Best Way to Increase Soil Microbes and Improve Plant Health 

Wow, thanks

@@Gardenfundamentals1 Same here. I'm done searching.

Have you ever checked out “self sufficient me” ? He’s also a brilliant one to follow!

Does the same hold true for soulless gardening in containers? Just include compost in the mix, hydrate & mulch?

I agree,I have his soil book and about to purchase the rest of series.Hes one of the legit real Mccoy

Pulling out roots should be citable offense. Unless you have an invasive plant, it counter-productive. If I need a smooth seed bed, I just put down compost next to or on top of the cut down row.

The new plant roots will use the preformed conduits of those old or decayed roots, saving energy and time as well.

Good points

@@andresamplonius315dang thanks

Is there any information on what happens when we apply Double Nickel fungicide to control Pytophra aka Root Rot, what does it do to good bacteria

Thank you.

No-Till Growers is also good. He farms for a living so he's doing something right. He practices regenerative agriculture. One thing I learned from that channel is if you want to know what's in the soil, you have to actually look at it, with a microscope and know what different things look like. THEN you can make things like compost teas which do work because you actually LOOK at what's in the tea before applying it. In other words you are validating that what you think you did is indeed what you actually did when making that tea. For a backyard farmer this is probably too much effort unless you're practicing to become a farmer for a living.

@@johndoh5182 Compost tea is a bunch of BS. No market gardener here I've ever met makes or uses it here in Eastern Ontario that wants to make a living. Nor do they do any other magical practices, like putting skulls in their soil, or anything like that. Science and not mysticism is useful in agricultural systems. Edit: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4F5uOXhDoB8.html

😆 true

I've never tried it but if I were to try it I would drizzle molasses over newly introduced fresh organic matter that I want to breakdown relatively faster?

This guy is right, he is dead on about the more diversity of plants and grass you grow around your crop. You have more available sugar for different microbes to break down different enzymes and you will have more defense against pests. But he is denouncing actual doctors and soil scientists... Dr. Elaine Ingham has a soil food web school where you look at soil samples under a microscope and you keep actually adding compost tea until you get the numbers up to what they should be. I cultivate IMO in Korean Natural Farming and JMS in JADAM... This video is also denouncing that. I will also say he's right. For example, when it comes to the apple tree dropping its fruit in the fall, that's when you actually fertilize.. But because we harvest most of the fruit, you're taking away the nutrition for itself. Dr.

Every farmer uses synthetic ferts. If they didn't the world would have starved a hundred years ago or so.

That's what any regenerative ag farmer will tell you, and they're correct.

Exactly, and I agree!

Doesn't work for typical tropical forests where the soil is very poor due to heavy rain. But in this conditions where plants thrive exceptionally, shouldn't the soil be very rich because of all the feeding through root exudates?

So the place completely overgrown with vegetation has poor soil ? Seems like the metric for soil quality should be questioned…

@@created.black.soil. I think the problem is the rich vegatative matter minerals are washed away and so soil nutrients reduce greatly. Wait until you see what happens to the cleared rainforests areas - they will likely be desserts in 10 years time.

Read "The New Wild" by Fred Pearce

"but the plants like a taste of the liquid" - how do you know?

Add a little soil or compost and the smell will be less.

Does the barrel have water in it ?

Because Smell Is the product of microbe activity and microbe and Plant live in sybiosis.​@@Gardenfundamentals1

I just cut weeds down to a reasonable level, and throw them back down on the ground. Considering my (2 acre) garden started off as one-third bare rock, the rest worn to thin turf by sheep (it's a corner of what used to be an extensive pasture), I think I've done well to build up enough soil in which to grow bulbs, perennials, bushes and (in some places) some fairly considerable sized trees. Chop and drop, no-mow ever, planting whatever could survive in thin soils, collecting some leaves that flow down the stream on my property, adding vegetable kitchen scraps, and doing my best to introduce new fungi species to the garden for 21 years has built soil faster than it would do if left strictly to nature. Chop and drop with weeds meant developing a different mindset about my concept of weeds. It was difficult, since I worked as a professional gardener, went to horticultural college for 4 years, and had the dislike for weeds drummed into me quite a bit. But when I left my job to raise a family, I began to look at those weeds differently, learning to treasure those powers of easy regeneration, and using them as a source of organic material that builds soil. Only later did I discover that all these pernicious weeds have an ability to sequester specific minerals and nutrients, bring them to the surface in their roots, which can then be redistributed to target plants in the form of chop and drop. So, I'm not trying to get rid of Common Hemlock, thistles, bracken, dandelion or Rosebay Willow Herb any more. I 'harvest' them as persistent green manures. When I started viewing these plants as actual 'crops,' it seemed to completely overturn my views on gardening, and relieved a lot of stress at the same time. I only draw the line at brambles (they spread too quickly and secretly in a garden this size), and should Japanese Knotweed or Giant Hemlock find it's way here, there again, they will be removed entirely. I only made a compost tea once, the smell was enough to call it a day on that experiment. And I don't think it did the garden any more favours than chopping and dropping.

I have a stream bordering my garden, and as there's a riparian woodland along its whole length, it gets choked with leaves. When I first moved to the property, you simply couldn't go down to this stream in January, because the rotting heaps of leaves would kick off so much methane, it would make me dizzy. But since I started pulling out great quantities of leaves to mulch some little areas in my garden, the methane cloud has gone, the garden soil is much improved, and there's an improvement in the stream's ecosystem too. There are now little fresh water shrimps, which brings in different types of dipper birds. There's even been a number of herons - I suppose because now there are more amphibians by the stream. I always thought that leaving Nature to herself was always best in every situation. But as we have messed about with the landscape so much, even some natural features cannot cope with 'excess.' In the case of this stream, I discovered that part of this excess comes from the fact that in 3 places upstream - cattle and sheep have access to the water, their added manure and urine tipping the balance. But taking out a lot of leaves has helped tip that balance back the other way a little, those leaves still helping with land restoration elsewhere.

Keep going, produce wonderful soil for your next generation to inherit.

Adding organic matter to sandy soil is key. Primarily sandy soil has almost no negative charge for cation exchange capacity.

I’m in the same state and conditions. In our soil, the organic matter either disintegrated years ago, floated away or blew away. The guy before me scraped the lot bare for 10 years. I have great geology and very little biology. But I’m working on that slowly. I’m disabled and old so I’m bound to go slow. This morning I made 100+ seed balls with sorghum, clover and oats to repopulate the soil with roots that can tolerate arid conditions. And I’m covering as much soil as possible with wood chips. I’m gonna breed my own biology!

If you are using chemical fertilizers you are helping and hurting yourself at the same time. As long as you're using natural things to give you that nitrogen and iron you're doing the best you can. Using chemical fertilizers will kill living things in that soil which is a downside and that's where you're hurting yourself if you are. With that sandy soil you have the same issue as FL growers. What they do if they want to be 100% organic certified is first bring in a certain amount of organic material (many tons) that they will compost, and then they will work that down into the soil, and yes this means adding a LOT of material, and then plant cover crops to allow that worked area to get broken down more which also means the bacterial life is growing, and then I believe the next year they can use that land, and do the typical thing of always having plants or cover crops growing in the soil, and when you're growing crops to have good compost worked around the plants on the top of the soil. Then add whatever additives a soil test might tell you that you need something, and in your case depending on what you're growing that may still mean nitrogen and iron.

I live in NM. Gardening for 25 years here. Best thing is to Compost Fish or kelp Black tea Pine shavings

There's one thing that backyard farmers may want to buy, AFTER fixing their soil AND if this is missing because of how poor the soil was and how much people were dumping chemicals in their yards, and that's worms that are appropriate for that area. They can speed up that transfer and conversion of organic material to usable elements when applying compost around the plants and the worms will speed up the process of working that down into the soil after they break it down more and poop it out.

I was just thinking the same thing!

I think the starters were to generate heat too. In a compost pile, office paper, I.e. cellulose breaks down quickly, increasing temperature.

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Korean Natural Farming...works for me..

Yeah the reality is there are two forms of research going on in academia, one based on chemicals and funded by chemical companies and the other based of learning lessons from the failures of using chemicals which has led to REAL scientific research into regenerative agriculture in recent times, where a lot of the learning for regenerative agriculture happened outside the world of college but is now researched in different colleges which is a good thing.

Glue.

Me too. Godspeed fellow gardener.

You should research into Carnivore Diet which will help you avoid flare ups. The irony is eating plants that are healthy can have high amount of secondary metabolites that poison your body. So you shall totally avoid plants. The concept that flareups are not caused by single meal or single food but cumulative effect of unhealthy diet over many days has to be learnt.

@@otivaeey I actually do keto because of that… I’ve thought about doing carnivore for a while to see if it helps. I have a husband and 3 teenagers so it’s hard to cook just for me. My husband does keto with me sometimes though. I had a seizure Monday morning and ended up in the hospital. So if there’s any time to try it now would be it! Thanks so much!

I see, FYI keto means vegetables are allowed and low carbohydrates. Carnivore diet (no leafy vegetables allowed) is the only diet in mind that aims to cure diseases. Keto is for body slimming mainly. To carnivores, curing seizures is very attainable, just as other common diseases like glaucoma, diabetes, gout, knee/hip replacement, psoriasis, mental health etc. Carnivore diet encircles around 4 ingredients only: Meats, eggs, salt and water. The low toxin list I mentioned is for lesser strict ketovore diet as you have had already stopped the flareups and immune attacks. To make carnivore easier, you can try according to Dr Saladino's low toxin list includes pumpkins, banana, avocado, apple, orange, pineapple etc. You can Google it. Thank you.

That is fertilizer.

​@@lksf9820EXACTLY 😂. It's just that we're conditioned not to think so

Add your urine to it as well.

Well...she makes money of selling courses of her niche. The very much in fashion "regenerative agro" kind of thing, wich is full of pseudo scientific post mordern withcraft, like compostea

Yeah I’d love to see her response to this video

She doesn't do the compost tea for the nutrients, but to add diversity of microorganisms into the soil. This works particularly well in soils that have been sterilized through chemicals so they lack the diversity of life. Also, it can work great as a topical application to prevent disease.

We agree on some basics and disagree on a lot of things. 1) She has conducted no published studies since grad school, although she claims to have done a lot. 2) I disagree with most of your ideas about microbe ID with microscopes, F:B ratios, solving weed problems by growing the right microbes - as do most scientists. www.gardenmyths.com/fungal-to-bacterial-ratios/

"sterilized through chemicals so they lack the diversity of life" - that is virtually impossible. Even terrible soils are full of thousands of microbe species.

Haha....so true. Everything cancels out everything else so basically just keep waiting!!!

You mentioned they don't like being confronted, you mean this channel?

@@otivaeey your channel is unfamiliar to me. Have a good Sunday!

​@@otivaeeyOther channels/watchers, usually given links to an episode from this channel for "the truth", often don't like being confronted with this.🤔✌️

There are a few of us gardening veterans here, I've noticed. I started as a conventional, professional gardener - mow the living daylights out of every lawn, use chemical fertilisers, gouge every weed out of everywhere. Now, I'm No-Mow-Ever (for past 21 years), chop and drop from my perennial weeds (having learned how to value them instead of hate them), compost every kitchen scrap, no chemicals here thank you, plant native species among my food plants, added fungi species each year, collect extra leaves (from non-sprayed sources), and make brash heaps (it's longer term composting, yes; but the soil you get from naturally rotted sticks is on another level).

You are very welcome

Finished…. Thanks so much for saving me time and money. I appreciate this video!

"dearth" ?

Many thanks!

thank you very much.