Just really want to say how great your videos are. When I found your video(a couple years or so ago) on creating the JMS, and I watched your soil building videos it was inspiring. Not having to buy fertilizers and to be able to create my own with JLFs And also utilizing JMS to build the soil along with my own compost is incredible. I have a thriving organism rich soil. When it rains at night I have footlong worms resting on top of the entire Garden, it's amazing and creepy, how they tentacle back into the soil with any light on them. Lol The mental and physical reward of maintaining and enjoying some of the best tasting vegetables from the garden I've ever had is incredible. Just want to say thank you. The way you simplify the complex knowledge and make organic gardening easy was life changing. Thank you and one last time, thanks.
C an I use this method even though I have slugs in my garden? I'm trapping them daily. Or should I wait to use this. I don't have straw in my garden but I do have dry leaves as a mulch on my potatoes
My favourite way of gardening; it took me a year to establish the garden with deep mulch but now is just dump and go style of maintenance, it works well for busy people who dont have time to weed! Great video, as always, thank you!
Another AWESOME video NATE!!!! I have already shared the video with my gardening family, gardening friends and neighbours. I have been raking up huge bags of Maple 🍁 and Mulberry leaves. Our daughter and son in law gifted me with a vacum/ leaf blower to chop up the leaves. It does a wonderful job. We went to our daughters work place and spent 3 hours raking up the leaves, and our grandson used to vacum up the leaves. My gosh our grandson got really plastered with the dust as he was vacumed the dry leaves. There is a huge Maple 🍁 tree in the complex and I have already raked up 4 HUGE bags., and there is still a massive amount of leaves still to fall. The leaves I raked up last year, under the top leaves, are pitch black. Full of earthworms and grubs breaking down the leaves. WOW lovely stuff. Black Gold for sure. I have learnt SO much from you. I love the all the videos you have made for us. Much gratitude to you NATE! Much love and appreciation my friend! 🌍🇿🇦 ❤️👍💚🌿❤️👍💚🌿❤️👍🌿💚👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👋👋
Great to see, still my favorite low energy garden modality. No live tomorrow, I’m taking my son to a Novice Pheasant Hunter class. I’ll catch it on the replay.
Many very interesting ways of gardening, no right or wrong! Have a look at The Weedy Garden channel in Australia, his channel is very interesting too. ( I don’t know him, just like watching good gardening like yours)
@@gardenlikeaviking The words may not be mine, nor fully the thoughts they convey, yet the longing that breathed life into these verses-I claim that as my soul's own whisper. And so it seems my Viking friend that as the moon and the sun share the sky, so do you and I share the task of writing different chapters of the same spiritual journey.
I doubt that Azomite is going to help the current crop, it will help future crops if there are mineral deficiencies. Those Fall leaves are awesome for adding minerals back into the soil and for me the best mulch you can get. Nice video Nate.
Make sure you find out if/what chemicals were sprayed on the hay or straw you use. Some gardeners are fighting Grazon in hay and manure that kills broadleaf plants like garden produce for three to five years! I have started growing Winter Rye Grain in the garden, broadcast in the fall, as in-place compost cover. Roll or stamp it down don't till it in.
ok thats easy just send the $40 via PayPal Venmo or cash app links in the description... be sure to include your address you want them mailed to... then come September when they harvest I'll ship them all out
I finally gave up with all the complicated methods and instead went back to slightly modified old ways. I tilled a path, layed 2 inches of compost over it and put weed fabric over the path. Punched some holes into it and planted my seedlings into it. Zero weeds and the soil is staying moist underneath.
Thnx for the video Nate! I am thinking it may be possible to use the biomass from a cover crop like winter rye and do an in situ mulch. I have a winterrye crop for seed right now but it produces so much biomass, It wil save on straw.
Hi Nate, loving the videos thank you! Wondering if there are any alternatives for azomite and alfalfa meal they seem really expensive here in OZ. Cheers
yes absolutely you can use cow or chicken manure and wood ash instead or just high quality compost if you have enough... but alfalfa meal is the cheapest of all the dry granular fertilizers!!
I will be doing this method on my new property!! Less plowing. Just really need to find a clean hat source. Anyone know a grazon free hay source in Demossville KY area?
Any recommendations for peach trees that looks like has leaf curl I assume? I bought 2 new peach trees last year and this year the leaves are curling up and look like blisters on them. I hope it doesn't spread to my other older two peach trees.
Is it effective for the cucumber plants? It is short crop and fast crop. Jadam suggested me to don't use straw mulch for the cucumber. I need your opinion
@@gardenlikeaviking thank you. Microbes will use nitrogen for decomposition of starw mulch. So speed of nutrition is not enough for the demand of plant. Please explain me
Hi Nate, this is Alex again I'm not sure what just happened but I sent you $10 and it didn't go with my text Yeah I'm not very good at this stuff at all but if you're wondering where that $10 came from, it's from me. Thank you
I got it my friend thank you for the support!!!... yes you can give LABS to the seedlings they'll love it... it's great for helping to keep fungus down
ALL THIS invasive Kudzu and abundant pine-straw MUST be the saving organic grace for NORTH GEORGIA, I need to research the reproduction process of this particular plant( as well as possible? soil PH implications or restrictions? BLUEBERRIES WOULD LOVE A FIELD UTILIZING THESE CARBONS!😎
Unfortunately i quit using straw (which I loved), because of Grazon. Unless you know for sure it hasn’t been sprayed with it. But I do layer all my beds with clippings and other things. Chicken manure wtc. I really miss staw.
Hello Mr. Nate, i live in texas. I want to grow some vegetables in my backyard. I want to do it in garden pot, not in the ground. So would you please advice me what kind of soil and compost i have to use? Like if i want to use all purpose garden soil, cow manure, or top soil, what is right ratio i should follow? Please let me know as soon as possible. Thanks
We’ve been doing the Ruth Stout method for a couple of years and the first year was Amazing. Our problem was that the mice or voles were getting to them before we could harvest them 😡. Any ideas on how to solve that problem?
Have been doing no dig, lots of mulch/compost for over 30 years. But have a few problems too much mulch, causes scab on potatoes, our winds are horrendous in the spring, the compost was making our soil toooo fine, so the soil was flying away from around the roots of the onions, plus when sowing carrots, parsnips, beetroot the soil and seeds were blown around. Can't use fluffy anything it just blows away, plus have experimented with square foot gardening but my brassicas get way too big. The big secret to grow vegetables year around in a southern hemisphere cold winters, extremely dry summers, not necessarily hot. Is to experiment in your area, we are in a area that doesn't get warm enough to grow sweet potatoes, but after 5 years of experimenting harvested a successful crop this last summer. Plus by listening to TH-camrs helped!!!
I like how u make it all look so easy but in my experience I hate bugs in my house and I've noticed having leaves n all that organic material around my house brings insects into yard ad they ruin my crops n got into my house now I'm having ants everywhere n I spray pepper mint oils I use every natural oil that I read works n dnt work great so I'm bout to spray something all over my yard cus I'm sick of ants I'm sick of squirrels to digging and ruining my plants roots also
A-Z of minerals. Thats where it got its name. Plants will use all of them, when they need to. You should actually look up the list and learn how safe it is. I heard stuff doesnt cut it.
regular soil also has heavy metals... almost anything from the earths crust will test positive for heavy metals... its all about ratios and thresholds my friend and this azomite is very beneficial for the plants and soil... but if in doubt just don't use it use manures instead!!
Hi Nate. I was wondering how commissions work on Amazon. If we click on your store and shop for something else, do we have to open a new window to do our own shopping or can we navigate away from your store (in the same window) and you still get the commission? I just want to make sure I'm doing it right so your channel can benefit.
thank you so much my friend and yes once you go into amazon through my link ANYTHING you buy in that browser session will count for me... so every time you shop on amazon just get there through my link and I'll get the credit for whatever you buy... thank you!!!
Hi Nate I am doing no dig potatoes but with compost and grass clippings. I've used about ten inches of compost and I've added 3 layers of grass so far but I will keep adding more as it dries out. 👌🥔👍🤠
Great news here. Seeing some beneficial insects one being on bolted yellow flower of turnips that were stunted last fall, overwintered. Leaves are delicious raw salads and plants are 4 feet tall. Turnips harder than a bowling ball but most are long turnip root. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Positive out of a negative. Pulling as we need the space like peas planted April 2 are up today. Blessings are abundant.
not exactly... for sweet potatoes we make "mounds" about a foot across where we scoot aside the mulch in a circle and add a few shovels of manure or compost then plant into that... you don't have to use the additional manure but it helps... you can simply scoot aside the mulch and plant the slip directly into the soil below
So I didn’t realise I was doing the Ruth Stout method when I was mounding wood chips and letting them sit and then pulling back in places to make a hole to plant it. Definitely the way to go and whatever I plant just thrives!
Would you also add the Azomite and Alfalfa to new gardens that you are planting other vegetables? We just bought a house with a yard full of Zoysia grass that I have spend weeks removing by hand. The soil is so lovely and full of worms and I am unsure of how to improve it other than with loads of leaf mold that I harvested from the surrounding forest. Any suggestions are so welcome and I am dearly grateful.
it would help yes for sure but the azomite would be the only thing I'd use in that situation... if the soil is already nice you can add the leaf mold and also do some portions in cover crops to build the soil... potentially doing "green manure" methods a couple years to get the soil into shape or even strait into no till cover crops or deep mulch.... so many options!!
@@gardenlikeaviking Thank you so much for all the information that you shared here. I am deeply grateful to you and the wealth of information that you share.
Thanks Nate, it'll be a while before I use this method, the PSG compact and bijou just isn't the spot. Would lots of chewed up seaweed from the beach be equivalent for minerals along with good horse manure with added JMS every week I've covered my beds in it from January with mulched up tree clippings on top as the leaves I gathered up all blew away everytime it was windy.
Just really want to say how great your videos are.
When I found your video(a couple years or so ago) on creating the JMS, and I watched your soil building videos it was inspiring.
Not having to buy fertilizers and to be able to create my own with JLFs And also utilizing JMS to build the soil along with my own compost is incredible. I have a thriving organism rich soil. When it rains at night I have footlong worms resting on top of the entire Garden, it's amazing and creepy, how they tentacle back into the soil with any light on them. Lol
The mental and physical reward of maintaining and enjoying some of the best tasting vegetables from the garden I've ever had is incredible.
Just want to say thank you.
The way you simplify the complex knowledge and make organic gardening easy was life changing.
Thank you and one last time, thanks.
C an I use this method even though I have slugs in my garden? I'm trapping them daily. Or should I wait to use this. I don't have straw in my garden but I do have dry leaves as a mulch on my potatoes
My favourite way of gardening; it took me a year to establish the garden with deep mulch but now is just dump and go style of maintenance, it works well for busy people who dont have time to weed!
Great video, as always, thank you!
Know a gardener in Kentucky has done this for years. She seems to have good produce
Nice video my friend. Keep em coming. Aerated compost tea finally!
Those leaves R SHREDDED !
I have some cow manure & bags of leaves and chitted potatoes! I’m excited. Thanks Nate
My walking onions are ready to walk!
In my humble experience, straw lets many more weeds come through than hay. Absolutely wonderful method of gardening!!!
yes this is true in my experience as well... however, in the long run the hay introduces so many more weeds into the garden IME
Another AWESOME video NATE!!!!
I have already shared the video with my gardening family, gardening friends and neighbours.
I have been raking up huge bags of Maple 🍁 and Mulberry leaves.
Our daughter and son in law gifted me with a vacum/ leaf blower to chop up the leaves. It does a wonderful job.
We went to our daughters work place and spent 3 hours raking up the leaves, and our grandson used to vacum up the leaves.
My gosh our grandson got really plastered with the dust as he was vacumed the dry leaves.
There is a huge Maple 🍁 tree in the complex and I have already raked up 4 HUGE bags., and there is still a massive amount of leaves still to fall.
The leaves I raked up last year, under the top leaves, are pitch black. Full of earthworms and grubs breaking down the leaves. WOW lovely stuff. Black Gold for sure.
I have learnt SO much from you. I love the all the videos you have made for us.
Much gratitude to you NATE!
Much love and appreciation my friend! 🌍🇿🇦
❤️👍💚🌿❤️👍💚🌿❤️👍🌿💚👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👋👋
Great to see, still my favorite low energy garden modality. No live tomorrow, I’m taking my son to a Novice Pheasant Hunter class. I’ll catch it on the replay.
HUNTING SCHOOL AND TRIGGER LOCKS, a true VIKING 👊😎
Key them when stored😎
BIO-METRICS. Better yet👍🏻
good luck and stay safe my friend!
I’m so excited about the aerated compost tea video. Thanks Nate. ❤
Yes! Looking forward for aerated compost tea. Thanks!
Absolutely like your approach to gardening, working with nature instead of against it. God bless.
I am doing this now in my garden. They have been out for a week and are not popping up yet. But they will get there. Great video thanks again
yes sometimes it can take 2 or even 3 weeks before you see them sprouting up.... but then be sure to cover with more material!!
Thanks will do
Doing it tomorrow!
Awesome. Simple.
Awesome as always brother! SKÅL
I have that same tiller, by the way. Lady gave it to me. What a machine.
Many very interesting ways of gardening, no right or wrong! Have a look at The Weedy Garden channel in Australia, his channel is very interesting too. ( I don’t know him, just like watching good gardening like yours)
Yes I love the Weedy Garden channel so cinematic!!
Garden Like a Viking. Discover new horizons in every seed.
always killin it with the lyrical cultivation my friend!
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The words may not be mine, nor fully the thoughts they convey, yet the longing that breathed life into these verses-I claim that as my soul's own whisper.
And so it seems my Viking friend that as the moon and the sun share the sky, so do you and I share the task of writing different chapters of the same spiritual journey.
Doing this right now!!!
I doubt that Azomite is going to help the current crop, it will help future crops if there are mineral deficiencies.
Those Fall leaves are awesome for adding minerals back into the soil and for me the best mulch you can get.
Nice video Nate.
NICE. Thanks for sharing your journey.
Make sure you find out if/what chemicals were sprayed on the hay or straw you use. Some gardeners are fighting Grazon in hay and manure that kills broadleaf plants like garden produce for three to five years! I have started growing Winter Rye Grain in the garden, broadcast in the fall, as in-place compost cover. Roll or stamp it down don't till it in.
Wonderful will try this way to grow potatoes and rest unused beds in the off season 🥔
Well this is awesome. I'm going to have to allocate some straw and organic matter and try this...thanks Brougham!
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in the long run its a very effective and easy method you'll love it!
Thanks Nate, something new to think about.
Thank you for your knowledge!
Thank you for the video. I’m going to try it out
Awesome video. Thank you. I would love to get some of your some of your walking onions.
ok thats easy just send the $40 via PayPal Venmo or cash app links in the description... be sure to include your address you want them mailed to... then come September when they harvest I'll ship them all out
My husband chips h shreds all our leaves & limbs that we use for mulching.
I need help with armadillos now!
I finally gave up with all the complicated methods and instead went back to slightly modified old ways.
I tilled a path, layed 2 inches of compost over it and put weed fabric over the path. Punched some holes into it and planted my seedlings into it.
Zero weeds and the soil is staying moist underneath.
absolutely my friend thats what I often use and recommend because of its simplicity and effectiveness
Thnx for the video Nate!
I am thinking it may be possible to use the biomass from a cover crop like winter rye and do an in situ mulch. I have a winterrye crop for seed right now but it produces so much biomass, It wil save on straw.
Hi Nate, loving the videos thank you! Wondering if there are any alternatives for azomite and alfalfa meal they seem really expensive here in OZ. Cheers
yes absolutely you can use cow or chicken manure and wood ash instead or just high quality compost if you have enough... but alfalfa meal is the cheapest of all the dry granular fertilizers!!
How you doing Nate this is Alex from California. I was wondering if I could give the labs to my seedlings?
Snails absolutely love to hide under my mulch beds
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Shout out 2 Stout” FRESH-CLEAN-and EARTHY🌎”Do you know where your leafs and grass clippings R tonight? BUMPER STICKER?
I'm keeping that one!!!
I will be doing this method on my new property!! Less plowing. Just really need to find a clean hat source. Anyone know a grazon free hay source in Demossville KY area?
Any recommendations for peach trees that looks like has leaf curl I assume? I bought 2 new peach trees last year and this year the leaves are curling up and look like blisters on them. I hope it doesn't spread to my other older two peach trees.
I will ask the tribe this question during the livestream today thank you!
Nate, we have lots of rice straw here in our place, but the problem is those rice straw have been sprayed by insectiside. Q? Can I use it or not.
so long as its not a broadleaf herbicide you should be fine to use it... insecticides won't really hurt things for too long...
@@gardenlikeaviking thank you nate for answering my Q?
Is it effective for the cucumber plants? It is short crop and fast crop. Jadam suggested me to don't use straw mulch for the cucumber. I need your opinion
here in the Midwest USA cucumbers love a straw mulch and they love this system used year after year
@@gardenlikeaviking thank you. Microbes will use nitrogen for decomposition of starw mulch. So speed of nutrition is not enough for the demand of plant. Please explain me
You wont get many weeds in early hay.its the late cut hay that is full of seeds.
that makes sense actually good to know thank you!!
Hey bro, I think my neighbor is your brother.
really?... Elliott?
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You’re also protecting the soil from the sun.
Hi Nate, this is Alex again I'm not sure what just happened but I sent you $10 and it didn't go with my text
Yeah I'm not very good at this stuff at all but if you're wondering where that $10 came from, it's from me. Thank you
I got it my friend thank you for the support!!!... yes you can give LABS to the seedlings they'll love it... it's great for helping to keep fungus down
Those leaves R SHREDDED !
I'm always learning something new here.
I did it because I had bad soil very hard like cement.
TATER TIME 🥔
We've been doing this method for years with outstanding results.
Best gardening channel 💯💯💯
ALL THIS invasive Kudzu and abundant pine-straw MUST be the saving organic grace for NORTH GEORGIA, I need to research the reproduction process of this particular plant( as well as possible? soil PH implications or restrictions? BLUEBERRIES WOULD LOVE A FIELD UTILIZING THESE CARBONS!😎
Scared to use manure, compost, hay or straw from outside sources in the garden since I’ve been hearing folks having Grazon poisoning their soil 😢
Unfortunately i quit using straw (which I loved), because of Grazon. Unless you know for sure it hasn’t been sprayed with it.
But I do layer all my beds with clippings and other things. Chicken manure wtc. I really miss staw.
Hello Mr. Nate, i live in texas. I want to grow some vegetables in my backyard. I want to do it in garden pot, not in the ground. So would you please advice me what kind of soil and compost i have to use? Like if i want to use all purpose garden soil, cow manure, or top soil, what is right ratio i should follow? Please let me know as soon as possible. Thanks
We’ve been doing the Ruth Stout method for a couple of years and the first year was Amazing. Our problem was that the mice or voles were getting to them before we could harvest them 😡. Any ideas on how to solve that problem?
Have been doing no dig, lots of mulch/compost for over 30 years. But have a few problems too much mulch, causes scab on potatoes, our winds are horrendous in the spring, the compost was making our soil toooo fine, so the soil was flying away from around the roots of the onions, plus when sowing carrots, parsnips, beetroot the soil and seeds were blown around. Can't use fluffy anything it just blows away, plus have experimented with square foot gardening but my brassicas get way too big.
The big secret to grow vegetables year around in a southern hemisphere cold winters, extremely dry summers, not necessarily hot.
Is to experiment in your area, we are in a area that doesn't get warm enough to grow sweet potatoes, but after 5 years of experimenting harvested a successful crop this last summer. Plus by listening to TH-camrs helped!!!
thats exactly right my friend experiment in your area!!
I’m doing that this year
I like how u make it all look so easy but in my experience I hate bugs in my house and I've noticed having leaves n all that organic material around my house brings insects into yard ad they ruin my crops n got into my house now I'm having ants everywhere n I spray pepper mint oils I use every natural oil that I read works n dnt work great so I'm bout to spray something all over my yard cus I'm sick of ants I'm sick of squirrels to digging and ruining my plants roots also
I not speak ine English but you are information very good
Looks like you burnt some of the leaves first?
Over 2,000 views and only 350 likes! Come on people
I'll have to try that Ty ❤
Great video! 👌🏻
Love it
Nice property
Great stuff
azomite has heavy metals .. yo?
Aluminum can be an issue but any mined material carries some heavy metal risk.
A-Z of minerals. Thats where it got its name. Plants will use all of them, when they need to.
You should actually look up the list and learn how safe it is. I heard stuff doesnt cut it.
regular soil also has heavy metals... almost anything from the earths crust will test positive for heavy metals... its all about ratios and thresholds my friend and this azomite is very beneficial for the plants and soil... but if in doubt just don't use it use manures instead!!
Yessir
Thanks!
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Hi Nate. I was wondering how commissions work on Amazon. If we click on your store and shop for something else, do we have to open a new window to do our own shopping or can we navigate away from your store (in the same window) and you still get the commission? I just want to make sure I'm doing it right so your channel can benefit.
thank you so much my friend and yes once you go into amazon through my link ANYTHING you buy in that browser session will count for me... so every time you shop on amazon just get there through my link and I'll get the credit for whatever you buy... thank you!!!
What was the name of the stuff you put on the potatoes in the beginning of the video
azomite
Any issues with wireworms going right into the sod or nearby established grass?
I'm not aware of us having wireworms here
Hi Nate I am doing no dig potatoes but with compost and grass clippings. I've used about ten inches of compost and I've added 3 layers of grass so far but I will keep adding more as it dries out. 👌🥔👍🤠
wow is that the competition potatoes or just the regular crop??!
@@gardenlikeaviking regular crop, I collect my customers garden waste and compost it, I made about 4 tonnes of compost last year. 👌👍💪🤠
My most productive potato harvests are with Ruth’s method !!!
Tomorrow @ HIGH NOON , Mother 🌎willing 😎
Great news here. Seeing some beneficial insects one being on bolted yellow flower of turnips that were stunted last fall,
overwintered. Leaves are delicious raw salads and plants are 4 feet tall. Turnips harder than a bowling ball but most are long turnip root. >>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Positive out of a negative. Pulling as we need the space like peas planted April 2 are up today. Blessings are abundant.
Do you do sweet potatoes exactly like potatoes, getting the crop in the mulch without having to dig into the soil? ❤
not exactly... for sweet potatoes we make "mounds" about a foot across where we scoot aside the mulch in a circle and add a few shovels of manure or compost then plant into that... you don't have to use the additional manure but it helps... you can simply scoot aside the mulch and plant the slip directly into the soil below
Thank you Viking ❤❤❤
So I didn’t realise I was doing the Ruth Stout method when I was mounding wood chips and letting them sit and then pulling back in places to make a hole to plant it. Definitely the way to go and whatever I plant just thrives!
I'm a huge Ruth Stout fan! Her process is amazing, and makes so much sense.
Would you also add the Azomite and Alfalfa to new gardens that you are planting other vegetables? We just bought a house with a yard full of Zoysia grass that I have spend weeks removing by hand. The soil is so lovely and full of worms and I am unsure of how to improve it other than with loads of leaf mold that I harvested from the surrounding forest. Any suggestions are so welcome and I am dearly grateful.
it would help yes for sure but the azomite would be the only thing I'd use in that situation... if the soil is already nice you can add the leaf mold and also do some portions in cover crops to build the soil... potentially doing "green manure" methods a couple years to get the soil into shape or even strait into no till cover crops or deep mulch.... so many options!!
@@gardenlikeaviking Thank you so much for all the information that you shared here. I am deeply grateful to you and the wealth of information that you share.
@@gardenlikeaviking Thank you for all this valuable information.
Awesome video! Such an easy method- I’m going to add a large amount of straw over my potatoes and see how they do
Mulch, baby.
I'm glad I found these videos, there's so many context clues for other amazing planting methods
I'm happy you can see that my friend thank you!
Thanks Nate, it'll be a while before I use this method, the PSG compact and bijou just isn't the spot. Would lots of chewed up seaweed from the beach be equivalent for minerals along with good horse manure with added JMS every week I've covered my beds in it from January with mulched up tree clippings on top as the leaves I gathered up all blew away everytime it was windy.
absolutely my friend that mixture sounds like a very ideal source of nutrients!!
I am applying the Led Zeppelin Gardening technique.
Someone says "dont do this" it will go over like a Led Zeppelin... I go do that exact thing. 😂
Might as well layer on the fresh LEAF AND WOOD ASH while your @ it😎, and some crushed up lump coal to activate if your a VIKING💪🦾💪🦾🤜🏽🤛