There's an old story about a young man taking his elderly grandfather in horse and buggy to the land the young man wanted to buy for a farm. The grandfather had poor vision, he told the grandson to tie the horses up to the nearest bull thistle. He said "Grandpa, there aren't any bull thistles". The grandfather said "If it can't even grow a bull thistle, you don't want it".

I planted radish seeds to break up the clay. They grew... on top of the soil. Stunted.

I changed my format of weeds now I primarily grow Mullein a Purslane plantain as a crop‘s and yarrow almost 2 acres heavily planted every square inch I saved 1 million squash seeds last year I just saved around 5000 to 7000 white acorn nuts two days ago yesterday I got 50 pounds of grapes And approximately 40 pounds of rose hips 100 pounds of Asian pears 20 pounds of wild huckleberries and 8000 pounds of fertilizer I do these moves all the time I got tired of fighting the weeds and I don’t like them to be called weeds anymore. Everything is vegetation OK😊

This makes so much sense but I just didn't think about it! Thank you for sharing this video. I appreciate it.

Great video, love this looking at “weeds” and being able to understand how your soil is, however would have been great to also have Latin names as I’m in the U.K. so common names aren’t the same! Still, great video, thanks!

I always had a feeling that weeds told the story of the soil.

Very useful information, but I would suggest including the scientific names for the species you mention. Some of the less common ones can have different colloquial names.

Just about everything you listed is edible. Thank you demystifying weeds.

Handy video, and definitely true. I love weeds! Well, maybe I don't love them growing beside my tomatoes but they really give a a lot of information about what is going on in my garden.

My farm is a mixture of all that. The soil is acid and tends to sandy but I have many plants that indicate alcaline and clay soil

Ive been at my current house for about 2 years. Refuse to put anything on the soil, yard, grass, etc. All i can determine right now is that the prior owners must've put a lot of herbicide on the ground because myriad weeds have popped up everywhere. My plan is to let it go for a few years and let the soil heal. I'm sure nature knows what the ground needs. Any ideas are appreciated. I'll watch the video now.

This year we’ve a lot of purslane, especially in the vegetable garden. I pulled the roots of purslane out of the corn patch but just used as mulch. They re-established and came back alive. At that point, I just let go. Hopefully, the corn will still produce, hard to tell but growing slowly but steadily.

Great information!! Totally his the nail on the head with my backyard clay and dandelions!

Most helpful resource I’ve found on the topic and I’ve been looking for a couple years!!

Is what I always says to people that have OCD about weeds: "weeds are a source of information and most of the time also a beneficial presence for your soil." Is incredible how people still doesn't understand that the soil need to be covered to trive.

Unique video,this will really help in understanding soil.

Anything but turf grass lawns 🙏

Shephard's Needle takes over my N. Florida yard and garden every year. Some grow thick and 7 foot tall. At least they attract the bees but I'm not sure what that says about my soil.

Where is this information coming from? Where can I reference it? Where can I get a more thorough listing of weeds and their properties? Thx.

Plantain, Queen Anne’s lace, dandelions and clovers are the ones we have I saw in this video. We have hard, compact red clay soil. We couldn’t even dig a proper hole to bury our cat. Once we got past the top two-three inches we literally had to use the shovel to just scrape away dirt to “dig” the hole because no shovel, spade, post hole diggers, etc could penetrate it.

Thank you for informing me about land🙏🙏

So, is there a weed that indicates low copper? I appreciate this excellent information! ☺️

Great info. Thanks for sharing! Keep going

great video! i have a huge amount of lambs quarter some are taller than me! , and i think they reduce the amount of salt in soils but i didn't know they indicated high nitrogen, so i guess they add carbon to balance the equation (since Lq are very woody once mature) , isn't nature just great!?

Our land has a mixture of a lot of those plants making it wet, dry, sandy, boggy, fertile and poor… all in the same area 😂

Excellent presentation! Would you have a book to recommend, some type of Bible or encyclopedia?

great info, thank you

Thank you for this informative video!

So, what does thriving POISON IVY tells me about my soil ?

The seed bank is usually there to respond to conditions. This was a good example. Grow what works with what you've got, and often you'll be correcting things at the same time, or at least not work against them. Like blueberries for example. Terrible plant for most soils. Plant service berries instead.

If knapweed indicates good potassium levels and Yarrow indicates low potassium levels, Why do I have both growing side by side in my yard?

Cool.

Can anyone recommend a book on this subject. Thank you

What about pig weed? Got a field, over grown with that stuff, sometimes we call it a garden.

Can someone please suggest a place I can consult which offers information like this for any given weed? For instance, if I were to put in dandelion the source would say calcium deficiency.

amazing

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awesome and informative video! new subbie here!

Anyone know what ground elder signifies about the state of my soil ? Thanks.

I don't know all of the names, ive seen most in my last decade of gardening. Im a dandelion, nettles & milk thistle phreak, mostly dandelions. I may or may not pull hybrid dandies, or replant elsewhere. If it isn't specifically medicinal then maybe compost...is my normative consideration. Peace.

Are you sure that's Verbascum )mullein). Looks like Oenothera to me.

Someone tell me why after years of killing weeds before they ever get a chance to produce seed that they still have to spray to kill weeds out of corn and soybeans.

what is the story of wild oats trying to tell farmers in crop land?

shame to rely so heavily on AI generation, ends up with lots of errors. You could at least check it over, before posting it. For example mentions hemlock, the tree but shows water hemlock, talks of shallow rooted weeds but shows wild carrot. mispronounces muillein...

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What do foxtail species tell about the soil?

Did AI write this?

Plantain thrives everywhere 😂

My 5 cents garden had to be filled with nearly six loads of mud in last fifteen years forget atleast 100 kgs of fertilizers and compost but termites and fungi algae are major killers along with mites and fruit flies coconut tree (eating rhinoceros brown and huge black beetles ) carpenter ants eating most of the fruits Also weeds pop up within two days and i have to remove them on weekly basis. I pull out from small areas on alternate days or i would go crazy, with boys only interested in mobiles gaming. 😂😂😢😅

I think that was the wrong Hemlock?

I HATE to robo voice. I endured for the info.

Hemlock tree

You can read the weeds in your lawn too. If you see clover, you are nitrogen poor. When you get the soil ph and nutrients right, your grass will grow and choke out all of the invasive weeds. This works for your digestive tract too. With the right gut bacteria and probiotics, you will be very healthy. If you eat processed foods, your gut bacteria will start trying to kill you.

The forests are gone, except for remnants that we should be protecting, not seeking out to remove for crops.

Is this AI generated content?

Ugh AI.

Well isn’t that interesting..... 🤔

Ugh, AI speech reading an AI script

Blah blah blah. Weeds mean little. Most of the common weeds can grow just about anywhere the soil was disturbed. And with vicious chinese etc. invasives like russian olive they overtake abandoned lands rendering all this talk worthless.