Mollison or Lawton said you'll overestimate what you can accomplish in 1 year, but you will way underestimate what will be accomplished in 5. My experience: very true!

Huw and the crew behind it all -- we are watching your materials for a full year now and never said thanks, so it's about time: huge thanks guys. Our small garden in Bulgaria is as happy as it could be, and so are we.

I just wanted to say thank you for all your wonderful and inspiring videos. I'm learning a lot and dreaming of some day creating a garden of my own. All the best from Sweden!

Thanks for this. Loved it! I would add, that each person who practices permaculture has the potential to come up with something amazing that hasn't been designed before! And could tell the rest of us about it! :) Innovate, fail, succeed, and pass on what you've learned. But you can't do that unless you actually DO permaculture.

I moved with only a massive collection of containers into a space with a large garden. I got stuck in right away with establishing a compost heap and planning. Over the year I have observed where the sun is, where the wind most often comes from, where the snow sticks, and where it moves. Now, in spring I notice where the snow first start melting and where it has collected. I have noticed the temperature and found out my last frost date. Now, my plan is about ready, and when the weather allows I will start putting permanent beds and features to build my garden as well as I can. My focus will be on edible things and not include anything poisonous. I plan to make sure no cats can use my beds as toilets and cater to bees and other good bugs. I even collected my neighbor's Christmas trees to use in my gardening as material all the while building a little goodwill amongst my townies. Fingers crossed my garden will be well established and producing soon.

I don't know if I would call it a myth ot not but here in the USA there seems to be kind of an "all or nothing" mindset around permaculture, actually that mindset seems to be attached to most gardening methods. Personally, I use the aspects of permaculture that work for my small suburban garden combined with what works for me from various other methods of gardening to create a garden that meets my needs & is reasonable for the climate I grow in.

Ha I've gotten an allotment garden in January of this year and I've just jumped right in. I've been learning about permaculture and making plans for the garden (and then revising because I hadn't thought of a thing), made some beds, built some compost bins. And I'm just gonna figure it all out as I go. I'll make mistakes for sure. My harvest will probably not be as good as the neighbours' will be. But it's all good. It's about the process for me, not the result. I get to play around and experiment and I already love every second of it, as do my 2 small children. Thanks for the inspiration by the way, mr Richards.

Actually, Permaculture started in Australia’s island state of Tasmania (where I live), which is a cool climate area. But I know people don’t differentiate, they see Australia as hot, period.

Very nice, Huw! I'm glad you mentioned the myth about having to observe the property to be designed for a year before starting anything. That idea has always thrown me for a loop. Now I don't feel so bad scrapping it.

I saw the reflection of the camera drone in the pond in one of the overhead shots. I like to look out for fun little things like that. The videography and editing are so beautiful. Hard to believe it's just KZfaq!

!0 is very true for us all . It took 6 +1/2 years to reveal that when we get -15C my garden cannot support mediteranian herbs in most sheltered areas. But the first discovery was that though I intended to use permaculture 'rules' when i was planning the move back from De Cymru to Gogledd rain forest in practice I was limited by the rocks under the ground. The diagonal strata that had defeated the former owner a retired farmer from just 1 1/2 miles upstream and over the river ruled the earth and determined where and what I could plant. With global warming flexiblity is the biggest challenge . No point in trying to outrun the wind , rain and sun. Stay flexible or starve.

In much of Australia pallets are not a waste product. They belong to a big pallet company that charges a deposit for their use, pays much of that deposit when they're returned and maintains them

We just planted our first fruit trees today and have been laying out beds for our new garden and you have been such an inspiration and education source - thank you! I'm sure I will learn much more from you.

When it comes to expense, I look at permaculture as an attitude. "How can I use the resources I have to make a landscape that is sustainable now and forever?" The quick fix idea is for the lazy. For something to be sustainable, one has to sustain it.

Thank you very much for this Huw, and all your videos. Just an idea, but I would love to see you do some videos on making some of the pallet wood projects, like the bench and how you put the pallets together for compost boxes.

Love to see the good works of another permaculture teacher. Thank you for the inspiring work that you do. May your gardens flourish and bear much fruit. Greetings from sunny Germany

Thank you Huw. You are so down to earth encouraging.

The 13th myth is aligning Permaculture with gardening and agriculture. Permaculture is a MINDSET

Permaculture is a whole system design methodology. This part is very important and people tend to miss it. You don't have to do it all at once, as you said, but you need to keep in mind how what you're doing fits into your overall system.

Hey Huw! Thanks for the shoutout to the world's largest island...Australia! I love your permaculture videos and have slowly adopted some of the principles since 2020 when I first started in earnest. Did you hear about the two worms making love in dead Earnest? A little dark permie humour for you! This weekend I have added a white mulberry, super dwarf cavendish banana, rockmelons (cantaloupe), tomatoes, ginger, dwarf peas, dwarf snow peas and callalou. My favorite principle is observation and I enjoy walking around my garden nearly every morning and either taking photos, writing notes in my gardening journal or planning what I want to do in the future in a particular space. Permaculture fits my personality perfectly as my strengths include Strategy and Pattern Recognition. Cheers!

I'm 100% waiting a year to plant fruit trees, I don't know how the shade will fall! Probably plant them in the north, as a sun scoop. But who knows? I'm also doing the first year with my perennial herbs in containers so I can move them around 😁 I'm not expecting to burst my cupboards with food this year, but with some hard work I might just create a bursting compost heap! That's a great start for the next year. ❤

I have a small fig in a pot and some jerusalem artichokes, so today I added some radish, spinach and green purslane around the edges to reduce water loss, cover the soil to trap nutrients and to eat. Permaculture can be tiny.

Excellent for beginners! This covers maybe all aspects of the idea. About "Patience". There is no way to do gardening without Patience. Be it Permaculture or other way. If you want to do it another way - you'll do. But next year. Isn't it patience? Your advices are so real and correlated to real gardening. I'm impressed. Final words for beginners (and for myself): "Go For It" and you'll become "Expert". In any knowledge. Thanks!

Love this video. Another myth is that permaculture can't feed the world and that we need Green Revolution Agriculture for this task.

Great video. 100% people want a quick fix. Learning takes time. I love learning so not a problem. People get discouraged when not all goes well. Don't be afraid to fail.

Great video. We are building little urban perma garden, feels great a while do something tiny. 🙂

Hi Huw, I very much enjoy your channel, great information, beautifully photographed. Last year you featured celtuce in one of your videos which unfortunately, I can't find anymore. I bought some celtuce seeds and just wanted to refresh my memory before sowing. Can you direct me? Many thanks

Well done Huw, great video, thank you very much

Great information. Sometimes what something is not is more important than what it is.

I’m am getting some ground ready for fruit trees and I’m wondering if I put layers of grass clippings and sawdust down would help .

The myth that permaculture is only for plants is strange to me because I was taught that permaculture must include animals and as I start my own garden I felt I couldn't really implement permaculture because I'm not allowed animals in my city

I did the two day course, it was worth it.

Thank you for this! I’ve never looked into permaculture because I thought it was for farmers so I’ll definitely be looking into it now!

❤ Love ❤ that beautiful tree in the background.

I noticed nasturtiums in milk containers on a pallet, do you have any photos of what that looks like when the flowers have matured?

Another great video for everyone to understand 👍

Hi huw. I’m just about to build my bed at my allotment, I’m not sure which direction to build them. If I build it north to south, it will seem a bit funny shape on my plot. What would you recommend???thanks for advice. ❤

where can i find big data on permaculture guilds?

Hi there, thank you for another fantastic content. I heard once that pallets are not good for purposes like that, because they are contaminated a lot of industrial chemicals, which may poison the soil, and us. Do you know something about it?

I'd like to mention another thing that nobody really talks about. There's nothing wrong with planting a food forest, I have one to a certain degree with 2 dozen or so fruit and nut trees, hundreds of berry bushes, a dozen or so edible greens and perennial plants which I forage through every year. My main source of food by far is in my vegetable garden though, there's no possible way I could live on fruit, nuts, greens and a couple/few perennial vegetables. There's tons of vids out there from all over the world where people live in there food forest with more food then they could ever eat, but you hardly ever see a veg garden. That I think is why many people shy away from it, it just doesn't produce what people want and like you mention....it ain't cheap to buy trees, bushes and perennial compared to seed packs.

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Hi Huw, hey i wanted to ask u if permaculture can also be applied to container gardening? i dont have much space in my house to plant in the ground, but i do have space to have some sorts of raised beds against walls and also for pots, what would be the best advise u can give for container gardening and permaculture principles? thanks ive learned so much from ur videos

Hi Huw I am trying your board method when sowing seeds but they still seem very slow to germinate esp carrots. Any suggestions? TIA

Wow thats some extreme mist lol 😝 Its funny we have mist almost always about September October. A friend of mine who comes from a farming family in eastern European farming family says that as soon as the mists come tomatoes will ger blight. she is so write, i now use that as a rule.

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Hi, can you make sure that the text is in Danish by plotting Danish on, thanks in advance

I love permaculture! ❤🌍🤓

Hello friend..i'm new friend here🤗 nice sharing video 👍👍👍

I've always thought permaculture was the cheap way to garden as I try to keep all my resources in a closed circle.

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How long before we het Huw on Gardener's Question Time - Bob Flowerdew can't last forever!

Myth #13 - Must Have Herb Spiral!

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Szkoda, że nie ma napisów po polsku :( można się tak wiele nauczyć. A rozumiem niestety tylko trochę. Pozdrawiam

Permaculture is awesome.

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There are other myths that is very important.For example if you mix all kind of plants together you wont have insects because they cant find their favorite plants.And other things like this.I never see anyone in my life who has a production in a permaculture garden due to pests,diseases and weeds.I hope you get it😊

I America, at least from what I was told, the blue painted pallets are often treated with methyl Bromide. I don't really know what that is or how dangerous it is, but it scares soccer moms, and hippie gardeners, and people who are overly concerned with that kind of thing, so I try to avoid it. Take my grain of salt with a pile of salt. Stay salty.

I am following your channel. I have never seen you use store-bought fertilizer. Am I missing something from your channel? So actually we don't need it. I have some fruit trees right now. Soon I am trying to grow vegetables. I always worry that I am not feeding my fruit trees enough. So I use a lot of fertilizer, blood & bone, trace elements, fish emulsion, and manure from the shop. Actually, I don't need all of them but only manure. I can save money.

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pallets are not free. how could the gardener with an average family car pick up a pallet let alone the stack you are next to you.?

It's soul destroying to put in all that work only to have the next owner/occupant rip it all out

A lot of no true Scotsman fallacy here...