An update on things and my attempt to inspire you to garden without doubt.
VIDEO: Gardening, Anyone can do this
An update on things and my attempt to inspire you to garden without doubt.
An update on things and my attempt to inspire you to garden without doubt.
When you make a new bed, what kind of soil/compost do you use to build it up? Where do you get it?
Great inspirational video. Love the entrance frame too.
Nice garden! It's still been quite cold and wet here. I gotta go out and check my stuff the seeds I planted recently don't want to come up.
I live in suburbia so we have a lot of available resources. The local recycling center delivers us free "black leaf mulch", which is basically black gold. In one of my first videos I show a huge delivery of it that we received. I know the high quality soil is not avaible to everone, but I believe planting the seeds in the natural ground or a prepared system (like a Hugel bed) than putting some quality homemade compost on top is the best method. I hope this helped
Thanks brother! Yeah simple but I think its aesthetic
Yeah in the beginning of the season are seeds were taking longer to come up than they are now, but they did come up. It seems like they know the exact time that they want to come up. Once the conditions are ideal regarding temperature, humidity, etc. IMO you can never plant to many seeds though, I plant seeds everyday. I just walk around and anywhere there isn't plants I put a seed.
Haha, yeah your a mechanical engineer so your not smart enough to be doing this kind of stuff
Looks like supper 🙂 I was thinking "You need to harvest that lettuce, it is huge" and then you pinched it right off, lol. Good eats.
The potatoes will flower they best time to harvest is as the tops die back or totally die then you know they are done growing you can harvest them after the flowering but they are still growing its best to wait till the tops are all or nearly died back
Awesome, thanks Joey!
Wow, it's exploding! Just got done with my PDC course, ready to get busy like you now… maybe throw some comfrey, false indigo or other nitrogen fixing plants in next to your vegies, esp your tomatos! A Siberian Pea Shrub would be nice too, you can chop it down when it gets too big.
That's awesome! Where did you take the PDC? Thanks for the ideas, Siberian Pea sound like a great one I will keep an eye out for the seed. I love all nitrogen fixers, I have more beans and peas planted than I know what to do with lol. I currently have two comfrey plants growing under my fruit trees for chop and drop. The polycultures I have mostly been doing with tomatoes are; carrots, marigolds, and,beans or peas. Any suggestions on anything to add? I like following the 7 layer forest theme.
Oh, well… it looks like you are more than good! lol… I took the PDC at Kinstone Circle here in WI. Super nice people and beautiful property. We built a multi-terraced food forest, I can't wait to see how it develops!
That must have been an amazing experience. I would like to attend a course on building earthworks, and watching the construction of a damn or terraces like you saw. I have read about earthworks and have seen videos about them, but I feel if I could see how they are done in person I would have a good understanding of how to do them myself.
What do you think, was seeing the terraces being built and being a part of the process a good learning experience?
Absolutely. I think some of the technical knowledge about what things are and how they work is good to read about and watch videos on, just to get a basic overview. But it is a whole other thing when you are actually out there doing it and observing it in 'real life'. I went in thinking I knew something about everything, only to realize I knew nothing about anything, lol. It looks like you're getting some good experience this season with growing though!
What got you and your brother into this? This is an awesome idea and you guys have made a lot of progress!
Thanks for the kind words and for watching! It has really been a culmination of things. We were awoken to the reality of our food system by the documentary "Fresh". From there we started reading a bunch of Joel Salatin books, and then we followed some of the books he references and it brought us down this path of permaculture and natural farming. We are trying to take responsibility for our basic necessities like food, education etc, and be less dependent on oppressive systems.
inspiration !
It's amazing to see how far your garden has come. You would never have known that this garden would look like your food forest today, after only a few years. Your videos are truly inspirational. I am planning on starting a Youtube channel like yours and am watching your old videos to see how you got started. My garden is only 2 years old, so I want to share my journey like you did to show others how anyone can do it, even with no prior experience. I also want to re-write the misconception that gardening isn't boring and just for old people. Have you got any pointers on how I should get started?