In this video, I explore the method of intuitive gardening, which can also be called ‘no-rules ‘ gardening as a different approach to growing food. I explain how the way I am gardening this year is a complete experiment and the reasons behind it. This is the first video for a mini-series that looks deeper at this way of vegetable gardening.
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I really looking forward to seeing your thoughts at the end of the year and to find out whether you'll continue with no rules gardening or head back to a more planned garden. Thank you so much for inviting me to be a part of this series.
Love this … I am constantly telling my gardening buddies break the rules on what someone told you about gardening
A really super vid. Liz helped me to relax more than a little over attitude to the garden. I am grateful for that. I am just beginning to cotton on the fact that I'll have a lot of space once the peas, onions and beans are done and so I'm frantically (less so since the vid) sowing replacements. Thank you both so much for the encouragement and advice. Best wishes as always to you both. Paul (and Liz, look after your health in these hazardous times)
Very interesting program!
I’ve been watching your video since I started gardening in our backyard in Canada! I’ve been doing no rules gardening for 2 years. It’s really been abundant harvest this tear especially my potatoes and but my cauliflower did not turn out well this year because of rainy weather! I am really inspired how you do your gardening! Also I like how you mentioned other gardeners channel and so I did get some ideas and followed them as well.
I’ve been watching your video since I started gardening in our backyard in Canada! I’ve been doing no rules gardening for 2 years. It’s really been abundant harvest this tear especially my potatoes and but my cauliflower did not turn out well this year because of rainy weather! I am really inspired how you do your gardening! Also I like how you mentioned other gardeners channel and so I did get some ideas and followed them as well.
Great gardening ideas and however you go about it you get to eat the results. Great videos which we very much enjoy.
I loved this video! It's like listening to the garden and finding what suits it best. Greetings from Spain
Loved it.
I mean… to do that you kinda have to know about the plants to know when they can be planted. idk what "rules" your referring to, but you're probably right that you shouldn't follow them once you know a thing or 2.
ya… you have to till the plant into the soil (or otherwise kill it) to fix the nitrogen… another reason not to garden in wood chips.
next spring mix up a pile of radishe, lettuce, spinach, chard/kale, and carrot/beet seeds. broadcast them in a bed. re-sow greens and radishes as required and enjoy food all year with minimal weeding. you'll get radishes, then tender greens, then hardy greens and root crops in the summer/fall.
This is my kind of gardening 🙂
Liz was fantastic. Looking forward to the rest!
I don't remember if I discovered your channel through Liz's, or hers through yours, but I really enjoy both of you and appreciate your collaboration, sharing of information and audiences. This is my first year gardening, having finally moved to a large farm property in Nova Scotia, Canada. I have read a lot, watched a lot of youtube videos, and have just gone out there and adapted in a no rules kind of way. I am loving the experience of learning by experimenting!
love Liz
I see that you have beautiful grass in your garden. As my garden is expanding, I’m having problems with controlling the weeds in the grass areas. I stopped getting the grass in the garden area treated for weeds last summer. Now the weeds are an eye sore even when cut low. How do you maintain your grass? Any suggestions are much appreciated!
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant; unchained gardening …..next level on remembering The Garden
I love this
I couldn't agree more, surely it is essential to be intuitive around plants… Also, can I just add, please, I simply can't stand people creating 'coffins' to grow their food in !!! And mono-culture is surely least intuitive of all! X
I thought you were Christian Bale.
Lovely. This is an amazing video! Thanks for posting this. It’s how I’ve been gardening for ages. I walk around with a potted plant, meandering in roughly the right light levels and just pick a spot that we both think will be a nice place for it to go. It’s helped me replace most of the front lawn with plants, both perennials and annuals, edibles and beneficial. I love how it’s turning out. And even letting my bits of lawn do what it wants have led to a wild polyculture of native meadow plants and I love it too. (Even if grass drives me crazy)
Thank you both so much for this video!
It took me about 2 years of gardening to learn the basics. Since then I have been gardening intuitively. For me this is the best form of gardening and nature is the best teacher and gardener. 🙂
I feel like I’ve been doing this for a while. Just never had a name for it.
This is exactly what I needed to watch at the moment <3 I'm quite new to gardening and get myself far too worked up and anxious on whether I've done things exactly 'right'. Thank you
I see , there is a vine in the top of yur folietunnel. What variety is that, and how you prune this. Greets from Belgium.