How To Grow ( Build ) DIRT to Healthy SOIL ( F: B ) in NO TILL Homesteading Organic Vegetable Gardening with Mulch for beginners 101 improvement. By increasing FUNGAL. Increase your income.
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~Dr Elaine Ingham – www.soilfoodweb.com. Plant Succession Ladder as a Function of Fungi:Bacterial Ratio (F:B)
Mycorrhizal Chart : http://mycorrhizae.com/wp-content/uploads/Types-of-Mycorrhizal-Plants.pdf
Thank you Mark. Maybe next video share with us which types of plants to plant for both endo and exto mychorrizal fungi. or give us resources to find appropriate plants for our zones. Thanks again. Your videos are my favorite on all of youtube. Truly beneficial knowledge.
You are so cool!
Great video, thank you! I've been waiting patiently to see what the rows would look like all planted together and now I can really see the whole concept of back to Eden gardening – live! The plants all look so very healthy! I'm looking forward to getting my own 'forest garden' floor covered in winter rye this coming fall and begin growing soil so I can at least have a shade garden:).
nice video i like alot what u doing but i dont have seen alot of different crops if you showed that you produce alot from this (method) peopel wil start doing it since they see profit . also have you ever looked in to (Quick cut greens harvester) and micro greens fore winter? that what peopel seems to eat these days?
Another "excellent" video. This site is the 'go-to' for a scientific explanation of growing food/soil. I recommend this to many farmer friends.
Sharp video, Mark. Is the plan, to let the 2 x 300 foot strips of cover crops grow for several years, without the need for any replanting?
Always fab! I'm growing a couple of beds with a mix of cover crops into which I'll plant my winter crops later, and I've planted some corn on top (almost) of last year's sunflowers to see what happens, and have planted LOTS of sunflowers this year. Following all your experiments….
Enjoy your videos. Question: since the weather has stopped tree service trucks from delivering me more chips, I'm having a heck of a time with wild violets in my chip walkways and plots. I'm starting to think I'm better off accepting the violets as natural ground cover until such time as I can get enough chips to bury the lot. Any idea that's a good or bad decision? Looking forward to more videos…
04:15 …carbon pulled out of the atmosphere…?
I searched under every tab for the Plant Succession Ladder. Do you have a link pathway to that specific page?
Thank you for all that you do!
Fantastic information….God Bless you for all your work to share your wisdom. You are just a wonderful human being for doing this…
I pray for many blessings for you.
Hi Mark. Thank you for your videos. I have an all clay backyard very near the house. How deep do I layer the woodchips on top of the clay to get fungal growth happening?
Hello, for an experiment I planted 3 indeterminate tomato plants on an outside border of woods with a southern exposure. I added about 50% compost the holes (no fertilize), covered with mulch around base and left alone. They are about 4 feet from gum tree saplings (16' tall). They get 7.3 hours of direct sunlight each day. My idea was that they would plug into the food web and that the established mycorrhizal fungi would make them take off. They are not growing worth a durn. What did I do wrong? Is there such a thing as too much mycorrhizal fungi? I know from you that forest have alot more than a 1:1 ratio. thanks ahead
If one is trying to increase fungal ratio, why not plant the whole field of wood chips? Why just rows of raised beds? Thanks
I am a bit confused, how to do you prevent your cover crop from producing seeds and taking over your whole farm? Also, if you plant things in between it, how do you prevent the cover crops from coming back in and stealing nutrients from your desired plant. Shouldn't I just plant winter rye and cut down in the spring. What the advantage of keeping cover crop in year round when you can plant more productive plants instead to feed you instead of cover crop taking up the space? Also, for a wide range of vegetable, would you recommend woodchips, leaves, or both?
So is that why its better to use winter rye then annual rye because if height but annual rye can be used as a cover crop as well.
actually ectomycorrhizal fungi do penetrate the root (intercellular spaces) , but not the cell wall of the roots.
What about using dirt from the forest to make your mix for tomatoes? Let me share my experience of growing tomatoes a couple of years ago. I mowed my backyard; This was early spring. Marked where I was going to plant my tomatoes. I dug a hole about 6 inches in diameter by about 12 inches deep. I then dumped into the hole some potting mix. Made a small hole and buried my 8-inch plant up to its leaves. Leveling the soil with the top of the grass, I then covered the area around the plant with wood shavings out to about 2 feets. After, about a month of watering well, I scraped back the wood shavings to see what was going on under there and found the ground covered with large earthworms. My tomato plants did well with some having blossom end rot. No tilling. I'm thinking about trying that out once again. There is one thing I found is that don't ever let weeds take over your garden: they bring all kinds of bad stuff.
I agree with the gist of this but "anything that is not bacteria, is fungal," isn't accurate. Protozoa and nematodes are not fungi, they are microfauna. I like the idea of the wood chips between beds but your beds are a bit narrow and the walkways are a bit wide. You'd harvest more sunlight (more yield and more carbon going into the system) if you narrowed your walkways. The more green, the more photosynthesis.
I've been gardening for about 25 years and have always covered the garden w/ at least 6" of leaves in the Fall, but our soil just doesn't improve. Looking at pictures from 20 years ago it seems to be getting worse. I've started using wood chips as mulch this year. Do we have to do cover crops? Would prefer not too.
How far away can those spores form from the host plant?
How do spiders contribute to building soil?
what is your take on compost teas to stimulate fungal activity… thanks
Won't the perennials like alfalfa, even after being cut(and regrown), interfere with the vegetable crops that will be planted after?
excellent info;
Do you realize you may be revolutionizing some important factors in gardening and weeding? I feel this has strong implications; like your other videos . thank you very much.
I understand about keeping a living root in the ground and have always wondered why we did things the way we do and fight against. Correct me if I am wrong but to me, nature doesn't make mistakes. My question is, is there certain plants I need to grow to bring in the fungi? why I ask is my garden area always has something growing weather it is my veggies or the weeds and grasses and like now I have all of the above in some parts, its never without some kind of growth except in my pathways where I put cardboard and leaves, hay, or grass clippings to keep a clear walking path
Mark amazing microscopal ability suggestion for potted figs perrenial root as part of food web thank you. Keep up the good work noel.
Thank you.