He Mastered the Art of Easy Vegetable Farming
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- Almost an entire lifetime of farming differently, farming regeneratively, and truly farming organic, so much so, not even inputs of animal feces. Always viewed as a radical, he took what he learned in his professional career and realized the huge problem coming with the food industry. In order to pivot, he had to do it himself. Now he aims to share his message with everyone that there are better ways and even less back breaking ways to grow food!
Jarhead Farm
Toccoa, Georgia
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Been gardening/farming my whole life . Best thing to do is ALWAYS hear the other guy out . Find what works for you and blend into your own style of farming . I appreciate this video
I couldn’t have said it better myself!! I’m so glad you enjoyed the video! Thank you!
Ran into an old lady a few years that gardened this way. The old timers know and we should listen!
Oh yes.
THIS IS FAMOUS OLD RUTH STOUT METHOD BEEN AROUND FOREVER
Dang. Interviewing people is sooo much more difficult that most people realize. This was done incredibly well.
Thank you so much!!! I appreciate you recognizing that! I try hard to make the farmers feel comfortable and to be genuine and authentic. ❤️❤️
Best gift I was ever given was, "The Ruth Stout No Work Garden Book". It's the basis for my current garden.
I'm in the desert in Arizona and simply compost kitchen veggie scraps, coffee grounds, eggshells, sand, weeds, green grass clippings(when I can find some) and whatever else blows into my lot. I'm in a very close neighborhood setting.
I don't shade the plants, I let weeds grow and have tons of volunteer plants that produce prolifically, especially butternut squash.
I DO have to water, though. 😂
Surprisingly, even at 120°, everything bounces back from the direct sunshine as soon as the shade shifts.
Thank you!
Yes!!! Wow!! That’s so awesome!!! 👏
Love this. I would love to see his garden when "things are growing."
Me too! Haha. We would love to do a follow up when it’s a growing season.
Fo sho
no watering, no weeding, no fertilizing, sounds too good to be true honestly. kudos to him. good vid.
That’s what I thought too!! But it’s just that simple! Haha.
I call 🧢🧢
Just think about how things work in the wild when nature is balanced. We lost a lot of education matching to the bear of the drum of the beast
I have a question? I see where he’s using round bake hay.? We have leftover organic hay from our farm. What about the weed seeds in the hay? Do they come up thru the hay? Thanks 😊
@@joycerichardson2029 as long as the cover is thick enough not much will germinate.
I cannot tell you how refreshing it is to see and hear an more mature, Southern, male living to benefit the future of children and our environment! ❤️ He teaches, shares, and openly welcomes 🎉🎉🎉🎉 beautiful, simple, loving, and tacit knowledge 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🥳🥳🥳 really doesn't get much better than this ❤️
I wish I had money for a ticket
Thank you so much!! He really is doing some great stuff!!
We need more farmers like him.
Oh my goodness this is exactly how my grandfather and my dad taught me how to do my garden to this is amazing I thought that not too many people knew about this understanding of the natural environment for getting the best garden in the world
That’s great!!
I love that he shared about pacing yourself with homesteading. That’s what I teach people too. We don’t have to do ALL OF THE THINGS. 😊
Yes!!! And what a hard concept for some of us, myself included! Haha. But yes, we don’t have to do all the things all at once! ❤️
@@BreakingNewRoots I did the same! I’ve been homestead for over 21 years and I think my generation was part of the problem. 😁 But I’ve been trying to undo someone of that by teaching about how our communities can provide some of the wants and needs we have. It’s a much healthier way to live. 😊❤️
@@homesteadingforbeginners that’s fantastic!! Where are you located??
@@BreakingNewRoots in north Georgia actually. 😁 I started in California though so growing out here has been a new experience for me.
@@homesteadingforbeginners oh wow!! That’s awesome!! Well if we are ever in the area again we would love to come see you!
Make sure the person that cuts the hay Don't spray his field with Grazson or any other pesticides or herbicides
My grandparents had a garden like this. They weren’t out there weeding or watering the garden. In fact I don’t remember them doing any maintenance at all. Just went out to pick the produce.
Wow!! That’s awesome!! Oh the questions we could ask them now! ❤️
She asked great questions!
Thank you! I am genuinely interested in every farm I visit and I try to ask realistic questions. Cliff was great to talk with though and kind of made it hard to ask too much, “it’s just that simple” he says 😅
She asked what we needed to hear. She's good.
@@johnkn12 thank you so very much!!! I’m glad I was able to help showcase this great farmer! And others like him!
As soon as a question popped into my head about something he said, she asked it! Definitely great interview.
@@eviemaddox3038 that’s awesome!! Haha. Thank you!
We have been adopting the No Dig garden for the last 10 yrs. It works.
We have just bought a 161 acre hay farm/ pasture/trees. Its rolling fields and glorious.
We will be adopting regenerative farming on all our land. Never will we disc or Till.
My surrounding farmer neighbours think we are nuts. Bless their hearts😂
We live in Alberta,Canada in zone 2. Its May 21st 2024. We had a small frost overnight. Will plant out tomatoes/ peppers next week when risk may be less. I mulch with wool from our sheared sheep.
Oh wow!! That’s awesome!! Thank you so much for sharing!!
Vegetables do not absorb flavour from manure
Grazon and other broad leaf herbicides do not wash out of round bales not matter how long you leave it.
Amazing how people will listen to a doctor rather than us old farmers.
I love this guy fantastic, so thanks for the video. I love the hippys. What a world we would live in if everyone was a hippy. It would be a beautiful place to live.
Thank you so much!! We sure are excited to keep meeting more people like him!
I'm a capitalist with Hippy tendencies 😂
😅
Me too.😊
@@BreakingNewRoots I’m a hippy off the 60’s, with capitalist tendencies; 🤣. But not very many
I live about an hour from Mr. Cliff. After seeing this video, I visited him at his farm. He is a wonderful person and a wealth of knowledge. If you are ever in his area, check and see if you can visit and buy some of his veggies. It was a pleasure.
Oh wow!! That’s so great!!’ He really is a great guy and I’m not surprised at all that you were able to visit him!! ❤️
Here in Louisiana I can add my green grass clippings straight into my garden in little thick piles around plants and fruit trees and the heat, humidity, crickets, worms, pill bugs and microbes quickly break them down into rich soil and I have to mow about every 3 to 4 days so I`m constantly adding more. I had to build soil from scratch because previous residents here added gravel to a lot created by bulldozing a hill down to very hard packed red dirt. I had to use a pick axe to plant my fruit trees.
I also mow over leaves in spring and fall and add pine straw, flattened piles of forest soil, leaf mold, twigs, weeds etc. I scattered organic fertilizer with 20 added soil microbes and bone meal and some organic lime pellets too because our soil is acidic and I wanted to add some minerals to the mix. I noticed tubers needed these to form and I added it and used turnip transplants and radishes to get the levels just right.
I`m slowly building layers of rich soil and I don`t till. I may loosen the soil some if needed to mix in very rich leaf mold in some areas or dig a small hole for transplants but that`s it. I also leave the roots of plants in the ground and cut the plant stems when I need to remove them. I burn small amounts of leaves, twigs and pine straw here and there too and water it in.
And something is always growing 365 days a year and usually a variety of things are planted together because I`m always experimenting and filling in empty spaces. There`s a huge amount of life underneath all the organic matter on the surface and a whole bunch of fish bait if I need it. But my garden isn`t neat and pretty in any way and this confuses pests and creates a nice habitat for predators and a larger variety of foods.
Wow!! That’s so cool! Thank you for sharing!! ❤️
Does this type of farming increase snake habitat? In Oklahoma we keep everything mowed low to keep the copperheads at bay and I wonder if straw beds would harbor snakes?
Need an answer as I am terrified of snakes, any kind. Can't even stand worms as they remind me of baby snakes. Lol
@@louisewelch5451 aw! I’m sorry. I’m not sure. It makes sense that snakes would probably like it, but just like many places on a farm, they could really be anywhere. Maybe you can luck out and never have to see one haha 🤞
Are you able to cast seeds like beans, turnips, or everything has to be transplanted?
I started to garden like this two years ago.❤️👍
His way is like Ruth Stout’s “ No Work Gardening” I read her books last yr and thoroughly enjoyed them. I’ve enjoyed listening to this Jarhead too!
Yes!! Just learned about her and am so excited to read her books!! Glad you enjoyed the video! ❤️
Thank you for being on youtube!!! I love this way of growing our food. When I move, I will be doing mine this way, God Willing.
Thank you so much! I agree! When we settle down one day, we will be using his method as well!
Thank you so much! I agree! When we settle down one day, we will be using his method as well!
Love it. The easiest way to go no-till garden. Your plants will love you for it.
Absolutely!
This validates our 12 foot garden concept. We are in Central Alberta, so we don't have permafrost,but we do get deep frost and fewer growing days than Cliff. We are only 2 years in, so this willbe the first year growing in these gardens. I'm not a Jar-head, but I am a veteran, so HOO WAHH to Cliff. Cheers.
That’s awesome!! I’m so glad his methods are helpful for you!! Thanks for watching!
This is gold! I’m currently on the same path with my gardening and it’s also very spiritually healing for me and the earth 🤍 love this!
That’s great!!! Thank you so much!
Great stuff, especially information provided about spraying and irradiation of vegetables. While irradiation has been around a while, I believe it has increased recently. I'm one who has used the grocery store as a seed source over the years. Peppers were one type of veggie that I'd frequently do this with. This season was no different, and I'd picked up a large and hot jalapeno and some nice elongated pablanos over the winter with intention to grow out. For the first time ever, not a single seed from the grocery store purchased vegetables germinated. All of my normal seed bank peppers germinated on the heat mat per normal. After reading a little bit, I realized it was likely due to irradiation. I considered how much radiation it must have been applied that it sterilized the seeds. It can't be good.
Oh wow!! That’s crazy! I didn’t think of that! Thank you for sharing!
Yeah, it becomes progressively more frightening year after year.
@@jarheadfarm6811I do believe you are the Joel Saladin of vegetable farming! 🙏🏼 Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Interesting. This is why people are doing carnivore! Everything else is so toxic.
Jicama, strawberry, spinach salad w poppyseed or Vidalia dressing is my favorite spring salad!
Oh yum!!! 😋
I love the way you’re doing things on your farm, as a retired commercial farmer with a little land left to play with I would love to find out more! I really enjoyed this video. Thank you so much for making it.
Thank you!! I’m sure cliff would be happy to chat. His links are on the description of the video. Thanks for watching! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
My husband is a farmer who sells cover crop. The cover crop has changed our garden dirt tremendously! It went from hard clay to awesome dirt. I'm super impressed that he saves all his seed. I was wanting to try that but it sounds like so much work!
Wow!! That’s awesome!! I’m so glad it’s been so helpful for you! Yeah, I always thought the same too but you also might be able let them seed themselves and just drop the seeds on the ground.
Just clean hay! ❤
I've been wondering about what kind of hay last two days. I've readied the bed. Also want pumpkin but cannot rototill which is a mess anyway and leaves soil wide open to problems. Your video couldn't be timelier.
I’m soooo excited you did this tour of his garden!! Great info!!
Thank you!!! It was so great to meet him and to see his super simple methods!
I can’t believe how simple it all is and how little he has to do for his garden! Thanks again!!
Right?!?! It reminds me that we as people try to understand complex systems so well that we end up just making more complicated than it needs to be. We will definitely be implementing his techniques when we settle down again!
Definitely Agree!
Thanks!
The farming equipment folks ,and companies like dupont or monsanto would not be making millions if this video got out. Its the Ruth Stout lazy gardening method being taught here in Canada by Back to Reality and old Ruth taght her method for 30 years. I remember watching my Grand Dad shaking ddt on the potatoes n tomatoes.,and the tractor guy whipping thru and all the hours and days he spent slaving over that gravel pit turned garden. How this would have simplified his life. I have been building these up here in frozen chozen Canada. It works. People are amazed by it.
Oh yes! Isn’t it crazy how much we complicate things by trying to make them easier with equipment??
Interesting concept. I just built three 4 x 8 raised garden beds as means to recycle my old straw/droppings from my chicken coup. From his advice I will definitely have to mulch things well!
Oh wow! Yes, I’m sure this method would be very helpful for you!
Raised beds to compost the bedding straw is a great idea, but I have to find a way to recycle the actual chicken manure
This "old hippy" definitely has a secret garden stashed away from public view 😅
I believe this guy, a doctor once said we have to eat 10 apples today to get the nutritional equivalent of 1 apple years ago. At the end of the season they use to harvest fruit/ vegetables then till the remainder in for the next season. Farming is not done that way not, because of gaining more harvest the soil is depleted of its nutrients. I would love to have this guys fruits and vegetables. Listen to Dr William Li
Oh for sure!! Cliff is a great guy! I am so grateful to have met him!
This guy!! Happy fella. ❤ Love his thoughts. Thanks!
I really enjoyed him too!! 😊 thanks for watching!
He is right...live and let live. It works. It always has.
So glad I found this video! What a neat down to earth gentleman that is happy to share his knowledge to help you better your life and health.
Thank you so much! I’m so glad you enjoyed the video!! ❤️
I love your focus on the soil life and regenerative farming 🌿! This is great 🙂🌿!
Thank you!!
Truly genius! 🍃🌸🐝
And, NO 💩 put in the soil!!
Technically, worm 💩 but definitely great information and very generous advice! Very grateful and am excited to put some of it into practice
Ideas always come with sharing..thanks for the info
Thank you!!
That's fine if you know where your hay comes from and it's not sprayed with chemicals. Aged horse manure is wonderful though, as long as you know where it came from and what the animals ate. Love the Ruth Stout method and grow a lot of my vegetables this way. I never till even for sweet corn.
For sure!!!
I grow my own horse manure. 🐎 😂
I got some horse manure from a local organic farm and ranch. My garden exploded when I used it 😂
@@crownofhair
The main reason not to use 'unknown' manure (particularly horse) is you do not know what chemicals, such as dewormer or pain meds like banamine or bute, may have been given. If they are truly organic, they may have something else to use (tho I don't know what that would be). I just put the manure from those times in another area.
@@kathleenredick275 it makes perfect sense
👍Went to see a bigger gas-run rototiller today...felt kind of sad to see all the machinery. So thanks you two, this farming video turn my plan back to researching this kind of less machine-dependent and toxic methods of farming/living.
King Solomon wrote: "Lo, this only have i found: that God has made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions." The non-addicted sort of hippies, were right about lots of things!
Best discussion on this sort of gardening i have found yet! Thanks lot ❤
Oh wow! I’m so glad this video was helpful for you!! I hope our other farm visits can be of similar value to you! We have many more to come! ❤️
@@BreakingNewRoots
Thanks again!
@@ByDesign333 ❤️
Are you my long lost older brother??
Only got smacked hard with this truth 12 years ago (60 yo)!!
Thank you for the common sense, confident topics and tips!
Thank you!
I just moved into my new house in February and need to break grounds asap ⏰ can’t wait to get dirty nails again 🤗 hay all the way 🌾
That’s awesome!! ❤️
Fabulous video
Thank you!!! ❤️
Trying and growing different vegetables and varieties is fun and often very productive.......the way this gentleman and many others like myself is the way of a healthy future 😊❤
Saving seed is very beneficial, the plants acclimate to your climate.....saving seed is not difficult... Try it folks you'll be impressed. I also use deep leaves to plant in..... beautiful black soil full of life is what happens with this method.
I save seeds from the strongest of my garden. I know it means they're the best adapted.
i am trapped in an apartment and had a stroke. I long for a yard to grow veg. To eat fresh, clean veg would be outstanding. This man is very wise and people could learn a bunch from him. I designed a prototype dehydrator which never got tested. My design had the air forced flow downward, seemly backwards. Nevertheless, I don't know which is best but I do know the commercial devices are too expensive and a waste of money for bulk dehydrating. IMHO None work well nor efficiently. Temperature is key. Some day I hope to finish what I started. If I ever get a chance? God willing.
Hi! Thank you for sharing your story! I’m so glad you enjoyed this video and hope you equally enjoy more. Would you be able to grow on a window sill? Even if it’s just a tomato plant?
Try container farming. If you’re alone, doesn’t take much room to grow fresh veggies.
@@donnaquillen3375 great idea!
Thank you for asking him about the business and financial end of things. As a professional small farmer I’m always interested in how other farmers make their living!
Oh sure! I agree! Where are you located?
Great video you learn something new every day watching in Ireland
Thank you so much!! Wow!! Hi!!
Mow and mulch - simple yet profound. Very inspirational content. Without good food the body doesn’t kick on all cylinders and you don’t get to reach your true potential on every level. Thank you thank you thank you. Aloha
Hi!!! Thank you so much!!! It really does seem just that simple
Ruth Stout's No Work Garden method alive and well! Great! :)
Thank you!!!
Awesome interview ❤ Native Floridian, truly appreciate the Piney Point mention. Mo is still trying to get permits for 24k acres in Arcadia.
We believe in his methods 100%. #MoGot2Go
Thank you so much!!! ❤️❤️
Wow! That was pretty amaising. I wonder if we could get away without watering at all, here in the Algarve. We don’t get any precipitation from APRIL to November, and temperatures hover in the 90-100’s in summer. We mulch quite heavily with straw here, the differences being that we return every bit of vegetation back to the land, mostly composted or burned first. While most people water everyday, with drip irrigation, we haven’t had to water yet this year. But generally we water between 2 x weekly ( courgettes) and 2 x a year ( figs). Other things are never watered (hedges lawns , vines and fruit trees). Our friends and neighbours can’t believe it. We had to pay 8 euros a bale for straw this year, 5 last year. Thanks for bringing this.
Oh wow!! Thank you so much!! What you’re doing is amazing!!
💚👍Great job!
Thank you!!
I just subscribed to both of you! Thank you for sharing this valuable information!!
Thank you so much!!! ❤️❤️
So cool thanks for the video!
Thank you!!
So inspiring,thank you! God bless you
Thank you!! ❤️
Clear thinking, knowledgeable man, wish there were more of him in the world! Great interview.
Thank you so much!! I think there are a lot of people like him, they just aren’t in the public eye. That’s why we love our traveling journey so far! We get to meet these kinds of people face to face!
@@BreakingNewRoots Keep up the good work!
@@AllGrowing thank you so much!! We sure will try!
I’m using similar permaculture methods with weed free straw and wood chips as a mulch. It has transformed the clay soil here in the city. Great video. Great guest. Great questions. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you so much!! I love that you’re using it in a city!!
This works but people need to realize, not over a season. I am in my 3rd season of gardening in ground that is almost pure sandstone. The first year I didnt want to till because I wasn't sure how many tiller blades i would break trying to get a 30 by 30 plot turned over. And what would I accomplish? Just digging up rocks to have them settle back in after a few rains. So I went small. First I chopped and dropped all the weeds there. Then dug out a few holes for some tomatoes, peppers and sunflowers, backfilled them with peatmoss, compost and fertilizer, then used the lasagna method of covering the entire space with cardboard, chopped down grasses and weeds, more cardboard and the chicken manure I discovered encrusted in the chicken coop that was falling down. In the fall, chopped and dropped the plants I grew, more cardboard, layers of leaves I raked up and the bedding I got from the chicken coop we rehabbed to raise our flock. Garden got expanded the 2nd year by digging and backfilling more holes. I did dig out 2 trenches and backfilled them for beans, and again layered whatever organic thing I could find along with cardboard. This year, I am excited to see a good 4 inches of organic soil on the surface. And the beautiful thing is, as plants root into the soil, it helps break down the sandstone base. I figure, in another 2 to 3 years, I should have a garden bed that has a beautiful loamy organic soil on top and won't need the peat moss any more.
As for young homesteaders. Many dont appear to be practical and realistic about what they got and what they can do. They dont seem to have a long term plan, instead expecting to be self sufficient after 1 year. Many jump in with great plans to have lush gardens and loads of livestock without really understanding what a commitment it is. They set themselves up for failure because the reality did not meet their expectations. And it doesn't help that there are TH-cam and FB channels out there that make it seem to be a walk in the park. I've also seen so much bad advice and misinformation on those same channels.
So true!! Thank you for sharing your journey! It really does take work, and some failure, and more work. 😅
@@BreakingNewRoots
What many don't understand is that failure is life's greatest teaching moment. Instead they think it is a judgment of their attempt.
If you try to build a house, and it falls down, it doesn't mean you can't build a house, it means you did it wrong. I've learned to laugh at myself when things don't go according to plan. My immediate thought. Well I won't do it that way again.
@@reibersue4845 yes!!! I love the way you put that!! Thank you! We are our biggest critics and really need that extra confidence to keep working through!
Would like to see how he stores his product...does he use root cellars or refrigeration? Or both?
I'd guess fermenting, canning, root cellar, and dehydrating.
17:00 he's using a solar dehydrator, how cool!
What a great interview. So interesting. Enjoyed both of them. I’m inspired by his method.
Thank you so much!! I’m glad you enjoyed it!! ❤️
Thank you
Thank you!! 😊
Thanks for response
Great interview!
Thank you!!!
This is brilliant! Thank you both so much! I moved to the big island of Hawaii and learned a valuable lesson when I bought multiple banana starts and planted them in random places but the one that was planted in the middle of a huge mulch pile that was dumped in that spot a year earlier and this banana grew and creates fruit and baby banana plants a hundred times faster and better than the other starts. Aloha and mahalo!!
Oh wow!!! How cool!!!
@@BreakingNewRoots completely blew my mind that’s why this video reminded me of how true what you’re saying is.
@@Aloha4You absolutely!!! ❤️
Wow. I'm going to follow his method.
The Philippines also have jicama. Unlike the Mexican version, the Philippine jicama that I used to eat is sweeter and smoother. The skin is lighter.
Oh! That’s so interesting!!
Same as Ruth Stout, very nice!
ive been trying to grow my own mulch, & growing peanuts to put nitrogen in the soil. Not bring anything from outside, tho i may get some straw. I gather leaves in fall for compost. We have to irrigate here, but can grow fall winter crops, so garden all year. Soil nutients get washed out quickly. I like his methods. Simple is best.
This was great!
Thank you!’
Great video! I'm going to start looking for some clean hay!!
Thank you! That’s how I felt too!!
Good! The more we learn the better the future.
Old hippy👍🇨🇦. We are the same💕. Thanks for this wonderful video. Blessings for 2024.
Thank you so much!!! 😊
Been there - early 1970s. No drugs, just back to the land. I'm alone now and getting back to what we did back then. Inflation and the 'corruption' in the food system has pushed me to do more than just putting a couple of tomatoes in the ground. ❤
Interesting!
Awesome! Thank you so much! New Hampshire
Thank you!! We will be up that way this summer!
Very interesting and inspiring!
Thank you so much!!
Great ideas. Thank you for for this video.
Thank you so much!
Like go to the paver molders find the ones no one likes because they grow plants between them .
Cinder blocks are exlent . !
Crops love these blocks , the ones that are hardest to sell because too much grows around them PERFICT ! 10:02
GOLD 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Thank you!!
Beutiful video ! Interesting and lovely. Thanks
Thank you so much!
Thanks for sharing your wisdom! My farm is in northern BC and I have to say we garden pretty much the same as you, cold weather plants of course, but we can grow tomatoes, peppers, lots of herbs. Small rosemary plants that i bring into the house in the fall. We just do it a little differently. Wish I could find some rassoul clay here, great for a hair wash!
That’s awesome!! Thank you for watching!!
Great content- I appreciate you both!
How deep do you mulch with hay when starting a new bed @jarheadfarms ?
Cliff, many thanks for sharing your farm.
Oh that’s a great question! I think he mentioned something like 8 inches.
So your in Georgia . Red piedmont clay is an exlect contribution to Florida land for farming ..! 5:19
Use rabbit poop with the hay. It's the cleanest. I rotate where i keep my rabbits. They do all the tilling and fertilizing. After a a year or so il move them to another location and use their old area as a garden.
That’s a great idea!!
Great! I've been using hay and wood chips in my garden since I saw Paul Gautschi's videos on back to Eden
Oh wow! Thats awesome!!
I only grow California bell peppers, so no worries for me.
In Northeast India... soft, juicy, sweet cucumber we get... never tasted anything like it in my years of travel to diffetent places... Cool weather... 🎉
I'm starting a new garden at a new property this spring. I covered a section with leaves and cardboard boxes last fall with a view to trying a no-till bed. There is a dairy farm up the road and i think ive seen a few disintigrating hay bales. Thanks for the info. Will try that.
Oh yes!! That would be perfect! Just watch out if it was sprayed with herbicide. If it was and you put it in garden, it’ll kill your garden plants too. ❤️
@BreakingNewRoots yes, I'll be sure to ask. I am hoping, perhaps naively, that since they feed it to their dairy cattle, it might not be sprayed? Also don't want to offend them. But, your fellow here was saying that when it's sat out for a few years, it's had everything but the nutrients washed away.
Will scout it out a bit before asking.
@@chinupduck4849 unfortunately, what is sprayed is still fed to animals. I’m not aware of the science data but yes, Cliff says it’s washed away after some time. You could always do a test area and see how it does. Then you aren’t risking your whole garden.
I have found creeping Charlie growing with green leaves under 10” of mulch! Arrg!
Oh no… I wonder what that plants job is? Maybe add more cover?
Really dig( pun intended) his dehydrator...woud like to try one
? Great interview and great information. I was wondering about alternatives to the hay. Would grass clippings, straw or leaves work? Also does the Kaolin clay block photosynthesis?
Oh for sure! I used to use grass clippings on my own garden when we farmed. I think anything with cover would work great! I don’t believe the clay would block the sun as long as it’s a dusting and not a covering.
Exactly
LOVE this style of Hay, deep mulch soil care, but have not been able to be successful at it without tilling first and getting as much Bermuda out as possible. Southern grasses are a continual pest. Bermuda ryzomes can be 10 inches deep and I've had them come up through landscape fabric. After tilling, and constant loop hoeing determined starts poking up through the hay, I'm ready to try raised beds this year...just tired of fighting it. It's great for holding soil so it does have it's use. What is the dominant grass in your area?
Oh wow! That's difficult! I'm glad you were able to find something that might work for you though!! I'm not sure what his dominant grass type is, he is in north Georgia.
Go back a number of years to Ruth Stout’s writings on the hay.
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Yes. Thank you. I have since learned about her. Great methods!
My idea for this year is to till just enough to rip out the grass, then plant my crops, then once they pop up cover the whole plot with white clover seeds. This way theres no bare soil, i wont have mow between rows, and i won't have to add straw or wood chips every year because the plant will die creating plenty of foliage and it'll come back next year, it'll provide more flowers for pollinators, and it adds nitrogen to the soil. Next year I'll have to either my to start the seeds indoors or plow narrow shallow rows just enough to drop seeds into.
Oh that’s a great idea!!!
Simply beautiful way of life! Just like in Ruth Stout's book from the 1960s 'No work garden book'. Inspired my parents to go back to the land and inspired me to feed ourselves and others with real food! Has anyone tried kaolin clay on tomatoes ,eggplant etc.. to deter the colorado potato beattle. Up here on the Gaspé peninsula in Québec we have a huge population of potato beattles! Thanx
Yes! I hadn’t heard of her until after seeing his farm. So great!! I am not sure about the beetle problem though.
Grazon is cheap. It takes 3 years to come out of the ground once it gets there. The only thing that it does not kill are grasses.
Hate grazon. I bought hay with it, unknowingly, and it killed my entire garden. It took a long time to find a source of straw and hay without it. Most places have no idea if the hay or straw has grazon or glyphosate. I don’t even bother either them. Went to a farmer instead. Weird world we live in
Could use some clay soil here 😂 with thin stoney sandy stuff that nutrients drain out of quickly. but am lucky to have wormy manure compost from a small scale beef farmer within trailer distance. He can't afford antibiotics except when absolutely necessary, cuts his own hay mostly. Totally agree on the thick mulch; I use real old hay and/or dry leaves use what you can find
Oh my! But yes, anything you can find!
I have an acre garden, sand soil, harvest two acres of hay twice a year off the field.
I need to get a trailer load of chicken manure every year, or there isn’t food to harvest.
Also got 3 round bales last year for mulch.
But not near enough mulch.
I do not go to a grocery store, but very rarely.
I have to till every year.
Grass comes up, so does weeds, I’d need over twice as mulch to do no till.
There are 400 sweet potatoes growing.
My figuring is I need at least 8 inches deep mulch to cover the garden of of over 206 ft x206 ft, every year.
To do no till. And not need to buy food at the grocery store.
This is not feasible for me.
Georgia temps are in the 90s for 3 months, and only occasional rain.
If I had 20 acres I’d have enough hay to mulch. Grass grows short here.
Oh yes, all very good points.
Would rice hulls work as a cover instead of straw?
Oh yeah! Probably!