Beyond the Cardboard Method: Farmer Ricky Explains Silage Tarp and Cover Crops
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- čas přidán 2. 06. 2020
- The word 'apocalypse’ comes from the greek apokaluptein: to uncover. Farmer Ricky pulls back the silage tarp at Seeds of Solidarity Farm and uncovers remarkably abundant soil. Use the bioremedial techniques of silage tarp and cover crops to build soil and make farming more efficient. In times of uncertainty, one of the most personally grounding and politically potent acts is to grow your own food.
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Great wisdom from a great teacher. Thank you Ricky, Deb, Levi and Seeds family for all you do. Love love love.
It's absolutely incredible what this man has accomplished. What a fascinating method and inspiring man.
I LOVE watching Rick in his gardens...so inspiring.
And I LOVE Levi's video (and the quality of the shoot...must be a great camera that was used).
xoxoxoxoxo
4:12 you can do almost the same thing in a pasture as well. Just do it with a single layer of cardboard then you put compost on top of it. And you take a drill and just drill down and do it on your row. you harvest your seed corn and pumpkins then they can just graze off the rest.
Garden smarter-not harder! Brilliant!
Glad the info is helpful!
Loved Tom Tom Club.
More please!
Hey we did this last yeay by accident, works awesome. We actually did it outside with black plastic, then did holes for transplants, in the hole we combines old soil, sand, peat, eggshells and compost manure just a handful and placed salad scraps very little at the far end of the hole. We had a bumper crop and the black plastic for colder areas or late planters helped so much. Good share, just tough on the volume. I do have reservations though on cardboard as it has chemicals and sprayed for transport let alone where it's been stored, the same is true with palates. Blessings to the journey and good health for all
Thanks for your words Ana- The nice thing about the silage tarp over thinner black plastic is that it is quite durable and lasts for many years and is reusable. We don't puncture ours as it is just used for this no-till tarping method. You are right to exercise some caution on cardboard and remind folks not to use waxed boxes that contained non organic produce that might have been sprayed with a post harvest fungicide, but plain, corrugated brown is fine to use. And with pallets, folks should use those made from untreated wood, not pressure treated for up cycled garden building projects.
Just if there is no so much compost any other option for people who cannot buy lot of compost ???
Thank you, very helpful
Do you move those massive tarps by yourself manually?
Usually with about 3 volunteers, then it goes quickly and you don't tear it.
We bought a silage tarp, but also have a lot of cardboard. Can we put the cardboard under the tarp?
What if you don’t have a lot of compost? Could you just plant into the bed after tarping it?
another way to add fertility would be to grow cover crops then tarp over so these return to, and enrich the soil- this is why they are also known as 'green manure.'
Ricky - it's been said that green matter takes nitrogen out of the soil to decompose, yet here you put compost on top of the rye grass and planted bok choy into it? And corn in the field? How do you address the nitrogen depletion - through additives? I didn't think compost had that much nitrogen. Can you do a video on how you make compost as you use it a lot.
HI Nessa, green matter - such as cover crops- actually serve as a green manure- but in this greenhouse case it becomes a mulch that sits on top of soil while also adding- not taking nitrogen.
The problem is getting enough compost to lay on all the beds...how do you create massive amounts of compost?
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