True NO Till Gardening – Growing ( Building ) Healthy Soil for Deep Mulch Homesteading Organic Vegetables for Beginners 101. Part 1. Composting leaves can also be used in a organic vegetable garden 101 Income.
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True NO Till Gardening – Growing ( Building ) Healthy Soil for Deep Mulch Homesteading Organic Vegetables for Beginners 101. Part 1. Composting leaves can also be used in a organic vegetable garden 101 Income.
Awesome! Wow I've wasted a lot of time tilling.
Every year I plant a winter rye and hairy vetch cover crop. I read that one has to wait until 70% pollen shed on the rye before it will not re-grow after being cut or crimped. Apparently this has not been your experience? I'm with you all the way on no til to preserve soil structure and health. Sometimes if I want to early kill the rye and vetch I'll use the metal blade on my brush cutter an inch under the soil and cut below the crown of the plants. This is not no til pure but is much better than tilling the soil with a rotter tiller.
Good video however a picture of the brassicas growing would have been the proof of the pudding.
What is the blue thing next to the cut rye?
How do u attach the hedge trimmer??
Do you need an old sickle bar mower.
nice
Hi! Could this also be done if i were to use a combination of soghum-sudangrass and cowpea/sunn hemp? I am thinking of doing this in the dry tropics and planting fruiting crops into the mulch and "covercropped" soil. Hope to hear from you!
hedge trimmer on a rake. You're a genius. You do a really great job of explaining the 'why', the ecology and biology… I really hope more people find you and start practicing this method. I truly believe regenerative farming can repair climate change. Subscribed!
Brilliant info you are sharing with us. Much appreciated!
I appreciate this video.. every ones doing wood chips but I like this
Thanks so much for sharing. It's a very useful video
Hi Mark. So if cutting the Perennial rye in the straw stage kills the rye and lays the rye down as mulch why bother with crimping ? Is there any advantage to crimping over cutting or are there other applications that absolutely require crimping for specific reasons ?
Will you not get the problem of the Rye grass growing again, after it has been cut, and competing with the crop? I ask as a prospective market gardener, that is deciding whether or not to go till or no till.
Very Nice. Thank You.
Why are your woodchip paths wider then your beds?
Hi. An avid subscriber here. Can rice be successful with this method? Have not gone through reading the Fukuoka method but yours seem similar.
Thanks for doing cover crops and helping clean the air and absorbing CO2.
Hiya Mark hope you're well!
This has just answered my prayers on alot of areas to do with growing veggies. I have a few questions I hope you can answer.
What cover crop do you suggest to use here in UK on a small scale?
Does normal lawn grass seed have any benefits to the soil, so using that as a cover crop?
And I saw you plant a brassica plant at the end of vid, do you have any problems with slugs or butterflies eating them or do you cover them?
Your channel is amazing thank you for all the hard work and much love from England, UK!
Can I direct sow after a cover crop? Thanks for this!!
Is red clover a good cover crop for a small garden?
I would like some direction for my tomato garden. I did a no till this past winter but added horse manure on top and planted my tomatoes. If I did the winter rye and cut it , could I add horse manure and plant my tomatoes. Im speaking of horse manure last year I put down in nov. It does sound like I cant do the rye and the horse manure.
When you planted the winter rye did you till the ground first or direct seed or what? I guess I am asking what was the soil condition prior to planting the rye? I have fields that are just sod with grass and weeds. I brush hog it but want to start gardening. Don’t have a tractor tiller or hand tiller either and want to avoid buying tillers if I can.
This guy is very clever and pratical. I remembered I like his videos but i forgot how pratical he was with tools and the approach in general.
Mark at the end of the growing season do you reseed with winter rye again? Or use something different?
Just found you channel! I’m a senior in Horticulture at the UO Arkansas. Thanks for this no till method!
Since you were planting kale and it doesn’t use mycorrhizae will the kale hurt the mycorrhizae?
Thanks, i was searching someone like u from a long time, i need ur knowledge and experience thank u for all this, really thank u.
Is it true that methane is a much more powerful green house gas than co2 ? if so we have a problem Houston because the ocean is growing algae all over the 6 times more area and it eventually rots and becomes methane and that goes into the atmosphere, I work in a marina and every day at low tide the water bubbles like crazy from the methane. Also dont all plants eventually decompose into methane or no. if so then plants and photosynthesis is the true or biggest reason for global warming because as far as I know plants are the only thing that store the suns energy for any length of time. good channel by the way and dont mean to speak heresy . Just food for thought.
6:00 from my soils, i tried planting this way and it was NOT happening. Tried planting tomatoes into Wheat and the soils is still really hard from last year. In General our soils in Ontario are very hard but i have faith my Organic No till will work. i was always Organic, but if i can build healthier soils with less input and better ground then why not.