Peter Andrews on Weeds
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Peter Andrews the creator of Natural Sequence Farming speaking about grasses and weeds and how to best manage them. This talk was recorded at Mulloon Creek NaturalFarms near Canberra. Read the Blog and learn more about this video at:
As a kid i was taught that weeds are pioneer plants.
They always come first, fix the soil, and then are naturally replaced by everything else.
The most simple of concepts to understand, and something i never forgot.
Many farmers nowadays should be ashamed of their inability to work WITH nature.
That’s an interesting concept. Not one I’ve heard before, but I’ll definitely be keeping that in mind in future 👍🏼
There are also natives that are used as pioneer plants. Weeds are definitely not naturally replaced, this is why they are weeds in the first place. We should be using native plants endemic to the area. Not weeds.
I bought 16 acres in the Australian Snowy Mountains. my neighbour used to graze his sheep on it until we fenced the final boundary. At the back of the property, the sheep used to relax and it had a totally degraded 100m sq area under a tree. We battled thistle and errand's rod by chipping them out by the roots. this had no effect and the soil was still not producing any grass. We changed to slashing/ mulching, and 5 years on- half the plants, and grass has come back. Thanks Peter
Do what do you do, just cut the top of the weed and leave it be?
@@blickluke yes
How are the weeds now?
Shame governments don't listen to people like Peter, he's a genius. He makes so much sense.
Regenerative agriculture means degenerative capitalism, degenerative agriculture means regenerative capitalism. In reality though capitalism doesn't regenerate, it just bleeds the host body dry and then moves on to find a new host. Except that there is no new host, because the "host" is the planet and there can be only one. Capitalism operates off of the, "live fast die pretty" ideology. Capitalists however are some of the least physically and mentally healthy people on the planet, but they're sadists and to them capitalism feels good.
I never knew this guy existed until I saw this.
11 years after this vid was published and I still didn't know what the damage grass is doing to our weed system.
I take my hat off to this guy👍
This guy is great.
Looking at the world based on reality.
My Dad always said... you dont have to poison weeds.. just keep mowing them and the grass will take over... so true.... and he always left some rag tag areas alone deliberately as weeds are vital too.. he said that over 50 years ago.
Never has this knowledge been more relevant, especially in Australia! I truly hope this becomes the norm in farming.
Love him! The proof is in the results. Take a look, and throw all your pesticide-promoting theories out the window.
Improve your soil quality and they'll be gone. I've found allowing the lawn to grow long and cutting it without a catcher to act as mulch helps.
Poisoning them will leave the area disturbed and they'll return twice as strong the following year, causing you to buy twice the product to treat them with.
mryellow123 Lol I do the same . It’s a no brainer isn’t it .
Absolutely!
Thank you Peter, your love of the land and earth has made your stewardship reclaim the wasteland of Australia's droughtland. Your brilliance of care and knowledge is being shared by your proud son and dear friend Tony who lived your shared passion.
Well done kind sir.
Peter, you are a human ray of sunshine.🌞
Thank you, Peter Andrews. You've certainly opened my eyes and changed my views and techniques for the better.
This Peter fellow is a real life legend- A hero.
From being nothing more than lazy I left my North Queensland back yard get overgrown with 5 feet high weeds for many months.
I finally pulled them and couldn't believe how good the soil was and how many earthworms were right near the surface. It really does improve the soil.
Hello EVERYONE!,
This year was my first year planting something on my own. It was an experimental farm. I DID NOT REMOVE WEEDS. I REPEAT! I DID NOT REMOVE WEEDS only a bit of grass to plant whatever I had to.
The only time I removed weeds, was when I noticed some invasive species growing, grass, or something that was over-growing whatever crops that needed sun.
Most things came out fine and I believe, much more nutritious.
Thank you Sir. I love your channel, very informative.thank you for sharing .
peter is a common sense genius
Took me till the end to work out he was saying that weeds are good.
My neighbor(s) are farmers since ever. Although most of them have a cumulative knowledge that I do respect a lot. They're also "stuck" in the "till the soil to death" and "spray, spray, spray"!! Nothing regenerative at all. In fact is quite obvious how bad the soil is going on their farms. Their answer usually comes in the form of more chemicals, more spray, etc.
When I started "taking care" of my weeds. Or in short let them to their thing. The soil started turning into what it should be, everywhere. Rich and filled up with organic matter! Less work, less "input", BUT BETTER OUTPUT!! Totally opposite to what the chemical industry tell us!! Even though my neighbors still resist in face of the obvious! Yes a very human like reaction. ;-)
Should be noticed, occasionally I do get rid of "weeds" more in the sense of having "physical" space for whatever crop I want. But my get rid method is producing organic compost or at minimum it's creating a decent mulch layer. So there's nothing bad about weeds. ;-)
@@crpth1 That is why I am (almost) only buying organic food. Ever since we measured levels of chemical residues in organic and industrially produced fruits and vegetables during university.
@@crpth1 what do you do? Just till the land with the weeds in it or cut them all down and then use them as much and plant?
@@bry10101 - Hi! I'm not an extremist regarding tilling. But I assure you till is the last thing I ever do to my soil! It's a "construction feature". So I do it if I need to level or apply some other ground feature. On "growing" things and building soil, generally speaking "till" as no place. And let's be honest, it's a shitty load of work and expense! To kill and impoverish the soil! Not something I can take lightly.
Call me cheap, but It's already bad. Thinking about paying to get less results! But paying to make it worse, well that's simply insane!
Regarding weeds it truly depends on what "weeds" we're talking about. Annual/perennial, deep root, shallow root, invasive, etc. Either case methods goes from, "chop & drop" in place (mulch). Remove them to the compost pile. Or simply let them be, if nothing is being planted on the particular area. Worth remember they're building and feeding the soil for FREE. You don't need to had any input for that! Simply collect the benefit!
"Weeds" are a precious free resource. Readily available, "gratis", no work involved ... It would be terrible to waste such a bountiful item in our garden "tool bag"!
Cheers
@@crpth1 in anycase, a 'weed' is simply a plant in the 'wrong' place
Just found your site. Love it. Will follow. PLEASE stop the music. Not necessary.
As always, it takes years for governments to listen to the true geniuses... What are great farmer! Thank you.... The World...
As a Kiwi I reckon Peter is a John Clarke doppelganger.
Did Peter Andrews and Bill Mollison or David Holmgren ever get together for a chat? That'd be one awesome conversation.
JV Kanufan he has mentioned permaculture before . Geoff Lawton designed some of the tree planting systems on the Malloon creek property. There’s another Video of a big red headed guy plant those trees and it says at the bottom of the vid that Geoff designed the system of planting .
th-cam.com/video/VHBEdQ31rUk/w-d-xo.html there ya go mate . Found it .
@@shanekonarson Thanks for the link! It makes sense that there is that cross-pollination :)
One thing I'm pretty sure I would love to have "those guys" doing some work on my tiny piece of land. Mighty Welcomed for sure. LOL 😂
whys that linda? his farm was drought proofed and everyone elses failed. Farmers essentially committed suicide because they didnt follow these practices.
Moe Kuc the law says you can’t block rivers , it also says you can’t plant non native species, they urge farmers to spray weeds which cost heaps . Weeds especially with tap roots actually work like a plow they break up soils then they die off when it rains the water goes right in to the sub soil . Everyone should study this stuff .
@@shanekonarson Deep rooted Cover Crops...not only help break up soil compaction, but they also create passageways into the soil for both water and air, and provides a source of biomass that penetrates into the soil. That biomass has locked up nitrogen in it, gathered from the Atmosphere and sent down to the roots...so the soil becomes fertile. The decaying biomass provides a source of food for bacteria and other organisms such as earth worms that live within the soil.. The worms eat this material and help make the soil loose so that plant roots can more easily grow. So these things: Weeds with their Deep Tap roots, Grass and organisms all work together and form an ecosystem below the surface. This ecosystem traps nitrogen from the air and stores water.
Bostonterrier97 it’s excellent stuff . Needs to be common knowledge. I share Peter Andrews videos with everyone. Also Masanobu Fukuoka and Bill Mollison , Geoff Lawton , and David Holmgren. PA Yeomans Keyline system is great to .
he's right and it's scary how this knowledge is ignored
I learnt many years ago that every weed pulls up its specific nutrient to the soil surface. I weed my little garden by hand; no pesticides here!
i never thought i'd promote weed growth in North Missouri but that's what it's come to to get rid of the plague of fescue
Weeds are so much more valuable than grass. Grass is kind of useless. Unless you have a farm with grass-eating animals, what is the point? I have a yard full of all kinds of weeds. When I mow, it turns out looking quite nice. When the weeds get bigger, the bees and butterflies come and visit the flowers. Each year, a different weed seems to dominate. But having all these weeds and keeping them fairly long helps me keep moisture in my yard in the hot Florida sun. They don't require care, fertilizing, watering or pampering. They just grow, and some of them are edible as a bonus. You can buy various bulk seeds for dandelion, comfrey, clover, daisies, and a host of others that you can broadcast over your yard, for not much money. I live on sand, but these seeds will come up easier than grass, and they certainly are a lot more interesting. We also decrease our plant diversity if we value only grasses.
Mr Andrew is absolutely right. It's about time that someone debunk the bullying of grass maintenance/pesticide companies. I cringe at the thought of the billions spent in the name of that perfect green carpet kept strictly to keep up with the neighbors
I love weeds. They keep my lawn green all year round in the dry tropics, where we don’t get rain for 6 months in the winter. Weeds are doing their job so I don’t have to irrigate nor fertilize. I weed whack few times a year, and let the sheep through it when the rain comes.
Serious question, how do you control the weeds around rocks where it cant be mown?
Thing is, how tf do i harvest a mono crop with all the other species in between? What's the plan?
And for livestock?
Why isn't anyone in power listening to this great man .
Malcolm Turnbull met with him but Turnbull's ego is so big that he never took any notice of Peter.
Money bsns from hte fertilizers and weed-kkillers. The world of finance is our enemy.
Spoiled people living in ivory towers will not care for things that don't affect them directly.
Especially if they're sociopathic politicians that would sooner let the land turn into a wasteland so they can sell it off to mining companies.
They reason that the world won't end in their lifespan, so they milk it for everything it's worth.
Of course, what lot of good sense, nature ALWAYS provides a solution. We just need to stop interfering with our need to profit and control it.
I would really like to know how to control Bindieye. I have lots of Bindieye - and very little grass around the house.
No dig mulching will get rid of it.
i see why a rift caused between him and his son, when his son bought the property before the family lost it to the banks he was forced to focus on the short term financial demands to keep the ownership of the property while his old man was focused on the long term to provide sustainable growth for the property. Perhaps a middle ground would've been the best because all that really mattered was the money to pay it. Such a shame that ecological restoration is so sustainable in the long term, but in the short term yields are very difficult, i think this is what makes the transition hard
True that ✊🏼 to the man
everything has it's purpose, even a weed
@berondi have you read his books?
Tar and feather the poison chemical salesmen.
The only thing they have done is give millions of people cancer and poisoned the rest of us....
Hardly, the chemical molecule making up RoundUp is a recycled molecule from Agent Orange, which was used for deforestation during the Vietnam war. When it was discovered just how dangerous it was, Dow Chemicals stopped it and invented RoundUp. Now, when we have discovered just how dangerous RU is, they recycled the molecule again, this time in broad spectrum antibiotics. RU was sold to Bayer under the name Liberty Link.
Amazing knowlege
Love you Peter , ? What is Lantana .
Nice
Australorps feathers ?
16 Snake oil salesmen disliked this.
He's such a funny bastard
@sizercam no i haven't but i'd be interested to read them. from the blurbs and reviews i have read of his book 'back from the brink' i expect i will disagree with some of his theories and agree with others.
@TTLM77 Having worked in degraded landscapes for over 10 years I would say that weeds are not the only things that grow there. Weeds in degraded landscapes can pose threats to remnant native vegetation in a number of ways, and these are widely known. Weedy species can serve an apparently beneficial role in ecosystem processes (e.g. preventing erosion or providing habitat for some native fauna) but usually the benefits are far less than the negative impacts. I'll still look up his books though!
They're only crucial as a part of the soil regeneration, after that is completed they have no use and can be removed or will just naturally die out if you plant the right native vegetation. Horses for courses though, what worked in hunter valley nsw, is different to the floodplains of the upper mallee and wimmera. Aus is a big country that requires diverse approaches for a visibly diversified landscape.
The chemical blokes are making a fortune....
You made a mockery of Bureuraucrats in Government , Peter Andrews over many years .
And the great science people know you are right. So do the great farmers.
Not the Government. Not the Public Service.
You and you therories are pure gold and true . And the ratbags in Government & the Ppublic Service will have to move over or out
Congratulations thanks and best wishes
Peter Brewster Moss Vale
I found this a little incoherent. Is he saying the weeds are good?
yes
Learn something in the first minute
The fkn micheal jordan of biodiversity
Comparing like with like would be helpful. A bunch of grass plants will always be a "ground hog" compared to a single milk thistle. Try comparing a single grass plant next time.
some plants may be undesirable or even poisonous to stock. they'd be the agricultural weeds.
some plants invade native vegetation and displace indigenous species. they'd be the environmental weeds.
peter does not make any distinction between different types of weeds in this video and he implies that 'weeds' are good for the 'landscape'. His lack of recognition of the different types of undesirable plants and their contexts, makes for poorly constructed and misleading arguments.
The argument is greening to stop desertification. To slow the loss of water not beautification.
lol, and what an ass we are, aren't we? ("Peter's lack of understanding.") Did you forget about his racehorses?
This was exactly the comment I was about to make. Peter IS a genius in many areas. However, this video-- and many farmers and many laymen -- over-simplify the issue into "weeds good/weeds bad".
1). The issue is not about the greenery or roots of any weed. It is about its desired/undesired invasive qualities coming from its seed spread, which only serves to multiply the takeover of invasive exotics in a landscape where they do not "work" in the environment as well as 100% native Australian ground cover and understory.
2) In a parched, greenless soil, YES, by all means, leave ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING such as exotic weeds growing for a few seasons to promote fertility and retain moisture. But, slash weed heads HIGH just before seed set to prevent further invasion. Head cutting deepens root work. At the same time, replant and re-seed with native ground covers and understory which will gradually overtake the exotics.
3). Birds will spread ANY SEED, so, to get Australian vegetation back to a natural balance, allow them only native seeds to eat and spread. Duh.
4). Mind you, the whole issue of remnant vegetation depends upon ones desired land use. What ground vegetation a creek bed, a hilltop, a horse farm, cattle farm, sheep farm, soy bean farm, vegetable farm, all need in restoration and ongoing improvement varies drastically. You don't want a paddock full of scotch thistle spines in your lucerne or lettuces, but its fine for goats and others.
5). As usual, every agricultural discussion has situational nuances which, sometimes, Peter ignores and generalises in his rather didactic tone.
6). Scale of farm will also massively affect how one goes about soil and vegetal restoration. No one idea can work in every situation. I am sure Peter agrees with this.
Hey LIGHTBULB, perhaps hes talking in general terms because its a 5 min clip.
too late, was the cry, pete. there's a malaise called " evolution", leading to ?........ a new shop ? do'nt worry about it.
Peter Andrews is the worst weed of all.
Ok boomer
Love you need to drink some Roundup. CHEERS!!!
Explain your reasoning!
@@emotophobiccdd8006 She'd be a nativist greenie. Some of the most dangerous people on the planet. They may be full of good intentions but all that does is pave the road to hell. Her comment was 7 years ago. She might have woken up since then...with an emphasis on might.