Love watch your videos, Arms Family Homestead mentions you often and i had to check out your channel, I am so glad I did.

So earlier this year I found Ol' Leon and decided to try his wicking tubs and brother, I am here to tell you IT WORKS! I have planted tomatoes, beans, peppers, and sweet potatoes and everything is thriving using this method. The maintenance using this method is practically nil compared to the traditional bucket / container method. I can not thank Mr. Leon enough for sharing this knowledge. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!

You are wonderful. We all love you Mr Leon. Keep teaching us!

Love your videos Leon! Keep them coming!

Thank you Leon, great advice as usual..

This is awesome. Loved the recipe in writing

I love watching all your videos and learning so much

So Love your style!!! Thank you for sharing and all of your Precious time...🤗

Think you MrLeon for always bringing us the newest information on things we need. God Bless

Great video God bless you brother Leon

Great advice. I love watching you videos

Thank you so much! I tried to get the master blend, butit was sold out. Thanks to you, I can finally try this method of growing my produce. 🥰

Thanks Leon. Keep them coming please.

You are so nice to share all of your awesome gardening knowledge! I made four self watering 5 gallon tomato buckets today following your instructions. Next will be a self watering container fruit tree, then these cucumbers. Your going to make a gardener out of me. Thank you so much!

I tried this last year and very little success, but making some changes and trying again this year. Thank you so much for sharing your blessing of gardening knowledge with us.

I'm doing the cratky method for the first time this year, thanks for the advice.

I'm in south tx, it's the 8th of June and already to hot to grow outside. I was just saying today I wanted to learn the hydro way so I could move inside with a grow light. God heard me and I found your video. I'm doing your wicking tubs for my trees and they are doing great. Very thankful I found you for the help I needed. God bless you.

txn 4 another educational video ! 👍😃🍀🌻🌾

Thank GOD for you Leon I learned how to make a wicking container from cat litter jugs I cut the top off and use that for the inside bottom loosen the cap and drill a hole for the pipe And it's growing just fine dozen or so

I followed this method last year with poor results until I adjusted the PH. I called the water board in Leon's area and found their ground water to be around 6.5 while my water runs 8 to 8.5. After adding a product called "PH Down" everything was fine. The PH is important.

@igiveupfine

4 жыл бұрын

PH down? heck, you could probably just pour in some vinegar to lower the PH. i think you could also just add some baking soda to raise the PH if yours is too low.......but does baking soda have a lot of calcium in it? so could you be putting too much calcium in the water?

@lisay7613

3 жыл бұрын

To adjust indoor swimming Pool water，use HCl to drop ph, and use baking soda to raise pH. You much know how to calculate it according to amount of water in your tub

Love your videos! Thanks for this! We will try it this weekend or as soon as we can find a used 50 gallon bucket!

@williamvannoy1336

4 жыл бұрын

Check on Facebook marketplace there is always a listing there!

Another great idea! I even have a friend that sells food grade 55 gallon barrels. Thanks for your help!! Good luck trying to beat the boys!

@kissanknowledge5154

3 жыл бұрын

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Hi Leon I saw a question on one of your videos regarding the smell one of your viewers was experiencing with their wicking tubs. I had the problem, it was because my drain hole was too high. That is not enough air space. Love the way y'all talk down there in OK. Looking at you from Melbourne Australia You have to realise that you are broadcasting to the World. no one has heard of sea minerals in Australia. Your fertiliser cocktails are terrific none of the brands you use are available here but the NKP formulas come through. Thank you for all the tine you spend teaching us.And thanks to Mrs Sloan for putting up with us.

Thank YOU!

Thank You!

Thank you

I love you thanks for teaching me this u derverse more subs man..

I've been playing around with some really good dry amendments mr. B green trees Roots organic my stuff on the east coast is going insane I've never had tomatoes with so many flowers ever all kinds of herbs stuff's not cheap though $200 a 40 pound Barrel mr. Green B trees then I mix in a little bit of four for four chicken manure compost teas I've got a freaking Forest going on God bless you always good to see you

I planted my tomatoes for the first time in buckets using the wicking method. As the plants got bigger the amount of water need went way up and a couple of times I let my plants run low of water. I had the ends of my first tomatoes in these pot rot like blossom end rot. I was told that it was because of letting dry out. I fill my pots a least every other day and the problem has gone away.

First let me say how grateful I am that you are sharing your knowledge in these videos. Thank you. Now for the question. Is it possible to have a water reservoir in a raised bed but still have part of the bed still touching the ground for worms to come up.

I started a cucumber in a barrel this spring. It got growing but no cukes yet. No rain here in north Texas for a week now. The sun got so hot it dried up the water had to refill and add more fertilizer. Fingers crossed.

@Not_So_Weird_in_Austin

4 жыл бұрын

Make certain you leave enough room for air roots. Examine your roots to see where the air roots stop and the water roots start

@igiveupfine

4 жыл бұрын

@@Not_So_Weird_in_Austin how can you tell what the difference is with an air root and a water root?

I plant with the sign too

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You are my trusted source. Thank you. Question is will it help, hurt, no additional benefit to use super thrive liquid along with your mixture in the 55 gallon drum. Thanks

Semper Fi has been simplified!

1)Thank you for all the info. 2)What sort of gardening tips do you follow and believe is something you can’t see yourself changing? -Just in general gardening. I’m on journey that has brought me closer to my grandma in so many ways. She’s been gone for a long time but has given me so much. I’d like to garden the same way she did just to learn the way she did. She went blind the last 11 years of her life and she taught me to garden after she went blind. As I go along I’m remembering so many things. When spring comes we are canning or BBQ spring king salmon and she’d tell me to go put the fish guts & skeleton in her garden. I asked her why and she said “because I said so”. 🥰. I just did what I was told after that. Thanks in advance!

@markkonkel4448

3 жыл бұрын

Fish and fish entrails are good natural fertilizer. Some bow fishermen give their harvest to farmers to bury in their garden.

Thanks Leon! I have followed your teachings and it helped feed my family during the lockdown last year. It's been a tough time for us but you and your helping hand have seen us through so far. The virus took my father, and without him I'm the last of our line to grow a plant. Our family sprung from Eastern Kentucky farming, and I spent every summer in Southern Ohio on my Grandfather's farm putting up hay and hoeing Tobacco in the heat. Unless you've done that kind of work folks just don't know just how hard times can get. I do know. I believe you know thatalso, and it's a weight on your heart to help folks. You have helped me and I hope you understand how much that means.

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Thanks for all your information. I have learned so much . I'm a traditional gardener but health reasons I'm trying to downsize and use tubs . Can I keep tubs in direct sunlight or do they need indirect sun ?

I had problems with cucumbers. I tried 3 sets. All died. But I stuck pumpkins in there and they are going pretty crazy. They already have blossoms and 1 pumpkin started.

Thanks a lot for this excellent video I am from India, my question is if I put this barrel under direct sun light, if there is evaporation losses of nutrient, how do I make up the level? Add water or add nutrients? What is the maximum temperature we should maintain for the nutrient?

I used way more master blend then required to get my ppm up like 3-4 times that amount. Not sure why but my cucumbers are growing like crazy 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

God bless you brother.... I'd be interested to know how many different plants you can do this hydroponic with in a 55 gallon drum.

@williamvannoy1336

4 жыл бұрын

Look up Dutch buckets on KZread and I watched a guy suspend his plants with pool noodles to hold his plants upright in the holes!

Please do video on bug and fungus control for tomatoes

Oyster flour, will help with blossom end rot

Daniel Arms dent me over

Greeting Mr. Leon, I have a question : what do I do with the leftover fertilizer mix in the barrel at the end of the season ? can I save it and use it the following year or I have to dump it out and start with new batch . Thank you .

I understand blossom end rot to be more of a watering issue, not enough water makes it impossible to get nutrients through the plants to the the fruit...most soils have plenty of nutrients

I'm a new subscriber. Really enjoy your videos. Does the barrels and buckets have to be food grade? I have access to hydraulic buckets and motor oil barrels. I'm thinking I can clean them out and use them. But I'm not sure. What do you think? Thanks for any advice.

Good one as always Leon. If anybody deserves their brain imprinted to silicon its Leon. MasterBlend sells the 4/18/38, its their tomato blend. Best price I have seen of late for that fertilizer is Morgan County Seeds if you are in reasonably close to MO. They also sell the Calicum Nitrate and Epsom Salts too. No financial interest, just passing on what I found was the best deal if you have to do mail order.

What method uses the least water, wick tub or Kratky?

I used some high powered fertilizer on a cucumber one time and let me tell you what happened I was sowing the seeds in the garden and I turned around and got tangled up in the vines and fell down I reached into my pocket for my knife to cut the vines from around my ankles and i pulled out a cucumber so be careful out there 😂

Can grapes be planted in wicking tubs? I have yet to see a vid on that.

You begin with the 50 gal blue tub filled to a level that hits your plant root at 1/8 in. How much fertilizer do you put in the water. . Is that with you add

Do this works in colder climate? Like Alaska

Can you do this on a smaller scale like with 5 gal buckets?

Wondering about checking the PH

Mr LEON No soil in the small container just pebbles?

have you tried planting with some Biochar ?

I can't remember, was it 2 or 3 days on that seed🤫

Will this formula work on tomato’s?

Could you do a video on pest

do you use RO water or tap?

Can I grow cucumbers in my garage if it's 50 degrees in there or does it have to be summer?

I have a question about the audio. Is it a problem with my devices, or yours? The video/audio recordings I only hear audio from one side of my earbuds. Your videos are very interesting, and informative. Thanks.

@papirojo4228

4 жыл бұрын

It’s in their end. I’m only getting sound on the left channel.

@donnajoacrey2699

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I had issues with the audio on this video as well

@sandrajohnston9745

4 жыл бұрын

I haven't had any trouble with the audio on Leon's videos. Both computer speakers and earbuds.

wait, i'm confused when he talks about the 5 gallon bucket at the end of the video. to plant cucumbers in this 55 gallon bucket, you need to : 1. add water until it almost gets to the top 2. add in 240g, 60g, and 60g of the fertilizer things 3. put the starter cucumber plant in one side with rocks and not dirt right? what does the 5 gallon bucket have anything to do with that? i thought in an earlier video he said he fills up a 55 gallon bucket once per growing season for 1 cucumber plant.

@williamvannoy1336

4 жыл бұрын

Mix up 5 gallon batches of fertilizer /water to refill the 55 gallon drum the plants and evaporation use a lot of water throughout the summer!

First year using wicking tubs and have had the WORST blossom end rot ever.

@jeremywms

4 жыл бұрын

Give them some antacids like Tums. Crush them up and dissolve in water. They're full of calcium and will cure the rot.

Hey Leon, teach me how you plant by the signs.

@wallstreethomestead5979

4 жыл бұрын

Yes please, Leon, I have heard of this before and now you mentioned it, I wish to learn more. Thank you.

@Handles-R-Lame

4 жыл бұрын

Clydes Planting Chart helps me out alot. You can find them on Amazon for 5 bucks.

@fredferbrache8324

3 жыл бұрын

Get a farmers almanac at any drugstore

I tried this last year had some pretty good success but then my plants turn brown and stop growing even though I had plenty of water and nutrient left any idea why ?much the same as the arms family had the first time they tried it

@OkieLou67

3 жыл бұрын

From what I saw on the Arms family, he showed he had some squash bugs, but didn’t realize they were destroying his cucumbers also. Those little buggers will secretly destroy a crop before you know it. I’ve fought them for years and finally gave up. I’m going to try this method in the 5 gal bucket on my patio and hope it works.

Leon, I live in Oklahoma, and I would like to come visit. Is that possible?

Do you sell the sea minerals? If so how do I buy it?

@gardeningwithleon2816

4 жыл бұрын

Third Time Around Ranch call 580-564-2166 Shirley can tell you how much & the price! Thanks for watching & subscribing

My cucumber was going strong then one day the leaves were drooping and within a week it was dead. I did have soil in the cup at the very bottom. That must be where I went wrong. I'm starting another right now. Once it gets up a few inches its going in the barrel.

I live in az, I started several 55 gal some are growing and some aren't. I checked one that wasn't growing the water solution was extremely hot. Is that normal?

@igiveupfine

4 жыл бұрын

well i think that's normal for hot arizona with lots of sunlight. so that means you need to be growing the plant in a cooler area like a shade covered porch or inside.

@chickengama

4 жыл бұрын

@@igiveupfine it is in my greenhouse under a screen

@blissfulacresoffgridhomest2098

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe painting the tassel silver or white will reflect the heat away. I was thinking of buying the reflective silver insulation and using that on my barrels. I live in GV Az. We also have half our greenhouse with 30% shade cover and the other with 80%. Just an idea we are going to try. So far for the first time we have food to harvest!!!

@blissfulacresoffgridhomest2098

4 жыл бұрын

I would love to connect with others gardening in our Arizona desert, Specifically Golden Valley.

Where can I get the blue drums

could you break down 600 grams to cups please meaning how many cups is 600 grams?

@proz1995

4 жыл бұрын

how how many vups is 240 grams as you show on the card?

You didn't show the seed root long enough.

I never learned how to do grams. Can you tell us in Tablespoons or cups please?

@judd_s5643

4 жыл бұрын

Google the conversion

@williamvannoy1336

4 жыл бұрын

I just bought a digital scale to do my measurements even for 50 gallons it fits in my 2 cup measure!

Why use such a large container? Waste of water? I find video to be confusing

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