FINAL Plans To Get My Garden Ready For Spring

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Hey guys welcome to the homestead I thought I’d come out here today and show you the garden um we just got done putting a bunch of loads uh with the tractor on the garden and this is what keeps my water my water bed my garden feeling like a water bed and I’ve often

Said this on my channel you want your garden when you walk on it to feel soft and supple you want the soil to give underneath your feet and what that does it just shows it gives the plants a lot of um ability to send those roots down deep and that biodiversity those

Microbes in that soil to thrive and grow and to feed the root nodules of your plants if you have hard compact soil that’s not what you want and what you don’t want to do is till your soil every year all you’re doing is breaking up whatever mycelium biodiversity and

Microbes that are being established in your soil tilling your ground is not the answer you can do that your first year okay if you need to break up the soil so that allows the oxygen and the moisture to get down deep that’s fine but from

After that I do not till my soil it’s just going to compact it it’s not going to produce the best for you unless you’re using a lot of chemical fertilizers and things like that I just don’t see the benefit so um some people do Back to Eden Garden methods what we

Do we tried doing that a while back years ago but what we do now is just lasagna layering we are continually putting tons of different layers as many layers as possible of different things on our on our garden so let me show you what I got so I’m on the edge of my

Garden right here and what we’ve done is we took the tractor you see back there you can see all the dirt on the tires uh and we scooped up in our sheep pen all of a all the manure and and old hay and everything that they just trample on and

Pee and poop on and we scoop all those up in a bunch of scoops and we just put it on the garden and then I get my kids out here because it’s good job for the kids to do come out here and take pitchforks and then spread it all around

And kind of get it to where it’s more even there’s a couple spots where they still need to work and we still may add a little bit more on here but what you’re seeing here is a bunch of old sheep poop mixed with their urine that’s that they’ve peed on it obviously and

Then all the old hay that they didn’t eat um and then just put it on the garden and that makes for a beautiful garden bed that you can plant right in it it’s going to be fantastic let me show you something else now over here I’ve got all of my all my weed

Fabric piled up it’s actually rolled up over here with some of the steaks that we use for different things the Tomato things that’s just holding it down so the wind doesn’t blow it and then we what we do is we get each one of these and we just pull it over across across

This so we’ve layered everything here okay and um this is just going to get spread out you see all this dirt there’s a b big Clump over here probably needs to be spread out some more and um this will just be pulled out and stretched over laid out staked down and then cover

This and all the holes that we plant in are already in here and we’ll switch these up every few years so we’re not planting the same things because each each piece of garden fabric is has the right amount of holes for a certain type of produce that we grow right so I’ll

Switch these up every couple years just to get things growing in new places and then I’ll just stretch them out and then over the top of that new garden soil that we can plant right in and then once I do that I mean I’m walking on this

Thing and it’s just soft and supple and it’s a great soil to grow anything in and what we’ve spread on here you can see like right down here if you can tell but this is some wood ash there’s some ash mixed in with that from our our wood

Stove so I’ll say FL our wood ash and I’ll come out here I’ll sprinkle it down you know really thin and uh you know real lightly you don’t want to put too much wood ash on your soil but a little bit every year is great fantastic and

Then you know coffee grounds we save all of our coffee grounds I’ll spread that out I have one more spreading I need to do on that and then um eggshells I grind all of our eggshells for the year and I spread that on the soil real Loosely too

And then all of our Quail manure Tim saves all that and we spread that out on here real lightly because quail manure just like chicken manure can be pretty hot and so we spread that out on here real lightly all over the garden and that just again added added fertilizer

Added you know added soil that’ll be that that that will turn into and when you come out here in the springtime CU right now it’s kind of winter it’s cold but when you come down here in the springtime you know okay after it’s been raining and the the ground is real soft

You can dig down in here really deep and you can pull up with each handful I’m not kidding you every single handful will have worms in it and the worms will take this old hay that the Sheep you know stepped on and pooped on and they will turn that into great black dirt

Over the next few years the worms just go crazy and I got started on that years ago when I ordered some red wigler worms on online I think I ordered like I don’t know couple thousand and I just put them in here and they’ve just reproduced they

Love those coffee grounds they love all the things we put on this garden and all that stuff they turn into worm castings and it just makes for an amazing Garden so that’s what I do over here I just layer stuff down I’ll probably get try

To see if I can get some some rice holes if I can and get that on here too it’s a great it’s a there’s all kinds of I’ve done videos before all the different things you can you can layer down in your garden to make a great soft soil

And my soil is always just really super soft you can dig right down in it and um you especially in the springtime you’re going to just pull up a handful of worms every sing because they’re they’re down deep right now it’s winter time it’s cold but in the springtime they get

Closer to the surface they’re right on the surface and you can just eat I mean you can just see all the stuff that they’re eating um as they come up there’s a some kind of grub or something here yeah some kind of grub not sure what that is but anyway this over here

Is my latest attempt my latest attempt right here at keeping deer out of the garden when the wind blows uh I had a friend of ours picked these up at Hobby Lobby and I got a deal on them cuz they were on sale and I got two of them out

Here and I’ve got these things over here still that I keep turned on during the summer and uh the solar power just keeps it’s got a real high pinched noise I’ll turn it on you can hear it well maybe not there it goes there you go hear that and the deer

Don’t like that so I keep these throughout the garden as well to hopefully help keep the deer out and they usually it mostly works sometimes they need a little bit of lead encouragement but you know so it’s basically the middle of February and people are getting their their Garden

Started they’re getting their seed starts going and that’s what I’m about to do I’m trying to get some cabbage plants going inside and some other things that I can put outside as soon as possible and I’m I’m getting ready for that now so Now’s the Time to be buying

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Uh you guys know that I have had some run-ins with some seed companies some Ozark seed companies in the past that I have just not you know they’ll preach non-GMO seeds but then they’ll start putting or they’ll encourage their employees to get GMO vaccines I don’t

Like those companies so I I look for companies that you know do things different crazy world we live in clear clearw Water Valley farms.com okay that’s where I’m getting my seeds this year it’s where I’m telling everyone to get their seeds they have fantastic seed packages that you can buy um they have

Uh in fact there’s a seed package they sell that’s for an American Homestead that has all the recommendations of things that I grow on this Homestead and that I would recommend uh things like the achacha cucumber a fantastic cucumber it’s always the Talk of the Town when you grow one of those um

What’s the other one Papo a cilantro substitute I think they’re going to try to get below this year I’m not sure but check out Clearwater Valley farms.com they have a seed package there for an American Homestead viewers they they have all kinds of other seed packages

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