Never used weeds as fertilizer. I am good at landscaping, and learned fast through observations that grass and weed clippings from the lawnowers seemed to sprout when they were thrown into the mulch beds. I found out that the hard way. Spring is here! Happy Easter and Le Moink 🦛☔!
@Green.Country.Agroforestry
6 ай бұрын
edit: ", and observed that grass and weed clippings _seemed_ to sprout when thrown in mulch beds" .. I removed the word 'learned', so that you may be open to learning once more. Vegetative propagation is amazing, almost like magic .. but if we could propagate plants by chopping them up and throwing them on raised beds, gardening would be so much easier! (a couple are almost that easy. *almost* being the operative word!)
@momo_genX
6 ай бұрын
@@Green.Country.Agroforestry You know better than me, but why does that happen. I see it all the time. The sections in a landscape where grass mulch is thrown seems to sprout and grow new weeds. That doesn't happen?
@Green.Country.Agroforestry
6 ай бұрын
@@momo_genX Timing is a factor there .. often, folks will wait until the grass and weeds have gotten to the end of their life cycle, and produced seed before weeding or mowing. the grass clippings are full of seeds .. so although they *do* get the immediate benefit of the mulch, they also get future weeds. Putting weeds into a hot compost pile will terminate the seeds, as will doing a weed tea ferment - stinky, but highly effective. Any bare ground you leave WILL grow something, however .. so whenever possible, try to nudge your 'weeds' towards something you can work with: it turns the chore of weeding into a harvest - and yes, sometimes harvesting is planting, too. I planted a few alfalfa plants into the beds deliberately - one every three feet, but that bed is short one plant - so that I don't have to walk away from the bed to fertilize it. The mulberry trees that I mentioned are in the row adjacent .. keeps the 'little work' little! Ps: Good Questions!
@rvhill69
6 ай бұрын
@@momo_genX You can also put the cutting in a 50 gallon barrel will water and a hand full of local forest loam, wait 2 week or better a month. Pull out the clipping as a mulch, and use the juice as a liquid fertilizer. It the JADAM Organic Farming method it work real good, but is a bit smelly.
@TheWickerShireProject
6 ай бұрын
Oh that celery sounding crunch crunch crunch as you slice through it. I still got rocks in my backyard. I could make an awesome "Ting ting ting" shovel hitting ASMR.
@Green.Country.Agroforestry
6 ай бұрын
Its an oddly satisfying sound
@ClickinChicken
6 ай бұрын
i have 'green' envy. i spent 3 hours snow blowing and scraping down a divided hill driveway, that in winter is the bane of my Deli Man existence! Over a foot of snow since Sunday afternoon.
@ClickinChicken
6 ай бұрын
it's neat seeing it in action. saves buy this, buy that, buy!
@Green.Country.Agroforestry
6 ай бұрын
I just got a comment on that first video a couple of days ago, the price for a bag of alfalfa pellets has doubled since then .. and the bags are smaller, too.
@ClickinChicken
6 ай бұрын
@@Green.Country.Agroforestry egg layer feed and hen scratch have been pretty stable here. IDK. I'd buy alfalfa for worm chow, if I go back to it. they have that. I vision feeding them more ground chow, than scraps. You know.
@vickisavage8929
6 ай бұрын
The more I watch, the more I realize how much you have done with your primary inputs being time, thought, and effort.🫡
@Green.Country.Agroforestry
6 ай бұрын
The really nice bit is, now that I have set up this area to capture and retain rainfall in the ground, and the 'weeds' have been shifted to nitrogen fixers, watering is no longer critical, and fertilization happens whenever I 'weed' the patch. There is plenty of room in there for more little perennials, too .. strawberries, violets, asparagus, rocket, yarrow, mint .. well, maybe not yarrow in that spot .. perhaps a fern, instead 😁
@Carolynfoodforest355
6 ай бұрын
Good video
@Green.Country.Agroforestry
6 ай бұрын
Why, Thank You!
@maryistulsafox
6 ай бұрын
I like pick goose grass and dropping it in the duck yard... but the more I pick the more I find.
@Green.Country.Agroforestry
6 ай бұрын
Hopefully .. but we will still run out before summer is done. The stuff outside of the yard will be all tough and seedy by then .. and the critters will drag more of it back with them .. so there will be more next year.
@GrandmomZoo
6 ай бұрын
Pick it Eat it peeps!!!!!😊
@WarmFuzzyVibes
6 ай бұрын
I love the scythe!
@Green.Country.Agroforestry
6 ай бұрын
One of those times when getting something from China is actually the quality tool pick .. they use these for heavy duty work over there, and they hold up to it.
@bonnievallery8327
6 ай бұрын
I just landed on your channel for the first time and I love you so much! I live on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and have very clay like soil, but I have amended it for quite a few years. My grass struggles to grow and very tired of planting more to no avail, and I'm wondering if I was to plant alfalfa and clover instead, if it would withstand the heat of The Summer's here as long as I kept it watered?
@Green.Country.Agroforestry
6 ай бұрын
IF you are down on the coastal plain where they have that 'buckshot' soil, some of the same techniques that I've been using will also help you .. in addition to the usual amendments like pelletized gypsum (good for breaking up larger clay balls, if your buckshot tends to be more like grape shot) Converting these soils takes a LOT of organic matter. The short answer is, the alfalfa might make it .. getting through heavy soils is one of its super powers .. but most clovers won't manage at this stage - they are happier growing under the shade of something tough. If you put something in to give the clover some shelter, it can keep working its roots down, until it CAN manage .. some kind of annual grass like a rye perhaps. If you can put a spading fork or broad fork into it, loosen an area (don't lift and turn, just use enough force to make some breaks into the soil) and plant daikon radish in, spaced about a foot apart with broadcast sowing - placing each seed would be tedious - the radish tops can give the clover that bit of shelter that it needs for the first half of the year .. then when the radishes die (don't pull them up) they will leave aeration channels, and a path for organic matter to work in. Keep adding gypsum pellets, charged biochar, manure (if it isn't spoiled with herbicides) and so forth on the top. Results come quickly, relatively speaking .. You will notice improvement after year one, but it is a multi year project to alter soil composition. Long term considerations: Do you WANT grass? flowers, vegetables, fruit or nut trees? The kind of ecosystem you build will ultimately determine what will thrive there .. so think about what you want to create .. and then you can find a path to it. Save that video clip to torment Elliot with when he's an obnoxious teenager, too! 😁
@qualqui
6 ай бұрын
So COOL, growing your own alfalfa, aka fertilizer, this way you really know it's truly organic and thus avoid the toxicity of cow manure that DTG warns us to beware. Photo bombed by the kitty eh😂and that sickle you use is COOL, I also have one, its different, but surely a great help in the garden, what DTG and Julianne from Dirtpatcheaven used, are scythes right? The blades are attached to long poles? Thanks for sharing Jason, 👍and wishing ya a great Easter weekend.🤠
@Green.Country.Agroforestry
6 ай бұрын
Mucho Gracias, si - you grow your own, you don't have to worry about what someone put in there without telling you! This one is a billhook sickle .. a nice compromise between a grass cutter and a brush hook .. it can handle anything up to a half inch with a quick pull, for quick pruning and harvesting. Scythes are used for mowing larger patches .. one day, I hope to be gardening on a scale that warrants one .. but they are getting _expensive_ these days!
@divainthedirt
4 ай бұрын
fabulous....
@GrandmomZoo
6 ай бұрын
I have no weeds......only free fertilizer!❤
@Green.Country.Agroforestry
6 ай бұрын
Harvesting is certainly more rewarding than weeding .. it seems silly to me, to grow something to sell, then take that money and buy something for fertilizer .. when I can just do this, instead
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