You've never seen a garden like this! Now worst soil on the farm is the best! 

Hi.... Thank you 🎥👍👍👍

An old rock quarry guy here (Vulcan Materials Company).. I believe dust is good for trees. It holds moisture and airways for the roots. One bad thing about rock dust is that it clings together (its gritty) and makes things hard. Thats probably why your soil is sandy, but still heavy. We grew peach trees from seed in the bottom of the hole in pure rock dust. Its good stuff. The best thing for your garden is probably pine bark mulch. It provides air, and decomposes very fast, which in turn will feed the soil. Plus most veggie plants like slightly acidic soil that pine bark mulch provides naturally.

Thanks for sharing with us compost is looking good can't wait to see more of the garden

Love the video Josh. Just wish it had been longer. I like to watch you playing with your toys. Lol. Lots of folks can learn alot just by watching. God bless.

Love the channel! Great content and helps us newbies learn and get to farming and building our homesteads. Thank you.

Must be great weather there now hope you get all your projects done. Take care, positive vibes to everyone.

Wow! Comparing this "before" footage to your "after" footage with the bedder ... great job Stoney Ridge Farmer(s)

Hi Josh the Honey Badger does a great job nice little machine 👍🏻

Hey Josh great video I enjoyed it now that's the way you run a farm and by the way Happy Father's Day for tomorrow take a load off enjoy yourself you deserve it

I really like learn this stuff thanks for the information I like the educational part and the explanation of how stuff works. Keep up the good work my friend.

The rock dust adds absorbable minerals to the soil. Your garden really will be rockin.....and the compost mixed in.....awesome.

Josh you need to turn your compost about once a month I turn mine with my tiller using a fork is a pain . you have the perfect tiller for the job

Josh, enjoyed this video. Very instructive and informative.

I've got to tell you this, SRF, My grandfather (mom's daddy) had been a Shriner and in charge of their "mounted patrol." The guys would come over to grampa's house and practice their parade maneuvers and then coral the horses and go inside for some refreshments. After 30 years he retired from the mounted patrol, sold his horses, and tilled the coral and turned it into a garden. The vegetables that came from that garden were absolutely amazing! Grampa would take bushel baskets of tomato's and cucumbers over to the local country club and sell the produce to the restaurant. It was absolutely amazing how wonderful the vegetables were. I hope that you have the same success with your garden as my grandparents did. Peace, love and happiness to you and your family.

brilliant little bit of kit does a fantastic job :)

I love the soundtrack you made for this video

Great info,Man I can't wait to see that stump grinder in action!!

Great job good ideas. The results will be proven in the harvest!

I finally saw one of those things mowing a hill not far from our place that thing works good we have tons hills just like your part of the country I bet that thing will be your go to tool for most things on your property

Man that a lot of compost info you just dumped on us! 😂Gotta have it, Good stuff👍 After watching your vids and seeing the yield of those tomatoes & such it looks like Your garden info worked & did great! Appreciate all this golden info fer sure! 🚜🐐🐷🐔

Fixed me some scrambled eggs and toast, sat down to see whats going on on RU-vid and there was your video!! You made my breakfast EPIC!! WOOOO!!!! (burp)

Gypsum breaks clay it also reduce nutrients

Great recipe for a garden

That rite, great stuff!!!!

looks good

This is why you need your town to do yard waste recycling. Ours does and it is a great place to get rid of yard waste without filling up trash dumps. All residents can get free ground compost. Make at least two trips a week. I keep mine about 2 years under a tree first for further decomposition. Some new stuff is used to keep weeds down. I have a drought resistant lawn and weeds easily pull out of the garden. And the tomatoes!

When deer hunting first started, after deer were reintroduced in central North Carolina in 1950's and 1960's on a cold day you would find an "on location" saw mill saw dust pile in the woods, after the job was done. It could be eight to fifteen feet high, dig out the top three or four feet deep big enough for a chair or board to sit on and the heat would be almost sauna like on a 20 degree day.

Hey Josh love the videos buddy. Keep up the great work. Showing love from northern Pennsylvania

sure have seen it... TTWT! lol ( sorry Neighbor couldn't resist ) Greetings from the Boone area

Great video josh

Love your videos

Nice machine Brother Josh

Wish the tree trimmers that was trimming for the power company in my area, and my place, would done that. I got one load. Not even all they got at our place. They lied. You're lucky. 👍

If you have a place on your farm where you cut and there’s a lot of leaves like around the edges of the field leave mould is awesome for gardens, just drive around the edges of the field and scrape it up

I guess I have always been lucky. Till up dirt and horse crap first year I had more veggies and tomatoes than I could handle.

The local Ventrac dealer has offered me a free test ride. I haven't been on a tractor since the late 1960's. I'm overdue. What better tractor to test? And here I thought compost was that stuff you buy in the bags from the big box store. I'm learning, Josh.

Here is a question for Ventac: why not run the tiller forward. I know the tractor would leave tracks but, that could be solved with a simple rolling basket.

For compost, you cannot beat pigs just before winter spread it on then plow it in leave it till spring then break it up with a cultivator of some sort best growing ground ever that is why where I come from they keep pigs on straw

Awesome

The rock dust will change the texture of your soil now, BUT, it will not break down and release minerals for 2-3 years. It's a long term investment, but a good one.

None of that “compost” is anywhere near being finished. It looks more like mulch to me. You want to maintain temperatures below 160 as above that the thermophilic bacteria begin to become inactive and can even be damaged or killed. Once that happens you essentially have to start the process over again.

That intro song 🔥 wow amazing man ✌🏻💛🇨🇦

I would analyze the rock dust to see what is there and add what is needed. I would feed rock dust to red wiggler worms in my worm bins. Feed them coffee grounds to produce nitrogen. Wash and sterilize egg shells to add calcium. The worms turn the chitin in eggshells into chitinase which is an enzyme that eats the exoskeletons of aphids. Worm castings should never be fed to germinating seeds. But worm castings are the best for plants.

Hi sir. I subbed not long ago, and see you have many subscribers. This may be an unfair question seeing ventrac is a sponsor, but if you find faults or downfalls with it or attachments would you share them? Thanks for your videos, I really enjoy and learn from them.

that ventrack is amaasing

Our garden was about the same size as yours we grew 3/4 of it potatoes and would produce 900 to 1000 pounds of potatoes

good job thumbs up shared

Lol I wish I had that thing for about a day!!!!

Snapped belt in a hurry, "Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast" makes sense to me.

Rock dust is also very good for making a great drive way. We got a few loads of them for our driveway. All you have to do is spread a tin layer pack it down and water it. Repeat a few times and keep it packed down and water it. Let it set up for a few days and it is almost just like concrete. Also baling hay is just like the compost heat if you bales it to fast after the cutting the hay will catch on fire. I guy a few miles down the road did his baling way to fast and put the bales in his barn and that night you could see the blaze from my yard. Another great video man keep up the great work and hope you hit 1 mill subs soon.

Josh, you can have your soill tested at a CO-OP!😊

Good evening. Doesn't Limestone reintroduce Lime into the soil? Thus letting the Lime help breakdown poor soil? Appreciate any feedback.

Hey I like your channel.

Your right, I have never seen a piece of crap garden like that, but live and learn.

do you still have the Buick I don't see it, I seen the cutlass, but I just put all of my seeds in good dirt I lil buckets and my seeds haven't came up, do you know why? god bless

My dad thought me a lot about gardening he was definitely good at it he used the almanac and right amounts of fertilizer and lime I remember our garden producing so much we had to always give vegetables away, also he could grow the heck out of potatoes but we would hill them a lot

Sixth Avenue Heartache now makes me think of tractor montages

Hey Josh, you and OLF should play some music together next visit together.

How deep does the honey badger till?

Did the same at my garden spot at my factory:incorporated compost and mulch to increase bio-mass in old wore out industrial clay dirt. Years long process btw because as the high amount of compost and mulch breaks down is sucks all available nitrogen from the soil. All of it. You can speed things up a bit by introducing a straight nitrogen fertilizer. Next is lime: acidity of the soil goes through the roof and lime applications will help with that.I found that pea crops (or bean) do well during the adjustment period. Purple hull peas,creme peas,pinto beans,etc Squash does OK with lots of nitrogen fertilizer. Corn:nope. Sweet peas: nope.taters:nope. Maters can do well if you create little micro grow zones: use a post hole digger and dig a hole 18" deep,put in a coffee can of good manure,add another 10" or so of dirt,plant the mater plant. Stand back and have your basket ready as when the roots hit that manure in about 6 weeks the maters will be jumping off the plant.

Josh, I came across a MF 235 gas tractor. Needs some work. Body looks as good as your 240. It needs some motor work. They want $1200. what do you think?

How do you keep deer and squirrels out of your garden?

Try no till some time. I would like to try it.

What about a dump truck to spread stuff out quicker? Just drive with it up and go....just a thought. That ventrac looks awesome

do you have ventracs loader for that machine? if so does it work well?? i’m asking for just general purpose use of course nothing HD lol

Hi from Australia I am a hay grower and I do a bit off veg I love how u guys to it over there

I can just hear the Knuckleheads. “ that ain’t a tractor, that won’t work”

You could also get some cow manure put it in a box and put some worms in it and the will break it down and you can keep doing that over and over

Since this garden was done months ago what does it look like now

Looking back is the only way to know whe you break so ething and how it's looking so no different then any other machine

was here

Could I listen to the roar of the engine once in awhile?

How do you like the ventrac

In the intro, are ya sayin ya was is South WV or South west VA? Lol

Did you buy that ventrac or is this an infomercial

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Ok.... Now on to planting..... are you using the Farmers Almanac... certain plants will grow if planted at different times of the month... You think this is medieval but it is not...root crops grow better when planted different that above soil plants... MSRF will be promoted in this next year!!!!!!

I love composting and breaking down stuff. Watch self sufficient me here on you tube. He has good info On composting

With regards to rock dust you should check out "Alberta Urban Garden Simple Organic and Sustainable" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mwF3TFOzIik.html He has done lab tests using rock dust grown food. His conclusions will be enlightening, it's well worth the time for the home gardener who is looking for answers on how to grow a better garden and where to spend money improving your soil.

We been trying to condition clay for 8years damn near impossible your better off just dumping a foot of fresh dirt on top you water the clay it doesn't drain then After the top of the clay is dry as a bone 2in down it's still sopping wet and heavy as hell. And doesn't mix well with other soil you mix in half compost soil with half clay plow it in and the clay clumps up in balls.

That rock dust is full of lime also because it comes from limestone.

First view, yeeeew!

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Two wives too?