Air Prune Beds - 2024 Season Starting!
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
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Without a doubt the most innovative, generous and community oriented, heart-driven permaculture channel on UA-cam.
Truly inspiring. Thanks!!
EdibleAcres could also be called IncredibleAcres - you make it look easy.
The trick is to not have the camera filming the whole process :)
It would look pretty drawn out and back cranking then :)
@@edibleacresEven so, you have a great way of helping us with all the visuals. We can watch and envision as we learn so when it comes time for us to take up these projects, they are already to go in our minds, thanks to your classroom. ☺
I wholeheartedly agree with this! You have a way of not only giving amazing visuals, but a calm and thorough way of explaining things that make you extra effective because I can listen over and over and get so much information!
Kingpin of the permaculture nursery biz
Ha!
I see the vision! It's clear and brilliant. And I add to it that your entire neighborhood will evolve into a permaculture paradise!
You guys are such an inspiration for what it looks like to be a catalyst for change
Such kind words thank you so so much
Siberian peaches, hardy kiwi... nature and humans doing the slow acclimatation and crosses... are just amazing
I swear, nothing is as calming as watching one of your videos at the end of the day! Shout out to Juan. Your operation has come a long way since he joined the team.
So cool to know they land as calming for you...
Yes to Juan, a million times over. Edible Acres is incredibly more developed and maintained and evolved because of him. So lucky we have him with us!
@@edibleacresCan I have a Juan too? :)
I’ve been following almost from the beginning. You have done amazing things and educated and inspired so many of us. Thank you, Sean!
When I see all you do in a challenging climate, I get motivated to do more. Here it’s green and lush all winter. Yet I struggle with citrus and peach. But you have Siberian peaches !!! So i just need to get more varied seeds (and air pruning). I’ll be the nursery I want to see in the world ! (On my new continent)
(I used to be in Québec and am now on the French Atlantic coast)
You're an inspiration! Such a powerful example of using native resources to develop a long term, multi season plan to create dynamic, resilient landscapes. Thanks for making time to share the progress and the vision
So absolutely happy to do so. Certainly there are embodied energy complexities in this like with the metal mesh and the screws and the perlite, etc., etc, but this system has evolved into a sweet way to move landscapes into fertile and weed free spaces in exchange for hosting thousands of little tree children for a year and it's a model I'd LOVE to see amplified everywhere!
Vision in progress 🤩 Can’t wait to see it completed 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
I used this method for creating new raised beds at my friends' farm after watching one of your videos a way back and it worked great ! After harvesting the dormant plants from the air-prune boxes in the fall, we pulled-back the boxes to reveal a beautiful patch of weed-free soil. The grasses that were in-place in the Spring had completely decomposed and there were signs of lots of insect activity in the sheltered area beneath the boxes. We immediately followed-up by emptying the soil from the boxes to create the raised beds and planted a mix of perennial herbaceous plants for my friends to enjoy :) Thanks for sharing !
Awesome! Excited to see it deeper in the spring and once the second pond is there
Excited to see how your electric car journey works! We have a Prius and a truck but are considering stripping the inside of the Prius to make space and adding a trailer hitch and selling the truck. It's just nerve racking as I'm used to hauling things and going to markets with a truck. It's interesting as every time I've thought about the issue of the truck I've thought of your place and thought well if Edible Acres has one... I can have one. But it looks like I can't fall back on that thought anymore!
Maybe look into retrofitting the truc to electric motor. Retrofitting has been approved in the European union (by authorized mechanics)
Shout out Broke Gardner for the live! Mullein can be used as a dynamic accumulator and chop and drop too!
I love your videos ‼️
So glad!
I’m looking forward to spring online ordering . Thank you , nice content!
Looks great and I'm sure it will be beautiful!!
Can totally visualize it. It's going to be beautiful!
I'm glad you can as it's a bit frumpy looking right now!
Man, Your going big this year Sean! Big Inspirations as always, and I love the concept you got going on. Such a amazing way to establish beds for growing food and getting a few thousand trees in the meantime.
I'm glad you appreciate. We have the materials so it makes sense to expand the boxes. They are so functional I don't see why not!
Just an FYI of how I propagated oaks in fall. Collected dropped acorns. I had an intermittent mist system set up which I loved. I eventually bricked the floor. Under the bench with the mist, on the floor, I would sprout them. I would gather used flats from ground cover type plants. These flats were fairly dense with plastic on the bottom of them, and generally planted ground cover directly into. I lined them with burlap, a layer of seed, and a tag, then covered the flat with another flat (upside down, like a lid), a ground cover flat is best as it allows for only low light and mouse prevention. Then placed on the floor under the bench. They worked great. Once sprouted with about 1-2 inches of root, I would plant them into gallons for grow out. The varieties I grew were from the west coast so I do not know how well your east coast varieties would fare. I propagated Live oak, valley oak (which I think is a white oak variety) and blue oaks (extremely slow growers).
Thank you very much for sharing your notes on your propagation techniques here, sounds like you've got some great ideas happening
Sounds lovely!
It looks incredible...! I really get what youre going for and the whole idea of non-straight lines makes all the difference for the "romance" or whatever. I did that at my garden allotment with a micro pond etc and there's real magic to "carving out" like rooms in a garden - it's very deliberately designed but in a natural way, I guess. I follow both your and Andrew Millison's ideas on water management and for fascinated by the idea of thinking how water would naturally move on my allotment, and started carving out those routes beforehand. Feels like tiny versions of the landscapes here in Sweden. And I do realize I sound completely out of my mind here :D this kind of stuff Is difficult to put into words but I get what youre trying to convey 👍
I see it! Have fun!
Looks great, looking forward to seeing how those fall sown beds with the oaks fares out. I noticed many red oak acorns last spring were germinating after spending the winter sitting on the surface of my pasture. I suspect beds could be sown in the fall and successfully germinate in spring.
I totally do see it!
Awesome!
I put my Chinquapins in air prune beds in the fall. I checked on them last weekend and the few I tried were firmly rooted. I think it is the best way to go with fall rooting seeds.
I’m really excited to see how the fall sown oaks do. I know for me down in NC fall sowing in AP beds works amazing. But our winters are dramatically different. I’m gearing towards making my way back north, slowly. I miss snow and these southern summers are too hot for me. I’m preparing to have to relearn and tweak a lot of my nursery practices depending how far north I go. This year I’ll be splitting time but growing mostly in VA at the base of Appalachia. Thanks for another great video!
Always happy to share. I'm very interested to see how some of these air prune box experiments pan out this season. Definitely a couple interesting questions in the mix. Hoping you find a really excellent place to land
great work
Thanks!
Just an inspiration matey.
Thanks kindly!
This is unbelievably super cool amazing :O
Looks great! I would love to learn more about watercress
Me too!
This is going to look amazing, I can't wait to see updates! So many trees!🤗💛🤗
Lemon balm doesn't spread
the same way as mint, it is more clumping, but it spreads really easily by seed, you can try to cut your flowers before they go to seed, but it's worth keeping a few plants around, you just have to harvest heavy and dig up the new plants that you don't need.
We have some nice patches of lemon balm that like to stay where they are so long as we cut all flowers early enough... Thats the rub... if you don't do that it definitely spreads by seed!
cool, sorry these comments were supposed to be for another UA-cam channels video that was talking about lemon balm and Mullein! not sure why they went too your channel?, but either way thanks for responding and not calling me a weirdo for such odd comments! lol And thanks for all the good content you guys share!@@edibleacres
thanks for the update sean. michigan here. looking forward to getting my order in the next few weeks - !!!
We're excited to send it to ya! We try to organize everything so the plants and the people are happy... a little hard to juggle but I'm glad we're not pushing it this week with the cold returning!
I'm reading Sepp Holzers Permaculture. Lot's of parallels
I've enjoyed learning about a fair number of his systems. I think there is inspiration in the work I do that comes from his work for sure
I planted out my first airprune bed in the fall, using an old car tire I had laying around. A lot of seedlings have come up and are now about 12-16 inches tall. Would you recommend that I leave them in there until they lose leaves in the fall? I worry that they will be short on space and that the roots may be nearly impossible to untangle if I were to do that though. Thoughts?
I would absolutely wait until they are dormant in the fall! Roots are a challenge to untangle but absolutely doable... Have a bucket of water and dip groups and work them apart underwater, very easy that way, then you can plant them out, sell them, heel them in, etc and start again! Kudos for trying!!!
What's the white stuff in the boxes?
A little bit is snow but most of what you see is perlite. Not ideal in some ways but we bought a ton of 2nd hand perlite from another nursery and it helps keep the soil open
@@edibleacresLucky! That stuff isn't cheap and so what if it's second hand, it will still work great. Was the a nursery going out of business?
@@edibleacres Thanks and understood.
Perlite is like light, fluffy sand - even if it's man made.