Organic Vegetable Gardening – Click here for more blooper videos
A 208 year old Invisible Gardener from Malibu, California (that’s how it’s billed, folks) takes us into an organic vegetable garden to look at a raised vegetable beds. It’s quite a skill making one. You need timber sides, two layers of 1/4 inch chicken wire placed on the bottom for the gophers and drip irrigation throughout. What’s more, ideally you need two of these giant beds so you can rotate crops, rest the soil, etc. The Invisible Gardener explains how the soil gets to rest and then earthworms (red ones from Africa) are introduced.
Then comes a layer of compost (not too rich) and finally mulch. Did you know that spreading coffee grounds around repels snails? That’s just one of the intriguing things you’ll learn in this quirky ten minute video.
And this is the first in a series so you’ll be able to follow the series as the season progresses, watching the raised beds develop and produce and the Invisible Gardener grow older. Nice concept.
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