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LIST link: http://www.rootnaturally.com/PlantListMycorrhizal.pdf
thanks again for the lesson Mark. How tall will your cover crop get? Im trying to picture how I will use this in my garden. Why wouldn't i plant my entire garden in cover crop, place plates on the ground where i want to grow vegetables, and let it grow? Can you mow the cover crop if it gets too tall, or is that going to un do what you did? Thanks in advance.
What I hear you describing is this – our current way of thinking (competition, extraction, deficit, replacement) has got us into trouble by depleting from the soil what only nature can replace. In nature, plants cooperate, contribute and produce a surplus that compounds and works to create diversity. That diversity creates stability.
I also hear echos of Hazelip, when she tried to mimic Fukuoka's method in the south of France. She had to adapt his methods using the principles he advocated in order to make it work in her climate. You are observing and interacting with your environment (permaculture principle) and adapting the BTE methodology to work there. You are not slavishly adhering to any prescription, but working with your natural systems to create abundance.
Keep the faith, brother!
Wouldn't the fungus be able to live in the wood chips?
also i am wondering if it is better to inoculate with myco fungus or let it find the garden naturally. I have no idea how many different myco there are, are there "native" varieties.
Very interesting and thanks for the plant list
I can't thank you enough for the information that you have provided in your many videos. I have learned an awful lot, but I do have one quick question: Instead of planting winter rye in your wood chip gardens and elsewhere, why not simply buy mycorrhizae and spread that? It seems that then you would have the fungus that you need while not having to deal with the Winter Rye growth in your garden later in the season… I am a novice at this, so I am just looking for your expertise on this question. Thank you!
Excellent videos. I also live in zone 6b. Would it be too late to plant ground cover you mention now?When would be the optimum time to plant ground cover? Thanks
it seems to me a paradox, for example before you punted wood chips it was growing grass but you killed it intentional so you disturbed ore killed the mycorrhizal fungi now you are trying to get more weeds (perennials) is that that you wont mycorrhizal fungi only in wood chips ore i am missing the point.
Ok, we are converting our garden ( 30×200'). If I understand your "lessons learned", soil "raised beds" planted with clover/peas/sunflowers, with chips in between the rows? Too late for rye this year, I can get an early start in the spring with some hoops to get some My. Fungi in as early as possible.
Really interesting, this makes me think I should start some plants in my lawn without clearing a large area but rather dig some small holes right in the lawn, perhaps pumpkins or melons or squash would really work out in such a situation. This is so different than most lawn to garden conversions where someone rips out the land and then rototills the soil makes rows, etc.
Where would you suggest getting the soil for planting? I'm just starting out and my compost won't be enough come planting time?
Hi Mark, surely the roots of these cover crops will choke the roots of any crops you plant especially the grasses. They will also compete with your crop plants for moisture in dry periods?
Thanks again Mark for sharing and educating us all on this method of gardening. The voice quality and video quality of these presentations are excellent. It is a superb course on a much needed topic. Hope you will continue to produce them.
Are you getting the extra soil needed for the raised beds from the area between the rows and pulling it into the raised beds?
Thank you. I have learned a lot over the course of your videos. How would this work for small gardens? I garden intensively. Would this work in a greenhouse?
Thank you! I am just wondering, why not plant the cover on the whole field instead of a row? i.e. why not have roots in the soil on the whole field? I do see the benefit of using your row soil to raise your beds, but I'm just thinking having living roots on your whole field builds soil across the whole field.
Hands down one of the MOST important gardening videos I have seen. Thank you!
Another great video
Hi Mark, I love all your well explained videos, thank you for all your work!
I have a question about the brassica family and mycorrhiza fungi.
I found an article that said that the brassica family decrades the myccorhizal fungi. (Check google ‘the invasive plant: brassica degrades micorrhizas’)
I was wondering if you wanted to test this this year and wondering if it is a good idea to plant brassicas in an different part of the land so it won’t affect the other plants in the garden/ to help the garden food web?
Would be great to hear from you, thank you!
Kind regards, Elvire
So when I took down my pool to put a wood chip garden in it was all sand. We went down the road to a nursery a got black soil and put that down first and then we went and got mushroom fertizer and put that down. Then we went back to the nursery and good clean wood chips and put them down
Opps and planted, my plants are so large and healthy and thick, the mushroom fertilizer was what really did the trick. Thanks for explaing all that.
I really want to try growing vegetables in a green patch next season! One thing I don't understand: I can find as many videos showing that weeded vegetables do better than unweeded. Is there a functional difference between the random weeds and your cover crops? Is it all about the nitrogen?
do you run your rows in a certain direction north/south, east/west
How do u fight pests?
I really enjoyed this series of videos. Thank you.
Thanks for the great videos, you have taught me so much, can't wait to listen and learn more!
Plants do need more water if they are in symbiosos with on of the 30 endomycorrhizal fungi, however they do have better access to it due to a larger root system and the fungis ability to absorb water in very dry conditions, it should be noted though, that some mycorrhizal fungi inhibit others, for example those of orchids and Ericaceae, and high levels of posphorus, nitrogen and damp soil severly limit the mycorrhizal fungi
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I’m starting to pick up what you’re putting down . Excellent video Tks