From Sand to Soil in 7 hrs! How to Start Gardening or Permaculture
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VIDEO: From Sand to Soil in 7 hrs! How to Start Gardening or Permaculture.
From Sand to Soil in 7 hrs! How to Start Gardening or Permaculture
I thought of mixing clay cat litter with my soil which is sand here in fla , Now I will add m fungi one of ur very best vids.
Thank you very much again. What an encouraging it is to see this all being confirmed: we need to grow soil!
A wonderful blessed joyful prosperous healthy 2018. All the blessing to you, your sons and your farming.
Hi, Mark. That was really informative. And they do have a great channel. Happy new year.
clay, aka. rock dust. they could take some of the sand and grind it to clay size grains, mix them together, and add fungi.
not in agreement. it's another attempt to beat mother nature.
I hope you had further use for that sugar and cinnamon.
Can I be the sceptical one… Their website clearly mentions "lasts up to 5 years", so a good ear already heard that in some cases it might only last for 3 years or so.
To make this sustainable it can be used as a jump start to start growing fast growing drought tolerant perennial pioneer species, to provide a quick canopy that shades out as much as possible of the soil surface. Applied in large areas this might start to create a micro climate which might start sustaining itself due to nightly condensation and can induce a reachable shallow water table to form.
Any application on field crops sounds to me as utterly unsustainable… Prolonged irrigation always means building up salinity and turning land unsuitable for agricultural use.
Large areas of drought tolerant canopy with very limited use of open fields might turn desertification around, breaking thermal air displacements, stopping evaporation directly from the soil. As always keeping soil covered is the only way to keep it alive.
Dry lands do not fare well with field crops, never have and never will.
Happy New Year Mark ! !
This video should inspire many who feel it's a lost cause.
Thanks Mark!!! We have started down this path and are looking forward to having our soil (which is all sand as well!!) viable again!! Thanks for sharing!!
Amazing videos as always. I love how you find other great ones to share with us and make them visually understandable. Very appreciated!
Mark…just a matter of time…youre a great advocate…people will get it! I plan on putting this in to practice on a small scale…Thanks…I'll believe it when I put it into practice and see my results
China has a similar process whereby they take what I think is cellulose from plants and spray it on the sand to create soil. See the YouTube video here and then do a broader YouTube Search on "China Greening the Desert".
first time commenting. thanks for all you do. do you think having a living root in the soil accounts for the increased depth over time that we see in archaeological digs. I always wondered where all the extra soil came from when one sees people living at such low depths previously. thank you.
Happy new year Mark! Great video, thank you.
This is how nature has always shared nutrients among plants.
Just starting to look into this living soil . I will be doing this in doors . thinking worms and ground cover . what I need to ask is will there be bugs getting out and running around the house
Sometimes I wish I lived in a mild desert so I could make a little oasis in the desert. Totally would use this. I love PA tho it’s got nicer soils full of potassium that hold tons of nutrients and I love the trees.
Hey mark I have been wondering and even asked on Quora whether soil biology could contribute to warming soils in the spring. I know that this is far fetched but a lot of farmers don’t use cover crops in no till for the simple fact they think their soils will be cold. This makes it hard for corn to sprout and grow quickly.
I just found your channel . It very much caught my interest and subscribed . We live in Eastern Canada and our land is heavy clay with lots of shale , spruce and tamarack trees , blueberries and birch trees.
We tried tilling and broke the tiller . Bought a plow for the tractor , pulled up a lot of shale and made great mud holes in the spring. Even our 7 acres of trees are very wet until about July. Would this type of gardening work for us? If so, where would we start?
Good stuff my friend! <3
Hello, I have studied fungus for 42 years and have developed 3 patented strains. The fungus referred on this video is actually a zimboid halafulas.
The word "mycorrhiza" is from Greek μυκός mykós, "fungus", and ῥίζα rhiza, "root"; pl. mycorrhizae or mycorrhizas) is a symbiotic association between a fungus and the roots of a vascular host plant. The term mycorrhiza refers to the role of the fungi in the plants' rhizosphere, its root system.
Thanks !
Try to develope a strain that spreads thru your own type and classification of your own soil.
Cheers !
I watched this video a few months ago and was intrigued… and then I read all the comments. The presenter has patented an old idea using a new process, and his Egyptian "partners" discredited the results. If you look at the dates, the planting trials were like 8 years earlier and no follow-up occurred. No implementation or long term verification, and his Egyptian "partners" raised ethical issues about using their research and about the claims he is making.
I'm not saying the idea is faulty, I'm just saying this guy may not deserve the credit he is trying to claim.
Has anyone tried this? I'm in the Nevada desert and it is such a struggle to keep anything (except native plants) growing. What clay should I be looking for? I don't remember seeing clay at Lowe's or Home Depot
Lol Where are people in areas void of clay and only rich in sand supposed to get clay from?
THANK You so much. it will be so nice to see it in practice how to get that fungi.
Thank you Mark
What makes bantonite clay so effective has nothing to do with fungi. The clay settles 40 cm below the surface and creates a membrane that keeps the moisture in the soil. That makes the fungi able to get a grab in the soil when introduced. Fungi is always present in the form of spores but off course when introduced at the same time it gets much more effective. Without the nanoclay forming the seal the fungi wouldnt stand a chance.
This is awesome! Thank you!!
Hello Mark
I have very sandy soil. Been adding organic matter mostly leaves, growing cover crops and worm farming for 20 plus years
still have sandy soil. Where are they saying to get clay soil from?
Thank you so much
Nancy