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Today’s video features the incredible new kitchen garden at Raithwiate Sansend Hotel which is just outside Whitby, North Yorkshire, England. This no dig garden is an inspiration to anyone who only has a slope to work with, and it defies the odds by also being north-facing! I hope you get inspired by this as much…
Many gardeners like the idea of putting their garden to bed for the winter. When they do that, it often includes tilling which aerates the soil, loosens it, and allows it to be more workable. The problem is it is the wrong time of year to do it and can lead to more problems in…
Think you can’t sow in late summer? Think again! In fact, by sowing follow-on crops, you can maximise your growing space to give you two crops for the space of one. Sound good? Then watch this week’s episode as Ben reveals the many crops you can plant. Don’t worry, it’s not too late to start…
So much to do, so little time? We hear you! You want to grow as much yummy produce as you can, without as much of the back-breaking work that can come with gardening…unless you know some of these hacks, which our good friend Ben is about to reveal… Our backs are thanking you already, Ben!…
For anyone who watches this channel, they’ll know that no dig vegetable gardening is the foundation to the way that I grow food. I realised that I don’t actually have a video summarising my take on what no dig is, and to talk about the history, core principles, key benefits and also the limitations no…
#AcreHomestead #NoDigGarden #RuthStout Instagram https://www.instagram.com/acrehomestead/ @Acre Homestead This was a great experiment trying out Ruth Stout, no dig, garden method. I will continue to learn and expand on this garden experiment next year! My recipes are on my blog — https://www.scratchpantry.com Some of my favorite kitchen essentials! 9 Tray Excalibur Dehydrator — https://amzn.to/3xR9NwL Food Processor…
This video is an end of summer tour of the vegetable garden to show you how things are looking and to use as a comparison when I make the full summer tour of the garden later in July or August depending on how this weird season goes! I really hope you find it interesting seeing…
Today is all about weeds and how they seem to overrun the garden if we look the wrong way. Fortunately no dig presents a fantastic way to mitigate and reduce weed pressure in the vegetable garden, which is what I explain in this video. I also go on to explain how to deal with the…
Before I got too far into this new growing season I wanted to make a video to outline the new direction I’m taking when it comes to growing food, and the reasons behind this. I have felt constricted by only adopting certain methods of growing, and after much research and learning and questioning I feel…
This video is all about no dig vegetable gardening in raised beds that have sides. There has been much discussion recently about if raised beds should or shouldn’t have sides so I thought I would explain how I do it effectively in a wet slug-prone climate and the benefits and drawbacks of sided raised beds.…
In this last video of the winter permaculture mini-series, we visit the inspiring no dig market garden Glasbren, located in Carmarthenshire Wales. Abel Oakenshade and Steffan Lemke-Elms have transformed a steep, poor-quality piece of marginal land into an abundant & thriving 1 acre market garden, inspired by permaculture principles and regenerative growing. This is one…
In celebration of World Soil Day (FAO), I collaborated with @Charles Dowding on building a new no dig garden in my climate here in San Diego. Charles built a new bet in the UK, and we compared notes and strategies. If you’d like to see Charles’ version of this video, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW2aVZkjJa0 As I’ve…
In this video, I take you on a full vegetable garden tour to show you what is growing on in our permaculture inspired raised bed veggie garden. There has been so much growth recently and it is nice to be taking daily harvests from the garden. This video will cover all 21 raised beds that…
The Backyard Food Forest Garden is still producing a lot of 100% Organic Food. Using a no dig method and applying mulch allows us to work with nature and grow fruits and vegetables without using harmful practices. Like Bill Mollison says, “If you want organic food, you have to grow organic food.” Thanks for the…
In this video we take a look at the hybrid in ground garden at the rear of the property. This garden is made up of mostly used straw bales from the Brew City Straw Bale Garden. This garden is the most fertile garden on the property and it’s the easiest to maintain. So far everything…
Here’s another “how to basic fruit & vegetable gardening tips in 2 minutes” on no-dig raised beds. In this video, I demonstrate and explain how to refurbish a no-dig raised garden bed to grow thriving vegetable plants time after time! Enjoy 🙂 Help support the Channel and buy a T-shirt/Merchandise from our Spreadshirt shop: https://goo.gl/ygrXwU…
