NO TILL Homesteading Organic Vegetable Gardening method with deep mulch for beginners 101, Pt 7. Also How to build healthy soil – You can use composting leaves too.
VIDEO: True NO TILL Organic Vegetable Gardening with mulch for beginners 101. Pt 7
NO TILL Homesteading Organic Vegetable Gardening method with deep mulch for beginners 101, Pt 7. Also How to build healthy soil – You can use composting leaves too.
A great source for cardboard I can vouch for, are the dumpsters behind stores. Usually, now they separate recyclable and trash in different dumpsters. Furniture stores and office supply stores are the best 🙂 You sure have some great soil there Mark!..congrats
I hope I can get that problem lol
Why do /did you plant in paper instead of in the straw?
So exciting to see the signs of a fungal dominant eco system at work! What we all are aiming for. Great post!
I am glad it turned out to be good news. I think the amount of rain contributed to the breakdown also. Making it easier for the worms.
Would it be bad just to let the rye grow around the kale and roman lettuce to a certain height like 1 or 2 inch ? And have you thought useing Hairy vetch alongside rye or is that redundant?
This sounds like the merging of two sides of a coin. BTE was the simplistic implementation of the soil food web whereas your method (growing soil) is the methodical implementation. It sounds like it is time to pile on the wood chip and let the fungal process flourish and exemplify itself as the BTE it's suppose to be. Perhaps what took Paul to do in 30 years you were able to do in 6 years.
Hey Mark! I hope all is well with you. This video got me thinking. I have a fairly new garden and I covered it in wood chips last year and this year put down a good amount of compost. I am not far from you and have been experiencing the same wet weather as you. I think bc of that I have these massive mushrooms growing all over the place. Some even grew up through my chives and pushed them away. Any idea why I would be getting so many mushrooms? Could I have a very dominate fungus to bacteria ratio bc of all of the woody materials?
just put more paper on top before planting. it only needs to last a few months. carboard my not be organic
I've been looking for a video on how to establish a cover crop into an existing grass/lawn without tilling first. Do you have any suggestions?
Congrats on having such a problem, may we all be afflicted……hehe. ; )
So when soil testing is done to determine what soil deficiency there might be, are you saying that this is not really necessary?
Instead, it's better to focus on cover crops and organic matter?
Love, Love, Love this!
Hello Mark. What do you do for cabbage moths (loopers). My kale gets cut to ribbons. Thanks.
I' m a small scale organic , backyard gardener, and used to use newspapers..[6 thick] for a one year weed barrier. I switched over to nice large card board boxes, as they last longer, and no newsprint. Usually I wet them down good, then cut the planting holes, or if doing a close spaced row, just plant, wait till the seedlings come up, and then but them up close and cover with some mulch material….[I like wood chips, as they hold it down well and are pretty].
MARK!
I live in Pittsburgh, PA. quick question, could I plant a cover crop and just mow a path lay down the organic paper and plant instead of using woodchips? trying the best way to avoid watering the plants every day.
Gosh on the surface it looks like you outsmarted yourself on this one but I think the reality is you have a win-win if you just put the paper down as you plant into it rather than letting it lay there to decompose while waiting for the later plantings.
Mark, this was an interesting development! I'm seeing that one is always learning!
Good to hear it worked out in the end. I've been using cardboard with cutouts in parts of my organic garden for years and I can tell you it works great! I get ample cardboard from our 2 local C0-Op Organic Stores to be sure there isn't any toxic ink used in the print on the boxes. I also soak the cardboard 'slightly' first. Makes it easier to set down and cut.
May I ask how much the fencing and weed barrier cost for your no till planting? looks like the cost would rather on the high end
Why do you not use molasses?
any chance you can playlist the series and put it into the notes section? I'd like to be able to hit your series easier when I'm on my phone.
Do your crop roots get problems to spread in the soil as you don't tilling
very interesting gardening method youre using. how long have you been doing it this way for?
It makes sense that any organic matter last less when organic biology is thriving , i certainly notice organic food lasts less in the healthier plots