Beneficial Soil Microbes WON'T WORK For You Unless You Do These Things First...

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  • Опубликовано: 14 апр 2024
  • Glen Rabenberg, founder and CEO of Soil Works, LLC, explores the sciences behind nature's "unionized" soil microbes and explains why it's essential for growers and farmers to focus first on creating and maintaining "healthy" soil that's ready to support microbial life before applying any of these beneficial organisms.
    For more information and resources, visit www.soilworksllc.com or call us at 605.260.0784.
    Glen's Tools (penetrometer, EC Meter, BRIX Refractometer): www.soilworksllc.com/home-too...
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Комментарии • 35

  • @busker153
    @busker153 Месяц назад +12

    I live in Tucson, AZ. My yards had what can generously be called dirt. Caliche is more like it! LOL By way of illustration, I had a job pruning some Moringa Trees, and wanted to prepare my yard to try propagating them. Well, I had time to dig some holes, but it took 45 minutes to dig one hole about a food deep (or less). Some holes could not go further down than about six inches! Yuck!
    Oh, and the tree stalks did NOT propagate. Big surprise, eh? I am glad I did not have a penetrometer at the time, as it would likely have BROKEN in my concrete yard! LOL So sad...
    Well, my wife was still operating the yardwork business we started together, and I had heard about Back to Eden "covering" with woodchips, and also what is called grass fed gardens. Well, my son works with her and he likes to stomp weeds and such in large Brut garbage cans and put the "pellets" that creates in the trailer. It offloads easier at the dump, he said.
    Well, I had him put them all over my front yard. So, in a few weeks, and a lot of overhauls (major clean up projects), the yard was literally two feet thick in organic material! And, it stayed that way for maybe six months as I worked in other parts of the yards. Eventually, I got in there with a pitchfork to loosen it all up and spread it more evenly, and the dirt underneath had softened dramatically. After a year, I was able to put a tree in my front yard by uncovering a place (moving the mulch) and digging a hole...with my bare hands!...in a few minutes.
    Every load they bring me has a full compliment of microbes. So, I get a huge variety (I don't say dive er city) of great "flocks" of microbes to build my soil. Now, I have a great food forest going (still short, but the trees are growing) and have not watered all year! In the Sonoran Desert! I'm loving it!

    • @williemasterofdestruction5339
      @williemasterofdestruction5339 Месяц назад

      Look into tank's soil
      They are based in Tucson.
      One of the best and cheaper than a lot of garbage souls.
      I'm in Az too but can't grow much in the ground other than trees that I've grown big in pots, due to gophers eating everything in a nite...
      Keep up the good work and search up living soil. So many good channels out there.
      ✌️💚🍉

  • @guiller2371
    @guiller2371 9 дней назад

    This is the quickest and clearer tutorial on fixing soil I have seen. It covers so much in so little time in a simple way.

  • @user-or2ln8ux1g
    @user-or2ln8ux1g Месяц назад +8

    There hasn't been a new video for a long time. There is nothing I look forward to more. And here is a new meeting. Thank you for not forgetting about your viewers.

  • @gernotfrohlich6978
    @gernotfrohlich6978 Месяц назад +3

    I watched hundreds of videos depending soil basics and stuff... and YOU are the first one gettin it done to pack the whole video full of priceless information within minutes....
    U have a new customer - just by this one video. Who is able to provide valuable information for free - should benefit from adequate clients :D

  • @user-ou5et3fo3z
    @user-ou5et3fo3z Месяц назад +3

    My soil is red fluffy.
    I have planted olive trees and citrus trees and fig trees and have never added anything to feed the trees not even at the initial stage of planting.
    My olive trees and citrus trees have dark green leaves and growing strong.
    No curling no drying out nothing.
    Only pruning i do & i always cut the roots back when removing from the pot after purchasing from garden centre.
    Sometimes i even use a bread knife to cut the root ball sides and bottom clean to start the root system fresh in the ground
    It works magnificently.

  • @erwinbrubacker7488
    @erwinbrubacker7488 26 дней назад

    I'm blown away ! ! Knowing this enables me to become a farmer, at 65 yrs old. I grew up on a farm, uneducated. I appreciate the time & effort so many people put to such good use.

  • @Michael_Kouri
    @Michael_Kouri Месяц назад +1

    Finally the algorithm suggested something useful to me. Great video

  • @ThePumpkinClub
    @ThePumpkinClub Месяц назад +1

    This was an amazing video, no one has explained it that simply .

  • @andrewrivera4609
    @andrewrivera4609 Месяц назад +2

    Thank you 4 sharing such good and important knoledge, I have I think a good idea to improve earth conditions in general, get some 2 feet long & 4" diameter plastic tubes and drill some 1/2 " holes from the middle to the end, and dig them in the soil, put some clean manure & soaked woodchips, plus kitchen wastes, leafs, etc, with some California earthworms, put a lid and let the worms do their work ,transforming the land with microbes & oxygen. Good luck

  • @RizIsTheBiz
    @RizIsTheBiz Месяц назад +2

    He's back! Keep the videos coming👍

  • @paulkoehl2447
    @paulkoehl2447 Месяц назад +1

    So many different points of view out there. Wow!

  • @dnawormcastings
    @dnawormcastings Месяц назад +1

    Great video 🇳🇿❤️

  • @timheitman9819
    @timheitman9819 Месяц назад +2

    Is this the same for lawns

  • @timheitman9819
    @timheitman9819 Месяц назад +1

    So in a lawn does this mean leave the clippings on the lawn

    • @SoilWorksLLC-GSRCalcium
      @SoilWorksLLC-GSRCalcium  Месяц назад

      As long as the lawn doesn't get too long and you mow on a mulch setting then you'd be adding organic matter and carbon back into the soil. Added bonus, whatever you're using for a fertilizer ends up going back to the soil as well.

  • @growwild23
    @growwild23 Месяц назад +6

    Or never buy microbes.
    Use korean national farming and jadam and brew your own microbes.
    some good composted manure, and a broadfork. Top it off with mulch.
    Basically free.

    • @craigharby5050
      @craigharby5050 Месяц назад

      To quote meat loaf, you took the words right out of my mouth. I’m hearing the big pharma are copyrighting microbes….

  • @derrickpayton7774
    @derrickpayton7774 Месяц назад +1

    So what about a soil that is a sandy loam? Are you saying microbes will not be in that soil?

    • @SoilWorksLLC-GSRCalcium
      @SoilWorksLLC-GSRCalcium  Месяц назад

      All soils contain microbes (unless it's been sterilized). Is there enough oxygen and carbon in your soil to sustain biological activity? If your sandy loam is tight, that could be inhibiting biological activity.

    • @derrickpayton7774
      @derrickpayton7774 Месяц назад

      I am sure there are microbes in my soil since I have cleared trees and brush where I am planting my orchard. My concern is that I am brewing compost tea and applying it in both a foliage spray and root drench but want to make sure my sandy soil will hold the microbes since it is less than 100-150.

    • @daviddroescher
      @daviddroescher 3 дня назад +1

      Leaching is a major problem in too loose soil. Biochar ( a stable form of carbon/ nutrient rich Activated Carbon) will help keep /hold the nutrients where it can be used by your plants , not your nabers and filtered out by the loacal municipal water provider.
      Lome is typically organic matter. Growing up sandy loam was the best patches of ground.

  • @timheitman9819
    @timheitman9819 Месяц назад +1

    Where do you buy these meters

    • @SoilWorksLLC-GSRCalcium
      @SoilWorksLLC-GSRCalcium  Месяц назад +1

      The model shown in the video is manufactured by AgraTronics: a.co/d/cXHVapa

    • @karavi2000
      @karavi2000 Месяц назад

      ​@@SoilWorksLLC-GSRCalciumHi.. can you please also share the link for that Hanna EC meter.. Thank you

    • @SoilWorksLLC-GSRCalcium
      @SoilWorksLLC-GSRCalcium  Месяц назад

      @@karavi2000 Here's that link for you a.co/d/ekf2mku

  • @yassirabdelmutalab7096
    @yassirabdelmutalab7096 18 дней назад

    So, the wisdom is "If you can't measure it, you cannot manage it!"

  • @alan30189
    @alan30189 9 часов назад

    Unless your land has been fertilized with artificial, industrial fertilizer, for dozens of years, I don’t think there’s any need for a “microbe pack.“ Microbes are naturally occurring organisms in soil. If you create a soil that is good for microbes, the microbes will come come naturally. Compost and some of the ingredients he recommends here, are the key. Let the worms do the rest.

  • @JohnDoe-jq5wy
    @JohnDoe-jq5wy 11 дней назад

    Multi species cover corp.... Gabe Brown

  • @tadmarshall2739
    @tadmarshall2739 Месяц назад +1

    Apparently I don't know anything about soil.

  • @JohnDoe-jq5wy
    @JohnDoe-jq5wy 11 дней назад

    No air and no storage for water.... Most commercial farming practices.... The soil is sterile and no living matter....
    Low carbon minimal water penetration and storage capacity

  • @kennedynthiwa5100
    @kennedynthiwa5100 Месяц назад +1

    It always amazes me that people trying to sell their products to you always assume there is something wrong with you. This is a typical example. Nature is our friend we do not need you. Please leave farmers alone.

  • @chippsterstephens6800
    @chippsterstephens6800 18 часов назад

    Sugar and molasses is a very very bacteria only food.
    Not good advice pal.
    Just saying.