BACK TO EDEN USING LEAVES AND WEED CONTROL TIPS
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*****CORRECTION: Charles Hancock's comment on this video is correct that it is a Japanese Beetle Lava and not a cutworm. How to prevent weeds where you garden. Using leaves to protect and improve your garden instead of wood chips. Less nitrogen and the leaves get turned under and doing the growing season they compost down and improve your soil and supply the roots of you plant with some nutrients. Instead of taking them to a landfill we just recycle them making it a win/win for everyone, especially for our plants. We can recover the soil on the roots of the weeds. Oak leaves are the best to use.
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My jaw actually dropped when I saw you get that handful of dirt. That's great.
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Thank you for your great gardening wisdom. May I ask how long you leave the weeds in the black container to kill the flower/weeds before you add it to the compost.
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Mine does because I collect the leave and compost them. The other day I went to empty a small pot and on the bottom of the pot their was a bunch of worms. This happens because I put leave compost and on the bottom of the pot I put white paper. Most of my pot has worms. Great video
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Very helpful video. Thanks.
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One of the best gardens I ever had was covered with leaves. I used to go around after work in my truck and pick up bags of leaves in the fall, from people's curbs. I had tomatoes that were 14' tall and had huge fruit. In some ways, leaves are better than wood chips, in that they decompose and compost down a lot quicker. The only problem is, they can also blow away... so chips are better in that respect. Thanks for sharing, Bernard...
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I usually just smoke my weeds...............just kidding.
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I love this guy! such wisdom, thank you for passing it on to us! Appreciate you!
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Cont: We chose to be organic gardeners simply because it grew a healthier crop and we did not have to buy expensive chemicals. Our plants being healthy can ward off diseases and there are things one can use that can protect your plants and vegetables w/o using chemicals. Because the soil in our garden was of a poor quality we have to use 10-10-10 type fertilizers or we could not grow anything worth eating. We use pellitized lime because our soil is naturally acid from being forest for eons.
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OzarkAggie: I have been composting for over 40 years long before it became fashionable. I have used leaves as a cover for my soil to protect it from the harsh winter conditions since about 1980. We have visited Rodale's expiermental farms in Pa., Victory Garden south, and Mother Earth News site when it was in Ashville, N.C. and too many other major gardens and nurseries to name here. We use to be French Intensive square foot organic gardeners because of limited space. Now we are row gardeners.
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I've included this video in a post at my blog OzarkAggie titled Fall Clean Up & Prep. Like you I've been an advocate for using leaves as a soil amendment and mulch. Hopefully some of my fans will gravitate to you and subscribe.
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I love this guys videos! I'm glad that I sub'd.
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Great information for any gardener, thanks for sharing!
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Same here. That'll save on some of the removal this fall.
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Now I know what to do with one of my dark garbage cans... Good composting bucket. Thanks for the tip!
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Out here in the west many people as the previous owners of our lot planted very toxic poisonous plants. Oleander, African Sumac, Green Feathery Senna and many others non native invasive plants. It is part of our problem here. They shouldn't be composted from what I've read and their litter keeps most of the weeds away even. We have many more years to get where the soil all over the lot is fertile. It has taken 3 years to get the main bed to be productive. Great advice about leaf litter.
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Last year I bagged leaves with the push lawnmower and doubled shredded them. I will be using them this year for making fast compost for my earth boxes and new raised beds I am building. Search YouTube for Drunken Compost under user Reaganite71 channel. I am going to get aged horse manure and already composted leaf mold to fill them. I will dig down maybe 5 to 7 inches in the beds and mix the native soil with the rest of the manure and leaf mold to hopefully get a good raised bed going.
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I seem to get different weeds each year that takes over the yard. I don't get it. They are different every year.
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I have a large oak tree and lot of leaves and leaf mulch so I started doing the same thing in my front yard this winter. I'm glad to see I'm on the right track. I put leaves on top of all of my outdoor potted vegetables and the moisture retention is amazing. Thanks for sharing, this was right on time.
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Actually I didn't know that about raw scraps directly in beds. Glad you told me that. I had a couple guys who told me they throw scraps out all winter long, so being a newbie I figured it can,t hurt. Hopefully it,s all good. The worms seem happy. We pulled out 2 that, no lie, were like a small gardner snake.
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Glad I keep watching your videos... I did leaves on top of scraps from our produce dept. in two beds this fall. With the worm action we just found I think we may use the soil in other beds and bring those beds soil to it.. Of course my neighbor is a fisher and we collected some worms today for him. He said please don't plant anything in this one.. Just keep feeding them.. lol
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