Robbie I’m so happy you’re thriving. I’ve been watching your channel since the beginning and I’ve seen how much time and energy you’ve invested. You deserve every bit of your success.
Couple years of tossing organic matter and pulling weeds and leaving them on the surface has paid off. I noticed when I dig to plant that the soil is great even further down. Worms are taking everything down
I'm a plant em and forget em kinda Gardener. Oh and thanks for the heads up this spring on thinning raspberries got a bumper crop this year. Made raspberry brownies last night!
I keep my rows narrow to avoid sun exposure to dry out the ground. I strategically plant taller crops and flowers to shade other crops. I have a lot of purslane this year too. I agree with less watering!
I'm an AZ where the first 3 months of gardening there is pretty much no rain (April, May, June) and then we get a lot of rain starting in July. We get about 14 inches on average per year. So, I imagine this works for our zone, but not as well. I just laid down about 3 inches of wood chips on a new garden I'll be doing. I'll separate out the wood chips and put a thick layer of compost for a fall garden. I'm hoping it will make it so I don't need to water as much but I imagine, in the early part of the year, I'll still need to water a little.
We had close to 11 weeks of no rain in the summer here a couple years ago. My soil looked like concrete. That's when I mulched it with straw and grass clippings and watered it once more then left it alone. Hand watering a quarter acre everyday was too much
Lightning splits nitrogen molecules whch then attach to oxygen and create nitrogen oxides that get carried down with rain. This makes the N plant available. Lightning makes fertalizer.
Also try? Steel fencing/ galvanized steel/ better yet is bare copper wire! Put with the plants! Same as a rain = it brings atmosphere/earth's magnetic field too the plants!
I'm an electrician so I don't buy into the electrocute thing. The ground is naturally grounded and attracts that without help. That's why we drive ground rods for services. A house is a floating neutral without one if the feeder neutral breaks
