This is the first episode in a series of videos where I take you on a detailed walk around The Weedy Garden. On this video we look at how the Hugelkultur bed is performing and how I built it three years ago.
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I think the interest is out there to have a look at my garden and go from one end of it to the other cuz I got lots of experiments up here lots of ones I haven’t told you about on the other [Music] videos it’s been 3 years since I started my garden here up on the hill far away from any town and even further from the city and none of you have really seen what my garden looks like like in total in detail so I’ve decided to do a little Series where I’m going to show you my whole garden from the bottom corner to the very top going to show you my food Forest going to show you my worm f show you how healthy my worms are and how I look after them and I’ll show you my soil Factory and how I make the most delicious soil it smells like a fresh forest in the morning did you know that soil actually affects the the neuros senses in your brain and it can give you like a boost of Serotonin so if you want to have a good day and start the day in a good mood food have a smell of some fresh soil yeah and I’ll also show you my bees and uh and I’ll show you how I split the high which I did recently and I’ll show you my vegetable garden and how that’s powering look at all these dragon fruit flowers coming on I’m going to have dragon fruit coming out my ears soon and maybe if I work up the [Music] courage I’ll even taste this one of these Carolina Reapers later on in the series but I’ll have to think about that and we’re going to end up all the way up the top of the garden here this is the last part of the garden exact opposite end of the banana tree down the in there where I got my pumpkins hanging i’ got to be careful not to hit my head because there’s pumpkins hanging everywhere see there’s a specific reason why I’m doing it like this which is very very interesting and I’ll show you that on this season as well so without further Ado I reckon we should get down and start right down the bottom with our little banana tree experiment when I started this Garden I didn’t know anything about gardening except that the plants somehow got their energy from the Sun and that cowo was good for the soil that’s some of the things that my mother taught me she was always making compost but I never really took much notice the catas are full on here in in Australia it’s really hard to make videos so I’ve got to take my microphone and and have it really close to me down here all right so welcome back to the Wy garden and this special series I’m going to do today is basically just a walkout around the garden I want to show you how my garden has developed over the last 3 years and how a garden can look if you start a garden with not knowing anything about gardening so what is this is this video going to be a 4H hour long video no it’s not I’m going to break it up into a small little series of small little videos and each one I’ll make a really interesting little story about and tell you something quite specific about the garden it’s not so much about adapting a whole Library full of knowledge in your brain it’s about one simple little story about nature and about the cycle of life and how it works and once you understand how it works then everything takes on a totally different form and shape and understanding and you’re actually able to find your way around it without too much help at all so so I kind of just want to give you a closer look at the wi garden and what’s going on here and how fruitful and abundant it is how much I’m starting to feel like that gorilla in the forest that I used to dream about when I was a little kid cuz at any given moment at any time of year any time of day I can come up here and fill a basket with food whether it’s vegetables or fruit that’s actually pretty nice feeling when you’re eating good everything’s working well I’m standing right down the bottom of my garden now and this is when I’m going to start the story with just another little experiment that I got going on here right so I put a lot of energy and time and a lot of friends helped me build these swales all right cuz the swales is going to retain my water going to retain my nutrients and hopefully make my trees healthier and happier I planted some banana plants up on my selles and I F them cow manure and chicken manure and compost and I watered them a lot and like really looked after them gave them a lot of love but this one here all I did was put the Spade in the ground I opened up some soil and then I put the banana pup in the ground and I pulled my spade out and I left it and all I do is now is mow around it so you can see how high this one is it’s like a it’s about the same he as me if I was putting up my arms compared to this one see look how high this one is see it’s even getting bananas on it see I’ll have to bag those one soon so that’s an interesting little experiment and I’ll just see see how many years it takes this one to to start to make fruit but um this one’s the first tree in my garden from this angle and if we walk up here this next bed here is actually a hugle culture when I first started digging my selles someone told me about that so I chopped down uh what was it a um might be a little bit of root Zone going around this uh ACAA you reckon I should chop it out um You probably going to kill it with kindness anyway well you’ll shorten its lifespan because the job will be done these trees are the green manure of the landscape so their job is to fertilize that’s actually the fertilizing green manure of the landscape the melanoon so if it’s if it gets too fertile it’s going to die because his job’s [Music] [Music] done this should be nice in a couple of years there you go you got one hugle culture right there and hugle culture is where you put a lot of logs and sticks on the bottom of your garden bed and then put dirt on top so I put all these logs on from a tree that I cut in the garden then we dug the swes and put all the dirt on top of that and the idea with hugle culture is that the all the logs and all the sticks and everything from the tree they’re going to decompose and it’s going to feed the trees that are growing on the swes with all these logs rotting and it creates a really good uh fun environment really good environment for the melium and you can see my pean Tre is doing pretty well the first year or two it was struggling actually but third year it’s got of powering it’s probably growing these These are about probably a meter a meter and a half so that pean tree is very very happy there and then we got the avocado tree you can see where I’ve chopped the top of it cuz I want the avocados to grow outside here so I can Harvest them I don’t want to have to climb up the tree to get my avoc and that way I get all the fruit coming outside so I can walk around it and and take my fruit when it starts the fruit in a couple of years another thing that’s really good to know is that this wine eding keeps the wallabies from ring backing your tree cuz wallabies they love to eat little avocado shoot leaves and they love to eat avocado bark I don’t know why they don’t like the mango they don’t like all my other trees but avocado specifically the WABE likes so I made this little wetting protectors right so it’s pretty simple WABE comes along and he can’t eat it the wallabies have ringar two of my avocado trees I killed two of them so I outsmarted them and put on this mesh now so that protects the little avocado trees so what happens when the sunlight creates a photosynthesis in the leaves it mixes a carbon dioxide with the sunlight those Photon particles turning that sunlight into sugar it comes down through the bark and that Sugar then gets spread out through the roots which attracts the bacteria as we know those nutrients then come up through the trunk and feed the tree so if there’s no bark around and the wallabies have ring back my avocado trees the trees not going to like that so I P this little protective cutter around all my AV cut trees and I’ve got nine of them so that stops that problem and um I collect the C manure as well from the next door neighor and I put on about probably half a wheel barar of cow manure we got lots of cows next door so I collect the cow manure from next door and I also put about a WHEB full of Cam manure on each tree every year and so there’s all sorts of different mushrooms coming in to my swes from the outside but the ones we can eat there up in the garden I’ll show you them later so you can see wood chips and cman and it’s the happiest tree you’ll ever see growing in the hugle culture bed it’s simple and if I don’t have any support trees which I’ll show you up in a second then I just put some wood chips um about a wheel bar full half a wheel bar full of wood chips around each of my trees and that creates that nice fungi Rich environment it’s going to help your trees feed cuz all the melum that’s like growing in these wood Chiefs it goes out and it can collect all the nutrients it wants and brings them back to the plant okay that’s it for this video on the next video I’m going to show you the results of the Ellen White method of planting fruit tree okay I’ve tried four times now to do it and I’ve killed my tree every time so doing the Ellen White method is really important information I got to tell you about that it’s doable but I’ll catch you on the next video and I’ll tell you about the Len white method and what not to do okay have a nice day everybody thanks for watching I’ll see you on the next video ah
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I see you made the same mistake l did with the hugel 🤪
This way we leave to many air ways and tunnels in place for rats and/or voles to do damage plus many plants get root burn because of these airpockets. I struggled growing everything but some fruit trees for the past 5 years on my big hugels and some 9 raised hugel beds, where as l grew in ground (even tilled areas) l always had good results.
The proper way to build a hugel is in layers, wood and leaves filled in with manure and/or compost and keep layering like that till the last layer is the soil you dug up, then probably it be best to do a cheap cover crop to have everything settle and start breaking down, also, hugels are a thing for high rain areas, otherwise they actualy dry out your soil. After all the work and struggle l’ve had, l’ll never waste good firewood on that again, nature doesn’t bury stuff, it mulches on top and lets the micro organisms do the ”digging” 😉
Happy growing everyone 🌻🪴🌱🌾🌴🌳🌹
Zero bandicoot digging !!!
Weedy, I've been here on your channel since the very beginning. Not only are you a fantastic story teller, you're a very passionate human being. Sharing your garden and your knowledge of how nature works, is so inspiring. Keep it up mate.
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Magnifique vidéo 😊
I’d rethink the reaper lol
I like sniffing good dirt aswell 😆
Ever so grateful to you as one of our golden teachers of permaculture ☺️🙏
Thanks Weedy!!
Great stuff Weedy, as usual. Was that a gold top coming out of that cow manure under the tree. 🍄 🤣
Hello.. I only discovered your channel last night, and am already enjoying your videos, thank you. I'm excited because they are so clear and informative and you're in the same area as we are so you're referring to the same plants and I can even hear some of my favourite frogs calling 🙂 It's interesting about Wallaby's ringbarking Avos.. We don't lose many plants, but, amongst the fruit trees, avocados have been the ones to succumb.. I thought it was phytopthera or frost and didn't notice any ringbarking, but I know that the wallabies here love avos because we find fruit still hanging from the tree completely, and very neatly, skinned.. It makes me wonder what it is in avo skins that the wallabies crave. 🤔
Would you please tell us what is the area of your Weedy Garden?
Yay! A new video, i was having weedy garden withdrawals 😂
Love it weedy.
Nice to see you back, Weedy. Great idea for a series of videos, looking forward to watching them all.
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I love growing sweet potatoes. I laid down a large vinyl tarp (an old billboard sign) as a weed barrier. On top I have rows of 18 wheeler truck tires .. 2 tires high. I use a Sawzall and cut both sidewalls out. In the bottom one I put a large chunk of oak tree about 8 in. thick .. then I put biochar, compost, and sifted soil (no rocks) and fill 1/2 way to the top. Next I take a smaller truck tire .. both sidewalls are cut out .. put in the middle of the top 18 wheeler tire .. and fill to the top. In the smaller top tire I plant 6 slips .. 5 around the inside and one in the middle. I use shredded leaves to lay on top of the dirt as a barrier to the sun so weeds don't grow. When harvest time comes .. I cut all the vines away and take the top smaller tire out .. and in the middle it's easy to gather the sweets by hand .. with a spading fork to sift the top soil. Tires are stable .. they don't break down easy .. but make great pots to grow things in. The large chunk of oak tree trunk acts like a sponge .. slowly releasing moisture to plants. It's another way to use the Hugelkultur method.
nice one mate, enjoy!
Thanks weedy for the info and a very enjoyable video. I have started my teenage grandchildren watching you. You give such wonderful information in a way that is exciting.
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Nice gold top. Hope you ate it!
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Cow manure providing the spiritual fungi! Nice work hehehe
Can I ask about how big is the Weedy Garden land? Meaning, the measurements of the space you have to create all this life
Thanks weedy another awesome video as always you never disappoint ❤
Three years! Fantastic. Your stories are always enjoyable, thankyou David.
You'd love those cubes at the end weedy good as gold mate
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Weedy… it appears you have added so much knowledge to your head over the past few years that it has broken through your hat!😄
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