Good or Bad Soil | Pro Gardening Tips

Hey Neighbor! Every gardener has one thing in common, we need soil! But there’s more to soil than you might think. There are many different soil types that can impact what gardener you are. If your natural soil doesn’t have the nutrients and drainage you need you may find yourself raised bed gardening. Tag along as we talk about all the soil types, the hurdles that can come to each, and how to successfully garden in raised beds! Get Dirty and Let’s Garden Together!

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0:00 Start
0:40 Good Soil vs Bad Soil
3:35 The Best Soil for Raised Beds
5:59 What to grow in raised beds
9:34 Outro

hey neighbor today let’s talk about soils what if you got bad soils first of all I want to show you what I think good soil looks like well I’m blessed enough to have what we call good soil my soil is like a Sandy long type soil and it’s perfect for growing vegetables now if You’ got good soil I think growing vegetables in the ground is the most economical and the best feasible way for you to grow plenty of food hands down if you got Sandy type soil you can still grow in in in the dirt they in in the flat or INR as we say but we’re going to also talk about what if you have some of those hard clay soils if you are blessed to have some of these good soils they drain well of course I’ve added a lot of compost but your organic matter is high in your soils they hold nutrients well your plants just do wonderful a side effect of that is you grow nice weeds too but if you are enough to have soils us right here you probably got a little different strategy you do you guys that don’t have those good soils now they are several type of good soils this right here is like I said it’s kind of a Sandy long type soil if you got more of a rockier type soil you see that little iron Pebble right there if you got more of those in there that even means that your soul is even more rich in minerals than M oracles these little things will etch out those little minerals from time to time and feed the soil so little pebbles in your soil there is a good indication that you got High mineral salts now Sandy type salts and I’m talking about those white sandy type salts like you guys down at the deep deep south have those can be a little more problematic they drain better than what mine is and look here I just got 2 and 1 12 inches of rain a couple days ago and you see how this is already drained well but Sandy type soils are going to hold moisture even less so you’re going to have to more water more often and you’re going to have to add nutrients more often because your soils your Sandy type soils have low Caton exchange capacity that means they have low capacity to hold in nutrients so if you’ve got those Sandy type soils just be aware that you’re going to have to water more often and you going to have to fertilize more often because you’re going to leech out so regardless of what kind of soils you have this compost right here is what’s going to make you look like you know what you’re doing compost is just Rich organic matter and adding it to any type of so type is going to be beneficial the key there is getting good compost now I’m lucky enough to have a place close by that has good compost so I can get it bul they also sell it in bags you know check around make sure that you can find a good place that has a good reputation for compost make sure it’s not contaminated make sure it doesn’t have weed seeds in it make sure it goes through the process of of heating up so it kills those bad microorganisms in there and it’s full of this Rich organic matter just like this now if you have those clay soils that so many of you have this hard to work there’s a product called gypson that you see right here this is what we call a soil conditioner we also use it as a calcium supplement when we’re going tomatoes and peppers and things like that it’s a great calcium Source but it’s also a good soil conditioner for only those clay type soils it helps break those up a little bit and be more more workable well let’s just say that you got some of those hard clay soils and those Rocky so that I hear so much about well sometimes you may be better off trying not to do INR garden and do this here raised bed garden now this raised bed garden here we put in uh back last year and I want to show you just how much you can grow in a raised bed garden so if you’re blessed with those terrible soils raised beds can be the ticket for you now raised bed garden is probably the most expensive type of Gard you can do but you can grow even though regardless what kind of soils you got now these raised beds we put in here I’ll put a link down below where we got them from these are in my opinion probably the best raised beds out there they’re not cheap Folks by no means but these things are heavy duty I didn’t want anything flimsy and plus we wanted something kind of wide at the top there so Mama house can kind of sit on the edge there these are wonderful raised beds easy to put together but not cheap for if you’re looking for cheap raised beds this is not the way to go so let’s talk about what we fill these with now I was lucky enough to get some top soil and I mix top soil and compost of course we come in here before pre-plant and we incorporate our complete organic fertilizer but as far as the feel here I did Top Soil and compost about a 25% compost 75% good top soil mix if you don’t have a way to get good top soil then you could use Pete Moss I would would buy the cheapest Pete Moss I can get I have seen it on sale at the big box stores before and you can take that Pete Moss you can uh take good compost mix them together and make a good pot medium for raised beds now if you’re going to put raised beds in folks one of the problems raised beds is they’re elevated and they dry out quickly if I got one complaint about a raised beds is you have to water them more often because they dry out so much now the flip side of that is if you do have a lot of rain your stuff don’t drown out because it’s elevating it drains well this reason I highly recommend using drip irrigation in your raised beds you can see here in fact Mama Hall put all this in by herself but she put our raised bed droop irrigation kit in all these raised beds here so she just got to flip a u a vow to water you could put it on timer she likes to do it she likes to come out here and just turn it on when she wants to water but I would definitely recommend that so let’s talk about how much and some things you can grow in raised beds here we are in the springtime of the year and folks don’t you look at this salad mix she’s got growing right here now this was grown from our seed tape and look at that right there grew in no time she put the seed tape down run the irrigation on top of it and look here we got plenty of salad there to eat well here we’ve got more seed tape and we’ve got the beets and what she did right here was she planted the tape right beside one another one carrots and one beet she kind of double red that on me right there so she’s got beets and carrots growing in this race bed and they’re looking mighty healthy and she’s got some greens growing got some kale growing she’s got some purple Sprout and broccoli there some Morse head and cabbage right here and she’s got some of her hulat Peppers planted in this bed right here all right couldn’t be complete without having some onions some onions Mama hos planted in the fall and you can tell they’ve done exceptionally well this bed right here is in transition it’s ready for from some of those spring warm season plants all right folks look at here ain’t this beautiful this is a totsy type Bach Cho this is the first time I’ve grown this but we’ve already enjoyed it a few times here makes absolutely stunning plant and look how much you can grow in a simple 4×8 bed now as you can see here she’s starting the boat so it’s getting toward the end of its life there but man these things have been beautiful and we’ve really enjoyed eating on them and we got collards we’ve eat a lot of collards off this bed here they starting to bloom there so they’ll need to be took out toward the end of their cycle there we’ll flip this bed and put some uh warm season crops in there couldn’t be complete without having some cingula y’all I absolutely love this right here this is a cool Season flower it does wonderful in fall and early spring it’s it’s also a good herb that you can make skin products out of uh Mama hos does a lot of things with this cleanser right here but it’s wonderful for pollinators this time to use here more short day red onions there and this bed right here is leftover herbs from last year some purple cone flour some lemon drop that’s starting to come back up just kind of leftover stuff that she’s going to let come back up and this right here folks is Savannah mustard we’ve really enjoyed this this winter here look at those big leaves on there this stuff is wonderful it’s Wonder it’s gotten to be where it’s one of my favorite greens to eat now this right here is like I said getting toward the end we’ll flip this pretty soon and we got Irish potatoes grow in a grow bag here just another example of what you can grow if you’ve got bad SS you can use these root pouches right here and you can grow your own iced potatoes you can move this around when you thr Grill them dump it out fold up your root pouch and put it somewhere out of place but regardless of how much space you got or how bad your soul is you can grow potatoes in these root pouches she’s had a lot of good results doing that last couple years now another thing you can do is what we call elevated beds and that’s what this is we’ve had these rocks that she put up as a border we filled in all probably five or 6 Ines there so we added good soil in there so we’ve got a five or 6 in layer above our native Souls there that we’re able to grow peas on some English peas and onions now you can use rocks here rocks work pretty good in my opinion there if you got them you know on your property and you just have to to them around it works pretty good we actually had to buy these right here but anything that’s going to contain that soil in right there will work so folks understanding your soil type and understand the type Garden you need to do that you’re going to be most efficient at is going to be really beneficial here if you got those good soils and you got a big family and you want to grow a lot of stuff like corn and watermelons and things like that INR Garden is the way to go if you have those marginal type soils you got those big rocks in there that you’re always battling man I think you probably better off to go ahead and go to some type of elevated bed or raised bed gardening and I just want to give you an idea today on how much you can grow with a raised bed garden you know this patch right here for the two of us will give more than enough for us to feed off of now there’s going to be some problems with this as far as corn and watermelons we can’t be real productive with that in these small raised or elevated beds but things like greens tomatoes and peppers herbs all that kind of stuff you can grow plenty of it in a gar ging situation like this so regardless of your situation whether you have a little small lot and you have to do container guarding maybe a couple raised beds or you have plenty of resources with a lot of land you can garden and you can grow your own food folks is just no excuse