You will never have a chance to try it at any younger age - so try it very soon. 👍😎 Besides, it taste better than the store stuffs because you can pick it ripe, not picked green and force ripened. 🙂 yum.
Honestly I have no intention of ever starting a garden, but I like hearing this guy talk about it. You can hear the excitement and passion in his voice and I enjoy it.
This is my absolute favorite channel on TH-cam right now, I’m on a watching binge! You are entertaining and very informative; I love how you actually show all you’re doing and even take the time to show it weeks or months away so we can see what happens! Thank you ✨
Don't you just love the chemical lawn spray ad before a video about gardening! It's just as thrilling as getting an ad about a new casino before a gambling addiction video.
mulching absorbs water combined with compost. It saved my land from landslides. What takes thousands to make a supporting concrete wall, I did for 10 USD.
It's so nice to see gardeners encouraging others to grow. Being retired I've now acquired a small green house and I also have raised beds. When I was a boy I helped my grandmother in the garden with her beautiful flower beds. I've never forgotten her saying to me "I talk to my flowers" , Listen to The Voice of Nature, no matter what your station in life.
Although I will never have a garden the likes of yours, it really is inspiring to see how much work and effort you put into your land and these videos! Thank you kindly and best of growing to you!
I needed this video about mulch. I've just planted a few fruit trees and vegetables but have not mulch them yet so this video came perfectly timed. Thank you!
Spot on - the following is from our farm's (RocK Meadow Farm, Union, CT, USA) gardening tips: Mulch mulch mulch! - Plant a row, mulch a row, move on to the next. Don’t be tempted to plant everything, then mulch later. Somehow it doesn’t happen and then you’ll need to weed before mulching. Mulching your plants is the single best thing you can do for both them and yourself. When the temperature is cool mulch will help retain warmth in the soil, while in hot weather it helps protect the plants from overheating. In dry weather it helps retain moisture, either from rain or from watering. The most important thing about mulch is that it keeps down weeds reducing the amount of weeding necessary. For most gardeners weeding is the most time consuming, labor intensive task. Lack of timely weeding and subsequent weed growth is the reason for most garden failures.
"We're coming into winter and I'm hoping to grow a ton of tomatoes". I almost feel like you're making fun of me, living in the Alps ;-) Thanks for another great video :-)
It does sound a bit odd trying to grow toms in "winter" - true. Our winters can get below zero C and also produce the odd frost so growing tomatoes isn't without risk but usually we get a good crop. Thank you :)
Another house that I owned, I'd put grass clipping directly over the plants and had a beyond double harvest. No compost pile, but directly put in. I had the best harvest in a drought than I ever had. My new home, I've been lack due to losing my husband. I'm planning on keeping a video diary on my new gardening endeavors to see if I can still do what I used to. And I'm watching a lot of videos to update my skills, and your channel is a great influence, even if you're not in the USA. Thank you for what your do, and please keep posting!!!!
I live in the St Petersburg area of Florida USA. From what you’ve said about your weather, it’s just like ours. I have learned so much from you and you have become my go to, how to, do all things gardening. Thank you for your info, good cheer and.....I love your politics!
I’m really learning a lot about how to grow my own food at home. He’s a one stop shop of all the info needed to do it for someone who knows nothing, no farming background at all. This is really appreciated.
Mikey Pop I’ve started chucking lawn clippings into a dry hot concrete area about 2m x 1m, and spreading them out. Dried in about 2 weeks, much much better mulch, and can go straight on anything. Makes a helluva mess if it rains right after you have mowed, but luckily it’s that weird little part no one can see or goes. Also, having the concrete bottom makes raking and sweeping it out easy.
I can just listen to your videos all day.... I start a playlist and go about my housework. something about your accent and how you talk and explain things... it's just soothing lol. also learning lots from your content... very inspiring. Thank you and greetings from Florida!
Just wanted to say my partner and I love your videos and get a crap tonne of inspiration from you. We are located in Newcastle and being younger Australians we are hoping to own a good plot of land like yours one day. Currently though we have made a garden at my mum's suburban block and your channel has helped me a hell of a lot and keeps us inspired until we can afford our own land. Thank you :)
That's awesome to hear and thank you for supporting my content! I love hearing younger people getting into food gardening. I wish I could have started earlier myself (I would know so much more) but I was traveling heaps for work during my 20's and 30's so I had to postpone my dream of getting a good sized block until the timing was right. Keep working towards your goals and the work/effort/wait makes it much sweeter once you eventually get there. Cheers :)
Yesterday I just planted my tomatoes cucumbers and herbs here in Toronto. I had grass clipping from the last two weeks . I thought to ask you Mark if it is ok to use and here you are , woke up checked the TH-cam and here is the video ....pooofff ! Magic !
I had a 1/4 bag of mulch that was forgotten for over a year and i decided to use it. When I opened it , it was mostly millipede/worm castings... one of the best fertilizers I've seen. Now on I'm a mulch-guy. I put mulch on every plant in my garden!
I wish I knew all these mulch in garden benefits yesterday when this lady had me take out all the mulch my crew laid down onto her 20x15 foot garden bed
5/24/2020 Doing a pandemic garden bed for our sanity, my husband and I will be filling a bed we hacked together from left over roof replacement materials... (Hurricane Irma ate our roof.) We are putting in good soil today, with some cow manure, and some cypress mulch. We’re not sure yet what we’ll plant, but we are extremely jazzed to have reached this stage in the project! Thanks for your enthusiasm and wisdom, Mark! 💚
I have been doing the "poor man's method" for almost 20 years...lol....I rarely throw garden waste away, only if they are too big as I don't have a chipper...Thanks Mark..love your work
I'm gardening in Lower Austria, where it's not too warm, most of the times. I use grass for mulching (dry for two days) and some of the poultry litter and that turned my garden into very good land.
I always look forward to watching your videos. This video is yet another gem! Thank you for sharing Mark! I can't wait to turn our lawn clippings into mulch for our garden! You just saved us quite a bit of money from not having to buy mulch this year. Thanks a ton!
I have a fallen rotten cedar tree fallen in my forest, you've inspired me to harvest it for my blackberries, the irony is I was just looking at buying mulch lol, it's a gorgeous red cedar top
I've build up to a bit over 50 square metres of food gardens over the last few years. Never gardened anything before. We also have 14 lovely chooks and 13 quail. Now at 58, I see where my passion lays. You Mark, are a bloody champion! Thanks for the constant info, tips and inspiration.
My son told me to watch this Self sufficient Me and I love tomatoes and I prepared the garden bed and added my compost and then mulch sugar cane and have ended up with 4 massive plants for free love the videos
Mark i love your vids you are the most straight up informative easy to under stand guy out there! I get supper inspiered every time i watch ,Thank you for your time, You are the BEST!! Thanks Rich from upstate NY and God Bless!
After spending some time on your channel I thought I utilized my time in the correct way by seeing the correct video about mulch uses. I appreciate your work. It was really a nice channel and I was really impressed by seeing this video.
I just added wood chips in my garden and I live in zone 9B Central Florida and it makes a ton of difference because the store was drying out fast and stressing the plants out. Now I don't have to water everyday and they're not stressed when I get home.
Mark is the man love his preaching technique for garden and growing. According to him you can mulch right up to the stems on tomato plants , many others say no leave a gap which I have done but this season I wont.
This is the most comprehensive mulching video I've seen on YT - thanks for taking the time to make it! I should have subscribed earlier, but I surely did today!
I have a bale of straw to use as mulch and now I am saving all the grass trimmings for mulch as well. I just leave them in the sun a few days to dry out a bit them spread them in the raised garden beds.
Thanks for the post. Been planning on starting my first garden in spring in a N.E. American climate. I'm absorbing all info, but quite entertained by your posts. Thanks and keep posting.
Don't forget Frederick, fall gardening can be insanely productive! Might be fun to try out a fall crop, get your feet wet and take the edge of being a newbie in the spring! You'll be a veteran in no time!
Lemongrass for mulch 😮, tomatoes in winter, sometimes i really envy you. We have snow on the mountains again and in Vienna we have refreshing 10 degrees at 11:30h, the night before we had 3 degrees rain and wind. My cucumber plants are toast 😢. Enjoy the sunshine, greetings from Austria! ❤️
I started watching this video, paused it and went and bought mulch and put it in my garden, its a few hours later and now I finished the video. Great stuff, keep up the awesome work!
Actually I am not mulching my garden before. But been realising when I've seen of your previous vid. I tried it. It is very true mulching is good for the plants and you. You don't need water the plants everyday. Didn't dry up quickly and plants are happy too... Happy mulching ☺️
i use lawn clippings for mulch.. i left a batch in a pile for 5 days last week.. when i went to spread it, it had so much mycellium and bacteria inside the pile, nearly the whole thing was white... beautiful!!!! when i dig in a bed to the dirt through already spread mulch, i got a bout a dozen worms per shovel scoop in the dirt underneath.. also beautiful!!! i love lawn clipping mulch!!!!
My wife and I garden together and have dedicated more and more of our yard to it. Your videos are very informative, keyed to our climate and quite entertaining. Thank you doing these and keep them up!
@K Barnes "Walnut leaves can be composted because the juglone toxin breaks down when exposed to air, water and bacteria. The toxic effect can be degraded in two to four weeks. In the soil, breakdown may take up to two months after the living walnut tree has been removed. Mulch or woodchips from black walnut are not recommended for plants sensitive to juglone. However, composting the woodchips for a minimum of six months allows the chemical to break down to a safe level even for plants sensitive to juglone." www.extension.iastate.edu/news/2005/jul/070701.htm
Another good source of mulch is via composted horse manure. We have stables not far away who give the horse manure away and after a few months composting it is fantastic fertiliser/mulch. My tomatoes this year are 8 feet tall and still actively growing !!
I love your tall raised beds. Ours is made of landscape timbers which are now 10 yrs old. They are rotting now and I want to replace mine with cinder blocks. But, that is a lot of work. Your garden looks great. Thanks for sharing. Have a Wonderful & Blessed Day!!!
That was an informative video. Thanks. I've been using mulch for years and was intrigued to find that you don't mulch your garlic, which is something I've done with no ill effects. However, on replaying your video you clarified that your climate his hot and humid. Mine is hot and dry. I can see where humidity would be a factor. As you mentioned, mulch will help protect plant roots from excessive heat. Yes, but I don't mulch my plants (especially peppers and tomatoes) at the beginning of the planting season. I feel this allows the soil to warm up more quickly. Cheers
Really selling me on those quails with that footage. Since the spring came, I've been cutting my grass and using it to mulch my garden beds. The ends of the grass was already dried dead since I let it overgrow last year before the winter. Great video once again!
Poultry manure is an excellent way to return nitrates to the soil. You have an amazing healthy garden. Just started watching your channel, but quickly becoming a fan.
The first 10 years of growing veggies I mulched with grass clippings only no fertilizer. I had the best garden less plants and most veggies. Then I hired someone to mow the grass and my garden suffered terribly. My garden guy passed away last year so now I mow and collect the grass again. My garden is much better again... I guess ignorance is bliss. I will never stop the grass clippings. I am rolling in much since I have great grass.... Thanks for the video.....
Stopping run off is such a good thing about mulch. You can also mulch with rock and other inorganics, which will also keep moisture in and help when watering. But won't provide much in the way of nutrients. Glancing the back garden, leaf fall is a natural mulch, it's late-winter here in the UK, and brushing leaves aside reveals new growth of plants underneath, that are protected with this insulating layer. Mulch is great, and nature naturally does it. You do have to give something back to the soil if you are removing something - and mulch is a great fit. I do wonder where it all goes sometimes at the beginning of the year when I've stacked a few inches on top and worry I've put on too much! But it all goes in time. Great videos and enthusiasm here.
Been mulching for the last couple of years and would never go back. It has so many benefits and if you're like me and grow a lot in pots it helps even more as the soil typically dries out a lot faster without mulch. Also you get far reduced splashing around the plant base when watering.
Wow, yes! We're going from deluging rain then hot hot heat that is ruining the garden. In my area the ground freezes to about 3' down. I've still put in a worm tunnel, but don't expect much from it until next year. I'm using hemp bale.
I'm so excited I found a new gardening channel. I only use straw and leaves for now but would love to get wood chips. I should rent a chipper for a day. Good idea. Pricing out wood chippers was disappointing.
I have just started gardening and fascinated by permaculture. This man is really inspiring and gives really understandable advice, sound and effect. Thank you for work and dedication, invaluable-
You are so funny!!! I really enjoy watching your channel and when I need some info I always come to see your thoughts and ideas first!!! I enjoy all of your videos, thankyou!!!
I've discovered that using cedar mulch, missed a little with the dirt I'm planting in, helps to keep the bugs and weeds away. I also put it around the outside. It's wonderful!
I like your style , well presented, your mulching story , 👌🏻 mulch is very important ingredient for your garden , and a valuable resource , you presented it ,very well 👍👏🐸🇫🇷🇮🇪
We all start with one garden bed Garrett and then look out! Seriously, best of luck starting your new food garden - it sounds a bit soppy but I get so much more out of food gardening than just growing produce to eat and I'm sure you'll experience the same. Cheers :)
I worked at a butterfly farm for a while and part of my job was collecting spanish moss out of the trees then shredding it and using it as mulch, idk if you have spanish moss over where you are but it worked really well.
Hi Mark, we have been using our mower to mulch even fairly large shrubs, but we don't use the catcher - just cut and leave on the ground as a ready mulch and weed control. Like the finished reo mesh tunnel, want to do something similar here soon as our pension comes in. Cheers!!
I been digging on beans for years, and I never had a complaint. Two-4 inches is most definitely adequate depth. They come through plenty, often more than once!
I live in a hot, dry climate, so obviously i have to mulch, and i tend to go thick with it. But i've noticed that fine mulch tends to wick up the water of the bed (this was especially bad with coco coir and mulched straw). So i switched to mulching with straight straw, because it gave me the best results. I think because all the straw stalks lay horizontally, they do not provide a good surface for the water to wick up to.
Another great, informational video! I'll be starting to plant my seeds for the season this week! I'm so excited the time is finally here. What I did with my old chicken bedding is put it along the side of the garden to sort of "cure" for a few weeks. That way it won't be too hot for what I'm trying to do. Of course I have a short growing season here (May through October if I'm lucky) so I have a bit of time to spend between when the snow melts and the ground has thawed enough to plant. ☺
Feed the soil and it will feed your plants. Compost from my hot pile, and mulching (cold composting) are key to my square foot garden in the Southeast US
We use spent stable manure, compost, and occasionally with rice hulls. The manure is soaked to get a fertilizer “tea” that we collect and feed to garden as needed. We compost our chicken bedding, stable manure and kitchen waste. Yard trimmings go under the full size orange tree. It’s 5 ft deep right now after spring weed/grass growth. Our soil turns practically to concrete if we don’t mulch. The soil gets better every year. We do add a small amount of organic fertilizer just to insure we get micronutrients and mycorrhizae. We garden year round as we have a short frost period in January and early February that we can still harvest during.
i like the lawnmower idea, I have a cheap Bunnings mulcher that a use on my palm fronds but if they are still a bit green they don't mulch that finely.
I love your enthusiasm, and the way you not only explain how to do things but also why.It would be great to see something on worms farms or vermiculture if you do either? Top Job!
Thanks for all your expertise!!! Mark u have been a great help u have taught me a lot more than I already new because u Australians do things a little different but better in some ways kéep doing what u do and I love how positive u àre good guy thanks buddy!!!!
Ah, I thought you were talking about fish emulsion "mulsh" in all of your videos, and was worried that as a vegetarian I was missing a vital gardening ingredient by not using fish product fertilizer. I watch this video and realize it's just your lovely accent ❤
I dont even garden this man is just too entertaining.
Dude you should, though!😂😂😂
@@RunninUpThatHillh For real tho
He is indeed an entertainer. He is like Steve Irwin but gardening!
Same here!
@Anthony Taylor Why are you still here? Havent you got some MULCHING to do!?
Come on big mulch companies! Sponsor this man!
A garden centre needs to help him out
Don’t sell out to Big Mulch man... you can take our mulch, but you can never take our FREEDOM!!!
Haha, Looks like they did!
Did he get a sponsorship??!
Big Pharma, big tech, big mulch. Can’t trust them! 😀
I don't have a garden and I don't have much of a green thumb, but seeing this guy just makes you want to try it out some day.
Angelofexecution it’s really fun and honestly not that hard. There is work involved like pulling weeds and watering but it’s easily worth it
Try something in a pot to start with . Can do it even if you don't have a garden that way
You will never have a chance to try it at any younger age - so try it very soon. 👍😎
Besides, it taste better than the store stuffs because you can pick it ripe, not picked green and force ripened. 🙂 yum.
Angelofexecution yesss he makes me want to run off too Australia to mulch lollll
Try some cut and come again lettuce on a windowsill! Easy and fun ☺️ a great way to get into growing your own!
Mulch is the magic ingredient that many home gardeners haven’t heard of... it’s wonderful stuff!
Honestly I have no intention of ever starting a garden, but I like hearing this guy talk about it. You can hear the excitement and passion in his voice and I enjoy it.
This is my absolute favorite channel on TH-cam right now, I’m on a watching binge! You are entertaining and very informative; I love how you actually show all you’re doing and even take the time to show it weeks or months away so we can see what happens! Thank you ✨
Don't you just love the chemical lawn spray ad before a video about gardening! It's just as thrilling as getting an ad about a new casino before a gambling addiction video.
TH-cam Premium is a beautiful thing.
@@ManawatuFlyFishing Doesn't work on Android. Plus Premium has bonus content and you can play in background.
@@H3xx99 I have to agree with you - YT Premium has improved my viewing experience 10 fold and it's not bad value either! Cheers :)
I thought everyone abhorred ads. I use the skip button. Damned ads. Use saved time to collect free mulch your dum-dum neighbors put to curb. 💩
How about that smh
Mulch is my trick to grow in the harsh environment of the gulf region otherwise the soil will be as dry as biscuits, it saves a lot in water too 👍
mulching absorbs water combined with compost. It saved my land from landslides. What takes thousands to make a supporting concrete wall, I did for 10 USD.
I wish TH-cam allowed us to post the pictures of the big difference you've made in our garden. My tomatoes, eggplants and mini-pines love you, dude.
Send it to him in Facebook. He's very busy though so don't get down if he doesn't reply.
This is Mark's passion and he is always enthusiastic, entertaining, and informative. 🤗
Much admiration for this hard-working mate ! 💓
It's so nice to see gardeners encouraging others to grow. Being retired I've now acquired a small green house and I also have raised beds. When I was a boy I helped my grandmother in the garden with her beautiful flower beds. I've never forgotten her saying to me "I talk to my flowers" , Listen to The Voice of Nature, no matter what your station in life.
Although I will never have a garden the likes of yours, it really is inspiring to see how much work and effort you put into your land and these videos! Thank you kindly and best of growing to you!
Thank you! And I'm sure you will agree that you don't need a large property to grow plenty of food for a family. All the best :)
I needed this video about mulch.
I've just planted a few fruit trees and vegetables but have not mulch them yet so this video came perfectly timed.
Thank you!
Go Terrie!!
This must be how a miner feels when he discovers gold. Your presentation is perfect. Your info priceless. Muchos gracias from San Diego, CA
Mulch works great on strawberries too, retains the water very good! keeps the fruit from rotting aswell.
God bless you Mark. You are an inspiration for all of us! 😍
FACTS !!!!
I use mulch on my garden all the time. My plants grow huge. Last year I had tomato trees. They grew about 7 feet tall.
Spot on - the following is from our farm's (RocK Meadow Farm, Union, CT, USA) gardening tips:
Mulch mulch mulch! - Plant a row, mulch a row, move on to the next. Don’t be
tempted to plant everything, then mulch later. Somehow it doesn’t happen and then you’ll need to weed before mulching. Mulching your plants is the single best thing you can do for both them and yourself. When the temperature is cool mulch will help retain warmth in the soil, while in hot weather it helps protect the plants from overheating. In dry weather it helps retain moisture, either from rain or from watering. The most important thing about mulch is that it keeps down weeds reducing the amount of weeding necessary. For most gardeners weeding is the most time consuming, labor intensive task. Lack of timely weeding and subsequent weed growth is the reason for most garden failures.
Appreciated this video very mulch!
Mulches gracious!
Thank you very mulch
"We're coming into winter and I'm hoping to grow a ton of tomatoes". I almost feel like you're making fun of me, living in the Alps ;-) Thanks for another great video :-)
It does sound a bit odd trying to grow toms in "winter" - true. Our winters can get below zero C and also produce the odd frost so growing tomatoes isn't without risk but usually we get a good crop. Thank you :)
I live in Alberta, Canada. Winter is when we grow layers. 🙄☃️
Another house that I owned, I'd put grass clipping directly over the plants and had a beyond double harvest. No compost pile, but directly put in. I had the best harvest in a drought than I ever had. My new home, I've been lack due to losing my husband. I'm planning on keeping a video diary on my new gardening endeavors to see if I can still do what I used to. And I'm watching a lot of videos to update my skills, and your channel is a great influence, even if you're not in the USA. Thank you for what your do, and please keep posting!!!!
I live in the St Petersburg area of Florida USA. From what you’ve said about your weather, it’s just like ours.
I have learned so much from you and you have become my go to, how to, do all things gardening. Thank you for your info, good cheer and.....I love your politics!
I think you just talked me into starting a garden, haven't had one in years. Thanks for the motivation 🍺
I’m really learning a lot about how to grow my own food at home. He’s a one stop shop of all the info needed to do it for someone who knows nothing, no farming background at all. This is really appreciated.
Always stick a bit of lawn clippings on top of my raise beds. Worked well so far!
Mikey Pop I’ve started chucking lawn clippings into a dry hot concrete area about 2m x 1m, and spreading them out. Dried in about 2 weeks, much much better mulch, and can go straight on anything. Makes a helluva mess if it rains right after you have mowed, but luckily it’s that weird little part no one can see or goes. Also, having the concrete bottom makes raking and sweeping it out easy.
I can just listen to your videos all day.... I start a playlist and go about my housework. something about your accent and how you talk and explain things... it's just soothing lol. also learning lots from your content... very inspiring. Thank you and greetings from Florida!
Just wanted to say my partner and I love your videos and get a crap tonne of inspiration from you. We are located in Newcastle and being younger Australians we are hoping to own a good plot of land like yours one day. Currently though we have made a garden at my mum's suburban block and your channel has helped me a hell of a lot and keeps us inspired until we can afford our own land.
Thank you :)
That's awesome to hear and thank you for supporting my content! I love hearing younger people getting into food gardening. I wish I could have started earlier myself (I would know so much more) but I was traveling heaps for work during my 20's and 30's so I had to postpone my dream of getting a good sized block until the timing was right. Keep working towards your goals and the work/effort/wait makes it much sweeter once you eventually get there. Cheers :)
Yesterday I just planted my tomatoes cucumbers and herbs here in Toronto. I had grass clipping from the last two weeks . I thought to ask you Mark if it is ok to use and here you are , woke up checked the TH-cam and here is the video ....pooofff ! Magic !
I had a 1/4 bag of mulch that was forgotten for over a year and i decided to use it. When I opened it , it was mostly millipede/worm castings... one of the best fertilizers I've seen. Now on I'm a mulch-guy. I put mulch on every plant in my garden!
I wish I knew all these mulch in garden benefits yesterday when this lady had me take out all the mulch my crew laid down onto her 20x15 foot garden bed
5/24/2020 Doing a pandemic garden bed for our sanity, my husband and I will be filling a bed we hacked together from left over roof replacement materials... (Hurricane Irma ate our roof.) We are putting in good soil today, with some cow manure, and some cypress mulch. We’re not sure yet what we’ll plant, but we are extremely jazzed to have reached this stage in the project! Thanks for your enthusiasm and wisdom, Mark! 💚
I have been doing the "poor man's method" for almost 20 years...lol....I rarely throw garden waste away, only if they are too big as I don't have a chipper...Thanks Mark..love your work
LOL - same here! Thanks Marco! Cheers :)
I am so glad I found your channel. I may live in the states, but a lot of the things you show has helped me a lot.
I'm gardening in Lower Austria, where it's not too warm, most of the times. I use grass for mulching (dry for two days) and some of the poultry litter and that turned my garden into very good land.
Just came from a video 4 years old， and I gotta say, your style of presenting has improved heaps! Good on ya!
I always look forward to watching your videos. This video is yet another gem! Thank you for sharing Mark! I can't wait to turn our lawn clippings into mulch for our garden! You just saved us quite a bit of money from not having to buy mulch this year. Thanks a ton!
I have a fallen rotten cedar tree fallen in my forest, you've inspired me to harvest it for my blackberries, the irony is I was just looking at buying mulch lol, it's a gorgeous red cedar top
This guy's energy is contigious. He has made me and my husband gardeners :)
I've build up to a bit over 50 square metres of food gardens over the last few years. Never gardened anything before. We also have 14 lovely chooks and 13 quail. Now at 58, I see where my passion lays.
You Mark, are a bloody champion!
Thanks for the constant info, tips and inspiration.
My son told me to watch this Self sufficient Me and I love tomatoes and I prepared the garden bed and added my compost and then mulch sugar cane and have ended up with 4 massive plants for free love the videos
Mark i love your vids you are the most straight up informative easy to under stand guy out there! I get supper inspiered every time i watch ,Thank you for your time, You are the BEST!! Thanks Rich from upstate NY and God Bless!
Thank you Rich! :)
After spending some time on your channel I thought I utilized my time in the correct way by seeing the correct video about mulch uses. I appreciate your work.
It was really a nice channel and I was really impressed by seeing this video.
Mulching is the best, I have been mulching for 60 years... mostly grass clippings and straw. Nice video...
So happy to be in the Self-Sufficient Me university of gardening. Thank You
I just added wood chips in my garden and I live in zone 9B Central Florida and it makes a ton of difference because the store was drying out fast and stressing the plants out. Now I don't have to water everyday and they're not stressed when I get home.
Mark is the man love his preaching technique for garden and growing. According to him you can mulch right up to the stems on tomato plants , many others say no leave a gap which I have done but this season I wont.
In the Philippines we used rice stalk or rice hull to mulch the plants, it helps
to retain moisture in the soil especially during summer.👍👍🌱🌱🇵🇭🇵🇭
This is the most comprehensive mulching video I've seen on YT - thanks for taking the time to make it! I should have subscribed earlier, but I surely did today!
I have a bale of straw to use as mulch and now I am saving all the grass trimmings for mulch as well. I just leave them in the sun a few days to dry out a bit them spread them in the raised garden beds.
Thanks for the post. Been planning on starting my first garden in spring in a N.E. American climate. I'm absorbing all info, but quite entertained by your posts. Thanks and keep posting.
Don't forget Frederick, fall gardening can be insanely productive! Might be fun to try out a fall crop, get your feet wet and take the edge of being a newbie in the spring! You'll be a veteran in no time!
Lemongrass for mulch 😮, tomatoes in winter, sometimes i really envy you. We have snow on the mountains again and in Vienna we have refreshing 10 degrees at 11:30h, the night before we had 3 degrees rain and wind. My cucumber plants are toast 😢.
Enjoy the sunshine, greetings from Austria! ❤️
We're still getting snow in Vermont in the US...so much for that whole Global Warming Theory
I started watching this video, paused it and went and bought mulch and put it in my garden, its a few hours later and now I finished the video. Great stuff, keep up the awesome work!
Actually I am not mulching my garden before. But been realising when I've seen of your previous vid. I tried it. It is very true mulching is good for the plants and you.
You don't need water the plants everyday. Didn't dry up quickly and plants are happy too... Happy mulching ☺️
i use lawn clippings for mulch.. i left a batch in a pile for 5 days last week.. when i went to spread it, it had so much mycellium and bacteria inside the pile, nearly the whole thing was white... beautiful!!!! when i dig in a bed to the dirt through already spread mulch, i got a bout a dozen worms per shovel scoop in the dirt underneath.. also beautiful!!! i love lawn clipping mulch!!!!
My wife and I garden together and have dedicated more and more of our yard to it. Your videos are very informative, keyed to our climate and quite entertaining. Thank you doing these and keep them up!
Your show is like a set of encyclopedias for gardening, thanks!
Leaves from last fall, left to get mouldy and rotted... Fantastic mulch (don't use black walnut leaves, they're killers)
only some plant are sensitive to walnut leaves, and when compost its gone
@K Barnes "Walnut leaves can be composted because the juglone toxin breaks down when exposed to air, water and bacteria. The toxic effect can be degraded in two to four weeks. In the soil, breakdown may take up to two months after the living walnut tree has been removed. Mulch or woodchips from black walnut are not recommended for plants sensitive to juglone. However, composting the woodchips for a minimum of six months allows the chemical to break down to a safe level even for plants sensitive to juglone." www.extension.iastate.edu/news/2005/jul/070701.htm
Another good source of mulch is via composted horse manure. We have stables not far away who give the horse manure away and after a few months composting it is fantastic fertiliser/mulch. My tomatoes this year are 8 feet tall and still actively growing !!
I love your tall raised beds. Ours is made of landscape timbers which are now 10 yrs old. They are rotting now and I want to replace mine with cinder blocks. But, that is a lot of work. Your garden looks great. Thanks for sharing. Have a Wonderful & Blessed Day!!!
I’ve only recently found your channel, but I’m really enjoying your videos. Many of your tips will work well in my area of northeast Oklahoma.
That was an informative video. Thanks.
I've been using mulch for years and was intrigued to find that you don't mulch your garlic, which is something I've done with no ill effects. However, on replaying your video you clarified that your climate his hot and humid. Mine is hot and dry. I can see where humidity would be a factor.
As you mentioned, mulch will help protect plant roots from excessive heat. Yes, but I don't mulch my plants (especially peppers and tomatoes) at the beginning of the planting season. I feel this allows the soil to warm up more quickly.
Cheers
Really selling me on those quails with that footage. Since the spring came, I've been cutting my grass and using it to mulch my garden beds. The ends of the grass was already dried dead since I let it overgrow last year before the winter. Great video once again!
Poultry manure is an excellent way to return nitrates to the soil. You have an amazing healthy garden. Just started watching your channel, but quickly becoming a fan.
The first 10 years of growing veggies I mulched with grass clippings only no fertilizer. I had the best garden less plants and most veggies. Then I hired someone to mow the grass and my garden suffered terribly. My garden guy passed away last year so now I mow and collect the grass again. My garden is much better again... I guess ignorance is bliss. I will never stop the grass clippings. I am rolling in much since I have great grass.... Thanks for the video.....
Brilliant video on mulching and its benefits Mark. perfect advice for new gardeners
Thanks Tony! Cheers mate :)
U are the Steve Erwin of gardening so entertaning!! Thanks again
Stopping run off is such a good thing about mulch. You can also mulch with rock and other inorganics, which will also keep moisture in and help when watering. But won't provide much in the way of nutrients. Glancing the back garden, leaf fall is a natural mulch, it's late-winter here in the UK, and brushing leaves aside reveals new growth of plants underneath, that are protected with this insulating layer. Mulch is great, and nature naturally does it. You do have to give something back to the soil if you are removing something - and mulch is a great fit. I do wonder where it all goes sometimes at the beginning of the year when I've stacked a few inches on top and worry I've put on too much! But it all goes in time. Great videos and enthusiasm here.
Been mulching for the last couple of years and would never go back. It has so many benefits and if you're like me and grow a lot in pots it helps even more as the soil typically dries out a lot faster without mulch. Also you get far reduced splashing around the plant base when watering.
Wow, yes! We're going from deluging rain then hot hot heat that is ruining the garden. In my area the ground freezes to about 3' down. I've still put in a worm tunnel, but don't expect much from it until next year. I'm using hemp bale.
I'm so excited I found a new gardening channel. I only use straw and leaves for now but would love to get wood chips. I should rent a chipper for a day. Good idea. Pricing out wood chippers was disappointing.
I have just started gardening and fascinated by permaculture. This man is really inspiring and gives really understandable advice, sound and effect. Thank you for work and dedication, invaluable-
I just mulched my vegetable garden 4 days ago. Now the soil stays cool and moist, best decision I ever made 😊❤️
I just went out and mulched!
Your video really makes my day. Thanks for the tips. I plan to use free dry bamboo leaves as mulch to my garden.
This is perfect for me. I just put a garden in my backyard but the soil absorbs little if any water. Thanks for the help
Cheers Ben! :)
You are so funny!!! I really enjoy watching your channel and when I need some info I always come to see your thoughts and ideas first!!! I enjoy all of your videos, thankyou!!!
I've discovered that using cedar mulch, missed a little with the dirt I'm planting in, helps to keep the bugs and weeds away. I also put it around the outside. It's wonderful!
I like your style , well presented, your mulching story , 👌🏻 mulch is very important ingredient for your garden , and a valuable resource , you presented it ,very well 👍👏🐸🇫🇷🇮🇪
Sometimes I think a grave yard can make a good garden, thumbs up to this man!!!
I am in love with your channel. I am from Turkey but living in Kazakhstan. A cold climate. But I will follow your advises as much I can.
I'm clearing an area for my first ever garden bed this afternoon. You're a big part of the reason I'm getting into gardening. Thanks for inspiring me!
We all start with one garden bed Garrett and then look out! Seriously, best of luck starting your new food garden - it sounds a bit soppy but I get so much more out of food gardening than just growing produce to eat and I'm sure you'll experience the same. Cheers :)
I worked at a butterfly farm for a while and part of my job was collecting spanish moss out of the trees then shredding it and using it as mulch, idk if you have spanish moss over where you are but it worked really well.
Gardening Australia should hire you. Better segments than most of what they show these days.
Good day. Lovely to see & hear Man with great calming attitude.
Hi Mark, we have been using our mower to mulch even fairly large shrubs, but we don't use the catcher - just cut and leave on the ground as a ready mulch and weed control. Like the finished reo mesh tunnel, want to do something similar here soon as our pension comes in. Cheers!!
Interesting that you pronounce it mulsh (in Canada we say "mulch" with a hard -ch); I wonder what they say in the UK.
I thought I had watched all of your videos but I just found this one! What an awesome find!
I been digging on beans for years, and I never had a complaint.
Two-4 inches is most definitely adequate depth. They come through plenty, often more than once!
I live in a hot, dry climate, so obviously i have to mulch, and i tend to go thick with it. But i've noticed that fine mulch tends to wick up the water of the bed (this was especially bad with coco coir and mulched straw). So i switched to mulching with straight straw, because it gave me the best results. I think because all the straw stalks lay horizontally, they do not provide a good surface for the water to wick up to.
Another great, informational video! I'll be starting to plant my seeds for the season this week! I'm so excited the time is finally here. What I did with my old chicken bedding is put it along the side of the garden to sort of "cure" for a few weeks. That way it won't be too hot for what I'm trying to do. Of course I have a short growing season here (May through October if I'm lucky) so I have a bit of time to spend between when the snow melts and the ground has thawed enough to plant. ☺
Thanks heaps for sharing. I learn a lot from you. Have a good one.
Feed the soil and it will feed your plants.
Compost from my hot pile, and mulching (cold composting) are key to my square foot garden in the Southeast US
We use spent stable manure, compost, and occasionally with rice hulls. The manure is soaked to get a fertilizer “tea” that we collect and feed to garden as needed. We compost our chicken bedding, stable manure and kitchen waste. Yard trimmings go under the full size orange tree. It’s 5 ft deep right now after spring weed/grass growth. Our soil turns practically to concrete if we don’t mulch. The soil gets better every year. We do add a small amount of organic fertilizer just to insure we get micronutrients and mycorrhizae. We garden year round as we have a short frost period in January and early February that we can still harvest during.
Fantastic garden preparation and nutrient making! Thanks for sharing :)
I just discovered this channel today and it's awesome! There's so much quality information that will undoubtedly improve my veggie gardening.
i like the lawnmower idea, I have a cheap Bunnings mulcher that a use on my palm fronds but if they are still a bit green they don't mulch that finely.
Same here Paul. My Bunnings mulcher is pretty useless... Cheers :)
I love your enthusiasm, and the way you not only explain how to do things but also why.It would be great to see something on worms farms or vermiculture if you do either? Top Job!
You make me want to move to Australia and try to convince you to let me live there and help. You are such an awesome Farmer and Entertainer.
Love the videos... Knuckle head next door?! you mean gentlemen next door!!! more befitting of a gentleman like yourself i do believe!
Thanks for all your expertise!!! Mark u have been a great help u have taught me a lot more than I already new because u Australians do things a little different but better in some ways kéep doing what u do and I love how positive u àre good guy thanks buddy!!!!
Ah, I thought you were talking about fish emulsion "mulsh" in all of your videos, and was worried that as a vegetarian I was missing a vital gardening ingredient by not using fish product fertilizer. I watch this video and realize it's just your lovely accent ❤