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This was very informative, it is helping me reshape my garden practices.
Hey I really love you . Why don t you write a book man ? I think it can be very helpful 🙂
You the man !
Hi James! I hope you and your family are well. When are you coming back? I miss your activity on your channel. Again, I hope you are well! Thanks!
How to build healthy soil: spend 2-4 years growing shitty crops, apparently. Like, duh, of course I'm going to pile organic matter on every chance I get. But I can't see how it would be harmful to till and mix in some organic matter the first year….
I made a huge mistake…last year. , I thought my saved kitchen scrap in bucket n close the lid and add dirt into it sometimes was the way to make compost. I didn't know about YouTube and hardly think if Google then.
Well, yucky smell n v watery was the result i got.
I need to get rid of it so i dumped it in my raised bed, and cover it soil i bought. And I actually planted something. Nothing grow but not dead.
Can I continue to use the raised bed to plant something this year???
thnx james, love learning from u and ur dog
How do you keep the harmful bugs out without killing the beneficial ones?? Whether its on the surface of the plants or in the soil??
Love your vibes, great vid. Thankyou
Way to repetitive
After watching tons of your videos we started a food forest here in North-East NZ about 4 months ago. we started with clay soil, and then by sheet mulching an area after pulling out HEAPS of grass(the grass was almost 2 feet thick other wise we might have left it for the organic matter ). we started with cardboard and then wood chips onto of that. After watching some of your first videos from 8 years ago i noticed you put down soil BEFORE the woodchips. . im a little worried that we MESSED UP by not putting down soil before woodchips..
But after watching THIS video, you say its about building the soil with layers and organic matter..
with each fruit tree we put in, we push aside the woodchips and cut a whole in the cardboard and then dig a hole where the tree will go in and then put close to a full bag of soil in with each tree.. but its hard packed clay down under our trees hole..
I guess my question is, did we mess up by not putting down soil before our initial woodchip layer?
i have a sandy clay thats powder in the heat and u sink in it when its very wet. even my mint dont like to grow in it. makes a bad driveway too.
my thoughts was a cover crop that could add to the soil but what th fk will grow in it besides nasty weeds?
i want to plant grapes and have a nitrogen feeder cover crop companion planting. id prefer something that is an edible.
… suggestions?
Thanks
Another great instructional vid James, I live in Perth Western Australia and have horrible sand like you, put a layer of cardboard down to kill the weeds and topped with a couple of inches of free woodchips from a local lopper, bam….. 6 months later after a rainy winter I have worms in my soil with a great composition. Just starting my food forest after seeing your channel. Thankyou for changing my life and ideas
Thanks for the info
I love your channel dude.
Great vid bro. Imortant to have a philoasafy to follow
Hi James, I have a blackpepper tree farm with sandy soil. It is about 4 hactares in size. How can I layer my soil like yours without spending a lot of money buying the wood chips to cover the 40k sqm land?
Thank you.
I want to till it in and then leave it alone.
Do you need to add more worms if you have really sandy soil….obviously create and environment for them but should yoi add some
Awesome video man
Lol. You would NOT guess this guy's in jersey. Maybe Brazil or some tropical jungle. Proof baby!
To Miracle Grow and Scott's, you're public enemy #1! Keep it up baby!
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Okay this is something ive been wondering now for a few days and been on the edge buying cause they are expensive. Red wigglers! Do i have to use those in my garden? Every search i do brings them up as if they are the best of the best only ones to use kinda deal. Cant i just let worms from around my yard come in my boxes if i provide the food source for them?
Probably the most-overlooked natural tiller and aerator in the soil, is ants. I don't particularly like them in the garden, as they can cause havoc when digging potatoes, but as long as they aren't fire ants, I can sort of work around them in my raised beds.
What about adding manure, seaweed and such when initially building up a garden? I live in a place where the ground is mostly rocks, would mulching work here or will I need raised beds?
Thanks for your awesome videos