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Hi Mark love your raspberry’s.my question is ,is it better to have a live root with the grass and weeds between the rows than covering of leaves? Just thinking the would give the raspberries some extra food.
Hi Mark, Elaine Ingram is know for her compost tea, yet she says everything already exists in the soil, and you say we don't need any additives. Could you explain please when adding tea or compost is most benefical or timely.
Thank you Mark, this video is awesome. I've watched it several times and learn more from each viewing. Yesterday was wondering why our cattle/sheep/chicken manure piles were not composting on top after a winter of 3 feet of snow. While watching the video, this time, when you mentioned composting needs water, the light bulb went on. When we have a dry season, the top layers are crispy and the middle is perfect compost. When the season's are wet, the pile is perfectly composted after 2 years. I see that the top layer dries out and stops composting and has to be mixed in to complete the cycle. There's so much to learn about the soil food web and I pick up only one bit at a time with each viewing so I'll be back. Thank you again for this amazing series, we are thoroughly enjoying creating a healthy living soil for our small farm.
That has blown away a few myths! Just help to create the environment, participate in the process by adding living plants and helping to kick the soil into action and benefit from the outcomes. Sounds good, work with nature don't fight it. No need for soil testing kits, fertiliser, just kick start the process by adding organic matter that will start the living organism. That is what I heard. Thank you.
Thank you very much for another great video Mark……can you tell me what is the best time to add worms to your vegetable garden before you plant or after?
Hello Mark thank you for sharing. I do have a question. 20 years ago I bought a meadow and planted fruit trees and some other trees in quite spaced rows. Once a year we ask a farmer to cut the grass between the rows of trees and he makes hay out of it. He told me last time he harvest less bales of hay than at the beginning. Would there be a way to improve the grass production? We didn't fertilise the soil since we bought the plot. If we do have to fertilise with organic matter I suppose the fertility somewhere else will drop? I live in Belgium and the grass remain green the whole year in general. Here we don't have the possibility to receive free leaves or woodchips…
So cool! Great homeschooling curriculum. God bless you!!!
I've read all of Jeff lowenfels books but I did not truly understand them until I watched all of your videos and now I am watching this series again as a refresher. Thank you so much for making complicated things easy for the average person!! You are awesome!!!
This is brilliant
Question : My garden has fruit trees growing 15' away on 2 sides, as well as one large comfrey plant on one end. Does that sound like enough root structure, or would it be better to plant more comfrey throughout?
Is that Henbit? You must be a fan of it, as it's in most of these videos in this series.? Have been enjoying your series.
Awesome educational presentation! Thanks for your hard work on your channel.
I’ve learned so much in parts 1-5 already! You are a great teacher! Thank you for sharing with us!!!
I saw a cool video a while back where a guy buried some rice/starch in a sock/pantyhose under an old growth tree with very healthy vegetation and rich soil around it. Then they used a very large airstone in a bucket with water and molasses to feed/grow the microbes.
Mark thank you for your vids any suggestion to plant around fiejoas as cover, would clover be good thanks noel nz
Thanks, watched 5 episodes in a row, on my way to the 6. Just a question. My father in law house is higher than the ground, the back part is mountain, so its true soil, but the front part its over 6ft above the side walk, so its soil on top but just rocks as lanfill underneath. So I guess I'll always have to keep adding nutrients? For now we have a white clover cover crop with marigolds and a few papaya circles with compost in the middle and potatoes and kalo, ginger etc around, we thinking about tossing random seeds too alover. Im mot even fighting the weeds anymore, just watching. You think I should cut it down at some point and drop as mulch? Then add compost or bagged soil and replant the cover crops and repeat every year?
I know is random questions, but im tryin to build real soil or the most selfsuficent ecosystem possible on top of that landfill. Is it possible?
Also, we located in Hawaii.
Excellent presentation. Thanks for making such a detailed and informative presentation. You made it so easy to understand ….. thanks once again
in every single video of gardening that i watch on youtube there´s allways a dog, yours should appear more often, its beatibull Weimanayer. Great video and info. THXS
Hi from Japan, Mark!
Thank you so much for the knowledge.
Your illustration reminds me of Mr.Fukuoka Masanobu's Natural Farming.
I came to conclusion as follows:
"Dead Soil" is dead because of no supports available, which are 1) plants roots, that bring carbon, carbohydrate and etc depending on plant species 2) the moisture retention 3) organic matter.
Now, to create an environment for the food web to thrive, "moisture" is important, both for plants and the microorganism.
An additional information for any of you about "moisture"/ "water", it is mentioned in another video of a youtuber called "Maritime Gardener" in his interview with a soil scientist, PLANTS can only "drink" these nutrients. So in order for plants to absorb nutrients, they need the these nutrients to be soluble first. link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAiNdHJljYE
(My analysis: for us humans and for animals are same right? We chew food and make them wet with saliva/support of glass of water before entering digestion process).
Here in Japan, the evaporation level in every sunny day (summer and spring) is very intimidating hahaha.
So, covering the soil with anything "organic" is the key I think, to keep this moisture, protecting from direct sun heat.
(Covering with something else chemical such as plastic will bring some risk of residue).
Awesome Mark, thanks a bunch, sorry for such a long spam/comment,
I just want to tell you that I am so happy to have come across your channel, it's like a more microscopic explanation of Mr. Fukuoka Masanobu's farming.
Arigatou!
How do you keep all those leaves from blowing away? And I’m planting winter rye this season does it need any additional fertilizer because I’ll be growing it in pure clay. Thanks for all that you do!
I was wondering how do the raspberry plants initially survive before the soil food web is built up to feed it? Is that the reason we amend the soil when planting into poor soil that does not have a developed soil food web?
Thank you for explaining. You are a blessing to us!
Hello hows it going
Have you ever used orgone energy to promote plant growth or to help your environment? im thinking about adding it to my first ever growing season !
Best explanation of soil food web ever .
You can talk to the average person,
Next step the President of the USA and you can beat the global warming problem and then the world can feed It's own people if they get off the welfare plans.
Thank you very much for your great explanation. I'm French. I quit professional photography to become an organic gardener. Your videos help me a lot. Warmest regards.
How is the soil food Web affected by worm castings what makes them so good for the soil
Great explanation of creating soil. Ty vm