vue - How I Build My Raised Bed Garden Soil Before the New Planting Season

1. John, what did you shake on the roots, before planting them?
2. Love your style of gardening. It's definitely a high quality, but simple and naturalistic version of gardening, but you gotta have money lol! You always give options for the poorer people (like saving seeds or making your own composts and worm castings and getting free wood chips and rock dusts.
3. If you have lots of composts from good sources the rock dust is just something to sprinkle near the roots at about an ounce a plant. (Only if your soil is somewhat rich and hasn't been farmed on for a long time)
4. I absolutely love that you are now using a cordless mic! I can't tell you how many times I felt that the most important things you've said were when you turned away from the camera. lol
   
   My fave part was combining all of the soil amendments, which I couldn't afford to do, but at least you explained them enough for me to make informed decisions.
   
   I have to say that I'm strongly leaning toward the Dr Earth products; the root starter fertilizer produced AMAZING results - I even used it as a compost tea, as the package suggested. Please do an episode comparing what I call all-in-one fertilizers.
5. Great video, John, but I wouldn't have added that compost that wasn't completely composted. Adding wood chips to soil can cause nitrogen being "tied up" during further composting. I suggest taking that unfinished compost,finish composting it first and then using it later.
   Thanks for sharing your methods.
6. Great video thank you
7. John you should do a video on perlite alternatives
8. Thank you for your videos. If you have time, pls do a video for a 'budding' gardener who is starting out. The mix in your barrow is too 'rich' for my wallet :)
9. I would like to understand more about the difference between "top soil" and " ?? bottom soil ?? "
10. Wow. That seems like a lot of work and expense. I collect my soil from my property which has several areas of rich, totally organic top soil. One location has some clay (I break down into the top soil) another has a lot more mulch (from leaves, trees, berries, etc.) and so on. During the summer, I collect goose dropping and add them to the soil about three times during the growing season. I collect earthworms from under my planters and add them to the garden boxes. I also add sheep manure in the spring. I've got the work but not the expense. I don't know if the nutrient level is comparable to yours but the plants look amazing and the yield is incredible. This is only my second year growing vegetables and herbs (other than 2-4 pots on the patio). I wish I would have had the opportunity to do this sooner. We plan to put in a few more beds next summer. I'd like to add, only lake water and rain are used for watering...and yes, it's a healthy lake. Tips are great. From N Ontario, Canada.
11. can I just drive out to the forest, dig up some rich soil and use that for my potting soil?
12. I like when you share info about building soil and making compost. definitely something I'm still trying to learn.
13. Lol this is next level. gotta cost a pretty penny for all this stuff 😁.
14. Why not just sift the kellogg compost and and add the chips into your joraform? You get brown material and fine compost in one move if you do that
15. hey johny I was wondering before you prepare new soil for your garden you're not supposed to turn the used raised bed soil upside down first ? or you just put new stuf on directly?
    thanks
16. both of it thanks
17. John,
    LONG OR SHORT VIDEOS ARE ALWAYS VERY INFORMATIVE; THERE GREAT!
    THANK YOU FOR SHARING.
18. When your garden is dormant why dont you grow a cover crop that ends up feeding the soil? I realize that farmers do that on a large scale but seems to me with as many beds as you have it would be wise to grow a mixture of different cover seeds that would naturally add to the quality of the soil in the beds already. Not sure how deep your beds are but I like to go anywhere from 18 to 20 inches deep.
    Along with my composting I always cover the soil with cover crops that you then turn into the soil.. Theres easier ways to achieve healthy soil....