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You should try to rototill first and cover kill later. Broken ryzomas will grow and die in a better way
that was clearly presented and WOW! From a common sense perspective…brilliant…you saved so many so much time! That's another arrow in the Quiver Curtis…I am enjoying your inverviews and approach to being an anarchist…Love it…Thanks!
Seems like he didn't get the philosophy behind permaculture calling plants "weeds" and criticising permaculture.
Breaking the hardpan… How deep of soil do you need? I grow in raised beds adding an additional 6"-8" on top of the tilled 6"-8"… is that enough for intensive/close quarter square foot-esque gardening? Or should I attempt to break the hardpan in addition to the raising? (Hope that makes sense).
At 10:00, I see 2 steps. Sod removal then tarp cover kill. When should you till? Before putting on the tarp or afterwards? Does tilling bring up some weeds? I think I remember Curtis talking about allowing weed seeds to germinate, and then cover tarp killing them, or something like that?
I REALLY love your channel – you have inspired me to pursue the dream I have had for nearly 15 years now!!! I have a burning question that has been bothering me for a while in doing my research. I'm not trying to single you out, just trying to get information as I work through the process of starting up my own urban farm. Do you do any type of soil testing before you start using soil on a new site? I'm just getting moving with a small start-up farm and feel like I can't trust the local soils where I live, but a single test that actually includes heavy metals is pushing $2,000, and I would prefer to sample multiple spots on a site. It seems like the typical practice is to just use what is there, unless there are very obvious signs of contamination (paint chips, zero vegetation, and no earthworms or other soil insects), but I feel like the only way to make sure is to used raised beds, which would tremendously increase up-front cost, albeit less than the nearly $10K spent on soil testing. What are your thoughts on this?
haha youu funny 🙂 suchh baby talk :p ask a farmer how to get things donee hihi
What is the best way to get rid of bermuda grass? I live in Southern Utah and it is the worst!!
Hi Curtis, great guy. I watch lots of your videos. Can you tell me how I can clear weeds in one acre property? I don't have too much time as my property is in Italy and I go there 2x a year to prune olive trees and harvest the olives. There are too many weeds and I cannot spend money to till it every year. I was thinking of burning the weeds without doing damage to my neighbors. What do you recommend? Thanks so much.
Sounds like the very first crop should be some high quality sod.
Bro Jesse from Australia I am renting!
Not sure how long I can stay!
But i really want to farm i am trying Microgreens but want to start growing in the land the small backyard for me and the kids your videos have really inspired me than you
I really learn alot
The garden of eden method or ruth stout method seems less work lol and better for soil
Your soil is so much darker. I live in western australian near the coast, and our "soil" is literally just sand.
I live in phoenix arizona, im looking for fellow friends to help cultivate any project really. Want to know who your friends are my rule is give them a shovel. PEACE
Seems much simpler to build a raised bed. There’s more cost up front but I would imagine it may be less than the time cost involved in the extensive preparation.
I did this a week ago for two rows… took 3 days. Sore hands, sore shoulders… that was serious forking. It was the only way though, Curtis is right.I am however not going to do more of this way, It was too insane for a lone farmer. In the case of Bermuda, there is not hotspots. 100% cover.
So, let's recap. After I do all the hard work to loosen the soil that the till packed, I add things to the soil and till again which will repack the soil? No thank you.
i was stoked on urban farming until i found out my neighbor used to work for monsanto and sprays the bejesus out of her yard.
What amendment are you adding for clay soil?
This is a lot of work, it destroys the soil structure and it encourages weeds. It is much quicker and easier to cover the ground with cardboard and plenty of compost then plant into it. Keep adding mulch to the top of the bed and don't dig it. Very few weeds will make it through. Check out Charles Dowding for excellent information on no-dig gardening.
This video is a prescription for unnecessary hard work.
Great content. It's made me buy your book, BTW.
Question: what about a no-till approach? There's another YouTube farmer (Charles Downing) who advocates laying out cardboard over a whole site and then just building the beds from compost. He never tills, and doesn't even amend the compost with minerals, though I assume some good azomite would be in order. According to him, he just plants right into the compost day one. He watches for weeds and pulls them while small if they show up, because even bindweed and thistle will die off when starved of new photosynthesis.
He also says that worm and fungal action will break down the hardpan, though it makes sense breaking it up with a fork as you do.
Just curious if you've tried this.
Wow Your so Big scale !
Soo on a fair size, say 50 foot by50 foot plot of pasture unused for 15 years I created a garden . it was in Bancroft Ontario area 20 years back.
I got the hay cut and piled it to the side, In the spring planted hills of squash their distances apart , covered the rest with cardboard then buried that with truck loads of leaves and straw oh and manure.
that year we got a good truck load of squash. fall I buried with more leaves, spring I moved straw and leaves where I planted tomatoes . no weeds left anywhere. the next year I tilled and planted in rows. I recall it worked well . but I planted with a seed drill then mulched with black print news papers not the color print with rotted down saw dust, wood chips from an old mill. the soil never saw the light of day but where the seeds are planted. Not sure what people think of cardboard and news paper in a garden guess its not organic
Most valuable 20 minute lecture I've seen yet!
Pretty great tips Curtis
I accidentally tilled Jerusalem Artichoke, and now that is 80% of my time in the garden…
9:04 who leaves their hatch gaping?
Never thought of so many steps. Thought of doing as a service. No one would want to compensate me for all this work!
i dont understand stage 2