Here is PROOF. 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
Really enjoy your video. this is an excellent one. Helps to know how to increase soil health, get good food productions and food health and weed minimization. love the no till method and especially combining with combining living cover crops. a lot of learning but well worth it. i'll be growing living cover for the first time come this winter. Can you tell me when i should start my cover crops? do i let them die off during the winter for mulch, then replant into it and keep as a living cover? and plant food into this? I'm in zone 7.
thanks for the video collecting this information for success
Thanks for taking the time to make this video for us, I appreciate it.
Hi Mark,
Could you outline a step by step process of converting grass to a garden space?
Right now I have some raised beds already constructed, and I'm using your sunflower and winter rye method by the way, but I'm looking to expand my garden area without raised beds and just grow soil where my grass is currently growing.
I am in the same zone as you.
I plan to inoculate white clover, crimson clover, and mammoth red clover to plant in late August with some sugar snap peas and winter rye what steps can I take to convert the grass to a reasonable area to sow these seeds into? Should I remove the top 2 inches of sod?
I want to grow this mixture of clover, sugar snap peas, and winter rye over winter and be able to plant in the spring.
Thank you
I knew it, I knew it, I knew it! I could see it even before you began to describe it. I thought to myself, look at how much more healthy that tree on the left is with all the different plants around it and on the right was just one plant and it totally dominated the area. Mark, you've got me, man and I'm learning. I love your vids! Nowhere else in Youtube land is anyone doing what you are doing and you are making such a difference in my garden, and I know many others. There is no way to thank you enough for all the time you put in to research and to share your knowledge with us. I'll say it anyway. Thank you!
I can't believe you never have a Japanese beetle issue.
I have re-watched many of your videos and spread the word to anyone who stands still.
You put perfect depth into the details.
Interesting theory, you are probably right in assuming soil life is a part of the seed suppression, not just compeition from the cover crop. it would take testing to find out. I just learned about PLFA analysis to measure bacteria and fungal communities. I have a situation where I could test this on my first season of cover crop into conventionally tilled ground to see how much soil life is there compared to the weed patch on the edge.
Any chance you can show soil from each under the microscope? I'd love to see it!
Excellent video.
I love your videos. I plan to use this method.
Planting some peach trees this winter thanks for the tips!
Hi, Mark. Send some rain back this way. 🙂 I look forward to part 2. Hope the tree is fine inside the weeds. E 🙂
Hi Mark,
Too bad you could not chop and drop the over grown islands before today. Still though when you cut back the weed and it decays that will be food for the worms, and also allow water to drain through the soil. Would be an interesting experiment if on one islands you got in and cut a 2 or 3 foot circle around the trunk of the peach tree and left everything out past that alone. would the ring of weeds protect the tree? Is it typical for newly planted peach trees to produce fruit the first year? Cheers,
Bill
Hi Mark, thanks for the video as always. You mentioned that weeds are not mycorrhizal friendly. I thought that most plants are mycorrhizal friendly. Don't both the weeds and the cover crops help increase the fungal to bacterial ratio? What are factors that make the weeds bad for growing soil, but the cover crops good? Thank you
I saw 2 peaches on that tree. Look again, there is another one to the right of the most prominent one when you zoomed in. 🙂
I planted field peas oats blend Witch will winter kill. Two questions in the fall can I plant garlic into it And in the spring can I plant my onion starts into the straw after winter kill?
Thanks Vince
Hi. I'm a new subscriber and glad to have found your site. You said in this video 'never PULL weeds'. Can you explain why not to pull? Thanks!
Hi,
I've been following your videos since early spring. Thank you for explaining your unique, to me, methods of gardening.
I have a 20×20 raised bed garden. My location is upstate NY in the Hudson Valley, zone 5b, in a valley about .5 miles from the Neversink river.
I am trying to adapt your methods to my garden. I've already ordered 5# winter rye from Johnnyseeds.
In the autumn, I'm planning to sow the rye everywhere. In the beds and the walkways. I'll cut the rye down to 3" in the spring and leave the straw for weed control and not destroy the soil web.
The bed treatment is the question.
Specifically sweet corn with high nitrogen requirements.
Any other suggestions would be welcome.
BTW, I never saw the sequel to the praying mantis project.
I wish people would stop using the word "weed". There is no such thing as a weed my man; just plants that man has deemed unworthy for some reason or another.
I would love to see you do a demo next year of the whole procedure, start to finish, using a grow box with a few different veggies in it. You know… just if you get bored. LOL!
Wowww,your so awesome….thank you so much for the info sir;)looking forward that someday I'll use your method of gardening…good health n happiness n long long satisfied life…Godbless u more sir:)
At 4:29 you say “weeds are not mycorrhizal friendly”. I’m pretty certain you have previously said that you don’t want to remove weed roots and just cut the crowns off because they are mycorrhizal friendly. Can you please clarify?
Thank you.