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You can download the apartment planting guide here: https://cityprepping.tv/3GNLibn … Apartment gardening playlist: https://cityprepping.tv/3EHuKzi
Great content, thank you ))
This would be great info to get from any permaculture channel!
Thx for the info Chris.. Great info for next spring
I have been putting some of my rabbit waste, yard leaves, wood chips, and some fruit peels, into a large flat container. I added in some seeds (most of which will rot and die but not all) and soil. I also transplanted a clump of wheatgrass and microgreens into it. I am experimenting with utilizing various first settlers in the soil to see if I can accelerate the process, especially over winter with a winter wheat or rye cover crop for the garden. I am hoping I can bury yard waste under a few inches of soil and have a compost mound underneath. Kind of like a miniaturized hügelkultur.
Thank you 😊👍
Good afternoon from Syracuse NY brother and thank you for sharing this information on garden soil
We have a grow shop in St Joseph Missouri and we mix our own dirt for customers
Crushed Oster shell's work great for opening the rooting system
Crushed has sharp edges that will open up the roots to take in more nutrients
Get a book to learn what nutrients go good with what plants
Great video. As a gardener I must say that you have nailed it. Love Egyptian Walking Onions. You will never buy them again. Love the way they multiply 😄
It is sad how many people have their heads in the sand and call preppers “conspiracy theorists” when we bring up food shortages.
Interesting content. One thing, in figuring out the cubic yards of soil, don't you want length x width x depth, and if done in feet, divide by 27. Your formula works if the depth is one yard. Cold where I am, putting some mulch and compost on my beds for their winter sleep.
Save your coffee grinds !
Afternoon
I love having a garden
If you go fishing and clean your own fish. Don't waste scraps or not desire. Parts. And apply them to your garden watch what happens to plants. !!!!
21st, 8 December 2022
One year, I thought I would save money and buy about 20 bags labeled as "topsoil" from WalMart. The bags contained wet, heavy mud and gravel! I'm still raking out gravel from my garden beds after that mistake!!!
Thank you for the video.
Perlite is terrible cuz it floats. Eventually the soil will become very compacted. Use pumice. It has better surface area too
What I recommend is getting your composts and soil in before winter.
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Also use miracle grow edibles organics. It doesnt have the toxic urea. Its not as good but is still great.
Somewhere right now, a dad is at his local store slapping some soil
I've grown a garden before. It's surprisingly easy to generate a lot of food. The hard part is learning to eat a lot of the same things at the same time, constantly tending to it to prevent the build up of jobs and storing the produce
Making compost is very easy. Collect leaves in the autumn and mix 2 buckets of leaves with one bucket of food scraps
Get a pet rabbit or two. They're poop machines, and their poop is garden gold. If you keep them on pine or aspen bedding, then you can hugelkulture. Wood decomposition sucks up nitrogen, rabbit poop and urine adds nitrogen. Composting your rabbit waste is really excellent for amending local dirt.
ALso doing a soil sample test of your grow to a depth of 12 inches. You can do this by (hopefully) pushing down a 1 inch PVC pipe intoo the ground and pulling out the plug. Otherwise small shovel out this depth. This should fit into a quart jar. Thoroughly crumble and put in dirt/soil and water. Completely shake up and allow all the dirt to settle into its proper layering. Stones and pebbles will quickly fall to bottom, followed by smaller sand, then silt, then clay, and finally any floating organics. Mark and notice what % of each components there are. Look at the sand, silt, and clay layers. Find a soil (loam) chart and make the proper readjustments to have proper sand, silt, and clay %. Then add in the soil amendments for the organic and mineral/metal components.
It’s funny to watch and hear about, the Prepper’s journey. We start, believing we need more gear. We progress by shedding gear and creating systems that need minimal input. Basically, we are becoming Farmers!
Thank you for sticking to prepping and not a lecture on the many directions the end if humanity is approaching.
Can't wait to start a garden. We move into our house next week. It's going to be a priority. Thanks, Kris!
Learn to compost properly, we composted for three years in huge piles. We did this to fill 50 raised beds 4’wide x 12 feet long and 36 inches high. If we would have bought yards of soil to to this it would have cost roughly $68,000. It would cost more since this was 8 years ago. It’s not hard find horses boarding facilities, a rancher or farm that may give you the materials for a little of your work. Call brewery ask if they have grain waste, the same for winery they often have waste they they would give you for free… learn to properly hot compost it. This will save you $$$$$$$. You can CIP ( Compost In Place ) so it’s less work moving the compost. This however will put that bed out of commission till it’s ready.
I've always killed everything I've tried to grow but I'm going to keep trying because I know how important it is for my family that I figure it out.. and I hope I do before things get bad and they have to depend on me!! Thanks for all your videos-they are great 👍
It is far too complex. Leave it to professionals farmers to do it. Save money another way. The best is to leave were the cost of the housing and transport.
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I have been container gardening for about 10 years now, and have known any of this. Wow! I like learning something new, though. I don't think I will test my soil next year, but I may buy the kit for fun. I was taught to watch the plant. You will know what it needs by how it is growing (or not growing).
If you start to get fungus gnats in a greenhouse or indoors, you can add mosquito dunks to the water that you use to water your plants. It will help to kill off the fungus gnat larvae in the soil and is not harmful to your plants.
I’ve been using a combination of table scraping for compost and using worms to compost the excess for the past 2 years. And I’m just about ready to make a full scale backyard garden! I’ve run tests on my soil and I think I got the right balance.
Really informative video! Thank you 👍
Dont go cheap on your soil! My garden is all raised garden in 7g garden buckets or in the large raised bed gardens I built. My 1st effort was in the summer here in Arizona ( I like to learn with the toughest learning curve😀) I used too much mulch mixed with my topsoil and that really stressed my plants when they were already going to be stressed w/heat and my overwatering. Think of your growing zone and understand what stressers you may have to start with and know that the best soil will help your plants overcome and produce the results you are looking for. Good luck! 🙏
My family eats quite a lot of eggs so for calcium, save egg shells, grind them up (I use an old ninja food processor because the shells are slightly abrasive and can etch the food processor container), then spread around the garden periodically. It’s free, natural and effective.
My wife and I did our first garden last year and we had more growth than we knew what to do with.
4 days of gun deer hunting and not one in site. Really let myself down. On location with fresh sign but no luck. Disappointed in myself thinking my skills were better than this. Having reserves is real. Just can't go out and grab what you want out of the woods. Goes for gardening to
Instead of working so hard to terraform your soil for everything, consider researching what sort of things grow best in your environment and lean into that. Heirloom seeds from a local grower carry genetic information about the environment already built into it, and you'd have higher success with those seeds.
Look up Charles Dowding No Dig Garden.
Those of you who want to be prepared for emergencies please consider getting a Duration health kit with antibiotics, epipen and emergency RX or a jase case medical antibiotics emergency kit. They may mean the difference in saving your or a loved one's life if things get bad such as a snow storm or flod that makes getting medical attention near impossible. I ado not make anything sharing this and only do so with my concern fir all in the difficult days ahead. If yiu want to stay in touch with others my suggestion is to get your ham radio license. There are handheld ham radios and it could mean the difference between getting medical or other emergency personnel to you abd your loved ones. We are in a recession we may be in a depression in a lot of countries. There are some areas already having issues with both.