Weeds are NOT "The Problem"
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- Glen explains why weeds are not the real problem but rather indicators of underlying soil health issues. By understanding and addressing deficiencies in calcium, phosphorus, carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, you can create an environment that promotes healthy crop growth over weed proliferation. Glen also mentions specific weeds such as pigweed, yellow mustard, kochia, foxtail, wild barley, and ticklegrass, and how they signal specific soil imbalances. Learn how to improve your soil health and grow stronger, healthier crops with the right approach.
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My long journey towards weed and pest management are both centered on Brix testing. Bad bugs, aka the ones who feed on plant material, hate high sugar content. I survived 2 separate army worm attacks without using any input with minor damage around the corners of the field, while neighboring ground had been pounding expensive inputs, fighting for their lives, and the results were not good.
Weed management with grazing also does wonders. I know I’m going in really late so I can graze cover crops, and shortening RM’s, but identifying those problem areas and putting 500-750, even a million pounds per acre on those areas stomps it down, and the beneficial cover crops will over take it. The manure also pits that p and k, as well as N out there, and the trampled carbon mixes in.
But, despite how well we think we have it down, there is still plenty of punting when you’re not doing prescriptive, industrial farming. I’ve never had a year where I didn’t end up throwing in a buckwheat crop somewhere just to produce something. That can work just the opposite. In years past, I’ve never done well with winter cereals when I had a moist spring, but this year it never quit raining, and I broke every record. I have a commercial soft red that did a solid 200 bushels, and it was grown and certified organic. I have a lot of money in that crop, it’s interplanted with a yellow pea every 4th row and it’s on 5 inch spacing, it’s expensive seed and ultra high population. The stars just aligned, purely by luck.
I like your insight and thank you and I also notice plants fed Carbohydrates and that includes in the form of Black Strap Molasses do better and are more resilient against natural predators
I have noticed when I put blood & bone and garden lime in my raised beds like potatoes etc, I don't get any weeds.
When I don't have any lime in with my onions, I have a lot of weeds.
Thanks for taking the time to make this video.
I am a brand new farmer, and just ran across your channel. You are an angel in disguise! Thank you, I am getting a wonderful start in this field (no pun intended), through your teaching. Thank you!
Same here
Whether something is a weed or a food crop seems pretty subjective. Some people grow amaranth for food, but it's a weed in my garden. Some people think lamb's quarters is a weed, but we grow it for food.
You are right. Same rules apply. If you want a healthy weed crop, then give it what it wants which is the opposite of most food crops.
It’s subjective if you don’t have a clue what you are doing. I don’t grow corn, soybeans, wheat and alfalfa only to have an evasive weed take over and get confused what I want to survive.
@@jonsobieralski6053 Then you need to understand how things work.
@@gsmscrazycanuck9814 point being it's arbitrary. How do I decide which group you would place something in? I would never say that amaranth is not a food crop, but I sure wish I could eradicate it from my garden.
@@christopherhorn5274 then for you it's a weed. Then you apply available cal and phos and reduce compaction.
That was excellent! Thank you!
WOW!!! I just Subscribed after HEARING this Entire Video!!! I am growing Multiple Foods Crops and THIS Was SO HELPFUL. I will be Following. Godspeed Everyone.
12:53 high ph is a deficiency of hydrogen which is a deficiency of carbon
I'm learning knf, and this made my brain click a few times. Thanks
Thank you so much for your work! The information is invaluable.
Saludos desde Mexico! Fue una leccion magistral de malezas y fertilidad de suelos! Of course. thanks God I understand English Language. Thank you!
Superb explanation as always to goad people into soil and life friendly food production.
16:50 I almost made it. Now my head hurts and I’m falling asleep. Great info. I’ll have to rewatch another time.
Good work, very educative video.
Great video!!!
Do a video on what is carbon !!!
Yes
It’s this thing that the liberal party of canada feels is a necessity to tax the ever loving hell out of you on.
@@Whipspur Both sides if the isle are taking orders from the non elected world organizations. They can't prove one claim they make.
Never heard of using a refractometer in this way. It's used to measure gravity, or body, or solids so using it this way may detect sugar percentages but if you're testing water for your salt water fish tank those solids would be salt. I'm only growing in my back yard. I like the idea of cutting the weeds instead of pulling them. Root penetration is beneficial for soil building as well so by leaving the root it tact it continues to wiggle down while the cut pieces are used as mulch and worm food. My soil is compacted and full of clay but it's improving. It also helps to drive a pick into the top layer of stubbornly compacted areas as well. Not picking and shoveling just making cracks so water can get in and growth can come out.I don't want to use chemicals or amend the soil if I don't have to because I eat what I grow and amending the soil requires a targeted yet balanced approach which can take some breaking up of the soil. Necessary for a farmer dealing with acres but maybe not for my tiny plot. I look forward to experimenting with my refractometer in this way.
You said that foxtail barley is looking to extract salt. This may be true, but I made an observation that says it also is in soil lacking air. I have pictures showing a field I took over and how I got rid of foxtail barley with tillage.
Have weeds talk book. Recommend!
Also recommend NL&G's Aerify Plus and Natures Magic.
Carbon 1 product is reel good too.
Killer vid. Thanks!
Great video 🇳🇿🌱
Very interesting perspective. I suppose bonemeal would help most soils a lot, especially in the top 2 inches.
Now that you touched on this, how do we approach getting a higher brix?
When you said pigweed means lack of available P, yep and yep. My soil is high pH, and loaded with Ca. But the high pH means that I struggle with P. Still looking for the optimal formula for growing giant pumpkins.
Hey Cliff, I am a pumpkin and vegetable grower. The advice in this guy's videos is straight garbage. There are much better sources of pumpkin growing info out there such as several of the state universities with pumpkin trials as well as AgPhd channel. Pigweed is not a symptom of your soil condition. Pigweeds in your field mean there were pigweeds that went to seed as far back as 10 years or more. Weeds don't tell you anything about soil nutrients. The better your fertility, the better your weeds grow. We all use different methods when it comes to fertilizer programs, and I will assure you what works good for one farmer isn't necessarily the best for another. Oh and if you want to take care of the pigweed, use Reflex as part of your PRE right after you plant.
What about adding the sugar in the form of dried molasses?
Careful with that. It will feed microbes that like sugar and create nutrients, but too much can rot plant roots.
Play at 1.5x to make this watchable.
I don’t think I ever saw a field where the weeds and crop was 2-3 Brix. There is a state where they are both equal (7-8 Brix). If the crop goes up, the weeds go down and visa versa.
Does it apply so bedstraw as my region start to be invaded by them
I have been doing holes in my garden couple of years now without understanding this stuff! About 2 feet wide and 2.5 feet deep at the bottom I'll put meat scraps or bone and rotten wood than all the weeds i can find and if its a nice clump of weeds i take roots and dirt! Tree leaves from the ground or one that is green from tree😮 causing shade! I tamp it down t'ill 4 or 5 inches from the top!i than cover with the dug up dirt and plant my seed or plant !
At the end of the season that soil profile is totally diffrent
I know my method⁶ is drastic but as the weeds rot the soil settles opening it up for air
Hi sir is there a way to check compaction without that piece of equipment
Get a shovel and see how deep where the feeder roots stopped growing. Sometimes you can see goofy looking sideways tiller radishes. I believe that's where that is happening. My aerobic zone is only 5 inches. I tru not to till below that and I'm putting GSR down right now as I'm writing here
@jasontucker3295
Why avoid braking through the air /water compaction boundary to allow O² deeper and bring Ca to the top?
Travis. Grab a 1" squared off stick /rod with a flat tip. Use body weight to push it in. I'm 220lbs so ⅔ weight ≈150 psi . At 6" depth I can loft my self off the ground. My garden is now 3' wide x3'deep45'long . The bottom 1.5-2' took a rock bar ( a jackhammer would have been better) 1800-5000psi. 3yds of rock /gravel 4ysd of Calcrete ( calcium carbonate cemented / natural concrete) removed.
@@daviddroescher thanks i do have some ideas about the cause of compaction i love the idea of no till let say i do soil test and it's need amendment how do i get it in a no till Case and there compaction and with tillage the going to be serious erosion.
Interesting... wishing i knew more about this... looking for ways to prove on small, scale before having to go full scale.
Wow, several doors gets opened.....great
So I should be using granulated sugar instead of preen to keep my weeds away.? 😆 In all seriousness I'm about to buy one of those.
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Please upload your videos for later watching!!
Can i use any other calcium product than your product i live in sweden on a small farm and i cant get your oriducts here
Lime
It seems like bonemeal might be a good csndidate, very high in phosphorous and calcium
A walking book, but far more targeted information!
8:27 when weeds talk. Prob wondering now what kind of fruitloop..😂
Best resource to have.
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show some proof of a soil without weeds using your methods please.
I wish they sold this for a General Public
This is pure crap. For anybody who wants to learn how to grow things DON'T take his advise.
Why? Explain please
@novampires223 For one. Plants need the basics no matter the plant. The idea that they don't need hydrogen and oxygen.. (what you get in water) and all the other base minerals is silly. The cellular makeup of amaranth isn't much different than any other plant. It's a wild and completely untrue statement that a weed (which even he admits are just unwanted plants) won't grow in nutrient dense soil. They will THRIVE. The reason they SEEM to do better in poor soil is SIMPLY A FALSE COMPARISON. a weed is more efficient with its lifestyle, that some less hardy plants. So while a less hardly plant might require more nutrients, and water, it doesn't mean that the plant that doesn't need as much "doesn't like nutrients or water". I mean, the idea that CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS don't like carbon!?!
You are talking 🤬 out your as. You have no idea what you are talking about. Farming on any scale requires a cultivation program regardless of the 5 elements you mentioned. Good soil will help prevent some weeds, but the story you tell is pure fiction.
Do you have anything to back that up? I have yet to see anything that goes against what he is saying. For example, insects will only attack the lower Brix plants first…period.
@@gsmscrazycanuck9814INSECTS attack any plant they want. The idea that they only attack shitty food is a silly idea. A potato beetle loves a healthy leaf just like it will chomp on an unhealthy one. Now, if you have more nutrients the plant might OUTGROW the damage, but it isn't that the damage is lessened. And what he said about weeds wanting less nutrients is just a backwards view. Its that they are more efficient with lower nutrients, but the same molecular structures exist in weeds as other plants. There is a reason that "NPK" is a thing, and it's simply this.. whatever chemicals are part of the molecular structure of a plant, it needs. Are we pretending weeds don't use photosynthesis? They don't have cell walls and leaves with chlorophyll. Even here, they admit that weeds are just unwanted plants as one of the "truths". Do the plants magically change their chemical makeup in a garden where they are wanted or unwanted? A lot of just free association and correlation passed off as causation.
Glen just wanted to thank you i was no till for a long time ,⁴your video Changed my mind! Thank you now i understand better!