The One Thing You Should NEVER Do to Your Fall Garden

[@littlefootranch4410]

Purslane is an amazing nutrient powerhouse. It's good raw in salads or lightly cooked with other veggies. Dandelion too! Very healing & cleansing. Great video as always & congratulations again!

[@fruitsofmylabors7879]

I was going to saying that he same! I TRY to get my purslane to grown

[@groussac]

How do you control purslane? I had some beautiful purslane this past spring, but it took over everything. I didn't get a handle on it until I covered it over with wood chips.

[@ronfalcone4939]

Purslane contains high amounts of oxalates. This can be an issue for people who tend to develop kidney stones, as oxalates can contribute to their formation. Oxalates also have antinutrient properties, meaning that they may interfere with the absorption of minerals like calcium and magnesium. Purslane grown in the shade may have higher levels of oxalates, compared to plants readily exposed to sunlight. If you are concerned about the oxalate content, try adding it to yogurt, which has been shown to significantly reduce the amount of oxalates

[@brianbuch1]

The way I grow purslane is to "weed" a patch of garden otherwise fallow of all the other weeds. That way I have good veg until my green beans, etc are ready to eat.

[@chrisamos5075]

Yes! Please please please do an episode on cover crops. It's so hard to find information on cover crops for raised beds! P.S. Thanks for all the great content! And congrats.... dad! ;)

[@johns8037]

Hey MIgardener, I'm a fellow gardener and just came across your channel. I like what you're saying on here. One thing I would add to your explanation is to use your fallen leaves. Just lay them on top of your garden beds. Its best if you mulch them first. All you need is an inch or two in depth. Don't mix them in. This will protect very beneficial bacteria and fungi as well as replenish biomass. It also is beneficial for your back and knees as it prevents weed growth in the garden. One thing you never want to do is bury a plant you want to keep. So plants that grow back every year from bulbs or tubers do great when burried and in my experience do so much better if they get burried in the fall under leaves. I've been doing this now for about 7 years and I do very little weeding and my garden plants get massive every year. Hostas, Helleborus, Iris, etc, until I started doing this, they never got so big. PS: Congratulations on your newborn! very exciting times ahead for you and family! It only gets better, yep there's going to be lots of trials but the benefits outweigh them by far.

[@tinamitchell3764]

I generally do this with the latest from my Red Maple. But this year the wind keeps them blown away. The wind has been so much worse this year.

[@Mstymntntop]

Just put the leaves on paternity leave and they should do OK

[@madilynandmarkbehlke6693]

How do you keep the wind from blowing them away?

[@luckypenny312]

I would mow the leaves ( chop them) first then put on the beds. Otherwise it becomes a haven for slugs and other pest that will be a problem come planting season.

[@julianokleby1448]

@@madilynandmarkbehlke6693 If you spray them with water, they are heavy enough and compact enough to not blow away. You might lose the top layer or two in a severe storm, but that's what I did last year after the first frost. I have a huge oak tree in the backyard, and several other trees, so we have an abundance of leaves in the Fall. I fill the raised beds about an inch over the top of the bed to give plenty of room for wind to blow some around. We had enough leaves from that oak tree to cover 13 raised beds (4'x8') about 5"-6" deep. This year I put them around the tomato plants too for insulation, and it kept them toasty warm until the first real freeze (which s the only one we've had, thank the Lord!) when it got down to 28F.

[@primitivedaisy]

You can pick the purslane and put it on your salad! It’s very nutritious. 😊🐝

[@JaniceCrowell]

And so delicious.

[@debbieduggan6796]

It's actually better to NEVER till your soil. We tilled ammendments in every spring & couldn't figure out why it still stayed compacted & had a tendency to be weedy. Then I read about Ruth Stout's method & started adding compost & mulch in the fall & we now have wonderful rich soil & fewer weeds.

[@BrokenZen311]

Never-Tillers rise up!

[@Kate98755]

i’m starting my 4th year of cutting up the leaves and putting them back in the garden, especially use the leaves as a blanket for the plants

[@jenniferdavis3483]

Layering is wonderful.. been doing this for 20 years. Each fall I cover All unused garden sections with newspapers, paper bags or cardboard and then I cover that with hay. I like hay better than wood chips because it’s easier on my knees when I’m planting the next spring. In the spring I rake the mulch over enough to add compost, plant my seeds or plants, and when they start to come up I pulled a the mulch back over close to the plants. There is rarely a weed in my garden. Worms are plentiful and happy. I alternate my pathways with the planting rows each year.

[@camperspecial9666]

My first couple years of large-scale gardening, I really just went with a common wisdom that I was taught. And when you have that large-scale kind of gardening going on you eliminate the weeds by tilling. Till till even most of the gardening books back in the day said the same thing. Till those weeds under and they will compost in the soil. While there is a little bit of Truth to that, you are exactly right in what you say about not tilling in the fall. Years and years of experience have finally beaten it in my head that preserving the soil structure is more than half the battle in keeping a healthy garden. Thank you for all that you do for us out there and KZbin land, and may God bless your newborn!

[@OneBrightLightTN]

I was just planning on tilling my garden later this week, thanks for you’re extremely good timing on this video Luke 👍

[@tarantulady8565]

Same! Glad I saw this!👍

[@janiecehamblen933]

I have never tilled in the fall, but have used newspaper and leaves to combat weeds.

[@srjulianm]

Easiest way to deal with purslane... Eat it, it's actually delicious cooked right

[@jamesbang5690]

I treat them as a crop in my garden and let them grow where it won't interfere with other plants.

[@tracycrider7778]

And great raw!

[@misskittie]

I tried to eat one and it was very bitter.It’s growing all over my garden.

[@Bigfoottehchipmunk]

I let purslane grow between things and in cracks, and I feed them to my chickens a couple times each week. I don't put weeds in my compost much, unless they go in the "stank tank". I mostly feed weeds to the chickens. I'm just going to throw compost soil, leaves, and old straw on the beds this fall, just soil and straw where I plant garlic. I still have tomatoes and green beans and peppers under plastic, but I think I will get all those out before the next freeze. Letting beans finish some "fatty beans" for seeds.

[@debrasaints3809]

Congratulations on the new baby!

[@anneyday3493]

I didn't have any weeds this year, we are in drought. So pulling out the few plants that survived until the big surprise frost was simple. I cleaned out my rabbit barn today and dumped the dookie into the beds, and covered with leaves, and wood shavings. CONGRATULATIONS on the baby!

[@jedd.5407]

I put a layer of alfalfa pellets on the surface about an inch or so deep and then cover that with leaf compost and then the whole bed with old burlap potato bags. This saves moisture, aids in the decomposition of the nitrogen (bringing earth worms to the surface area where the plants grow) in the alfalfa pellets and the worms absolutely devour this material. I found the garden bed so easy to till in the Spring, and I can also cover over the alfalfa with leaf compost and then put the recycled coffee burlap bags on top if I need some carbon material with the green. It produces some incredible vegetables and you get practically no weeds growing.

[@sanjacooklin5633]

Purslane and dandelions are easily THE most nutritious foods you have in your garden beds!

[@jaytoney3007]

I'm in central Alabama, climate zone 7B. The last two nights, we had freezing weather, and tonight there is frost potential, but the freeze warnings have been removed. I covered my most frost sensitive plants, Lemons Squash, Roma Tomatoes, and Dad's Sunset Tomatoes with sheets. I left my eggplant, which I don't care about, peppers, and potatoes uncoverd, and hoped for the best. The eggplant has a lightly frost damage with curling leaves, but will recover. My pepper plants came through the frost uncathed, and the Lemon Squash, came through it, covered with ripening fruit. The potatoe plants, shruged it off, as if it was nothing, and my tomato plants came through it with minimim frost damage to a few branch tips. They will recover, and keep producing. The rest of my garden is a mix of cool weather and cold weather crops, Asian greens, mustard, kale, beets, carrots, radishes, kohlrabi, snow peas, turnips, etc. I'm not done planting yet. Tomorrow or Saturday, I will be harvesting potstoes, and planting Late Nagasaki Cabbage for a January harvest, and next month, I will be planting garlic. I am going to try to keep my garden growing through the winter using hoops and greenhouse plastic. Between seasons, I top off my raised beds with compost.

[@shinnam]

Wow. In Stockholm Sweden we just had our first frost on Wednesday.

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

I'm doing the opposite of tilling. I plan to go around swiping all my neighbors' leaf piles like I did last year, and then when we get the trees trimmed, I'm keeping the woodchips. I have a number of plants that I'm planning to overwinter, like the scarlet runners and the chayotes, and the mulch should keep their root systems protected from the cold.

[@stephenhope7319]

Me too, I have been salvaging leaf piles and wood chips and still have a 50gallon barrel full. Great for mulch and for organic additions... as long as the neighbours haven't been using chemicals!!

[@eventhisidistaken]

...a bit of caution with wood chips if you don't already know. They absorb nitrogen as they break down, so make sure they are well composted before adding them to the garden.

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

@@eventhisidistaken Yes, they'll do that if you mix them in with the soil. If you layer them on top as a mulch, it'll be fine. When the woodchips are aged and further along in their decomposition, at which point they turn black and flaky, they will release the sequestered nitrogen back into the soil as well. Granted, I made the mistake of dumping excessive quantities of nitrogen onto all my plants, which caused them to bush out and produce a lot of leafy growth this year at the expense of fruiting less.

[@angelaslatzer9263]

Thanks for this video! I was about to till our plot at the community garden but will hold off until spring. Congratulations on your new family addition! How exciting!! 🥳

[@sylviacalkins333]

congrats on your new baby, I pray he grows up big and strong walking wiht his Creator.... thank you for this episode, I was gonna take care of my beds in a few weeks, now I will leave them alone

[@lyndabuchholz1216]

I found as soon as I decided to eat purslane it slowed down on growing.

[@averykempf9164]

Haha! It's like get the flyswatter out.... Suddenly, there are no flies....

[@lyndabuchholz1216]

@@averykempf9164 Yep!

[@CaptFoster5]

I am happy to report that I have done exactly what Luke warned about ... not tilling my garden in the Fall. And, to be honest, I did not do it for the reasons he stated. I simply just never did it. It is good advice.

[@lewisbrooks8703]

Congratulations Luke! Good job getting out in the garden as I'm sure you've got a lot else on your plate! A quick hello from me - I'm from Scotland (been watching MIgardener for 3years-ish) my daughter's just about to turn one. I bought a large green house months ago and I've still not been able to find the time to construct it! Taking some time off work soon so I can get it done and 'grow big' next season. All the best with the channel and the family!

[@pattigsbh4392]

Thank you for this. We are winterizing the garden since we just had our first frost. Going to just layer leaves and rabbit fertilizer until spring.

[@amyk6028]

Congrats on your PRECIOUS baby Boy!! We have 2 boys. They are awesome ❤ Enjoy

[@jessicadavis1709]

Send me all your purslane, I'll eat it, lol! It's my absolute favorite for salads. Thanks for all your sage advice, and congratulations!!

[@MattMatusiak]

I'm in a suburban area in Zone 5b. I saw one of your past videos that showed you covering a garden with plastic. The last 2 years I have cut down my dead plants and left them, covered them with 6 mil black plastic, and in the spring all that matter is gone when I uncover my garden. I put my grass clippings and leaves in my garden as well. I've had pretty healthy crops.

[@mardirazzberry]

Liked your comment, I'm debating covering raised beds with black cover, so much weed pressure, mostly thistle, coming from my neighbor. How was your weed pressure moving the spring/summer.

[@MattMatusiak]

@@mardirazzberry my only issue is purslane.

[@deegir3354]

I love and encourage purslane to spread its seeds in my garden. It makes a nice easy ground cover to retain moisture during growing season. I just weed around the crop - and let the purslane spread and cover the rest of the bed. Same for chickweed. But - to each their own.

[@JaniceCrowell]

Purslane is absolutely delicious. Chickweed is very nutritious too, though not as much as purslane.

[@janicejurgensen2122]

Wow! Thank goodness I decided to take a break and watch your video! I was resting to go til my beds!! I never knew any of that! So no fall tilling for me. Thank you once again!

[@dawnbielawski9212]

Congratulations and glad you were able to take those weeks off. Thanks for the advice!

[@DreidMusicalX]

Last year I just cut off my plants at soil level and then covered a couple of my beds with cardboard. I had no cover crops seeds to plant, and I had no mulch, since it ran out. Behold, in the spring when I opened the soil up it was early to work the soil because it was not as frozen as other bed were so I was able to plant sooner, and the soil was really fluffy from everything that stayed working in the soil. Now check this one out. Those beds I did that to had 0 bug problems this year. Not sure if it was because the plants seemed more healthy this year or not? I barely even got any tomato worms, no cabbage worms this year and aphids I barely even seen this year. Not sure if it had anything to do with it or not? But I am going to try it again this next year. But I still have massive amounts of tomato plants here in E TX still producing tomatoes like you would not believe. Banana Peppers, Sugar snap peas and even Black Eyed Peas are still growing for me here. Our weather, if all goes right, I might be able to keep some crops going into December.

[@Fightandresist]

I am excited...the garlic I bought from MIGardner is just starting to poke out of the dirt. First time growing garlic.

[@8arrows]

I get half a dozen questions from neighbors and townsfolk everyday. I tell them to come here. Your channel has the answers to any of their question.

[@bluewater454]

I have gone completely no till in my garden beds. I cover them with leaves in the fall to control the weeds in the spring and plant my veggies right through the leaves in the spring. They insulate the soil through the winter, help keep moisture in the soil and eventually mulch down to awesome dirt.

[@susanchapman4140]

Maternity and paternity are so important, glad you were able to take one

[@noraalvarado8178]

I don't till. I just cover with mulched grass and leaves every year.

[@metasamsara]

good info about the frost and root structure

[@redemptionisnear8553]

Congratulations on your new addition 🎉!

[@stephenhope7319]

Great advice. Here in 9b Sacramento, Ca I am still harvesting tomatoes and peppers. Come December I will be cutting off at grade and growing cover crops along with radish and spinach and cabbage.Thank you.

[@tmessenger6581]

You should be eating your purselane. It tastes wonderful and is very good for you. It's also a great food that never needs to be replanted. Easy to grow and good for you.

[@lindas.6794]

Congratulations on the new baby!

[@dorindamiddleton5418]

Purslane won’t grow back if you eat it. It makes great salad greens in the spring, it’s good in smoothies, and will thicken a soup if you chop it up and add it the last 15 minutes or so. It is nice tasting, juicy and bright. Give it a try.

[@WhitepepperFarmshomestead]

Oh man, I should have taken leave from my channel when mine was born two months ago. I pushed HARD to keep up with my weekly video schedule and finally burnt out this week. finished up this weeks video today and I am not filming this coming up week. Taking a much needed week off with the baby. Congrats on yours!

[@rr-brown6445]

I feed my purslane to my chickens! They love it.

[@ummbilalqamar1540]

I can’t wait for purslane to grow on my garden bed. It’s delish!

[@palliaskamen5722]

I let grow as a ground cover

[@bobbun9630]

To avoid leaching, my thought would be to use a cover crop to capture those nutrients or cover the area with a tarp. Wheat and rye are considered to be hardy to -40, and wheat is shockingly good at suppressing cool season and perennial weeds. Rye might be as well, though I haven't used it. Of course, if you're not going to be planting anything in the area, I see no benefit to tilling in the first place.

[@AnyKeyLady]

Yes, until you intend to grow dandelions for their roots, you still should be cutting the yellow flower heads off before they go to seed, like most rooted veg such as garlic. When the soil it wet enough, pull those roots out. They can be eaten or make a lovely drink with burdock. Closest thing to root beer, here in the UK. Don't till though. If you already have done the cardboard layer, sticks and dirt to build your first bed, cut the crops you are finished with out at the base and just cover with newspaper. I can pick up free newspapers here in the UK. If you have the budget for it you can buy rolls of crafting paper or even primer wallpaper that some people use before hanging the actual wall paper of choice. Packing paper is often waxed so not advised. If the bed is to rest i would lay out unprocessed veg like banana and potato peels direct to the bed. I have my winter/ spring compost that i would add next. If i had manure, i would also add this. Cover with a tarp or mulch and done. If like me who is going to grow garlic and other stuff in Zone 9 London, UK, you can put food scraps in a food processor before planting. I also have a A4 crate sized, 3 tier wormery, which currently eats our veg food scraps. £2.75 per crate about 30cm x 45 cm. I picked 20 red worms from the garden. When i get to about 500 worms i relocate the bigger worms to the general composter. I put the worm castings in a bucket to dry out. I can then use it in direct distribution or make worm tea. We had lower numbers this year due to the droughts and the heat. Processing again this weekend and moving it into the workshop as out of the rain and less bugs. I like to cover the bed again with free cardboard or mulch. I haven't had to do this much as our first frost date it Jan 1st now. I used to like 4 miles into London and as a kid we all got excited about 4 ft of snow. 2011 we had 2 inches of snow and we all got excited unless you had to drive in the black ice through narrow roads. I remember safely 360 my car, luckily on a slightly bigger road, (you can't 360 on my road in normal conditions and often have to give way), and i reached the tiny roundabout as two cars approached. I was going down a hill so they let me through and so thankful that they were not arseholes. Really sad that i can't show my kid real snow. By the time that they realised what it was, we now just get the odd "dusting" of snow.

[@paulmastre8202]

Your video with the baby was cute with no equal. KZbin money can make a great college fund. Stay blessed

[@stephenwalz1315]

I already tilled mine.

[@susanmitchell8339]

Thank you for the information. We have unusually warm weather here in Northern BC. Canada. We still have Veggies in the garden. I’ll top dress the veg gardens with compost, leaves and chicken manure. Also been given some ‘Fungi’ that was used for growing mushrooms. Im not quite sure how to implement it into the garden? Should I chop it up and spread it on top along with the rest? It’s a No Dig garden. Many thanks Luke, and best wishes to your family

[@jeaninebunt9739]

Dandelions are not weeds they are a wild medicinal plant.

[@bruceleroy7125]

Any plants you don’t want in your garden are weeds. If he doesn’t want them then yes, they are weeds

[@batzzz2044]

Insert Donnie Darko joke here.....

[@ravenpineshomestead]

Useful yes, but technically speaking if there's dandelions crowding my carrots they're unwanted and a weed lol.

[@livehardone9437]

Any plant that you do not want growing within the plants you want growing is a weed. Dandelions are in fact weeds.

[@heatherhuard]

Purslane is a delicious green!

[@farmerchick3040]

Congratulations 🎊 guys on your new addition. Great to see you back.

[@redmapleleaf4617]

You just made me feel so good about not getting to this task this year. And it makes sense.

[@catfunksfabulousfinds]

I eat purslane in my garden. It has Omega 3 & 6's Its great in a salad. I often just munch on it. You can sell it to some Mexican restaurants or mexican grocery stores.

[@lostpony4885]

I screwed up my spring compost pile with wads of crabgrass that i didnt dry to death first. That stuff did not rot instead it ate everything that broke down, its all drying on the patio now until crispy then it goes back in again.

[@debkincaid2891]

You just saved me a lot of work. Thanks, Luke. 👍

[@gabec2494]

I'm still a fan of tilling. 27 yrs gardening now, and I find that tilling in the fall after a few cold nights doesn't disturb the worm population. Most will go deep during that time. I till 10 inches down and amend with humus, homemade compost and liquid kelp. Once the weather warms up a few days after I get twice the worm population. I like to grow in the cold season using thick plastic row covers with weekly feedings. (Zone 7a N. GA). Arugula, daikon, turnips, French breakfast all grow with freezing Temps if maintained correctly. I'll border my rows with partially finished wood chip/ kitchen scrap compost and straw to balance temperatures. My theory is this, if you're not growing, you're not feeding your soil. I know this isn't practical for northern zones. But here in the southeast, there's no reason why something shouldn't be growing at all times to bust up and build the red clay. Also, I use no pesticides, herbicide or commercial fertilizers. I depend on trap crops, intercropping and relay planting to diversify my rows. Wood chips and leaf compost layered in my footpaths, and floating row covers to keep pests at bay. If soil is acidic, amend with lef mulch compost from maple leaves, and to acidity soil, use leaf compost containing pine needles. Separating compost for different applications keeps my market gardens in check year round.

[@cherylynnradziunas8539]

Can I add worm casting to my veg garden in either fall or spring to help fertilize. Also planning a cover crop of mixed seeds. I’m in zone 6 a in CT. CONGRATS ON THE NEW BABY 🎉

[@tmgreen12]

Than you Luke! 😊

[@tarantulady8565]

Thanks for this info!!! ❤️ from SE Michigan to you and your family, Luke!!

[@californianorma876]

In California, given the drought, I am allowing virtually anything that wants to grow, to grow. Insects and birds need something 🙏🏽

[@taniahummelgard2290]

I’m thinking of sneaking over to my community garden plot and dumping my leaf mulch on my plot. Then make sure I get the same one next year 🙂

[@JaniceCrowell]

Why would you have to sneak in? Don’t they approve of natural soil improvement methods?

[@stevencohen624]

Congratulations! 🍾🎉🎈

[@lilcricket4379]

Baby in the garden! 💕😊

[@partner_garden]

The great video i like about gardening....

[@cantseetheforestforthetree9673]

Even in the spring tilling high biomass, organic matter rich, living soils like yours is counter productive. A well structured soil will airate itself as a function of water drawing air down behind it as it percolates through the soil. Tillage only serves to disturb the soil food web, break up the natural aggregation of soil particulates and collapse the porosity of the soil. Look to Charles Dowding, he never turns or tills his soils, and even walks on his beds without concern for compaction because a living, biomass rich soil will spring back like a sponge. Tillage has its place with facilitating the transition of heavy, compacted, rocky or clay soils into organic matter rich garden loam, but are generally counterproductive as a systematically repetitive intervention.

[@bryanvagenos5089]

short and informative as always......tx

[@imjonesy5239]

Congratulations on the new addition!

[@theoutofdoors5083]

I had an uncle named creeping Charlie.

[@senorjp21]

Hey! Congratulations on the new family. Love it!

[@luzhelenahook1715]

Congratulations 🎉. Glad you back. Love your videos.

[@8arrows]

This is the years year I been following. And it still catches me off guard seeing Luke bundled p in winter clothes. While we here in central Texas were sweating our asses off

[@berthurst9796]

How would you prepare to plant fall garlic ? I won't till the rest of my garden this fall but my garlic patch has been tilled and planted. Well I am a first time viewer. Now I have gone back and watched the garlic planting video. Thanks for the info for this new subscriber.

[@bethstinebaugh6817]

I would love purslane in my garden. It's a power food and so good! Love it raw in salads and on sandwiches 💚 Definitely not a weed.

[@groussac]

Iowa Zone 5a. Garden = 340 ft sq. I have to disagree with the no-til recommendation. I've gotten good results by LIGHTLY fluffing up the soil AFTER I've added alfalfa pellets and other amendments. This keeps the mice from becoming too interested in the garden, and accelerates the decomposition process. After the mini-til, I cover everything over with pulverized leaf mulch. The mulch percolates rain and snow melt into a slow drip into the soil, and keeps the soil from compacting over the winter. Thing of it is, where I live the ground is going to freeze solid to a foot and a half, and stay that way for about 4 months. There isn't going to be much leaching until the spring thaws, which are a long time coming. By then I've already got my spring crops planted. Mostly Swiss Chard and Red Sails lettuce. Can't say enough good things about Swiss Chard. It is THE go-to green in this household.

[@nedcramdon1306]

Thank you and congratulations to y'all.

[@NSNorfolk]

Good to see you back! Wp ut in a fall/winter garden (in Zone 8A) as a kitchen garden on our farm. I do large rows of just a few cultivars so, my rows are 100' long and I make them with regular, agucultural tillage equipment. Do you think I damaged my soil? I could have just planted in the raised rows from summer? Whatcha think? Request. An updated video on fruit tree pruning and some information on controlling blight, etc... on fruit trees. I've been fighting Powdery mildew of apple and pear all summer on trees I planted in April. Have any suggestions?

[@alanhaasher8734]

Snow in Brighton too

[@sandybrown9410]

Unfortunately, we tilled over the weekend. I wish I had come across this just a few days sooner. :(

[@inmansblackwalnuthomestead9703]

Yep snowed here in Jackson today.

[@peggyruggles3754]

We had a tiny blizzard in Oak Park, MI

[@cbak1819]

Good to know about the 2 nd tip😘😘😘

[@lostpony4885]

The only spot i plan to til is under my compost pile which will be stuffed with green leaves and shredded brown stems making spring soil

[@ichaballer212]

Hello, what about doing core gardening in the fall? You have videos where you are disturbing the soil to bury organic matter after the planting season

[@kathyd9324]

Eat purslane! Great in salads. Very healthy beneficial food source.

[@wardroland270]

Thanks Luke. Great job. Good info. God bless.

[@heidigilman1941]

Congratulations Dad, get that little one in the garden!

[@bonnieparker1238]

Glad you and your family are well. Thank you for this video. I always learn from you. I haven’t looked but I hope your wife has a garden diary left for 2022. I still want to purchase and record my info I learned during my summer gardening adventure while on the mend from C. I am asking the kids to get the same diary for the 2023 season for my Christmas gift. I haven’t looked so I don’t know if it is available or not. Hope so. Anyway, great video and thanks again.

[@judithstorck5195]

Congratulations. Judi

[@emilys_road7881]

Lol I just did this on 2 of my beds a few days ago. Never done it before but thought I would give it a try. Oops! Now I know 😂

[@bsimmons2577]

Purslane is one of the highest value of healthy Omega 3s for your heart. Don't kill it - eat it. Pickle it, great fresh in salads. Prevents shingles - I could go on and on and on ;)

[@NorthlanderMN]

I just dump leaves over my beds when the neighbors start bagging. You could lay cardboard down too. Jmo

[@dancharak6300]

Glad to see you back! One question-do you add soil to your raised beds every year? I noticed mine dropped a bit this year. I do add compost and other organic matter (chopped up leaves and grass) but wonder if I need to add soil in the Spring. Love the channel. Thanks!

[@Bizarreparade]

Somebody's been watching a lot of James Prigioni from Jersey. Don't worry your secret is safe with me.

[@leahmatthews8489]

Thank you for this info, one less thing to do!

[@dangalimidi5609]

HELP! This year I built a few raised garden beds but mistakenly did not remove weed tarp from the bottom, also had new soil that was VERY dense. I had planned on removing ALL the soil this fall, cutting the weed tarp out, replacing the soil and adding perlite to make the soil less dense, as well as compost on top, followed by crushed leaves. This video made me worry that I should NOT disturb the soil at this time. Now I am unsure what to do!

[@t-bone6467]

Lots of videos on how folk transform clay soil to rich friable soil. You might get some useful ideas from those experiences.

[@windsonghillranch4306]

In our experience, those weed barriers rot out very quickly. Leave it and add compost or cover crops. Just an opinion.

[@adelineparinduri]

I don't till at all. I barely have weeds in my garden especially where the edibles and flowers are growing. When I see one or two, I hand-pull. Weeds mostly (try to) grow between the concretes here in my garden.

[@dm1045]

Do you leave your roots in from tomatos and peppers and just plant around the base of the stem in the spring as some suggest?

[@judylee1860]

Oh ty

[@ourgeorgiasuburbanhomestea6309]

I WISH my purslane would re-seed! I use it as a vegetable!

[@did_I_hurt_your_fee_fees]

Great advice! Thank you!

[@ranaeebonella2655]

Eat your purslane, it’s so good for you, it’s high in omega 3 also. So nutritious

[@nichecartoons]

That's what I like to hear - a valid reason not to do work! 😂

[@JaniceCrowell]

I’ll so surprised to hear you talk negatively about my favorite wild edibles! I envy you. After years of buying purslane, FINALLY one plant re-seeded! Purslane is one of the most nutritious foods in the world, far more nutritious than typical garden vegetables. It has more omega 3 than most fish oil. So much nutrition. Please research it! And so much less work than typical garden plants. And dandelion is not only extremely nutritious and medicinal, it’s taproot brings up minerals from deep and leaves them where other plants can access them. Look at what this one field guide says about dandelion: compared to spinach, dandelion has 8x more antioxidants, 2X the calcium, more vitamin A, and nearly 2X vitamins K and E. Good source vitamin B6, thiamine, riboflavin, copper, potassium, magnesium, and manganese. High vitamin C and luteolin which reduce free radicals. I hope my purslane takes off next year! I actually have paid lots for seed trying to get some established in my yard. And I’m excited to see a slight increase in my dandelions this year.