Planting Carrots In Deep Mulch Of Hay | Ruth Stout Gardening

In this video, I'll be showing you how I plant carrots in a deep mulch system. I'm using a few different methods I've learned in the past 4 years to try and get carrots to grow. I hope this helps you to grow carrots in your garden!
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[@thefigtreeguy]

That is exactly how Ruth Stout described the planting of seeds in a deep mulch garden. Good job!

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

Thanks!

[@mountainman9024]

Interesting method I'm that lazy gardner I mix all my seeds making sure they are compatible plants and just throw them around and they sort them selves out . I end up with a nice crowded garden then mulch well and even on a dry summer I can go with out watering for 3 days . Great video always good to see other people's ideas!

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

Sounds like a cool method.

[@melissab8500]

I planted a cover crop and let it go, had carrots, radishes etc. It was such an adventure to see what was coming in!

[@grlnexdoorable]

What zone are you in? I am in 8.

[@mdouble100]

Very cool. This is a technique I have not previously seen. Thanks for sharing.

[@davidhuestis2110]

i like to use an empty salt shaker for seed control. Add seeds and shake them out. It works best in larger beds but not much overcrowding.

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

Nice tip.

[@sarahkirbach5040]

Want to try that!

[@NekoleOnYT]

Great.

[@AdventuresAcross]

That sand and seeds technique is genius, I'll definitely be using that! Thank you!!

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

I can't take all the credit. I don't remember who I learned it from but I'm sure it was another KZbin video. Lol

[@dandahermitseals5582]

Yeah me too. Dan

[@iamorganicgardening]

That is so great to have all the free sand nearby... Bravo

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

Thanks. I try to use what I have.

[@lunabeta3516]

That's so smart with the carrots and sand. I'm just flabbergasted 😁

[@semper3796]

This is one of the best gardening methods I've seen, especially, how you sowed the carrots.

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

Thanks I'm glad you like it

[@mntgardener9246]

The most useful information ever! I have seen hundreds of videos that left me asking questions. You answered them all. Thank you!

[@amandaangus1043]

Best video I have found. Thank you for sharing, giving great tips and information but also getting to the point! ❤

[@rosec9486]

Thank you for sharing the carrot planting tip with us.

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

Thanks for watching

[@caelanbooth9116]

Plant as though you're life depends on it because it does!

[@Victory_Gardener]

So true!

[@lynbsker1968]

After 30 yrs of gardening the tilling and weeding way, this year I'm doing your way. I will be making a deep trench around the whole garden as usual though, cause I've heard the quack grass can still be a problem. By digging a trench with a shovel around the outside of the garden, it slows down the grass from creeping in.

[@PhilippinesFarmLife]

Thank you for your posts, I appreciate everything you post.

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@freddieivory625]

I like the idea of growing underground in the edges and top ground in the middle. 😎 Cool will definitely use this tip. Thanks for sharing

[@daniellegodfrey2247]

Really neat!! You make it look so easy!

[@lunabeta3516]

This absolutely great. 💯

[@saprenna]

Very well mannered dog you have there! Good girl Dutchess!

[@southsidecarly7427]

Thanks for the awesome carrot tips!

[@ninad205]

I so glad I just found your channel. The sand trick was so great! I wish I seen this before I planted my carrots but I will for sure use this method of sand cardboard and mulch the next time I plant 🌱

[@Citystead]

Nice trick with the sand. My bed for carrots is a mix of sand and soil and worked pretty well for letting them spread out.

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

Nice! Sounds like it will work well

[@carolynsteele5116]

Thank you for this wonderful demo! It’s November here in zone 7 and being a newby to no till I just finished covering my garden beds with 3” of compost followed by a blanket of chopped leaves. Been wondering how the heck to plant in it next spring. This video couldn’t have come at a better time!

[@stevenmchenry9276]

I'm learning alot. I've already started doing little things in the garden

[@orangeswell1469]

Cool technique. Thanks for sharing.

[@Owl4909]

great idea ill be trying this soon

[@annamarkham-roberts4304]

Wow Thanks

[@gpozdol7912]

Good tip. Thank you.

[@donnagreathouse8747]

I'm using the permaculture method this year, as I get older I try to make gardening easier.

[@Gotchapic]

Well, it´s green! I do that in an individual method…but you have a great idea! “Done to earth”

[@blanders98273]

I think that magnificent beard is the real star of the show here.

[@49testsamiam49]

agreed lol

[@rscbmr1023]

I was thinking that while watching this as well.

[@stevenmchenry9276]

You are a wonderful man

[@dandahermitseals5582]

Super size garden with super water. Dan

[@HerEcolife]

Good job. Cardboard rocks!! Can't wait t'ill snow melts to get in the gardens.

[@AtlantaHospiceRN]

Rooms to go! Furniture stores looooove for folks to take the cardboard. And it doesn’t end up in a landfill!

[@melissab8500]

@@AtlantaHospiceRN 🤦‍♀️ thank you

[@corteltube]

Great ideas...

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@SimpleEarthSelfReliance]

Haha, the greenhouse is a familiar story. My "Fancy" bell and patton rusted up inside of 8 months. The cover stays good though. Thanks for this informative video. I have been pondering the carrots-in-hay thing, because it's just simpler on the rocky hillsides here.

[@brianhina8538]

That is the best sanxd.

[@intentionallymade]

This was such a helpful video! It’s supposed to rain this week so I’m about to go plant my carrots now!!! I’m so excited. Your videos was the most helpful and closest to my approach with gardening. Thank you.

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

Awesome! I'm glad you enjoyed it. 👍👍

[@mountaintroll7864]

use a damp paper towel and soak the seeds for 2 to 4 days depending on temp if you see tails plant immediately. this will drastically shorten the time it takes to get them up with little watering.

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

Awesome tip!

[@mountaintroll7864]

@@HonestOpenPermaculture I have two raised beds I have been picking on for two months. Never had this many carrots and thus is the sole reason for it

[@Jason-ji5yg]

Good catch on the camera!!!

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

Thanks. Those cow like reflexes come in handy sometimes. Lol. 🤣🤣

[@gfkgfk7178]

Great video thank you, wondering when you remove the card board do you back fill the germinated seeds with compost or will the seeds grow a tap root and support themselves? Thanks for the info. Cheers

[@emmasherry7521]

I love that you use pizza boxes! I'm not the only one, LOL

[@zmblion]

😄😂"cut the carrot seed" giggle

[@smhollanshead]

You have good garden ideas. You might want to water the cardboard to make it wet, pliable, and heavy.

[@ccccclark2605]

Watched 2x. 👍 🇨🇱🇺🇸✝️🙏❤️

[@jenmajemaynard8274]

I'm curious about how to keep the hay from going to seed and why use hay instead of straw? Any advice is welcome. Thanks a bunch

[@orangeswell1469]

Onions behind onions, behind onions. Sounds like my garden 😂

[@OldSchoolPrepper]

covering seeds with cardboard is new to me....why not just cover with some mulch? i'm wondering what i'm missing! im open to learning all new sorts of things...thanks HOP!

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

I've tried covering carrot with mulch before and got very bad germination rate. I think the mulch was hindering and drowning out the carrot seed. With the cardboard as soon as you see the carrots germinating you can pull it off and let them keep going.

[@Mtkrvi06]

I wish I had seen these videos sooner. I’ve been watching vids on this method for hours now and I’m kinda depressed we have already planted most of our garden this year. We tripled the size due to what’s going on with the virus and a potential fear of food shortage etc. next year I’m going to do LOTS of these beds. I could do a full acre like this I think lol. No weeds! Our problem isn’t tilling...we have a tractor we can borrow to accomplish that pretty easily. My biggest issue is weeds. This is going to be great! I’m actually excited about preparing my beds this fall and I haven’t even harvested this season yet 🤦🏼‍♀️🤣

[@AtlantaHospiceRN]

Plant what you can. Radishes grow ez. Squash tomatoes. I’m zone 8a in Georgia and I cover weeds w cardboard n mulch

[@PaleGhost69]

Tilling might be the reason you have so much weeds. Especially if you're tilling the mulch into the soil.

[@margaretd3710]

You might want to hold off on using the tractor. It seems that when you till, you disturb the ecosystem and give the weeds an even better opportunity to grow. Watch some more videos on No Till gardening - there's lots of them on KZbin. In addition to this channel, I like Charles Dowding a lot and there's many others that are great as well. Best wishes for a great garden!

[@RajiTripathi]

Do you have a sequel? Please provide the link. Wondering how did this "experiment" turned out?

[@Cintamani1]

Any video showing the harvest at the end of the season? Thank you.

[@carolparrish194]

I didn't see you covering the seed with any soil. Is thst the way you do all your seeds?

[@paulcharpentier7095]

I use the sand and feed technique as well but one thing I put my carrot seeds and my radish seeds together and then if I pull my radish seeds just the carrots are left the radishes come up quickly and that marks them

[@juanitaglenn9042]

I've heard of that and always wanted to try it. Weirdly enough, I suck at growing radishes, so I never did try it as I figured I might mess up my carrots more🤷‍♀️

[@markjelinek5899]

mark J Greetings I am glad to see you work hard. I have no issues with your comments except you are not in tune with Ruth's method. Believe me I am no master gardener but please read Ruth Stouts books. Or even just one of them. She would have covered the whole area with Hay. When asked how much hay she says "more". No weeding around the Garden. No watering. That includes how she plants carrots. I do not mean to insult you in any way and wish you the best.

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

Thank you and I understand that. I also know Ruth's gardens were very established. These are not. From someone that has been using her method for a little while it takes quite a few years for your beds to get established in her methods. Everything looks good on paper and in a book until you do it in real life. Out of curiosity how long did it take you to get your Ruth stout beds established?

[@blanknoriega5726]

You can definitely push an earth way seeder through after pulling back that hay mulch. I’ve been doing it commercially for years.

[@juanitaglenn9042]

What's an earth way seeder?

[@candiwallace6605]

Niceeeee greenhouse 💕💕👌👌

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

Lol. Thanks!❤❤

[@juanitaglenn9042]

What temps can you use your greenhouse in? Looks like the leaves aren't on the trees yet so must be pretty efficient.

[@laurencehawes2892]

How good are sparta tomatoe plants

[@andreagriffin9842]

Hi! I'm new here and new to the ruth stout gardening. Right now we have one big square of straw which I find not real pretty and difficult to walk on. I would like to prep another garden with rows. How wide are your beds in order to plant three rows like you're doing? Thanks!

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

About 30 inches wide

[@andreagriffin9842]

@@HonestOpenPermaculture Thanks!!

[@twinadotime5130]

what time of the year was this?

[@gabbyrico4877]

Do you have wild rabbits? If so how do you deal with them? I planted tomatoes a week ago and they ate them all 😤 and the pea shoots and the potato sprouts

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

Yes. If they become a problem I use electric poultry netting

[@gabbyrico4877]

@@HonestOpenPermaculture nice to know

[@Owl4909]

Good video I do same

[@camperspecial9666]

Bruh! Where did you get all those pizza boxes?!! 😄 That's a lot of pizza!!

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

🤣🤣 I work part time at night at papa John's

[@sina942000]

You know it's real when all the containers have holes in them...

[@49testsamiam49]

so did the carrots come up? i want to try it but I need proof lol

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

Yes. I'll be doing a update soon.

[@49testsamiam49]

@@HonestOpenPermaculture great

[@MrDannyboyy11]

What’s your row spacing and can you get them closer

[@lunabeta3516]

How deep the seeds go? How deep the straw

[@lunabeta3516]

Got my answers met. 10 30 minutes in. I'm excited to do carrots this year. Ty

[@Victory_Gardener]

Don't have that fine sand. A bit of flour or sugar came to my mind. Don't know if this would attract pests.

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

Definitely would attract pest. You can also put the seeds in a salt shaker (just seeds) then use the shaker to spread the seeds. It helps with over seeding.

[@dandahermitseals5582]

Where are you farming??

[@Warrior-In-the-Garden]

How are they doing now- would love a follow up video.

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

I'll be recording it this week

[@Warrior-In-the-Garden]

@@HonestOpenPermacultureAwesome! will be on the look out for it

[@dandahermitseals5582]

Sheeeeit I figure you got no problem for water?? Aye??? Dandahermit

[@howardzeller3526]

Can I use Timothy hay ?

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

Not sure what Timothy hay is.

[@juanitaglenn9042]

I know I'm late to the show, but I've heard you can use almost any hay, but you might want to water it, let it sprout and then break it up and let it sit in the sun to kill off the sprouts. Then use. Not sure if that actually works, but with the 'grass' hays, I would be careful that way and just maybe try it in a corner somewhere to see if it does kill off the seeds.

[@charlievanornum5901]

Put beets or radishes with carrots.

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

Tried it this year also works great. Going to be do a videos on it soon

[@margaretd3710]

Question: Were those all pizza boxes you spread out???? lol. Looks like somebody loves himself some pizza! Too bad you can't just grow a few rows of pizza. lol.

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

I used to work at papa John's so I could get all their boxes that I wanted

[@margaretd3710]

@@HonestOpenPermaculture Yum! That's good pizza. - Did you do a follow-up video on the carrots? They can be tricky to grow, but the sand with the carrots is a tried and true method.

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

I did. Here it is. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3ipgqeGgMSGbKc

[@alittlesouthwindfarm3074]

What zone or what area are you in? Just found you.

[@alittlesouthwindfarm3074]

Nevermind found it. Ha ha

[@alittlesouthwindfarm3074]

Nevermind I found it. Lol

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

Zone 6b-7a. But it's acting more like a high 7a. Lol

[@alittlesouthwindfarm3074]

@@HonestOpenPermaculture thank you. It's acting almost a month earlier here but then get hit with pretty chilly cold snaps here. I'm wanting to try this year with pelleted carrot seeds also.

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

@@alittlesouthwindfarm3074 Pelleted carrot works great! The only reason I don't use it is because I like to practiss growing in a manner where shit hit the fan and you can't get pelleted carrot seed. I figured if I can strip gardening down to its basics and be successful at it you could make it through just about anything.

[@dennisnolan2544]

Time for some new jeans!

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

Na. Good air flow. Lol

[@vickikay54]

Or less jeans!!! (I may be 70, but I'm not dead yet)

[@norxgirl1]

Love the holy jeans!! And the economical greenhouse....gives me some ideas.....

[@sallylynn4579]

Where are you located?

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

Nc

[@artkeyes]

you should pan that sand for gold

[@ka3ymogm]

Carrots do well with onions, just saying.

[@michalamuggiernst464]

Must be nice to have sand in your back yard like that.

[@joyceobeys6818]

Hay has Grazon poisoning now. Organic rye grass is better to use.

[@suzclarke]

Not all hay

[@clivewinbow2150]

He is not planting IN the mulch.

[@red-lightthelegend8706]

Pure cringe

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

You clearly haven't experimented with this method. Smh 😔

[@tomsmith-rj3vw]

You garden because it's fun not to make money.

[@HonestOpenPermaculture]

You have no clue what you are talking about Tom...