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Mighty fine work my friend

Interesting.

I just bought one, but was second guessing myself. Then I watched your video and felt reassured. I loved your balanced, humorous, wise presentation.

Ok you are not Huw. But his plot is smaller now. And you and he have the same principles anyway. Everyone overthinks compost. It doesn’t have to be perfect. Bad compost is good too. Just do it

These sheds are so light and flimsy recent storm blew it over and the side of it all collapsed and cracked on impact not very good quality in my opinion wasted my money on this shed

Ohhhh. The water rocks issue.

I could try it for autumn/winter. Need to buy an electronic kitchen scale

I do this with bike parts. Or i did

You have made some very good points in regard to an individual’s approach to wildlife gardening.

My allotment is a nightmare this year. Worst in 14 years. Not sure if I will carry on next year. Oh, mares tail is horrendous this year.😭

I'm glad I'm not the only one who despises horsetail because of its underground runners which can be very deep. What's worked for me was seeing the nuisance as a whole, facing the reality of what needed to be done, then breaking it down into manageable tasks of two hours each. After three years it's far easier and now one of those 'going with the flow' maintenance tasks where my basic routine is to catch it early in May, then keeping on top of it every month with other gardening tasks.

I admire him for being frank about how long it takes to produce compost. Most videos on the subject claim times that can only be achieved under ideal circumstances and with a lot of effort.

Thanks for a great video, we are year 6 of our wildflower meadow in the front garden and it's been well worth the effort and patience. Yellow rattle is doing really well and remember you can always resow that if you need to. It took some species 3 years to show up, like ox-eye daises! First year was mostly yellow rattle and plantain. Now we have thistles, buttercups, etc. Insect magnet. We would however love a bit more colour... Wondering if we can sow annuals in our already established wildflower (perennial) garden and if so how we might go about this and when? Maybe in Autumn when we cut it back?

At least your video is real. I mentioned your site to someone else at a supermarket garden centre, we were discussing best compost. I told them to check out your vids as they were short, and to the point. And helpful !

I have JUST NOW read that marigolds will prevent mare's tail from growing. I am astonished, and i am off to look it up!

It’s so handy to have a rotavator, you did that super fast..I actually love watching you struggle with weeds, it’s realistic. You are keeping it real 😂

Possibly a stupid question and I need to catch up on your previous videos but as a quick fix couldn't you just buy a pile of pallet collars and stick a load of raised beds on top of the existing patch? I did the same in our garden, which is dandelion heaven, didn't even lay cardboard down, just dumped the soil straight in and no weed issues two years in...

so yeah, don't worry about the cardboard causing it to be containerised. We laid cardboard the first week of Feb and put in compost etc to find the mares tail popping through the cardboard by May. One thing is pulling mares tail doesnt kill it. like a succulent it'll just re root from where you left it. sorry. same for kooch grass and bindweed roots. Luckily I can bag and bin them but even drowing them for 2 months didn't work. keep up the good work. and keep weeding

Mare's tail is a nightmare, isn't it? Their roots, I believe, can survive in the ground for 50 years! So it's futile trying to totally eliminate it - just keep on pulling whenever you spot it! Keep at it, you have made such a difference already. It will get easier once you given it all the onceover!

love your sulk 😂😂😂😂 brilliant that you captured it so well we all get days like that. well expressed . on the weeds, i mulch with cardboard and cover with minimal mulch then i make holes plant with compost added into the hole it means the weed areas are less and less but mares tail is a beast i’m grateful i don’t have- we just struggle with bind weed

You are entirely correct that rotovating is absolutely okay! Hopefully all the pernicious weed root bits from the process will be easy to pull out when they grow. Farmers in North America are moving towards regenerative agriculture. What a great idea those slabs are!! My Mom used to plant her rows farther apart so that she could just run the roto between the rows and then hand weed just between the plants.

In my experience no-dig works well in small quantities after the soil has been really well weeded and had a season or two for most of the seedbank near the top to germinate. Otherwise you're just feeding the existing weeds which germinate with lovely quality soil. I've done years of light till and finally started a bit of no-diggery with well rotted horse manure mulching (much cheaper than any compost). This has been really good for weed suppression, but I don't think it would have done much in year 1 or 2 of allotment. I think you've got the right idea. Get your plants in and just hoe around them regularly.

i,m rolling with cumpot from now on, fk it. were only here once. thank god 🤣

I had no idea how good your youtube channel was. Shafkat mentioned it to me but your videos randomly popped up in my reccomended last week and have watched 80 percent of them. I really love the style/format of your videos. Extremely informative, honest and very enjoyable. I'm kind of upset I didn't discover you later as I like to binge watch previous content hours and days at a time 😂😂. The in depth videos are excellent and my brain gets to immerse itself in a deep blanket of thought for certain topics you covered eg the synopsis on the guardians peice and biodiversity, which i haven'teven considered in the last 2 years or so since i started(not to the scale u mentioned anyway). Glad and privalaged to be a subscriber. Your channel is up there with the best of the gardeners channels on UA-cam and you will easily pass a million. All the best dont ever stop the content unless you really have to 👍💪. From H (Shafkats neighbour)

I came here to objectify you but was distracted by how much work you’ve gotten done here. This would definitely take me twice as long 😅 And now I have a sudden craving for snap peas

For that plot I would have sacrificed year one. Your biggest obstacle going forward is not having enough compost so year one you could have focused on growing greens and browns in quantity to make loads of compost for year two. You can then do no dig. Trying to grow veg for edible harvest is futile for year one in your circumstances. Complete and utter waste of time in my opinion.

Darwin 4 by 6- what a piece of junk!!!! How can they honestly sell this????

Good to see someone defend digging the soil for a change. It’s been the practice for thousands of years.

Small "guide" for composting in an even smaller garden. (I don't have a garden. It's a 12 m² terrace.) I bought a cheap plastic container with a lid and put a bit of soil in there. Everything I wanted to compost, kitchen scraps, cuttings from my vegetable plants, grass clippings I took home from work when mowing the grass there... I put in it and mix it up with the soil a bit. The soil is there to have some bacteria and fungi from the soil help break down everything. Every 2 or 3 days take off the lid and mix it up again to get fresh air in there. If it gets to dry give it some water but that should not really happen since you have a lid on the container, trapping the moisture. Since you might give it some water from time to time anyway you better have drilled some holes on the bottom for excess water to run out. Can't give a specific time to break down everything but I remember grass clippings being broken down after about a week and some times I was just digging through it to see how it looks and I couldn't find specific plant parts anymore that I remembered putting in so they had to be broken down already. Also there is much heat in there. I remember in winter on the lid was laying snow but inside the transparent plastic container weed was growing. So it was not hot enough to kill weed seeds but definately warm enough for them to grow. :D But so what? Weeds are just composting material of the future. Sadly when the wind was very strong it seriously ripped the plastic container apart so if you, like me, try it with a cheap plastic container you might want to have it somewhere protected from the wind. (Disclaimer: I am not a pro in anything. Just a guy who tried it and I thought it worked fantastically for my needs with the space I work with.)

in a similar spot to you mate, no mares tail, but bitter cress, bindweed and couch grass. no dig is great if you have three hundred quid to chuck into the ground, I can only afford one bed lol

It’s really impressive how tidy it looks, taking into consideration the amount of trash thar you plucked out of the floor. It just goes to show that the right community of people, with access, could do a lot to transform spaces that policymakers would potentially deem unusable. Or only worthy to be developed by private investors. Also that cut off T-shirt made promises of a Janet Jackson moment that it didn’t deliver on. 👏🏾do 👏🏾better👏🏾

The algorithm did a good job showing me this video instead of the other one :D

came for the keepin' it real garden progress, stayed for the gun show ;)

You do you, whatever gardening style works for you. This is the 4th summer we have been in this yard. I'm lazy but I also wanted to start gardening, so the first year I dug up a few small beds, each winter I add 1 or 2 more beds using cardboard, grass clippings and garden waste etc. I got a truckload of municipal compost the 1st year (free on Earth Day here in Portland, OR.) and make my own compost using kitchen and yard waste and the bedding from my chickens. Nothing beats that first pea or tomato or ear of corn from your own garden.

great videos, i only just joined you a few nights ago and i,m caught up. the way i deal with mares tail is the no plant method 😆my allotment is decimated by the stuff, and cooch grass. its currently about 20" high and for the 2nd year running i,ve toally sacked it off. but i do have plans for a winter fire as my neighbours plot has kindly spread around 400 unwanted raspberry plants to my plot, which i,m pretty cheesed about. but a big fire and some plastic sheeting..hopefully i,ll be good to go next spring.til then its just my fruit trees and my garden plot and greenhouse. lots of cucumber to pot on this weekend. started to think like you about a pollytunnel. seems like the way forward.

Real footage. Love it. Ps I remove every last frond of mares tail into its own bucket & put it in the bin. I do not compost. The battle is real, I feel your pain.

One big benefit if no dig is it's super quick to set up. My soil is way too compacted to grow good vegetables, and I didn't have time to dig enough beds to grow what I wanted this year, so it was way quicker to throw a load of compost down and get growing. This gives me time to start digging elsewhere in the garden, and in the next year or two I'll come back to the no dig beds and give them a thorough double digging. If you have a cheap source of compost or can afford the initial investment, no dig is an effective tool on a grower's belt.

do a test. choose a small patch for no dig, carry on as normal everywhere else, see what happens. Not coming at you as a voice of experience, but would be cool to see the results.

I am sorry, taking over a new plot is hard grind. Clear a small plot, and work out from there. There is no quick solution and just keep weeding and weeding, it will come right in the end. I had mares tail in my garden and I forked it out every time I saw it and eventually it gave up the ghost. My daughter has a garden which is covered in bindweed and ground elder. She just keeps clearing and clearing and is slowly making inroads into it all. Slowly slowly catchee monkey. Have patience, good luck.

I love your honesty. I following along and think you are doing a great job. I am battling with slugs and snails.

I don’t understand the no-dig fad, aside from the fact that it’s a way to get people to spend a lot of money getting started so certain interests benefit. I always plant in ground and the plants are happy. Farmers planted in ground for hundreds upon hundreds of years (thousands even) and everything was fine. It’s Big Ag aggressively destroying soil that’s the problem, not small scale gardeners. Don’t feel ashamed that you didn’t do no-dig. There’s nothing wrong with planting in ground.

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Don't you have slugs? Mine are terrible and wish I had spares because they have eaten everything. I would hate horsetail. As a child it was my job to dig it out. No dig would be frustrating with horsetail as it is fairly indestructible apart from removal and lots of time.

Mares tail likes low pH wet soil, if you can improve drainage and raise the pH it will be heading in the right direction, mite be worth liming as getting the Ca:mg ratio higher with Ca will improve drainage and raise pH, tight soil also indicates a high Mg/low Ca soil. Mite want to avoid rotavating mares tail, every 1" bit of chopped up root will form a new plant :/ If you can take a strimmer or sythe to all those nettles/greenery around you and pile it all up, before it goes to seed, you'd have a ton of compost to make some no dig beds next yr/in future.

It’s tough there’s the way you are doing it which just means pulling up weeds most of your time but getting some crops or you end up doing what I did and weed an area thoroughly and have very little cropping! It did pay off eventually for me and your way will also achieve the exact same thing and if it keeps you motivated it’s the right way for you. Would a cover crop help at all or will they just feed the weeds?

As a new allotment plot holder, I feel you with the weeds. I'm finding it overwhelming but videos like this help as I can see I'm not the only one. Keep going with the good work, I'm loving you videos as they're so real.

Love these videos and as somebody that got into horticulture about 7 years ago it's great to see an actual real gardening channel. As you've said regardless of method the first year sucks. No dig you wait a year, digging you disturb the seedbank, potentially multiply perennials. But it's not like there's a better option. You've got to start somewhere and putting plants in the ground and digging it WILL be better overall for the ground and faster. I don't think it's making the same mistake, it's just a brute force method. I've never dealt with equisetum luckily but I had been wondering what fresh hell it will be like once it has warmed up.

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I really enjoy your honesty in these videos! A lot of gardening content portrays gardening in such a rosy light. It can really be discouraging when reality hits and it isn't as easy as in the videos 😅

Agreed. There really is no perfect wolf or weed control and the best is pulling.