Skillz “growing out the box” let’s all press that like button and share, and if you haven’t subscribed hit that subscribe button. This gentleman has a lot of great knowledge to share. Happy gardening everyone.
Now you know I had to pin this comment. lol.... Now, can you box up some of the good weather you have down there and send it priority mail. I'll pay shipping. 📫
@@growingoutthebox we had a few days of really nice weather between 70 and 80 then it rained this morning and supposed to rain this weekend. Plants are still doing good though. Thank goodness for that.
I'm sitting here watching the video to the end and forgot to comment or liked. I had to come back and do both. This video is soooooo helpful. You explained everything so well. TFS.🙏
You're welcome! It works for me. Everytime. I've done fruit tree cuttings in this same mix and I get the same results. I'm going to post a video on over 50 cutting and so far everyone is budding right now. Thanks for watching.
I'm growing lots of edibles with color this year. I'm going to be watching what you do with your flowers. You are good at that. I'm not quit there just yet but I am on the way.
Get the heck outta here!! This is awesome 🤩 I’ve been wondering what “wetting agent” is and never remembered to look it up 🤦🏽♀️ So cool that nature truly provides everything we need 🙌🏽 Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much for watching. If you are using peat moss, coco coir and even compost a wetting agent is very useful in distributing moisture through your mix. Insects don't care for the yucca too much either. The saponins also act like a slow release carbohydrate and trace minerals.
Yucca is a great plant. I've only known it (the roots) to be great for making natural shampoo. It helps prevent hair loss and dry scalp. You just showed me another use for it. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Yes Ma'am. If it's good for us chances are it's good somewhere the garden. It's the saponins. They work the same way with as with the scalp. It's a wetting agent aiding in even disbursement of moisture.
Thank you so much for sharing the video. I ended up recording it at night because everything was working against me doing this video. Thanks for encouraging.
Growing up in Fl I remember my brothers playing with those plants. I hated them! LOL. Good to know they have other uses other than poking someone's eye out. 😜
My pleasure 😊. Hey thanks for that video where you mentioned your light being too close to your seedlings. That was a great reminder. All Brassicas going out tomorrow.
First, good to see ya back Keith. I'm curious though. The box of epsoma referenced limestone "to adjust PH". I looked up the PH of Yucca and it's very acidic, 3.8. So, if you are mixing your own starting mix and spraying it with your own yucca spray, wouldn't it be prudent to test the PH of the soil to see if it might need some lime to sweeten it back up again? We don't have any yucca plants up here but I read an article on just adding a few drops of dis soap to act as a wetting agent. Back to making my starter mix now, to get some trays seeded for Onions, Leeks, Petunias, Peppers, and Tomato's test planted. 😃It's time to get dirty again. TYFS, Mark n Rosa
As always mark you have me dig further and for that I do appreciate you. There is that possibility. I'll let you know the pH range as soon as I do a test. I did this last year and all my plants germinate faster, grew and produced well throughout. I've done it throughout the winter inside to further test the consistency and it has been just that. "Consistent". You'll notice I have seedling trays on the table all full of healthy plants. I put them there as a show of results. That's a common thing in all my video. Some things on paper don't make sense but results speak volume. I uppot when my seedlings have at least 2 true leaves to a mild potting mix so in terms of usage - the seedling mix has served its purpose of germinating the seeds and getting them through to their true leaves. In my past life I surrounded myself with people that were far smarter and better trained than myself. Most of whom ended up working for me at some point. Not because I was more talented. often time it was because I didn't know all the rules which made me less afraid of "Growing Out The Box".... I think I mentioned in a few videos that I only have been gardening since 2020 but started trying to grow in 2021. I move in spirit and with that I never lose. That's not to say that I always win but it is to say that I never quit. Thank you again for the balance.
Thanks for watching! Nothing like using what you have. It can also be used in your garden soil for plants that lean a bit on the acidic side. To bring the pH up you can add limestone but I have never had any issues. Very good in my blueberries since they don't move water well around their roots.
I love sharing my personal experiences in the garden. Some may not agree with some of the things I do in the garden but I always say, “the garden speaks for itself”. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and time with me.
Great information, I'm here learning. I stopped getting your notifications for some reason, I had to type in your name to see your content. I miss a lot of your videos, I'm here catching up and learning new stuff. Thank you for sharing
Welcome back! Yeap, YT is making lots of changes. I had to go back and click notification for a lot of people I was already subbed to. Thanks for coming back. A lot has changed in the garden this season.
It’s the yucca which has saponins. I was watering my plants with it last year during the heat wave and they all did very well. I’m going to be posting a growing ginger video. My ginger sprouted in about 2 weeks along with a few other things I used. I’m using this yucca on everything.
This is some golden information. Only drawback is you gonna have me over here “harvesting” leaves off of some of these beds with yucca in it 😂😂 Love the video!
Thank you, that was very helpful. I use stinging nettles for liquid fertilizer, the only problem with that is that when they start fermentation it smells pretty bad, but very good for vegetables.
LOL..... Yes, I do a liquid fertilizer for garden waste and grass clippings and it really kicks! lol. Thanks for stopping by. I hope you found something useful here and please come back.
I am a new subscriber however, I am not a RU-vid content creator. I'm just an old-fashioned home soil and hydroponic gardener doing gardening differently due to multiple disabilities. I support the RU-vid garden community as I am formerly known as OGG & C=Own Grown Groceries and Concoctions. Shalom!
Well I am glad you stopped by and I hope you have the channel notifications 🔔 also. I started RU-vid last year and thanks to people such as yourself I am very excited with the growth. I hope all is well you and once again, welcome .
LOL.... I don't know about that. I just like to know why things work. I kept reading seed starting mix ingredients. Even the synthetics have wetting agents. "Why"? .... Very important for evenly distributing and retention of moisture. Then, how can I make an organic wetting agent and do I have a plant on my property that have those properties. "Yucca" Then, I share my finding with good people such as yourself.
I'm a visual learner so I try to make videos for people like myself. You will hear me talk more this year about Spiritual Grounding.... That connection we have with our garden as it relates to mental, physical and of course spiritual health. It's that "Why" again. I hear so many people talk about how their gardens make them feel. Come to find out, it's a real thing. "Spiritual Grounding".
Man I had 3 dagger yukka in my front yard on the edge of the bank leading to the ditch. Girlfriend and I hated them so I cut them down last year, tried digging the roots out and put a 12inch depth raised bed over it. Been fighting those things ever since. I swear you can't kill those things. 😅 I even learned the hard way that if I pull up the new starts that come off of the roots and throw them somewhere rather than trashing them, they just start to grow there. After watching your video on reddit though, I'm considering letting one of them grow to try and make some of that extract that you use.
ROTF!😂😂😂😂 You are so right! Same here until I started researching how to make a seed starting mix. Yucca is used as the wetting agent in a lot of organic mixes because of its saponins. It also has carbohydrates, trace minerals and insects don’t particularly care it. There are medicinal uses as well.
@@growingoutthebox I appreciate the insight my man. I'll be following your channel closely from now on. You are clearly a sponge for knowledge and being a second year gardener myself, I'm looking for as much useful information as I can find. I watch several RU-vid gardeners such as James Prigioni, Epic Gardening. Self Sufficient Me and the Millennial Gardener. But all of those guys are dealing with a different climate than I am. With you being from the ATL area, only 45 minutes away, your climate is beyond comparable to mine. Thanks again, and keep it up. I'm sure your channel is going to explode this season.
@@davidfreiberg5637 We watch the same content creators. Wealth of knowledge. Thanks for giving the channel a chance. This is going into my 3rd year gardening but I just passed my 1 year on RU-vid. Took 1 year to get 1,000 subscribers. Almost 800 in the past 2 months as the growing season is beginning. I reply to every message. Still learning but your questions is how the channel is growing. Thanks again.
Just started watching your videos. Love this one. Do you have any more that talk about using the root and the flowering of the yucca? If so can you provide a link for me as I'm not sure how to get there any other way. New subscribers here. Thank you kindly for your wealth of knowledge.
If you don’t have a yucca plant, what other wedding agent can you use to keep garden mixture moist. I have been watching a lot of your videos so that I am intentional and successful in my garden efforts this season. I watched you planting your sweet potato slips. Do you just let you vines just drape over the side of your octagon bed? I love learning. Knowledge is power.
Not only is the yucca a wetting agent it also acts as a anti-fungal which helps prevent root rot/damping off. You are going to make me give away my next week seed starting tip early. "Camomile Tea".... It's not the wetting agent but the heat allows the seed starting mix to absorb better and definitely helps with damping off which is where a lot of new gardeners get frustrated.
@@growingoutthebox All right now. Now you speaking my language. Good ole chamomile tea something that I always keep on hand. Also I alive the sand in the bottom of the cup. I’m doing a lot of starts today. I will definitely be using that nugget of information. Thank you sooo much!
So I’m just going to start in 32 ounce cups. What kind of sand are you using? I watched you plant the sweet potato slips and shared the video with my daughter. She was impressed as I was that the roots were what I call “soil ready”. As soon as you brushed the sand away there were those wonderful soil ready reaching for the dirt roots- -impressive! When I see your garden I think of a part of one of my favorite scriptures Psalms 23: 5b thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runners over. Surely your head and hands are anointed by God. There, I‘ve said it. Lots of people grow gardens. Trust me I have watched a lot of videos. My mom did gardening on a small scale when I was a child. I started mixing vegetables in my flower bed about 24 years really small scale, and then I got diagnosed with cancer eight years ago and turned my small backyard into a vegetable garden my happy place. I go early in the morning and listen to the birds. I watch the numerous pollinators and am simply amazed at how nature works together to give us food. God made Adam and us stewards over the land. So I take my little parcel of land and do my part to be a good steward and He rewards me with good enough harvests to be able to share. I am grateful. Okay, sorry Mr. Growing Out the Box. I have let myself get carried away. What you do is great and necessary. Keep up the good work so myself and others can become even better stewards with our parcel of Eden while we strive to grow our food. Have a blessed day!
Yes I do. Anything that leans on the acid side. Blueberries, fruit trees, tomatoes, peppers…. Honestly, I use it on everything and not had issue because most of what we grow in our backyard gardens have a wide pH range. I only speak on the seedling mix because once I wring the mix out and put in the tray I have not had to water again until after I remove the humidity dome when at least a 3rd of the seeds have germinated and they do germinate faster.
@@theanalyticgardener Your name.... LOL... I like that. I stay in my RU-vid analytics. I started my channel January last year so technically or "Analytically" lol.... I look at this year as my 1st year because I couldn't show a lot of the things I was doing in the garden. I would have so many people telling me it won't or don't work. People thought I was buying starts from big box. This video is what I didn't show last year because I was just learning to record myself. You will start seeing the 1st half of videos that go with my last year content. This is what "Growing Out The Box" is.... Taking a slightly different approach to thinking. I like to know why things work and in that search you will always find some interesting facts. That is what I hope to be my content.
@Growing Out The Box Thanks about my name. 😊 I'm a thinker...always analyzing something, anything, everything, all the time. 🤣 I wondered about your name; I'm so pleased to hear the story behind the platform. Those who exhibit greatness tend to go against the grain and challenge the status quo, so please know that I am definitely here for it! ❣️
Hello, I've just discovered your videos yesterday and have gone through a lot of them already. Thank you for providing so many gardening nuggets, they are truly valuable. I'm not sure if someone asked this question already and I know in one of your video's you mentioned that you don't like to use faucet water. However, that is my only option, unless I use bottled spring water or distilled water, which could add up in cost. When we have to use regular faucet water is there an additional ingredient we should use to combat the chlorine? Thank you.
Thanks for the question and yes. Allow the tap water to sit out for about 48 hours and it will off gas. Use that water instead. Tap water kills bacteria both good and bad and it is neutral which over time will raise the pH of your blueberry 🫐 soil mix
This is why sharing and asking questions does. Something new to me as well. The most simple method is to blend aloe vera in water, dilute it further, and then use the solution to water plants (aka, as a soil drench).
