Why Perennial Groundcover is Better Compost in the Garden | Dr. Elaine Ingham
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2020
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I am one of her students at the Soil Food Web school. Dr. Ingham, she is so cool and she makes herself available to talk to if you have any questions. I have admit she is like a rock star to me!
You got Dr. Elaine Ingham as a guest, you've arrived.
So much respect for Dr. Ingham and her astounding work. Thanks for this, Diego. 🥰
There is a difference in my mind between soil coverings (prevent moisture loss, weeds) and soil creation. Since what I have is lots of dead or dying trees, I use huglekultur techniques, burying as much small branches and twigs or using them to line the way and covering with manure and continuing to build this. Toss some red clover or other nitro fixer on top in the fall. After a winter or two, part the top layers, make a hole, add compost or potting mix and add perennials. There are so many wonderful ways to feed the soil
Nice podcast. I think you could have pushed Elaine to give more cover crop examples and be a bit more specific. She likes mentioning the exceptions and doesn't like getting boxed into giving advice. I liked how she mentioned that in fertile soils the plants are much bigger. I use this to grow foraging weeds for food. They become less bitter.
After 30 years of composting for mulching my annuals I stumbled on a quicker, easier, richer mulch: SHREDDED LEAVES. My neighbors trees dropped too many leaves for her to manage in the fall so I volunteered to "clean up". I bought an electric leaf vac/shredder, 15-1. It came with a canvas bag which I slung over my shoulder, requiring frequent stops to empty. (This would have gone much quicker if I had help from someone pushing a large cart to trap the mulch.) I put the mulch in my 140 sq. foot, raised bed. It slowly, over a few winter months, broke down, leaving dark soil. I will NEVER compost again. Remember: Keep a cover crop, even if it's just weeds. Why? Building soil is done by ROOTS IN THE GROUND. Observe nature, learn, follow. Don't make work by fighting nature or following traditional farming/gardening, e.g., turning over the soil. Does nature plow? Hell no!
Needed visuals of these methods
We’ve been looking for good perennial ground covers, thanks!
You don’t have enough podcasts! More names more more 👍🏿👍🏿
You both are legends
Cool, I just got the answer to the question I asked in the comment section of the previous video. I don't remember seeing the info on her web site but I haven't had time to explore it , just skimmed a couple parts. Thank you both.
The Compost Queen!!! 🍂🌱♻️
I really appreciated the information.
She’s cool and has some great experience!
Thanks Diego for providing these. A couple of things. There is no magic watering can. Not all practices apply to all scenarios. There is something to be learned. It may prove beneficial in the future. Or maybe not.
Love the steam punk artifacts, especially that beautiful stove! There IS permanence in this ol' world after all!
I find her methodology so difficult to comprehend. I’ve been gardening for 65 years. No till for 8 years. I can weed 1200 sq ft in five minutes. Can push a 1/8” bamboo stick 18” into my soil with no resistance. Below that is glacial recessional moraine... coarse gravel/boulders cemented together with alluvial clay - hard pan. the bed rock is usually within a foot or less. My brain rejects a gardening methodology that requires a microscope. I think I’m finding JADAM much easier to comprehend. KISS.
A source to find the combination of perennials to cash crops would have so much value for farmers
I live in the tropics and I just started gardening I'm glad to come across this topic and I'm thinking sweet potato. Anything I should know about? Thanks