WHY This 2 years Later in WOOD CHIPS Mulch Gardening with Vegetables.
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- WHY THIS after 2 years Later Growing in WOOD CHIPS Mulch Gardening with Vegetables to help reduce weeds in nature PLUS growing & building soil. Using Oil Seed Radish
I am still new to gardening... I began four seasons ago after my youngest son Shonn, passed away.. My oldest son... bless him built me a few garden boxes... We planted two cherry tomato, six strawberries; two squash and a few onions. I think I was able to harvest about 15 tomatoes at best...lol.. and lost everything else... however that tiny garden gave me what a needed ... a reason to get out of the house...and so my self-education began.. the garden was planted under my youngest sons fav. tree... so while it brought me comfort it did little to help my tiny garden grow... We have a large Mexican Avacodo tree..( big enough to have built a treehouse with a balcony on two sides for my grandchildren...( the treehouse was also a family project...to help us deal better without grief...( many thanks to my oldest son Jeremy, he was able to see what we all so need at the time..) so because I have a large yard I have a lot of lawn debris ...tons and tons of leaves... I started a mulch/compost pile.. and then began another... I used the soil after three years...I also have some small warm farms and add that soil as well.. I couldn't believe I was able to create such a rich soil...and was so proud of my work... btw my garden has grown.. and this year I am growing started to grow grapes from clippings, apple nectarine mango, lemon and fig trees from either the seeds of the fruit my grandchildren eat or from branches some hardwood clippings and some new growth... I have found something that I love..and my garden this year is so full of life...It is so rewarding...My question is "do you have any advice for me.. in getting my mulch to break down any faster... It takes so long to get the leaves to break down..Btw we have a large field behind our house and it was my youngest sons dream to turn it into a garden paradise... which is where we will be adding everything we grow.. I am hoping that I will be able to plant as much as possible without having to spend much money... I want my grandchildren to know that the apples they eat are from the fruit the ate when they were seven... ty for your time and sharing your knowledge...all my best...
Thank You for sharing.. Leaves will break down faster if they are moist. You can add green material to the leaves like grass clipping or used coffee grounds. That big field you have you can plant up sunflowers. They will make you smile and dream at the same time. Have a great week
Sherry, i am so sorry about your son
Great work. Someone else mentioned he uses Horse Manure onto the woodchips and it breaks down the wood chips in 5 month! Worth a try..
YES... GREAT info, THANK YOU.
Great video! Looks awesome! If I could get a hold of some land, and then have someone dump leaves on it for free, and then they gave me money? I'd think I had died and gone to heaven
I do feel the same way as you nicely wrote.. VERY GRATEFUL... THANK YOU.
@@iamorganicgardening I saw a video of a woman with dense clay (and lots of rain so standing water often) who plated sweet potatoes on her paths. The idea was she might get some bulbs maybe but at least they would do something for the terrible original soil. Very much to her surprise she got a good harvest out of them, and she stepped on them during the growing season. Not sure if she used a wheel barrow there.
Of course Daikon Radish does more for creating those big holes deeper down.
@@iamorganicgardening Daikon radish harvests can overwhelm the gardener (if they are not left in the ground) - a lot of produce at once. Or if they are planted narrowly to work the soil a lot and a part is harvested. _Fermentation_ is a good idea - or giving it away.. Fresh it is also good with bread and butter and a little salt. When you fry it it gets a little milder (not all radish is intense, but some show quite a spirit).
One can add slices to salads. Or grate it on its own and make a salad from it (with enough vinegar, it should lean on the intense sour / salty side. I guess some slightly bitter salad leaves - or young tender dandelion leaves, they are a little bitter - would go well with it. Bitter can be a nice contrast to balance out the strong taste of the radish. And bitter is very healthy.
Maybe a creamy sauce with sour cream or mayonnaise would also be an option for a salad with grated or sliced radish. Come to think of it, I never tried it as soup - in cubes with potatoes maybe, so it gets milder ......
It can also be fermented, see Korean cuisien. With salt, grating it and working it so the juices get out (sauerkraut style, no water added), it must be covered by that "brine / juice" or it will rot if you keep it longer. The taste changes, it becomes milder and sour.
I do a fast water fermentation to get (mild) "sauerkraut". The cabbage finely chopped (food processor), warm water added, so it is covered. Some of the fine pieces (like coarse crumbs) will swim on top, that is O.K. The added water (and no salt) is the main difference to genuine sauerkraut or any other traditional fermention (where they produced food that would keep for months !), it would not hold for longer because of the added water.
But the process is fast, can be done for small volumes (one eight of a cabbage for instance), people that want to reduce sodium can avoid the sodium of sauerkraut. One can eat it fresh (read with more acedophilus bacteria in the early stage day 1 or 2 - which may be even more helpful than lactate bacteria).
I like it better in the mild stage.
Cabbage is well known to have a lot of the good bacteria (acedophilus, lactate) on it naturally (like grass, that is how it gets into the milk and joghurt), it is easier to start fermentation than with most other produce.
So if you have tap water in tolerable quality (not too much chlorine) fermentation will happen reliably no "starter culture" needed, as long as you have room temperatures. It can work with cooler temps (think a pantry) but then there is a chance that bad bacteria _might_ have a chance (you would notice though), if it is warm the good bacteria will outcompete all harmful bacteria. very reliably. I had never go a batch bad, only once when I left it out AFTER the fermentation was well under way. That was a test - usually it goes into the fridge where fermentation continues but it is slowed down.
I do not know if plenty of acedophilus and lactate bacteria also live on radish, enough that one could do the water method. Fermentation works with plant juices only and salt, but I never tried the fast method with water on radish (will do as soon as I get my hands on some ;)
It needs a lid on it (weird smell !) - done. It gets slightly bubbly and then more intense, when it starts tasting sour it should go into the fridge. One can drink the juice and eat the cabbage, raw or heating it up with some spices, salt and oil. I like it when it is slightly sour only - then the acedophilus still dominate, they die off soon and then the lactate bacteria dominate.
Either way the bad bacteria have no chance, the good ones dominate and they even keep the fungi (mould) in check (but it has to go into the fridge once fermentation was well established. That can be after 1 day or 3 - it depends on the temps in your pantry or kitchen. It has a "weird" smell (like sauerkraut so a good lid is recommended, I air it once or twice a day, prefereably at an open window ;)
Then there is faster kimchi style fermentation: with radish there is Kkakdugi, which is eaten as snack or used in soups - see the webiste of Maangchi (Korean cuisine and fermenting, Kimchi and stuff). It is sour / sharp in taste (I go by description, have not yet tried it, I just found it with a google search). It is ready to eat after 4 - 5 days.
The site is German - www (dot) wildefermente (dot) de/rettichkimchi/ - they are enthusiastic about it. They
They credit Maangchi (dot) com for the recipes, and call her the queen of kimchi - and her site is in English.
The recipe calls for ingerdients like fish sauce, sugar, ginger, spring onions and garlic and a spice that gives an orange / reddish color.
Of course one could go freestyle and add carrots, onions, Chinese cabbage - it is not the traditional kimchi but a fast version of it.
And one of the commenters said that one can use red beet instead of radish for a Kkakdugi style product, only then it would need 8 weeks (for the raw cubes), but the commenternoticed it was very good and predicted the glass would not last long. So it did not matter how long after the 8 weeks it would keep.
I have 10 acres. It has never been tilled as far as I know. I have been growing sun hemp and cow peas in the summer. I then mow them off and put in crimson clover, Austrian winter peas and winter rye. I have a base of Bahia grass that lives in the soil at all times. I don't fertilize. I let the neighbors pony's graze on it when appropriate. I don't have to worry about making money as I'm retired military, so I have a buffer. I'm almost scared to put something like wood chips or leaves on the soil. It was hard clay/sand when I started. My house is at the bottom of the hollow, and when it rained hard I had a river around the house, now.....nothing, the land takes it all in. It only took 1 year for the water to be absorbed and stop flooding the house. And when I say hard rain I mean it from Florida. Whatever your method......don't till your land folks, it ruins it.
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YES, I agree with you 100 %. Tilling is the worst. On lots on acres on my farm I grow soil like you do.. I did a video series on how PLANTS build/grow the best soil. THANK YOU for sharing your outlook and story.
I watch all your videos. I glean what I think might apply to me, and carry on. Keep it up, your vids are pretty good.
Great to know.. I’m moving to a 5 acre farm in Texas next summer and when it rains there’s a river that runs through the property. I’ll plant a winter cover crop to help with drainage
@@pattihayden8100 , having power line wood chips put on your property is a real winner. Go out and look at your property and brain storm about if. Try to find a spot where you can put some without being disagreeable to any part of you. It takes mother nature 100 years to create 1 inch. Of course the top soil gies does slowly. Your full load of 10 cubic yards of any kind of tree. Will pretty much start feeding the soul after 6 months. It hold water in the soil, immediately. . Ive now have about 40 loads. The grass on the side is a dark green healthy grass. 10 yards will be 2 yards eventually. I believe these chips for free could be one of the top ten decisions you may ever make.
This video is from the original woodchip gardener. It is incredible information. Although the physically handicapped gardener Paul is extremely religious and preachy, the WOOD CHIP gardening information is PURE GOLD ua-cam.com/video/6rPPUmStKQ4/v-deo.html
A few weeks ago I made daikon pickle by halving it lengthwise and then cutting the halves into thin slices. I also cut about a tablespoon of ginger root into fine slivers. Mixed in a tablespoon of sea salt, packed very tightly into a wide mouthed Mason jar, topped with a bit of well water if needed to keep the radish submerged. Weight down with a 4 oz Mason jar and put on the lid. After a few days on the counter the sour develops. Refrigerate after a couple of weeks max, if you haven’t eaten them all by then.
I will keep this a great guide... THANK YOU.
Going to give your recipe a try.
In Germany we eat these raw, usually cut in discs with some (unrefined) salt or even thin half discs as a salad with oil, vinegar, pepper, salt and maybe some parsley. Never thought about frying them, have to try this. Thank You!
Will try the way you suggest also.. SOUNDS GREAT...THANK YOU.
And in Bavaria they're cut in spirals with a special tool and served in beer gardens. Link Bing image search: goo.gl/25SYJQ. I also never heard of frying it, will definitively give it a try.
Now that is something I will have to try and buy that little tool also. VERY COOL. THANK YOU.
I pick one every day these days (until the frost comes) and eat them washed raw right from the ground, some are hot others are mild btw. Also sliced on bread with tahin as lunch.
VERY NICE.. I have never had a hot one yet.. But I am sure i will soon, since i said this...OOPS. THANK YOU.
I did something like this with strawberries in a raised bed surrounded by woodchips - but with the chips a bit lower and long borders. I planted strawberries in the beds where they didn't do so well (under raspberries and grapes) but the strawberries escaped and colonized the wood chips, where I put stepping stones to walk through the strawberries - they really like the chips. There might've been more water lower down. And the chips composted very fast. It was compacted gravel and water during rains. Now it's soil, with mulch and berries. And, when I dig up a plant, the gravel is soft to dig through. Originally needed full pick axe with the pick to dig! Now a hand spade goes through that layer.
That is so fantastic to hear.. THANK YOU for sharing.
Hi Mark great video, thankyou for posting, I did the same experiment and we're enjoying all the benifits of these radishes, blessings!
That again is FANTASTIC.. I am always so Glad to hear that nice people like you are doing this also. THANK YOU.
If you don't mind putting some extra work in, you can get the leaves and wood chips to turn to dirt within 4 months or less because I have done it. I have a Kemp chipper/shredder with a 12 hp engine and a 1/2" screen. I take all my mail and junk mail and papers and shred them in a regular paper shredder, which shreds down to about 1" by 1/8", and I take those and throw them through the shredder with the leaves and branches without layering them. I just mix them together when mulching them. You could just throw your leaves and wood chips through the shredder and pile them 4'-5' high and let the pile heat up. When the pile starts cooling down I rake what is on the top off to the side so those will be on the bottom and rake some from the middle of the pile on top of those, then take my garden hose with a real small nozzle on the end and shoot water as deep as I can inside the pile, let the pile heat up again, and water the pile good maybe once a week and you it will surprise you how fast it turns to dirt, especially when it comes out of the shredder about 1/4"". The smaller the pieces start out in your pile the faster it turns to dirt. If you start out with small pieces you could just throw them down 6"-8" and it would take longer but they would mulch down anyway. I mulched with a pile and I was surprised the first time I did it like I said and it was dirt in less than 4 months and you couldn't even find the little wood chips, they were gone, except for what was on the top and sides, but that was some good mulch. I wish I could get my town to pay me to have them bring the leaves to me. Wow, that must be heaven. Good deal. It is extra work, but it isn't that bad, especially being retired, me too. Peace, man and good gardening.
Thanks for explaining the smell. I saw a reference to the stink in the comments of another youtube video, and I wondered about that. I have seen many videos on planting this kind of radish, but not one had ever mentioned a smell. So, now I know.
Good to hear, Thanks
If you put wood chips on a field that's been tilled or is hard clay, you'll have a nitrogen depletion for around 6 months. And then, every 10 cm of wood chips take about 2 years to become humus. If it's been tilled too much, it's better to incorporate those wood chips in the first 10 cm of soil but NOT to bury them, you don't want them to rot with anaerobic bacteria, it still needs to be aerobic decomposition like compost. My garden is all wood chip, in my case chipped Christmas trees the town gives us. My soil is tough clay. The mulch worked a charm, a lot of worms, and my soil is now like a soft mattress. But it's a long process, and you need to resist the urge to work the soil or to remove the mulch. Everything needs to be covered, all the time. You sow big seeds below the mulch, they go through (stuff like fava beans, peas, courgettes) and you plant stuff like tomatoes directly. For tiny seeds, you need to remove the mulch, add a bit of compost to make a seed bed, and sow in the compost, it works well. You can put back the mulch once the plants have germinated and are tall enough.
This is GREAT Info that everyone should consider... THANK YOU.
Thanks Mark. Now I know why my daikon radish did so poorly last spring! They are doing well in my fall cover crop and I plan on leaving them to decompose and til the ground. Thanks for all your info!
That is such great news to hear. We are all here to learn. I made the same mistake and planted to early also.. THANK YOU for sharing.
Another gr8 helpful video. TY
THANK YOU. it is always truly amazing to watch nature work...
I use the leaves from Autumn and create a 600mm (2 foott) layer, a thin cow poo cover then a 200mm(8 inch) layer of wood chip. I let this rest over the cold months and the depth drops. I plant out in early spring and the health of my plants are always good. The only issue I get are the slugs with seedlings but that can be easily controlled
.Good post thumbs up here
That is such a great way to use them... THANK YOU for sharing.
LOVE your experiments!
Always trying to learn. What is so great is good ideas from you nice people that watch too... THANK YOU
Great info on a multipurpose vegetable! Good to eat, and good for the garden...
It is so simple to grow. It is amazing how quickly it does it also.. THANK YOU.
Hi Mark. Love those radishes. They look really fun to grow. Going to give them a try next year.
Like other plants in the mustard family, the roots of oilseed radish exude
chemicals that help suppress soil pests such as nematodes (the harmful ones), and discourage
infestations of soil-borne diseases
THANK YOU for looking into more information that I did not mention. THANK YOU for the post..
Rob X. I'm growing short carrots around my one radish in a large pot. They are growing great. The carrots in other places are rotting, probably from Florida nematodes. Thanks for that info.
I love Daikon radish! It imparts a wonderful crunch to a salad when thinly sliced. It is high in vitamin C, potassium and phosphorous and keeps very well too :-)
THANK YOU for sharing all this GREAT information about them...
I thoroughly enjoy your videos and your scientific bent for organic methods. A comment regarding your radishes: they are not only an edible vegetable but they are "nutrient vessels" and a boon for "no till" methods, field or garden. Radishes scavenge Nitrogen, store it and as they decompose in the spring, release some back into the soil at just about the time most needed. Their winter kill leaves do, as you pointed out, make a beautiful ground cover, brittle like tissue paper, not stubble. Also, the "radish shoulders" sticking above the ground indicate they are doing their job by loosening the soil as they go down in - they have hit the subsoil and grow more upwards at that point. At some further point, as your wood chips and leaves decay down, your radishes will be going farther down too, with less of their shoulders above ground; perfect natural soil breakers. I use them in a mix of legumes on my garden and have learned their intrinsic value. (I use seed sparingly in the seed mix because they are vigorous and will shade out the other legumes if you aren't careful.) Keep up your good filming.
You are so CORRECT. And THANK YOU for posting this..VERY HELPFUL..THANK YOU.
Margaret Arross m.
Good experiment. Keep the info coming.
THANK YOU for your kind words...
great video! your explanation is very clear! you have a scientific approach!
THANK YOU so very much .. May you have a great week forward.
Great video!
THANK YOU very much...
Some things I have good success growing in uncomposted wood chips. I also live in a cool wet climate. Like (generally not seeds) strawberries, black berries, raspberries, if the soil is not far below, cranberry, garlic, potatoes, chives, chamomile. That said great if even semi composted.
Thanks again for all your hard work. Never grew or even seen those radishes before!
THANK YOU, glad to hear from you. Since this has a very large root it will do much better the fine root plants.. THANK YOU for your kind words and watching too.
It's great when something can be a win, win situation for all involved.
THANK YOU...
The clover? Chop and drop it on top of the chips add one more layer of chip water and let it rot all winer!
I was cleaning the goat cage yesterday it was filled with fungi growing all winter!
I dumped the same material in my beds last winter! I checked today and fungi worms and bugs were working away in my garden beds!
GREAT TO HEAR,,, THANK YOU so much for sharing.
Great video
Im stating a garden on 2 acreas next years
Keep up the ideas
My pleasure to share with you. THANK YOU.
Such great info on using Daikon radishes in the garden and in the kitchen! I had just bought the seeds and we have hot weather due this week already (late April in Southern California zone 8b), so I guess I will wait to plant in the fall. And try them in a stir-fry!
Yes it is best to plant them after your summer months. Love cool weather ( Fall ) or 2- 3 month's before winter. Thanks
One thing I didn’t see mentioned was that if left in the ground they emit all of the nitrogen that they stored while growing. They also break up hardpan for those of us that farm in heavy clay. Good video. Thanks and havagudun gardener.
All Plants that are green color will give back nitrogen and all the other nutrient's that plant has had in it cells. All Plants roots break up soils.
I have been really contemplating planting some daikon radish. Now I'll really consider it. Our natural soil is devoid of most nutrients, and started doing the back to eden/ back to nature garden. I've been using horse manure since I now get it as a byproduct from feeding our horse lol. I'm also using old hay in the manure then putting the wood chips on top. Finding those leave was awesome for you. I'll have to talk to our local council about doing that also.
I think it is great if you talk to your town.. It is very worth the effort .. THANK YOU.
I AM ORGANIC GARDENING our natice soil is hard as a cent block. It gets slick when wet, and hard as cam be when dry. There is no happy medium with it. It's got a lot of caliche, and salt in it but not much else. Using the daikon radish will help me aerate the soil without killing myself doing it. If it will also drive away the nasty stuff leaving only the good is an awesome bonus. I'll have to order some seeds soon then. I was looking at getting some winter rye seed to start really getting things rolling.
Grew these radishes for the first time this fall. Had a lot of holes in the root when I pulled it ups from the giant pots I had them in. My husband ate the radishes and liked them. Found out that you can these, cook these or eat them raw in salad. Will plant them again next year as a year-end salad supplement.
So GREAT to hear... THANK YOU for sharing.
My piles of woodchips took 4 years to break down with NO turning. They took 2.5 years when I DID turn them. Apparently, they need aeration to break down faster.
April Cross Radish from Kitazawa Seed Company is what you have there.
And you probably need extra Nitrogen as the newer wood chips will suck it up during decomposition. Once it is composted down by half I find it begins to release the N and fertilizing needs go down a lot. But I aagree, digging it in for the first few years produces a good soil base.
Interesting... may have to try growing those.
They are fun to grow. And get up to a 18 inchs or more on the white root part... ENJOY. THANKS.
Great ideas..save energy's! Thanks!
THANK YOU so very much.
Thanks for the informative video. I am not a gardener but I enjoyed it.
Glad you enjoyed it.. Thank You.
Hi, My wife grades them & puts a little soy sauce on . Also u can cut it in thin string like strips and aid a sweet vinigar from the Asian section store and it makes a nice cool salad in the summer . It is also pickeled and sold in the Asian stores with a golden color.
That sounds great..THANK YOU for sharing.
Thank you.
Very informative 👍😎🇦🇺✅
THANK YOU for watching and sharing your thoughts.
I bought a daicon radish from a store, ate half of it and stuck it in a pot to grow free seeds. Its growing like a champ.
I did not know that could be done,, THANK YOU for sharing.
I AM ORGANIC GARDENING. Your welcome, I've got celery and boc choy in water on my kitchen window sill.😊
We are in the back to eden club on our channel too. I think we want to do just about exactly what you are doing. Great video!
THANK YOU so very much . Happy Gardening.
leaves from town - great way to make a buck - all the best
Yes... it is a great to live close by to the center of a old town will lots of trees. THANK YOU for watching too.
Cant lie, im really jealous! haha
I could see this would be great for soil not draining correctly. As the root rots water pools in the cavity and soaks down through wormholes and everything. Good stuff. I'm trying mine next fall, thank you.
So Great to hear.. THANK YOU.
Depends on the lay of your land and the amount of rain you get. I thought the same a you with raised beds and lots of compost and wood chips, but in the end had to put in a 15" deep french trench or I would have lost my fruit trees with all the rain we have had in New Jersey. This way I have the optimum. If too much rain, it drains. If not enough, the mulch and compost holds the water.
The daikons also make great pickles. I cut them into matchstick-sized pieces and pickle them with carrots prepared in the same manner.
Yummm.. Very Good. THANK YOU.
That's a nice little income!! Interesting about the wood chips, no roots yet - occurs to me this could be a way of preventing weed-spread. Dig a channel around the area to be contained, fill with woodchips. After a few years, dig out and apply elsewhere, and refill. I shall try it on the allotment.
Yes, it is very nice to have this extra income.. And that is a great idea you suggest as a buffer...THANK YOU.
My soil in composted leaves, grass, flowers, straw, horsepoo, and kitchen scraps(egg shells, potato peels, coffee/tea grounds, etc) I built raised beds right on top of my yard. I didnt plant in-ground because I live on the side of a hill and the soil is all clay. When it rains I have 1-2 inches of standing water in my yard for most of the day and day after.
I will stop complaining about my partial clay soil now, that drains alright.
great videos, daikon is a wonderful radish to ferment and/or add to Kim Chi. I also eat them raw. One of my favorites. I've been deep mulch (mostly woodchip with leaves, straw etc but more than 12 inches of chips) over the course of 4 years I now have healthy compost (broken down chips) on top of my hard pan clay soil. For the last few years I have had to bring in soil to plant my starts in, when planting in the chip area. I'm really hoping at some point I don't have to continue to do this but I'm not sure that will ever happen.
Try this year in a small trial are dig up you clay below and mix it with 50 % of you top compost and plant away. That is what I did.
@@iamorganicgardening fully decomposed compost right? otherwise won't there bee too much nitrogen due to the chips?
Hi Mark Love your videos and the ongoing experiments! Question... I have built up berms and backfill of leaves and woodchips on a south facing incline to stop the soil at the base of trees from washing away! My neighbor put in a HUGE driveway (years ago)that tilts toward my yard and in just one summer of the run off my dirt washed away filling the ditch at the street level 3 feet deep and 6 feet across! So for 24 years I have been leaving my leaves and topping with free wood chips to cover. No more soil loss and the layer is a sponge at least a foot deep! Our trees have been thinned a couple years ago allowing light and weeds to fill the front yard. We are ready to spread grass seed but I was hoping to generate some greens for using in compost and garden beds. Would it be OK to grow winter wheat there and then scythe it at some point before planting grass in the spring? Will the wheat improve the soil biome and the grasses environment? Thx for any help.
Sorry for the delay... If I understand correctly I would just plant the grass seed in the spring. WHY I say this is because you have plenty of compost already.. Leaf mold is compost.. you DO NOT have to add greens to it. It is above average in nutrients already.. I never make HOT compost on my farm( mixing greens with browns to heat up ).. No need to. The Browns by themselves do better to decay slowly.. THANK YOU for asking. If I did not do a great job answering your question please write back...
Daikon is good for fat busting.
The Japanese use daily.
In the miso soups.
The leaves when dried are good for sitz bath for
Increasing circulation. One cup dried leaves in a bag and steep.
Pour into bath with one cup seasalt.
For hips and leg circulation.
read some time back that mushroom (toadstool) fungi occur naturally on the forest floor; they speed up the rotting process. So perhaps you can get some harmless toadstools or spores and some mushrooms and mix them into the chips. Some mushroom growers grow their mushroom on old hardwood stumps of logs.
I have had todstools growing out from old pine logs that I had left alone for some time and it occurred naturally.
But it is poisonous 😐
I mow over the leaves for fast mulching.
I did the same ! When i sow broadbeans i put a 5 cm layer of mowed leaves....the broadbeans begin to grow but not the weeds!
Hi Mark, I've enjoyed your videos. Got a noob question for you:
Which direction do you align your crop rows on your farm? North-to-South, East-to-West, somewhere in between or maybe different depending on the crop?
Every spring I say to myself, 'this year I'm going to make clear rows and paths in the garden so I don't stomp all over everything and compact the soil', and then I end up planting pretty much everywhere or the let the volunteers grow where I might have planned a path ;P So if I actually do it this year, I'd like to know what the best alignment is. If it matters, I grow the typical garden stuff: tomatoes, peppers, peas, beans, potatoes, garlic, lettuce etc.
If you find time to answer, many thanks, if not thanks for all the ideas you share.
Here is what I do with daikon, You will love this., Harvest them, wash them, and then grate them on a grater. Fill big mixing bowls, it doesn't take long. Them pack them into canning jars, leaving about 1-2" of head space. Then for 1 qt, Put in 1/4 cup of sugar, and fill the entire void with 5% kitchen vinegar. If you want put in a clove of garlic or a hot pepper. Dash of salt and that is it. I put less vinegar in, if I am putting it directly into the fridge, and use a bit more vinegar if I am leaving it out in the pantry.
Its amazing on almost anything from potatoes, stir fry, tacos, salads, everything!
NOW that is something I am going to have to try. BRILLIANT.. and THANK YOU for your help.
I hope you tried it!!! Its a easy way to save many many pounds of radish!
I think that miracle grow shovel is contaminating your soil!!!! Just kidding. Great video!!
I know right.. It was a gift. Little did they know that I am 100% organic..THANKS for watching.
Daikons are lovely to eat. You can use them for slaws and salads, as well as in lots of cooked dishes.
Good call, They are soooo... good. THANKS
I'm in disbelief!..... your paid, to take leaves, that make your garden grow organically,.....and their from a clean source,,,,and delivered to you,,,,, you are one lucky farmer there sir!
Unsure how you "decompress" the soil that leaves are on, till it? ....
No, they pay me to take them. This is another video that shows the trucks delivering the leaves. And Yes a very clean source my parks,, No garbage in the of any kind and the parks are never fertilized or sprayed either. And my certified organic agency has approved them also.
Never till ... If you grow and cover crop the roots o that crop decompress the soil.
ok, got it, let roots do their thing, I'm catching on, thanks for so much detailed help!
Diakon radish is also wonderful pickled and/or added to KimChee
YUM... THANKS
😀😀 Great video! Thank you for sharing! I have been watching all these UA-cam videos cautioning gardeners to avoid wood chips. It appears to be a pretty recent idea and glorious movement to declare war upon the notion of wood chips and that wood chips or shavings will destroy all life on earth. People are such lemmings. I have 16 horses and I have used wood chips/shavings mixed with horse manure on my garden for DECADES. Every year, sometimes twice a year. I even till it in 😯😯😯😯😲😲😲😲. So far the salt and deworming meds haven't destroyed the worms and the woodchips haven't turned my garden into a post-apocalyptic wasteland clouded by fallout ash either.
Right! Same for me for well over twenty years. First few years I dug in wood chips that had sat for three years and added extra N to compensate. No longer necessary. Just put compost from the pile at 2" and then screened wood chip compost at least three years old for another two inches. Beds are six inchs higher than when I started and the worms love it.
From what I've heard the depth the radish goes down, combined with seeing the white thick radish above ground is indicative of the depth to compaction hard enough to impede root penetration.
It is a good general rule.. THANKS for watching
Hi Mark, another great video. Could you add a link for your source of the dicot oil seed radishes. Thanks
I get mine at : Johnnyseeds.com . THANK YOU for asking
if you get wood chips ground down to a saw dust it will decompose faster well water it & pack down just like a normal compost it will heat up & break down much faster
Thanks for the info.
The Cutco Sandwich maker knife!
YES... GREAT EYE.. THANK YOU.
I AM ORGANIC GARDENING LOL. I sold Cutco as a job right out of high school thirty years ago... It didn't last long.
Great video. I was wondering if anyone saw at the end of the video where the 3 radishes were lined up it looks like the words "Get Out Stay Out" are printed on the middle
radish ???
That is to funny you see that. It is 1 foot RULER in the middle and says a motto for FIRE SAFETY from our town. The ruler was a free gift from the fire department. THANK YOU for watching very closely.
Ha. And I thought it'd be a bludgeon (there might be a better word) against trespassers/intruders ;-) We all have some imagination in us!
I use the white radishes in salads and soups.
They are so good... THANK YOU for sharing
Are these radishes different from regular Dakron radishes . I never heard of oil seed dakron radishes. Thanks for the tip of planting them in the Fall.
They are sometime called both the names you list. But are the same. THANK YOU.
They pay you to bring the leaves! Yeah, baby. I drive around and grab those bags they pick up for the city to compost - sometimes I find ones that got lost - not quite in the right place to get picked up. What a deal! It's so ironic, for me. Because if you just pile those up for a bit, they turn into soil. Of course they can be composted - put in a pile with, say, vegetable scraps and turned occasionally. Or maybe left in a pile and raked out a year or two later - I'm sure there'd be fantastic soil underneath. I have a friend with the nicest soil / garden and she and her husband just collected the neighborhood leaves (after the neighbors raked them up and bagged them.).
FANTASTIC JOB.. it is so worth it to collect them. THANK YOU fro sharing.
Excellent video! Do you know the best place to get the seed?
I think the reason the roots in the raised bed did not spread into the wood chips is air pruning. The looser bed of wood chips is more porous and contains more air and possibly less water than the soil. That would cause the roots to change direction and seek more hospitable conditions. No?
This is true..
Great info Mark! Do you think it would be too late to plant some in zone 7 and get a good amount of foliage? Every year I try unsuccessfully to grow an organic 3 sisters garden in my 4x4 raised bed, only to be stymied by sprouting grasses. Even if I don't get any radishes to speak of it sure would be nice to have something holding back the grass until the corn and beans get established.
You are right on the boarder line to plant. But mother nature can always can her mine..THANK YOU for watching.
Thanks for a quick reply!
Excellent video! It's wonderful to learn! Never knew all the benefits of oil seed radishes. What is your growing zone? Are they cold weather tolerant?
I am in zone 6b..New Jersey. They will take up to 3 freezing temps. But after that they die and turn to a slime. That slime kills weed seeds and ALSO feeds the soil. THANKS
I am in central Indiana so we're about the same. I hope to plant more for zones colder than we currently experience here. Great idea about finding someone to Pay you to dump their gold on your property! I have a plan with a tree company that occasionally brings me chips if they're in my area...free, but they don't pay.
But at least you get free delivery and product.. It will make your life gardening so much easier. THANKS
Would burying woodchips 8-12 inches into the soil and then covering it back up with the original Florida sandy soil and a little topsoil be also a effective way to help break the woodchips down and help build a substantial area to grow
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If you go to sawmill you can get old dead saw dust it's same an ready for the last bit of breaking down back into soil or dirt
THANK YOU for sharing.
What I found with using wood chips is snakes but iam not a afridie cat but such don't want yard full of snakes ok
hi mark, thanks for your videos,
I enjoy watching them a lot. at 5.01 in this video you were talking about this other type of fungi, which I couldn't hear exactly how you called it. I googled suffatrophic, and other eye scratching words but I only got results for staff atrophic, saprotrophic, autotrophic. I am kinda sure that you didn't say saprotrophic, but was that what you said? first time I heard and I d like to search it. I can find a lot of woodchips in my area but no leaves at all.
thanks a lot, be well!
Sorry, I do wish I can speak more clearly.. IT is SAPROPHYTIC FUNGI.. This fungi grows in damp wood chips but not very wet ones that is why you will see it at the top layer of wood chips and not on the bottom ones near the wet ground. THANK YOU for asking.
ok great, thanks for your quick response!!. I miss some words due to I am not native speaker and with the help of google and translate I usually figure out everything. You speak clearly, nothing to worry about. Thanks again!!
I think your wood chips are layered too thick to encourage plant roots to grow. I have seen fifty year old logging areas, where a sawmill was set up, and vegetation trying to grow on the thick bark, sawdust and wood scraps fifty years later, was stunted compared to the surrounding, second growth forest.
is there a way to use the daikons for spring crops to help break up the clay? Or should I wait till the fall to use them? I'm trying to break up some heavy clay soil in a lower spot that has been holding water during the winter at times
In this video he mentioned it. Watch that part he explains it, around 5.47)
I like using those in a stir fry as well Mark. Is that a Teflon covered pan you're using?
The covering is not called Teflon any more. If is a design/made by a famous lady chef Rachel Ray. Thanks
But L enjoy that you are looking out fro me.. Lots of people say cast iron is the best way to go. But have to be careful where it was made from.. THANK YOU.
You an also spray the wood chips with an innoculant of choice fungi to speed breakdown.
Yes, That is a very good point..THANK YOU.
Hey Mark! I've just found your videos and I'm really enjoying them and learning a lot. We just moved onto a 3 acre property a year ago and I have about 1.5 acres in the back that I want to convert into a veggie/flower garden. I am fascinated by your leaf compost system! My pasture is completely overrun by foxtails, goat heads, and various other horrible weeds! I don't want to till it and wood chips take too long to break down to make the space use-able any time soon...I'm wondering if the leaves would be a better solution?
Also, how did you get this deal in motion? Did you call and offer your property for the dumping or did they reach out to you?
Leaves are the best for you. I went to the town hall and ask in the public work dept what do they do with the leaves they collect in the fall... Also you can asK/call large landscape firms that do fall clean ups in townhouse developments area for their customers. THANKS.
Do you have a video on how to tame an old, overgrown with weeds, large pasture without tilling? No one I talk to has a clue and I've never had acreage before! I'm determined to do this organically but pretty lost. You think just tons of leaves (assuming I can find them) would be best? To layer over the entire pasture? Assuming weeds would not grow through...which would be a bit of a nightmare...
I am SORRY to inform you that there is NO weed free gardening on any size. People may claim it but it is not true. Let's say you can not get leaves or any type of large amount of organic matter to cover the soil. Then you need is a mower that can cut from 5 inches of the ground up to 1 foot. This will grow you soil and reduce what you think are weeds. This is done by mowing at 1 foot tall to cut off any new forming seeds heads.. Does this sound OK for you to handle? THANKS
okay, yes...did not mean to imply a weed free space! LOL. It's specifically the foxtails that get into my Livestock Guardian Dogs ears and my goats gums :( I will try the different ideas you have mentioned. Thanks!
@@jennmeyer422 I wouldn't try to do the whole thing at once, as it could be overwhelming. Do one small area at a time, and that way you can see what is working. If it were me, I would mow down the weeds first, and cover with a layer of hay, woodchips or leaves, or a combination. The weeds won't grow back very well if the layer is thick enough, about 8". Leave it for one season, and plant in the spring. The following fall you can do the same thing again. Depending on what you are growing and why, you may decide you don't need to cultivate the entire plot just because you have it.
Mark thank you .... Question - $1,500 bucks dump fees - How much do you charge per truckload and how big are the trucks?
Here in NE Ga the fire ants LOVE wood chips. :-(
Never did jump on the "Back to Eden" bandwagon. I've thought from the beginning that planting in wood chips is way too much "air pruning" the roots. Therefore stunting the conversion to soil.
I'm surprised of your experience with weed chips and fire ants. I live in N Florida. We got lots of fire ants too. When I put them in my garden, the fire ants stopped attacking my potatoes and mostly stopped nesting in the garden beds.
I am a big believer that every gardener should follow their heart.. If some thing is working and it does not cost much like you are doing then stay with it.. It is your land on your homestead..your garden rules ONLY. THANK YOU for sharing.
Carpenter ants in my chips but they eat chips in pathways and leave crops alone
You use leaf mold, I have no leaf access but I have truck loads of wood chips. Can I grow tomatoes in my chips like you do in your leaf?
Hello Mark,
Do you have the hoped for video of seeding winter rye into the area of the winter rye that was cut spring 2017?
I'm interested in what I'll have to do next fall in my garden.
Thanx,
J
It is very simple to do.. just spread the seeds and rake in.. If you wish you can cut the area very short first.. spread seeds and cover it with a 1/2 inch of compost instead of raking it in.. THANKS
I AM ORGANIC GARDENING
Thank you for your reply.
I was concerned about the stubble of the cut rye stalks together with the perennial New Zealand white clover that I planted.
I extrapolate your reply to include giving the entire bed a cut down to about two inches, then seed the winter rye per your instruction covering with compost at one half inch. The established clover will regrow.
I remain unclear about what to do about the rye straw mulch resulting from hedge trimmer cutting in spring.
I think that I'll just rake up all loose vegetable matter on the beds prior to the seeding and put in into the compost pile together with the rest of the harvest cleanup to decompose over autumn and winter.
Would you suggest otherwise?
That is the BEST plan you state. You do not need the straw for cover since you have the New Zealand white clover. THANKS
I would think that daikon radish greens would make good boiled greens. I know regular radish greens are fantastic.
Yes they are very good also..I eat them a lot too. THANKS for your info.
Thanks a lot for the informative video. However, in an answer to a question I had about growing cover crops, you said to exclude brassicas, but daikons are brassicas, so I'm confused...They're a great inclusion in homemade sauerkraut in addition to being stir-fried, as you prepare them.
You can add them into your mix of seeds you plant . But not on their own. And I fully agree with you how good they are. I love them .. Thanks
@@iamorganicgardening Thank you for your answer, Mark. Now the question, why no plant brassicas on their own as a cover crop?
@@annestudley8235 Brassicas does not grow either endo or ecto mycorrhizal fungi that helps grow soil, Se this list and look on the bottom. : www.rootnaturally.com/PlantListMycorrhizal.pdf .
Off topic, but my husband and I agree, your voice sounds just like Dick Van Dyke!
WoW. THANK YOU. he was a great person.
Have you ever planted them in the spring for the purpose of saving seed for the fall?
THAT is a great Idea, THANK YOU.
Clover roots go deep not wide. They are the plants which bring microelements from deep down to the surface ...that's why your plants don't show side roots.If you plant zucchini or pumpkin, the roots would go wide.
That is a very good point..THANK YOU. Will look more into this great information you shared
good job on getting money for free organic matter for your garden.
I am very lucky to this extra income. And like you State free organic material. THANK YOU for watching too.
I AM ORGANIC GARDENING np, thanks for creating the content.
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I was wondering if I could soe radishes now in upstate sc. Is it too late?
Yes. it is to late for the radishes in this video.. But soon it will be fine to plant all the other types in the spring by you. THANKS.
i got the free wood chips this summer, am looking for a good source for leaves for the future. loving the wood chips so far i guess its gonna take two years the decompose enough so i can plant in that area? i love dicon radish, yum. i should try this.
Yes, it is worth the try. You will be very happy with the results,, THANK YOU.
Rhonna Marsden. I threw down woodchips last fall. I move the chips over and plant my seeds in the soil below. I'm not waiting 2 years to plant. Most are doing very well.
is it too late to sow daikon seeds? I have a small strip along my pool about 2' by 40' long I'd like to smother the weed seeds
What USDA zone are zone are you in...? If less than 7. the the answer is YES. THANK YOU for asking.
just across the river from Philly in the southern tip of Burlington county. 7/7a I guess? I thought I saw that the USDA changed their zone map, but didn't get a close look
How did you figure out how to charge the township?
I found out first what they pay already. Then cut the fee in half.
What is the green fungi that grows in the wood chips?
Sorry. I am not sure of the name. But I do know it will not harm anything. THANK YOU for asking.
Why not doing 50% leaves & 50% wood chips also?
THANK YOU...I will in a later video.. Enjoy.
Please I would like to have some of that seeds
I got them at Johnnyseeds.com . THANK YOU.
did you run chickens over the wood chips or add composted chicken crap to the wood chips
Neither. I do not have any animals on my farm nor bring/buy any manure. You can get the same results with or with out. THANK YOU.
You can use healthy urine on mulch piles. Free resources! 😉
what do they taste like?. are they hot?
Not hot at all. Taste is like celery to me. THANKS
So when you pull out your oil seed radish's to eat, do you just throw those tops on the garden also (In addition to the radish's you just let rot)?
Yes. All go back to the garden.. THANK YOU for asking. I never hot compost. Always a layer of organic materials on top (thin Mulch ).
I assume "dirt" is soil?
Correct
Has anyone ever planted those radish seeds in heavy clay soil, and how was the outcome.?.................................Ken & Bev.
I have planted daikon radishes sourced from farm supply company that are used specifically as a tillage radish and in heavy soil they did not do very well. Contrary to the sale pitch they do not jackhammer down into the heave clay much. They are more inclined to push upwards toward the sky.
I have. They grew until it got down in the low twenties. I had really good germination. I live in one 7a.
Microbiology is not dense enough to break down wood chips.
Making lactobacillius and applying to chips will greatly enhance break down time and increase nitrogen.
You never want a anorobic bacteria in your garden like lactobacillius.. THANKS