CREATING HEALTHY GARDEN SOILS WITHOUT FANCY EQUIPMENT! 

That's good that you're in tune with your customers! People don't have large plots so you scaled the tarp down! This is where Johnny's is missing the ballgame! They don't listen to their customer. As a matter of fact they eliminated the customer review section. They feel like this was a forward step, lol. I am glad that my vicious nbr who knock my tallest sunflower down let it lay. I like keeping my nutrient and not throwing it away. It fell w/ a perfect square pattern soil lift, lol. This was after she complained to the borough about not being able to see at the stop sign that is on my side of the road and she lives opposite a 3-way and NEVER NEEDS to us the stop sign on my side of the road, smh!

great vids as always Hoss. More people should subscribe. Hoss is the real deal. Hats off from Oz

Love your videos. Thanks for all the good information and inspiration. Keep up the good work!

Will love to see how that Sorghum Sudangrass breaks down, I have that growing in 4 of my sub-plots. I like your technic on laying that stuff down.

That's just beautiful! You've got it!

good job. I can't wait to have a biggerrrrrrr garden to do this. I love these tips. I learn something new every time. thanks

I still have peppers Jalapeños, Cayennes and Ghost peppers . I have planted cabbage for my winter crop it’s all we need. Winter comes I put a heavy plastic down. I did buy the vegetable fabric for my garden in the spring never used it before.

Good job never done cover crops myself think I might try some this autumn

Hi Travis love using tarps . Great video ! A trick I use with the tarp is to chopped-up a crop and dry it in the Sun for a couple days spray a biological inoculant a quart of Hoss micronutrients and some unsulphured molasses secede to the soil life this will greatly increase the speed in which the crop is broke down and the amount of soil life it increases.

I thought about doing that on my gardens and food plots . Good video and job info too.👍👍👍🇺🇸

Just found your channel. Love the content. You are an excellent garden mentor. Keep it up man!

Always the simple ways work nothing fancy,.I'm only 3 hours from yall to the south and we are in different growing zones man it's been hotter then the devil

As always, great information!

@HOSSTOOLS: I had an idea while watching this to make your job faster and easier to deploy and remove. If you put grommets in the tarp and have eyehole stakes in the corner areas you could hypothetically pull the tarps into place all in one go pulling ropes. You'd need to have the tarp being pulled upwards as you went to prevent snagging and tearing up your tarp in the process. You'd also need one side staked in along the entire edge every 8 to 10 feet. You'll need 2 to 4 ropes to pull, each at different lengths because you'll be pulling from one side due to space constraint, i.e. you'll be walking from the corner you want to pull the tarp towards over to where the tarp is already staked. Hope this helps. I'm disabled, so I'm always looking for an easier way to do things like this without asking for help while increasing safety. If you choose to do this, make sure you buy galvanized metal stakes to prolong their lifespan. Also, nylon or plastic ropes also last longer and are more durable, however gloves are required to safely handle them long term like this. To raise the angle you pull the tarp at requires using longer rods, I suggest 3' above the surface but not much higher due to wind concerns. Concrete rebar is cheap enough to fill that role year after year, just remember to paint it so it doesn't rust.

Thanks for this very informative how-to video.

Nice video! Thanks for sharing😎👍

2x4 with eyebolt on each end a polycord rope ... If you don't have a mower.. Just step down , move step down... Like crop circles

My small garden is about 3/4 of your garden but it is plenty enough work for me and harvest plenty of food to eat and can. I am Retired now but still love to garden .

Nice to see you showing low cost options... I even used an electric hedge trimmer to cut some of my sun hemp... planted some "rows in my garden with it, and then cut it with a hedge trimmer... lots of ways to skin that rabbit! You can be creative and find ways to get it done.

Good stuff. Getting ready for fall up here in dogpatch. Aka Southeast Arkansas

New subscriber, love your channel!

Great info!!!!!

Few pallets of Cotton Burr Compost works good. In spring time i till in winter wheat and c.b.c..Have a good one buddy.

Travis i believe that you are going to have 2 pretty good plots to grow some good fall crops on. Please let us know how it turns out !!!

Hey Travis you reckon if a fellow was to grow some mustard, and till it in good, the directly put one of them tarps over it, would, or could it trap up some of them glucosinolates and get you a bigger/better kill on them pesky nematodes/tiny wigglers (Meloidogyne hapla)? Or might'n the gas just raise up to below the tarp out of the ground and stay there producing no more additional affects?

Could y’all do a video of how you start seeds like your tiger collards and lettuce, etc.?

Oh man..here in 8a i am having fall planting fever. squash borer and pickle worms turned me into a ninja

New subscriber, Zach from Stivers Homestead sent me over

Pretty kool

Travis thats for as always this helpful information. Question, is there a list you may of put together of good fall crops including approx planting time??

That sorghum Sudan grass looks easy to cut with a scythe, or if you must a weedwhacker with a blade.

I suppose tarping in the winter time would work as long as the sun is shining and heating up the tarp. Maybe give it 3 to 4 weeks for i to breakdown?

Could you cut the grass cover it and kill the grass come back till it and cover it over the winter for spring planting? I have Bermuda grass in my yard where I want to plant is why I ask.

Hello. I have fishing worms in my garden. Will the black tarp concept kill those worms? Their very beneficial to me.

Covering my garden plot. I covered my garden with plastic tarp and was wondering, can I fertilize and put the cover back on? I was planning on fertilizing four weeks before transplanting and direct sowing. The cover won’t mess with the fertilizer would it?

What do you think about leaving a tarp down over the winter? Does that help or hurt?

Other than nitrogen, what does the sorghum add to the soil? My Spring-Summer garden was a bust, I too am ready for Fall. Thank in advance for your response.

I tried covering my garden plot to kill out some horse weeds. My dogs got to running over it and I guess liked the sound or the way it felt and they would not leave it alone. Their toe nails ripped the plastic to pieces. I had to abandon the idea of using black plastic to kill out weeds.

Would this 6 mil thickness tarp handle our rocky soil AND a wild black berry stem that still pokes out of the grown about 2 to 3". We trim them down as much as we can but can't trim further down without damaging our trimmer blade due to rocks all over the area. This is about 50' by 100' plot and impossible to remove all the rocks. We did remove some but still a lot in there. Please let me know soon as I really need it for that plot. Thanks.

Hello. We are new subscribers. Nice to meet you. This would be a good idea for us to use.

I plan on establish a 50 feet by 100 foot garden should my 10 foot length run north to south or east to west?

Stivers family sent us to you guys

Since that black tarp will produce some serious heat in our super hot days, I wonder if it harms the microorganisms and worms that we're counting on. Not trying to be pessimistic or a negative Nelly....just curious.

trying to put my green beans in the ground now!

Could you use the bushogg for the sorghum grass?

Now what to do about that devil of crab grass beside your garden, it seems to never dye.

On good ground with no spray we have had sudex get just under 14ft tall, couldn't hardly go slow enough to flail/green chop it for feeder cattle.

Where is good places to find bulk compost

Where are you getting your compost from?

How much does the tarp cost?

Sorghum and millet have edible seed, how come you don't let it seed and harvest it?

You should take a scythe to it.

Time for an update on these plots yet?

Do you till your gardens

What zone are you in?

You guys ever hear of cucumbers and cantaloupe cross pollinating?

no fancy gadgets ? so what was that doing the flattening ?

put some stone on the middle of the trap too.

Why not one big plot?

Subd.👍

A Riding Lawn Mower is 'fancy' equipment to some of us...

Stupid idea? why dont you use the scythe for a chop and drop and save your money and skip the tarp??????? 1. Scythe 2. Free cardboard boxes 3. Compost 4. Free mulch In the spring, make a hole in the mulch plant in the compost and call it the day???

Don't people know there are thousands of MEDICINAL AND/OR EDIBLE WEEDS, like plantain, mullein, wood-sorrel, dandelion and so much more. We have a food problem and there is food all around us. What is wrong with peoplw

Doesn't this mess with the biology of the soil? Between the tilling and heat it should be killing the hell out of worms and natural fungi that actually feed the plants you want to grow. Or do you go back and feed it before planting?