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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…
This video is of Tim and Maddy Harland’s beautiful no dig permaculture kitchen garden in Hapmshire UK. Tim and Maddy are the founders of the fantastic @Permaculture Magazine and have a tranquil vegetable garden, meadow and food forest at their home that has been maturing for 25 years! I hope that this is a prime…
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…
Cover Crops Are An Amazing Tool For Organic Gardeners! The use of Cover Crops in a modern organic garden is both easy and fruitful. These living mulches condition and enrich spent soils, break up hard-packed clay mixes, prevent pests from laying their eggs, add nutrients back into the top layers of the soil profile, and…
Last spring we planted some asparagus and strawberries in a new Ruth Stout bed. And since then, we’ve posted a few mini updates, tacked on to the end of other videos. But, since a number of you have asked for it, we figured it was about time we posted a quick standalone video as well.…
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Grow Food For Free, Out on the 27th Feb 2020, Get your copy now at https://geni.us/grow-food-for-free (If you’re in the US, this special link will take you to the US edition, out March 3rd 2020) Last year I set myself a challenge – to grow my own fruit and veg for free for a year.…
I never thought this day would come. I woke up in London with a fever, missed a train (or two), but eventually made it 100 miles to Charles Dowding’s EPIC market garden, Homeacres. The sky opened up for about an hour, and Charles shared the deep wisdom behind his garden. Charles Dowding is the godfather…
Over the past few years, we’ve been producing a lot of garlic and experimenting with a number of natural growing techniques. As a result, we ended up accidentally comparing 4 slightly different growing conditions, all at the same time: 1. Fresh hay mulch covering natural topsoil 2. Old spoiled hay mulch covering natural topsoil 3.…
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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…
No till farming is easy! In fact, easier than conventional gardening and agriculture! Welcome to the second video in the no till farming series. In this video we discuss how to properly remove an existing plant (a large Collard Green) and plant two tomato plants in its place. But we do this without disturbing a…
Consider supporting our channel on Patreon, to help us create more frequent videos. https://www.patreon.com/backtoreality — Over the past few years, we’ve been covering our entire growing area with thick layers of organic plant-based mulch. And so far, we’ve not yet had to pay for any of it. So, since we receive a lot of questions…
See the growth since the previous video of early June. Many vegetables now cleared and new ones planted. Quick and easy because the garden is no dig. Although I call the garden ‘small’, it is 25m2/270ft2, enough space to provide most vegetables for a family who like to eat some regularly. See my Sowing Timeline…
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…
Compare the fast growth of kohlrabi in 3-4 months, with the slower initial growth of wild rocket. Both come ready in spring, and in autumn too. In my no dig garden, the feed I use is compost for soil, applied once a year. I use no fertilisers, slug pellets or other inputs: it’s a simple…
April 24th at Homeacres no dig garden. See the vegetables I have stored through winter, the current harvests, and plants which will crop in the next two months. The garden has always been no dig, and my first job was to mulch the heavy weed burden with cardboard, compost and some polythene in 2013. This…
NEW! Consider supporting our channel on Patreon, to help us create more frequent videos. https://www.patreon.com/backtoreality — It’s finally starting to look and feel like Spring, so we headed outside to check out how our garden fared through the long frozen winter. Then we chopped and dropped last year’s plants and laid out some mulch. Or…
In the episode of Brew City Gardener I show you how to grow your potatoes in straw using the lasagna garden method. Some may refer to this as the “Ruth Stout” gardening method. Whatever you call it; it yields amazing results so make sure you subscribe to see what we harvest in late summer! Check…
UPDATE: Here’s how we ended up storing them all: Mini “Root Cellar” from broken freezer (for storing potatoes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evM7taps76s Where We Get FREE Garden Mulch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww34XwhdeZ4 — After our first attempt at growing potatoes last year, it was pretty obvious that we’d need to increase the size of our crop if we’d ever hoped to…
In this episode we check to see how well our potatoes did in our used straw garden. The results were a bit surprising to say the least. Check it out! Thanks for watching! Check out our Facebook Page!: https://www.facebook.com/brewcitygardener/ Join our Facebook group – “The Global Straw Bale Gardener’s Collective” https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheGlobalSBGCollective/ Sign up for Ebates…
A follow-up to Small Garden of June, see how summer plantings of beans, kale, beetroot, carrots, leeks and salads have grown. Plus how the outdoor tomatoes are ripening already, early for this temperate climate, zone 8. Kale protected from caterpillars by Bacillus thuringiensis soil bacteria. See how I cleared this area of weeds and made…
In this video, I describe my personal 3 criteria for how I determine what size I am going to build my raised garden bed.
See the whole process from sowing to ‘earthing up’ to harvest, by pulling not digging. Potato plants easily root into undisturbed, no dig soil, while developing potatoes need soft, surface material to grow in. It’s often assumed that potatoes just won’t grow in soil that has not been thoroughly loosened, but this video shows the…
Gardening is more fun when you work less, weed less and water less.
Keep garden simple and easy, no need to work to hard to grow food.
