In this video, I show you how our chickens made the best compost fertiliser then we use it in the garden to plant garlic and top up other raised garden beds such as raspberries and mint.
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G'day Everyone, Plastic Forests: This is the company that makes the plastic sheeting in rolls used to make our chicken compost ring https://plasticforests.com.au/ I believe the key to solving our plastic problem is to make recycling all types of plastic easy for everyone and attractive for businesses. Plastic Forests have pioneered eco-friendly ways to recycle soft plastics (once thought to be impossible to do) – that is the kind of technology and small business ingenuity I love to see! Cheers 🙂
Hi Mark, just shared this video with heaps of friends. Also subscribed and liked. I'm a little worried with the garlic and the chook poop as it (garlic) doesn't like too much nitrogen and would go well with phosphorus and potassium instead. You might have to add some tomato skins…Oops I mean banana skins lol. I look forward to seeing how well this goes and all the best mate.
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Nice music in the end.
I like your visitor
Ooo I want to try this in my small backyard veggie garden
What's your thoughts on Biochar/Terra preta as a way to enrich soils?
Try after eating garlic or onions, chewing mint leaves or any green leaves, they remove the smell.
Awesome
Can we see a follow up 🙂
Mark!! I love you sooo much! I always find something new to grow when I watch your videos! There aren’t many YouTubers in the subtropical areas. You’re amazing sir. Thank you
Hey Mark as a local to you and vegi growing enthusiast l love your videos. I use a similar system of holding my vegi scraps. Can l recommend putting some paper waste in the bottom of your barrel as this absorbs excess liquid and stops it going sour and helps reduce odours in your barrel. Keep up the great work.
Dear self sufficient! I loved your commentary on caged and free run chicken and eggs. You nailed it. I wish there are more people who would read between the lines when it comes to analysis like these. Fake and distracting. I will keep buying "free run eggs!!' Thank you.
You're gunna have me raisin chickens n growin a garden.
Would you ever consider growing your own plants for mulch? That would be cool!
I'm in the middle of an extended Covid break with lots of time to refresh my knowledge bank with good YouTube material. I keep finding myself coming back again and again to your videos as much for the pleasant experience as for the fantastic expertise. Thank you so much for providing this gift. I've become a real fan of your material. I hope you keep it coming.
cant wait to see how these turn out
Wow quite resourceful to make the chickens turn the compost and give them a feed at the same time
Also isit safe for the chickens to eat kitchen scraps?
Excellent Mark. I planted garlic last April and I have the patience to wait for 8 or 9 months. I want to see your garlic at harvest. Chicken manure is the best I know, I am trying with it now. One question: which animal is inside the plastic ring at night? Greetings from the south of Chile. See you.
God bless you all. 1Corinthians15:1-4=Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the GOSPEL which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are SAVED, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, HOW THAT CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES; AND THAT HE WAS BURIED, AND THAT HE ROSE AGAIN THE THIRD DAY ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES.
Ephesian 1:13=In whom ye also TRUSTED, after that ye heard the word of truth, the GOSPEL of your SALVATION: in whom also after that ye BELIEVED, ye were SEALED with that holy Spirit of promise.
Ephesian 2:8-9=For by GRACE are ye SAVED through FAITH; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of WORKS, lest any man should boast.
Romans 3:23-26=For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being JUSTIFIED FREELY by his GRACE through the REDEMPTION that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a PROPITIATION through FAITH in his BLOOD, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which BELIEVETH in Jesus. Without blood there is no life and without Jesus BLOOD no eternal life.
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I was watching The Green Dream Project. The couple Jim and Jessica are building a rammed earth homestead in Arizona. Jim absolutely punishes the tools he uses. A 200L 4 wheeled Gorilla Cart, I went for the plastic tub, would make your life a lot easier. We moved all six ton in two sessions with the cart. It's easier to shovel directly from the cart to the beds, but it has a dump out facility for making ground mounds. It can also be towed. Maybe check out GDP if you are interested
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Anybody know where Mark gets his shorts? I like the coolness of a pair of proper short shorts and like Mark have the great legs to make them look good.
It's funny how garlic in up north feels like tomato, it just automatically grows. I put some not even sprouting garlic cloves in a bucket where I had previously thrown potato and onion in, I thought the growing season was already over at that point because nothing was seemingly growing out of the bucket. It was already below 10 C in the nights and actually getting to 0 or even negative C. Alas, a couple of weeks and there's 20 cm long green garlic leaves pushing out. It's -5 C at night and -3 C in the day. I was fully expecting the garlic to overwinter before anything, but apparently it's happy to grow in these conditions. I also completely ignored the bucket because of that, left it in the balcony without watering or anything (although it was pretty rainy late fall).