Another excellent Sunday AM for me :) the No Till is 100% game changer. As you said I still get weeds, but NOWHERE near what I’ve had in the past. Ive also noticed a much greater abundance and variety of birds. (Who wake up near 4:00 Am) We are mere months from buying our retirement house - farm, then 2 years to get our systems and scope better defined and then perfect a new set of skills :) thank you for sharing ALL of your sharing. Oh yeah, my DryShod clogs and boots arrived this week LOVE THEM!
I've had a no-till garden for three years and have about five minutes of weeding per week. People see the size of my garden and the lack of weeds and assume I must spend all my free time out there, but the reality is that I rarely have to do anything beyond planting, mulching, and harvesting veggies. I have to keep expanding the garden every year to give me more to do out there.😁I'm also finding that I have to do less watering each year due to the organic matter in the soil and all the mulching I'm doing, and that's despite the past few years in Missouri being exceptionally hot and dry. I'm doing more and more dry farming and getting great results.
Totally agreed. I’m in year 4 of no-till I’m Virginia, and it has been transformational. I laughed when you said you have to keep expanding just to have something to do. Same here! Happy gardening.
Teach me your ways! A couple years ago we bought 40 acres in Mo, and I realized our previous property spoiled us. This patch while lovely in location and seclusion has so much clay. This is only our second year on the property and I’m struggling to fight the crabgrass in our no-till garden
@@argetlamzn My method is having permanent beds (I do 30 inch) with woodchip pathways between them (I've been able to get some woodchips from ChipDrop or by calling local arborists, but most we've gotten for about $25 a truckload from Missouri Organic). When expanding the garden I cover the future bed with cardboard and cover the cardboard with leaves or leaf mold (we collect all our leaves with a lawn sweeper pulled behind our 4-wheeler), and I cover the future pathway with woodchips. To hold the leaves down sometimes I sprinkle them with compost, sometimes I cover them with heavy green yard waste like iris leaves, or if I have a lot of yard waste at the time I may do some lasagna-style layering with green and brown waste. I water it once a day for a couple days to make sure the leaves get matted down and won't blow away. If I do that in the fall, sometimes the bed is ready to use the following spring. If it's an area with some serious clay I cover crop for a year (usually sorghum sudangrass). Once I've got a bed planted I usually mulch it with leaves or leaf mold. I also have a wood chipper and sometimes mulch with homemade woodchips that are a lot smaller than woodchips you'd get elsewhere. By year two or three weeds are pretty much gone. When they pop up, sometimes I pull them and other times I just pile more mulch on top of them. I usually fork beds in the spring (I don't have an actual broadfork and just use a spading fork) but assume I won't need to fork them beyond another few years based on what Jesse and other no-till growers say. It amazes me how my clay has been transformed in a couple years. Leaves and especially leaf mold are so helpful in transforming clay. I have lots of wire leaf bins that we store leaves in, and some of the leaves I put through a leaf mulcher so they break down quicker or shred them with a weed whacker. We collect just about every leaf off our 10 acres. It's been so nice to transform our garden for free other than the woodchips we've had to bring in.
@@mslorischoolsocialworker , thank you! We bought an industrial grade wood chipper last winter and are slowly chewing through all the Bradford pear trees and turning them into chips, sounds like I should keep doing that and get a leaf catcher for us - the sycamores drop so many! Thank you for the thoughtful and detailed reply!!!
I'm too new to really have an opinion but in my new raised beds last year, I kept one of them planted with carrots through the winter/early spring and then pulled and immediately put my spring/summer plants in and that bed is doing phenomenally better than the other beds that were just mulched for winter. I'm totally sold on keeping plants in the soil at all times and only disturbing when absolutely necessary.
🔸️THE GOSPEL OF THE WORD OF ALMIGHTY GOD "the last age in which God saves man from the destruction of this old world" (The recognition of God's work in these times, in the greatest part, is the recognition of the God incarnate of the last days, what His main ministry is and what His purpose is to do in the world. Through speaking, by doing and speaking in all the land. This is the work of God in the last days; He only speaks so that the world may become a world of words, so that each person may be provided and enlightened by His word, and so that the spirit of man would be awakened and he would be clear about the visions. When Jesus came He spread the gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven, and fulfilled the work of redemption by crucifixion. The coming of Jesus the Age of Law and ushered in the Age of Grace. The coming of God incarnate in the last days brought an end to the Age of Grace. He came primarily to speak His words, to use the words to make man perfect, to enlighten and enlighten man, and to remove the place of the obscure God within the heart of man. He did not come to heal, or cast out demons, or to perform miracles, and He did not come to spread the gospel of repentance, or grant man redemption. The practical God came to show that He is real.) Almighty God said KNOWING GOD'S WORK in these TIMES, in MOST PART, is KNOWING GOD INCARNATED in the LAST DAYS, what His main MINISTRY is, and WHAT He PURPOSES to do ON EARTH. I MENTIONED to My THOSE WHO SAID that GOD has COME to EARTH (in the last days) to GIVE an EXAMPLE BEFORE LEAVING. ☀️ How does God show this example? THROUGH SPEECH, THROUGH DOING and SPEAKING THROUGHOUT THE LAND. This is the WORK of GOD in the LAST DAYS; He only SPEAKS so that the EARTH becomes a WORLD of WORDS, so that every PERSON can be PROVIDED and ILLUMINATED by His WORD, and SO that the SPIRIT of MAN AWAKES and he is CLEAR ABOUT the VISIONS. ☀️ In the LAST DAYS, GOD INCARNATE CAME to EARTH MAINLY to SHARE His WORDS. When JESUS came He SPREADED the GOSPEL of the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, and FULFILLED the WORK of REDEMPTION through CRUCIFIXION. He ENDED the AGE OF LAW, and BROUGHT ALL the OLD THINGS to NOTHING. The COMING of JESUS ENDED the AGE OF LAW and USED the AGE OF GRACE. ☀️ The COMING of GOD INCARNATED in the LAST DAYS BRINGS the END to the AGE OF GRACE. 🙏 He CAME MAINLY to SPEAK His WORDS, to USE WORDS to MAKE MAN PERFECT, to ILLUMINATE and ILLUMINATE MAN, and to REMOVE the PLACE of vague GOD WITHIN MAN'S HEART. ☀️ 🙏 This is NOT the STAGE of WORK that JESUS DID WHEN He came. WHEN JESUS CAME, He PERFORMED many MIRACLES, He HEALED and CAST OUT DEMONS, and He FULFILLED the REDEEMING WORK of CRUCIFIXION. ☀️ As a result, in His understanding, MAN BELIEVED that GOD should be like THIS. 😪 BECAUSE when JESUS came, He DID not REMOVE the IMAGE of the DARK GOD from the HEARTS of MAN; when He CAME, He was CRUCIFIED, He HEALED and CAST OUT DEMONS, and He SPREADED the GOSPEL of the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. On the ONE HAND, the INCARNATION of GOD in the TIME of the LAST DAYS removed the PLACE of the OBSCURE GOD in HUMAN UNDERSTANDINGS, that is WHY the IMAGE of the OBSCURE GOD in the HEARTS of MAN is no LONGER. THROUGH His ACTUAL WORDS and ACTUAL DEEDS, His ACTIONS THROUGHOUT the EARTH, and the unique real and normal work He accomplished with man, He CAUSES MAN to COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND the REALITY of GOD, and REMOVES the LOCATION of the OBSCURE GOD in the HUMAN HEART. ☀️ On the other hand, GOD USES the WORDS spoken by His FLESH to MAKE MAN COMPLETE, and to FULFILL THINGS. This is the WORK of GOD that He WILL FULFILL in the LAST DAYS. 🙏 What you should know: 1. God's work is not supernatural, and you should not harbor notions about it. 2. You must understand the main work that will be accomplished by the coming of God incarnate at this time. 💐 He DID NOT COME to HEALING, or CAST OUT DEMONS, or to SHOW MIRACLES, and He DID NOT COME to SPREAD the GOSPEL of REPENTANCE, or WILLING the MAN of REDEMPTION. ☀️ That's BECAUSE JESUS has FULFILLED that WORK, and GOD DOESN'T REPEAT the SAME WORK. In the PRESENT, GOD has COME to BRING to the END of the AGE OF GRACE and REMOVE ALL the HABITS of the AGE OF GRACE. PRACTICAL GOD came to SHOW that He is REAL. 💐🙏 When Jesus came, He spoke few words, first of all, He showed miracles, showed signs and wonders, and healed and cast out demons, otherwise, He spoke prophecies to make people believe , and to help people see that He is truly God, and a gentle God who does not look at anyone. In the end, He completed the work of the crucifixion. ☀️ GOD does NOT CURRENTLY show SIGNS and WONDERS, nor does He HEAL and CAST out DEMONS. When JESUS came, the WORK He did REPRESENTED a PART of GOD, BUT in the PRESENT TIME GOD CAME to PERFORM the STAGE ofvthe WORK WHICH was APPROPRIATE, because GOD does NOT REPEATE the SAME work; He is the GOD who is ALWAYS NEW and NEVER OLD, and BECAUSE ALL you SEE NOW are the WORDS and WORKS of a PRACTICAL GOD. ☀️🙏 From "The WORD Appears in the Flesh". holy book Fulfilled in "In the beginning He was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God" (John 1:1). ... and "When I looked up, someone handed me a book wrapped in a scroll. I opened it and I read on both sides the prayers, lamentations, and curses." (Ezekiel 2:9-10). ... "His garment was stained with blood. He was called the "Word of God" (Rev. 19:13). The kingdom He brought down and set up in the highest in the sky so that it can occupy His creation in the universe and engrave on it the entirety of His Holy name "THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD" 💐 fulfillment of (Mat. 16:18) "And I say as for you, you are Peter, on top of this rock I will build my Church, that even the power of death will not prevail over it.". ... and "The Letter to the Church in Philadelphia" (Rev. 3:7-13). ... And fulfillment of "The New Jerusalem" 💫 "The Spirit enveloped me, and the angel led me to the top of a very high mountain. He showed Me Jerusalem, the Holy City, coming down from heaven from God." (Revelation 3:7-13). ... " For the time has come in the house of God for the beginning of judgment in the house of God." (1 Peter 4:17). ... It is fulfilled that God Himself is our Pastor in (Rev. 7:17) 💐 "For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their PASTOR. He will lead them to springs of life-giving water; and God will wipe the tears from their eyes" 📩 Calling and leading the sheep of God to His glorious Throne "THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD"💐 to submit again to His authority so that He will continue to teach, guide and protect even in plague, famine and wild animals will not be moved by it and completely win this final battle with the big red dragon! "They say with a loud voice, "Salvation comes from the Lamb, and from our God who sits on the Throne!" (Rev. 7:10). ... and it will be fulfilled that will be established above the sky/TH-cam in (Isaiah 2: 2 / 9:6) "On the Last Day, the mountain on which Jehovah's temple stands will stand out above all the mountains. All nations will flock there. " . . . "For a baby boy is born to us. The rule will be given to him; and he shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Almighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace." 📨💌
We always think that soil should be loose to grow plants. But it’s not completely true. Yes, plants don’t like compaction, but they also don’t like too loose soil. Turning the soil into sand by mechanical processes is not a natural thing. Soil needs a little bit of tightness and plants are used to it and want it. No-till provides this in a balanced way.
🔸️THE GOSPEL OF THE WORD OF ALMIGHTY GOD "the last age in which God saves man from the destruction of this old world" (The recognition of God's work in these times, in the greatest part, is the recognition of the God incarnate of the last days, what His main ministry is and what His purpose is to do in the world. Through speaking, by doing and speaking in all the land. This is the work of God in the last days; He only speaks so that the world may become a world of words, so that each person may be provided and enlightened by His word, and so that the spirit of man would be awakened and he would be clear about the visions. When Jesus came He spread the gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven, and fulfilled the work of redemption by crucifixion. The coming of Jesus the Age of Law and ushered in the Age of Grace. The coming of God incarnate in the last days brought an end to the Age of Grace. He came primarily to speak His words, to use the words to make man perfect, to enlighten and enlighten man, and to remove the place of the obscure God within the heart of man. He did not come to heal, or cast out demons, or to perform miracles, and He did not come to spread the gospel of repentance, or grant man redemption. The practical God came to show that He is real.) Almighty God said KNOWING GOD'S WORK in these TIMES, in MOST PART, is KNOWING GOD INCARNATED in the LAST DAYS, what His main MINISTRY is, and WHAT He PURPOSES to do ON EARTH. I MENTIONED to My THOSE WHO SAID that GOD has COME to EARTH (in the last days) to GIVE an EXAMPLE BEFORE LEAVING. ☀️ How does God show this example? THROUGH SPEECH, THROUGH DOING and SPEAKING THROUGHOUT THE LAND. This is the WORK of GOD in the LAST DAYS; He only SPEAKS so that the EARTH becomes a WORLD of WORDS, so that every PERSON can be PROVIDED and ILLUMINATED by His WORD, and SO that the SPIRIT of MAN AWAKES and he is CLEAR ABOUT the VISIONS. ☀️ In the LAST DAYS, GOD INCARNATE CAME to EARTH MAINLY to SHARE His WORDS. When JESUS came He SPREADED the GOSPEL of the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, and FULFILLED the WORK of REDEMPTION through CRUCIFIXION. He ENDED the AGE OF LAW, and BROUGHT ALL the OLD THINGS to NOTHING. The COMING of JESUS ENDED the AGE OF LAW and USED the AGE OF GRACE. ☀️ The COMING of GOD INCARNATED in the LAST DAYS BRINGS the END to the AGE OF GRACE. 🙏 He CAME MAINLY to SPEAK His WORDS, to USE WORDS to MAKE MAN PERFECT, to ILLUMINATE and ILLUMINATE MAN, and to REMOVE the PLACE of vague GOD WITHIN MAN'S HEART. ☀️ 🙏 This is NOT the STAGE of WORK that JESUS DID WHEN He came. WHEN JESUS CAME, He PERFORMED many MIRACLES, He HEALED and CAST OUT DEMONS, and He FULFILLED the REDEEMING WORK of CRUCIFIXION. ☀️ As a result, in His understanding, MAN BELIEVED that GOD should be like THIS. 😪 BECAUSE when JESUS came, He DID not REMOVE the IMAGE of the DARK GOD from the HEARTS of MAN; when He CAME, He was CRUCIFIED, He HEALED and CAST OUT DEMONS, and He SPREADED the GOSPEL of the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. On the ONE HAND, the INCARNATION of GOD in the TIME of the LAST DAYS removed the PLACE of the OBSCURE GOD in HUMAN UNDERSTANDINGS, that is WHY the IMAGE of the OBSCURE GOD in the HEARTS of MAN is no LONGER. THROUGH His ACTUAL WORDS and ACTUAL DEEDS, His ACTIONS THROUGHOUT the EARTH, and the unique real and normal work He accomplished with man, He CAUSES MAN to COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND the REALITY of GOD, and REMOVES the LOCATION of the OBSCURE GOD in the HUMAN HEART. ☀️ On the other hand, GOD USES the WORDS spoken by His FLESH to MAKE MAN COMPLETE, and to FULFILL THINGS. This is the WORK of GOD that He WILL FULFILL in the LAST DAYS. 🙏 What you should know: 1. God's work is not supernatural, and you should not harbor notions about it. 2. You must understand the main work that will be accomplished by the coming of God incarnate at this time. 💐 He DID NOT COME to HEALING, or CAST OUT DEMONS, or to SHOW MIRACLES, and He DID NOT COME to SPREAD the GOSPEL of REPENTANCE, or WILLING the MAN of REDEMPTION. ☀️ That's BECAUSE JESUS has FULFILLED that WORK, and GOD DOESN'T REPEAT the SAME WORK. In the PRESENT, GOD has COME to BRING to the END of the AGE OF GRACE and REMOVE ALL the HABITS of the AGE OF GRACE. PRACTICAL GOD came to SHOW that He is REAL. 💐🙏 When Jesus came, He spoke few words, first of all, He showed miracles, showed signs and wonders, and healed and cast out demons, otherwise, He spoke prophecies to make people believe , and to help people see that He is truly God, and a gentle God who does not look at anyone. In the end, He completed the work of the crucifixion. ☀️ GOD does NOT CURRENTLY show SIGNS and WONDERS, nor does He HEAL and CAST out DEMONS. When JESUS came, the WORK He did REPRESENTED a PART of GOD, BUT in the PRESENT TIME GOD CAME to PERFORM the STAGE ofvthe WORK WHICH was APPROPRIATE, because GOD does NOT REPEATE the SAME work; He is the GOD who is ALWAYS NEW and NEVER OLD, and BECAUSE ALL you SEE NOW are the WORDS and WORKS of a PRACTICAL GOD. ☀️🙏 From "The WORD Appears in the Flesh". holy book Fulfilled in "In the beginning He was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God" (John 1:1). ... and "When I looked up, someone handed me a book wrapped in a scroll. I opened it and I read on both sides the prayers, lamentations, and curses." (Ezekiel 2:9-10). ... "His garment was stained with blood. He was called the "Word of God" (Rev. 19:13). The kingdom He brought down and set up in the highest in the sky so that it can occupy His creation in the universe and engrave on it the entirety of His Holy name "THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD" 💐 fulfillment of (Mat. 16:18) "And I say as for you, you are Peter, on top of this rock I will build my Church, that even the power of death will not prevail over it.". ... and "The Letter to the Church in Philadelphia" (Rev. 3:7-13). ... And fulfillment of "The New Jerusalem" 💫 "The Spirit enveloped me, and the angel led me to the top of a very high mountain. He showed Me Jerusalem, the Holy City, coming down from heaven from God." (Revelation 3:7-13). ... " For the time has come in the house of God for the beginning of judgment in the house of God." (1 Peter 4:17). ... It is fulfilled that God Himself is our Pastor in (Rev. 7:17) 💐 "For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their PASTOR. He will lead them to springs of life-giving water; and God will wipe the tears from their eyes" 📩 Calling and leading the sheep of God to His glorious Throne "THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD"💐 to submit again to His authority so that He will continue to teach, guide and protect even in plague, famine and wild animals will not be moved by it and completely win this final battle with the big red dragon! "They say with a loud voice, "Salvation comes from the Lamb, and from our God who sits on the Throne!" (Rev. 7:10). ... and it will be fulfilled that will be established above the sky/TH-cam in (Isaiah 2: 2 / 9:6) "On the Last Day, the mountain on which Jehovah's temple stands will stand out above all the mountains. All nations will flock there. " . . . "For a baby boy is born to us. The rule will be given to him; and he shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Almighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace." 📨💌
Soil cannot turn into sand by mechanical process, they are not the same thing. Sand is finely ground rock, soil is decomposing organic matter. You may expose sand during the tilling process, but you are not turning soil into sand. Edit: sand is also ground up seashells.
After 30 years of composting for mulching my annuals I stumbled on a quicker, easier, richer mulch: SHREDDED LEAVES. My neighbors trees dropped too many leaves for her to manage in the fall so I volunteered to "clean up". I bought an electric leaf vac/shredder, 15-1. It came with a canvas bag which I slung over my shoulder, requiring frequent stops to empty. (This would have gone much quicker if I had help from someone pushing a large cart to trap the mulch.) I put the mulch in my 140 sq. foot, raised bed. It slowly, over a few winter months, broke down, leaving dark soil. I will NEVER compost again. Remember: Keep a cover crop, even if it's just weeds. Why? Building soil is done by ROOTS IN THE GROUND. Observe nature, learn, follow. Don't make work by fighting nature or following traditional farming/gardening, e.g., turning over the soil. Does nature plow? Hell no!
I have the garden, the neighbor has the trees. I also chop leaves with the blower. With the bag on the mower I lower the blade and grind up straw for mulch. Grass too.
Shredded leaves are amazing. They are so helpful in amending clay soil. I have an electric leaf vac/shredder as well. We got an attachment that sends the leaves from the shredder into a large trash can, but it can be a pain and sometimes I go back to using the canvas bag.
I often watch your videos, I find them very insightful and well made, I put up my first garden this year and it’s doing so well, all the guys like you and Charles dowding have done so much in spreading information on how to care for the soil and work with nature so it gives us abundance. Please keep it up. I’ve learned so much from all the videos of yours I see
This is my first year experimenting with no-till, I have a bed that is tilled next to a no-till bed with the same crops growing. The weeds seem to be the same but the plants in the no-till are much larger, like almost twice as big! Thanks for your channel!
My love of no-till started after straw bale gardening... you just spread out the bales when they're spent and it just took off from there. Now I use a lot more living mulch like clovers, mâche, leaf lettuce, microgreens, etc. than I do wood chips or straw. I've also learned to really appreciate dynamic accumulator "weeds." I mean, between compost teas and instant mulch...how can this not be part of the overall plan? I now propagate weeds (dock, sorrel, clover, pigweed, etc.) near helpful locations (tea buckets/beds/trees) to keep them handy for chop and drop and the difference is night and day. It's so easy. The thing I struggle with is expanding and maintaining that balance. There is this need for continuous in-flow of organic products to build up soil/mulch/compost and sourcing it in the volumes I need for the rate of expansion I'm looking for is very difficult. And with an eye towards sustainable production on site... I'm getting creative.
Fun fact, plants reabsorb up to 90% of their exudates! I learned that from Matt Powers: The Permaculture Student. I started off as a container gardener and quickly learned the power of mulch to prevent pots from drying out too quickly in our 100 degrees F plus California summers. Then later learned about fungal networks and all the microlife doing so much work for free and realized it's best to just mimic nature and let them do their thing... I'll till in amendments once to kickstart crappy soil but after it's mulched no more.
I chose to stop tilling and switch to raised beds due to unpredictable flooding. My garden sits low and spring is usually pretty wet. My soil was clay-heavy, so I have also benefitted by adding a layer of winter mulch of mown and bagged leaves and grass clippings each fall. My beds actually hold a good bit of my old garden soil, which was built up with compost (plus it used to be cow pasture) and it holds a lot of moisture and provides a great rhizosphere for the bedded plants. It was the best decision I ever made.
Hey Jesse, I'm from Germany and follow your channel since a few months... it's great!!! Question: Is your book available in german? Greats from a little village near Hannover 👋
So you can buy it in English in Germany but not in German yet. The translation world is complicated, unfortunately. Please feel free to message some local publishers about getting it published though!
I just got done reading your book that I got from your website. I must say it does a really great job of breaking down "no dig" principles...making them much less intimidating to put into practice. I'm only on a 9th of an acre but I can't wait for my cover crop seeds to come in the mail so I can start putting these principles into practice. Plus, it's just a flat out beautiful and well put together book. I'm happy I bought it!
We have a no till garden and it is the best thing we ever did, not many weeds, not a lot of watering and it does pretty well. Thanks for all the videos.
Love no till. I expanded my garden in the fall and did till because the soil was so compacted. Never again. The weed pressure on that area is immense compared to every where else in my gardens. In the future I will broad fork and just be patient for the soil life to break up the compaction.
Yes, patience is so important. Even though I'm eager to expand my garden, I'm holding off on planting in new areas for a year or two to give myself time to work through the compaction slowly with forking, mulching, and cover cropping. You definitely have to plan way ahead!
Very impressive pictures of your farm!!! I got to be patient over the years, and keep on with mulching and sowing green manures to see similar results as to yours.
We now definitely look forward to your Sunday Morning sharing of your No-Till Gardening/Farming knowledge. This is out first few months into trying the No-Till method of farming/gardening. Our soil is very heavy clay so the using a Broadfork is a definite Beeeccchh! You say you get on average about 50 inches of rain a year. The official count for our rainfall as of July 1st was 2.07 inches. Because of the open area that we live in we do have a lot of weed pressure. Always a fight with the weeds. Need I mention the nightmare and the never ending Bermuda Grass. Anyone out there have a safe and sane method and ridding oneself of the Bermuda Grass catastrophe!!! Well finally ordering your No-Till book. Can't wait to read it and trying to follow your N0-Till "standards". Keep up the good work and nerds like us will continue to follow you!
I've got experience with couch grass, only. What I noticed is that mulching with greens such as grass clippings ist not as helpful as using browns such as leaves or even ramiul wood chips. In a more fungally dominated soil, there is hardly any weed pressure and the soil is so soft that you can pull the grass easily.
I would solarize it with black plastic sheet mulch, then smother it with multiple layers of overlapping cardboard (clean with no glossy graphics) and weighed down with a good 3-6" of wood chips which you can get from chipdrop or your local arborists.
So my recommendation for any persistent weed like that is tarp for as long as you can, mulch as deep as you can, and pull every bit out the second you see it. Plant your most intensive crops in those areas so you will stay on top of the issue.
@@beateschluter664 This Spring we had thought about using the solarize system and opted not to. Now it looks like we will be trying newspapers and much and seeing how that works?
Try this method for half your garden. If you like it after a few seasons, expand. Don't forget piles of mulch! I have weeds but I consider it free bio-mass and use it for composting and also for lining beds and paths to stop future weeds and enrich soil. Once you get going and understand what's happening it's a pleasure to work with Mom-earth rather than doing other things.
The problem I have with no till is a lot of the time you're depleting one area of nutrients to feed another area. It's hard to make enough compost on site without importing it from outside which involves transport of all that material, cost etc..
100% can confirm everything in the video. Same happened on my wood chip mulch converted back and front yards. No slug and snail pressure. With my mulch it’s pill bugs. It took a while but the birds discovered this bountiful supply of land shrimp and are now flicking over the chips with their beaks and feasting on them. Just harvested a bunch of melons. I never watered them once except when I transplanted them for the first few days. Now I’ve moved on from personal sized melons to watermelons. So far they are growing fruit everywhere. Let’s see if they can support watermelon to fruition with no watering outside of the rain the mulch has soaked up and the ground it has protected from damaging direct sunlight.
The quality of my acre garden has enlightened me to the benefits of no till and mulch and wood chip paths. Soil life bloomed when chips were added 3 years ago. My weed pressure is still great, mainly because some places seeded out before I could take care of them. I'm slowing down these days, but I love to feed my family with wholesome food! And the neighborhood. I love your videos and bought your book! So much info, that plays into my methods of gardening!! Thank you!!!
This is so cool! Until I heard about no-till from Charles Dowding, the concept was completely foreign. I'm so happy for getting to know more about it since this style of gardening is better for my health. You sum things up perfectly.
I also found out about No Till from Charles Dowding but thru my son who lives in Portland, Oregon. It has allowed me to continue gardening post stroke. I'm now growing items I only dreamed about.
@@lolaseymour1532 How wonderful! I had a neck injury that got operated on years ago which makes heavy work harder. No-till has more advantages than one would think at first glance :D
I totally concur with the (lack of) weeding and the need for less irrigation, which in our sandy soil is critical. You are so enjoyable and educational, Jesse! Thank you so much!
Thank you for pointing out the unseen and not understood truth of a plant's life in no-till soil. I have many hickups in my very first season, such as my broad beans not having flowered in the upper halv (due to the drought?), stressed sunflowers with bad rooting from the beginning (again drought?) and freeland tomatoes, looking nothing like they should. The site is an open field, originally 200 and more years worked by plough and the last 80 or so being monocultured. It is a good location, clay, sloping slightly south, trees for windscreening, mild climate 8b on an island 54 degrees north. I am still setting up infrastucture and improvisation greets me everywhere, every day. But then it is a satisfying and a beautyful view, comparing the mulch compost beds with their cropps, in stripes and beginning to patchwork, against the wourn out big wheetfields - it is so worth it!
Inspiring to see and hear. I am coming from a background managing a tillage farm, which had its advantages, sure, but what was hardest was the lack of longevity when things are tillage based. The annual 'reset button' was demoralizing. Starting up no-till production on our new farm after years of experimenting on a home scale with deep compost systems and it is a joy to work in the garden.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, experience and farm with us. I am also in Kentucky. I am out of farming right now but I'll get back on my feet and get back into it again!
Home gardeners considering no-till this video is spot on. While a garden is still work, being no-till for a decade has made growing my own veggies possible with rheumatoid arthritis. When RA hit me May of 2011 my tilled garden became a jungle of weeds and cracked earth. No-till got me back to doing what I love.
@notillgrowers: Advice for no-till (regenerative organic) vegetable growing in harsh climates (hot, dry), no or very limited mulch, compost material & finances available; have to grow on site, eg green manure cover crops (not tilled in; eg crimp-terminate). Appreciate your recommendations. Including perhaps pointing to growers with relevant knowledge & experience of growing with such conditions to share on this; or books or YT channels. Thank you for really practical, educational and inspiring content.
1:03 did that cat just come from the ground like a weed?! Also, do you collect/use rainwater? It seems like it would save a lot on costs and doesn't kill the soil bacteria
I also have a small garden, much smaller like this. I often plant trees and cover them with straw and grass, then chop them into small pieces for easy decomposition. From the initial dry ground, I kept doing that and gradually improved. Now I can comfortably plant trees because the soil is better. Reclamation takes a lot of time, luckily I was successful in reclamation.
I've been practicing no till for a few years now in my garden and notice all the benefits you mentioned. Wish I would have learned this technique a long time ago!
I have more trouble keeping tomatoes trellised and the zucchini pruned than I do with anything else in my garden. For the most part I only get weeds where the mulch gets thin. A person just wouldn't believe the difference mulch makes in soil quality till they have tried it for a few seasons.
We have a huge seed bank to deal with after leaving the veggie garden go wild for two years due illness. We are getting there after just a couple of years by mulching the pathways in about 20cm/8 in of wood chip twice a year. We use aged broken down chip to dress the beds and shovel pathways onto beds before renewing deep chip. Soil quality is improving significantly. We have about 15-20 truck loads down the yard aging. Some we just had to pay for delivery, some totally free as they regularly trim trees overhanging our road for driver safety. Rather than an hour round trip to a green mulch drop off site where they have to pay, the contractors are more than happy to drive 5-10 mins and leave us the chip. I painted a sign for the roadside as contractors change so it’s not uncommon to have deliveries out of the blue. We normally have high rainfall (2.2m / 87 in but in 2022 plus Jan 2023 we had 3.8m / 150 in … neighbour less than 2km/1.2 miles had close to 6m/236 in) even though in a cool temperate region with occasional snow so mulch breaks down in months. This year though we’re heading for drought conditions so mulching will be critical.
Love your informative videos. I've sorta 'hacked' at gardening for 10 years, but purchased your 'Living Soil Handbook' this Spring and it has revolutionized my garden & my sanity! Heavy mulched this past early Spring for the first time after using a early Winter tarp, and no tilling at all this year! We've had long cycles of rain & no rain but my garden hasn't suffered as much through those cycles! And, after several inches of rain over the past 3 days, I've not missed a minute of being in and working in the garden..with no muddy shoes! Weed pressure is the least I've ever seen in my 10 short years of gardening, and harvests are as good as any of those years..very encouraging! But, still so much to learn (bed turnover makes me anxious!!) So, I've become an advocate, telling my story to everyone who'll listen!
I’m a new subscriber and this is my first year gardening in 8b. We have had a lot of learning experience this first year. What I didn’t expect were the wide variety of grasshoppers in our area. They really did a number on our garden and on many of the trees my hubby planted. I really like this no till gardening as I only dug rows with my shovel and turned the piles over and added peet moss and chicky poo for water retention and fertilizer when planting seeds or starter. It was not a good idea doing it that way as the weeds were besties with all the plants. I should have cleared the entire area first. Thanks for your channel and the effort you put out for free.
Thanks for this! Lots of good information. I can't bear to till my garden because the mulches that I put down are necessary with the Florida heat, to protect the plant roots from excessive heat and drying, feeds the worm that are within the first foot of soil, and I'm not wanting to pull the mulch aside to turn the soil and kill the worms, I could go on. I just keep adding more mulch to the top of it. Now I may pull the mulch aside to do top dressing of slow release fertilizers and then replace it. Other than this, watering and liquid fertilizers require not much disturbance of the top mulching layer. Keeping up with adding more mulch layers due to heavy rains or just plain breakdown quicker in the summer is my only issue. Pest pressure, like flea beetles in early Spring, and the leaf miners, I have blamed on getting these in the mulch I buy. Working on that remedy now.
Another great video jammed pack of knowledge. I love starting my Sunday morning with a coffee and a lesson from my favourite farmer. Such an inspiration
I'm semi no-till (I don't have a working tiller..lol). I use a shovel, broadfork, hoe and rake. I use a lot of wood chips for mulch mostly in my walk ways and as they break down they a lot of structure and nutrients to my soil.
My guy is Russell Goins in Frankfort, but you can probably go to craigslist and find someone local to you. Just ask if they sprayed any broad leaf or anything on it because you want to use it in a garden. Most people will be straight with you about that I find
I have question about the hay you put down on the rows to keep them covered. I understand why but when you are ready to plant do you plant with the straw there or do you remove it? I am learning this year with two rows of no dig/till, I also have a ton of grow bags because for years I was fighting weeds and couldn’t take it anymore. I was so happy to find your channel along with Charles Dowding and have books from both of you.
Tilling will definitely make weeds worse! Not only because of the seed bank, but when you have a weed that spreads underground by rhizomes & can propagate/reproduce by hust a small peice, if you till that (chop it up) then you have just multiplied your weeds!like Bermuda grass- like I have on my property, it's the worst!!! I lolive in indiana, its wet here as well, & so before I knew better, id till & the ground stays wet, from often rain, that all those little pieces of Bermuda grass would reroot & I'd have an even bigger weed problem! & those roots are hard to pull! I was spending 20-30 hours a week weeding about 1500 sq. Ft. Area... I have a large no till cutflower garden, & my raised beds for my veggies are no till. (Basically my wildflower patch & my pumpkin patch is the only thing I till. It has some major work needed but I plan to eventually make it no till) I definitely recommend no till!
My garden has improved due to using grass mulch from my yard. less weeds and less watering. Adding compost from my piles has greatly improved the soil over last few years.
Thank you for clarifyring the issues with hydrophobic compost, i was already suspecting this was an issue with the compost i currently use, but you have described my beet issue this year (germination yes, getting down roots no) spot on. Great vid as usual. Greet the kittycat please.
Very important question! 👏 Grazon attacks broadleaf plants and legumes, so alfalfa hay or a field blend including alfalfa won't have any. It is a huge asset if you can find a local grower and develop a relationship. After a year and half, I think we found one out here in NE Arizona, a nice family with great quality and fair prices. Best wishes!
💯 nailed it about The Bear!!! Love that show, also from restaurant industry and of course love me some Matty!!! ❤ y’all, thanks for all I have learned about soul management, Kristy in Missouri zone 6b 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Guys as this bloke mentioned about no till, much build up and long term decomposing for his farm land has been proven many times over, especially by CSIRO research and managements, Australia, early 1990's.
No till has many advantages. It works great in high rainfall environments. In Arid climates, however, It isn't so effective. Some tillage must occur, plus calcium levels be adjusted to deal with excesses of Sodium, Potassium and Magnesium.
So do you have to till 1st to start a no till farm? I have 5 acres in Ohio and I'm contemplating on how to start this process. Also, just started watching your videos, so I don't know if you covered this.
Cut the grass/weeds close to ground and lay out thickish cardboard or stretch tarps over the areas you want to plant. It takes a little time for everything under these to die, but you will be surprised at how effective this is especially if you do it in hot weather. Don't remove tarps until you're ready to plant. You can plant straight into cardboard by removing small strips where you want to plant or poking holes directly into the cardboard. Best advice ever? "The soil will protect herself". So plant then mulch as soon as you remove your coverings or the weeds will come back quickly, even if you don't till! Blessings!
Where do you get your hay/straw mulch? Everywhere I’ve looked online is small bags and expensive. When I’ve looked locally in here in Texas, everyone uses herbicide to first kill weeds then fertilizer to help it grow.
Total game changer. I'm selling my tiller because i never use it. Weeds still a challenge but much easier to pull out when they're forced to come up through a layer of wood chips or straw.
We started our garden last summer, and I had to till up the ground because it was covered in grass. I put down a 2-3" layer of compost and I didn't have the cardboard needed to suppress weeds. By the end of last summer, we basically just gave up weeding and the garden got taken over. This spring, we properly weeded once at the beginning of the year, I put down a ton of wood chips in the walkways and was able to get 5-6" of compost in the beds. Weeds have been much, much more manageable. We just went through a crazy month or so where I was basically unable to weed, and when I went out to weed for the first time in a while, it took me maybe 20 minutes to get the garden back to an acceptable state. What do you think is the limiting factor in spreading this technique to more industrialized farming? I always have trouble getting the compost I need, but I know the folks at Assawaga are able to get by with a really very small compost operation, for the size of their garden. I ask, because, while this is awesome, the average person just cannot afford the prices at my local farmer's markets. I was watching you hand plant those lettuces in the video and could almost hear the cash register going off.
I just bought 6 acres of clay soil in central New York! Nothing but rocks and hard soil when dry and slippery mud when wet. 12:42 I started out with a 50 x 50 garden. Will probably start no tiii next year. Nothing thrives in the soil except weeds. I was never interested in soil signs until seeing your progress.
greetings from argentina! Loved the content of this video, really aprecciate your job, thanks! I have a small question, it would be correct to say that mulching algo provides a sort of protection against extreme weathers like a very dry and hot day, or maybe against the frosts?Thanksss, big hug, have a good day!
I have Bermuda grass and have tried mulch to keep it out of my crop areas, but it goes, over, under and around anything I have tried to keep it out. It has even made it through the woven poly weed barrier. Help, I'm out of ideas?!?!?!?!?!
it just made it possible to garden, having a bedrock at just 10 inches here, and having great produce! with Natural lawn clippings and compost only, no dig ever growing on top of grasses, loosing the soil just with my pitchfork.
I've been watching and liking your videos. What I see as a long term problem is the use of so much mulch materials building up a deeper depth above your soil as time passes. Soil in my mind has rock particles which provide the minerals plants require and the more mulch materials added to the surface surely gets deeper and deeper as time passes with spent mulch bulk. Spent being the nutrients where used up while growing in it in the year it was freshly applied. So my way of thinking is the mulches are a man made growing medium and not soil and as time passes with adding so much annually you end up with a deep surface layer of spent , mineraless medium. Problems expected would be mineral deficiencies, if you take it in 10 year implements, surely you get problems between 10 and 20 years of this system? What is your soil organic matter levels? Do you already have to make mineral amendments? Do you get regular soil analysis tests done?
I am gardening in the Highlands of Scotland . I can get free spent grains from the local brewery. What is your opinion of the usefulness of this waste product? I have put some over my empty vegetable beds today. I love your channel though our weather is very different. You are very informative - no waffling, straight to the point.
I've been no till for a few years now in my large backyard gardens. , my gardens are more productive. If I have weed pressure in an area, I just throw cardboard and compost over that area, mainly crabgrass ugh. Yeah I'm that lazy. Been testing cover crops too.
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Congrats, since not many people especially Americans, use location in vids or information/blurds, "In your location" as mentioned in mid vid. Dropping ya a like.
Thanks for the video. Excited to be on the journey. Definitely the first couple years are hard as we figure out what our plants need and realize that they are growing a bit slower because of the high carbon in our compost. Overall though, once they start to take off they really do look great.
I have a mix of clay and sand with hard pan in areas. I obviously need to improve my soil before I go to a No till system. I was thinking of working in some mulch and then covering with hay for a season or two. How else can I improve the soil? I’m not sure anything would grow in it as is..other than goat’s head and tumble mustard.
Do you use organically grown hay? Do you make it yourselves? We are thinking of going organic when we start farming, but everyone here in TN around us seems to sprays their hay (horse grade)
Morning Hook, not that old, not in your fifties yet 😂😅. I'm not to many years older than you. No matter how many years experience someone has we all can learn something every day.
So I did this, used 1yr old wheat straw got a ton of wheat growing in paths and rows. It’s kind of a mess 🤦🏻♀️ what’s the trick with getting the seeds out
Ive seen some videos regarding mulching using hay ect where the hay itself has been treated with herbicides that then leach into your garden, ruining the whole soil biome and poisoning plants. How can you avoid this as I doubt the suppliers know the practices of the grower? Apparently they also make it through an animals digestive system, into their manure.
Another excellent Sunday AM for me :) the No Till is 100% game changer. As you said I still get weeds, but NOWHERE near what I’ve had in the past. Ive also noticed a much greater abundance and variety of birds. (Who wake up near 4:00 Am) We are mere months from buying our retirement house - farm, then 2 years to get our systems and scope better defined and then perfect a new set of skills :) thank you for sharing ALL of your sharing. Oh yeah, my DryShod clogs and boots arrived this week LOVE THEM!
I've had a no-till garden for three years and have about five minutes of weeding per week. People see the size of my garden and the lack of weeds and assume I must spend all my free time out there, but the reality is that I rarely have to do anything beyond planting, mulching, and harvesting veggies. I have to keep expanding the garden every year to give me more to do out there.😁I'm also finding that I have to do less watering each year due to the organic matter in the soil and all the mulching I'm doing, and that's despite the past few years in Missouri being exceptionally hot and dry. I'm doing more and more dry farming and getting great results.
Totally agreed. I’m in year 4 of no-till I’m Virginia, and it has been transformational. I laughed when you said you have to keep expanding just to have something to do. Same here! Happy gardening.
Teach me your ways! A couple years ago we bought 40 acres in Mo, and I realized our previous property spoiled us. This patch while lovely in location and seclusion has so much clay. This is only our second year on the property and I’m struggling to fight the crabgrass in our no-till garden
@@argetlamzn My method is having permanent beds (I do 30 inch) with woodchip pathways between them (I've been able to get some woodchips from ChipDrop or by calling local arborists, but most we've gotten for about $25 a truckload from Missouri Organic). When expanding the garden I cover the future bed with cardboard and cover the cardboard with leaves or leaf mold (we collect all our leaves with a lawn sweeper pulled behind our 4-wheeler), and I cover the future pathway with woodchips. To hold the leaves down sometimes I sprinkle them with compost, sometimes I cover them with heavy green yard waste like iris leaves, or if I have a lot of yard waste at the time I may do some lasagna-style layering with green and brown waste. I water it once a day for a couple days to make sure the leaves get matted down and won't blow away. If I do that in the fall, sometimes the bed is ready to use the following spring. If it's an area with some serious clay I cover crop for a year (usually sorghum sudangrass). Once I've got a bed planted I usually mulch it with leaves or leaf mold. I also have a wood chipper and sometimes mulch with homemade woodchips that are a lot smaller than woodchips you'd get elsewhere. By year two or three weeds are pretty much gone. When they pop up, sometimes I pull them and other times I just pile more mulch on top of them. I usually fork beds in the spring (I don't have an actual broadfork and just use a spading fork) but assume I won't need to fork them beyond another few years based on what Jesse and other no-till growers say. It amazes me how my clay has been transformed in a couple years. Leaves and especially leaf mold are so helpful in transforming clay. I have lots of wire leaf bins that we store leaves in, and some of the leaves I put through a leaf mulcher so they break down quicker or shred them with a weed whacker. We collect just about every leaf off our 10 acres. It's been so nice to transform our garden for free other than the woodchips we've had to bring in.
Ditto !
@@mslorischoolsocialworker , thank you! We bought an industrial grade wood chipper last winter and are slowly chewing through all the Bradford pear trees and turning them into chips, sounds like I should keep doing that and get a leaf catcher for us - the sycamores drop so many! Thank you for the thoughtful and detailed reply!!!
😊😊 love how many things you jam into each post. The cat has star issues, don't ever give it the microphone or you won't get it back!!😅
100% I would never see it again
@@notillgrowersI'm a 5th generation farmer and I want to debate you on modern agriculture vs no till.
@@markhasenour12 I think at this point you would have to define "modern" because no-till literally turns the soil into a living supercomputer.
I sure wish I could buy all my produce from you! We need more of these kind of farmers!
I'm too new to really have an opinion but in my new raised beds last year, I kept one of them planted with carrots through the winter/early spring and then pulled and immediately put my spring/summer plants in and that bed is doing phenomenally better than the other beds that were just mulched for winter. I'm totally sold on keeping plants in the soil at all times and only disturbing when absolutely necessary.
🔸️THE GOSPEL OF THE WORD OF ALMIGHTY GOD "the last age in which God saves man from the destruction of this old world"
(The recognition of God's work in these times, in the greatest part, is the recognition of the God incarnate of the last days, what His main ministry is and what His purpose is to do in the world. Through speaking, by doing and speaking in all the land. This is the work of God in the last days; He only speaks so that the world may become a world of words, so that each person may be provided and enlightened by His word, and so that the spirit of man would be awakened and he would be clear about the visions. When Jesus came He spread the gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven, and fulfilled the work of redemption by crucifixion. The coming of Jesus the Age of Law and ushered in the Age of Grace. The coming of God incarnate in the last days brought an end to the Age of Grace. He came primarily to speak His words, to use the words to make man perfect, to enlighten and enlighten man, and to remove the place of the obscure God within the heart of man. He did not come to heal, or cast out demons, or to perform miracles, and He did not come to spread the gospel of repentance, or grant man redemption. The practical God came to show that He is real.)
Almighty God said
KNOWING GOD'S WORK in these TIMES, in MOST PART, is KNOWING GOD INCARNATED in the LAST DAYS, what His main MINISTRY is, and WHAT He PURPOSES to do ON EARTH. I MENTIONED to My THOSE WHO SAID that GOD has COME to EARTH (in the last days) to GIVE an EXAMPLE BEFORE LEAVING. ☀️
How does God show this example? THROUGH SPEECH, THROUGH DOING and SPEAKING THROUGHOUT THE LAND. This is the WORK of GOD in the LAST DAYS; He only SPEAKS so that the EARTH becomes a WORLD of WORDS, so that every PERSON can be PROVIDED and ILLUMINATED by His WORD, and SO that the SPIRIT of MAN AWAKES and he is CLEAR ABOUT the VISIONS. ☀️
In the LAST DAYS, GOD INCARNATE CAME to EARTH MAINLY to SHARE His WORDS. When JESUS came He SPREADED the GOSPEL of the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, and FULFILLED the WORK of REDEMPTION through CRUCIFIXION. He ENDED the AGE OF LAW, and BROUGHT ALL the OLD THINGS to NOTHING. The COMING of JESUS ENDED the AGE OF LAW and USED the AGE OF GRACE. ☀️
The COMING of GOD INCARNATED in the LAST DAYS BRINGS the END to the AGE OF GRACE. 🙏
He CAME MAINLY to SPEAK His WORDS, to USE WORDS to MAKE MAN PERFECT, to ILLUMINATE and ILLUMINATE MAN, and to REMOVE the PLACE of vague GOD WITHIN MAN'S HEART. ☀️ 🙏
This is NOT the STAGE of WORK that JESUS DID WHEN He came. WHEN JESUS CAME, He PERFORMED many MIRACLES, He HEALED and CAST OUT DEMONS, and He FULFILLED the REDEEMING WORK of CRUCIFIXION. ☀️
As a result, in His understanding, MAN BELIEVED that GOD should be like THIS. 😪
BECAUSE when JESUS came, He DID not REMOVE the IMAGE of the DARK GOD from the HEARTS of MAN; when He CAME, He was CRUCIFIED, He HEALED and CAST OUT DEMONS, and He SPREADED the GOSPEL of the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. On the ONE HAND, the INCARNATION of GOD in the TIME of the LAST DAYS removed the PLACE of the OBSCURE GOD in HUMAN UNDERSTANDINGS, that is WHY the IMAGE of the OBSCURE GOD in the HEARTS of MAN is no LONGER. THROUGH His ACTUAL WORDS and ACTUAL DEEDS, His ACTIONS THROUGHOUT the EARTH, and the unique real and normal work He accomplished with man, He CAUSES MAN to COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND the REALITY of GOD, and REMOVES the LOCATION of the OBSCURE GOD in the HUMAN HEART. ☀️
On the other hand, GOD USES the WORDS spoken by His FLESH to MAKE MAN COMPLETE, and to FULFILL THINGS. This is the WORK of GOD that He WILL FULFILL in the LAST DAYS. 🙏
What you should know:
1. God's work is not supernatural, and you should not harbor notions about it.
2. You must understand the main work that will be accomplished by the coming of God incarnate at this time. 💐
He DID NOT COME to HEALING, or CAST OUT DEMONS, or to SHOW MIRACLES, and He DID NOT COME to SPREAD the GOSPEL of REPENTANCE, or WILLING the MAN of REDEMPTION. ☀️
That's BECAUSE JESUS has FULFILLED that WORK, and GOD DOESN'T REPEAT the SAME WORK. In the PRESENT, GOD has COME to BRING to the END of the AGE OF GRACE and REMOVE ALL the HABITS of the AGE OF GRACE. PRACTICAL GOD came to SHOW that He is REAL. 💐🙏
When Jesus came, He spoke few words, first of all, He showed miracles, showed signs and wonders, and healed and cast out demons, otherwise, He spoke prophecies to make people believe , and to help people see that He is truly God, and a gentle God who does not look at anyone. In the end, He completed the work of the crucifixion. ☀️
GOD does NOT CURRENTLY show SIGNS and WONDERS, nor does He HEAL and CAST out DEMONS. When JESUS came, the WORK He did REPRESENTED a PART of GOD, BUT in the PRESENT TIME GOD CAME to PERFORM the STAGE ofvthe WORK WHICH was APPROPRIATE, because GOD does NOT REPEATE the SAME work; He is the GOD who is ALWAYS NEW and NEVER OLD, and BECAUSE ALL you SEE NOW are the WORDS and WORKS of a PRACTICAL GOD. ☀️🙏
From "The WORD Appears in the Flesh". holy book
Fulfilled in "In the beginning He was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God" (John 1:1). ... and "When I looked up, someone handed me a book wrapped in a scroll. I opened it and I read on both sides the prayers, lamentations, and curses." (Ezekiel 2:9-10). ... "His garment was stained with blood. He was called the "Word of God" (Rev. 19:13).
The kingdom He brought down and set up in the highest in the sky so that it can occupy His creation in the universe and engrave on it the entirety of His Holy name "THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD" 💐 fulfillment of (Mat. 16:18) "And I say as for you, you are Peter, on top of this rock I will build my Church, that even the power of death will not prevail over it.". ... and "The Letter to the Church in Philadelphia" (Rev. 3:7-13). ... And fulfillment of "The New Jerusalem" 💫 "The Spirit enveloped me, and the angel led me to the top of a very high mountain. He showed Me Jerusalem, the Holy City, coming down from heaven from God." (Revelation 3:7-13). ... " For the time has come in the house of God for the beginning of judgment in the house of God." (1 Peter 4:17). ... It is fulfilled that God Himself is our Pastor in (Rev. 7:17) 💐
"For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their PASTOR. He will lead them to springs of life-giving water; and God will wipe the tears from their eyes"
📩 Calling and leading the sheep of God to His glorious Throne "THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD"💐 to submit again to His authority so that He will continue to teach, guide and protect even in plague, famine and wild animals will not be moved by it and completely win this final battle with the big red dragon!
"They say with a loud voice, "Salvation comes from the Lamb, and from our God who sits on the Throne!" (Rev. 7:10). ... and it will be fulfilled that will be established above the sky/TH-cam in (Isaiah 2: 2 / 9:6) "On the Last Day, the mountain on which Jehovah's temple stands will stand out above all the mountains. All nations will flock there. " . . . "For a baby boy is born to us. The rule will be given to him; and he shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Almighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace." 📨💌
We always think that soil should be loose to grow plants. But it’s not completely true. Yes, plants don’t like compaction, but they also don’t like too loose soil. Turning the soil into sand by mechanical processes is not a natural thing. Soil needs a little bit of tightness and plants are used to it and want it. No-till provides this in a balanced way.
If you have ever seen what hogs do to a lawn, it’s so much less damaging than tilling, yet it’s seen as something terrible.
ВСЁ ВЕРНО ПОЧВА ДОЛЖНА БЫТЬ КАК В ПРИРОДЕ В ЛЕСУ ...🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
🔸️THE GOSPEL OF THE WORD OF ALMIGHTY GOD "the last age in which God saves man from the destruction of this old world"
(The recognition of God's work in these times, in the greatest part, is the recognition of the God incarnate of the last days, what His main ministry is and what His purpose is to do in the world. Through speaking, by doing and speaking in all the land. This is the work of God in the last days; He only speaks so that the world may become a world of words, so that each person may be provided and enlightened by His word, and so that the spirit of man would be awakened and he would be clear about the visions. When Jesus came He spread the gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven, and fulfilled the work of redemption by crucifixion. The coming of Jesus the Age of Law and ushered in the Age of Grace. The coming of God incarnate in the last days brought an end to the Age of Grace. He came primarily to speak His words, to use the words to make man perfect, to enlighten and enlighten man, and to remove the place of the obscure God within the heart of man. He did not come to heal, or cast out demons, or to perform miracles, and He did not come to spread the gospel of repentance, or grant man redemption. The practical God came to show that He is real.)
Almighty God said
KNOWING GOD'S WORK in these TIMES, in MOST PART, is KNOWING GOD INCARNATED in the LAST DAYS, what His main MINISTRY is, and WHAT He PURPOSES to do ON EARTH. I MENTIONED to My THOSE WHO SAID that GOD has COME to EARTH (in the last days) to GIVE an EXAMPLE BEFORE LEAVING. ☀️
How does God show this example? THROUGH SPEECH, THROUGH DOING and SPEAKING THROUGHOUT THE LAND. This is the WORK of GOD in the LAST DAYS; He only SPEAKS so that the EARTH becomes a WORLD of WORDS, so that every PERSON can be PROVIDED and ILLUMINATED by His WORD, and SO that the SPIRIT of MAN AWAKES and he is CLEAR ABOUT the VISIONS. ☀️
In the LAST DAYS, GOD INCARNATE CAME to EARTH MAINLY to SHARE His WORDS. When JESUS came He SPREADED the GOSPEL of the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, and FULFILLED the WORK of REDEMPTION through CRUCIFIXION. He ENDED the AGE OF LAW, and BROUGHT ALL the OLD THINGS to NOTHING. The COMING of JESUS ENDED the AGE OF LAW and USED the AGE OF GRACE. ☀️
The COMING of GOD INCARNATED in the LAST DAYS BRINGS the END to the AGE OF GRACE. 🙏
He CAME MAINLY to SPEAK His WORDS, to USE WORDS to MAKE MAN PERFECT, to ILLUMINATE and ILLUMINATE MAN, and to REMOVE the PLACE of vague GOD WITHIN MAN'S HEART. ☀️ 🙏
This is NOT the STAGE of WORK that JESUS DID WHEN He came. WHEN JESUS CAME, He PERFORMED many MIRACLES, He HEALED and CAST OUT DEMONS, and He FULFILLED the REDEEMING WORK of CRUCIFIXION. ☀️
As a result, in His understanding, MAN BELIEVED that GOD should be like THIS. 😪
BECAUSE when JESUS came, He DID not REMOVE the IMAGE of the DARK GOD from the HEARTS of MAN; when He CAME, He was CRUCIFIED, He HEALED and CAST OUT DEMONS, and He SPREADED the GOSPEL of the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. On the ONE HAND, the INCARNATION of GOD in the TIME of the LAST DAYS removed the PLACE of the OBSCURE GOD in HUMAN UNDERSTANDINGS, that is WHY the IMAGE of the OBSCURE GOD in the HEARTS of MAN is no LONGER. THROUGH His ACTUAL WORDS and ACTUAL DEEDS, His ACTIONS THROUGHOUT the EARTH, and the unique real and normal work He accomplished with man, He CAUSES MAN to COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND the REALITY of GOD, and REMOVES the LOCATION of the OBSCURE GOD in the HUMAN HEART. ☀️
On the other hand, GOD USES the WORDS spoken by His FLESH to MAKE MAN COMPLETE, and to FULFILL THINGS. This is the WORK of GOD that He WILL FULFILL in the LAST DAYS. 🙏
What you should know:
1. God's work is not supernatural, and you should not harbor notions about it.
2. You must understand the main work that will be accomplished by the coming of God incarnate at this time. 💐
He DID NOT COME to HEALING, or CAST OUT DEMONS, or to SHOW MIRACLES, and He DID NOT COME to SPREAD the GOSPEL of REPENTANCE, or WILLING the MAN of REDEMPTION. ☀️
That's BECAUSE JESUS has FULFILLED that WORK, and GOD DOESN'T REPEAT the SAME WORK. In the PRESENT, GOD has COME to BRING to the END of the AGE OF GRACE and REMOVE ALL the HABITS of the AGE OF GRACE. PRACTICAL GOD came to SHOW that He is REAL. 💐🙏
When Jesus came, He spoke few words, first of all, He showed miracles, showed signs and wonders, and healed and cast out demons, otherwise, He spoke prophecies to make people believe , and to help people see that He is truly God, and a gentle God who does not look at anyone. In the end, He completed the work of the crucifixion. ☀️
GOD does NOT CURRENTLY show SIGNS and WONDERS, nor does He HEAL and CAST out DEMONS. When JESUS came, the WORK He did REPRESENTED a PART of GOD, BUT in the PRESENT TIME GOD CAME to PERFORM the STAGE ofvthe WORK WHICH was APPROPRIATE, because GOD does NOT REPEATE the SAME work; He is the GOD who is ALWAYS NEW and NEVER OLD, and BECAUSE ALL you SEE NOW are the WORDS and WORKS of a PRACTICAL GOD. ☀️🙏
From "The WORD Appears in the Flesh". holy book
Fulfilled in "In the beginning He was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God" (John 1:1). ... and "When I looked up, someone handed me a book wrapped in a scroll. I opened it and I read on both sides the prayers, lamentations, and curses." (Ezekiel 2:9-10). ... "His garment was stained with blood. He was called the "Word of God" (Rev. 19:13).
The kingdom He brought down and set up in the highest in the sky so that it can occupy His creation in the universe and engrave on it the entirety of His Holy name "THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD" 💐 fulfillment of (Mat. 16:18) "And I say as for you, you are Peter, on top of this rock I will build my Church, that even the power of death will not prevail over it.". ... and "The Letter to the Church in Philadelphia" (Rev. 3:7-13). ... And fulfillment of "The New Jerusalem" 💫 "The Spirit enveloped me, and the angel led me to the top of a very high mountain. He showed Me Jerusalem, the Holy City, coming down from heaven from God." (Revelation 3:7-13). ... " For the time has come in the house of God for the beginning of judgment in the house of God." (1 Peter 4:17). ... It is fulfilled that God Himself is our Pastor in (Rev. 7:17) 💐
"For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their PASTOR. He will lead them to springs of life-giving water; and God will wipe the tears from their eyes"
📩 Calling and leading the sheep of God to His glorious Throne "THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD"💐 to submit again to His authority so that He will continue to teach, guide and protect even in plague, famine and wild animals will not be moved by it and completely win this final battle with the big red dragon!
"They say with a loud voice, "Salvation comes from the Lamb, and from our God who sits on the Throne!" (Rev. 7:10). ... and it will be fulfilled that will be established above the sky/TH-cam in (Isaiah 2: 2 / 9:6) "On the Last Day, the mountain on which Jehovah's temple stands will stand out above all the mountains. All nations will flock there. " . . . "For a baby boy is born to us. The rule will be given to him; and he shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Almighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace." 📨💌
@@aquireeverything9382They actually improve the soil with their grazing and digging action.
Soil cannot turn into sand by mechanical process, they are not the same thing. Sand is finely ground rock, soil is decomposing organic matter. You may expose sand during the tilling process, but you are not turning soil into sand.
Edit: sand is also ground up seashells.
Very good video. Very useful for farmers. Agricultural greetings, greetings of success and health always.
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After 30 years of composting for mulching my annuals I stumbled on a quicker, easier, richer mulch: SHREDDED LEAVES. My neighbors trees dropped too many leaves for her to manage in the fall so I volunteered to "clean up". I bought an electric leaf vac/shredder, 15-1. It came with a canvas bag which I slung over my shoulder, requiring frequent stops to empty. (This would have gone much quicker if I had help from someone pushing a large cart to trap the mulch.) I put the mulch in my 140 sq. foot, raised bed. It slowly, over a few winter months, broke down, leaving dark soil. I will NEVER compost again. Remember: Keep a cover crop, even if it's just weeds. Why? Building soil is done by ROOTS IN THE GROUND. Observe nature, learn, follow. Don't make work by fighting nature or following traditional farming/gardening, e.g., turning over the soil. Does nature plow? Hell no!
I have the garden, the neighbor has the trees. I also chop leaves with the blower. With the bag on the mower I lower the blade and grind up straw for mulch. Grass too.
Shredded leaves are amazing. They are so helpful in amending clay soil. I have an electric leaf vac/shredder as well. We got an attachment that sends the leaves from the shredder into a large trash can, but it can be a pain and sometimes I go back to using the canvas bag.
I often watch your videos, I find them very insightful and well made, I put up my first garden this year and it’s doing so well, all the guys like you and Charles dowding have done so much in spreading information on how to care for the soil and work with nature so it gives us abundance. Please keep it up. I’ve learned so much from all the videos of yours I see
This is my first year experimenting with no-till, I have a bed that is tilled next to a no-till bed with the same crops growing. The weeds seem to be the same but the plants in the no-till are much larger, like almost twice as big! Thanks for your channel!
Charles Dowding does this every year & weighs his crops. He always finds the No Till more productive. Enjoy watching both channels.
My love of no-till started after straw bale gardening... you just spread out the bales when they're spent and it just took off from there. Now I use a lot more living mulch like clovers, mâche, leaf lettuce, microgreens, etc. than I do wood chips or straw. I've also learned to really appreciate dynamic accumulator "weeds." I mean, between compost teas and instant mulch...how can this not be part of the overall plan? I now propagate weeds (dock, sorrel, clover, pigweed, etc.) near helpful locations (tea buckets/beds/trees) to keep them handy for chop and drop and the difference is night and day. It's so easy. The thing I struggle with is expanding and maintaining that balance. There is this need for continuous in-flow of organic products to build up soil/mulch/compost and sourcing it in the volumes I need for the rate of expansion I'm looking for is very difficult. And with an eye towards sustainable production on site... I'm getting creative.
No Till cured my moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis. Ask your doctor if No Till is right for you.
Fun fact, plants reabsorb up to 90% of their exudates! I learned that from Matt Powers: The Permaculture Student. I started off as a container gardener and quickly learned the power of mulch to prevent pots from drying out too quickly in our 100 degrees F plus California summers. Then later learned about fungal networks and all the microlife doing so much work for free and realized it's best to just mimic nature and let them do their thing... I'll till in amendments once to kickstart crappy soil but after it's mulched no more.
I chose to stop tilling and switch to raised beds due to unpredictable flooding. My garden sits low and spring is usually pretty wet. My soil was clay-heavy, so I have also benefitted by adding a layer of winter mulch of mown and bagged leaves and grass clippings each fall. My beds actually hold a good bit of my old garden soil, which was built up with compost (plus it used to be cow pasture) and it holds a lot of moisture and provides a great rhizosphere for the bedded plants. It was the best decision I ever made.
I'm really enjoying your videos. They are informative and a good length plus I get your humor. You have a great channel.
Thanks, my friend God bless you, and keep going on ❤️ 🙏. 2023 24 October
Hey Jesse, I'm from Germany and follow your channel since a few months... it's great!!!
Question: Is your book available in german?
Greats from a little village near Hannover 👋
So you can buy it in English in Germany but not in German yet. The translation world is complicated, unfortunately. Please feel free to message some local publishers about getting it published though!
No Till has justified my lazy gardener habits. In time, I will be vindicated!
I just got done reading your book that I got from your website. I must say it does a really great job of breaking down "no dig" principles...making them much less intimidating to put into practice. I'm only on a 9th of an acre but I can't wait for my cover crop seeds to come in the mail so I can start putting these principles into practice. Plus, it's just a flat out beautiful and well put together book.
I'm happy I bought it!
We have a no till garden and it is the best thing we ever did, not many weeds, not a lot of watering and it does pretty well. Thanks for all the videos.
Love no till. I expanded my garden in the fall and did till because the soil was so compacted. Never again. The weed pressure on that area is immense compared to every where else in my gardens. In the future I will broad fork and just be patient for the soil life to break up the compaction.
Yes, patience is so important. Even though I'm eager to expand my garden, I'm holding off on planting in new areas for a year or two to give myself time to work through the compaction slowly with forking, mulching, and cover cropping. You definitely have to plan way ahead!
Very impressive pictures of your farm!!! I got to be patient over the years, and keep on with mulching and sowing green manures to see similar results as to yours.
Love your videos ❤ love from Pakistan 💚
Did you deliver to Pakistan?
We do! It may be cheaper to order from your local amazon or retailer tho?
We now definitely look forward to your Sunday Morning sharing of your No-Till Gardening/Farming knowledge. This is out first few months into trying the No-Till method of farming/gardening. Our soil is very heavy clay so the using a Broadfork is a definite Beeeccchh! You say you get on average about 50 inches of rain a year. The official count for our rainfall as of July 1st was 2.07 inches. Because of the open area that we live in we do have a lot of weed pressure. Always a fight with the weeds. Need I mention the nightmare and the never ending Bermuda Grass. Anyone out there have a safe and sane method and ridding oneself of the Bermuda Grass catastrophe!!! Well finally ordering your No-Till book. Can't wait to read it and trying to follow your N0-Till "standards". Keep up the good work and nerds like us will continue to follow you!
I too have a serious Bermuda grass problem. I hope we can get some helpful replies. Havagudun, another new gardener.
I've got experience with couch grass, only. What I noticed is that mulching with greens such as grass clippings ist not as helpful as using browns such as leaves or even ramiul wood chips. In a more fungally dominated soil, there is hardly any weed pressure and the soil is so soft that you can pull the grass easily.
I would solarize it with black plastic sheet mulch, then smother it with multiple layers of overlapping cardboard (clean with no glossy graphics) and weighed down with a good 3-6" of wood chips which you can get from chipdrop or your local arborists.
So my recommendation for any persistent weed like that is tarp for as long as you can, mulch as deep as you can, and pull every bit out the second you see it. Plant your most intensive crops in those areas so you will stay on top of the issue.
@@beateschluter664 This Spring we had thought about using the solarize system and opted not to. Now it looks like we will be trying newspapers and much and seeing how that works?
So glad you continue to grow real food on a large scale! Thanks for your informative videos!
Try this method for half your garden. If you like it after a few seasons, expand.
Don't forget piles of mulch! I have weeds but I consider it free bio-mass and use it for composting and also for lining beds and paths to stop future weeds and enrich soil.
Once you get going and understand what's happening it's a pleasure to work with Mom-earth rather than doing other things.
The problem I have with no till is a lot of the time you're depleting one area of nutrients to feed another area. It's hard to make enough compost on site without importing it from outside which involves transport of all that material, cost etc..
100% can confirm everything in the video. Same happened on my wood chip mulch converted back and front yards. No slug and snail pressure. With my mulch it’s pill bugs. It took a while but the birds discovered this bountiful supply of land shrimp and are now flicking over the chips with their beaks and feasting on them. Just harvested a bunch of melons. I never watered them once except when I transplanted them for the first few days. Now I’ve moved on from personal sized melons to watermelons. So far they are growing fruit everywhere. Let’s see if they can support watermelon to fruition with no watering outside of the rain the mulch has soaked up and the ground it has protected from damaging direct sunlight.
Land shrimp 🤣 I always call shrimp "bugs-o-the-sea"
The quality of my acre garden has enlightened me to the benefits of no till and mulch and wood chip paths. Soil life bloomed when chips were added 3 years ago. My weed pressure is still great, mainly because some places seeded out before I could take care of them. I'm slowing down these days, but I love to feed my family with wholesome food! And the neighborhood.
I love your videos and bought your book! So much info, that plays into my methods of gardening!! Thank you!!!
This is so cool! Until I heard about no-till from Charles Dowding, the concept was completely foreign. I'm so happy for getting to know more about it since this style of gardening is better for my health. You sum things up perfectly.
I also found out about No Till from Charles Dowding but thru my son who lives in Portland, Oregon. It has allowed me to continue gardening post stroke. I'm now growing items I only dreamed about.
@@lolaseymour1532 How wonderful! I had a neck injury that got operated on years ago which makes heavy work harder. No-till has more advantages than one would think at first glance :D
I totally concur with the (lack of) weeding and the need for less irrigation, which in our sandy soil is critical. You are so enjoyable and educational, Jesse! Thank you so much!
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Thank you for pointing out the unseen and not understood truth of a plant's life in no-till soil. I have many hickups in my very first season, such as my broad beans not having flowered in the upper halv (due to the drought?), stressed sunflowers with bad rooting from the beginning (again drought?) and freeland tomatoes, looking nothing like they should. The site is an open field, originally 200 and more years worked by plough and the last 80 or so being monocultured. It is a good location, clay, sloping slightly south, trees for windscreening, mild climate 8b on an island 54 degrees north. I am still setting up infrastucture and improvisation greets me everywhere, every day. But then it is a satisfying and a beautyful view, comparing the mulch compost beds with their cropps, in stripes and beginning to patchwork, against the wourn out big wheetfields - it is so worth it!
Inspiring to see and hear. I am coming from a background managing a tillage farm, which had its advantages, sure, but what was hardest was the lack of longevity when things are tillage based. The annual 'reset button' was demoralizing. Starting up no-till production on our new farm after years of experimenting on a home scale with deep compost systems and it is a joy to work in the garden.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, experience and farm with us. I am also in Kentucky. I am out of farming right now but I'll get back on my feet and get back into it again!
Selling of water has always been a thing. It's very sad.
Soil life precums at 2:13. watched it twice, heard it twice😅
I have had the best success with 4 to 5 layers of newsprint covered with 4 inches ground leaves. Sometimes I use cardboard over the stubborn areas.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful video's.
Home gardeners considering no-till this video is spot on. While a garden is still work, being no-till for a decade has made growing my own veggies possible with rheumatoid arthritis.
When RA hit me May of 2011 my tilled garden became a jungle of weeds and cracked earth. No-till got me back to doing what I love.
@notillgrowers: Advice for no-till (regenerative organic) vegetable growing in harsh climates (hot, dry), no or very limited mulch, compost material & finances available; have to grow on site, eg green manure cover crops (not tilled in; eg crimp-terminate).
Appreciate your recommendations.
Including perhaps pointing to growers with relevant knowledge & experience of growing with such conditions to share on this; or books or YT channels.
Thank you for really practical, educational and inspiring content.
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1:03 did that cat just come from the ground like a weed?!
Also, do you collect/use rainwater? It seems like it would save a lot on costs and doesn't kill the soil bacteria
We save a little sometimes but we're not in a place where water is scarce.
@@notillgrowers Considering how climate change is going, if you can you may want to start collecting more as a backup plan in case of a severe drought
I also have a small garden, much smaller like this. I often plant trees and cover them with straw and grass, then chop them into small pieces for easy decomposition. From the initial dry ground, I kept doing that and gradually improved. Now I can comfortably plant trees because the soil is better. Reclamation takes a lot of time, luckily I was successful in reclamation.
I've been practicing no till for a few years now in my garden and notice all the benefits you mentioned. Wish I would have learned this technique a long time ago!
Another great video. You are awesome. Love the cat
I have more trouble keeping tomatoes trellised and the zucchini pruned than I do with anything else in my garden. For the most part I only get weeds where the mulch gets thin. A person just wouldn't believe the difference mulch makes in soil quality till they have tried it for a few seasons.
We have a huge seed bank to deal with after leaving the veggie garden go wild for two years due illness. We are getting there after just a couple of years by mulching the pathways in about 20cm/8 in of wood chip twice a year. We use aged broken down chip to dress the beds and shovel pathways onto beds before renewing deep chip. Soil quality is improving significantly. We have about 15-20 truck loads down the yard aging. Some we just had to pay for delivery, some totally free as they regularly trim trees overhanging our road for driver safety. Rather than an hour round trip to a green mulch drop off site where they have to pay, the contractors are more than happy to drive 5-10 mins and leave us the chip. I painted a sign for the roadside as contractors change so it’s not uncommon to have deliveries out of the blue. We normally have high rainfall (2.2m / 87 in but in 2022 plus Jan 2023 we had 3.8m / 150 in … neighbour less than 2km/1.2 miles had close to 6m/236 in) even though in a cool temperate region with occasional snow so mulch breaks down in months. This year though we’re heading for drought conditions so mulching will be critical.
Love your informative videos. I've sorta 'hacked' at gardening for 10 years, but purchased your 'Living Soil Handbook' this Spring and it has revolutionized my garden & my sanity! Heavy mulched this past early Spring for the first time after using a early Winter tarp, and no tilling at all this year! We've had long cycles of rain & no rain but my garden hasn't suffered as much through those cycles! And, after several inches of rain over the past 3 days, I've not missed a minute of being in and working in the garden..with no muddy shoes! Weed pressure is the least I've ever seen in my 10 short years of gardening, and harvests are as good as any of those years..very encouraging! But, still so much to learn (bed turnover makes me anxious!!) So, I've become an advocate, telling my story to everyone who'll listen!
I’m a new subscriber and this is my first year gardening in 8b. We have had a lot of learning experience this first year. What I didn’t expect were the wide variety of grasshoppers in our area. They really did a number on our garden and on many of the trees my hubby planted.
I really like this no till gardening as I only dug rows with my shovel and turned the piles over and added peet moss and chicky poo for water retention and fertilizer when planting seeds or starter. It was not a good idea doing it that way as the weeds were besties with all the plants. I should have cleared the entire area first.
Thanks for your channel and the effort you put out for free.
Thanks for this! Lots of good information. I can't bear to till my garden because the mulches that I put down are necessary with the Florida heat, to protect the plant roots from excessive heat and drying, feeds the worm that are within the first foot of soil, and I'm not wanting to pull the mulch aside to turn the soil and kill the worms, I could go on. I just keep adding more mulch to the top of it. Now I may pull the mulch aside to do top dressing of slow release fertilizers and then replace it. Other than this, watering and liquid fertilizers require not much disturbance of the top mulching layer. Keeping up with adding more mulch layers due to heavy rains or just plain breakdown quicker in the summer is my only issue. Pest pressure, like flea beetles in early Spring, and the leaf miners, I have blamed on getting these in the mulch I buy. Working on that remedy now.
Those are perennially difficult no matter the system. Covering with insect protection (exclusion) is generally the best approach.
Another great video jammed pack of knowledge. I love starting my Sunday morning with a coffee and a lesson from my favourite farmer. Such an inspiration
I'm semi no-till (I don't have a working tiller..lol). I use a shovel, broadfork, hoe and rake. I use a lot of wood chips for mulch mostly in my walk ways and as they break down they a lot of structure and nutrients to my soil.
Been meaning to ask, I live in Central Ky area, are you able
to name your mulch hay supplier? Very nervous about persistent herbicides!
My guy is Russell Goins in Frankfort, but you can probably go to craigslist and find someone local to you. Just ask if they sprayed any broad leaf or anything on it because you want to use it in a garden. Most people will be straight with you about that I find
I have question about the hay you put down on the rows to keep them covered. I understand why but when you are ready to plant do you plant with the straw there or do you remove it? I am learning this year with two rows of no dig/till, I also have a ton of grow bags because for years I was fighting weeds and couldn’t take it anymore. I was so happy to find your channel along with Charles Dowding and have books from both of you.
Hello brother, beautiful vegetable garden 😍👍
Tilling will definitely make weeds worse! Not only because of the seed bank, but when you have a weed that spreads underground by rhizomes & can propagate/reproduce by hust a small peice, if you till that (chop it up) then you have just multiplied your weeds!like Bermuda grass- like I have on my property, it's the worst!!! I lolive in indiana, its wet here as well, & so before I knew better, id till & the ground stays wet, from often rain, that all those little pieces of Bermuda grass would reroot & I'd have an even bigger weed problem! & those roots are hard to pull! I was spending 20-30 hours a week weeding about 1500 sq. Ft. Area...
I have a large no till cutflower garden, & my raised beds for my veggies are no till. (Basically my wildflower patch & my pumpkin patch is the only thing I till. It has some major work needed but I plan to eventually make it no till) I definitely recommend no till!
My garden has improved due to using grass mulch from my yard. less weeds and less watering. Adding compost from my piles has greatly improved the soil over last few years.
You haven't had any problems with the grass mulch seeding the weeds?
@@leig9770 if you mulch correctly the seed will not sprout
Thank you for clarifyring the issues with hydrophobic compost, i was already suspecting this was an issue with the compost i currently use, but you have described my beet issue this year (germination yes, getting down roots no) spot on. Great vid as usual. Greet the kittycat please.
It’s made gardening so much easier!
How do you locate mulch without Grazon on it?
Very important question! 👏
Grazon attacks broadleaf plants and legumes, so alfalfa hay or a field blend including alfalfa won't have any. It is a huge asset if you can find a local grower and develop a relationship. After a year and half, I think we found one out here in NE Arizona, a nice family with great quality and fair prices.
Best wishes!
You just have to confirm it with the supplier. If they can't tell you don't buy it. I like to know the person who cut it.
💯 nailed it about The Bear!!! Love that show, also from restaurant industry and of course love me some Matty!!! ❤ y’all, thanks for all I have learned about soul management, Kristy in Missouri zone 6b 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Guys as this bloke mentioned about no till, much build up and long term decomposing for his farm land has been proven many times over, especially by CSIRO research and managements, Australia, early 1990's.
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No till has many advantages. It works great in high rainfall environments.
In Arid climates, however, It isn't so effective. Some tillage must occur, plus calcium levels be adjusted to deal with excesses of Sodium, Potassium and Magnesium.
So do you have to till 1st to start a no till farm? I have 5 acres in Ohio and I'm contemplating on how to start this process. Also, just started watching your videos, so I don't know if you covered this.
Cut the grass/weeds close to ground and lay out thickish cardboard or stretch tarps over the areas you want to plant. It takes a little time for everything under these to die, but you will be surprised at how effective this is especially if you do it in hot weather. Don't remove tarps until you're ready to plant. You can plant straight into cardboard by removing small strips where you want to plant or poking holes directly into the cardboard. Best advice ever? "The soil will protect herself". So plant then mulch as soon as you remove your coverings or the weeds will come back quickly, even if you don't till!
Blessings!
The book goes into a lot of detail about this but here is a good place to start th-cam.com/video/wm4cM6ZOe-w/w-d-xo.html
Where do you get your hay/straw mulch? Everywhere I’ve looked online is small bags and expensive. When I’ve looked locally in here in Texas, everyone uses herbicide to first kill weeds then fertilizer to help it grow.
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Total game changer. I'm selling my tiller because i never use it. Weeds still a challenge but much easier to pull out when they're forced to come up through a layer of wood chips or straw.
We started our garden last summer, and I had to till up the ground because it was covered in grass. I put down a 2-3" layer of compost and I didn't have the cardboard needed to suppress weeds. By the end of last summer, we basically just gave up weeding and the garden got taken over. This spring, we properly weeded once at the beginning of the year, I put down a ton of wood chips in the walkways and was able to get 5-6" of compost in the beds. Weeds have been much, much more manageable. We just went through a crazy month or so where I was basically unable to weed, and when I went out to weed for the first time in a while, it took me maybe 20 minutes to get the garden back to an acceptable state.
What do you think is the limiting factor in spreading this technique to more industrialized farming? I always have trouble getting the compost I need, but I know the folks at Assawaga are able to get by with a really very small compost operation, for the size of their garden. I ask, because, while this is awesome, the average person just cannot afford the prices at my local farmer's markets. I was watching you hand plant those lettuces in the video and could almost hear the cash register going off.
I just bought 6 acres of clay soil in central New York! Nothing but rocks and hard soil when dry and slippery mud when wet. 12:42 I started out with a 50 x 50 garden. Will probably start no tiii next year. Nothing thrives in the soil except weeds. I was never interested in soil signs until seeing your progress.
greetings from argentina! Loved the content of this video, really aprecciate your job, thanks! I have a small question, it would be correct to say that mulching algo provides a sort of protection against extreme weathers like a very dry and hot day, or maybe against the frosts?Thanksss, big hug, have a good day!
I have Bermuda grass and have tried mulch to keep it out of my crop areas, but it goes, over, under and around anything I have tried to keep it out. It has even made it through the woven poly weed barrier. Help, I'm out of ideas?!?!?!?!?!
it just made it possible to garden, having a bedrock at just 10 inches here, and having great produce! with Natural lawn clippings and compost only, no dig ever growing on top of grasses, loosing the soil just with my pitchfork.
I've been watching and liking your videos.
What I see as a long term problem is the use of so much mulch materials building up a deeper depth above your soil as time passes.
Soil in my mind has rock particles which provide the minerals plants require and the more mulch materials added to the surface surely gets deeper and deeper as time passes with spent mulch bulk. Spent being the nutrients where used up while growing in it in the year it was freshly applied.
So my way of thinking is the mulches are a man made growing medium and not soil and as time passes with adding so much annually you end up with a deep surface layer of spent , mineraless medium.
Problems expected would be mineral deficiencies, if you take it in 10 year implements, surely you get problems between 10 and 20 years of this system?
What is your soil organic matter levels?
Do you already have to make mineral amendments?
Do you get regular soil analysis tests done?
I am gardening in the Highlands of Scotland . I can get free spent grains from the local brewery. What is your opinion of the usefulness of this waste product? I have put some over my empty vegetable beds today.
I love your channel though our weather is very different. You are very informative - no waffling, straight to the point.
Are you not just replacing tillage time with mulching and compost time? What's that tradeoff look like?
Waving hello 👋 to my second favorite character of this channel, Jesse's off-camera imaginary friend. I'm naming him Phil.
Your cat is cute
Love this video!
I've been no till for a few years now in my large backyard gardens. , my gardens are more productive. If I have weed pressure in an area, I just throw cardboard and compost over that area, mainly crabgrass ugh. Yeah I'm that lazy. Been testing cover crops too.
tanah yang baik adalah tanah yang banyak mengandung unsur hara ,bukan masalah tanah itu gembut atau padat, dan penting menjaga ph tanah biar tetap seimbang.kerja bagus pak 👍👍
Congrats, since not many people especially Americans, use location in vids or information/blurds,
"In your location" as mentioned in mid vid.
Dropping ya a like.
Have you had issues with hay/ straw mulches with pesticide? I am fearful of ruining my garden.
The Bear! "The first bite of a donut brings me much joy. Two bites bring sadness" lol. Such a good show.
Decrease in mud has been my favorite benefit of no till and mulching!
Thanks for the video. Excited to be on the journey. Definitely the first couple years are hard as we figure out what our plants need and realize that they are growing a bit slower because of the high carbon in our compost. Overall though, once they start to take off they really do look great.
What are your working solutions of prevent fungal infections to plants from woodchips and leaf mulches?
Jesse, since now you have living pathways again, do succulent or drough tolerant plants affect much the production of main crops or you dont know?
I have a mix of clay and sand with hard pan in areas. I obviously need to improve my soil before I go to a No till system.
I was thinking of working in some mulch and then covering with hay for a season or two.
How else can I improve the soil?
I’m not sure anything would grow in it as is..other than goat’s head and tumble mustard.
No till technique is good farming technique. This leaves macro and micro fauna not disturbed much.
Most of these benefits you've listed have more to do with a ground cover (compost/organic material) and nothing to do with a lack of tillage.
Do you use organically grown hay? Do you make it yourselves? We are thinking of going organic when we start farming, but everyone here in TN around us seems to sprays their hay (horse grade)
Morning Hook, not that old, not in your fifties yet 😂😅. I'm not to many years older than you. No matter how many years experience someone has we all can learn something every day.
i've heard amaranth is actually edible (though maybe not Palmer's) - what say you about this?
Ok so... how many years before I can stop weeding twice a week my no till garden? 😅
Soil, healthy soil is the most important for farming. Compost, regenerate. No waste, recycle.
I agree no till is the way to go! I could not deal with the weeds otherwise.
Lol😂 about anxiety inducing shows! And love to hear that you are out playing with your kids
So I did this, used 1yr old wheat straw got a ton of wheat growing in paths and rows. It’s kind of a mess 🤦🏻♀️ what’s the trick with getting the seeds out
Ive seen some videos regarding mulching using hay ect where the hay itself has been treated with herbicides that then leach into your garden, ruining the whole soil biome and poisoning plants. How can you avoid this as I doubt the suppliers know the practices of the grower? Apparently they also make it through an animals digestive system, into their manure.