I wish I saw your video 10 years ago, because that's how long I've been fighting thistle weed in my flower beds and garden. I essentially gave up growing crops or flowers, because I was so frustrated that I was losing the battle against grass and weeds. I'm going to give it another try after I watch your other video that shows step one where you initially broke ground. I absolutely love the curved stone area too. You're very gifted are making a yard workable and beautiful. Thank you.
Building one's own compost bins out of old heat treated (not chemical treated) pallets is helpful too. Last season I was able to dress my beds with 15 wheelbarrows of nice compost made from leaves, grass clippings and other greens and browns, It was made the year before and added in the fall.
Great Video! Have you tried breeding worms for your gardens? or to add them to your compost bins? I raise millions of worms for fertilizer for my garden and to share with others how to care for them :) Worms are the secret to any great garden :)
Wow! This is such a helpful video! Thank you for your time and energy in creating this content. I've watched dozens of no-dig/no-till ferris and have still never heard the useful tips you just mentioned and, very helpfully, demonstrated! Keep up the good work, and your homestead is starting to look wonderful.
Ik vind je videos zo leuk en ook omdat je in mijn land woont, zelf woon ik in Nederland en ik heb ook een moestuin, zo een mooie hobby, veel geluk in Portugal
Great tips. I have been gardening seriously for 5 years. I agree with all you say. I had to use a lot more compost than originally imagined. The more and the better quality, the better. I also agree with an initial tillage and a layer of cardboard. You didn't mention fertilizers. I swear by chicken manure.....though like compost, it has to age. I wonder if you have adopted any of Elaine Ingham's teachings on microscope analysis of soil biology.
I find another mistake is thinking no dig doesn’t need fertilizer. I did need comfrey tea or compost tea or urine or manure all throughout the year. The ground takes many years to be self fertile. Ps i know the compost advice is hard in a very general video, but an in depth seems needed, because it’s sooooo hard to get the right kind !
This is such a great video. Thank you for all your good info. Where exactly in portugal you moved? We are interesting in buying a property in portugal as well, and would be helpful for us to hear where is the best area for farming in portugal
There is also a technique that avoids these mistakes! You can avoid the use of cardboard. Because compost over the cardboard will dry out the compost and make the roots grow to the sides. Making you have to put even more compost on top like you said. The other way would be First Compost, Second 6 layers of journal paper, Third Mulch. This will avoid all weeds and make a good house for the compost to stay warm and wet
From your excellent video I got answer to my question; how can it be, that in the first years I had more crops in the vulcanic sandy soil, than recently in the -for years mulched- soil. I recognised the plants easy moving in the soil, but did not dare to ram the soil. Thank you for your advice.
Hi, Here in india, I have seen many vedios. The farming named ZBNF meaning zero budget natural farming. Where they make jeevamrutham. Which will rejuvenate the land. It has done wonder in natural farming. It has brought back earthworm to chemically cultivating land. Jeevamrutham has good effects.
@@thisorthat7626 it is zbnf or subhas palekar method of farming. It says about jeevamruth, beejamruth, panchadravayaand, ganajeevamruthu and pesticides like neemasthra,agni hastra etc. Major things done from country cow urine not jersey cow. Jersey cow in india always have some problem with health and had to give antibotics to heal. So it urine and dung is not suitable. And also to keep up the stock of our local breed cow.
Hey Moreno, its amazing to see how you are working fortward! You have my greatest respect!!! Some days i wished that i could even make a new start from the beginning 😬🫣 enjoy it!!! I‘m sure your work will be sucessfull and your harvest will be Great! And don’t froget: every day we have to be thankful for our most important parts of our lifes 😉 those who walk with us!
While "aging" the compost after it's been spread into the beds, should I covert with a tarp in our rainy NW? Will the goodness leach away in 6 months of rain when I spread it in October?
Thank you, @thedutchfarmer, for always making such good quality materials. I've been watching no dig videos for many years now and can't say that the info and experience you're sharing replicates any of them. I appreciate your authenticity, the fact that you're speaking out of real life experience. God bless and way to go! 🙏
@@TheDutchFarmer You didn't disturb me at all ,I wish I knew who you guys were when you were here😁 .I thought your face looked familiar and this morning while eating breakfast a lightbulb went off in my head and I realised where i had seen you before .Your video on your first 6 months was extremely helpful I wish it was there 5 years ago when we first came onto our land 😉
Reference aging compost, what if you live in a high rainfall area. Should you cover the compost to prevent nutrients being leached into the soil beneath? We’ve passed 3.1m already and a close neighbour over 4m.
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Hey, great video, exactly what I needed! I started my bed in early March, but as of now it is not looking good. There are many fungi growing under the fleece (which I have now removed, but still) and I have probably made the mistake of stepping on the bed too often when it was wet from rain, we got a lot of rain this season. Many of my beetroot plants now have died, probably because of a combination of not being able to root through the cardboard and too compact soil. Or what do you think what the fungi and stunted growth of beetroot could be from? Some of them outright died :(
Hi Moreno i have a question, i’m about to start my own market garden project but i have a big problem to find compost in my region and the only compost available is bull manure, so is it fine to use bull manure? Thanks
Hallo Moreno, dankjewel voor deze video en al die andere, een verademing tussen de velen andere soortgelijke videos. Ook ik leef sindskort in centraal Portugal, waarschijnlijk niet ver bij jullie uit de buurt (ik zag jullie een aantal weken geleden in de Agrijola). Ik heb een vraag, waar heb jij je compost vandaan? Alvast bedankt! En nogmaals bedankt voor al die bruikbare filmpjes.
Mow it and use landscape fabric to deny light. You can not till weeds out, especially things like Bind weed. This will regrow really easily and many times worse. I think the best way is to mow it then use fabric to black out light. In between make a JMS solution. Loads of videos here showing how. Spray this on the land by folding back the landscape fabric them recover. Pass again every 5 days for a total of x4 passes. You can use compost, sea salt and local plants to makes minerals and food to replace anything removed from the land. Use the JMS on bare unplanted ground. Thanks
tldr; 1. didn't remove existing vegetation 2. didn't use the right kind of compost for the seasonal area 3. didn't use enough compost (should use ~50cm of depth) 4. didn't compress the compost 5. didn't give new beds a deep watering OP should have posted these in the chapter links, not mistake 1, mistake 2, etc.
Whats your opinion on Mulch ?, i´ve seen many of no Dig beds without it. it mainly a pest issue as you said ? or other factors as well ? or perhaps apply mulch only on hot summer months ?
@@wordwalkermomma4 I live in Perth, Australia. Warm, dry, temperate climate. Mulch is absolutely necessary (I use a thick layer of pea straw) as the dry air sucks the compost dry very quickly. We have only has 2.4mm of rainfall since the middle of November (now middle of January) So it all depends on your climate.
Thank you so much for this content. I was starting to get tired of these no dig videos on other channels telling us that compost was like magic to grow plants. Compost is a fertilizer for the plants, and it takes a high quality compost to use it strictly as a growing medium. I've made those mistakes and what i would also stress is how the soil is when you start. If your soil is very compacted like our, you will have to till the first time. The main mistake done by the no dig people is that they layer existing soil with compost, don't do that.
I’ve run into this problem, I put down a garden mix soil and topped with compost. Soil is like a rock now, I basically have to chip it so dig a hole. How do I fix?
@@countdown.moments just easy things. Garden is only in its second season. Soil was extremely hard after one year. Have carrots, potatoes, radishes, beats, tomatoes. Rotated everything for the second year. Even our perennial flower garden (same soil and age) has rock like soil now.
@@randomgoodnessca what i would suggest is to first decompact the soil, use the double digging technique there is many videos on youtube about it, it will create depth for the roots to set up next step would be to mix the compost with the top soil to make the nutrient ready for the plants to absorb and finally find something like a wood chips compost or something that has more carbon to mulch your beds. Only after doing all that i would suggest to use the no dig and layer compost with mulch.
My only problem with no dig is it’s unsustainability: it uses so much compost which is a waste and what’s worse is that it’s all imported not made on site (you never really know the inputs or how it was made)
You should always dig about 20 centimeter before winter in order to expose roots into frost air and make life more difficult gor pests. This is how we do in Ukraine where every patch of soil is deep compost (about 0.5 -1meter). Don't be lazy: dig two times per year: before freezing and in April, or when it is allowed to plant your vegetables.
The soil called Chernozem that means "Black ground" or black soil. It reveals the truth: soil will always grow various unwanted plants (e.g. papaver) and it require deep digging and manual removing of roots twice a year.
Thank you for this video, it is very helpful and well explained. Love your channel!
I agree with all those mistakes. I made all of them too :) Thank you Moreno for share this information and good luck
You're so pedagogical. Your way of explaining this process makes me feel like I can do it.
I wish I saw your video 10 years ago, because that's how long I've been fighting thistle weed in my flower beds and garden. I essentially gave up growing crops or flowers, because I was so frustrated that I was losing the battle against grass and weeds. I'm going to give it another try after I watch your other video that shows step one where you initially broke ground. I absolutely love the curved stone area too. You're very gifted are making a yard workable and beautiful. Thank you.
Building one's own compost bins out of old heat treated (not chemical treated) pallets is helpful too. Last season I was able to dress my beds with 15 wheelbarrows of nice compost made from leaves, grass clippings and other greens and browns, It was made the year before and added in the fall.
Great Video! Have you tried breeding worms for your gardens? or to add them to your compost bins? I raise millions of worms for fertilizer for my garden and to share with others how to care for them :) Worms are the secret to any great garden :)
Why you are using compost? Is your soil has very poor percentage of humus?
Wow! This is such a helpful video! Thank you for your time and energy in creating this content. I've watched dozens of no-dig/no-till ferris and have still never heard the useful tips you just mentioned and, very helpfully, demonstrated! Keep up the good work, and your homestead is starting to look wonderful.
I have seen some videos that mention these mistakes, but yours was well explained and thorough. Thank you.
I enjoy the videos, but especially those where you show the transformation progress of your land!
Ik vind je videos zo leuk en ook omdat je in mijn land woont, zelf woon ik in Nederland en ik heb ook een moestuin, zo een mooie hobby, veel geluk in Portugal
Great tips.
I have been gardening seriously for 5 years.
I agree with all you say. I had to use a lot more compost than originally imagined.
The more and the better quality, the better.
I also agree with an initial tillage and a layer of cardboard.
You didn't mention fertilizers.
I swear by chicken manure.....though like compost, it has to age.
I wonder if you have adopted any of Elaine Ingham's teachings on microscope analysis of soil biology.
Thanks for the knowledge you have imparted
Another great video, lots of good advice, Thank you
Very helpkul video . Thanks for sharing .
💙OMGoodness! This is such an important episode and my favourite to date. Mille merçi!
This is great content for aspiring farmers like me
I like yor videos
I am an organic farmer from rural India
Thank you for this valuable information. Happy gardening!
I find another mistake is thinking no dig doesn’t need fertilizer. I did need comfrey tea or compost tea or urine or manure all throughout the year. The ground takes many years to be self fertile.
Ps i know the compost advice is hard in a very general video, but an in depth seems needed, because it’s sooooo hard to get the right kind !
Comfrey tea?
This is such a great video. Thank you for all your good info. Where exactly in portugal you moved? We are interesting in buying a property in portugal as well, and would be helpful for us to hear where is the best area for farming in portugal
There is also a technique that avoids these mistakes!
You can avoid the use of cardboard. Because compost over the cardboard will dry out the compost and make the roots grow to the sides. Making you have to put even more compost on top like you said.
The other way would be First Compost, Second 6 layers of journal paper, Third Mulch.
This will avoid all weeds and make a good house for the compost to stay warm and wet
Some of these lessons learned the hard way--- OH my back and knees.
LOL.
BUT so agree with this video--- it works!!!
Outside supplier---KNOW THEM!!!
From your excellent video I got answer to my question; how can it be, that in the first years I had more crops in the vulcanic sandy soil, than recently in the -for years mulched- soil. I recognised the plants easy moving in the soil, but did not dare to ram the soil. Thank you for your advice.
Fantastic video -as always-! Thanks Moreno for keep sharing your knowledge! Best wishe! G
Hi,
Here in india, I have seen many vedios. The farming named ZBNF meaning zero budget natural farming. Where they make jeevamrutham. Which will rejuvenate the land. It has done wonder in natural farming. It has brought back earthworm to chemically cultivating land. Jeevamrutham has good effects.
Thanks for the info! I will check it out. Perhaps it is like Korean Natural Farming methods.
@@thisorthat7626 it is zbnf or subhas palekar method of farming. It says about jeevamruth, beejamruth, panchadravayaand, ganajeevamruthu and pesticides like neemasthra,agni hastra etc.
Major things done from country cow urine not jersey cow. Jersey cow in india always have some problem with health and had to give antibotics to heal. So it urine and dung is not suitable. And also to keep up the stock of our local breed cow.
leuk om te volgen dat je goed gaat.goeie vids man
Hey Moreno, its amazing to see how you are working fortward! You have my greatest respect!!!
Some days i wished that i could even make a new start from the beginning 😬🫣 enjoy it!!! I‘m sure your work will be sucessfull and your harvest will be Great!
And don’t froget: every day we have to be thankful for our most important parts of our lifes 😉 those who walk with us!
While "aging" the compost after it's been spread into the beds, should I covert with a tarp in our rainy NW? Will the goodness leach away in 6 months of rain when I spread it in October?
brilliant and informative as usual ,thanks for sharing
Can one reapply cardboard and compost on top of an existing no dig bed which has been left to get overwhelmed with weeds again?
Loving your videos! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge 💪🏻👍🏻👍🏻😁
Grazie per le informazioni molto precise e importanti.
Been wondering why my 4 month old compost wont grow my veggies well enough. It needed more time to decompose, I guess.
I love your detailed information❤, I will start watching all your videos, very instructive
I appreciate mulch. Great video.
Thank you, @thedutchfarmer, for always making such good quality materials. I've been watching no dig videos for many years now and can't say that the info and experience you're sharing replicates any of them. I appreciate your authenticity, the fact that you're speaking out of real life experience. God bless and way to go! 🙏
Do you make your own compost or best to buy top soil?
Av benefitted alot from your videos. Its the weeder that i really want to know how i can get one.
Thanks once again for this valuable information. I can only wish you the very best for this coming growing season.
Thank you for these super tips and also by any chance did find yourself on our land yesterday ?😁Sarah
@@TheDutchFarmer You didn't disturb me at all ,I wish I knew who you guys were when you were here😁 .I thought your face looked familiar and this morning while eating breakfast a lightbulb went off in my head and I realised where i had seen you before .Your video on your first 6 months was extremely helpful I wish it was there 5 years ago when we first came onto our land 😉
Reference aging compost, what if you live in a high rainfall area. Should you cover the compost to prevent nutrients being leached into the soil beneath? We’ve passed 3.1m already and a close neighbour over 4m.
Yes, cover your compost so it doesn't wash away the nutrients. Too much rain can be as problematic as too little rain. Good luck.
Thank you, sir for this new info. I am beginner farmer
Great tips, esp those on weed control 👍🌾
Hey, that was gold
If the compost is not mature could it be a solution mixing with it worm compost and tea compost to guarantee the right nourishment?
Curious as to your views on irrigation. I don't see any drip lines in your growing beds - do you prefer hand watering ? Thanks and all the best!
Amazing video. Thanks so much
Essas pedras e penedos são lindos , sítio maravilhoso 🇵🇹😘
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Hey, great video, exactly what I needed! I started my bed in early March, but as of now it is not looking good. There are many fungi growing under the fleece (which I have now removed, but still) and I have probably made the mistake of stepping on the bed too often when it was wet from rain, we got a lot of rain this season. Many of my beetroot plants now have died, probably because of a combination of not being able to root through the cardboard and too compact soil. Or what do you think what the fungi and stunted growth of beetroot could be from? Some of them outright died :(
Hi Moreno
Do you have any problems with voles, moles or other rodents ? How do you deal with it? Is it worth using, for example, net rodents?
Great summery - thanks
Hi Moreno i have a question, i’m about to start my own market garden project but i have a big problem to find compost in my region and the only compost available is bull manure, so is it fine to use bull manure? Thanks
Thank you
hello ou trouviez vous votre compost en france ? cdmt
Waar heb je je compost gekocht ? Ik woon ook in Portugal maar heb dit alleen in zakken kunnen vinden.
Hallo Moreno, dankjewel voor deze video en al die andere, een verademing tussen de velen andere soortgelijke videos.
Ook ik leef sindskort in centraal Portugal, waarschijnlijk niet ver bij jullie uit de buurt (ik zag jullie een aantal weken geleden in de Agrijola).
Ik heb een vraag, waar heb jij je compost vandaan?
Alvast bedankt! En nogmaals bedankt voor al die bruikbare filmpjes.
Very good
Loving your work BROTHER from INDIA
Mow it and use landscape fabric to deny light. You can not till weeds out, especially things like Bind weed. This will regrow really easily and many times worse. I think the best way is to mow it then use fabric to black out light. In between make a JMS solution. Loads of videos here showing how. Spray this on the land by folding back the landscape fabric them recover. Pass again every 5 days for a total of x4 passes.
You can use compost, sea salt and local plants to makes minerals and food to replace anything removed from the land. Use the JMS on bare unplanted ground.
Thanks
tldr;
1. didn't remove existing vegetation
2. didn't use the right kind of compost for the seasonal area
3. didn't use enough compost (should use ~50cm of depth)
4. didn't compress the compost
5. didn't give new beds a deep watering
OP should have posted these in the chapter links, not mistake 1, mistake 2, etc.
Whats your opinion on Mulch ?, i´ve seen many of no Dig beds without it. it mainly a pest issue as you said ? or other factors as well ? or perhaps apply mulch only on hot summer months ?
If the compost is deep, as he says, then it becomes mulch, does it not? There is no further need.
How deep ?
@@wordwalkermomma4 I live in Perth, Australia. Warm, dry, temperate climate. Mulch is absolutely necessary (I use a thick layer of pea straw) as the dry air sucks the compost dry very quickly. We have only has 2.4mm of rainfall since the middle of November (now middle of January) So it all depends on your climate.
10 outta 10
Thank you so much for this content. I was starting to get tired of these no dig videos on other channels telling us that compost was like magic to grow plants. Compost is a fertilizer for the plants, and it takes a high quality compost to use it strictly as a growing medium. I've made those mistakes and what i would also stress is how the soil is when you start. If your soil is very compacted like our, you will have to till the first time. The main mistake done by the no dig people is that they layer existing soil with compost, don't do that.
I’ve run into this problem, I put down a garden mix soil and topped with compost. Soil is like a rock now, I basically have to chip it so dig a hole. How do I fix?
@@randomgoodnessca it depends a lot on your context, what are you growing?
@@countdown.moments just easy things. Garden is only in its second season. Soil was extremely hard after one year. Have carrots, potatoes, radishes, beats, tomatoes. Rotated everything for the second year. Even our perennial flower garden (same soil and age) has rock like soil now.
@@randomgoodnessca what i would suggest is to first decompact the soil, use the double digging technique there is many videos on youtube about it, it will create depth for the roots to set up next step would be to mix the compost with the top soil to make the nutrient ready for the plants to absorb and finally find something like a wood chips compost or something that has more carbon to mulch your beds. Only after doing all that i would suggest to use the no dig and layer compost with mulch.
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Can't you add sand to hydroponic compost? Wouldn't that solve it?
Hydrophobic I mean
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Pourriez-vous nous faire cette vidéo en français, et celle dans lesquelles vous donnez des conseils, please j'en ai besoin
Subtitulos en español por favor .
Seems I avoided all of these mistakes😀
superb info bro and damn youre an attractive guy uff
No dig, even the under ground with a lot of small stone?
Bast man
Im going till that mfr every time! 😂
Great and all but when do we get an update on the farm/homestead
🌟👍🍀💐
My only problem with no dig is it’s unsustainability: it uses so much compost which is a waste and what’s worse is that it’s all imported not made on site (you never really know the inputs or how it was made)
You should have followed Charles Dowding.
mistake #6: no mulch layer :(
You should always dig about 20 centimeter before winter in order to expose roots into frost air and make life more difficult gor pests. This is how we do in Ukraine where every patch of soil is deep compost (about 0.5 -1meter). Don't be lazy: dig two times per year: before freezing and in April, or when it is allowed to plant your vegetables.
The soil called Chernozem that means "Black ground" or black soil. It reveals the truth: soil will always grow various unwanted plants (e.g. papaver) and it require deep digging and manual removing of roots twice a year.
So now that we saw 2 full videos of putting compost on the ground and a lot of talking...pls back to the progress videos. thx
Well, I found the videos helpful. Cheers.
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He's speaking English. You're typing in Arabic.
you planted on top of fresh cut grass? why should anyone trust what you say, a classic youtube grifter
Great tips but unbearable to listen to...
Rude. I'm guessing youre American? Subtitles exist.
I can't find ur email adres on the about page, can u add it and let me know?
Great summery - thanks
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