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In this video, I share 4 things you should do to refresh garden soil in winter and 1 thing to NEVER do to your garden soil and garden beds, because it’s a waste of time and money. Refreshing garden beds like this can be done when resting garden beds in winter and in between plantings during the growing season.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Introduction To Refreshing Garden Soil
0:34 Tip #1: Removing Old Plants And Weeds
3:58 Tip #2: Amending Soil With Kitchen Scraps
5:07 Tip #3: Amending Soil With Compost
5:58 Tip #4: Tarping A Garden Bed
8:50 Tip #5: NEVER Do This To Your Garden Beds
11:23 Adventures With Dale
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0:00 Introduction To Refreshing Garden Soil
0:34 Tip #1: Removing Old Plants And Weeds
3:58 Tip #2: Amending Soil With Kitchen Scraps
5:07 Tip #3: Amending Soil With Compost
5:58 Tip #4: Tarping A Garden Bed
8:50 Tip #5: NEVER Do This To Your Garden Beds
11:23 Adventures With Dale
Nutrients from fertilizer would be incorporated by microbial biomass and some would be washed out.
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Do more research growing into the roots is beneficial. Just alternate your rows to make it work. You are a engineer right? Have you watched the big bang theory? Scientists dislike engineers due to the processes. Think more as a scientist not an engineer.
My raised beds are a mess. Hopefully I'll make a video when I can start cleaning it up ☺️🤗🌿🌱 Have a good day and happy gardening 🌿🌱
Great tips! I literally just put my beds to rest today and added compost to the beds. I also started a leaf mold pile, so hopefully that’s done by next year too.
I would like to add one thing. At one part of the video you said that the tarp will keep the soil warmer while a mulch will keep it cooler. Based on my experience, I would have to disagree. I live in a place where we get quite a few freezes in winter. From my experience, the soil that is uncovered is more prone to freeze than the soil with mulch on top of it. My guess would be that the mulch layer creates an insulated air barrier that keeps the temperature from lowering too much. It works the same in summer, preventing the soil from getting too hot thanks to this insulation.
Thank you for the content 🙂
Thanks you so much!! this is exactly what I need to know.. I never do anything to my raised bed after I harvest!! this is so helpful, and it makes so much sense to cover them! Lots of weed and grass will grow in my raised bed. It's has been so cold in my area, I hope it's not too late to do this.. I will look for a warmer day and get them ready for next year.!😊👌👌👍
Thank you so much!! I learn something new from your awesome videos!! 🙌🏻🦋❤️
I have a problem with ants getting into my raised bed!! Any suggestions???
As a new Gardener I've really been back and forth on whether I should mulch or tarp. I'm still unsure. We don't see the sun for about 5 months solid, and we get torrential rains through those months. So I went half tarp and half mulch and I'll see how things pan out in the spring.
I'm going with leaving roots in ground unless it's little tree saplings that like maple trees from the whirllybird seeds.that must be controlled here in my area.
But in my melon patch I think I'll tilt a few weeks before replanting my melon patch.
I totally agree with using a tarp , the areas I didn't use covers sprouted weed and grass . I won't neglect those any more .
Mushroom compost, is not “mushroom based.” it is the compost used to grow mushrooms, not compost containing mushrooms.
I don't think I'd agree that mulch keeps your soil cool. Perhaps you misspoke in that part. The reason we mulch roses, etc. is because it creates a buffer from colder outside temperatures. A healthy layer of mulch would also prevent heat from the earth below escaping better than bare soil covered with a tarp. But that's actually now what you're doing because your mushroom compost is actually functioning somewhat like a layer of mulch
Great information! 👍 Dale looks handsome 😊Thank you MG!
Thank you so much!
Man, you would surely benefit from having a couple of laying hens in that yard in a separate caged coop area to collect eggs and chicken poo for the compost heap. (If you don't have covenants against that in your neighborhood area, that is.) I have just two hens for minimal chicken yard work and more gardening time with the side benefit of the eggs that I do not eat a lot of other than for baking, and of coarse for the benefits of the poo too..
I pulled up a tomato roots and there was a pupua under it. It was a dark red about 2 inches long with what looked like a horn on the end , not sure what it was but I fed it to my chickens, so yeah pull the roots out!
One thing you might want to do to your resting garden bed that will add nutrients to your soil and is free, are coffee grounds and tea grounds. You can get them free from Starbucks. I like to lay down an inch or two onto the top of soil and then run a rake over the surface to mix it in just slightly. My family also goes through an abnormally large amount of eggs. I put them into a coffee grinder. They get lots of surface area that way, so they breakdown faster.