10 tasks to get your NO weeding, NO watering, spring garden started right, the lazy way…This video is brought to you by Squarespace. For a 10% discount at launch go to https://www.squarespace.com/anneofalltrades
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0:00 Intro
0:50 Rake pathways
1:19 Lay cardboard
1:46 Lay mulch (and lots of it)
2:47 Composting correctly
3:48 Amend soil
5:43 Use mushrooms
10:33 Use what you got to get where you need to go
11:04 Plant diversity
14:22 Plant late
15:34 Plant correct depth
16:24 Most chaotic ad read ever
17:38 Grow forth and prosper (with an unplanned surprise)
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39 Comments
I'm on the S. Cumberland Plateau. I've only been here 6 years from IN and all these little "winters" have been a challenge… I think Dogwood winter right now, lows in the 30's🫤. I garden much like you but haven't incorporated mushrooms yet… think I'll do that. What part of TN are you?
Don’t you worry about chemicals from the wood chips from trees that have been chopped down?
The ONLY issue with cardboard is if it has coatings on it or colored ink. Typical cardboard boxes with black ink or very little colored ink is great to use, as in it's beneficial to the garden, as in it's excellent for these walkways and it's also used for some no-dig techniques.
You are awesome 🤩
I live in Southern , Minnesota and our season is very short. What would you recommend for growing short season crops?
If you add mycelium to your garden, is there a risk if your dog eats things out of the dirt? Our golden retriever is constantly eating things in the yard.
You have a good personality. 😊
If you plant some things early you can put a small hoop house over it. With hot water jugs in it on the nights when it's going to get to cool. Then you would get ahead on the growth. I'm in Mississippi if I wait just a little too late. My plants & obviously harvest suffers greatly because of the heat. Have to have a shade cloth. I have to work harder all year to keep my plants alive and healthy. It usually gets warm enough to plant in March but you have to have a way to keep it from freezing, those two or three nights before the end of April.
I too have used cardboard in my walkway but now I’m reading that that cardboard is blocking oxygen from make it to my soil! So now I still use cardboard but a single layer cardboard like the kind that comes off feed pallets. That cardboard works in the spring then breaks down and is gone in the soil.
My front yard hasn't been watered in years… my mom commented that for such a "neglected" yard, it was thriving. That's because I don't rake the leaves and let them decay and mulch the ground. My soil is always covered. My moms garden is neat and tidy. The ground is hard and compacted… she has to water and most water runs off and into the sewer. Water gets soaked into the ground here like a sponge…
Video hay
This is how we do it!! We hardly ever spend money on our garden. It’s the best.
Awesome thank you!
I love your shows. I did this some years ago. I asked for 20 cubic yards of wood chips to cover my tiny backyard (about 6000 sq ft). It's all good now. However, how do you deal with feral cats using the woodchipped garden as their litter box? And this time of the year, slugs! I can't spread seeds out and hope to find something growing later. They sprout and disappear overnight.
Once the wine caps take hold of an area you can collect the inoculated chips and spread to another distant bed. All you need is fresh wood chips and keep feeding them year after year.
so much work…definitely not 'lazy' 🙂
I love this idea of transferring the old chips to the beds and then putting new chips in the patches!
My soil is bad, when it rains it's mushy, when it's sunny it's dry. I've been renovating for a few years now but it's still not very good. Can you share with me how to fix this type of soil?
Just a heads up. Matt Powers the soil scientist warns about using cardboard in your no till beds. The reason being is the forever chemicals. Apparently theres a crap load of them in cardboard. Just a heads up – do you
composted woodchips cover is the essential ingredient. I learned about this 10+ yrs ago and have yet to be able to have a garden of my own to try it out. It's really best to let them sit for a year plus to let them start to compost.
Anne I have watched you here and there over the years and recently found your content again. I have to say you are an amazing woman. I don't see much of your husband but I hope yall are growing well together. I watched last years live announcement recently and that is the most of seen of him. He seems like a good dude. Yall seem like great friends. Relationships are work and so is homesteading so I can imagine at times throughout it can be difficult but finding your way back to that innocent connection that was the start of it all is so important. I wish yall well.
Youtube offered me this video several times and I didn't click because I didn't know it was you. The thumbnail lacked your usual branding. Youtube always shows me your newest post, and even if I don't watch it then I make a metal bookmark. I only caught this new episode because I was unsatisfied with what YouTube offered me on the home page (watch one or tweo rock-tumbling videos and you get buried in them) and I was combing thru my subscriptions.
I need one of those sweat shirts! 😍 where you get them? Does anyone know what that label is???
how do we petition the government, local and fed, to get a new CCC movement going? i bring this up because as soil quality drops… we risk another dustbowl.
Ann (or others), I am confused on the woodchip vs mulching methods. Some of what I read says that trees and shrubs do great with a fungal (wood chips) environment while veggies do better with a bacterial environment (compost). Can you someone explain this mystery to me? Much appreciation ahead of time for your videos.
😊 The BEST !
Yep! Its not meant to LOOK" PRETTY! 🎉
Another great video! I'm learning a lot. Does your compost still heat up in the winter or do you cover it at all?
You are vary engaging and full of great advice. Well done!
I have been watching gardening videos for ages, I have never witnessed one as well explained as this, I really enjoyed it so thank you so much. Now I will go and watch the rest of your videos 😊. Saluts from Tunisia 🇹🇳
😂😂 Florida has 1. spring of deception for a week, 2. Spring for 2 weeks, 3. Hell's blacktop 10 months, 4. Fall-ish for a week. 5. Winter… you blinked. Oops, missed it.
Well, crap, I've been doing it for a while. I even bought a good tiller. Thanks for your valuable tips.
15:55. lettuce and alyssum actually require light in order to germinate, they need to be surface sown, just mist them in ( a very light mist) don't cover with soil. If yours germinate it's because the light still got below the soil (maybe fluffy soil?) and hit the seed enough to wake it up. P.S. I never bother planting lettuce seed….just let some plants go to seed every year. Totally lazy!!! If I want a new variety, start indoors in a recycled salad mix box (nest 2 together, poke holes in top box) sprinkle seeds on top of seedling mix, place under lights, mist daily, will germinate in a few days.
Good idea
great intro & info. sub
Charles Dowding no dig gardening
Well this is my new favorite garden channel. I call myself "lazy" at work because I'll do extra effort to set me up to do less in the long run… So your method really speaks to me!
Adding mushroom spores is genius. Is there a certain time of year that's best to do that step? I am somewhere between "the pollening" and "actual spring" 😂
I Called all the local arborist I could find in 40 mile Any direction from our house And they also said they have a contract with somebody and cannot deliver to anybody.
So then I signed up with chip drop And have not heard anything that was 6 months ago So I guess I'm going to have to buy My wood chips they are hard to come by I live in a Area area With lots of tall trees You would think so somebody would have free would chips. This is the exact type of gardening I want to do.
I love how she gets to the POINT finally