Free Soil Testing for Your Garden, Back to Eden Method with wood chips for building healthy Soil. Checking to see if you have ( AMF ) mycorrhizal fungi.
VIDEO: Free Soil Testing for Your Garden, Back to Eden Method with wood chips for building healthy Soil
Free Soil Testing for Your Garden, Back to Eden Method with wood chips for building healthy Soil. Checking to see if you have ( AMF ) mycorrhizal fungi.
I'm learning from you and I appreciate that. I had biden take over. is that something that has a good root for fixing the soil? i removed most of it from the root.
I said it before, Your bucket isn't scratched up enough. Its too pretty! Scuff that puppy up! 🙂 Get it to proper-farmer-look 😉
A little confused. It look to me the two samples came from the same spadeful, yet when you put them in the jars you called one BTE and the other my garden. What am I missibg?
Is it better to take a soil sample in the summer? It's December in Indiana and although we've had a few freezes, the ground isn't frozen yet. Could this still work now? Thanks again for all the info!
cool!
I have seen all the videos up til this one. Thank yo so much for sharing your experiments. I am new to gardening. My small area I put boxes in because my soil is clay clay clay…my cover crop is poison ivy, and its as tall as me. no exaggeration.. I've been pulling up all those roots like crazy and have been breaking up the soil. I have composted straw that I put down in the boxes and then the leaves that I crushed and watered, then new loose straw on top. I planted garlic and hope it grows… I love this series and want to continue to follow and learn from your experience. I love the way you explain it with props and that makes it also entertaining for my young daughters who also want to learn with me. 3, 8, 11. Keep it coming!!! Thank you!!!
been watching elaine ingham for a couple years, have really enjoyed david bryant and Gabe Brown equally as well and of course Ray Archuletta, buti want to thank you for being so thorough and using your land as an experiment and putting it all together for us laymens and backyard garden enthusiasts
Excellent, thorough yet simple explanation.
You hit the nail on the head again !
Fascinating..!
Another interesting test that people can do is to add you soil to a jar of water and shake well. Let it sit for a few hours and it will form layers of clay, sand and silt. That will tell you your ratios and what you soil is like.
Great videos. Don't see any sort of hoses at all. Do you irrigate at all? How?
I've been experimenting for several years using clover as a companion plant. Or, I should say, I'm using plants as companions to my clover. I got started on these experiments because of weeds. I noticed in my pasture where I have clover, very few weeds manage to get through. Coupled with my understanding of the benefits of clover, I started small plots/strips of planting in a section of clover. For planting corn, I would mow the clover at a height of 2" to 3". You don't want to mow it to low. Weeds will break through. Using Boone County White, I spaced the seeds 1' apart on 3' rows about 40'. The trick is to mow the clover when needed before and during the corn germination.( Carefully set mowing height. Mow the clover. Not the corn) Once the corn gets to a height the mowing stops except between rows. Carefully mow (low RPMs) blowing the the clippings toward the corn plants. Be careful not create piles of clippings on the corn. It'll heat up and burn or choke the plant. Take any excess and move it to the compost.
This year I planted onion bulbs before the clover got started. By the time the onions were rooted in the clover was taking off and I just let it go. It's the best onions I ever grew.
Here's another problem I solved with clover. I've been a landscaper for nearly 40yrs and from my experience, grass clippings are the worst composting material you can use. Especially "BERMUDA GRASS". It will make you a slave, not if, but when it gets in your garden. My solution is a clover lawn. What king decided we can only use a bladed grass lawn?
Thank you, I understood lots of things before making mistakes
Your videos are brilliant thank you. I have learnt so much. By the way, I fount plenty of fungi,(white frail roots) from half way down in a pile of woodchips. How should I have added these to my B2Eden garden? Waiting for your reply with baited breath
I have no questions. You are very thorough. I completely understand. If I didn't then I couldn't waste my time watching. Thank you.
How do you spell it? Glowmanine?
Mark, I know that you said we need tree roots. Please explain the Midwest plains with the great amounts of top soil with no trees. Good stuff. Thanks
Hi Mark although I live next door to a vet I do not give my chicken antibiotic I feed them fermented grains and that has taken away the occasional illness. They are some time free range because I have predators and I go to work so I have to keep them safe.
I really appreciate your work and the way you explained this episode. I live and garden in the woods in southwest Mississippi actually on a gravel vane. Great drainage. This winter I have exploded the woods for the biggest pine trees where I raked and gather as much mycorrhazale soil as I could get. Please tell me the best way to incorporate it in to my garden soil. I have already spread 2 trailer loads. Light raked it in and covered with shredded leaves around my plants. Am I on the right track? Another month and I'll be planting summer garden and I want to be ready. Thank you.
This video just answered some questions and confirmed some ideas for next year in our back to eden food forest. Thanks
Thank you for all your videos! This is my first year gardening and I’m grateful to have people like you! Happy gardening
Great simple test that does not cost anything thank you
So perhaps my infestation of Bermuda grass throughout the west side of my garden which grew straight through several inches of wood chips on the south side of this Eastern section and also through several inches of hay on the north side of this Eastern section is actually a beneficial infestation.I'm wondering because the Bermuda grass has a very persistent heavy root structure which not only grows easily through the wood chips but also seems to dig deep into the clay underneath. Perhaps if I can keep the Bermuda grass from taking over by constantly picking the green that emerges above and leaving the roots down below I'll drowned out its ability to photosynthesize yet I'll still have the benefit of its root structure decaying through the wood chips, hay and clay.
What are your thoughts about this Bermuda grass situation? It seems like it gave me a natural ground cover where I wasn't educated enough to supply my own ground cover. Its roots are so powerful that they penetrate the clay.
Thank you.
Awesome!!
Late to finding this series, but I really like it. Wishing you and your family well!
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