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Good examples. Love the ground hog story. Thank you.
its a real mollic epipedon! Fantastic! You know years ago people claimed it is impossible to create this, it had to be found only in nature. You just proved them wrong!
Beyond sustainable, beyond organic, REGENERATIVE!! This must become our future model for food production globally. Great job Mark. You've been an inspiration to me. I'm on year 3 of practicing these methods in my garden, and I'm loving every second of the journey.
Great work, as always. Thanks, Mark.
Would you be able to talk about short growing perennial plants, as a cover crop, that would be used in a market garden. I heard Dr. Elaine Ingham talk about it briefly in a podcast.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge Mark. I really appreciate the direction you are going with this channel.
Awesome Mark! You're making this world a better place with each viewer. I was completely blown away watching your video of growing tomatoes in leaf mold; not just how awesome the tomatoes were doing, but how the insects were attacking the weeds and not your tomatoes'…incredible. It's all about the soil!! I slam that thumbs up on every one of your videos!
It's a great series. I am currently testing the viability of endomycorrhorizal annuals and perennials under an ectomycorrhizal overstory.
Are my observations that coexistance or some adaptation is at play, or do you think adverse effects will appear after three years?
My conditions were awful to start, and I've lost plants of course, which always makes me wonder why, but the same type of plant will thrive a few feet away.
I'd appreciate any input.
That last pic of your looks just like mine
Love the C.P.R. Methodology. Dirt is dead and Soil is alive. We had clay and caliche at our house in Arizona and I was unsuccessful growing anything but for the past three years so we have added compost, organic matter and layers of wood chips to build soil and now we can grow almost anything we want. Great information and thank you for sharing.
A thumbs up, for your labor and efforts? That is a great trade if you ask me!
Mark: The question I had was "What happens to the M R Fungi & the soil food web in the soil of a hardwood forest if the leaves are down for 7 months and no photosynthesis is taking place?" It sounds like the answer is the M R Fungi is maintained inside of the living roots of the trees during the dormant season as with the berries canes and all other perennial plants that go dormant for winter. It that correct?
This is such a great video, Mark!! The difference in the soils is really evident. Thank you for sharing this. It is nature's regeneration and it's beautiful! Oh dear, the critters…don't twist an ankle in those holes!
Thanks for helping me understand how to regenerate and grow my soil.
Mark, again , I thank you for your lessons in soil building!!! Not many videos out there that teach as well as you!!! Much love brother!!! You will never know how appreciated you are!!!
I'm enjoying the soil series a lot Mark.
What do you suggest for cover crops for a small (1000 sf) garden and is it better to plant them in the fall or spring?
Watch out for those groundhog holes, you can break a leg if you slip in one.
Great video! I have over 250 different kinds of pepper plants the transplant outside the next two weeks
Thanks for sharing. I watched some of your earlier videos about this type of fungi and have been experimenting to try to get it into a 25 gallon pot
I think if you allowed that turfgrass to get taller you’d see more developed soil. I remember watching this thing on soil organic carbon and how best to sequester it. Apparently, plants reaching maturity need tons of nutrition to develop their seed. In order to get this nutrition, they release sugars and fatty acids into the soil which can account to over 50% of their total energy use. Young plants only put up about 15% of their energy to the soil since they are focusing on putting out high bulk tissues such as leaves and stems that require more carbon than other nutrients. Since your raspberries are constantly reaching maturity every year, they put out lots of carbon for the soil organisms. The video also talked about how healthy plants produce more lipids in their tissues which is broken down solely by fungi who produce more humid acid than bacteria. Lignified material also needs to be broken down by fungi. This is why allowing cover crops or any plant to reach maturity makes for a healthier soil.
How were your results this past summer?
I'm obsessed with these videos and the CPR method. There's so much about back to eden and cover cropping separately but the union is so powerful and regenerative. So many people say that mulch is all you need, or cover cropping is all you need, because they're powerful on their own, but together it's harmony. The only way i could think of to improve this method would be to integrate it with the layers of permaculture to capture as much sunlight in as many different directions as possible (and at different times of the year), as well as having many different types of roots that occupy different zones, feeding mycorrhizae at all levels at all times. I've noticed you do this to some extent but I'd imagine the commercial operation of your farm would limit the extent to which you can, but is completely achievable in a homestead or backyard garden. I'm so glad i found your videos because I definitely over mulched and need to put living roots back into the soil. A good farmer plants seeds that grow food, but a great farmer plants seeds that grow farms, and we both know how far and wide seeds can spread. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help spread this information, I really do think it's one of the most important and deciding factors of the future of the human race.
Hi Mark, Only 7 videos into your series so far but seriously loving them. Thank you! Hope you don't mind me bothering you with my microscopic plot problems – particularly re. raspberry runners.
I'm a total amateur, considering growing veg (THIS year hopefully) in an uncared-for 5-6ft deep, 10-15ft long urban garden border, with full sun in one area. There's a small red Maple tree over another part of it (thinking lettuce'y veggies might tolerate the shade there with a little luck – we'll see). Also a handful of very old RASPBERRY canes 5ft behind the Maple and have found runners all through the soil. I began to pull the runners out, believing they had to be removed before a veg bed – now realise I have really been beating the soil up with my fork and there are still many runners and weeds to go at. Just prior to your vids, I came across cardboard+compost no-dig ideas and was driving myself nuts contemplating where to obtain enough cardboard for the job during lockdown, same for bagged compost etc, as it isn't a lockdown essential. Also, somehow I think I got the idea that my soil wasn't 'good enough' to sow/plant into (maybe a little compacted/firm clay) and would need supplementing with bags of compost/top soil or months of light exclusion to kill weeds.
Having begun your Youtube series, I'm wondering whether I could possibly just sow my veg directly on TOP of the underground runners (once other weeds have been removed) seeing as raspberries seem to have positive effects on the soil. In the current circumstances I really like the idea of being able to use this patch of garden to grow food this year and would have a go at putting veg seedings straight into my soil this Spring.
So, to the point…
can I leave the raspberry canes in and plant on top of them somehow?
Any thoughts or advice would be welcome. Thank you.