The topic of till versus no till gardening has always been a widely discussed topic and one that is often heated. I tend to take the approach that there is not a one size fits all solution to gardening and so in this episode I will lay down the pros and cons to each and you can decide which one works best for you.
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Thank you so much for these videos, i'm a novice and the last 2 years i've had a bad harvest. I've learned that im making a lot of mistakes through watching your videos.
I do no til but struggle with weed management. Any suggestions.
wouldn't the compacting year over year create a bad environment for roots to grow? noobie gardener here
I love your videos!! I do have a question, if you answered it in a diff video you can just send the link….. is it essential to make rows when making a small garden? Is it possible to put too many seeds in one hole? I am lost! I think I put too many seeds in the holes for my tomato plants and carrots. I also have things planted sporadically and wonder if it will cause me problems when harvest comes… please help!
Been watching y your videos. Watch my no till video. Thanks
You always got the slaps on your videos.great vid
Trying to find out what to do with no-till after harvest. Do you pull plants out by roots? Chop and drop? I have raised beds in SW Florida.
Wow i have huge cracks in the ground when its dry
Ill try tilling compost into my dirt
Thanks
How do you know that your soil has alot of clay
great info, thanks man!
I add mulched leaves and cover crop my garden in the fall and till it in the spring. My garden has been hit or miss until I started doing this. Now I get a bumper crop every year. I’m mostly after adding more carbon as my soil is already nitrogen rich. I never seem to have any issues retaining the worm population either. Yeah some of the bigger worms get chopped up but all the little tiny eggs stay behind and hatch to a buffet of organic material turned into the soil.
I tilled an area in my yard do I got to dig that up and put fertilizer down to plant ?
Thank you for this video. This helps a lot. I am in the south and we do have a lot of clay here. We just started gardening this year. Hoping to expand for a fall garden patch.
Another home run!
I really liked this. Heard some explanations I rarely hear and they were all very nicely explained. Thank you!
I Have mountain sand rock soil. I put 2 feet of compost om top and the results are incredible without tilling anything! adding well rotten manure is the way to go instead of tilling. In the meantime, people can grow in containers until the soil is fixed.
What size are your beds? Thanks!
I started a garden with a “back to Eden” no-till approach (not raised beds), but I did “jump-start” it the first year. There was lawn there that had seen a lot of chemicals. I went over the lawn with a hydraulic roto-tiller, then spread some chicken manure and steer manure over it, put cardboard on that and then 3-4 inches of wood chips. That was in October. The first year things were a little slow, but the next year things took off like crazy. I’m doing more perennial gardening. I still added some compost and steer manure here and there and it goes down through the chips with the rain.
Now I’m starting again in a new area and I’ll be using raised beds for vegetables with city compost probably, but I will use the chip mulch over the top to conserve water. Our Seattle summers get very dry from July-September and the free chip mulch from the arborists is a godsend!
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Informative and helpful. Thanks for the great video!!!
thank you that was what i was looking for…
Thank You.
I found my answers in this video thanks a lot 😉
interesting.
Doesn't "core gardening" where you dig down to add a layer of decomposed straw and then cover it back up fall under tilling because you are disturbing the soil?
Yea! Year 2 with our garden. We learned a lot. This was helpful information. I will be looking at our garden to decide if I need to till or notill. Thank you.
I have a garden bed that had not been used for years…possibly 10 or more years….it is a bit hard, and has roots in it that make it hard to pull the dirt out as it is all held together by these roots..however, the garden is in the woods and has probably 10 years of organic matter fall on it, should I till to get rid of the roots keeping the soil compact. There is also 6-10 inches of free space to the top of the garden bed, so I could just add compost to fill it up. What would you or others suggest ?
I kinda had the impression for a while that this initial approach was necessary until you get to your no till endgame. Thanks for making that clear as to why it is so.