Keeping A Large Garden Is Not Hard
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- In this video I show how choosing the right varieties, and employing permaculture principles in your garden, can make a large garden easy to maintain. Thanks for watching, and if you enjoyed this content, please share and/or subscribe to my channel. You can also check out my podcast (maritimegardening.com) where I discuss how to grow healthy food in your backyard cheaply and easily. Special thanks to Audionautix.com for the music ("pioneer").
Plus, all organic nutrient-mineral dense foods, what a lovely basket of fall produce...
Yes indeed!
Oh snap, I was rewatching/listening to this video while putzing around and caught the tree trim guys outside my place. Should be getting two truckloads of woodchips tomorrow lol. Fingers crossed they don't forget.
what great luck!
I have a simple hoop row cover for my kale plants.It keeps out most of the insects. I plant a lot of kale and swiss plants close together and harvest a huge amount of small leaves. They are spotless I barely have to rinse them and the veins don't need to be cut out. They are tender and cook very quickly. (the dinosaur and red russian are my favorites)
What a wonderful garden, subbed from NZ :) Thanks for referencing Ruth Stout too!
Looking forward to more videos.
Just found your videos over Christmas. Great stuff! Informative and a great on camera delivery. Thank goodness I live in zone 8. All the best.
Hey Chris that's great, glad to have you along! Good luck with your garden this year!
so glad i found your channel! i live in the northern climate so these videos are very helpful to me!
Glad to help :)
Looking good. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks!
Fabulous garden! Thank you.
Thank you very much that's nice to hear :)
So awesome to see you putting out videos, I have watched a ton of other tubers, but they’re all from the different parts of the US. I’m in Cole Harbour it’s nice to see local knowledge. I’ll be tuning in to all your videos. Thanks again.
Thanks that's nice to hear.
Hi there from Germany! I always plant fodder kale next to my kale as a sacrificial plant for all the pests and it works really well, they leave my kale plants alone.
So the pests just manage their population and only ever lay enough eggs to have a population that is satisfied with the fodder plants? The population never grows to an extent where they need more food and attack your non fodder plants? How is that possible?
Thank you for the lovely tour hopefully soon the plot will be as lush as this ... with much work i might add ...Many Blessings and happy gardening
Thanks and best of luck!
That’s the same size as my garden! I mulched with horse manure in the fall and found your channel very helpful. Thank you for the great content!
-Kat
My pleasure, glad to help!
Thanks for the video! Great garden
Thanks for watching!
The next time you plant kale, plant it with worm castings and see if you notice any difference in the amount of pest issues you have with it. The castings contain chitinase that the plants can absorb. Chitinase dissolves chitin, which is a component of the exoskeletons of pests. When the pests eat the plant, their stomachs dissolve and they die.
My soil is full of worms, and thus, already abundant with worm castings, which I assume already provide my plants with chitinase and a host of other fantastic nutrients. I really don't see how adding a little more would make much of a difference - but thanks for the suggestion, and I'll definitely do some research on this claim. Are you aware of any studies where this has been tested scientifically?
Maritime Gardening judging by his non reply I would say no
@@maritimegardening4887 You have to ask Elaine Ingham for that! She has 40 years experience in that field
The worm casting is not leach, is full of nutriments and life
Okay
Thanks for the tips
Great video, I enjoyed watching!
Thanks I appreciate that :)
Thanks! Very useful video!!!
New subscriber. I love your garden! I'm just starting mine, have begun with a big patch of no dig potatoes.
I love how simple you make everything, great stuff! Look forward to watching more. Thankyou 😃
Thanks, glad you like my channel - enjoy and I hope you potatoes do well!
Great sized garden!
Love it! thanks!! from Nova Scotia too :)
good job, ruth would be proud, and look forward to the relish video too see. thanks God Bless Gary J Yaw
thankyou, great video. very inspiring
Glad you liked it! Cheers :)
Great job!
Really nice garden! Like that you used logs and rocks to outline some of your beds. The wood chipped pathways look trouble-free, and comfortable to walk on. Soil looks dark & rich. I envy you for having seaweed available as mulch. Glad that you pointed out how cost effective it is to grow so much food from seed. Noticed you plant crops that are nutrient dense, and store easily. Ruth Stout would be proud of you. Her brother, Rex, was an author, too.
While in the US Navy, I had the pleasure of visiting Halifax, Nova Scotia - twice!
Lovely town, great people. Sure would like to visit again some day.
Thank you for all your kind words :)
Great video, very inspiring!
Thanks!
Yes please share cooking/canning videos!
Stay tuned :)
YeS!!
Yes, it is helpful. I'm planning my first 600 sf garden and looking for ideas. Thanks
Great men hope it goes well!
Really liked your show.
Thanks
Thank you for sharing ...I want to follow your concept of permaculture...
Thank you, I hope I can help :)
I love your garden but most of all, I love the simplicity of it.
Greetings from Bulgaria and can't wait to.have a garden like yours
Thanks! So great to hear that the videos have appeal abroad!
@@maritimegardening4887 I have been watching because my land need TLC and this can't get any easier! My land used to be forest and nobody did anything special besidws plant Walnut trees!
Can you do a video on those leaves? Can I use them ?
@@svetlanikolova7673 I have no experience with walnut trees, so I don't think I'm the right person to make a video about that topic. Here's an agricultural extension article about them - hopefully this and more articles like it will help :
www.extension.iastate.edu/news/2005/jul/070701.htm
Very educational,tnxs !
Great video. 😊👍🏻
Thanks! 😊
Great video clip.
Thanks!
Great video and veggies. :)
I am definitely interested in seeing a lacto fermentation video.
planning to film one soon - should be out next week-ish
I grow potatoes and if I don' dig them when they die back some will rot in the ground. Love your videos and the ease of gardening.
Thanks :) I agree - if you leave them too long there can be problems. I'll have to talk about that next season - good point.
yes to the cooking
I'm with you. I try to keep gardening as simply as possible. Hence my channel: simply garden. I believe in getting as much done as quickly as possible with the goal of a continual supply of produce 9 months out of the year. I like your methods. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks
I'll have a look
You’re the king of common sense.
Thanks :)
nice garden.
Thanks!
I have been telling my family that gardening is not hard if done correctly. We have recently purchased land in Missouri and I hope to get the chance to teach them how much abundance can be had in a garden with little effort. I have been doing deep mulch gardening in California for 5 years on borrowed land. Every year I do less work and get higher yields. I will share this with them.
Thanks! I hope you inspire them! All the best -g
Totally enjoyed your tour from the eastern coast of the central New Jersey,USA. Thank you.
Thanks!
My kale just chills nothing bothers it in my garden here in Georgia
I haven't watched any of your videos yet. This one caught my eye because I maintain a large garden in Newfoundland and people always remark about the amount of work involved. I think canning and preserving takes far more time than gardening. That is just play time. I picked up a few tricks from this video. I love the idea of throwing in a few lettuce seed and then moving them as more land is available. Any cooking/preserving videos would be welcome. Now I have a new channel to get me through the long winter without a garden. I didn't notice tomatoes? Do you grow them?
Hi Lori, and thanks for the kind words. I find the same thing - the true chore is keeping up with all the food! :) Anwway, I still plan to do a few cooking vids but that always seems to get postponed. Oh yes I grow tomatoes, I direct seed them in my coldframes in fact, and it works really well - no indoor transplanting needed!
AWESOME video. Just what I needed now. We built a lot of raised beds and it’s becoming not overwhelming in Texas here. What are you using you for mulch?
I use whatever I can get my hands on. Seaweed, hay, leaves, woodchips. Here's a link to a vid on the different mulches that I use.
ua-cam.com/video/TLFSzrAqKUk/v-deo.html
Thanks for a lovely tour around your garden. I would absolutely be interested in watching how you preserve some of your vegetables. All the best from New Zealand.
Thanks, I plan to do one soon. Filming stuff always seems to take three times as long :)
not that type of mari time ;p
har har. Planning to shoot a pickling video soon should be out later next week
cool ya got my sub
Thanks :)
Nice garden. I hope to have a nice one next year myself.
Great man good luck!
Just bought some seeds that were on sale.
Hi great garden I notice you snapped off the beetroot root. leave it on so the beetroot don't bleed. After cooking them slid the skins off them and cut the root off Happy Gardening Tracy from Australia
Thanks I'll try that next time.
Hello from long Island NY. Very inspirational! Thank you
Thanks!
I agree! My best friend just bought property in NS . She may retire there so I was anxious to see what kind of gardening one could have there. Beautiful one for sure. We're neighbors Suffolk Susie. Smithtown gardener myself!
Growing conditions vary greatly within the province - I'm actually located in one of the worst in fact. Where is her property located?
Suffolk Susie Zone 7 I’m in Franklin Square area and grow a lot of veggies don’t know to many people in my area growing that would like to swap seeds
Louisa Agate Wow! I grew up in West Hempstead next door. My family always purchased our holiday tree from the FS Fire department. On my to do list this month is to look through all my seed packets to determine which stays or goes. I'd be happy to swap and or share old or new seed!
I've finally found someone with a garden as big as my husband's!
Tell he's not alone!!!
Very objective and helfull
Thanks
I am a new subscriber. I have used straw for mulch to retain moisture and I was bombarded with squash bugs on my squash.I tried picking bugs,diatomaceous earth,organic sprays. Seems squash bugs love mulch. Finally removed the straw. Will try burying the straw and planting squash on top. I heard this works. I also have problems with aphids on kale. I am in Kentucky.
Well, sometimes pests just happen, I wouldn't blame the mulch (though some pests do seem to love it). I would argue that the benefits outweigh the costs, and eventually, if you stuck with it, some predator will move it and sort ou the pests - though that may take a few years. I have a real slug problem, flea beetles and whitefly - but luckily no squash bugs (yet...). Here's a vid on how I deal with them, while I wait for the insect predator population to increase. . ua-cam.com/video/6yRe7SRV9-M/v-deo.html
Thank you.
Happy gardening :)
I have a 100x100 garden and I think the planting and end of the year clean up is when I put most of my work in.
Mines about that size and my girlfriend didn't understand last night when I said we are only a 3rd of the way finished
Wow, your from Canada!
It'sgood to see you picking the potatoes before the leaves wlted. I wonderif the fresh leaves can be eaten like other vegetables.
Potatoe leaves are toxic. That's precisely why I can grow them outside my fenced enclosure, because no animal will eat them . DO NOT EAT !!!! :)
Another good video, Greg. I think people often choose to do other things with their time. What was the variety of lettuce you mentioned? Thanks.. Happy Gardening!
Parris Island Cos Romaine
Impressive. Thanks for sharing. How wide are your walkways?
I talk about it in this video here: ua-cam.com/video/EKUHlFFQH_M/v-deo.html
New subscriber ! I am also a maritime gardener , awesome videos :)
Thanks!
Interesting to see that what you grow in your garden is what is generally grown here on the Island on the other side of the country. Great to watch a Cdn gardner!!
What Island are you on? Vancouver?
Yup. Mid-Island in the Comox Valley. Was just watching your 2018 video on perennials and also have a lovage plant that grows well in a pot. Probably should either plant it up or plant it out. Can grow celery but you're right, a maritime climate is not its favourite place to live. However, the variety I have growing is from West Coast Seeds and were developed for a maritime climate. They need some shelter from the wind off the water (I live across the street from the water) but they will grow. Maybe you just need to shelter them. However, lovage certainly does fill the gap.
There's a good amount of variability in the climate here. Where I am is just about as lousy as it can get in terms of lack of sun and heat. Lovage is the only game in town here I thin. Now, 100km away in the valley, whole different ball game!!! Even 20 minutes inland is dramatically different.
Greta for potatoes and green though!!!
Wow impressive sir, I need some kind of your help to start mine I planted seeds april seasons, I like and prefer seeds to plant heheh.. but anyways will be happy hearing from you, anyways god bless
Thanks :)
Just subscribed to your channel!
New sub! Great video 🤗
Thanks!
Great video. We like the same foods and I like that you don’t skimp on the amount that you plant. How long does your produce last into the winter?
I'm still eating some of it now! Last nights' dinner had 2020 potatoes, carrots. parsnips, herbs, and fermented tomatoes in it. That said - everything is almost gone - so I'll say end of March for most things. After that it's just preserves that are left - pickles, relishes and jams.
@@maritimegardening4887 that’s impressive! Didn’t think it could be this easy. Hope to see more of your videos 👍
I keep taking over more pasture :) didn't seem to take any more time, but maybe that's just because it doesn't feel like work to me
Great video! Where did you get all your woodchips? I'm in Ontario and it's so hard to get.
You have to call around to tree services (arborists) and sweet talk them into dumping some in your driveway. Sometimes they'll do it for free, and sometimes they want $50. The main thing is that they will usually only give you some if you take everything - they want to unload their truck - so you may get up to 12 cubic yards depending on the size of their truck.
I had an acre garden in Iowa and in Kansas.
The easiest solution to the kale pests is to grow kale during the cool season. Kale is a cool season vegetable. It will survive the winter most places if it has protection from the wind (wind causes kale to wilt when the ground is frozen). It will survive in 5F (-15 C) in a cold frame or shelter. Kale can be started indoors during the summer, planted in the fall, and kept all winter into spring.
99% of my kale here dies in the winter. After November - even in a coldframe - it doesn't grow in any perceptible way. Basically here - it germinates naturally in May - grows most during the hottest part of the summer, and continues to grow until Octoberish. Just speaking to your comment - I have been growing kale during the cool season - I have pests anyway.
Hi Greg,
Just love your videos.
One thing I'd love to see if possible is how you save seed eg process it.
I just watched one of your older videos and u kept some cucumbers to save the seed. I just wondered how you did it....
Thanks again
ua-cam.com/video/OeQpr2eLVGI/v-deo.html
Thanks Greg...
@@markanson2801 Couple more vids on seed saving :)
ua-cam.com/video/cn1sTNnabJc/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/TC9dkSKt3KU/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/KgiA6XGT_sw/v-deo.html
I've found that the blue potatoes over winter in ground better than any other types, I'm between Ottawa and Montreal.
I'll have to try them next year. Thanks!
that's nice..50x50...
$30😉 worth of seeds,?!.. geeze..that's cheap..after saving seed..I'm spending $150! still..
Well it certainly seems to be a good time to comment
Great video thanks for the loads on info.. I see the logs that you use for lining the beds what kind of trees or logs do you suggest and are they treated in any? Thanks
Thanks! The logs are just whatever fell down on my property (birch/maple/spruce/pine). Use whatever you can find. No they're not treated - I'd stay away from that sort of thing in your gardens, you don;t want those toxins leaching into your soil. :)
Maritime Gardening Thank you..our family is in the first stage of doing the research on homesteading and its a lot to absorb so I’ll keep watching:)
Thanks - yes a lot to absorb, and still there will be trial and error guaranteed! :) Main thing, my advice, ensure that wherever you set up you have access to manure and mulch (like hay). You'll need the manure the 1st few years unless your soil is already very fertile, and then eventually the mulching should feed it what it needs. Anyway - another good resource I might suggest would be the yt channel : "I am organic gardening" this guy goes into incredible detail, really good stuff. Another guy I like is "one yard revolution. A relatively small garden, but his approach can be scaled up,and you can argue with his incredible results- he's all about getting the most out of your garden with the least amount of work - my kinda guy!
Maritime Gardening Thanks I will we are n Florida but we are thinking of Missouri it’s a beautiful setup for homesteads..thanks again
Well, you'll have better tomatoes than me that's for sure! :)
Try planting a few potatoes under your woodchip path in the fall. The woodchip should insulate them.
I've tried planting them in the fall, and I high proportion turn to mush, even with a foot of hay on top of them. We get a lot of snow and rain in the winter, so I think the combination of wet and cold is too much for them most of the time. I'd say 1 in 10 survive the winter, despite a good mulch. I'm sure it would work if I was a couple zones warmer :)
Yes, I could see hay or straw being a problem but woodchips have different properties, so I thought it may be worth the experiment. A cubic meter of woodchips are reported to be able to hold up to 700 liters of water, which is phenomenal, where as hay would turn to mush with too much moisture.
I have no way of testing this, as I live in Zone 10, and think it is freezing if we get a frost, so it seems kinda of a miracle to me that you manage to have such a wonderful garden in such a short growing season.
Few natural materials are as insultative as hay, and the fact that woodchips hold water means that they become ice in this part of the world in the dead of winter. Insulation, where natural materials are concerned, is about the ratio of matter to air. You want high volume, low density. That's why hay works so well; but even then, with hay, it's still too cold, with lows at -20c at the height of most winters here. I've also tried this before, and most of the potatoes rot. Still, perhaps it would be worth doing again, on film, since I've heard gurus like Paul Gautschi say it will work anywhere (he's in zone 8), and I've never had it work here (zone 6). Anyway, thanks for the kudos. Man, it would be awesome to keep a garden in zone 10!!!
Hi I live in the UK and have just discovered your channel. I see you harvesting carrots and snapping off the leaves, I wonder do you have carrot fies where you live. I'm new to gardening and disabled so no dig is the way I'm choosing to go next year. I'm taking your advice on a lot of things and would like to grow carrots like you do....but like I said, carrot flies.
Thanks, Stella
I'm lucky, I don't have them, and have no experience with them.. From what I've read, you need a fine mesh cover to keep them off your plants.
@@maritimegardening4887 You lucky thing😂😂. Thanks for the advice, I'll try the mesh....Or just harvest the whole crop I guess. Stella
One question. I find there are too many seeds in hay. would straw work as well.
Thank's.
Danny.
Oh yes for sure, I mainly use hay because I can get it for free. The seeds are not as big a problem as one might imagine, but there are definitely some weeds for sure.
i live in digby ant u can leave your parsnip all winter just take the greens off or the root will rot
Cool channel, really enjoyed the video. Thanks :) New subscriber here, hello :)
Your carrots went “kinda weird” because you say you planted in fresh manure. It’s called forking.
Did you find it happened to many of them?
Well rotted manure is what is needed. In saying that they’ll taste the same and yours all looked a substantial size so kudos 🥕👌
The incidence of "weird" carrots was about one in 10. It was an experiment, because I've heard so many people say that you can't plant into h-manure. Here's a vid that I made where I talked specifically about that garden: ua-cam.com/video/1vz9XeeP7Vw/v-deo.html.
Maritime Gardening , it’s good to see if “rules” can be broken. It’s your garden after all 👍
I’ll check out the video now!
Another question for you since you have a large garden. Do you thin your seeds out when direct sowing? And do you start anything inside?
Yes I thin everything, and no, I start nothing inside. I have three coldframes that I use to start things early. Here's a vid on that:
ua-cam.com/video/iwywG_AdFSA/v-deo.html
I think some plants gets sweeter by storing glucose and fructose as storage in different parts of the plant for winter
That's exactly right in terms of root veg!
I'm sorry, when you said large I was thinking of my large garden. I had to chuckle, mine is about ten thousand.. It is not easy to take care of here in Utah where weeds sprout in the hottest, driest time of year. Mulch is a great aid, but that too is a lot of work. Our humidity is awful in summer and mulch is almost a must unless you want to water daily. I'm jealous of those w ho get rain as after may we get virtually none. You need some nutrients, your produce is small. Dare I say the f word? Fertilizer! Haha. I'm also jealous you have lobster close by!
I'm not quite sure what point you are trying to make. It sounds as though your garden is twice as large as mine, so it stands to reason that it takes twice the work. So whereas I spend about an average of 15 minutes a day maintaining my garden, your could potentially take only 30 minutes a day to maintain your if in fact it was a permaculture garden - or perhaps even less depending on crop choice. Also, I'm not sure about your point regarding mulch - yes it is work to apply, and yes it does reduce watering needs as you say. I would argue that since the mulch serves are a weed suppressor, water retainer and soil feeder (ergo fertilizer) that the net effect is that it saves time. Anyway, I hope that helps, and I'm sorry if I did not make those points clear in the video - and of course the term "large" is ambiguous at best - so perhaps the title "Keeping a relatively large garden is not as hard as one might think, especially in terms of the ratio of relative effort to relative gain" might have been more accurate - but certainly not quite as catchy :) All the best sir.
How is the winter in the maritimes? I was thinking about going to Maine...close enough :)
Maine's winter is different than here. NS is a peninsula, surrounded by the ocean, jutting out into the gulfstream, whereas Maine is on the eastern seaboard of the US, and only has the atlantic on its southern side; and it's also further North. Generally Speaking, Maine is colder in the wonter, and warmer int he summer. It's more like New Brunswick than NS. Sorry, not much of an answer, but these climates are not all the same. Even in my province a one hour drive west in summer from where I live will typically result in a 5 to 10 degree increase in heat. In winter, it's the opposite. Winter where I am is cold and wet and dreary, whereas in Maine it would be colder, but not as wet/humid, and the show would be deeper.
@@maritimegardening4887 Good info. I reckon a locals opinion is better than anything you might research. Thanks for the reply.
@@wwsuwannee7993 OK cool enjoy! Haven'y been in Maine since I was 16 :)
@MaritimeGardening Have you or can you do a stream on prep of fresh herbs? I love using fresh herbs, but they are really time consuming to prepare. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong?
That's a great idea - I'll add that to the list of "to do" videos, and try to get to it when the herbs are a little further along.
@@maritimegardening4887 That's supremely cool! Thank you. I'm loving your videos. I appreciate what you do. ;)
@@AtheneNoelle I have a list of video ideas that I refer to when I can't thin of anything - so now that's on the list :) By late June I should have some decent herbs to deal with. The making of garlic-scape pesto is usually the 1st herb preservation chore that I get to here. Used that stuff all winter and am on my last jar of it right now :)
thank you! what area of nova scotia are you in?
I'm near Peggy's Cove
I agree its nice to have a low to no maintainace garden but if you do water fertilize and give it extra TLC you will notice a much larger crop per weight at the end of the year.
If the plants are getting what they need, then the crop will be as large as it can be. A key idea behind permaculture is that you design the garden so that the plants get those things without you needing to do the work. You don't neeed to fertilize because nutrient levels are optimal; you don't need to water because moisture levels are optimal and root systems are deep and well developed. I can barely keep up with what this garden is giving me right now it's that productive. Permaculture man - you can't beat it, stop working so hard, let the micro-organisms do all the work! :)
Ill give it a shot plus it'll probably help my soil. I live on an escar so its all sand and small rocks and very little top soil. Can I use pine needles and hatdwoodwood shavings from the coop as part of the mulch? Of should I specifically go out and buy a couple three bails of hay and till them in before winter?
Use the free stuff!!!! Just don't till the woodchips and needles in - leave the, on top.
I wonder whether a bird bath, especially fountain type, would attract birds and get rid of pests. That’s what I have seen on Robbie and Gary’s videos.
Hi, thanks for the suggestion. The garden is nestled in a forest. There are birds everywhere in the garden all the time.
Thank you. Lots of good ideas...... very well expressed and illustrated. Where are you located? How much rain do you get in summer?
I live in Nova Scotia, Canada. In terms of rain, I live in a coastal area, so we do get rain fairly regularly. A dry spell here means no rain for a month - and that's rare (though recently more frequent sadly) and even then there is mist/dew/fog at night - that's about as bad as it gets. Still, heavy mulches are they way to go, regardless of of your annual rainfall, because they hold moisture. Hope that helps. :)
Thank you.
What would you recommend for those who don't get the rain that you do. I live in Colorado and rain is a scarce commodity here.
Do the same thing as me, and you'll just have to water less often than your neighbors!
Maritime Gardening Thank you so much for your prompt reply!
Glad to help!
what area are you in!, it seems beautiful
Nova Scotia, Canada. Yes, it's pretty nice here :)
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How do you keep critters out of the garden? I am new to your channel, and i would think up there every animal from the woods would be in there munching down. And probably deer the most.
I lost a good portion of my garden one year as a result of that - then I put big fence around the whole thing. A fence is the cheapest and most effective solution. 200' of fence cost me about $300 (with post) to put in. Since I get close to $2000 in produce value out of my garden each year, it was a no-brainer! Porcupines, deer and rabbits are everywhere here!
Maritime Gardening a fence for sure, and high enough to keep deer from jumping over.
Thanks for sharing your garden with us! I don't care for Ruth Stout's work though because as I viewed a video I thought was going to be a good video about gardening and her sharing her wisdom, at the end of it she talked about how she would garden nude near the road with passersby slowing down to watch. At that moment, I personally decided I wouldn't be watching her anymore. I almost couldn't believe what I was hearing her say. I know we sometimes have to shake off the dirt and winnow the chaff, but I just don't care for immodesty in women. As a young woman living in this day in age, it's hard to find older women you can look up to. I like how you said that trial and error is one of our best teachers. Though, as I believe, the Lord will help me and bless me also. I wouldn't leave that major part out! And my spirit is thankful and blessed. Thanks again. I also just subscribed to your channel. Enjoy your work!
Is there a reason why you threw a potato into the garden to pick it up and present it as one you just dug up? I'm referring to the 25:41 mark.
I threw it there to confirm that the camera was pointing at the right spot. If you look closely you'll see me pick it up before digging out the potatoe. Dude, that's the first time I've ever been accused of potato fraud. Thank you for that, hilarious, you made my night :)
Nice garden.. I personally wouldn't grow root crops in fresh manure, but for each his own.
Thanks for the compliment! On the other point, it's not fresh manure, Its' aged, and its horse manure, which is nowhere near as strong as most other manures.
I thought you said you had some weeds due to using fresh manure.. thx for the clarification.
It was fairly fresh In the fall (2016), but of course reasonably aged by the following spring. Fresh manure is much easier to source for free than aged manure, so you just apply it in the fall, and then it ages over the winter. Seems to work fine in my experience. Cheers!
That's a good strategy.
Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. The manure was fresh the previous fall (2016) when I added it on top, but of course by the spring when I planted it was reasonably well aged, and by the time I was harvesting, even more so. Hope that helps. -g
Check out 'Back to Eden' film. You can watch it free online. Seriously... You're so blessed to get access to all those wood chips. I have been trying for so long but can't get wood chips dropped off. :'(
The year I watched that film was the year I built this garden, and changed everything. It all made perfect sense.
Maritime Gardening that's awesome! Same here. It's an amazing transformation to watch. I get so many compliments on my gardens. :D
Don't worry about the woodchips - I've found hay and seaweed work better anyway for me.
That's great! No sea weed here. I'm in Ontario. Is it not adding too much salt to the garden?
I've been afraid to use hay or straw because people have had bad experiences with weed seeds sprouting from it.
Salt's not a prob, but that's a moot point for you guys. Re: hay seeds, it seems to be less a problem if you lay it on thick - like 6" or higher. I get weeds, but surprisingly few. Check out my vid called "ruth stout follow--up"; you'll be surprised. Also, in the vid above, all those potatoes about 20 min into the vid were under about 9" of hay and there's hardly any weeds.
hii Maritime Gardener,
you mentioned of potato..
i just have a drive a distant away here in Germany today, and i saw farm land with potato plant .. and the folia are still green and standing .. even thou the weather is totally chill and windy.. rainy weather.. it is not Nov 26.. it is very cold here.
i plant potato as well, but they all ended their life when the rainy season somewhere in summer.. .. i am amazed with this potatoes that still alive at this season.
any idea ?
andrew
My best guess is that the farmer planted them very late in the season, perhaps as a second crop. Amazing that they are still growing, as I would assume that even in Germany you've had frost already.
ya, it is 4 deg c here.. 39F .. this weekend will be -1 to -2C at the coldest.
i don't think it is the late planting.. i believe could be special type of potato variety. it is so wet the weather,, but they look so healthy..as you know wet weather tend to make the potato have blight...
yes pickles
ok!
Can you let the parsnips overwinter?
yes - but they will go to seed the next year - get them out before the ground freezes - or immediately after it thaws