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Will my 1inch+ thick okra stumps break down over winter too? I have to say I didn't expect them to get so big here outside toronto. By far the thickiest stalks of any of my annuals.
What ended up knocking out your tomatoes? I've had powdery mildew take over my plants in the past month. Still alive but not in great shape. I'm wondering if it's because it was a new bed and that will improve as my soil builds and matures, or if it's because I didn't prune them much, or just something inevitable when you have humid 65F+ nights all summer long.
I consider those roots to be one of the most valuable parts of the plant. Leaving them in the soil is very important to me. Especially at our new place – the clay soil is literally only a foot deep in most of our land, and then it's solid bedrock. So I need all the organic material in there I can get. I'm addressing that by leaving plant roots in place, lots of leaf and hay mulch on top, and we're fortunate that we can get herbicide-free horse manure locally. And in areas that aren't garden beds I let the grasses and wildflowers grow long before I mow them, if I mow them at all.
What OP variety of the little yellow pear tomato did you plant?
@Mark, How can we minimize microbial disruption when harvesting a crop like sweet potatoes?
Yes that showing a lot of roots and it also becomes compost in time.
Please pass on about "tea" and stuff like bananas with other compost tea as anything that worms like I would think are helpful
I myself have improved and seeing some disappointed with insect damage but I must get the good bugs a great place to live,hunt and build their homes in my nature garden, I built it and they will come.
Trying to get back to a ridge for my potatoes as ( Eden Garden leaving to much looking for my potatoes after the weeds and plants are gone and it's time to guess where they are.
Great presentation and info. Thanks, Mark.
Wow Mark, great follow up video. We planted 40 tomatoe plants this year with leaf mold and old hay mixed in, picked at least 400 pounds and now I'm leaving roots behind and planting fall crop right in same row. This works folks get on board and harvest!!!
I cant hear this video for some reason… will try elsewhere
I love how excited mark gets when pulling up those tomato roots!!… I too grew yellow pear tomatoes in pure leaf mould this year and the plants were enormous and the yield was off the charts!!!
Great info, we always leave the roots in the ground to add organic material to our soil and thank you for sharing.
Mark, always good to see another one of your videos. Always keeping it real and keeping it simple. Because I follow what you say I've had the best season. I'm northwest of Chicago and I am right in the middle of fall prep. Putting in garlic for next spring and adding ground up leaves saved up from last fall to mulch this years beds. Thank you for making all this so much easier and more abundant without all the nonsense in so many other videos on the web. You are the man!
I raked all my neighbors leaves last fall and mulched my e tire small garden this season. I need to plant y onions this fall where my okra is ending. Will these huge roots be a problem and should I just leave the leaf mulch where it is and add more in the spring?
Wish someone had told me this decades ago. It’s sometimes easier to rip plants out than cut them to the ground but the soil will reward you for leaving the roots next year. Build microbes by not ripping them out.
Do you use or recomend any products like Extreme Gardening Mykos and Azos, or are you confident that all is already present in your soil
Thank you for this info! I plan on cleaning up my raised beds today and now know NOT to pull out the roots.
Such a great video and seeing is believing.luv it thank you.
Thanks for the lesson Mark.
Yep I leave the root it. Well maybe not my horseradish. I get the main root to eat. Plenty of root left over for them to regrow.
Hi Mark, do you have any videos on how to harvest your seeds after the season ends? I buy from high quality, nonGMO, seeds, but wanted to try harvesting my own.
God bless you brother
Can I put my leaf mulch down in the Autumn? Wow nice yellow pear seedlings! Can you repeat that next season when you're ready to plant again? Early seed planting or use a cold frame or frost cover for early growth on new seedlings? In the meantime, they are lovely groundcover and living roots in the soil!
Loved your video and wondered if what your doing in not uprooting the root and its benefits work for my Trugs? I have 3 that i use for peppers mainly. I do add manure each year as they like a lot of organic matter. But would the no till work?
Thanks i really enjoy our video.
Great seed saving to less fortunate folks Mark! Great explanation of the root system. I love how the leaf mulch made such a impact of your soil. I still remember your planting rows wood chips vs leaf mold mulch. Great experiments! Ty vm for always posting such valuable content. Have a great week
We're in zone 8a in Anderson, SC and I need to know right away which plants we should be planting for Winter cover crop. Do we want to plant a single (monoculture) or do we want to plant a multi (polyculture) variety of plants? I've got a few inches of good top soil that I want to keep covered through the Winter because I want to sequester as much Carbon from the atmosphere to put it down into the ground. So whatever cover crop I plant needs to fix the Nitrogen in the soil – that way I'll have a good balance of Carbon and Nitrogen. Am I on the right track?
Genius. You're so lucky to have a space to grow. I have a 3m x 4m garden and the neighbour has rats. I tried allotments but they were bullies and very unhelpful besides the queue for an allotment is very long. But I still enjoy watching you to know what is possible. Thank you.
Mark, what do you think about it : https://youtu.be/ZrogAKO3dhI
Someone who gets as excited about dirt as me!