WHY? N.P.K. is NOT the #1 Leader in NO Till Homesteading gardening Growing Organic Vegetables for beginners 101. I will show you WHY..
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WHY? N.P.K. is NOT the #1 Leader in NO Till Homesteading gardening Growing Organic Vegetables for beginners 101. I will show you WHY..
my favourite soil youtuber. love this stuff Mark. I want to create shallow swales and wide beds on my grassed gradual slope. sub tropical with heavy rain at times. my grass is runner type. so I need to disturb soil initially to dig the Swale trench, and gain material for raised bed. not really a trench as such, more a gentle depression I can keep mowed. I have lots of grass clippings. if I understand correctly. I can mass plant my newly turned and raised beds, then mulch with grass clippings. so long as not too thick to smell, this will encourage fungal growth?
Very good information. Thank you.
Another great educational video Mark, Thank You.
Mark, this is great! So clearly explained! I'm also trying to increase the fungal activity in my soil since last year, using wood chip, living root, no dig etc. I have not yet looked at the soil under the microscope, but I don't really need to… Seeing the weeds trying to
take over whenever possible, and the unhappy veg plants, I know my soil
does not have enough fungal activity. I'm about to start a hot compost pile, to inoculate wherever possible – how can I make sure the compost becomes fungal dominant, or at least 1:1 ratio? Thanks for all your great work and awesome videos, I am learning so much from you!
Based on this study, it seems like gardeners should focus on feeding/growing the fungus in their soil. I'm growing canaan fir trees on my property and we've been here a year. The previous owner had two garden plots, which they gardened conventionally–tilled and chemical fertilizer.
One of the former garden plots has several canaan fir trees planted. They are growing, but seem impaired and yellow. Would wood mulch or something like shredded carboard boxes help improve the F/B ratio in that area? I've also seeded some clover into that area. I'm not sure what other steps might help the trees out. Thanks.
You're awesome Mark!
Hi Mark,
Great video, thanks.
I am wondering if dandelions are good for cover cropping and making a great soil. The root system of a dandelion plant is relative strong and long, so i suppose it will be great for growing soil
I have learned quite a bit from your videos – especially cutting plants at soil level instead of pulling the whole plant out – thank you. If you have stubborn grass growing in your garden, would it be better to just cover it heavily with say wood chips or shredded leaves, or even cut it ground level first as opposed to pulling it out? One of my grape beds had a lot of grass coming up in it so I just threw a bunch of shredded leaves over top it for the moment. I am planning to put in beans between the grapes once it's warm enough to do so along with what ever other crops I can fit in so it's nice and full of root growth.
I dumped fall leaves and wood chips on a 20×40 area in November, and then this April, I planted some squash plants (basic heirloom zucchini and crookneck yellow squash). They've been in the ground a month, and they are TINY still. I finally got desperate and fed them some miracle grow. I was planning on spreading cottonseed meal on my garden this winter to help what I assumed was a nitrogen problem, but now I'm wondering if it might be something else. I don't particularly enjoy gardening in the woodchips (the soil seems much nicer where I only piled up the leaves) but is there something else I need to add besides the chips/leaves? I've found loads of worms when I've transplanted tomatoes and peppers… I would LOVE to not have to add anything else to my garden but my fall leaves. Thanks for your input! Love the video!
thank you Mark.
Please come and fix my garden. 🙂
Thank you for these videos. I have re-watched many of them multiple times and it seems I learn something new each viewing. Would you be able to advise how much vermicompost you would recommend to apply to a vegetable garden.
Excellent video. Thank you!!
Top quality information and presentation, as always! Thank you for taking the time to research and putting the video together, it is appreciated, All the best
Hi, could you please tell me what is concidered a weed?? is there anything we should pull out of our gardens?? or is does anything that grows should stay there.? thanks.
thank you. 😉
Thank you Mark you are so awesome. I have learned so much. God Bless you for these videos. Thank you so much.
I am excited to see before harvest
appreciate your vid. thanks
More people need to study & impliment this .. true science ..
WOW- that’s a game changer. Great information!
excellent shows. subscribing. unlike curtis stone who seems to think much of this has no evidence base. i am sure you have very little pest problems also.
Thank you for the great videos. Do you feel most plants and trees requires this fugally dominated soil to grow at their optimum potential or do some prefer a more bacterial dominated soil for this type of growth? Do you ever add a mychroizal fungi product to your seedlings or during planting to help get this ratio to your plants? Thank you, Mark H
I have a 10ft lemon tree that barely gives fruit and it always has problems with red scale. It has no grass or any plant growing near it, just naked top soil. Should I grow winter rye around it to increase the fungi?
Wow, another excellent video! Love the science behind your videos. Makes for fun discussions around the table here on the farm!
Thanks Mark another great teaching video by you, we are so thankful to have you on Utube.
Thanks Mark! Some very valuable and helpful information. Would you be able to comment at some point how we might increase fungal activity (if at all possible) for indoor gardening during winter under grow lights? I will have a large garden box with worm castings added to the soil. Is this enough to produce some lettuce, spinach, maybe kale? Any input would be greatly appreciated. God bless. From Nova Scotia
I have enjoyed observing roots in the ground and fungal life the way you describe them. I have an acre and a half no tail. I sprayed the garden three times
Very interesting research on bacteria/fungal dominates. Everything I've hearing is vegetables like bacteria soils while perennials and bushes like fungal soils. These are from soil scientist talk with no data supporting tho…
I'm really doing a brain shift. I thought I knew things about soil, and plant nutrition, and compost etc, but now I have alot of new things to try.