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Over the past few years, we’ve gotten fairly good a growing our own food. However, we haven’t always gotten a chance to eat it… before the critters did. So, at this point we figured it was finally time to finish our garden fence!
In this video, we’ll cover the thought process that went into our initial plans, and also show you how we installed our fence posts without any cement / concrete. Then in the coming weeks, we’ll hopefully be able to show you how we eventually wrap the fence, build a gate, etc. With any luck, we’ll be fully set up in time for spring.
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Where We Get FREE Garden Mulch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww34XwhdeZ4
Our Deep-Mulch Vegetable Garden After TWO MONTHS of Complete Neglect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT1TJwbxr6E
Companion Planting Asparagus and Strawberries (No-till, Ruth Stout)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc92S7UQD5k
Spring Prep in our “No-Work” Garden, and an EASIER way to Spread Mulch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkJtNJqKM34
Preparing our Hugelkultur Garden for Winter: Chop and Drop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VIpTac1NiA
The Ruth Stout Method of Permaculture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfi-n0Oq38E
337 lbs of Potatoes! NO digging, NO watering, and VERY LITTLE work!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlratwBT5OI
Planting Potatoes in a Ruth Stout Permaculture Garden (QUICK and EASY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dexx9kKVWeo
Results from our NO DIG and NO WATER potato experiment (Ruth Stout Method)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf0Q2YlQOUU
Companion Planting Carrots, Radishes and Onions in a Ruth Stout (HAY-ONLY) Garden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMkn5b0jHhE
Results and Lessons Learned from our Carrot, Onion, and Radish Experiment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2tNfgW8Ug
Plant Hardiness Zone, Rainfall, and Other Important Information
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrAJbE0ZTA8
Winter Ruth Stout Permaculture Update and HAY vs STRAW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-A1gNNjen0
Thank you for another wonderful video. You have a knack for explaining in the simplest terms with terrific graphic support. This fellow beginning farmer is very grateful!
please make more videos.
paint the posts with used motor (engine) oil . When you change it from your campervan . It will last many many years
All the farm fencers in NZ are just rammed earth and stand for 50 plus years. I done it for a job years ago. We would aim for 5 chain per day. ( about 125metres) of 8 wire plus strainers and posts. Tough work it was…
Are you opposed to hunting?
Good morning mate, mind if I ask a question? At the moment my food garden only equates to about 5 large pots (Cilantro, spring onion, cspinach, chives, chestnut mushrooms) so this question is more just purely out of curiosity.
For saving garlic bulbs, spring onion bulbs, possibly potatoes, etc – Can they just be left under the soil to preserve them for later eating or planting?
Thank you
The deer in my neighborhood are SO healthy and happy … and plentiful. In the past, I just shared my front-yard garden with a shrug, accepting it was nature's way. However, this year they got EVERYTHING long before harvest time, even the plants that are supposed to be deer-resistant. I have recycled old t-posts, installed them around the perimeter, and will attach cattle panels and a gate before I start a new garden next spring. An expensive solution and not particularly attractive, but worth it if I can get a harvest, and still enjoy the beauty of flowers and vegetables from my living room picture window. Wish me luck!
Hi, "a question regarding Ruth stout method" we have a plot of 74ft x 74ft for gardening and planting trees. But it's said that when trees will go bigger then you can't harvest much vegetables or plant anything because nothing will grow in better way. So I need to know if I keep using this method, would it help in later years to grow vegetables when trees will become huge.
Here in Texas if you go to deep the pole will catch fire during July and August and sometimes in June and September.. 🙁
Very helpful video. Great animation. You really saved a lot of time having the cattle fence to use. I need to make a fence like this for our upcoming first summer with a garden.
Great to see how much you have expanded keep up the good work
Probably cost prohibitive to get ahold of any up North but the best materials for fence post is probably Osage Orange, it's a "weed" tree around me but it's some seriously useful stuff. Burns hotter than any other wood in North America, is more resistant to rot than cedar or even redwood and it's insanely hard and strong.
Are the animals just not that much of a problem? That you didn't have to finish the fence..
How do you do you animation, it is very well done and professional.
so with keeping bark on your tree, you're making it the perfect spots for mould, and bacteria, and insects to decay the wood much like you'd see a fallen tree begin to soften and deteriorate back into the earth.
so when you take off the bark you're essentially drying the wood therefore having it last longer and retain its strength!
remember this if you plant posts underground as the enzymes within the bark will break down overtime beneath the soil
love the video!! i love your excitement! This is for sure a dream of mine!!
I’m very jealous of your soil with few rocks. I’m in Ontario as well, but my soil is probably 60% rock.
Try eating some of the critters that are eating your garden. Rabbits, groundhogs and deer all make good table fare
Hahaha… In the end the poles still didn't get a fence! Haha… Now half a year has passed, so do they now?! Hihi…
… But good explanation on fencing and nice recicling of wood poles… And high video production quality…
It is may now. Any progress on the fence?
Love your channel! Im building my own ruth stout beds in the garden. Completely based on your videos 🙂
google cuskija and go to images
use that to make and widen a hole
only for 3×3 posts max
that's one long measuring tape
Try charring the section of the post that will be underground. Stick it in a fire for 5 minutes or so to get a good layer of charcoal on it. They've found hunks of charred wood posts in human settlements that are thousands of years old. This will make the post last much longer before rotting.
I should add to my previous comment: if you add layers of pulverized lime and cheap gravel along with soil (3 layers) and tamp that all down and then water it well, that really makes a nice binding. I used this ion my compost bins done in the Will Bonsall style. If you're not familiar with Bonsall's work definitely check him out because he's growing in Maine not terribly far from you guys so very short grow season and extremely cold winters. He's got a great book called "Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening". I just finished reading it cover to cover and it is fantastic. He takes a vegan approach which is awesome as maintaining livestock is time consuming and expensive (and completely unnecessary for abundant health and yields). He even gets into growing, harvesting, threshing, and processing your own grains and oilseed meal. I'm definitely moving in that direction but an far behind where you guys are at. Planning to start a hugel mound or 3 this year. I'd be curious to know how long your hugelkultur mounds last as my understanding is over time they collapse as the wood disintegrates.
I have a 20 year old split rail cedar fence that has a base layer of pea gravel (about 4 inches for drainage) then I packed pea gravel to the top stopping every 6 inches to pack down….lastly I put concrete on top of pea gravel in a hill shape to divert water…still sturdy
For anyone watching, when orienting the direction of your rows you cant go by north on the compass. Thats magnetic north. True north requires adding or subtracting the specific "degrees of declination" for your place on the globe to give true north.
One thing I will say about leaving the bark on the fence posts is that the birds and wasps will strip it eventually anyway. That’s what happened to mine.