TWELVE Cheap ways to build garden soil
1. Mulch at recycling center
2. Sawdust that sits and breaks down
3. Woodchips at mills
4. Rice hulls
5. Fall leaves collected and mowed over.
6. Make your own compost pile.
7. Save all your chicken poop
8. Clean out animal stalls
9. Buy old hay that didn’t sell last year. (Or straw)
10. Coffee shops donations.
11. Save all your egg shells (cures leaf curl, blossom rot)
12. Save your wood ash
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Great video, my 2 cents you asked for. Coffee grounds, egg shells and banana peels with water in a blender make a great liquid fertilizer. But save those banana peels they can be dried and crumbled good source of potassium. We also do back to eden garden but top it with wood chips and no tarp.
Planning to start prepping the ground YAHUAH willing! Thanks for sharing this
I top off my garden beds with mulched oak leaves, ground egg shells, a little horse poo, coffee grounds, and compost made from food scraps and leaves. Seems to keep happy worms and bacteria life in place, and minimal tilling disturbance helps keep my healthy mycelium around to assist with mineral uptake.
Great reminder to get out there and finish up. 🙌🙌
Haha I’m doing the same thing
I used the quail manure and pine shaving litter to mulch my strawberries, best berries ever. I did it fall before.
If you have trays under your rabbits and you dump them at the first of the year on a planting area…..i actually burned up broccoli, cabbage and many other plants. The pepper sat there and simmered and the volunteer sauce tomatoes thrived. Lol. This year that spot grew well with similar crops. So rabbit manure with urine and low rain and snow fall after the first of the year throughout the growing season means burnt up plants.
Would you recommend this method also if you are container gardening?
I was just saying rabbit poop when you said it. People think I'm crazy, but I have my rabbit pin inside my garden! In the winter I let them loose… They just run, play and poop everywhere! They love winter and so does my garden….. When it's time to plant they go back in the pin, of course I can keep the poop from the pin too but letting them run in the garden all winter is easy!
is rabbit on the do not eat list
Thank you very much. David The Good has warned to be careful with hay (and I imagine similer crops) because sometimes it's been sprayed with persistent herbacides (amino perilids?) that last for years – even after being digested by animals (so maneur also have to be careful with) and can kill your garden.
Could we do several of those things together?
If you use hay make 100% sure it’s not been sprayed with an herbicide!!! It will destroy your garden!!
We use rabbits pellets, compost, ashes from burn pile and leaves.
I have used fish meal on my potatoes with great results blend with coffee grounds and egg shell powder and horse manure then cover with hay
For those with dirt that is high calcium content like caliche, adding a vinegar can make that calcium bio available to your plants.
Call your SMALL arbor/tree companies. Larger companies will charge you to dump chips. The small companies would rather dump to local farmers, gardens, and families than pay to dump a load of chips.
Signed- An Arborist wife and owner of a small company
Burying chicken guts in my beds today. 👍🏻
QUESTION: AM I SUPPOSED TO BURY THE COFFEE GROUNDS AND CRUSHED UP EGG SHELLS IN THE GARDEN AND IF SO, HOW DEEP?? OR AM I JUST SUPPOSED TO SPRINKLE COFFEE GROUNDS AND CRUSHED EGG SHELLS ON TOP OF SOIL AFTER LEAVES, MULCH, SAWDUST, ASHES, ANIMAL POOP ETC?
Ferment teas are awesome
Great suggestions! The agonizing part is we can't escape the pesticides and herbicides laced on most products obtained off-site. But, if we wanna garden frugally, minute amounts in soil- building components is better than who knows what concentrations of these (or A peel coatings) on produce in most stores. So sad these are the conditions in which we live now.
Ok… Hot manure is great to blend with sawdust. Sawdust and leaves need nitrogen to start decompression. Watch out for hay and straw sources with certain herbicides, as they can flat ruin soil for anything but grass. Add char from your wood stove as well, because the fungus that builds soil needs it to adhere and stay put. Over the course of a couple years, it will help dramatically improve even raw sand to a decent soil.
I use my wood ashes and egg shells straight on the garden. I usually just start going down the row with it. Coffee grounds get put on there too. It takes a lot of material to make enough compost for the whole thing but I put as much as I can into the garden. Leaves, hay chicken and rabbit manure. It’s all good stuff.
Compost bin: Coffee grounds, leaves, kitchen scraps, and with caution grass.
Worm bin: Coffee grounds, leaves, kitchen scraps, crushed egg shells, and black soldier fly frass.
Black soldier fly bin: leaves, compost toilet, aged compost, and road kill and other animal products.
I’m a 12 hour shift worker, so gardening hasn’t been anything I wanted or had time to do. Well now with the crap going on in this country I changed my mind. Second year Gardner trying to learn at the age of 56. Also setting up for 3 ewes and a ram this April. Looking forward to all of it. Excited about being my own producer. So keep on teaching and I’ll keep Learning. Thanks for what you do.
In Upstate NY we have heavy clay. Bakes hard as a rock in summer, wet seasons retains water making it gummy not much oxygen going in that. I dug trenches last year layering leaves, tree chips, compost from Rochester city give back site guessing from leaves, and cleaned out the chicken coops into the layers. Before in July I couldn't get a spade shovel more than a few inches in. I started my own compost bin with leaves and weekly dump coffee grounds on the stir in. 2-3 pots a day it builds up. I do till it in with my JD 1025r. After the winter it was nice n powdery not gum. We'll see this year the 3rd year. It's coming along nicely with advice from you yt guys n gals. Thanks we're listening n working out here! 🚜🤔👍
I was wondering about rabbit manure, thank you – it was good to hear from you, a fellow T.O.
Yah bless and keep you dearthair.
I use to raise quail (pharaoh) . Good fertilizer but use sparingly. I went heavy with rabbit and light on quail.
I throw weeds , chicken poop and epsom salt in a large rubbermaid container and pet it ferment . I hand water the plants at the roots . Stinky gold for the garden.
Mulch from trees: be sure invasive species aren’t in there. Example: Arundo in Arizona…
Wood chips: Make sure its not from wood treated with chemicals…
Hay/straw: Make sure it wasn’t sprayed with deadly pesticides like R-up…
Coffee grounds: make sure it’s organic coffee because coffee is one of the most pesticide laced crops.
Manure: What did the animals eat? If it’s gmo feed or sprayed grass it will kill what you’re growing – for years.
All of this from 10 years of experience.
Cheers, A Master Gardener.
Just warmed up enough this week to get me itchin' to get out there in the dirt myself up here in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado 🤠
Grass clippings! Yard leaves! Rabbit poo! Horse poo! Compost everything! ❤
I own a coffee stand and offer my grounds to anyone for free over the years. Last few years I started my off grid location and now use my 200 lbs a month on my property. And it keeps mosquitoes away also