Farm Profits in Root Depth (No Fertilisers Required)

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Watch to find out how you can get your plant roots to go down 4 feet and more within 3 - 4 months. This is achieved not by adding more and more fertilizers and, according to Dr. Elaine Ingham, they are NOT necessary. Your soils don't need any of these inputs so save your hard-earned money and instead focus on root growth.
Are you told that you need fertilizers because your soil is lacking nutrients to be able to grow plants?
They will show you in your laboratory soil test results what is missing in your soil and recommend to you to apply fertilizers that contain these nutrients for your soil to grow your plant. What they say seems to make sense to make your soil balanced but it's only one part of a living, healthy soil.
Their solutions are band-aids to the problem and you get more problems by doing this. You will have to apply more and more of these chemicals each year and the problems keep coming and get worst.
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[@TheVigilantStewards]

Elaine Ingham is great, her lectures stick in my head

[@billastell3753]

I moved into a neighbourhood with heavy clay 35 years ago. Being a gardener I chatted with the neighbours and asked them how the gardening was in the area. The opinion was unanimous... you can't garden here, the ground is like concrete. I struggled away for about 5 years until I had a light bulb come on one day. I'd have to change the soil. Make it better. For the next 30 years my gardening focus has been on soil improvement. 3/4 of my 1 acre gardening space is being improved each year with cover crops or by adding organic matter to the soil (manure, leaves). My food crop grow amazingly and I have few pests that can keep up with the vigorous plant growth. ,

[@bashful228]

Bill Astell Elaine isn’t in favour of applying manures directly to soils to boost productivity. i asked her in an interview once about organics techniques like adding manures and rock dust and she was very critical of that input based approach. has to be holistic and integrated.

[@billastell3753]

I guess it's a matter of what you need to do to get the job done. Not all folks are fortunate enough to live on a flood plain that brings fertility from upstream each year nor on a area that has loam topsoil 5 feet deep. These areas do exist and the soil can be managed differently. I live in a northern area with topsoil that is 6 inches deep. I don't use rock dust and manure is not easy to come by in this modern age but I use it when I can get it. Other inputs, sawdust, leaves etc. have been essential, as far as I know. It may have been possible to develop my soil "holistically" but I would be interested to know how to do that without "inputs".

[@costinm22]

Should this be taught in school?! I THINK SO!

[@helendisler5453]

We agree!

[@chersmith3181]

Excellent and valuable information! Major implications for livestock grazing management!

[@Horse237]

This is from a longer lecture. This is the best part. Please share this one. Why? Organic Matter (OM) is the key to making a garden great. 2/3rds of OM in your garden comes from roots. Indian Grass pictured at the opening would make amazing OM and a great garden.

[@Laurenavan]

Excellent information.

[@yuyiya]

Thanks for sharing this information! Sure makes you stop and think.

[@anndebaldo7381]

Wonderful talk~ Plz keep sharing!

[@dirtpatcheaven]

This was phenomenal information, thank you for sharing!

[@sariihover4798]

how very interesting informations

[@MyVegetablePatch]

I love my compost ...more and more. Thank you for sharing. :-)

[@Horse237]

Feed your compost to Red Wigglers for best results. Worms take mineral ions and form amino acid chelated forms of minerals that your plants can absorb.

[@yuyiya]

Three weeks ago, I took half a barrow-load of mature compost out of our bins, wheeled it onto our patchy lawn (don't criticise us for having one - the dogs need somewhere to run!) and filled it up with rainwater from the tank. After thoroughly mixing it all up, then leaving it stand for 24 hours, I bucketed out the fluid and broadcast it onto the grass. The remaining solids went to mulch some roses. As it's winter, most of the grass is dormant, but the weeds sure have picked up! But I'll repeat the exercise in a couple of weeks, as the first jonquils came out yesterday. Hope to see a difference in the grass cover this year.

[@helendisler5453]

Keep it up! To keep it safe put compost worms through the finished compost to remove all pathogens.

[@bashful228]

Yo Yo! soaking the compost in water will encourage anaerobic bacteria. better to compost then make a compost tea. when making a compost tea aerate the mixture with an air pump and feed it with carbon and nitrogen.

[@TheVigilantStewards]

Ah that was really interesting to see the before and after for the golf course. I would have thought the blackness in the top soil is what you would have wanted indicating humic material. Definitely didn't think it would be a sign of it going anaerobic.

[@williamwaha3193]

Carmelo Santini --- It's based on the smell , the humic soil will smell sweet kind of like wet dirt what they call earthy anaerobic soil will smell bad . The "black " soil look doesn't mean much by itself , if you want to make your soil look darker than it really is just water it - watering your soil will make it look darker . That wont change the soils fertility and the longer you keep it soaking wet the more it will smell badly , bogs / swamps have a smell to them .

[@dredank]

I have clay 10 inches below. Best way to remediate? Teas/ mulches ferments is what i have been doing

[@syeduddin3114]

How does rice grow in waterlogged soil then?

[@jamessones4044]

Imagine what chemtrails have done to the soil over the last couple of decades.

[@soillearningcenter]

Yep! Let's all work to heal the soils

[@TheVigilantStewards]

Would have liked to have heard how to deal with compaction. Even setting up earthworks for a site is going to give you compaction so undoing that and getting infiltration is really important to understand.

[@bashful228]

Carmelo Santini same way she broke the black layer on the golf green is the way to break the black layer above the compaction at 18” depth. compost teas to encourage root growth. plant roots can break concrete as she said, the soil needs to be favourably alive to encourage that growth. get the symbiotic relationships going. compost tea is one line of attack. plants with strong root systems that like to break up clay and bring up nutrients is another (for eg Daikon, a root vegetable growth a lot in japan).

[@TheVigilantStewards]

@@bashful228 So, it's all in the right compost tea? Do you ever inject it into the soil after a while? If you're just putting it on the surface does it get 12-24" down?

[@HOUSEfulsoul]

Although I think she has very valuable findings, i notice she describes problems with overly regular grazing, pushing the plant into stress and root dyoff. Then in the golfyard, the daily mowing still works while roots deepening. What would be an explanation for that contrasting information?

[@gustavohopkins242]

It doesn't. The roots are a couple inches deep from compaction. Also it's the ease in which it grows the plant is going to try to grow. How much fertilizer and water is used on the golf course. She did a comparison of golf course grass in another video. The earth was super compact and anerobic 6 inches down

[@bashful228]

compost tea. applying compost tea to large acreages is less easy. but what the other said too, it’s not in the best of health and the application of synthetic fertilisers will be negating the compost tea impact on soil biota. it ‘burns’ the life out of the soil. maybe they stopped with the PNK fertiziler too, Elaine doesn’t make that bit clear.

[@helpless8216]

What exactly was done to the soil where that grass was planted. Also I would like to know what variety of grass that is. It would be very helpful if there was information in the lectures about how the results or improvements are achieved. What exactly was the initial soil mineral test and microbial population. What exactly was added and when, over what period, to cause the change in biology and mineral availability. BTW, the "joke" of saying the list of minerals very quickly gets old fast.

[@MrMichaelStangl]

Rye grass to start, but this can work on all turf types, cover crops, ag, tender fruit, grapes, as long as you know what the plants B:F biomass ratio should be at. You then use the microscope to have your base line of biology. Then apply fungal dominated compost teas, but you require fungal dominated compost. You should take the online Farming Secrets course to have a better and deeper understanding, but once you know, it is simple to implement.

[@GetDamage]

Answer to your question at 2:03.

[@veganchiefwarrior6444]

so what are we supposed to do with potted fruit trees surely they need alot of feeding? do we mix the compost into the soil or do we plant into it on top? since when was compost enough ive grown in straight compost and i still need t feed it after a few weeks and im organic as it gets so what am i missing here? has she not grown papayas before? the only way she could be right is if im somehow suffocating everything with too much compost, can someone who knows what there talkin about chime in here please cause i feel like i cant make enough fertiliser, are we saying i can just stop the fertilising cause its not doing anything? at this point im all ears

[@williamgreene4834]

Pots are an artificial world like astronauts on a space ship they need constant care. I know because I both grow many things in pots and also have a big garden. Things in pots will never grow like things in the earth. You are looking at plants as plants growing in dirt and they aren't. Plants are one part of a very, very, old, almost infinitely complex symbiotic system. Plants feed this system energy from the sun, and the microbes deliver nutrients to the plants. You and I have taken plants and put them in a pot which cuts them off from most of their world. The plants in my garden will always grow better than plants in my pots. I don't know if that helps any but I have found it to be true. Since when has compost been enough you ask. Since the beginning of time.

[@veganchiefwarrior6444]

it does seem that way except my citrus in ground arent kicking off either, my past of semi hydroponic and bottled liquid fertilisers has completly tainted my understanding of how plants grow, i have to remember they are there own thing and just give them what they need when they really need it i guess, starting with loam and water now, and just a scant sprinle of fine compost on top, i dont know what im doing, thanks for the advice mate@@williamgreene4834

[@goldenages7089]

25 percent vermicompost is a good mix

[@leelindsay5618]

Use the 5 soil health principles and you will find your plants in ground amd in pots do better. You, and everyone, is starting with a degraded resource. In this talk she is talking about grazing, chemical and physical compaction, and root systems. You are talking about permaculture trees - what is around your trees? What plants are feeding your trees? Do you have legumes for nitrogen? Do you have armour on the soil to keep in moisture, keep temperatures more constant, and feed the soil? How much diversity is in a meter or two of the trees? Are you grazing any animals between trees?

[@veganchiefwarrior6444]

@@leelindsay5618 its just like normal soil, compost on top thats been goin on for a few years in a residential yard inbetween lawns

[@worldhop71]

How deep a layer is 30% compost? Sounds unrealistic for a larger garden/or field.

[@Horse237]

Chop and drop. Plant a cover crop with 6 foot roots. The roots become Organic Matter in your soil. You chop and drop the cover crop that is above ground. You might be better off turning your cover crop into compost. The only thing else you need would be earthworms for the garden. If you want to create vermicompost, use Red Wigglers in a bin. Earthworms dive deep and are great for soil. The USDA says a mature garden with lots of earthworms will receive 21,000 pounds of vermicompost a year. And the worms do that for free.

[@joshblick]

That's all fine and dandy but how would you successfully plant crops without using roundup to kill off the existing cover crop? Mowing it down doesn't seem like enough.

[@gustavohopkins242]

Cover with cardboard and then soil. Or utilize hungry livestock

[@timothyingalls7731]

Some folks are going to pasture cropping. Or you could use a roller crimper to terminate and get a cover crop. Or you could strip till and plant between an existing cover crop or into native grass

[@joshblick]

@@gustavohopkins242 Cover a field with cardboard??????

[@MedicallyFit]

8:30 min in she starts talking about plants needing 42 essential nutrients...interestng

[@29sentz]

Yeah and we need 91 if you listen to Dr. Joel Wallach

[@charronfamilyconnect]

**Is the fact that most of the bacteria and humus in the soil being destroyed by pesticides is leading to the increase in the incidences of flash floods, and sinkholes in the south or wherever they grow lots of mono-crop GMO corn, and soya?**

[@soillearningcenter]

B Charron All of what you mention leads to destroying the soil structure and can mean that the soil has no moisture holding capacity but as to sink holes I have no idea.

[@christophersmith8014]

+Farming Secrets The sink holes are often caused by the depletion of ground water reservoirs. As the water is pumped out of the ground, it leaves a more open structure deep in the earth and the soil compresses from the newly unsupported weight of dirt above. Sometimes this forms subsoil pockets like underground caves. If the water table is allowed enough time the subsoil pocket will recover and the aquifer can reclaim the area, but in the case of mass depletion the entire soil structure dries, weakens and collapses into the void pocket. It is attributed to a heavy reliance on irrigation, which is generally caused, as you referred, by dead soil structure in the farming layer.

[@barryjordan8406]

As a golf superintendent, I find this subject very interesting. However, when Dr Ingham was taking about the rye grass, she said, if we let the animals come back too soon and grase, it will put the plant in stress. But when talking about the golf green, it's mowed (grased) everyday, but yet it was fine. Which is it? What is it I missed, or she did not add? Otherwise, this is great stuff.

[@MrMichaelStangl]

Leaf is require for photosynthesis, if you have animals grazing excessively the plant reduces rooting. This requires an understanding of your soil biology and using a microscope to find your soils base line and then to follow development.

[@anthonycopper327]

+Barry Jordan Thanks for sharing this Barry. I have the same question and would appreciate input from others with turf experience or Elaine to answer whether this type of situation (overgrazed or constantly mowed grass) can become sustainable (ie - no continued additions of compost tea) or does it require ongoing supplemental treatment to keep the soil biology healthy?

[@barryjordan8406]

+Anthony Copper In one of her videos, she did say they treated that particular green 4 times in a month. And in other research, I read where you must make a tea treatment after every chemical application. But as I understood it, tea is applied on a regular basis no matter what. As for the details, I'm still searching. thanks

[@michaelstangl54]

Overgrazing occurs when plants are exposed to intensive grazing for extended periods of time, or without sufficient recovery periods. When you cut you have leaf blade still present at whatever the height. You are not damaging the crown of the plant. You need to apply a diverse tea and the only way you can do that is by checking it with a microscope. Get a sample of soil from the location and calculate the fugal to bacteria ratio as well as Protozoa and nematodes. This is your base line. You may even find that these greens have rooting feeding nematodes. Now you have a compost you want to use for your tea. Check it under the microscope because you do not want the wrong biology going on. If all is good, make tea and then apply. You will then follow up and check the biology to see your gains or other. I found that repeat applications are needed to move the soil into balance. This past year I did well over 150 brews at 50 gallon per acre all season that would equate to: 21,000,000 sq.ft or 3 million sq.ft per round/month. We were able to sequester 700 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere, thus reducing climate change unlike fertilizers that increase climate change. Just to mention, that of that 700 tons, say 60% of that is humus in the soil as well as fungus. Oh, the fungus grows all winter long under the snow for a great spring.

[@barryjordan8406]

+Michael Stangl Awseome info, thanks. How less of chemicals did you guys have to spray? If I could get that to control my brown patch and dollar spot, and reduce chemicals, and plus help the greens, it would go a long way in helping my low budget course through the year. What have you noticed as far as reduced disease and chemical usage?

[@ajaygarg1139]

Maam you keep telling benefits of soil biology.. but yu dont tell how to build it..

[@martinmartin691]

Where is my free copy? Ur site just asks to buy ur book.😡 Not good... not good at all. Im sorry to say

[@soillearningcenter]

Hi Martin, Are you referring to the 7 Steps to Healthy Soil? If yes, just to let you know that it is a series of emails that you receive for 7 days. Please email [e-mail] if you have questions or concerns. Thanks!