How to do No-Dig Gardening (and never weed again)
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2020
- Your step-by-step guide for building an easy, sustainable, weed-free vegetable garden - with or without raised beds.
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"Fast forward their lifecycle to decomposition" is the most gangster thing I've heard all day
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Considering the series is about home gardening, the quality of the content didn't reduce a bit... Lots of info with the best ways of explanation!! ❤️
Yeah - these videos are so good it's scary ... and I think it's just her and her husband cranking them out (and now the son).
Really? Why did they keep the take with the shadow across her face at 5:57? Or the lawn mower at 7:10?
@@fullupfinish12 if you water a plant during the day and it falls on the leaves,, it creates a magnifying glass, which burns the leaves.
@Sheik Nayeem Alom and @Peter Bertanzetti - thank you so much! Lovely to hear your feedback. Yes, it's just the two of us cranking it out while also caring for our little boy. Ivan, did you just volunteer to edit for us?!
@@TrueFoodTV When you come to LA, I'll be happy to AD; another set of 👀👂can cut down on post fixes. I do appreciate your work, I just get passionate and frustrated because I think you two deserve the best and don't want stuff like that to distract. Wrong way to express it. Thanks for calling me out
I highly recommend this channel. It's like no other. Nichole is just the best in what she does.
Hope to see more frequent uploads.🙂🙂🙂
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I'm so glad you're all enjoying it and finding it useful!
More wide brimmed hats!
This series is far too good. I thought UA-cam had a quality limit. :) Excellent work, True Food TV.
I'm glad that you are conversing with someone that is smart and beautiful. I love gardening and plants.
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Yey, that’s what I did in my garden, putting card boards to a sandy soil here Florida😀
Yay, Maya!! Wishing you a great growing season!
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I've heard of it referred to as "Lasagna" gardening. "No Till" as you know has been used for years.
Great video as always!
Yes, I think "no dig" is a more popular term in the UK/Australia. Lasagna more frequent here in the US.
@@TrueFoodTV I think lasagna beds are the best way to describe the bed starter process. Starting the new beds with the layers grass/paper/compost. And then, if possible, tarp them. The lasagna starter process is a part of the No-Dig approach as that can be considered a management style / maintenance approach. Because of the No-Dig approach fewer weeds appear as the soil is not damaged as you explained. Unless you have really bad compost..
Cardboard is kraft paper and does not contain chemicals except possibly kaolin (a natural aluminum silicate) which is a stabilizing agent and improves the surface for appearance and printing. Kraft paper is not bleached so no residual bleaching chemicals are present.
Corrugated cardboard is multilayered with corrugated layer in between. These layers and the surface of the corrugations significantly increase the surface area for the activity of microorganisms.
I put my cardboard boxes out back and let the rain and sun work on them. I mix them with other waste like leaves, pine straw and small wood chips from a chipper I bought this year. I run a mower over this and it shreds the cardboard and mixes it with the other material and I have more free stuff for raised beds and containers.
Another great video. Keep it up. Quarantined folks have plenty of time to garden.
I hope you keep this series going. I started following this channel years ago when I first got into gardening, and videos like this breathe new life to this channel; I’m hooked!
John, thanks for this great feedback and encouragement! Happy gardening!
I follow Charles Dowding & learnt about " No Dig " 5 years ago & boy is is the only way to garden. Great Video. Cheers Denise- Australia
I do tilling once in two years, and I don't add manure to the soil, I just use the heavy clay soil from river near me and the crops grow better and better!
We use the black fabric. Helps a ton with weeds😁
You guys do such an amazing job. Thank you 😊
Thank you for the simple easy to follow information, looking forward to having a go at this method and saving myself an awful lot of backache. Loved the video.
You said you used 4-5 inches compost on top of your cardboard and original soil. In the past I’ve read that you should not use compost straight, but mix it 50/50 with “dirt” :) ... any comments Nicole? Thank you!
Love yr energy! U r very knowledgeable and pleasurable to watch😘
thanks a lot. You help me on improving my English!!!
Loving these series......... delightful to watch....
I'm so glad!
Mushroom Compost is some of the best stuff to use. I love it and your so fortunate to live so close to this resource. I have had great success with mushroom compost and use it each year.
This is my new favorite channel! I’ve started a little budding flower farm and I really enjoy your tips! - Kristen
Fantastic videos with great content. I’m going to share them with a friend who has no confidence in gardening and gives up. Thank you so much.
I can't wait to see her garden this summer.
Super informative and concise, thanks!
you have a talent Nicole. i've never heard someone explain boring soil and made it seems soooo interesting.
Learning a lot here...thanks and that slow motion drone clip of u walking out of the garden was amazing!
Great video and very well research. Explained very clearly.
LOVE this channel! Everything about it, especially Nicole !!!
Thank you!!!!
Super awesome.. looking forward to the rest of the series.
I’ve started gardening more this year myself. I was able to use a school greenhouse to start plants last december! Just planted my tomatoes and peppers outside yesterday. There’s already tomatoes growing now and pepper flowers. Can’t wait for later this summer!
I just love your content and their production is so Excellent. Keep up the good work I learn a lot from your program.
Yet another amazing video full of educational information and such happinesses just to be outside gardening. Thank you for everything you are doing to keep us informed and your family safe so we can keep getting your amazing videos
Thank you for your kind words!
Loved this video and information
Very informative! Just what I need it to know. I was trying to fugue out how not to spend $300. For a wooden box. You’re a beautiful soul! I been platting veggie for the last 5 years.
Hello from East LA.
Hello, East LA! I'm so glad you're inspired. Go for it!
WOW! You have a twin, I seen this several times and will try a "No dig" in the spring but at ground level.
My first try at raised bed ment lots and often watering.
Great job Necoil for you have quickly became my favorite you tube sales person who is a very gifted talker.
Backer Creek Seeds are a great place to deal with.
Your husband is very skilled with his video skills.
Really love your video you just release late September showing your beautiful gardens and cooking skills.
But mostly show that the best foods comes fresh from the garden and the work is rewarding.
Thanks you both, What a team.
Very fun and informative!
Gardening the yard: it's all I do now, raised beds and tilling wastes so much time and space.
There is a Ruth Stout method similar to this that uses hay for the dual purposes of mulch and compost: works similarly to hugelkultur by using plants decomposing to feed plants and prevent tilling.
Love your videos, been a fan for years! Good work to all of you.
Thank you...I really loved it
You're so welcome 😊
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Very informative..i'm looking forward to Episode 4.
Great video! It is all about the soil life! Grow on!
Yesssss! 🤗
What about vertical gardening? Maybe in another episode?
Please make a video on black seed oil as well.
Thank you for all your hard work!
I put landscape fabric on my tomato bed last year to cut down on the fungus infection problem I was having. After I planted my tomato's, I put a thick layer of pine bark over the fabric. I had some fungus last year but it was the air born type, not the soil born fungus I had the year before. Landscape fabric works.
I found this channel tonight and this episode made me laugh. New subscription added. Thank you for teaching and keeping my interest. I am looking forward to catching up to see the 2021 videos. Hope they are as informational as this one. Nice Work!
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Great job Nicole....👍
I love this channel so much
Informative video keep up the good work
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Nicole, I love your channel. I have loved gardening since I was a preteen. No dig gardening is a lot easier and does provide superior results from my research. And you're the prettiest flower in the garden.
I love the way your videos are not explaining only the basic knowledge, but everytime you are digging a little deeper (haha ok not in this episode ;)). But seriously I learn something everytime and it's great!! Can't wait to start myself!
Yet another amazing episode! I’m definitely doing cardboard next year. What a great idea since I don’t rototill anymore. Your garden looks great. Now go back and close the gate! With you’re dramatic ending. Love it.
Hahaha!!!!! Dwayne, you're always keeping it real. Love it.
Love this, Nicole!!!
Thank you, Nancy!! xoxo
just loved your video... admiration from India!!
I just can't stop watching your videos. I hope videos like these motivate people to grow more plants and ultimately transform the way we are living now.
By the way love you the way you present your videos!
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Great video.
Is the compost you used also called triple mix? That is all I can find at the landscape yards.
Thank you
Thank you! I have a small yard and started a raised bed which cut into my budget but when I discovered Charles's Dowding YT channel I was sold! I recommend his channel when it comes to No Dig gardening.
This is a high grade content. This is beyond vlog.already good job!
Love it😍, as usual😘
Thank you 😄
I watched this again. Because I love it and I love you. XOXO
Dang!!!!! This is such a great great great video. I loved that you had your son with you. He is going to be as smart as mama
Aw, Paul -- I hope he grows up way smarter than me 😉
Thank you so much for your video! Extremely helpful and entertaining to watch :-) so, we have a very clear heavy soil. Are you telling me that if I just spread a layer of cardboard and then put only five or 6 inches of compost on top, my plants will thrive? Once they start to break through to the tough clay soil beneath, won’t they have a hard time finding nutrients? Thanks so much!
GREAT, GREAT VIDEO!!!! I have been doing it for about 6 years, i just add some compost on top in the late Fall!! Live in Central Ohio, had very tuff clay soil when i started. tuff to even drive a steel post into it when i first started but now its like a hot knife in butter!!!! I argue with MYSELF too!!! BUT, im not as easy on ME as YOU are on YOU!!! lol, WONDEFUL VIDEO!!!!!
Very interesting 😊😊😊
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Beautiful ! can't wait to see your crop hehehe ♥
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I'm so glad!
was given a wormery last year. the tea i used from it seem to make my toms and chillies grow soooo much. plus wood ash and grass water. This year i emptied out the castings.(was llllloads) and i mixed it with git sand and coco coir to use to start my seeds off. everything is gorwing really healthy looking. im just dying to get past this next week which have zero degrees at night.
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Truly believe I am trying the no tilt system , About what you are doing but ground level means no tilt, but I don't like raise beds
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0:23 haahha... 😂🤣👍 *I like that **_dual self chat_** ..LOL ... that was entertainingly fun*
True or False ??
8:26 My gardening buddy tells me that when there are WEEDS in your garden...it is a sign that your soil is depleted of certain ingredients...these weeds service the soil...like bandages, attempting to replace the lost nutrients, minerals from the sunlight, , and eventually they become compost materials....After the composting, the microbes, and earth critters, return to the soil...
Yes, I agree with the diagnosis.That's why, when you use compost like I am and you're putting some good nutrition down, you shouldn't see those weeds return.
I have more access to red oak leaves, and I might try them vs. cardboard. Is there any down side to using matted leaves? I've been doing the hugelkultur beds, but OMG by hand that's lots of work, so smothering and topping with compost looks much better.
Big Thumbs up for No Dig!!
We have nut sedge grass here that will easily come up through a freshly black topped driveway within a few weeks.
Well done!!... This is exactly what I learned to do....Except when we bought this land, I had no soil, at all... it was DG ... hard packed ... you could break a hoe or shovel on it ..... So I created raised beds!! ... I use a lot of straw ... let it rot over Winter and plant it with veggie plants in Spring!!
I would really love to do this method this year I have a lot of wood chips down and a couple raised beds but I would like to try my berry patch as a no dig method however the yard I will be planting and has been treated with chemicals last year what are your thoughts on starting a no dig bed this close to trying to repair the soil?
That lady with the sun hat had no idea, it's a good thing you were there to help her out. 😉😂
Well you are the first channel that I have paid for membership even though it's not much but this means a lot to me. Can't wait for your topical planting series. (if that's possible)
Wow, thank you! I am so touched by your support. Which plants are you most interested in?
@@TrueFoodTV Well I live in topical country (Bangkok Thailand)I have start with the wrong choice like carrot and beet (which obviously not ideal on my climate) I also tried to grow some tomatoes, it grew and died without fruit last year...so this year I change my plan to local plants first like chinese kale which seems promising. I would say tomatoes would be something I want to achieve.
I wish I have a big backyard too!
I'm so grateful for all the space! But I hope I've inspired you to grow even in a smaller space!
@@TrueFoodTV waaah! and she replied! haha! 😍yes you did! I now have pots of herbs, just starting small .. continue to make inspiring, informative and entertaining video! Always loved your channel!
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Thank you!
Would you recommend grinding up expired multivitamin/multimineral supplement into the soil?
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My grass is tough, so I turn it over when I start and cover it with cardboard, then I put bricks on top of the cardboard to hold it in place. For the next month I turn the soil over once a week.
Great information! How do I get rid of cucumber beetles?
Diatomaceous earth regularly applied to the undersides of the plant leaves. Well sealed floating row covers and yellow sticky traps. Inter planting with nasturtiums and adding wood ash and straw mulch is an old solution. Having plenty of plants for beneficial insects, like bulb fennel, is always a good idea.
Awesome! Just one more suggestion; you should add worm towers.
Cool idea!
Are you going to plant green manure for the off season? Great to cover the soil with beneficial plants. Better than weeds I suppose
Yes indeed! I just havent decided what yet. Any recommendations?
@@TrueFoodTV Well, it depends what you want to achieve. I just want to cover the soil during winter (below zero degrees Celsius) to stop erosion and keep the soil 'healthy'. I use winter rye most of the times. I sow it after my last crop, somewhere in the autumn. An other option is leguminous, to elevate the nitrogen, but you need to sow it while its summer. So less crops.. So, what I do in order to keep the soil nutricious, what you do too, is raise the soil in the beginning of the season with compost. As you can read, multiple options, depending what you want. But it's way better than a naked ground ;p.
Like you Nicole..I often have meetings with myself... though in most case we reach a unanimous agreement...
A couple of weeks ago I was on the way to have a meeting with myself... had to cancel it. I was running late.
Love the boots. Can you tell me what brand they are and where you got them?
They're Hunters (the same pair I've worn in a lot of How Does it Grow? episodes). I received them as a Christmas gift one year!
@@TrueFoodTV thank you!
ahhh I worked at a box manufacturing plant. GLUE. I love your video's
The glue is starch based, no?
@@TrueFoodTV I'm sure you have more knowledge on this then me. It was a temp job & I don't remember any harsh chemical odors coming from anywhere. Sorry.
Shout out to Charles Dowding with his no-dig method. Lots of information there.
Yesssss! I've learned a lot from him and other no-dig pioneers!
Can the cardboard replace with newspaper?
Did I understand you to say that card board is actually worm friendly and compatible with microbes? It would be interesting to see if worms actually consume or process cardboard after it begins decomposing? I have on occasion bought worm castings from bait - worm growers who sell to bait stores. Very rich soil. . . keep us posted! Thanks for the video. . . . South Carolina
Nichole is so good at Presenting this channel with an added bonus but she is gorgeous