Fix Sandy Soil Using Weeds - John Kaisner The Natural Farmer
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
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This is how you build soil in natural farming. Nature does the work. You set up the right conditions and you get soil below and vegetables to eat above. It's a nice feeling... :) - Jak na to + styl
Don't grow plants grow soil. I love it.
To add to that, there's a famous water harvester from Africa named Mr. Zephaniah Phiri Maseko, who says that he "plants" water in order to get a yield from the land. It's the truth.
It is important to keep soil covered up, in shade, either by using cover crops or weeds or simply with a layer of dried leaves & twigs.
My hurt pains when i see commerical farmers ploughing up their lands & leaving it up opened.
That is sure way to kill soil & turn it into sand.
I've been doing this in Florida for a year now. The sand in my yard has turned dark, holds together and retains moisture for a week or more now where as before I had to water daily. Plants are also growing much faster and a deeper green. I've keept the soil continuously covered in shredded yard prunnings, shredded weeds, and fallen leaves to a height of a couple inches to several inches. The stuff decomposes rather quickly feeding the micro-organisms that transform the soil. I even notice mushrooms popping up now here and there! and some earthworms! I replace the prunnings just as quickly as they decompose so the soil has not been uncovered since I started the method. I'm pretty amazed because I expected it would take years to see any improvement.
Pretty simple, huh? :)
Where are you in Florida?
thank you for your testimony
Hi Augustus, I am in Central FL. My community does not allow traditional planting in the yard, but raised beds may be allowed. Would these techniques be suited to a smaller footprint as well? Perhaps you can recommend some good starting soil or how best to adapt these practices above ground. Thank you! So happy for your successes.
@@ZoliMusic Mulch cover from yard waste of almost any kind can be cut small and used around anything you want. I live in Florida too, and I live on sand. But I do the "chop and drop" with some variation in that I sometimes cut the pieces smaller to fit what I am doing. It sounds like a lot of work, but it's really not. It goes fast, especially if you cut the pieces/leaves small as you trim your bushes. I leave the grass clippings where they fall from my mulching mower, for the grass's sake. Many food plants look like landscape plants, and if you are clever, you can do hedges with them, borders, base plantings and even hanging plants. No one will know what most of them even are unless you move the leaves aside to see the zucchini. If you sprinkle a little decorative mulch on top of the yard waste mulch, it's very nice and no one will know.
This is the most inspiring video on soil I have ever seen. I'm stuggling with poor soil at the moment and this video might be the answer. Thank you so much.
I'm going to try and do this in the Arizona desert
I always grow my maincrop potatoes with a mulch covering of cut comfrey, which I grow onsite for mulching purposes. Last summer we had a Mediterranean summer in the UK (once in 50 years we get one - last one was 1976) and I still had a magnificent harvest of potatoes, despite not seeing any rain from mid June to late August and temperatures regularly over 30C. The comfrey mulch protected soil moisture and the autumn rains bulked up the tubers to give a magnificent harvest. I do similar for trailing cucumbers and bush tomatoes grown outdoors in the soil.
Came across this video in 2016, changed our garden forever. Than you brother ♥️✌️😊🙏
My pleasure. I'm happy to hear it :)
@@TheNaturalFarmer I'm going the same for 2 years now, and it's really wonderful.
Thanks for valuable info in a modest attitude
I live in Florida which means sand. I found very cheap bags of light topsoil that seems to be composed of mulched leaves. Very cheap. I've been experimenting by mixing it into the sand just for a little organic matter. After 8 months I'm really surprised to see how much influence such a small amount of organic matter and time can have. I've let the weeds move in which I'm going to till back into the soil. Definitely still not great but much better.. I live around a lot of swampland and am considering seeing what some dark and stinky swamp silt does when added. Enjoyed the video. Keep up the great work.
I dont know anything about this stuff at all, but the video was lovely and inspiring. Cheers to reviving a dead planet. Bless you brother.
Excellent info, John! Also, I am hearing hints of Indian accent when you speak. It's totally cute!
@naturalfarmer, i enjoyed your video on how to turn sand to soil. Im a farmer and avid organic gardener, and I've had experience in transforming hard clay soil into rich humus type soil.... I make my own compost with the useual table scraps like banana peels, egg shell's, coffee grounds etc" as well as leafs and grass clippings and livestock manures. I not only top dress the soil but work it into the soil as well, now i have rich and workable soil instead of just hard clay..... By the way you can get free used coffee grounds at your local star bucks and coffee shops as well as restaurants just by asking the manger, you leave a five gallon bucket with your name and phone number when it's full they will call you. Imagine doing that around the city, you would have hundreds of pounds of free nitrogen rich compost to transform your soil..... I read about one older lady that never owned a rototiller in her life, but instead laid down around a dozen layers of news papers or you can use cardboard, and she covered it with several inches of leaves and grass clippings and soaked it down with water and dug holes and planted her tomatoe plants in it..... Now many years later she doesn't even bother digging holes with a tool, she simply keeps adding more leafs and clippings every year and just parts the compot with her hands, and set's her transplants in, no tools needed anymore.
Wow, thanks for sharing! I did a soil test on my current garden plot in Liberia and it showed N, P, and K all totally depleted (with. Ph of 5). Fortunately, I spent the rainy season building a nice stockpile of compost, which I am planting all my seeds and seedlings into.
However, next year I will be relocating to 25 acres near the border with Sierra Leone where I am building a homestead. I had already selected several different kinds of legumes to fix nitrogen and also be used as green manure, animal fodder, or food for my family. I’m encouraged by what you shared in this video and will definitely incorporate these practices into my plan. Thanks again!
I have a friend who does aid work in Sierra Leone. His organization is called Robin Food... Great guy.
Sounds like you have a nice plan for the next plot you're moving to.
That's the great thing about experience. Even when we move, we can put what we know into practice and get good results even faster than we did on the previous plot.
Be well...
Love the video very Nice! ….. I’ve also been working with very sandy soil for years an I’ve found if you put Dead animals in the soil or the remains around the drip line of a fruit tree or most thing will take right off 😉💯💯💪👊
Looking forward to applying this in a Food Forest at Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Saskatchewan Canada. I'm aware of zone and climatic differences, but many of the principles still apply just with a bit of adjustment based on location.
This is so beautiful! So nice to see how easily nature works out when you do it the way nature develops, how God designed it. Thanks man😃
Thank you
Thank you so much. This video is a great education for Florida Gardeners. We have very sandy soil, and much of it is exposed to direct sunlight.
Thank you. Yes, once you follow the principles involved in building soil, it can be done anywhere. Thanks for your comment!
I'm just starting my permaculture adventure, and amongst all i was thinking a similar way to "organize" my sandy soil. I'm using broad beans because of their deep roots, maybe I'm rushing it but we'll see 🙈. Great to have found this channel, it's one of the best so far on permaculture topics 😊
love to you my brother from another mother ✌
Thanks for sharing this info. Soil health is the foundation of growing healthy vibrant plants. I’ve experienced this myself. Such a beautiful thing that God has given to us.
Mother Nature and the sun. Amen
Superb superb superb superb superb superb superb superb superb superb superb superb superb superb superb superb sir you did a great work. I am also from a farmer family but we were doing only what other's do or what University's says.with that practices our soil slowly becoming sandy and for that reason we need more and more water for irrigation .
keeping ground cover keeps the soil cool, and moist. the leaf above provides evaporative cooling, and the organic matter decreases your soil density both letting the rain in and storing it for a longer growing season. Hence the worms. Also important in temperate areas which your shaded soil resembles.
I am thrilled to see how Dame Nature has groomed you. The refreshing aroma of soil drifts to India here. Thank you.
In gardening I think in terms of maxium food value for humans... fruits, berries, mellons grapes, cherries, hot pepers, lemons, herbs and spices, pepermint, cucumbers, tomatoes. Its hard to describe how great blackberries, cherries, conchord grapes, watermellon, blueberies elderberies and strawberries are. Thank you so much for sharing your soil building secrets with us.
I am really enjoying and learning alot from your CZcams platform. Thank you. Just want to say keep it up.
Your experience sharing is highly appreciated. Thanking you.
Oh I like this video !! I’m in the process of rejuvenating some raised garden beds in the property we have just moved to, and this information will definitely help
Very informative, thank you! The simple, natural way is always best. I will try your formula this month. Thanks again!
such a beautiful, doable, and useful suggestions. Thank you John.
Thank you Mohammad
Great video!! Awesome job at figuring out what your soil needs to build structure. I am working on that now. I have real sandy soil. I've been adding dead leaves grass rabbit manure and urine.
Thank You so much for your video and great work Sir.
Fabulous video. Thank you
Thank you so much for sharing this. I hadn't considered what importance darkness might play in building soil biology, but it seems to make sense. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge!
Thank you
very informative vedio. Thanks for sharing such details. God speed
I just love your chenal! Greetings from Bulgaria
Brilliant short concise video - Thank you!
Thanks so much! I will try this on my garden bed tomorrow morning.
Cool! How did it go?
Sounds great. Will try this.
Thank god you made this video, I will try it this year
Very good video. Ian going to follow his advice. Thank you.
That's very cool. I raised-bed garden and have one 20x20ft in ground garden.
Excellent advice! Thank you! I live in the PNW, where it’s very sandy as well. I might opt for Cardoon because their massive leaves provide excellent shade, and the roots go way down deep -drawing up lots of minerals and water that make for a nutrient dense chop n’ drop mulch.
Hello I am brand new in Florida to gardening, and mulching, and have very sandy soil, this is my second year, and so far has been experiencing lots of set backs, I will continue to learn and cann't wait to try this layering, method.
Im at the growing soil stage of my urban micro "farm". I have a quarter acre sand box with some weed grass. I know all these concepts and reciepies but I over think things. I m going to use yours and let it gooooo. Thank you
Thanks for the information God bless you
Thank you for sharing your video and it is exactly what I needed to know. I have very dusty dirt and I am using Comfrey plant as my mulch and I have noticed a difference with the soil and that's been not quite 2 months. I'm just starting me offer garden and it is very small like a large pot size and have planted three types of vegetables and I'll see how I go from there. But thanks again for sharing your video I found it very informative.
Oh my good friend. Long time no see. I bought a very sandy soil but the advantage is that there is plenty of water under ground (20ft). Now I'll need to revisit your channel.
Thanks for the knowledge,, i'm from Indonesia, 28 years old. And i still learn natural farming, for my farm.
Thank so much for the information. I want to do a vegetable garden in a sandy soil in the Tropic.... and everything makes sense....
I just bought a tiny plot of land on a slope with dry parched soil. This gave me a lot of hope that i can turn it into a food garden.
Organic material is the key
Thank you, I am going to try your method.
Very instructive video. I was wondering what you planted next after that season of eggplants, okra and beans
Thank you so much for this video. I will definitely try this method.
Excellent idea..
Great Video John thank you
Great video, very well spoken and easy to follow. Subscribed
We just plants a ton of beans and made mounds so excited-Lakeland Fl
Great work
Thanks you for your sharing
Thank you. I have the Okra at 1 foot now and some squash nearby producing but I will stick in my 2 oddball eggplants over there and transfer some green beans over to that area. I will throw on some treated bean seeds as well. Thanks again for the care you gave to presenting the information.
Thanks for great sharing! highly needed 🙏🏼
Thanks a million for sharing.
Thxs bro..I'm trying hop results good
Excellent information thanks for sharing
My pleasure. Thanks for your kind comment....
Thank you for the video
Thank you so much for this great video...very helpful and informative....
+Tasneem Hasan My pleasure. Thank you!
Very nice info .. can do wonders as I can see .. feel ... am working on it, somewhat, nature is amazingly great
Thank you, good wishes, enjoy our beautiful Ocean Planet.
Thank you very much Jagannath. I have been a pharmaceutical researcher and now trying to become a natural farmer. Just bought 2 acres land near Bhopal in India. The land is as of now covered with grass, what I need is - sand to soil. I'll get back to you.
Sounds great! Very exciting! Let me know how things go... Congratulations.
Great video. Thanks so much.
Thanks John ! Very interesting video
Great! Thanks for your kind comment.
very informative, thank you good sir.
Absolutely brilliant! Thanks.
Thanks John! Nice to hear from you
informative video. thankyou
Salute sir, you are the real son of land. Hats off.
You're very kind. Thank you.
Thank You for your wisdom..I will try this method to correct sandy soil that I have..love your videos
Thank you very much. Let me know how things turn out. Happy to hear from you...
I live in a sandpit. I thank you so much. Ground is frozen yet but I start this year.
Great!
great truth.
loved your presentation.
Thanks!
Thanks for the information. The most important thing is the soil.
Yes
Great concept, thanks!
I can't wait to try this on my sandy soil! Thank you.
How did it work?
Tq. Very very educational information....
Very interesting video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Svein Arne Grønnevik Thanks again Svein. As always, good to hear from you!
Tank yous much. Will definetly try this.
Thank you for the bean denominator will use it. Rainy days lucky in Montreal is Me with a bucket picking worms and moving them to the organic veggie backyard. Add early season chicken manure, peat moss and my black gold from my composter. Then forget all summer. Thanks for the great info.
Thanks a lot! Will try it!
Great vid:] I am currently building / growing my soil like this at my grandmothers old farm. I come from 10 years of gardening in clay in the city. The sand is a different beast so so hungry / thirsty:] I have been chop and dropping and letting the weeds grow 4 ft tall hehe I still need more mulch so been using old leaves and grass clipping. I am 3 months in and the soil is getting darker and sticky very happy with this technique! I can not afford 3 trucks of compost nor does it make sense for most large gardens.
Amazing results, great vid, thank u very much 👍
Thank you...
Excelente vídeo gracias por la información lo pondré en práctica está primavera aquí en Argentina. Saludos!
Gracias! Non hablo l'espagnol miu bien, pero muchos gracias!
Parlo l'italiano
le francais aussi... :)
Just moved to the sandy subtropics from clay of the application mountains. This method (or something very similar) has worked for me very well in the past, and I think I will be trying it here too. I may be adding card Cardboard to the production garden too, and then modifying this legume methods in, in the fall for even more biomass over next winter.
I live in a completely different environment than you but the same principals can be used. I have a clay soil that bears life but doesn't have ANY drainage. I was so pissed that my garden just got drowned from all the rain so I did some researching and found that a no till cover crop system works just as well with clay soils. You have to grow heavily in it to make it work. You have to plant diversely and like you said cover all the soil and canopy layers. I'm planting a cover crop (because we get winters with no harvests) of cereal rye, fixation balansa clover, wild carrot, and plantain. The former will definitely not grow where you live but the latter may although there's no harvest so why should you? You see in my scenerio I need drainage and when roots die they make drainage holes and when they're alive they send sugars down to fungi that open up the soil and give them water and nutrients. They also give sugars to bacteria who turn nutrients into soluble forms. I'm going to do a challenge where I start with fill dirt (mostly clay) and work my way up to having rich soil in the time span of next week to next may.
I live in the Mediterranean now. In Sicily.
Dicot radishes, unharvested, left to decompost under soil, works wonders with clay.
John thanks from Cebu
,Philippines.
Thank you
Well explained...Thank you !!!
Thank you ever so much. Extremely helpful!
Hey, thank you for that cool video… I will try it … 😊
Nice! Thank you for the video!❤️👍🏻
Happy you liked it! :) Thanks for your comment.
Thank you very much👍💚
You're welcome
really good observations . very enlightening video will be giving it a shot and keep u updated
Thanks for your kind words. Good to hear from you. Let me know how it goes!...
Good info. I'm in a 4a on sand and gravel, and started composting weeds last summer. Did a second summer's worth, and will mix in your method. I harvest grasses and sedges from the river side, dredge silt when they drop the water level in the autumn, and pluck volunteer 'weeds' everywhere. Worms are proliferating, and many veggies and herbs are self-seeding.
Thank you for sharing that.
I learn the most from shares like this.
Much appreciated...
Wow. I was looking for the most natural way to garden. This sounds like this is it. I like composting, but it is better to follow nature's way
Thank you
Thank you for posting this video! I have several acres of sand which I want to turn into nice rich soil. I want to try this technique!
Good luck. You just need to grow lots and lots and lots of organic material