Thank you so much ❤❤❤

I got handicaps by surgery, so I started my garden in an amazing simple way, I purchased a weed block roll, yes, it is made of plastic material, but that was what I needed because I have no physical ability, I rolled it out on my crabgrass in five rows, held it down over the rainy winter with cheap cedar chips (or whatever you can find at Lowe's that is not treated.) when spring rolled around, moved the weed block a few feet to the right. That exposed now mostly weed free soil, I raked a bag of cow manure over the soil, and planted right into that. My walkways that were previously crabgrass were now covered with the weed block in a reuse fashion. So it turns out that the no till Permaculture it works really really well, but I had to use some plastic materials just to get started because I'm handicapped, on my first year garden was amazing and easy, and I'm looking forward to my second year garden

I am reusing the plastic ground cover sections, and I let go of my guilt, because being handicapped, that was the best I could do, and the end results justify the means!

Thanks for being here!

where do you get ur alfalfa pellets from?

@@bryancross8068 I just googled where I can get it nearby.

Thank you SO much 😊

I wonder if they even have to. She said they laid them in a bed of sand.

My big concern is biosolids or fluorinated HDPE, the film is neither of those but I would still avoid it if possible. We are working toward eliminating it here!

Yes! We just make sure we buy the organic stuff to avoid potential herbicide buildup :)

@@Blossomandbranch Right, thanks!

Oh yeah, for sure I know it would. Because when you get started, and you get some plant roots to grow through the soil, automatically, the soil starts getting a looser and more growth, friendly texture

Yes :) we use for both

Yes!! Bunny manure is great for the garden

I prefer molasses but either will work! I use whatever organic brand I can find.

We source organic pellets-so yes! I trust no one 😅

Yes rhizome Grasses are awful! Sometimes definitely need to go to war with those ones 😢

That is what I did, well, instead of a tarp, I used a permeable ground cover roll 4ft wide. And I left it over the grassy weeds weighed down by untreated cedar mulch, old fence boards,or whatever untreated bags of ground cover you can find at Lowe's. After about four ti six months that mostly killed the underlying grass and weeds, and I started seedlings and transplants directly in that bear soil, with an overlay of cow, manure, or something like that that you can get from the hardware store in bags. Once you get things started, you will find that nature grows the plants for you, and the soil just gets easier and easier to work and you can use a more environmentally friendly method as you carry on

I fully agree with you.

We still want to avoid compounding the issue. The higher the levels the more dangerous to consume the food coming from the soil.

Compost in itself is not a growing medium. It is an amendment and shouldn’t be used to grow in alone as it is too rich if made correctly. Hence why many methods, including lasagna methods. Also those with raised beds with sides often use a mix of topsoil and compost to fill as they take a lot of soil to fill and certified organic compost is costly. I’m not confusing anything, but thanks for popping in!

@@Blossomandbranch You are the one that brought up perma culture and tried to use it as an interchangeable equivalence to no dig. Unless the soil is toxic, it is more cost effective to amend soil with compost or other organic matter than to bring in top soil. I have never brought in soil and have had very productive market gardens in Florida sand and North Carolina clay. If cost is an issue cover crops are the least expensive method to build top soil. You seem triggered with your dismissive “thanks for popping in” You are very concerned that my comment could interfere with the sales of your course .

What you propose are constant quick fixes, feeding plants instead of improving the soil so that fertilizer, organic or otherwise, becomes virtually unnecessary. When I moved into my home five years ago, all I had was a patchy lawn and weeds. Five years later, most of the lawn is now garden beds. All accomplished with no tilling, layers of cardboard, several loads of arborist wood chips, grass clippings, leaf mold, etc. and a lot of my own time. Admittedly not a project for those that need a quicker time frame but the result is beautiful black soil, happy plants and vegetables and no need for additional "fertilizers".

@@sbffsbrarbrr : there's no doubt that over extended periods it somewhat improves the soil however, the utopian falacy of fertilizer becoming unnecessary--as results dont bare out and reality does not permit--is a reminder to not get too sucked in with organics mostly based on false dreams. feeding plants with good complete fertilizer and fixing any mineral issues in soil is not a quick fix for anything; it is supplying veggies with all the nutrients to grow fast and strong. the utopian organic falacy about magical level soil improvement is very expensive and does not produce comparable results. I was on that organic bandwagon for a long time, and then i started to look at it more critically. Anyhow, video was about setting up new garden cost effectively, which when you get doen to real detail, organics is a false economy and a massive drain on money/time/effort. Unfortunately "they" indoctrinate so much nonsense that it's difficult to discuss anything, as the cult of organics koolaid kicks in. It becomes a fiction story about soil and getting mediocre results with so much work becomes the biased norm. We stop valuing all our work and instead of learning real horticultural science, we value utopian fairytales more.

@@Chris-op7yt Since humanity has survived and farmed for thousand of years without synthetic fertilizers I guess we'll have to agree to disagree 🙂. Happy New Year and Happy Gardening!

@@sbffsbrarbrr : As a concrete example: what's discussed in this video and organic based fertilizers provide little in way of phosphorous, which is critically deficient in australian soil. Non-native plants and veggies need annabundance of ready to use phosphorous or else they do poorly. Phosphorous doesnt magically become out of thin air unless you actially supply it, and plants take it out of soil. The organics (foundationless) motto of only putting in soil dead organic matter fails to meet vegetable phosphorous requirements, and plants thrive in a predominantly mineral based growing medium, what they evolved to do...and mineral deficiencies do exist (depending on parent rock etc) and need addressing. Putting in loads of expensive bulk material that contains little nutrients that veggies need, is hardly cost effective. If you're on glacial soil, expensive organics amendments are not necessary. 99% of organic material you put in soil ends up as atmospheric carbon dioxide within a year or so. Hardly a cost effective way to grow veggies. But this is the organics way, no soil tests, just keep pumping in money and effort and pretend it's frugal. Failed crops no longer matter, as the color of soil becomes more valued. Geo-tectonic activity--if not future human activity--will make short work of that black soil so expensively produced. Like i said, organics dreams dont line up with reality, and become often an expensive excercise in fiction that aligns with false indoctrination. Just putting it out, as propaganda seems to dominate home veggie growing circles. each to their own but, people should know more how organics is built on a house of cards, instead of a solid foundation. i spray less pesticides than farmers and carefully evaluate risks on a case by case basis. the false "chemical bad" organics mantra is just that, false. cheers, and may your veggies grow well. you make lots of good points, especially about almost always not needing the large expense of raised beds.

@@sbffsbrarbrr : humanity also made do with just collecting stuff, for a long time. Initial farming was on flood plains, which regularly replenished minerals from mountains. we developed veggies from mostly barely edible plants. organics evolved very recently, from another half baked idea to grind up rocks, and that's all you needed. propaganda is insiduous as they play on our emotions to believe false things, like that morality comes from a fictional (dufus) god of one kind or another. these are discussions we need, rather than forging ahead with false beliefs, because they were indoctrinated to feel good.