Hey Brother, dunno if you will ever see that, but know an Italian young farmer has taken deep inspiration from your videos and wanna thanks you deeply from the bottom of his heart. Thank you, nice man. May God bless you.
Could you NOT turn the leaves into the beds, so the worms aren't killed? Just treat the leaves like mulch? That's what I do here in Texas. I top my beds with about 6" of chopped leaves in November, and just transplant right into the bed. I hate putting my shovel into a bed and finding I've sliced a worm in half!!
Our favorite garden tool is a digging fork. We carefully turn the chopped leaves into the soil with the fork as soon as the ground can be worked. In about 2 weeks, most of them have been consumed, and then we add a layer on top that remains there- and is added to-all season. Our worm population explodes using this method. If done carefully just once, early in the season, I believe turning the first leaves into the soil does not harm the worms, or destroy soil structure.
@@backwoodbasics9383 Aha! The difference must be that our soil doesn't freeze. What a difference to garden in different zones! Thank you for your reply. Received your book from Amazon late yesterday; can't wait to start it this evening!
Hey Brother, dunno if you will ever see that, but know an Italian young farmer has taken deep inspiration from your videos and wanna thanks you deeply from the bottom of his heart. Thank you, nice man. May God bless you.
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Could you NOT turn the leaves into the beds, so the worms aren't killed? Just treat the leaves like mulch? That's what I do here in Texas. I top my beds with about 6" of chopped leaves in November, and just transplant right into the bed. I hate putting my shovel into a bed and finding I've sliced a worm in half!!
Our favorite garden tool is a digging fork. We carefully turn the chopped leaves into the soil with the fork as soon as the ground can be worked. In about 2 weeks, most of them have been consumed, and then we add a layer on top that remains there- and is added to-all season. Our worm population explodes using this method. If done carefully just once, early in the season, I believe turning the first leaves into the soil does not harm the worms, or destroy soil structure.
@@backwoodbasics9383 Aha! The difference must be that our soil doesn't freeze. What a difference to garden in different zones! Thank you for your reply. Received your book from Amazon late yesterday; can't wait to start it this evening!
@@demesrvl6761 Thank you so much!