I am beyond happy that i found you! This is exactly how I have created all of my flower and vegetable beds for the last several years. People look at you funny when you mention removing grass but they also want instant gratification. I learned something new with the alfalfa fertilizer! Really loving all of your content as I gear up to start my flower farm. Cardboard also doesn't work for us here in central NC. We have Bermuda grass that does not get smothered so pulling it and all of its rhizomes are the only way to remove it. And hurray for mentioning wood chips!! I feel like Ive finally met someone who gets my style of gardening! (Sorry for such a long comment)
Thank you for this encouragement. I’m super depressed and have severe anxiety so I’m using gardening as a way through. I’m on a budget and was starting to feel overwhelmed by all the advice out there. Thank you for being encouraging to start where I am!
I got handicaps by surgery, so I started my garden in an amazing simple way, I purchased a weed block roll, yes, it is made of plastic material, but that was what I needed because I have no physical ability, I rolled it out on my crabgrass in five rows, held it down over the rainy winter with cheap cedar chips (or whatever you can find at Lowe's that is not treated.) when spring rolled around, moved the weed block a few feet to the right. That exposed now mostly weed free soil, I raked a bag of cow manure over the soil, and planted right into that. My walkways that were previously crabgrass were now covered with the weed block in a reuse fashion. So it turns out that the no till Permaculture it works really really well, but I had to use some plastic materials just to get started because I'm handicapped, on my first year garden was amazing and easy, and I'm looking forward to my second year garden
I am reusing the plastic ground cover sections, and I let go of my guilt, because being handicapped, that was the best I could do, and the end results justify the means!
So I've watched many of your videos and I keep hearing, "we" but I don't see anyone else helping you. My son was a youtuber and used to say "we" but he was a one man show, lol! Filmed, edited, ran his business...all by himself. So it's funny to hear you keep saying "we". You are amazing with all the work you put into your farm. I'm glad it's fulfilled the hole you carried losing your best friend. That was a tough video to watch; so sad, I can't even imagine. As always thanks for sharing your expansive wealth of knowledge! I learn something new from you every day!
Love LOVE your eco conscious approach and budget friendly and space aware. Thank you for sharing inspiration and specifics of how I might be able to do this in my space. ❤
I just love your channel ❤️! I've been doing kitchen gardening last couple of years and I never felt confident with fresh cut flowers until I came here. My zinnias came out so beautiful last season and it's all thanks to you. I am trying block seedling this season too I literally bought everything you showed on your videos and they're growing awesome!
I appreciate this because ive tried so many ways to garden the last 4 years and after 12" raised beds this year, til and pull last year, plastic containers first 2 years im strongly supporting permaculture methods.
Exactly what I needed to hear and especially helpful that I happen to be only a few hours south of you so your information is particularly valuable to me. Thank you!!!
I am really enjoying your videos. I've been gardening for probably 25 years and really got into flowers about 5 years ago. I'm always learning and this time of year I love watching flower videos. Your farm is beautiful I watched the farm tour. And you are a kind soul I can tell. About 2 years ago I asked a question I think it was on the flower farmers group on Facebook and you were so helpful and took so much time to answer my questions❤❤❤
Really great video! Appreciate your honesty and realities of getting started with a home garden. Going to start one this year and will try what you did in this video.
This was totally awesome. I'm globally considering taking my lawn out for garden space. Maybe even raised idk yet. I'm just don't have enough space in my back yard for what I want to do and I'm thinking to myself "why do I need this grass? Half of my east side of the house the grass stays so wet that it never looks as nice as the west side and there's a huge magnolia tree that keeps one side more shaded. I'm just not sure on how to design and go for it. I bought so many seeds this year you'd think I live on an acre. Not even half and I need more garden. All we do is walk on it to get to the garden so. That's it it's coming out.🤣 Thank you for sharing. I love your way of thinking your right on point.
I wasn't aware that my Ash tree that i had injected for bore would be a problem if i used the leaves for cover in raised beds. I also had 6 bales f straw left form a project and spread it out on my beds. So now i guess i have to start over and remove all the stuff on top of my beds? Doug in Lakewood
BTW on woodchips. Apparently they encourage pill bugs, who in turn like to eat up baby greens esp. spinach. Also, although I've had great going the year following applying a bunch as mulch on a previous garden, I had a worse production in my 2nd year in my current garden, also largely mulched with woodchips. And these had had even more green leafy material in with them. While prob. not the only reason, if at all, for my issues ( which was mainly/especially my cucumbers being very poorly), it seemed in general across the area that had had woodchips the longest ( the early summer of previous season, vrs. autumn), the worms or my activity or etc. had gotten a lot of them worked down into the soil. I'm guessing tying up my extremely limited amounts of nitrogen. Not to be all chemical based vrs. biology based, but that that can still be a thing... . Esp. on top of dead, sand "soil" with very little compost brought in (and which was sandy and low humus and didn't seem to improve things very much or in a lasting way). I'd tried to make do that season with some small top dressings of another, (also too sandy) compost from a friend's place, leftover from compost they'd bought & had sat for some years, and some weed and compost teas I tried making for the 1st time. (Wish I seen your alfalfa recipe then !). Anyway, some things for everyone to consider with woodchips, even when trying to just use em in pathways, but esp. if on/very close to beds and rows.
Please give your current best mix for making soil blocks. I'm getting ready to start January planting preps. I'm uncertain about what to use to make soil blocks after watching your video using paper mulch. Thanks Brianna for all your videos; they're a tremendous help to me! 🌱
Thank you for this, it helped tremendously! In my county organic fertilisers and good quality compost is hard to come by, so the compost I can make I use it sparingly but alfalfa pellets are something I can easily get, I will definitely try this method out. My sandy poor quality soil definitely needs any help it can get!
Too funny, was just sitting here trying to figure out how to fix my pile of dirt I got from contractor. They did a new addition to the house next door. So my cheap butt told him that if he didn’t want to haul the dirt away, I’d take it. it is definitely (!!) not what is in my yard bc my dirt is amazing!! This dirt looks like a river/pond mud - very very heavy down onto the plants. Besides the typical perlite, etc - what else could I add to it to make the overall dirt drain better?
I have 4 pet rabbits and I’m constantly feeding them pellets a d then cleaning their hutches out. I toss it (straw and poo) combined into a big bin and let it set until I need it. I’m wondering if mine would work as well as what you’re mixing up. I mean, it’s what I have on hand.
Hello and Congrats on this Great video, Have you heard that we do not have to add sugar or molasses any more due to that it is bacteria food only? We have plenty of bacteria in our soil. But little to no fungi which is mostly our main problem in soil health and plant health . Thanks
Wondering if alfalfa itself, as-in bales of alfalfa hay but esp. finer bits such as the leafy chaff on the floor of a haymow - leaves being where all the nitrogen (/protein/food value.. same thing ?) is, far as I know from dairy farming w my folks. Because I potentially have a free source of this, if it's not too full of allergens for my mycotoxins sensitivities.. 🙄. Have yet to go see it. Mainly I wanted to comment with another idea for extra alfalfa pellets : chicken feed. A woman in ND or MT or somewhere out there, featured on Justin Rhodes "Great American Farm Tour" (his family's trip, vlogged, across the US), raised her meat chickens mainly on this. Really neat !
That is what I did, well, instead of a tarp, I used a permeable ground cover roll 4ft wide. And I left it over the grassy weeds weighed down by untreated cedar mulch, old fence boards,or whatever untreated bags of ground cover you can find at Lowe's. After about four ti six months that mostly killed the underlying grass and weeds, and I started seedlings and transplants directly in that bear soil, with an overlay of cow, manure, or something like that that you can get from the hardware store in bags. Once you get things started, you will find that nature grows the plants for you, and the soil just gets easier and easier to work and you can use a more environmentally friendly method as you carry on
You have me interested to try to use this method along with tractoring and linger grazing to help start up some healthy garden beds and later nutrient rich food forest guilds. Though I haven't tested my soil yet, I'm pretty sure I have little to no very nutrient poor soil in the areas she I want to garden which is why originally I was planning on using either hugekulture or lasagna method before coming across some videos, including one of yours, that presented some compelling evidence why those methods may not be the best. My question is do you think this tilling method to initially establish the beds would work for soil in such bad health such as mine?
Oh yeah, for sure I know it would. Because when you get started, and you get some plant roots to grow through the soil, automatically, the soil starts getting a looser and more growth, friendly texture
My big concern is biosolids or fluorinated HDPE, the film is neither of those but I would still avoid it if possible. We are working toward eliminating it here!
If u jabe Bermuda putting chips. Card board. Ect will.make it more lush I must use HARSH chemical or solarize it in hottest part of summer wirh.edges sealed
I just want to point out that PFAS’s have, I believe, been found in rainwater, so you’ll probably never get away from them. I think that they are trying to remediate this though, so maybe one day we will be PFAS free again :)
Alfalfa is a good idea but I do not have access to that and will not buy it. I have a tree cutting buddy who is going to supply me with wood chips soon so that is good. I will begin to transition my traditional garden areas to no till style to go along with my raised bed garden areas.
Just purchase organic certified compost. The idea of bringing in soil is strange to me. With expense to bring in and labor to spread top soil it is not practical. I have read a number of books on market gardening, not one recommended bringing in top soil. She seems to be confounding perma culture and no dig.
Compost in itself is not a growing medium. It is an amendment and shouldn’t be used to grow in alone as it is too rich if made correctly. Hence why many methods, including lasagna methods. Also those with raised beds with sides often use a mix of topsoil and compost to fill as they take a lot of soil to fill and certified organic compost is costly. I’m not confusing anything, but thanks for popping in!
@@Blossomandbranch You are the one that brought up perma culture and tried to use it as an interchangeable equivalence to no dig. Unless the soil is toxic, it is more cost effective to amend soil with compost or other organic matter than to bring in top soil. I have never brought in soil and have had very productive market gardens in Florida sand and North Carolina clay. If cost is an issue cover crops are the least expensive method to build top soil. You seem triggered with your dismissive “thanks for popping in” You are very concerned that my comment could interfere with the sales of your course .
Correct about the raised garden beds....that everyone pushes for...and you find all the troubles with after large and ongoing expenses and problems. With regard to alfa alfa...it's not the bees knees of all nutrition required. It has more than compost but, much less nutrients than commercial fertilizers, on a pound for pound of nutrient analysis and cost basis. Of course the organic way is wasting lots of money for little efficacy, whilst imagining the pixies are dancing with joy..so to speak. If you were to put down enough alfa alfa to fully cover the deficit of growing crops, rather than the organic approach of skimping on nutrients because of expense, you'd find alfa alfa is very expensive. You can get away with doing that on already fertile land but, not so much on typical horrible suburban garden land. Of course at this stage organic proponents will feign outrage over killing soil micro-biota with fertilizers...except they never actually bother to look (let alone research) soil life...other than lip service according to imagination. So, for the much cheaper option and much less money/effort/time.....forget compost, mulching (no-dig palava), and just get high analysis complete fertilizer with all the micro-nutrients included....and you can dose it like it should be dosed for general crops....rather than fertilizing schedule being about how much money you want to spend on expensive (organic) alternatives each year.
What you propose are constant quick fixes, feeding plants instead of improving the soil so that fertilizer, organic or otherwise, becomes virtually unnecessary. When I moved into my home five years ago, all I had was a patchy lawn and weeds. Five years later, most of the lawn is now garden beds. All accomplished with no tilling, layers of cardboard, several loads of arborist wood chips, grass clippings, leaf mold, etc. and a lot of my own time. Admittedly not a project for those that need a quicker time frame but the result is beautiful black soil, happy plants and vegetables and no need for additional "fertilizers".
@@sbffsbrarbrr : there's no doubt that over extended periods it somewhat improves the soil however, the utopian falacy of fertilizer becoming unnecessary--as results dont bare out and reality does not permit--is a reminder to not get too sucked in with organics mostly based on false dreams. feeding plants with good complete fertilizer and fixing any mineral issues in soil is not a quick fix for anything; it is supplying veggies with all the nutrients to grow fast and strong. the utopian organic falacy about magical level soil improvement is very expensive and does not produce comparable results. I was on that organic bandwagon for a long time, and then i started to look at it more critically. Anyhow, video was about setting up new garden cost effectively, which when you get doen to real detail, organics is a false economy and a massive drain on money/time/effort. Unfortunately "they" indoctrinate so much nonsense that it's difficult to discuss anything, as the cult of organics koolaid kicks in. It becomes a fiction story about soil and getting mediocre results with so much work becomes the biased norm. We stop valuing all our work and instead of learning real horticultural science, we value utopian fairytales more.
@@Chris-op7yt Since humanity has survived and farmed for thousand of years without synthetic fertilizers I guess we'll have to agree to disagree 🙂. Happy New Year and Happy Gardening!
@@sbffsbrarbrr : As a concrete example: what's discussed in this video and organic based fertilizers provide little in way of phosphorous, which is critically deficient in australian soil. Non-native plants and veggies need annabundance of ready to use phosphorous or else they do poorly. Phosphorous doesnt magically become out of thin air unless you actially supply it, and plants take it out of soil. The organics (foundationless) motto of only putting in soil dead organic matter fails to meet vegetable phosphorous requirements, and plants thrive in a predominantly mineral based growing medium, what they evolved to do...and mineral deficiencies do exist (depending on parent rock etc) and need addressing. Putting in loads of expensive bulk material that contains little nutrients that veggies need, is hardly cost effective. If you're on glacial soil, expensive organics amendments are not necessary. 99% of organic material you put in soil ends up as atmospheric carbon dioxide within a year or so. Hardly a cost effective way to grow veggies. But this is the organics way, no soil tests, just keep pumping in money and effort and pretend it's frugal. Failed crops no longer matter, as the color of soil becomes more valued. Geo-tectonic activity--if not future human activity--will make short work of that black soil so expensively produced. Like i said, organics dreams dont line up with reality, and become often an expensive excercise in fiction that aligns with false indoctrination. Just putting it out, as propaganda seems to dominate home veggie growing circles. each to their own but, people should know more how organics is built on a house of cards, instead of a solid foundation. i spray less pesticides than farmers and carefully evaluate risks on a case by case basis. the false "chemical bad" organics mantra is just that, false. cheers, and may your veggies grow well. you make lots of good points, especially about almost always not needing the large expense of raised beds.
@@sbffsbrarbrr : humanity also made do with just collecting stuff, for a long time. Initial farming was on flood plains, which regularly replenished minerals from mountains. we developed veggies from mostly barely edible plants. organics evolved very recently, from another half baked idea to grind up rocks, and that's all you needed. propaganda is insiduous as they play on our emotions to believe false things, like that morality comes from a fictional (dufus) god of one kind or another. these are discussions we need, rather than forging ahead with false beliefs, because they were indoctrinated to feel good.
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I am beyond happy that i found you! This is exactly how I have created all of my flower and vegetable beds for the last several years. People look at you funny when you mention removing grass but they also want instant gratification. I learned something new with the alfalfa fertilizer! Really loving all of your content as I gear up to start my flower farm. Cardboard also doesn't work for us here in central NC. We have Bermuda grass that does not get smothered so pulling it and all of its rhizomes are the only way to remove it. And hurray for mentioning wood chips!! I feel like Ive finally met someone who gets my style of gardening! (Sorry for such a long comment)
Goodness gracious what a breathe of fresh air, I love the way you deliver information. Thank you for this amazing content!!
Thank you so much ❤❤❤
Thank you for this encouragement. I’m super depressed and have severe anxiety so I’m using gardening as a way through. I’m on a budget and was starting to feel overwhelmed by all the advice out there. Thank you for being encouraging to start where I am!
I got handicaps by surgery, so I started my garden in an amazing simple way, I purchased a weed block roll, yes, it is made of plastic material, but that was what I needed because I have no physical ability, I rolled it out on my crabgrass in five rows, held it down over the rainy winter with cheap cedar chips (or whatever you can find at Lowe's that is not treated.) when spring rolled around, moved the weed block a few feet to the right. That exposed now mostly weed free soil, I raked a bag of cow manure over the soil, and planted right into that. My walkways that were previously crabgrass were now covered with the weed block in a reuse fashion.
So it turns out that the no till Permaculture it works really really well, but I had to use some plastic materials just to get started because I'm handicapped, on my first year garden was amazing and easy, and I'm looking forward to my second year garden
I am reusing the plastic ground cover sections, and I let go of my guilt, because being handicapped, that was the best I could do, and the end results justify the means!
So I've watched many of your videos and I keep hearing, "we" but I don't see anyone else helping you. My son was a youtuber and used to say "we" but he was a one man show, lol! Filmed, edited, ran his business...all by himself. So it's funny to hear you keep saying "we". You are amazing with all the work you put into your farm. I'm glad it's fulfilled the hole you carried losing your best friend. That was a tough video to watch; so sad, I can't even imagine. As always thanks for sharing your expansive wealth of knowledge! I learn something new from you every day!
I love your log walk way😊
I love how you start this video. There’s no one way to do it. ❤❤❤ thanks. Just need to start!
Thank you thank you thank you for starting a RUclips channel! I’m learning so much from you!
Love LOVE your eco conscious approach and budget friendly and space aware. Thank you for sharing inspiration and specifics of how I might be able to do this in my space. ❤
Great, realistic advice. Thank you! LOVE the alfalfa fertilizer demo as well. Such usable content.
This is 100% something I've been wondering about lately. Thank you for this!
Thanks for being here!
I love this. I need a lawn in my backyard but want to use Buffalo grass, thyme and clover. I’m going to use this method.
I just love your channel ❤️! I've been doing kitchen gardening last couple of years and I never felt confident with fresh cut flowers until I came here. My zinnias came out so beautiful last season and it's all thanks to you. I am trying block seedling this season too I literally bought everything you showed on your videos and they're growing awesome!
I appreciate this because ive tried so many ways to garden the last 4 years and after 12" raised beds this year, til and pull last year, plastic containers first 2 years im strongly supporting permaculture methods.
Exactly what I needed to hear and especially helpful that I happen to be only a few hours south of you so your information is particularly valuable to me.
Thank you!!!
I am really enjoying your videos. I've been gardening for probably 25 years and really got into flowers about 5 years ago. I'm always learning and this time of year I love watching flower videos. Your farm is beautiful I watched the farm tour. And you are a kind soul I can tell. About 2 years ago I asked a question I think it was on the flower farmers group on Facebook and you were so helpful and took so much time to answer my questions❤❤❤
Really great video! Appreciate your honesty and realities of getting started with a home garden. Going to start one this year and will try what you did in this video.
This was totally awesome. I'm globally considering taking my lawn out for garden space. Maybe even raised idk yet. I'm just don't have enough space in my back yard for what I want to do and I'm thinking to myself "why do I need this grass? Half of my east side of the house the grass stays so wet that it never looks as nice as the west side and there's a huge magnolia tree that keeps one side more shaded. I'm just not sure on how to design and go for it. I bought so many seeds this year you'd think I live on an acre. Not even half and I need more garden. All we do is walk on it to get to the garden so. That's it it's coming out.🤣 Thank you for sharing. I love your way of thinking your right on point.
Love love LOVE this!! ❤️ I cannot wait to start my new garden! Thank you!
I love the idea of not spending a fortune to start a garden! Such great information!
Super interesting! Such helpful information as I am planning my garden for this year!
Great Video! A lot of really excellent information! loved the alfalfa fertilizer
Thank You, your so nice. A great help...I can't wait to give this a try. I can't grow grass... but I did find a weed...
I wasn't aware that my Ash tree that i had injected for bore would be a problem if i used the leaves for cover in raised beds. I also had 6 bales f straw left form a project and spread it out on my beds. So now i guess i have to start over and remove all the stuff on top of my beds? Doug in Lakewood
This is really great! I just found your channel and already like your style :)
BTW on woodchips. Apparently they encourage pill bugs, who in turn like to eat up baby greens esp. spinach. Also, although I've had great going the year following applying a bunch as mulch on a previous garden, I had a worse production in my 2nd year in my current garden, also largely mulched with woodchips. And these had had even more green leafy material in with them. While prob. not the only reason, if at all, for my issues ( which was mainly/especially my cucumbers being very poorly), it seemed in general across the area that had had woodchips the longest ( the early summer of previous season, vrs. autumn), the worms or my activity or etc. had gotten a lot of them worked down into the soil. I'm guessing tying up my extremely limited amounts of nitrogen. Not to be all chemical based vrs. biology based, but that that can still be a thing... . Esp. on top of dead, sand "soil" with very little compost brought in (and which was sandy and low humus and didn't seem to improve things very much or in a lasting way). I'd tried to make do that season with some small top dressings of another, (also too sandy) compost from a friend's place, leftover from compost they'd bought & had sat for some years, and some weed and compost teas I tried making for the 1st time. (Wish I seen your alfalfa recipe then !). Anyway, some things for everyone to consider with woodchips, even when trying to just use em in pathways, but esp. if on/very close to beds and rows.
I love your overalls! Where did you get them?
I love the look of the walkways! How do you weed in between the wood?
I wonder if they even have to. She said they laid them in a bed of sand.
Thank you sooo much. Learned a lot from you again! God bless.
Please give your current best mix for making soil blocks. I'm getting ready to start January planting preps.
I'm uncertain about what to use to make soil blocks after watching your video using paper mulch.
Thanks Brianna for all your videos; they're a tremendous help to me! 🌱
Fantastic! So informative!
Thank you for the inspiration
Thank you for this, it helped tremendously! In my county organic fertilisers and good quality compost is hard to come by, so the compost I can make I use it sparingly but alfalfa pellets are something I can easily get, I will definitely try this method out. My sandy poor quality soil definitely needs any help it can get!
where do you get ur alfalfa pellets from?
@@bryancross8068 I just googled where I can get it nearby.
Thanks for the alfalfa fertilizer recipe. What size tub do you use to hold it?
Wow! Digging in tevas!
Here in Spain they sell alfalfa pellets as small animal feed - is it the same as alfalfa fertilizer?
Yes! We just make sure we buy the organic stuff to avoid potential herbicide buildup :)
@@Blossomandbranch Right, thanks!
If I have a lot of clover residues can I make fertilizer out of that in a similar way?
Too funny, was just sitting here trying to figure out how to fix my pile of dirt I got from contractor. They did a new addition to the house next door. So my cheap butt told him that if he didn’t want to haul the dirt away, I’d take it.
it is definitely (!!) not what is in my yard bc my dirt is amazing!! This dirt looks like a river/pond mud - very very heavy down onto the plants. Besides the typical perlite, etc - what else could I add to it to make the overall dirt drain better?
Watch our latest video on fixing fill dirt!!
I have 4 pet rabbits and I’m constantly feeding them pellets a d then cleaning their hutches out. I toss it (straw and poo) combined into a big bin and let it set until I need it. I’m wondering if mine would work as well as what you’re mixing up. I mean, it’s what I have on hand.
Hello and Congrats on this Great video, Have you heard that we do not have to add sugar or molasses any more due to that it is bacteria food only? We have plenty of bacteria in our soil. But little to no fungi which is mostly our main problem in soil health and plant health . Thanks
Wondering if alfalfa itself, as-in bales of alfalfa hay but esp. finer bits such as the leafy chaff on the floor of a haymow - leaves being where all the nitrogen (/protein/food value.. same thing ?) is, far as I know from dairy farming w my folks. Because I potentially have a free source of this, if it's not too full of allergens for my mycotoxins sensitivities.. 🙄. Have yet to go see it.
Mainly I wanted to comment with another idea for extra alfalfa pellets : chicken feed. A woman in ND or MT or somewhere out there, featured on Justin Rhodes "Great American Farm Tour" (his family's trip, vlogged, across the US), raised her meat chickens mainly on this. Really neat !
thank for sharing, ..give me inspiration to my garden....
Do you ever use a tarp to kill the grass instead of digging it up when starting a new garden?
That is what I did, well, instead of a tarp, I used a permeable ground cover roll 4ft wide. And I left it over the grassy weeds weighed down by untreated cedar mulch, old fence boards,or whatever untreated bags of ground cover you can find at Lowe's. After about four ti six months that mostly killed the underlying grass and weeds, and I started seedlings and transplants directly in that bear soil, with an overlay of cow, manure, or something like that that you can get from the hardware store in bags.
Once you get things started, you will find that nature grows the plants for you, and the soil just gets easier and easier to work and you can use a more environmentally friendly method as you carry on
So glad to have found this amazing woman. Love her no frills approach. #2020Reality
Thank you SO much 😊
You have me interested to try to use this method along with tractoring and linger grazing to help start up some healthy garden beds and later nutrient rich food forest guilds. Though I haven't tested my soil yet, I'm pretty sure I have little to no very nutrient poor soil in the areas she I want to garden which is why originally I was planning on using either hugekulture or lasagna method before coming across some videos, including one of yours, that presented some compelling evidence why those methods may not be the best. My question is do you think this tilling method to initially establish the beds would work for soil in such bad health such as mine?
Oh yeah, for sure I know it would. Because when you get started, and you get some plant roots to grow through the soil, automatically, the soil starts getting a looser and more growth, friendly texture
You are so inspiring, thank you.
Thank you! I will try the alfalfa fertilizer!
Can you use alfalfa pellet fertilizer for cut flowers as well?
Yes :) we use for both
Any concern the alfalfa has any herbicide contamination? Great video!
We source organic pellets-so yes! I trust no one 😅
Are Timothy Alfalfa pellets ok?
So is this alfalfa fertilizer just a fall thing or can I use it now in preparation for spring planting?
Which plant growth hormone is found in the alfalfa pellets?
Will rabbit manure (since they eat the alfalfa pellets) provide a similar benefit?
Yes!! Bunny manure is great for the garden
Great info. What do you think of biofilms as mulch? Do you think there would be a chemical or PFAS risk using those?
My big concern is biosolids or fluorinated HDPE, the film is neither of those but I would still avoid it if possible.
We are working toward eliminating it here!
What brand of alfalfa pellets did you use? Is the sugar or molasses interchangeable? Or is molasses better?
I prefer molasses but either will work! I use whatever organic brand I can find.
If u jabe Bermuda putting chips. Card board. Ect will.make it more lush
I must use HARSH chemical or solarize it in hottest part of summer wirh.edges sealed
Yes rhizome
Grasses are awful! Sometimes definitely need to go to war with those ones 😢
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I just want to point out that PFAS’s have, I believe, been found in rainwater, so you’ll probably never get away from them. I think that they are trying to remediate this though, so maybe one day we will be PFAS free again :)
I fully agree with you.
We still want to avoid compounding the issue. The higher the levels the more dangerous to consume the food coming from the soil.
The No Till Mafia has everyone else so scared. The last half of this video was just kowtowing to the No Till Mafia.
Alfalfa is a good idea but I do not have access to that and will not buy it. I have a tree cutting buddy who is going to supply me with wood chips soon so that is good. I will begin to transition my traditional garden areas to no till style to go along with my raised bed garden areas.
My soil has so much clay
Just purchase organic certified compost. The idea of bringing in soil is strange to me. With expense to bring in and labor to spread top soil it is not practical. I have read a number of books on market gardening, not one recommended bringing in top soil. She seems to be confounding perma culture and no dig.
Compost in itself is not a growing medium. It is an amendment and shouldn’t be used to grow in alone as it is too rich if made correctly. Hence why many methods, including lasagna methods. Also those with raised beds with sides often use a mix of topsoil and compost to fill as they take a lot of soil to fill and certified organic compost is costly. I’m not confusing anything, but thanks for popping in!
@@Blossomandbranch You are the one that brought up perma culture and tried to use it as an interchangeable equivalence to no dig. Unless the soil is toxic, it is more cost effective to amend soil with compost or other organic matter than to bring in top soil. I have never brought in soil and have had very productive market gardens in Florida sand and North Carolina clay. If cost is an issue cover crops are the least expensive method to build top soil. You seem triggered with your dismissive “thanks for popping in” You are very concerned that my comment could interfere with the sales of your course .
Woke schools: let's help the environment!
Also woke schools: that single grass lawn and that astroturf.
Correct about the raised garden beds....that everyone pushes for...and you find all the troubles with after large and ongoing expenses and problems.
With regard to alfa alfa...it's not the bees knees of all nutrition required. It has more than compost but, much less nutrients than commercial fertilizers, on a pound for pound of nutrient analysis and cost basis. Of course the organic way is wasting lots of money for little efficacy, whilst imagining the pixies are dancing with joy..so to speak. If you were to put down enough alfa alfa to fully cover the deficit of growing crops, rather than the organic approach of skimping on nutrients because of expense, you'd find alfa alfa is very expensive. You can get away with doing that on already fertile land but, not so much on typical horrible suburban garden land. Of course at this stage organic proponents will feign outrage over killing soil micro-biota with fertilizers...except they never actually bother to look (let alone research) soil life...other than lip service according to imagination.
So, for the much cheaper option and much less money/effort/time.....forget compost, mulching (no-dig palava), and just get high analysis complete fertilizer with all the micro-nutrients included....and you can dose it like it should be dosed for general crops....rather than fertilizing schedule being about how much money you want to spend on expensive (organic) alternatives each year.
What you propose are constant quick fixes, feeding plants instead of improving the soil so that fertilizer, organic or otherwise, becomes virtually unnecessary. When I moved into my home five years ago, all I had was a patchy lawn and weeds. Five years later, most of the lawn is now garden beds. All accomplished with no tilling, layers of cardboard, several loads of arborist wood chips, grass clippings, leaf mold, etc. and a lot of my own time.
Admittedly not a project for those that need a quicker time frame but the result is beautiful black soil, happy plants and vegetables and no need for additional "fertilizers".
@@sbffsbrarbrr : there's no doubt that over extended periods it somewhat improves the soil however, the utopian falacy of fertilizer becoming unnecessary--as results dont bare out and reality does not permit--is a reminder to not get too sucked in with organics mostly based on false dreams.
feeding plants with good complete fertilizer and fixing any mineral issues in soil is not a quick fix for anything; it is supplying veggies with all the nutrients to grow fast and strong.
the utopian organic falacy about magical level soil improvement is very expensive and does not produce comparable results. I was on that organic bandwagon for a long time, and then i started to look at it more critically. Anyhow, video was about setting up new garden cost effectively, which when you get doen to real detail, organics is a false economy and a massive drain on money/time/effort. Unfortunately "they" indoctrinate so much nonsense that it's difficult to discuss anything, as the cult of organics koolaid kicks in. It becomes a fiction story about soil and getting mediocre results with so much work becomes the biased norm.
We stop valuing all our work and instead of learning real horticultural science, we value utopian fairytales more.
@@Chris-op7yt Since humanity has survived and farmed for thousand of years without synthetic fertilizers I guess we'll have to agree to disagree 🙂. Happy New Year and Happy Gardening!
@@sbffsbrarbrr : As a concrete example: what's discussed in this video and organic based fertilizers provide little in way of phosphorous, which is critically deficient in australian soil. Non-native plants and veggies need annabundance of ready to use phosphorous or else they do poorly. Phosphorous doesnt magically become out of thin air unless you actially supply it, and plants take it out of soil.
The organics (foundationless) motto of only putting in soil dead organic matter fails to meet vegetable phosphorous requirements, and plants thrive in a predominantly mineral based growing medium, what they evolved to do...and mineral deficiencies do exist (depending on parent rock etc) and need addressing.
Putting in loads of expensive bulk material that contains little nutrients that veggies need, is hardly cost effective.
If you're on glacial soil, expensive organics amendments are not necessary.
99% of organic material you put in soil ends up as atmospheric carbon dioxide within a year or so. Hardly a cost effective way to grow veggies. But this is the organics way, no soil tests, just keep pumping in money and effort and pretend it's frugal. Failed crops no longer matter, as the color of soil becomes more valued. Geo-tectonic activity--if not future human activity--will make short work of that black soil so expensively produced. Like i said, organics dreams dont line up with reality, and become often an expensive excercise in fiction that aligns with false indoctrination. Just putting it out, as propaganda seems to dominate home veggie growing circles. each to their own but, people should know more how organics is built on a house of cards, instead of a solid foundation.
i spray less pesticides than farmers and carefully evaluate risks on a case by case basis. the false "chemical bad" organics mantra is just that, false.
cheers, and may your veggies grow well.
you make lots of good points, especially about almost always not needing the large expense of raised beds.
@@sbffsbrarbrr : humanity also made do with just collecting stuff, for a long time. Initial farming was on flood plains, which regularly replenished minerals from mountains.
we developed veggies from mostly barely edible plants.
organics evolved very recently, from another half baked idea to grind up rocks, and that's all you needed.
propaganda is insiduous as they play on our emotions to believe false things, like that morality comes from a fictional (dufus) god of one kind or another.
these are discussions we need, rather than forging ahead with false beliefs, because they were indoctrinated to feel good.