The results from all 10 of our backyard garden plots are here! We have a variety of different growing techniques in these 10 plots including no-till, heavy cover crops, chicken grazing, heavy composting, and more.
Hopefully these results will tell us which one of these techniques is the most effective at building a strong nutrient bank in the soils so we don’t have to fertilize as much. Join us to see the results from all 10 plots and hear our plans going forward.
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20 Comments
Thank you! I have throughly enjoy your research on the soil testing. Keep sharing your gardening ideas and results.
are you no longer with hoss tools? fallout?
Interesting! Seems to speak well for cover crops and grazing. I've been listening to a lot of soil regeneration audio books lately, and these are common themes. Most of them are talking about deep-rooted perennial prairie grasses, livestock grazing, and "automatically applied" manure on larger pastures, but the concepts are similar.
Oh, and my "country boy analysis" indicates that you have a high concentration of north-bound grackles and Canada geese, which I interpret to mean IT'S SPRINGTIME!!! Yaaayyy!!!
Really interesting stuff in this vid Travis. Based on these results, do you think this will change how you manage the other plots? Making more of them no-till, adding more compost, using your cover crop strategy, etc?
Wow! You are very impressive with your knowledge. Thank you for helping us all learn about our garden soil. I plan right now to do a soil test with my local extension office. I so enjoy your channel and the informative content you provide us.😃👍
Planting plant in area that will take up of various k pho more. Finding the right plants will help out a lot.
what some farms do now is rotate from their main crop to a less valuable crop that has the tendency to sequester minerals that are too high in concentration. eg a cattle feed crop/hay that they fertilise with chicken manure to common grass/weed that pulls out excess unused phosphorous which can be composted and sold
Excellent study and report, thanks!
Interesting…….I might even test #3 and #6 again, just for kicks and grins. Try to make sure that the first test was accurate. Things happen in the lab, we know that! I'm with you on the PH 100%! You can chase those numbers for the rest of your days. With the obvious success of the garden as a whole, I wouldn't worry about it either. I think the chicken strategy, utilizing their ammonia slinging ways, is a good long term plan, along with the cover cropping. What we really can't measure in a soil test is microbials (at least not in this type soil test) and I'm betting that's where your no till plot shines. Thanks for sharing!
Travis do you plant directly into the cotton compost, or do you till it in?
I just give my grow bags some azomite and calicum every year and add a bit of fresh compost. My raised bed only gets some fresh compost. I have no idea what the PH is in any of my soil.
Ph : even your higher ph plots are quite ok, plant, living plants, lower or raise the ph around their roots 🙂
The alfalfa pellet/phosphorus connection crossed my mind early on. I know it's a heavy phosphorus feeder, and I have read that it's sometimes used to reduce soil phosphorus levels in fields that have been used for grains for a long time. Phosphorus never really disappears like nitrogen, so it's likely present in significant quantities in the alfalfa pellets.
On the price of soil testing… Here in Arkansas the extension office offers to do the analysis for Arkansas homeowners or landowners for free. I have never gotten testing done, but perhaps I should some time. Of course, if it's like you say and you get what you pay for…
Throughly enjoyed that video you right on time for me on what we been talking about you are a big help to me and thank you for all your help your a blessing
Could the possibility of your 2 higher plots be the result of water runoff from the other plots? Is everything pretty level or do you have certain plots that take longer to dry out than others after an extremely heavy rain?
Rain is a factor
Awesome video!!!!
Really enjoyed watching it.
Biggest fan in South Africa!!!
Ok..u won me.over on cover.crops…even for small beds
I liked this video. I have to do container gardening so not able to test soil 100 times. I learned in some of my containers i plant potatoes after my cabbages. Keeps me from having to redo the nutrients between crops. This is great information and i will start cover crops in my containers to feed that to my chickens.