When I replaced 1/4 acre of grass with a garden, I used a sod cutter, flipped the sod upside down so the roots were exposed to the sun for a few weeks, and then built lasagna beds on top of it
Gardening the seventh season zone 6B (NJ): planted groundhog radish, buckwheat, oats. and mung bean as cover crop back in August on some raised bads for fall planting of strawberry and garlic. Have a mix of winter rye, forage radish, and two types of clover for the end of season cover. Also, I keep the roots in the ground and bury all the shredded scraps from my plants in the garden beds at the end of season to keep my worms happy. Works for my soil.
Fava beans are incredible cover crops. I let some form natural barriers and to get a harvest and the rest i chop and drop. One of the highest protein and early yielding legumes.
Excellent video of each step in the transformation. Lush, productive and healthy. Plentiful harvest. Congratulation to all. We have a small backyard no dig garden and buckets. Landscape is sloped so not interested in expansion. In our mid 70's and garden is keeping us young and healthy and happy.
YEP! This is the way to go NATE! These people are so fortunate to have a huge area to do this one a large scale. I just love the little girl being hugged tightly on the trackor. Gorgeous kids. And dear Jenny working hard too. Hi to Jen from me. 👋 I planted Vetch in parts of the garden before winter to see how it would grow. Beautiful flowers. You see NATE as you know I am new to gardening, and I still learning. So I am experimenting to see how to grow things. Thank You so much NATE, for another Awesome demonstration of how to do it properly. Wonderful to see a lot more people are joining your Garden Like A VIKING channel. Thumbs 👍 and making comments too. And I am pretty sure all you guys are sharing NATES videos, and that is of course gathering momentum. And this will help you to realise your "Garden Like A VIKING" garden centre, sooner. Much love from 🌍🇿🇦 ❤💚❤️💚❤️💚❤️ 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
I'm in a temperate climate (Belgium). Started a new plot on what was previously pasture by first applying a silage tarp during summer to kill off the grass. Two months after that, the sod was tilled into the soil with a two wheel tractor and tarped again so any weeds sprouting would die off. Finally, before applying compost for the no-till beds, the soil was loosened with a broad fork. I sowed fava beans (broad beans) in February in the beds where the warmth loving plants (tomatoes, corn, peppers) will be planted. First time using green manure, so let's see what happens! Great channel!
That farm in Tennessee looks like paradise to me. I would love to spend some time helping on the farm. I'm going to learn a lot from your videos. THANKS
I liked that you gave us fun bits with your family. Makes the video feel more personal. Like we are part of what’s going on. Great quality of content. You show us what when where and why to use these techniques and technologies.
Nate, I absolutely love your garden, but this garden you consult on is a gardeners dream! Thank you for bestowing us with this knowledge. I love how your techniques just make sense. It is not complicated, just follow nature and she will provide for you!
I used tires on top of solid plastic.The soil was from an old horse farm. I planted spring summer and now fall crops in the same dirt just adding compost. I used your method for the fish fertilizer and also the banana. Unbelievable results.Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
I would love to see some pictures of this setup of yours!... please post some to the Viking Discord chat under the section "garden pictures"... that would be very helpful to people!
Wow! This is a super packed video with tons of info. I will need to watch it many many times to get it all. Some 38 years ago I saw a friend do this sort of green manure cropping except I didn't know what he was doing. It's wonderful to see their harvest. Nate, keep up with this kind of content. Great value!
This spring I started a new garden on land that's been fallow for at least 30 years just by putting down tarp material. Lumber yards receive shipments of wood wrapped in disposable tarps, so I picked up ~30 of them (~5000 sqft) for free. A little pelletized fertilizer using recipe by @LDSprepper in each plant hole... best garden yet. Tarps eliminate +99% of weed pressure. Zone 5B, growing on tarps was perfect for my butternut squash, hubbard squash, spaghetti squash, 3 kinds of pumpkins, yellow and green zucchinis, 4 kinds of sunflowers, 10 kinds of tomatoes, marigolds, MJ, calendula and chamomile. It's full sun, so the nasturtiums didn't do well until mid season when they were shaded by some of the other plants. The zucchinis on tarps were great and I'm proud of them, but the zucchinis in the garden with electroculture lines were ridiculous.
I planted sorghum this summer as we had a drought and nothing would grow. It was the best thing I've done for the garden so far! Cut it back three times. The soil is now clumpy and kind of sticky whereas before it was silty sand. I plan to plant oats over the winter and will terminate in March.
Q: what do you do if you are a home gardener ( most self subsisting now) without digger or tractor. Glad to hear more about virgin soil improvement. My no- dig start up has been very poor this year as you described. Now I need 3 cubic meters of compost each year which is a huge piece of work. Interesting to see new options. I am thinking to take up the scythe. 😊
That’s right my friend the amount of compost needed is often overlooked and not discussed with the market garden type no till process… literally dump truck loads of compost!… yes you can do this every year if you want to and many people do… but eventually you can and should transition to “real” no till as its better for everything involved
Found your channel two days ago and have binged probably 15 videos so far. Have a small BTE style garden in the front but just broke ground in the back. Heavy clay soils where I’m at but luckily have access to plenty of manure and leaves. I just tilled everything in but now wishing I would’ve waited until April or so. Really looking forward to adding some of your brews and potions to my rotation. Happy gardening friends
welcome to the tribe my friend!!... from what you've said its actually probably a good thing you tilled it all in earlier than you would a green manure crop... because leaves will take a while to break down and become plant available so its a good thing you mixed it with manure because it has the nitro the bacteria will need to decompose the leaves.... the green manure method is so high in nitro it only takes a week to start becoming plant available thats why we do it only a couple weeks before planting...
@@gardenlikeavikingHow reassuring. Thank you for taking the time to comment back. I'm planning to apply many of your techniques and hope to report back with glowing results. Thank you again!
Very nice video Nate, Good comparison on different methods depending on your situation. I am personaly not a fan of plastic but my garden is to big to mulch everything. I always hoe out the weeds in an early stage and only pull where tools can't reach. I have it very well under control and I don't spend a lot of time on it. The wheelhoe helps a lot for the larger area's. Timing is important.
Great start! Do they intend to continue growing on plastic mulch and maintain the super-wide walkways? Or is this a transition to a more traditional soil + organic mulch system with narrower walkways?
well that's TBD based on many factors... the primary is the labor involved with this size of setup... they are a family with 6 young kids and do not have the life hours to spend much time gathering/spreading organic material... then weeding.. etc... this method here they just went out and harvested thats about it!!
Slightly off topic Nate but starting from this year I have rewatched all of your gardening videos through the year and you used to introduce your videos with “Hello my friends” and now when my fiancé hears you playing in the background he always says Hello my friends in your introduction tone. Well the recent videos (as I have caught up on all your videos) you changed your intros to “Okay my friends” and my fiancé is saying, “No, no, it is not okay my friends, Nate! I need Hello my friends back in his introductions!” 😂 Just passing it on as I didn’t notice the change but Jeff did!
Whoa I never even realized that!!... thanks for pointing it out my friend but the new way of saying it just feels right lol… I don't even think about what is being said it just flows out of me🙏🌞
Loved the video! We are going to try the green manure system for a couple of years. As always thanks for the knowledge! Your friends garden looked great 👍
I may leave more than 1 comment, but that seed spreader! Dude. I have the hand swirl by Scott's and the Mini, but that unit looks very different and interesting. I hope to remember to bring it up Saturday at Noon 🔴LIVE 😂 🙏🇨🇦👊🏻👨🌾💖
Getting too hard to til now but making compost in bins and use raised beds much more success. Use the pitch fork in the beds to loosen and mix. Quail poop in my compost working better than anything so far. Too broken to be doing squats in the garden now.😂Gotta take it easy with health issues and find things to make things easier on me. Lots of perennial food now near maintenance free like berries, new fruit trees and asparagus and Egyptian walking onions. The Artic kiwi is driving me crazy though. Taking forever to take off. Before it went crazy fast at old house.
This is very important information, mostly for people like me who will be starting to be growing food for the first time ever, l am watching alot of your videos so as I can get the knowledge and equipment needed thanks. Please how can you do is if you have a very small garden? Thanks
My good friends …. Master Viking I have a question,,, I follow all your advice and wanted to say thank you.. 1. Question. I do have a patch of lawn grass that I love to walk around. Since I started with your channel I don’t want to buy factory grass fertilizers. So can I use your fertilizers for my lawn of grass to make it. Green and Lucious?
yes absolutely you can use these fertilizers... make the fish fertilizer and use the wood ash fertilizer for a very lush lawn... also can use the JADAM JLF
In the past here in Pennsylvania 6b, I have always done a heavy burn of kindling, brush and crops that dried out and were overly fibrous. Having only begun studying Jadam/KNF for 12 months, I have tilled the last 3 years, but going forward, only tilling to de-establish grasses. I'll still be tilling every year though. Why? Because every year, I decide to increase my garden size by 25%. Our 4×4 firepit also acts as a sod processing device, de-establishing the roots of sod and replenishing the soil with CA, MG, and Ph, before being added to the garden.
This is an awesome project! Eastern PA and i think my first fall garden is a failure. Planted to late and not much growing. Learned from it though and give it a try next year.
yes timing is critical!!... generally in our zones we start the fall garden from seed the first week of July to be planted into the garden the first week of August give or take a week
This is the way to go! Look at those veggies without any of the Jadam stuff. Can I do this annually or once every two years to enhance my soil? It sounds less of a time commitment and effort. I have access to a ton of leaves.
I love the video and the green manure method! If I have virgin ground, assuming I'll need to pull up the landscape cloth each season to plant new cover crops to till into the soil for the first few years. Is that correct?
Just wondering. What if you don't have enough leaves? I wonder if you put arborist wood chips that include leaves, twigs, etc would work for a good ground cover over Winter instead of having live roots. The fungus will at least grow and I have mushrooms that come up in the spring in the wood chips as well.
Hi Nate, if I send the lantana camara (pest repellent plant) jlf through the roots of plants, then will repellent agent be deposited in plant and pest may be repelled?
it is very possible my friend yes... give it a go and observe the results... if its truly pest repellent then it will work no matter on the leaves or in the soil... but each pest reacts differently to each JLF so test it out!
Is this right? Till with machinery 4-6 inches OR burn leaves on top of ground Plant a cover crop ASAP Till Encororate manure and ashes of burnt sticks Cover the ground with plastic sheets. Within one week do the next step... Plant seeds in openings of the plastic sheeting.
yes that is common practice to kill off the grass... but it requires time and high temps with sun so start much earlier than you would anticipate you'll need the ground ready... I've done it this way with a tarp many times over the years with great success!!
@@gardenlikeaviking I appreciate you Nate. Your advice has helped my family and I big time up here on the homestead. Also I'm trying my hand at some " high stakes" gardening and things are looking fantastic. When I get a bit more financially stable I'm gonna send a few bucks your way
Lots of plastic barrier widths between crop rows. What issues if instead a living cover of perhaps clovers actually photosynthesing, providing root exudates? Maybe mow it every now and then to keep it from going to seed.
that's TBD actually I'm heading back down there tomorrow and we're going to assess the situation... possibly another round of green manure or possibly actual manure or maybe nothing at all we'll see
several options... yes you can remove the fabric (not the rubber) and either add fertility like manure or plant another clover crop for green manure... or just leave it as is and still it will work really well for another year or two at least so long as you use liquid nutrients such as the fertilizers on this channel
Nate, with the dragon method, will it work to use a lawn trimmer to chop down the alfalfa, then cover and plant? I don’t have a tiller available for that first pass. Much appreciated!
yes you can do it this way and I have done it many times like that... just chop (finely) and let it lay there to decompose and leach into the soil... the IMO's and earthworms love it but you won't get the same "blast" of nutrients you get from tilling it into the soil but yes it still works great and you get the added benefits of the roots and fungal relationships being left undisturbed and thats a major benefit... do it!!
Thank you for the details! Will give it a go as you describe, and add all nutrients I can to the mix. Loved the year-long view of that awesome southern garden- super encouraging 👍
🙏🙏Iam from India . In preparing wetting agent your using canola oil it’s difficult to get in India . Instead of that any oils used for wetting agent .🙏 Thankyou Regards
Yep confirmed. Stuff potatoes shallow in the ground they said. It will break up the hard soil, loosen up the grass roots and save me the need to plow they said. So I pierced holes in the ground with a pole iron, stuffed them in and covered them up with a little dirt. They did not even make a plant. - Establishing - a vegetable field without any means of pre tillage is BS I say. Unless... one plant a pioneer crop of dynamites, that would work I´m sure.
Itstead of tilling it in i just cover with a tarp. Tilling is just bad period. Tilling destroys the fungi and makes a hard pan at the bottom that makes it very hard for roots to go threw. If you do till it should only be when you first make the growing area
IF YOU STILL USING FERTILIZER until TODAY, meaning there is something wrong with THE WAY you DO farming. PLANTS do not need any fertilizer. This is BASIC PRINCIPLE of THE REAL FARMING. You need to LEARN how the plants originally living in their habitats. SETUP the SOIL is more important before doing any farming, let the rain-water, sun, and wind take the rest.
@@CraftAmundous Actually it's a good reminder. My husband when he was 9 years old got run over by his dad on the tractor. Kids will play on machinery they feel comfortable on and my husband was jumping up and down and fell and his dad ran him over. His head and all... severed ear, eye but luckily no brain damage. Every year kids get harmed on farms. About a decade ago or so 3 sisters were buried by silage. I believe the government has farm safety programs in place but it's been a while since I have heard anything about them.
@@CraftAmundous nope! Know of two kids that lost their lives sure to incident involving tractors. And two adult men who did things that they knew not to do. So stuff does happen.
@@healthyfitmom thank you! I was thinking of taking my comment down but now I am glad I did not. It's tragic when a child is hurt like that. And yes the more comfortable we are around the equipment we use, the more lax we become. If it's a boy of thirteen unbalanced and run over by the tractor or a 70 year old experienced man with a front end loader raised going up a embankment and rolling the tractor over himself. All tragic.
@@lpmoron6258 yes.. I've seen an elderly man also roll a tractor on the side of the road into the ditch right infront of my car. It was an old tractor with no top. So he was just sitting in an open seat. So crazy that barely anyone stopped to help this elderly man. These days ppl don't want to get involved. He ended up being ok from what I observed. But you never know what kind of bumps and bruises would show up after the adrenaline faded. 🙏 you can never be to careful. And any reminders are more than welcome. I do this with my own kids till they get sick of hearing it. But you know what? I know they do hear it and it gets imprinted into their subconscious mind even though they roll their eyes at me. It doesn't matter.... They know I love them and care about them. That is where it's coming from.
When I replaced 1/4 acre of grass with a garden, I used a sod cutter, flipped the sod upside down so the roots were exposed to the sun for a few weeks, and then built lasagna beds on top of it
thats a great idea my friend thanks for sharing!!
That's the way to do it!
Bro even if I would already know everything you talk about, and I don't, I would still gain part of your energy. Keep on doing what you do.
Gardening the seventh season zone 6B (NJ): planted groundhog radish, buckwheat, oats. and mung bean as cover crop back in August on some raised bads for fall planting of strawberry and garlic. Have a mix of winter rye, forage radish, and two types of clover for the end of season cover. Also, I keep the roots in the ground and bury all the shredded scraps from my plants in the garden beds at the end of season to keep my worms happy. Works for my soil.
Hello Galina, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??
That’s a really nice cover crop. Wish I would’ve added more diversity like you had.
Fava beans are incredible cover crops. I let some form natural barriers and to get a harvest and the rest i chop and drop. One of the highest protein and early yielding legumes.
Excellent video of each step in the transformation. Lush, productive and healthy. Plentiful harvest. Congratulation to all. We have a small backyard no dig garden and buckets. Landscape is sloped so not interested in expansion. In our mid 70's and garden is keeping us young and healthy and happy.
YEP! This is the way to go NATE!
These people are so fortunate to have a huge area to do this one a large scale.
I just love the little girl being hugged tightly on the trackor.
Gorgeous kids. And dear Jenny working hard too. Hi to Jen from me. 👋
I planted Vetch in parts of the garden before winter to see how it would grow. Beautiful flowers.
You see NATE as you know
I am new to gardening, and I still learning. So I am experimenting to see how to grow things.
Thank You so much NATE, for another Awesome demonstration of how to do it properly.
Wonderful to see a lot more people are joining your Garden Like A VIKING channel.
Thumbs 👍 and making comments too.
And I am pretty sure all you guys are sharing NATES videos, and that is of course gathering momentum.
And this will help you to realise your "Garden Like A VIKING" garden centre, sooner.
Much love from 🌍🇿🇦
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thank you always for the positive energy my friend be sure to let us know what works for you and what doesn't!!
Hello Pam, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??
Best gardening channel on TH-cam .
I'm in a temperate climate (Belgium). Started a new plot on what was previously pasture by first applying a silage tarp during summer to kill off the grass. Two months after that, the sod was tilled into the soil with a two wheel tractor and tarped again so any weeds sprouting would die off. Finally, before applying compost for the no-till beds, the soil was loosened with a broad fork. I sowed fava beans (broad beans) in February in the beds where the warmth loving plants (tomatoes, corn, peppers) will be planted. First time using green manure, so let's see what happens! Great channel!
That farm in Tennessee looks like paradise to me. I would love to spend some time helping on the farm. I'm going to learn a lot from your videos. THANKS
Oh my goodness! You even grow precious little hobbits! ❤ Love your content! Very helpful!!
Thanks
I needs ta be able ta put some more thumbs up!!
Thank you sooo much Nate ( n Jen!)🙏🙏
I liked that you gave us fun bits with your family. Makes the video feel more personal. Like we are part of what’s going on. Great quality of content. You show us what when where and why to use these techniques and technologies.
thank you for the helpful feedback my friend!!
Nate, I absolutely love your garden, but this garden you consult on is a gardeners dream! Thank you for bestowing us with this knowledge. I love how your techniques just make sense. It is not complicated, just follow nature and she will provide for you!
its so true it really is a dream garden!!!... follow my Instagram because I'm going back down there this coming week to install this years garden!!
Great info. This is what mankind needs, the path to independence. Keep up the good work m8y! 👍
I used tires on top of solid plastic.The soil was from an old horse farm. I planted spring summer and now fall crops in the same dirt just adding compost. I used your method for the fish fertilizer and also the banana. Unbelievable results.Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
I would love to see some pictures of this setup of yours!... please post some to the Viking Discord chat under the section "garden pictures"... that would be very helpful to people!
Wow! This is a super packed video with tons of info. I will need to watch it many many times to get it all. Some 38 years ago I saw a friend do this sort of green manure cropping except I didn't know what he was doing. It's wonderful to see their harvest. Nate, keep up with this kind of content. Great value!
Hello Dorothy, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??
Definitely a dream garden! ❤
Thanks!
thank you for the kind support my friend I appreciate you!!
Wow, fabulous video..thank you Nate!!!
Hello Elizabeth, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??
This spring I started a new garden on land that's been fallow for at least 30 years just by putting down tarp material. Lumber yards receive shipments of wood wrapped in disposable tarps, so I picked up ~30 of them (~5000 sqft) for free. A little pelletized fertilizer using recipe by @LDSprepper in each plant hole... best garden yet. Tarps eliminate +99% of weed pressure. Zone 5B, growing on tarps was perfect for my butternut squash, hubbard squash, spaghetti squash, 3 kinds of pumpkins, yellow and green zucchinis, 4 kinds of sunflowers, 10 kinds of tomatoes, marigolds, MJ, calendula and chamomile. It's full sun, so the nasturtiums didn't do well until mid season when they were shaded by some of the other plants. The zucchinis on tarps were great and I'm proud of them, but the zucchinis in the garden with electroculture lines were ridiculous.
Wow! Such amazing growth😮! Something for me to look forward to. 💜
God Bless
Been a while since I have seen a video of yours. Nice to hear your voice.
How nice to be independent in healthy food. Thanks Nate!
Thanks
thank you so much for the support my friend I'm happy you are benefiting from the videos!!!
Hi Nate, can you give us recipes of the special aerated tea's that has been used, please.
I planted sorghum this summer as we had a drought and nothing would grow. It was the best thing I've done for the garden so far! Cut it back three times. The soil is now clumpy and kind of sticky whereas before it was silty sand. I plan to plant oats over the winter and will terminate in March.
Q: what do you do if you are a home gardener ( most self subsisting now) without digger or tractor. Glad to hear more about virgin soil improvement. My no- dig start up has been very poor this year as you described. Now I need 3 cubic meters of compost each year which is a huge piece of work. Interesting to see new options. I am thinking to take up the scythe. 😊
That’s right my friend the amount of compost needed is often overlooked and not discussed with the market garden type no till process… literally dump truck loads of compost!… yes you can do this every year if you want to and many people do… but eventually you can and should transition to “real” no till as its better for everything involved
Hello Maree, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??
Excellent results!
Hello Laura, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??
I found your grow potatoes in a bag video and started watching others .new sub
Found your channel two days ago and have binged probably 15 videos so far. Have a small BTE style garden in the front but just broke ground in the back. Heavy clay soils where I’m at but luckily have access to plenty of manure and leaves. I just tilled everything in but now wishing I would’ve waited until April or so. Really looking forward to adding some of your brews and potions to my rotation. Happy gardening friends
welcome to the tribe my friend!!... from what you've said its actually probably a good thing you tilled it all in earlier than you would a green manure crop... because leaves will take a while to break down and become plant available so its a good thing you mixed it with manure because it has the nitro the bacteria will need to decompose the leaves.... the green manure method is so high in nitro it only takes a week to start becoming plant available thats why we do it only a couple weeks before planting...
@@gardenlikeavikingHow reassuring. Thank you for taking the time to comment back. I'm planning to apply many of your techniques and hope to report back with glowing results. Thank you again!
Love watching your subscribers grow!
Great video. You're teaching me a lot.
Very nice video Nate,
Good comparison on different methods depending on your situation. I am personaly not a fan of plastic but my garden is to big to mulch everything. I always hoe out the weeds in an early stage and only pull where tools can't reach. I have it very well under control and I don't spend a lot of time on it. The wheelhoe helps a lot for the larger area's. Timing is important.
Great start! Do they intend to continue growing on plastic mulch and maintain the super-wide walkways? Or is this a transition to a more traditional soil + organic mulch system with narrower walkways?
well that's TBD based on many factors... the primary is the labor involved with this size of setup... they are a family with 6 young kids and do not have the life hours to spend much time gathering/spreading organic material... then weeding.. etc... this method here they just went out and harvested thats about it!!
Slightly off topic Nate but starting from this year I have rewatched all of your gardening videos through the year and you used to introduce your videos with “Hello my friends” and now when my fiancé hears you playing in the background he always says Hello my friends in your introduction tone.
Well the recent videos (as I have caught up on all your videos) you changed your intros to “Okay my friends” and my fiancé is saying, “No, no, it is not okay my friends, Nate! I need Hello my friends back in his introductions!” 😂 Just passing it on as I didn’t notice the change but Jeff did!
Whoa I never even realized that!!... thanks for pointing it out my friend but the new way of saying it just feels right lol… I don't even think about what is being said it just flows out of me🙏🌞
Awesome video great job on the garden looks fantastic! This will work perfect , I can't wait to get started! Thank you
Champion Viking garden! Good job!
Loved the video! We are going to try the green manure system for a couple of years. As always thanks for the knowledge! Your friends garden looked great 👍
yes it helps establish very nice soil that can eventually be left no till and will be amazing that way!!
Thank you!
Great video! Using oats, tri-mustard, and crimson clover here in zone 6B KY
Could you please make a video about keeping critters out like deer. A video about fencing and keeping it simple. Thanks
Next time you have an abundance of fluffy soil like that, I'd like to see you guys make some 'soil-angels'... i would 😂
Lol the kids would love that!
Amazing results.
I may leave more than 1 comment, but that seed spreader! Dude. I have the hand swirl by Scott's and the Mini, but that unit looks very different and interesting. I hope to remember to bring it up Saturday at Noon 🔴LIVE 😂
🙏🇨🇦👊🏻👨🌾💖
that'd be convenient because it just so happens I'll be back at that exact ranch doing the live Saturday!!
Getting too hard to til now but making compost in bins and use raised beds much more success. Use the pitch fork in the beds to loosen and mix. Quail poop in my compost working better than anything so far. Too broken to be doing squats in the garden now.😂Gotta take it easy with health issues and find things to make things easier on me. Lots of perennial food now near maintenance free like berries, new fruit trees and asparagus and Egyptian walking onions. The Artic kiwi is driving me crazy though. Taking forever to take off. Before it went crazy fast at old house.
I've never heard of Arctic Kiwi??... it's cold hardy Kiwi just like it sounds??
This is very important information, mostly for people like me who will be starting to be growing food for the first time ever, l am watching alot of your videos so as I can get the knowledge and equipment needed thanks. Please how can you do is if you have a very small garden? Thanks
you can turn the cover crop in by hand with a shovel and a hoe... it'll be a lot of labor but in a very small garden it will work just fine!!
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OK thanks for the reply
Wow!!! That is incredible! I REALLY wish I would have came across this in the fall last year!!! ARE YOU FOR HIRE???
Great video, as always, thank you!
Nice 👍
My good friends …. Master Viking I have a question,,, I follow all your advice and wanted to say thank you..
1. Question. I do have a patch of lawn grass that I love to walk around. Since I started with your channel I don’t want to buy factory grass fertilizers. So can I use your fertilizers for my lawn of grass to make it. Green and Lucious?
yes absolutely you can use these fertilizers... make the fish fertilizer and use the wood ash fertilizer for a very lush lawn... also can use the JADAM JLF
Thank you!!
In the past here in Pennsylvania 6b, I have always done a heavy burn of kindling, brush and crops that dried out and were overly fibrous. Having only begun studying Jadam/KNF for 12 months, I have tilled the last 3 years, but going forward, only tilling to de-establish grasses. I'll still be tilling every year though. Why? Because every year, I decide to increase my garden size by 25%. Our 4×4 firepit also acts as a sod processing device, de-establishing the roots of sod and replenishing the soil with CA, MG, and Ph, before being added to the garden.
Great video
planting the rye this fall!
This is an awesome project! Eastern PA and i think my first fall garden is a failure. Planted to late and not much growing. Learned from it though and give it a try next year.
yes timing is critical!!... generally in our zones we start the fall garden from seed the first week of July to be planted into the garden the first week of August give or take a week
This is the way to go! Look at those veggies without any of the Jadam stuff. Can I do this annually or once every two years to enhance my soil? It sounds less of a time commitment and effort. I have access to a ton of leaves.
I love the video and the green manure method! If I have virgin ground, assuming I'll need to pull up the landscape cloth each season to plant new cover crops to till into the soil for the first few years. Is that correct?
Great job. I have some acreage in Carolina and would love to get it going for me at some point.
good show, cheers Nate
I was thinking this week to burn an area for new beds to kill the gras, tilled it in stead with the spade 🤣
Just wondering. What if you don't have enough leaves? I wonder if you put arborist wood chips that include leaves, twigs, etc would work for a good ground cover over Winter instead of having live roots. The fungus will at least grow and I have mushrooms that come up in the spring in the wood chips as well.
How does watering factor into that garden? Did they run under-cover water lines or were the planting holes large enough to take in enough rain?
please watch this video to understand about the watering aspect th-cam.com/video/KFR1A2Cmntc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=2tvNRnXJBcaPvdim&t=527
So cool! That rubber conveyor belt stuff is OK to put on your garden?
Hi Nate, if I send the lantana camara (pest repellent plant) jlf through the roots of plants, then will repellent agent be deposited in plant and pest may be repelled?
it is very possible my friend yes... give it a go and observe the results... if its truly pest repellent then it will work no matter on the leaves or in the soil... but each pest reacts differently to each JLF so test it out!
Do you find that the aerated compost teas are better than the jdam with the potatoes?
Is this right?
Till with machinery 4-6 inches
OR burn leaves on top of ground
Plant a cover crop ASAP
Till
Encororate manure and ashes of burnt sticks
Cover the ground with plastic sheets. Within one week do the next step...
Plant seeds in openings of the plastic sheeting.
You got it… and if your garden is small enough you can use grass clippings or straw instead of the plastic if you’d like
@@gardenlikeaviking Thanks, I am going to do it!
Has anyone ever heard of anyone using trucker tarps for weed suppression. I have a few around and was curious if they would work
Ultimately that sounds fine to me as long as the material doesent have any materials that can leach harmful chemicals into the soil
yes that is common practice to kill off the grass... but it requires time and high temps with sun so start much earlier than you would anticipate you'll need the ground ready... I've done it this way with a tarp many times over the years with great success!!
@@gardenlikeaviking I appreciate you Nate. Your advice has helped my family and I big time up here on the homestead. Also I'm trying my hand at some " high stakes" gardening and things are looking fantastic. When I get a bit more financially stable I'm gonna send a few bucks your way
Zone 4b - did my first LUSH cover crop on 2 50 foot beds for our garden next year. So happy!
nice!... what plant did you chose for the cover crop?
Hello Melissa, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus???
Lots of plastic barrier widths between crop rows. What issues if instead a living cover of perhaps clovers actually photosynthesing, providing root exudates? Maybe mow it every now and then to keep it from going to seed.
There is no video link at the end of the video where you suggest the next video. 😢
I believe I fixed that issue... thank you for bringing it to my attention!
Hello Rexenne, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??
In the fall...harvest completed...whats next to remineralize the soil with all the covering on the ground...or is it removed?
that's TBD actually I'm heading back down there tomorrow and we're going to assess the situation... possibly another round of green manure or possibly actual manure or maybe nothing at all we'll see
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Hello Liz, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??
So, can we purchase the compost tea recipe from you? where do we get that?
Awesome. Have you posted the compost tea recipe yet?
Hi, where do you get your cover crop seeds from? Thanks
Are you going to have to remove the rubber/plastic cover to add more compost or grow more green manure at the end of the season?
several options... yes you can remove the fabric (not the rubber) and either add fertility like manure or plant another clover crop for green manure... or just leave it as is and still it will work really well for another year or two at least so long as you use liquid nutrients such as the fertilizers on this channel
Nate, with the dragon method, will it work to use a lawn trimmer to chop down the alfalfa, then cover and plant? I don’t have a tiller available for that first pass. Much appreciated!
yes you can do it this way and I have done it many times like that... just chop (finely) and let it lay there to decompose and leach into the soil... the IMO's and earthworms love it but you won't get the same "blast" of nutrients you get from tilling it into the soil but yes it still works great and you get the added benefits of the roots and fungal relationships being left undisturbed and thats a major benefit... do it!!
Thank you for the details! Will give it a go as you describe, and add all nutrients I can to the mix. Loved the year-long view of that awesome southern garden- super encouraging 👍
Ok, this might be a strange question, but where do you buy bulk cover crop seeds? I have a store that sells bulk seeds for deer plots - is that ok?
Did the water go thru the black barrier? Or was it drip fed
yes water goes through the fabric its woven material also there's lots of groundwater
@@gardenlikeaviking awesome my friend
🙏🙏Iam from India . In preparing wetting agent your using canola oil it’s difficult to get in India . Instead of that any oils used for wetting agent .🙏
Thankyou
Regards
Yep confirmed. Stuff potatoes shallow in the ground they said. It will break up the hard soil, loosen up the grass roots and save me the need to plow they said. So I pierced holes in the ground with a pole iron, stuffed them in and covered them up with a little dirt. They did not even make a plant. - Establishing - a vegetable field without any means of pre tillage is BS I say. Unless... one plant a pioneer crop of dynamites, that would work I´m sure.
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Itstead of tilling it in i just cover with a tarp. Tilling is just bad period. Tilling destroys the fungi and makes a hard pan at the bottom that makes it very hard for roots to go threw. If you do till it should only be when you first make the growing area
I wish I could afford a tractor😢😢maybe I can rent one😊😊😊
IF YOU STILL USING FERTILIZER until TODAY,
meaning there is something wrong with THE WAY you DO farming.
PLANTS do not need any fertilizer.
This is BASIC PRINCIPLE of THE REAL FARMING.
You need to LEARN how the plants originally living in their habitats.
SETUP the SOIL is more important before doing any farming,
let the rain-water, sun, and wind take the rest.
To whoever has the little one on the tractor. Please be careful with the little one on the tractor!
As if they need to be told that. You feel superior now that you've voiced your concern? The arrogance!
@@CraftAmundous Actually it's a good reminder. My husband when he was 9 years old got run over by his dad on the tractor. Kids will play on machinery they feel comfortable on and my husband was jumping up and down and fell and his dad ran him over. His head and all... severed ear, eye but luckily no brain damage.
Every year kids get harmed on farms. About a decade ago or so 3 sisters were buried by silage. I believe the government has farm safety programs in place but it's been a while since I have heard anything about them.
@@CraftAmundous nope! Know of two kids that lost their lives sure to incident involving tractors. And two adult men who did things that they knew not to do. So stuff does happen.
@@healthyfitmom thank you! I was thinking of taking my comment down but now I am glad I did not. It's tragic when a child is hurt like that. And yes the more comfortable we are around the equipment we use, the more lax we become. If it's a boy of thirteen unbalanced and run over by the tractor or a 70 year old experienced man with a front end loader raised going up a embankment and rolling the tractor over himself. All tragic.
@@lpmoron6258 yes.. I've seen an elderly man also roll a tractor on the side of the road into the ditch right infront of my car. It was an old tractor with no top. So he was just sitting in an open seat. So crazy that barely anyone stopped to help this elderly man. These days ppl don't want to get involved. He ended up being ok from what I observed. But you never know what kind of bumps and bruises would show up after the adrenaline faded. 🙏 you can never be to careful. And any reminders are more than welcome. I do this with my own kids till they get sick of hearing it. But you know what? I know they do hear it and it gets imprinted into their subconscious mind even though they roll their eyes at me. It doesn't matter.... They know I love them and care about them. That is where it's coming from.
Thanks