Today I present the final verdict on our test of mimosa leaves as a fertilizer. You'll find my books here: amzn.to/3SO7AQi And more notes on the experiment here: www.thesurvivalgardener.com/nitrogen-fixer-fail-adding-mimosa-leaves-decreased-plant-growth/ Thank you for watching.
I've gardened in zones 5-7 and found the easiest way to fix nitro in the ground is with a winter kill covercrop planted in the fall, heavy on beans & peas with oats (to give the other two something to climb.) In most climates it will winter kill reliably before blossom. If you're in the South, just mow it down or weed wack it & cover. The nitro nodules are in place in the ground for next planting. Additional roots will break up clay & provide sandy soil with organic matter. The above ground veg mats coutesy of the oasts provides an in place mulch to plant into. Peaceful Valley makes a reliable, affordable winter kill covercrop for most areas. You can mix your own similar blend. I have only had to mow terminate a few times when the fall was too warm or a good hardy cold snap ran late. It works. No muss, no fuss. No trial or guess work. It also solves some crop rotation issues.
Epic garden dude and his buddy Jacques did a similar experiment with various things and looked at results and high nitrogen but complex items performed worse than low nitrogen simple things. I love these experiments. We can do all the math and biological hypothesis we want, but doing a test works best. Thank you for sharing your valuable time to make this video for us. I know they are hard because I tried to make videos and failed hard.
I still want to see the long term experiment too. Obviously, the mimosa leaves aren't any good for annual plants, in the first season of decomposing the leaves anyway. Yes, I said mimosa. Deal with it.
It is possible that at least in the short term there is some allelopathy going on. Lots of plants try to control their competition through chemical warfare.
I love this channel! This is wonderful science. I have been trying your experiments here. I have dug Terra Preta, made compost teas, dug deep holes and chucked garbage and logs into it, and now I am doing a form of grocery row gardening. Most of my gardens have been failures but every so often a concept will work. I do not regret the failures because I have learned so much. Gardening in the future will be so much harder than it is today. Go learn something.
Nerdy videos are the best videos! Not really a fail, because everyone got to learn something useful! You asked me to email you about my biochar (different charges) experiments, unfortunately I'll have to start again pretty much from scratch, I'm on a brownfield site, my raised beds are 2ft deep as there's not really any soil, so I filled them with 1ft deep logs, topped with composted woodchip (screened to 10mm) and barely 6" of topsoil with 2" of good compost on top, after only 2 seasons the tops of the logs are poking thru 2" so I'm having to import 20 tons of topsoil to fill them up and start again. Lesson is composted woodchip grows great crops, until it completely disapears much faster than you expect, good thing is I'll have some excellent beds to restart experiments on, and keep better data this time :)
Love your approach David. I do the same - always experimenting on our land here in subtropical Australia. I don’t try to justify my methods or get into theoretical arguments, I just point at the results! 💚🌿
My favorite things to put around my plants are grass clippings, clippings from mint and lemon bee balm. We have a lot of Poke Salet in an area of our yard that I do chop and drop. Thanks for your tips.
From one high IQ nerd to another…Thank you for sharing what I don’t have time to do!! Your work is greatly appreciated and I have ALL of your gardening books!
Im gland Im not the only one that does back yard experiments. I have 4 beds and every year Im trying new things in each and comparing. Keep it up David the Good you rock.
I began to notice mimosa on the edges immediately after watching your initial video on the subject and have been tossing the leaves in my compost as well as a test bed. We’ll see what happens.
backyard experimentation is important. from what I have noticed, sometimes the microclimate or pest pressure just a block away influences how things perform. I'm in Central Florida, Pinellas.
I’ve been using mimosa in my soil for years, based on your recommendation. Now I know who to blame for my failures. 😂 I’m only playing. I’ve learned way more good from you than any slight negative.
@@davidthegood I mostly use it in my swamp water. Do you think it’d still have the same effect, or maybe the swamp water breaks it down to where it’s ok?
I'm trying Bluebonnets as my nitrogen fixer cover crop this year. Mostly because we're in a drought, and I don't want to water the cover crop very much. If nothing else, at least they will make me smile while they're flowering next March!
Think it is allelopathy against certain species that you are seeing. Thank you for this. This will cement the lesson into people's memories. Further experimentation may be warranted. Seedlings/annuals can be more susceptible to the suppressing compounds than larger perennials, trees, etc.
I don't know if I fit the high IQ part, but I definitely fit the super nerdy experiment lover label! 😂 Thanks for sharing the not so good results instead of just the ones that are a success. I just added the mimosa leaves to my compost bin, so I think it's going to work out okay for me.
Thank you, For all the research you provide us. I've definitely learned alot from your channel and your book. I had a similar outcome with chinese cabbage where I had used store bought cow manue/compost but was definitely not ready. The plant confirmed it and the weeds that came up after taught me it was good stuff but I was off in the timing. It's really interesting how some plant thrive in decomposing matter much better than others.
I've noticed the same cycle of crop here in the south. It's clover, then corn, then soy, then cotton and back to clover again. It's always the same but in rotation in different fields and sometimes you got a guy that decides to do wheat one year.
Would those mimosa leaves be good in swamp water? Also, do your goats/chickens/cows like those leaves? #animalsarewalkingcompostbins ...#longhashtags...
The more test videos I see like yours, and from my own experience, multi sources of stock given time to compost (solid or liquid) is the best broad spectrum method for nutrient availability to the plants (and break down the suppressants).
Same here. Perhaps add mimosa leaves to the original 2 beds. Then also create the same scenario in another bed... however reverse the pattern to allow for the extra sun exposure , if possible. Love the experiments!!
Scrubfest 2 weekend was a watershed moment for this high-IQ nerd. Picked up lots of locally-unavailable plants from Scrublandz, revamped a garden plot to try the grocery row method, improved my food forest plot, AND got the wife pregnant with out first child! Thank you for sharing your fertilization wisdom, David.
I put mimosa leaves around some trees and bushes I planted this fall! Hopefully overwintering will help. Also, planted a couple of baby mimosa trees near them to hopefully fix.nitrogen in the soil for them. Plan to coppice them later.
I've really enjoyed this experiment! Thanks for sharing. I dont think the mimosa experiment is done though. your point about the value of the leaves in the beginning is still true. While this process to try to get those nutrients didn't work, there's got to be a process that does work. I also have mimosa trees and will try to keep the experiment going. Tea, Compost, etc.
Last week I set up an air pump bubbler in a bucket of water, added "Timothy" Hay chunks (rabbit feed from pet store) and "Thrive" liquid fertilizer. The concoction developed a nice frothy foam after a few hours. I left it to marinate a few days to develop that essence of swamp water . My flower beds (aka grocery rows) are planted with mixed greens as a ground cover and they love this stuff. Ive used organic alfalfa pellets but was out of it. More nerd experiments please. Congratulations on the new baby Good!
I'd use the leaves in a batch of daves fetted swamp water or run it through the mulcher and use it as a mulch layer and let the worms and water and that work it in eventually
I heard that sometimes the composting process (like one caused by chop and drop) can steal nitrogen and release more later, which can become a problem if soil is not rich in nitrogen (as bacteria and fungi are favoring composting process over feeding plants). Maybe anaerobic like bucket with rainwater and leaves can be easier to use. On my side had terrible year with tomato due to rain. Currently trying to look for more resistant variety.
Interesting trial David. I wonder how they would do if fermented with a little molasses for a couple weeks though. I would try, but the old park ranger in me killed all the mimosa on my land!😂
Thanks for the video. Was wondering if you have thoughts on electro culture? Tried bamboo wrapped in copper wire. Didn’t seem to do anything for the beds or trees I planted them by. Thanks again
I wonder if Mimosa leaves in DFSW would be good: assuming there is something allelopathic in those leaves, I wonder if it would breakdown in the anaerobic water in a few months.
3rd! What other plants do you plan on using for fertilizer? Dig it algo. Thanks for the honesty and update DTG. Keep on rocking Good clan. We need a Sing Silly Songs with David session(AKA Good stream) very soon. 😃🌱🐢
I am picking up what you are laying down. But what the big question is, get ready, is the part with the Mimosa leaves growing better than a part of the garden that had absolutely nothing, just native soil and nothing else? That is the real question
Hi I am in N.E. Florida. WE are almost neighbors so I was wondering a lot of elephant ear grows in this area. Would it be possible to use either in a composte pile or possible as green material with the lasagna method ? I ask because I have heard that this plant is toxic to some animals do the toxins break down ? Sorry I know that this is somewhat off topic.
Wow! Great comparison, David. Thanks for sharing this experiment. This is a different topic, but have you had any luck growing Shampoo Ginger in your zone??? Just discovered this cool plant yesterday and am thinking about giving it a whirl, but I don’t want to attempt if you’ve had no success. Thanks for your time, partner 😎
I think that nitrogen was not the limiting factor in either bed. (If I had to guess, I would say sulfur is.) I'm not sure why the vigor would be decreased. Did you add more of something else to the other bed?
I could be ignorant to this but why would a nitrogen fixers leaves be different than any other tree/plant? The nitrogen fixing bacteria are all underground, right? So cutting the branches back would make those roots self-prune but the leaves don’t necessarily have more N than other trees, do they?
Why not just layer the mimosa leaves on top? I’m sure it’ll add more time to reap the benefits. I just planted the “Persian silk tree” and it loves my yard. Our most invasive nitrogen fixer in the upstate where I am is the eastern redbuds. Kee up the experiments man! Love your channel
Lol we are nerds indeed. You saved me from thinking I could use those leaves as emergency food source. Counter productive if it has abundant anti nutrients. I have seen case studies that albizia SEEDS are 25% oil, may be viable for human consumption
Still think a Good child is pranking you on this one! 😂 2024 might be an awesome year for a larger scale test of this using Moringa. My chickens and I enjoy the leaves. And I think your chop & drop was successful with it before. As quickly as it grows I'd like to see you try it there as the foliar fertilizer. Be cool to see it tried in VA too. 😊❤🙏
I dislike the *all success* videos because it means the OP censored out the fails. A particular group of friends & I are gardening experiment nerds as well. We share our successes & fails with each other, as well as checking out each others gardens and offering information we've learned along the way. We all learn valuable information.
I discovered your channel yesterday, I love how you deal with with people nagging in the comments😂. And I love how you deal with garden related questions. This one on mimosa as garden fertilizer, didn’t expect the outcome. I wonder if you’ve already done the same experiment with moringa 🤔
Welllll...maybe something else will love it someday, maybe nematodes will hate it. I love to use the compost water and chicken water ...miracle grow is my favorite. It works awesome with my compost, pisses me off.
Nice. Yeah, maybe too much anti-microbial/allelopathic/whatever opposition. For a time at least, like you said. It doesn’t sound like you put too much on though in my opinion but I really don’t know. Maybe it’s just really powerful. Side note: I wonder if the negative opposition/antimicrobial could oppose negative things in the soil: diseases, microbe imbalances, I guess. Maybe good for nuking a bad microbial community. Maybe good for nuking your own microbial community. Maybe it’s good for resetting the microbial community, say, after a crop, or after “bad”/poor soil. looked it up: supposedly, it’s called the tree of happiness and “eases irritability, insomnia, reduce inflammation in sinuses, aid regulation of digestion.”Mood (irritability) is largely tied to your microbiome, they say. Anywho, probably good for gardening in some way or just really good for humans. Or whatever.
Just saw your article: “In addition, the Persian silk tree (Albizia julibrissin) leaf residues can be used to control the irregular growth of Tree of heaven seed as an invasive species, as well as weed management in agroforestry systems which require further studies.” Nice
I am sorry that you got upset by online big mouths. Seems to be a Season span of a few years of them. When i watch you? I presume you know by experience. I am 64 years old. Most of my experience is gathered from experiments. That is the wise thing to do, since we all have variations to our Location. I have not figured out how to grow anything here! Lol But i havent wasted 10k trying! I now have such a crippled leg, gardening "has to be!" Extremely simple. I cant even carry buckets of dirt or water. So. I have stopped experimenting.
Today I present the final verdict on our test of mimosa leaves as a fertilizer.
You'll find my books here: amzn.to/3SO7AQi
And more notes on the experiment here: www.thesurvivalgardener.com/nitrogen-fixer-fail-adding-mimosa-leaves-decreased-plant-growth/
Thank you for watching.
Ok but I don’t understand technology or have any body that will help me to understand it
I’ll write you a snail mail or ? How
Do you loan out a child that can help me..haha
Thank you for openly sharing even disappointing study results. Such great scientific integrity and transparency. Your work is appreciated.
Thank you. It's interesting either way.
I've gardened in zones 5-7 and found the easiest way to fix nitro in the ground is with a winter kill covercrop planted in the fall, heavy on beans & peas with oats (to give the other two something to climb.) In most climates it will winter kill reliably before blossom. If you're in the South, just mow it down or weed wack it & cover. The nitro nodules are in place in the ground for next planting. Additional roots will break up clay & provide sandy soil with organic matter. The above ground veg mats coutesy of the oasts provides an in place mulch to plant into. Peaceful Valley makes a reliable, affordable winter kill covercrop for most areas. You can mix your own similar blend.
I have only had to mow terminate a few times when the fall was too warm or a good hardy cold snap ran late.
It works. No muss, no fuss. No trial or guess work.
It also solves some crop rotation issues.
Epic garden dude and his buddy Jacques did a similar experiment with various things and looked at results and high nitrogen but complex items performed worse than low nitrogen simple things. I love these experiments. We can do all the math and biological hypothesis we want, but doing a test works best. Thank you for sharing your valuable time to make this video for us. I know they are hard because I tried to make videos and failed hard.
I still think the mimosa bed will do better next season after the mimosa finishes breaking down.
That is my thought, too.
Be interesting to see, DtG.
I still want to see the long term experiment too.
Obviously, the mimosa leaves aren't any good for annual plants, in the first season of decomposing the leaves anyway.
Yes, I said mimosa.
Deal with it.
It is possible that at least in the short term there is some allelopathy going on. Lots of plants try to control their competition through chemical warfare.
Yes, I agree.
I agree too. 👍
I love this channel! This is wonderful science.
I have been trying your experiments here. I have dug Terra Preta, made compost teas, dug deep holes and chucked garbage and logs into it, and now I am doing a form of grocery row gardening.
Most of my gardens have been failures but every so often a concept will work. I do not regret the failures because I have learned so much.
Gardening in the future will be so much harder than it is today. Go learn something.
Lots of experiments this year on new property......heck, my entire life is an experiment. Interesting video.
Nerdy videos are the best videos! Not really a fail, because everyone got to learn something useful! You asked me to email you about my biochar (different charges) experiments, unfortunately I'll have to start again pretty much from scratch, I'm on a brownfield site, my raised beds are 2ft deep as there's not really any soil, so I filled them with 1ft deep logs, topped with composted woodchip (screened to 10mm) and barely 6" of topsoil with 2" of good compost on top, after only 2 seasons the tops of the logs are poking thru 2" so I'm having to import 20 tons of topsoil to fill them up and start again. Lesson is composted woodchip grows great crops, until it completely disapears much faster than you expect, good thing is I'll have some excellent beds to restart experiments on, and keep better data this time :)
THANK YOU!!From a Fellow Nerd. I love your back yard science experiments
Love your approach David. I do the same - always experimenting on our land here in subtropical Australia. I don’t try to justify my methods or get into theoretical arguments, I just point at the results! 💚🌿
My favorite things to put around my plants are grass clippings, clippings from mint and lemon bee balm. We have a lot of Poke Salet in an area of our yard that I do chop and drop. Thanks for your tips.
From one high IQ nerd to another…Thank you for sharing what I don’t have time to do!! Your work is greatly appreciated and I have ALL of your gardening books!
That makes sense because we had a Mimosa tree and nothing under it would grow very well.
Im gland Im not the only one that does back yard experiments. I have 4 beds and every year Im trying new things in each and comparing. Keep it up David the Good you rock.
Thanks for sharing, I have two Mimosa tree's that I chop and drop a lot, I think I'll start just composting them down first from now on.
I began to notice mimosa on the edges immediately after watching your initial video on the subject and have been tossing the leaves in my compost as well as a test bed. We’ll see what happens.
backyard experimentation is important. from what I have noticed, sometimes the microclimate or pest pressure just a block away influences how things perform. I'm in Central Florida, Pinellas.
Thanks, good to hear the rest of the story! Only grow by reading, trying, well done!
I’ve been using mimosa in my soil for years, based on your recommendation. Now I know who to blame for my failures. 😂 I’m only playing. I’ve learned way more good from you than any slight negative.
That's hilarious.
@@davidthegood I mostly use it in my swamp water. Do you think it’d still have the same effect, or maybe the swamp water breaks it down to where it’s ok?
@davidthegood I am curious about this as well.
I'm trying Bluebonnets as my nitrogen fixer cover crop this year.
Mostly because we're in a drought, and I don't want to water the cover crop very much.
If nothing else, at least they will make me smile while they're flowering next March!
Good to know. Sorry I missed your live. Been very busy with important things. Couldn't stop to watch right away.
Think it is allelopathy against certain species that you are seeing. Thank you for this. This will cement the lesson into people's memories.
Further experimentation may be warranted. Seedlings/annuals can be more susceptible to the suppressing compounds than larger perennials, trees, etc.
I don't know if I fit the high IQ part, but I definitely fit the super nerdy experiment lover label! 😂
Thanks for sharing the not so good results instead of just the ones that are a success. I just added the mimosa leaves to my compost bin, so I think it's going to work out okay for me.
Awesome video! I think it is super important to try different things ourselves and learn from the process. Be well.
I truly appreciate the nerdiness ! And all experiments THANKS David
David the good …I am technologically a moron being over 60 I’m unsure how to talk to you
On nicegram I mean.
@DavidTheGood_ON_Nicegram how?
That was a spammer, I think.
Thank you,
For all the research you provide us. I've definitely learned alot from your channel and your book. I had a similar outcome with chinese cabbage where I had used store bought cow manue/compost but was definitely not ready. The plant confirmed it and the weeds that came up after taught me it was good stuff but I was off in the timing. It's really interesting how some plant thrive in decomposing matter much better than others.
I love the ducks laughing in the background. Maybe a duck video is in the future? (Please)
I bet they make good compost!
Thanks for the nerd update
I've noticed the same cycle of crop here in the south. It's clover, then corn, then soy, then cotton and back to clover again. It's always the same but in rotation in different fields and sometimes you got a guy that decides to do wheat one year.
So interesting !!! Someone else just recommended using alfalfa pellets, I might give that a try.
Would those mimosa leaves be good in swamp water? Also, do your goats/chickens/cows like those leaves? #animalsarewalkingcompostbins ...#longhashtags...
The more test videos I see like yours, and from my own experience, multi sources of stock given time to compost (solid or liquid) is the best broad spectrum method for nutrient availability to the plants (and break down the suppressants).
Will you continue the experiment and see if there's a delayed benefit?
I was thinking the same
Same here. Perhaps add mimosa leaves to the original 2 beds. Then also create the same scenario in another bed... however reverse the pattern to allow for the extra sun exposure , if possible. Love the experiments!!
Scrubfest 2 weekend was a watershed moment for this high-IQ nerd. Picked up lots of locally-unavailable plants from Scrublandz, revamped a garden plot to try the grocery row method, improved my food forest plot, AND got the wife pregnant with out first child!
Thank you for sharing your fertilization wisdom, David.
Man alive. That is a great trip. TOTAL CHAD. Congratulations.
Sir, Those are some VERY WORTHY accomplishments!! GOD BLESS!
Dang!
Talk about checking every box!!
Congratulations!!!
Hitting for the cycle!
Apparently, just hanging around with DTG causes children.. 🤔
Curious if it is actually in the year after year addition of the fringe tree leaves that makes the true difference? Thoughts?
Neat...thank you David
Thx brother... Sister from northern Ontario Canada
I put mimosa leaves around some trees and bushes I planted this fall! Hopefully overwintering will help. Also, planted a couple of baby mimosa trees near them to hopefully fix.nitrogen in the soil for them. Plan to coppice them later.
i started feeding it to my chickens late this past summer. they liked it. while it lasted. i'll try again when the leaves come back.
I've really enjoyed this experiment! Thanks for sharing. I dont think the mimosa experiment is done though. your point about the value of the leaves in the beginning is still true. While this process to try to get those nutrients didn't work, there's got to be a process that does work. I also have mimosa trees and will try to keep the experiment going. Tea, Compost, etc.
That's so crazy. Very interesting
Great information!
Last week I set up an air pump bubbler in a bucket of water, added "Timothy" Hay chunks (rabbit feed from pet store) and "Thrive" liquid fertilizer. The concoction developed a nice frothy foam after a few hours. I left it to marinate a few days to develop that essence of swamp water . My flower beds (aka grocery rows) are planted with mixed greens as a ground cover and they love this stuff. Ive used organic alfalfa pellets but was out of it. More nerd experiments please. Congratulations on the new baby Good!
Thank you for the info David
I liked your experiment, would you still use it as a green source for making mulch?
Thanks for your videos and time.👨🏼🌾
Or as just a mulch on top to suppress weeds?
Cool experiment DTG!
Thank you, nerdy brother😁
Thank you for this video. I feel like the tape around my glasses got thicker.. I enjoyed the video. Thanks
Yay, bring on the nerdy, geeky videos!
I'd use the leaves in a batch of daves fetted swamp water or run it through the mulcher and use it as a mulch layer and let the worms and water and that work it in eventually
So interesting! Have you ever done this with moringa?
I heard that sometimes the composting process (like one caused by chop and drop) can steal nitrogen and release more later, which can become a problem if soil is not rich in nitrogen (as bacteria and fungi are favoring composting process over feeding plants).
Maybe anaerobic like bucket with rainwater and leaves can be easier to use.
On my side had terrible year with tomato due to rain. Currently trying to look for more resistant variety.
What about sisters? Siblings?
As nitrogen fixers?😅
Interesting trial David. I wonder how they would do if fermented with a little molasses for a couple weeks though. I would try, but the old park ranger in me killed all the mimosa on my land!😂
The “death march method” 🤣
Love it
Great video
Thank you for the video brother. Good stuff.
Mimosa is beautiful to turn on the lathe. down side is It stains everything black, skin, tools ect. if it turned while still green.
Always awesome videos , i do not take it for granted❤
If you are in Alabama you should know this by now. Clover then beans. The two crops that help the soil around here amend itself.
Would a broadleaf mustard plant work better than the mimosa.
Thanks for the follow-up, it saved me time and I will not be doing this!
Thanks for the video.
Was wondering if you have thoughts on electro culture? Tried bamboo wrapped in copper wire. Didn’t seem to do anything for the beds or trees I planted them by.
Thanks again
I think it's bunk.
@@davidthegoodI joined an electronculture group out of curiosity. They sure do believe. I haven't seen an experiment that proves anything.
Thank you. I think my thumbs are a little lighter brown now. 😉
And I like your look, you handsome thing, you. Who knew?
Hey David, where can I get somme good comfrey plants to buy?
"Do you have ANY idea how much I read!?!?!?" - classic
I wonder if Mimosa leaves in DFSW would be good: assuming there is something allelopathic in those leaves, I wonder if it would breakdown in the anaerobic water in a few months.
I see a follow up to the part 2.... coming soon to a theater near you!!
Are those red things butterfly's? I can't tell on the laptop screen?
3rd!
What other plants do you plan on using for fertilizer?
Dig it algo.
Thanks for the honesty and update DTG. Keep on rocking Good clan. We need a Sing Silly Songs with David session(AKA Good stream) very soon.
😃🌱🐢
I am picking up what you are laying down. But what the big question is, get ready, is the part with the Mimosa leaves growing better than a part of the garden that had absolutely nothing, just native soil and nothing else? That is the real question
I put mimosa leaves on one bed, and nothing on the other
Haha, guess I should've paid more attention, sry Sir. Please forgive. Oh yeah, Congrats on the beautiful baby!!!
It may do better next year? I hope it just needs more time, it'd be a shame to not benefit from the leaves.
Hi I am in N.E. Florida. WE are almost neighbors so I was wondering a lot of elephant ear grows in this area. Would it be possible to use either in a composte pile or possible as green material with the lasagna method ? I ask because I have heard that this plant is toxic to some animals do the toxins break down ? Sorry I know that this is somewhat off topic.
Yes, it is fine to chop and drop and use for compost
Wow! Great comparison, David. Thanks for sharing this experiment. This is a different topic, but have you had any luck growing Shampoo Ginger in your zone??? Just discovered this cool plant yesterday and am thinking about giving it a whirl, but I don’t want to attempt if you’ve had no success. Thanks for your time, partner 😎
Yes, it is easy here. Freezes down and comes back.
I think that nitrogen was not the limiting factor in either bed. (If I had to guess, I would say sulfur is.) I'm not sure why the vigor would be decreased. Did you add more of something else to the other bed?
No. Just mimosa on one bed, and none on the other.
I could be ignorant to this but why would a nitrogen fixers leaves be different than any other tree/plant? The nitrogen fixing bacteria are all underground, right? So cutting the branches back would make those roots self-prune but the leaves don’t necessarily have more N than other trees, do they?
They often have much higher protein content, as nitrogen is a major content of protein.
Im gonna start a Nitrogen Repair Service.
What did you use on the other side that did not have the mimosa leaf .
Nothing
@@davidthegoodvery interesting.
2:01 do you have any idea how much I *Breed , it is absolutely ridiculous
If I bred as much as I read, I would have about fifty children a year...
Allelopathic = path mulch?
Maybe the mimosa could be used as a weed suppressor in the pathways
Why not just layer the mimosa leaves on top? I’m sure it’ll add more time to reap the benefits. I just planted the “Persian silk tree” and it loves my yard. Our most invasive nitrogen fixer in the upstate where I am is the eastern redbuds. Kee up the experiments man! Love your channel
Maybe those mimosa would be better as a mulch on top for weed suppressant.
They do blow around, but wetting them often will reduce that.
Maybe you could layer in between the rows to inhibit weed growth. Lol
I'm surprised hardly anyone talks about using false indigo as a nitrogen fixer you should grow.
Do you sell your books directly?
I have not been able to figure out a way to do that, however, local bookstores can order them for you from Ingram Distribution.
Lol we are nerds indeed. You saved me from thinking I could use those leaves as emergency food source. Counter productive if it has abundant anti nutrients. I have seen case studies that albizia SEEDS are 25% oil, may be viable for human consumption
In those case studies, the oil was analyzed for toxicities(none)
Is it really a failure or a lesson learned?
The leaves failed to fertilize, but I consider the experiment a success since we learned something.
What if you soaked the mimosa in water to make tea instead of applying the actual plant? All those darn seeds drive me mad anyway.
keep seeds from the plants that did well with the mimosa and breed allelopathic resistance
Nice
Still think a Good child is pranking you on this one! 😂
2024 might be an awesome year for a larger scale test of this using Moringa. My chickens and I enjoy the leaves. And I think your chop & drop was successful with it before. As quickly as it grows I'd like to see you try it there as the foliar fertilizer. Be cool to see it tried in VA too. 😊❤🙏
I dislike the *all success* videos because it means the OP censored out the fails. A particular group of friends & I are gardening experiment nerds as well. We share our successes & fails with each other, as well as checking out each others gardens and offering information we've learned along the way. We all learn valuable information.
From 🇷🇺 with ❤!
Hey!! And sisters too😂❤🇹🇹
I discovered your channel yesterday, I love how you deal with with people nagging in the comments😂. And I love how you deal with garden related questions. This one on mimosa as garden fertilizer, didn’t expect the outcome. I wonder if you’ve already done the same experiment with moringa 🤔
Welcome!
I have used moringa, but not done a proper side by side.
I can tell you what grows like gangbusters in spring beneath my albizia julibrissin… cleavers(bedstraw/gallium).😖🙄 4+ ft tall and thick!
Welllll...maybe something else will love it someday, maybe nematodes will hate it. I love to use the compost water and chicken water ...miracle grow is my favorite. It works awesome with my compost, pisses me off.
I feel like brassica plants are finicky with there roots
Nice. Yeah, maybe too much anti-microbial/allelopathic/whatever opposition. For a time at least, like you said. It doesn’t sound like you put too much on though in my opinion but I really don’t know. Maybe it’s just really powerful. Side note: I wonder if the negative opposition/antimicrobial could oppose negative things in the soil: diseases, microbe imbalances, I guess. Maybe good for nuking a bad microbial community. Maybe good for nuking your own microbial community. Maybe it’s good for resetting the microbial community, say, after a crop, or after “bad”/poor soil. looked it up: supposedly, it’s called the tree of happiness and “eases irritability, insomnia, reduce inflammation in sinuses, aid regulation of digestion.”Mood (irritability) is largely tied to your microbiome, they say. Anywho, probably good for gardening in some way or just really good for humans. Or whatever.
Just saw your article: “In addition, the Persian silk tree (Albizia julibrissin) leaf residues can be used to control the irregular growth of Tree of heaven seed as an invasive species, as well as weed management in agroforestry systems which require further studies.” Nice
Love your train of thought with this. I hope the experiment has a sequel season!!
@@Katydidit Agreed
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I am sorry that you got upset by online big mouths. Seems to be a Season span of a few years of them.
When i watch you? I presume you know by experience. I am 64 years old. Most of my experience is gathered from experiments. That is the wise thing to do, since we all have variations to our Location. I have not figured out how to grow anything here! Lol But i havent wasted 10k trying! I now have such a crippled leg, gardening "has to be!" Extremely simple. I cant even carry buckets of dirt or water. So. I have stopped experimenting.