Wtf what happened to planting gardens the ol fashioned way…u don’t need all that stuff just sum seeds and good rich soil 🤦🏻‍♀️ my garden turns out great and abundant every year with only using miracle grow once a month on all my plants

Pro tip, prune the stalks with the flower bulbs on them for larger garlic bulbs.

What was that kind of bag you said you store the garlic in? Where do you get them from?

Can you chop of the stem / leaf thing before drying the bulbs? The leaves are editable so it's a shame to let them dry out and throw them away.

Straw is too much work and messy. There must be a better way.

Welcoming garlic into the world? You mean pull it OUT of the world.

Here in the uk I have found it helpful for keeping weeds at bay and for less watering, as I don’t have irrigation- it’s extremely expensive from what I’ve found. So I water by hand, but this means that we use more water to get what we want I believe. I find that the straw helps retain moisture and give it back to the soil once it’s dryer. I also find it helps stop evaporation- so I have to water less, so uses less water. I don’t know if it keeps things cooler and so doesn’t help in the tempered climate…. But tbh that would just make me think about what I’m growing and if it’s worth growing…. Ie tomatoes- I grow for family I don’t eat them… so wouldn’t bother me not to grow them. Melons haven’t done well so far, but we never know how it’s gonna go. Maybe they need to be under cover again- so I would need to sort a better undercover area if I wanted it badly enough. Again is it worth it

Plus you can use those scapes to cook into wonderful stirfrys or other dishes. Win win.

I dont know what zone i live in, just northbof parallel 49. I need to make small green houses to protect my roses and other perennials from frost/snow or too much rain. Your first idea is easy enough, I can modify it ( lack of some tools). Thanks for sharing.

It's crazy how much of a difference a mulch makes. I mow the lawn and that covers most of spring into summer. By then I can start utilizing the pods discarded from seed harvesting. That pretty much lasts until fall when the leaves are available. Then I can finish with compost over winter that I worked on all season. I'm running an even cheaper setup than you. Sometimes wish I could buy straw or wood chips. Weeds will come up but will be minimal. You're going to have a lot more spiders and earwigs though. Also can be good hiding spots for slugs early in the season when its most important to snuff out weeds. Those will be around anyway.. just pluck them in the early morning for a week and you're good.

Thx Jordan

I harvest them to make my garden bigger

Yeah, but is there a difference in taste? I can see the half-sized ones being worth it if the flavor is more concentrated or something.

I prune the branch that the suckers grow off of as soon as the leaves on the end start tinging.

Its too late to plant garlic if the ground is frozen, or if its spring.

Easiest way to get me to block your channel is click bait like this. What a POS

I’ve never had good results translating cucumbers I’ve found they do way better if you direct sow

This is worthy of a Lycan Chair

More weight does not mean better.

This doesnt work.

Why would you be against mulch? Especially the best mulch. So wacky. You've gotta be the first person to doubt mulch in the garden and think it's a gimmick. Straw is flat out garden gold. It just has multiple benefits and no draw backs. You have not even realized yet that it's slowly breaking down and feeding your soil yet.

Where do I buy these big cloves

I also like to flush my old soil out with a bunch of phd water to get any old ammendments out so I’m able to reammend and know what I’m starting with nutrient wise

Gardening and even just basic yardwork has been an important physical outlet for me recently. I love hearing stories about how it helps other people. Do you have ideas on how to help kids get into gardening?

Two issues I have with straw, one impossible to find "organic straw, and the jumping worms will use it as a food source. The straw was 2 years old in hopes to degrade any persistent herbicides, no herbicide issues, but found JW's using it as a food source. I recently replaced the straw with dried grass from my lawn, hoping the higher nitrogen content of the grass is not as attractive as the straw to the JW's. The most attractive mulch for JW's is leaves, shredded or not, had to stop using last year. Chopping and dropping comfrey, so far has not attracted the JW's in any large numbers. Best mulch to reduce JW's so far the garden, my perennial mulch of thyme and oregano. Stay Well!!!

this is so smart, thank you! Just wish I saw this before I planted everything lol -_-

So my issue with straw is that it is potentially sprayed with weed killer which happened to me. After mixing it into the soil to decompose at the end of the season, i noticed that my new crops the following year did poorly. So no straw for me unless i know for sure where it came from.

Then would the size of garlic be the same had to ones unpruned be given more nutrients instead?

Love straw, works for me big time. I started last season and saw all the benefits you mention

Thank you, I might have to buy one.

Follow to see the results. NO!

What kind of knife do you use? Love your videos.

A-r-u-g-u-l-a

Straw is great unless it was harvested late and the 'grass' had time to set seeds. My bale this year was a late cut and now I'm trying to pull wheat grass out of every row. Pain in the butt.

I’m using straw for the first time in my community garden plot which I can’t get to every day (sometime days). It’s been great in the extreme we’ve had. Plus the weeding is so much easier. Bindweed is still an issue but the usual weeds are much less.

Not using it any more. Not since Dow's persistent broadleaf herbicide- Grazon. It's infesting compost and straw/hay.

I like straw for mulch but... Stinkbugs love hiding in it. When I try to pick them off my tomatoes and peppers they tend to drop down into the straw and disappear. Pretty sure that's where they multiply and start their young. I've tried spraying organic insecticides on the straw mulch to eradicate them but it doesn't seem to make much difference. Squishing them with my fingers has been my best defense, but only if they don't get away, drop into the straw mulch and disappear.

Ty for this...as someone just starting out this is very helpful 😊

My radishes did not grow this fast in 60 seconds, thumbs down!

Would you mind doing a test with natural wood chips compared to straw? I feel that one is likely able to retain even more moisture given the mass and is way more easily accessible to folks.

I leave one or two with a scape and snip the rest

Straw has been a game changer in my gardening. I cannot believe how much less I need to water, plus it breaks down so beautifully into soil. It grows beautiful mushrooms too! I won't ever garden without it again. Including in the flower beds.

There good for getting a lot of seeds when you don't have as much room.

I dont think i will use straw to my strawberries again because slugs use it to get cool underneath, and with that i have bad strawberries harvest the year. The worst ever because they eating most of my strawberries like 80% of them. 😢

I planted 1,800, lol, they look great, way more work then I ever imagined. My largest is 3 inches. There’s no link In you bio, this was a bit much

10:00 A bit of math: going from 3 ft by 3 ft by 3 ft to 4 ft by 4 ft by 4 ft is not 10% extra. It is going from 27 cubic ft to 64 cubic feet, which is more like an extra 137 percent. - If you take the “closer to 3x3x3” wording and do the math with, say, 3.5x3.5x3.5, that’s going from 43 cubic ft to 64 cubic ft, which is going an extra 49 percent. Other than that, I agree with the message, it is indeed worth the effort. ;)

I hate to give you the news but you couldn't have disturbed the soil any more than what you did to your no till bed.

Great video!! Can I ask what you think the end of the year will look like? Will you be removing the straw from the beds or will it get incorporated in to the soil for next year? You had me sold at less weeds but I’d be interested to see what the next step is when winter approaches etc.!

Pretty brave of you to do all that work on advice from a book smart person?

It’s also possible since the sunflower seed was so big it could’ve even shaded out some of the plants were growing