I am one of those who bought contaminated soil! It killed many of my plants and most of the seeds never bore fruit. After contacting the company, I was told I would get a full refund. I am very grateful and thankful. However, there’s now a lingering thought in my mind, will it happen again? I absolutely think ALL THIS is on purpose….. THANK YOU for showing people like me HOW!! Knowledge is POWER!! Sending you blessings:)
Jess from Roots and Refuge recently got hit wit this problem. She has some interesting plans to help remediate her soil, because she is determined to find a solution to help people recover from this scourge. She has some upcoming plans with mushrooms, and using plants to help detoxify the soil. Might be worth a look, if you're interested. She is another Believer, who is on fire for helping others.
"Jess from Roots and Refuge recently got hit wit this problem." Following her/them as well. They are following a very long, one step at a time, approach to determine a best-fit and teachable method, which will be an amazing series to watch. The one thing I've yet to hear them talk about is char; maybe I missed it. Nonetheless, my theory is that a raw char will grab everything from the soil, including the unwanted contaminants, and hold it long enough, or until it becomes a non-issue. Having written, I still believe they should strip the beds and begin their science project in a less productive, and less expensive growing environment. That tunnel needs food growing to recover costs.
Don't know if this helps anyone. I build and build my garden beds just before winter for the next year. Letting the soil sit a few months over winter seems to help me get good crops. Learned this from my grandpa.
Victoria..i learned the same from my grands..i was hit with herbicide hay 2 years ago n heartbroken I started treating it myself then let it sit. Last year I had 117 tomatoes growing in the same spot...letting it sit treating it does work😃
DEFINITELY! PLAN AHEAD. ! ENZYMES NEED TIME TO DO THEIR WORK. Like weeding, you need to remove them before seeding out!! SO it takes a few years but the end result is so worth it 🥰
It's what they used to call "letting the ground lie fallow". There was a time you weren't able to go out and buy amendments, so you would rotate crops. If you had three fields, one year you let one lie fallow, then you rotate the next year let another one lie fallow, then the 3rd year, the 3rd field rest, soluch that every third year they're lying fallow/resting/regenerating. If ground has been destroyed for any reason, a 7 year fallow period will completely regenerate the soil to its natural health. I believe it's also a requirement for organic farms to be certified. Of course this is if you have larger area and lots of fields, but in those days that's not a problem. If you were going to live you had to have as much field as you can get! 😘🙏
It's because the last administration loosened regulations across the board. That's why we had contaminated baby formula, unusual high incidences of listeria and salmonella in food, and of course our fertilizer and soil purchase commercially. No checks, no balances. It's dangerous.
I can’t tell you how much of a sigh of relief I breathed when I had several beans that I planted, by seeds pop up in the soil I bought. They are at several leaves now so I know it’s good. Should I ever be blessed with land, chickens will be my first critter then it’ll be 2 feeder pigs. There’s a saying that says “there’s no such thing as coincidences” and to the ones that think we are wearing tinfoil hats, I say, “it’s better to wear a hat then be willfully blind”.
fungi/mushrooms that eat wood and other decaying matter are good at breaking down contaminated soil , due to there adaptive enzymes , they can change the enzymes they produce in order to digest new food sources , so could add extra wood chips and inoculate it with for example wine cap mushroom or oyster mushroom
I love your ideas Billy! I bought an old lawn & leaf vacuum trailer to pull behind my riding mower in 2019 at auction for $200. After some repairs and a new hose, it worked. It holds 1-1/2 cubic yards full of fresh ground up leaves. I dump into a pile after refilling it a dozen more times. I then put it into round pile inside 48”X2X4 welded wire fence cut 12’ long to make about 4’ by 4’. I watered it as I filled it, and refilled it again and again as it broke down. I’ve learned everything I can compost, and add it to the pile with chicken manure. These began in the fall last year and I can tell I’ll have great leaf mold/compost in the spring of ‘23. Probably about 3 yards total from several piles. I don’t have any cow manure and no one locally will part with any. I don’t own a truck, but I’m making it happen!
I didn't own a truck when I first started gardening. There was a person giving away horse manure, so I bought a big tarp and made a liner in my trunk. I shoveled out a bunch, then pulled the tarp out with just a little bit of manure still in it. I dumped it on the pile. I didn't lose a drop of manure and kept my trunk clean. If you can borrow a truck. Go after a couple of loads and split it with the owner of the truck.
Once a year we clean up the neighbors composted horse manure and spent hay for our annual spring gardening, mixed with the shed rakings from the goats. We all keep our animals chem free so it is the best stuff for the tilled and now no till gardens. A year ago we placed several cart loads of the goat shed manure and hay in a pile at the edge of the hardwoods then started using it at about 6 months composted. Beautiful dark soil perfect to mix with our garden dirt for starting seeds. Spring before last I bought the usual box store organic potting soil and the seeds that grew were stunted at best. Spring 2022 we used our mixture with stunning results. Thank you for helping gardeners find the solutions!
Thank you for your help. I bought 2 pallets of Kellogg soil and it is contaminated, tomatoes , all the leaves are curled some so tight you can’t see the top of the leaves. I have planted abound 75 bean plants and they just die. If people in the comments want to say I am nuts go ahead, but I believe this was planned. HOW MANY COINCIDENCES BEFORE IT BECOMES MATHEMATICALLY IMPOSSIBLE? Thank you for your help, and I will be working hard to fix this.
Could not possibly agree more with your intro! Not only do I agree with you and hear you, but I know what you’re saying to be fact. *THANK you* for speaking on this. I know it doesn’t go without judgment or ridicule. So it’s much appreciated when people saying that dreaded CT word 🙄 frustrating nonetheless. But you info shared is much appreciated ♥️♥️♥️
Perfect timing for our garden. This growing season is our Sabbath rest for our garden. Everything I’ve been doing around here has been centered around healthy land. It is absolutely disheartening that at every turn we are challenged by outside influences. You know when our Father tells us to be “set apart”? I’m finding that means in all areas of our lives. Finding holistic God given ways to “set apart” our land means to not bring in any “outside” contamination into the land. And for those who won’t (not can’t) read in order to learn ….. it is written….. He who doesn’t work doesn’t eat. Reading is part of the work my friend. Carry on brother ya’ll are on point!!!
Hey There, Cathleen❗️I read your wise comments & have a quick question for you. If you have enough time to answer it, I’d be most grateful. QUESTION: With your term “Sabbath rest,” did you mean that you’re not growing a garden this season, as in once every seven years?
Amen , Mr. Billy - They were widening our main road to 4 lanes from 2 - also a piece of land that cut down a bunch of trees , I stopped by there & asked the workers , could I please Get some wood chips & Dirt , along with several pallets - to put my grow bags & pots to sit on. They said Mam please come take what you want .... Its so TRUE , GO ASK YOU SHALL RECIEVE !!! AMEN . Mrs JosetteTharp Montgomery County , Texas 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I hate that this is happening. But I love that so many creators are addressing the issue. In Jess’s recent devotional, she mentioned a coming storm. Well, put enough raindrops together and that’s exactly what you’ll end up with. Proud to #bearaindrop!!!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 when you tell the truth now, you get labeled. If you believe the lies you get labeled. If you go against the grain you get labeled. If you believe the Earth is flat and hollow you get labeled. It seems all these labels are leading up to something else. Don't follow the yellow brick road man stay on the straight and narrow path that will lead us home. This Earth is toast just waiting to burn.
My favorite meme is that" I need new conspiracy theories because all my old ones have come true!" You're not theories, they're plots, like somebody noted that they are strategic plans. I like what the other person on here said, they're just exposed! 😘👍🙏❤️
Billy, I don't follow but a very few RU-vidrs for several reasons, but I'm glad I found you thanks to the Farm Where You Live event. In my presentation there, I shared that we'd moved onto tainted soil in 2019 unknowingly. It has been a process of using activated charcoal, Garrett Juice, orange oil, root crops and solarization but the improvement is obvious. We use the meat birds to establish garden beds. If I had known we had pesticide runoff areas from next door I would not have utilized the tarps over the areas being established because I truly believe I unknowingly protected the tainted areas from rain and sun that would have helped detox the soil. You are spot on....MAKE YOUR OWN COMPOST!
I bought "10 yards" of compost this year and I received like 5 yards. It was full of plastics, roots, some fence chunks (probably treated), and even a couple rubber belts from vehicles. Needless to say I got my money back from that junk. I had issues early on with things growing but now things are starting to take off a little more, but things are late for sure. I have started building my compost on my own for next year. I doubt i'll have 10 yards worth but I'm doing what I can. I have no proof that there's anything nasty in the soil but I probably should look into that as well.
I'm making my own compost now. Grass clippings, cypress mulch/wood chips, dirt and fish emulsion. I use my rototiller to turn it, it looks really nice.
My chickens give me about 1 1/2 ft³ worth of beautiful soul every month. My kitchen compost/worm hill gives me another another cubic foot every 2 months. Chicken coop beading, leaves and grass gives me another half a cubic foot a month. And I live in the city on less than a quarter acre (9,000sf). I'm so grateful I'm able to create my own fertility.
I am so sorry this has happened to you, but thankful you have a mind to fix it. Jess at Roots and Refuge is having the same problem. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience.
Hello Billy and family.. I have a personal experience with human sludge here at our farm.. back 12 years ago we were dairy farmers and where we live is directly across the road from our local municipal office/garage and fire department. We'll our wonderful lib gvnmt was dishing out funds for "piloted projects" and our municipal officials raised their hands and took the cash to work on this project. Well to our dismay they decided to build these sludge tanks adjacent to the garage across the road from our dairy farm. Well our marketing board got wind of this taking place and informed us that IF our water table becomes contaminated due to their "pilot project" and the milk becomes contaminated due to that activity, we as the producer would be held liable for the loss of milk in the tanker that collects the milk every 2nd day. So we approached our township officials and brought these serious issues to their attention, and they didn't want to hear anything we had to bring to the table as it would have affected someone's pocket book(the mayor is also the business owner who received the contract to do the job!!)) So due to the severe nature of this situation we consulted our legal team and grassroots organizations and brought it to a halt quickly. During one of the meetings where our legal team along with scientists and others who have been directly involved in such projects and knew the firsthand destruction that that does to the land in all ots forms AND also the fact that our farm had been there and was the first dairy farm in our community, that they should heed our concerns. Unfortunately it fell on deaf ears so I became a rebel and deliver them a load of ripe fresh cow manure and dumped it during their debate.. to say that it for their attention is an understatement lol... I was charged with public mischief and ordered to pay a cleanup fine but that got thrown out and my lawyer incurred the restitution so I would have a squeaky clean record.. the project was halted, scientists on their side said the location all of a sudden wasn't adequate and the whole project was over but not before costing the taxpayers 350,00$ OVER the original cost analysis.. the importance of healthy soil is crucial and nothing to be foolinh with. Someone had to stand up and I'm glad I did and would do it again if needed.
we do deep litter in the barn. clean out usually in spring (late this year) what comes out of the barn is matted, soiled bedding from cows sheep and goats. I put this on weedy places thick enough to cover everything. A couple of inches of soil and in just a few months it is the most beautiful soil. It's a bit too hot to plant in straight out of the barn, but well worth getting done for fall crops or even next years garden.
@@trinamcgarvey588~Yes, id wondered why this wasnt discussed?~I just learned about this, and have been removing the straw from my garden~I know people who had goat poo as fertilizer destroy everything, too~
Thanks, Billy!! You always share truly helpful stuff. Y’all are so greatly appreciated!! I’m sorry you are getting trolls but I have always assumed when someone on here starts getting haters it’s because they are doing something right! Much love from Texas!!
Thank you Billy for addressing this. Yes it's being talked about on a few channels but only a couple are providing clear solutions. Many of us can't afford to purchase soil again during this time...and what would we do with the contaminated soil. My goal is to fix the soil that is bad. Yes, its a long process but the land needs healing. Keep doing what you're doing! We need the help
Boy is it ever a lot of work Billy!! I can't make hay for my animals so I buy it in advance n pile it in direct sun n cover it with black plastic bags💐
Sorry hit wrong button..i was trying to say that I let it sit for months before I use it for animals..ive gotten hot mulch from the dump built a garden n let it sit covered 6 months...i also throw lawn lime n Epsom salt eggshells over it once a month..so far it worked..thank God
It's probably Grazon. Grazon has hit farmers in US, Canada, Australia, Uk. Grazon is spread on grass crops, hay, corn as a broadleaf weed killer. The hay and corn pick it up and the cows and horses eat it and it passes through them in their manure. I've read it takes 3-5 years for it to leave the soil.
Thanks for all of the info you put out, been implementing a lot of your methods on my property! Assuming that what is being applied are petrochemical type pesticides/herbicides/etc, from what I understand these are derived from the ingredients used to make napalm. The remediation for heavy napalm-affected sites are large concrete buildings where they essentially incinerate the chemicals in the affected soils. Composting may act in a similar manner but at a lower heat over a longer time while also leveraging soil microbes.
We had a 1/2 acre pond dug and the man who dug it piled all of the topsoil in our garden area and put the 60/40 & the clay for our driveways & future metal home pad.
Ive been watching videos of geoff lawton and the weedy garden making swales and i really like how they function. When i used to live in Arizona we used to have these mini canal like "swales" called Chinampas to help trap and disperse water but they where typically made with concrete so i definitely love the idea of swales. If you guys ever do an online in depth step by step swale class id be very inclined to take it..if i lived in the usa still id attend the self relience festival and swale class but i live in canada..absolutely love what yall are doing and keep being passionate about permaculture cuz its my passion too
I feel the same way my friend… NONE of this stuff is an accident. It’s by design for sure. It’s apparently not going to stop any time soon seems that every day we find out something else that’s interrupting the food chain
Thank you for offering simple ways to find fertility. I live on an 1/8 acre in suburbia out side of Chicago. Uncontaminated resources are difficult to find. Last fall I brought home around 20 bags of leaves. Working on composting them, ground up a few bags to use as mulch. Could have used more. In order to up pot seedlings I bought a bag of potting soil. Noticing the peppers top set of leaves are wrinkled not growing like the leaves below them 🙁 at least I saved the larger containers from last year with spent potting soil thinking I just need to add slow release fertilizer to the soil and some organic material to pot my peppers after I remove the bad potting soil from the root ball. Would love to raise chickens can’t figure out some of the logistics.
It's wonderful and rare to find gardening knowledge AND knowledge of 'their' plans in the same channel. Roots and Refuge was the closest thing I've found until now. Subbed, and looking forward to watching more.
Sadly, we had really JACKED UP soil from LOWE'S. Full of bugs, not right on nitro, and GRUBS! our chickens helped after it was so jacked. We started a compost pile, and we're expanding a little at a time. Ty for giving us the right direction to research what we need to do! Stay diligent and BOTR!
This awesome. I am so grateful in how God has shown us different soil options right within our 1/4 acre lot. Yes we have purchased some soil, yet we have used two large bins of our compost, rototilling some new areas and planting veggies within our flower/herb beds. I did go to the farm stand yesterday to try new prep options while making sure that if we have problems we have food. There is JOY in the Lord when He shows us the way. Not just to Him but also in how we can grow our food. I was thinking of using an old white sheet to lightly cover the hot areas, in hopes of preventing plant burn out yet allow the sun to still filter thru. My theory is that when I worked on a farm as a young girl, I still got a tan thru those t-shirts. It won't hurt to try. Be blessed and know you are appreciated and prayed for.
Back in WYO after a tour of the Eastern USA. Thank you and all our new friends and acquittances that we met during our travel time. It was well worth the wait and trip. Just like Arnold, we'll be back in TN and we will be visiting others that we met while at the festival. It might have taken a while to meet face to face but I'ld do it again and pay double or more. You and William have the gift for teaching, it was a pleasure just to be around and hear the way you interreact others. Have some friends that have the same issues with poor soil additives mulch and compost; it happens just just as Danny stated last year. A good point to establish local barter options, like we were talking about at the festival. God Bless from WYO
We have healed our bag soil that we put into our greenhouse. Many prayers and and added Organic matter. We are also seeing chemical type things happening every time it rains. 🤨 (🤔) Keep growing soil!🙏❤️
Thanks for being truthful. Today’s society is so use to seeing everything perfect, life isn’t that way. “Fail fast” is a saying I heard a while ago and it has been a game changer for me. Find out what doesn’t work quickly, adapt, change, and move on. My bagged soil has been a issue as well, I just thought I may have gotten a bad batch or something. Glad(not glad) to see it wasn’t just happening to me.
I live in the city and my yard was clay when I bought my home. My neighbor had the perfect lawn and sprayed chemicals constantly. I left my property alone, never raking. My neighbor finally moved and my soil is much better. I planted potatoes and they were doing good. I have a few trees damaged by storms and planned on cutting them for mulch. The electric company decided to spray them,even one and two foot high trees I keep trimmed. They damaged trees on half of my property and killed my potatoes. They refuse to tell me what they used but it's been several weeks and I can still smell it. I also make compost that I now won't use. I bought bags of hummus, compost and manure and then saw the soil issue on another channel. I don't have the money to fix this and feel pretty defeated. Everytime I go out in my yard I just feel sick
David the Good has talked about herbicide contamination for several years. He even talks about methods to pull out the aminopurilyds. Check out what he does with homemade uncharged charcoal.
we spent 180.oo on soil to fill our green stalks and it was a waste of money, nothing that had schultz soil grew. What a disapointment. We live in town and the only garden I have is the green stalk. It's a horrible thing to spend what you can to grow food and have this happen. I'm sorry for everyone that this has happened to. Thank you for the information that you give.
I have friends in Texas and that snowstorm snow wasn't snow. Ot discoloured cement pads and killed trees. That 'snow' was rod shaped. We have to Command this stuff does not come onto our lands and enthrone the Lord over the weather. Really appreciate these solutions \0/
Amen Billy , soil, seed compost all one year. Trees getting diseases that have never been before. Thank you Bly . You and Michelle thank you I'll be celebrating my Freedom on the 4th because of heros like you. God bless all the Vets Happy 4th of Freedom day.
I have made 1,000's of soil blocks in the past using my own compost and had nearly 100% germination. Fast forward to this year, new property, purchased compost for my soil blocks. Major problems with germination, even some new seeds not germinating at all. It has been frustrating.
Thank you for sharing your experience with us. Something is definitely going on with these soils and composts. I've been putting off starting a compost of my own, but this is all the motivation I need.
Last month I had the idea of asking the construction site near my house for a bucket of dirt. Your mentioning the idea gave me courage to ask for the dirt.
Yes...you can use some of that Top Soil AND The Ashes of the Trees they burn, to correct and detox your soil! Then turn and churn your soil with the the new soil & ashes.
Just now came across your video. I spent several hundred dollars on raised garden beds and had four cubic yards of garden mix from a local, reputable company. Large company. Had it delivered and spread. Bought a couple hundred dollars of plants and planted them. All of my tomato plants got curly top disease, most likely from chemical weed killers. Unbelievable. I’m pissed
I'm sorry the soil was poisoned; I'm sure it was disheartening for y'all since you'd just built that hoophouse. I did research on aminopyralids after seeing it suggested from European commenters after Roots & Refuge was wondering what's wrong with their Soil3 compost (the company acknowledged it, so their name is out there). I found a 2009 letter written by Dow AgroSciences, the owner of the herbicide, to a "gardener enthusiast," and not only is it alarming they have known of this impact on home gardeners for over a decade, but they're also very much not sorry: "In those rare cases where garden plants have been damaged by aminopyralid, the herbicide was introduced through animal manure that should not have been used as a garden fertilizer soil amendment. Aminopyralid is approved for use on some food crops but can harm the growth of many garden. Any introduction into a garden is due to a failure to follow label directions. " Typical Big Ag response, right?
source: www.ncagr.gov/spcap/pesticides/documents/AminopyralidGardenerResponse29Apr09.pdf This "letter" includes a list of plants that would be affected, what will fix it (microorganisms), and photos.
Yep, doing things right takes a LOT of work. I have a permanent back injury, and yeah, it slows me down for sure!! But I don't let it stop me. I still do the compost piles, just not as well as I could have years ago. I get GREAT compost from the goats and waste hay (not really wasted because I'm using it). We definitely sift that compost for our potting soil, and even use it as a seed bed in garden areas where the soil is heavy in clay - just prep that garden and place the sifted compost where the seeds will go. Each year that area will improve! If I can swing it, I'd like to put the pigs on that garden this fall before freezer camp and let them TEAR IT UP. If they are too big for me to move like that, then I'll just put the chickens and ducks there. I may have issues doing things with my back pain and inability to do things, so I just do what I CAN do and make it work anyway. It just takes me a bit more time. Thank you Billy for being a great inspiration.
Good video! I don’t add any outside dirt to my garden. Because of the topic you talk about. My soil test good so I just add organic material from my place and small amounts of 13-13-13 when planting. I had a friend who has good dirt too, but choose to plant in these store bag soil. She asked what she was do wrong when her vegetables were sick looking. I said plant in-your good dirt I told her just look over there how good all your flowers and other plants are growing so well without those bags of store bought soil.
Great informative video my brother! We know of a lot folks as well that are having this same issue you are talking about. Keep telling it my friend. Love that shirt!! 👍🏻💪🏻👍🏻💪🏻😇🙏🏻
I enjoy your energy and the information you have presented. I have started to save piles of leaves from the fall, wood chips and I have a small compost bin in my yard. Also my husband is a truck driver (low boy driver) and he takes me to a few sites that have amazing items for my garden that you mentioned 😉
Thank you! We are using our own compost that you have shown us to do. We have had no issues because we do it this way. We ordered the knife and comfrey salve! I am so stoked!
Fortunately the bad soil issue has not affected me. Im glad you are addressing it. In my itty bitty garden I am applying many of the principles you teach & am having good results. Thank you for the information
We’ve also discovered that our egg layers, meat birds & Quail have become more valuable for the manure to make compost. Meat & eggs are just a bonus! Closing the loop 🔁 on the homestead out of necessity
I keep my quail in a wood chipped ground and within 3 months it is broken down. You need to help turn it as quail don't scratch as deeply as chickens but it is my main source of compost moving forward.
I spent a bunch of time and money this late winter getting a new area of my yard ready for planting. I paid for a local dirt man to bring in a load of topsoil. I spread it around, bought a lot of trees, plants and seed. The only viable plants are at the fringe of the area, in my actual original dirt. This topsoil was obviously from a toxic dump. I’ll never do that again. Thank you Billy, I’ll try to make my own compost.
Trying to buy some land and prices are so out of reach. I am renting and gardening on a very small scale. Won't feed us in the long run because I don't have the acreage, but I feel better about the garden and food I am growing. I do my best to garden organically via permiculture and composting. This year I bought organic "compost" in bags from Home Depot. This stuff was months away from being finished. Yes, it added bulk to my soil, but my seeds had a very hard time germinating. I like your tip about sifting that crap to get soil for my seeds and should have done that. One thing I will do for my family is get more aggressive with making my own compost. Secondly, I'm going to try vermiculture on a small scale for my small garden. Looking for municipal compost sites is a great idea as well. Thank you for your passion and the truthfulness with which you told your story today.
Another content creator I watch for his great gardening in a city used some mushroom compost-same as he has used in the previous years-however, this time it did to his plants what your potatoes did. I believe he figured out it was too much salt, as apparently mushroom compost often has high levels of salt in it. He repeatedly flushed the beds with water and the plants recovered, but it took a while. Appreciate the natural basis of your videos and Perma-Culture in general.
This gets me mad to this problem has a solution but they won't do it. I had bought some bark mulch two years ago from a good place that I know. It did have a little dirt in it and when I put it around my plants most had died that was not in the grass family. I'm only an hour below you. This problem is every where. The one thing I tell everyone is do it God's way.Doing it Gods way is working hard using what you have and research places you want to buy from. Most local farmers will tell you if they are using any of these chemicals that are causing problems. Billy you can only teach what you can people will need to do some of the work on their own. Its a way we can work together and share what we learn to help each other out. Keep up the hard work and thank you for sharing what you know.
Thank you for this video! My tomatoes, beans and peas have suffered greatly this summer. A neighbor dropped off a dump truck full of soil for me to fill my raised beds. BIG mistake. Don’t know how long it will affect my gardens but I am super frustrated that I paid for poisoned soil 😡
The plants I bought from the local co op shriveled and were stunted. The ones I got from the local nursery were fine for the most part other than pest pressure.
Heard about this last year fromMr Danny. Since I was just getting started, I went with leafpro compost, nothing that would have been sprayed or animal that would have eaten anything sprayed, just leaves. My very tiny garden, tiny so far, is doing great and I’m building the next section. Just know that there are those of us listening very carefully, and yes all the yard clippings are in piles at the moment.
Thanks Billy and William, wake up people. Believe what he is saying it is happening to too many of our crops this year. We are learning from perma pasture farms, in order to correct our problems. Got some harvest but taters and onions were small. Looking forward to learning more. Blessings from the Wilson's farms. 😃
I wonder if solarization of the soil would help with breakdown of the chemicals? I know Danny from Deep south homestead used it to get rid of weed seeds. I've used it to decrease bad nematodes also. I've gone to horse owners locally to get compost. Never had an issue but our farms in this area don't exclusively plant grasses. They switch between growing wheat in the winter and follow it with soybeans. Or plant peanuts, tobacco or cotton. But I'm still going to start asking farmers about it.
Currently I live in a development, home association (garden Nazis) got all kinda no, no. I got my own no, no The littl space I got, I make work well, even tho they spay around our homes. More mulch, more JADAM, more fungal mass. I made friends w/da Chinapa-near-rows & ask them not to spray around my area. Just hand out bottles of water. I compost leaves, palm fronds, dead fruit. Fertility is not bought its made, microorganisms, bacteria, fungi & keen observation. For every finger you point at, 10 more are pointing right-back @chew. You wanna eat, you gotta work for it...
People are just assuming the issues are caused by spray used to help make hay. Yet no one has come up with definitive proof. But, 1 youtuber had her dying plants tested and it was a fungus, a type of root rot. I remember watching video of hogs being composted and how fast they did it. Can't help but wonder what all they are putting in commercial compost operations. So I agree, if you are able, make your own!
It's possible to make an educated guess by what dies and what doesn't. Aminopyralids (the herbicide put on hay and other crops) affects, according to Dow AgroScience, the owner of the herbicide: • Potatoes • Peas, beans and other legumes • Carrots and other umbelliferae • Tomatoes • Lettuce, spinach and other compositae • Dahlias • Some species of roses They suggest testing with peas or beans, as they grow quickly. The instructions and photos of the damage are here: www.ncagr.gov/spcap/pesticides/documents/AminopyralidGardenerResponse29Apr09.pdf
@@LoriSeaborg not arguing that. I'm saying without proof, it's only a guess. People want to point fingers at ALL sprays too. Like with Graze On. That's like saying Drugs are bad. Yep, when not used correctly or abused.
@@LoriSeaborg symptoms very similar to what people are experiencing can also be caused by en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytophthora#:~:text=Phytophthora%20(from%20Greek%20%CF%86%CF%85%CF%84%CF%8C%CE%BD%20(phyt%C3%B3n,environmental%20damage%20in%20natural%20ecosystems.
Self labeled conspiracy believer here, lol. I just had a theory while watching your video On my way to my local municipality to buy compost and soil feeling defeated before I even got there since that’s where I’ve been getting all my soil and compost. 🥴 I can’t compost quick enough and don’t have much space to do anything significant enough for this season so I figured I have no other choice. Anyway, as I was loading up my car with compost and soil a thought crossed my mind based on some previous gardening fails: I’m brand new to gardening, trying to prep for what’s coming and I’m in Texas. It’s been insanely hot and we haven’t had rain in a while and the sun has been brutalizing my little garden. So in the beginning I called myself planting all these seeds and putting them in a large Tupperware like container thinking it would be like a mini greenhouse. Needless to say I learned my first major lesson because nothing grew. I realized that instead of creating a greenhouse I made a sauna and sterilized my soil! Lol 😂 As I was just loading my bags in my car I noticed how hot the bags were…..Is it possible that our soil isn’t any good because of the way it’s being kept? I can’t imagine how any beneficial fungi, rhizomes, nematodes, bacteria, or microbial life could survive in these super hot plastic bags baking in the heat outside stacked high and just waiting to be bought and brought home for use. We are just getting sterilized bags of pretty soil! I’m going to try and add a ton of bacteria etc back into it using the Biotone and compost teas and banana teas etc. any suggestions would be greatly welcomed🙏🏽 getting out my microscope 🔬 as well to see what if anything I can find.
Look into the Jadam method or Korean Natural Farming. I used the Jadam Microbial Solution this year which is very easy to make. I also used the pesticide formula and it is working wonders. I believe it is the future for small farmers and home gardeners.
I had the county unload maybe 30 to 40 truckloads of wood chips from trees and 10 more of soil from redigging ditches. Now, I have terrible, tall, fast growing weed problems everywhere I have been filling in low spots with it. Edit: Also, my fig and other fruit trees I mulched are really struggling. Bone sauce link doesn't work.
The heavy amount of green woodchips was probably too much- black walnut makes other trees around it grow small. Think about what you might get before you ask...
