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Thank you, a nice video,I also covered my garden with lots of leaves!! 🙂
How fortune for your soil to have all those leaves delivered.
It's sad to see so many here burn their leaves, what a waste of sulfur, nitrogen, & organic materials. I'm having high PH issues with high amounts of organics in my soil. I'm adding elemental sulfur but I may just need excessive Nitrogen in the spring to lower the PH below 7.
65 deg F in SW Montana today and dry dry dry this fall. You have inspired me to make some more trips to the dump and get more leaves!
Ive been blowing sycamore leaves on the beds & covering with tarps. Once the leaves are all down, then wood chips go on top. So grateful for free inputs.
Really good video – are you saying that black walnut leaves are not harmful to gardens, shrubs etc.?
I'm fortunate in Florida to be able to garden all year. I still amend the new crops with compost or a topping of store bought soil. I worry about the grass or leaves sprayed with chemicals. I don't use those in my garden.
Can you show a close up to the chick weed
Great video Mark, we are putting leaves in garden to smother grass, then tarping.
I have a Ryobi 40volt leafmulcher works great.I have a communitygarden at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn,NY.I go around and collect bags of leaves,also other gardeners get them for me.they throw them over my garden fence.I tell tell me how many.I make them a couple of bags.I also put them in my compost.I let some of the bag turn into almost compost and there are a lot of redwiglers.They get put into my compost.To me leaves arethe best.Like Elliot Colman says just look at the forest floor.
Mark makes the best Organic gardening videos! I'm curious about how you keep the ratio 1:1 bacteria to fungi you mention?
When you put the leaves on, do you have to turn them over the winter?
do you have a speech impediment?
This leaf mold, is there a particular variety of food they positively respond to? Sugar? Urine? Alfalfa pellets? They reproduce like crazy if the right foods are available. For the purpose of creating leaf-mulch, which foods/nutrients are best..?
To increase the fungal component in my raised vegetable beds, I was considering establishing a perennial cover crop like thyme or oregano. what are your thoughts?
I could research it myself but I'd like to hear your take on using leaves that fall in my yard that have some sorta disease leaving spots all over them. I sorta hesitate to let them sit in my garden before they go through the compost pile but if you amde a video about it I would certainly watch it
You are one of the most informative gardeners/farmers on Youtube for me. This was my first year and I'm expanding my garden to 700 sqft of growing space and 7 fruit trees in a 1800 sqft space. I utilize free resources like leaf matter and wood chips and have sourced all of it within a block of my suburban Chicago home. I Collected nearly 100 bags of leaf to fill my 6" high beds I installed.
Do you have expectation on how much leaf matter would decompose to a medium that can be directly sown? In other words, how much would you expect to pull back to sow your seeds next year? I have situated my garden similar to yours; wood chip paths and compost layer on top of leaf matter.
Thank you Mark! Very helpful as always – I would argue the most helpful organic gardener on YouTube! I'm very happy to know that the extremely profuse crop of chickweed is a good thing 🙂
I'm wondering if you ever have problems with slugs with the cover? I did this spring, and noticed them starting to multiply under my leaves already this fall (the leaves have been on for two weeks or so, zone 7a).
Hello Mark, thank you for this video as always. I was just wondering how familiar you are with permaculture? I feel like with organic gardening you're already hitting a lot of the high notes of permaculture. I don't recall if in any previous videos you discussed food forests or alley cropping. I get the feeling that your area in the world gets plenty of rain so that designing swells and ponds for water capturing might not be as important. I know in your past videos you have discussed the benefits of polycultures and planting in guilds. I remember peach trees, but I feel like I haven't seen them in a while. Do you ever plan on doing a video about permaculture? Please forgive my poor memory. I have seen all of your videos and many of them multiple times, but memory has always been a weak spot for me. Bless you and your loved ones!
Encouraging mark, thanks!! I don’t plant cover crops but May in the future if seed prices are still affordable. I mulch our maple leaves and place them on top of a fresh layer of compost. Then I wrap it with plastic or the chickens have a hay day!! Do you see any positive/negative sides to doing this? Thanks again, from Nova Scotia
Looking good. Such a good feeling getting the soil tucked down for the winter
Leave have never failed me. Warms absolutely love them. And were there is worms, there is worm poop.
As a side note, leaves don't mold an attract the
Creepy Crawlers and spiders.