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Why midlander system when organic offers you every thing you need in
compost. A few organic additives and your done, I believe rich compost and
compost tea alone would work though I have yet to try it. On my huge Orange
trees I use the citrus fertilizer but that’s about it for chemicals… If
the s**t ever hit the fan you might not be able to source fertilizers…
Not to mention they cost money.?
You need at least 4 inches of mulch to keep the grass from coming up. ?
You are correct. Removing the grass has nothing to do with drainage it has
everything to do with weed and insect control and keeping them out of your
garden. For a grow box/raised garden bed by having the grass removed and
only having soil you can quickly see when you have watered enough because
you can see the water coming out from under the edge of the box. This is a
great way to conserve water and not over water.
If you hadn’t mulched that area you would have had a terrible time keeping
it mowed. The weeds would have had a field day invading your garden beds in
search of that nutrient rich water your feeding them. I agree you should
always stick with the directions, but not every situation is foreseeable.
this may in fact have been the best answer to your particular situation.
That’s interesting. My wood chips have been doing a great job with dealing
with the water, it’s perfect for me in up on my hill in PDX. I have noticed
that some of my worst weeds are slowly coming up through the chips, but the
chips also have lots of weed sprouts that have popped open but haven’t
rooted well because they’re not in soil. The chips help collect water
preventing huge water runs to/from my neighbors – an all around excellent
solution to the water problems I was having.
Education costs money. Thanks for the video. Nice of you to share
Putting in a french drain is work but this is the fastest and cheapest way
to do it right. It really is a neat product.
Please please lol please don’t use would chips. Don’t try to think out side
of the box, just follow the directions!
ya dude your not too smart a bit retarded…sorry…you never use treated
lumber around ground wtr or your farm DUMBELL…
Been there done that pardner. We call em life lessons. Thank you for
sharing.
Correct, it just wasn’t producing much of anything. It was taking forever
for the plants to grow and they had very little or no produce at all. I do
not recommend the BTE method. It would have been awesome if it worked but
the plants are starving for nutrients. The Mittleider method takes care of
that problem completely.
The back to eden system wasn’t good enough?
Your problem wasn’t mulch, as water drains through mulch. Your problem was
a drainage issue in the soil.
*very porous
Are you still doing off grid buckets too
Humble man. I appreciate your honesty, David. That’s wisdom and you earned
it.
Recirculation of the water would be a best practice even if that isn’t part
of the Mittleider system. I understand this system has worked for others
for a long time. But what we know about farming has been working well for
thousands of years. there is always room for improvement. You’ve put in the
drainage pipping, no reason not to try recirculating the water now. If you
leave it just plain dirt it will become a muddy mess. And the garden water
would penetrate the ground and soak it anyway.
If you strip the grass out wouldn’t you have a muddy mess on your hands?
LDS I have a few questions I would like to ask, is this or is this not an
organic farm/garden? Are your honey bees out yet? If so, are they thriving
off your garden? Last question. Since your garden is being fertilized with
all these chemicals will that harm your bees or make your honey “not
pure/organic” and is the ant problem you had in one of your videos, the
chemicals you laid down in your garden boxes for the ant infestation. Will
that harm your bees?
From the video I can see standing water on the bottom of those trenches.
Unless your mulch is several inches thick, which I doubt, the issue is the
soil below the mulch is packed clay and not bery porous. If you say the
issue didnt exist previously, its because you were not heavily trafficking
those areas and packing the soil down. I have had years worth of shredded
wood chips and mulch in rainy areas and it is no issue. The only reason the
water will stay is if the subsoil is not porous.
I am not. But they still work amazingly well. I do recommend fertilizing
the buckets with Mittleider weekly feed. I’d still have buckets but this
system works so well I decided to just garden using the Mittleider method
to simply my life. Also I want to see how much I can grow using this
method. I know I can feed more people this way so I want to get proficient
with it. So when the time comes I can help others grow enough to live off
of.
Actually the problem arises because of the rain. During the summer is will
not be a problem. I only water for 60 seconds a day,.
I can see where the chips would work well on a hill and would help with
erosion and week control.
How wide are the beds with your potatoes in them in this video?
Sorry this happened to ya but I’m glad you told me about the piping! I’ve
got to do a French drainage around my shop and that will be sooooo much
easier! If it’s any solace, this wasn’t in vain