You make this so easy to understand. I really appreciate all that you do to share what you are learning and verifying. Hopefully sharing these videos through social media will get these methods into the hands of those who will apply your methods to good effect. Many Blessings!
Thanks, Mark. That was a great lesson. Plants also clean up the soil like brassicas/mustard's after potatoes. Nature is full of helpful and healing things. Best wishes. E ;)
Just getting started with my garden. Learnt a lot from your channel. Today I'm spreading straw over a piece of land where I had my above ground pool, to get it ready for next year. The yields this year from my other garden have been great. Thank you!
I AM ORGANIC GARDENING I will Mark. My tomatoes grew out of control, in the small patch I set up in june ( a little late ) now most of the hay is gone, so I will re-cover it with more hay so that by the end of Sept. I can plant a winter cover crop to keep stuff alive during the hard winter in NY. I'l put a picture video together when it's all done. I think what you are doing is a great service to humanity, since we need to learn all this information in order to provide quality food for our families. Good day.
Thanks again for an excellent, excellent video. Also thanks for sacrificing several plants along the way to show us your videos subject in concrete terms.
Sir, I have been watching many of your videos and it is very informing, being new to gardening it is hard to keep up but you explain it very well. I am now gardening in containers because I only have my balcony to plant things in. Is there any video of you that you can refer me to that can be helpful to my container gardening? Thank you for your work and all your effort that you put in to this, making it available for us all.
Just type in contain gardening in the search bar.. Their is a lot of them to watch. . My best advice would be use worm castings as your source for plant food.. You can buy this easy and cheap from Amazon online. THANKS
THANK YOU. I am able to start again, August is a big month for us to harvest all my crops to pay the bills. And no time to film. I will start soon. Thanks Again.
Hi Mark, I cannot make out what the cover crop is below the corn is. In an earlier comment, I asked you about the N needs of corn. You implied in your reply, if I did not misunderstand, that supplemental N is unnecessary, and you would elaborate in a later post. Is this the post you were referring to? I'll expand on my question, with your forbearance. I have received my winter rye seed already. I'm planning to seed my garden beds with rye around labor day. Before planting I will spread out .5 inch of compost, possibly more if I have it. In last early spring, a Logan soil test indicated a deficiency of Ca, B, and S. I supplemented with CaSO4, gypsum, and borax. I will plant new zealand white clover, after inoculation, in the walkways. I'm located in zone 5B. The first snows occur around Thanksgiving. Last frost date is May 25. I intend to cut the rye around May 9, my birthday. I will cut it with a hedge clipper as you demonstrated. I will plant seeds and transplants also as you demonstrated. Any comments you may have would be appreciated.
Their is none, just small weeds... Yes, this popcorn was grown in just healthy soil. No other N needed. If takes time to grow Healthy soil.. The will be another video soon that will show that a farmer did a soil test, and it only shower 10 lbs of N for the whole acre. And he had a fantastic corn crop. All is good about your planting.. If you can you can plant your New Z white clover now if You have room. It must have a good root system to survive winter. Planting soon then listed is better....THANKS
Ever try to grow a plant like sweet potato, in water? I remember how the clean water got cloudy and had to be changed after a couple days. I wonder if these sugars and proteins pumped out by sweet potato roots were to blame?
Mark, I have a question sort of along these lines that I'm hoping you can help me with. I understand that, in nature, the plants that thrive are an indication of what the soil is healthy in and also what it is lacking in that those thriving plants will provide. Is there a website or other free source you can direct me to that lists what common plants provide to the soil that indicates what is lacking? ie, nitrogen fixing plants/trees. I am wanting an all around resource that I can go to for reference without researching each individual plant. Thank you and thank you for your videos and knowledge sharing.
Sir, what do you do with your green waste? I believe I read somewhere that you don't make compost but I'm assuming you produce some that you don't just leave on the ground?
So the reason weeds don’t grow soil is that they only give back 20% of what they take? Thanks Mark, that answers a question I’ve had for months about why weeds don’t grow soil. Last year I put down cardboard under the wood chips and had zero weeds. But this year after the cardboard broke down the weeds have punched up through the wood chips everywhere and it's horrible. If I plant winter rye in the fall everywhere would the rye prevent weeds from growing next year? If I just pile on more wood chips the weeds will pop through I’m sure. Thanks!
Weeds do grow soil, but very little Only 20% compare to 50% like other things that will help more. We will always get weeds. The winter rye will slow it down and is easier to apply then wood chips.. BUT you will still get weeds.. I think the best way s to add cardboard and hold it down with wood chips just about 2 inchs of wood chips. SORRY not very helpful.
THANK YOU. I am able to start again, August is a big month for us to harvest all my crops to pay the bills. And no time to film. I will start soon. Thanks Again.
I will do that for you but not just now because it's -16 C outside with about 10" of iced over snow on the ground here. I might see our raised beds again in April. I do have the perfect rootless soil to complete the experiment with though. I found your channel 2 days ago and have been fascinated with what you are doing and how you are growing your soil. It makes a lot of sense to me and plan to follow your lead by starting a cover crop as soon as the soil warms up enough. I'm just about 12 miles north east of Moncton New Brunswick in area 5/4.
Hey Mark. Thanks for the video. You mentioned that the plant gives back 20 to 50% to the soil, but what is that a percentage of? if it were 100% would that mean the plant is in perfect equilibrium with how much carbon it is returning to the soil? This is all very interesting, but the percentages confuse me a little without more context. Using numbers and a simplified math example might help me to understand.
That is the % of the own photosynthesis for growth. They will supply more in making food for the soil then growing for themselves. 50/ 50 would be giving 100%. Hope I explained that OK..THANKS.
Great easy to understand explanation Mark!
THANK YOU. You had a great harvest the other day on your sweet potatoes.. VERY NICE. Enjoy.
Good stuff Mark! Now I have to grow popcorn next year.
It is a great item to grow / easy to save / eat... THANKS
Good video educational and we'll formatted 🥇🏆🥇
THANK YOU..but the prize should go to my teacher..Ray Archuleta.
I AM ORGANIC GARDENING, Ok fair play 🌻🐝🌻
You make this so easy to understand. I really appreciate all that you do to share what you are learning and verifying. Hopefully sharing these videos through social media will get these methods into the hands of those who will apply your methods to good effect. Many Blessings!
That would be great to help more people to grow more food.. And THANK YOU for your kind words too..
Your soil is looking very healthy Mark! Nice job building up that soil!
THANK YOU.. It took a couple of years. But we all can do it.. for the cost of seeds only.
Great educational videos thank you Mark.from 🇦🇺
Always a pleasure to share what people taught me.. THANK YOU for watching...
Awesome video! I love your channel! Popping corn is so much fun. You are very knowledgeable. Your garden looks nice. Happy gardening. Cheers!
THANK YOU.. Pop corn is the way to go on a cold winter day..
Thanks, Mark. That was a great lesson. Plants also clean up the soil like brassicas/mustard's after potatoes. Nature is full of helpful and healing things.
Best wishes. E ;)
They Sure are E.. Great Point. THANK YOU.
Just getting started with my garden.
Learnt a lot from your channel.
Today I'm spreading straw over a piece of land where I had my above ground pool, to get it ready for next year.
The yields this year from my other garden have been great.
Thank you!
THANK YOU for letting me know how everything is going. Please keep me updated, Thanks
I AM ORGANIC GARDENING I will Mark.
My tomatoes grew out of control, in the small patch I set up in june ( a little late ) now most of the hay is gone, so I will re-cover it with more hay so that by the end of Sept. I can plant a winter cover crop to keep stuff alive during the hard winter in NY.
I'l put a picture video together when it's all done.
I think what you are doing is a great service to humanity, since we need to learn all this information in order to provide quality food for our families.
Good day.
Fascinating stuff.
THANK YOU, I really am surprised that we can test so easily for this..
Hey, just wanted to say when we plant the cover crop seeds you sent us we will give you a good shutout. Thanks so much for the generous gift. -Art
My pleasure to help out your dad and you.. Buckwheat is mostly used in the summer time to bring in pollinators. Very Sorry to hear about your dog..
Great info. Will plant more corn next year
GREAT to hear, Thanks
thank you for info video
be well
YOU to.. THANK YOU.
Thanks again for an excellent, excellent video. Also thanks for sacrificing several plants along the way to show us your videos subject in concrete terms.
Always a pleasure to show by exampled ...THANK YOU.
Wow! that is great!
Sir, I have been watching many of your videos and it is very informing, being new to gardening it is hard to keep up but you explain it very well. I am now gardening in containers because I only have my balcony to plant things in. Is there any video of you that you can refer me to that can be helpful to my container gardening? Thank you for your work and all your effort that you put in to this, making it available for us all.
Just type in contain gardening in the search bar.. Their is a lot of them to watch. . My best advice would be use worm castings as your source for plant food.. You can buy this easy and cheap from Amazon online. THANKS
Where oh where did you go? I love your videos!
THANK YOU. I am able to start again, August is a big month for us to harvest all my crops to pay the bills. And no time to film. I will start soon. Thanks Again.
If you cut winter rye low with hedge clipper in the spring will it kill it so i can plant tomatoes
Hello Mark! Is it ok to grow Peas (with innoculant) next to carrorts, radishes? Won't the root crop absorb those innoculants?
Hi Mark,
I cannot make out what the cover crop is below the corn is.
In an earlier comment, I asked you about the N needs of corn.
You implied in your reply, if I did not misunderstand, that supplemental N is unnecessary, and you would elaborate in a later post. Is this the post you were referring to?
I'll expand on my question, with your forbearance.
I have received my winter rye seed already. I'm planning to seed my garden beds with rye around labor day. Before planting I will spread out .5 inch of compost, possibly more if I have it. In last early spring, a Logan soil test indicated a deficiency of Ca, B, and S. I supplemented with CaSO4, gypsum, and borax. I will plant new zealand white clover, after inoculation, in the walkways. I'm located in zone 5B. The first snows occur around Thanksgiving. Last frost date is May 25. I intend to cut the rye around May 9, my birthday. I will cut it with a hedge clipper as you demonstrated. I will plant seeds and transplants also as you demonstrated.
Any comments you may have would be appreciated.
Their is none, just small weeds... Yes, this popcorn was grown in just healthy soil. No other N needed. If takes time to grow Healthy soil.. The will be another video soon that will show that a farmer did a soil test, and it only shower 10 lbs of N for the whole acre. And he had a fantastic corn crop.
All is good about your planting.. If you can you can plant your New Z white clover now if You have room. It must have a good root system to survive winter. Planting soon then listed is better....THANKS
Ever try to grow a plant like sweet potato, in water? I remember how the clean water got cloudy and had to be changed after a couple days. I wonder if these sugars and proteins pumped out by sweet potato roots were to blame?
I really do not know.. But like the way your are thinking about that.. THANK YOU.
Mark, I have a question sort of along these lines that I'm hoping you can help me with. I understand that, in nature, the plants that thrive are an indication of what the soil is healthy in and also what it is lacking in that those thriving plants will provide. Is there a website or other free source you can direct me to that lists what common plants provide to the soil that indicates what is lacking? ie, nitrogen fixing plants/trees. I am wanting an all around resource that I can go to for reference without researching each individual plant. Thank you and thank you for your videos and knowledge sharing.
Sorry for the delay, I was looking for something that could help you.. I did not fine anything on this in a list.. THANKS
Well, thank you for trying. I have been searching for a while and have not found it either.
Sir, what do you do with your green waste? I believe I read somewhere that you don't make compost but I'm assuming you produce some that you don't just leave on the ground?
I feed it to my very large worn bin, 6 feet round and 2 feet high. THANKS
So do you put that water back into the garden? You were right on that molasses thing, that was the video I saw, I just got it backwards.
100% YES..back it went. Glad to help. THANK YOU.
Do you have a video with your greenhouses? Thank you
I am sorry, I do not understand. I do not have a greenhouses that I grow in..Thanks
My apologies, I thought it was your channel that used the unistruts in a greenhouse build
Mark, are you growing Comfrey on your farm?
Yes, But any perennial with long roots will help. Or you can grow oil seed radish also. THANK YOU for asking
So the reason weeds don’t grow soil is that they only give back 20% of what they take? Thanks Mark, that answers a question I’ve had for months about why weeds don’t grow soil. Last year I put down cardboard under the wood chips and had zero weeds. But this year after the cardboard broke down the weeds have punched up through the wood chips everywhere and it's horrible. If I plant winter rye in the fall everywhere would the rye prevent weeds from growing next year? If I just pile on more wood chips the weeds will pop through I’m sure. Thanks!
Weeds do grow soil, but very little Only 20% compare to 50% like other things that will help more. We will always get weeds. The winter rye will slow it down and is easier to apply then wood chips.. BUT you will still get weeds..
I think the best way s to add cardboard and hold it down with wood chips just about 2 inchs of wood chips. SORRY not very helpful.
Thanks Mark. The good news is I've got magnificent sunflowers.
Just a thought, Can you get a bunch of fall leaves and spread them on top of the wood chips.. Will keep the weeds down for a year.
Great idea. I've got access to all the fall leaves I could want.
Plants roots building soil.
They are part of it.. Mostly it is the Soil Food Web.. THANK YOU.
Mark can you please make a foto of the whole content of the Elaine Ingham doctor. in your video i cannot read what s is in the bords.
thanks
Sure..give me a day or two, And I will post it on my google page for all to see. THANKS.
It is know posted on MY Google page. Hope it is helpful. THANKS.
oke thanks
Missing your videos...
THANK YOU. I am able to start again, August is a big month for us to harvest all my crops to pay the bills. And no time to film. I will start soon. Thanks Again.
Now shouldn't you take some soil that has no roots and agitate that around in some water for a comparison? To like' complete the test?
You have a good point..To truly have an answer for you to feel safe with I will ask you to do it.. And Please let me know your results.. THANK YOU.
I will do that for you but not just now because it's -16 C outside with about 10" of iced over snow on the ground here. I might see our raised beds again in April. I do have the perfect rootless soil to complete the experiment with though. I found your channel 2 days ago and have been fascinated with what you are doing and how you are growing your soil. It makes a lot of sense to me and plan to follow your lead by starting a cover crop as soon as the soil warms up enough. I'm just about 12 miles north east of Moncton New Brunswick in area 5/4.
Hey Mark. Thanks for the video. You mentioned that the plant gives back 20 to 50% to the soil, but what is that a percentage of? if it were 100% would that mean the plant is in perfect equilibrium with how much carbon it is returning to the soil? This is all very interesting, but the percentages confuse me a little without more context. Using numbers and a simplified math example might help me to understand.
That is the % of the own photosynthesis for growth. They will supply more in making food for the soil then growing for themselves. 50/ 50 would be giving 100%. Hope I explained that OK..THANKS.