SOIL Pt3 How to GROW Nutrient DENSE Fruits & Vegetables
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From another fellow Jersey resident, thanks for all the information. Would love to tour your farm one day.
So interesting Mark – can't wait for the next Part 4. And I just went out and purchased cottonseed meal, lime and bone meal for this years garden, as per Steve Solomon's Complete Organic Fertilizer method. Oh well.
Excellent info Mark; it is all coming together with the no till idea.
Interesting point about the growing medium vs soil. I try to eat seasonally, because I'm cheap, lol, but also, because you just can't beat the flavor of in season produce. But I suppose focusing on seasonal food would be a good way to move towards soil growing.
Mark I have a question about the product milorganite; Is this product considered being a live soil or not?
Also I was interested in the 4 type of apple tree you have, it looks interesting.
Curious as to the radius size a living root will benefit the soil in that area. Thanks, Mark…great video.
Im really enjoying this series. Learning so much about my soil. Thanks
Your soil sample looks way better than mine… also in NJ. My soil is what on the bottom of your sample… brown 'sub=soil' type. I don't see any of that top black stuff you got in that sample. If I recalled correctly from your past videos, you amended your soil with lots of 'waste' vegrtations from town… In any case, just a home gardener. We used to add compost to our garden and they just 'disappear' every year… soil turns back to brown again but is less compact than before… ground is softer. Even my lawn doesn't have any top soil. What's your thought?
Thank you for the info in this series.
I am following your website and trying how to do a small raised bed garden using the soil food web. i dont see much on the web for building the soil food web in a small raised bed garden!
Hi Mark,
I am enjoying this series. Now, topic change. Out of all the videos I've seen I don't think I've seen any chickens. Do you have any on the farm? Are they for your own family use? If you don't have chickens why? This might make a good video topic. Cheers,
Bill
Hey Mark, hard packed clay might have all the nutrients, but in my experience plant roots do poorly in that condition… I try to help lighten up the soil by adding compost and biochar… and I also keep it covered with mulch or cover crops. I'm talking about a section of poor quality pasture ground (hard packed clay/no worms!) we've reclaimed as garden. Don't we need to do something to increase the tilth?
Hi Mark, I didn't understand what u were saying about the tides affecting the soil as rain does. Is this been measured somehow near the coasts or what? What I'm wondering is… most (all?) gardeners/farmers are affected my the moon's gravitational pull, so wouldn't that mean where there's water, you would have the same affect?
I'm learning so much Mark. Thanks.
Your on it….The origination of dirt is basically originating from the base of what we know as rock / minerals / nutrients…….organic carbon and cellulose materiel being included seems to be what most understand to be officially called soil and I agree and it's how i separate it from i consider to be dirt otherwise. The rain or watering (H2O) has or collects dust particles and bring along with it nitrogen – more oxygen – and some other minute (argon – carbon dioxide) gases that make up air. If the ground / soil is porous enough then it receives the elements carried by those water molecules and also through the approximately 14 lbs. psi of atmospheric pressured air and go through the gas exchanges with the soil / ground surface. Clay, sand, and silt all come originally from rock and are the minerals / nutrients we speak of if I'm not mistaken. So who ever you referred to talking about all the nutrients are all ready there in the different soil / dirt compositions is certainly correct in my eyes. It's getting the right balances of the ground below for the optimal conditions for all those life forms to perform at their peaks making the nutrients usable and all the exchanges to take places between all the living things and elements involved. It's a wonderful thing this microbial world we live in and are a part of. 😉
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Not only does the rain help the soil breath, but it injects nitrogen from the atmosphere directly to the soil. We have a misconception that oxygen is the key element in the air that provides life when in reality it is nitrogen and the vehicle of carbon. The photosynthesis equation 6CO2 + 6H2O ——> C6H12O6 + 6O2 where surplus oxygen is released back into the air is where many get confused. Oxygen is a byproduct of a plants process of abundant carbon in the atmosphere. Nitrogen is the plants fuel to give us oxygen by it consuming and storing carbon.
Thank you for the great information! What would you recommend as a cover crop on a garden plot around 4-5,000 sq ft? I have perennials outlining the edge of the garden, but I know the root systems do not go throughout the entire garden. Also, if I may ask, what is the seed growing medium method you are currently using to achieve the greatest nutrient density for your plants and vegetable? Looking forward to the next video!
this is what i have been saying the weeds roots are doing this job for you .
Sorry men… The Intro song is such a beautyfull distraction,
unable to listen to you
Ya but those living roots are plants that you bought seeds for and those seeds cost money! If you have none then what?
I am really enjoying your videos and I try to go into everything I do with an open mind and I can do it attitude. I have pretty good soil where I live this is my second year planting in the same space.granted I did till it. and I use my pine straw and old hay, dried leaves, cardboard, and grass clippings as mulch. I have used miracle grow all purpose water-soluble fertilizer but not much. this year only one I don't need to my plants are bigger and healthier than my neighbors down the road. with all this being said my question is that to get started improving my soil like you say I should just have to plant my cover crops right? I already add flowers and other plants to my garden. I understand diversity in plants help a lot if you want to keep the health of your soil just like in nature I am a true believer that nature is the only thing in life you should try to be more like it is the one thing that always stays true to itself. I have even asked why I should keep out the natural ground covers God has provided for us, and I just keep getting told they are weeds and will take food from my plants
After watching your videos, and a few other people,, is it fair to say that even weeds are best left in the ground? This is what I'm gathering;; and I wish more people would heed this if true.
Wow ! Thank you !
Hi Mark- My wife and I are enjoying your videos. What if existing conditions include crab grass, creeping charlie, or weeds. In raspberries our beds are covered in it, in the past we have stripped it out. So we consider it a living root and let nature take its course?
How about using pesticide n artificial fertilizers? Dont they grow in the soil still? How r they bad when crops r in the soil. Dumb q but I m curious why that is bad. Truth is all we get is n n p fertilizer grown food here. I want to grow mine in rocky windy weather. Thanks so much