How Soil Saves your life | Making a Food Forest or gardening to planting Seed, Tree, into Soil for Us. Permaculture. Part 4
VIDEO: How Soil Saves your LIFE in Gardening from Soil, Seed, Tree, to Animals to Us. Part 4
How Soil Saves your life | Making a Food Forest or gardening to planting Seed, Tree, into Soil for Us. Permaculture. Part 4
Mark the microherder
Another very informative video. Thanks for posting it and blessings to you and yours for the new year!
another great video. Have planted a cover crop and waiting for my 7 fruit trees to arrive. We also have a lot of clay soil.
Thank you, Mark, for this and all the very informative videos you have provided over the year. Happy New Year to you and yours. Be well my friend
have a great New Year – going to be watching the new video
Another great video, thanks for making this! I hope you and yours have a very blessed New Year.
Thank you once again Mark for putting the time in to create such an informative video. I have learned so much on the way the soil web works from your tutorials. You are a very good teacher and I always enjoy the way you make your points through simple and effective "props". Wishing you and your family a Happy New Year.
Once again excellent video professor.
I have 2 pigs clearing an extremely dense mass of bermuda and Johnson grass out of what will be my new garden, 16×16 feet at a time. I think I have enough leaves to cover about 2 of those sections once the grass is gone, but my total garden area is approximately 1/2 an acre. I am having an extremely hard time sourcing woodchips at the moment but old hay is available. Would hay work as a good mulch for the areas that I don't have enough leaves to cover? I don't want to leave the soil bare.
Thanks for the video! Hope you have a Happy New Years!
Thank you for your informative, well thought out videos. I'm putting the leafmold and cover crop system into practice. It will cut down unnecessary steps by working with nature as it was designed. I live in North County San Diego. I don't import free truck loads of mulch because I inadvertently imported chemical pesticides and fertilizers and invasive plant material with the mulch. I, now carry my rake and bags in my car and collect clean leaves wherever I can. Making quick progress with our 12 month growing seasons. (not much down time though) Have a wonderful 2018.
Happy New Year Mark. Thanks for showing the snow as I start my tomato & pepper seeds today. Hee Hee. Here in Mobile our tomatoes try to go out march 1st but I'm finding Mar. 15 the soil is warmer to their liking. Next weeks forecast is high teens and low 20's all week that is much colder than were used to here. Anyways Fedco has a nice chart on best soil temps for each plant type and one of your videos was showing a nice soil temp gauge. Can you lead me to where I can get one as this year maybe colder than normal. I remember a Michigan farmers saying of "dont' plant anything until Mothers Day" Dont know what the saying is for Alabama but a lesson in soil temps would be most helpful. Thanks again and Happy Gardening in 2018
I feel like a soil scientist. Thank you
Thank you for another great video. Happy new Year to you and your family.
Super interesting thanks, Happy New Year!
Hi Mark! Thank you so very much for sharing your information with us all! We truly appreciate the time and effort you take! Best to you for a happy and prosperous 2018!
Happy New Year and thank you for another informative video!
happy new Year, thanks for content.
question;
on a base level are the leaves/leaf mold starting to penetrate the clay or just building above it ? TY
Happy New Year's to Ya Mark and your son. I've learned a lot from watching your videos over the past two years or so, and look forward to each update.
Happy New Year my friend.
Love this channel
I've only recently began following you, and my plans are to grow our vegetables using the methods you teach. However, I was not able to plant winter rye before the temp. Became too cold. Any advise on what I should do at this point to get on the right path? I live in zone 7. I would greatly appreciate any information you might have. Thanks so much
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Hi Mark,
When I was younger many many years ago (maybe 20 or 30), I was watching a gardening show (on PBS maybe) and the host was talking about feeding his lawn with BEER (and other things like Epsom salts, ammonia, baby shampoo). Does this sound right to you? Can beer be beneficial to lawn and garden growth? Cheers,
Bill
Hello Mark,
About the mychorrizal fungi, is it correct, that I have a ressource in my already located trees and other perennial plantes on site? And then I Can 'Tap' into it, if I place my vegetablegarden nearby? And how close would I have to place it, to get the effect? Regards from Denmark, Søren
Hi Mark I am not even half way through this video I have realised by adding the leaf mold to your soil you have the right elements for planting but I have sandy soil somehow acidic because I have a lot of trees and leaves. The ingredient missing in my soil is alkaline so I have to add lime or rock dust. I do have clay but they are about one meter deep which causes flood in winter. On occasion when I have dug deep I have made use of that clay soil and very rich it is.
Having written all the above almost two third through your video I now have the answer, I will also add that some times in the distance past I have grown winter rye then chopped and dug it up the result is I grew very nice kale and beans that year but was annoyed that the winter rye regrew hence me regarding it as invasive. I have learned from you that I should continue planting with the roots in situ now I realise why one of your commentator said he would have to rethink every thing again. Your videos are great and the commentators are also very interesting, wish I could read every thing. Thank you for the thorough explanation.
Thanks for the lesson.
I’m very appreciative of all the work you are doing to pass this valuable information on to others.
So if I was using the leaves should I mix it in with my native soil or just leave it on the top? To start the soil food web. Sorry if I’m asking so many questions. Thanks!
Thank you.