I have one of these and it's action appeals to my intuitive sense of working the soil. However, much is now be done with mulched no dig systems, which appear to show no advantage to this form of soil working. Excepting perhaps in cases of extreme compaction, do you have any evidence that this step improves yields, as opposed to just planting straight into the unworked soil revealed under from under the tarp? I have a potentially unhealthy addiction to doing things the hard way, but work without result I have extreme reservations about.

@samueldougoud3289

2 жыл бұрын

Basically, this is a substitute for a plough (except that the soil layers are not turned upside down), it comes very handy if you have to prepare a "wild", or compacted, or rocky soil, for a crop. The soil shown is already a beauty, so using that hoe there is already an overkill, as you have guessed.

@campyper5299

2 жыл бұрын

@@samueldougoud3289 Since this original video I have given much thought to the issue. Soils which, for structural reasons, cannot oxidize what carbon they have will not yield. This tool, like ploughing, provides the oxygen, increases carbon consumption, and nutrient release. It's really rather simple in practice. Introduce oxygen, oxidize carbon, capture the result in your crops with minimal losses. Keep the loop tight, replace what reserves are consumed, and be sure that relationship provides for the needs of a useful crop.

Good tool

Hello, how are you doing? I hope to see your new videos soon.

Would you ship tool and handle to France?

@mattstern7353

5 жыл бұрын

Hi, I'm actually getting out of tool sales. You can try Earth Tools BCS, they might ship to France.

Question “do the tines bend?” - Quickly destroyed this in stony glacial till soils!

@jomckeag4482

3 жыл бұрын

@B. Brown in loamy soil this would be an easy tool to use. Clay soils would be a workout. Glacial till soil of the PNW would quickly and easily render this tool useless

@campyper5299

Жыл бұрын

@@jomckeag4482 The utility of any tool is situational. A tool is really only a tool within context.

@Organicagain

Жыл бұрын

Mine bent, too, and I wouldn’t recommend it

@Organicagain

Жыл бұрын

I thought it would work where a broadfork did not. I was wrong. Even when using it carefully, its tines bent considerably during an hour of use on hard soil. Loosening on previously worked beds would probably be the optimal use.

@FreedomFox1

Жыл бұрын

@@Organicagain SHW has a pretty heavy duty 3-tine fork, although I can’t vouch for it one way or another. I was looking at that, as well as all-metal broadforks for our dense rocky soil.