How to Start a No till Raised bed Vegetable Garden or Food Forest Permaculture for beginners in your yard with Composting Fall Leaves deep mulch Part 1. In this Garden Series I will show you from building soil to planting for beginning a garden.
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How to Start a No till Raised bed Vegetable Garden or Food Forest Permaculture for beginners in your yard with Composting Fall Leaves deep mulch Part 1. In this Garden Series I will show you from building soil to planting for beginning a garden.
Coffee grounds is another way to keep leaves from flying away, I have also used branches and compost as well. They all work.
Great videos! Love the contrast with the Back to Eden method.
You go Mark
Thank you for posting.
Hi Mark, I heard you mention fruit trees. Any upcoming videos about pruning for a better harvest? Thanks as always
why is hot compost a bad thing?
What if you don't have a lot of space for the leaves to be spread out 2' thick? I'm just starting my garden area and used your idea for doing the raised bed with cattle panels. I just filled them up with leaves and plan on turning them 2-3 times over the winter when the weather permits. I also have a dog so having this contained vertically would prevent her from doing her business in the leaf mold!
thank you – all the best
You are making it way too complicated and confusing people. It is a lot more simple. Just do it like God does. Spread them on the ground and let nature do all the work. Plant through the leaves and you will grow as heathy of vegetables as you possibly can. Keep it simple and you will see that all of that work and gasoline is wasted. Lose the tractor, lawn mower, tiller, pitch fork and mesh. It’s not needed…ever. I love the leaves though, they are awesome.
Hi Mark, thanks for sharing your experience. I am curious how your squash did planted right in with the cover crops? The seedlings looked great, but did they grow well through the season? How did they fair against the dreaded squash bugs?
Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to part 2!
Hello Mark, Thank you once again for your great lessons. Looking forward to part 2. You mentioned in other comments that you will do a video about pruning. Is it possible to do a video or videoseries about harvesting and your way of harvesting this comming year? In advance thank you very much and God bless.
Mark what happened to cover cropping? Do you even use cover crops anymore? I want to know what is best. I didn’t get my cover crop to germinate this year and I’m putting leaves down.
Hey Mr. Mike… you make the complex concepts, simple to understand and execute. Thanks. My best wishes to your oldest son in his new challenge / opportunity.
Great video. You gave me ideas on how to incorporate all the fall leaves I have into my soil.
instead of adding topsoil on top, can I just add manure or compost? Also, I added 2'' of leaves this last fall into my garden (all I had), can I plant into them this spring even if I didn't had a cover crop before winter struck?
Great video, Mark!
Nice video. Check out my family on "Louisiana Gardening Family" on Youtube as well we're gonna be diving into all sorts of gardening ideas from this channel and channels like this one
Great video. I just discovered your take on leaves vs. wood chips. My question is how to you get started with this process on a new plot in the early spring. I have yards of matted leaves in a ravine available but do I just put them on top of the existing grasses (blue grass, couch, etc.) or do I use cardboard or some other weed block like B2E method. If cardboard is used how does the cover crop penetrate it while the cardboard is still in tact? Do the "weeds" from the previous unbroken plot act as the living roots. You don't seem to address "weed" control in the getting started videos. Very impressed and very curious.
When would you add manure? Is there any benefit to adding manure to this mixture in the fall?
Hi Mark I rake the leaves for composting but I found mowing it with the grass was easier to pick up, I ended up with a mixed material that did not go slimy and use it as a base for making hot compost pile. The part of your video that fascinates me most is your suggestion of using leaves to create leaf mold in a grand scale. People normally burn their leaves here in the UK I never do. My garden was owned and designed by a plants man, he told me the leaves that are in the wooded area or on plant beds should remain where they are, as a result I have 80 years of leaf mold in my garden. It is about 8 inches thick in the woods. Flowering bulbs of various sizes and varieties pop out of the ground around late winter till mid June.
After I had done my first permaculture course I was restless did not know where to start, one day as I was strolling through the woods the word symbiotic popped into my head, I suddenly realised all the plants that grows there have got a relation ship they come up at different times and replace each other, each year same cycle as we go through the season. This brings me to your video where you mentioned the green manure you grew together as having a mycorrhizal relationship, sorry I am jumping the gun so to speak as that was your first video I saw, it got me so excited that I decided to watch your videos from the beginning. I am a horticulturist twice permacultures. Thanks for the video.
Hi again. My unused leaf mulch pile has yellow slime mold growing on top. Can still use it?
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