Results and Lessons Learned from our Carrot, Onion, and Radish Experiment 

Best thing about mixed onion sizes....? You’ll never need half an onion again, always the perfect size available

As a non-gardener my impression was that your natural method yielded natural results. I bet that the ur-carrot and ur-onion were not the huge things we’re accustomed to seeing in supermarkets today.

I've seen 100's if not 1000's of gardening videos. Not even one of them can come close to the way you edited and presented this video. I think this channel will have a boost in subscriber hopefully soon. You deserve all the love and support. You got my subscription anyway.

My daughter would be in heaven with those tiny carrots

As the saying goes -- He who never tries never does anything. You tried, you've learned and next year will see better results. Respect from England.

Please please create a play list for all the Gardening stuff in sequence.

I had a dramatic improvement in my onions when I gently removed the soil around the bulb so that they were just held in place by their roots. Amazing difference in size- much larger!

You are not alone in the 'small' onion problem. After many failed attempts....well you'll understand right away. A wonderful older gentleman that always has the most outstanding colourful gardens you can imagine, came over to ask me why I kept fussing in the same area. Told him my dilemma and he started laughing. "Girl, it's the easiest thing ever! All you need to do is bare the top half of the bulb the last part of growing season." Needless to say nobody laughs at my onions anymore ! I love my neighbour he sure saved me some grief! BTW You two are adorable. God bless you and your garden. lol Much love from Beautiful B.C.

"Less about the food growth, more about the personal growth". Bravo!

2 years later and youe still reading comments crazy good video keep up the good work

youve got a blessing with those weeds you pull...more material for composting...plus carrot tops and radish greens are not only edible....cooked right they are incredible...loads of you tube channels out there with great recipies! you guys are doing great growing that new bed!

Considering the parameters in question, I wouldn't call this a failure of any kind. You were tremendously successful in producing healthy, delicious food. You were successful in continuing to condition your soil for subsequent seasons of gardening. You have proven that the Ruth Stout method can produce a crop, even in the first season. You have proven that companion planting is very beneficial. And you have proven you can produce interesting RU-vid content. Where's the failure in any of that?

Great videos! I'm no "expert" but I've gardened most of my 60 years. I think you'll find with onions that you need to pull back the mulch to expose the bulb and just keep those roots covered. Keep up all your great efforts!

I think its great to teach gardening.. i think its sad how much modern society has no clue how to do it.

Not certain the type of pine trees that you have, but we gather the pine needles on the ground and put them in a compost heap with mulched leaves and till it into the garden, where we plant the root vegetables. It has helped to loosen our hard packed soil quite a bit for our root crops. Tom's wife.

Your videos are a great mix of fun and education served up with a good dose of introspection and humility. Great job!

Love the entire testing and learning mindset that you guys adopt!

I really enjoy your videos. They are extremely informative and well edited! As a market gardener with heavy clay soil I have never attempted to grow root veggies until this year. I am testing out the Ruth Stout method of growing potatoes for my family because I watched your channel. You are making a difference in many peoples lives with the content that you provide. Thank you so much for sharing!! Cheers Scott

Thanks for sharing this lesson learned. I convinced myself it was worth waiting till year two to really get a harvest... My first year garden is just growing soil building cover crops. I hope this proves worth the wait.

I'm very glad I subscribed to your channel! I really like all the content you're posting!

Love how you share the lessons learned. We are up to the same thing. Thanks for the video

Thanks for creating this video and sharing with us! Super great content as always! Looking forward to your future videos! :)

I still call that a win! Keep it up!

i love gardening.

I never knew about growing onions with carrots, thanks for the advice, just in time to try it myself this year.

Good update on the gardening experiments!

I love those animations !

Root vegetables need loose easy to penetrate soil (TO GROW BIG), but they also do an outstanding job of loosening and penetrating the soil. The first year or two in any garden is going to be development for the soil health and tilth. If I was in your shoes I would grow ANOTHER root vegetable in those same places, like maybe turnips, beets, kohlrabi, and celeriac along with whichever companions works best with them. After season two of growing root veggies in that location and deep mulching, your soil will become like brown gold.

I LOVE that you do graphics and visuals as you talk about what you are doing or have done!!!! It makes your videos much easier to watch than other channels about the same things. I do love many of those other channels, but the way I learn is catered to WAY BETTER by your channel! Your voice is also great for narrating. It's not overly hyped, but also not boring or monotone. So it doesn't stress me out or put me to sleep. Don't ever stop making videos!!! You're my new favorite channel in this genre! BTW, if you paid to have your channel promoted on RU-vid, that's probably how/why I saw it. And I'm so glad that I did get a video of yours in my feed!!

Please come back soon, LOVE your videos! My carrots this year didn't even bother to come up, so I'm impressed!

I REALLY enjoy your videos, thanks for making them. I am using a "seed tape" method, for laying out my radishes, and carrots. Hopefully, that will cut down on waste and give me proper spacing. When I make my tape for next year, I will do a carrot, radish rotation of seeds. Thanks for that idea!

I love how open and down to earth y’all are.

I've seen many videos showing how you should be doing stuff and sometimes some results too. Now seeing what it actually looks like when you don't follow the rules without me actually spending time failing.. or even better seeing how I failed the same way and not feeling so bad about it.. that is priceless. Heading to your Patreon now. Thank you.

When I was young it was the prettiest part of the farm. 2 acres of plants. Geenest place in miles. Animal manure for fertilization. Your presentation makes me remember. Thankyou.

Nice video. If I may, I would suggest that you check out the No Dig method from Charles Dowding, and also the No Till method that both Urban Farmer Curtis Stone and Neversink Farm are using and then find a combination of these that might work well for you. They all require less work. Thanks, Erik

these 2 videos are great and thank you for your honesty - I too don't get things done when they need to be and good to know it worked anyway- just started my garden and am putting seeds in today and i am following your plan - thanks!!!!

Great report. To the point,methods explained, positive and negative results examined. Nicely done.

Great outcome! Great lesson! I look forward to seeing how this years crops do!

Ruth Stout started her method not in a hard packed lawn, but in a well established garden that had been plowed, and worked conventionally for years.

This is amazing - thank you for doing this and teaching us all what you learned. Amazing.

You explain things so well

Good info. Thanks for sharing that experience.

Love the animated demonstrations. ^5.

I am attempting shallots and radishes in my little potagerie....now....spring/May 2018...Ottawa....I will keep watching this spot for your advice! thank you Derek

This video was ABSOLUTELY helpful! Thank you 😊

not to mention all the wonderful greens that those plants produced.. yay! fun video guys

Love your humor !!

Great video, always. I think you still had some success. You got some veggies, and lessons. Your next root garden will be a great producer I bet. We have a year long garden of different things depending on the season. A lot of peaceful time spent there. Thanks for sharing yours. 😊👍

Nice video, great info, very nicely narrated and edited. Great job using earlier shot video and edited into a current topic. I'm really enjoying your channel and have for the most part been binge watching.

Excellent evaluation and critique of your project. Root veggies need supplimental fertilizer to grow big, especially carrots and onions. Even if it's well composted chicken or cow manure it still means a season or two to compost. The other point is if you let the weed grow, the weeds act similarly to an un-thinned out row of carrots crowding out the roots you intended to grow and you've wasted all your bed's nutrients to an inedible competitor.

Thanks for sharing this method, I have been searching for this type of gardening for about a year I just didn't know what it was called. My grandpa had a huge beautiful garden using a similar method when I was a little girl. He grew everything this way. The only difference he did was add chicken manure to his hay in the fall to break down with the hay and I believe he added it again off and on throughout the growing cycle, but I am not sure about that. I live in the deep south in the USA so my garden was started in Feb. I am doing container gardening this year to see how it goes. So far I have only lost two seedlings so I'm feeling pretty proud of myself. Normally, by this time in my growing cycle I'm lucky to have a single tomato plant left hanging on for dear life. I invested in a couple of bunnies and they have offered a much needed fertilization I guess I had been missing. I think next year I am going to give this a try. Thanks again.

Thanks for always sharing lessons learned.

We learn more from failure than success. Love the video. Keep moving forward

Great update, thankyou. You explain things really easily. xx Mojo xx

Live and learn looks like it still worked out. Great video!

This will be my first year doing the Ruth Stout method. I was thinking of taking a pitchfork and loosening the soil a little, then putting lots of hay on top...love your channel. Can't wait to see your garden this year!!!!

I absolutely love the graphics you used. Thanks for the great video. I'm happy you're not trying to be an expert. It's nice to know about the journey. You learn more from your failures! YES!

You have earned my respect and subscription with your willing to experiment and learn from your mistakes. This is not in the least bit a failure but a 100% win... this is how we humans should be. Wishing you all the best in all aspects of your life and hereafter and may you have fun and enjoy it in the process... God bless.

Just discovered your channel. AWESOME

Thank you very much for sharing your lessons learnt.

thank you for your time in sharing

I think your potatoe crop was Great! Good luck with your next ventures!! I thougherly enjoyed your channel!!

Love your videos!

Most I spoke with had smaller onions last year including us except for red onions we had a few gigantic ones. I think I'll try the three together this year. I'm impatiently waiting for spring. It was our first garden as well. But we tilled and did ours the old fashioned hard work way without a tiller. Just a few shovels rakes and ourselves. It will be better this year my friend. The first always the hardest and best lessons. Happy gardening in the spring. I'm away searching what I can plant early in the season. Blessings from New Mexico

So that's where baby carrots come from. Thanks for the Ton of the information.

:-D I love the way you confess your errors and its so cool what you two are doing! you made me laugh in commiseration... so easy to plant and go play... keep up the great videos, I am learning so much!

Like your honesty.

Beautiful backdrop

love how you structure your videos... You must have been a teacher in another life... aha !!!

you present very very well.. keep on keeping

Very helpful. Thank you!

Your videos are great, I learned a lot from your channel.

I had similar results with my carrots and onions. I dug the beds the year before in the Fall, mulched them and in the Spring spread the mulch aside and planted. Onions and carrots small, radishes did fantastic. This year I am going to try two beds, one with just loosening the soil with a fork, and a second bed double digging, then plant carrots, onions and radishes in each.

You opened up my eyes for a few cop next year. thanks.

Well tried, love you, keep sharing

great job guys. I'm in maine and i'v already got a lot of info about what i plan to do at my place this year.

Awesome informative video that was well presented.

Great video!

Nice animations! Love to hear about your experiments. Better luck next time!

Great job. Very informative

Really really interesting. Thanks for sharing 😊👍

I love the honesty :-)

For me, one of the best things concerning gardening, is the learning; the observation, problem solving, experimentation, finding what works for your individual needs. It does feel like growing as a person as I grow my garden. Great outlook you two have, will be a fun journey.

Great information!

You remind me of Josh Gates. I’m trying your garlic method. I live next door in Alaska so we have similar growing conditions. Best of luck to you guys for the grow season. Thanks for your advice, we enjoy your vids.... 🙋🏻‍♀️👍🏼🌿🌱🍃🌤💦☃️☔️🥒🥬🥕🍠

Im in the south with a longer grow season so i am looking forward to great results

Thanks for sharing!!! Good info

Great video

It's taken my years to get good at growing carrots (heavy clay soil mix). Good lessons learned thou!

Potatoes and tomatoes can be used to loosen soil. In order to get a bigger crop, you need more fertilizer. That applies a lot to onions. The grass covers the onions and cartots, so that might be the reason for no pest attacks.

Good video carrot uploading , thanks for sharing to us such amazing creative and educational .

Really good video!!!

your videos are great!

Om Ah Houm Great exercise in trial and error, with lots of interesting events... success is always about doing more better, the next time around... lol Cheers to more crazy adventures!

You make really good videos!

Gosh I'm so glad I double dug my beds and added shredded, half-composted green wood mulch, as suggested by the agronomy professors in Laval and McGill University. I'm in an area with adequate rainfall in which no-till gardening reduces yield.

Crisp and sweet, is good enough for me, even though they were tiny

The small size of carrots is more likely to have been caused by the higher nitrogen (from your compost) proportion. High levels of N will give you a full, bushy green top but little growth under the soil. To get bigger carrots it may be a good idea to increase manure vis a vis compost. The manure will add calcium, potassium, iron and phosphorus - what the plant needs to grow bigger root (in this case).

Plant one if the large Asian radishes. They are so big that they will help break up the soil for future projects.

Looks like a job for: Daikon!