This episode shows 3 great gardening hacks of upcycling ways to repurpose items for growing food in small spaces.
The 3 x examples of growing food using upcycled materials are: vertical grow wall using old pallets; old jars; and a mini greenhouse made from recycled plastic containers.
This is the fourth episode in our growing food in small spaces series ( see Ep1 here https://youtu.be/Nh0ol-eAN2U and Ep2 https://youtu.be/jkWWB9O2wQ8 and Ep3 https://youtu.be/RUpR6nGLFmw )
This episode and video series were created with the help of Creator Queensland (a QLD Govt and YouTube initiative) and Griffith University.
The following student crew from LiveLabs helped create the “Growing Food in Small Spaces” series as part of their film course final assessment:
Scott Nolan – Director
Emma Adin – Unit Manager/2nd AD
Karlee Catalano – 1st AD
Sophie Cross – Camera
Phoebe Ireland – Data Wrangler
Tom Davison – Camera
Kenny Waterson – Sound Recordist
Hugo Hood – Production Assist
Patrick Mahon – Continuity
This series was certainly a great learning experience for me as well as being a fun project to help create – thanks to all who made this possible.
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G'day Everyone! Hope you are enjoying this series if you have any comments or questions on this episode whack'em down below and I'll try my best to get to them! Cheers 🙂 P.S If you haven't seen the first 3 episodes here's a link to the playlist https://goo.gl/ef3jNt
Great ideas!
Drilling a hole in the bottom of a jar gives better drainage than putting rocks in the bottom. Use a glass and masonry bit, and go slow.
Love this video mate
Pallets are on for a year or so but we had one sitting in our yard (used to have bricks on it) didn't get rained on over section it was fine, the section in the weather it rotted and the nails rusted…. Not good to have rusty nails in the yard… So when you're pallet dies, get rid of it
Do you have a video on doing the mulberry cuttings? I have tried a few times unsuccessfully myself
Such great ideas. Thank you!
Great ideas ..especially like the pallet garden : }
Woah that walk up camera work in the first shot was class
I wonder if Australians have any clue how happy "g'day" makes us non-Australians
Good drills soldier, took me back to kapooka
This guy has got legs for hands
LOVE LOVE LOVE the pallet wall!
Thank for the awesome tips. Can’t wait to use them
“Cock lock and look in!" God that takes me back!
Gold. Pure gold!
I love the army references and when you bust out the ET.
Thank you Lodi Mark watching here in Philippines
What did you use to keep.the pallets upright ?
You have a lovely voice to listen to!
You do a pretty good job with your finger snapping cuts of lining yourself up with the previous shot
I love this idea! I am thinking of using the vertical pallet vegetable "garden" as my fence. It will protect my property from the outside, won`t take extra space and will be just great and easy to harvest by simply walking around the property :-)!
Actually love your idea on re-using the old cans and grow within and control temperature etc
you are epic. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie
Queensland….still not spring yet….sunny tshirt weather
Really enjoying this series. I live on ten acres, but I recently set up a small guest house for my mother, who used to love to garden, but who is now suffering from some issues that make her mobility an issue. I built a small deck onto her house, and I am taking notes during this series to set up a small accessible (but functional) garden for her! So even if you live on acreage, you might still want to find a way to create a small autonomous food garden!