Soil health can be quite simple. I’m ready to jump off into this journey of learning soil, are you?
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OH JESS !!!! You have made my day with this video !!. I do completely No-Dig gardening but unfortunately Brisbane Australia has just had the most massive flood- we are ok as quite high, but my raised beds just soured due to all the rain & I am rejuvenating the beds. Everything in this video made sense Thank You.
I think this is an important video for everyone gardening. Cheers Denise- Australia
So looking forward to y'all diving deeper on this topic throughout the season!!!
Love this information. That was new seeing all the layers. I learned a lot.
While you were talking to Will about bringing some of those minerals to the surface without actually tilling he mentioned some plants have a deep taproot and do that. Jason over at Cog Hill Farm planted a ' mixture ' cover crop in his future pasture/garden beds. In that mixture of those planted was a deep rooting radish ( He called them daikons- also edible ) which also break up the soil-does double duty. He said he will turn over that crop back into the soil as one means of amending the soil. As Will was explaining that means the minerals in those tap root plants will now be usable in your topsoil for growing.
Very interesting. I really enjoyed the soil science.
Thank you so much for this video. This is aligning perfectly with my gardening journey as I'm trying to improve the soil in my garden as well as convert some of our land into a small pasture. I can't wait to hear more from you as you share what you learn about composting and soil health. ♡
Thank you for sharing this information. I will come back to visit this vlog once in awhile for a refresher.
Excellent.
Could you make pottery out of that red clay:soil? My grand father use to go who knows where and bring buckets and he made Mexican pottery.
Why I love you, you find poetry in everything and it's beautiful!
Love what you said about adding as many different things as possible. I just got a load of very broken down horse manure and shavings (bedding) to add to my garden. I was asked why, since I have plenty of goat manure and alfalfa waste compost. I want as many different sources of life and nutrients as possible. If you eat only bread, or only broccoli, you won't be healthy. The healthiest diet includes as wide a variety of ingredients as possible. So does the healthiest soil.
I always thought I had to till my soil when I added my fertilizer. I use a mixture of cow manure and mushroom compost and I thought it had to be mixed up in the soil. Have I been damaging my soil all these years? I've only been gardening maybe the last 10 years. Really getting into it the last couple of years sunset for watching you.
BIO-SI look it up. Great stuff for what you’re talking about.
T SHIRT. Every plot of land is liberty
I just learned that you can purchase composted manure from some zoos! Springfield (MO) zoo participates!
Comfrey brings up nutrients from that deep as well. I use comfrey as a compost tea because of it. But I chop and drop a lot too
I love the knowledge you bringing to us thank you working with you would be an amazing experience
Amen to that! There is life around us well said Jess
Thank you for teaching.
What machines do you use to reintroduce compost?
You could build so much awesome stuff for your place with that clay!
God Bless your Family so much for living and teaching us our roots given by Father God! You inspire so many people to live off the land like we should. God Bless and God Speed!