Filling Wick Tub with soil and fertilizer Ep 20A

Good morning fellow gardeners, it's a beautiful day here in Oklahoma, the winds are blowing a little bit, but other than that, it's a beautiful day and we've come to the dirt pile and we're going to show you how to build one of these absorbers. The tubs from start to finish are finished and ready for the garden, so the first thing we do is tell you about these mineral tubs that you can get in the livestock area and for you people who are not in the livestock area, you can go. Find some 55 gallon plastic barrels that are food grade, cut them in half, they're about this tall, cut them in half in two, flip them over and you'll get two barrels, which are your two tubs, which you can use, okay , so whatever you use, you can go a little bit.

Some of them call me and tell me at Lowe's that they are finding these trash cans for $7.99, so go to your Lowe's like they have some in trash cans. It's a blue container that looks like this. It has a rubber handle and a rope on each side. with which you can pick it up now, they are made like these, ours, where they will not last many years, no, they do not have the UV inhibitor, like your barrels, now your barrels, you buy those 55 one-gallon plastic barrels you They will last several years these will only last three to four or five years and they will rot with you Brett they will become brittle and you will have to replace them but anyway whatever type you use to make your cube

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here we go let's get drilled hole five inches up right here, drill a hole five inches up now, then we're going to take this one, we're going to use water bottles, tea bottles, milk bottles, any kind of gallon. jugs that you have at home save them we're going to put them at the bottom of this and you can see by the way the hole is made up here and hold on here we get to the other side with a punch a hole here and here it doesn't make any difference it just decide that you want, so you can have it so that water can come in here and as it is, it fills with water, it will push air out the top, oh, so as your absorption system uses This water that falls and the air can go back into this hole, so that's why you make the holes in your containers, but no matter what type they are and what we're going to do, we're going to line this bucket with gallon jugs up to the final.

Around this blue there are two four sixes outside and one in the middle. Now we have seven one-gallon containers or whatever comes out of them. You can also use your tide or you're down on anything that comes in a gallon. jug that you can use to wash those soap bottles, you know, before you use them and of course we wash the milk bottles and anyway, that's all we're going to do, we're trying to simplify this for you to where you don't have to go try to find the pipe or the fabric, we're making this so simple that you can do it at home without having to go hunting and searching, okay, we're going to fill this with

fertilizer

and

soil

in this tub.

Now we're going to fill it halfway, so start pouring it in there, David, and we're going to push it down between each of these cracks, okay, because we want each of those cracks that have dirt to absorb ACEF. a

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of this earth this water towards the ground okay, we'll stop with that shovel right there, put that there, okay, now we're going to stop for a minute, you know, you come here, you can almost see the jug. The tops are not very important, you stay a little lower or you can go up a little more. The reason I'm trying to do this I want to keep this

fertilizer

down here far enough away when you plant the plant here on top of those.

The scared babies' roots won't be in that fertilizer, but they have to grow and mature a little bit and then as they grow and mature in that fertilizer, they can stay, you know, become feeding a newborn baby a steak. that they simply can. I can't stand it, it's too strong, so anyway that's what we're going to do now. Then I will put two channels on my two YouTube channels. I've been telling you to put in half a cup of sustenance, which is chicken and turkey droppings. composted, this is a four six four, it's kind of a balanced fertilizer and we're going to spread it all over the place, okay, some of you want to put it outside, just put it outside and don't put it. in the middle, then we will take 1/4 cup of sea mineral and spread it there in the same way.

Okay, now I'm going to go ahead and add an extra step to make you a Professional Producer, let's go get ourselves some agricultural lime. Any agricultural lime is fine, whether pelleted, powdered or granulated, but don't get slackline, which is too strong a lime to put here. We know it burns. buy, so anyway we're going to put our lime in here just to sweeten the

soil

a little bit, you know, we're using peat moss and coco coir, so we want to sweeten it a little bit and then we represent a little bit. Sal, now I got this out of a 50 pound bag, but you can go to any dollar store or drugstore and get a box.

It comes in a half gallon box of Epsom salt and you're going to put in about an eighth. about a cup of that in there, I just like that, it's not very important, just don't pour the whole bag. I mean, you could use up to 1/4 cup, it won't hurt you at all, okay? ready to go we all have our sustenance or sea mineral our line and our Epsom salt here we go

filling

yours if you use two shovels David, you fill it twice as fast but okay, okay, an 81, okay. some people already know because it costs too much for the ground some people will stop there.

I have a tendency to fill mine up a little bit more like this maybe and then excuse me for a minute, let me pick up my tomatoes, they drain away. I have another video of mine showing how to remove those suckers from a tomato plant. We took them out, we put them in here, just a water bottle, cut it up, put some pure, clear water in there, no fertilizer, and we put five of these in. tomato suckers down there on a tomato vine and you can see what they've done, they've put down roots, so all we're going to do is remove them and place them next to the fertile tomato plant. right down there and plant that as it is okay if it was a big long plant weed ladder crosswise and turn it up until you get to the middle okay now some people asked me if you notice everything you can put. there, well, if you're going to use a cage or something to tie it up right here in the middle, that tomato plant is going to fill the volume up here, the cube, the air on top, the space on top now, if you were to set this up. in a barrel where they get them, they could hang and grow around this tub, then you would have about five or six months or six times as much space to put the tomato where they can hang off the sides. so we would do like this, we would just plant four of them around the outside to fill this.

Now I'm going to move this one to the side because these are going to fill the middle anyway. Now we have you four, now the problem I had when I did this the first time was that my plants hung hungover and reached the ground, determining if they were 55 gallon barrels, which left them about five or six feet in the air and tomato. The plant fell to the ground, so the second year I did this I taught this little old plant to go like this over here I taught this little plant to go across there I taught this little old plant to go like this and I taught this little one the plants come out this way just by telling them to force them to grow and that gives me another 18 inches of growth before they hit the ground, so anyway, you're ready to garden with this now, just like It's now and then how we do it. are you going to do