Finally spring is here ... looking forward to what's happening at your farm and your home garden.

Happy you’re back Mark! I look forward to seeing your videos coming up!👍🏻

Can you do an evolution of your garden methods video. How you started and the steps and changes you made along the way to get to where you are now.

I have been missing you! Thank you for all of your wonderful videos! You are amazing! Love you! More gardening and farming organic methods!

I love my soil!

I would love to hear more about earthworms, especially as it relates to mulch. I use the “deep mulch” method of gardening (grass clippings, leaves, pine straw)…and it looks like the worms are coming up and eating the mulch, leaving lots of granular looking worm castings throughout the soil.

Happy V-Day Mark! All the best to you and your boys!

Happy Valentine's Day Mark ! ❣- KJ

Very Nice Mark!! I can't wait to get back into the garden, I live in SouthEast MN, zone 4b.

I’ve watched a number of your videos. Great presentation. I’ve always been fascinated by nature. What I have to say is off topic? I’m watching more and more videos on land conservation. Then I look at ancient Native Americans (Indians) teaching. They were about land conservation from day 1 for no money ( I watched your back to Eden video 7 years ago). I know you don’t get paid much through KZfaq. The non profits that receive donations do. They are not saying anything new that the Indians weren’t saying in 1800’s for free. America has killed off the buffalo and poised lakes, streams, land. Now we have this big push to go green!!! It seems we are going backwards. That plant looks great by the way. Imagine not having to plant that and on any given day on your daily walk. You come across such a splendid plant. That’s what are ancestors had before colonialism.

Those are beautiful flowers.

I have just found you today and can't wait to dive into all of your videos. I befan with the potato and cardboard box which I find fascinating. I have always enjoyed growing especially tomatoes because my dad and I did that my whole life and it is where i feel him with me now that he's in heaven. I wonder hiw you handle the horn wirm organically? Thank you for the great content

Certainly, your advice as following ɓig sunflowers are great cover crops for tomatoes. Last year in Ohio, we had an uncommon spring drought, and certainly, my best tomato plants were the ones following sunflowers . I'm raised tomatoes 6 different methods testing for quality and quantity for the same tomato typts in the testing areas . Black KRiIM is our favorite, and they are planted in 6 methods, and definitely, the best results are. following the sunflowers. I've 11 other types, and our Black KRiIM are earlier great eating and most productive in the total season. I've had a tomato cage and a T post system that is the cheapest and easiest system for Vining tomatoes . Thanks. " As you say, feed the soil ( isn't that what compose does? I believe is true ..."

Nice to hear from you Mark. What have you been up to? As always great and interesting information. Just wanted to say that we love you and you are a wonderful human being.God Bless.

Some gerdening channels say to heat or bake soil to kill eggs and bugs for indoor use. Doesnt this also kill the beneficial microbes and sterilize the soil? If you did this how do you get the microbes back?

I have tried to grow sunflowers for 3 years. first year 3 seeds per hole. all the seeds were doug up second year started inside & planted out side and something got them third year spread sunflower seeds & winter rye and rototilled them they came up and the sunflowers disappeared but the winter rye was great there is a 6 foot fence around the field to keep the deer out these methods followed your suggestions Also I can not find your indoor seed strarting video that I followed in earlier years

I would like to know about the amaryllis bulbs and others like them. I know it's too late now but please explain when you put them in soil and how you cared for them to get these beautiful blooms, right in time for v-day. My single amaryllis bulb is huge. I would like to know the size of your container for that many bulbs. Just stunning!

How can I add this to buckets. Can I just fill buckets with the dirt that has worked and such?

So happy you are back making videos again, hope all is well with you and family. Did you ever reach a solid conclusion on Electro Culture or are you still experimenting with it. Thanks

Mark, I have been gardening for 3 years using your recommendations of cover crops, roots in the ground 365 days a year, no till, leaf mold and I am having great results and very flavorful produce. I have a question that could be a topic for a video. Soil biology needs moisture. When we get summer heat and our mounds, beds, dry out except for where we water around our plant, what happens to our soil biology 1-3 feet away from the plant? Example, 20 feet by 4 feet raised bed or 80 square feet. I have 16 tomato plants in this bed. In August I am watering 16 square feet. Roughly 1 square foot around each plant deep soaked. 64 feet square feet are not getting watered. The complete bed is well mulched.

I want to grow vegetables on top of compost pile my soil is mostly sand,should I add sand to compost pile?

I went searching for a video from you today since I haven’t had any pop up in a very long time. Yours is the only channel I subscribe to but I apparently did not get the notification for this one. If you have not done a video on worms helping with composting that would be a great topic. I think someone else asked about that as well. I’m specifically wondering if you have to get the red wrigglers or of regular worms will do the trick?

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Proper watering please! I have numerous raised beds in NE Pennsylvania. Should I setup drip irrigation or is sprinkler adequate? Thank you very much for your videos. I have learned so much about feeding the soil. Last year no commercial fertilizer, just leave mold and compost. This is my first year growing cover crop, winter wheat. It feels so good to know where our vegetables and strawberries are coming from and grown without any chemical interference/enhancement.

If possible, consider a bare bones explanaion of Cation Exchange Capacity. I know, Yikes!

Mark, I hope you and your son are doing well. I am going to start a Vegega 32" raised bed this winter and how would you fill the bottom 20"? I was thinking of old sticks, wood chips and oak leaves. I have enough homemade compost for the top 12".

There are different types of sand and gravel. Will using one particular kind add more usable minerals to your soil? -KJ

Are there ways to 'improve' the soil so as to eliminate squash bugs?

I have had a worm farm in a bin for a couple years. How much dirt can I add to extend it for planting this year. The sixe is 30" long x 20" wide and 14" tall. Should I spread it out with some worms in each bin or pot? .I do container as well as ground planting.

I grew an Amaryllis bulb for the first time this year and was surprised how easy it was and how many blooms I got from one bulb. I would like to know how to grow large tomatoes in containers. I've had success with cherry tomatoes, but my larger tomatoes varieties didn't do well at all, in the same conditions. 🤷‍♀️ I have no idea if it was soil, size of pot, or something else. I've only grown tomatoes for 2 years, so I'm still new.

mark put up a small hoop house last fall and am quickly realizing how hot it can get in there already this spring. the soil dries quickly...so is it perfectly fine to use least years leaves, that are far from finished leaf mould, to use as a mulch to cover the bare soil??

What can be done to remove the aluminum, strontium, and barium fallout in our garden soil from the constant spraying in our skies???

Mark, video topic.. I have around 2,500,000 worms per acre... I extrapolated from a one cubic foot count of 64 worms. Is it still possible for my soil to have one or more nutrient deficiencies?

Whats your opinion on composting meat when done properly.