Mulching and Tilling the Garden 2024

[@funnywolffarm]

Adding that amount of mostly-finished compost uphill of your tunnel doesn't seem like a bad idea. Interested to see how it affects things downslope.

[@LandisLegacyFarm]

Going to add some finished compost inside too as I plant the rows.

[@beancreekwoodworks]

Great video! Looking forward to seeing what you plant this year. Little early here in Michigan yet but planning to do a small garden myself.

[@LandisLegacyFarm]

Should be getting some stuff planted out in the high tunnel in the next week or two!

[@andysmith8544]

What, no slow-mo replay? Lookin' forward to seeing what you plant inside and out!

[@LandisLegacyFarm]

😆 hopefully should be getting some stuff planted out in the next week or two!

[@morgansword]

I reached out to a guy in Arizona who does his gardens in the same manor and uses worm castings as a earth worm for keeping the ground fertilized, and also helps with compaction. He does the same kind of tunnel gardens and just ideas that may or may not be agreeable to your situation. I go with two heads being better than one, and as my dad said "Even if one was a cabbage head". My dad had a crazy good head for gardening.... one was I did all the hand shoveling of this garden he had that was larger than yours. We lived in a town called Rockport Wa., and of course because of all the rocks not to mention wire grass that those roots grew through any root crop plants so I continued to rack and then burn up these roots so they supposedly didn't take root again.... of course a total burn still had survivors of those dang roots of wire grass. I had piles that were as high as my waist and would burn for a few hours and then sture them around and keep them burning till those piles were ash. The ash must of had seeds that survived as I never really got ahead of wire grass. I raked piles of rocks up and put them on the very lowest part of that garden area and then when it was high enough would take dirt I hauled in to level the area of our garden. We being a large family of about ten or more kids depending on who stayed on or left never went hungry and he shared the garden with neighbors. A weeks time meant pulling up carrots and other root vegetables, we had ten or more inch long carrots, radishes that were as big as a kids fist... turnips, you name it and dad had me weeding and taking care of that garden for years ..... hence for a long while after I left, said no more gardens! I did finally try my hand and found that dads method of fertilizer was the trick. Only chicken poop and rabbit stuff that soaked in a barrel and then the juice from it was diluted with warm water then added along side of those plants helping to not burn those plants. We also had a lot of earth worms and those were great. I did give your channel name to him and just maybe he will reach out to you.

[@LandisLegacyFarm]

Thanks, hoping to use some of compost I've got stockpiled on the high tunnel plants this year. Should have a bumper crop!

[@southernadirondackoutdoors]

How did your wagon sides work? Is there a well mulched path from the road to the garden now? 😁

[@southernadirondackoutdoors]

PS...that's a pretty exotic 2 wheeled piece of Italian farm equipment! 🤣

[@LandisLegacyFarm]

Actually worked pretty well. Very little fell out along the way. Couple months back I saw a Lamborghini C553LL dozer for sale nearby. Now THAT would’ve some exotic Italian farm equipment! 😆

[@wf2v]

Rocks always seem to grow in gardens, haha!

[@kpf546]

Was this the 'modes of transportation' episode? I saw a truck, a tractor, a skid steer, a motorcycle and even a bicycle! If you had someone to push you could even add the wheelbarrow. 😂 That area next to the tunnel looks fantastic and, man did you get a workout. Would wooden trellises for the climbers work inside the tunnel? Anyway, this was a great episode.

[@LandisLegacyFarm]

lol.... Just needed to add water and air transportation, and I would've had the whole set! I'm thinking maybe a thin(3/4x3/4) strip of wood with a hook in the end. That could hang on a cable running the length of the tunnel. Then clip tomatoes/cucs/etc to the hanging rods. Neversink farms has a commercial variation of this for sale.