Some ideas: 1. Sharpening garden tools 2. General care for garden tools, ie the wood handles need oiling 3. Taking cuttings, the problems with cuttings rotting or just not developing roots at all. 4. Pesky blackbirds, digging up all of my veggies. 5. Espalier a plum tree from the start. 6. Storing pumpkins 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 thanksSo much. Sue
wonderful idea, seems a lot simpler than my current bag full of weeds in a drum of water. Will be making one and as always: simple, cheap, effective ideas that we use in our vege patch are always welcome. BTW have been using the solar dehydrator from your video to dry a wonderful excess of cherry tomatoes. We have been drying them to very hard, running them through the coffee grinder and have delicious concentrated tomato powder for soups, stews, sauces , anything really . Occupy less space in storage than bottled ones and no waste.
I like that your videos focus more on showing how to make stuff for use in the garden, rather than how to grow things like most other gardening channels. It’s like a toolbox of sorts, and I hope to get a lot of use out of them once I have a proper garden and not just a balcony (though this year it’s very lush, green, and hopefully fruitful later on). I understand that this focus might limit the content somewhat as you go through and maybe run out of things that you are using around the place, but if you’re up for it you could also add some ”mental” tools, like planning for a garden/season/project/location, approaching gardening with longterm and sustainability perspective, trouble shooting for good solutions, and things like that. I also think that you could bring a lot more of the content on the website on to youtube without the audience feeling like it’s repetition, youtube is such a different media, and not everyone learns well from text. You could also do short videos of demonstrating/showing the tools/equipment in use, like maybe a time lapse video of seedlings growing on the capillary bed, that would be neat. So a companion series to ”making an X” could be ”using the X”. Otherwise, is there anything else you’d want to teach/share? Are there things you wish you had known or used when you first started out? Important mind shifts that has helped you? An idea for a beginners starting kit? (Not that I am a beginner exactly, but as a person who learns from experience and experiments mostly, oh, and youtube now I suppose, I find it very useful to have a look at the basics from time to time so I’m not overlooking something). Sorry if this is a bit much at once, but I enjoy your videos and would look forward to more of them. I like that they’re fairly short, in a more everyday-style, instructive, and use materials that are readily available to me even though I live in a quite different part of the world - northern Sweden. Tools and equipment tend to be more similarly applicable than growing instructions. Thanks! Hope to see more of you!
Hi Kim, thanks for your long reply! It has given me a lot to think about and will be a great help in coming up with new content. I always think I am doing stuff for an audience of Australians and it blows me away that someone in northern Sweden is watching me prattle on too! :-) Also, I have done a bit on balconies, I don't know if you have seen it, here is a link www.underthechokotree.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=393:the-sustainable-balcony-part-1-edible-gardening-the-assessment&catid=122:plans-and-designs&Itemid=74 Thanks again!
I take it that you add water to the comfrey /stinging nettles leaves? Also would you have a means of leaving the liquid in the tube to brew for a while. A tap or something. Thanks really enjoy your presentations
Hi Nev, i am definitely going to be making your plant extraction tool, thanks for sharing your idea...i wondered if you had ever made or thought about making a duck pond water recycling system from either one or two blue (food grade) barrels...i have watched a lot of UA-cam videos and still haven't quite got my head around how to make one for my small duck pond, any all ideas will be gratefully considered and i thought others might well find this a useful resource in this day and age of homesteading/gardening?
Great idea
Thanks for sharing
My pleasure!
thanks for video. Will be making one.
Some ideas:
1. Sharpening garden tools
2. General care for garden tools, ie the wood handles need oiling
3. Taking cuttings, the problems with cuttings rotting or just not developing roots at all.
4. Pesky blackbirds, digging up all of my veggies.
5. Espalier a plum tree from the start.
6. Storing pumpkins
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 thanksSo much. Sue
Thanks for your suggestions Sue, I'll see what I can come up with! :-)
wonderful idea, seems a lot simpler than my current bag full of weeds in a drum of water. Will be making one and as always: simple, cheap, effective ideas that we use in our vege patch are always welcome. BTW have been using the solar dehydrator from your video to dry a wonderful excess of cherry tomatoes. We have been drying them to very hard, running them through the coffee grinder and have delicious concentrated tomato powder for soups, stews, sauces , anything really . Occupy less space in storage than bottled ones and no waste.
Excelleeeent! :-)
Sir nice video 👍👍👍... love from India 🤗...sir what you use to control leaf curl virous of chilli plants?
Unfortunately, there are no controls for plant viruses, all you can do is remove and burn the infected plant to prevent the infection spreading
I like that your videos focus more on showing how to make stuff for use in the garden, rather than how to grow things like most other gardening channels. It’s like a toolbox of sorts, and I hope to get a lot of use out of them once I have a proper garden and not just a balcony (though this year it’s very lush, green, and hopefully fruitful later on).
I understand that this focus might limit the content somewhat as you go through and maybe run out of things that you are using around the place, but if you’re up for it you could also add some ”mental” tools, like planning for a garden/season/project/location, approaching gardening with longterm and sustainability perspective, trouble shooting for good solutions, and things like that. I also think that you could bring a lot more of the content on the website on to youtube without the audience feeling like it’s repetition, youtube is such a different media, and not everyone learns well from text. You could also do short videos of demonstrating/showing the tools/equipment in use, like maybe a time lapse video of seedlings growing on the capillary bed, that would be neat. So a companion series to ”making an X” could be ”using the X”. Otherwise, is there anything else you’d want to teach/share? Are there things you wish you had known or used when you first started out? Important mind shifts that has helped you? An idea for a beginners starting kit?
(Not that I am a beginner exactly, but as a person who learns from experience and experiments mostly, oh, and youtube now I suppose, I find it very useful to have a look at the basics from time to time so I’m not overlooking something).
Sorry if this is a bit much at once, but I enjoy your videos and would look forward to more of them. I like that they’re fairly short, in a more everyday-style, instructive, and use materials that are readily available to me even though I live in a quite different part of the world - northern Sweden. Tools and equipment tend to be more similarly applicable than growing instructions. Thanks! Hope to see more of you!
Hi Kim, thanks for your long reply! It has given me a lot to think about and will be a great help in coming up with new content. I always think I am doing stuff for an audience of Australians and it blows me away that someone in northern Sweden is watching me prattle on too! :-) Also, I have done a bit on balconies, I don't know if you have seen it, here is a link www.underthechokotree.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=393:the-sustainable-balcony-part-1-edible-gardening-the-assessment&catid=122:plans-and-designs&Itemid=74 Thanks again!
I take it that you add water to the comfrey /stinging nettles leaves? Also would you have a means of leaving the liquid in the tube to brew for a while. A tap or something.
Thanks really enjoy your presentations
Thank you, glad you like them! No, no water is added. The leaves break down and then the liquid drains out into the jar or bottle underneath. :-)
Interesting! So do you just stuff a heap of leaves in there? And does the weight push the liquid out as the leaves decompose?
Why do you only use comfrey and stinging nettles for this?
Hi Nev, i am definitely going to be making your plant extraction tool, thanks for sharing your idea...i wondered if you had ever made or thought about making a duck pond water recycling system from either one or two blue (food grade) barrels...i have watched a lot of UA-cam videos and still haven't quite got my head around how to make one for my small duck pond, any all ideas will be gratefully considered and i thought others might well find this a useful resource in this day and age of homesteading/gardening?
Sorry Stacey, I haven't done or even seen anything like that! Used to keep a duck years ago but that is the closest I get!
@@underthechokotree2792 thanks anyway, Nev, i will keep on researching, someone must have the know how, right?
@@thegashgirl I hope so! :-)