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great work!!!! so exciting!!!!
Hi I’m also hoping to inoculate my pathways with wine cap, it’s in a pot in my greenhouse atm, hopefully spreading mycelium so I can do my whole allotment. Scott from cuckoo cottage said they’re heliotropic and like the sun.👍🏻🤠
Does winecap use leaves as a substrate? I've not had success with that.
Nice!!
I saw a video where black locust glows under black light.
I've never heard of perennial Korean celery. I would love it if you made a video on this vegetable! Thanks Sean!
What bamboo are you growing there in northern NY? Thank you!
May seem easy, but when you live in a clay zone, good soil is too expensive
Better start protected your bed with all the chemtrails they throw at us
Been watching you for years. I thought you were sloppy, but now I understand how great your technique is😊👍🏼👍🏼 work with nature🙂thank you.
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Wondering how do you with the Hügelkultur method get enough soil compaction to keep plants sufficiently watered without water running right through?
lol Just love the look with the decomposing leaves, I believe they were about a foot thick nor more when you put them there. Plants and seeds can't help but grow in this stuff. Perfect growing medium and I believe even the taste of what is grown here will be superior.
Thx and cheers.
Check out David the Good’s latest video….Everyone Hates The Best Plant Ever <Bamboo> Lots of great info!
Does that lawn contain any Bermuda grass? Wondering if the leaf technique would work with that particular grass. Thank you
I wish you would rattle off the latin name when you mention some of these plants. Is there a zone 2 bamboo, hahahaha.
I love how rustic the raised beds are.
I learned about wine caps in one of your earlier videos and we inoculated our wood chip pathways earlier this spring! It’s super exciting to see mycelium starting to grow : ) I’m curious to see how well they do since we’re in the Pacific Northwest where we have primarily evergreen wood chips available, and it seems that hardwood is better for them. Any suggestions to help them thrive in a less than perfect medium?
Although I live in a very different environment, I really enjoy your videos. I'm in central Utah at 6,000 ft elevation and obviously my methods will differ from yours, but the principals seem to be the same everywhere. Thanks
Wonderful love your English expression, i an a native English speaker , lived in Asia for 50 years, love your permaculture and the way you describe things , more npiwer to you both, Dom
Do you have voles in your area? Where I live they will get into beds like that and destroy the roots of anything I plant, and I don't know how to reduce that damage.
Is that as big as "Good King Henry" gets? A commercial organic farmer down here in SC zone 8 told me that was a perennial he found "very hard to grow". I tried one time unsuccessfully to grow it here but now looking at your videos of yours, and being someone who primarily eats raw fruit and raw vegetables, I don't know if it is worth the effort to again try to grow it. I'd want 4-5 plants, the size in the video, or more in my salad for just one meal mixed with other vegetables. I'd need to grow an awful lot of it to have enough.
How about growing fennel bulbs in your Mom's garden? Also I'd grow cilantro, basil, dill and tarragon. Thinly sliced fennel bulbs with red onions, tarragon and orange slices with a vinaigrette dressing is so delicious. Eventually I'd want tomatoes including Sun Gold or Sun Sugar cherry tomatoes, cucumbers and melons. Also squashes both winter and summer and sweet potatoes for the fall would be wonderful! [Hopefully that perfect row of bamboo trees won't start clumping or otherwise spreading in the garden]. Maybe you could devote one bed or half of one bed to growing sweet corn. Then she could make corn salad with cherry tomatoes and basil (and apple cider vinegar and a little extra virgin olive oil and salt and pepper). Needless to say, I hope your Mom appreciates having a son that would do all that (make raised beds and plant food in them for over an entire season) for her. I'd be over joyed!
Never had any luck using leaves over the long term to suppress weeds & grass (unless they were feet thick like a leaf mould pile.) I would have to dig down several inches (reserve soil to cap bed) & put down a layer of heavy card board, then top with wood chips. Rarely did I have break-through in the foot paths. Every 2-3 years I would refresh some path areas in the fall by mining & screening the old wood chips for bed mulch & put down fresh chips in the paths.
Cool beds. I built six 4'x10' mill slab style beds this year and one 2'x28' on the north side with a trellis. I made EMT hoops and permanently attached them to the 4'x10' beds for season extension and bug exclusion. I also built several trellis' around the 4'x10' on the east and west sides, but not on the south side. These raised beds also worked well for me because the property is on a bit of a hill, and this gives the beds a slight pitch to the south to heat the beds.
Been following you for many years and just love it. We converted our entire backyard into a 8 to 12 inch bed of wood chips after having 16 trees taken out because of old age. The chickens and the ducks love it. It has created some of the nicest soil ever. All the raised gardens where done huglekulture style and everything looks wonderful. We had dumped many loads of red wigglers in our compost heaps many years ago and they are now in our entire backyard and veggie gardens. Getting more and more into growing perennial foods as well. Are you familiar with Minari a Korean green. I was at a plant swap and acquired some. Haven't been able to find much info on the plant yet. Yesterday we dumped 32 bags of shredded leaves and grass clippings on the wood chips in all the pathways and around the fruit trees and the chickens and ducks had a field day while out free ranging. The neighbors think we are crazy and tell us how sloppy it all looks, but yet all our vegetation is thriving while all of theirs is dying a slow death.
Liked before watching and you never let me down.
Just taken on 3 more Chickens that were needing a new home today.Some lovely well natured ex batts.
Do you have plans when the sides rot? How will you replace them?
Sean – this fella has got some fascinating ideas to do with magnetism, and electro-conductivity, that you might like to play with.
p.s. he's in NZ, and I wonder if the magnet idea might need to be reversed in the Northern Hemisphere.
Cheers!
Since this space is intended for your mom please consider her footing. I feel that the leaves may be challenging for her to move across. In my experience leaves can become clumpy and a trip hazard as they break down. I appreciate the low cost design though. It does not have to be costly to get into food production.