“Decoding Gardening Advice”: 3 of My Favorite Recommendations
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What does the book "Decoding Gardening Advice" have to say about 3 of my favorite gardening recommendations? One Yard Revolution is all about growing a lot of food on a little land using sustainable organic methods, while keeping costs and labor at a minimum. Emphasis is placed on improving soil quality with compost, mulch, and compost tea. No store-bought fertilizers, soil amendments, pesticides, compost activators, etc. are used. Join me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oneyardrevolution Channel Page: http://www.youtube.com/user/OneYardRevolution Featured Videos: http://youtu.be/FPFA6FJydLw
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how can you naturally make the soil more acidic for wild blueberry plants?
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I agree with what was said a few times below, the real benefit of compost tea is it adds what I refer to as "Probiotics' for the soil.. if the Author of the book is only looking at what nutrients the compost tea adds, then they are correct saying it's an insignificant amount... But, the amount of beneficial fungi and bacteria it adds can be off the chart. .. for example, your soil can have plenty of Boron, but if it's chemically bonded it's useless to the plant, the 'probiotics' in the compost tea are what breaks these bonds freeing the boron to be used by the plant. ... I think this is similar to the knowledge proven in aquaculture or people who have aquariums. To have healthy water for fish you need a good biological filter which has bacteria that changes the ammonia produced by the fish to nitrites then another bacteria changes the nitrites into nitrates, the nitrate is the form of nitrogen used by the plants. .. Organic soil is a living organism, and IMHO the probiotics is the most important part. A well made compost tea is the best way to make sure your probiotics are flourishing.
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I think, mulching is a good way to add organic material and to create an favorable earthworm environment. And it saves lots of water. Are there any disadvantages of mulching? I use a mixture of wood chips and leafs for mulch now and until now it works great. The soil ist constantly moist. Without mulch the soil is alwasy dry, even if I water every day
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I'm surprised that any recent author would even doubt compost teas. Granted, you can do compost teas wrong and not get results but if you do it right it is crystal clear that it works. I haven't tested anarobic compost teas but I suspect they would not be very effective because the arobic bacteria are the helpful ones. I still suspect fertilizers made with comfrey anarobically would be beneficial. Just not for microbial stuff.
One of my neighbors was a little doubtful about aerobic vermicompost teas. He let me spray his plants one year. He had jaw dropping results and he's a believer now :). Spraying my lettuce eliminated the bugs. Prior to spraying them I had hundreds of bugs on every plant.
I fully agree that adding organic matter to the soil fixes clay soil. I have personally used this as a soil builder because my soil is hard red clay as little as 2" below the top. I was able to fix this problem by layering several layers of cardboard with wood chips on top to keep the cardboard out of view. In one year the 2" layer of top soil is now 8" or more. Granted, you need to add other things to the soil if you want to grow plants because cardboard is probably missing some of the micronutrients.
I am also a fan of no till. I believe it is wise to add microbes back into the soil if you till. Tilling is good for killing things such as weeds but it's not good for growing things because it exposes a lot of the microbial life to UV which kills them.
Something I'm planning to experiment with this year is dynamic accumulators. I'm going to plant comfrey and start using my dandylion in my compost. I've heard some pretty fantastical rumors that sound too good to be true. Gotta check em out. I might plant some yarrow too. -
Patrick, I've been wondering which of your videos would be best for posting a particular question under and this one fits perfectly. My question has a "yuck" factor for some gardeners but apparently 'Decoding Gardening Advice" covers the subject on pg.32(you can see it on the cover in your video). The question: What is your personal opinion on using urine in the garden? For the sake of being open and fair I'm not looking for approval or disapproval. And regardless of what the DGA book says I've already read some studies and decided that I would use urine. From 01 December through April 30 I distribute urine on the compost pile and in the leaf bins. My intent is to provide moisture and nitrogen to further the decomposition process.
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compost tea is suspending the water soluble nutrients into the water leaving the insoluble matter behind
its not really an issue if your already adding compost to the soil.. everytime you water your garden with regular water the soluble nutrients are being mobilized throughout the soil
check out Austin family gardening channel on his success with compost tea as a hydroponic nutrient... this is where compost tea is most interesting
Kratky Method-DWC-Compost Tea Hydroponics #5 Hydroponic Tomatoes
compost tea can be a good nutrient.. so good that it can be used hydroponically with fruiting success if the compost used is super duper top notch dinky dye ridgy didge bees knees bonza mighty ripper true blue waltzing matilda quality
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A comment from one of your subscribers Elyse Joseph says it all you just have to look at your garden. The plants look so clean and green, great vid keep them coming. Till next time.
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Patrick, just becouse somebody wrote a book, it dosn't mean that they are experts..
I like the way you approch the complete idea caring for the plants, tea time.
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I'm still into the tea bro :) Thumbs up!
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Hey Patrick! Absolutely wonderful video and I will ensure to add that 2-3 inches of compost over the topsoil to increase soil fertility. Learnt a lot as always!
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Very good Patrick! I am looking forward to seeing the results of any compost tea experiments. I am with you. I think it works.
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Gardening is a serious business
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What is the name of your theme guitar music? It is very relaxing to listen to it.
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Such good information and my next step is to try making compost tea. :) Happy Gardening & God Bless!
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i mix worm casting straight into the molasses and water then aerate for 34 to 48 hours. then strain it using a 5 gallon paint strainer. I feel this gives a much better perk. Putting it in a teabag like environment i think lessens the surface area to interact and grow.
Have notice increased blossoms week or two after application, i usually try to do it once a month.
Dramatic, my wife had a dahlia almost completely covered with mold. I dowsed it thoroughly with the brew in less than a week the mold was all gone and the plant was blooming. I also notice doing this to my zucchini plant keeps them mold free.
This past late spring I composted and then mulched 4" when I gently pulled back mulch to check moisture level I saw a beautiful white web between the mulch and soil as well as many many worms.
Thank you for your methodical testing.
On your char test. I believe the char concept is adapted from an area in the Amazon jungle where the native people kept adding char to the soil (over a 2000 year process). I am not sure about what the activation process should be especially how long it may take for the micro universes to setup camp in the char and then how long for the char to acclimate to the micro environment already in your soil. this may take several seasons similar to saving your own seeds and replanting year after year to acclimate them to your local environment.
It may be best just to mix in the char and allow it to activate with you local environment.
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The proof is in the pudding :) One look at your garden proves that your are doing it right!
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Patrick, you inspire so many people to garden. Your video shows people that amending your soil DOES NOT have to cost a lot of money. It does require time & effort. I am now on my fourth year of LASAGNA METHOD of amending the soil. The cost of zero dollars. WORM FARMING, zero dollars. COFFEE GROUNDS, zero dollars. WOOD ASH, zero dollars. COMFREY LEAVES, zero dollars. Oh yes, I forgot one more of my ingredients...MY URINE. :0) These are amendments that I use. Thank you Patrick for being on of the people that make YouTube a fun place to be.
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Great advice! And nice channel! You have a new sub ;)
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I am still waiting for the book I think you have caused them to sell out lol.
I do think If you planted something in just say sand and just fed it compost tea you would get a result better than just sand and water say you just got to keep them damp. I will try this too maybe in pots The organic material is right and the better the mix the more diversity of food minerals all the good stuff but something is always better than nothing. I read something about spraying Coke diluted on fields in India. It increased the crops and brought in lots of predatory insects and also maybe worked as a foliar spray. What hit the ground fed bacteria thats just my thoughts of how it worked.
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Great info, Patrick! Man, that is some very rich compost!
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