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You're amazing! Always inspiring. I didn't know purslane grows so far north. It's highly nutritious, and a great accent in salads. ( provides highest dietary minerals such as potassium (494 mg/100 g) followed by magnesium (68 mg/100 g), calcium (65 mg/100 g), phosphorus (44 mg/100 g), and iron (1.99 mg/100 g) (Table 1). Purslane (Portulaca oleracea)
For your cover crops, do you harvest seed? Or do you just buy new cover seed every time? Seems like the cost would add up quite quickly
Hi Mark, do you have the weed, Thorny Pig Weed. It looks and grows like regular Pig Weed but its' got nasty thorns, and the seeds seem to be imortal.. I just pull it and leave it to cook in a trash bag before its' sent to recycle.
Good attitude, Mark. Wish you the best. Thank you for the info on purslane and sedge grass. I have both of these plants in my yard.
Thanks for sharing Mark! The purslane in my garden doesn't seem to grow tall, it just creeps on the ground so far. It seems to be doing the best with a bulbil garlic patch I planted this spring, where I've been pulling everything other than the purslane and garlic. Do you think it will compete with the garlic more than benefit it in a lightly mulched sandy-soil bed?
Hi Mark. I am right on the border of zone 6a by St. Louis, Missouri . Since you are 6b perhaps you can help me. I just can’t figure out which cover crop to use. This is my 4th vegetable garden. I have learned so much from you about the soil food web. So this winter I read Teaming With Microbes by Jeff Lowenfels. I had never even thought about how plants grow. Thanks to you I can continue to learn about this fascinating world. I’m 65 and started to garden when I retired. I love growing our organic food.
Question on the rye grass. Is that an annual rye or perianal rye? And is the perianal rye a good cover crop?
Good video Mark. I got 3 Black tail mountain watermelon my first time doing this for my little backyard garden. I have them grow up a net and a fence.
Ever thought about making chicken tractors, that fit down your rows, to eat those healthy weeds/cover crops? So you can control the weeds before they seed, while also growing eggs or meat? Probably not practical in narrow rows, but some of your spacings or empty sections look like they could fit, and it would actually help boost all your crops, including your intentionally planted cover crops. Food for thought.
Our allotment committee would have a cow if I allowed that level of weeds around my veg, so I'm looking at alternatives, eg thick polycultures. My problem this last couple of years has been getting anything to germinate at all…first it's too cold/wet then it's too hot/dry. So next season I'll try starting off with thickly-planted broccoli (easy to buy in seed-bulk) that will grow quite happily in early spring and I can plant within it. I did try winter rye as a cover crop, but I really struggled with getting it to stop growing!
Hi Mark. Asked once before, but can endo and ectomycorhhizae coexist?
@1:06 The oxygen is being removed because WHY? I have a hard time following what you're saying. Because rain? Why because rain?
I live in the deep south and we have had the worst growing season because we have been in a drought for over 2 months. July is usually when the rain returns but no – no rain in over 2 months. The heat is nowhere near as bad as it has been over the years – in fact, we are in the 80s by day and we should be in the 100s. So the temperatures are not that bad this month, but in June, they were hot and dry. All the work we did for our organic garden (a lot) and we only have 2 squash to show for it. This is a growing trend. We thought it was just us but it seems that others have had similar problems. We watered our gardens like crazy and nothing produced except mold. It was just frustrating. Then we had a water bill of over $150.00 dollars for the month of June and now we have decided that we will never grow again in the summer. This breaks my heart but it's been going on like this now for several summers. We just can't afford it. We have rain barrels but we'd have to haul water to all the locations by hand and it's too much. So, we're going to have to get our greenhouse going and plan on trying to grow summer vegetables in other seasons down here. Things are changing with the grand solar minimum.
What is the beautiful flower at the end of the video?
Sounds like Texas weather….all the time!
Hi Mark…. My thoughts are you might want to plant things like corn just to soak up the extra water. Living in the Boston area myself I'm OK for the moment but last year a lot of damage from water saturated soils. Until this weather pattern changes could be 5-15 years not sure I'm fearful of too much water and no good way to get rid of it. Open to suggestions…. Great videos as always.. take care.
purslane also has omega 3 fatty acids which is rare for plants. The high diversity healthy plant field is beautiful to my eyes 🙂 I had a single butternut squash volunteer vine grow this year. It produced one large gord which I picked today. Looking forward to sharing it with my family.
Mark, you might sell purslane as an organic bitter salad green to restaurants. Have not researched it lately but purslane was touted as "nature's cholesterol drug" a few years ago. Statins used to treat cholesterol have a myriad of side effects and are ineffective. Also, statins are blamed with Type 2 Diabetes skyrocketing over 30% in the last 30 years !!! I am NOT a doc. Write "Health Beat" type scripts for the local afternoon news tv stations. Trained as a microbiologist but I've been disabled for 30+ years. Write for a media company. It's a little income and keeps my geriatric brain busy. (^: = I pray weather improves and you recoup some of your losses!
I don't think it looks unsightly at all. I'm doing similar experiments but I have a load of troublesome field bindweed as a groundcover and hopefully I'll learn how to control it with no dig.
Remind me why you don't use any manure on your farm.
Great info, thanks for sharing.
It all looking great to me I have lived with ground covers for years. As for the flooded area I have been creating hügelkultur raised mounds in my garden since 4 years ago because my garden flooded and the water remain for a long time and plants died. I have also created a pond that fill only when the garden is flooded this takes away the water that has no place to flow to. Swales can also be created to guide the water flow to the pond and on the raised edge swale you can plant I expect because you have a vast amount of land you have to use your machinery best used in a straight line. If you look up swales they curve and bend according to the contour of the land. Just something to think about Mark. Thanks for the video and info on the so call weeds.
Mark I am so thankful you mention the look alike purslane is poisonous. I did not know this, I sometimes eat the purslane. Very important to know!!!
Wow, the geoundcover method is amazing. It's not unsightly at all!
greetings from Scotland. years ago I read that there is a law of return saying that if you export an amount of organic matter from a piece of land as a harvest you must return an equal amount of organic matter or lose fertility. if this is true can this be done by using cover crops or must organic matter be imported from another piece of land. so can a piece of land produce a harvest and enough organic matter to sustain its self at the same time?
thanks for all your videos I am learning a lot.
Hi Mark,
I was wondering, would broadforking have been an option? Would it have helped aerate the soil? With 22 acres of farm I know this task would have been monumental. With that said could you have targeted a few rows (or a couple of feet of a few different rows) of your high value crops to see if that would have made a difference. Maybe something to consider in the future if this situation occurs again. Cheers,
Bill
This was the first year in 55 years of farming that my dad did not get any corn planted (Central Ohio).
Did you start the corn and pumpkins from seeds? Was the purslane Cover crop already grown up when you put the pumpkin seed in the ground?
How die you put the purslane seed into the earth in the spring? Did you dig up the field before planting purslane seed?
As always a very interesting video! It’s very encouraging that you turn a bad situation for you into a benefit for us all, who watch your videos!