I am so excited to share this video covering what I think is the most revolutionary gardening technique for my personal growing journey. And the great news is that you too can do this even if you have a small garden! Without a shadow of a doubt, this ancient gardening technique is, per square foot, to be the most useful and productive element of my kitchen garden this growing season – even more than a polytunnel! This technique is a 3-in-1, allowing you to grow huge yields, germinate thousands of seedlings for transplanting elsewhere, and generate a mass of compost!
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I love these! The hot part doesn’t have to be that deep either. I’ve had success with digging and putting the manure below ground and the growing bed on top
I still haven't gotten my book on hotbeds, and ordered it like 2 months ago.
Dirt patch heaven uses these very successfully!
Awesome video! I had a thought, instead of using a wood frame around the bulk compost, what if you used hay/straw bales (since its going to decompose anyways and its great mulch even half composted.)
Yes! Hotbeds let me sow lettuce any time in winter. I put a video on it And how i ensure they sprout.
We've been eating gobs of lettuce all winter!
I live in pontypridd and I'm doing veg gardening seriously for the first time this year, even sowing indoors today infact. I'm brand new to this and I have already crunched through so many of your videos every day for the past month lol. I grew a nice bushy cherry tomato plant last year without much trying, but I was surprised of how many tomatoes I got from it, even though some of them split. That gave me the confidence to learn as much as I can for this year, and your vids have been so incredibly helpful! You've given me new skills and opened my mind in so many ways, I'm confident I can grow up to 7 different crops both outside and in a greenhouse for the first time.
Cheers Huw!
🤯 Total game changer!
Just wondering why you are using shop bought compost when you are producing so much of it yourself. Love your vlogs very interesting.
Very Interesting
I seen a system on Youtube,
where you pump water through pipes,
buried depth in the Compost pile,
heats up the Water,
which was then feed to Greenhouse, close by
Murray Hallam used it for his Aquaponics Systems
Or like the Ancient Chinese pile system, put wood rods in the pile
Mid way through the compost process
pull the rods out, this adds Air, increasing the Heat
Always something I’ve thought I should build, did a small one in a packing crate once and worked really well, interesting video 👍
Your videos are always great. The audio panned left for vo and right for music doesn't work. Make sure vo is centred
Thank you for the info, really appreciate you. But the music is annoying… too much
The Roman Emperor learned this trick from his horse. I live in a very cold and snowy environment. Whenever I muck out the barn and dump it out in the horse pasture, guarantee you within an hour one of the horses has collapsed and is taking a nap on that nice warm heap:)
What a power plant*!
Composting, seeding, propagating, growing.
* Pun intended.
Well this has to be the best things I've seen in a while! Although it's one of those "well duh" moments for me. So simple it plumb evaded me. I get regular deliveries of wood chips from local tree companies. This is going to totally change my gardening strategy/design. Thanks!
I am enjoying the inspiration to keep improving the garden. Our PNW has had a very slow start to our early plantings, temps, well below average. This hot bed would be so helpful in these unpredictable climate times. We hover around zone 8. Thank you!
why am I getting very low voice volume but good music volume?
What a great idea
I'll try this with one of my compost piles that need to age more. You always have some new fun thing to try out, thanks for the great videos.
Amazingg, so its actually a cold frame with organic material as a heat mat!
Interesting… I will consider doing something like this. Right now I've constructed a mini hoop house on top of my uncovered compost pile with clear or opaque plastic. The plastic will cover the top of the pile from getting wet, and on sunny days act as a mini greenhouse/cold frame.
Any idea when the seed trays will be restock for the USA? I’ve been wanting to buy so trays but I see they are out of stock.
I'm thinking about doing a small one inside a greenhouse.
Ur audio is bad, everything is in left channel !