Show #49/7810. Tiny House #2

Raised Beds And Blended Earth

Hank, so many Americans have smaller and smaller properties and they're moving in the direction of RAISED BEDS and this is a wonderful example, actually, a beautiful example of a raised bed. These are spaces where the quality of the soil really, really makes a huge difference. The application of complete soils, how we use them in raised beds and as with this case, specifically for vegetable gardening that is important. These boxes aren't inexpensive, they’re nice and will last a long time, but what you put in them is going be what you grow out of them. Just to be able to get your box, fill it up, plant the plants, water them, and watch them grow is a lot of fun and fulfilling. One thing Hank loves about this product is that from year to year, all you need to do is just incorporate another few inches on the top, mix it in and know you're going to get season after season after season of great growth. It hangs on, it wants to grow stuff. It will compact a little and you're gonna lose a little bit over time but you can pull it out or you can add to it which will freshen it and give it more nutrients as you go forward. This product is new to the market and we're going to start seeing it in many of the places we buy our soil and soil amendments. There have been a lot of trials that have been done in the process of developing this product. How is all that going? They're the only one that have a complete mushroom compost product which stands a bit apart. Many of the other compost products have more of just a straight compost or peat moss. But Hank sees this as the the complete soil. The products they've been testing against are not competing with the growth, they're not growing as rapidly or completely. Because many of these products are mostly mill pine bark. The mill pine bark is basically just gonna suck nitrogen out of the plant and can actually make a plant grow worse. Some of the bag products that make claims are absolutely doing that and depleting the soil instead of adding to it. So the take away message is - Invest in the soil for your plants. It's one of the best things that a gardener could ever do. Hank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us.