Stop weeding inefficiently - How to make the most of weeding.
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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2022
- In this video Bunny shows you how to make the most of weeding. Ranging from weeding strategies, what she does with weeds, what she mulches her garden with, to what she wears and the tools she uses.
In English (UK) the mulch is known as Ramial, it is often called Ramial Chipped Wood (RCW), although the French name for it is bois rameal fragmente, BRF.
With regards to what Bunny wears and the tools she uses, this is not intended as an advert, this is genuinely what she wears in the garden, and these are her tools which she uses. The trousers are made by Genus, and the gloves were from Niwaki.
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I just happened upon this channel. I wish I had found this lady years ago. What a knowledgeable person, and her delivery of information is just lovely. ❤
I just love Bunny. Why doesn't she have more subscribers? She cracks me up and gives great advice. You can't ask for more from a You Tube video.
Oh! Totally agree 😊
The only thing I can think of is because of the accent. I have to go back several times to understand the verbage, because it is not listed in the description. Love her approach to gardening! Great advice!
@@dignit1620 Have you tried turning on subtitles? Might help if you’re struggling to catch things.
@@zoewhite7705 Haha - subtitles suffer from the same problem and often make the same error or worse than I can discern :)
The shadow of the gardener is the best fertilizer. Being among the plants, being aware, is what helps you catch things grow a beautiful garden. Thanks for that advice!
My favorite way of exercising is to weed in my garden. Every day after work, I take a stroll around my garden to see and enjoy it. And if there are any weeds I pick it up, it’s so easy to maintain the garden that way.
So lovely to see someone wearing gloves rather than making me feel like an amateur because I do.
I have three garden pads taped together on top of each other! As I get older that’s the only way my knees won’t complain!
I just came in for a break from gardening, wishing for a way to be more proactive rather than reactive in the garden, and your video appears. I share your weeding philosophy, and actually find it a rather meditative task - most of the time. However, right now as I'm renovating a somewhat neglected bit of the yard it's a bit of a bore. Thanks for the body tips. I'm at the age where things like that matter a lot. Great video. ~ Lisa
Thank you for your common sense guidance and clear explanations. I really enjoy your videos even though Texas weather and plants are often quite different to yours.
Bunny brightening up Monday.... excellent 😍😍
The FIRST TIME I have ever seen a gardening programme or video cover WEEDING. Loved it. I've been gardening for 50 years and really enjoy weeding.
So do I!🐇
So much great and varied info... And I love the cow and glove story...
always good to review , thanks Bunny
I always look forward to your videos
I was just about to tackle weeding tomorrow, so this was so helpful and made me look at it differently than I normally would! I’m going at it in a more lighthearted way! Thank you Bunny! 💚
I weed with a flat bladed screwdriver.
Precise and less collateral damage than bigger hand forks etc
Love your videos!
Thanks so much Bunny, your video has been a great help to me!
I absolutely love your videos.
Thank you Bunny, l learnt a lot from this video😊🦋🐝🐞
Very helpful. I had just seen a Klaus Dalby video and his method is to plant densely so weeds don't have a chance to grow. That system works when you have enough plants to cover everything. I'm trying, but I'm not there yet. My favorite trick is to use a spading fork just enough to loosen the soil so I can use my trowel to get the roots out. I'm in Central Texas 8b, where it was 98F yesterday. That heat can easily tune soil into brick. As fast as I can collect cardboard, I use it to create do dig areas for new plantings. I did buy a good combo kneeler and garden seat to make weeding more comfortable. Since I'm 75 with arthritis, I need everybody's best tips. This is my 1st year for a cutting garden.
I’m 71 with degenerative disc disease. Bending over just kills my back so I sit on a plastic milk crate which is light enough to scoot along and weed with my trowel. Sitting down takes a load off my back and my knees.
Good idea about loosening the soil w a shovel and then getting in there to get the individual weeds. It’s probably a time saver too. Now if I can remember to use that technique. Best wishes!
Love your channel Bunny.
feeling better about weeding! Thanks Bunny
New Bunny video DROP EVERYTHING! 😃 🐇 🌳
So funny! Many thanks!!!🌹
Thanks Bunny. Brilliant isn't it? To favourite hobby's in one, Pilates and gardening😁
Brilliant video Bunny. I couldn't agree more about weeding being a marvellous work-out ~ and it's in the fresh air! In marked contrast, going to a gym quickly pales into insignificance...all those tedious repetitive movements with nothing but walls, floors, machinery & mirrors to look at. If you don't have a garden, I say help an elderly neighbour or grandparent with theirs...that will keep you fit.
Great advice thanks 🐇
Amazing Garden and Flowrs ^^
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My friend, have a good day
Great video Bunny especially since weeding a front bed is on my list of todos for the week!
I always love your videos. So much information & your gardens are beautiful ♥️
That was a really useful video Bunny. Thank you so much.
Great advice! Thank you.
Very informative, thank you!
Wonderful video , very informative!
Very helpful Bunny, thank you. I like my hori hori knife for weeding.
It's really true - everything sounds better with a British accent! Even weeding. :) Grounsel - aka creeping charlie. What a pain the in... Love the video! For my veggie garden, I'm with the late Peter Seabrook, and still prefer to dig. But then, I'm digging in all the rotten down, fall leaves, and the spring chopped ornamental grasses. I don't see any lack of earth worms. Except when our American Robins realize that I am providing an easy buffet. Then, I do lose some worms.
Here in eastern Canada Creeping Charlie is everywhere. Its' only redeeming feature is that the hummingbirds feed on them. I never knew groundsel was the same plant as creeping Charlie.
Very helpful thank you. Love the squat tip. Apparently Liz Hurley does hers whilst cleaning her teeth!
Back to the weeding with renewed energy.
I just love your videos - you have inspired me to buy 8 acres with a few animals. I am excited to put in formal gardens around the house as you do. thank you so much! I would like to possibly have a review of my p;lans once i have them on paper.
Great video! Thanks x
Excellent!
Very good information… thank you😊
Great info 🌸🐝
Great content!!!
Helpful 🤗
Loved the content of this video a LOT, but am disappointed that the brand name of the pants (Genus?) and gloves (Neweky?) are not given, along with links. Excellent suggestions. I find the information wholly original! Thanks, Bunny!
DeWalt knee pads have been a most judicious purchase this year as my bony knees need them for weeding!
I love mulch and the look of it when laid, looking so fresh. My dilemma is when I want to lay fresh compost how do I do that with all the mulch in my border, do I move the mulch and put in compost or do I lay it on to of the mulch? I feel the compost on the mulch will not append my soil? I took out some sod to have larger borders, I check every piece of sod for worms and put them back in the garden, hope I didn’t miss any LOL 😂 Thank you, as always for your informative videos. I always look forward to the next one in my UA-cam.
I’ve just read a great way to eradicate weeds without harming the environment is by using high strength vinegar, Epsom salts and soap. You can find the ratios online but you do need protective goggles, long sleeved gloves etc as the vinegar is an acid so has to be used carefully. No danger to wildlife and apparently it’s very effective.
Vinegar is acetic acid and does do harm to soil microorganisms also it won’t kill the roots of perennial weeds 🐇
There is a weedkiller on the market which has acetic acid in it and there is a warning on the label that it kills bees.
@@bunnyguinness oh dear! Such conflicting advice around, that it’s difficult to know what to believe. I thought that would be a safe bet.
I've been learning/practicing the "Asian squat" and once you get the hang of it, it's very comfortable. My favorite weeding tools are a simple, broad-bladed paint scraper and a curved blade linoleum knife. The scraper works great as a mini hoe and I use the knife to cut off tap roots like dandelion (which I have accepted will be with me always). Small tools I can carry in my pocket and pounce when I see weeds!
Good ideas though I always try to remove all dandelion root if poss, easiest when soil is damper 🐇
I love going out at night with a head torch and weeding seedlings that you can plop out of the ground with your fingers, I find it easier to spot them in the dark. When I started last year to do this practice, I am amazed by the amount of earthworms around the garden and their size, especially in rain.
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Lots of good ideas. I don't have deep borders, so I use a Rubbermaid hard plastic stool/toolbox thing (with a recessed handle) to sit on. Here in S. California, we have lots of UV radiation and hot days, so I always wear layers. Old leggings under extra-long boot-cut jeans that cover the tops of my boots to keep the dirt out. Long sleeved cotton turtlenecks with old men's shirts on top, and old socks with the toes cut out tucked in between the cuff and the glove to cover the wrist. A sweatband, a bandana and a big hat. Oh so stylish! I brought home some free horse manure from a relative once, and now I have nettles. I wish I could keep the raccoon from digging up and eating my earthworms.
Kate Moss better watch out! Don’t you get very hot? 🐇
@@bunnyguinness Hi Bunny! LOL. I try to work in shaded areas as much as possible, but the layers actually keep me cooler than the sun on my skin. The same philosophy as Bedouin robes, if not as attractive. Everything is cotton. I don't go out to work if it's hotter than 80F, or wait until after 4pm. On very hot days, I watch garden videos of England. :)
So, I can put the weeds in the compost pile, if they don’t seed? 🤔
Lovely. I appreciate the facts; on fitness, trees planted in grass, etc. This is the first time I've heard of soaking weeds in water. Could you record with a higher volume though? To hear I either have you up full volume with laptop speaker propped close to my head, or wearing earbuds.
Aaaaah sorry, we are relatively novice at it and will heed your advice! 🐇
So helpful!! Thank you!! 🍌😍🍌
Ahh you have a walled garden ahh. I must admit I love your garden, your home ahh ahh.
So curious to know what you use to fertilize. I have lots of weeds and have always used our composted horse manure. I have to put aside the pool when we deworm and was concerned about what is sprayed on our hay that we buy but was hoping after being composted for a year that weed seeds and spray would be gone.
Not in my experience most of our compost heaps are too small to reach high temps, so weed seeds survive in many cases, so if you put compost back on you are undoing all your hard work weeding. Well worth separating out flowering and seeding weeds and putting in barrel of water for a few years! I don't fertilise, the mulch, often ramial, home made compost, green waste etc keeps the soil healthy and in warmer months the nitrogen cycle kicks in and releases nitrogen naturally. 🐰
@@bunnyguinness Thank you! We have 18 horses so I was hoping the mountain of poo would be hot enough to cook all the bad away. I wonder if there is a way to test it as we have so much and I sure would like to use it without pulling a field of weeds after. I had been using it as a mulch. Maybe I will let it cook longer and put mulch over it or mix bark mulch with it when we turn it with the loader. I am getting older and hate weeding more the older I get. 😅
@@kristinastoltzfus6032 18 horses and you worry about weeding? Give your head gardener a taste of the whip, sounds like he’s not earning his keep. And if you have too much manure, why not feed it to the poor? I’m sure they would appreciate it.
Thanks for this great weeding lesson! I could enjoy weeding if there just weren’t do many of them!
I am new to your channel & in need of gardening wisdom, so i subscribed.
Are you using a riff of "Downton Abbey's" music?
I think it's a bit of a song by Adele, but I don't know which one.
Hi Gwen, the music is "Price of Freedom" by Zachary Valaha. Vb Unity
How do you deal with ground elder ?
I did 5 days of ground elder last week,
Patience, chase the roots as much as you can, i will hit whatever grows back with gel gyphosate later in the summer.
I have this too unfortunately. Apparently young spring leaves of ground elder are very nutritious to eat in salads or cooked in quiches etc like spinach and was used by our ancestors as medicine to treat gout, inflammation etc. I haven’t tried this however! I just keep digging it up (no chemicals for me) but it is in my neighbours border and she doesn’t so it is an ongoing struggle!
You killed Comfrey? Bravo! What concentration did you use? Thanks.
Just standard rate for perennial weeds it just had one treatment but of course there are loads of seeds in the ground which subsequently germinated so I have to be vigilant at pulling these out! The soil though, having grown comfrey for ten or so years is amazing!🐇
@@bunnyguinness Thanks Bunny. I have the Russian Bocking-14--sterile but of course the roots are eternal. I've learned to live with it!
I am confused about putting the perennial weeds into water. What do you do with the water after all the weeds have rotted? Do you use the water in any way? Anyone who knows more about this is welcome to answer.
The rotted down weeds in water produce something like a fertiliser, a good tonic, like making comfrey or nettle tea, or even compost tea. These “weeds” often have trace elements and minerals, particularly the deep rooting ones like dock, comfrey etc.
@@helendennis7662 I thought that this might be the case. Possibly need to strain the water. I assume the seeds die as well. I worry about mosquito larvae as well. I will possibly try this.
@@heidigresh2743 I wouldn’t worry about straining it, I just dunk a bucket or watering can in and water it down before putting on the soil. Obviously it will block a watering can rose so use without. Also I wouldn’t wait years before using, the seeds won’t take much drowning. Be aware it will stink!! I use a big bin or drum with a lid.
@@helendennis7662 Thank you!
Weeding is my exercise
New research indicates that getting early morning sunlight on your lower back strengthens that area.
thank you! fighting wild strawberries and liriope argh!!!!
Make jam with the wild strawberries delicious. Fairy plants they are welcome in my garden.
@@Divinefemininemiracles Id rather have the ajuga take over ha!
@@Laura-rx9mp aww they are both lovely. Honestly I adore the wild strawberries sooo cute and magical. Delicious too.
I love liriope!🐇
@@bunnyguinness I love the one that doesn't spread (monkey grass we call it)
cheers
I really love your approach here Bunny, it's certainly great exercise but I hope you do a little in-depth research on your use of glysophate before you use it again, and certainly if you're recommending it, would expect to at least say for people to do their own research prior to using this herbicide as it is hazardous before you even start to look into the science of the immediate and long lasting consequences.
whats the difference between a plant and a weed................. judgement
I enjoyed your video until you mentioned the use of glyphosates. These are horrible poisons for the soil, a plants and worst of all humans. Read the research on their terrible effects. Some people look up to you and mentioning something like that can cause great harm.
I’m sure she would only use it very sparingly. Whilst I agree with some of your concerns my garden would be over run with creeping wild strawberry if I didn’t resort to using it. I would dig it out nearly everyday but it would still return. It was a last resort and it really worked! I wore a mask and covered the ground and it wasn’t a danger to wild life so really I can’t see it did much harm to such a small area. Lyme disease is caught from ticks which deer carry so I can’t see the correlation there.
It has a half life of less than a year. That’s why she lets the ground go fallow for a year thereafter.
If not for glysophate you wouldn't get a loaf of bread for 10.00
I do not weed nettles. I eat them😋
Pretty nutritious but not my top veg! 🐇
Advocating ANY kind of poison is a big thumps down for me.
I'm appalled that you're advocating the use of Glyphosate. It's carciogenic and it's really bad for wildlife. Virtually all wildlife advocacy groups support a ban on Glyphosate.
I agree, especially after talking about the soil flora and fauna, the soil microbiome is greatly damaged by glyphosate as is the human gut microbiome when we consuming plants contaminated with glyphosate. This chemical is thought to be a huge contributor to the rise in inflammatory and autoimmune type diseases through that pathway, and so ironic considering Bunny has Lyme disease.
Me too, it is so wrong, killing of bees, stays for years in the ground, ugh
It's too bad that people will swear by gossip and misinformation rather than doing research and getting the facts. Glyphosphate is neither carcinogenic nor bad for wildlife. Good job, Bunny!
@@jennienorcutt7767 really? So why all the class action lawsuits? Where’s your evidence? It is a fact that scientists are seeing the soil microbiome destroyed and doctors are seeing the gut microbiome destroyed. Glyphosate used as a weed killer is bad enough for the soil but used as a pre harvest desiccant it’s present on the food we eat right at harvest, no time to wash off or break down. Residues of glyphosate are being found in urine in higher and higher levels, and several generations since it’s introduction, chronic conditions usually associated with older people are cropping up in younger and younger children, as the effects of these sort of poisons are cumulative, bodies cannot detox them so the diseases are passed down.
Sometimes, one needs a dramatic solution. Just once.
great till glyphosate mentioned 😢
Built in knee pads! Who would have thunk?
She's not American. I personally love Bunny but we have Laura at Garden Answer who has over a million followers. Of course we also have a much larger population to draw from. I enjoy watching a variety of British youtube but often get frustrated with the accent so I only follow those who clearly speak the king's english :) And Americans just aren't into the formal gardens so much - too expensive, too slow to grow boxwoods, ideas just too grand for our rushed society. In other words, she's lovely but just not as relevant to our needs.