Fertilizers In Detail For Wicking Tubs Ep 26 

You can tell this young man loves teaching people how to grow their own food. 👍

Mr. Leon your unselfishness in educating (and inspiring) thousands of gardeners - and soon to be gardeners to become a little more self sufficient while conserving resources is so encouraging. . In addition these videos are helping to provide a sense of pride at successfully growing fruits and vegetables. Thank you so very much.

Leon, as a retired licenced water/waste water operator I can not tell you how proud I am of you for your water conservation additude.

Leon...you are a precious gem! Thank you for your thorough explanation and willingness to help us grow an abundance in your wicking tubs!

For the first time in my life, I finally understand fertilizer!! Mr. Leon you are definitely a precious gem and I have learned so much. Thank you and I look forward to your videos. I watch them on repeat!! You are a wonderful educator and, as a fellow teacher, I appreciate everything you do for the human race. You remind me so much of my PawPaw ❤️

Mr. Leon...I am 72 years old and a three year Florida Master Gardner. I have never in my life heard of a wicking tub until I happened to see a friends garden. They told me about your U Tube site. I was amazed at the quality of garden plants and their size. I had given up on a spring garden due to pest and weed control. Not any more. I enjoyed your video presentation and I am sold on wicking. Thanks...Wade H.

I'm so impressed with the tubs!!!! I live in ILLINOIS and have tomatoes already,not ripe,but good size. I'm 69 years old and my back and knees are in bad shape.I put tubs on front porch, now I can sit and watch my garden. WITH NO WEEDS!!!!! My neighbors are trying wicking tubs. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!

Mr Leon this has to be the best info on feeding your plants that I’ve found for sure. Love love the videos and your fun personality. Also, you can tell you are happy talking about gardening, feeding your family and helping others do the same. Rare person, and a great one. Have a great weekend all

A good way to determine when to add water is to make a 'Dip Stick' for your watering pipe. It can be a straight stick or piece of dowel, whatever fits in that pipe. Dip it into the bottom, pull it out and you can see how much water is in the reservoir. Also, realize that with the soil wicking up the water, if your reservoir is down to a couple of inches or so, there's water in the soil above. That's the beauty of this type of tub, if you get side-tracked, you have both the reservoir and the soil to help you. Life happens, but this is a bit of a fail-safe.

Had to go back three times..."fertilizer in water also"....got it !

This video was so amazing! Thank you so much! Came here from Arms Family Homestead. He sold me on your channel. I"m building a container garden on my balcony, and am getting all the materials together for the self wicking tubs. I"m super excited. Thanks again!

Wow. I’ve learned so much from this one video that I never knew and nobody else ever explained. Thank you for your knowledge.

I spent an hour last night looking for how to stop up holes. I was thinking plastic liner. You confirmed it for me. Glad I found you! You have a lot of good info!

Leon! Wonderful...just wonderful! I’ve been gardening most of my 58 years, but what you’ve shown me is very exciting! My wife and I are planning to convert 20 of our 40 raised beds to wicking tubs. Might be a little late for Spring crops, but we can have our fall crops in there, and be ready for next Spring! Thank you so much!

Leon it was great to meet you this past weekend at your nursery!!! I love your videos and all of your advice and knowledge! Thank you so much!!!! Keep the videos coming!

God bless you, Leon, for the service you provide to the people of this world.

First year using wicking tubs and loving it so far. Leon is a wealth of knowledge, where glad to have you Leon.

FINALLY....A gardening channel located in my part of the country, not Tennessee, not CA, not Ohio...!! I'm in north central TX, with hot summers where tomatoes stop fruiting in the summer. So glad I stumbled across this channel!!

Mr Leon, you are a wonderful man. Hope to meet you one day here on earth if not in glory.

Teaching folks how to grow there own food, your amazing and such a blessing. Thank you.

Leon, my wicking tubs are doing fabulous!!! I've never had such a beautiful bounty!!! Thank you!!!

I just discovered your channel and I have to say, you remind me so much of my grandpa (huge compliment)! He loved gardening, God and was also a wealth of information like you. I didn't take advantage of those years and pick his brain enough. Thank you for all the information. It's my first year gardening and I'm so excited to try this year. With all your information, videos and my pages of notes, I think I'm ready!

My Pineapples are doing great in my wicking tubs. Great information, THANKS

Finally I understand fertilizer 🤙🏼

I love his teaching style. Home grown, roots in the soil, giving sort of person . Thank you

Thank You Sir Leon. I saw some of those tubs at Lowes this morning for $7.99. I have already cut barrels, but for some who want to plant now and dont have barrells $7.99 plus about 7 more bux of parts = $15- is cheap compared to coming food prices this fall. thanks again and God Bless You Sir.

I punched the button and liked the bell. Thanks Leon. We are first timers and have are tubs ready

Doing a Refresher course on fertilizer and wicking tubs thank you Leon 🤟🏼

Your awesome Leon, I love the self wicking buckets and tubs videos, it's cheaper to grow in these buckets and tubs

Love these videos! Great teacher. Thank you !

Leon made an update on the NPK numbers. he was adding them wrong. they are percentages, so adding 10/10/10 and 10/55/10 will end up being 10/37/10. 4/18/38 and 10/52/38 mixed would end up 7/45/38. basically add them, then divide by 2, if yo mix 1 to 1. old way works but is technically inaccurate. Thanks Leon, im making some mistakes (not fertilizing enough) but enjoying building and using these wicking tubs.

Love y'all Leon. Hello to the misses. Thank y'all for sharing y'all's knowledge.

Hi Leon! Thanks for letting us come to your farm and learn about farming! Nice Channel!

One of the most educational videos on fertilizer I have ever seen. Thanks so much!

Thanks Leon. I always find your videos helpful.

i am glad u made this video so people like me could do this thanks a lot Mr.Leon

You tell it like it is Leon! Preach! Ain’t nobody go them skills you got. Props!!!!!!

Thank you so very much!!! I learned so much from your videos!! God bless you!

Thank you for sharing your wisdom!

Great Video Leon! Thank you for your knowledge!

Was looking for content like this. Hard to find. Glad that i find your channel Leon! A big thank you from the Netherlands.

Thank you so much for all of these videos, Mr Leon! You are truly a Godsend.

Thank you Leon, this was extremely helpful. My pots are doing so good, greenhouse is coming right along. Appreciate it!

Ive been binge watching your videos ... And am in love 💕💕💕💕

Thank you so much on the great information. You are a great teacher. Inspiring. I am glad i added you.

I love all your videos! Thank you for sharing all your knowledge with the public. God bless you!

Thanks for your teaching Leon, love learning from you!

Thank you for explaining this so thoroughly!! Very helpful. New to your channel and learning a lot. Many blessings to you!

This is 100% the best information I have seen on fertilizer!

I think you are a born teacher! One in a million are called to garden. Thank you for teaching me! 🙂

Best explanation of fertilizer I've seen!!!!

Thank you! This is very informative. Helped me understand fertilizer for the first time!!!

This is what i am going to do to grow so many more things in my yard. Absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much Leon. You are awesome.

That is the best explanation of the components and ratios of fertilizer that I have ever heard. Thank you Leon!

Looking forward to the process and science of this form of gardening. Thank you for educating us in wicking! You remind me of my gardening friend in NM who I used to buy my years supply of green chili from. Thank you Leon!

These are basically the same thing as Earth Boxes, but much less expensive. Believe me, they are worth their weight in gold. Thanks Leon.

Great Video! Learned a lot! Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge!

God bless Mr. Leon !

I am learning so much from your videos. Thank you for doing what you do.

thanks for paying it forward ! Your Knowledge is Vary needed today !

Thank you! I understand fertilizer now!

Thank you for sharing your expertise with us. I see many wicking tubs in my future and probably a greenhouse. First I’ll start with one of your T-shirts. Thanks so much!

Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!!!!

Good info Leon. Thanks so much.

Your amazing Leon, thanks for sharing .

Thank you Mr. Leon for sharing your knowledge, I love my wicked Tubs very much!

Thank you for sharing your knowledge.I look forward to seeing more from you

Great Video Leon. We have about 15 tubs growing now and love it.

This has a whole new revelance for 2020. Thank you for sharing Mr. Leon. I have been experimenting with these for the last 2 garden seasons and have added them to my toolbox for many many plants.

Thank you for the education.🥰

Awesome info!! Thanks mr Leon :)

Mr. Leon you are a wealth of knowledge. This has been the most useful video I have come across explaining fertilizers and when to use them. Thank you so very much! Love your videos.

This is the answer to prayers. My 94yr old mother loves to garden but cannot because of her back with walker. My back keeps me from bending over to plant. I wish I could find these tubs but will use 5 gallon or large pots.

Thank you Leon. I am growing and eating my own food out of my tubs! And the abundance is so much so I feed others as well. You have taught me so much and I am so thankful!!!

Leon, I just found your page. Where have you been all my life? You give horticulture a whole new meaning. Thank you for sharing your tips, tricks, and examples of the wicking tubs. I absolutely love gardening! I have an outside vegetable garden, a heated greenhouse, and many, many flowerbeds within my yard. I have struggled for years with the soil on my property. My house is on an old landfill, that contains rocky clay soil. In saying this, you know how much work it takes, to amend this soil. I’m always creating new flower gardens, but it is so much work to deal with the soil. So, I’m going to give your wicking tubs a try. I love your idea. I can’t wait to see my vegetables look like yours. Happy gardening.

Sir, you are a delight. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us!

I just LOVE you Leon, listening to you puts a smile on my face. I am trying the self watering tubs for the first time this year in Michigan. I have purchased the fertilizers that you have suggested and can not wait to get started. We are a little slower up here getting warm enough. Bless you, your family and all you do!!

Thank you for explaining this brother Leon it will help me tremendously

Another great lesson from Leon, see you again next year at the meet up

Leon, I just wanted to send a big thanks to you. I appreciate you sharing your wisdom and knowledge. We converted our veggie garden to your system and are now proud owners of 30 pails/tubs that are self wicking. We also converted all the planters for flowers, so all of those now have a reservoir of water at the bottom. So far, everything planted and seeded is doing well. We recently went to couple of garage sales and come across two large plastic tubs, paying couple of bucks for it. Now they are full of potatoes, parsnips and beets. Thank you for explaining the fertilizers. The info is very much appreciated. Much love and light to you.

Thanks Leon. I've had a place at Texoma since 2002 and have been in your Garden Center many times to get my calendar and plants. Last time I bought a big bag of vermiculite. I love this wicking tub and plan to start using it almost exclusively. Makes sense the more you study it and you explain to so well. Thanks for sharing.

This was wonderful Leon. You remind me so much of my grandpa. I laughed so hard when you were talking about when to stop pouring the water. You said guess what, when the water runs out the hole. HAHAHA I am sure if you have never had a garden or done container gardening you would need to explain that. Love it. For those of you that have never done water wickering it is awesome. Leon is so right your plants grow so much better. I have done it for two years now and absolutely love it. Especially that I don't have to water my plants or flowers everyday. Like it is discussed in other video's; make sure you cut your PVC in an angle. I learned a lot though on fertilizer. Makes sense to me now. I have helped my grandma and mom can since I was a little girl. I can every year. Nothing like it, especially in the winter time. Thank You.

I'm getting out of the weeds and mud, thank you Sir for the info.

Thanks Leon going to do tubs this year !!

I’m addicted! I love wicking tubs!

This is the video that helps me more educated. Thank you so much once again. God bless you always.

You’re great, Leon.

Thanks you for teaching about wicking tubs. I'm learning new way to grow food.

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Your common sense and know how reminds me of my dear Daddy who I miss dearly every day. Bless you and yours.

Your the best Leon!

My new favorite!

This man is a genius.

Thank you so much for everything that you do. You are an answer to my prayers. I have about 80 tubs going right now and it is AMAZING to see. I have already started putting harvesting my vegetables and I LOVE IT. My husband and i built 4 sets of arches with T post and cattle panels for my cucumbers, beans and peas to grow up and over. May GOD continue to bless you and your family and i look so forward to meeting you soon. Love and blessing always.

Sugar land Pete miracle grow makes a 10-52-10 I'm using your recipe my plants look like bodybuilders, 5 plants in 5 gal. Buckets unbelievable, also my plants in the ground are unbelievable also I'm feeding them with a water can ,next year I will have tubs found your videos to late thank you so much Mr. Leon

You my Dear Sir are a wealth of knowledge, I could sit listen and learn from you all day long. Thank you

This is just AWESOME info. I have been watching your videos all day. I am so impressed. Thank u so much for all of your hard work providing us with such valuable information. Now, I am off to build myself lots of wicking buckets

Wow ! I’ve been gardening for years and thought I was pretty good at it. Now I know why my veggies are big and green with hardly any fruit 😂

Thank you for teaching your impressive knowledge to all of us here, love listening to you share what you know God bless

I wanted to say thank you so much, for taking the time out of your busy schedule to help us learn a better way to garden. I am giving it my all this year. I have 32 tomato plants (roma) and hope I have enough to can so it can get us throu to next year. I will let you know how it went. I will be telling everyone I know to watch your videos so they to can learn to be successful. Once again thank you and God bless.😁

Ok I started my containers about three weeks ago. I went to Lowe’s and got some tomatoes because with all the rain it killed them. So I wanted to see what would be the difference in my tased beds to the containers? If I could share pictures on here I would show you that the raised beds are only 10” tall and the containers are 24” or over.