Reading the Weeds | Applying Permaculture Soil Science with Matt Powers

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Reading the Weeds | Applying Permaculture Soil Science with Matt Powers

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Matt Powers - Regenerative Soil & Permaculture

Күн бұрын

One of the number one questions I get is:
HOW DO YOU READ THE WEEDS? How do you KNOW what plants indicate what? How can you quickly read the soil with just a few plants you pull up or identify? That's the topic of today's video. I hope you like it!
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Matt Powers

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@lauramascari806 18 күн бұрын

You are eloquent with your delivery of information and an absolute delight to watch. So happy I found your channel!

@ThePermacultureStudent 18 күн бұрын

Thank you for being here!! And thank you for your kind words

@clamshell3898 Жыл бұрын

Love this guy! Ya cant help but smile watching him smile. May God bless the works of his hands and may peace be with him and his family. Amen

@Czibs111 4 ай бұрын

Wow love this !!!

@jcburk 4 жыл бұрын

Great demo about natural local plant benefits that you brought full circle... I can't wait for the classes and soil book! So important now!

@DiegoPunchw 4 жыл бұрын

Great info, that is the way to do it, continue with your excellent work, participate in the kickstart and look forward to the book :)

@RominaJones 4 жыл бұрын

It's the number one way I figure out what's going on in my soil, what is growing there naturally, what "weeds" appear. I've never sent a soil sample to a lab; I just observe what is happening organically.

@toxicrune 2 жыл бұрын

Ty so much for the usda link shout out. I am certainly going to go down that rabbit hole

@daynaandsteve 4 жыл бұрын

Great video. I grow a LOT and never even thought to read the weeds. Thanks for this knowledge.

@vyiz1004 4 жыл бұрын

love your knowledge and video brother. will watch more. I never knew I wanted to self sustain myself nurturing a garden, until I did!

@forrestshirley1595 4 жыл бұрын

That’s the Matt you must named after, minerals can bind together, which is why ratios are important but there is no fertilizer that has every dissolved mineral because things bind up, but layers in soil are important because each has a different chemistry.

@chrisbutton7959 4 жыл бұрын

Ding ding ding!

@buzzwerd8093 11 ай бұрын

In 1961 and 62 I knew Mary Powers. Her uncle Gary was a pilot.

@ecocentrichomestead6783 4 жыл бұрын

I think you have a good idea there. The phytochemical information would also be good for building a green manure meadow like I have. I am working on something where the data appears to be missing. Growing Degree Units as it relates to crop maturity and fruit ripening date.

@luzgiraldo2468 4 жыл бұрын

Can´t wait to see what you come up about this information!!!!!

@turtlenecks 4 жыл бұрын

Nice demonstration with the weed roots. That dry California soil is very familiar. 👍

@michelbisson6645 7 ай бұрын

Good thank you

@emmakoch2436 3 жыл бұрын

the most important video i found of you and Elaine was your conversation about ammonia, nitrates, and ammonium. this is how i formulate the concept that i'm going to grow weed gardens in poor soil as a transition species to raise the ratio of fungi to bacteria(am i right?) to companion plant groundcover and shrubs, and adapt it to a weed inhospitable enironment. how much can you determine the health of the soil by WHAT KIND OF WEEDS are surviving there? dandelions are the hardiest?

@emmakoch2436 3 жыл бұрын

OMG Mat theres 2 ways the NPO sector influences the profit sector and publicly funded regulatory sector; bottom up through political advocacy bodies; and top down through the accreditation tier- standards through accreditation to certification. especially in emerging sectors, it's often an NPO thats providing accreditation and developing standards. these are the metrics, the schematas, and the operational principles we need to drive regenerative farming and gardening; position yourself at the table! a coordinated governance structure also needs an operational interface; like an online platform for information sharing. this is the same as resource recovery, psychosocial support, alternative education, localised entreprenuerhsip and the maker movement; distilling the knowledge

@agood1 6 ай бұрын

How can you not laugh when he laughs!😊

@MegaSnail1 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for all of your critical research. I am looking into reestablishing native California grasses on my 17 acres in Siskiyou County. Do you have any information on non-native species of pioneer plants as indicators of soil health?

@rhyothemisprinceps1617 2 жыл бұрын

While watching I thought - hope he writes a book since this is great information but would prefer it in book format; was excited to find he had already done so, then quite disappointed by the price tag. Bummer.

@amendfuse4276 4 жыл бұрын

Heavy clay soil over here! Like foot after foot of NOTHING but clay, lol. Plenty of Bahia grass surrounding us, but within the confines of our fenced area, a variety of different plants have popped up; most of it having really shallow roots I can pull up by hand...I didn't realize just how compact a riding lawnmower can make things, lol. Once things at work slow down (throwing 110 lb rice sacks from 7 AM till 6 PM, or until 11 PM on night shifts when the cargo permits us), hopefully I'll be able to implement my plan to start my first KZfaq videos.

@antonk4398 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Matt Just bought your book regenerative soil. I have nut grass everywhere in qld Australia. Any clues as the nut grass comes through the mulch.

@tallcedars2310 4 жыл бұрын

We live i a toxic world and our home moreso being next to a gas pump station that spews toxic gases over our farm land, we take the hit for the masses so we are not NIMBY:). This video has me interested in how to manage this in our soils and how the microbes deal with it. Can they deal with the gases, do they break the gases down to organic matter, how does it affect microbes and plants if they can't break it down, are some of the questions I have. Can't see your courses on the kickstarter site you gave, but then I'm a simple person and not computer savvy:)

@johnroydelacruz1433 3 жыл бұрын

Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better

@feltingme 3 жыл бұрын

And then there is also a biological transmutations, where plants (or more exactly soil microorganisms) transmute one element into the other. Lots of soils are very low in magnesium, but plants usually have magnesium anyway. Anyway, I wanted to ask about Nothoscordum gracile sometimes called false garlic. It grows like crazy in the garens here in Southern California. It does stop growing for a few months in summer when it gets hot, and then starts again. It has small bulbs and hundreds oof tiny bulblets. What does it tell about the soil? It grows in soft dark garden soil, so possibly there are some nutrients missing and it is bringing them in?

@indica_dogo868 4 жыл бұрын

Great info thank you! I looked atthe usda site. But most of it made little sense to me... Lol

@ecocentrichomestead6783 4 жыл бұрын

Matt will probably simplify it for us once he gets a long ways through it.

@mossycroak6638 3 жыл бұрын

Can you create a video on how to read "Dr. Dukes" database?

@toxicrune 2 жыл бұрын

So if I grow cucumbers in soil that has a lot of aluminum, can I eat those cucumbers since that new form of aluminum is not bioavailable?

@michelbisson6645 7 ай бұрын

Did you print your book?

@ZE308AC 3 жыл бұрын

Can i use bokashi as a plant fertilizer ?

@kw9186 4 жыл бұрын

Hey this is really good work and glad you're getting into it, but the first plant w/ the multiple flower stalks does not look like dandelion...?

@ThePermacultureStudent 4 жыл бұрын

It's a native dandelion: forms yellow flowers and a white fluffy seed top that blows away. It was dried out and a different variety of dandelion - I tried to include that the other was wetter, thicker stalked and a different variety.

@ThePermacultureStudent 4 жыл бұрын

Here's the Dandelion family: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taraxacum

@kw9186 4 жыл бұрын

@@ThePermacultureStudent thanks!

@mustardseed3596 4 жыл бұрын

Love the laugh

@baslerpacman 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video! I was wondering: i have a lot of couch grass, not spreading to my beds, so I'm not worried. But what does this tell me about the soil?

@ThePermacultureStudent 3 жыл бұрын

What's your climate and bioregion?

@johnroydelacruz1433 3 жыл бұрын

How about wild sunflower

@luzgiraldo2468 4 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, in my country there is very little information about weeds and their uses.

@ThePermacultureStudent 4 жыл бұрын

You likely can juice parts of them and test to see what they are high in to get a baseline

@chrisbutton7959 4 жыл бұрын

@@ThePermacultureStudent I feel like that's out of touch for the average person. Any ideas? I have trouble get my stuff tested and I'm in the states and have great access to that kind of stuff it's just the knowledge about it is a little bit far and spread out. Tips and tricks would be amazing ps I'm in California

@kushcraft9914 2 жыл бұрын

Holy calcium deficiency Matman

@UrbanArtCentral 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Matt, I'm a new gardener who incidentally is studying the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (mbti) theory. Facinating new discoveries with just the few videos of your's I came across. For my own personal research, may I know what is your mbti type if u know it?

@ThePermacultureStudent 4 жыл бұрын

I'm a Protagonist on there ;) but on other tests, I'm a Creator. I think most of my answers to those tests are already public - especially with Unstoppable Enthusiasm now being in print!

@troysantos 4 жыл бұрын

As I remember (correctly?) Elaine Ingham insisting, all soils have way more than enough of every mineral on earth, thousands of times over. What she says is that the microbiology is lacking. So, if I understand correctly, getting the micro and macro bugs into dirt, makes it into soil, and makes all the minerals available to the plants. Am I being too simplistic?! Sure, the hard part is getting the bugs in. And, being patient enough ;) I live in tropical southern Thailand, and would love to learn specifics about the 'weeds' here :)

@ThePermacultureStudent 4 жыл бұрын

@tallcedars2310 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I recall Elaine Ingram saying soils have all they need. If we look at the forest floor and what it has; composted manure, leaves, twigs, rotting wood and wild plants and start incorporating it, it works wonders. Our soil is becoming very loamy after 4 years of this type of management. It's simple but it requires work, lol. This course looks very interesting but the web site is confusing and I've not found how to check out the courses yet, ha ha. I don't think you are being simplistic as it is simple if one can narrow it down to what soil requires and then has free access to the biomass to make soil right. If one has to purchase all that is needed, it makes gardening unreachable.

@kumquatway6973 3 жыл бұрын

You have a cute happy face

@kyleor7 2 жыл бұрын

What does Japanese Knotweed tell me lol

@xxpowwowbluexx 4 жыл бұрын

Why not just test the soil?

@ThePermacultureStudent 4 жыл бұрын

Great question: since plants can access both soluble and nonsoluble, you get more information from working with them than you would for a soluble only water-based test.