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Great content and valuable information as usual. Thank you. You're looking good and healthy too. I'm joking but you look like you could be related to Farmer Fred. Love both of your channels.
Have never grow garlic,but will this year,zone 6b how late can I start garlic?
Glad it’s considered a cover! I just planted my sweet potatoes in the same bed..
Anyone else notice the caterpillar rolled up in the bottom center of the screen at 7:18 ?
Great video…such gorgeous soil!!! Thank you for sharing this!
I love the juicy sound effects when you were eating the strawberries! Thank you so much.
Mark, the foxes didn't make me smile as much as your yummy strawberry sounds. Precious.
Hi Mark,
I was wondering could you do another raised bed Hugelculture? This time with a twist. One of the end pieces could be removable. And against that piece would be a sheet of plexiglass. That way we could see the break down process with out digging out the bed. Also with this cross section you could show us how deep the roots of the winter rye reach. I hope you consider this suggestion. Cheers,
Bill
As usual great video thanks Mark. Happy Morning to you, lol.
Man oh man that was a beautiful root system you pulled out of the ground. Also, do you have ay idea how long after harvest the fungi left in the soil without living roots remains viable?
I see corn in the same list! I had planned to grow sweet corn after the garlic is done. What type of fertilizer you use for corn, may I ask?
You are soooo knowledgeable can you make a digital book so we can download and print it out. I would definitely buy it
At 6:17 when you show the winter rye in the raised bed It seems to have it's seed head. Aren't you supposed to cut it before the seed head forms? I'm thinking about sowing some winter rye this year in my beds.
What if your growing site is in the shade or doesn't get much sun?
Great information. Master level gardening
Great video, we grow garlic, winter rye and daikon radishes as our cover crops, and thank you for sharing.
Another great educational video Mark. I was contemplating growing some garlic for a few different reasons. Glad I don't have to look up the AMF chart. Those strawberries sounded pretty good lol. You reap what you sow… Yummy, cheers again mate!!
If you like fresh garlic, you can leave some bulbs in the ground. They will regrow in bunches, so next year you can harvest them green or transplant separately. I keep transplanting some, so now I have more and more bunches of garlic growing in my garden, while eating more and more green garlic.
Thank you Mark! Having been doing this unknowingly by interplanting garlic and tomatoes. I am getting onion maggots now, Really strange for a home garden. The damage is not that big, but you do see the pupa in the garlic heads.
I lost it at the strawberry part
How do you figure out it was Japanese beetles eating the strawberry leaves? I can never see what demolishes the entire leaf sometimes.
7:03 LMAO
Mark, you're looking so healthy! And there's an amazing improvement in your soil compared to when you started making videos! My garlic has just barely started forming scapes … if I want to harvest scapes but leave the garlic to bulb up, when would you cut the scapes for cooking (is there a better time for flavor from scapes?) Loved the foxes video too!
Yes. Lucky you. Strawberry as fresh as it gets.
As a new gardener in the PNW I'm looking at trying this method. I live where there is VERY sandy soil. Also I'm in 8b. I was wondering if you'd still recommend this type of gardening and if you had any other kind of soil tips for a sandy 8b area. One last thing I think I understand what a cover crop is but I was wondering if you might give a definition to it. Thank you for making these videos, I appreciate it.
Was NOT prepared for the surprise ASMR portion at 7:10, lol