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Amazing to see mulching work for you! I am also a market gardener and struggled a lot with weeds this year. My no-dig system was established in the Spring. My strategy was to cardboard mulch the existing vegetation, apply 3-4 inches of compost, then 3-4 inches of sifted, arborist woodchips on top. The plants grew to only poor-medium quality. HOWEVER, the weed pressure was astonishing. Here in Colorado, field bindweed is so vigorous that it choked out most of my full-season crops even after growing through the 8 inches of mulch! My strategy for next year is to reapply mulch after each weeding in order to require the bindweed to exert more energy to regrow, thus draining the parent rhizome's stores.
My only takeaway is this: Don't give up on weeding! Even when the perennial weeds grow back, they have still been weakened.
I'm from South Africa, the no dig approach is very smart as it is long term beneficial as well as saves a lot of trouble with those pesky weeds in the short term. Will definitely be utilizing this method in my new garden beds soon!
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Where did you buy the compost from?
Hi Moreno, this is Kiran from India. I am in process of starting an half acre No dig Market garden. I am so glad to have found your channel. You are full of energy and practical solutions. I wanted to ask you, do you use the same approach for carrot beds? Would they grow long in a 6 inch mulch bed? Or do they need any special arrangement, thank a ton for your time.
Nice to watch this video again Moreno. It's wonderful to see such an immaculate farm too. I'm really sick of seeing weedy, messy gardens some other youtubers think we will be inspired by. Your garden is the best!
Hey Moreno, your videos are great and filled with useful advice! I'm curious about your compost: do you produce a part of it inside the farm? Or does it come from elsewhere? Thanks!
Hi Moreno, how big is your farm?
can i learn gardening with you,
your garden is very nice
interesting how people praise no dig methods all over the world. maybe i've done it wrong in my poly tunnel but the bind weed definitely found its way up the cardboard and (maybe too thin) layer of compost, i would say 5 cm at least and at the end i didnt manage to stay on top of it. so in my experience it was totally not worth it. I've done it just in small scale it the garden as a test on a part of land where there was hard soil and no tunnel at all before. (i am not in production as a farmer yet) maybe the biggest mistake was completely digging the ground before laying the cardboard and new soil. going to plant using the row covers and not direct seed this season there.
I've been reading The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution by Andrew Mefferd and nerding out on no-till videos. I love how organized and clean your farm looks! Thanks for the content.
thanks
What would you do if you had to contend with roaming deer? I want to farm my front yard. But, in my area we have tons of deer roaming everywhere-yes, even in a city neighborhood! Do I need to fence it? Or create a fruit cage system in order to grow anything?
2:18 would love if you could elaborate a little on what are the systems u have in place?
Wood chips are expensive where I am… What are the alternatives that I can use?
Trees are good for the soil foodqeb but what about the shading of your garden?
Hello, I really enjoy your content, thanks for all the knowledge. Do you have any other social media??
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Great video! I'm wondering why you put compost directly on the grass as opposed to adding cardboard?
I have weeds always on the bed plot like crazy after I put fertilizers, weed grow crazy, too. And it takes a lot of work, what can you suggest?
Sería posible subtitulado en español, saludos desde Córdoba , Argentina
You said land multiple times but never mentioned the size of it. What is the acreage that you’re farming?
Seronok!
How wide are your beds? Compost and woodchip?
Are you using compost only as a fertilizer?.