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  @renee19276 күн бұрын

  Thinking of this from a farmer perspective, never having done restoration work on compacted soil: would a deeply set disc harrow run in parallel between the key lines help increase germination? Would a thin covering of straw just blow away? Amazing growth on the keylines!

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  @symbiosistx3 күн бұрын

  Hi Renee, Those would be good things to try! At this point it's going much better on this piece of land but next time I may try discing before we seed if that implement is available on the job site.

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  @lhenderАй бұрын

  Dig a hole. Fill it with water. Once the water drains, plant plant.

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  @southernskies531Ай бұрын

  Thanks for sharing!👍

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  @JohnnyRecentlyАй бұрын

  How long does it take for a six-inch Turk's Cap to grow to full size?

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  @symbiosistxАй бұрын

  It depends... Probably about 3-4 years in good conditions.

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  @MrNickPАй бұрын

  Interesting but lose the music or turn it way down.

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  @NorwinLabs2 ай бұрын

  Nice choice of music! Keep it up

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  @symbiosistx2 ай бұрын

  Thanks, will do!

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  @craigbond78772 ай бұрын

  Moved from Austin to Round Rock a couple years ago. We've got a thin side strip yard on the north side of the house. Bermuda isn't happy there and and the tiny strip is a pain to mow. I'll give a couple of these plants a try. Thanks.

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  @whunderwood2 ай бұрын

  Where did you get them from?

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  @symbiosistx2 ай бұрын

  State of Missouri nursery!

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  @lynb20392 ай бұрын

  Bats are important for insect control. The air traffic controllers of what orherwise would be uncontrolled creepy crawly infestation everywhere

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  @stevebehe71152 ай бұрын

  Excellent Detail, Well Organized Video, Good Job!

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  @tedray2 ай бұрын

  Where are you located? Even though I live in Lubbock, my yard is heavily shaded so these 3 suggestions were very welcome. I've had success with Turk's Cap, but want to try the other 2. Thanks for this video!

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  @symbiosistx2 ай бұрын

  We are based in the Austin area. I’m glad this was helpful and plan to do a whole series on different native plants and where they do best in my experience.

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  @flyhigh50563 ай бұрын

  Get an upland switchgrass. much better than lowland types for drought tolerance

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  @goodfriend64283 ай бұрын

  Great work! Thank you!

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  @ChristopherKomuves3 ай бұрын

  Great video! But I can't find 12.5 gauge fence near me. I'm wondering if the thinner 14-gauge 2"x4" 6-foot high fence that I could find would work, or if it would be too thin. I would probably just use more like 12.5' of it to make a 4' diameter cage for my new fruit trees. Also thinking that an extra foot of height would help a lot, as deer can reach things up to 6' high to browse on--so wondering if they would reach their heads above the 5' high fence or not (our whitetails here are often over 200 pounds).

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  @symbiosistx2 ай бұрын

  There’s tons of pros and cons to all different options your mentioning and bottom line, your probably going to be able to get the trees to survive no matter how you do it, within reason. We’re just recommending what we like best from doing thousands of these now and managing them over time and even reusing them once trees get established

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  @chellelivinggreen4 ай бұрын

  Thanks for sharing. I am going to try this when planting my trees. ❤

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  @mountain.spider4 ай бұрын

  They came out nice. I like the subtitles. They work well with the videos.

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  @Onhereforfun85nodrama4 ай бұрын

  So is Keyline just a brand name? Is the goal just to break up the hard pan? Did you put grass seed after you used it? Also what time of year was this done? My grandpa has a pasture that has cattle on it for at least 40 years I am thinking about doing this in areas to run a test to see if it helps promote growth

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  @symbiosistxАй бұрын

  Keyline is the Yeoman's plow developed specifically for this purpose. Other subsoilers tend to turn the soil over more than this implement and thus cause more disturbance of the established microbiome in the soil.

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  @Onhereforfun85nodramaАй бұрын

  @@symbiosistx have you noticed that after this is done that weeds tend to become more prevalent after it’s done

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  @symbiosistxАй бұрын

  @@Onhereforfun85nodrama depends on what your calling a weed 😉 plant growth in general is increased in my experience

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  @Onhereforfun85nodramaАй бұрын

  @@symbiosistx when I talked to my dad about it awhile back and he said the weeds meaning undesirable plant growth grew like crazy. I don’t know what the exact specifics of what was done there. Was there a time a year you did this also did you immediately spread your cover crop over it?

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  @ebradley23064 ай бұрын

  Think you can order replacements for the watering pans. I have both towers, the GreenStalk and the worm tower. They are doing well. Interested to hear your conclusions. When I put greens into the worm tower last fall after the tower being rather dormant in the summer, I found mycelium and worms in the pocket soil mixture. ☺

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  @symbiosistx4 ай бұрын

  Nice! Thanks for sharing your experiences with these!

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  @Kakao-Felix4 ай бұрын

  Great Idea! looking forward to see how it turns out if everything is going full growing mode.

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  @symbiosistx4 ай бұрын

  It's going pretty well so far. Salad greens and flowers are definitely the most successful thing for me so far. Will post more about it as I have time.

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  @joshuafisher52994 ай бұрын

  Where did you guys buy these at?

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  @symbiosistx4 ай бұрын

  Just from the online stores of Green Stalk and Garden Tower.

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  @mountain.spider4 ай бұрын

  I thought about doing something similar to this because I saw a tower garden, but only a three tower unit in Home Depot. Wasn't aware they could be stacked.

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  @symbiosistx4 ай бұрын

  It's a pretty neat solution. I'm having fun with it!

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  @Onhereforfun85nodrama4 ай бұрын

  Can you make a video explaining key line plowing

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  @symbiosistx4 ай бұрын

  I just posted a quick video going into more detail about the keyline plow. It would be a whole workshop to really dig into it in full detail but I hope what I have time to make and post helps you wrap your head around the concept. I recommend checking out the Regrarians for a deep dive on the subject. That's where we first learned about it.

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  @joeladams85064 ай бұрын

  Very cool video! I've never had a chance to personally experience the effects of keyline design on the land, but the theory of it makes sense to me intuitively. Would following up on this property the following year and doing keyline plowing between the existing strips be of any benefit? Would it come at any detriment to the land either? It seems to me if one round is good, two rounds is better, but too much of a good thing can also end up being equally bad just the same.

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  @symbiosistx4 ай бұрын

  Yes, and in fact based on these results we did a second round of keyline plowing in the Fall and did cool season cover crops. We've had good consistent rain since then and things POPPING OFF! Keyline plowing can be done seasonally if time and budget allow. Check out Pasture Cropping by Colin Seis. He does all of these soil regen practices while growing a crop and rotational grazing!

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  @l800x85 ай бұрын

  could wind the wire around a 6" spool and make one cut across, or a 10" board ...

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  @symbiosistx5 ай бұрын

  Good idea!

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  @MelodyLeifeste5 ай бұрын

  soooo pretty!

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  @symbiosistx4 ай бұрын

  Thank you!!

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  @LisedMarquez5 ай бұрын

  Hi! how do you manage the irrigation in winter? you said it cools the air so I wonder how to do it with seedlings during winter season. thanks

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  @symbiosistx5 ай бұрын

  Usually I would have to turn of the mister system during extended freezing weather or heat the greenhouse and drain the timer so it wouldn't break.

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  @releventhurt5 ай бұрын

  Really good work i love this how did u start this

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  @symbiosistx5 ай бұрын

  We've been doing this kind of work full time for over 10 years now!

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  @jugnoothelight86625 ай бұрын

  Nice thanks for sharing

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  @symbiosistx5 ай бұрын

  Thanks for visiting!

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  @madajuarez70733 ай бұрын

  I love this information. Thanks

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  @sayeedharem46736 ай бұрын

  what other species of fungi does it work with

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  @symbiosistx5 ай бұрын

  Anything that eats dead wood/ carbon will work but oyster mushrooms are definitely some of the hardiest. Talk to your local mushroom farm about what varieties they have and what they recommend for this type of application =)

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  @rivernorcal6797 ай бұрын

  Dead men tell no tales.

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  @symbiosistx7 ай бұрын

  Haha! They increase fertility too.

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  @ericaulbach7 ай бұрын

  Alien crop circle! 👽

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  @symbiosistx5 ай бұрын

  Good call?

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  @heronthere7 ай бұрын

  Those are the big red ants? I have never noticed taller grass around mine. I know of two mounds on my property. 2 thoughts. If the mound is slightly elevated like a volcano so the mound doesn't drown in a rain, the edge would be like a valley, recieving that water. Second thought, maybe deer say "no thank you" when it sees the mound and do not eat the grass.

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  @thekidofalltrades86487 ай бұрын

  That will rattle your hands off if you hti anything with it😂

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  @symbiosistx7 ай бұрын

  I hadn’t thought of that! Someone was getting a fair amount of use out of it but I imagine the wood they chopped was pretty easy to split. Not like the live oak I’ve been splitting lately.

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  @offgridburbia7 ай бұрын

  Thanks for the insight. Are you using some CAD variant now? I tinkered with Adobe Illustrator but I like Draftsight (AutoCAD clone) because its easy to scale drawings and I can drop in GIS data.

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  @symbiosistx7 ай бұрын

  Yes, we use CAD style software for certain things. We try to use each software for what it is really best at and get them to talk to each other. It's coming along.

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  @joshlaw55977 ай бұрын

  Man, seeing how clean your newer designs look really makes me giggle at our SUPER early designs on Illustrator! I think I've seen you post a video of a 3-D rendering. Wild man! Can't wait to see more! Great job Mike!

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  @symbiosistx7 ай бұрын

  Thanks Josh! You helped me out so much getting to this point! The 3D stuff is coming along and now every design that I do personally is in that format. It's a lot less clunky than AI being developed specifically for landscape and construction design. Having spent all those hours learning to use AI for this was a good exercise in patience and persistence. It's still our best option for bigger properties.

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  @joshuafisher52997 ай бұрын

  Working smarter not harder haha that’s just called ingenuity

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  @heronthere8 ай бұрын

  We had an interesting solution to an existing slab house on a deep well. I run rain water into my hot water heater and well water into my cold side. This allows a blend that works well for me. Showers no longer smell like sulphur and cooking water (coffee, pasta, etc) is made with rainwater from the hot side. My tank storage is not enough to go all rain water(gardens and livestock) so this hybrid system works well for us.

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  @symbiosistx8 ай бұрын

  Brilliant. I love relatively simple solutions like this that work out! There’s so many creative options for reducing our draw on the aquifers!

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  @heronthere8 ай бұрын

  I've been keeping an eye out and i think i found some on a fenceline. Probably because the cows cant get to all of it there. I'd like to get it growing on my pond edges.

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  @heronthere8 ай бұрын

  That was pretty awesome.

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  @symbiosistx8 ай бұрын

  Glad you liked it! I'm going to post an update soonish.

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  @1voluntaryist8 ай бұрын

  Fun fact (trick/hack?): Plant tree seed in native soil (no prep). Save money, get better growth. Why? Nursery trees get root bound quickly, which inhibits early growth, sometimes kills. Trees from seed will quickly pass up older trees started in a confined space. Trees adjust to the ground quicker without spoiling them with an artificial mix. It's not natural. Also, a tree shield works very good 3 ways: 1. UV filter. 2. humidity increases (wind block). 3. protection from animals.

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  @symbiosistx8 ай бұрын

  I've been thinking a lot about how we can move towards saplings and seeds rather than planting trees from larger pots. I agree with you, many benefits. Challenge is getting clients on board with the process but we will get there.

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  @stmcgarret9 ай бұрын

  Good tips. I've done basically the same. Problem this year is that the deer busted down the fence when they smelled the apples. I did not have them secured with t-posts so it was an easy task for them. Next year I have to secure them better.

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  @symbiosistx9 ай бұрын

  Rebar stakes and irrigation wire can be less expensive ways to tie them down

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  @stmcgarret9 ай бұрын

  Thanks for the idea - rebar may in fact work. @@symbiosistx

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  @whunderwood6 ай бұрын

  What trees did you plant?

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  @stmcgarret6 ай бұрын

  @@whunderwood They went after the apple trees. I have peach, plum and cherry also but sadly no harvest to date. Stone fruits have been a problem with canker. Not enough time in my days to properly manage my little orchard.

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  @jwallaby789510 ай бұрын

  I have no idea what cardboard material contains. And if it's something suitable to grow things out of. Isn't the adhesive and cardboard wood material itself full of chemicals? I mean if anything could break it down to organic material it would be fungi. But just asking questions here lol.

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  @symbiosistx8 ай бұрын

  It's a valid concern. My mycologist friend Sam says it's better to use cardboard that is made in the US because we have stricter standards then some other countries but in general as long is it is not glossy finish with tons of inks, it's OK to put it in the digester. You could always just spread the oyster mushrooms that grow out into a nearby forest to help them break down more carbon into soil instead of eating the and you'll still get the benefit of doing your own cardboard waste management on site.

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  @offgridburbia10 ай бұрын

  Thanks Mike, I find myself hoarding cardboard and then eventually hauling it off to recycling.

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  @symbiosistx10 ай бұрын

  I know what you mean! I have a ton as well. Using it this way and under new garden beds are both good options.

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  @user-os5zy5kb2s3 ай бұрын

  Hi can we grow oyester mushroom in this way...

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  @paulbraga4460 Жыл бұрын

  which soil lab did you use for this? mygreathanks and blessings

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  @paulbraga4460 Жыл бұрын

  Logan🤣 wonderful...

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  @pilsplease75613 ай бұрын

  logan is the best soil lab in the US

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  @symbiosistx2 ай бұрын

  We've been experimenting with some other options lately. Do you recommend a specific lab or set of tests?

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  @pilsplease75612 ай бұрын

  @@symbiosistx Find a couple labs one that does Mehlich 3 and one that does another test and compare the results you may see some variations due to the solvents they use to extract the minerals for the soil tests having varying degrees of extraction but its a good way to get a accurate baseline. I would do logan labs and another lab with different testing capabilities and compare the 2 see if they are similar good way to get baseline and see if labs are providing accurate results.

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  @resentmylove7975 Жыл бұрын

  doing a green house to start growing vegetable seedlings in seed trays and moving them up to 4 inch pots. how long and how many times a day should i mist them?

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  @waykeeperfarmandnerdery Жыл бұрын

  Extremely helpful, thank you for sharing!

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  @zulkiflyhjali5142 Жыл бұрын

  awesome👍👍

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  @rememberthis23 Жыл бұрын

  What a handsome bunch of lads, great video! Makes me nostalgic

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  @gotem_435 Жыл бұрын

  😮

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  @gotem_435 Жыл бұрын

  🙏