You convinced me Mark to "Ban the bags" when leaf molding. I've noticed in corners of my yard where I never raked the leaves for years I have incredible soil underneath! No more big bag blundering for me. Thank you Mark!
My neighbor threw his leaves over our fence, my son-in-law borrowed my leaf vacuum and dropped his leaves at my house, my leaves plus city clean-up leaves being delivered to my house spraying with microzoa. Several years ago, a wild moral moved in front of the big chicken coup. This year it turned into 3 under one of my walnuts. All of them will be inoculated with morals next year, elderberries will be inoculated with red caps,. I also want shitoki,oyster, reshi and lion main (I'll have to learn more about what these mushrooms like 1st)
Mark, I’m leaving my 35 year garden spot. The new house has twice the space for a garden, I’m asking lawn companies to start dumping their leaves in my new yard. Excited for the new space but hate leaving a productive garden spot. I’m also digging up 20 blueberry, 4 peach trees plus relocating my asparagus. I’m going back and rewatching the soil building process. Ken in Kentucky
I had a five-bay garage removed, leaving a big hole. The estimates from the landscapers were too high. Instead, I asked all the local guys to dump their leaves in it. In two years, GORGEOUS soil! I had to race to plant it because the weeds were ready to populate the whole thing. I had a huge veg and flower garden!
Rewatching all your soil videos. I did grow a cover crop of winter rye this year and my fall crops of beets & turnips were not ready to harvest last fall so I let them grow throughout the winter. The beet greens are absolutely stunning. I picked the greens throughout the season for the chickens.
I thought you did a great job with the recording of ratio and proportions and pointing out the variables to look for. I thank you for the free information and will send the link to my daughter that is purist gardening adept. I will be searching out that long probe temp gauge for the compost pile.
Great video! I cover the garden with mulched leaves each fall after I take off the bigger wood chips off the garden. The wood chips go into a wood chip pile to rot down all winter. I have 3 rings of wire fence to hold wood chips. One used each year to mulch around the plants. These are 3 year old wood chips. The walk lanes are one year or older or older wood chips from the other pile. I add worm casting each year and they are local worm castings. I end up getting 30 garbage cans a year of wood chips and two city lots of leaves I rake up that in some way is converted to the soil I grow in. I hardly weed the garden with the mulch and every year I have mushrooms growing in the garden. I collect rain water for water and make compost tea. More food than I can eat and I give food away each year. I am retired and it supplies over 50% of my food.
I have the coolest mushrooms that pop up around my garden, now I know how to feed them! I always spread the spores around hoping that they'll spread, lets see what happens when I feed them!
Perfect! Next door to our farm is a tree farm. I'll ask them if I can have a truckload or two of their leaves this fall. This with all the cover crops will definitely help my sad soil. Thank you for another great suggestion. Thank you.
Thanks it's easy to grow bacteria in a bucket using the JADAM method and I now know to find and grow fungi. I have been leaving thicker sticks, stems, and old wooden tomatoe steaks in my compost pile to make microrysal fungi.
The Jadam method you might be using a potato does not work well or at all. Your soil has plenty of bacteria already. Plus both bacteria & fungi must be eaten by protozoa and nematodes to make or poop out plant available nutrient's ( please look at my chart on facebook ). Mycorrhizal fungi only grows in a living plant root Cells. The fungi invades the cells roots and then grows into the soil . You can not make it compost pile. Hope this is helpful to you. Thanks
I gather mushroom caps in the woods after rains and rotting branches with them growing and bury them in my garden and in the mounds around my fruit trees.
Hello Mark! I collected around half a ton of fallen leaves last year, close to that this year for the garden. Thanks for your inspiration and knowledge, as I am enriching our garden with almost exclusively leaves:-)
Great video. I love leaf mold but don't have access to as many leaves as you do. Can't believe how many gourds you had just from three plants. I am in zone 5B in Illinois and I can barely get 3 or 4 on each plant. Lots of flowers and tons of pollinators so that's not the issue. And this year just one of about a dozen pumpkins and gourds fully ripened. I grow small ones so 120 days should have been more than enough time. I wonder if you have any suggestions? How important is watering? We don't get a lot of rain here during the summer and I tend not to water much of anything growing directly in the ground.
Thanks Mark. I had a friend bring over a load of mushroom compost with horse manure and sand a couple of weeks ago. He used it last year had had a bumper crop. I haven't been getting your notices lately sorry I haven't been around much it's all YT's fault.:)
Is there a cover crop that would grow in new wood chip beds. I am slowly establishing garden beds using chips which I layer with whatever I mow. (The yard is more meadow than lawn-lots of different plants.) Wonder if something would work for either fall or early spring. I'm in zone 5B.
Can i use Used flavor coffee grind in my garden? I just found your videos and i am getting so much info from you thank you. I am a first time gardener 😜😜 I need ALL the help i can get.
Great, interesting video. However, when you were digging down in the leaves, you weren't getting the handfuls of soil in the field of vision very well. At the wire worm area, specifically. I would have liked to get a better, longer look at it. Thanks
I made a whole bunch of leaf mold. Started last fall and it is broken down well The problem is that it is full of obnoxious jumping worms. I don't want to put it in my raised beds. Any suggestions?
Cornell university has a nice fact sheet online. Basically 1/3 cup dry mustard : 1 gallon water. Pour over area. Worms will come to surface. Pick out the bad ones and destroy.
One old guy refused the mushrooms on his plate, and the other woman looked him in the eye and expressively said " aren't you a fun guy lover? " 'WHAT' ! I almost shrieked at her but didnt. I was startled at her sudden fresh and very open approach to a married man! No one said a thing, his wife didnt mind, and the words silently repeated over and over in my mind until I got it the words were fungi lover. 😂
Can you use coniferous wood chips, or should they be deciduous? I live in a coniferous forest area, so those are plentiful, but I can get hold of birch or alder, or use pruned branches from my fruit trees if needed.
I have concerns about collecting “contaminated” leaves that bring disease and/or pests (Asian jumping worms) into our soil… crazy times… Concerns for others?
GOOD NEWS . This is NOT TRUE. Tree leaves diseases DO NOT harm any plant vegetable's, just trees. They are two different species .Proven a long time ago. As to Asian jumping worms they will live in any soil with organic matter to eat. So that is pretty much every soil.
I got allergies which was a reaction to the fungal spores released as the weather changed and got colder as it got dark earlier. I get mulch from the tree service. This year it was maple and hemlock. Last year I got a chipped up pine tree. The year before I got a oak tree mulch up.
If and when layer on top of your garden you need only make it 8 inch tall. The reason for this is to let air and water to go into your soil. And release CO2 out. Thanks'
When amending my garden beds, I have compost and leaf mold to use. Would it be better to put the compost down first then apply the leaf mold on the surface?
Yes. I do not use the leaves. I use the soil around the roots to make a soil tea. I also add Dock soil and clover soil. 100 % better for all garden plants.
From the town I live in ( town workers), they pick them up from the parks areas. Or drive around and pickup bags people rake up and place at the curbs.
Best garden channel on youtube
THANK YOU so very much. Happy gardening,
When’s the next episode coming out. Great channel. Can you do one on ferns? I find it so hard to keep ferns alive
You convinced me Mark to "Ban the bags" when leaf molding. I've noticed in corners of my yard where I never raked the leaves for years I have incredible soil underneath! No more big bag blundering for me. Thank you Mark!
Excellent! When it open to the air you get all types of good fungi. Enjoy.
My neighbor threw his leaves over our fence, my son-in-law borrowed my leaf vacuum and dropped his leaves at my house, my leaves plus city clean-up leaves being delivered to my house spraying with microzoa. Several years ago, a wild moral moved in front of the big chicken coup. This year it turned into 3 under one of my walnuts. All of them will be inoculated with morals next year, elderberries will be inoculated with red caps,. I also want shitoki,oyster, reshi and lion main (I'll have to learn more about what these mushrooms like 1st)
Mark, I’m leaving my 35 year garden spot. The new house has twice the space for a garden, I’m asking lawn companies to start dumping their leaves in my new yard. Excited for the new space but hate leaving a productive garden spot. I’m also digging up 20 blueberry, 4 peach trees plus relocating my asparagus. I’m going back and rewatching the soil building process. Ken in Kentucky
You can do it. You have the knowledge of what great soil looks like and feels right, Always here to help. Enjoy.
That is one reason I don’t want to move, I don’t want to leave my garden spot 😏
I feel like I’m too old to start a new one (56) 🤷🏼♀️
@@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123I'm 62 and I'm having to start over with terrible soil. But I'm in a much better place so it's worth it.
Is that legal? Where I live any permanent fixture and plants have to stay without permission from the new buyer
I had a five-bay garage removed, leaving a big hole. The estimates from the landscapers were too high. Instead, I asked all the local guys to dump their leaves in it. In two years, GORGEOUS soil! I had to race to plant it because the weeds were ready to populate the whole thing. I had a huge veg and flower garden!
Love leaves. When i could garden i used them all the time.
VERY NICE. Thanks
Having a coffee and rewatching this video for a refresher. ☺️
Awesome. Gardening with nature is fantastic.
NJ had the best summer and autumn ever 🍂 🌞 🌧️
You always give the GOLDEN INFORMATION 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
THANK YOU so very much. Awesome colors this year
Hi Mark, good to see you still working with the soil, I love the living soil concept. Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge.
Rewatching all your soil videos. I did grow a cover crop of winter rye this year and my fall crops of beets & turnips were not ready to harvest last fall so I let them grow throughout the winter. The beet greens are absolutely stunning. I picked the greens throughout the season for the chickens.
I also use leaves. Thanks for sharing. Hope you're feeling better 😊
Great to Hear. Yes, feeling better THANK YOU.
You are the most wonderful gardening info source in my life! I love all of your useful garden soil growing and gardening! Love you!
I am an early learner. Thank you for the information.
You are so welcome!
I thought you did a great job with the recording of ratio and proportions and pointing out the variables to look for. I thank you for the free information and will send the link to my daughter that is purist gardening adept. I will be searching out that long probe temp gauge for the compost pile.
THANK YOU so very much. Happy Gardening.
My second vid of yours. Like your presentations, awesome natural...beautiful thanks
Wow, thank you!
Great video! I cover the garden with mulched leaves each fall after I take off the bigger wood chips off the garden. The wood chips go into a wood chip pile to rot down all winter. I have 3 rings of wire fence to hold wood chips. One used each year to mulch around the plants. These are 3 year old wood chips. The walk lanes are one year or older or older wood chips from the other pile. I add worm casting each year and they are local worm castings. I end up getting 30 garbage cans a year of wood chips and two city lots of leaves I rake up that in some way is converted to the soil I grow in. I hardly weed the garden with the mulch and every year I have mushrooms growing in the garden. I collect rain water for water and make compost tea.
More food than I can eat and I give food away each year. I am retired and it supplies over 50% of my food.
Interesting Mark.
Yes, keeps our mind open to soil. THANK YOU. Have a great week ahead
Great informative video, I just like the idea of returning natures resources back to where it come from in a continuous cycle.
Absolutely! Your on the right track. Thanks
I have the coolest mushrooms that pop up around my garden, now I know how to feed them! I always spread the spores around hoping that they'll spread, lets see what happens when I feed them!
Perfect! Next door to our farm is a tree farm. I'll ask them if I can have a truckload or two of their leaves this fall. This with all the cover crops will definitely help my sad soil. Thank you for another great suggestion. Thank you.
Great to hear. THANK YOU.
Black gold they fall leaves. 🎉
You are so right, THANKS
Thanks it's easy to grow bacteria in a bucket using the JADAM method and I now know to find and grow fungi. I have been leaving thicker sticks, stems, and old wooden tomatoe steaks in my compost pile to make microrysal fungi.
The Jadam method you might be using a potato does not work well or at all. Your soil has plenty of bacteria already. Plus both bacteria & fungi must be eaten by protozoa and nematodes to make or poop out plant available nutrient's ( please look at my chart on facebook ). Mycorrhizal fungi only grows in a living plant root Cells. The fungi invades the cells roots and then grows into the soil . You can not make it compost pile. Hope this is helpful to you. Thanks
Awesome information
Glad it was helpful! THANKS
I immediately called a buddy with a dump trailer full of leaves and within the hour it was delivered!
Just got some trees cut down and then spread their chips all around the yard. I’ll have some amazing soil in a few years. Can’t wait.
Great to hear. Thanks
I can't wait for your next video! Love you! Happy New Year! Stay safe!
I gather mushroom caps in the woods after rains and rotting branches with them growing and bury them in my garden and in the mounds around my fruit trees.
That is so very helpful, Enjoy
Hello Mark! I collected around half a ton of fallen leaves last year, close to that this year for the garden. Thanks for your inspiration and knowledge, as I am enriching our garden with almost exclusively leaves:-)
That is awesome! They make a great mulch also. ENJOY
@@iamorganicgardening for sure! I’ll use them for both soil amendment, and mulch! Take care :-)
Great video. I love leaf mold but don't have access to as many leaves as you do.
Can't believe how many gourds you had just from three plants. I am in zone 5B in Illinois and I can barely get 3 or 4 on each plant. Lots of flowers and tons of pollinators so that's not the issue. And this year just one of about a dozen pumpkins and gourds fully ripened. I grow small ones so 120 days should have been more than enough time.
I wonder if you have any suggestions? How important is watering? We don't get a lot of rain here during the summer and I tend not to water much of anything growing directly in the ground.
I collect fall leaves from the bagged leaves people throw out in the city.
Just drive around town the day before garbage day. You will see people putting out the large paper leaf 🍁 bags. Go liberate them.
If you don't have mulch to retain water then the plants won't get enough water in the summer... the plants need water the most
Thanks Mark. I had a friend bring over a load of mushroom compost with horse manure and sand a couple of weeks ago. He used it last year had had a bumper crop. I haven't been getting your notices lately sorry I haven't been around much it's all YT's fault.:)
Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to hear about your harvest
Is there a cover crop that would grow in new wood chip beds. I am slowly establishing garden beds using chips which I layer with whatever I mow. (The yard is more meadow than lawn-lots of different plants.) Wonder if something would work for either fall or early spring. I'm in zone 5B.
Id look into clover it always seams to be one of the first things to move in where I cut my fire wood lots of chips and bark on the ground
I buy local rabbit manure online.
Fabulous for new beds and you can use it immediately.
Another great video full of valuable information. Thanks Mark and God Bless
My pleasure! THANK YOU. Enjoy.
Thank you for the share!
My pleasure! Here to help. Thanks
Thank you for another great video.
Always here to share and help. Thank You.
I appreciated the information.
You bet! Always here to Help. Thanks
Please don't say this is a fungi; it is a fungus. That saìd, I appreciate the information you provide.
Wow! You had a frost in NJ?? We haven't had one here in NH yet.
I’ve loved the show for years now! Can you recommend a place for me to buy some winter rye cover crop seeds? Thanks!
The seeds company I use is in the video description. Just click on it ( scroll down ) to see more info. Thanks
Can i use Used flavor coffee grind in my garden?
I just found your videos and i am getting so much info from you thank you.
I am a first time gardener 😜😜
I need ALL the help i can get.
Yes, 100%.. Thanks for asking
I have learnt sooo much from you. Thanks.
So nice of you yo say. THANK YOU so much.
Great, interesting video. However, when you were digging down in the leaves, you weren't getting the handfuls of soil in the field of vision very well. At the wire worm area, specifically. I would have liked to get a better, longer look at it. Thanks
Another great video Mark!!
THANK YOU so very much. Happy Gardening
I made a whole bunch of leaf mold. Started last fall and it is broken down well
The problem is that it is full of obnoxious jumping worms. I don't want to put it in my raised beds. Any suggestions?
Cornell university has a nice fact sheet online. Basically 1/3 cup dry mustard : 1 gallon water. Pour over area. Worms will come to surface. Pick out the bad ones and destroy.
One old guy refused the mushrooms on his plate, and the other woman looked him in the eye and expressively said " aren't you a fun guy lover? " 'WHAT' ! I almost shrieked at her but didnt. I was startled at her sudden fresh and very open approach to a married man! No one said a thing, his wife didnt mind, and the words silently repeated over and over in my mind until I got it the words were fungi lover. 😂
It took me a moment to get it but I got it before I finished your comment. Good one.
Can you use coniferous wood chips, or should they be deciduous? I live in a coniferous forest area, so those are plentiful, but I can get hold of birch or alder, or use pruned branches from my fruit trees if needed.
Yes, you can use them
If i can keep the fungi strong will it curtail field bind weed
I have concerns about collecting “contaminated” leaves that bring disease and/or pests (Asian jumping worms) into our soil… crazy times…
Concerns for others?
GOOD NEWS . This is NOT TRUE. Tree leaves diseases DO NOT harm any plant vegetable's, just trees. They are two different species .Proven a long time ago. As to Asian jumping worms they will live in any soil with organic matter to eat. So that is pretty much every soil.
What is your source for the leaves that sre delivered? Is it from a tree trimming company?
I get them from my town when they clean up from the fall.. You can also ask landscapers when they do fall leaves cleanup
I got allergies which was a reaction to the fungal spores released as the weather changed and got colder as it got dark earlier.
I get mulch from the tree service. This year it was maple and hemlock. Last year I got a chipped up pine tree. The year before I got a oak tree mulch up.
THANK YOU or sharing this, Happy Gardening
Do i need a separate pile like you have or can i just start layering on top of my garden?
If and when layer on top of your garden you need only make it 8 inch tall. The reason for this is to let air and water to go into your soil. And release CO2 out. Thanks'
Mark, is it possible to make leaf mould with only pine needles and wood chips???…. I live out west and we don’t have any leaves to use….thanks
Your making the same good fungi with pine needles and wood chips. All good.
Is it OK to add oat leaves and pine needles to soil that is already acidic?
Just use them as a mulch..
When amending my garden beds, I have compost and leaf mold to use. Would it be better to put the compost down first then apply the leaf mold on the surface?
Yes compost first. It is always good to grow a cover crop also.
I have a spot on my lawn where mushrooms grow prolifically. Should I pull those mushrooms and throw them into my garden or compost?
Sure , will help you soil.
9@@iamorganicgardening
Does it matter the type of mushroom? I found some horrible looking black mushrooms in my yard. Wondering if they could be used
All types are good. The more types their are the better it is.. Thanks
Have you ever tried comfrey
Yes. I do not use the leaves. I use the soil around the roots to make a soil tea. I also add Dock soil and clover soil. 100 % better for all garden plants.
Fungi don’t need sunlight. That said UVB light will convert ergosterol to a type of Vitamin D.
Is mowed grass and leaves a good mix?
Yes, absolutely. Not to thick. 4 to 6 inchs. The grass is bacteria food and heats up.
Is it good to have Birds Nest fungi in my soil? I'm finding it all over in my greenhouse soil.
Yes, it great to break down wood products. And looks great too. Thanks
And you need to see field and compost worms in there too
Are oak leaves and pine chips ok to use?
Yes, 100%
right at the time you posted this i was pisking 6 bags of leaves i stop when i see enough bags to fill my car
NICE, enjoy. Thanks for sharing.
Is there advantage to sherd the leaves first
No, there is not. Fine the way they are like in nature
Do you chop your leaves
No I do not. Works each way, Thanks
Where do you get leaves delivered?
From the town I live in ( town workers), they pick them up from the parks areas. Or drive around and pickup bags people rake up and place at the curbs.
How nice
kami juga bertanam menggunakan dedaunan kering sebagai bahan kompos alami, tapi tidak sebanyak punya anda pak.😊😊😊
I have "flower beds" that have continually had leaves on them for many years. The soil has not altered at all 😢
If your flowers have no problems growing your soil is fine. Not all soil gets a dark rich brown.
No nothing grows
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THANK YOU so very much. Happy gardening
Can you use Alfalfa in the leaf/needle pile? Thank you!
Alfalfa is bacteria food. It is not needed. We want fungi grow.
You can get free coffee grounds from Starbucks..My wife brings home huge trash bag amount for the garden
Thanks for sharing.
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Very Nice. THANKS
Mushrooms are fungi so why not throw some yard mushrooms in your leaves or garden?
Sure, you can. More types equals better the soil health
💚👍IMO
Dad joke alert.
Had to at least one per month. THANKS
Fun-Ji!!!!
I agree 1 to 1 bacteria to fungi and no weeds and if they do grow they are very weak 👍👍👍👍👍👊
THANK YOU.
THX
Hereto help and share. THANK YOU.