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Our biggest pest are pheasants we have to net and cover everything

Some great tips 😊 👍

i have to disagree as squirrels are the worst pest of the garden, they will destroy and eat everything

That’s a very easy way!!! Great stuff!

Really informative, thanks very much!

Great tips! I’m going to try these in my garden this year. I hadn’t even thought of the slug eggs in cold compost! Thank you for mentioning the harm that slug pellets do to wildlife too - I’ve seen the effects of these pellets on hedgehogs and it’s devastating.

Great tips. Would love if you had any advise to help protect against foxes/badgers. I love the wildlife but heartbreaking to have all the growing effort lost :'(

Whhhhhaaaaaaat!!??? Did you use a specific type of sweet potato? Unbelievable

That’s a beaut!!!!! ❤

Loooooove a hot bed!!!!! Just found your channel and subscribed- lovely content 🌱💚

Brambles have runner roots, which is even worse than tap roots because it means it doesn't stay where the plant was originally planted and you have to chase it all through the garden and paths 😅 I'm currently digging up bramble roots from my garden beds. I couldn't keep on top of the maintenance, and I hadn't expected that they'd get through my incredibly dense clay and sprawl further than just the slightly raised garden beds with friable compost and soil. Amateur gardener error, but we all live and learn. I'm determined to win the battle to get them out completely and stop them coming back, but it's slow going and exhausting to dig through sun-baked clay 😅

love your channel! This is a great video and can’t wait to follow you through spring! I’m doing my first hot bed this year and today is day 2. It hit 145* Fahrenheit today and it’s about 30* outside so it’s toasty in there 😊

It's the devil's celery!

Hello Lucy love it when on your knees pulling the weeds up 😉

Yes mattocks. Yes. So versatile.

I love mattocks! cheers Lucy..

Cardboard mulching -- layering sheets of cardboard all winter can help you maintain the growth come Spring.

A good effort, it's hard work. I'd like to offer two tools to make it slightly easier and safer. A mattock for chopping into and pulling out the roots. Safety specs, those long strands have a habit of catching you unawares.

Ive got a large farmland full of brambles to clear out. So just getting some tips. Ive been cutting them all but didnt do the roots 😮

I set fire to mind but there was nothing but brambles. I am now busy digging out all the roots.

We have unwanted HEDGES of brambles 😢

Protect your body ...........more importantly put some safety glasses on

3 foot!! amazing

I tried a hotbed this year and it far exceeded my expectations. I planted it with greens in mid February and in a months time I was harvesting. A small 4' x 4' bed has provided us with all the leafy greens we can eat for 4 months before my regular garden is ready.

I am clearing brambles from Christmas trees I use shears and loppers , then rake them out twist the rake then tip straight into a large wheelbarrow a strimmer is no good because the brambles grow through the branches twisting this way and that so the brambles have to be cut carefully to avoid damage to the trees .

Mulching blabe on a strimmer...smash through all that...tiller the soil will rip the roots up..or a reciprocating saw round the root...will pop right out...save all the back breaking work 😊

Loved the video! The last tip I think is what I am really missing. I get all of these dry oak leaves at once right before winter, but I am way too low on greens (at first). Hopefully I can continue to prepare better and next year have a proper ratio as soon as I start.

Great video! I am always amazed at how hot our compost gets even in winter. And to think all of that heat is coming from microbes!

A lot of people don’t know that you don’t need heaps of compost on your garden beds what you need to do is make a highly fungal compost the way to do that is look up Johnson su bioreactor easiest way to make compost then when your done gardening for the year you clean your beds add a diverse cover crop add a thin layer of your fungal compost what that’s going to do is keep living roots in your soil holding your soil in place the roots of the divers cover crop with feed the fungi and bacteria keeping them alive and fed, in the spring 3weeks before you plant you cut your cover crops down leave all the biomass on the beds that will drastically reduce your weed and will slowly decompose feeding your bacteria and fungi the only way to build soil is to keep a living root in the ground at all times the thin layer of compost which will excite the roots giving you a thick mat of roots when they decompose that’s food for your fungi and worms if you just add heaps of compost the soil fungi and bacteria will eat your compost down to nothing then you have to add more best thing you can do for your garden is start adding cover crops and not just one type you need a diverse cover crop to get the best results

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Great transformation

Once dug out cover the ground with weed barrier for at least the summer season, the pull up turn the ground over rake off any roots, plant spuds this clears and cleans the ground up, other wise another method, but more slowly, cut end of bramble about to take another root, put into container filled with creosote, cover from rain, this goes baback to the root and kills it, if growing veg on this ground do not for at least a year or so, I did say its a slower method,

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Smart!

Ooh exciting. I'm trying this along with you and thanks for all your advice. The deep comppost thermometer is reading 70 degrees c. Haven't tested top soil temp yet. But so far so toasty. Will try sowing some seeds this weekend.

Add more top soil or you will burn the roots 😊

Hi Lucy, many congratulations. Glad you have come to this point and are feeling good.

So lovely to see you Lucy! Where on Earth have you got bat guano from? 😆

Hey Lucy! 💚 Congratulations and so glad you're able to live you're life the way you want. 😁

It has been pretty cold down in Bristol, hasn't it? We are used to it up here in the N of Scotland - and not being able to get going very early in the new year! My kales are surviving and we have eaten some of them (specifically the Taunton Deane and Daubenton's perennial ones which I find reliable. The annual ones look a bit like yours! We have only just finished last year's potatoes-they did us for 7 months. I have sown a lot of cover crops for over this winter, so I am looking forward to seeing if they improve the soil. Like you we never get big veg (apart from potatoes, maybe), but I'm not sure where I'd get bat guano!😂 All the very best with your new life, Lucy! Hope all goes well and glad you are happy!😊

Nice one Lucy. Great to see you back on UA-cam!

The nails gave me clues maaaany many months ago, glad you can be you Lucy ! Regards Gary

Hi Lucy, I’ve been enjoying pics of your lovely harvests over on instagram! Looking forward to seeing what this year brings on your plot! It will be interesting to see the results of the ‘alternative’ fertilisers you are using 😊👍. I have delayed all my seed sowing because of the cold weather, but now I can’t wait to get started.

Hello Lucy!

The storm was really bad. I lost a greenhouse it was smashed by the storm. However my plot mate ahead glass from someone else’s greenhouse all over this plot. What a pain

Great work 👍

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My problem is slugs invading the kitchen, perhaps via plugholes and overflows. I don't wish to harm the little beggars, so was wondering about the best options. I tried contacting the 'Trailstoppers' people, but all they seem to want to do is sell the stuff, rather than answer relevant questions...

Hi, welcome back .. interplanting is something i have tried for the 1st time ever this season and found it working brilliantly, especially for space saving, no more mono-culture beds for me. Also being no dig now has really helped with conserving water and with all the heat we've had i now water less than when i would normally have dug the beds. Great update, have a great week!!!

I just want to visit your garden to say HI and thank you for sharing it's beauty. I look forward to watching your future updates. I'm a gardener and make gardening videos too. I hope we can learn from each other as we grow our gardens and our UA-cam channels. Stop by my garden anytime.