My Mittleider garden biggest change is the recovery from plant nutrient deficiencies. I did lose a hanging watermelon because it split. I could have let it continue to grow but my experience…
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I have been gone for a week and what a change in the garden. We also take a peek at Mrs. LDSPrepper’s garden, her garden preps and beet harvest. Remember that tiny beet she had? Things have…
When you said Montgomery County did you mean Maryland or somewhere else??
Those Sun Sugar tomatoes are great aren’t they! Love those things.?
Good info…?
i have taken the suckers of and placed them in a pot of water and left them
for two weeks. They produced roots then i planted them in dirt. but next
time i will try the way you do and up date on how they come out.
Thank you for your comment. My entire dinner tonight came from the garden.
It was nice knowing exactly how fresh my food was and what was and
especially what was not sprayed on it in the garden. I hope you get another
garden going again. It really is worth it, for me.
It works best sprinkled on the soil and watered in.
When you do you will truly be glad you did. There are several links below
the video in the “description” box.
Your yard is WAY bigger than mine 🙂 My grow boxes have to be out on the
park strip next to the road. The patch of grass between the sidewalk and
the road is 11 feet wide by 40 feet long. THis is where I have my 3 grow
boxes. And I apply a lot of permaculture principles to keep the dirt rich
and growing. Your plan is a GREAT plan A. Given 5 years of fertilizer, you
can start transitioning to PERMAnent agriCULTURE if the SHTF. Some do it in
smaller yards than yours. Great vids. Keep it up!
We have never composted and continue not to do so.
Those tomatoes don’t look like they have a deficiency… it looks like
early blight
I thought it was nuts too for a long time, until I did it. As you can see
it really does work.
Can you help me. I planted cucumbers they grew good and fast but now
there’s small cucumbers and most of them turn yellow and shrink and die.
Why is that happening is it because of too much sun or water.
Am I the only one that looks at a sick plant, then reads the book and is
like “Crap, it could be any of these!”
what does that taste like
The weekly feed has all 13 nutrients that plants need. Just like people
some plants “eat” more than others so they need additional nutrients. Just
my heavy eaters needed additional nutrients. Not all my plants.
Are you using any type if shade cloth here in Houston? We are having brutal
heat as you know and I’ve pretty much lost everything this year. First year
but not giving up!
Thank you. We have no plans for chickens at this time. We eat primarily a
live plant based diet so no need for livestock now.
Careful with the Malabar spinach. It is almost like Kudzu. It will take
over, and will drop lots of seeds for next year. I DO think it is a great
SHTF plant, though. No one would think that it was edible if it was growing
on a fence line or something.
You mention that the Mittleider fertilizer mix contains 16 nutrients. I
count 10 items, but don’t know what the compounds would yields, as far as
free nutrients. Looking at Grow Box Basics, page 109 (Lesson 12). Would you
list the materials that you combine, trade names, if possible? The problems
I’m having making a correct fertilizer mix is because his list shows, for
example, chelated iron #330. Typically this is 10%, and I’d presume EDTA
chelated. Thanks.
Thanks for all the updates of your excellent success this year. Good stuff.
Looks like a very successful garden. When are raising livestock. I would
like to see you have chickens.
Thank you for sharing, God Bless…
wwhere do you live that you have all these tomatoes so early
You are such an inspiration! Because of you I’ve attempted to start a small
Mittlieder garden in my yard. Thank you so much for sharing all you’ve
learned along the way to becoming a gardening PHENOM! Love it!
When did you plant your onions? And did you do seeds or sets? How deep did
you plant them? I planted my sets February 2nd, and I’m not seeing any
bulbs yet……
I’m learning so much from watching your garden videos. Thank you for the
time and effort you put into do.g this.
if you search hard enough you can find the link to do it yourself but for
all that goes into it I’ll order the packet, it makes plenty.
Are you using chemical fertilizers? I am not sure I want to even learn
using chemicals.
do you think you can give too many nutrients to the plant? I am container
watering in my back yard. I am using a “mel’s mix” type soil where i have 6
types of compost mixed in. I also am using azomite and glacial rock dust.
On top of that i am doing the weekly feed 🙂 LOL. I learned of all this
stuff at different times but in that order and I just went for it. The
plants look great right now and I plan on making a video. I guess we’ll see
how they do. Thanks LDS your garden is amazing!
everything is chemicals but plants & animals, including humans, have
specific needs for copper, iron, carbon, nitrogen & so on. This is what
works well for plants.
exactly what is in the weekly feed?
LDS, what did you use for the pipe on this 48″ bed? And the length? Thanks
I am unable to find saw dust and rice hulls here in CO.The shipping cost is
astronomical. Plz tell me what kind of soil mix Mrs. LDSPrepper uses in her
raised garden. I made a mix of 2/4 peat moss, 1/4 garden soil and 1/4
perlite. Adding preplant mix and weekly feed as recommended. That seems to
be working ok. Any recommendations?
Very nice production
Thanks so much for posting! I learn something every time I watch a video!
Very nice garden, what kind was that tomato that already had its fruit?
Could you please post the link to the moisture meter, thanks great videos
keep it coming your doing such a great job!
I tried telling him that and he does not listen nor does a lot of people on
here. Chemicals destroy the soil after a few years if that is all you use.
Also chemical sprays for pests also destroy the soil and kills all
beneficial bugs. Use organic. I have been growing organic for 27 years and
my garden will beat any person using chemicals by more than double and
those are facts.Do some homework people. Maybe they will listen to you
DrReaper but i doubt it.
You are aware that petrochemical fertilizers are not sustainable
Nice raise bed look great I guess you do not have deer in u yard!
Think you would benefit from a DIY biogas set up. All food and plant waste
used to make gas for cooking+ the byproduct is a liquid fertilizer. Animal
waste can also be used, + human urine is mostly nitrogen if you wanted to
go full circle. There is more than cause for concern regarding
neonicotinoids ruining nature’s little pollinators
I’ve never heard of anyone pruning watermelons till this year. You and
others are talking about it. Now, does pruning them make more melons or
bigger melons… or is is just for keeping them contained in a small area?
I have MANY watermelons started… not sure I could prune them all, but I
was just curious. thanks, alan
It is a mixture that you mix yourself that includes natural mineral
nutrients (use the link below the video to get that), all purpose
fertilizer and epsom salts. It is super inexpensive to make compared to any
other store bought fertilizers and is much better. It contains all the
nutrients plants need to thrive and produce large, sweet fruit.
Well, with this video, I have learned I am over watering. I have been
watering 30 min. each morning. No wonder I am loosing the fertilizer
effect. I have been mid week fertilizing with extra nitrogen to keep
everything going good. But maybe it is because of over watering. I am going
to adjust my watering a see.
aiki.pbworks. com/w/page/1594755/special%20Mittleider%20fertilizer%20mix
That’s what’s in it. Looks to be a pain in the ass to do it yourself but
once done you’ll have enough to last a life-time. I have no idea where to
readily get iron chelate #330 or molybdenum on its own. growfood.
com/shop/natural-mineral-fertilizers/?ap_id=BestDeal I do know where to
order the packets for cheap.
You should only prune them once the female flowers have started and you
start seeing a lot of fruit develope. If you prune too soon then you just
cutting off potential female flowers which you have to have to get fruit. I
do not prune. It is in my opinion idiotic to prune watermelon, cucumbers,
squash because the first few weeks after they start flowering are only male
flowers and by pruning them your likely to ruin production. Garden the way
your suppose to. Old fashioned way as farmers do