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Thanks for the video Mark.
Mark, If you go to ACE they have a weeding tool like yours on a long handle so you don't need to bend over. I prefer using that when I do several 30 foot rows. It saves the back and speeds things along nicely. We used a similar thing years ago when we used to weed bean fields and de-rogue corn. You can take a small crew and weed 100 acre fields in just a day, following a cultivator!
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Nice explanations, Mark. Thanks for helping us learn. Have a great week.
Humming Birds rule ……Thanks Mark …..
I have tons of that white clover growing in my yard but not the garden. In the garden there's a reddish- green clover that gets small yellow flowers. It grows very close to the ground. I'm not sure what type of clover it is but I hope it's beneficial because it's spreading everywhere.
one of my favorite birds, thanks for the video
I wasn’t totally convinced with this style of gardening until i saw that soil. I’ve seen your bare clay soils in past vids and they look just like mine. I’m planting tomatoes and peppers into thick grass and clover turf and I’m just gonna mow it down to the surface. As soon as it rots to something seeds can germinate in, I’m planting a cover crop of clover rye and rape.
That part of liberating root, I use bucket whit water and dip it a few times .
Good video, but I do have one thing that didn't compute for me concerns the residual nitrogen after legumes. Conventional farms on a Soybean/Corn rotation generally get credit for 45 lbs or so of N/acre . So i found it incongruous that the N does not come from root nodules, even though they soybeans have completely fruited and are combined off. After a little research I found this reference – http://www.aganytime.com/Documents/ArticlePDFs/UnderstandingSoybeanNitrogenCredits.pdf . So this research confirms that much of the fixed nitrogen is used up by the legume during fruiting, however it goes onto say that primary reason for high residual N following legumes comes from the fact the residual plant matter has high C/N so breaks down quickly and is bio-available to the corn. So the lesson for the home gardener is a: don't pull your beans or peas when done, but cut them and leave the roots, and b: if you have time before the next crop you can "chop and drop" the above ground residue if you don't have a robust compost pile that will hold the N and not leech away.
Hi Mark, why is it not preferable to have weeds growing but it is ok to have clover?
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Thank you for sharing this video with all the useful information.
Alders are known to add nitrogen to the forest floor. I thought stinging nettle like to grow under it because they are heavy feeders and the alders are supplying their nitrogen. Are you saying alders don't actually start adding the nitrogen to the soil until after they've dropped dead and only if they haven't fully used it all up during their lifetime? Or is the drop dead early need for the legumes to work unique to the legumes and not all nitrogen fixers?
Hi Mark. I really appreciate you! I've been incorporating your suggestions in my garden. Grew winter rye and clover over winter for roots in the ground. Wondering if you use wood chips where you grow your cover crops or is that two different experiments you are conducting? Thanks.
Great video as always Mark – thanks so much for sharing with all of us!
Can you tell us a little more about why the weed you removed is undesirable? I can guess at several reasons, but wanted to know your reasoning. Does it grow too large? Is it not mycorrhizal compatible? Or because it is perennial and reseeds too heavily? Thanks in advance for any info you could provide!
Hi Mark, I want to use the CPR method for a macadamia tree orchard. So the plant will be a young grafted tree around a meter tall. What are you or anyone else’s thoughts on this? I’d like to use compost to promote grasses or legumes to grow in between the trees too.
The macadamia tree is a shallow rooting tree with one tap root going deep and then surrounded by shallow roots.
Excellent as usual 🙂
Wow, clover cover crop under tomatoes. Great Idea… thanks
Hi Mark, what is your observations of spring seeded winter rye from past years? It won’t vernalize and set flower in the first year. So will it survive until next summer then flower and set seed? I am a big fan of your channel. Bain from Toronto (USDA zone 5)
Hi Mark,
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with everyone. As you suggested before I planted white clover in some of my garden beds about 3 months ago and they have grown to their full length.can I cover them with wood chips now?
Thanks, Mark! BTW, great shot of your local wren;-)
Question for you! Small home garderner here, and I don't really have any options when it comes to crop rotation. What is a very efficient way of preventing early blight on tomatoes? Would mulching the ground with a cover of some sort, or even using a cover crop be beneficial?
The new shoot that formed on the snap pea plant is trying to do what they are "programmed" to do: Reproduce. They are semi-indeterminate, the way a tomato will continue to form suckers. I don't know which variety you grew but if it's Sugar Snap, it should "try to reach" about 6 feet (or more.) Super Sugar Snap is a little shorter, 4 to 5 feet. Sugar Ann & Cascadia are much shorter. Cutting off the main stem above a leaf node causes the plant to try to reproduce by growing a "replacement" stem to eventually flower and form pods & seeds. That is its goal.
I'm confused about how/when to mulch with leaves/compost. if I'm supposed to have living roots or a cover crop at all times.
Do you harvest the peas or cut them back? Thanks for the videos. Looking forward to growing tomatoes using your methods.
If anything this has taught me the day that nitrogen fertilizer become unavailable billions will starve.