I MADE A HUGE MISTAKE (In the No Dig Market Garden)
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"The big mistake" is at 13:55. Thank me later.
Trump's Dingleberries thanx!
Thank you for saving my time
Thanks! That saved me precious minutes. Carlin is G.O.A.T.! What a legend.
We need people like you more
I'll thank you now!
I have a lot of respect for anyone who can stand up and say "I" made a mistake thank you for sharing and good luck with your remedial efforts. I look forward to seeing your future successes.
Cornwall Celtic Experience... I agree. Very respectable. Thanks for sharing your error as well. We can all be better if we can prevent old mistakes.
Cornwall Celtic Experience
a lot easier to to when you are generally running a decent life, and feel ok with decent dignity.
that's how you improve.
I'm still a little confused on what exactly the mistake was.
They put down low nutrient wood compost first to help retain moisture in case of another drought then added about an equal part of nutritious compost right?
Then they raked them together to mix the 1:1 ratio of wood to nutritious compost?
Is the only mistake that they worked too quickly and should have been more careful about mixing everything evenly?
I'm also wondering why they wouldn't put down plenty of nutritious compost first then just a few centimeters of wood compost on top for moisture retention.
Any info is appreciated.
We are a small farm school in South Africa and find your videos extremely helpful. Just ordered your book for the children. Can’t wait for it to arrive. Thank you for all your advice
Admitting mistakes is a sign of strength, kudos.
The lesson I take from that is, "don't make arbitrary deadlines, just get the work done and it takes as long as it takes" - I"ve seen hundreds of thousands of dollars fall victim to this false management fallacy that you have to set deadlines.
Richard" I have so much respect for you and your farm. If you're afarmer there will be challenging days and rewards days. I'm just thankful To see all the youing people stepped up to be afarmer!!. I'm from Vietnam and I'm proud to be a afarmer . it take passions and will to be afarmer. I saw it in your eyes when you're talking about your FARM.😊
Pure joy watching this little boy brings back memories of my childhood, thank you your doing a good job, may God continue to bless you.
We so often learn MORE from mistakes that what is going well. Thank you for allowing us to see them and learn. I really love your videos.
Very true that. I often tell new farmers asking for magical farming secrets advice that they should pray for a fair bit of failure, especially in the beginning. You reap its rewards as you go along.
'The best fertiliser is the gardener's shadow' Chinese proverb :-) You'll be ok.
How beautiful ..thank U for sharing this proverb @hugs@
Just mix up a liquid feed and run through the beds 1-2 a week,it’s amazing what an anaerobic digester can do 🤷♂️
I just realized, after looking at a few of your videos for the first time in 2024, that Ridgedale farm is in Sweden! How wonderful! And thankyou for sharing mistakes and thoughts about how to manage it.
I love how you’re so honest and transparent. God bless y’all.
I only have a small back garden, but this is encouraging stuff even for me, so thanks for sharing your trials and tribulations. A great set-up.
Richard. I love to see the looser atmosphere you show by sharing unexpected and more kind of trial and error footage in comparance to last years high productivity super professional foitage. There is a sense of Gracies Backyard going on. Love it! All the best to all of you wonderful people.
Yes thank you for the honest look. It will be better next year .
Love all your videos.
Thank you very much for sharing this. I think one of the biggest stress managers for me is realizing there's a community of folks that love efficiency and effectiveness and hate making mistakes... and that community of folks still makes them now and then despite all the planning and thought that goes into a project. It's easy to feel isolated and overwhelmed (emotionally, physically, financially, and spiritually) when a big mistake is made, so I place a real value in hearing about the tough times and seeing an example of someone working through it. It serves to limit the doubt and feeling of lost bearings that can come with those mistakes. And keeps us all grounded. Thanks again, and all the best with this speed bump.
Thank you Richard!! Always very informative. It takes strength to admit an error but that is often the most valuable information!! So grateful for all your hard work and expertise shared from these videos!
Love this video, partly because you're disussing your mistake, partly because of the paperpot experience in a short season and also cows.
The skill of a craftsman is to know what to do when the unexpected happens either through error or circumstance. Then be able to fix or correct it so there's the minimum impact. The way your going about fixing it seems like the best option. Glad you're sharing how you fix things rather than glossing over issues.
Cracking video and good luck in resolving the situation.
I'm saving those first two sentences so I can quote them, very well said!
Agreed! Well said.
This is the first of your videos that I have seen. What a beautiful, beautiful property and operation! Following...
Great to share such things we are all human you know .mistakes often happen when you prioritize something else your concentration on the normal stuff dips a bit & catches you out frustrating for sure
Thanks Richard for not just putting out 'nice' vlogs - we can all learn much more from one another's mistakes and I've learned lots tonight - thank you! :)
I have been watching your videos for years now and I *SO* appreciate you showing the outcome of a project that had poor consequences. We are all on a learning curve and mistakes are often just as valuable as successes. THANK YOU for sharing. I'd like to believe I might someday aspire to a place as well-thought-out as your farm is. You are dauntingly impressive overall ... BTW- I'm excited about the multi-species livestock operations you've added.
Thank you for sharing the day to day. The little things are so important.
Such valuable information! Thanks for sharing so other people can learn from what you do. Wether you want to call some of them "mistakes" or not it's all learning and very much appreciated!
Hats off to you, we can all see how this has impacted on you. Very brave to show this mistake and is good for young people to see failure and how to manage it, you are doing a great job
Thank you for sharing - so inspiring (and impressive) whith someone assuming full responsibility
-and thanks for showing the value of observation!
Everyone is having problems the weather this year is pretty bad worldwide it seems. Stay motivated....the non stop rain has been beating me down for over a month here
Its very hard to trust someone else to do work outlined properly and with the dedication required. We were going to go with the paperpot system, but after watching this, will stay with the tray system. Thanks Richard.
Hello from Northern Australia. I over come that issue when it comes up by soaking poultry manure pellets in water and then diluting it 1 ltr into 10 ltrs of water and applying it to the plants via watering can. It is a big job but it works and you see results within days. Cheers D.
Is the issue here that the very fertile layer of compost was not spread evenly?
@@flowerfieldfarmstead5793 I think so, yes. They were in a hurry to get the job done, and got careless.
I made the woody material error a couple of years ago, by year two it was all looking good again. I really hope that you can get it sorted before too long. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Liz, By woody material, are you referring to straight woodchip compost i.e chip with leaf that has broken down?
I swear I could listen to you talk about how to count straws in a straw bale and I'd be 😃 smiling. Love listening to you
almost the same problems here, I used too small planting trays, broccoli planted into field too small at size, 40% killed by short time water shortage and cold, but garlic is growing well, we do not use any compost but are planting into pure clay soil, do mostly add only potash (500kg per year) from our woodstoves and burned wood, manure does make plants grow very nice but the quality of taste of vegetables dramatically drops same as the storaging capability, my aim is to grow vegetables with the best taste, we do not go after quantity, we are selling at 30% + to the average bio market price, do not make those small pasture plots for our animals like you do but give them a 8 hectar plot which is fenced only 75% so they can leave the pasture at the distant end from the farm and go on for wild grazing. Goats, sheep, pigs, turkeys are grazing all together. All the best to you. I will follow your season on TH-cam.
Happy belated Birthday to YOU Richard!❤️❤️❤️
Wow, it's amazing how something that seems so small can have such a broad impact like that! Very valuable to learn about it and to hear about your strategies to remedy it: add fertility via composted manures, compost teas etc; scrap the worst beds, refertilize them evenly, and then replant; scale up micro greens; etc. Another thing that occurred to me assuming you continue to get the amount of rain you have been, is that you could scale up your egg and meat bird operations if you don't think they would be too much for your recovering pastures. You've got that one egg mobile that's not being used at the moment that you could fill with birds and there's always a strong market for eggs. Don't know how long an order for birds that are already laying takes to get delivered, but you could surely get meat chicks relatively quickly I imagine. Is that right or is it too late for this year to order more at this point? Anyway, those two have always been so profitable for your farm that they could pick up some of the financial slack from the veg losses as well.
If you have time to respond, I'm very curious to know whether my thought process on this is on track or it's way off due to a strong necessity to keep some of the pressure off your pastures that were hit hard in the drought last year even though you're getting so much rain.
Also really valuable to learn that in more extreme climates like yours it is far better to have your first starts at the beginning and end of the season be larger, more well established starts, whist saving the paper pot transplant starts for mid season plantings when the weather is much friendlier to those fledgling sprouts.
Please keep this extremely valuable content coming. Sharing your breakdowns as well as your successes are such valuable learnings for us novices. Very courageous and generous of you, and much appreciated!
That is such a great example to learn. Thank you so much for sharing.
There is a trick for the carrotseeds. You can sprout them under a board. That keeps the moisture much better. You have to look every day and if they start germinating, they already have such long roots that you can skip the board and they will grow well.
Long boards work well for lots of places in the garden to save moisture to protect from freezing. Saved me lots of times.
Good on you man. Its a tough thing to admit, or especially vocalise, a mistake. Hope it all comes good swiftly for you.
I love what you’re doing on this farm, absolutely love it. In terms of editing and production values I feel that you could make the videos shorter and more specific to the title. I’m interested in finding out what the big mistake was but I’m obliged to scrub through the whole video to try and find out. What I’ve resorted to is checking in the comments for clues, then scrub through to the bit where you’re standing next to a garden bed and hope you’re talking about the big mistake.
I really want to engage more with the channel but honestly I quite often skip over when your videos are suggested in favour of ones that I know are more specific.
Hope you get chance to read this and know it’s all love. I’m exactly the customer that would get sucked into watching every video, buying the book, signing up for the training etc. I’m just a busy dad trying to set up as a designer whilst working a full time job too, and struggling with how to engage with the content on this channel.
i AM GOING THROUGH THE VIDEO BUT i CANNOT FIND HIS MISTAKE. i WOULD REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT IS.
FOUND IT AT 14:00.
I managed five minutes. As a vegetarian I'm not interested in looking at bits of dead pig, so I shan't be back. Please note: I'm not disapproving, if you're going to eat meat this is surely the way to go. You just bored me.
Agreed
He is a talker. 😉
One of your best vids. Its raw and honest. You are right. Everything doesn’t always go right but there is always something to be grateful for. And yes… there is always a straggler 😃
Thanks for the update and what to do about thinking through the next step.
Possibly the best of your videos I have seen so far, although the crux is the comments regarding the failure are only in a minute or two(@ 20:00 @13:55). I have had patchy problems with spinach in my raised beds, where in the tilled soil right next to the bed they have grown perfectly. Farming is one of the hardest arts to master...
That mistake was a short term loss but a long term gain. Now you know what not to do.
Amazing endeavor..thank you for taking care of the earth..and thanks for your video.
I enjoyed learning from you! Thank you for sharing!! Blessings to you all!!!
I'd look at compost/manure foliar feeding the spotty beds. It's a bit more work, but you wouldn't have to scrap everything. And in just a few days the lagging plants could catch up. It's still early in the season. Good luck! I know timing in the market garden is important, and a setback like this feels heavy, but there are ways to turn it around.
Asante sana kwa kuinua lugha yetu ya Africa (swahili) thank you bro I like what you are doing.
hey richard maybe you could spray some fertile liquid (compost tea etc.) for the short fix and then reammend the beds?
Thank you for sharing what is not going well and how you plan to deal with them. Everyone I have heard of is having a harder year. There is a 200 year cycle of solar minimum with varying weather, temps, cosmic rays and precipitation. History shows famine in these cycles. I believe rain and mold affected the crops that did grow in the 1600 and 1800's. I hope this cycle we have knowledge and skills that will help us get through. Communicating with each other is a great way to survive .
Richard didn't attribute the crop failures to solar cycles or cosmic rays. These do affect climate, and potentially had more impact during pre-industrial times, but their net effect is completely dwarfed during the post-industrial era by CO2 and CH4-forcing. If cosmic rays really are the main driver of climate (as many climate change sceptics suggest), why has the solar cycle (currently at a minimum) decoupled from global mean temperatures, which are record hot and getting hotter? No matter where you look: land/ocean/atmospheric temperatures, combined with dozens of other climate proxies (e.g. Arctic sea ice extents, mountain glacier retreat, species distributions, forest fires/storm/precipitation magnitude and frequency etc) are also moving in a hotter, not cooler direction. Solar cycles and cosmic rays cannot explain the magnitude and direction of modern climate and weather extremes because they cannot possibly explain the observed changes. The paleo, pre-industrial, post-industrial, proxy data are all totally aligned with each other, and all indicate that atmospheric CO2 is the main show in town, and the dial we all need to be watching.
@@watereverywhere I don't get your answer right. The video is talking about a colder year that previous affecting crops. And co2 music is all about a climate getting hotter so linking this to the video conclusion, co2 is ok.
ziborgbe Absolutely not. In fact 2019 was the second hottest year -globally -in records. Just because there is spatial and temporal variability in the magnitude and direction of heating/cooling relative to pre-industrial baseline doesn’t mean the overall trend isn’t towards a hotter planet. Like saying the basement is still nice and cool while your house is on fire.
Zharkova grand solar minimum
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Made the same mistake, not mixing compost ... but could save the harvest (more or less) by giving the plants compost tea. I know feed the soil not the plants, but it worked and it saved my business.
Germination of carrots is often a tricky thing, last two years I cover the seeds with cardboard until the first green leaves appears. This way it is so much easier to keep the seeds moist.
Keep up the good work. Thank you for you honesty...“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” (Robert Louis Stevenson)
So whats the mistake, i kind of only half get it... i did once added straight mushroom compost to a raised bed, about 70 to 80 % and it wasnt the best idea. His mistake was the wood chips or not mixing the compost? And mixing you mean with top soil or other thing?
I ask that because I removed the grass from my front yard and planted white clover and marigolds as cover crops, we are in Oahu Hawaii. It turned out beautiful but after an year some weeds are trying to take over and Im thinking if I should chop and drop the cover crop, then add molasses and cover it with cardobard then cover it again with mulch, good soil, compost or mushroom compost that is cheaper. I do like the cover crop and the benefits of it, but the wood chip would make things cleaner and easier to manage... im thinking maybe half and half... cover crop around the edges and around raised beds, but between every other raised bed I would do a wood chip walking path... i dont know..
I was thinkinf in just planting in the cover crop but harvesting becomes becomes more foraging
@@pedromq7807 Haha, I know what you mean :"harvesting becomes more foraging." At the end of my far too long answer you'll find our solution.
Hi, Pedro and thank you for asking this questions. From my point of view: I use every year two types of compost. The first one is from wood chips which have been on a pile for at least one year. I add this kind of compost because our soil is very heavy clay.
With organic material it keeps way better the moist during dry season here (about 6 months of no rain.) This is as you could say a poor compost, lot of carbon and some micro nutrients, but almost no 'N'.
This compost is mixed in the soil for about 1 spade deep. (We don't use a spade, but anyway it is to give you an idea)
The second type of compost is a mix of manure, leaves, leftovers from vegetables and fruits. This is spread out on top of our beds... the mistake I made was working with volunteers and not keeping an eye on them. So the compost was spread out but not evenly. The result was the plants standing in an area with the second type of compost were doing very well and the ones that had no compost were starving. The were not thirsty because the organic matter of the first compost kept the water in the soil.
Why I didn't notice before the damage was done? Well on top of this second compost we put a layer of hay (end of autumn, beginning of winter). Every material that is composting takes nutrients to feed the bacteria (that is why you have to be careful when you use wood chips, composting wood chips takes a lot of nutrients for a long time.) We use wood chips with perennials and in the orchard or food-forest whatever you want to call it, but not around our vegetables.
As you wrote, put the wood chips on the path between the raised beds, the wood chips will start decomposing, this process will take nutrients from the soil and this way you'll benefit from two fronts : 1 take sunlight away and 2 taking the food for the wild plants away, it will slow their growth.
We use cover-crops on large areas, always a mix of nitrogen fixers and plants that will cover (taking away sunlight), this way in spring we pass with a scythe. The large cover-plants will cover the small (like clover) and then we plant our seedlings.
So I hope this was a little helpful, have a nice day and keep growing your food. Reinhold
@@reinhold-vst9499 thank you very much
This is a great example however of massive of an impact your soil makes. The side by side comparison is huge.
Sharing a solution to a problem is very helpful. I am surprised you talked a lot about the problem and a little about the solution. Many growers have staggard starts already planted to fill in. I am very surprised you would take out a thin row instead of planting inside it. I know you thought about climate change when you chose your farm location. These problems of dry one season and very wet the next are just the start of climate challenges. Thanks for sharing, your place looks great! I would love to see the actual solutions you do.
You have a really impressive set up. I suspect your yeilds will be great next year if you just balance that nitrogen/carbon ratio!
Love how you share the good, bad, beautiful and ugly👍
When direct seed planting have you tried the Bill Mollison Plank (cardboard, sheep wool etc...) method of retaining moisture over the seeds bed? Works a treat.
LOL were your crown covers off when it hit? I live in a yurt so I have a vested interest xD. Thank you for sharing this. I usually learn more from mistakes than from success. Down the line I'm always glad for them.
The "big mistake" at 13:55. Collect some fresh human urine dilute it 1 : 1 with water (or other good organic fertilizer) and apply it manually with a watering can at the stunted plants, the soil not the plant, so that would be not a shower but more a targeted trickle / stream. That should give them a boost. enough interns running around. If only a part of the plants are affected doint it specifically would be better (those that have enough should not be over provided. And if a whole bed does poortly - well then give the whole bed some extra. (but also pouring it onto the soil not the plant).
Remember, one big experiment! Forgive yourself. Thank you for sharing, I know I feel better. It is so easy to git discouraged. You must draw on your successes-perhaps make a list. This is a challenging time and more stress is just more stress. Hang in there.
Don't waste the pellets seed, just put them in a plastic zip lock bag, and run your hands over the sides or use something a bit heavier, to break the clay layer away. For pellets seed to germinate it must be same near wet for at least 4 or 5 days
Ouch! Thank you for sharing your experiance.
I used pelleted carrots year before last and had the same problem. Raw seed germinate much better.
Youre doing a great job mate thanks for the video. No Dig is a constant learning curve and i think it takes a couple of years before it really starts working well. All i can say is set up some worms farms. I have a couple of bathtubs set up on the farm, and i do very little composting, letting the worms take care of majority of the farm waste, and in return giving me free fertiliser. It really is natures cheat move. Them beds i would aerate with a fork by just punching holes in the soil, dust with some composted manure, and add worm wee. I suffered many of these problems and still do after starting a No Dig farm. I'm getting the worms to help with a chop and drop method too where i just throw the waste from the plants back on the beds. All good fun!
This would be a great review for holistic decision making process, used as an education piece.
I too am learning that taking precious time to do it right out ways the just get it done because it needs to get done quickly.
Sacrifice quality or quantity. Very hard decisions.
Ragnar a mirror image of our son with our chickens - both the BEST and WORST helper ever 😆. Thanks for sharing - least I have a good idea now why my beets and carrots are so ordinary.
Hahaha, we have a three year old who just loves ‘helping’ out. I can’t even count the amount of eggs he has broken 😂
Very valuable content here. Lack of fertility has dogged us. We have exceedingly high phosphorus numbers. Hard pack clay. We have had to leave all brassicas and squash behind due to the horrible pests we have endured the last 2 years. Our hakurei turnips were covered since seeding and I used beneficial nematodes but the root maggots are still a terrible nuisance. They have ruined all of them. This year we are doing a "Salad CSA" and our beds are turning out better produce. Except for the hakurei. We now are going to transition to no-till. We have made some terrible mistakes this year as well. Thank you for sharing.
@@no-diggarden I'm sorry I didn't see your reply earlier. We had lab tests done. They didn't say anything-just gave us numbers: 85ppm in the 1st garden; 30ppm in the 2nd garden; and 77ppm in the 3rd garden area. Decided to just use tons of worm castings this year because our organic matter was in the decent range but that could hurt us next year. Going no-till is what is doing the best for us, I think. We had a better year. But we decided to get some of the wood based compost to put on the beds at the end of the season and did what Richard suggested-lay the wood based, rake it, then add the worm compost, rake it and tilth it all. We have covered each bed with either landscape fabric for the winter or 80% shade cloth. He was right to suggest spending your most money on your compost. We plan on sticking with no till, and worm compost this coming year. We do not have access to grass fed cow manure nor good chicken manure. Everyone around here is mega farm-Indiana. One thing we found works wonders for carrots is to cover them with shade cloth right against the ground until germination. It protects the seeds from rain or hail. Got that from a guy in New Zealand.
So beautiful and educational thank you; have you made a video on how you propagate seedlings?
Thank you Richard.
Thanks for sharing these struggles. We can relate.
maby you could add some biochar soaked in nettle slurry or compost tee to your beds to add some nutriens and increas the wather holding even more?
Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Thank you for sharing the errors, it truly is healing for those of us who have stumbled also. I dumped out the litter from the pigeon loft and seem to have killed my daylilies , hyacinth and ground cover while 2 different sources of squash seeds have failed to germinate now making it too late to try, the grapevines have run amok majorly while the mints have disappeared. Who can kill mint? apparently me.
congratulations for killing them off ! Learn and avoid mistakes in future. Never add bird/poultry poop directly. mix with hay/compost and let it decompose before use.
@@sujithsom5459 actually was 6 most composted and had done this every other yr 4 times.just like seeds that refuse to sprout..it just happens
@@cherylcarlson3315 seeds don't sprout if they are not viable or soil/temp /humidity conditions are not right.
Thank you for sharing the great, good and not so good. Your place is absolutely beautiful!
Can you make your own compost tea? Maybe that would help with the nutrients needed for the plants to grow. Might be a little extra work but hopefully would help mitigate losses over the rest of the year. If you use a small shredder to shred green garden waste dump it in a bin of water it will speed up the compost tea process.
Brilliant information Richard, thank you. I suffer a huge amount with the same beets issue you show in this video and although I believe some is due to seed quality the fertility of the ground throughout the bed may be my issue. I'll ensure I get a more even volume spread in all future bed prep as I have really, really heavy clay soil.
Good luck Richard.
Save ur coffee cups and hit up anyone you can for them. Tim hortons cups make great starter pots . They don't mold they hold lots of material and can grow plant comfortably for 30days
blood meal. carbon (wood mulch) need nitrogen thats all. its got lots of everything else
Question: How would you have laid down the compost differently for the desired result? Thanks, Brendan
Looking good.
As for pest control.
What do you find works best for slugs?
As for the wood chips.
Do you get much mycelium running throughout?
Since you are hand planting would it not be easier to apply all the soil amendments and then hand dig each plant rather than trying to place mulch around the plants?
I’m educated on the experience that you need. I know insects, diseases and constantly researching info. I would
Love to be able to help you.
Yeah level rake both time. On the other hand you could have use an army of manual cage rollers compost spreaders to put the final layer onto the coarsely spread wood compost. The roller would have at the same time spread evenly without having to rake in, and also evening the first wood compost layer by plumbing it under its own weight, basically shaping the bed while you go with the roller.
So so valuable. Thank you
The sound needs to be higher so we can hear it.
Thanks for the video. Your mistake has shown me what i have done wrong in some beds. Not no dig btw.
I am new to gardening veg. The next project is to lay cardboard, wood chip and sugar cane mulch ( I'm in Oz ) over an area approximately15m x 15m.
Then im laying my 'soil' on top leaving pathways between beds that will be wood chipped eventually. Hopefully that will work.
Will be using mill mud as that's all I can get in large bulk quantities.
The sun is a major issue here. Im hoping compost ( next year ) will stay moist enough with insect nets over them? Otherwise we'll need a whole lot of mulch material.
Just purchased a wood chipper. It will get a lot of work. 😊
Do you guys use drippers?
Hey :-) the mushroom roots, myzel in german language, is quite good in garden. No question about. BUT when you create new beds, why not implement eatable mushrooms? In germany you can buy "seeds" everywhere in internet :-) you could raise mushrooms for selling or eating nearby your crops without additional work. Just harvest and sell while you raise your crops.
Do you have any video on your greenhouse as I see that it survive that high wind? We have a lot of high wind in our area and have been searching for the type of greenhouse that will withstand high wind like yours. Thank you...awesome video.
After hearing about your experiments last year with wood based compost i did the same thing in my gardens. I mulched in the winter with 3-5 cm of a composted barkmulch material. By spring the bed surfaces were completely weed free and the tilth created by the composted bark was very nice. However i have had the same issues of inconsistent and slow growth that you are having. Do you think if one uses and wood based compost mulch that additional fertilitly is required?
A subscriber from Kenya, East Africa. Happy to hear some Kiswahili😁😁
I agree with most of the comments here. You’re very courageous to admit to what was not that successful, and that you’re learning from it. Another thing that springs to mind is how often many of us think that gardening is so easy. Amateur gardening at home is totally different from gardening where you actually have to produce results. Either in beauty, or in yield. I am totally with you when you talk about monitoring the one whom you’ve hired to do the monitoring (I’m a professional gardener myself) it can be very time consuming. Of course you have to be in the garden yourself. But your fellow gardeners should have a basic knowledge in gardening on a large scale. It’s a craft. It takes years to learn. Also a general misconception, again I am not saying this is so in your case, is that just because I think gardening is fun, I am a pro gardener. It’s like me saying I enjoy cooking, and think I could go into a restaurant kitchen and be head chef from day one. They would probably make me peel potatoes for the first year at least. These are my general thoughts after 25 years as a pro gardener and manager. There’s also a lot of stuff you need to know about chemistry, biology and so on. And discipline and attention to detail, opening your senses, so that you can spot pests, diseases and just the general well being of each and every plant. So beautifully put by someone in the comments: ”The best fertiliser is the gardener’s shadow”. That is so true. Again well done you, for the hard work that you do, and for being so reflective and insightful and sharing. And for not giving up. 👏👏👏🙂🌿
were the modules sown into the soil or compost? could you gap up with modules sown below compost into soil?
Just wondering about mixing soil and manure just anylizing problems what about mixing soil 3 parts to 1 adding ammendment before planting compost tea and vermicompost.
I think your awesome helpful with my own endeavors.
Thank you..
What about adding bio char to animal waste compost
What are the IBC totes you have by and in the market garden? I'm not sure if you call them that in Europe. I mean the plastic tanks that can be picked up with a fork lift.
You should rotate your animals on your pastures. Start with chickens on a pasture for 2-3 days, then move them and put sheep in the same spot that the chickens were in, for 2-3 days, then move them and put cows in, for 2-3 days, then back to the chickens. The chickens will scratch the manure from the cows and sheep, and remove the bugs from their poop, and they'll spread the fertilizer of the cows and any other animals you may put into the rotation. You can clear land like this for pasture, and clear woods like this, and it's also a great way to fertilize your pastures. Just a suggestion, take it or leave it.
Heh i kinda made the same mistake a couple weeks ago with a really long raised bed we put in.... was in a rush to get it done and planted (we have a very long growing season here). i didnt mix it in as good as i should and now i got some peppers doing good and others stunted.
Forgive me, would someone be willing to clarify what he did wrong (I'm having a hard time understanding his terms, and hearing, am new to gardening!) as well as what the mistake did for the bed, and what he is suggesting would have been better?
Is the issue that he used the wrong materials, the wrong materials together, or materials in the wrong order? Is the issue that they were mixed a little when he raked them in? From a permaculture standpoint, I can't figure out what exactly is going wrong, but I'm not sure I understand what happened : )
He used two types of fertilizer, one of which was wood. The fertilizers weren't raked together well, so in the spots where the wood fertilizer was the plants didn't grow well.
@@dismayedtrinket2518 Ah, thank you for your help!
I was confused too. Thank you for the clarification. :)
Failing Forward! Painful mistakes create fertile ground for deep roots of learning to take hold, yielding exponential improvement of results over time. Awesome! Thank you for being humble enough to offer us a vicarious experience of learning. If you could see the fruit borne from that over time with your viewers, I believe it would seem like an explosion of productivity through time!
Blood meal or fish emulsion will really help your issue with the wood mulch, use just a little at first to gauge how much is needed, although more the merrier with leafy greens. I've had this issue before with wood mulch. Its a simple nitrogen deficiency really. and possibly a Ph thing, could be slightly too acidic, a little bonemeal can assist that.
Right - I heard about dried blood being excellent fertilizer.
So just to be clear, the issue is that the composts are very unevenly distributed in the beds where patches have the good compost and others don’t?
Instead of layering it where there’s a thin layer of less nutritious compost completely covered by a thin layer of good compost?
compost can be hit and miss these days, you should have your own composting facilities to avoid importing dodgy stuff, herbicides are found everywhere and it affects organic growers more than anything
They have enough from within for a normal years top up mulch, but this year they bought in and did a wholesale renew, but who knows what may be in it !
I think the issue here, is that woodchips eat up nitrogen in the early stages of decomposition, stealing it away from availability for the crops. This could be remedied by adding urine or coffee grounds or nitrogen rich organic matter to the wood chips to boost nitrogen levels. It can also be remedied by not tilling the woodchips into the soil, but only using at the very top of the planting bed as a mulch with highly nitrogen rich organic materials layered between the topsoil and woodchips. Herbicides could be a possible problem, but shouldn't be an issue with wood chips.