Before we plant our fall garden, we need to amend our garden plots with some high-quality compost. And this year we’re getting more than we’ve ever gotten!
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36 Comments
Hi Travis,
Great video as usual. I’m in zone 6B and I have a 50×50 garden in which I have 30 “ beds. I recently terminated my peppers, eggplant, okra and tomato beds and am not going to try and plant anything until next spring.
Wondering what approach I should take with keeping the soil covered during winter.
Should I tarp the rows with fabric, try to plant a fast growing cover crop, or cover with leaves, straw or some kind of mulch.
The zoo in my city has a compost program. (Apparently elephants produce a lot of um material…)
They will do a pick up load (2ish bobcat buckets) for like $25.
Otherwise compost is exorbitantly expensive here.
Also you could make a lot with yard debris or tree trimmings with a bioreactor. Diego footer has several videos detailing a few over a year period.
I just went with straight mulch back to eden style for my main garden.
Boy Travis that compost looks great. You should get a lot of harvest on these 2plots.
I have missed seeing you over on Hoss' channel. Just found your channel a few days ago. Looking forward to watching you and your family garden.
Wow that is alot of compost, so green with envy! I have a few bags of topsoil and some tillage radish seeds to put in my future onion bed. There is a nursery where I would normally get my backup pepper and tomato plants that I could get my compost from but not sure how much to get. I'm sure they will help me figure that though. I finally got my turnips planted. This coming weekend I plan on getting the other tilled plot cultivated back up to plant my peas, carrots, broccoli, and onions. Again wow with the compost. I'd be like a kid in a sand box! Thanks for explaining the difference between the gin trash/ gin trash compost. Great video as always Travis 👍!
Beautiful
I need me some of that black gold here in Indiana !!…
Enjoyed the vid. Like most of N Fl I see lots of pine trees on the outskirts of your property. Is that Rayonier land? They own a ton of land around here.
Take care of your back while moving all that soil.
Look how excited we are about soil. It is beautiful 😍
I'm amazed they have the market to support such an operation.
I have enjoyed your new website. Particularly because you list the name of the varieties that you are planting. Now I can just go to your website to get them, rather than stopping your videos so I can get them written down. The website is well organized and very informative. Thanks so much, I’m sure it’s time consuming to maintain!
I just want to come and hang out with with you for the day, I just love everything you do. Your family rocks. Hey you could make a bunch of money letting people be your shadow. lol.
Love the compost. Just planted my garlic and harvested my napa cabbage. Check out the KIMCHI I made. https://youtu.be/eL0OPY42020
Well color me jealous!! I haven’t been able to find any source of bulk compost near me, but I’ll keep looking. Compost is the single best thing you can do for your soil health and structure. The worms will have a field day with it once you get it spread out. I hope you will video how you distribute it amongst your plots and how you spread it out.
wow what a load of compost…
man do you think you could use some more compost! stuff does look good.
The only place to find bulk compost is at the City of Dallas Landfills.
There is a big problem with it the nitrogen levels is through the roof.
So we use it lightly. Or you with raise huge tomato plants that do not set fruit. Some of the other veggie plant tip burned.
Live and learn.
We still get it. Remember its all about how you use it.
That is some serious compost ,can't wait to see how it grows.
I've noticed from some of the old guys that they don't put compost everywhere. Instead, they put a handful below each transplant. Or they spread some in a thin row if they're planting seeds on top. One of them told me that spreading compost everywhere is too much work to feed the weeds! I appreciate your channel, and I always learn a lot from you!
No bulk compost in my area. I am tilling raised beds, and adding bark mulch in the walking paths. I am going to build a Diego Footer/Johnson-Su bioreactor, brew compost tea from that, and run that through the drip tape.
Love, love, love your channel. I have learned so much from you and being in zone 10a SoCal we can grow a lot of the same things. Can you please try to grow celeriac some time? It's one of my favorites and I just can't figure out the secret to growing it well. I bet you can figure it out. PLEASE! Keep up the awesome videos.
For the better part of 35+ years, Tifton's Hotels and various eateries has seen the inside of my Wallet ☺. A long time ago in a Galaxy far away it used to be the main route to my fav. Fishing hole South of Tallahassee (Atlanta just got too darn busy and had to change my way about 20 yrs. ago), I still use that route when coming in behind a Hurricane.
Yea, I'm one of the jealous ones. I live about 3 hours north, and haven't found a good source of compost yet. Growing lots of cover crops.
Love all the information on your channel.
I need a load of that black gold but not sure where to buy any that I know is good
I’m thinking of using the fish emulsion and organic slow release with blood meal etc. I have two big dogs that “gaurd the garden from deer think they would dig up garden/fertilizer ?
WOW! Now that's a truckload of compost! Now to spread it…then, let the planting begin!
How will you counter the soil compaction from the truck driving on the plots?
try giving the new no till beds 6 to 8 inches their first year.
That is a good haul of compost and I know from your previous videos that you get it at a good price. I will be setting up another Johnson Su bioreactor in the next few weeks. Topping off some of the beds with the finished compost from the 1 I started last year.
That stuff looks nice and rich! I think I saw on a website it's $40 a yard. That's a lot higher then I'd expect for a waste stream by product
Have you looked into David Johnson and his Johnson Su bioreactor and Dr Elaine Ingham about creating more fungal dominated compost? Early results seem very very promising. Using the compost itself but making an extract that is put into a row at planting, even thru drip irrigation, and tea as a foliate spray. Higher yields and more pest resistant plants. And no adding of chemicals. Farmers are using it and seem to be converted. Diego Footer has some great videos about his builds and his adapted bigger build. He also has Johnson and Ingram on podcast clips. Might give your no till bed a better chance to see what it can do?
Travis, you should watch a few of his videos from this gentleman. I think you could use some of this on your gardens for an experiment https://youtu.be/-tJE-kJPrOs.
Wow, that’s a load of compost. We can buy compost here made by the municipality but I sure enjoy making my own for my little garden.
How much did that gin trash compost cost per ton?
Nut grass is the DEVIL!!! I have it everywhere!!! 🥺
Here in NW Georgia I haven’t been able to find any source at all for decent compost. I’m stuck buying bags from the big box stores and making my own. My garden isn’t huge but I can’t create enough myself and it gets really expensive buying compost by the bag. That stuff you’re getting looks amazing!