What is Perfect Soil? | LIVESTREAM

[@Sam-tg4ii]

Thanks for these precious lessons. I just watched one your videos, took a look at your list of videos and had to subcribe. Starting a backyard garden soon and your videos are life savers or maybe tree savers I should say :)

[@kathleenebsen2659]

Thank you Gary! Best explanation i've ever heard.

[@chickentender4037]

Wish I lived closer and could shop there. Thanks for the great information, I have started changing my potting mix to his recommendations.

[@GarysBestGardening]

Glad to help! - KC

[@fircrunch]

dthanks for making this video. opened my eyes to a few things that i did not realize. good presentation as well . i am in NY. my raised garden beds are full of crazy worms. i flip the beds via pitchfork weekly before planting. i shred all my leaves and grass and mix into the raised beds to feed the worms. they eat and multiply like crazy. the worms are everywhere i just feed the raised beds and the worms rush in. the entire flower bed is vermi compost. probably 24 inches. under the raised beds at ground level is very hard rocky clay soil. you need a pick axe to dig into it. when i take soil samples around my yard and raised beds the ph is always 7.0. i am pretty sure anything above this hard rocky soil is vermi compost from the worms. i collect soil from the woods around my area to inoculate my soil with random wild microbes. the woods are mostly maple and conifers. believe it or not its hard to find soil i can take thats in the woods. under the leaf mold is compacted and roots into everything. the soils is all being utilized. anyways. my garden soil is 7 ph and mostly veri compost and full of worms. i was thinking i should add some perlite or sand to my raised beds to increase aeration and maybe grow more food.

[@VeganChiefWarrior]

interesting situation indeed

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

Are in western NY Sounds familiar, ur soil issue

[@StuckOnPandora]

This is the opposite of the Back to Eden, no-till style, definitely interesting. Not sure how well the two inter-mix. Especially seeing as tilling causes greenhouse emissions, and we know that no-till captures and stores carbon.

[@anonh5691]

How would you make a soil mix for a dry and hot (110+ F) desert? Especially if you want to grow things that might like it moist?

[@jasonnodwell6801]

Did you get a reply? I’d like to know as well - Baja Sur desert 🌵

[@edjo3430]

No one replies, aaghh

[@Awoods22]

I'm not able to find pumice in my area what would be a good substitution? Perlite vermiculite or just more sand?

[@Awoods22]

@Brian McChesney I was able to find some at a rock yard, but thanks for the info.

[@edjo3430]

Thank you sir. Please advise me on this: I'm on a very heavy clay. 18 inches below surface is hard pan. How do I plant cherry? I dug and planted, it dies. They all died. Can I mix clay + sand+ pumice on a raised mound? SHOULD I HIRE SOME ONE TO BREAK THAT HARD PAN?

[@peterc2697]

I have learnt a lot from watching your videos, much appreciated. I have been watching to help with my planting avocados into clay, which becomes wet during winter in our cool climate. You have mentioned avocado growers put gypsum around their new plants. Gypsum is sold here as a "Clay-breaker". Does gypsum break clay? What does this mean? Any information welcome.

[@robertowenbennett]

What would you recommend to use on hard clay if you were trying to grow grass for a lawn. I have about an inch of top soil then clay. Most of the plants and grass roots don't go far in the ground because the clay sticks to them like wet mud. I don't live on the West Coast, so I'm not sure pumice stone is available.

[@VeganChiefWarrior]

i think ive discovered a new problen Gary, theyve made the holes at the bottom of pots so big (probably to help the compost soil dry out) that my soil is just slowly seeping out the bottoms... grrrr lol

[@GarysBestGardening]

if the holes are large at the bottom we will add a later of window screen or something like burlap to help contain the soil so it doesn't drain out. -KC

[@tamphuong4180]

Is a water molecule really ionic??? My chemistry memory suggests it’s a neutral molecule.

[@martisbvk]

He is using the wrong terminology. He meant that water molecules are polar with a strong + pole and a weaker - pole.

[@martisbvk]

According to Gary, “Cold water holds more oxygen than hot water”. Sadly Gary doesn’t know basic science.

[@imamGlistecom]

I can't find your smart explanation anywhere. In hydroponics pumps Heat up the water and then they have to use chillers to cool it, if they want Plants to grow. Waiting on your answer why is that... If warm water has enough oxygen.