$5 TOOL TURNS YOUR GARDEN INTO A FARM

[RBEglobal]

The drill auger is a great idea. Landscapers use them all the time. Gardeners/farmers are starting to catch on. Get a nice UK made "soil blocker" to start the seedlings in. Google it. Then just drop the blocks in the drilled holes. Or make a soil blocker out of 2" PVC pipe. YT videos abound. The UK 4 block makers are nice though. They last forever. PS - Look up Rogue Hoes...US made and indestructible. Will make you give up the shovel. Drill, soil blocker and a Rogue 55F field hoe...game over.

[donze52]

@RBEglobal

thanks for contact and imput

keep safe

[RBEglobal]

@donze52 Almost forgot. US made garden size augers at gardenauger com

They make heavy duty versions. $30-45 includes shipping.

[donze52]

@RBEglobal

got mine for $5. it is good enough for me

plus I use a recargable drill so I can plant

garden on river banks on walks this spring,

keep safe --- garden means freedom

[walkertongdee]

you are making me hungry.

[donze52]

@walkertongdee

thanks for contact, seed catalogs are already being shipped,

yep on my knees all winter, I pray to GOD for one last summer to garden

[mdgilkison]

$25 short handled shovel - way better investment, way more useful application. $5 metal file if you're really feeling saucy and wanted to shape and sharpen the shovel blade. This video tip assumes you either still have running electric to plug into or a power supply of some kind to power up a drill battery, or you have a generator solar or otherwise. Whatever the case - if I'm down to a generator and growing my own garden - a drill to dig holes? Really? Just saying...

[donze52]

@mdgilkison

you have a sharp mind, forgive me, as I have lived with power grid to long.

and of course being a survivalist since 71 when I got out of high school. I have always had a generator back up that runs on fuel I make.

anyway it never hurts to have plan B. sad I was you pay $25. for a shovel. I hit yard sales & see quite good one for a couple dollars.

keep safe this winter, and thanks for contact.

[mdgilkison]

@donze52 Raise a quarter acre garden or more every year or dig some foxholes in your life and you quickly realize reliable tools that you "make your own" and break in and can rely on are always worth the investment regardless. Good luck and best wishes in 2012.

[donze52]

@mdgilkison

never dug a fox hole, did an do bury money and ammo in my time.

garden on the river for extra free land and water, plus hail insurance.

wish you'd speak to those in power, for sure they don;'t listen to

the poor white man from McCook.

[frankie2234]

makes alot of common sense. what else do you grow? Thanks for the words of wisdom.

[donze52]

@frankie2234

basics, never grow anything unless you eat it yourself

tomatoes beats, corn, radish, squash, the list goes on.

plus a few weapons I grow.

thanks for contact.

[bammbamm12]

Are you planting seeds in those holes, or are you transplanting from a small pots?

[donze52]

@bammbamm12

MOST OF THE TIME i START ALL SEEDS IN MY SMALL GREEN HOUSE.

SINCE THE WEEDS ARE AHEAD OF THEM ON THE RIVER BANKS. BUT IN YARD

i DO PLANT SEED THAT WAY BUT NOT DEEP, RATHER JUST A DEPRESSION, WATER AND PLANT PRE SOAKED SEEDS. GOOD LUCK.

[bammbamm12]

@donze52 - Thanks.

[disclosurenow9]

During the great depression, Roosevelt executive ordered crops burned, supposedly to raise crop prices and help farmers. It resulted in millions of people starving to death.

[donze52]

@disclosurenow9

aint sure about millions, and my people who lived through it, were on farms so food was

not the problem, cash was, finding enough cash to pay land taxes, many farms died then.

as for crops today, a yard is a weapon against Monsanto that few use in the battle.

thanks for contact

[rqm420]

awesome info! Thanks for sharing

[donze52]

@rqm420

thanks for the contact, hope you and yours a safe winter.

[Uriel1816]

Good ideas.

[pwalpar]

Novel Idea. I doubt your soil is as hard as out Georgia Clay is LOL It packs down like a brick Good video

[donze52]

@pwalpar

i HAVE NEVER FOUND DIRT SO HARD AS NOT TO BE DRILLABLE. COMPARED TO

BACK BREAKING SHOVEL WORK, THOUGH i HAVE NEVER BEEN EAST OF THE MISSOURI RIVER

[pwalpar]

You and I have something in common, I never been west of the Mississippi LOL

[donze52]

@pwalpar

YEP NEVER TRAVELED MUCH, came out of a orphange back in the

1950;'s adopted to a farm couple, they were 44 years old when I was 4.

so it was like being raised by grandparents and the old ways was the only way.

sure hope you have a safe fall and winter.

[ground0sk8ter]

i would just like to point out to you mr. bill that your making good vid and that your yard will only produce that much once in a lifetime if you plant the same stuff over and over agian each year it depreciates the soil of certain nutrients that the plants need so in order to avoid this you have to rotate your crops just like farmers do or sooner of later you yard wont grow anything at all and in a side note different plants need different types of nutrients thats why crop rotations will work

[donze52]

@ground0sk8ter

heard that I have, reminds me of my grapes, they said trim them or they will die or not produce,

never trimmed them in 25 years, and dang things produce more than we can eat and can.

as for same crops, I do move them a bit, but using human vitimins ground up and put in the soil, I have lived here for 38 years and yet to see any noticeable decline in production.

Weeds come back strong year after year, soil supports them and so it will soil.

thanks for contact.

[kentuckycowboy2]

@donze52 I learned years ago that when I cut my grapes back the next year they never produced at all so after that I just started trimming the ends back a little at a time & they are always covered up , If they weren't in the middle of the yard I don't think I would do that either .

[agbagtet]

Great vid Mr. Bill. Where can I buy a 5$ dollar garden auger bit?

[donze52]

@agbagtet

check on line, hard ware stores here sell them.

I have a 1 1/2 inch wide

and

a 2 1/2 inch dirt auger,

think you will be impressed

garden as if your life depends on it

tomorrow it might

[SJRANCH2]

Mr Bill, good advice. Home grown veggies taste best, and cost you nothing but your time!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[donze52]

@SJRANCH2

ONLY THING WE NEED TO WORRY ABOUT

AND FIGHT FROM THE GET GO

IS THE CORPORATIONS ARE PUSHING THE ELECTED

TO MAKE IT ILLEGAL TO GROW FOOD IN YOUR YARD

EVEN FOR YOUR OWN FAMILY:

i WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT A CAPITAL CRIME TO EVEN

SPEAK OF TAKING THE RIGHT TO GARDEN AWAY:

mR bill

[iKyer98]

you have inspired me

[webcajun]

Excellent advice Mr. Bill........ Donald

[D33Lux]

Excellent video and priceless advice. For anyone living in an apartment or don't own a yard you can grow potatoes in a basement in a plastic garbage bin, they're that easy to grow. Bean sprouts are also easy to grow indoors in a jar. Cucumbers grow fairly quick also, but need lots of sun. Be well

[donze52]

@D33Lux Hope you or anyone without a yard or land, will take a look at river banks or lake areas, not counting the endless low maintance roads as they do not spray weeds on those road ditches.

[vestenamer]

great vid Mr. Bill i remember working my grandma garden as a kid was prettty big and she had a pantry we could have lived on for 5 years

[SuperTravisbickle]

A very interesting video. how much attention would a small plot of land like that need?

[donze52]

less time than watching tv commercials for a couple hours,

maybe an hour a week....

Of course you want to spread it out, and grow just what you like to eat, and then store it up, adds up quickly.

Good luck

[SuperTravisbickle]

sounds quite easy for all the gain. i might try growing a few plants