REVEALING THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SOIL! | How to Create a Weed-Free Backyard Garden

[@dear_prudence]

So happy to see somebody who isn't afraid to use pine straw in the garden. Too many people still believing that "it'll turn your soil acidic" myth. I've been doing it for years (and testing) and it has never been a problem - *love* my pine straw! :)

[@LazyDogFarm]

Pine straw works great!

[@NicholasVann-ks6xy]

😂 you got me with the bucket joke.

[@kennethlatimer4607]

Dogs...really crackin me up!

[@JamysOnJericho]

About 3 yrs ago I found out by accident that alfalfa pellets work in the garden. I sold off my livestock and had a bag of pellets left over and used it as mulch for my pepper plants. Those jalapeños were 7 ft tall by the end of the season and produced like crazy. I hadn't even heard of using it.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Nice way to discover the benefits!

[@stanleywheat1340]

I fought weeds for years until I saw you using a tarp to kill the weeds. Thank you.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Works like a charm!

[@Yotaciv]

Triacontanol helps plants grow bushier(more side stems) and stay lower. Alfalfa and good amount of potassium makes for foot tall carpets of tomato. More tomatoes then leaves. Whereas growth hormones in seaweed promote stem elongation and top growth. Things will stretch straight up from main stem.

[@Soilfoodwebwarrior]

Alfalfa bales as a mulch/Fertilizer

[@markb3129]

After seeing what the Dawgs bucket does, I think a LSU bucket works the same!✌🏻

[@larrysheetmetal]

I put mine in a RAVENS bucket and it grew BEST crops I have EVER seen till harvest time come and it ALL DIED OFF !!!!!!

[@LazyDogFarm]

Haha!

[@carolynstokes333]

Ha ha!! A tiger bucket or gamecock bucket will work alongside a bully dog bucket, but better.

[@grandmaatthefarm125]

As a soap maker, I use empty lard buckets for everything! LOL

[@paulk7169]

Back in my days i would feed my rabbits the pellets, use the manure for my garden. and have meat in the freezer and a nice garden. The cost of the alfalfa got too expensive. Paul

[@WhatWeDoChannel]

I put my garlic 🧄 in the ground on the weekend. I grow three types: Sweet German (porcelain); Chesnok Red (True Purple Stripe); and Spanish Roja (Rocambole). I dug the bed, worked in some 19-19-19, spaced the cloves six inches apart in all directions and covered the bed with a layer of my home made compost. Up here we want the garlic to set down roots but not to come up until spring.

[@tannenbaumgirl3100]

You also want some water on there and work them in to not attract animals, like rabbits, mice and rats, or deer....they all like Alfalfa. I use them on all of my 25 raised beds and vary application depending on how much Nitrogen each crop needs. I started using it about 4 years ago, and yes, I've noticed an increase of critters, so something to watch out for and take necessary action, as needed.

[@TMesser74]

Thanks for the tip!

[@tannenbaumgirl3100]

@@TMesser74 Mix 1 cup Cornmeal, 1 cup Baking Soda, 1/2 cup Sugar, and water, just enough so you can roll ping pong size balls, and place them around the areas where mice etc. activity is noticed...this is for outdoors use, the ingredients will not harm any other outdoor animal except mice, rats, etc...they cannot digest Baking Soda, and it's safe for cats and dogs. Do not use indoors as the mice will die inside the house/walls...not a good situation.

[@TMesser74]

@@tannenbaumgirl3100 is it really that easy? We have mice in our chicken coop eating feed. Ill try this around the coop. And, i haven used Alfalfa pellets yet, but i sure do appreciate that tip too! I wouldnt have thought about bunnies and mice for one second! Thank you!

[@tannenbaumgirl3100]

Yaap, place these balls around your coop, shed, machine storage areas, etc. I have them around my garden shed, wood rack, raised beds, and compost bins. My raised beds are 22 inches high, so they love digging tunnels inside and eating my veggies bottom up. This has helped controlling them in the midst of a "smorgas board." Good luck.

[@lawrencebeeles6738]

I use pellets i use 5 gal bucket1/2bucket water1/2bucket pellets let sit overnight will be like meal inmorning then applie in rows under plants incorporate 2 weeks before planting have had great success

[@tamararoberts9307]

I use alfalfa pellets every fall on my gardens and I'm not disappointed

[@carole4b]

I’ve been using alfalfa pellets for more than 10 years - the results are always good. I add them to my furrows during planting. I even throw a handful into some of my houseplants.

[@beeleener6926]

Enjoyed the video. Miss seeing the children sometimes

[@sunnydayz4040]

Haha, I gotta go get a Dawgs bucket 🪣

[@DavidBrown-vx6fb]

LSU bucket would be much better! Go TIGERS!

[@urbanbackyardcontainergardenin]

Gotta use a Hurricane cup for alfalfa pellets in my raised beds.😂😂

[@SavingGreensHomestead]

I also use alfalfa pellets in three different ways…first I use the dry pellets the same as you do for a slow release method…. Second I use it as a mush by putting about 4cups pellets in a five gallon bucket then fill with water letting the pellets expand and break apart…I use that to mix in the soil for more accessible nutrients….Third I use it for tea as a ready soluble fertilizer for my plants and seedlings…I take a cup full of pellets and add it to a gallon jug filled with water…I let it sit for a few days before use….I have a playlist called Using Alfalfa Pellets on my KZbin channel where I detail the different uses of alfalfa pellets in the garden 🥰

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks for all the good tips!

[@rlbgardener6465]

Hello Travis, I don’t know about that dog bucket, but I do know that my Kansas City Chiefs bucket has done a great job of spreading my alfalfa pellets. Lol. And now on the serious side, my garden is over for the year here in zone 6b we had had hard frost last Monday and Tuesday nights. But here in a couple of weeks I’ll go and spread my alfalfa pellets on my garden for the winter and in the spring I’ll put some alfalfa mill when I plant. Thanks for the videos love them, great info.

[@angiedryden2777]

I'm so happy I found your channel!! Go Dawgs!!

[@LazyDogFarm]

Glad you found us too!

[@mousiebrown1747]

Well, All right!!! I ordered me some Lazy Dog garlic !!!

[@LazyDogFarm]

Awesome! Thanks!

[@jefferybarron929]

Keep an eye out for those ducks... Looks a lot like layer pellets lol... 😉

[@melissac3313]

This fall I have planted mustard in my rasied bed for my potatoes next spring and have planted oats in my earth bed for next springs onions. I am going to try using alpha pellets in my beds I still have fall plants growing and was unable to plant a cover crop. thank you for this great video. p.s. you're stirring up the bucket with Go Dogs 😆

[@legalyzeit]

Love your videos Travis. I think ill try alfalfa on our onion plot. I am slowly transisitoning to no-dig, Charles Dowding Style. But i do see many of your practices overlapping with his. All about soil! Oh and the only thing we disagree on....GO GATORS!!! see ya next weekend in JAX

[@markware4933]

This video is pure gold from start to finish. I started using alfalfa pellets with a heavy hand this year and had my most successful garden yet. I apply it at about the same rate you show. Since my season is too short for cover crops, I use the pellets as a pre-plant to feed the microbial network in the soil over the winter so it will be ready to accept the spring growth nutrients. Using 8-5-5 at planting and drip feeding Agrothrive plus some other additives as the plants cycle through their lives. Can't seem to locate any Dawgs bouquets, however.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Dawgs buckets are probably pretty scarce over there in Colorado.

[@markware4933]

@@LazyDogFarm Nobody within 800 miles of me can play a lick of football anyway so I may as well root for proven winners like the Bulldogs. Plus, ya'll can grow fresh figs and boiled peanuts. Give thanks. However, I will put our local Colorado Potato Beetle up against anybody's.

[@davidward1259]

Got to use the special bucket!!!! Everything is better with a Bulldog "G" on it! Go Dawgs!!!! Gnaw on some gators nuggets next weekend! You can also use alfa in a compost pile if your pile is out of balance. And example would be a lot of fall leaves when green material or grass is not available. Just mix in some alfa pellets for your green material

[@mousiebrown1747]

Sorry, David. I’m gonna wear my LSU Tigers jacket when I plant me some garlic. Dogs are a good school but I’m a Tiger girl.

[@davidward1259]

@@mousiebrown1747 Well, here's to the Tigers taking down Bama in 2 weeks!!!! I'll be rooting with you at that game!

[@tpen891]

Go Dogs. Alfalfa cubes works great in compost bin as well. Been using Alfalfa pellets in my garden for a few years now. Can also make compost using Alfalfa pellets and hard wood pellets.

[@marysurbanchickengarden]

You about 6 days behind on this video Travis. You gotta put em out almost every day to keep the algorithm popping you up. Dog gonit I forgot about the alfalfa pellets, can I spread them out even though everything is planted and it benefit the onions and leeks. I prefer a Gator bucket myself 🙂

[@LazyDogFarm]

Yeah you can still spread them and it should be fine. We did it after we planted our onions last year.

[@UrbanWhiteBuffaloFarm]

Hey Travis, Great video I'm fixin to get my garlic in I got the bed all ready this week so it will go in this weekend. Near about 200 cloves goin in. I put 4" of straw on top for the winter and wait for the green to peek up thru then it comes off with some triple 13 for a good start. I always get the onion bed ready the same cover the same so early in the spring I can get the onions in when it is time to plant them. I really like the idea of the alfalfa pellets have never tried them before. We are all done with the outside growing otherwise as it is fixin to be snowin here any week now. I have been do some of the fermenting and working on the hot sauce from two or three of your videos should be ready soon. Take care be safe bye for now

[@singncarpenter6270]

Seems like those Tennessee buckets are working pretty good this year.

[@allantrafford6262]

About time. That bucket been leaking for 20 yrs

[@LazyDogFarm]

That Tennessee bucket is ready to break any minute now. Been carrying too much weight.

[@detectivemikevarnado7515]

I noticed, while using my LSU Tiger bucket to collect my figs, they taste extra sweet. The Dogs don't have a fig tree named after them, do they? Sorry. Maybe one day.

[@LazyDogFarm]

LSU definitely has the figs on lock! Can't compete with them on that.

[@Angela_Alaimo]

Travis, could you please add Dawgs buckets to the merch section of your website?

[@LazyDogFarm]

Haha! Lowe's has stacks of them ready to fill with alfalfa pellets and garlic!😉

[@Angela_Alaimo]

@@LazyDogFarm Our Lowe's is sorely lacking there. So all I've got is a HD bucket and alfalfa pellets 😃

[@MalkiZee]

@@Angela_Alaimo get a sharpie 😉

[@Angela_Alaimo]

@@MalkiZee Lolz! What a splendid idea! I just found a brand new sharpie in the grocery store parking lot. I'm on it in the morning 😄

[@rp6264]

I spread the alfalfa pellets right in the furrow along with some organic fertilizer after the drip tape was down. Had the best ever garlic and onions this year.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks for sharing!

[@paulreiche2746]

Your application rate looks good.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Paul!

[@patriciahamlin7677]

MINI HA HA DOG

[@SlackerU]

After chemical-burning a $150 tree I gave up on fertilizer-injectors. I EC test in 100 gallon batches with an irrigation pump now, usually 400-600 TDS for 10-14 inch-high garden of high-organic-soil. Next time you do the Tarp near July please monitor for a max temperature. In Europe the anaerobic decomposition is used to produce gases to power engine-generators, so be cautious. I'd try it but IDK what I'd do with the tarp afterward as I don't have the space for the soil-solarizing practice, & that University deleted/upgraded their site so I have to re-find the promotion page claiming the practice can reach temperatures of 180f [I claim it can only reach 164f max].

[@FC-cz6zd]

🤔

[@eroggero]

Hey Travis, wouldn’t mind trying that garlic but I am pretty far south not sure if it would work or not all the way down here in Southwest Florida. I do use the alfalfa pellets for my onions and in other beds that gets turned over frequently. I have been grinding them up into more of a powder didn’t know if that would help the process or not. Maybe I’ll just do a mixture this time around.

[@justhappy2behurr]

Travis, Do you have any problems with the surrounding pine tree roots growing up into your garden beds ?

[@LazyDogFarm]

I haven't thus far.

[@corruptauthor]

How dare you ROLL TIDE! 😂

[@debmcl37]

Where do you buy your tarps?

[@LazyDogFarm]

I've had these a long time. Got them originally from Agri-Supply locally -- 100'x60' roll and then we cut to length.

[@stevefromthegarden1135]

I don't know about a dogs bucket but a GB Packers bucket would be the winning ticket. 😀😀 You didn't need to chill the elephant garlic, right? I thought elephant garlic grows pretty much anywhere. My garlic is in the ground already with the video coming out on 10/22.

[@LazyDogFarm]

My Packers aren't looking so hot this year. Maybe they'll get it turned around.

[@stevefromthegarden1135]

@@LazyDogFarm I know what you mean. They lost 2 experienced WR and now had to sign another before the trade deadline. Have a good weekend Travis. 👍👍

[@FC-cz6zd]

Another great one👍. Quick question. Zone 9b down here in FL. Getting cool a bit early this year. I was planning to plant my 1st attempt at garlic this weekend but seeing that you're waiting until November, thinking I should wait until later November? Thanks!

[@LazyDogFarm]

You could plant now. I've just set my schedule for November and probably won't be ready until then.

[@FC-cz6zd]

@@LazyDogFarm copy. Appreciate the response. Even tho I'm a Ky fan, I'll be pulling for a GA natl champ (TN looking tough tho).

[@small-timegarden]

I am only making an assumption by calculation here but I but I think that if the tarp is non-porous then underneath should not necessarily be it be very dry because I'm thinking moisture is going to repeatedly condense and soak into the soil

[@LazyDogFarm]

That's a very valid assumption. But I can tell you from personal experience that it can get too dry under there. I've seen some soils get so dry that they become hydrophobic and won't really accept water. It just beads and rolls around.

[@small-timegarden]

@@LazyDogFarm aaah! Ok.

[@th71-23]

i hope you get a hole in that bucket, Go Vols!😂

[@lennyrodriguez4783]

I had a bad bacterial diseaseon my corn, will tilling and tarpping the garden for two months help kill the bacteria

[@LazyDogFarm]

I'd go for a mustard cover crop instead. Tilling mustard vegetation into the soil really helps with soil-borne pathogens.

[@geraldwhite6029]

A Gator bucket works the best🐊🐊🐊😎😎🤣🤣Go Gators in a couple weeks!!!!!

[@allantrafford6262]

They do work good. They give out alot more points than they collect. Geaux tigers

[@takeitslowhomestead5218]

Ha ha! Go, Dogs! Where can I get me one of those magic buckets? Do they sell them in Utah??

[@allantrafford6262]

The ones in Utah leak badly. Best bet is to go to a yard sell by someone who's there from the south and try to find a used LSU bucket.

[@LazyDogFarm]

😂

[@elizabethpulido5735]

How come you don’t leave the organic matter inside the soil?

[@LazyDogFarm]

Makes it a little difficult to lay and bury the drip tape that we'll be using on the garlic.

[@MalkiZee]

It'll go back after the compost treatment.

[@harrybutler4077]

RTR!!!

[@Nurse_Lucy]

Does the agrithrive stink like fish emulsion?

[@LazyDogFarm]

It does have a smell to it. It's not quite as bad as straight fish emulsion because it has corn steep liquor in it as well.

[@tommathews3964]

I’m pulling tarps today myself. Sure wish you were here to help! Don’t forget to try that “fold to the middle and roll up” method for rolling the tarps up on pvc pipe. I think you might like it! I unrolled my biggest (26x40’) tarp and it was a breeze! Unroll right down the middle of the plot and unfold to the edges. I can’t help but chuckle thinking about somebody in Australia going “what the *#^*# is a Dawgs bucket”! 😂

[@LazyDogFarm]

Yeah I probably confused all the international viewers with that one! 😂

[@stshnie]

@@LazyDogFarm Yes, what on earth’s a dog’s bucket and what difference does it make? Couldn’t understand what you’re talking about.

[@dwardodwardo643]

If you or your folks will. Study a bit about honey cured/fermented garlic.

[@toddhatton7679]

Hahaha! Roll tide

[@hondosmith8234]

Yep no doubt the dogs bucket improves the quality but a hogs bucket would be better.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Hogs buckets usually start out good, but they start stinking as the year progresses.

[@DaxPallotta]

are you concerned that the brand you purchased does use herbicides in the production of their Alfalfa Pellets? "Standlee Premium Western Forage does use an herbicide called “Sencor”, which is applied in the fall before the growing season. Most customers concerned about this are worried that the residuals will carry over. The residuals on this product is very short and there is no concern for the product carrying over when we harvest."

[@LazyDogFarm]

We used the same brand last year with no issues, so I'm not really worried about it.

[@mutantryeff]

Roses can fundamentally survive off of alfalfa and Epsom salts.

[@mousiebrown1747]

Thanks. Good idea!

[@dabeav1317]

next time you make a dawg comment, before you post your video see how many subscribers you have. after a week of video post see how many subscribers you lost. GEAUX TIGERS!!! also need an update on figs. please let us know what figs a dawg fan grows. 🤔

[@LazyDogFarm]

Haha! LSU definitely wins the fig battle. I didn't notice any significant drop in subscribers on Friday -- so far so good!

[@dabeav1317]

@@LazyDogFarm looks like we have a tiger fan that's not ready to come out of the closet. 😆