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Hey James I knew you were a great gardener but you never told us you were a champion Lethwei fighter as well!!!
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Hi James, I live in Oaklyn NJ and I have a side and backyard I would like to garden. It is the yard from an apartment but I would like to start anyway. I would like to put in a cover crop and plants for pollinators in some areas and then have a classic annual garden in a smaller areas ( 20 x 15 ). Should I disturb the soil to add amendments like Azomite? or leaf mulch? or should I let nature do the work ( far better than I can ). I would like to take the long term view but I would like to get calendula, clover, purslane, in for cover and eating as well as a kale, lettuce, tomato, green bean regular garden. I am familiar with Bill Mollison but never completed a PDC. Thank you for any comments.
Nice to see you back! I saw that pile of trimmings and thought, "Whoa…that's alot of scion wood!"
James just wanted to let you know this interesting fact. In the YouTube search bar when you put in James P you come up just after James Potter. Harry Potters dad! That's gotta be borderline celebrity bro! Dude has been searching for him for 7 books and movies!
Yessss!! James is back!!! I started my food forest because of you!!
#Questionaboutwoodchips. I love your videos and you have inspired me to turn my 1/4 acre into a food forest. What kind of trees make the best wood mulch? My neighbor cut down 13 pine trees and I asked him if I could have the tree service leave me a load of the wood chips. He said I don't want to use Pine chips for my garden or compost and he didn't leave me any. Is that true? What kind of trees should I use? I know it's best to use the leaves and stems in the mix. Please advise me. I want to get started this spring. I bought my first apple tree and will be looking for a compatible tree soon to partner it with. Also going to add two peach and two pear tress and a cherry. I want to eat organic so I am going to plant organic. Keep the videos coming. I'm in CT so our climates are close. Also, do I need aged wood chips to start my forest?
Wish the snow was gone here in Maine.. need to get my grow on
Advice please! Just starting our Back to Eden garden, laid out contractors paper and 4 inches of compost over the bit of grass and weeds that are sprouting in our pasture-turned-garden area. We've got some wood chips but not enough to cover much of the garden just yet, so I'll use cardboard for now to keep weeds from sprouting. I'm wondering if I can plant right in the compost, will the roots be able to break through the contractors paper? And how quickly will the grass beneath die off? It's not thick like a lawn, but a decent amount. I wish I had learned about this last fall so I could have started then, I worry starting in the spring won't give the paper and grass enough time to break down in order to plant a spring/summer crop. I have a few raised beds I could use if I need to give the ground more time. I'm in zone 7a, so need to start planting soon!
Do you try to clone any of your trees? If so what's your method?
Glad your back, so pump for this year of progression
Do you have gumbi gumbi? The fruit is powerful stuff. It was used by our indigenous Australians to fight serious diseases. I got one tree to see how it grows. It has really taken off.
Man, after 2 years of waiting, I finally got a massive chip drop! Let Jah be praised!
I'm not interested in growing a food forest. However, I do take much of your information and incorporate it into my raised beds. Keep posting and we will continue watching. Zone 9b, central Florida.
New subscriber…in zone 4a love all your info thx for sharing
Still under a foot of snow. Spring in Vermont.
Finally got my woodchips down. Its been a few days and I can tell my plants are much happier. After a heavy rain I thought things would be soaking wet underneath, but instead it was perfectly moist and my tomato plants look extremely happy now. Typically after a hard rain things would be flooded, but not with the woodchips. Why didnt I do this before? I will never leave my soil bare again.
Big changes here this year, your love for gardening really pushed me to dive in. My methodology is different but many tips, info, and of course the reason we do what we do is all the same still.
Bought a 14×24' hoophouse and a deck size plastic greenhouse. I now know what to do to remedy the clay soil in the 26×34' garden plot. Will be ordering a few new trees, and have so far pruned 7 of our 12 trees. Chicks ordered and coop and run nearing completion. My only wish is that I could get my hands on mulch and wood chips. The cost around here is insane, a real commodity 🙁
Thanks James! Looking GREAT!! That's going to smell heavenly in a few short weeks!!
Those greens in the green house! Wow! Are you just growing in the soil of the greenhouse or did you add soil to build up the depth in there?
hey buddy, what size are both your forest gardens? they look pretty much like my present annual gardens ,i want to start a food forest in one of em,lay the mulch in the fall,and plant fruit trees then, just doing my annual garden for this summer, while i gather materials for the fall. my plots are both 80 feet by 80 feet, how many fruit trees you think i can plant in one of em?
how many years have you been vegan?
Doing my best to get it going. It's hard when ya been sick for 3 mos. Grrrrrrrr. I'm praying to be able to get this done as my cousin has gotten wooden crate boxes for my raised beds, they're small and high enough so I don't have to bend over at all. I so wish I could just plant in our yard, but I can't work it!!! I got seeds planted a couple of days ago but we don't plant till about Mother's day as our last frost won't be til late April, early May
My grandparents had an amazing food forest in Northern California years ago. It’s long gone now because my sister sold the house after their passing and new owners removed almost all the fruit and nut trees. It was so wonderful growing up with such abundance of food. I’m Container gardening right now and have my food Forest in this form but one day soon they will go into the ground once we have our Homestead. My grandparents lived through the depression dust bowl area and they knew what it was like to go with out. So having their own food forest late in life was wonderful. The only time we ever bought fresh veg from the store was winter time and it was very minimal purchases because my grandparents froze and canned up everything from their garden every year.
I added my first tree to my forest!
You didn’t name the strawberries that did the best.
I'm working on it… I have 22 trees planted…