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Absolutely inspiring, thank you for sharing!
I agree with you on the plastic. I don’t love having it around, however we have found ways to reuse plastics until we can’t possibly use them anymore. Especially high tunnel plastic. If we re-skin a tunnel, we’ll cut up the old one into smaller pieces for low tunnels or spot coverings of plants or wood piles.
Another amazing and enlightening video
1:59 Hi all, going back to a vlog where you asked for names of small permaculture youtubers, there a good one in NSW Australia called Huttons Valley Permaculture
What about snails and protection?
Really enjoy the realism and pragmatic mindset your videos always embody. If you ever get the chance to have someone take a bit of drone footage of your sites, I would love to see the kind of overhead but high detail layout of your garden sites.
My guess for the one that shoots it’s seeds is hairy bittercress
May I ask why you're not able to sell the Charlie's golden autumn olive? *edit: I've stumbled upon a likely answer while Googlin'. Happy growing. Thanks for all the knowledge!
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how do you teach snails to not eat lettuce?
The truth is, 'Plastic' is a very useful material. We just need to find an economical way to reuse it.
No Sorrel? You add a little to Spinach, and it becomes something fantastic. The Greek dish, Spinatiropitta (spinach and cheese pie) usually has Sorrel in it, and tourist always wonder how they get the spinach to taste so nice. And of course Russian sour sorrel soup, you can call it Ukrainian if you want.
Oh, and the jumpy seeds in England we call chick weed, and it is everywhere. Its old English name actually translates to food or eat.
“It’s a little bit of a semi-feral berry scenario” – loved that phrase.
I agree with hairy bittercress as the identity of the seed shooter.
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Aaahhhh. Peace
Thinking about the plastic pots and wondering about other options. Things that come to my mind quickly are wooden planters and burlap bags or wraps. Neither are as easy to work with as plastic pots. I could see, as a nursery, selling some plants in wooden planters where the planter was a value add. Building planters over the cold season could give you a stock to fill come spring and it would be much like potting into plastic. Small plants set on squares of burlap and tied into packages would have advantages of being light weight and taking minimal space, but the wrapping would be a bit of an art. Of course clay pots, but those are expensive, fragile, heavy. Anyone have thoughts for an alternative solution to plastic pots?
Everything made from hydrocarbons can be made from carbohydrates. Plants therefore are primed for making plastic we would both like far more.
That seed popping plant is in my yard, as I walk through, they shoot their seeds with every step! Pernicious weed but it only grows here in the earliest spring, so I just let it be. And it seems it is hairy bittercress after a web search. And it is used as an herb. Very interesting…..
is their any particular reason why you don't cover your beds with mulch hay? that's what i do to suppress unwanted plants, keep the soil moist, and feed the soil web…i feel like i've seen you do this on some beds but not others
Oh, I bought some decompostable fabric pots this year, grow bags. Light, cheap, and so far working out great! Also they can be planted in the ground and will decompose over time. Water in, water out, and if and when the roots pop out they will simply die back without killing the plant…air pruning they called it. They say they will last 3 years above ground as 'pots'. I'm testing their theory. 🙂 But so far I love them. And no plastic pots. I still sow seed in some recycled plastic pots but I also use the cardboard egg cartons for many of my seeds. But it's now time for direct seeding, which I love best!
Why can't you sell the autumn olive?
Beautiful crab apple. Have you tried grafting into it? I have been having fun grafting various apple types into my crab apple. It’s been a fun adventure. Beautiful garden!
Wow looks nice! I got myoga ginger from you this spring and I was thinking it must be dead. But a couple days ago it finally started sprouting. Yay!
I started eating common milkweed shoots this year, pulling the ones that came up in the pathways and they are absolutely delicious! did I see turkish rocket for a moment, thinking about blooming? if I did I am wondering if that plant has chilling hour requirements, mine bloomed last year but hasn't even thought about it this year….
I thought I had a big crabapple….but holy SMOKES do you have a big crabapple!!! I think our guy is about 30-40 feet tall, 40 foot spread and 60-75 years old (I estimated it was planted with the house initially).
Is that horsetail?