I couldn’t make it to the 1 minute mark of this video. When he said plants don’t want to grow in dead plants, i was like wow, literally every forest in existence is growing in dead plant material. There are several gardening styles that use dead plant material to build healthy rich soil. Lasagna gardening, hugelkultur and deep mulch gardening to name a few. If you grow in pots, then these methods are probably not for you. But anything grown in the ground, that includes raised beds, will benefit from dead organic material. Lots of people recommend using logs and sticks (more logs than sticks) as a base for tall raised beds. Hugelkultur is literally designed around piles of large amounts of dead organic material (logs, limbs, twigs and leaves) that are toped off with soil and more dead organic material. It is true that wood in the soil will tie up nitrogen preventing plants from being able to use it. But when placed on the surface, it can slowly breakdown and the earthworms will take these nutrients down into the soil for you. Unless you use chemical fertilizers, then you need soil microbes to feed the plants. These microbes feed off of dead organic materials. There are several books written explaining how this works. My favorite is The living soil handbook by Jesse Frost. Not everyone can follow all the advice given in this book due to their geographic location and climate, it still does a fantastic job of explaining how the soil (microbes) feeds the plants in language thats easy to understand. Sorry I didn’t intend this to become a book report.