HOW & WHY Plants Build ( Grow ) the BEST Healthy SOIL in No Till Vegetable Gardening for beginners Series 101. Part 1. Deep mulch gardening.
VIDEO: HOW & WHY Plants Build ( Grow ) the BEST SOIL in Vegetable Gardens for beginners Series 101. Part 1
HOW & WHY Plants Build ( Grow ) the BEST Healthy SOIL in No Till Vegetable Gardening for beginners Series 101. Part 1. Deep mulch gardening.
So the reason weeds don’t grow soil is that they only give back 20% of what they take? Thanks Mark, that answers a question I’ve had for months about why weeds don’t grow soil. Last year I put down cardboard under the wood chips and had zero weeds. But this year after the cardboard broke down the weeds have punched up through the wood chips everywhere and it's horrible. If I plant winter rye in the fall everywhere would the rye prevent weeds from growing next year? If I just pile on more wood chips the weeds will pop through I’m sure. Thanks!
thank you for info video
be well
Mark, I have a question sort of along these lines that I'm hoping you can help me with. I understand that, in nature, the plants that thrive are an indication of what the soil is healthy in and also what it is lacking in that those thriving plants will provide. Is there a website or other free source you can direct me to that lists what common plants provide to the soil that indicates what is lacking? ie, nitrogen fixing plants/trees. I am wanting an all around resource that I can go to for reference without researching each individual plant. Thank you and thank you for your videos and knowledge sharing.
You make this so easy to understand. I really appreciate all that you do to share what you are learning and verifying. Hopefully sharing these videos through social media will get these methods into the hands of those who will apply your methods to good effect. Many Blessings!
So do you put that water back into the garden? You were right on that molasses thing, that was the video I saw, I just got it backwards.
Thanks, Mark. That was a great lesson. Plants also clean up the soil like brassicas/mustard's after potatoes. Nature is full of helpful and healing things.
Best wishes. E 😉
Your soil is looking very healthy Mark! Nice job building up that soil!
Mark can you please make a foto of the whole content of the Elaine Ingham doctor. in your video i cannot read what s is in the bords.
thanks
Awesome video! I love your channel! Popping corn is so much fun. You are very knowledgeable. Your garden looks nice. Happy gardening. Cheers!
Just getting started with my garden.
Learnt a lot from your channel.
Today I'm spreading straw over a piece of land where I had my above ground pool, to get it ready for next year.
The yields this year from my other garden have been great.
Thank you!
Ever try to grow a plant like sweet potato, in water? I remember how the clean water got cloudy and had to be changed after a couple days. I wonder if these sugars and proteins pumped out by sweet potato roots were to blame?
Good stuff Mark! Now I have to grow popcorn next year.
Great info. Will plant more corn next year
Hi Mark,
I cannot make out what the cover crop is below the corn is.
In an earlier comment, I asked you about the N needs of corn.
You implied in your reply, if I did not misunderstand, that supplemental N is unnecessary, and you would elaborate in a later post. Is this the post you were referring to?
I'll expand on my question, with your forbearance.
I have received my winter rye seed already. I'm planning to seed my garden beds with rye around labor day. Before planting I will spread out .5 inch of compost, possibly more if I have it. In last early spring, a Logan soil test indicated a deficiency of Ca, B, and S. I supplemented with CaSO4, gypsum, and borax. I will plant new zealand white clover, after inoculation, in the walkways. I'm located in zone 5B. The first snows occur around Thanksgiving. Last frost date is May 25. I intend to cut the rye around May 9, my birthday. I will cut it with a hedge clipper as you demonstrated. I will plant seeds and transplants also as you demonstrated.
Any comments you may have would be appreciated.
Thanks again for an excellent, excellent video. Also thanks for sacrificing several plants along the way to show us your videos subject in concrete terms.
Do you have a video with your greenhouses? Thank you
Hey, just wanted to say when we plant the cover crop seeds you sent us we will give you a good shutout. Thanks so much for the generous gift. -Art
I've been following your videos for some time. I really appreciate your efforts. Personally, I struggle with a plot of heavy clay that is soaking wet for much of spring. Have been adding wood chips and see improvement but expect a late planting and autumn harvest are my only recourse. Here is something I thought you might find of interest.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.475.2036&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Sir, what do you do with your green waste? I believe I read somewhere that you don't make compost but I'm assuming you produce some that you don't just leave on the ground?
Sir, I have been watching many of your videos and it is very informing, being new to gardening it is hard to keep up but you explain it very well. I am now gardening in containers because I only have my balcony to plant things in. Is there any video of you that you can refer me to that can be helpful to my container gardening? Thank you for your work and all your effort that you put in to this, making it available for us all.
Where oh where did you go? I love your videos!
Missing your videos…
Mark, are you growing Comfrey on your farm?
If you cut winter rye low with hedge clipper in the spring will it kill it so i can plant tomatoes
Great easy to understand explanation Mark!
Now shouldn't you take some soil that has no roots and agitate that around in some water for a comparison? To like' complete the test?
Wow! that is great!
Hello Mark! Is it ok to grow Peas (with innoculant) next to carrorts, radishes? Won't the root crop absorb those innoculants?