Full Hügelkultur Spring GARDEN TOUR & More

[@rachellovetinsky3672]

My youngest is watching this with me and I said, hey I do this guys taxes and he said, you know a famous guy?! I was like well kind of, he said 7k viewers is pretty awesome!!

[@SomeRoomtoGrow]

Haha that’s so awesome! Hi Rachel and son, thanks for watching!

[@IowasPhotographer]

Another great video!

[@SomeRoomtoGrow]

Thanks Kyle!

[@jayfender851]

I love using mosquito dunks! I’ve used them for years and they definitely help prevent/control the gnats but don’t solve the problem. I’ve just added them to my rainwater when I’m collecting and the bacteria eats all the mosquito eggs/ larva. Since the bacteria is harmless to people/pets it’s safe to use around food crops though I still recommend washing your produce

[@SomeRoomtoGrow]

Awesome, thank you! I wondered about that, since the mosquito bits contain BT which is often used in foliar sprays for brassicas.

[@wipeoutxl21]

battled fungus gnats for years. I bought some cape sundew plants online this year and they ate all of them. They are an easy to care for carnivorous plant that attracts them to their dew droplets. Every time I looked the plants had gnats stuck to them like a sticky tape. Only thing about those plants is they need rainwater or distilled water as they live in very low nutrient soil and well water or city water will kill them. They are lots of fun to grow. I just put them under my grow lights and now have them in a sunny windowsill now that my plants are outside.

[@SomeRoomtoGrow]

How fun! That sounds like something I should try. Thanks for the great suggestions, as always!

[@designaddict101]

Progress looks great, enjoy as you go.. : )

[@SomeRoomtoGrow]

Thanks!

[@JasonOfTGA]

I seem to have had some luck dealing with Aphids using a dilute neem-soap foliar spray, adding in a couple of tablespoons of bicarb in 5 Litres of water. I understand can use regular liquid soap and canola oil in place of the neem-soap mix if desired if just for the aphids, though I had some other soft body sucking critters to deal with, and not near any fishpond or waterway etc [ Edit: I see some recommending as little as a teaspoon of bicarb(baking Soda) per gallon to avoid leaf burn, so probably want to test lower concentrations than me for delicate plants ]

[@SomeRoomtoGrow]

Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll keep this recipe for next year.

[@Terri_Stauffer]

Thank you for tour, if the area is unproductive I would really consider taking out fence and boxes so it can be productive area again. It is unfortunate about gate though it looks really good and will last many more years. Maybe it can be repurposed for some thing else.

[@SomeRoomtoGrow]

Thank you! I agree, and I'm thinking I could use the gate on one side of the house to enter the backyard.

[@wipeoutxl21]

@@SomeRoomtoGrow why not just add some low nutrient type of soil to the beds to lower the overall nutrients. Seems a shame to undo all of it.

[@SomeRoomtoGrow]

It would be a shame. I would at least like to take the fence out because it doesn’t seem to make much difference with the critters. The rest of the garden is now out in the open. Maybe I could keep the 4x4 beds and repurpose the small ones.

[@suburbanhomestead]

I wonder what potting soil you used. I’ve bought “killer” soil before and now I’m more careful. Almost how your plants got way better once you grew in native soil.

[@SomeRoomtoGrow]

I've been using Burpee's organic coir-based seed starting mix for a few years and never had issues with insect larvae. I'd still like to try something different, though. My best guess is that the gnats and/or aphids may have come with the strawberries from my brother in AZ. Now that's a long-distance pest! The insects, not my brother ;)

[@suburbanhomestead]

@@SomeRoomtoGrow lol. Yes, it might be the strawberries

[@মৃতব্যয়ী]

Thanks for your nice information. I've 2 Qustion about Hugelkulture.. 1) Do I need add any kinds of compost or something In raised bed (hugelkulture) in one year to 2 years?? 2)How long time I can used hugulkulture bed for vegetable garden?? Can I reused it?? 3) Is there any kinds of maintainence after making hugelkulture bed??

[@SomeRoomtoGrow]

You’re welcome! These are great questions. I will be making a video to cover these topics in a few months, but for now here are some short answers: Yes, you can add some compost on top of the beds during the first couple of years when the buried material hasn’t decomposed yet. A hügelkultur bed can last many years and you can keep growing in it repeatedly. Planting cover crops in the beds over winter is a great way to maintain fertility. I hope this helps and I will have much more info in a video this spring!

[@মৃতব্যয়ী]

@@SomeRoomtoGrow Thank you. I'm waiting for your next vedio on this topics..

[@MartinaSchoppe]

no recommendation, but I think the tiny white beings are some sort of "whitefly".

[@kowalstwodagniau3553]

Podziwiam z Polski. Szkoda zw nie ma tłumaczenia na polski.😍