Agree - last year the grass was cut higher around the edges of the veg plot. Lots of voles. This year we have made more of an effort to keep the grass much lower and the voles haven't been in the potatoes this year. Having plastic to kill the grasses and weeds for the next plot to work on was also an aid for vole nests - and easy for veg raiding parties! Shorter grass = greater visibility for owls and other predators to keep the little furry sausages away. Many thanks xx
Love watching your vlogs. My wife and I started using your advice on no dig on two small vegetable patches in the back garden (central East Scotland). From scratch three months ago, and that's cardboard down and bought compost laid we have started harvesting lettuce, basil, asian lettuce, Rocket, and so much more coming along. Thanks to you and Charles Dowding on passing on your years of experience.
i'm a landscaper in uk and i do that with a spade/half moon in the autumn, and with the strimmer, turned up side down in the spring and summer for mentenance
Richard I couldent be more thankful for the information that you put out. I love your book, our egg mobile, garden and chicken broilers are all comming along with help from the information in your book. Thanks from Quesnel Canada.
We had lots of rain in Italy, about a month of thunderstorms every other day! Summer just started and the sun came finally really hot and hard on the veggies !!! Thanks for the video and for sharing your experience and knowledge
This channel has inspired my husband and I to revive an old family produce farm. Pest control has been the biggest issue. The fence works great...except for the moles and white tail deer :/ Those suckers can jump right over the fence. They're deforesting down the road and it's pushing a whole herd toward the property.
Dude!!! I love watching your video and remebering that one time youb ought the huge roll of plastic for the food forest in thailand!!! hahaha, you've learned a lot along the way!!!
Hi Richard, I'm interested in why you allow grass to grow up to the edges of your garden in the first place. Edges can be quite useful, and I'm sure you've considered adding more of a wild bed on the outside of your market garden that could be kept with useful perennial shrubs and flowers. I suppose you'd probably need to take care of the roots just the same, but that grass seemed to be quite a bit of unutilized space that could be providing more value to you whilst providing another barrier to the creeping weeds you talked about, as well as providing additional wildlife habitat (unless it's the fact that it would attract animals that is the major concern of course, in which case I get it) :D All the best!
Absolutely LOVE your beautiful garden and farm! Immensely enjoy watching your videos and learning about your techniques as well. Your dinner looks totally delicious!
Hey, love and appreciate your channel and all the work you put in to educating all of us. I wondered if you could sometime show us how you harvest the produce. Thx
What product do you use for your hoops and covers? I have my potatos infested with flee beetles and wondering if I should cover them next year. Also would like to protect some rows from frost.
I'm digging out drip tape from my little bit of bottom land. Some dip who worked for the farm at the elite boarding school down the road planted pumpkins with driptape (we get 50 inches of rain a year!), and mowed and rototilled the whole mess in at the end of the year.
What would you think is the minimum edge around a garden would be? I’m about to start a urbangarden on just under 1/5 acre and want to maximize space. I love the look of your meter or so walk around walkways but don’t think I have the space for that.
As above, but also some insects, like carrot fly, fly at less than 60 cm above the ground, so this keeps most of them out too. I think there are no rabbits there.
@@MC-ko2mx I'm in Texas- just getting my operation going, so I'm going to consult with some long time gardeners in the area about it before I make a decision.
Unfortunately the only available wood chip in Canada is just too expensive at 45$ per cu yard. Hey everything I found in my local area is more expensive than compost. But every permaculture youtuber is using woodchip :/
But your garden is surrounded by plastic...that green mesh barrier fence.🙄 I use landscape fabric around the edge of my garden. I like the look and it is easy to clean. I find it is effective in baking nutsedge when tossed from the beds and then easily gathered for disposal. Also, like you, I also cut tree roots. I roll the fabric back, cut into the soft ground and roll the fabric back down. I despise wood chips and am very passionate about that, though I use a woody compost for aisle ways.
Agree - last year the grass was cut higher around the edges of the veg plot. Lots of voles. This year we have made more of an effort to keep the grass much lower and the voles haven't been in the potatoes this year. Having plastic to kill the grasses and weeds for the next plot to work on was also an aid for vole nests - and easy for veg raiding parties! Shorter grass = greater visibility for owls and other predators to keep the little furry sausages away. Many thanks xx
appreciate you sharing all your content we really do appreciate it all the way from USA Brenham Texas
Love watching your vlogs. My wife and I started using your advice on no dig on two small vegetable patches in the back garden (central East Scotland). From scratch three months ago, and that's cardboard down and bought compost laid we have started harvesting lettuce, basil, asian lettuce, Rocket, and so much more coming along. Thanks to you and Charles Dowding on passing on your years of experience.
Love this! It's sooo gorgeous, wholesome and intelligent! Amazing work!
Was just wondering about edges on my imaginary market garden. One day...
Power of imagination
I still love your intro/exit music. It’s absolutely perfect! Nice info on edges!
i'm a landscaper in uk and i do that with a spade/half moon in the autumn, and with the strimmer, turned up side down in the spring and summer for mentenance
Nice picnic. Remarkably fly free for a farm with chicken and other livestock.
Richard I couldent be more thankful for the information that you put out. I love your book, our egg mobile, garden and chicken broilers are all comming along with help from the information in your book. Thanks from Quesnel Canada.
We had lots of rain in Italy, about a month of thunderstorms every other day! Summer just started and the sun came finally really hot and hard on the veggies !!! Thanks for the video and for sharing your experience and knowledge
Keep the great content up. Your videos have given me confidence to do this even though I'm not a farmer. Going to get your book soon
This channel has inspired my husband and I to revive an old family produce farm. Pest control has been the biggest issue. The fence works great...except for the moles and white tail deer :/ Those suckers can jump right over the fence. They're deforesting down the road and it's pushing a whole herd toward the property.
Venison goes nicely with veggies and it’s relatively in expensive free range, choice meat. At least that’s how we handle it. 😉
Beautiful garden! Cheers!!
Looking great, this is definitely our plan, as little plastic as possible
Dude!!! I love watching your video and remebering that one time youb ought the huge roll of plastic for the food forest in thailand!!! hahaha, you've learned a lot along the way!!!
Hi Richard, I'm interested in why you allow grass to grow up to the edges of your garden in the first place. Edges can be quite useful, and I'm sure you've considered adding more of a wild bed on the outside of your market garden that could be kept with useful perennial shrubs and flowers. I suppose you'd probably need to take care of the roots just the same, but that grass seemed to be quite a bit of unutilized space that could be providing more value to you whilst providing another barrier to the creeping weeds you talked about, as well as providing additional wildlife habitat (unless it's the fact that it would attract animals that is the major concern of course, in which case I get it) :D
All the best!
Beautiful farm.
I love your cows. They are beautiful.. Thanks again Take care
Pervert!
those skies look great! the rains were only music when they came :)
Thank you for sharing valuable information! Your work is beautiful!
Absolutely LOVE your beautiful garden and farm! Immensely enjoy watching your videos and learning about your techniques as well. Your dinner looks totally delicious!
Instead of grass, we have privileged clover that fixes nitrogen in the dirt and attracts a lot of bees.
Great Video! Your gardens are gorgeous and pristine as usual.
New camera? Real nice video quality! Good job!
Great info! Thank you. You're my inspiration!
Love love love your farm!! Would love to work there for a while. But what bout the green plastic shade netting fence you have? All plastic.
Wonderfully! Concise and plain advice...nice and nutritional lunch☺
I'm sure you've considered rain harvesting. Can you please provide a commentary on that and what your thoughts are?
They made a pond to collect water, they use it to water the entire market garden.
Happy Fathers Day to you.
Hey, love and appreciate your channel and all the work you put in to educating all of us. I wondered if you could sometime show us how you harvest the produce. Thx
Hi, there are loads of previous videos showing harvesting of veggies, chickens, you name it. Fantastic to watch.
Great advice.
We got it here in Norway as well. So good to get a shower, given how dry it has been.
and the UK - at last!!
Great idea! I'm going to try that on our next garden expansion. Thanks Richard! Keep up the good work :D
I wonder if the voles are easy pray for predators on that short grass with tree to watch from! Would like to now what the green fence is made of?
What product do you use for your hoops and covers? I have my potatos infested with flee beetles and wondering if I should cover them next year. Also would like to protect some rows from frost.
Beautiful farm. Thank you for your content
Fantastic, super inspiring - thank you!
What is the recipe for that fish dish? Looks amazing!
As always nice video and nice new hair cut :)
cheers from indonesia
The previous owner of my block used landscape fabric that eventually became buried under grass weeds. I am forever finding new bits.
I'm digging out drip tape from my little bit of bottom land. Some dip who worked for the farm at the elite boarding school down the road planted pumpkins with driptape (we get 50 inches of rain a year!), and mowed and rototilled the whole mess in at the end of the year.
same here my entire side hill is covered in it several inches deep and i spent every summer digging sections out
That is a perfect meal!
mmm, yum!
not so dry out here, brother. In Romania it's been super wet in the last couple of months
Where do you live mate?????????? Beautiful gardens
What would you think is the minimum edge around a garden would be?
I’m about to start a urbangarden on just under 1/5 acre and want to maximize space. I love the look of your meter or so walk around walkways but don’t think I have the space for that.
what's the thinking behind the green fences, they look good but do they have any other purpose? Thanks Richard
Wind break and to keep rabbits and the like out.
As above, but also some insects, like carrot fly, fly at less than 60 cm above the ground, so this keeps most of them out too. I think there are no rabbits there.
Do you still grow hops for the village brewery?
Richard, do you think the lack of pest problem might be due to the nesting hunting birds that have come to your area this year?
I forget, have you all discussed whether or not deer damage your market garden? Any suggestions for keeping deer out of the garden?
Here in Spain we've had a decent amount of rain this spring
Did it fall mainly on the plain?
What kind of green fence? We have trouble with birch and willow self seeding as well as aspen and alder. Thanks😊👍❣️
Windscreen/windbreak
Do you find that the wood chips create a habitat for the slugs? I've been deliberating about doing wood chips or not, and that's my biggest fear.
I've heard that UK gardeners avoid wood chips as they become cosy little slug habitats. Not so much outside of the UK (USA or Sweden) perhaps?
@@MC-ko2mx I'm in Texas- just getting my operation going, so I'm going to consult with some long time gardeners in the area about it before I make a decision.
the grass strip would be perfect for rabbit or guinea pig grazing
Do you not get rabbits? What are those fences for?
That green fabric you use for fencing, what is that called?
Never mind, just figured it out. It goes under the term “garden privacy screen” They come in all heights and lengths.
The label for Syngenta Touchdown reads like a mad comic book.
Hi, how do you protect your open field crops from rabbits?
Hi, i write from Italy. Where do you live in your farm ?
Unfortunately the only available wood chip in Canada is just too expensive at 45$ per cu yard. Hey everything I found in my local area is more expensive than compost. But every permaculture youtuber is using woodchip :/
Wood chips are expensive here in Japan :( do you get yours for free?
oh sweden. gotcha
But your garden is surrounded by plastic...that green mesh barrier fence.🙄 I use landscape fabric around the edge of my garden. I like the look and it is easy to clean. I find it is effective in baking nutsedge when tossed from the beds and then easily gathered for disposal. Also, like you, I also cut tree roots. I roll the fabric back, cut into the soft ground and roll the fabric back down. I despise wood chips and am very passionate about that, though I use a woody compost for aisle ways.
Beautiful farm! : ) Where are you located?
Ridgedale Permaculture
They are in Vármland, Sweden.
had to google voles, now i know what they are.
The grass grew right through the plastic.
Moles, voles don't hesitate to travel thru my short cut lawn or wood chip covered garden.
Nice haircut
Animal flesh and permaculture. Two vastly different things.
You say you don't like plastic but what about your green plastic fence around the outside?
Windbreak is fundamental, and as we can't plant shrubs/trees here, it needs to be like this. Well worth it!
More compost ....
"I don't want a garden surrounded by plastic." Said the man standing next to the woven plastic wind brake...
Windbreak is fundamental, and as we can't plant shrubs/trees here, it needs to be like this. Well worth it!
@@regenerativeagriculture No disrespect intended. I appreciate what you share about your place.