider on the other. I understand the Mittleider method has immediate results, which is fantastic. The "back to Eden" would be as a long-term option, as it reconstitutes the soil over time (albeit it takes a long.. long time to get similar results.) By the way, (just an idea)- if you catch the racoons, you don't need to kill them. They're just searching for their food, they don't realize it belongs to someone. You could simply relocate them miles away, to a nature reserve or forest. You will have just as effectively "controlled the competition" without taking their lives. It's natural for humans to want to blow things apart, but... there are more compassionate ways to deal with these creatures.. they have a role to play in nature too. (Sorry if I've written too much... I'm kind of an animal lover.. and have seen a lot of brutality done to animals, in cases where there were better, compassionate solutions.)

[@b57ecv]

I just use permaculture, it works a treet, I use no fertilisers at all and no pesticides on my vegetables or fruit , the soil is replenished with nothing more than just grass cuttings rotovated in regularly and its also used as a mulch around the plants, anything left from the vegetables is composted down and put arround my fruit trees and bushes, I basically do things as nature intended , the soil is healthy it has plenty of worms and micro fungi in it that the plants need to grow, I also keep wild areas for the beneficial insects to live and bread in they in turn eat the other pests that would be there if I followed conventional farming practices, I've found that if you fight nature you will always be fighting a loosing battle in term's of money wasted and destruction of the land, permaculture works because it teaches us to do as nature intended, to use what nature intended us to use to grow plant's !

[@eatyourgarden]

Thankyou, well said. keep it simple, keep it natural

[@peaches36067]

Hope you'll take us along when you harvest your garden. Especially when you dig those potatoes! Nice video.

[@LDSPrepper]

***** You can count on it.

[@Sig220Euro]

Wow! Looking amazing! David, Thanks so much for all of your videos. They were very inspiring and this year I've started down the path of Mittleider on my first foray into full out gardening. Mine is a much smaller set up and admittedly I'm doing a few things a bit different. I have a 4x15 and a 4x12 grow boxes with sawdust and sand mix, some patio pots and grow bags with the same for tomatoes and also grow bags and a "tower" for potatoes. Some with the sawdust mix and others with a peat moss/ sand mix when I ran out of the sawdust. I also did a 18"x30 soil bed where I've planted 2 varieties of corn and this past week I've tried a hybrid planting of adding a row of beans and squash all from seed in a tribute to the 3 sisters planting method. I know probably shouldn't deviate from the recipe but it's in my nature to experiment. LOL. Again thank you for all the excellent wisdom and inspiration you provide. I'm always constantly eager for your videos and to see updates on your Mittleider projects and other independence projects. Out of curiosity, are you going to have any further videos on how you built your greenhouse?

[@LDSPrepper]

Sig220Euro Thank you. Best of success to you.

[@pattonkirkpatrick6521]

Wonderful, David... Beautiful plants. You know what you're doin!

[@hughjanus3798]

Wow is right! Great garden.

[@MrsNoah2]

thanks, I'll have to watch this one again.

[@dirtpatcheaven]

Wow! It has really come along in two weeks!

[@marleanhunt7653]

beautiful garden hats up to you both enjoy all your produce i learn a couple tips here thanks for sharing enjoy your crop

[@ellegroover]

Thank you so much for your video and links! My husband and I are learning this method! 👍💕😄

[@poison5369]

very impressed not one weed lol, well done guys!

[@fishyfunhouse5489]

Nice videos! Im all about that gardening on the cheap!

[@BringbackthefarmBlogspot]

Thank You so much for sharing this video with us. I haven't had great success with the Mittleider method, but that was because I didn't follow all the rules. Now I'm testing the Mittleider method with the Back to Eden Method. I'm going to buy the book this time. Thanks again.

[@LDSPrepper]

Bring Back The Farm I highly encourage you to get the Mittleider Gardening Course book. I know I could have never, ever even come close to following the recipe if I didn't have the book. Everyone has the same promise, A great garden in any soil with no soil amendments, when you follow the recipe. I tried the back to eden method for two years. Here are my side-by-side results. I think you might be surprised. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJe8dmhsfZZgp5o

[@BringbackthefarmBlogspot]

Thanks for the advice. I really appreciate it. Also, I'm in Utah and wanted to know if there will be a Mittleider class or something in the salt lake area? I know you're most likely really busy but thought I'd ask if there was a calendar with garden events in local areas. ps. I just found out that my neighbor gave you the domain LDSPrepper.com years ago or so he say's:) small world.

[@BringbackthefarmBlogspot]

LDSPrepper Last night I bought the entire library plus ordered the Mittleider Gardening Course Book in paperback. Thanks again.

[@LauraMartinez-rf3dm]

Looks AMAZING! I hope my garden will be as successful as yours one day! I think next season I will try the Mittleider method. Very curious to see the difference it will make! Thanks for sharing!

[@dutchmansmedicalmarijuana9471]

Great video I will look into this method further and take it from there. It's really nice to see it put into practice too!

[@TheRamblinCamperVan]

Great tips I really appreciate that! This info will come in handy greatly at my new property while living in my CamperVan! THANKS!

[@samsonbenyahyahudah5731]

simply incredible

[@dkulikowski]

ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!

[@proximap2151]

awesome video/information/garden... people strive to do as good as you. well done sir.

[@sickofliars7249]

There are so many trolls on this video it's unreal. If you want to garden your way do it, this man is showing you how he's doing it and his results.

[@ms.mcghee6286]

Watching this makes me so happy.. hats off to you and your wife, Sir. How very inspiring!

[@sathancat]

Thank you for all you share, such invaluable knowledge in what feels like a well explained tour (almost hands-on you explain so much, stickler for details that you seem to be David). Thank you very much for sharing, I plan to try out this Mittleider course simply because I saw your amazing progress on here ;)

[@LDSPrepper]

+Patrick Bonneville Thank you. I hope you have a wildly successful season.

[@alphasxsignal]

I have had a bunch rain here in Bradenton Fla the last few days and hope my cowhorn okra makes it through around 20 rows 160ft long.

[@TwoFamilyHomestead]

NICE garden ... most of our back yard/side yard is either garden, fruit trees, kiwi plants and berry bushes :) Would love to have 2+ acres to live on

[@facemasters3506]

What a garden!

[@haleybolen5887]

love growing stuff

[@MrOkulski]

Really outstanding work. Very inspiring results.

[@DawnaRo]

You transplanted corn?? That's crazy! My late husband used the Mittlleider method. It was very labor intensive to make the raised areas. He made holes in pvc pipe but it was difficult to get the wdter to come out of the holes evenly along the entire row. I prefer a hybrid method using Back To Eden and fertilizing with Mitt;leider weekly feed.

[@OrangeJeepDad]

Nice work, as usual. Thanks for sharing.

[@mikesmith9153]

Great info thanks. I really like how you bent the pipes over the plants. Do you have a video on how to/tips for bending pipes for gardening? Love your videos!!!

[@TheBeeperman]

Looking great!

[@acarleneamil]

I have raised my corn this way for several years. Had to, squirrels and birds always dug or pulled it out.

[@SyberPrepper]

Great update. Very interesting and also great tip on the electric fence. Thanks.

[@motomotosig]

Yes yes yes you finally planted garlic. We need a root cellar video next.

[@missunderstood8855]

this is amazing!

[@cflorio]

I'm very inspired by your garden, both here and your previous Texas location. I did my first garden this year doing he square foot method, and I was not nearly as successful. My main problem was not enough room. I'm actually moving to a house with 2 acres of land and am thinking of trying the mittleider method. Did you not want to do the grow boxes and vertical at this location? Thanks for all the incredible info that you've shared. I'm fairly convinced that you may be saving lives teaching this info given the events that may come soon.

[@10knucklechuckle]

Silly question and excuse my ignorance but I will ask anyway :) It is my impression that the Mittleider method uses a proprietary fert mix. If this is the case and you are a prepper aren't you setting yourself up for a fall if things go to shit and you can't get the fert mix anymore?

[@louisacapell]

that's the issue.....

[@omarbahar1189]

good on you its beautiful garden

[@lindasmith6202]

Didn't realize you were fellow Idahoan - I live in the Boise area. Not a native but been here a long time.

[@Floreypottery]

Lookin really good so far gonna have to check out that book hard to believe you have corn already and really hard to fathom pumpkins that big already holy cow

[@LDSPrepper]

Floreypottery It is amazing to me too. It just seems everything grows faster and healthier with little effort and cost when I use the Mittleider gardening method. Here's a link to the book so you can check it out. growfood.com/Mittleider-Gardening-Course-Book

[@ronb1143]

As usual, Great Job! I know we are not supposed to covet(just kidding), but man I wish I had your green thumb. I am going to order the course book ASAP. Thanks for sharing!

[@JHKProduce]

As always, your video's rock. Looking at the corn around the 5 minute mark of the video: How to you get your weekly feed dispersed between the rows when it has grown that high? Are the weekly feedings already complete by the time you can't get between them over the tops? Same for the potatoes and other well grown crops? Thanks again for the great videos and letting me know about this great method.

[@tikvahduesters6690]

I can tell you the proper way and scriptural way to nourish the soil, and the plants without having to use anything additionally. Keep the schmitta years. Every 7 years let the land lay fallow. That's exactly why our Heavenly Father gave us these instructions for living. And it just so happens that then next schmitta year is coming up fall 2015 Blessings

[@joirrgang]

Rivkah Duesterbeck This year is the Shemitah year, so the garden should have been fallow.....Sept. it is over.

[@tikvahduesters6690]

joAnn DI some are keeping it differently....

[@LDSPrepper]

Rivkah Duesterbeck God did give the ancient Jews the commandment. And I'm sure it works. Unfortunately, they never followed it so we won't know.

[@tikvahduesters6690]

LDSPrepper His covenant is everlasting and eternal. It has NEVER been done away with. It is perpetual, everlasting, forever. None of His Word has been done away with. Yeshua [Jesus] and all of His diciples kept the Torah, if not, they would have been false prophets and an anti Messiah. The newer writings or renewed covenant with Israel was not even written then, all they had was Torah. And the "newer writings" or "renewed covenant" confirm Torah, they do not abolish it. Like Yeshua said. "not one jot nor tittle would be done away with".

[@theanachronisticlife8574]

Planting mostly nitrogen fixers on a rotation works too though. The people probably knew how to live off foraging and storage better than most of us do today with fallow years, skills we ought to relearn.

[@sundancer442]

You should still add some iron as the soil AROUND your beds is seriously iron deficient so the iron will leech sideways. Don't buy iron, just bury nails around the edge of your bed, and as they rust, they will slowly release into the surrounding (poor) soil. Already rusty nails are even better. Great garden Video, awesome as ever !

[@louisacapell]

he doesn't care about the soil at all.the soil could be sabd and shredded newspapers. the soil is nothing in this method. the plants get all nutrition from the bagged npk he puts on it weekly and the magic mittleider mix he has to buy.

[@pamrakes474]

David awesome garden

[@vickiolson1198]

Wow, you do have an amazing garden, but, I'm looking at a lot of things that Paul G's Back to Eden method would eliminate. First of all, you are watering a lot. Second, you have lots of weeds and I can see how hard you must work to keep on top of them. Third, you say you are not amending the soil, but what is using all of the nutrients in the mittleider gardening method ? That is...amending the soil in my book. Back to Eden gives a covering over the soil which keeps the moisture in the soil instead of letting it evaporate away. The covering also keeps the weeds down. If you put your chicken leavings mulch on top of the covering as Paul does, the nutrients from it and from the chips or whatever you are using for a covering make compost tea and feeds your garden. By far, it is much cheaper than your mittleider method, makes no one else rich, other than you, and is much less labor intensive. I have gardened with nothing but a heavy mulch layer of wood chips for years, always have had fantastic results, and have been able to start plants indoors the same as you. Those early planting methods are not exclusive to the mittleider method, you know. Compared to the costs of a Back to Eden garden, your mittleider method seems very expensive and once you start, you have to keep it up, you can't just plant your seeds and seedlings, push back the mulch and walk away until harvest time.I'd like to see you do a Back to Eden plot along with your mittleider plot and then compare the two. I think if you gave the same attention to detail with the Back to Eden method, you would be pleasantly surprised.

[@OrgasmicalyGrown]

+Vicki Olson if you watch his earlier videos when he lived in Houston Tx he did have a back to eden garden as well as a cpl other styles

[@vickiolson1198]

First of all, where Paul has his Back to Eden garden gets a tremendous amount of rainfall, compared, lets say, to Wisconsin, where I live. He does not have a problem with waterlogged roots, you see, the woodchips absorb excess water, to a great degree and then feeds it down to the soil as it is needed. Next, I have never said that the Mittleider method does not give good results,....what I do say is that as soon as you quit adding the Mittleider chemicals and nutrients to the soil, you are screwed because you have done nothing over the period of time you have grown plants that way, to improve the soil, which is what happens in a Back to Eden Garden. Weeds, all you have to do is take a look at all of the baby weeds growing in this garden to know that if he did not stay on top of them, he would have a tremendous problem with weeds. Take a look at all of the bare soil in his garden.... Any garden without a mulch covering of some sort over that bare soil will have problems with weeds unless he uses round-up., something that I would never resort to.. Compared to Back to Eden gardening, the Mittleider method is more labor intensive, more expensive and is simply unsustainable and does nothing to help our environment. If all you are interested in is results, and don't care about the expenditure, or the extra labor spent in keeping the weeds down, I guess it is OK, but it will never be for me. I care too much about our environment, about leaving things better than what I found them, and about feeding my family as natural a diet as I can. When I garden the Back to Eden method, I know that my produce is as organic as it can get, and the most healthy food that I can feed my family available today. Maybe, if someone is so sold on the Mittleider method, they could do a combination by using the Back to Eden method to build the soil and keep down the weeds, as well as maintain a good moisture level in the soil, while still using the Mittleider chemicals and nutrients that the Mittleider connoseur feels they can't do without. I personally don't think I need to add anything else to the soil, once by Back to Eden garden is established. Take a look at Paul G.'s results from the testing of his soil. There are no better numbers than that !!!!

[@vickiolson1198]

Tom Fisher He also said that he lived very close to a rain forest that got tons of rain every year, and yet the floor of the forest was not muddy, because it was covered. Nature had covered it.

[@vickiolson1198]

Free Inhabitant Actually I do. I have done extensive studying about it, at least enough to know it is something that I don't want to do. I want to do something that, not only is sustainable, but something that leaves the soil in much better condition than it was when I first started gardening.

[@vickiolson1198]

***** Agreed. This system is good for one thing only, and that is making a profit for the parent company who makes and distributes all of the additives, fertilizers and other products that are promoted by the company.

[@AnoushBotanical]

Envious of the amount of space you have. Unfamiliar with the person / book you use... will subscribe today and seek out the method too. Thank you!

[@matthall2934]

I really enjoy your videos 😀.

[@racheln4309]

I just found your channel, its great!

[@MarinaWilson1958]

Thanks. I read somewhere that you shouldn't mix varieties of corn because they cross pollinate and it affects them. Hope your corn turn out and taste great. Thanks for replying too.

[@LDSPrepper]

Marina Wilson Good point. I took that into consideration when planting. That is one reason I planted the different varieties 3-4 weeks apart. That way only one variety is pollinating at a time.

[@LloydsofRochester]

This must be most helpful for your area of the country - the drier West. Here in the Eastern portion of the country if we tried to do that we would be overrun with weeds - bare earth just sprouts them and no one has enough time to pull/hoe them over and over, and the rest of the time it would be mud. But isn't it a problem with wind blowing the dirt? My uncle lived on a farm in the Midwest and bare dirt blew around when the strong winds came through, and then it got into everything.

[@chevyforddodge4x4]

Hi looks great ! still dont have all my stuff in do to all the rain ! my farmer friend still has beans to plant ! but very nice !

[@mackymcleod6371]

wow! i wish i can make my garden like yours...

[@LDSPrepper]

+Macky Mcleod You can. That is why I make all these gardening videos. I knew nothing about gardening 4 years ago. I bought a $20 book and have had success after success every season. So can you. Go to MittleiderGardening.com and get the Mittleider Gardening Course book. Everything you need to know is in a $20 book. Best of success to you.

[@mackymcleod6371]

thanks mate!

[@seriousguitarinstructionbo6690]

Thank you for this!

[@GM-le5ti]

Hello LDS prepper, let me just say that I am a fan of your work and I have been following your videos for a while. I am a science teacher here in South Texas and I've been using gardening techniques to help my students with special needs. However, I have only done hydroponics and conventional gardens before and I would like to try the MG methods. I do have one question though, since I already have a lot of nutrients for the hydroponics systems, all of my nutrients are water soluble. My question to you is are the micronutrients that you use water soluble? Will i be able to use my nutrients with MG? thank you. Keep up the good work.

[@liboriopsych]

I've been watching your channel for a few years now (you're responsible for introducing me to the LDS, thanks). Here is a real stumper and head scratcher for you... Most of my gardens will not "grow" anything (Oh, how I would love to just grow 1 Mellon or eggplant--two things that will die). If I buy plants from a nursery, from the same cell-pack, and plant three in one garden, and three in another, one garden will grow great, but the other garden they will look exactly the same as the day I planted them. They will look great and healthy, but they just won't grow... At All... If I plant seed, they will come up great, but as soon as the "seed-leafs" fall off, the plant stops growing. Like it was frozen in time. I just can't figure it out. I even bought a box of miracle-gro (which I never use), just to see what happens... Nothing.!!! Maybe a little darker green, but that is expected, otherwise; Nothing. Do you, or anyone, have a clue? I should think about buying the book, but probably can't afford it--all the stuff I'd need, that is... Also, my gardens need to be handicap friendly... So, they are raised, simple fencing, wide paths with wood chips (from the tree trimmers) and I have chickens and make lots of compost which I leave to break down naturally for a few years before I use it. It is the native soil that seems to be the issue. I don't get all-day sun, but at least three hours before and after high noon. Lastly, my soil is acid, but I compensate with lime. HELP! If you can... and thanks for the great channel. Blessings+

[@floresnjose57]

If you covered the ground with wood chip not mulch , you would not have standing water and no plant will get sick , you should watch "back to Eden garden videos"

[@LDSPrepper]

+Nelson Flores Thank you for your comment. I have a complete video series on my 2 year experience with BTE gardening. As much as I wanted it to work it doesn't work. It was the biggest mistake I ever made in gardening.

[@kfordjake75]

+LDSPrepper It absolutely does work for me and many other people. I've been using this technique since before I heard the phrase BTE. If it doesn't work for you, I can understand. I have to use this method since the soil is so bad where I live. I know the middleiter method works too, but I prefer methods that replenish the soil.

[@rclawncaredenton8534]

LDSPrepper you have to let the wood chips decompose for a long time.i took rich soil from a neighborhood park before they put in a new layer of woodchips, i raked aside the top layer and got the black broken down soil. Not saying to do that but it works and im growing lots of vegtables with it.i think it just takes several years to fully decompose. The park has been there for over 15 years.

[@LDSPrepper]

+FREAK LAWNCARE Thank you for your comment. I believe you are 100% correct. As you said, it takes years before it works. I want to eat now. I don't understand why anyone would wait years for results. I certainly wouldn't have a job and wait years to get a pay check.

[@wiseandfunfox]

anything worth doing is doing correct the first time, BTE only gets better as time goes on.

[@Gunns57]

Have to admit your garden is a lot better than mine. My potatoes are about 1/4 the size of yours. I am going to try it next year for sure. Maybe this fall. I tell you what though. My corn was looking awful last week. I just gave up and put some Mittleider weekly feed on it. It took off like crazy. I think its too late to get a good crop but I am convinced to give Mittleider a try.

[@LDSPrepper]

mfhmonkey If you start feeding all your plants the Mittleider weekly feed it will make a huge difference even if they are not doing well at the moment. Most plants are starving for nutrition. Give it to them and they will respond very quickly. It could save your garden. growfood.com/Natural-Mineral-Fertilizer

[@danielsmith2470]

Nothing works better then Miracle Grow.

[@LDSPrepper]

+Daniel Smith Thank you for your comment. Please provide the study and related report backing your comment. I truly am interested in reading it. Thank you.

[@falynch]

Have you tried growing the three sisters method with your corn, beans and squash?

[@tridentoffenberg5585]

This is amazing. I followed all your episodes of this method last week and a half and my eyes flew over the screen to see everything so dark green without spots. I never heard of the Mittleider method but I'm on now. One problem.......I live in Europe, the Netherlands, ..... where can I buy that miracle stuff????? Thanks for sharing.........

[@LDSPrepper]

+Trident Offenberg Thank you. Anyone, anywhere can have a garden like this. Simply follow the step-by-step system in the Mittleider Gardening Course book and you'll have amazing success. You can get the Mittleider Gardening Course book and the Mittleider micro nutrient packs at MittleiderGardening.com. Best of success to you.

[@skyriverwalker]

I've learned so much from you over the past years and have missed your videos lately. Glad you're back. Just got the Mittleider book since I see it's the 2015 edition. I got an older one a while back. Will you be adding the pvc watering system like you had in Houston? Thanks to you I have chest-high corn in New Hampshire right now - saw your videos last year on transplanting and it worked beautifully.

[@LDSPrepper]

skyriverwalker I use the automatic watering system in my geo-air greenhouse but chose to use the hose in my soil beds to show people that it is cheap, easy and effective.

[@tbpc800]

David, have you grown corn in Idaho in 18 inch rows? If yes, does it pollinate well? Can you tell me more of what you've learned of growing corn in Idaho?

[@pinemeadowshobbyfarmafruga8319]

Can I say WOW too?

[@davidjones1393]

NICE JOB

[@tappakeggaday1]

Hi, Long time subscriber here, was wondering if you planned to start keeping bees again? I really loved your bee videos and honey harvest videos

[@AnnBearForFreedom]

Not sure how well your garden would do at my house (Calif desert, zone 9b, PLUS severe water rationing cuz of the drought), but it is a beautiful garden. You surely have done well in the short time youve been in Idaho. Love and bear hugs to you and your family!

[@purplechickenfarm9298]

Check out his videos from the last 2-3 years in Houston. This method can work even in harsh heat with low water. LDSPrepper and Dr. Mittleider have proven it.

[@AnnBearForFreedom]

Paula Taylor I doubt the Gulf Coast compares all that well with the high desert of California in a time of severe drought and water rationing/restriction. but I do know how well the method works, in general. Just have my doubts it would work as advertised here this summer.

[@LDSPrepper]

AnnBearForFreedom Water of course is critical when growing food. So if water is not available it will definitely affect the outcome. The good news is we use 1/2 or less of the amount of water that traditional gardening does. I have thought a lot of the gardeners in CA this and last year and have wondered how they are doing in the drought. I know at my home we use a ton more water on my lawn than I do on my garden. I water each soil bed for 4 minutes a day even in our 100+ degree weather. Best of success to you and all in water restriction areas.

[@bihbgm5858]

AnnBearForFreedom There is a wonderful gardener by the name of CaliKim on you tube. She has a successful California garden even with the water restriction.

[@AnnBearForFreedom]

bihbgm Thanks! I'll give her a look.

[@Narujen]

Have you thought of testing the nutrient density of your vegetables by using a brix meter? I'm planning on using it for our garden. I can't wait to see what the results are. =) It's also a great way to find out which grocery store sells the most nutrient dense fruit or vegetable.

[@LDSPrepper]

8hellanarujen8 I have used a brix meter with honey. A brix meter will measure sugar content but not mineral or vitamins. So it is useful to analyze sugars but not nutrition. The best nutrition meter I have found is taste. The food from a well grown garden simply have significantly better taste. I think that is a better measurement of nutrition.

[@Narujen]

@LDSPrepper: Interesting. That's true though. Tastes buds are one of the best ways, but I think for the average consumer a brix meter would be of great help. I know it did for us before my dad gave us the green light to start our own vegetable garden. In regards of it only testing the sugar, it does that and more. Judging from these articles I've read before. It's quite interesting. www.crossroads.ws/brixbook/BBook.htm----------------wewantorganicfood.com/2011/01/08/improving-food-quality-through-brix-testing/ ----------------- www.canadiancattlemen.ca/2009/10/19/whats-the-brix-level-on-that-pasture/

[@KC08RAS]

How much fertiliser to sprinkle on a square foot. I have square foot garden in containers

[@suzanneneumann7958]

My Mittleider garden does not look as good as yours, I have not been able to follow the method by the book as well as you. I seem to have two problems. I did not check my beds with a level and they are slightly tipped so my water system does not work as well as yours. but it does work pretty good. I also don't think i have enough sawdust in my beds, which i have only in sand and so my edges are not as crisp as yours since the wind here blows and tends to move the sand. I do rake them a lot and try to keep them in good condition. I will have to take some pictures to show you. I saw you when you did a preparedness expo here in Idaho before you moved here. This is my second year using the method and I am getting better at it as i go. Still would love to do the Geothermal Green house to grow for longer. did start a lot of plants this year and put them out that worked pretty good. I would love to come see you some time and ask you some questions and get some advice on my challenges.

[@ericcallahan829]

perfect!

[@MetaView7]

THanks

[@trigometry3]

good stuff!

[@milkweed7678]

Hey, How are things going with growing sweet corn? Good ears, pollination, regular growth? Seeing the sweet corn grown this way is hard to find. I have noticed some grow in only two rows. I can't find any video harvesting the corn, in that stage. Fantastic video! Thanks!

[@Ssupermom12000]

fantastic

[@mountainprepper21]

How do you handle soil that is high in salt with this method?

[@FISHBREATHH]

David, could you link the articles or show where to search for the news article. Take care Dave

[@LDSPrepper]

FISHBREATHH Thanks for asking. I"ll also add it to the video description box. www.dropbox.com/s/yp0orn3ldiezbyr/Farm_Ranch_June_20_2015_Mittleider_Gardening.pdf?dl=0

[@mitchelldayton1299]

Thanks

[@Billsfan2012]

Potatoes are usually with pesticides and herbicides. Look up dirty dozen, they are always near the top of the list.

[@LDSPrepper]

Billsfan2012 Exactly. If you don't grow it. You don't know it.

[@miwah958]

How do you secure the loops and covers on the ground especially during strong wind? How to obtain the home prepared nutrients mixture? Thanks

[@edson46211]

a very good idea of putting the electric fence how did you build it really need to know thx.........

[@LDSPrepper]

edson hersilia Thanks for asking. I guess I'll do a video on that. Stay tuned.

[@edson46211]

LDSPrepper ill be looking forward to it...........thx