Of course we want to know your method of leaf mold...I raked up a friend's yard who had a section of 6 yrs of leaf mold that I was able to bag and bring home 36 bags total...waiting to learn best use 😃 some of it already "soil" some still leaves
@@gardenlikeavikingwhat’s the best way to make or store leaf mold? I just have a pile in shade in back of my yard. Same with compost pile, right on the ground. Should I use a tarp and put a barrier between leaf mold pile and ground? Same with compost?
I hit the like button on all your videos before I even watch them That is how much confidence I have in your garden knowledge and way to explain things
This is really helpful to see how to use the residual growth with layers of manure, ash, and leaf mold, followed by a cover crop. And, yes, please show us how to make the leaf mold. Thanks, Nate!
@@matthewcutillo I tell you what is dangerous. My father was an good old fashioned Gardener who used a lot of chemicals and pesticides , until he died on stomach cancer He had a show Garden no weeds , insects or worms . I come from the food industry . I know the chemicals they are using . No thanks
I am so happy you are here my friend and benefiting from all this!!... thank you for sharing that story about your father and his "show garden"... I know exactly the type and they are now the "old schoolers" that grew up with the overwhelming influence of the Industrial Ag Complex!...now is the time we must reawaken and relearn the truly old ways!!... and btw Matthew was just being facetious lol
@@gardenlikeaviking yes thank you for your fantastic VIDIOS. But we only agree up to a point. I can see auras from humans and plants . That means plants got feelings emotions and needs like baby’s , if you ignore they die like sick babies . Going back to natures way is great , but that’s only half of the story . It’s hard to understand baby’s sometimes or how they show you love . That’s a life’s mission. It’s a bit like the difference between Army food and Lunch which cooks Mum with love . ( I’ve been in the Army ) Both of them feed your stomach .Thanks again for your great work . The debate brings an dislike to big company’s who produce plants , food in mass production
This is a great channel. Powerful information. Teaching people how to grow life force. Looking forward to future videos. Winter gardening. You're a great teacher.
We're out of leaf mold. So we'll be making compost as usual. Greens from yard, kitchen scraps layered with chopped brown leaves plus this summer we bought some partially aged cow manure. Been using our leaf mold to top dress plants. In zone 6a. Late Volunteer tomato has large orange tomatoes, bell pepper looking good. Waited too long to cover our fall bush beans. Had a cold snap so few flowers Potatoes and carrots in buckets.
Thanks again, my Viking friend, for sharing your wonderful accumulated knowledge! I enjoy getting these paradigm shifts! Plus, your analogies make it so easy to understand these principles. May God bless you and cause His grace and mercy to lead you to truth.
thanks for this I will definitely do some of this! I think 99.9% of our gardening land needs this. I am fortunate to have pretty good soil with all the micros and macros.
Gnarly knowledge from the viking. I love your holistic approach to the garden. Shirts off for the ladies. Your methods are ancient and proven; symbiosis between man and nature is always best. I have a similar method using tote bins and worms because I have a small garden. I rotate them with earthworms as the last stage and just leave it for a year to mature. Craft Organic living soil is my game. Thanks for sharing.
@@sharonhochberg3671 I start with filling them with leaves from the forest floor; lots of nettles, dandelions, comfrey leaves, baked eggshells and horse manure. Add anything else you are looking to introduce(fungi for me). Then leave to do it's thing for a year. Organic living soil.
Please show us how you make your home made leaf mold. Thank you SO much for breaking down the JADAM methods so we can utilize the knowledge in that book in smaller batches for homes. That book is overwhelming and you have made it understandable!!
I'm so glad I found this channel. My family has been going through a flu bug, and so for the past few days I have been binge watching all these videos. By far one of the most knowledgeable gardener!
I made a post on my community’s social media page asking for bagged leaves. I have abt 20bags of maple and some oak. Some crushed up and some whole. Anyway, one lady said “sure u can have them! We’ve just been throwing them over a back wall for years!” My heart rate went straight UP in excitement. I wanted to dig it out so badly but decided against it. I’m sure things have been living in there happily.
You right I've picked over 250 bell peppers from 24 plants. Starting picking 3 to 5 weeks before neighbors July 1 mid Ohio zone 6a This fall's mulch is next year's compose and feeding the micorizomes and I'm new to cover crops but done starting half the garden. And leaving the roots in to become next season compose. Keep the cover crops information coming as to which plants for next crops coming in next year . Like your mowing but I now have my 8 hp mulcher goes thu leaves and yard waste great. Did almost as you last fall but I'm now to cover crops. So teach me. Thanks
Thank you for the lesson. I'm in deep deep south Texas, so, I can pretty much garden all year. That being said, I think I need to rotate bedding revitalization, the way you described for my 3 large beds. I like it!
AMAZING! I've been getting lots of synchronicities recently.. I love it when you said the soil and our body are one. I learnt recently learned about fulvic acid. Its natural and would be in our water supply and can be given to babies. Fulvic acid is in the soil, infact it's extracted from roots of dynamic accumulators. The soil is made up of every single element on the periodic table and so are we. Very much like soil, something interesting you might like, if you look take a fruit we see it's made of h20 + periodic table (salts/minerals) + microbes I remember it as water dirt and bugs If you look at the percentage of salts on an apple skin for example it's the same percentage as our skin of the human body. I think it's the same with microbes and water
Hi Nate. Thank you for the video. Hope you and yours are doing well. Fyi, I won't be doing any of your winter grows, like mushrooms, etc. I am working on my other project. As I get closer, I will contact you via email, for your consulting services. Much love. Thanks again.
Thank you for showing this. Your videos are very good. I have never used a cover crop but would love to try. What if you do not have access to manure? Will you be as successful with compost?
Hi Nate, Would really love to see a video on how to make the leaf mould! I really want the video on how to make apple cider vinegar too. Looks as if you'll be pretty busy with making all the videos, haha.
Can you do a video about Comfrey? I have seen permaculture channels that say it's amazing; great compost starter, great food for most animals, excellent nitrogen fixer, great deer deterrent, awesome fertilizer tea etc...Plus the medicinal!! Here in Canada it is banned in medicinal form, called invasive and the gov't website says it's toxic to animals and a dangerous plant. Please weigh in. I'm leaning towards planting it everywhere but I'm nervous.
My milk cows love it! They run to the fence when I bring their comfrey treat🤗. It’s full of nutrition for them. It is also great in your compost bin or a “chop and drop” in your garden.
@@JohnDoe-tx6vz I'm struggling to get the comfrey to grow but the dock is established...maybe I should just focus on the dock...but I really want to have the comfrey too
Comfrey is great. It’s not invasive if you plant the sterile Bocking 14 Strain. If you plant the regular seed producing variety, you will shortly regret it because it’s terribly invasive. The only way to organically kill it is to starve the root by cutting off every green shoot as soon as they appear. The non sterile variety grows wild near my home, so I just harvest those leaves several times a season, but before they’re in flower. Not sure about it being illegal in Canada. My pharmacist friend uses it to make a very effective healing ointment. She just can’t label it as a pharmaceutical. I’m in Ontario… I may have enough Bocking 14 to sell a bit next spring… I bought mine a year ago and it’s really thriving in my healthy soil.
What are your favorite tinctures? Will you do videos on tinctures? Also if I have new earth area that I want to grow a garden which is currently just grass-what is the best way to start-wait until spring or till or put a tarp down etc?????
I don't know what the Viking way is, but I Covered the lawn weeds and all with a thick layer of cardboard then lots of well rotted manure, compost and grass clippings. I did that at the beginning of this year and have had a thriving veg patch. You may have to pull out a couple of 'weeds' but they are pretty weak and come up easily. Hope this helps if there isn't a video from the Viking gardener somewhere already 🏴
I will soon make a couple of videos about the ideal way to start fresh ground for next year... you have options.... and yes I can certainly make a video on mushroom tinctures
Dr. Ingham teaches, and has done research demonstrating that there’s more microbial decomposition under the snow at the soil interface than there is in the rain forest!
All places used REPEATEDLY to grow food and flowers need fertilizer. I love the natural fertilizers on this channel. 1. Different plants absorb different nutrients from the soil. This is why crops are rotated. Those nutrients will automatically replenish every few years if the soil is healthy. Just not in one year. So you rotate different plants that absorb different nutrients. 2. Most normal suburban gardens are small and repeatedly used for the same crops year to year so become "Nutrient Deficient". You will need to fertilize yearly or bi-yearly. 3. Example. If you grow Tomatoes in the same spot yearly you need to return the nutrients the tomatoes took from the soil by composting them back in. Most of us need to fertilize and the Viking has the best fertilizer recipes on You Tube.
Dr. ingham, and JADAM farming teach that we should not rotate crops. As Mr. Cho says, the best fertilizer for peppers is peppers and the best fertilizer for tomatoes is tomatoes… including the diseased plants. And Nate correctly points out that all disease organisms are present in the soil anyway, so we grow healthy plants that are able to suppress the pathogens. Even if I wanted to rotate my garden crops, at 1200 sq ft my garden is simply too small.
yes all three of your points are valid, especially the part about the Viking having the best fertilizer recipes! lol... I'll do some videos this winter about why I do not feel crop rotation is necessary in the home garden... industrial ag yes but not for us growing our own food... and actually this video is all about "fertilization" but I was trying to drive home the point that we must not become over reliant on the liquid fertilizers... because that is something I am seeing from people focusing too much on the liquid supplementation and not enough on the base nutrition... thank you for your input my friend
@@garthwunsch That's why I said to Compost the tomatoes back into the soil. They still have the nutrients in the leaves and stalks and will return them to the soil.
Thanks for the vid! I would love to see a video on home-grown leaf mold. I'm still struggling figuring out where to get my hands on wild leaf mold. It's mostly just farmland around me. I don't get out much, so planning a trip to the nearest national park, and hoping I'll be able to find what I'm looking for, just feels overwhelming. It's been a big enough barrier to keep me from getting hands-on practice on what you share in a lot of your videos. I've seen you mention making your own at home with a tarp, but I'm having the same issue finding wild grasses. Have you experimented with gathering IMO cultures using half-cooked rice? That seems a bit more accessible to me, but I'm sure it's not a perfect substitute.
IMO is a great way to inoculate anything(just made some charcoal and will start to inoculate it with organisms). If you have trouble with mobility you can gather barks or cut grass and gather your IMO's from the pile you bring home( just leave it in a heaped pile and the mycelium will transfer to the rice you put in a stocking). Grass is great for fungal growth( just leave it in a pile and nature does the rest).
YES...Feed the soil not the plants 👍 Get the soil alive with worms,insect and microbes and moisture...then the plants thrive and you will too from highly nutritious vitamins, minerals and fibre!👍
Fallen leaves will naturally decay. We have massive apple, fig, mulberry and grapevines and get lots of leaves. You can rake them together as they fall and put in a pile when they start dropping, or leave them until the trees are bare, then rake and put on your beds, at which stage they will look a lot like compost. Use like you would any compost, as a mulch or dig it in. It's great for making potato beds
Put leaves in plastic bags (I know… plastic!!!)! Moisten, and leave alone for one year in the shade… leaf mold! You can also leave the leaves in the paper bags that folks put at roadside. Again, moisten them a bit, and pile up in a corner of the yard. By spring, lots of the bottom bags will be totally disintegrated into great leaf mold. I have a shady 10 x 10’ area in the back of my yard where I’m layering leaves, weeds, manure, beer mash, grape must, shavings etc. I keep it moist and covered with a tarp in summer. Over winter it will be totally covered with bags of leaves. Even in zone 4 where it often hits -30° C, there will be no frost in the pile, but decomposition will carry on at a hectic pace. by spring it will be mostly disintegrated for use in my potting mix… or anywhere else I need it.
Liked at the start of the advert, we need to know how to make your leaf mould compost, we've all been indoctrinated at the government indoctrination camps (schools).
Yes to a video regarding making leaf mold and living in South Florida, everything is reversed, sort of, but we really don't get the cold winter off season but a hot summer off season. 'not complaining but adjusting for this leaves me wondering...
My problem with using anything including leaf mould that isn’t super finished compost is spotted snake millipedes. If I use anything with a high organic matter then they get out of control and damage my crops. Lost a bunch of root crops and greens to them last year so am now trying to figure out some different methods.
well I recommend finding something that will deter them... have you used the garlic solution from this channel?... or the oregano and mint one?... the strongest of all can be made with the jeruselam artichoke and that will deter most all pests... organic matter is of utmost importance
@@gardenlikeaviking thanks, I will try on of those. Will they also be helpful for flea beetles. I had a problem with them this year as well. I have been focused on my soil and building a healthy system for a couple of years but just started with some of tne KNF this year. Really love your channel.
Oh yes, thanks for the reminder. Is there a difference between the microgreen seeds and just regular seeds? I bought microgreen but they just look like regular seeds.
Micro greens are just normal plants that are eaten at the very early stage of sprouting. For example, if you sprout broccoli seeds and eat them when they are two inches high, they are called microgreens. You just cut them with scissors just above soil level. You can do the same with rocket, radish, cauliflower and others of the cabbage family, known as brassicas. Of course you plant them rather thickly in a tray of potting soil or you can sprout them by just putting the seed in a clean jar, soak for a few hours, drain, and keep rinsing and draining until they are about a half inch long. Google info on sprouts and microgreens. But you can't do that with the solanum family which are poisonous, such as tomato, eggplant, chilli. Do your research and don't poison yourself.
the seeds themselves will look the same but typically seeds are bred specifically for microgreens so they will sprout with regularity and are not designed to grow into a full size plant... so the microgreens seeds are dramatically cheaper than regular garden seeds pound for pound...
I use kale and other greens in my smoothie in the morning from my garden. And when it runs out I buy the powder wheat grass and similar to get my greens. What are your thoughts.
that's really great... you will love the videos this winter then because we are going to grow our own wheatgrass and other things so you can have fresh life force all winter in your smoothies and meals!
Nate question, do you put your whole garden to bed in the fall or do you also overwinter with the use of some kind of protection over your crops? I’m 7b so our climates are similar with slight variance. Thanks again brotha, keep crushing it 👍🏽
I put the whole garden to bed over winter because there's nothing that likes to really grow and produce anything over these winters here in northern Indiana... so I put everything outdoors to bed then move to the indoor growing for the winter time!
This is my 2nd year gardening. Last year I had zero issues with pests. I'm not sure exactly why but I am now plagued with every pest possible. I unfortunately caved and sprayed the bad stuff. After reading, researching- I think my soil is complete crap plus I brought in 2 truck loads of soil from an outside nursery. My question is- since my current plants have been sprayed should I pull them or do you think it is safe to move forward with the method shown in this video?
so you mean something like Seven?... you will be fine to use this method so long as there is several weeks or preferably a couple months in between the spraying and the time of "chop and drop"
Bear in mind that if you see evidence of blight in your Tomato bed, it is best that you cut the plant at the base at the end of the season & dispose of it rather than chop & drop. If not, you are just returning blight ridden plant material back to the soil where it lives & thrives over winter. I know Tomato farmers who always dispose of Tomato plants. They don't bother to even compost them for fear of spreading blight to other parts of the garden. Blight travels.
Hi Nate I'm doing what your doing but in reverse! I've sown my cover crop, I was then going to chop and drop then cover with compost. Will it be much different? Thanks Nick 👍
@@gardenlikeaviking I've germinated my cover crop was going to let it grow for a couple of months then chop, drop and cover with leaves, grass and homemade compost. I'm in England. I have red wrigglers in my compost. 👍
If I didn’t do this in the fall but I have access to waaay too much manure from my beautiful healthy cows sheep chickens and rabbits do you think I could slightly bury some cow manure in beds in the spring? Or put it under the paths with the old straw bedding then cover with weed barrier and more straw? Just subscribed! I’m great with animals but fail miserably with plants.
welcome my friend!... yes you can still utilize the manures this spring... try to separate the chicken and cow and then place that in the isles... the sheep and rabbit can go directly in the holes of your plants because its much more gentle than the chicken and cow... also make a liquid fertilizer barrel from the chicken manure to add all summer long once every two weeks
Question I have leafmold from just piles of sycamore leaves over time. I live in the desert so this is all I got. Can I use this for jms? I also have humanure that was aged for 3 years but still hesitant of using that for food crops
Awesome video. That is why I love microgreens up to 40% more nutrition than a full-size vegetable little dude’s pack a punch. I always tell people I don’t believe in powders pills and potions. Just eat the real thing.
Here the people rake their leaves and put them to the curb for the city to come and pick them up so when that time comes I just go around with my truck and trailer and pick up as much as I need… a literal mountain of it!!! Lol
//www.gopjn.com/t/2-404002-275206-153185 ... if you use this link then go to the section called Cover Crops... winter rye and crimson clover or red clover...
Hello, I live in French Polynesia and I would like to try this technique, however here we don't have a season, how long do I have to leave before I can plant my tomatoes
@@gardenlikeaviking Thanks for your answer, since i watch your video i started my own JLF 4 months ago (fish / crab / seaweed), i really love your video.
Which of the spawn bags will you be using for the golden oyster mushrooms? There are organic grain, plug spawn, or sawdust bags on the website? Which of those three are you going to use, Nate? It is hard for me to tell from the bag you held up in the live Q&A on 9/24/22.
we will be using the Golden Oyster Sawdust Spawn Bags.... first we'll get started with the Lions Mane easy spray and grow kit so we understand the process of how the mushroom grows... then we'll move on to the buckets with the oyster spawn and that's when things really start to get cool!!
@@IronDruids lol how convenient!!... I know what you mean with so many YT channels in California, Florida, Southern Hemisphere or way up in Canada they live in such different climates than we do that a lot of the info is not applicable to us!
@@gardenlikeaviking Yeah. I've found a handful of channels that are in the same hardiness zone if not the same state. I think they (And you) will be a lot more helpful to me. Do you have a video of yours you would suggest to me for hard pan clay? This was my first year gardening and it's been a huge struggle. The only stuff that really worked out for me was the stuff I had in buckets.
Of course we want to know your method of leaf mold...I raked up a friend's yard who had a section of 6 yrs of leaf mold that I was able to bag and bring home 36 bags total...waiting to learn best use 😃 some of it already "soil" some still leaves
Score!
wow that's a great score!!!... yes soon I'll be doing some videos on the most ideal ways to utilize those bags for sure!
@@gardenlikeaviking such a blessing for sure
@@gardenlikeavikingwhat’s the best way to make or store leaf mold? I just have a pile in shade in back of my yard. Same with compost pile, right on the ground. Should I use a tarp and put a barrier between leaf mold pile and ground? Same with compost?
I hit the like button on all your videos before I even watch them
That is how much confidence I have in your garden knowledge and way to explain things
I do the same. They are always good.
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And just like that, the circle of life is completed.
Soil=Soul. You are one in the same.
As above so below, as within so without🌞🌱🙏
Poet.
one of the best sites I have seen so far, really nice job explaining!
thank you for the inspirational comment my friend!
This is really helpful to see how to use the residual growth with layers of manure, ash, and leaf mold, followed by a cover crop. And, yes, please show us how to make the leaf mold. Thanks, Nate!
What a great orator you are!
thank you for the inspirational comment my friend!
I've learned more useful knowledge here than 12 years of school
Yes please, a video on leaf mold!
🎉 Congratulations on 30K subscribers, well deserved!
thank you my friend!!... we are growing like a thriving plant!
Anyone try the white vinegar slow simmering reduction protocols to clean the air and minimize the sprays they do ? I am firmed believer ...❤
Yes, please do a video of home made
Leaf mold
Loved the lawn mower action! What a great idea
oh ya it dramatically speeds up the decomposition by a number of months!
The more you understand how plants work, you come to find that we are plants and you are what you eat.
yes my friend and I like to take it one step deeper and say "You are what you eat eats".... microbes = nutrient density
@@gardenlikeaviking yes ....👍🏻💪🏽🌱
I really appreciate your calm demeanor. So many YTers are overly energetic n its tiring, lol.
Yes, please show us how to make the leaf mold Nat thanks for sharing
Thank you ! I’m learning so much from you . It has changed my way of gardening a lot
@@matthewcutillo I tell you what is dangerous. My father was an good old fashioned Gardener who used a lot of chemicals and pesticides , until he died on stomach cancer
He had a show Garden no weeds , insects or worms . I come from the food industry . I know the chemicals they are using . No thanks
I am so happy you are here my friend and benefiting from all this!!... thank you for sharing that story about your father and his "show garden"... I know exactly the type and they are now the "old schoolers" that grew up with the overwhelming influence of the Industrial Ag Complex!...now is the time we must reawaken and relearn the truly old ways!!... and btw Matthew was just being facetious lol
@@gardenlikeaviking yes thank you for your fantastic VIDIOS. But we only agree up to a point.
I can see auras from humans and plants . That means plants got feelings emotions and needs like baby’s , if you ignore they die like sick babies . Going back to natures way is great , but that’s only half of the story . It’s hard to understand baby’s sometimes or how they show you love .
That’s a life’s mission. It’s a bit like the difference between Army food and Lunch which cooks Mum with love . ( I’ve been in the Army ) Both of them feed your stomach .Thanks again for your great work . The debate brings an dislike to big company’s who produce plants , food in mass production
This is a great channel. Powerful information. Teaching people how to grow life force. Looking forward to future videos. Winter gardening. You're a great teacher.
I appreciate your positive energy and feedback my friend thank you!
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i was thinking about red clover as a cover crop this year, thanks for confirming my thought, you'd be surprised how little that happens.
Yes! Leaf mould video!
A bedtime story. Getting the tiny ones ready for winter.
Like they say, let you're food by you're medicine and let you're medicine be your food...
Yes, please make video on leaf mold mulch😁
thank you always my kind friend and yes the leaf mold video is in the works!
Amazing, thank you my friend
We're out of leaf mold. So we'll be making compost as usual. Greens from yard, kitchen scraps layered with chopped brown leaves plus this summer we bought some partially aged cow manure.
Been using our leaf mold to top dress plants. In zone 6a. Late Volunteer tomato has large orange tomatoes, bell pepper looking good.
Waited too long to cover our fall bush beans. Had a cold snap so few flowers Potatoes and carrots in buckets.
Dropping some serious knowledge bombs! Thanks for this!
Going full tilt to a great summer garden thanks to you
Thanks again, my Viking friend, for sharing your wonderful accumulated knowledge! I enjoy getting these paradigm shifts! Plus, your analogies make it so easy to understand these principles. May God bless you and cause His grace and mercy to lead you to truth.
Yes set up the soil beginning in the fall I agree with you sir.
thanks for this I will definitely do some of this! I think 99.9% of our gardening land needs this. I am fortunate to have pretty good soil with all the micros and macros.
Never thought of just mowing over the tomatoes and other leafy veggies - gonna give it a go! Thx
Gnarly knowledge from the viking. I love your holistic approach to the garden. Shirts off for the ladies. Your methods are ancient and proven; symbiosis between man and nature is always best. I have a similar method using tote bins and worms because I have a small garden. I rotate them with earthworms as the last stage and just leave it for a year to mature. Craft Organic living soil is my game. Thanks for sharing.
thank you for the positive energy my friend!!... the tote method utilizing worms is also very effective!
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What is the process for the bins? Different? Thx
@@sharonhochberg3671 I start with filling them with leaves from the forest floor; lots of nettles, dandelions, comfrey leaves, baked eggshells and horse manure. Add anything else you are looking to introduce(fungi for me). Then leave to do it's thing for a year. Organic living soil.
Then you just let this turn into soil and use later?? Thx@@garywillow6578
Please show us how you make your home made leaf mold. Thank you SO much for breaking down the JADAM methods so we can utilize the knowledge in that book in smaller batches for homes. That book is overwhelming and you have made it understandable!!
I'm so glad I found this channel. My family has been going through a flu bug, and so for the past few days I have been binge watching all these videos. By far one of the most knowledgeable gardener!
thank you my friend and may your family recover swiftly!!
The footage of you doing it was very helpful. I have never seen anyone garden that way.
Hi, I just recently subscribed and I’m learning soooooo much from you. I’d love to see the how to make leaf mold video.
I made a post on my community’s social media page asking for bagged leaves. I have abt 20bags of maple and some oak. Some crushed up and some whole. Anyway, one lady said “sure u can have them! We’ve just been throwing them over a back wall for years!” My heart rate went straight UP in excitement. I wanted to dig it out so badly but decided against it. I’m sure things have been living in there happily.
Wow! How did we manage so far without YOU????
You right
I've picked over 250 bell peppers from 24 plants. Starting picking 3 to 5 weeks before neighbors July 1 mid Ohio zone 6a
This fall's mulch is next year's compose and feeding the micorizomes and I'm new to cover crops but done starting half the garden. And leaving the roots in to become next season compose.
Keep the cover crops information coming as to which plants for next crops coming in next year .
Like your mowing but I now have my 8 hp mulcher goes thu leaves and yard waste great.
Did almost as you last fall but I'm now to cover crops. So teach me.
Thanks
very nice my friend what do you like to do with all those bell peppers??
Like burying Elvis lots of cousins show up when you have fresh veggies.
Yes, I would love to know how you make your leaf mold. 👍🏻💪🏽🌱
ok will do!... the video is in the works!
Heat plus humidity.....voila.
Thank you for the lesson. I'm in deep deep south Texas, so, I can pretty much garden all year. That being said, I think I need to rotate bedding revitalization, the way you described for my 3 large beds. I like it!
Yes I was wondering what he would suggest for those of us who have live plants in the ground now.
AMAZING! I've been getting lots of synchronicities recently.. I love it when you said the soil and our body are one.
I learnt recently learned about fulvic acid.
Its natural and would be in our water supply and can be given to babies.
Fulvic acid is in the soil, infact it's extracted from roots of dynamic accumulators. The soil is made up of every single element on the periodic table and so are we.
Very much like soil, something interesting you might like, if you look take a fruit we see it's made of h20 + periodic table (salts/minerals) + microbes
I remember it as water dirt and bugs
If you look at the percentage of salts on an apple skin for example it's the same percentage as our skin of the human body. I think it's the same with microbes and water
Nature is so amazing
Great stuff. Thanks!
thank you so much my friend!!
yes to leaf mold. great video again!
Yes, I would love to know how you make your leaf mold
Clover seeds are ready to be planted
Leaf mold next please 🙏 🤗🤗🤗💚🌱💚
Hi Nate. Thank you for the video. Hope you and yours are doing well. Fyi, I won't be doing any of your winter grows, like mushrooms, etc. I am working on my other project. As I get closer, I will contact you via email, for your consulting services. Much love. Thanks again.
Thank you for showing this. Your videos are very good. I have never used a cover crop but would love to try. What if you do not have access to manure? Will you be as successful with compost?
yes compost is also good but its most effective applied in the spring time before planting...
Hi Nate,
Would really love to see a video on how to make the leaf mould! I really want the video on how to make apple cider vinegar too. Looks as if you'll be pretty busy with making all the videos, haha.
thank you my friend and yes all those videos are in the works!!... its fast approaching apple harvest time here!
Amazing video! As always, thank you!
Can you do a video about Comfrey? I have seen permaculture channels that say it's amazing; great compost starter, great food for most animals, excellent nitrogen fixer, great deer deterrent, awesome fertilizer tea etc...Plus the medicinal!! Here in Canada it is banned in medicinal form, called invasive and the gov't website says it's toxic to animals and a dangerous plant. Please weigh in. I'm leaning towards planting it everywhere but I'm nervous.
Interesting. The deer chomped my comfrey plant! All but one leaf!
Curly dock is similar and grows wild around here (mountian time). Comfort has many benefits. I'd like to have a bunch or two. Pretty dry here.
My milk cows love it! They run to the fence when I bring their comfrey treat🤗. It’s full of nutrition for them. It is also great in your compost bin or a “chop and drop” in your garden.
@@JohnDoe-tx6vz I'm struggling to get the comfrey to grow but the dock is established...maybe I should just focus on the dock...but I really want to have the comfrey too
Comfrey is great. It’s not invasive if you plant the sterile Bocking 14 Strain. If you plant the regular seed producing variety, you will shortly regret it because it’s terribly invasive. The only way to organically kill it is to starve the root by cutting off every green shoot as soon as they appear. The non sterile variety grows wild near my home, so I just harvest those leaves several times a season, but before they’re in flower.
Not sure about it being illegal in Canada. My pharmacist friend uses it to make a very effective healing ointment. She just can’t label it as a pharmaceutical.
I’m in Ontario… I may have enough Bocking 14 to sell a bit next spring… I bought mine a year ago and it’s really thriving in my healthy soil.
What are your favorite tinctures? Will you do videos on tinctures? Also if I have new earth area that I want to grow a garden which is currently just grass-what is the best way to start-wait until spring or till or put a tarp down etc?????
I don't know what the Viking way is, but I Covered the lawn weeds and all with a thick layer of cardboard then lots of well rotted manure, compost and grass clippings. I did that at the beginning of this year and have had a thriving veg patch. You may have to pull out a couple of 'weeds' but they are pretty weak and come up easily. Hope this helps if there isn't a video from the Viking gardener somewhere already 🏴
I will soon make a couple of videos about the ideal way to start fresh ground for next year... you have options.... and yes I can certainly make a video on mushroom tinctures
Another great video!! Thank you!!!
Dr. Ingham teaches, and has done research demonstrating that there’s more microbial decomposition under the snow at the soil interface than there is in the rain forest!
I have heard of this research but could you please direct me to some relevant source for this knowledge?
Dude I love you and your channel .. thanks so much .. your buddy in az 🌵
excellent as always bro!
More great tips thanks very much.
Almost 30k subs let's go!
you have a mellifluous voice.
I had to look that up but thank you very much my friend that encourages me to keep speaking!
All places used REPEATEDLY to grow food and flowers need fertilizer. I love the natural fertilizers on this channel.
1. Different plants absorb different nutrients from the soil. This is why crops are rotated. Those nutrients will automatically replenish every few years if the soil is healthy. Just not in one year. So you rotate different plants that absorb different nutrients.
2. Most normal suburban gardens are small and repeatedly used for the same crops year to year so become "Nutrient Deficient". You will need to fertilize yearly or bi-yearly.
3. Example. If you grow Tomatoes in the same spot yearly you need to return the nutrients the tomatoes took from the soil by composting them back in. Most of us need to fertilize and the Viking has the best fertilizer recipes on You Tube.
Dr. ingham, and JADAM farming teach that we should not rotate crops. As Mr. Cho says, the best fertilizer for peppers is peppers and the best fertilizer for tomatoes is tomatoes… including the diseased plants. And Nate correctly points out that all disease organisms are present in the soil anyway, so we grow healthy plants that are able to suppress the pathogens. Even if I wanted to rotate my garden crops, at 1200 sq ft my garden is simply too small.
yes all three of your points are valid, especially the part about the Viking having the best fertilizer recipes! lol... I'll do some videos this winter about why I do not feel crop rotation is necessary in the home garden... industrial ag yes but not for us growing our own food... and actually this video is all about "fertilization" but I was trying to drive home the point that we must not become over reliant on the liquid fertilizers... because that is something I am seeing from people focusing too much on the liquid supplementation and not enough on the base nutrition... thank you for your input my friend
@@garthwunsch That's why I said to Compost the tomatoes back into the soil. They still have the nutrients in the leaves and stalks and will return them to the soil.
Good talk, cheers Nate ;)
Great video!
Thanks for the vid! I would love to see a video on home-grown leaf mold. I'm still struggling figuring out where to get my hands on wild leaf mold. It's mostly just farmland around me. I don't get out much, so planning a trip to the nearest national park, and hoping I'll be able to find what I'm looking for, just feels overwhelming. It's been a big enough barrier to keep me from getting hands-on practice on what you share in a lot of your videos. I've seen you mention making your own at home with a tarp, but I'm having the same issue finding wild grasses. Have you experimented with gathering IMO cultures using half-cooked rice? That seems a bit more accessible to me, but I'm sure it's not a perfect substitute.
IMO is a great way to inoculate anything(just made some charcoal and will start to inoculate it with organisms). If you have trouble with mobility you can gather barks or cut grass and gather your IMO's from the pile you bring home( just leave it in a heaped pile and the mycelium will transfer to the rice you put in a stocking). Grass is great for fungal growth( just leave it in a pile and nature does the rest).
YES...Feed the soil not the plants 👍
Get the soil alive with worms,insect and microbes and moisture...then the plants thrive and you will too from highly nutritious vitamins, minerals and fibre!👍
Nice looking garlic!
lol came from a reliable source!!
Amazing thanks 👍
Would love to see how you make the leaf mold
Any additional instructional videos much appreciated. Do you have a leaf mold method that does not require machinery
Fallen leaves will naturally decay. We have massive apple, fig, mulberry and grapevines and get lots of leaves. You can rake them together as they fall and put in a pile when they start dropping, or leave them until the trees are bare, then rake and put on your beds, at which stage they will look a lot like compost. Use like you would any compost, as a mulch or dig it in. It's great for making potato beds
I love machinery. Makes things happen faster and easier. My weed eater is a battery cobalt. Kicks much butt. Lawnmower reigns supreme.
Put leaves in plastic bags (I know… plastic!!!)! Moisten, and leave alone for one year in the shade… leaf mold! You can also leave the leaves in the paper bags that folks put at roadside. Again, moisten them a bit, and pile up in a corner of the yard. By spring, lots of the bottom bags will be totally disintegrated into great leaf mold.
I have a shady 10 x 10’ area in the back of my yard where I’m layering leaves, weeds, manure, beer mash, grape must, shavings etc. I keep it moist and covered with a tarp in summer. Over winter it will be totally covered with bags of leaves. Even in zone 4 where it often hits -30° C, there will be no frost in the pile, but decomposition will carry on at a hectic pace. by spring it will be mostly disintegrated for use in my potting mix… or anywhere else I need it.
Liked at the start of the advert, we need to know how to make your leaf mould compost, we've all been indoctrinated at the government indoctrination camps (schools).
Yes to a video regarding making leaf mold and living in South Florida, everything is reversed, sort of, but we really don't get the cold winter off season but a hot summer off season. 'not complaining but adjusting for this leaves me wondering...
thank you 🙏
WOW. INFORMATION
Hey Viking! How do you make your leaf mold?? You're the absolute best. I put your videos on repeat.
thank you my friend... please watch this video and its the method where I make a pile out of it... ua-cam.com/video/HgWYpww2FYA/v-deo.html
YOU HAVE A GREAT WAY EXPLAINING ALL THESE PROCEDURES THE DOS AND DONTS. THANKS
My problem with using anything including leaf mould that isn’t super finished compost is spotted snake millipedes. If I use anything with a high organic matter then they get out of control and damage my crops. Lost a bunch of root crops and greens to them last year so am now trying to figure out some different methods.
well I recommend finding something that will deter them... have you used the garlic solution from this channel?... or the oregano and mint one?... the strongest of all can be made with the jeruselam artichoke and that will deter most all pests... organic matter is of utmost importance
@@gardenlikeaviking thanks, I will try on of those. Will they also be helpful for flea beetles. I had a problem with them this year as well. I have been focused on my soil and building a healthy system for a couple of years but just started with some of tne KNF this year. Really love your channel.
Oh yes, thanks for the reminder. Is there a difference between the microgreen seeds and just regular seeds? I bought microgreen but they just look like regular seeds.
Micro greens are just normal plants that are eaten at the very early stage of sprouting. For example, if you sprout broccoli seeds and eat them when they are two inches high, they are called microgreens. You just cut them with scissors just above soil level. You can do the same with rocket, radish, cauliflower and others of the cabbage family, known as brassicas. Of course you plant them rather thickly in a tray of potting soil or you can sprout them by just putting the seed in a clean jar, soak for a few hours, drain, and keep rinsing and draining until they are about a half inch long. Google info on sprouts and microgreens. But you can't do that with the solanum family which are poisonous, such as tomato, eggplant, chilli. Do your research and don't poison yourself.
the seeds themselves will look the same but typically seeds are bred specifically for microgreens so they will sprout with regularity and are not designed to grow into a full size plant... so the microgreens seeds are dramatically cheaper than regular garden seeds pound for pound...
@@gardenlikeaviking thank you!
@@gardenlikeaviking thank you. I want to start to grow microgreens. Can the seeds store for years if need be?
I use kale and other greens in my smoothie in the morning from my garden. And when it runs out I buy the powder wheat grass and similar to get my greens. What are your thoughts.
that's really great... you will love the videos this winter then because we are going to grow our own wheatgrass and other things so you can have fresh life force all winter in your smoothies and meals!
Nate question, do you put your whole garden to bed in the fall or do you also overwinter with the use of some kind of protection over your crops? I’m 7b so our climates are similar with slight variance. Thanks again brotha, keep crushing it 👍🏽
I put the whole garden to bed over winter because there's nothing that likes to really grow and produce anything over these winters here in northern Indiana... so I put everything outdoors to bed then move to the indoor growing for the winter time!
What is best for bins and buckets? Can we do a mini version of this in bins and buckets or you recommend another method?
I would like to know how you make your leaf mold. I usually put the leaves in paper compost bags and pile them up in a out of the way corner.
For tee shirts how about " Stewards of the Soil".
ok I'm feeling it!!... thank you my friend
Me too!
i have been watching your videos and wondering if you use Jadam liquid fertilizer on your house plants as well. they look so healthy and beautiful!
thank you my friend and no I do not use them indoors because they need the full power of the soil food web and indoors they will just turn rancid IME
This is my 2nd year gardening. Last year I had zero issues with pests. I'm not sure exactly why but I am now plagued with every pest possible. I unfortunately caved and sprayed the bad stuff. After reading, researching- I think my soil is complete crap plus I brought in 2 truck loads of soil from an outside nursery. My question is- since my current plants have been sprayed should I pull them or do you think it is safe to move forward with the method shown in this video?
so you mean something like Seven?... you will be fine to use this method so long as there is several weeks or preferably a couple months in between the spraying and the time of "chop and drop"
Nate, could i use a garden shredder for this instead of a lawn mower? Thanks buddy
Bear in mind that if you see evidence of blight in your Tomato bed, it is best that you cut the plant at the base at the end of the season & dispose of it rather than chop & drop. If not, you are just returning blight ridden plant material back to the soil where it lives & thrives over winter. I know Tomato farmers who always dispose of Tomato plants. They don't bother to even compost them for fear of spreading blight to other parts of the garden. Blight travels.
Hi Nate I'm doing what your doing but in reverse! I've sown my cover crop, I was then going to chop and drop then cover with compost. Will it be much different? Thanks Nick 👍
well that depends... when are you planning to do this?... where are you located again I forget?
@@gardenlikeaviking I've germinated my cover crop was going to let it grow for a couple of months then chop, drop and cover with leaves, grass and homemade compost. I'm in England. I have red wrigglers in my compost. 👍
Is it the same process if you have 2-6 feet of snow on you garden bed during the winter? I live in Canada zone 3.
If I didn’t do this in the fall but I have access to waaay too much manure from my beautiful healthy cows sheep chickens and rabbits do you think I could slightly bury some cow manure in beds in the spring? Or put it under the paths with the old straw bedding then cover with weed barrier and more straw? Just subscribed! I’m great with animals but fail miserably with plants.
welcome my friend!... yes you can still utilize the manures this spring... try to separate the chicken and cow and then place that in the isles... the sheep and rabbit can go directly in the holes of your plants because its much more gentle than the chicken and cow... also make a liquid fertilizer barrel from the chicken manure to add all summer long once every two weeks
@@gardenlikeaviking thank you!!!
Question I have leafmold from just piles of sycamore leaves over time. I live in the desert so this is all I got. Can I use this for jms? I also have humanure that was aged for 3 years but still hesitant of using that for food crops
Awesome video. That is why I love microgreens up to 40% more nutrition than a full-size vegetable little dude’s pack a punch. I always tell people I don’t believe in powders pills and potions. Just eat the real thing.
I love your videos. I do this, but can't seam to get the volume of leaves, etc to make that much leaf mold. How do you access that much raw material?
Here the people rake their leaves and put them to the curb for the city to come and pick them up so when that time comes I just go around with my truck and trailer and pick up as much as I need… a literal mountain of it!!! Lol
Got any tips on removing poison ivy without toxic herbicides? Vinegar isn't working.
I wish I did!!!... let me know if you find one!
Hi.if u have any idea about yellow leaves diesese due to phytoplasma virus if u have any remidy for this plz give some outputs
If you used chemical ferts (foxfarm) on soil for one season would it be possible to bring it back to organic by amending and adding organic ferts?
yes but you'll want to apply the JADAM microbial solution 5x at 100% strength to the soil so the IMO's begin to function properly
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Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Where do you buy your cover crop seeds? Do you have a brand recommendation?
//www.gopjn.com/t/2-404002-275206-153185 ... if you use this link then go to the section called Cover Crops... winter rye and crimson clover or red clover...
Most seed houses sell this. In Canada I use William Dam seeds.
Hello,
I live in French Polynesia and I would like to try this technique, however here we don't have a season, how long do I have to leave before I can plant my tomatoes
if you live in the tropics this will be ready within 2 or 3 months especially if you add other microbial fertilizers like the JMS or other JLFs
@@gardenlikeaviking Thanks for your answer, since i watch your video i started my own JLF 4 months ago (fish / crab / seaweed), i really love your video.
Where do you get your black bucket cover containers?
Facebook marketplace or ghbarrels.com
Now how to adapt for grow bags and/or raised beds.
great idea and thank you I will do that
Which of the spawn bags will you be using for the golden oyster mushrooms? There are organic grain, plug spawn, or sawdust bags on the website? Which of those three are you going to use, Nate? It is hard for me to tell from the bag you held up in the live Q&A on 9/24/22.
we will be using the Golden Oyster Sawdust Spawn Bags.... first we'll get started with the Lions Mane easy spray and grow kit so we understand the process of how the mushroom grows... then we'll move on to the buckets with the oyster spawn and that's when things really start to get cool!!
@@gardenlikeaviking I ended up getting the grain spawn. Hopefully it won't make much of a difference.
Does anyone know what gardening zone this guy lives in? I'm trying to limit how many channels I'm watching from dramatically different zones.
5b/6a, found it in the video around 9:40.
5b/6a Northern Indiana, Midwest USA... where are you?
@@gardenlikeaviking We're in the same state. South east Indiana Zone 6a.
I doubt I'm going to find another youtube closer than that!
@@IronDruids lol how convenient!!... I know what you mean with so many YT channels in California, Florida, Southern Hemisphere or way up in Canada they live in such different climates than we do that a lot of the info is not applicable to us!
@@gardenlikeaviking Yeah. I've found a handful of channels that are in the same hardiness zone if not the same state. I think they (And you) will be a lot more helpful to me.
Do you have a video of yours you would suggest to me for hard pan clay? This was my first year gardening and it's been a huge struggle. The only stuff that really worked out for me was the stuff I had in buckets.
Mmmmm chocolate
you really like chocolate don't you my friend? lol
Five minutes of hippie hokum just to hear info i know.