5 Easy Ways To Build Soil Health For FREE 😱 🆓

Build your soil...feed your plants. It's a mantra that all gardeners should know. Your soil is the #1 factor in the health of your plants, and it's a living thing! Well...it houses billions of living things, all of which work together to help you get truly EPIC harvests.

1. Use Dynamic Accumulators
2. Compost, Compost, Compost
3. Mulch
4. Cover Crop
5. Use Chickens!

There are MANY more methods than these, but I find these to be my go-to's in the garden. Comment down below if you have a favorite method!

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[FrozEnbyWolf]

Dandelions also make great dynamic accumulators, as they have one of the most robust taproots, capable of reaching several feet below the surface. Dandelions are one of the most nutritious greens you can grow, and every part of the plant is edible and has a lot of culinary uses. It's too bad most people consider it a weed.

[cltinturkey]

These are great tips, but I have a much cheaper way to compost. Get a black plastic trash can with lid. Drill holes around the sides and a couple on the bottom for air flow. Set it up on bricks and fill with layers of brown and green materials. I use coffee grounds, all veg peelings, eggshells, leaves, grass clippings, etc. You can attach a bungee cord across the top, turn the can on its side and roll to circulate. Put back up on bricks for air flow. Keep damp to appropriate level. Cooks compost fast, it's economical, and easy.

[butterchuggins]

This is a great video. Solid advice with no fillers.
The Ruth Stout method combined with worms and bio-char has shown me the best results. All I do is drench with compost tea every few weeks and the soil gets better every year. No tilling, fertilizers, pesticides, perfect drainage and retention. Ruth is my hero. The mighty red wiggler worm is my spirit animal. Epic Gardening is my go-to channel.

[theswampstead]

My toddler thought your voice slowed down was hilarious! He made me rewind it several times. 😂

[lovelyzza]

Your voice was made for podcast and teaching haha

[tommymckiddy]

I got a load of tree grind to use for mulch. It was full of worm castings, huge clumps. I think it's going to do great for my junk clay soil.

[davem]

It is the new growing season for 2021. I grow in
containers such as storage bins. At the end of last growing season, I chopped up alot of cucumber and tomato plant leaves and sprinkled them into the soil of those bins, then turned and mixed them into the soil. It is all an experiment, but I hope I have enriched the soil by degrees. I will fert.
and see how things go.
Conditions are not quite consistent yet for transplanting my seedlings, (southern N.H.) but soon!
Good luck to all for 2021!

[cher-amirose]

Great suggestions! I had the opportunity to meet Paul Guachi (Back To Eden documentary) in 2016 at his property. He let my daughter and I taste things (it was winter). Even the weeds tasted wonderful. And everything was full of water due to the heavy mulch.

[summcunt]

I'm doing all of these plus I'm about to start growing king stropharia mushrooms in my mulch. It's a saprophytic fungus, so it will help speed up the breakdown of the woodchips.

[spiceynanasim]

I just use large totes, put holes in them, leave the lid on them, add some cheap top soil and then cut up my veggie/fruit peals really small and throw them in, then cover them up with some top soil. We have a neighbor that doesn't care if her tree overgrows into others yards so with the leaves we get (that fall from the tree in the fall/winter). I put those in the compost as well. Very nice dark compost when I need it.

[trinidadgarcilazo]

Great info as in all your videos👍 Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[artistlovepeace]

You are a fantastic teacher. Thank you so much for your lectures and demos.

[FairyFrequency]

Awesome share! Thank you. Always working with the soil. Wishing you a lovely evening.

[ChezJ]

GREAT bunch of info Kevin Thank You. I've wanted to do composting for years now but I don't know how to go about it, I watched a show once on it but the guy made it look so involved I said the heck with it. I'll have to look into it again. Thanks again. (John from California)

[ladytravels]

Thanks for all the to the point videos, glad every time I search a gardening question your channel pops up. So frk handsome 😘

[shefo]

Awesome video! Soil building is so very critical…and strangely fun (kind of a labor of love :))
Just a note…at 1:11 I think 10 ‘feet’ and not 10 ‘inches’ is what was meant here about comfrey, which is a wonderful plant. Just be sure you want to have it around in perpetuity, as it’s practically impossible to get rid of once planted.
Thanks for the succinct inspiration!

[funluvnrm]

I believe that "Borage would also be good to use" as well...Wish I could find a list of old medicinal garden plants that would be good for my soil & I do have a compost pile & 2 red wiggler worm bins as those casting are black gold. As far a chickens poo, a bit scared on burning my plants as not sure how much to use during the winter time, but with the "worm castings" & a little horse manure, that's aged makes me feel more comfortable. What do you think please, as I've only had raised beds for 2 years & get a bit nervous that I may do damage to the plants/soil? Great video as always, thank you...

[kimponics]

Thanks so much. I've been making a lot of mistakes that you have cleared up. Sometimes its about how a person says it. Bingo, I've needed to cover my soil and protect it. I will also work in the various composting dynamic accumulators, and mulch. This will help with the very hot So. Calif. sun that seemed to be intensely wilting the things I was growing even though they want lots of sunlight.

[thedoubleboiler]

Currently trying composting in a pile and mixing every few days with a pitchfork in an area of our property... fingers crossed.

[psycophonic]

I like dropping food scraps and bits I ďont eat in a black bin to compost. Might get anaerobic but seems to work for me in the small space I got. Could you do something like this for purely container growers please. Thanks.