Thank God you're back .gardeners need you, Lolo 😊

I don’t care what your video title is, I’m watching it every time as always! You have been onto the real biology of soil, and explaining it very well for a long time. Thank you!

Oh my goodness, I was just wondering where you were! I’ve been composting in buckets then using it in pots that I grow my veggies in. ❤ from Maryland

Lovely lovely human being. We missed you Mark. Glad you are back. God Bless

Cool, I’d just chop and drop that poke weed in place, leaving the stumps in the ground and plant tomatoes around them. If the stumps do grow back, and most weeds will, chop again with scissors or pruners until the tomatoes over take them, cheers on a good season🍀

🎉🎉🎊🎊Congratulations Mark !!🎊🎊🎉🎉 100k !!! - I can't think of anyone more deserving. I ALWAYS think of how Mother nature has worked before doing anything. Happy to hear you pointing it out. 🥰 -KJ

So happy so see you again! Your potatoes in boxes was the first video of yours I watched. You opened my eyes to how plants actually eat and the relationship between the roots and the microbes is where the nutrients exchange. Amazing! I love your wild looking garden and your understanding what soil actually needs to grow things. Keep em coming!❤

Good to see you back on here, Mark

God Bless you and yours!

I am so happy you are back! I have been missing you. I was worried something may have happened to you! Love you! Your info is so useful! I only use leaves on my wonderful healthy soil!

Wow Mark good info glad your posting again. Elliot Coleman stated it like this, organic growers don't need us and we don't need them meaning the big companies.

Congratulations Mark on 100k subs and on your zone upgrade.

Love your channel here, you're such a good encourager for others with your vast knowledge on organic gardening. I've enjoyed every video I've watched of you sharing valuable simplistic and sometimes more technical wisdom of organic gardening principles. On top of that, you are such a nice sincere man, filled with positive influence for your viewers! You have a wonderful blessed day yourself, and thank you again for your teaching of great organic garden methods!

Hope you all have a great growing season!

So so happy to see another episode from you Mark! I appreciate how much I’ve learned from you. Thank you and keep it coming please!!! Northeastern PA

Amazing Knowlwdge, it's very good to see you post videos. I was blessed to even find your channel. Organic gardening for the win.

Lovely to see you back Mark. We missed your sir. As always back giving farmers priceless and valuable information. God Bless

Glad to see a new video. You are my favourite gardening podcaster. Your info is so straightforward and logical. Cheers

Thank you, Mark! So good to hear from you!♡ I have "known" this for years, but never could elaborate quite like you in WHY I knew it, except for my results! I'd love to show you my tomatoes plants that have only recieved water and love from me. So big and juicy! ♡

I’ll say it again.The best explaination to be found. Thank you professor Mark!

Thank you.

Yeah! Welcome back sir! Good to see you making vids again!

So good to be encouraged by down to earth teaching and easy going personality. Thanks for all you do. Good had His hand on your life. Welcome back

Thank you! I'm so encouraged. I've learned so much from you. I have big dreams for my farm. We contract the fields, but I have an acre around my house to grow veg, fruit, and staples. However, starting from scratch made my dreams seem impossible. How does one tiny 60-year-old woman make enough compost for an acre?!? COVER CROPS!! Thanks. We plan to rotate through sunflowers, clovers, daikons, and winter rye with boking 14 comfrey around the edges and under the fruit trees. Maybe, I'll finally get to put some beans and cornbread on the table made completely from things grown on my place.

Great to see you back!

Thank you for coming back! Missed your videos so much. Yours was the very first channel I ever subscribed to. It’s still the best.

So good to hear from you. As usual your info is very welcome.

Thank you! 🙏

glad to see you!

Excellent info Thank You!

It’s so great to see you back! I’ve missed seeing you and your videos…hope you are doing well!🥰

Glad to see you're still with us. I was wondering what had happened to you.

Amazing info & easy to understand. Just watched your old electroculture video & became a subscriber. Gotta catch up on your other videos for tips 👍

Pokeweed is edible if cooked properly, and reminds me of boiled spinach. Use the tender 'new' leaves when possible, as the older leaves start getting tough. Cooking: Bring to a boil a large sauce pan full of water with as many fresh young leaves as you reasonably can. After it's been at a rolling boil for 3 to 5 minutes, strain off the cooking water, and refill the pan with fresh water and bring it to a boil again. After achieving a rolling boiling again for 3 to 5 minutes, drain and serve it like boiled spinach. I like some butter, salt, and pepper - and perhaps a touch of vinegar. In fact - I like it enough that I actually grow it on purpose. ;-) The Key Point: Cook in at least two changes of water to remove the components that can cause intestinal distress. Remember that the Native Americans used this plan as a purgative - to clean/clear out their digestive tracts, which is what will happen to you if you eat too much that hasn't been cooked as described above. Note: everybody's digestive system is different, and some will benefit from cooking in 3 changes of water. YMMV.

Missed you Mark. Love this video. Wow! My mind is racing. If I apply your knowledge I will save myself time, energy and money. I’m so grateful that I’ve saved most leaves from three large London Plane Trees. The only problem I have with leaves is that they take so long to break down and when they get wet they form a mat. I don’t have a lawn mower and a line trimmer put into a rubbish bin with leaves takes forever and is soooooo dusty. Any advice please Mark. 🇦🇺

Thank you Mark for this interesting video. We work the garden and God makes everything grow by sending us lots of sunshine. With the result that we can harvest food in abundance and share with those in need. Thank you and may God bless you richly. Greetings from Toronto Canada.

I’m in New Jersey too

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I have heavy clay soil. It presents challenges, but challenges are a great learning tool. About those tomatoes…I live in southwest Ohio and I have to get my maters in, too. Tomatoes and beans going in today.

Hi from India

Hi Mark. We're now going into winter here. I couldn't fit one more fall leaf into my compost area at my property 😁. The kids and I are going to try your potatoes in cardboard boxs idea in spring.

sure looks like comfrey

Hi Mark. Thank you so much for the video. Are you waiting until the night temps reach 55 to plant your tomatoes? If i wait that long it'll be like three weeks from now!

A couple of years ago I saw a huge front yard corn patch. The old man said it’s mostly due to rain water in good quantity.

Hello Mark...I remember you talking about weeds growing under bacteria-dominant environment. If you have left the leaves there over the past few months, which would have supported fungal growth, how did those weeds come up and more importantly started growing that strong?

I'd like to know what the chlorine and fluoride do to plants. Great channel.

Welcome back Mark. Looking forward to that mad scientist laugh you have as you continue to experiment in your garden this year. Big news huh, now in zone 7. Well, that's climate change for you. Cheers, Bill

Do grass clippings work as mulch or are leaves better?

Takes time to turn my thinking around. Common sense tells me to pull aside leaves to soil level when planting small plants. Is that correct? I worry that unbroken leaves will form a mat which the water cannot penetrate. Do you use aged leaves that the fungi has made smaller when putting in small plants. Also what medium do you use when planting seeds?

The carbon that the plants needs is the carbon dioxide and that is what all animals breath out, including us.

Been talking about soil biodiversity for years , crickets tho...lol..ps carbon is suppose to be bad lol

I guess u can buy carbon in a bag of soil to grow plants ;)

There's plenty of CO2 for plants. No problem. There will be more & more & more. And heat to charge the atmosphere for severe weather bringing plenty of rain & occasionally persistent drought. Yep.

It all about the biology in the soil. Stop tilling! Tilling is the worst thing you can do to soil becuase tilling turns your soil into dirt. Dirt has no life