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Really good stuff -- thank you. I see a lot to do with how to manage this on farms but not garden beds.

Thank you for the lesson, an old gardener almost 80 but still learning new tricks. Thank you for the building of soil at the Ocean my beds are raised and I need all the building soil lessons I can get. , Karen

I have a lovely "closed" Fishbowl terrarium with springtails and Isopods. I noticed Fungus Gnats flies today ! How did they get in there, and how to kill them without killing springtails and Isopods ?

I'm very concerned that covering the soil before it freezes will not kill off the unwanted insects in the soil. Have you had an issue with bugs getting worse year after year? Thanks.

are all your beds only one cinder block, deep?

Bagging leaves is the worst. You need a wheelbarrow

Where did you get and how long did it takeyou to collect allthose leaves?

Thank you for showing your process! 🌿

Very helpful thanks I’m trying this

Funny, I didn't even notice the music

My neighbor has always taken his leaves and mulched them down with hi mower and then put them on his garden area and then tilled them in,in the fall, he always has a great garden ,so this year while i was out picking up leaves with my cyclone rake i would bring him 2 or 3 loads of mulched leaves and grass and he then tilled them into his garden, My wife and I have a spot at the city community garden and our way to giving back to the soil is pretty much the same way as my Neighbor, I used to collect my neighbor's leaves and make a compost pile in my back yard,and that was a lot of hard work turning them by hand,so we have opted to the method that we are doing now, we put the mulched leave/grass that i pick up and put that on the garden area and the til it in,in the fall,once its mulched and tilled in theres no need to cover it,but thats just what we do,I enjoyed video on that kind of composting method,thank you.

Okay, but here is a thought. The natural thaw/melt cycle in winter is beneficial for the soil. It breaks up clumps that might have formed in summer. It breaks up soil on a molecular level. and makes for aeration. If you insulate the soil to prevent freezing, you kinda shoot yourself in the foot here. Why not do an A/B test? Leave one half open next year and see if there is a difference.

Bcs of this video now I own Women's L.L.Bean Sweater Fleece Full-Zip Jacket ))

What if you are starting from scratch without a cover crop

Yay Pea Vetch Oats!

What about just covering with shredded brown leaves over winter! Does this have benefits?

Thank you for such a clear and informative video, it’s wonderful! 😍 We are slowly creating new beds every year on a north facing slope on an island up here in Orkney, Scotland. We moved here two years ago and are loving it! 🥰 Despite being 59° North, we don’t get very cold winters (rarely below -5°C) and only a few days of snowfall every winter. However, due to the lack of trees growing here (we have two windswept sycamores and a fair few Fuchsia and Escallonia bushes hugging stone walls together with some willow bushes), we don’t tend to have many tree leaves we can collect as the strong winds we get almost all year round blow the leaves off pretty quickly! So we gather those that collect round the house and fill only three or so bin-bags worth of leaves. Still it’s better than nothing! We kept all our moving boxes and are slowly using them to create no-dig beds on the sloping garden above the house. Thankfully we inherited a full large old compost bin, but have had to spend a fair bit of time picking out the plastic and wire bits. It’s been worth it as we have six great beds which have been pretty productive this year, and we plan on making a few more this winter. We will lay the cardboard down straight onto the grass and then cover with some of the compost, possibly mixed in with some soil this year as our old compost supply is running low and our new compost isn’t ready to use yet. Thinking we will certainly try growing some cover crops in some of the beds next year to help build up the quantity and quality of the soil in the beds. Thanks again, now off to look at more of your videos! 😊

I bought a hay field and want to put in an actual vegetable garden. Removing established hay plants is SUCH a labor intensive process, especially since the land itself has a lot of clay and is very nutrient poor after years of hay being harvested and taken away. Can you (or anyone else) tell me how to get rid of the grass/hay so that I can plant a cover crop? I would prefer to not use Roundup, and agricultural vinegar would just make the already acidic soil (pH 5) more hostile to vegetables. Thank you for any advice.

what do you do to keep moles or gophers out of your rich soil once established?

Visited Michigan University some years ago introducing a mulching blade only to be educated that Maple leaves were some of the you could introduce to lawn/ garden. And that University is tops I find out in ag and landscape in the USA. GREAT video madame.

Pretty sure pushing over green vegetation in a uniform direction with a board on a rope is exactly how crop circles are made, too. 😂

Thirty years ago I bought a B & D electric vac/threader, 15-1, $100. I vac up/shred, bag and spread in my garden. No noise, dust, raking, or composting needed. It was so easy I did both my neighbor's yards or each side. They were surprised and thanked me. The mulch just laying all winter turned into black soil. I no longer needed to compost in the spring! If I knew how valuable leaf mulch was I could have saved myself 30 years of composting. If you need to convert desert sand for growing trees, try using wood chips + leaf mulch + moisture.

I thougth tomatos are self pollinating? Why plant cover crop under them to attract bees?

You have a great way of explaining complex topics, making them easy to understand for everyone.

Great demo . Struggled with music background tho , better just to have you talking

I love buckwheat. I cook it in chicken stock and it's one of my favorite foods.

Beautiful garden .

You might want to check out Living Traditions Homestead. They built a chicken moat several years ago around a large garden space.

Are you sure you are not making "crop circles"?!?! LOL!😅 Love the leaf mulch! You must have great soil! I know when I used to put chopped leaves in my garden, I had worns the size of my thumb!😊❤

Just a new twist on the hot bed.

My first starter home, the backyard was solid clay that cracked after rain. I had NO money, but nearby was a horse boarding facility. They had mountains of muck-out material from the stalls - straw mixed obviously with urine and horse dung. I asked the owners if I could take some - the said take as much as I wanted. I got the big leaf bags, began shoveling in piles of straw (and horsey extras) and then just dumped the bags and spread them all over the worst clay areas in my backyard. Left it to decompose and the next summer I had crumbly black soil! All from freebie straw and horsey pee and poo! I grew so much over summer, allowed the plants (after harvesting), and went back for more of the straw and horse dung, laid it down and left it all winter. I'm telling y'all, if you have little money, terrible soil, see if there are horses nearby and ask if you can take some of the stall muck-out. You will have the best soil EVER within two winters! Just offering what worked well for me...

My yard went to weed all summer. Creeping Charlie covering most of it. Ideas on how to restore it without chemicals?? Ty.

I have not tried cover crops yet but have been doing "chop and drop" for years, including incorporating seaweed from our ocean shore. I see this method as "composting in place" and tell myself I don't need to build elaborate composting bins and worry about turning and temperature control. Do you agree?

You are compactiing the soul

You can still plant garlic. It’s not to late for them to be ready next July. Like the browns and greens addition. Carbon and nitrogen is a good combo. We use alfalfa pellets to amend our soil as we don’t have many greens available then Leaves and straw.

When did you plant your cover crop?

Random video that should up. Glad it did, liked this video, and the fact that you seem to know what you are doing. Too late for me this year but I will trying it next, meanwhile I will be checking other videos in this site. I'm in Minnesota.

Доброе время суток, кому не все равно. Метод повышения плодородия у Вас довольно интересный. Но я бы Вам посоветовал: 1) К листовому опаду добавлять хвойный опад от голубых елей, которые находятся у вас на заднем плане. Хвоя является органикой, которая обеззараживает почву. 2) Кирпич на грядках является домом для паразитов, которые будут зимовать под ним ежегодно. С каждым годом у Вас будет их все больше и больше. 3) До начала зимы лучше всю зеленую массу закапывать в почву, а не накрывать пленкой. В земле она быстрее переработается в полезный грунт. 4) Пленкой не следует накрывать грядку, так как под ней будут зимовать все болезни, что плохо отразится на здоровье растений. Лучше проморозить верхний грунт, чем сильнее тем лучше. Зима это наш природный антисептик))

I've been watching youtube videos for several years but this is the first time I've come across one of yours. We live on the edge of zone 4 & 5 in Michigan. I think I'll find several things of interest here. What caught my attention was the concrete blocks around the low raised beds. We had some block left from our son's project and put them around one bed. Otherwise, we've used wooden 2"x whatever was handy & leftover from some other project.

Thanks for all the nice presentations! I am going to try a cattle panel next year, can you tell me what is the better orientation, east-west, or north-south. Judging from the shadows in your video, it looks like yours is east-west. Thanks.

I take leaves and dump them into the top hopper of my DR Power chipper. It turns the leaves into extremely fine material. I have a collection bag that catches that material. As long as there is some wind and you are up wind then grinding of leaves doesn't involve too much dust. The wind will not blow away the fine leaf material when it is on the ground. It will decompose into the soil completely in less than one year.

I apologize but maybe I missed the month that you put these cover crops in?

Great content. thanks for sharing

question...why not simply "trample" over the oat and other plants to flatten them out ? you could do it carefully without any tool like your stick with rope...just asking, may be I missed some information there...thank you for feedback... have fun you all gardening ;)

wow.......... im super sad this is where we are at 2024! my nan would be sooo upset.

I must have missed the part about when did you plant the peas, etc. Perhaps right after the harvest?

spread a bokashi on top of mulch to speed up composting

To prevent creating micro plastic I've stopped using the weed whacker.

Great vid!! I do the same thing it works great!

Great subject but i cant get past background music so didn't watch