5 Beginner No Dig Mistakes to Avoid 

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I agree with all those mistakes. I made all of them too :) Thank you Moreno for share this information and good luck

I wish I saw your video 10 years ago, because that's how long I've been fighting thistle weed in my flower beds and garden. I essentially gave up growing crops or flowers, because I was so frustrated that I was losing the battle against grass and weeds. I'm going to give it another try after I watch your other video that shows step one where you initially broke ground. I absolutely love the curved stone area too. You're very gifted are making a yard workable and beautiful. Thank you.

Thank you for this video, it is very helpful and well explained. Love your channel!

Wow! This is such a helpful video! Thank you for your time and energy in creating this content. I've watched dozens of no-dig/no-till ferris and have still never heard the useful tips you just mentioned and, very helpfully, demonstrated! Keep up the good work, and your homestead is starting to look wonderful.

I have seen some videos that mention these mistakes, but yours was well explained and thorough. Thank you.

You're so pedagogical. Your way of explaining this process makes me feel like I can do it.

Loving your videos! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge 💪🏻👍🏻👍🏻😁

Thanks for the knowledge you have imparted

Building one's own compost bins out of old heat treated (not chemical treated) pallets is helpful too. Last season I was able to dress my beds with 15 wheelbarrows of nice compost made from leaves, grass clippings and other greens and browns, It was made the year before and added in the fall.

Very helpkul video . Thanks for sharing .

Another great video, lots of good advice, Thank you

Thank you for this valuable information. Happy gardening!

I enjoy the videos, but especially those where you show the transformation progress of your land!

💙OMGoodness! This is such an important episode and my favourite to date. Mille merçi!

brilliant and informative as usual ,thanks for sharing

Fantastic video -as always-! Thanks Moreno for keep sharing your knowledge! Best wishe! G

Amazing video. Thanks so much

This is great content for aspiring farmers like me

I love your detailed information❤, I will start watching all your videos, very instructive

Grazie per le informazioni molto precise e importanti.

I appreciate mulch. Great video.

leuk om te volgen dat je goed gaat.goeie vids man

Ik vind je videos zo leuk en ook omdat je in mijn land woont, zelf woon ik in Nederland en ik heb ook een moestuin, zo een mooie hobby, veel geluk in Portugal

This is such a great video. Thank you for all your good info. Where exactly in portugal you moved? We are interesting in buying a property in portugal as well, and would be helpful for us to hear where is the best area for farming in portugal

Hey Moreno, its amazing to see how you are working fortward! You have my greatest respect!!! Some days i wished that i could even make a new start from the beginning 😬🫣 enjoy it!!! I‘m sure your work will be sucessfull and your harvest will be Great! And don’t froget: every day we have to be thankful for our most important parts of our lifes 😉 those who walk with us!

Great tips. I have been gardening seriously for 5 years. I agree with all you say. I had to use a lot more compost than originally imagined. The more and the better quality, the better. I also agree with an initial tillage and a layer of cardboard. You didn't mention fertilizers. I swear by chicken manure.....though like compost, it has to age. I wonder if you have adopted any of Elaine Ingham's teachings on microscope analysis of soil biology.

Super bedankt

Great tips, esp those on weed control 👍🌾

Thank you, sir for this new info. I am beginner farmer

Loving your work BROTHER from INDIA

Thank you, @thedutchfarmer, for always making such good quality materials. I've been watching no dig videos for many years now and can't say that the info and experience you're sharing replicates any of them. I appreciate your authenticity, the fact that you're speaking out of real life experience. God bless and way to go! 🙏

Av benefitted alot from your videos. Its the weeder that i really want to know how i can get one.

From your excellent video I got answer to my question; how can it be, that in the first years I had more crops in the vulcanic sandy soil, than recently in the -for years mulched- soil. I recognised the plants easy moving in the soil, but did not dare to ram the soil. Thank you for your advice.

Thank you

Hey, great video, exactly what I needed! I started my bed in early March, but as of now it is not looking good. There are many fungi growing under the fleece (which I have now removed, but still) and I have probably made the mistake of stepping on the bed too often when it was wet from rain, we got a lot of rain this season. Many of my beetroot plants now have died, probably because of a combination of not being able to root through the cardboard and too compact soil. Or what do you think what the fungi and stunted growth of beetroot could be from? Some of them outright died :(

Great summery - thanks

I find another mistake is thinking no dig doesn’t need fertilizer. I did need comfrey tea or compost tea or urine or manure all throughout the year. The ground takes many years to be self fertile. Ps i know the compost advice is hard in a very general video, but an in depth seems needed, because it’s sooooo hard to get the right kind !

Thanks once again for this valuable information. I can only wish you the very best for this coming growing season.

Some of these lessons learned the hard way--- OH my back and knees. LOL. BUT so agree with this video--- it works!!! Outside supplier---KNOW THEM!!!

Hallo Moreno, dankjewel voor deze video en al die andere, een verademing tussen de velen andere soortgelijke videos. Ook ik leef sindskort in centraal Portugal, waarschijnlijk niet ver bij jullie uit de buurt (ik zag jullie een aantal weken geleden in de Agrijola). Ik heb een vraag, waar heb jij je compost vandaan? Alvast bedankt! En nogmaals bedankt voor al die bruikbare filmpjes.

Curious as to your views on irrigation. I don't see any drip lines in your growing beds - do you prefer hand watering ? Thanks and all the best!

Hey, that was gold

I like yor videos I am an organic farmer from rural India

Very good

While "aging" the compost after it's been spread into the beds, should I covert with a tarp in our rainy NW? Will the goodness leach away in 6 months of rain when I spread it in October?

Hi Moreno Do you have any problems with voles, moles or other rodents ? How do you deal with it? Is it worth using, for example, net rodents?

Hi Moreno i have a question, i’m about to start my own market garden project but i have a big problem to find compost in my region and the only compost available is bull manure, so is it fine to use bull manure? Thanks

Hi, Here in india, I have seen many vedios. The farming named ZBNF meaning zero budget natural farming. Where they make jeevamrutham. Which will rejuvenate the land. It has done wonder in natural farming. It has brought back earthworm to chemically cultivating land. Jeevamrutham has good effects.

If the compost is not mature could it be a solution mixing with it worm compost and tea compost to guarantee the right nourishment?

There is also a technique that avoids these mistakes! You can avoid the use of cardboard. Because compost over the cardboard will dry out the compost and make the roots grow to the sides. Making you have to put even more compost on top like you said. The other way would be First Compost, Second 6 layers of journal paper, Third Mulch. This will avoid all weeds and make a good house for the compost to stay warm and wet

Been wondering why my 4 month old compost wont grow my veggies well enough. It needed more time to decompose, I guess.

tldr; 1. didn't remove existing vegetation 2. didn't use the right kind of compost for the seasonal area 3. didn't use enough compost (should use ~50cm of depth) 4. didn't compress the compost 5. didn't give new beds a deep watering OP should have posted these in the chapter links, not mistake 1, mistake 2, etc.

Waar heb je je compost gekocht ? Ik woon ook in Portugal maar heb dit alleen in zakken kunnen vinden.

Essas pedras e penedos são lindos , sítio maravilhoso 🇵🇹😘

Reference aging compost, what if you live in a high rainfall area. Should you cover the compost to prevent nutrients being leached into the soil beneath? We’ve passed 3.1m already and a close neighbour over 4m.

Do you make your own compost or best to buy top soil?

Thank you for these super tips and also by any chance did find yourself on our land yesterday ?😁Sarah

10 outta 10

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hello ou trouviez vous votre compost en france ? cdmt

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Whats your opinion on Mulch ?, i´ve seen many of no Dig beds without it. it mainly a pest issue as you said ? or other factors as well ? or perhaps apply mulch only on hot summer months ?

Bast man

Seems I avoided all of these mistakes😀

Mow it and use landscape fabric to deny light. You can not till weeds out, especially things like Bind weed. This will regrow really easily and many times worse. I think the best way is to mow it then use fabric to black out light. In between make a JMS solution. Loads of videos here showing how. Spray this on the land by folding back the landscape fabric them recover. Pass again every 5 days for a total of x4 passes. You can use compost, sea salt and local plants to makes minerals and food to replace anything removed from the land. Use the JMS on bare unplanted ground. Thanks

Thank you so much for this content. I was starting to get tired of these no dig videos on other channels telling us that compost was like magic to grow plants. Compost is a fertilizer for the plants, and it takes a high quality compost to use it strictly as a growing medium. I've made those mistakes and what i would also stress is how the soil is when you start. If your soil is very compacted like our, you will have to till the first time. The main mistake done by the no dig people is that they layer existing soil with compost, don't do that.

Can't you add sand to hydroponic compost? Wouldn't that solve it?

superb info bro and damn youre an attractive guy uff

Subtitulos en español por favor .

Pourriez-vous nous faire cette vidéo en français, et celle dans lesquelles vous donnez des conseils, please j'en ai besoin

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No dig, even the under ground with a lot of small stone?

You should have followed Charles Dowding.

My only problem with no dig is it’s unsustainability: it uses so much compost which is a waste and what’s worse is that it’s all imported not made on site (you never really know the inputs or how it was made)

mistake #6: no mulch layer :(

You should always dig about 20 centimeter before winter in order to expose roots into frost air and make life more difficult gor pests. This is how we do in Ukraine where every patch of soil is deep compost (about 0.5 -1meter). Don't be lazy: dig two times per year: before freezing and in April, or when it is allowed to plant your vegetables.

So now that we saw 2 full videos of putting compost on the ground and a lot of talking...pls back to the progress videos. thx

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Great tips but unbearable to listen to...

Great and all but when do we get an update on the farm/homestead

I can't find ur email adres on the about page, can u add it and let me know?

Great summery - thanks

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