This will change how you garden, forever.

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4 жыл бұрын

My two golden rules of gardening summarized. Many tips and strategies that play into these. Your entire focus in your garden needs to be on these 2 things. Not because I say so. Because that's how nature works - and nature has "growing stuff" on lockdown. We only need to learn by looking how nature grows things.
Home gardeners seek to emulate industrial agriculture practices in their garden. Why? Industrial agriculture has to make concessions in order to allow few people to tend massive acreages, and drive giant machines for harvest. We should not be seeking to mimic that in a home garden. The moment we do, we give up our biggest advantages. Yes, we home gardeners can have MASSIVE advantage over industrial agriculture. If you aren't taking advantage of that, then you are doing more work than you need to do, and creating problems that you don't need to be dealing with.
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@TheWeedyGarden 2 жыл бұрын

New sub here. Mate! From The Weedy Garden in Australia I would just love to commend you on your storytelling of this life cycle. I’m working on an episode that tells this same story and it’s really nice to have my information confirmed. When I started gardening just over a year ago when the first lockdown started, this was the first thing and the only thing I needed to be able to see clearly to get the ball rolling. Once I understood that the soil is the stomach for plants, it changed my whole perspective. Thanks for sharing your understandings 🙏👍🏼👌💪🏻😃 David from Australia AKA Weedy

@TheCloud175 4 жыл бұрын

How fun would it be to have a show like Gordon Ramsey's "Kitchen Nightmares" but for gardens, and you just go around visiting people with struggling gardens and teach them what they're doing incorrectly and help them learn how to do it better. Maybe with a little less cursing than Gordon though cause you seem like a pretty chill dude.

@drawyrral 3 жыл бұрын

It is strange to hear a human making so much sense when it comes to Nature.

@Viva_la_natura 3 жыл бұрын

Your passion is contagious. You're dialed in. It's not us that changes the garden, it's the garden that changes us.

@chriseverest4380

Rethinking the weed! Always have composted the weeds before. Why? Chop and drop? Fighting the OCD Fighting the perfectionist obsessiveness Fighting the aesthetics of every garden designer who says the words "must" and "should"!

@RussellBallestrini 4 жыл бұрын

Hey buddy, I didn't get it on video but yesterday my son and I were doing a trial of grass clippings and cardboard only cold compost and one of the bags of grass that I harvested from somebodies road side, it didn't have grass in it, it had what looked like the top 3 inches of forest floor. Instead of composting this material, I literally just spread it out on the south side of my house which is very shady, like a forest. Somebody took the time to bag up their forest (likely a lawn mower?) and put it in paper bags for me and I applied it to an area I'm trying to grow a food forest. You cannot make this up. I couldn't puchase a bag of forest even if I wanted to, and yet people throw this fertility away non-stop. How do we educate the masses? We need these topics to become mainstream.

@anth115

You said nature will plant things in bare spots and it won't be what you want. Yet nature does everything else perfectly for our garden. Just not plants part for you. Sometiems the plants nature puts there are fine!!

@xdrive300011 3 жыл бұрын

How manny of u watch this more than 2 times?

@jeffskinner1226 4 жыл бұрын

This really was one of the best and most important Permaculture videos I've seen.

@perma-steve5641 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. I've been encouraging people to appreciate wild plants (weeds) for years & your video really nailed it ! These plants are super-important for the health of the soil, the wildlife (think pollinators et al here) & hence for us. Just because a plant has no known benefit does not mean it is worthless - nature is extremely powerful & everything has a role to play.

@michaelking3206 3 жыл бұрын

I know this is a late reply but I just saw your video. I have been trying to get a foothold in permaculture for my 1/4 acre lawn and there's just so much out there, it's alot to take in. You have literally just blown my mind with the truth about how plants are fed and how they don't mine nutrients from the soil! Thank you for the way you teach and explain things! You're a godsend!

@kellytankersley1962 4 жыл бұрын

Game on! This is exciting. I am just discovering permaculture! It makes so much sense!

@bradlafferty Жыл бұрын

This lesson just put me on my ear! I have a weedy garden and now I know why my plants are producing like crazy! How awesome! Thanks eh?!

@LittleGardenSK 4 жыл бұрын

“Never bare soil!” Love it 😍

@nellieblighhill4575

I wonder if a gaggle of geese would see off that brush turkey. Great video, don't know how you did all that in one day. What a marathon.

@nayrtnartsipacify 2 жыл бұрын

this guy sounds like me when i talk about plants gardens and biology in general.

@shineyrocks390 2 жыл бұрын

Most of this I knew. Some I did not know. How you break this down to a preschool level, I like that. Most gardeners on KZfaq don't explain it in such simple terms and details. That's excellent cause not every viewer is gonna be an established gardener. It may be the very first time they've even heard of a nematode or mulch.

@kescah 3 жыл бұрын

For those who want a more aesthetic look to the garden, as you've said, trim it out with something attractive, but also never plant one of a plant (except maybe a tree), but always a higher odd number, 3, 5, 7. They can alternate with an odd number of another plant or be attractively spaced out in the guild. This gives a garden a more finished look. I want three or more of the same variety of, say, tomatoes, for the look of it; the varieties don't all look enough alike for my picky ways.

@VeronicaKirin 3 жыл бұрын

Yep. I would have managed my garden in a totally different way had I had this video when I started nearly a decade ago. For a time, I'm gardenless, but I'll be keeping these three commandments close in the future!

@debramartell8531 3 жыл бұрын

Hello from Ottawa, I agree with everything you share with us, it makes perfect sense to work with Mother Nature and not against her, to support and create the healthiest foundation for growing everything possible. Thank you for sharing your knowledge it will improve the world one gardener at a time as they awaken to Nature’s natural way 🦋