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Great video! Letting beds rest, cover cropping, turning in, mulching, revitalizing soil, weed suppression, rotation, fertilization.
Awesome high value video. ❤
Do you top your beds with topsoil, compost, or a mix? Can I be a pest and ask what you used for your initial fill as well? I have 10 beds that will be my year 1 garden here. I have access to both in bulk at a good price.
Love fall garden
Hahaha sir, I should send you a picture of my garden a month ago or so…. before the squash bugs killed all my squash in July, while I was gone for a few days. I call it ADHD Acres
I didn't think about deer when I planned my fall garden, and had to re-think it, and come up with a new plan. Most of the potatoes I planted in July ended up rotting in the ground with three weeks of rain. The few that survived, don't look healthy, and will be removed for fall crop planting. Alabama summer heat is hot for the potatoes, and we have days in the forcast that are in the high 90s, potentially in the tripple digits as it is generally five to six degrees hotter in the country, where I live, than in town. I just cleared out my leafy green raise bed and only have a few pepper plants growing in the opposit bed. They can be removed for planting fall crops. I have two other beds that are empty, my root vegetable beds, and lastly is my my onion and garlic bed. Okay, the two main beds and my potato bed gives me space for broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and Swiss Chard. Two thirds of the onion bed can be used for quick crops like Pak choi, Yellow Heart Winter Choy, Tatsoi, and radish. The two root beds will be planted with carrots, turnips, beets, and parsnips. All of these beds have hoops, and can be covered with netting, and, or, greenhouse plastic—deer proof. The remaining beds will be covered with chopped leaves in November. I have no shortage of leaves living in a forested area, and store two trash bins full of chopped leaves for use as mulch in the spring. The rest of the leaves will be composted, or go into the chicken run. Next years gardening plan will include making hoops for my 2ft x 4ft raised beds. The remainig four raised beds will rest in the fall and winter—covered with chopped leaves. As much as I'd like to get started now, it is still too hot. It will most likely be mid September before the temperature is cool enough for cool season crop seed germination. I direct sow this time of year, because I can. It makes planting a lot easier not having to break out seed starting trays, and lights, having to tend to the seedlings, then harden them off before transplanting. Every step eliminated is time saved.
Perfect timing I am zone 9b and tearing out all the plants that have a multitude of bugs.
I watched your video on garden planning and am reworking my plans
Good morning Sandy Sir. How are you doing over there? Far northern California here and it's sprinkling. Our first drips of rain in months.
Thanks for another informative video Ben. One wuestion i have is how long should I rest them before olanting the next seasons crops into it?
Awesome video 📹, amazing information, love your channel 😊🎉
I add composted horse manure to my beds that I’m done with for the season. Top with wasted hay as a deep mulch and leave it alone till spring. I’ll probably plant one bed of broccolini and another with beets and kale. Let one rest and rotate in spring, leaving one out of three each season to recharge the soil. Dill, cilantro and lettuces will be seeded and grown in the greenhouse until hard freezes start in dec-Jan.
I am chopping and dropping to complete ole lady exhaustion at the moment, while hiding from thr scalding sun. 😂
Ouch! Those bees are ornery in August and September! Yes, my Fall garden is going strong. We mulch and plant intensively, so almost no weeds in raised bed and containers. I fertilized more this year than in the past. Wonderful production!
Great garden. Do you use fertilizer your beard?
this is how i used to waste my money and loads of time, pretending i'm making the soil fairies happy, whilst actual crops and harvests were mostly dismal. but once you become commited to bringing in loads of dead organic matter, treating the garden like a forest floor, there's excuses to make and double the effort of feeding a soil god.
now i keep it real and grow lots of veggies and fruit and flowers, instead of caring for weeds.
besides the fact that 95%+ of dead organic matter ending up as atmospheric carbon dioxide, it also makes wet soil wetter and dry soil hard to wet, besides all the work.
veggies and fruit need regular and good amounts of nutrients, rather than planning to have a good harvest in 50 years, when the soil is finally just right.
I am cleaning out all the beds, topping them off with soil had a delivery on Saturday. I take all the mulch and turn it back in to the soil. I understand putting compost and fertilizer on the beds and it taking a few months to break down. But if we are not using the bed should we reapply prior to winter planting. Learning I am in NC zone 8b
We just finished enlarging our growing area and are in the process off emptying some summer beds. Ordered seeds, fertilizer, mulch. Getting ready for fall planting.
It's spring almost over here! it's going to be a fun gardening year!
I started my spring garden, then a week ago, redone the whole bed for fall, hubby taght me how to saw, so I got wood, and made beds. Excited to see how it does. I have been crazy busy missing alot of videos. Oh and I built me a greenhouse by my little 5ft 2, 120 lb, 61 year old, self 😊 I am so happy.