On today’s 2 minute garden tip, I share the best way to remove plants from a garden. Whether you’re putting a garden to rest for winter or simply turning over a garden bed for a new planting, STOP PULLING OLD PLANTS! Pulling plants is killing your soil, and this way is better, because it protects the soil microbiome while adding soil nutrients by composting roots.
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39 Comments
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Perfect explantation, thanks!. #nodiggal
Thanks for sharing 😊
How about plants infested with root-knot nematodes. If you don't pull the plants how do recognize the infestation
I just pull out a bell pepper plant! I started a raised flower bed for next year ❤ I went outside and put the roots in the potting soil. Question 🙋♂️ what can I do to make my soil better by planting time???
I've tried this in zone 6 but it seems like frosts start too early and there's no decomposition going on during winter, and after last late frosts in May there are still plenty of roots left in the soil.
Just chopped and dropped my tomatos ✌️
Great advice !
What do you do about weeds?
hmm never thought about this before, Thank you
It doesnt matter actually
Must be Sunday. I learned something new!
I cut up all the plants I chop down and use it as mulch in my beds. It all breaks back down into soil and plant food
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I think this works better for places with seasons, where not much planting happens for a time such as during winter.
This is great, thanks! I have always just ripped stuff up and out! 😅
I do this with most plants except cabbage family, them I pull because they refuse to die
Pulling plants and examining the roots is how I identify RKN hotspots and know where I need to treat next season.
1: 35. "…when I try and pull up..
'try and' is an oxymoron.
It's impossible.
The "and" cancels the"try".
"…try to…" is possible.
👌Totally makes sense!
🌲🌳🌴 It seems to work pretty nicely for nature, so I'm in!
Thank you for another great video.
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Wouldn’t you be ruining your soil when you plant your new plants?
This way is less work, too!
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Can weather treated wood leach chemicals into what we grow
I pull my tomato plants due to the blight and other diseases that they can harbor from my humid, hot summers. They all go in the trash too, they don't get composted.
Not a good idea for us on the coast to leave any roots that are susceptible to nematodes. You're leaving a food source for them to multiply for months. Okra, melons, cucs, etc need to go.
You're awesome. Great information. Thank you.
Have a happy Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season!
Makes sense!
Will do. 💚💚
people who know nothing about plants, composting, and soil pull everything out of their gardens. they also remove every last leaf from their yards in the fall
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I throw the old fallen fruits in the garden along with the stuff that goes bad in the kitchen. The free-range chickens love it!
My "weeds" are Bermuda grass and other things that have similar rhizomes. If I don't pull them where the poultry gets to them how do I kill them off?
Rubbish. Pure rubbish. “Open wound in the soil.” disappointing to realize that are so many gullible people out there.
I have been leaving all plant roots in the soil here in zone 5a for several years now. Come planting time in the spring, I pretty much plant right next to the previous years stem I leave behind.
Leaving roots promotes all the things you noted, along with maintaining soil structure, aeration, soil decompaction and pathways for moisture. I go a step further, have added native perennial plants in most of my beds to keep living roots which promote the biology that feed our plants. Merry Christmas! Stay Well !!!
Oh thank you very helpful!
It all makes sense because this is what happens in nature, but why do farmers plough their fields after they have harvested their crops?
Finally a video about leaving the soil alone and no digging. In my garden I don’t dig, I don’t top over the soil. I leave it alone. Only when I put in new plants. I leave the leaves in the winter on top. Leave the plants alone so they can still provide food for the birds. If I see most videos of gardens they are so neat. Mine is not in winter. In early spring I put compost through the leaves, cut the plants en let it rest. Let the microbes, fungus, worms and other things do the rest. Have minor problems in my garden, back spot on roses that is all. I don’t use pesticides nothing. A healthy soil, gives healthy plants in a garden with a lot of divers pants. I am from the Netherlands.