NO GIMMICKS! Garden Tool Comparison Simple ORGANIC WEED CONTROL BUILDS SOIL!

hey there folks this is Josh Stoney Ridge farmer welcome back to the farm today we're going to be using some garden tools we're going to be controlling weeds in our garden and as you can see they've gotten out of hand I did it on purpose so that I could show you just how simple and just how easy my method of controlling weeds in your garden actually builds garden soil it's organic it's no sprays it's no chemicals and it actually makes your garden pop it makes your garden grow better this year and your garden grow better next year it makes it retain moisture come along we're gonna have some fun and I'm going to show you some cool tools that you may have never seen to weed your garden with and give you some great ideas for your garden this year all right [Music] before I get started and show you how to control weeds for the entire year in one shot I want to thank you so much for coming to the channel here today please if you think about it hit that like button it really helps out the channel and subscribe to the channel if you'd like this kind of stuff so what we have here are several tools just a standard hoe then I've got what I call a spade hoe which is for getting into tight little spots with that Spade then I have an old-fashioned tool which some of you guys may have may not see but it's a like a pitchfork rake for raking out your ground and this is very helpful for getting weeds out and also helpful for breaking out the mulch that we're getting ready to use then we have a handheld cultivator which is pretty cool we'll show you how we use all these for weed control but really the go-to is this loop ho and this is the most handy dandy tool you can have so it has two sharp edges and basically you just rub through the ground and it cuts the roots of the weeds and kills them pretty awesome stuff now hoeing and weeding is hard hard work and what I'm gonna show you today is a way to keep from having the hoe and weed so much we'll just be using compost and mulch around our garden and it'll help build our garden soil so come over here and I'll show you what we're doing so right here we have areas that we have not weeded right here is a row that we have weeded we didn't cut any weeds we didn't hoe any weeds all we did was put down this composted mulch back here and that's how we're building our garden year after year and that's how we're controlling our weeds we're basically mulching our entire garden now you can't till this into the soil this year because if you did the plants wouldn't grow if you want to control weeds cover the weeds let this rot over the winter and then we'll till it back in or we can go in no-till and just plant our plants right directly into it because the soil underneath it is rock star because we've done this for four years now I'm going to do a bit of a tool comparison for you to show you why we like that loophole so much it works so much better than any other way it really really does check it out we're gonna try all these different weeding tools and then we'll show you the loop hoe this is the little pitch for trake and this is how it works for controlling weeds and basically you just come through here and rake and it pulls up these little weeds pretty handy pretty helpful does a pretty good job the soil is really really really loose in the garden here but you can see it's lacking in a few departments this is the little handheld cultivator and we basically just roll through the weeds and it pulverizes them now you can do a whole row of weeds with this in about 15 minutes and these are about 150 foot rows something like that so really a good workout but you can see you've still got weeds that are in here in soil and they're gonna sprout right back up so if you do this on a very hot summer day you're liable to kill most your weeds and that makes a pretty garden bed right there now the next two things we'll use is our Spade hoe and our standard hoe and basically with the hoe all you're doing is just getting in here skimming the top of the ground and making a pile basically definitely not the most efficient tool and neither is this but this is good for getting in close to your tomato plants and stuff like that I'll show you so we've got a tomato plant right here and basically with this little hoe we can get in here and come all the way around the plant and pull all the weeds we can be a little more precise because it's got that tip on it that Spade really really helps out if you guys have any tips or any pointers you'd like to leave please post them down there in the comments and it won't hurt to rake up soil up against the bottom of this tomato plant because it'll just sprout roots all the way up to wherever you bury it up now for my baby the loop hoe so the loop hole basically if you push and pull so this is a cutting edge and that's a cutting edge and those two cutting edges push and pull right on the surface of the ground and just eliminate your weeds basically shaving the weeds off and you do this on a hot day you can see the amount of ground that we've covered right here and those weeds will compost right back into the soil look at the amount of ground that we cover with the loop hoe versus the other tools in just seconds that is just an awesome awesome tool for your garden guys if you don't have one of these in your gardening I'll post a link down the video description they're not very expensive this is the true temper brand and as long as you keep it in out of the weather put a little linseed oil on that handle this thing will last you years and years and years so let's show you how we holistically control the weeds this is how we eliminate the weeds and once we're done holistically controlling our weeds and helping our garden retain moisture we'll go back through with this probably once a week and we'll walk up and down each row and we'll just nip with the corner we'll just nip out the little weeds that we want to get rid of pretty cool let's take it to the mulch pile now we got a bit of a head start on our mulch and this is basically a big pile of wood chips that came from the tree company when they cut out for the power lines if you ever see those guys in your neighborhood you can always stop and ask them if they've got a place to dump if they don't have them dump it at your place and use it in your garden use it on your yard it is awesome it turns into black gold so we've already done the squash patch on this side when we left this so you could see what it looked like before now you can see a lot of green in between the rows these came in a little thicker this is a yellow squash this is a zucchini squash right here but you can see how nicely mulch there is not a weed anywhere to be found right there so wait a minute Josh I thought you're going to show us an easier way to garden this is an easier way to garden and year after year you'll build your garden and you'll have a bangin garden instead of fighting it with chemical fertilizer so we'll load up our wheelbarrow here and this is just basically an old pitchfork will pitchfork it all in the wheelbarrow we'll head out to the end of the row and we'll work our way back toward the piles and we'll basically do this over the whole garden now you don't have to do this every day you only have to do this once you don't have to do the whole garden in a day do one row on day one row on Tuesday when you get home from work wake up in the morning on Saturday do another row as long as your weeds don't get really really tall and out of hand you'll be totally covered once you wrap your garden up with this mulch it will solve all of your weed problems now I know what you're thinking what if we don't have access to this or what if we're doing this on such a small scale that we don't need a giant truckload of mulch now this is probably four truckloads of mulch what you do is you go to your local hardware store your local Lowe's or Home Depot or wherever if you don't like the big-box stores or your local garden center and you pick up some either garden mulch or garden soil some untreated mulch you don't want the treated kind like you put around your house because that's treated to cut down on bugs termites and may cut down on beneficial insects and worms you want those microbes you want those worms you want all that stuff in your garden in your soil building soil year after year so you can do this on a smaller scale if you don't have a pickup truck go by a trash barrel and put it in the back seat of your car fill it up with mulch and put it on your garden it really really works guys so we're gonna get busy we're going to load this wheelbarrow up and I'll show you how we put it around our Tomatoes and I'll show you how we put it around our squash if you thought your gonna have a big beautiful garden and not have to work a little bit you're dead wrong you're gonna have to work if you want something you got to work for it let me show you how we do our tomato plants we'll pack some around the tomato plant real quick we tilled up a nasty piece of soil here there was an old house here at one time I find stuff like this all the time glad I didn't find it in a tractor tire so we'll show you from start to finish around a couple tomato plants basically what I do is I just mound up the mulch around the plants and then I'll just pull it in next to it covering up all the weeds and helping support the plant just a little bit too just like so and whatever is left over in this mound will help next year's garden to grow so we'll go over each row and bed it up just like this and in the middle of the rows in between will really put a heavy layer so that we never have to walk in mud when we're walking up and down our roasts so here's what we do for a squash plant basically we just put a pile of mulch in between the two squash plants then we'll take the mulch and we'll spread it out around the plant raising the leaves up gently just be gentle with your plants go right in there and now all the delicate work has been done so it's going to take a little time it's going to take a little effort once we go around each plant each delicate plant will go back and we'll fill in the ditches with a heavy coat of mulch basically this pile right here will feed next year's garden and the microbes from it will feed this year's garden a little bit - guys I hope you've learned a little bit about holistic gardening practice today I hope you'll do some stuff to help build your garden if you have any questions please post them down there in the comments section if you need anything let me know I'm here for you I hope to see you again here on the Stoney Ridge farm and you can watch this garden grow throughout the season thanks a lot see you next time right [Music] well we've almost got two rows done and we've only got six rows to go see you guys next time

Channel: Stoney Ridge Farmer

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Length: 10min 55sec (655 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 10 2019