I appreciate that! THANK YOU so very much. Here to help.

I appreciate that. THANK YOU.

We are to busy gardening and having fun, Thanks

Thanks 👍 So nice to hear from you.

GREAT. it will build your soil with ease. Thanks

You can do it! Thanks

You bet! Always here to help.

You will love this fork. I hadn't thought to use mine in this way but it is amazing for turning compost. I believe it's called a manure fork.

Wonderful! . Your soil will THANK YOU.

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Fingers crossed! THANKS

Glad you enjoyed it! THANK YOU kindly.

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Great to hear that, THANK YOU.

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My pleasure to help you grow. THANKS

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Just to let you know you only need compost one time. I will give you a link to a video about real soil, To grow anything organic you need soil biology. This is the same groups of microbes that is found in compost., You need them to live in your soil of sand , silt and clay. I am delight to here and your son happiness enjoying gardening with you. Looking to hear you won the bet. THANK YOU. here is the link. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l8x6g7h9u7CzYGQ.html .

@@iamorganicgardening Thank you for link, I already watched it. Had 2 compost bed from last year and with busy life its hard to make enough compost myself to sustain garden. So your method seems really great. One question though, when you are building beds with your soil and leaves would it be smart to introduce extra mycelium from liquid culture or some other source to increase the speed of fungal decomposition?

@@antemercep8844 If you are able to do that, it is worth it.

@@iamorganicgardening thank you for answer. Will do that than.

Great to hear, The compost extracts are the same groups that help you soil health. Never hurts to have more. Your future plants roots will help feed them exudates ( food ) form your plants

Awesome! Thank you! Here to grow with you.

THANKS for asking , all is good and funny. Hope all is well with you.

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Good to hear , fingers cross. Thanks

Wood chips, straw, cardboard. Thanks.

The good news is that is has a living root in the ground all the time. When the leaves are on the tree it is feeding the fungi in the soil thru the roots called exudates of sugar, crabs and proteins to feed the fungi and keep the soil healthy. So no really big concern. Nature is awesome

Great question & statement. I should have been more clear. Place the coir on top of your soil for as long as you can .Like place down coir in the fall and let you local fungi start to eat and live in it before this method is used . The main thing it is fungi food, like cardboard. OH, you can take the cardboard from under the tree an inoculant the sterile coir. Also before using it.. Or just add worm casting to it also. Both will worm great. Thanks

Yes, all OK

Hello, And THANK YOU for your help today answering a sub question. Yes, Made tea over the years but found adding leaf mold on top of the soil does the same thing. Yes, Helpful. Water is the key to all microbes life. Yes, Fungi will grow as deep as long there is food , air and water. My winter rye cover crop roots in my farm field grows 2 to 4 feet deep and feeds fungi the deep also or even more.

GREAT NEWS, the fungi spores are always on the leaves already. They are there day one already

@@iamorganicgardening Thank you nature, for being so amazing. :)

The holes I am making will let the leaf mold ( fungi food ) go deeper in the soil to give the soil a better health between bacteria and fungi. This is good , and how nature works on it own for plant health. Yes, mushrooms tops at where to spores are release from. No, it you see mushrooms all is OK. Hopefully you will see many types or kinds in your garden which means a healthy soil. THANK YOU for asking

Hi, Thanks for asking. First I think I see the confusion, I also seen those videos to and laugh at them . Leaf mold makes itself. When leaves contact the ground they start to decay by fungi. We do not have to do anything else to them. Nature does this on it own. We can add water if it is dry to help the fungi live. The fungi spores is on the leaves already when it falls from the tree or plants. Hope this is helpful.

@@iamorganicgardening thanks, Mark! I'm happy to hear that leaf mold is an easy natural process! I've been looking into Korean natural Farming. I've been trying to "bloom" my own IMO's (Indigenous MicroOrganisms)... but no luck so far. I live north of Boulder, CO. Arid. Dry. Clay! We've also been looking into Dr. E. Ingham's work. We recently bought a microscope to analyze our composts and "soil"... tying to get the biology to grow and thrive. Do you have any suggestions for collecting IMO's to add to a substrate that can be used in our home gardens? Thanks for your informative videos, Mark!

@@CJFarm I will be doing a video on this later. What perennials grow naturally in your area ? Foe me I us raspberries plants and take the soil near them to make a tea

@@iamorganicgardening Thanks, Mark for clearing this up for me! BTW, my husband and I just got a microscope... hopefully we'll learn how to identify what's in our soil... (or will it still just be dirt?!!)

@@iamorganicgardening We have raspberries, blackberries, lots of comfrey, and in raised beds we have, goji berries, sun chokes, and elderberry bushes, also apple trees and some pines. In another post I mentioned that we just got a microscope and hopefully we'll learn to identify what biology is present. I remember your videos about endo and eckto mycorrhiza and how you gathered the needed biology from the pine trees for one type of fungi ... it was confusing to me. Now I'm trying to collect IMO's (Indigenous MicroOrganisms) from our area. No luck so far. I learned about it from Korean Natural Farming. Last fall I also made some fermented extracts from our comfrey according to YT I've watched about KNF... But I'm unclear about how to use this extract. Please talk more about the tea you made from Raspberries. Hopefully you'll elaborate on this at some point. Also I'd like to hear you talk about how to collect IMO's. It's confusing bc I don't know how and where to apply what I've collected (assuming I'll actually succeed at collecting)

Yes, They are to large you do not wish to chop the soil that large with large tines.