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41 Comments
A reminder, that aesthetics are not the same as proctivity. If we want healthy soil, which grows healthy food, we really need to abandon the "dominion" style of "conventional" gardening.
I plant a full 4×8 foot leaf lettuce bed this way it grows great and out compeats the weeds!😊
My Hitler like local gov gives me a real hard time about this. VOTE BLUE!
Awesome video. I love all of your videos and look forward to them when they come out.
This shows that seeds want to grow and if given a tiny chance will do so!
Pretty sure things were growing like this before we started putting all the "science" into it
To be fair some vegetable like this better than others. Pumpkin will grow from an old Halloween pumpkin. Currently my neighbor has a few pumpkins plants from last year's pumpkin, now with several ripening pumpkins on them. Meanwhile, I'm not sure tomatoes would do well in this setting. Root crops may have more of a challenge is the ground is not tilled . But otherwise, yes, many things do grow without our help
The bean leaves grew that large to collect light.
The beds I tried the hardest with are struggling but the ones I just tossed seeds in are doing great but the accidentally planted (by birds) things growing like crazy in the old chicken coop 😂
Those veges look good enough to donate to your local Food Bank.
Need to take them seeds and use them at a community garden. Alot of students can learn and good to give it away to the nearest food kitchen possibly just a thought.
I love this idea, but you’ve gotta have regular-ish rain for this to work. We did not. I’m even watering my cover crops to make sure they don’t die 🫠 Meg from Meg Grow Plants does this all the time and it works really well for her too!
I see the beginnings of a program where sacks of mixed seeds are given to community gardens and local gardeners to chaos garden themselves. How fun would that be?!
You guys should save seeds from that and sell them as mix packs for chaos gardening methodology
Chaos gardening is my jam 😂 anyone who looks at my garden from afar would think it’s mostly weeds. A lot of it is clover, prickly lettuce, and bindweed 😅 but we still got a lot of tomatoes, summer squash, green beans, strawberries, and herbs. And the sunflowers always re-seed themselves and provide food for the birds who would otherwise eat my crops
I built a new garden bed this year from a compost pile. I did a chaos garden, to see if the bed could produce anything. I wasn't impressed. I won't do it again. I felt like I wasted space.
❤ Although I had never heard of 'chaos gardening,' I have LITERALLY been considering this method for the past couple of weeks lol When I realized that things I did not plant were popping up in my yard, I was like WHAAAAT!! I just bought the house a few months ago, and actually sprinkled some garlic cloves in the yard to ward off pests. Now, I am thinking purple clover and flower seeds. (I already have a greenhouse and 3 raised beds full of veggie plants 😅
I went out the other day and threw out cabbage seeds and broccoli and cauliflower and kale and bok chop and just a whole bunch of other seeds. They're coming up now and I'm so excited
Looking for the chaos raised bed video you mentioned from about 3 years ago; can't find it. Can you post a link?
My garden confidence went way up when I realized that plants just want to grow
I wonder how much sunlight that corner gets each day
My chickens plant their own chaos garden just outside their run. They're messy eaters and throw seeds out into the well fertilized area!
My first year back in the garden after about 10 years of not doing anything but garlic. Definitely a chaos garden, mostly due to me overplanting and not thinning seedlings. Also planted way too much Morning Glory which takes over. Result? At least 150 lbs of cucumbers (actually gave some to my local farmer for credit towards crops I did not grow) and the pole beans are coming in fast and furious now. Cherry tomatoes still producing too. If I had to venture a guess, I'd say that planting a lot of flowers AND letting the milkweed and other native wildflowers grow at will enticed a lot of pollinators to my garden. Butterflies, skippers, bees and wasps as well as hummingbirds. Diversity in the garden is the key, I think.
Great, we need more chaos today. Smh
I chaos garden, if a plant doesn’t do well I just do another the following year. I found weeds are beneficial too. Chop and drop the light blockers. Free mulch.
The deer eat everything. Even all my potato plants
I threw a few pumpkins in my compost pile last fall. 4 vines started growing this past spring and I just left them alone to do their thing. They now cover 1/3 of my back yard. Chaos gardening is nice because I don’t have to mow as much grass. 😆
Nature knows what to do. People don't need to interfere
How much sun did the area get. It looked fairly shaded by the tree.
The words try and chaos don’t belong in the same sentence 😂
Isn't this just like most people's compost pile? Throw out the kitchen scraps, throw in the potting soil with seeds that never germinated etc. Then all of a sudden…BOOM! Volunteer Central 🤣
chaos gardening is also accessible to disabled folks. If you have fatigue are just can't get into the garden every day or use tools, Chaos gardening is still accessible! AND IT IS AFFORDABLE!
Great video. Very interesting results
That's how I got my beautiful strawberry plants from an overripe strawberrry stuck in the soil.
Good stuff! Chaotic good alignment tends to keep things interesting and productive 😉
I'm a huge chaos gardener. So low maintenance.
I wonder if the less exposed soil/mulch you have, the less pests you get 🤔 like plant in grass no tilling.
This method works on a larger scale. May want to read Masanobu Fukuoka's "One Straw Revolution". Or read up on "no-till" farming.
Thanks. Can we take this as an apology for your companion planting video?
Love it.
Love to see a 3 sisters video.