HOW & WHY Plants Build ( Grow ) the BEST Healthy SOIL in No Till Vegetable Gardening for beginners Series 101. Part 2. Deep mulch gardening. How to remineralize soil.
VIDEO: HOW & WHY Plants Build ( Grow ) the BEST SOIL in Vegetable Gardens for beginners Series 101. Part 3
HOW & WHY Plants Build ( Grow ) the BEST Healthy SOIL in No Till Vegetable Gardening for beginners Series 101. Part 2. Deep mulch gardening. How to remineralize soil.
I started out in raised beds with a mixture of compost and peat moss, is there anyway I can change this to become s living soul instead of a compost raised bed?
When people use comfrey to "remineralize" the soil, is that possible or are the minerals present in the organic matter from plants not available enough for compost to supply mineral nutrients?
If compost is breaking down into the air would you not have an ever increasing mineral concentration?
If you use the no till method, it will help lock that carbon into the soil, and it can take thousands of years for that carbon to leave the soil biome if it ever does. The anaerobic parts of the soil biome, is the greatest carbon sink in the world. All that crude oil deep in the ground, came from organic carbon that became trapped in anaerobic parts of the soil biome. The deeper the carbon goes into the soil, away from oxygen, the only catalyst that can repatriate carbon into the atmosphere, the longer that carbon will stay locked into the soil. Typically only the first 4 inches of soil is aerobic, the rest is anaerobic. So by creating deep organic rich soil, your taking carbon from the atmosphere, and permanently locking much of that carbon into the soil. By not tilling the soil, your not introducing aeration that will quickly turn those carbon atoms, into CO2. Some climate scientists calculate through a change in agriculture practices alone, using the no till method, and incorporating use of mixed annual cover crops to increas soil web biomass. Are global agriculture practices alone, could reduce the alleged incresed atmospheric CO2, back to what climate scientists allege is normal within 8 years. That means the only change mankind would need to make, is stop tilling up the soil, and let the carbon grow back into the soil.
Gr8 video
Hi Mark,
Will you be showing us how to reseed winter rye where you crimped and cut it in the spring?
Hi Mark, great video, I use several large contaimers as well as a nonraised garden bed. I use living soil in my cotainers as well. I harvested my sunflowers, and okra and was pleasantly surprised to see my soil biome was livimg and healthy. Containers must be watered if no rain for 3 wks. As gardeners we have to be responsible for proper care of our living soil…God bless! keep up the encouragement and teaching.
Hi Mark, do you comparing products on yearly basis? Like, do you get more/healthy food/plants after no tilt strategy?
Wish you best!
Well, there you go being scientific and reasonable again! I would like to echo the suggestion of a real soil test. Why add things your soil doesn't need? I fell for the Azomite thing. Had a soil test done last fall and was high in all categories. No more additives for me. Thanks!
Thanks again for another informative video!
Bless you Mark…thanks for the lesson
Wouldn't the compost contain many minerals also depending on what the compost being used contains… ie: fall leaves, wood chips, and in my area mineral rich seaweed kelp and aquatic plants…not clay or sand?
Great video!
Thank you so much Mark. I learn so much from you that I have never heard from any other source. You're doing a lot of good in the world. I appreciate it.
HI Mark, What should be done with weeds? Cut at the stem or pulled out? Also it looked like you grew several corn plants into exactly the same spot. Is there a reason for that?
good info – how was the drive back
all the best
Love the way you explain things. I also really need to know what to do with the weeds. Leave the roots or pull?
Hi Mark. I've told my family about your channel and got a question from my brother. What would you suggest to do over the winter for a container garden? My brother has several small containers with annuals and 2 large containers containing trees. He would like to know if he could continue to reuse the same soil year after year if he planted a cover crop?
I wasn't sure since in a container he's dealing with a finite amount of minerals and the soil biology won't be the same as in the ground. Are covers in pots a good idea to extend the usefulness of the soil? Will the soil in pots eventually have to be replaced even with covers? Thanks so much.
Dam i took out my roots, i am a mug. I was thinking as i done it should they stay. Its my first year gardening. But at least i put them in my compost bin. I will alway cut the roots from now on. I watch all your videos thanks for your advice. You have help me so much sir.
I thought you said that the compost goes back up into the atmosphere, how does that happen? So if you put compost on your garden and the rain brings things down into the soil are you saying that the compost will end up in the atmosphere? Would it be advantageous to add sand or clay on top of the compost in a thin lasagna layer if you wanted to improve soil and you had access to sand or sandy soil?
what's your take on herbal leys? It looks like sepp holzer is a fan of it.
Am I able to plant a cover crop over wood chips? I'm very keen on starting an market garden but I do not want to leave the soil bare. I want to utilise space and build soil. What do you think about techniques like tarping? Methods used by jean Martin fortier? Curtis Stone? Ben Hartman?
Is it possible to combined your philosophy of soil building and apply it commercially/efficiently? Is there a middle point? Can I used a paper pot transplanter?
I have many questions. Do you mind making a video regarding biointensive market gardening? Blending your methods with the status quo? Will the wood chips get in the way of certain tools? How much do I compost if I'm turning over more crops ? How can I make back to Eden techniques more efficient & effective in regards to food production on small areas? If you reply, thank you. I watch every video you put out.
As always, thank you Mark for sharing this information. You continue to offer an invaluable continuing education!
Hello Mark, thank you again for another great lesson. When you compose the cornplants, do you just lay them on the ground as the leaves you compost or do you shred them first and lay them or even mix them with woodchips?
In advance thank you very much!
God bless you!
I disagree, with the part about native soil not lacking nutrients. You did not mention anything about the cation exchange capacity. Some soils are old or weathered soils where the cations and anions have been leached out of the soil either from rain, or conventional farming techniques. These soils are in poor shape and need to be remedied accordingly.
You didn't take into account for the harvest and plus you're just going to compost the plant or put it on your topsoil 80% of it is probably going to go back into the soil
Even though these trays minerals might be there there might be some deficiencies in them and rock dust will help any fruit tree I don't know about vegetables but it makes the fruit 10 times sweeter I had a cutting from the same Peachtree put one with compost and vermiculite in the thick mulch of hay the other one had compost with rocked dust. I think mulch heading to 10 is the best one Airplant to 2 feet away
I'm a little bit confused after watching this video because in the part 2 of this series you say that we do lose a small portion of minerals from our sand/silt/clay soils when we extract lets say a corn cob and sell it on the market. but in this video you say that no need to worry about buying rockdust or supplementing with minerals because the minerals will always be there in the soil.
Mark plz help me out
I'm in need of the Rhizobium bacteria to inoculate my plants from the leguminosae family for proper atmospheric nitrogen fixation. Problem is, I can't find any bioproducts listed with Rhizobia in my country.
Everywhere I look for information about this, all I hear is you have to buy this strain because there won't be any of these bacteria in soil and the plants won't do any N fixation.
So I was wondering how the heck do wild plants in natural systems fixate N? And what if I could just go to one of these natural systems to take some with me and inoculate my own seeds and/or transplants, would that work?
Most of atmosphere is nitrogen so is it necessarily drawn from soil ? Experiment of closed container with plant for fifty years ..refer