This video explores some considerations to what you could use as edible wind barriers to help you protect your garden from wind damage if you are in an exposed setting. It also explores why edible wind barriers are so effective as well as what plants we use.
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Im a new subscriber and really enjoy your videos. I am excited to get my garden ready for spring planting . When is best time to plant potatoes? Thank you dear friend.
Great vids Huw. Very inspiring and informative. Keep up the good work!
wonderful idea! thanks so much.
Very good, thought provoking video. I subscribed. Very helpful.
In Oregon the commercial growers wind loganberry into circles and tie them onto trellis'
Great video! My challenge here is Southern Tasmania is that I would like edible windbreaks that aren't deciduous, so that they work through winter too. We have a similar climate to you, perhaps a bit warmer, but high rainfall and strong frosts. Do you have any suggestions for evergreen edible windbreaks? Thank you.
Great info. Thank you. I'll be use your advise creating a wind barrier with edible plants. I was thinking to plant cypress trees along the fence but I will probably insert both to also use some tree shade.
Wait! Are tires toxic??
Thanks, very informative.
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We have the same problem here, a field and with it a wind tunnel. So I've started a gabion fence that we were going to fill with oyster shell. Then lost our supply. So now we're using unbroken glass jars and bottles. And bamboo. At one metre tall it's just enough to slow the wind against the honeybee hives .
Next close by we've planted sunflowers these will give us 2-3 metres of your edable break.
Beyond the gabion are a staggered line of fruit trees to be self trellised by intertwined branches.
I'll be watching what you're doing. To copy and paste it here.
Thankx
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I guess put up wooden trellises are the first thing to do?
Great video for me, I live up high on a mountain, and wind, as you expect, is a real problem for growing vegetables.
Thank you for so.much information the effect of edible bushes will give a secondary benefit good good and protect my flowering shrubs from the wind tunnel effect I have between my home and my neighbours property
I need more space.
Useful, thank you.
You started by saying broad beans need wind protection, then you said your wind breaks made of the raspberry/blackberry plants only work in the summer, but that's ok because you dont grow things in the winter. Broad beans grow in the winter. Or maybe you dont grow them in the winter? Is that it? You then talk about using gooseberry plants to protect broad beans, but again, gooseberry go bare in the winter. So its no good for anyone growing broad beans through the winter, or any other such crops.
Do you ever have trouble with rodents or snakes in the garden or in the tires you are using by the trellis? And if so, what to do?
Thats really nice video! I am just planning and will be planting edible hedge soon. I have mix of plants which dont need much looking after but are edible, mostly for the wildlife but hopefully I will be lucky enough to get some too.
The thing I am struggling to learn about it the stalking or any additional support especially when the side is heavily exposed (I live in scotland and it is very windy at some moments).
Informative! Bamboo? Fast growing and the clumping kinds aren’t invasive….
Very very interesting. Thanks for sharing!
We’re in Vermont and the Katabatic winds come tearing down the mountains and the plants are getting jostled quite hard. Maybe loganberries planted along the wire barrier fence are the answer, not sure they are available here.
Thanks for the ideas. Beth
Thanks for the great video Huw, this is my favorite one on windbreaks.
I'm developing a windbreak of rosa rugosa and a multitude of native and ornamental shrubs.
What I'm trying to protect – roses – need winter protection- I plan to run a few rolls of burlap along my garden wire fence fo winter protection
I know it’s years later since you made this video, but how do you deal with the sheep eating the entire pasture side of the berry bushes? I’ve postponed making the hedgerow because of hungry sheep. How is yours fairing?
I have had success using climbing green beans ( Blue Lake ) on a trellis to buffer the north wind next to my tomato garden. By reducing the wind velocity the season can be extended a bit more towards the fall. The green beans get more productive the bigger the vines get. Double bonus.
excellent video Huw how's the hedge working out?
This is super helpful
On a hillside, if I want a few windbreaks that will help out through the winter as well, I assume I would need to go with evergreens? How many feet does it protect, away from the windbreak? Is it best to plant perpendicular to the primary wind? Or is it better to plant 45% to the primary wind?
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