👩🌾 Welcome back to the 1870s Homestead! Join Rachel and Todd as they embark on the final steps of putting their garden to bed for the winter. In this video, we tackle the essential tasks of composting, mulching, and amending the soil to ensure a thriving garden come spring.
🍂 Key Highlights:
Witness the transformation as we move all the compost from the yard to the garden, preventing it from becoming more challenging to handle over time.
Explore the use of wood chips for mulching pathways between raised beds, with the added layer of cardboard to combat potential weed growth.
Join the discussion on future garden plans, including the consideration of heavy-duty landscape fabric and seeking your valuable input and recommendations.
Experience the tilling process, where we uncover surprises like garlic bulbs and potatoes, providing unexpected delights for the upcoming season.
Share in the excitement and a touch of uncertainty as we deal with perennial weeds, such as strawberries and creeping charlie, in preparation for winter.
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We invite you to share your thoughts, ideas, and experiences in the comments below. Have you worked with landscape fabric before? Any tips on high-intensity gardening? Your insights will play a role in shaping our future garden endeavors.
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Rachel and Todd are working on putting their garden to bed, adding amendments and preparing it for winter.
They aim to move all the compost from the yard to the garden to avoid it becoming harder to handle over time.
Wood chips are being used to mulch pathways between raised beds, and cardboard is placed underneath to prevent weed growth.
The couple is considering using heavy-duty landscape fabric with burned holes for future gardening, seeking input and recommendations from viewers.
The garden has been tilled, and Rachel has dealt with perennial weeds like strawberries and creeping charlie, expressing both excitement and uncertainty about the process. They also found garlic bulbs and potatoes during the tilling process.
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21 Comments
Garden will be nice next spring .Great video .
What’s that catchy song playing when Todd is moving the compost into the garden with the tractor? I’d love to use it in one of our videos ❤
I have used fabric for about 4 years — some things i strongly prefer it for, where as others I prefer to keep out of fabric and mulch. I made a video explaining my preferences that you might find helpful! Managing Weeds in the Homestead Garden
https://youtu.be/uJ-EXZa1lZY
Who is the music by? I love it!!
I used professional l;and scraping fabric for my 3200 sq ft garden but NOT for carrots, NOT for potatoes (you need to mount soil on the plants) and NOT for corn either. I rotated all my fabric strips every year and they lasted 4 years.I used landscape fabric for leeks, lettuce, tomatoes, eggplants, zucchini, garlic, swiss chard, spinach, ground cherry, beans, peas, chillies,green beans, celery, fennel, artichockes, cauliflowers, broccoli, cabbage. I reduced the weeding so much!!! I burnt holes where the emitters of the drip lines where (6, 12, 24 inches deep ing on the plants) and I highly recommend it!
We have nine raised beds. For all we layer with leaves then lime then manure last seaweed. My husband tills two or three times then puts in our compost and another layer of leaves and let’s it sit til spring and till again and ready to go. We plant a lot and have had good luck. Good luck with your garden. Don’t you just love to dig in the dirt👍🇺🇸🥰
I would put plastic down in between the beds and then gravel on top. 1. It looks like a walkway, but it prevents weeds from growing and makes a great walk path.
I like interplanting with basil and spring onion. I throw used coffee grounds on garden to deter … and add nitrogen etc to whole garden. I don't use fabric. I also change plans a lot.
If you’re topdressing with compost and mulching with leaves, the tillage is completely unnecessary. In the spring, give it a light raking on the surface and you’re ready to plant. As for the landscaping fabric, don’t do it! A nice deep mulch or compost smothers the weeds. If you don’t till up the weed seeds and expose them to the sunlight, you’ll have a lot less weeds to deal with.
Kevin and Sarah from Living Traditions Homestead have several videos on using weed fabric.
You could plant those garlic rounds and possibly get bulbs next june!
Could you plant those baby garlics for next year?
The biggest problem i see with using weedmat is that the root system will be so much larger than the hole you make and when you want to remove those dead and done with plants you are going to swear about having used the weedmat. Better to plant lots of lettuces and beets and whatever else in between the tall plants and let them keep the weeds at bay in my opinion. 🙂 xxx
My garden group just but our garden to bed for the winter here in Grand Haven,MI. I really missed gardening with you this year, but enjoyed , all the other things that you did over the summer 😊
I planted my strawberries in tiny burned holes in weed mat this year. I was disappointed when weeds grew inside those holes. It was really hard to weed those holes without also pulling out the strawberry plants. The runners grew on top of the mat and attached themselves to it. I have switched my garden over to killing weed seeds with bootstrap farmer tarps in the spring. Light deprivation and they get wicked hot, (the creeping charlie can hardly creepy in 😉) leaving them on until I was ready to plant even killed rhyzome type weeds. The tarp also doesn't allow all the spring seeds that fall like tree seeds, to get a foothold. Also, not turning the soil and raising all the seeds in the soil is helping too. My in ground garden is 60×30. This year I made permanent rows and wood chipped paths.
Watch No-Till Growers video Boosting soil health through cover crops and hedge rows. I think it may give you some good ideas. Notice how they have a perimeter blk tarp to keep weeds from coming in. They also talk about solarizing cover crops, turning over beds quickly and killing weeds. These market farmers have to be really efficient to make money, they save time weeding and money on fertilizer . I'm trying to put into practice some of their technics in my home garden.
Honestly, solarize the top layer of the soil with clear plastic to till the dormant weed seeds. Now that you've tilled, next spring is going to be rough with weeds.
The brand of landscape fabric I have been using over the 35 is DeWitt Weed Barrier.
I need to get my garlic in the ground!
I switched to landscape fabric (from growers solution) a few years back, for in ground planting. It was the only way I could get a harvest because of weeds. It's been a total game changer for weed control. I don't mess with it for my raised beds mainly because the soil stays lighter and weeds are easier to pull, but for in ground, it's amazing!
Creeping Charley is actually a good sign….put a.sper thick layer of cardboard down over winter….and add a good amount of soil overtop….should be ready to plant over in the spring….weedeat the Charley first of course.❤