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I thought box thorn was toxic? (Maybe not to chooks?)

Hi Ben, when you are composting with your chickens, what do you do with the food scraps it is best for chickens not to eat, such as avos and alliums? I'm thinking of doing something similar with my birds, but would love to know how you deal with this first.

I use cattle panels to grow my indeterminate tomato's up. We have very high winds were I live, the tomato's stay put through a windstorm, even when they are loaded with fruit. My indeterminate cherry tomato's were over 12 ft tall on my cattle panel trellis. My determinate San Marzano's that I had on a straight cattle panel fence stayed exactly where I put them as well.

Many thanks- a calm, balanced and informative q&a

Sourse waste streams?

Do u mulch over it on garden?Work it in? Im "confused" not completely buying the N doesnt gas off uncovered

Thanks for the great info mate 👍 just got yourself a new sub👌👌

I do bokashi/ compost. I used to get rodents, but since I started to sprinkle bokashi bran over kitchen food scraps a couple of years ago (all kitchen scraps inc meat and bones) I don't get any. In fact I felt so confident I removed the mesh from the bottom of the compost bins. I add mulched autumn leaves every time I add the contents of the bokashi bin. This really makes the compost hot. It's also important to drain the bokashi bin before you add it to the compost other wise you will burn the worms with the acidic liquid. I also stir the compost weekly with a compost aerating tool you can get from the hardware store. This ensures clumps get broken up and composts quicker.

Wally to eat the rats! 😻 Also love the reference to Charlie ha!

On the persistent herbicide issue. I do a simple bio-assay on ALL inputs including commercial bagged ones. Before use, I fill a couple of pots with a mix of known good mix and the new item, and one with just good mix. Plant a couple of peas or beans in each pot and see how they grow. If there are any deformities or nothing grows, I don't use it. The pot with just good mix is a kind of control/comparison. Cheers!

Thank you so much for this video.

Great video

I have a compost bin and from the get go I put wire underneath it, consequently I have had no rodents inside. Instead they snack on my capsicums and tomatoes ( healthiest rats in Adelaide).. I don’t use poison but I have used traps which I put around where they are eating and inside my little compost systems that I’ve made for around the garden. Little buggers chew through and pop inside to eat the scraps, so I popped the traps just inside the opening and have caught them

Looks good mate 😊

I like to put the date on the back of the label too.

Great tips! Thank you! 🙌💚

What area in Victoria are you in? I have just started my garden and this is so inspiring to me. How much space are you working with? Thank you

Hi Ben, loving the channel. I am a new gardener up in North East Victoria, and this video was the inspiration for attempting a similar guild in one of my first summer beds. Specifically tomatoes/fennel/beats/spring onions. So far so good, everything is steadily growing. However I have recently encountered some folks online claiming that fennel will inhibit tomato growth and crop yield. Of course there are just as many folks claiming it's not an issue, and not a great deal of scientific literature pertinent to a home garden setting either. So my question is, is this something you considered when planning your guilds? And would you mind giving an update on how you feel your guilds performed after harvest? Cheers

great info....thank you

Oh I really really want bees, I would love to have loads of honey. That's so so good for you

Great video. I don't know how you have the time to do all you do. Working full time plus all this! Amazing!

Love it again Ben thankyou!

Okay so this guy is so blooming handsome its flustering 😂

Inspiring!

Gardens looking good Ben! Do the 2nd year capsicums perform better or worse than 1st years?

awesome .. always so much to learn.. thanks

Great video as always Ben, would love to see a video on the process of installing the new water tank !

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Hey Ben, I'd love to see a video on how you do your garden planning for a growing season. You eludid to it in a previous video, but it would be good to see how you allocate growing spaces and plan for seedlings to replace things as they mature and get harvested or naturally bolt and die off as the weather changes. I'm a gardener and a full-time worker up in Canberra, so any tips on time management would be gold!

where did u get your chickens from?

Thanks for the foraging website. Great resource

hello Ben, very nice videos overall. please continue like this and with more frequent videos. Greetings from Greece 😀

Time for getting some Mexicans

Sad day losing a chook. Great job being there for her and not letting her linger in pain. Its bloody hard though. We had a massive earwig problem a few years ago, best thing i found for them wa screw up some newspaper and put it in or under a pot. The earwigs will hide in it int he day and then just whenever you have time scoop that up and give it to the chooks, they love it. Can i also ask about tour chicken fencing? It looks easy to move around, do you like it and is it a particular brand? Im in the market 😂

I’d love a tutorial on or a feature of your A-frame sifter! I paused the video to draw a diagram 😁

Hey Ben really enjoying your videos! I'm wondering if you have advice on any knowledge sources that would be great for a beginner? For example I've just planted out my first lot of seedlings for the year (bit late but hopefully will be fine) but I realised when planting I was just randomly planting stuff where it seemed to fit. Do you know of any good resources with information on which plants to group together and so on?

I just love your pots!

Don't give up dude, I only just got here and have heaps more to learn from you I'm sure.

It’s a sad but necessary part of having livestock 😢 I like the length of your videos. Once a video is over 12-13 minutes I’m less likely to click.

Great video. You give a realistic perspective and your humour and love of chickens is delightful.

great work mate

Definitely the right call. Chooks don't live forever.

I had too many seed potatoes for the area I wanted to plant in so I left them on my potting table to dry for a few days. I got sick so it was a week or so later before I got to plant them elsewhere but they are growing fine now. I was relieved because I also thought I’d left them unplanted for too long.

Showing the struggles of one's choices and doubts is more inspiring to me than those idealistic films about the beauty of off-grid living. Thank you! :) Greetings from Poland.

Sorry about the chook. Must have been hard. Looking forward to seeing the tank irrigation.

Super informative! And looks like it was well worth the hard work!!

I hate it. We lost a duck and 3 chickens this year. They say when you have live stock you'll soon have dead stock. That's not the warning it should be they that you'll fall in love with them