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so sand, being so abundant, in the African continent industries are applying oil based polymers to the ground. I think they are petroleum based polymers. the claim is the nano clay will grow anything with in two inches of soil.
Fascinating, thank you for sharing. Question…have you done a video describing the transition from end of season and steps to prep for the next season i.e. removing crop residue/tillage/new cover crop etc?
A question for you: do comercial fertilizers degrade the soil food web? I know you do your homework and like to experiment. Wondering if you have ever come across any evidence to answer this question. Love your channel and your search for truth. Thank you.
Would love to see an "If I had to do it all over again" series of vids, using your updated gardening principles, where you build the soil of bare land to fertile soil.
There is a group of farmers in France who created a conglomerate of living soil farmers (or no till). It's not gardens, it's large scale. And it works. They take profit of the landfills that legally now can't burn green waste people bring them, like branches, leaves, trunks etc… They have to process it, and sell it. So it's very cheap. They do compost and chipped wood usually. It's around 10-20 € per ton usually, sometimes less when they can't sell it. Farmers found that the best way to increase the fertility of your soil, bring back worms on a previously tilled soil, is to use a mix of ramial wood, leaves, and straw. So you have different carbon materials that degrade at different speeds. If your soil has been tilled for years, and is now hard clay, you need to till one last time to mix in these organic materials into the soil. If you don't, it'll take years for that tough crust to break. If your soil is already a rich meadow, you can plant directly into it, after weeding with either a plastic tarp or thick mulching laid down several months, so the weeds grow in the dark and die. But yeah, no till is definitely the answer. Just please don't do the Charles Dowding method which is to put 20 cm of compost and grow everything into that, that's just ridiculous.
Epiphany.
Same thing for humans. Micronutrients are not in a very bio available form in plants, we need the process of them being absorved and processed by the microflora in animals to be of use to us. An example is carotenoids (Vit A in plants) and retinol (Vit A in animals). That's why you get an orange tone in your skin when eating a big enough amount of carrots, it's because it accumulates under your skin in the adipose tissue.
All life on Earth is just a symbiosis of bacteria with different grades of complexity, connecting us all. Excuse my english btw.
How come seedlings die in soil that isn't amended?
Excellent. When will you be giving your lecture at Oxford? Cause I'd like to hear it.
Hi Mark,another awesome video!I have a question about planting a buckwheat cover crop.I too am in zone 6b and wanted to plant buckwheat cover in a plot I plan on doing a three sisters garden this summer.It is March 21 is it too early to sow buckwheat and do you think I will have enough growth and biomass before I plant the sunflowers beans and squash?Thanks again for all of your informative videos!
Not to question someone with a PHD, but how come crops like alfalfa which are given 3 years of full soil coverage need to be fertilized with so much potassium and phosphorus? If this was possible, shouldn't the microorganisms have time to recover in those three years? Alfalfa covers the soil pretty good. Is it the monoculture? Does it take longer than three years to establish these microorganisms? Are farmers fertilizing for practically no reason?
Fantastic video- She is saying that we destroy the living organisms, insects chain . I need to confirm what she is saying and understand how/why this is happening.. What do these living species need that farming takes out in it's process?
This was eye-opening. Thanks for sharing!
So, I have been using the crushed and decomposed leaves as my soil for years but never as the only amendment until recently – does adding this organic matter to my soil increase the micro organisms? How do you get them back in the soil? We are mowing over our leaves (and we have 7 acres of them) and turning them and letting trees rot and using that soil as well. Will that work to get the micro organisms back in the soil?
i love this lady,so smart,,if my biology teachers/science teachers were smart/cool like her ,i would'nt have become a mechanic,lol
Wow! Great clip
Wow, very inforamtive. It's changed me whole idea and thinking about gardening. Mark, can you do a video about growing nutrient dense vegetables in pots or on concrete, where there's no soil? I'm currently growing on a patio on concrete as I have no access to land. I brought top soil around neighbouring places and covered it with lawn clippings and started growing.
Very interesting! So we should basically stop being gardeners (in a way) and focus on growing microorganisms and the soild and produce will take care of itself. Just one question – when gardeners after some years see decline in their crop and they think that the soil is exhausted, is it in fact just low on microorganisms?
Oh Mark, this is incredibly helpful! Thanks!!
Do oak trees use microrizal fungi
Pls read dr. Joel Wallachs book. On minerals. Trace minerals are highly uneven in their levels and are most important
This should contribute in countering the propaganda (advertising) from the agribusiness
Thank you.
And your Weimeriner is adorable.
Wow. Didn't know this.
Does leaf mould or compost and wood chips have enough minerals? Would the minerals have to be replaced in that? I watched one of ur other videos where u filled a raised bed with that, then grew some tomatoes strawberries and sunflowers in it. I was going to try and replicate something similar then I watched this video on minerals.
Would you be able to talk about the Ph of the soil? Clay soil is known to have a high Ph which makes it hard to make available certain nutrients. Does the soil food web correct the Ph level?
You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. This is insanely awesome and mind blowing.