Growing SOIL - How to Start No till Garden or Food Forest for beginners 101 with Compost. PT 6
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Growing SOIL in How to starting a No till Organic Garden 101 and Food Forest. Gardening for beginners with Composting Fall Leaves & wood chips for a deep mulch garden. How to plant strawberries. Permaculture is a great start. This will Build your soil health with no till gardening. How to make a food forest. Part 5
A friend was getting her yard re-landscaped after putting a circular driveway. She asked how much more to plant no-mow ground covers vs. grass. Price was *outrageous* . She ordered thousands of strawberry plants and had a Saturday "Green Thumb Party." She served lunch/snacks/refreshments and her friends planted the strawberries. Afterwards, all the neighborhood kids were welcome to come over and graze fresh strawberries anytime. (If she needed any for herself, she'd pick them during school hours.) After plants multiplied she made the old plants available to friends as a YOU-dig 'em gift. 5 years later every home in the neighborhood was beautifully planted . Many had their own vegetable gardens. A few had "English flower gardens" instead of front yards. My friend took lemons and *made lemonade* .
FANTASTIC STORY... THANK YOU for sharing... I could see all the smiles on everyone's faces year after year. AGAIN THANK YOU so much for taking the time to share.. BRAVO.
I really like your advice. Its a complicated subject but you make it simple to understand. I started my 18'x24' garden from scratch this winter with winter rye grass and buckwheat. Cheap, cheap. Its doing very well.
I am so glad to hear that ,,, THANK YOU.. I am always trying new ways to explain it so people have fun at gardening with their families or friends.
Whew. That soil is to die for!!
THANK YOU...
Is that rye growing in leaf mold though? My clay soil looks nothing like that under winter rye, it is hard and dry. The same soil under hay mulch looks much better, soft, crumbly and full of moisture.
Intriguing. I'm pondering the use of broilers (chickens) to go through the rye and do the digging.
The roots of the plants do the tilling or digging for you. They are not necessary to use. THANKS for asking.
Amazing soil. Dark, spongey and loose. every thing a gardener wants.
THANK YOU.. it is easy you can do the same.
What a great looking handful of soil when you pulled up that rye! Great aggregation and color. I bet it's a big difference from when you first started your methods.
I keep asking question all he time. Like at first was told the cover crops but mine minerals and bring them to the surface. That is only 10 % of what they do. The other 90% is to be a host to mycorrhizal fungi to grow soil and to keep the pathways open and feed the microbes. THANKS
1000 strawberry plants?!! Big operation Mark. Nice legs :-0)
THANKS....
It's good to see you back with a new season of videos.
THANK YOU.. Good to hear from you.
So glad you are talking about rye. That is what we used around a lot of our fruit trees and here in zone 8b it has grown all winter and we are always cutting it. It does better than anything else we tried.
Thanks for sharing! So happy it's finally warm.
Yes, the heat will warm up the soil temp so we can get planting soon. THANKS
Hello Mark,
Thanks for the demonstration on planting strawberries.
I adapted the method for planting potato in my raised bed, after cutting down my winter rye as close to the ground as I could using a hedge trimmer.
Thank you for your inspiring videos and instruction.
THANK YOU.. kept me updated on your garden..
Good video in that it explains the need for a living root on soil as well as the importance of wood to dirt. I'm no expert but understand a bit about microbes and how important carbon/calcium etc is to soil.
In northern BC with our colder weather, lack of access to wood chips and hard clay soil, I've had to get creative. We put pieces of rotting wood with fungus attached at the base of fruit trees, water well and so far trees are surviving. We haven't had any fruit from them yet but maybe one year it will happen when the weather is favorable. In the meantime, we fertilize & wait, thanks!
I feel so sorrey for you with all your wether I hope it bucks up soon
I have tryed winter rey this winter and its amazing how it changas the soil
keep up the good work
So GREAT to hear you gave a trail/ test to the winter rye to see for yourself. THANK YOU for sharing your results.
Beautiful soil, you should be proud
THANK YOU...It is a please to show how so all can do this too.
thank you - good info - just got me garden done - yep 87 or more rest of week here
be well and good luck
The Heat is on.. But feels great. THANKS
We are in zone 6b as well, this is our first year gardening. We rent so limited on what we can do. Raised garden beds, the dirt in the yard i think is called shale. Thank you for these videos, we are looking for a place to buy. I am almost positive we will inherit the same dirt. Turning it into soil will have to be are first job.
Hello zone 6 b gardener.. Just it you buy a place say the soil is really bad here and maybe lower the price.. And then you can build it to great soil. THANK YOU for watching.
your soil looks amazing!
THANK YOU so very much.. You can do this too.
I am going to give it a try!
I've been trying to pull the weeds out of it right on top of the chips I've never seen so many worms and all my life I think there's enough worms in their to feed it but I do have chickens I'm going to throw some of that on top 2 so it should grow like weeds everything
You can not directly place chicken manure in the garden, You must let it sit a few months in a pile before spreading. THANKS
awesome :)thank you for sharing your knowledge.
THANK YOU for watching .
Be really interested in seeing the process of planting! My back and knees wear out quickly when I'm on the ground.
Mark I've been watching your videos for years and I have COPD really bad and I was trying to plant my tomatoes and my old Garden and in the past I've used the almanac but it doesn't seem like there's any days in May to plant corn to the almanac my back to Eden been in the ground for like 4 years so it's really compost I think I think I'm going to run my tiller about 1 inch deep
The picture is my husband. I'm not adroit with this form of communication so I don't know how to change the picture. However, your channel and a few others are very educational. I'm the one who asked the question under another of your videos about getting leaf mold from the woods and by the wheel barrow or truck load carrying it to a site that we want to establish a garden. Thank you for your answer to my questions so far. You said to only take off a half inch of the grass and weeds and then go ahead and lay the leaf mold on top. Cover with leaves and plant directly into it. Did I get that right?
Looking at the above video where you go over your nice winter rye one time and then come back for a second swipe - Is this what we should do with a lawn mower and not a roto tiller, or, do we use a roto tiller with the blade barely breaking the top of the soil?
When you pull back the soil with your spade to plant the strawberry plant the soil is nice and soft. I don't expect the soil underneath our grass and weeds will be so soft. Before we put in a lot of hard work and spend a lot of money on seed I want to make sure that we are not going to loose our investment.
So, if we lay down about four or six inches of leaf mold on top of our new garden that has just been scraped like the above video, the vegetables we plant are going to provide the roots to make next year's garden even more profitable than this year's, but we will still reap a reasonable harvest of this year's sowing. Did I get that right?
In the fall should we plant winter rye, peas and sunflowers in our new garden beds to prepare next year's garden bed?
You can tell that I'm having a hard time stepping out in faith and not tilling the ground and adding a lot of amendments - even after watching all of your videos.
THANK YOU for writing back. so anwer to your First question.. Take off a 1/2 inch of grass or weeds below soil level going in the ground. Yes, next cover with 4 to 6 inch min on top of the soil. You will be making a raised bed on top of the soil.
Next question & answer, I did suggest a rototill because you said you have on. You can us the lawn mower too. Your choice.
Sorry I do not understand your question.. You are never planting in the old grass. You are planting in the 4 to 6 inch leaf mold on top of the soil that you are not mixing in the soil...? I understand your concern about your investment. Just try a 4 feet by 4 fet spot will only cos a few dollars.
Yes, Your are planting into the leaf mold to get a good garden this year all will be fine. Just keep up with watering. Plus you are going to do a trail only this year do to the fact we are writing to each other and things will be misunderstood.
In the fall winter rye is just fine to plant only.. Sunflowers need to be planted in late spring to work ( they die over winter ) and the peas early spring to work.
All is GOOD i understand your concern.. just try a 4 x 4 area only this year.
THANKS MARK
Hey Mark, another great video, thanks for all you do we certainly appreciate it. I noticed you planted strawberry crowns instead of plugs like last season, I did as well and am amazed at how fast the started budding. Do you plan to cut or pinch your first buds off, lol that's a lot of work? Last season you planted in clover, how did that work out for you? Thanks again :) Don
Don, THANKS for asking. My plugs and clover was a FAIL . NOT do to doing something wrong. But there was something in the plugs potting soil that attracts groundhogs. So they ate up my $400 strawberries.. in 2 nights. I call Johnny's seeds to ask the supplier what they used.. YUCCA is add to the potting soil to hold moisture. So at the end of the season when thing where dry they had a salad. Just got this answer 1 week ago from Johnny's seeds.. They ask me not to share on my youtube page..OH WELL
I am replanting with bare roots only. One side of the strawberries will be wood chips and leaves.. The other side will be new zealand white clover again..
I am glad to hear yours is doing very well.. I would leave the flowers on.. I read some place with plugs it is OK. I think it was written in the fact sheet or catalog.
THANKS MARK...
Oh My Godness Mark I know that hurt, wow, sorry to hear of your misfortune. Did you trap them? Last year I had a horrendous problem with skunks, raccoons, and armadillos...they drove me nuts digging everything up making me have to replant too many times but nothing near $400 worth, ouch, ouch, ouch! On a brighter note though I'm very pleased with the living mulch/clover idea you gave us with the strawberries. Thanks once again Mark, I'm so thankful you're out there for us. Hey best wishes for this strawberry season :))))
Mark, I guess you don't need to soak them! Hope your day goes well.🙂
You can if you wish. But in my case here the soil is very moist.. THANK YOU for asking.
I AM ORGANIC GARDENING......Mark, how do I send a private note?
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Hello Marc,
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with every body. I have a question for you; I have some used potting soil from last year and want to mix it with equal amounts of finely shredded leaves to re boost them and use the mix for planting in about a month. Do you think this would work or the leaves going to rub nitrogen out of soil to brake down and I have to wait longer?
Thank you very much,
Hello, Yes you can and it will work fine. You can also add coffee grounds to. There is very little nitrogen lost.. You will have 4 times more in gain. THANKS
Thanks a lot.
Sorry I have one more question. My garden soil is hard clay and I put about six inches of wood chips on top of it in the fall of 2016. The wood chips hasn’t broken down enough yet and I can’t plant in it. In a small section of my garden I pulled the wood chips back and tilled perlite and bagged compost into the soil to make it suitable for planting but not sure if this is a right way or not.
Thank you Mark-will try the rye cover and all the best gardening! One question.......how did/does your raised bed round cattle panel work out?
Good will plant into it with the next 20 days tomatoes again. Will do an update to make it look like new again. This is just for looks only not function. THANK YOU for asking.
So just go ahead and plant it I got beans a little bit of everything
Yes, sir. It will be fine . The most important thing is your soil temp. The seed pack will tell you what the right temp the soil should be at.
will there be any way to still use deep rooted cover crop (barley or rye) in a well establish strawberry patch? I understand strawberry roots are much shallower compared to those of cereals. Also strawberry roots don't die off annually to create air channels and worm food in the soil.
The strawberries by themselves can grow roots several feet deep. So no need to and a cover crop. Maybe a short cover to hold back weeds only. Thanks.
I have just the opposite soil than you have, Mine is sand. My wife says if it rains the water is in China the next morning! I'm wondering just how to go about growing the soil to make it more productive. I have applied some wood chips in the last 2 weeks around most of the tomato plants and they seem to be flourishing. Since I have just discovered your channel I did not do anything to the soil last fall, and tilled it all this spring. Would you suggest just continuing with wood chips, or should I do the winter rye thing this fall to start it off. I plant both seeds and starts and have only tried wood chips on the starts so far.
I want to plant winter rye but have someone with Celia's disease that's worried about it. I could find any info on how long it takes before winter rye develops seeds. Do you have any info to share on that?
I believe you have to eat it ( the grain ) to be a problem. Let's say you plant winter rye today ( not annual rye ) 5/11/18 it will grow like grass all this year. NOT Until next year it will grow 4 to 7 feet tall and make grain. But you you have doubts JUST grow Clover of and kind or alfalfa. THANKS
Mark I'd like to know do you plant by The Almanac
Sorry, I do not... Thanks for asking.
Hi Mark, what variety(ies) of strawberries do best in your soil. I have to replace mine, they've aged out, I'm looking at other varieties to try..God bless.
I am trying a variety ( ALBION ) this year from Johnnyseeds.com . THANKS
I AM ORGANIC GARDENING thankyou!
Is that a snake in front of the lawn mower
That is a garden house... Thanks
I am a beginner again.
So am I... THANKS
Is this the process you use for all plants? What I mean is, 1) grow soil w/ winter rye, 2) cut low, 3) plant your plants 😏
No, some like tomatoes I plant into a mound of 2 year old leaf mold.. This is do to tomatoes love to grow large roots and enjoy moisture. THANKS. They would do fine in the soil also. Just started this way before I started growing soil.
I AM ORGANIC GARDENING THX. But how do I know when to use this method you just showed?
Mark, do you have a Facebook page?
Sorry, I do not. Just google. THANKS
I AM ORGANIC GARDENING- good. They are a horrible company profiting by violating privacy and user content.