No tilling is the best you can do for soil health.

@tannerfarmstead

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@quantumtechcrypto7080

4 ай бұрын

Till us about then.

The issue you hadn’t pointed out is that tilling destroys the myco web that starts forming in soil. Microbes do like the oxygen but by tilling once again you’re destroying the network that has formed beneath the soil. Microbes and microbe habitat is disturbed by tillage and quite the contrary isn’t beneficial to the soil food web biome. The advantages of tilling are basically to form beds in my opinion which is based on professionals research. Form beds by tilling and adding lots and lots of organic material and alittle sand. Go no till after, broadfork and add compost everyone you plant along with cover cropping.

@adam-ns1he

Жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@FlokieLooney

7 ай бұрын

This right here. Till ONE time. Then No-Till from that point on.

Radishes are an amazing cover crops. They are a great way to soften soil

I am a fan of your work and I am learning a lot from ur videos, all the way from South Africa 🇿🇦

@conniewojahn6445

9 ай бұрын

Learn learn learn everything you can. In the long run, the knowledge you can will pay off in your gardening and enjoyment.

Bless you from hongkong brother

Thank you #SaveSoil

Working towards a no till, been at our house 3 garden seasons and have been tilling in lots of organic matter. I had planned to go olno till but the soil is better suited to sell clay bricks than grow plants.

@tannerfarmstead

Жыл бұрын

I get it man. Sometimes tillage is needed on the front end to get organic matter worked into the soil

@enlightened69

Жыл бұрын

i have the same issue. we are in eastern nc we have about a foot of decent soil and then 6ft of brick clay. im a general contractor and i acutally made bricks and tile with the clay. we have 36 acres of this. we let it rest last year and tilled this year. id love to go no till but im unsure how to do this. we also have to row everything because of drainage issues.

I watched all your content bro,and for me i learned a lot about what you did and i come to take a note to all about farming and gardening,but since im form Malaysia there is a bit different in weather here and also our type of grass or even chicken,but still love what you do and plese don't stop what You're doing.coz it help many others like me 👍🏻

That’s a nice beard

Vera nice video

What was that pitchfork looking thing called and what is it's purpose?

how do u deal with the slugs

Many in no-till still use a broad fork to help aerate the soil, they just don’t turn it over.

get to at least 7 to 1 ratio Ca:Mg to avoid conviction

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I have the perfect gardening system…but I will never till anyone.

Curious if that boost in microbial counts after tilling lasts more than a few days. I'd prefer the no till and let the fungal dominant soil do its thing.

The forests and meadows of the world got by for millions of years without being tilled.

We till our garden every year and we use duck waste to keep it fertilized. It has been the best crops we have ever had

Can you scale up no till?

Hello can I do tilling but at the end of the growing season do a cover crop’s still??

The micro organisms inside the soil do not like change of any kind in their habitat. Temperature, UV light, moisture...any big sudden change makes them go dormant or it even kills them. And that is what depletes the soil from its nutrients. And that is why farmers who keep tilling the soil have to keep using fertilizers. Without the microbes the bio mass will not be converted into plant available nutrients.

I need a good nitrogen building winter cover crop. What's your suggestion? I live in the Mid-Atlantic region, where the weather is like a rollercoaster.

@tannerfarmstead

Жыл бұрын

www.trueleafmarket.com/collections/cover-crop-seed-mixes/products/garden-cover-crop-mix This is my go to cover crop. Lots of diversity which is what you want

@lavanderwilliams111

Жыл бұрын

@@rileynatalie But your weather is much more stable than where I'm at. December can be from sandals to snowshoes and back again in the same week.

What do you do to keep weeds away?

Ok, so if I stop tilling how do I plant seeds? I’m in Maine, where heavy snow packs the garden dirt flat and hard. Vegetable seeds would just sit on top and weeds would take over if I stopped tilling. By tilling I’m softening the soil, adding nutrients (I have huge piles of aged horse and poultry manure that I add every year. My vegetables are highly productive the way I’m doing things (unless we have a drought like last year). If no-till means less labor I’d rather do THAT, but I don’t see how deep soil-loving plants like carrots would do very well.

@tannerfarmstead

Жыл бұрын

Great question. You can keep a cover crop in there kind over winter to keep your soil from getting compacted. Plant the cover crop in the fall for it to get established and terminate it in the spring. This will help you minimize the need for tillage

Not all life in soil likes oxygen. It like everything in life is a balance.

Which microbes triple when you till? Which microbes are uninterrupted when you don't till? Which microbe combinations are best for each crop? Does no till soil become more oxygenated over time once microbes are built? Which cover plants have been studied to harmonize with each cash crop? What types of crops are best for chop and drop and when is it best to chop and drop?

How do you make money while having this lifestyle? Genuinely asking

@tannerfarmstead

Жыл бұрын

Great question. Our farm is one stream of income along with our content creation being another. I also am a Realtor. I’m always a fan of having multiple income streams

@-LIONHEART

Жыл бұрын

@@tannerfarmstead thank you for answering I have one more question is there a lot of expenses other than farm production expenses? For example taxes etc that you need to pay to keep this going.

compaction

Cover crops reduce yields. 2022 Stanford study. The first extensive study on cover cropping. That's the science. If you say anything different you are now an ideologue. The best thing for soil is overhead irrigation/low tillage/mulch of some sort. I'm def. a proponent of no till, but the cover cropping is a waste of time and money.

@scholasticbookfair.

6 ай бұрын

Cry a river. So something productive with your time and go touch grass.

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