There is a channel called Amish America that talks about the amish and he has a video that covers that. It just came out in the last day or two if anyone is interested in watching it.❤😊

You must live near me in Central Montana 😊. That was an awesome story about what they did!

@@lorimiller9895 nope, I'm in utah. I still watch the channel though because I like learning about the amish.

@@lorimiller9895 it was the new Amish Colony down in tiny Roberts between Red Lodge and Laurel. What a great addition to the community they’ve been!

@@weirdsweetcoolplants I saw that and it is kind of an odd channel but I’m surprised they have one at all!

Good info. Thanks

Tnx

Thank you

Thanks.💜

@@sandrahbradley1511 😄

I've always said, when society falls apart, the Amish and the Hillbillies will be the only survivors because they know how to live off of the land. Knowledge we all should have, but few do.

tasty too

What's tasty?

Amish wisdom comes from above Jesus Christ

The FDA currently is harassing the Amish and Mennonite who live with the earth using many of the same tactics they used on the Indians and other cultures around the world. Make their way of living scary (fear even if unwarranted) and presenting themselves as the saviors. When we bend to them, we surrender our power to them. If they are powerful, we gave it to them. The Amish and Mennonite need our help to preserve their way of life.

Any tips you could pass on?

@@farmersdaughter1000 oh my goodness, probably so many random things I could tell you. If there’s anything specific that you grow, let me know and I’ll see if he said anything. I did start a KZfaq channel which I am really gonna be focusing on gardening with so maybe follow along because I do mention him in my videos which are mostly just on TikTok at the moment. Here’s one thing he did that I haven’t tried, after the spring bulbs flowered, like tulips, hyacinth, and daffodils, he dug them up and stored them in a paper bag in our garage and then replant them in the fall. I wish I could ask him whybut we ended up with the most gorgeous flowers every spring. Oh, and he used crushed dried leaves in the bottom of the holes when he planted the bulbs, but not oak leaves… Never leaves.

@@CottageontheCorner Anything for veg like greens?

@@oliviastar3812 yes actually… He used to cut up banana peels and scatter them around the base of some leafy greens but also before he planted them, he did try to crumpled up some dried leaves even dead leaves from other plants and put them in the hole first. And when your green veggies start to die… Let them die in place so that they break down and go back into that soil.

​@@CottageontheCorner I think you meant Hyacinths⁉️🤔

I know - I have clay soil and it's very acidic!

excellent points

I have heavy clay soil and know it is very alkaline

Speaking of red soils, just look at Prince Edward Island, Canada, very famous for it's red soil. They grow the best potatoes for commercial use. Whenever I have purchased PEI potatoes in a grocery store and used them, rinsing under water has turned the water red.

True. Clay soils where I live tend to be acidic. Better indicator of pH are the native plants growing in the area. The guy should've prepared better and mention the caveats.

Like the Indian Nation did. Only taking what they needed for food, I’m talking about food in nature . God gave us food to eat. It tells us that He gave us plants with seeds so, we could have an endless supply of food. For our convenience we now have seedless grapes, watermelon, oranges etc. If, we continue down that line we will leave ourselves without food. So, with a little inconvenience and unaltered plants, we can still have an endless supply of food. We must look to our future and the future of generations to come.

That sound more like the Amish would do, but I really doubt they would have such scientific notions and use scientific terms such as PH. That's the thing about the Amish, they reject modernity and live like in the old days.

Be careful you could wind up with worms putting dirt in your mouth.

⁠@@catalinaserbanescu1687hmm maybe not such a bad idea. They work together and help one another. They grow organic unaltered food supply so, no one goes hungry. Make their own clothing, yes- all wear the same style clothing. That may be a little hard but, don’t know, could be a good thing. No more “ I’m better than you or I have more money so… I can buy expensive things”. As in school clothing. Gets rid of envy, jealousy and the I deserve it attitude! Not dependent on gas or electricity, thus- no skyrocketing bills!! If, the power grid goes down- not a problem. Gas prices go up not a problem. A house needs to be built- no problem. We all have learned- the science can be manipulated as the food so… Growing your own medication as how it was done before vitamins and big p came in. I have a lot of respect for the Amish, the homesteaders. Going back to the basics is just what we need! I like it!

Soil is sand, clay, silt. Proper ratio is loam

Sand on the bottom, settles immediately. Silt settles in a short while. My clay floats for days and weeks. It's all clay unless I add something.

Why don't they sell bags of silt or loam?

BS. You never tried it to see for yourself.

A lot of correction here. What ever your soil is made up of the bands will be clearly visible. My soil in Pa. It was mostly clay a little silt and loamy stuff organics like leaves, grass, cow manure. Here in Florida its all sand with no clay and a little bit of organics unless I amend it big time.

Ha, the egg shell test. I am going to try it. I have a reddish clay, a brownish powdery rock, black compost layer, potting soil, leaf mulch, etc. Makes sense the acid soil would dissolve the egg shells.

This would be a good video to see. In general, almost all vegetables in that we like to eat require alkaline soil. Berries, like acidic soil, which is why blueberries grow naturally in colonial pine forests.

​@peachykeen7634 that's not true at all. Most prefer slightly acidic

@@magnumxlpi well we have to heavily lime all our veggies, even at a pH of 6.2

That's what my grandfather used to say. He could tell the PH by what weeds were growing in his lots.

The comment I was looking for. Thanks. That's what I use. I can recognise hundreds of weeds /herbs as a result.

Very cool, thank you for sharing

What do you use on your berries to make the soil more acidic? TY

@@shirley7137 sand

@@shirley7137 I don't do that many berries that require very acidic soil (e.g., blueberries) anymore. I mostly grow day-neutral strawberries and prime ark freedom blackberries which both do fine around neutral ph. I am finding a trend that a lot of the more modern berries that are being bred as not as sensitive to ph (no empirical data on this, this is just based on my few recent plants and talking with a local strawberry farmer). We have red clay here and so my berry plots were all prepared mixing in a lot of peat moss and compost (heavy on the peat moss to lower ph). I luckily live in the south now (one of the reasons I don't grow blueberries anymore) and so I will place pine straw (which I have easy access to) on their beds in the winter. The pine straw will slightly lowers the ph given time and enough moisture. I have observed about a .5-1 decrease over 3 years (based on my little meter) --- so very slow, but I didn't need it fast. When I did do things like Blueberries while I was living in the northeast, I would add a little sulfur or extra peat moss. Sulfur was the only way I could get the big drop I wanted fast.

I bought a big pot of hydrangeas with white snowball blossoms. I wanted blue, but they only had white. At home I dumped a bucket of water on it that had leaves soaking in it for a week or so (I just forgot about it.) Next day all the petals were blue and purple. I was so happy. It's all sickly now though, I am going to repot it and see if that helps.

Our lost older generation truly were a walking book of useful knowledge. Kids of today really need to ask and gather information from what one day will be lost and gone forever.

Indeed as todays technologies are full of conspiracies

If your clay is like mine, you will need to add a cupfull of pelleted sulpher around each blueberry plant. Mid-Missouri zone 6b

@@charlesdevier8203 thank you!

Iron oxide has a ph of between 6 and 7. Great for blueberries. You can make your own by adding rust to the soil around plants. Throw some old nails,nuts,and bolts,screws, washers, basically anything that rust into a bucket of water, when the water gets all red, when you swish it, water your plants with the red water.

Obviously no Amish farmers in the Mohave.😂

@@highdesertoffgrid4225😂😂😂

derp moment

That's the lime in the soil, not the sand itself, causing the alkalinity. That's why you don't see the Amish in the southwest... they would starve. 😂

This vid is pretty dumb

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If it looks like wet brownie mix, it is good soil. I learned that from CaliKim. Haha. Just kidding.