It's the number one way I figure out what's going on in my soil, what is growing there naturally, what "weeds" appear. I've never sent a soil sample to a lab; I just observe what is happening organically.
Thank you for all of your critical research. I am looking into reestablishing native California grasses on my 17 acres in Siskiyou County. Do you have any information on non-native species of pioneer plants as indicators of soil health?
That’s the Matt you must named after, minerals can bind together, which is why ratios are important but there is no fertilizer that has every dissolved mineral because things bind up, but layers in soil are important because each has a different chemistry.
I think you have a good idea there. The phytochemical information would also be good for building a green manure meadow like I have. I am working on something where the data appears to be missing. Growing Degree Units as it relates to crop maturity and fruit ripening date.
the most important video i found of you and Elaine was your conversation about ammonia, nitrates, and ammonium. this is how i formulate the concept that i'm going to grow weed gardens in poor soil as a transition species to raise the ratio of fungi to bacteria(am i right?) to companion plant groundcover and shrubs, and adapt it to a weed inhospitable enironment. how much can you determine the health of the soil by WHAT KIND OF WEEDS are surviving there? dandelions are the hardiest?
OMG Mat theres 2 ways the NPO sector influences the profit sector and publicly funded regulatory sector; bottom up through political advocacy bodies; and top down through the accreditation tier- standards through accreditation to certification. especially in emerging sectors, it's often an NPO thats providing accreditation and developing standards. these are the metrics, the schematas, and the operational principles we need to drive regenerative farming and gardening; position yourself at the table! a coordinated governance structure also needs an operational interface; like an online platform for information sharing. this is the same as resource recovery, psychosocial support, alternative education, localised entreprenuerhsip and the maker movement; distilling the knowledge
It's a native dandelion: forms yellow flowers and a white fluffy seed top that blows away. It was dried out and a different variety of dandelion - I tried to include that the other was wetter, thicker stalked and a different variety.
And then there is also a biological transmutations, where plants (or more exactly soil microorganisms) transmute one element into the other. Lots of soils are very low in magnesium, but plants usually have magnesium anyway. Anyway, I wanted to ask about Nothoscordum gracile sometimes called false garlic. It grows like crazy in the garens here in Southern California. It does stop growing for a few months in summer when it gets hot, and then starts again. It has small bulbs and hundreds oof tiny bulblets. What does it tell about the soil? It grows in soft dark garden soil, so possibly there are some nutrients missing and it is bringing them in?
We live i a toxic world and our home moreso being next to a gas pump station that spews toxic gases over our farm land, we take the hit for the masses so we are not NIMBY:). This video has me interested in how to manage this in our soils and how the microbes deal with it. Can they deal with the gases, do they break the gases down to organic matter, how does it affect microbes and plants if they can't break it down, are some of the questions I have. Can't see your courses on the kickstarter site you gave, but then I'm a simple person and not computer savvy:)
While watching I thought - hope he writes a book since this is great information but would prefer it in book format; was excited to find he had already done so, then quite disappointed by the price tag. Bummer.
@@MattPowersSoil I feel like that's out of touch for the average person. Any ideas? I have trouble get my stuff tested and I'm in the states and have great access to that kind of stuff it's just the knowledge about it is a little bit far and spread out. Tips and tricks would be amazing ps I'm in California
Heavy clay soil over here! Like foot after foot of NOTHING but clay, lol. Plenty of Bahia grass surrounding us, but within the confines of our fenced area, a variety of different plants have popped up; most of it having really shallow roots I can pull up by hand...I didn't realize just how compact a riding lawnmower can make things, lol. Once things at work slow down (throwing 110 lb rice sacks from 7 AM till 6 PM, or until 11 PM on night shifts when the cargo permits us), hopefully I'll be able to implement my plan to start my first RUclips videos.
Hi Matt, I'm a new gardener who incidentally is studying the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (mbti) theory. Facinating new discoveries with just the few videos of your's I came across. For my own personal research, may I know what is your mbti type if u know it?
I'm a Protagonist on there ;) but on other tests, I'm a Creator. I think most of my answers to those tests are already public - especially with Unstoppable Enthusiasm now being in print!
Great question: since plants can access both soluble and nonsoluble, you get more information from working with them than you would for a soluble only water-based test.
As I remember (correctly?) Elaine Ingham insisting, all soils have way more than enough of every mineral on earth, thousands of times over. What she says is that the microbiology is lacking. So, if I understand correctly, getting the micro and macro bugs into dirt, makes it into soil, and makes all the minerals available to the plants. Am I being too simplistic?! Sure, the hard part is getting the bugs in. And, being patient enough ;) I live in tropical southern Thailand, and would love to learn specifics about the 'weeds' here :)
Yes, I recall Elaine Ingram saying soils have all they need. If we look at the forest floor and what it has; composted manure, leaves, twigs, rotting wood and wild plants and start incorporating it, it works wonders. Our soil is becoming very loamy after 4 years of this type of management. It's simple but it requires work, lol. This course looks very interesting but the web site is confusing and I've not found how to check out the courses yet, ha ha. I don't think you are being simplistic as it is simple if one can narrow it down to what soil requires and then has free access to the biomass to make soil right. If one has to purchase all that is needed, it makes gardening unreachable.
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Love this guy! Ya cant help but smile watching him smile. May God bless the works of his hands and may peace be with him and his family. Amen
You are eloquent with your delivery of information and an absolute delight to watch. So happy I found your channel!
Thank you for being here!! And thank you for your kind words
Great info, that is the way to do it, continue with your excellent work, participate in the kickstart and look forward to the book :)
How can you not laugh when he laughs!😊
Wow love this !!!
Ty so much for the usda link shout out. I am certainly going to go down that rabbit hole
Great demo about natural local plant benefits that you brought full circle... I can't wait for the classes and soil book! So important now!
Great video. I grow a LOT and never even thought to read the weeds. Thanks for this knowledge.
It's the number one way I figure out what's going on in my soil, what is growing there naturally, what "weeds" appear. I've never sent a soil sample to a lab; I just observe what is happening organically.
Thank you for all of your critical research. I am looking into reestablishing native California grasses on my 17 acres in Siskiyou County. Do you have any information on non-native species of pioneer plants as indicators of soil health?
love your knowledge and video brother. will watch more. I never knew I wanted to self sustain myself nurturing a garden, until I did!
Hi Matt
Just bought your book regenerative soil. I have nut grass everywhere in qld Australia. Any clues as the nut grass comes through the mulch.
Did you print your book?
Can i use bokashi as a plant fertilizer ?
Can´t wait to see what you come up about this information!!!!!
That’s the Matt you must named after, minerals can bind together, which is why ratios are important but there is no fertilizer that has every dissolved mineral because things bind up, but layers in soil are important because each has a different chemistry.
Ding ding ding!
Good thank you
I think you have a good idea there. The phytochemical information would also be good for building a green manure meadow like I have.
I am working on something where the data appears to be missing. Growing Degree Units as it relates to crop maturity and fruit ripening date.
the most important video i found of you and Elaine was your conversation about ammonia, nitrates, and ammonium. this is how i formulate the concept that i'm going to grow weed gardens in poor soil as a transition species to raise the ratio of fungi to bacteria(am i right?) to companion plant groundcover and shrubs, and adapt it to a weed inhospitable enironment. how much can you determine the health of the soil by WHAT KIND OF WEEDS are surviving there? dandelions are the hardiest?
OMG Mat theres 2 ways the NPO sector influences the profit sector and publicly funded regulatory sector; bottom up through political advocacy bodies; and top down through the accreditation tier- standards through accreditation to certification. especially in emerging sectors, it's often an NPO thats providing accreditation and developing standards. these are the metrics, the schematas, and the operational principles we need to drive regenerative farming and gardening; position yourself at the table!
a coordinated governance structure also needs an operational interface; like an online platform for information sharing. this is the same as resource recovery, psychosocial support, alternative education, localised entreprenuerhsip and the maker movement; distilling the knowledge
In 1961 and 62 I knew Mary Powers. Her uncle Gary was a pilot.
Nice demonstration with the weed roots. That dry California soil is very familiar. 👍
Hey this is really good work and glad you're getting into it, but the first plant w/ the multiple flower stalks does not look like dandelion...?
It's a native dandelion: forms yellow flowers and a white fluffy seed top that blows away. It was dried out and a different variety of dandelion - I tried to include that the other was wetter, thicker stalked and a different variety.
Here's the Dandelion family: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taraxacum
@@MattPowersSoil thanks!
Can you create a video on how to read "Dr. Dukes" database?
Nice video! I was wondering: i have a lot of couch grass, not spreading to my beds, so I'm not worried. But what does this tell me about the soil?
What's your climate and bioregion?
So if I grow cucumbers in soil that has a lot of aluminum, can I eat those cucumbers since that new form of aluminum is not bioavailable?
How about wild sunflower
And then there is also a biological transmutations, where plants (or more exactly soil microorganisms) transmute one element into the other. Lots of soils are very low in magnesium, but plants usually have magnesium anyway. Anyway, I wanted to ask about Nothoscordum gracile sometimes called false garlic. It grows like crazy in the garens here in Southern California. It does stop growing for a few months in summer when it gets hot, and then starts again. It has small bulbs and hundreds oof tiny bulblets. What does it tell about the soil? It grows in soft dark garden soil, so possibly there are some nutrients missing and it is bringing them in?
We live i a toxic world and our home moreso being next to a gas pump station that spews toxic gases over our farm land, we take the hit for the masses so we are not NIMBY:). This video has me interested in how to manage this in our soils and how the microbes deal with it. Can they deal with the gases, do they break the gases down to organic matter, how does it affect microbes and plants if they can't break it down, are some of the questions I have. Can't see your courses on the kickstarter site you gave, but then I'm a simple person and not computer savvy:)
Great info thank you!
I looked atthe usda site. But most of it made little sense to me... Lol
Matt will probably simplify it for us once he gets a long ways through it.
Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better
While watching I thought - hope he writes a book since this is great information but would prefer it in book format; was excited to find he had already done so, then quite disappointed by the price tag. Bummer.
Unfortunately, in my country there is very little information about weeds and their uses.
You likely can juice parts of them and test to see what they are high in to get a baseline
@@MattPowersSoil I feel like that's out of touch for the average person. Any ideas? I have trouble get my stuff tested and I'm in the states and have great access to that kind of stuff it's just the knowledge about it is a little bit far and spread out. Tips and tricks would be amazing ps I'm in California
Heavy clay soil over here! Like foot after foot of NOTHING but clay, lol. Plenty of Bahia grass surrounding us, but within the confines of our fenced area, a variety of different plants have popped up; most of it having really shallow roots I can pull up by hand...I didn't realize just how compact a riding lawnmower can make things, lol.
Once things at work slow down (throwing 110 lb rice sacks from 7 AM till 6 PM, or until 11 PM on night shifts when the cargo permits us), hopefully I'll be able to implement my plan to start my first RUclips videos.
Love the laugh
Hi Matt, I'm a new gardener who incidentally is studying the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (mbti) theory.
Facinating new discoveries with just the few videos of your's I came across.
For my own personal research, may I know what is your mbti type if u know it?
I'm a Protagonist on there ;) but on other tests, I'm a Creator. I think most of my answers to those tests are already public - especially with Unstoppable Enthusiasm now being in print!
Holy calcium deficiency Matman
What does Japanese Knotweed tell me lol
You have a cute happy face
Why not just test the soil?
Great question: since plants can access both soluble and nonsoluble, you get more information from working with them than you would for a soluble only water-based test.
As I remember (correctly?) Elaine Ingham insisting, all soils have way more than enough of every mineral on earth, thousands of times over. What she says is that the microbiology is lacking. So, if I understand correctly, getting the micro and macro bugs into dirt, makes it into soil, and makes all the minerals available to the plants. Am I being too simplistic?! Sure, the hard part is getting the bugs in. And, being patient enough ;)
I live in tropical southern Thailand, and would love to learn specifics about the 'weeds' here :)
Yes, I recall Elaine Ingram saying soils have all they need. If we look at the forest floor and what it has; composted manure, leaves, twigs, rotting wood and wild plants and start incorporating it, it works wonders. Our soil is becoming very loamy after 4 years of this type of management. It's simple but it requires work, lol. This course looks very interesting but the web site is confusing and I've not found how to check out the courses yet, ha ha.
I don't think you are being simplistic as it is simple if one can narrow it down to what soil requires and then has free access to the biomass to make soil right. If one has to purchase all that is needed, it makes gardening unreachable.