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I can't wait for your next video! Love you! Happy New Year! Stay safe!

You are the most wonderful gardening info source in my life! I love all of your useful garden soil growing and gardening! Love you!

Hi Mark, good to see you still working with the soil, I love the living soil concept. Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge.

Love leaves. When i could garden i used them all the time.

Having a coffee and rewatching this video for a refresher. ☺️

Rewatching all your soil videos. I did grow a cover crop of winter rye this year and my fall crops of beets & turnips were not ready to harvest last fall so I let them grow throughout the winter. The beet greens are absolutely stunning. I picked the greens throughout the season for the chickens.

NJ had the best summer and autumn ever 🍂 🌞 🌧️ You always give the GOLDEN INFORMATION 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Another great video full of valuable information. Thanks Mark and God Bless

Another great video Mark!!

Thank you for another great video.

Perfect! Next door to our farm is a tree farm. I'll ask them if I can have a truckload or two of their leaves this fall. This with all the cover crops will definitely help my sad soil. Thank you for another great suggestion. Thank you.

You convinced me Mark to "Ban the bags" when leaf molding. I've noticed in corners of my yard where I never raked the leaves for years I have incredible soil underneath! No more big bag blundering for me. Thank you Mark!

Interesting Mark.

My second vid of yours. Like your presentations, awesome natural...beautiful thanks

Once again top video Mark. We need to work WITH nature, not fight against it. I use the plastic bag method, but after watching this video, I’m switching to fenced in, (extreme wind here), leaf piles.

I am an early learner. Thank you for the information.

Great informative video, I just like the idea of returning natures resources back to where it come from in a continuous cycle.

Great video! I cover the garden with mulched leaves each fall after I take off the bigger wood chips off the garden. The wood chips go into a wood chip pile to rot down all winter. I have 3 rings of wire fence to hold wood chips. One used each year to mulch around the plants. These are 3 year old wood chips. The walk lanes are one year or older or older wood chips from the other pile. I add worm casting each year and they are local worm castings. I end up getting 30 garbage cans a year of wood chips and two city lots of leaves I rake up that in some way is converted to the soil I grow in. I hardly weed the garden with the mulch and every year I have mushrooms growing in the garden. I collect rain water for water and make compost tea. More food than I can eat and I give food away each year. I am retired and it supplies over 50% of my food.

I appreciated the information.

Mark, I’m leaving my 35 year garden spot. The new house has twice the space for a garden, I’m asking lawn companies to start dumping their leaves in my new yard. Excited for the new space but hate leaving a productive garden spot. I’m also digging up 20 blueberry, 4 peach trees plus relocating my asparagus. I’m going back and rewatching the soil building process. Ken in Kentucky

Thank you for the share!

I also use leaves. Thanks for sharing. Hope you're feeling better 😊

Awesome information

I have the coolest mushrooms that pop up around my garden, now I know how to feed them! I always spread the spores around hoping that they'll spread, lets see what happens when I feed them!

I thought you did a great job with the recording of ratio and proportions and pointing out the variables to look for. I thank you for the free information and will send the link to my daughter that is purist gardening adept. I will be searching out that long probe temp gauge for the compost pile.

One old guy refused the mushrooms on his plate, and the other woman looked him in the eye and expressively said " aren't you a fun guy lover? " 'WHAT' ! I almost shrieked at her but didnt. I was startled at her sudden fresh and very open approach to a married man! No one said a thing, his wife didnt mind, and the words silently repeated over and over in my mind until I got it the words were fungi lover. 😂

Hello Mark! I collected around half a ton of fallen leaves last year, close to that this year for the garden. Thanks for your inspiration and knowledge, as I am enriching our garden with almost exclusively leaves:-)

Thanks it's easy to grow bacteria in a bucket using the JADAM method and I now know to find and grow fungi. I have been leaving thicker sticks, stems, and old wooden tomatoe steaks in my compost pile to make microrysal fungi.

Black gold they fall leaves. 🎉

Just got some trees cut down and then spread their chips all around the yard. I’ll have some amazing soil in a few years. Can’t wait.

Wow! You had a frost in NJ?? We haven't had one here in NH yet.

If i can keep the fungi strong will it curtail field bind weed

Thanks Mark. I had a friend bring over a load of mushroom compost with horse manure and sand a couple of weeks ago. He used it last year had had a bumper crop. I haven't been getting your notices lately sorry I haven't been around much it's all YT's fault.:)

Great video. I love leaf mold but don't have access to as many leaves as you do. Can't believe how many gourds you had just from three plants. I am in zone 5B in Illinois and I can barely get 3 or 4 on each plant. Lots of flowers and tons of pollinators so that's not the issue. And this year just one of about a dozen pumpkins and gourds fully ripened. I grow small ones so 120 days should have been more than enough time. I wonder if you have any suggestions? How important is watering? We don't get a lot of rain here during the summer and I tend not to water much of anything growing directly in the ground.

right at the time you posted this i was pisking 6 bags of leaves i stop when i see enough bags to fill my car

Can i use Used flavor coffee grind in my garden? I just found your videos and i am getting so much info from you thank you. I am a first time gardener 😜😜 I need ALL the help i can get.

I’ve loved the show for years now! Can you recommend a place for me to buy some winter rye cover crop seeds? Thanks!

Is there a cover crop that would grow in new wood chip beds. I am slowly establishing garden beds using chips which I layer with whatever I mow. (The yard is more meadow than lawn-lots of different plants.) Wonder if something would work for either fall or early spring. I'm in zone 5B.

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Can you use coniferous wood chips, or should they be deciduous? I live in a coniferous forest area, so those are plentiful, but I can get hold of birch or alder, or use pruned branches from my fruit trees if needed.

When amending my garden beds, I have compost and leaf mold to use. Would it be better to put the compost down first then apply the leaf mold on the surface?

Great, interesting video. However, when you were digging down in the leaves, you weren't getting the handfuls of soil in the field of vision very well. At the wire worm area, specifically. I would have liked to get a better, longer look at it. Thanks

I got allergies which was a reaction to the fungal spores released as the weather changed and got colder as it got dark earlier. I get mulch from the tree service. This year it was maple and hemlock. Last year I got a chipped up pine tree. The year before I got a oak tree mulch up.

I made a whole bunch of leaf mold. Started last fall and it is broken down well The problem is that it is full of obnoxious jumping worms. I don't want to put it in my raised beds. Any suggestions?

Mark, is it possible to make leaf mould with only pine needles and wood chips???…. I live out west and we don’t have any leaves to use….thanks

Do i need a separate pile like you have or can i just start layering on top of my garden?

I have a spot on my lawn where mushrooms grow prolifically. Should I pull those mushrooms and throw them into my garden or compost?

Is mowed grass and leaves a good mix?

I have concerns about collecting “contaminated” leaves that bring disease and/or pests (Asian jumping worms) into our soil… crazy times… Concerns for others?

Does it matter the type of mushroom? I found some horrible looking black mushrooms in my yard. Wondering if they could be used

Have you ever tried comfrey

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What is your source for the leaves that sre delivered? Is it from a tree trimming company?

Is it good to have Birds Nest fungi in my soil? I'm finding it all over in my greenhouse soil.

Are oak leaves and pine chips ok to use?

Do you chop your leaves

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Is there advantage to sherd the leaves first

kami juga bertanam menggunakan dedaunan kering sebagai bahan kompos alami, tapi tidak sebanyak punya anda pak.😊😊😊

Can you use Alfalfa in the leaf/needle pile? Thank you!

Where do you get leaves delivered?

I have learnt sooo much from you. Thanks.

I have "flower beds" that have continually had leaves on them for many years. The soil has not altered at all 😢

I agree 1 to 1 bacteria to fungi and no weeds and if they do grow they are very weak 👍👍👍👍👍👊

Dad joke alert.

THX