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All fantastic videos, keep it up! Would you put fertiliser and compost back in for all crops as a common rule? A Friend of mine said no need to compost/fertilise for some things like beetroots…
#surfacetill
Just ordered your book too!
what's your soil type, subtype and stone? looks quite handy to work with
Hi Curtis, I am having trouble finding a tillter for use in my greenhouse, can you tell what I should be looking for, thanks. Not a tiller but used for shallow tilling and I think yours is man-powered.
That forking is what I am planning to do to a backyard which I have had tarped over for weeks. The grass is now a yellowing color. I wanted to do this before I rototill. Am I adding more work for myself? Can I just go straight to rototilling?
"Alright that's our spring bread bed prep. – Curtis Stone." – Michael Gavin.
You are an inspiration and a gift to humanity. Thank you.
If you use a high wheeled cultivator, you can get the job done using the big muscles of your legs instead of your back. By the way, for harvesting tender things like lettuces I found a small Japanese scythe. Perhaps that it really not the right word, but the blade is shaped like one and when razor sharp zips though organic material very easily.
I like the video and it is what works for you. If you left the cutting on the ground so that it would compost would you cut out three steeps and have less work?
You really started to pick up the pace at the end
Greetings Curtis,
First of all I want to thank you for sharing so much information with us.
I think I heard you say in one of your many videos that tilling kills the soil bacteria.
Actually that's not the case, tilling aerates the soil and encourages bacterial activity resulting in a faster organic matter consumption thus affecting the structure of the soil.
Hi Curtis, would you say the tilther is essential to start? I was planning on renting a rototiller for initial bed prep, and weren't sure.
I received your book a few weeks ago, read it and love it. The extra perks with the online tools was amazing. Thank you!
After just some consecutive crops, the soil really softens up a lot. Curtis, after your visits to Roebuck Farm, are you going to use the deeper fork and fork every bed turnover this season?
Man, looks like that fork is going in like butter! I didn't see you need to jump on it a single time! lol Loved this straight forward vid. Let the haters hate, they just don't understand. Thanks for sharing your methodologies so openly. I need to get me one of those tillfers! Such appropriate tech!
Finally, someone that shares in clear details what it’s like to prep the ground with a no till approach, thank you for your help and your support.
Hi Curtis, Love your videos. Where do you get your tools , the plastic tarps & landscape plastic? Is there links to all of the items. So glad I found you. You are so knowledgeable. Thank you so much for all of you do & your videos ♥️
Hey curtis another question – In another video I just finished watching, you mentioned you never step on your beds. Is this the only circumstance in which it is "ok" to step on them? @4:05 because you're simultaneously compacting and aerating. Or should you try to fork from the walking path?
Curtis…..did you make this tilther? Is there a link to buy something like this one?
I saw someone on youtube (sorry can't remember who) who said that it made no difference to use a broad fork, so I would love to do two beds, one that's had a broad fork in and one that wasn't to see the difference in crops, if I remember, they said that the worms etc will come up through the soil and do the job for you and so there is really no reason to do it apart from time wasting, so I get why. when I get our new land, may do a test. Has anyone tried this?
What brand and thickness of landscape cloth do you use in your vegetable gardens
Great information and demonstration. Question: Why not plant right through the remains of last season's crop? I've seen and heard a lot about no-till gardening and farming, and doing it the way Nature does it. Imitating Nature implies leaving whatever on the ground and letting it become part of the soil and let chickens and time scratch it into the ground. Does this make sense? Any guidance is certainly appreciated. Thanks again for the demonstration.
Awful lot of digging for no till.
It would be interesting to mix your style of market gardening with Charles Dowding's style.
What kind of tiller was that? How does it fit into no till?
What is the name of that tool??
I hit like and it was cool to see a flip but this is low till not no till. Wish I understood all the jibberish about ditching YouTube. Tried to find you on that other thing no luck. Frustrating if you/yours still read comments love to get instructions for the old folks
you do the prep in the Fall not spring, so you can give the garden a chance to settle the compost in to the ground and prep it for you.
What’s the first tool call? Thanks