Permaculture Vegetable Garden Growing all kinds of Low Maintenance Food Forest Garden with no work or watering. Growing in the ground in woodchips as well as container gardening in wading kiddie pools as ponds as wicking garden.
Growing TONS of Food EASY in Wood Chip Soil & Container Gardening & DIY Kiddie Pool Fish Pond Garden (DIY Food Ponds)
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When you take cuttings how do you start it
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I love the kiddie pool idea.
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Looks cool. What about mosquitoes
Oh fish? What kind of fish ooh dragon flies
Sure wish I could grow Papayas in Oregon. I love those smaller ones.
I got to keep neighborhood cats out my garden.
I worry about cat urine
He should grow passion fruit. They are purple one and yellow one. Flowers are beautiful, fruit can make a drink, smells good.😊
I love you two, what wonderful spaces you have created , I am so inspired to do more in my little yard. Thank you for sharing your wonderful spaces !!!!!!!!!!!
I love watching your videos. Since I am newly retired I want to start a garden and enjoy the information that you and Gary supply. Keep up the great videos. Thank you.
Please how to make the kiddie pool wicking garden? How do you prevent the soil in the pots from going soggy?
His garden looks amazing but, I would be overwhelmed. There is sooo much there.
Tell Gary to try this with grow bags!!! Works wonderfully. And…the blue reusable Wal Mart shoppimg bags make awesome grow bags. I did just this with a baby pool and Wal Mart bags a few years ago. The great thing about doing this with the bags is the roots air prune themselves.
What are the dimensions of Gary’s garden?
WHOA that sun shade strategy is brilliant!!
Gary and ur garden looks great and easy. I like the buckets in totes and pool but not sure if it will be too cold for my area. i also wobt be able to grow nov to march. I live Westchester NY so we are in zone 7a. would you tell me what temp zone you are?
That's the beauty of nature's way. Gary IS breeding mosquitoes – and LOTS of them – but that's what dragonflies eat and they NEED a lot of mosquitoes. It's their FOOD – their very LIFE – it is the way of things. Which is why mosquitoes multiply so fast in areas where they eliminate standing water in an attempt to control them. Because mosquitoes multiply fast while dragonflies multiply much more slowly and they BOTH need standing water to breed in but the dragonflies take a lot longer. So, yeah, what you do when you eliminate standing water is you eliminate the mosquitoes predator – not mosquitoes which multiply so fast that they can breed in very little water, very quickly where as dragonflies need more stability in the water to accommodate the time it takes the eggs to hatch. You can TEMPORARILY reduce the mosquito population but without dragonflies, you're not going to have much luck because you'll end up with HORDES of mosquitoes with no dragonflies to EAT them.
It's the same with "gut flora" and why one gets an explosion of "bad" gut flora in their digestive tract after being given antibiotics because the "bad" guys need so little and multiply fast and repopulate very quickly but the "good" guys that eat the "bad" guys take forEVER to get their population back up so you take more antibiotics and just get stuck on a merry-go-round. The bad guys explode because in nature, the "good" guys eat so much of them they NEED a lot of them but if you've eliminated the "good" guys…the "bad" guys have no predators and just take over. But HOORAY for fermented veggies!! It's chock full of "good guys" which is why probiotics can have such a profound effect. Once you take them, they just go crazy eating up "bad guys" by the buckets.
A balanced insect population will maintain just the right amount of "bad" guys to feed just the right about of "good" guys. It will govern itself. IF you let it and the more dragonflies you have, the more mosquitoes you have. Less mosquitoes and the dragonflies will go look for more, elsewhere – in and out of this and that area as the mosquito populations fluctuate. EXCEPT in areas where you eliminate their breeding ground along with the mosquito breeding grounds because it's the same breeding ground for both. Just like your gut. So eat your fresh veggies in the summer, fermenting (which basically means "slowly rotting") veggies in the winter and let nature do her thang. Just like making soil – with boatloads boatloads of tiny "enemies" and the "allied forces" that eat them. An army that literally marches on its stomach.
It is the way of things. And it's why your way of gardening can go on for years in a single tote. Because it's NOT full of compost – "compost" is dead. What it's full of is life – it is compostING, not compostED. It's a whole planet, in and of itself, teeming with life. Which is why you continue "feeding" it. If a tote would hold up – it could go on forever. Just like the earth. You even get great amounts of the necessary manure to feed the "bad" guys that feed the "GOOD" guys, thanks to the worms. You could put a tote on the ground to get it some worms and then put it on concrete and as long as was fed, whether by its own debris or your scraps, it would maintain a complete colony of worms of just the right population to keep it going. The worms would breed more when there's more food and less when there's less food. Same with the manure makers in Gary's ponds – the fish.
Your totes continue to drain well because you're top feeding the allies, retarding the rot/fermentation of the wood. That's what "rot" is. It's something that's being eaten by something else. If people fed the soil around their fence posts, they'd probably last a whole lot longer. You could probably tell when your soil needs "fed" by how quickly a popsicle stick is consumed by it. I doubt a popsicle stick would last much more than a day in starving soil. Not actual DEAD soil, but HUNGRY soil. STARVING soil.
Nature is SOOO flipping awesome and right and smart and man is mostly SOOO flipping not, ROFL!! It never fails to amaze me that man is SOOO not interested in the reality of such things. He thinks he knows everything so he's stopped exploring – but that's okay because it pretty much makes the realm of the unknown – i.e. the whole REST of reality, where we explorers prefer to live – a whole lot less crowded and profoundly les…"whiny".! Sowing and reaping and exploring and discovering – THAT'S life!! Love to you both!!
Wait…a refrigerator planter?