FEILD TRIP in GROWING & BUILDING SOIL | Winter Rye
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How to deal with ticks, I want to mulch with leaves but starting spring ticks are active. Please help.
I'm going to try the seedless watermelon and the pollinator this year too
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Nerd Farmer, ha! I'm always so happy to see your videos in my list! I've been busily prepping beds hopefully for the last time – sprinkling thickly with a broad range of cover crops and my veggies within. It has been so hard to get anything to germinate with a crust of dry earth on top of the beds. Endless watering with a can. Next spring everything will stay moist! Maybe even my carrots will germinate in spring instead of sulking until September. I have one bed that is cover-crop-full – with garlic and broad beans too – I think I will put in some sunflower seeds in there now, see what happens.
Nitrate! I googled it and Cornell has some interesting PDFs on that: "ammonium (NH4+), which has a positive charge; nitrate (NO3-), which has a negative charge; and urea, ((NH2)2CO), which has no charge." (I want to make jokes about that, but I'm an adult.)
I love your videos but i notice that you never talk about soil ph. With all those leaves i would think that your ph would be low i want to do similar garden as you grow but should i correct the ph first or does it naturally correct itself over time. Again thanks for all your content and knowledge
Ammonium NH4+-N
Excellent video Mark, thanks so much for helping us all be better organic growers.
NH4 & No3
I would like to preface my comments with I am not a professional grower, but a guy who like to raise plants. I also find it beneficial to plant my cucurbits into a grass cover crop. In my case it is the survivors (Triticale and cereal rye) of a cool season cover crop mix I plant in late summer. I have also found it useful to plant, on the same day I transplant cucurbit seedlings, hills of bush green bean and buckwheat. Hills contain a mix of bean and buckwheat and are about 30 to 36 inches apart in a grid pattern. The buckwheat and beans do not seem to shade the vines, but it is enough plants to have observant visitors explain to me that my squash are weedy. I have not had problems with vine borer or cucumber beetles for years. This may be luck, but it is my observation. The only fertilizer products I use a those I believe the witches in Macbeth can ferment.
Your field is looking so rich. Thank you for helping us all understand nature better.
Thanks Mark "Just a Farmer". I always enjoy your videos.
I am a couple states over. We also seem to be getting a little more rain than normal. For my county that is 55 inches a year. Also maybe just a little cooler.
I was told that watermelon was not a profitable crop. I must be older than you are as harvesting a field of watermelons is little more than I could do.
Gee, all that fertlity without handling (or mis-handling as the case may be) a mess of pathogen laden manure. It's almost like it's wholly unnecessary…
Mark do you break up the leaves before laying them on the ground? Also I always wonder how the stay put. No wind in your area?
Hey Mark, I recall you saying that rye should be terminated prior to the seed head forming.
Mark, I'll be planting watermelon for the first time this season. Any advice? Maybe a melon video in the future?
Ammonium ( spelling) the other " nitrogen " feed weeds…. I hope I'm close to being right lol
Good morning Mark, your looking well my friend! Just wondering if you use any fish hydrolysite based tea's, it's from the Doc of course lol. Mate you do a wonderful job of making people aware of what I consider the best knowledge in the world. Everywhere I go, I think about planting cover crops ( my local farmers wouldn't like that lol) the dead fall leaves as food, I dream of gardening, it's taken over my life and I love it. This is a hobby that now is a passion, I don't think too much about money, as kurdt said, " I'll sit and grin and let the money roll right in " lol. One thing I do find hard is finding like minded people, most of them, including green keepers who work on golf courses think I'm lying about these methods, so, with god's help, I just try to lead by example. It's not about being right, it's about doing the right thing. Thanks Mark, please, have a wonderful day!!!
amonium nitrate.
I really enjoy your vlog, thanks for sharing!!
Hello to you and your soil microbes from Tennessee. You've helped me not worry so much about dock and chickweed in my big pollinator garden!
Guessing it’s anhydrous ammonia because that’s what the farmers spray around here
Hi Mark, need your advice about field beans as a cover crop. I have grown it on a bed on my allotment where I want to grow sweetcorn. they are in flower now so need to terminate to stop the nitrogen being used, do I need to cut the whole plant down to soil level or can I cut off the flowering stems only? I'm not ready yet to plant the sweetcorn. Hope you can help. Phil.
Organic ,
One thing you can do is in rye is roller crimp it to kill it and no till plant into it ,second is to roll only a 10in wide row and leave rest of rye standing as a living
Thank you