Enjoy tasty, homegrown vegetables on your patio or balcony. Several creative and inspiring ideas in this video.
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Music: « With a Whimper » by Josh Woodward
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What started out as a simple organic garden to grow some veggies for us this winter, has turned out to be one massive job.
After getting the neighbour’s tractor in with a rotor tiller to turn in the mushroom compost & lime and to orginally break up the sod, and then again to turn in a load of sand.
I discovered that there was so many rocks in the soil that the rotor tiller didn’t get deep enough into the soil, on average 4 inches.
I had to revert back in time and do it the old fashion way with a shovel, finally after 4 1 /2 days of solid digging (40 hours) I got the tractor back to rotor till it again.
I will post a video of what it looks like once I have it planted, the soil turned out perfect like walking on air now.
Also the stone pile is freaking huge now!
Looks like a ROCK Garden to me, I sure don't envy you that job of removing and disposing of all those rocks.
Sure hope you find something useful to make out of them.
Permaculture
You should never till the ground. Tilling kills the soil
Soil & Diverse Cover Crops with Ray Archuleta & David Brandt
https://youtu.be/nNMdWnfjs8s
CAN YOU TELL ME WHERE YOU'RE LOCATED, CITY OR TOWN IS ENOUGH FOR ME PLEASE! I USED TO LIVE UP ON LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK, AND I HAD SIMILAR ISSUES WITH STONE AND ROCK IN TERRIFIC AMOUNTS!!! HOPE YOU CAN MESSAGE ME BACK WHEN YOU CAN! CHEERS!!!
are you saying that a 6hp rototiller is no good for ground with rocks??
Well you say that's hard, me and my family have to use a hand hoe to loosen up the soil and get rid of the rocks, which is like, hell. But I still have fun 🙂 That's what gardening is all about 😉
rock pile= awesome fire pit
good to see someone else has a ton of rocks on his homestead, check out stoneyridgefarmer. I'm using pigs and horse/cow manure to cover my spot that's full of rocks. We have some similar interest you should check out the page.
That's a lot of work , well done .
It all looks so different without the duckies! So long ago…
I'm here looking for an alternative to spading hundreds of square feet of soil for a new bed and what do I find; one pair of hands spading hundreds of square feet of soil! I hope this isn't some kind of sign.
You did a lot of work…I hope your growing effort is sucessful
I came back to this video just to see how different everything looks from before you raised ducks, looks so different!
Danm those rocks are big lol.
after watching the series of video for the whole year. I order seeds in Jan 1, 2015 well the just got here today Feb 17th. They were not mailed which they told me. After several phone calls again they came today. HAPPY I was to get them. I open the bag that was empty. a big piece of tape with US Customs written on it. There was a letter enclosed that said that there were some things missing to allow it to come to the US… ALL seed were confiscated and it says Prohibited Material removed and Destroyed reason were Material not authorized to entry and Phyto-sanitary certificate is missing. So if you are ordering from this GREAT seed company from the US , DONT. I am sad!
hello from Portugal. Congratulations for your vídeos.
You don't have weeds?
I'm also making my bio-agricultural project .
Bye
José Pires
That's a lot of rocks! Looking good so far.
Very cool. Do you know any cheats? I'm unable to dig so, I was thinking I might box in an area, fill it with compost and bagged soil and grow things there this year that might send out deep roots and break up some of the soil with less work. Do you think it will work? Either that or I can buy a rototiller. 🙂
@crsbt
I'm Canadian and yes we have a good size yard, not as big as I want one day soon I'm going to have a real farm.
We ended up getting 1,400lbs of food on our first attempt growing Heirloom Organic Veggies.
If you watch my series of the garden you can see the whole season, check out my channel page for the playlist.
you americans have such alot of space,,although i wouldnt want to dig that lol.
looks really nice there and your garden im sure will be great.
happy digging sir.