In this video I share 5 mistakes new no dig gardeners make and how you can avoid them.
Watch this video next: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aNOPuXHCLQ&t=1124s
0:00 Intro
0:42 Mistake 1
3:07 Mistake 2
6:00 Mistake 3
7:34 Mistake 4
9:27 Mistake 5
Ik vind je videos zo leuk en ook omdat je in mijn land woont, zelf woon ik in Nederland en ik heb ook een moestuin, zo een mooie hobby, veel geluk in Portugal
I find another mistake is thinking no dig doesn’t need fertilizer. I did need comfrey tea or compost tea or urine or manure all throughout the year. The ground takes many years to be self fertile.
Ps i know the compost advice is hard in a very general video, but an in depth seems needed, because it’s sooooo hard to get the right kind !
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Mow it and use landscape fabric to deny light. You can not till weeds out, especially things like Bind weed. This will regrow really easily and many times worse. I think the best way is to mow it then use fabric to black out light. In between make a JMS solution. Loads of videos here showing how. Spray this on the land by folding back the landscape fabric them recover. Pass again every 5 days for a total of x4 passes.
You can use compost, sea salt and local plants to makes minerals and food to replace anything removed from the land. Use the JMS on bare unplanted ground.
Thanks
Thank you so much for this content. I was starting to get tired of these no dig videos on other channels telling us that compost was like magic to grow plants. Compost is a fertilizer for the plants, and it takes a high quality compost to use it strictly as a growing medium. I've made those mistakes and what i would also stress is how the soil is when you start. If your soil is very compacted like our, you will have to till the first time. The main mistake done by the no dig people is that they layer existing soil with compost, don't do that.
10 outta 10
Hi,
Here in india, I have seen many vedios. The farming named ZBNF meaning zero budget natural farming. Where they make jeevamrutham. Which will rejuvenate the land. It has done wonder in natural farming. It has brought back earthworm to chemically cultivating land. Jeevamrutham has good effects.
Been wondering why my 4 month old compost wont grow my veggies well enough. It needed more time to decompose, I guess.
Great and all but when do we get an update on the farm/homestead
Thank you
I enjoy the videos, but especially those where you show the transformation progress of your land!
hello ou trouviez vous votre compost en france ? cdmt
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Hallo Moreno, dankjewel voor deze video en al die andere, een verademing tussen de velen andere soortgelijke videos.
Ook ik leef sindskort in centraal Portugal, waarschijnlijk niet ver bij jullie uit de buurt (ik zag jullie een aantal weken geleden in de Agrijola).
Ik heb een vraag, waar heb jij je compost vandaan?
Alvast bedankt! En nogmaals bedankt voor al die bruikbare filmpjes.
Very good
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I like yor videos
I am an organic farmer from rural India
Compost is not fertilizer. Specially peet/bark/woody/coco compost, which are the ones wich repel water when dry. It will feed all the bugs, bacteria, fungus and algea to create fertilizer, but it will take months, or years, to the minerals be avaiable to plants.
Compost is mulch, to cover the soil (mineral) keeping it cool and mosty, and, if tick enough, supress some weeds. It will not supress bind weed, and bermuda grasses type.
Plants dont feed on carbon. They feed on minerals, water, co2, o2 and hydrogen, and are greatly afected by light and temperatures.
Compost is great for germination of most seeds, but the majority prefer less compost, more a sandy/compost mix. Roots of most plants dont like compost at all. Many simply rot in compost.
The main funtion of the soil is to anchor the plants. But if they are stabilized by other means they can even live without soil (hidroponics).
Knowing the (low) avaiability of good cheap compost in portugal, i would say the no dig/deep compost metod is not a good choice for most people outside the professional aplications, or very small gardens (under 50 sqm).. Even in ecological sense, because its usually depends on importation/transport of heavy and volumous materials (peetmoss, cocoir, perlite, vermiculate, etc.).
But it looks great!
Thanks once again for this valuable information. I can only wish you the very best for this coming growing season.
Wow! This is such a helpful video! Thank you for your time and energy in creating this content. I've watched dozens of no-dig/no-till ferris and have still never heard the useful tips you just mentioned and, very helpfully, demonstrated! Keep up the good work, and your homestead is starting to look wonderful.
brilliant and informative as usual ,thanks for sharing
This is great content for aspiring farmers like me
I appreciate mulch. Great video.
Amazing video. Thanks so much
Reference aging compost, what if you live in a high rainfall area. Should you cover the compost to prevent nutrients being leached into the soil beneath? We’ve passed 3.1m already and a close neighbour over 4m.
leuk om te volgen dat je goed gaat.goeie vids man