10 Gardening Products & Practices I’ve Abandoned & Why
Over the years, I’ve abandoned a number of the gardening products and practices I grew up with or used in the past in my own garden. This process of elimination has led me to a low cost, low effort approach that gets excellent results by focusing on what really works. If you shop on Amazon, you can support OYR simply by clicking this link (bookmark it too) before shopping: http://www.amazon.com/?tag=oneya-20 Today I share 10 different gardening products and practices I’ve abandoned over the years and why I abandoned them. 1) Tilling - 0:30 2) Growing in Rows - 1:52 3) Synthetic Fertilizer - 2:35 4) Store Bought Compost - 3:30 5) Store Bought Organic Fertilizer - 4:17 6) Rock Dust - 5:04 7) Biochar - 6:10 8) Comfrey Tea - 7:27 9) Compost Tea - 8:22 10) Turning Compost Frequently - 9:15 "The Truth About Garden Remedies" by Jeff Gillman: http://amzn.to/2ahkgtq "Decoding Gardening Advice" by Jeff Gillman: http://amzn.to/2ahkj8z "The Truth About Organic Gardening" by Jeff Gillman: http://amzn.to/2aN5iKc "The Informed Gardener" by Linda Chalker-Scott: http://amzn.to/2ahkjFJ "The Informed Gardener Blooms Again" by Linda Chalker-Scott: http://amzn.to/2a7lK6x One Yard Revolution is all about growing a lot of food on a little land using sustainable organic methods, while keeping costs and labor at a minimum. Emphasis is placed on improving soil quality with compost and mulch. No store-bought fertilizers, soil amendments, pesticides, compost activators, etc. are used. Join me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oneyardrevolution Channel Page: http://www.youtube.com/user/OneYardRevolution Garden Myths Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLApXYvbprElyg12L_Uj4aq0L9pbKOILQt Summary of Biochar Benefits from Washington State University: http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/FS147E/FS147E.pdf
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Amazing, your cat is very cute and wants to be famous lol
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Patrick thanks for such a dose of common sense and tips for saving time, money, and our backs.
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Loved your video. I'm a beginner - want to plant my first bed in the spring - and want to be completely organic too. I appreciated your list of composting resources, but need a little bit more info on how and/or where to get these free items. This first four are easy, from my own home; but what about "aged" wood chips (where do I get these from and how old should the chips be?), horse manure and straw - do I go to a farm and ask if I can have some of their manure? Do I ask ask for a bale of hay or straw or isn't there any difference? Or is the straw already in the the pile of manure from the mucking out of the stalls? Does it matter how old the pile of manure is? Last, the spent brewery grains. How do I get a brewery to let me have some of their spent grains? Who do I speak to? I'm so glad I found your channel and I look forward to receiving your responses.
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A very helpful video, and will pay attention to your results.. Thank you for this help... Take care, Laura
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I've had the same experience with rock dust. Did you ever make a follow up video on rock dust?
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I've found that perhaps the best use for compost tea is as an accelerant when composting recalcitrant mulch (e.g. oak leaves), especially when its nitrogen content is improved with some of that free, organic liquid fertilizer concentrate we know as "urine."
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Thanks for the tip to assess your garden's needs.
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75% of this video...
"our garden is perfect and can not be improved upon, so we stopped using many products that are intended for gardens with deficiencies" -
I know you talk about using coffee grounds in your composting and would like your opinion on 'flavored' coffee grounds. I have a big convenience store near me and they offered me their grounds. Any thoughts?
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How do you get rid of wire grass or Bermuda grass
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Thanks for the helping me take a practical approach to my garden.
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Thanks so much for sharing your personal experiences with all these techniques. I've been learning myself and time is such a valuable resource, squandering it on less than productive practices really makes us lose out. Oscar is a great addition to the videos too!
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Excellent video!
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Old fellow about to start a two bathtub tea operation, 0r not. I may turn the large compost pile because it has a high animal waste content at certain layers. Maybe I should go fishing. Or get out the metal detector.
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What about Aspirin water for Tomato plants?
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Nice! I agree with much of what you state, including your view on using compost tea (which will surprise some). I have never viewed aerated compost tea as a good remedy for foliar disease control nor for a necessary ongoing amendment to healthy living soil. It does however have some great uses. 1/ It is great for turning around a lifeless and or pathogen inundated soil. I have seen it beat back an extremely severe erwinia infection and subsequently improve the crops immensely. 2/ It is very useful when there just is not enough compost to cover your entire growing area and it does accelerate the nutrient cycle compared to compost alone 3/ Made correctly it is not bad for a stand alone amendment in a soil less media, however it is better with some supplementsThere actually is a fair amount of research showing that CT is effective at pathogen suppression. Non-aerated CT (NCT) has been shown superior for pathogen suppression to ACT.I guess one good reason for high heat compost is to kill seeds.
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I just subscribed to your channel based on this video alone. Found your channel from the comments on I AM ORGANIC GARDENING's (Mark's) videos. Keep debunking and sharing your results! It is funny how attached we become to practices that really don't work or don't provide the benefit we hope for despite evidence to the contrary.
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wonder what your feeling about adding mycelium spores to your mulch is?
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great advice, nice clear video, thanks. I'll make sure to suscribe.
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I love Oscar 🐱
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