In this video, I give you some of my top garden projects that I’m working on this growing season.
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Where do you get your building materials for your raised beds??
The best pumpkins I ever grew were "volunteers" out of a compost pile/ditch. Funny though, it produced 13 pumpkins on my birthday – August 9th!
you have to glue some tomatos to the banana trees now …
Love your feed. Ref your pumpkin patch, have you ever considers integrating corn & beans to make a “three sisters” crop? It’s a traditional indigenous crop pairing from North America – not sure if it’ll work for your area. Effectively your pumpkin or squash provides top cover for soil, the corn structure for beans and beans are nutrient positive, pushing nutrients back into soil as they climb the corn. Great pairing.
If the pumpkins continue going crazy, you can eat the greens. Sautéed pumpkin greens!
Line your compost bays with several layers of corrugated cardboard box. They'll last at least a year & add brown(carbon) material to your compost when they do break down.
hi Friend. you might have a solution to my clay layer underground situation, turning the problem in advantage. (I'll try my poor English here). all my half hectare plot has decent soil layer of 30 to 35 cm. but then a second layer of 30 to 35 cm clay, where almost no roots from the native vegetation to see. finally the hardest clay where no life at all, spanning maybe from here in Bolivia to your spot. ok, may be not that deep :). Bolivia, mountains, in my case 30% slope all around.
trying to plant 100 trees I opened 60cm deep holes for them. they all fill with rainwater the first clay layer and take over a week, two or more to dry. like wicking beds almost. right?
most tree species will not survive the rainy season ore will suffer 🙁 but they will need irrigation the 6 months dry season! should I turn my entire space in a wicking bed? fill every tree hole the bottom 20 cm with a ring of pebbles and coarse sand in the center and then refill with the soil was digged out closer to the surface (mixed with compost manure debris charcoal etc.)? put a geotextil or not in between both layers? seems to me ( a beginner gardener) like drainage on one hand for rainy season and water reservoir or wickingbed for dry season. the really costly adding could be the need to channel water out from every hole with a 2 meters ditch to control the water table in the hole. what do you thing? thanks a lot in advance. sounds like a to epic proyect! or fill with branches and tree pieces like hugglkulture?
Will the chicken jump on top of the barrels? I am thinking to have barrels as my raised bed and raise chicken free range walking around them . Any advice ?
call yourself a Queenslander? Where are your Queensland Blue Pumpkins? I can't be bothered with kents unless they're young and small for whole baking. Interested to see your reused soft plastics project. Do you have an electric screwdriver, it would make bed building easier
I've yet to ever see a milk bottle irl. Milk bags are where it's at
Your awesome
It goes from 2yrs ago to 1 month ago. I don’t get youtube
Where can I find one of those shovel/picks that you use? I’d love to have one in my garden tool inventory.
Oh man so if I plant bananas they won’t grow tomatoes ffs why didn’t someone tell me this before
It's a shame he's using those milk bottles, as they are one of the most easily recycled products around. He would be doing the environment a favour by putting them in his recycle bin so that they can be re-used.
Wish I could plant my seeds now but I live in a colder climate in NSW.
I used half barrels too
Two years to get pinapple
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mark noticed ur line of birdies beds if u took end corners off and sides strait down all way use more support rods u will have enough panilles lef5t for a seperet small bed
Thinning your banana plant to 3 plant of different growing stages so you will get bigger fruits and larger bunches
Sounds like you flat out busy busy . New beds are hard to put together but how great to have new room take care . ❤️nah you be okay live . Ha love you