The thing I love about weeds in the garden is that we should never see them as an enemy but instead as an opportunity for us to use as a resource to help us grow bigger crops in our vegetable garden. This video covers the 5 main ways that I use weeds to build healthier soil and grow more productive crops. From the permaculture method of chop and drop to making nutrient specific liquid amendments, weeds offer so much potential for anyone looking to create a more resilient and self-sufficient kitchen garden.
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0:00 Intro
0:32 Chop and Drop Permaculture Gardening
1:46 Chop, Move and Drop
2:20 Creating Simple Liquid Feeds
4:39 Using Weeds to Mulch Perennials
5:45 What is NPK for plants?
6:23 Fermented Plant Juice from Weeds
8:05 Lazy Compost Method
9:43 Final Words
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This is so good advice! I really appreciate that you expanded into ferments and into NPK. Here in Florida it is very hard to use the weeds as mulch or compost because they are so aggressive and do great in hot environments.
Hey Tony from Simplify Gardening sent me to see you
In my 2 square meters of edible garden, the mint invades. I use it to make the organic material return when I carp the dirt a little …And I talk to mint and I say: "you mint are invader"…jajajaja
Composting seems wonderful to me, it goes very well with my personality (I tend to take advantage of old things, hahahaha) .-
The serious problem we have in Buenos Aires with keeping water in a container with weeds is that it fills with mosquito larvae and we can become infected with tropical diseases (dengue for example) .- That is not a good method for my garden. I do it briefly with kitchen scraps that I can even boil …
You have to be careful with these methods because they can be ways of spreading undesirable diseases (even phytoparasites).
This is awesome! Thank you for all 6 tips! I will be implementing immediately!
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Great!
I do this regularly. 100% spot on. Great video.
I actually make a cocktail for my plants each one ..some epsom salts a little molasses and green material broken down and fish emulsion
We have always rather intuitively spread weeds and grass as mulch, as you have described, but I'm fascinated with this method of fermenting weeds as fertilizer. Watching Monty and Charles' methods for composting, I'm excited to try out this lazy method… my main question is, do you turn it? We have seven acres, one of which is pasture, and a quarter for the potager and production garden, and if I could get away with not turning that much compost, I would be in garden heaven. Very much appreciate your videos Huw!
Nettles make a lovely soup.
I have ants on most of my plants will this brown sugar mix going to make it worse?
Thank you for teaching me the benefits of weeds… I already use them for medicinal drinks and food… I am stoked because this is going to help me so much… I am off to my allotment shortly and I an going to do the grass around my current bushes… Thanks again
I have a lot of poke weed but sometimes it looks like it has mosaic so I dont use it my question is how do we know if the weed is good meaning dont have diseases that can affect our compost or garden ive been afraid to use even my grass because I've gotten mosaic virus on my beans 3 out of the 4 years I've been gardening. Another question if I have mosaic in my raised beds or containers can I grow something else in them and can you give me some ideas of what. I know no nightshade plants but what about my fall garden like collards beets, carrots, garlic onions and turnips ,lettuce
Good job
I like your garden beautiful
Stay safe Godbless
That nettle intro reminds me so much of what my garden looks like behind my tunnel….
We don't go there.
Hi Huw! Love your videos! We live in NZ and we don't find nettles very often( don't have them as a weed in our garden) Would you know other weeds that could have similar nutrients to nettles to make that weed juice. l know we can make it with any weed but thought to ask you which one could be nutrient similar. Many thanks!!!
The way I look at it, the true product of a garden is weeds for compost and mulch and such; the regular plants are a byproduct!
What size block of land would I need if I am on my own and able to do 6 hours a day and hire someone for the heavy lifting for about 20 hours per week.
Your videos are awesome! Thanks!
Amazing guide !thanks