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I like how you pronounce Borage - with our Kiwi accent it sounds more like porridge here lol. i'll use your version -sounds eloquent and fancy haha

What about leaves that are drooping? It's still producing and no signs of any discoloring on any leaves

Isn't clay soil much more tricky to make this work. The problem is clay soil causes poor drainage, and this combined with the fact that clay has very little space for circulating oxygen, plants both drown and die of lack of oxygen in the soil. In a rainy season this will be pronounced. The problem is organic compost based fertilizers eat up lot of oxygen with all the microbes in them. So now you have a double whammy, with both the clay and the compost based fertilizer reducing the oxygen levels to practically nothing and killing the plants. I think this point needs t be addressed by somebody.

I love this video for the explanation and demonstration is very well done.Thanks for your excellent video.

I want to say thank you. I've been using organza bags but did a Google search on the best way to protect tomatoes and found your video. I've been gardening for 20 years but this is the first time I've heard this. Amazing. Definitely going to try this

Thank you for such clear advice

Great info. Do you have a video on how you built your trellis ? Noticed them 😊

Vary informative, intelligent video recommend to watch

Sensible and helpful information, thank you.

Amazing stuff. The soil microorganism community must absolutely love you.

Very helpful ! We’ve been doing austrian peas. Then we let the chickens in. Will be trying to add the vetch & oats. Do you have a favorite seed source?

Your video is very helpful ! I will trim my plants as you suggested. Last year I allowed my plants (Tomato, Cucumber and Cantaloupe) to grow wild, which got out of control !

Very helpful. Thank you!

back again for this good video... we're going to try your hugelkultur method and break down our heavy clay soil... thanks again!!!

What if they are limp and soggy?? 😢

Hey, I had a question. I'm growing an okay-sized cherry tomato and a beefsteak. The thing is, the beefsteak seems a bit stunted, even though I water it every morning until it drains out the bottom. By the next day, if I check the soil, it's pretty dry. I'm in Virginia, and lately it's been between 80 and mid 90s. My leaves are a little droopy, with a couple slightly yellow or brownish leaves towards the bottom. The beefsteak is also quite a bit smaller than I believe it is supposed to be. I don't have good soil where I live, so putting it in the ground wasn't an option, so I put it in a five-gallon bucket with some decent soil I got from tractor supply. Do you have any advice? Most of the plant seems to be fine, I guess, but just droopy instead of the stems being fairly straight down the curve. not to a drastic degree, but just a little. I also noticed that even though it's maybe a little under a foot tall, it has a tomato on it. It has more blooms, but it seems the flowers on it have shriveled up and dried out.

Wow ! Great video ! GROW YOUR SOIL ! ADD ORGANIC MATERIAL !

I LOVE THIS!!! I currently have a four-foot fence with PVC poles on top of the t-posts with a rope strung through them to keep deer out... it works, but we hate the look of it. I think it's coming down so we can build a deer moat!!!

Can anyone share with me what she's calling the leaves that are squeezing out a little water.... sounds like gatasian. The transcript says guitar and that's not right😄 It's a term I haven't previously learned and would love to know more about. Thanks!!!

Nope I really am just beginning and I already have a small 12 block laid down and being leveled right now. I just have to try those cubby holes for flowers and herbs and trellis or hoops. I have tons of compost from years and years of compost building in anticipation of gardening in retirement. I am officially retired and I go at my own pace putter putter putter. I really don't know my land that well with all the trees and hedges and neighboring buildings so modularity and repurposing potential is key for me.

It has been 95 degrees here in Mo for the past two weeks. I water them every other day and the soil is dry. They are in pots outside. Well drained. Put em in 1st week of may and they are fruiting. One is beefsteak the other is midnight cherries. They still look pretty raggedy. I dunno.

What's the white porous material you use to cover the beds? Aside from your effective method to create beautiful soil, Daikon roots make delicious kimchi, the green tops as fermented vegetables in a brine. I have rodents that are active in the garden so I'm not sure if that extra food source will be enticing to them. I would prefer using a sickle than a whacker to cut the crops. If you don't mind squatting or sitting on a little stool to get close to the ground, using a sickle can be a pleasant way to work the beds.

You could have saved your blender if you would have just blended the bananas with a little water and just stirred the bananas with the char and then added it to the worms.

Thank you! I just made up a batch of this and will apply asap! The coffee grinder works great!

I love your ingenuity! Your charcoal crushing method was awesome! Use what you've got - a heavy car!

Excellent video! I've been thinking about concrete garden beds, but never thought to compare cost vs wood. I was considering pouring concrete to make the sides of the beds, but I definitely can see the advantages to using blocks as well. There is a gentleman that lives about an hour away from me that's done extensive long term testing on a concrete bed design that he developed. He created simple reusable molds using wood, which allows him to case modular panels that are stackable, relatively lightweight and are held in place with pieces of rebar. He recently began selling plastic molds that he had made, but I think he sold out quickly. He has a number of videos on KZfaq explaining how to make them. If you search for "MAN about TOOLS" his channel should come up.

Only question left--how much water do we give when water is needed?

How do you store them prior to sowing?

Thanks for the upload

how does this not cause nitrogen depletion? nitrogen fixation only works if you terminate the cover crop. your plants appear yellow.

I built a cattle panel arch trellis this spring. One one side im doing super sugar snap peas, and 3 varieties of chinese bitter melon. On the other side im doing chayote, kajari slip melons, and sweet passion musk melons.

For the past 3 years I maintained a perennial cover crop of thyme and oregano in 3 of my beds. No weeds, when I plant my crops everything takes off within days, not weeks. Dr Elaine Ingham got e started. Have a small channel, Brian's Garden if interested. Stay Well!!!

Jess from YT No Till did a trial where he planted in pepper? squash? seedlings into a bed of perennial white dutch clover. The seedings struggled, became stunted & didn't finish the season. Interesting this seems to work with an annual clover provided it is cut back in the immediate area of the plant. Have you trialed for maximum diameter around the plants? I am wondering if planting seedlins within a leaf mould mulch of 6-10 in diam, with the rest of the bed clover covercropped might work without having to cut back the annual clover? This bending over crap must stop.

Danvers 126 is a carrot for clay soil. I tilled mowed leaves into my garden every year. I used the leaves as a mulch then tilled them into the soil at end of the growing season. After the leaves fell I used them as mulch to cover the ground to stop grass and hold in moisture during the off season. Pulled them back and planted into the ground in spring. I hate pulling weeds and this helped a Lot.

Solid info. Thanks!

Thank you for sharing your experience using cover crops. I just planted a clover seed tri-mix I originally purchased for a lawn in my pepper bed a few days ago and now after listening to your experience I'm more confident with the process so I'll be doing this with some of my other beds as well now. Also good to know that about Mustard! My free straw with goat manure mulch supply has dried up temporarily. I'll probably just go with a living mulch from now on since there's so many benefits!

Hi, nice work. What kind of lumber did you use? Is it pressure treated lumber? I used rough cut one year and it didn’t last. Thank you

Will a drooping wilting leaf indicate too much water?

What about potted cherries?

Thank you for the video! It is necessary to kill the plants with black tarpaulin at the end of the season, right? I have also had clover growing in my garden, not covered with a tarpaulin at the end and the plants grew out of the rootstocks stronger the following year because they had apparently survived the winter. Even if the vegetable plants outcompete the clover, doesn't the clover still absorb some water and nutrients and the vegetable plants don't grow quite as much as if you mulch with dead plants?

Very helpful! Thanks!

My branches are drooping but my tomato plant is healthy dark green with a little curl, no beige colour, they feel soft too i worry if i might of over water it. The soil is not too moist and cool, its not because of the heat because i live in canada the weather lately was not hot at all but humid and cool, i really don't know what it is at least my plant is still flowering properly and nicely.

This was so concise. That you so much. I'm drowning mine 😓

Does this apply to toms in pots too ?

Do you buy a big bag of seeds for the cover crops? How much does it all cost?

what about carrots video?

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Very nice! Any thoughts on chemicals (lime, in particular) leaching out of the cinderblocks, and how to mitigate that? I'm just trying to plan ahead before I get started. =^[.]^=

The leaves at the top of my plant are green but drooping/limp from the top to the bottom...leaves are not curled. Is this a sign of over watering?