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Everyone needs to be testing their hay and manure for broad leaf herbicide. It's getting in (meaning accidentally contaminating our own gardens ) and destroying everything.

Everyone needs to be testing their hay and manure for broad leaf herbicide. It's getting in (meaning accidentally contaminating our own gardens ) and destroying everything.

What a fascinating place. A family coming together to make a product that can be used by so many people to help recycle the materials of life❤

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Feed the soil, not the plants, learned this in my first year growing "hemp" 😉. Now im onto bigger and better things haha..

I have the book.

Nice hat.

thank you

I am awesome!

First time seeing your channel. Gotta tell you, I'm hooked. Your delivery, info and flow are energetic...and the music too. So one beer drinker to another - your video gave me an "I told you so" moment regarding amendments & water. I've been gardening 8 years, always learning. I use ZERO chemicals just take hints from folks like you, the woods around me, to make amendments. Old timers give great advice too. I use the K.I.S.S. principles as much as I can because I'm a spry 65 - just busted up a bit from a wreck. Anyway, living in a clay bound area, I till then grow Upward with fat & wide rows, containers, etc. This year more container and vertical growing - which saved my plantings after a flash flood. Using leaves, biochar, kitchen compost, egg shells, I enrich the dirt. I know it's good when I see worms. Now just to share a giggle - we get dry spells, so I collected green beer bottles with screw on caps. Holes punched in the cap with a nail. These will be dunked into my garbage can rain barrel (money's tight - I do redneckery with the best), and placed to allow drip water feeding. Who knew Mickey's would create an epiphany? Plus the pictographs on the cap are brain exercise. Well back to work. Looking forward to your next video.

Amazing

Just lost a whole crop to that leaf miner. Leeks and onions 😢 had my shallots in a different area with my problems.

Hey farmer Jessie, nerd here. The last method reminds me of a method from the Soviet Union. I've only had this relayed to me in Norwegian from a Russian biologist, so some details may not be entirely correct. Take everything I say with a pinch of salt. A mad potato scientist named Piotr Balabanov, who dedicated his whole life to potatoes, invented a method we refer to as "dark sprouting", as opposed to sprouting potatoes in the light. The common methods involving light will produce short thick sprouts, intended to be easier to handle. Sprouting in the dark, however, produces long white stolons. Yes, they are fragile, but white stolons is where the tubers are formed on the potato plant. The longer the stolons, the higher the potential for tubers. Balabanov's method is about growing long stolons underground. He used only whole seed potatoes (~100g/3.5oz) planted directly in the field with a wide spacing (1m/40" rows, 30cm/12" in-row), with rows going north-south to maximize sunlight. Planting has to be done at the right time, which Balabanov specified as when the birch tree has leaves the size of a 1 ruble coin… I assume it's more or less when we typically plant potatoes, i.e. when the soil temperature is 8-10°C/45-50°F at 10cm/4" depth. Once planted, you earth up by 5cm/2" once every week or so. It has to be done before the sprouts break through the soil, because as soon as they reach light, they will turn from white tuber-forming stolons to green non-tuber-forming stems. Remember, the goal is to get long stolons underground, ideally 20-25cm/8-10" according to Balabanov. So you earth up 5cm/2" three times, once a week or so, for a total height of 15cm/6". During the growing season, you should earth up another two times to prevent disease and the greening of tubers. The result is a higher capacity for tubers per plant, and therefore a higher yield. Balabanov's record was 119 tubers from one plant. I think weight is a more interesting metric, but that's an impressive amount of tubers! I've done this for a few years now, with some variation. While I haven't done any comparisons or blind trials, I can at least say that it does produce good yields. And the science checks out. Note that this is only applicable to indeterminate varieties, which AFAIK are typically late varieties. If I understand correctly, determinate varieties won't necessarily yield more tubers by giving more space for stolons to grow into. But I'm not a mad potato scientist, so take everything I say with a grain of salt, as you should with any comment on the internet. One variation is to start potatoes inside in the dark, in crates of moist sawdust, producing lots of roots and long white stolons. While the seed potatoes did get a head start this way, I found it really hard to plant them out without breaking the long and fragile stolons. I prefer Balabanov's original method of growing long stolons underground by earthing up. This year I did choose seed potatoes that already had some cm/inches of white stolons and ideally some roots, as that's preferrable to still dormant ones. It's all about understanding the biological principles and working with what you're given. Bonus potato fact: Seed potatoes sprouted in the light are physiologically older than those sprouted in the dark, therefore terminating sooner. That could be a pro if it means you'll avoid late blight, or a con if you have blight resistant varieties, because you'll then get a smaller crop than you otherwise would. I only grow blight resistant varieties, so I want a physiologically young seed potato that stays longer in the ground, achieving a higher yield.

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No-tilling channel, tilling?

Meat rabbits potential source of worm box manure. Collecting manure from folks who keep horse barns/riding rings, as compost addition.

I see why some people use no till soil but for some environments no till is impossible I see plenty of farmers that too till and have no problems with there crops Im just wondering why people give tilling a bad name?

I started my small organic banana farm 3 years ago on my islands highest rainforest mountain here in the USVI's. It is the greatest job I have ever had.

So, compost makers need to also be the ones to collect the ingredients for it.

2:42 no cheese, meat, garbanzos in it, Jess?

Can't you use paper bags instead of plastic ones? I don't like plastic either 😉. Maybe the compost is too "wet"...

As a soil scientist i commend you for your support of no till

Thank you for the shout out to "real farmers" who have off the farm jobs. I grew up on a dairy farm in SW Minnesota and spent a number of years farming with my dad before starting nursing school last year. My parents shared the burden of raising a family as a full time farmer/nurse combo. Almost every full time farmer I know has a spouse who works "in town" and has a job that provides insurance. Farming is hard and trying to make money doing it is even harder. Good luck to those of you getting into it.

Neat to see a clay success story. Sometimes feels impossible.

Just remember if the hay was sprayed with Grazon your whole garden will be poisoned.

9:21 just want to add that the primary reason for letting tomatoes sprawl across the ground is because their vines lay adventitious roots all along their length, making much more vigorous and prolific plants, though admittedly, much harder harvests.

We plant our leeks in holes made with a broadfork! You can go pretty deep and the spacing is always regular.

On my farm in Germany i grow leeks year round. Usually there's no leek gap. Never grown in polytunnel just with some cover at the field. The polytunnel is reserved for spring onions only.

30, 11 years 😄

I've grew potatoes from the sprouts about 5 years ago, I was just curious if it would work. It did.

I like the no dogma approach, Jesse. It makes crazy good sense to say that for a backyard gardener rotating to minimize pest or disease is probably not going to be effective. A big take away from this for me is that the idea of crop rotation is probably more benefiacail to large growers of staple crops.

Evolved from what? You have been reading fairly tails.

Did you mention seeds? I grow heritage seeds and sell them on eBay. Lots of bi-annual cultivation, so I'm sheltering them over winter, helping them flower, harvesting, winnowing, packaging and distributing them. It's do-able, even with a small garden.

In short, in Europe it is because the agricultural policy of the European Union subsidizes the farmers who till with large amounts of money. They then spend most of that money on fertilizers and pesticides....closing the vicious and corrupt cycle.

What works on my allotment is the broad-leafed plantain (Plantago major; flower heads and leaves don't grow as tall as e.g. Plantago lanceolata). Native and always found along hikers' trails. I have the large-leafed plantain too, for medicinal harvest, but not in the paths. Great for barefoot walking, too. They seem happy to be growing with white clover. No grass; you always get annual meadow grass (Poa annua) in any grass areas around here (S UK), which seeds itself around at every opportunity, virtually uncontrollably low by the ground too. Broad-leafed plantain isn't evergreen (but the roots will certainly keep the soil stabilised all year 'round), so i use a small amount of wood shavings from organic animal pet bedding used by one of my neighbours, which will prevent slippery mud in winter. Quick and easy to mow. Maybe wood chips screened for size would be fine too. Much easier to keep free of the smaller weeds, too! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 🌳🕊💚

Super valuable resource to have all these talks. Really hope you'll continue. We can all share our tips and tricks and be stronger together

You are so entertaining!

Is this something you can leave alone if say you are the only one in the house that will deal with it and you work full time. Or will this eventually spontaneously combust?

Re: rate of growth, harvest and sowing more seeds per cell: Does picking from the cluster negatively effect the other plants in the cluster?

Good thing this video wasn’t any longer. He ran out of hands for dogs.

Why my onions have such a thick stem ?

A low of 1 degree. Lucky you

I love ALL No-Till Growers videos!

Thanks, great dogs too.

Did you get the flys even with the tunnels or only outside non tunnels please and thank you

Im curious to know where your farm is located. My kids want to become farmers. Where can one get a piece of land and begin their farming venture. My father owns some land in Louisiana...I just wonder where is the best place to grow a farm. Thank you! ❤️

You should've done more dog B roll. Not enough variations. That being said, this was great! I've been trying to grow more leeks; my wife and I really enjoy them.

Having seen his dogs, I congratulate you for not making any "over wienered onions" jokes. That would just be wrong.

I'm in nebraska it's been 30 below an I've had over winter leeks an onions in my small grow tunnel my leeks are very big now

Egyptian onions, my dad called them winter onions. Tops die back in winter, then very early spring the greens grow back and are very mild until it gets hot.