NO TILL Back to Eden Method Homesteading Organic Vegetable Gardening Soil Building with deep mulch – wood chips for beginners 101, Pt 8. Soil improvement . Also How to build healthy soil – You can use composting leaves too.
Mycorrhizal list : http://www.rootnaturally.com/PlantListMycorrhizal.pdf
Hi Mark. Thank you for the video as always. On your last video about the peach trees you told me about how weed plants are not mycorrhizal friendly. At that same time I was doing a little experiment trying to educate my father about how most plant roots are beneficial to each other when mixed. He is paranoid about plants crowding out each other. I planted Purple Queen, Aloe Vera, a pepper plant, and Purslane into a single pot. After I read what you told me about the roots of weed plants, I researched the subject some and decided that weed roots basically compete with mycorrhizal roots. In the experiment I was doing, Purslane is a weed. Sure enough yesterday I checked all the plants in that experiment pot and none of the Purslane cuttings took root. Purslane cuttings normally root aggressively. I believe the other plants and the healthy mycorrhizal system in their roots suppressed the Purslane.
How did you "get rid of" the weeds?
Hi, Mark. Yes. That was interesting. How are your blue berries doing?
peach look yummy – waiting to see your next video
Wondering why you didn't chop and drop the weeds in place and leave them there as added organic matter?
The permaculture folk often mention coppiced black locust next to cash trees. Is that practical?
It looks like you have not pruned your 1 year old trees. Is this right?
Hi Mark, very interesting as usual. I'm learning a lot from you about cover crops and building soil. A question not pertaining to soil, do you prune your peach trees or just let them grow as they see fit?
I want to thank you for all your posts, I really enjoy them. I am getting ready for my 2nd year gardening. I will actually be starting a new area that has nothing growing in it for years. It is the end of July, and I am in Central California. I hate to wait until the fall leaves come (very end of November) so was thinking of tilling the top 1 – 1 1/2 inches of dirt so I can sow a cover crop. The idea then would be to crimp the cover crop in November and then cover with fall leaves. Any suggestions of what I might do different? Thanks again for all of your videos, you are an inspiration.
The peach trees look beautiful. Have you had any problem with peach leaf curl?
Hi MARK. I have mushroom growing all over my garden. do you know if it's good or bad ?
Thanks, Mike
Do you have a video on the peach varieties that you are growing I want to plant some but I want a large sweet peach what would you recommend
First 4 peach trees REDHAVEN and the other 4 are SUNCREST…THANKS
Glad I rewatched this. I’m planting 5 fruit trees this weekend in my rood chips and I was planning on putting legume seeds around the trees giving them some extra fertilization.
I'm a little disappointed. I thought weeds were not supposed to grow through woodchips. Why is there weeds growing through wood chips?
Mark, have you ever read " 10 Acres Enough"? It's a story written by a man that had a small truck farm in NJ back in the mid 1800's. https://archive.org/details/tenacresenoughpr00morriala You can download a pdf copy here if you'd like.
Been binging on your videos, great content, keep up the good work.
ive seen many other youtubers content, but you are on the top of my list when explaining fungi, bacteria, protozoa, nematodes, and most importantly Growing Soil, root, cover crops, micro-organizem.
From your last video, I thought the peach tree on the right with all the green lush weed would be better for plant, roots and micro-organizem etc….
but i think you also mention weeds are not Mycorrhizal type of Fungi, so is that the key difference?