Soil & Composting Basics with Susan's in the Garden (2024) #8

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Garden writer Susan Mulvihill shares her best tips on caring for your soil and explains how easy it is to create your own compost. From Susan's in the Garden, SusansintheGarden.com.
(Please note that at 16:53 in this video, I incorrectly placed a label saying "cold composting," but meant to say "hot composting." I apologize for this error!)
Susan gardens in Spokane, Wash. While most of this region is in hardiness zone 6, her garden is in a microclimate, making it zone 5b. She is an #epicgardeningambassador for @epicgardening. To receive a 5% discount off all items in the Epic Gardening shop, just go to shop.epicgardening.com/ and use Susan's special code of SUSAN5.
You can order signed copies of Susan's newest book, The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook, by sending her an email at Susan@SusansintheGarden.com. Her other book is The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook, which is all about insects and how to deal with the damaging ones organically and attract more beneficials.
Here are her affiliate links to the books on Amazon:
1. Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook: amzn.to/3uIMA0A.
2. Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook: amzn.to/3Jh6aXS.
Susan has much more than this RU-vid channel! Follow her on:
Blog: susansinthegarden.com/
Facebook: / susansinthegarden
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Email me: Susan@SusansintheGarden.com

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28 июл 2024

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@caroldavis806 5 месяцев назад

I discovered your videos a month ago and am hooked! Thank you so much for all your information and your efforts in making your knowledge available to us. The information about seed starting and soil / compost making are coming at the perfect time of year.

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Thank you, Carol. That's so nice to hear. It's challenging making videos at the right time so they're applicable to all areas and zones, but I'm doing my best!

@roserizzo3094 5 месяцев назад

Very helpful, thank-you Susan!

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Thank you, Rose!

@alysiaritschel 5 месяцев назад

This was so helpful. You cleared up some confusion for me with both soil and compost. Thank you!

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

I'm so glad to hear that! Have a great garden season.

@loric3455 5 месяцев назад

Super helpful! Thank you!

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

I'm so glad to hear that!

@dignit1620 5 месяцев назад

Hank you for this easy to follow video!

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

I'm glad it was helpful!

@gail7998 5 месяцев назад

I don't know how I have had success over the years (oh, there has been a share of failures, too). From listening to knowledgeable gardeners like yourself, I am learning what not to do. The one thing I have done right all these years is to stay away from fertilizers that are junk and not natural. Thank you so much for all that you share. A neighbor and I are signed up to take the Master Gardeners' class, starting this March. It's never too late to learn!

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Hi, Gail. Thank you for such nice comments. You will love being a Master Gardener! I've been one for 22 years now and it has been wonderful.

@saule8764 5 месяцев назад

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@normagomez9660 5 месяцев назад

Awesome video and very Helpful!!! Thank you 😀👏

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Glad it was helpful, Norma!

@sharonallen805 5 месяцев назад

A super amount of information . Soil is the most complex item in the garden, and we need to take very good care of it. I have clay so using compost is a must. I have a 3 stage composting bins. But i never have enough so must buy land and sea by espoma. Thank u again for all this wonderful information.

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Hi, Sharon. I'm so glad you enjoyed the video.

@Micah6-8walk 5 месяцев назад

Just once I added fish heads from my daughter's catch to 1 of my garden beds. Only once. Within an hour, there was a tunnel from the surface to the burial site and they were gone. I struggle enough with rodents that I decided to not encourage their presence even more! So I second not adding fish to compost.

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Oh my gosh! I completely agree with you: don't add things to soil or compost that will attract critters.

@catiasilva2378 5 месяцев назад

Wow! Another amazing video! Thanks ❤

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Thank you so much. I'm glad it was helpful.

@lucieengen7046 5 месяцев назад

Very helpful Susan, thank you again!

@rbthegardennannyllc4219 5 месяцев назад

What a wonderful series. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Btw is this the time to bring the Geraniums from dormancy? Thanks for your videos.

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Thanks so much. And yes, go ahead and pot-up your geraniums. Don't trim them back unless you see dead tissue. The goal right now is to let them put on some growth and then you can give them a bit of a haircut in a month or so.

@rbthegardennannyllc4219 5 месяцев назад

@@SusansInTheGarden thanks. Just put in a sunny window?

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

@@rbthegardennannyllc4219 Yes, a bright location is good.

@susanschein6762 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. So much to learn.

@catiasilva2378 5 месяцев назад

Until now I didn't have courage to reuse pallets as they say it can contain dangerous chemicals. How do you know if they are safe? Thanks

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Hi, Catia. That is an excellent question! A few years ago, I learned from Joe Lamp'l that pallets have stamps on them which indicate if they've been treated methyl bromide or heat-treated. You want the latter. Heat-treated pallets will have a stamp that says "HT," while methyl-bromide pallets will say "HB." So when we were scavenging for some pallets to make our compost system, we only snagged the ones that said "HT." Here is his article about this: joegardener.com/video/how-to-make-a-compost-bin-using-free-shipping-pallets/.

@Birdhouselady 5 месяцев назад

I have a question. What do you use on your grass for weeds if you don't use Weed and Feed if you want to compost the lawn clippings. I live down by Boise Idaho. Thankyou

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Hi there. We don't use anything for weeds in our lawn. We don't feel the need to have a pristine lawn that is only grass, esp. since that means there's nothing in there for the pollinators. Our lawn includes white Dutch clover, a few dandelions here and there, plus a couple other things and when it's mowed, you really don't know the difference! When the dandelions bloom in early spring, that provides bees and other types of pollinators with an early source of pollen. This is so important! I should also add that in all the years I've been using lawn clippings on the surface of our raised beds, I've never had a weed problem.

@Birdhouselady 5 месяцев назад

We live down by Boise. The water everyone uses come from canals. The canals carry weeds. I'll have to look into what I can use thats organic

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

@@Birdhouselady That sounds good. The reason I brought up the issue of not using grass clippings that have been treated with weed & feed, etc., is that the herbicides will also kill your vegetable plants. Herbicides such as weed & feed target broad-leaf plants, and with the exception of corn, ALL vegetable plants are broad-leaf plants! Just trying to save you some grief.

@dollyperry3020 5 месяцев назад

Susan, my soil test wants me to add blood meal and sulfur into my beds. Can I do that without rototilling? My chickens make excellent compost and I don't have to ever turn it! :)

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Hi, Dolly. Yes, absolutely you can. The instructions say to only incorporate it into the top 3" of your soil, which really isn't much at all. I would recommend doing the method that I mentioned in the video, using a spading fork or shovel. Don't turn over the soil, just do the "wiggle!"

@dollyperry3020 5 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for the information. I will be wigging a lot with 10 beds LOL

@lucieengen7046 5 месяцев назад

Question Susan…I have a raised bed of asparagus, how much compost can we put on top without choking it?

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Hi, Lucie. I would put 2-3" of compost on the soil surface. As long as it's not matted together, I would expect the asparagus spears to come through it without any problems.

@lucieengen7046 5 месяцев назад

Thank you Susan!