After playing several of your videos, I don't think I need to hear what other garden channels have to say. I've been gardening for 50 years and you've taught me things I didn't know. Great information. Thank you for holding this space for us to learn.

@Gardenfundamentals1

Ай бұрын

Wow, thanks

@dollhousediggs

Ай бұрын

@@Gardenfundamentals1 Same here. I'm done searching.

@S0L12D3

Ай бұрын

Have you ever checked out “self sufficient me” ? He’s also a brilliant one to follow!

@Grateful_Grannie

Ай бұрын

Does the same hold true for soulless gardening in containers? Just include compost in the mix, hydrate & mulch?

@chefe2152

Ай бұрын

I agree,I have his soil book and about to purchase the rest of series.Hes one of the legit real Mccoy

When you harvest, leave the roots in the soil if you can. This feeds the microbes and helps aerate the soil as the roots decompose.

@flatsville9343

Ай бұрын

Pulling out roots should be citable offense. Unless you have an invasive plant, it counter-productive. If I need a smooth seed bed, I just put down compost next to or on top of the cut down row.

@andresamplonius315

23 күн бұрын

The new plant roots will use the preformed conduits of those old or decayed roots, saving energy and time as well.

@lucabernardini3975

12 күн бұрын

Good points

@juhgfdsapiyhhnnxc3517

8 күн бұрын

@@andresamplonius315dang thanks

@johac7637

4 күн бұрын

Is there any information on what happens when we apply Double Nickel fungicide to control Pytophra aka Root Rot, what does it do to good bacteria

I don’t think there’s any other KZread channel that packs so much useful information into the same timeframe. Thanks for keeping my supply list for 2024 nice and short!

Well he’s written several books and won an award for his work seems like he knows what he’s talking about it. 😂I learn so much from him. Lots of us do❤

@Gardenfundamentals1

Ай бұрын

Thank you.

@johndoh5182

Ай бұрын

No-Till Growers is also good. He farms for a living so he's doing something right. He practices regenerative agriculture. One thing I learned from that channel is if you want to know what's in the soil, you have to actually look at it, with a microscope and know what different things look like. THEN you can make things like compost teas which do work because you actually LOOK at what's in the tea before applying it. In other words you are validating that what you think you did is indeed what you actually did when making that tea. For a backyard farmer this is probably too much effort unless you're practicing to become a farmer for a living.

@GerryMantha

Ай бұрын

@@johndoh5182 Compost tea is a bunch of BS. No market gardener here I've ever met makes or uses it here in Eastern Ontario that wants to make a living. Nor do they do any other magical practices, like putting skulls in their soil, or anything like that. Science and not mysticism is useful in agricultural systems. Edit: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Znpp17GRmKfVcps.html

You have just earned the wrath of many fertilizer companies! You talk sense and by imparting your experiences, you have had helped us save huge amount of money. Gardening or farming is so simple. Do not complicate it, businessmen!

@JonP_4-31inf

4 күн бұрын

Every farmer uses synthetic ferts. If they didn't the world would have starved a hundred years ago or so.

Thank you sir! This is exactly what I tell my friends who wonder how I “fertilize” my garden. Decades spent on studying micro-algae, and cyanobacterial ecosystems taught me to feed the soil. I tell them grow earthworms in your garden, feed them. The ecosystem will develop and the transition from hard sandy clay to a rich loam will happen. I visit the dumpsters near Starbucks, collect hundreds of pounds of used coffee grounds, plus recycled plant stalks, clean grass clippings, leaves, twigs and wood chips. No pesticides or commercial fertilizers!

I keep a 30 gallon barrel constantly digesting plant matter throughout the year. Not much happens in the winter but every spring I empty out the sludge and put it in the compost or mulch the beds. I just keep feeding the barrel with weeds or other organic matter. It smells awful but the plants like a taste of the liquid. And the beds love the sludge. I’m gonna continue. My garden seems happy and I just built a mushroom bed out there.

@Gardenfundamentals1

Ай бұрын

"but the plants like a taste of the liquid" - how do you know?

@monicali2608

Ай бұрын

Add a little soil or compost and the smell will be less.

@mikeharrington5593

Ай бұрын

Does the barrel have water in it ?

@John-ii4si

Ай бұрын

Because Smell Is the product of microbe activity and microbe and Plant live in sybiosis.​@@Gardenfundamentals1

@Debbie-henri

5 күн бұрын

I just cut weeds down to a reasonable level, and throw them back down on the ground. Considering my (2 acre) garden started off as one-third bare rock, the rest worn to thin turf by sheep (it's a corner of what used to be an extensive pasture), I think I've done well to build up enough soil in which to grow bulbs, perennials, bushes and (in some places) some fairly considerable sized trees. Chop and drop, no-mow ever, planting whatever could survive in thin soils, collecting some leaves that flow down the stream on my property, adding vegetable kitchen scraps, and doing my best to introduce new fungi species to the garden for 21 years has built soil faster than it would do if left strictly to nature. Chop and drop with weeds meant developing a different mindset about my concept of weeds. It was difficult, since I worked as a professional gardener, went to horticultural college for 4 years, and had the dislike for weeds drummed into me quite a bit. But when I left my job to raise a family, I began to look at those weeds differently, learning to treasure those powers of easy regeneration, and using them as a source of organic material that builds soil. Only later did I discover that all these pernicious weeds have an ability to sequester specific minerals and nutrients, bring them to the surface in their roots, which can then be redistributed to target plants in the form of chop and drop. So, I'm not trying to get rid of Common Hemlock, thistles, bracken, dandelion or Rosebay Willow Herb any more. I 'harvest' them as persistent green manures. When I started viewing these plants as actual 'crops,' it seemed to completely overturn my views on gardening, and relieved a lot of stress at the same time. I only draw the line at brambles (they spread too quickly and secretly in a garden this size), and should Japanese Knotweed or Giant Hemlock find it's way here, there again, they will be removed entirely. I only made a compost tea once, the smell was enough to call it a day on that experiment. And I don't think it did the garden any more favours than chopping and dropping.

I recently read, Soil Science, and it was quite eye opening, and I’ve been a gardener for 40 years. I currently have about 300 sq feet of raised beds and containers. My soil is very good, and my vegetable production is pretty good in spite of just barely getting enough sunlight due to trees on either side of my yard. I compost my grass clippings and leaves, and top off my beds every season with new compost, but I also add both organic and some synthetic fertilizers, plus lime, gypsum, sulfur, crushed oyster shells, and alfalfa pellets.

This is my #1 garden YT. Thank you for your knowledge and honesty.

I would add that given everything we don't and possibly will never know about microbes, it's likely beneficial to shoot for high diversity. I say this based on presentations about the Johnson-Su bioreactor, which is a method of composting with air columns and watering (but not turning) where they tested and found leaving it for a year resulted in a wide variety of microbe species in abundant numbers compared to lesser amounts of time resulting in dominance by relatively fewer species, with the resulting compost apparently having extreme positive effects on crop yields at very low application rates (as an extract or top dress). I also have seared into my brain the fact that living plant roots increase organic matter in the soil five times as fast as depositing organic matter on the soil surface (leaves in the forest, mulch, etc.). See presentations by Dr. Christine Jones about that.

@jaymartin85

Ай бұрын

This guy is right, he is dead on about the more diversity of plants and grass you grow around your crop. You have more available sugar for different microbes to break down different enzymes and you will have more defense against pests. But he is denouncing actual doctors and soil scientists... Dr. Elaine Ingham has a soil food web school where you look at soil samples under a microscope and you keep actually adding compost tea until you get the numbers up to what they should be. I cultivate IMO in Korean Natural Farming and JMS in JADAM... This video is also denouncing that. I will also say he's right. For example, when it comes to the apple tree dropping its fruit in the fall, that's when you actually fertilize.. But because we harvest most of the fruit, you're taking away the nutrition for itself. Dr.

Thank you - I bought all these extra stuff to improve my soil & now your way is simplex& a lot cheaper ..

@johndoh5182

Ай бұрын

There's one thing that backyard farmers may want to buy, AFTER fixing their soil AND if this is missing because of how poor the soil was and how much people were dumping chemicals in their yards, and that's worms that are appropriate for that area. They can speed up that transfer and conversion of organic material to usable elements when applying compost around the plants and the worms will speed up the process of working that down into the soil after they break it down more and poop it out.

Wvey week, I get 5 big bags of discarded produce from a local grocery collection to tons of leaves and coffee grounds .spread it over my garden in winter .I love seeing that black dirt 😊😊😊😊

You channel (and blog, and books) is the only one that have EDUCATIONAL value, for an amateur pratical gardenner. Tanks.

@Gardenfundamentals1

Ай бұрын

thank you very much.

I’ve been watching his videos all day long and I just absolutely love this guy. He is so knowledgeable.

Best channel on KZread hands down.

I have permanent rows + paths, and I mulch all winter and part of summer, and I use irrigation to prevent drought in the rows. My soil has improved a lot - I can take a bamboo stake and push it down about a foot in the rows, and in the paths I can push it down about an inch

Adding things randomly and hoping that it has a desired effect reminds me of how they introduced so many invasive species in an attempt to solve some problem without understanding the ramifications of their actions.

@musictech85

Ай бұрын

Read "The New Wild" by Fred Pearce

Wow love it. I do basically this on our large food forest. I simply didn’t buy anything because I was too tight. But I thought just putting heaps of mulch is basically solving all my problems.👍👍👍👍

I love your enthusiasm for making better soil. I am preoccupied with removing the recent invasive weed. bacteria needs will have to wait.

Adding molasses is like organising a party and inviting friends. They will leave once the drinks are over

@mitooquerer

Ай бұрын

😆 true

@summertime2433

Ай бұрын

I've never tried it but if I were to try it I would drizzle molasses over newly introduced fresh organic matter that I want to breakdown relatively faster?

I’ve learned so much from your channel! I have a neurological disorder and sometimes have flare ups where I have constant tremors… I have listened to your channel for countless hours ❤

@juliehorney995

Ай бұрын

Me too. Godspeed fellow gardener.

@otivaeey

Ай бұрын

You should research into Carnivore Diet which will help you avoid flare ups. The irony is eating plants that are healthy can have high amount of secondary metabolites that poison your body. So you shall totally avoid plants. The concept that flareups are not caused by single meal or single food but cumulative effect of unhealthy diet over many days has to be learnt.

@loribethartist6353

Ай бұрын

@@otivaeey I actually do keto because of that… I’ve thought about doing carnivore for a while to see if it helps. I have a husband and 3 teenagers so it’s hard to cook just for me. My husband does keto with me sometimes though. I had a seizure Monday morning and ended up in the hospital. So if there’s any time to try it now would be it! Thanks so much!

@otivaeey

Ай бұрын

I see, FYI keto means vegetables are allowed and low carbohydrates. Carnivore diet (no leafy vegetables allowed) is the only diet in mind that aims to cure diseases. Keto is for body slimming mainly. To carnivores, curing seizures is very attainable, just as other common diseases like glaucoma, diabetes, gout, knee/hip replacement, psoriasis, mental health etc. Carnivore diet encircles around 4 ingredients only: Meats, eggs, salt and water. The low toxin list I mentioned is for lesser strict ketovore diet as you have had already stopped the flareups and immune attacks. To make carnivore easier, you can try according to Dr Saladino's low toxin list includes pumpkins, banana, avocado, apple, orange, pineapple etc. You can Google it. Thank you.

New to gardening here and boy did you open up my understanding greatly. Wow.

Amazing. Thank you for your knowledge.

Finally I found your channel that cuts to the chase on gardening issues ~! Thank you , Kit

Thank you for providing a sound scientific and common sense foundation for evaluating other material on KZread.

So well presented and the straight forward, logical and supported info is welcomed. Thank you for your efforts. Cheers!

The best talk on soil maintenance I have ever heard.

I garden in sand in the high desert of NM. The biggest help for my garden has been fertilizer (nitrogen and iron,) mushroom compost, and woodchip mulch. We also chop and drop, trying to keep all organic materials we produce.

@someoneinthecrowd4313

Ай бұрын

Keep going, produce wonderful soil for your next generation to inherit.

@flatsville9343

Ай бұрын

Adding organic matter to sandy soil is key. Primarily sandy soil has almost no negative charge for cation exchange capacity.

@dr.froghopper6711

Ай бұрын

I’m in the same state and conditions. In our soil, the organic matter either disintegrated years ago, floated away or blew away. The guy before me scraped the lot bare for 10 years. I have great geology and very little biology. But I’m working on that slowly. I’m disabled and old so I’m bound to go slow. This morning I made 100+ seed balls with sorghum, clover and oats to repopulate the soil with roots that can tolerate arid conditions. And I’m covering as much soil as possible with wood chips. I’m gonna breed my own biology!

@johndoh5182

Ай бұрын

If you are using chemical fertilizers you are helping and hurting yourself at the same time. As long as you're using natural things to give you that nitrogen and iron you're doing the best you can. Using chemical fertilizers will kill living things in that soil which is a downside and that's where you're hurting yourself if you are. With that sandy soil you have the same issue as FL growers. What they do if they want to be 100% organic certified is first bring in a certain amount of organic material (many tons) that they will compost, and then they will work that down into the soil, and yes this means adding a LOT of material, and then plant cover crops to allow that worked area to get broken down more which also means the bacterial life is growing, and then I believe the next year they can use that land, and do the typical thing of always having plants or cover crops growing in the soil, and when you're growing crops to have good compost worked around the plants on the top of the soil. Then add whatever additives a soil test might tell you that you need something, and in your case depending on what you're growing that may still mean nitrogen and iron.

@flourishingspirits3393

Ай бұрын

I live in NM. Gardening for 25 years here. Best thing is to Compost Fish or kelp Black tea Pine shavings

This chap is a guru … spot on

Like he said in a nutshell, compost is a game changer for gardening/farming! I’ve seen the power of leaves in my flower beds and annual vegetables.

@Debbie-henri

5 күн бұрын

I have a stream bordering my garden, and as there's a riparian woodland along its whole length, it gets choked with leaves. When I first moved to the property, you simply couldn't go down to this stream in January, because the rotting heaps of leaves would kick off so much methane, it would make me dizzy. But since I started pulling out great quantities of leaves to mulch some little areas in my garden, the methane cloud has gone, the garden soil is much improved, and there's an improvement in the stream's ecosystem too. There are now little fresh water shrimps, which brings in different types of dipper birds. There's even been a number of herons - I suppose because now there are more amphibians by the stream. I always thought that leaving Nature to herself was always best in every situation. But as we have messed about with the landscape so much, even some natural features cannot cope with 'excess.' In the case of this stream, I discovered that part of this excess comes from the fact that in 3 places upstream - cattle and sheep have access to the water, their added manure and urine tipping the balance. But taking out a lot of leaves has helped tip that balance back the other way a little, those leaves still helping with land restoration elsewhere.

Great presentation and de bunking of "products" to add to soil!!

Excellent video my guy, just subscribed and I just bought the audiobook. Keep up the good work

I have been gardening for 45 years and every garden KZread channel I have looked at either sticks to kindergarden level topics or annoy me with errors. This was a very impressive video on this topic. Subscribed. 🥰🥰🥰🇨🇦

@Debbie-henri

5 күн бұрын

There are a few of us gardening veterans here, I've noticed. I started as a conventional, professional gardener - mow the living daylights out of every lawn, use chemical fertilisers, gouge every weed out of everywhere. Now, I'm No-Mow-Ever (for past 21 years), chop and drop from my perennial weeds (having learned how to value them instead of hate them), compost every kitchen scrap, no chemicals here thank you, plant native species among my food plants, added fungi species each year, collect extra leaves (from non-sprayed sources), and make brash heaps (it's longer term composting, yes; but the soil you get from naturally rotted sticks is on another level).

Just another fact-filled brilliant video... thank you, Mr. Pavlis. Also love your books and my garden continues to prove you right in all respects.

@Gardenfundamentals1

Ай бұрын

Many thanks!

Thank you! You made that very clear, great advice!!

Best information on the interwebs about gardening is on your channel. While there is a great deal of noise, there are few voices. Robert you are one of the few clear, common sense voices.

Thank you, for making this video.

Thank you Robert. Very thorough and logical presentation.

Thank you for this dearth of information Robert! Love watching your videos and hearing you speak on gardening podcasts along with reading your books! Truly a pleasure to learn from you.

@jerryglasgow8862

17 күн бұрын

"dearth" ?

Really great video. Learned a lot and purchased your book 😊

Read the book over the winter when I was in the crapper so this vid was a good reminder. Of the the book of course.

This is like going to college for gardening. Excellent explanation.

Wow this was more informative than I thought it would be. Thanks a ton! Easy follow ^.^

I totally agree great information

Subscribed. Thank you for sharing this knowledge.

The value in these videos is that the content is scientifically based. I highly recommend his books.

That was the best video I’ve watched in a long time. I knew mulching and compost was the only thing we need. Like Mother Nature. Decay creates life. My new favorite KZreadr.

Hello,thank you for the soil and plant information you provide on your youtube channel and blogs.I follow it with interest and recommend it to my friends.We request Turkisch subtitles for your videos.Greetings from Istanbul.

Great information! Thank you!

FANTASTIC advice! 💪🏼❤️

I haven’t even started your video but the comments speak volumes. Totally subbing.

@kaptynssirensong2357

Ай бұрын

Finished…. Thanks so much for saving me time and money. I appreciate this video!

Absolutely love your science based, no-bs approach. Would be very interested to hear your thoughts on friendly microbes as a means to control problems (e.g bacillus subtilis/trichoderma as "fungicide"). Thank you for your top quality videos - they are gems!

Great video. Thanks

I guess that explains why my garden does so well, even though I don't fertilize. I mulch as much as possible & add compost and all sorts of organic matter. 😊

@lksf9820

Ай бұрын

That is fertilizer.

@kevinmurimi2176

Ай бұрын

​@@lksf9820EXACTLY 😂. It's just that we're conditioned not to think so

@brianfitch5469

9 күн бұрын

Add your urine to it as well.

Thanks great info makes sense

Plant root exudates feed microbes - always have plants growing and your soil will turn into black gold

@johndoh5182

Ай бұрын

That's what any regenerative ag farmer will tell you, and they're correct.

@GerryMantha

Ай бұрын

Exactly, and I agree!

@created.black.soil.

Ай бұрын

Doesn't work for typical tropical forests where the soil is very poor due to heavy rain. But in this conditions where plants thrive exceptionally, shouldn't the soil be very rich because of all the feeding through root exudates?

@Owen-xw8cs

Ай бұрын

So the place completely overgrown with vegetation has poor soil ? Seems like the metric for soil quality should be questioned…

@taxusbaccata6332

Ай бұрын

@@created.black.soil. I think the problem is the rich vegatative matter minerals are washed away and so soil nutrients reduce greatly. Wait until you see what happens to the cleared rainforests areas - they will likely be desserts in 10 years time.

I am in Florida with sandy soil, I have been working on my soil for three years, organic matter is the key. I make my own compost and drop leaves, expired veggie plants right back to the top of the soil. I have black soil now. I do not buy microbes in a bag, you just confirmed my thoughts. Thank you, very informative.

Interesting. Thank you

Glad i found this channel finally! I now have hope!

good video there goes half of what i was wasting money on thank you

Very well educated / informed you tuber; Thanks for this excellent content

get imo too after you add organic matter for sure , KNF is awesome Jadam im loving these amazing practices my food forest is BOOMING!

Thank you for this informations sir

just awesome info

this is really fundamental

What a concept add oganic material to feed the microbes that feeds the plant and cover with mulch. Rotate your crops to get differient microbe mix...Add a top layer of Alfalfa mash if you can't compost.

This is a great video. Just wanted to add some nuance from my experience as an environmental engineer. We use microbes all the time to degrade contaminants in soil and water. In fact, we sometimes inject molasses or lactate (in milk) to increase microbial activity! This is often done to spur initial growth of microbial populations. After that it is good to use an "extended release" compound like compost to give a sustained food source for the microbes. Some microbes also metabolize and transform inorganic nutrients, but the main focus for gardening is the organic metabolizers. You mentioned soil being composed of roughly 25% air...this is sometimes the case. Porosity of soil varies with sandy soils generally 35% pore space and uncompacted clay or silty soils closer to 50%. Compaction reduces this an additional 15% or so. This pore space can accomodate either air or liquids (hopefully just clean water, no oils). So when your soil is saturated it is completely full of water and the air is expelled. This is why its good to have well draining soil that still remains moist--aerobic microbes (those that use oxygen to metabolize food like we do) need oxygen! Microbes close to your garden are generally aerobic. Anaerobic microbes exist more frequently in groundwater where there is very little dissolved oxygen and no gaseous oxygen. They might be more useful for trees with deep roots. You can compost anaerobically, but generally you should prefer aerobic (oxygenated) composting by turning your compost pile and keeping it moist but not saturated. Thanks for the great video and cheers!

Excellent Video.

Grow Jadam microbes from soil under an old tree near by or your compost. Very easy and effective.

@johnthomas5806

Ай бұрын

Korean Natural Farming...works for me..

Can you go more into detail on potted plants? That's all I can do in my apartment and my balcony.

Thank you so much, your videos are priceless

@Gardenfundamentals1

Ай бұрын

You are very welcome

Great video. Regarding the compost tea, I agree that it is pretty low in nutrients by the time most people use it as feed. Still though, I would think that's better than just throwing away your weeds assuming you don't want to leave them on the ground

After watching & reading numerous presentations on CEC & micro-organisms, an agronomist gave a simple explanation as to what launches the active sequence of microbes assisting in the chemical transformation of locked-up soil minerals into plant available minerals. While it's true microbes need food (organic matter), plant exudates provided by new roots are what awakens dormant microbes which then feast & excrete enormous amounts of H+ ions material which bonds with the (weak) H- charged soil colloids (unless majority sand.) The H+ (microbes poop) are acidic cations & easily break the alkaline anions in the immediate soil colloid rhizosphere making minerals available. Good roots are the key to a good start.

@johndoh5182

Ай бұрын

Yeah the reality is there are two forms of research going on in academia, one based on chemicals and funded by chemical companies and the other based of learning lessons from the failures of using chemicals which has led to REAL scientific research into regenerative agriculture in recent times, where a lot of the learning for regenerative agriculture happened outside the world of college but is now researched in different colleges which is a good thing.

@paulglover6525

Ай бұрын

Glue.

Awesome knowledge

great information

This will save me alot of money and time...

just got into gardening in the PNW about 3 years ago i started a compost box, i have a hard time with the plants growing in the compost so then i have roots to dig through just to get my own black gold lol

thanks much!

Hella sick🔥 thanks bro

I bought the book LET IT ROT years ago. I remember it saying that adding starter to compost was a waste. It said to mix a little soil to it and the microbes needed would be there. This video seems to confirm that.

@Grateful_Grannie

Ай бұрын

I was just thinking the same thing!

@chrisdaniels3929

Ай бұрын

I think the starters were to generate heat too. In a compost pile, office paper, I.e. cellulose breaks down quickly, increasing temperature.

@yomanspray

22 күн бұрын

​@@chrisdaniels3929urea

I love the video! Thank you!! I would argue that “tea” is good for plants if you don’t have enough compost to go to a large area. Compost would be better but the tea is something that most people can use to help their plants in between times where they don’t have compost.

Fantastic!!!! 🔥🌷🔥🌷🔥 THANK YOU !!!!!!!

You've simplified an already simple process for me. I have really heavy clay soil, it's currently rather waterlogged. This is a new garden at an old property and I know it's had a lot added to it in the past. I spent last year clearing the plot and made enough compost to cover my four beds over winter. It's full of worms and I'm not digging it over. I already have several plants I overwintered, they're suffering a bit from wind, but otherwise doing fine. I suspected it was probably full of microbes already. I do have some nettle tea and comfrey tea brewing, but I'm not convinced it has made much difference. So I shall just carry on making compost and planting things out. As you rightly say, you stick plants in the ground and they grow. Thank you, it's nice to watch an expert gardening video to be told I'm basically on the right track!

@DJ-uk5mm

Ай бұрын

Ad 30cm or 12 inches of Ramial Wood chips. Wait 1 year. Then plant into the ground. Moving aside the woo hip where you want to plant. … you will find that the wood-chips- is less than 12 inches 15 cm deep and below this will be rich aerates soil full of worms….. you will have the most abundant cro- ever and your clay soil will be a benefit as it is the most amazing source of micronutrients and minerals

@timflatus

Ай бұрын

@@DJ-uk5mm I wasn't asking for your woo hip advice! 🤣😁🙃

@Debbie-henri

5 күн бұрын

My mother had a terrible clay soil garden, than nasty grey blue stuff left after the estate was built. A keen gardener all the same, and this back in the days when you simply could not buy wood chips, nor did she have money to spend on bags of compost, she just kept planting, sowing packets of hardy annuals, putting scraps in a compost container, and doing a bit of chop and drop. Eventually, she did get the sort of soil she really wanted, to the point she had a good sized bullace tree growing in the garden.

Robert, thank for sharinf your knowledge with us. Its nearly impossible to find information that isnt driven by some financial incentive. Add that in with our addiction/expectation to immediate results with as little energy spent, the very aspect of this goes against nature itself. Not sure if you'll see this but it you could help me with a problem with my yard. There is 79x140 rectaglular area that I'm trying to turn into a community garden. Due to it being a previous commercial area, I put in a decent amount of composted soil. Thing is while I was doing this I found out that the ENTIRE plot was filled with smooth river rocks about 3 inches below the fill dirt. The majority between the size of baseball to softballs (~3-4in diameter). I live in the PNW where it rains a lot, and I noticed that after I mixed in about an additional 3inches of there were signs of poor drainage. Rainwater would pool up and drain out after several hours and even after a couple days there would be sulphuric smell after I dug up some of the soil. I mixed in some woodchips to help but I couldnt but wonder of that entire layer of river rocks down there is creating a perched water table. Do I have to take out all those rocks...or do you think it'll get better once I start planting stuff (right now its just soil). Thanks!

@Gardenfundamentals1

Ай бұрын

If the rocks are preventing water from running away - it won't get better. You either have to remove them, or this might be a good case for a raised bed.

Love your work! Thank you! What do you think about blending kitchen scraps with water like making a smoothie and then adding it to more water and then putting it into you soil as compost? Will it decompose fast? Is there any benefit to doing that?

Well, my brother, I have been so blessed by your videos, I think this one has blessed my socks clean off! I had a good gut, feeling that all of those high dollar products were not so high dollar. Thanks again and may you continue to be blessed in your work. I will continue to share your wonderful videos. If you get a chance, read Genesis 1:10- 11. thanks again for your wonderful wisdom. your schooling has blessed me a great deal.

Hopefully you will do a video in reference to potted plants.

Thanks for saving time Sir ,May Allah bless you.Respect and love from Pakistan ❤

I was looking into some biological turf products and questioned what introducing specific strains does to the microbes already living there. You pretty much answered that in a logical manner. I've got more research to do.

Super clarifying and helpful thank you for your information. This is going to save me a lot of time and money wasted on commercial products :)

Thankyou

Thanks you ❤

I own a Cesspool Company and a Microbial Culture company that breaks down and digests waste and organic matter in the Septic System.I am very big on trees and plants for past fifteen years and what I have learned is that the Trees closest to the leaching pools are more than four times the width and height as those further away.So the by product of the septic Tank treatment is the nutrients feeding the tree and the companies that sell the microbial soil additive are correct but are missing the middle part of that nutrient process.

Hello Mr. Pavlis! I’ve recently taken charge of a 20’x20’ garden plot. This first year I’m only focusing on building the soil health but I noticed that there is an existing community of termites in the plot. How do I take care of this problem before adding mulch/organic matter and letting it rest for a year?

Excellent information, but some products do actually make a difference, especially at refreshing the soil. The worms love it too 🎆

This is the stuff!

Great information! I was wondering if you till new garden beds? Also, how do you terminate cover crops?

Very good❤❤

I mulch my garden with grass clippings the entire season. In the fall I take all my leaves and cover the garden with them. It seems to work good for me.

Thanks again for a common sense understanding of all this, good stuff! Maybe it should be called uncommon sense, because it seems to lacking all around us!