Turbocharge Your Garden Soil NOW In 4 Easy Steps!

In this video, I share everything you need to do to maximize your garden soil health when growing a vegetable garden! Your vegetable garden needs a little love to return nutrients back into the soil before planting a new crop of plants. In this video, I share how to turbocharge your garden soil in 4 easy steps! Do this now before planting your veggies!

How To Turbocharge A Container Garden: https://youtu.be/_FmroOI-l4A?si=SEPSxkFgLGD0Ji64

TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Best Time For Amending Garden Soil
0:49 Step #1: Garden Cleanup
3:09 Step #2: Soil Amendments
4:52 Step #3: Compost
5:45 Step #4: Soil Protection
9:46 Adventures With Dale

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What’s growing on gardeners it’s Sunday February 4th and spring is getting closer and closer here on the Southeastern coast of North Carolina and on today’s video I’m going to share with you all four things you should do now to supercharge your garden soil for the new growing season if you’re new to the

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Want to do that about 1 to 2 months in advance that’s because we are going to amend our soil with a few things that take a little bit of time to break down so if you do these things right now that will be perfect for a planting at the

End of February or March or even as far as April so doing these things in advance will pay dividends the first thing that you’ll want to do is remove any weeds or old plants that you no longer need from the garden area that you’re going to prepare now this may

Seem fairly obvious but keep in mind especially with weeds that are actively growing now that it’s starting to warm up they are going to grow faster and faster and they may even flower and go to seed on you and spread all of that seed all around your garden bed so it’s

Really important that before we do anything we clean up our planting area now removing weeds is self-explanatory all you have to do is grab them and Pull and again it’s important to do this as early as possible in the year while they’re still small because when you rip

Up these weeds they will disturb your soil and that is generally not good because you are disturbing that natural microbiome so do this as early as possible that way you disturb the soil less and you don’t wait until you’re pulling out these huge root masses when planting is imminent removing old plants

Will be a little bit more complicated that is because your soil is a living breathing microbiome it is a web of fungi and bacteria that work in harmony to help decomposition and release nutrients and organic matter and help feed your plants so for that reason we

Want to try and disturb it as little as possible so here I have a basil plant that I have been letting strategically decay all winter long but the problem is it didn’t get really cold here until the middle of December so this has been dead

For less than 2 months and if I were to tug on this I can’t pull this up this root mass is really big still and it’s holding on to that soil very well so if I were to just grab this plant and rip it up I would destroy this soil I would

Rip so much of it up so this is why I really recommend you do this at least a month or two in advance so instead of just ripping out this plant I’m actually going to take a pair of pruning shears and I’m going to cut it down because

Like I said I’m not going to be planting in this soil for at least another 30 to 60 days so I’m going to let this root mass here continue to Decay until the very last minute where if I need to rip this up to make more space I’ll pull it

Out when it’s at that basically absolute minimum volume remaining in those roots so let things continue to break down for most old plants in your garden if you don’t need a plant in there immediately step number two to supercharge your garden soil is to add any organic soil

Amendments now to your garden soil we’re going to add things that take a little while to break down things like alphalpha pellets bone meal azomite sulfur PLS if you’re trying to lower soil PH gypsum if you’re trying to increase the liness of clay soil or one of my favorite things rapidly

Decomposing kitchen scraps I like to add these things to my soil now because they take a month or two to break down you need that soil to warm up and come to life and start devouring these additives because they are organic now before you add any of those amendments to your soil

You are going to have to remove any mulch layer that you may have on top of your soil because these amendments need to actually contact and be worked into the soil itself now during winter time time I always place a mulch layer on top of my inactive garden beds because I

Don’t want the UV of the sun beating down on unprotected soil destroying it all winter long and I don’t want the rain flushing out all of the nutrients because there’s no root mass in there to maintain the soil microbiome you want to protect it so the first thing I’m going

To do is I’m going to remove all of this mulch that you see on top and by the way you don’t have to remove the mulch layer by hand you could always use a rake now that the mulchay L has been removed we are going to place our kitchen scraps on

Top of the soil and in this bowl right here I have banana peels coffee grounds some cut ends from my kale and a few other goodies that I just collected throughout the week coffee grounds is one of my favorite things to add to garden soil in order to add some

Micronutrients trace minerals and also nitrogen step three to supercharge your garden soil is to add a 1 to 2 in layer of compost and here I’m using a store-bought organic mushroom compost but any good quality compost will do including homemade compost now there is a reason why this is step three that’s

Because we want to put down our kitchen scraps or soil amendments first on top of our soil and then bury them under compost because your compost is going to be rich in bacteria and fungi that will help assist in the decomposition and you want at least 1 to 2 in of compost on

Top of the amendments to help facilitate at their breakdown so now we’re going to dump the compost in our garden beds and we are going to evenly spread it on top of the kitchen scraps or whatever soil amendments you chose to add and now we have a beautiful looking garden bed that

Your plants will love when it comes time to plant in it and step number four to supercharge your garden soil is if you’re not going to plant in the garden beds right away cover it either with a tarp or with mulch because you want to protect all of the compost and the soil

Amendments that you just put down you don’t want them to get beaten up and bleached by the Sun and you don’t want Heavy Rain to come along and wash away all of those nutrients that you just put down now look I know that I said to many

Of you that you should be doing this process one to two months ahead of time before planting but I also recognize that some of you may need to plant now or maybe you’re just catching this video a little bit too late now if you have to

Plant right away and you don’t have the luxury of time don’t put down kitchen scraps like I did in step three either put down an organic fertilizer or don’t put down any amendments just put the fertilizers directly into the planting hole so basically you’ll just be pulling

Weeds pulling out old plants and putting down compost then placing your new transplants or seeds directly into the garden with a little bit of an organic fertilizer if that is you feel free to do that now but if you’re like me and you have the luxury of time we want to

Protect this garden soil and the compost and the Amendments that we just put down and like I said in order order to do that we are going to either place a mulch or a tarp over it to prevent any damage from the Sun or wash out from the

Rain now if this were winter I would be tarping this bed that’s because in the winter obviously temperatures are cold so decomposition slows to a crawl and when you place a tarp over your garden bed when the sun comes out it warms the garden soil it traps all of that heat

Throughout the day which increases the decomposition rate because it’ll speed up the metabolism of the fungi and the B IA inside your soil now because we’re in February and it starts warming up here in the coastal Carolinas uh March is basically nice and warm for us most days

So because of that I’m not going to bother with the tarp this late in the winter and I’m just going to be cheap and I’m going to put back all of that mulch that I pulled off the bed originally because it’s going to be really easy for me to just scrape this

Mulch back with a rake and then put my transplants down and remember one of the first things to come to life in the winter are weeds if you don’t cover that garden soil with a tarp or mulch or something and you’re not immediately going to plant into it you’re going to

Start seeing weed seed germination so please cover cover cover protect that new compost and soil if you’re not going to plant in it right away and now we have a beautiful looking garden bed that is ready to be planted in in a few weeks and I’m probably going to plant my first

Onions in here right around March 1st or the first week of March so so that’s going to be exactly about 30 days from now and I know that my onions are going to love being planted in here because I did such a great job preparing the soil

And while in this video I featured my raised bed gardens most of these principles can also be applied to Earth bed gardens as well the mulching may not work as well if you have really long rows but things like sillage tarps works great if you want to keep your Fields

Weed free until you plant in them and if you want instructions on how to supercharge a container guard Garden I’ll drop a link to a video I made last year down in the video description that will teach you everything you need to know and that right there is how you can

Supercharge your garden soil so everybody I sure hope you found this video helpful if you did please make sure to hit that like button subscribe to the channel and please ring that notification Bell so you’re notified when I release more videos like these and share this video to as many people

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Video well we are celebrating Dale’s fourth Gotcha Day with us so I made him a little cake in a dut pan out of pumpkin and oatmeal and egg and cinnamon Dale come on up let’s sing to you up way happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear D happy

Birthday to you and many more let’s go take it over to his bed oh he is going to love this I just know it I made this for you buddy and luckily there’s two more left because we can’t just make Dale one cake he’s got to have

Three oh he love that oh he actually stopped to look at me I’ll take that as a thank you