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Inspiratoriet
Denmark
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 10 มิ.ย. 2019
Videos from Inspiratoriet's permaculture food forest on the island of Samsø in Denmark. Some videos are in Danish, but most will be in English. Follow the garden all seasons as I share how I apply the permaculture principles in my garden to create a Paradise for plants, insects, birds, worms and humans.
The food forest is approximately 3500 m2 and we have a total of 1,3 hectares of garden. The food forest has about 300 different edible plants, trees, fruits, berries, herbs and perennial vegetables + a variety of helper plants and some just for joy and beauty.
We started the garden on a grassy field in autum of 2013 and as of summer 2019 the design has pretty much been established, so now we only need to maintain, adjust where needed and enjoy the beauty and all the delicious crops.
The food forest is approximately 3500 m2 and we have a total of 1,3 hectares of garden. The food forest has about 300 different edible plants, trees, fruits, berries, herbs and perennial vegetables + a variety of helper plants and some just for joy and beauty.
We started the garden on a grassy field in autum of 2013 and as of summer 2019 the design has pretty much been established, so now we only need to maintain, adjust where needed and enjoy the beauty and all the delicious crops.
There is Always a Harvest in a Diverse System. Permaculture Nordic Food Forest
Lots of mulberries, gooseberries, apples, plums, cherries and flowers of course. News from the greenhouse too :)
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I am an Indian Runner Duck! Managing Slugs in a Nordic Permaculture Garden. My Preferred Weapons :)
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Sooooooo many slugs this year. I think the wet, wet winter and hardly any frost have given them perfect conditions to thrive. I usually rely on snails to keep the balance as they eat the eggs from the slugs, but this year it all feels out of whack, so I am pretending to be an indian runner duck most days. The pond is looking amazing though - with all the rain the lushness in the garden is reall...
Easy Way to Dry Herbs Without Using Energy. Perrmaculture Nordic Food Forest
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A lot of herbs, a varm room and a sheet is a you need :) If you don't have a lot of space a couple of teatowels also work. The Flowers in the bed in the retreat garden are Phlomis Russiliana, Cephalaria Gigantea, Daylilies, Ground Elder. Sage, calendula, apple mint, chocolate mint, lime tree flowers, rosepetals, marjoram, lemon verbena. Here is a link to the video I made about making fermented ...
Beautiful Messiness. End of June in Nordic Food Forest. Permaculture Gardening
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Læge Alant - Inula Helenium - Tusindstråle White Teasel Bishop's Weed is NOT Bishop's weed but Queen Anne's Lace Haveklinte - Lychnis Coronaria Cotton thistle
Food Forest Walkabout Mid June. Mad Roses, Endless Slugs. Nordic Permaculture.
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Mad rose season, the most beautiful I have ever seen. Also the most slugs I have ever had in the garden......
Surrounded by Abundance and Lifeforce :) Feeling Grateful in The Food Forest. Nordic Permaculture
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It feels like the Food Forest has taken another step up in growing power this year - perhaps partly due to seasonal conditions, but I am also sensing a deeper growth in power in this 12th year of making the food forest. I love it so much!
Send Help! I'm Going Under :) Silverlinings in a Nordic Food Forest. Permaculture in Action
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Apologies for the wind in my mike - I couldn't wait for a quieter day, since the wind is blowing non-stop. Send help :)
A Tour of My Inner Garden - How The Food Forest Informs and Inspires Artwork. Nordic Permaculture
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I spent a couple of days cleaning up and preparing my creative workspace / gallery for opening this season and thought I would invitie you in :)
Sheer Growing Power! June Beauty in 12 Year Old Food Forest. Nordic Permaculture.
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The garden is changing every week and there is always something to discover and enjoy :) I feel very grateful to be able to take these early morning walks in the middle of such a display of LIFEFORCE.
Diversity Attracts Diversity! 30+ Different Bird Species in The Food Forest. Nordic Permaculture
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Merlin Bird ID App: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.labs.merlinbirdid.app&hl=en&pli=1 Here is a list of all the different birds the app has identified in our garden: Tårnfalk - Kestrel Fasan - Phesant Gråkrage - Hooded Crow Bogfinke - Chaffinch Munk - Blackcap Gransanger - Chiffchaff Ringdue - Wood Pidgeon Skovspurv - Tree Sparrow Gærdesmutte - Wren Tornsanger - Whirethroat Gulbug - I...
A Messy Vegetable Bed - The Truth About How I Really Garden :) Permaculture Nordic Food Forest
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It's a mess - I'm messy! But I seem to thrive with this totally disorganised approach to gardening. In the bed we have Potatoes, Amaranth Calendula Chard Black Poppies Spinach Tree spinach Cheiranthus Nasturtiums Poor potato harvest last year th-cam.com/video/4AwI74nyd1E/w-d-xo.html Making a seaweed bed th-cam.com/video/LktUSKnQ2Mw/w-d-xo.html
Growing Vertical Crops in The Explosive Garden. Permaculture Nordic Food Forest
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Short video today :) The oldschool plant - Hundetunge - is Cynoglossum officinale, I think it is Houndstongue in English. I should have known :)
Food Forest Walkabout Mid May. Nordic Permaculture
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Showing you some of the beautiful details that make me happy in the garden right now. The joy is endless :)
Deer Damage, Resilience and Abundance in The Garden. Nordic Permaculture
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I am loving the garden so much these days - so much new growth to see and enjoy every day! I love the feel og the white filigree flowers in the garden, and here is a list of the varieties we have growing: Cows parsley Ammi Majus Ammi Visnaga Bishops Weed Daucus Carota The "cumin" I mention in the old vegetable garden is of course churvil :)
Early Morning Meditation in The Food Forest. Nordic Permaculture
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Just a slow walk through the beauty of the food forest this morning. I feel so priviliged to be living in such a bountiful and beautiful Universe!
Rhino Beetles, Babies, Beauty and a Thinking Slime Thingy. Permaculture Nordic Food Forest
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Rhino Beetles, Babies, Beauty and a Thinking Slime Thingy. Permaculture Nordic Food Forest
Bits and Bobs and Fresh Spaces in The Food Forest. Nordic Permaculture
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Bits and Bobs and Fresh Spaces in The Food Forest. Nordic Permaculture
Late Frost and Update on Apricot Diseases. Permaculture Nordic Food Forest
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Late Frost and Update on Apricot Diseases. Permaculture Nordic Food Forest
Spring Garden Walkabout Before the FROST. Permaculture Nordic Food Forest.
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Spring Garden Walkabout Before the FROST. Permaculture Nordic Food Forest.
Easy Stinging Nettle Recipe With Endless Variations. Healthy and Free! Nordic Food Forest
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Easy Stinging Nettle Recipe With Endless Variations. Healthy and Free! Nordic Food Forest
REGENERATION is a Two-Way Street! 10 Year Commitment to Create a Food Forest. Nordic Permaculture
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REGENERATION is a Two-Way Street! 10 Year Commitment to Create a Food Forest. Nordic Permaculture
Soil Samples From The Food Forest! 12-15% Organic Matter from 10 Years of Building Soil.
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Soil Samples From The Food Forest! 12-15% Organic Matter from 10 Years of Building Soil.
My Best Stinging Nettle Soup Recipe - Using Abundant, Free Ressouces! Nordic Food Forest
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My Best Stinging Nettle Soup Recipe - Using Abundant, Free Ressouces! Nordic Food Forest
March Salad From The Food Forest - So Many Delicious Greens Right Now! Nordic Food Forest.
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March Salad From The Food Forest - So Many Delicious Greens Right Now! Nordic Food Forest.
Some Favorite Early Flowers and Making Tea From Bergenia. Permaculture Nordic Food Forest
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Some Favorite Early Flowers and Making Tea From Bergenia. Permaculture Nordic Food Forest
Loving and Loathing in the Spring Garden. Winter Flooding. Permaculture Nordic Food Forest.
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Loving and Loathing in the Spring Garden. Winter Flooding. Permaculture Nordic Food Forest.
Adoption Day! Giant Larvaes of Rhinoceros Beetles in The Food Forest. Nordic Permaculture
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Adoption Day! Giant Larvaes of Rhinoceros Beetles in The Food Forest. Nordic Permaculture
Growing Kaki Fruits in a Nordic Food Forest and Other Bits and Bobs. Permaculture
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Growing Kaki Fruits in a Nordic Food Forest and Other Bits and Bobs. Permaculture
How the Workload Has Changed in 10 Year Old Food Forest. Nordic Permaculture in September
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How the Workload Has Changed in 10 Year Old Food Forest. Nordic Permaculture in September
Layers of Loveliness in The South-East Corner of 10 Year Old Food Forest. Nordic Permaculture
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Layers of Loveliness in The South-East Corner of 10 Year Old Food Forest. Nordic Permaculture
Toppen bra tips! Jag visste inte att vinbärssnäcka hjälpte till, jag har många, jag är så rädd om dem!
Jo, og de er så smukke også, synes jeg - og gør næste ingen skade på planterne (undtaget dahlia - som må være alle snegles favorit)
Härligt! Man blir lycklig av att skörda allt gott! Vackert hos dej! Ja, det är alltid något som går extra bra och något som tar en paus och man är aldrig utan skörd, den bara växlar mellan åren. Hos mej är det plommon i massor, lycka! Körsbär och äpple också rätt mycket medan det gick hårt åt mullbären i vinter. De flesta lever även om några frös ner, dålig skörd där. Helt galet mycket amerikanska blåbär men för mej dåligt med vinbär trots bra blomning. Jag har till och med persikor mitt ute på friland. Lycka! Fint med liljor, ser fram emot det avsnittet! Kram Inger
Hej Inger! Tak - det lyder også som om der er smukt og fuld af gode sager hos dig, det er virkelig ægte lykke :) Her er også mange æbler, men kun på nogle af træerne og masser af blommer. Fuglene har spist alle kirsebærrene her, men jeg nåede at smage et par stykker, sådan må man dele....
Kram tilbage!!!
Wow, that is fantastic berry abundance.
@@barbrahnakamanya6866 Thank you Barbrah 😊 you can never have too many berries! I love the feelung of a full freezer for the winter months 🙏
I pruned my gooseberries and some of my currants last year so those only have very few berries. But I have two white currants, one pink one and several red ones that had unbeivably big berries in clusters - some of them more than 15cm long. I've never seen anything like that ever before. I need to propagate me some more of those. And my olldest blueberries decided, that this year is the year to produce more than a handfull of berries. i planted them right before the "heatwave years" - in spring 2018. In what was then still bad soil - and no amendments to lower the PH or any such nonsens. And I basically never waterd them. They.Taste.AWESOME! There is no such thing as "too many berry bushes" 😍 So, blueberries - propagating from cuttings? Or stool layering? And I think I cand still find some spots to squeeze in some black berries 😂
Hi Martina :) That sounds amazing - I totally agree with you, there is no way to have too many berry bushes! I have no experience with propagation of blueberries since they refuse to grow in my heavy clay soil, but I should think both methods work - and it's always worth a try <3
@@inspiratoriet96 i have clay soil, too. As described, they took their time to start to grow and fruit. The only thing I did, was "hide" them in herbacious perennials and mulch, mulch, mulch.
oh, and for the helpers - get yourself some WWOOFers 😊
@@MartinaSchoppe I have thought about it - a lot - but I have nowhere to house them....and I am an introvert, so it also feels a little daunting to have people in the garden all the time :)
@@inspiratoriet96 I'm an introvert, too. No way I could let somebody else live in my house!!
Wow the abundance. Truly paradise 🤩
@@marisaphoenix1893 thank you 😊
Skal!!! 💪🏻🫶
Thanks honey. You are super and good fun x
Slugs in a vegetable garden is a pest, slugs in a forest are not, some people can't tell the difference
I totally agree with you, slugs are an invaluable part of the composting community. The problem with these slugs is that they are NOT native to Danish climate, they have come in from Spain and are thriving like crazy here and therefore causing real havoc in our gardens, not only the vegetable gardens. 90% of my annuals are gone, they are on most of the raspberries and in my leafy perennials. They carry e-coli and it is eating away at the joy I find in harvesting our meals/salads in the food forest :( I have friends with normal size gardens who are collecting a 10 l bucket of slugs a day in their small gardens. I normally trust nature to find a balance, but this year I have decided that I need to be the Indian runner duck. It is by no means something I enjoy.
.... I hope... You will use also the flower... You can dry them or you can make sirup, jelly... ... It would be good to use all of Rallarros...
Hi Jana, thank you for the tip! I will surely dry some flowers too - they are so beautiful :)
Ducks can take care of your slug problems, and they won't scratch your tender plants like chicken. I love that innovative weapon of choice 😊
Thank you Barbrah :) I am dreaming of Indian Runner Ducks, but we are away too much to have them and I cannot put more work or responsibility on the kind people who take care of the place when we are not home.
No,no,no 😭 you should not kill them just because they want to eat! Every living being has right to live. I have the same slugs problem, but I found a solution for me just to put vegetable rest from kitchen under the plants everywhere, instead throwing it to the compost box. So the slugs can eat and do their job. Also every night before going to bed I check the young plants and remove slugs manually and put them on that heap of vegetables residual from kitchen. It works about perfectly
Thank you for sharing your peaceful method! I am quite shocked by this video, I thought it was a peaceful channel... not for me anymore
Thank you for sharing your method. I totally understand how that could work in a smaller garden, but I have more than 12.000 m2 and would not be able to do that. I am also explaining how this is not something I usually do since the garden most years finds it's own equilibrium. But the slugs are not native to Denmark - they have come in from Spain that has a completely different climate and where they are not a problem. They certainly are here! I have friends that are farming annual vegetables and they are considering quitting alltogether because of slugs and rain. They also need to eat :) I think this is a very important discussion - the ageold question "should I feed the bird or save the snake?". Would you have reacted this way if I had made a video about me suddenly having Indian runner ducks in my garden to help with my slug problem?
Fantastiska anemoner.
ask your neighbor to rent the runnerducks for a few days 😉
So gorgeous! And what a beautiful room! Thank you, and for the video on RBWH tea which I am currently doing!
@@hfern125 thank you 😊
Spacing is a challenge in a variety of ways ;) Trees and shrubs can and do expand to take the space available to them, on one hand, and no matter how we plan out our spacing, some plantings will fail, randomly altering our spacing from our plans. I'm a pretty strong believer in dense planting, because nature will fill in gaps that I leave with things I didn't choose. And yes, that involves maintenance and adaptation on a pretty constant basis. But if Nature plugs in things to fill your space - you're still there needing to do maintenance and adaptation. You will always have to be prepared to prune and take things out, it's just whether it's the things you selected and planted, or the things nature put in there for you ;)
Hi Peter :) I totally agree with you - there is no way to make perfect, permanent spacing as everything constantly evolves. I have become better at embracing, enjoying and surrendering into the constant changes and i have actually begun to enjoy the editing of the food forest, being a change agent :) it is like a dance with everything - the season sepcifics, the trees, ground layers, my vision of the garden and a million other things. What a playground!
Yellow tiered flower is Phlomis in English x
Thank you :) I knew it but couldn't find it
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So beautiful video...thank for sharing 👍🙏
Thank you 😊 my pleasure entirely
🤗 Old? Noooo.😄
Yeeeeeees 😂
Thank you so much for sharing! 🍓🍓❤❤♦♦💛💛🍀🍀🎉🎉
My pleasure entirely 😁
The joy of walking through the food forest is evident by the chuckles and giggles 😊😊. It is really a beautiful place.
Thank you Barbrah 😊
ooooooooooooooh imagine ramblers growing up the walls of that white building. In the color of the poppies in that seaweed-potato bed... 😍
Hahaha I love your vision Martina!!! It could be really beautiful with ramblers against that white wall or Wisteria :)
@@inspiratoriet96 or both :D
Oh, and Ox eye daisies and globe artichokes 😉 Yesterday I was cutting comfrey for mulching when a passing neighbor asked for the name of the plant - and I could only remember the English name... 😂🤣😂🤣😂
@@MartinaSchoppe 😅😅🤣
The White filigree flowers in the explosive garden are NOT Bishop's weed but Queen Anne's Lace, sorry about the mix-up :)
The joy of exploration is real! I love wandering through the garden and marvel about all the details and unforeseen views.
Yes! Endlessly giving and surprising and creative
It's beautifully lush. Don't feel bad about heavy pruning. Just pretend to be a deer or some other browsing animal. 😉💚
Thank you :) That's a great way to think about pruning. I'll pretend to be a giant deer!
I’m starting to appreciate roses more. I keep finding such beautiful colors to add to my garden 🌹
They really are the queen of flowers! When we first moved to the farm, I thought of roses as being too cliché for me to have in the garden - but look at me now, I cannot get enough :)
I'd volunteer to adopt some of the fairy towers 😊
I can send you seeds/baby onions in fall!!
@@inspiratoriet96 oooooooooooooh, that would be lovely. 😍 I'm a mass murderer 🤐of seeds, but baby onions I can plant so they survive 😊 I have Alliums that look very similar - Allium "Summer drummer" - but they flower in pinkish-purple - yours seem to be white?
@@MartinaSchoppe They are Babington's perennial leeks - white flowers and much taller that any of the alliums and wild onions that I have. Super easy to grow :)
@@inspiratoriet96 -yeah the "Summer Drummers" are that big too, and also have that "Zipfemützen"-look like your Babingtons. I'm sure, they are cousins of brother and sister 😂
Your love of nature and your beautiful garden is a joy to see! ❤️
Thank you Garrett 😊
Your roses look amazing! 💚🌱
Thank you Kara - I don't think I have experienced a wilder rose - season, ever 😊
OMG, now I'm scared 😂 It's a bit hard to compare, because I planted mine not all at once but different areas in different years, starting, actually with the apples in the front garden in 2016 - in grass - had no idea about permaculture or food forest back then. Because I hated mowing around the trees I underplanted with blueberries and flowers in the spring of 2018. Then I started the stone fruits in another part in fall 2018, pears in 2019, cherries in 2020. This morning I happened to look at photos from the stone fruit patch in 2021 and the trees were tiny.... Last year they doubled their hight 😳 Same with the apples and the shrubs... The pears, aronia and the blueberries are a bit slower. And the herbaceous layer is EXPLODING for three years in a row, basically 😨Everything wants to conquer the neighbors' gardens and the street 😱 I need this Harry Potter charm, that makes the inside way bigger than the outside is. 🤣🤣🤣 BTW you make the life force of your food forest come through the screen of my laptop and jump at me with al might 😍 I love how you always giggle when talking about it. I giggle, too, when I walk through mine. Food forests ARE like that charm in a way. They are sooooo much bigger and better then the sum of the plants that where planted. Nature is awesome!
Hahaha - I love your description Martina. It's true, you are in REAL TROUBLE :) I am constantly in awe of the power of nature to grow and to thrive if given the space and the chance. It is really quite beautiful to behold! I am with you on the Harry Potter spell, wouldn't that be great to be able to expand endlessly. I have a growing list of plants, trees and bushes that I NEED, but no more space to put them..... <3
I am so happy that my Joy of all of this is coming through the laptop!!!
@@inspiratoriet96 I have wishlists and shopping carts in several online nurseries 😵💫 And I shuffle them from wishlist to cart and back again because my bank account says NO!!! 😂 The dogs say no, too, because they want to keep the lawn that is left but I guaranty for nothing. Wasn't there that reclaimed piece at the back of the food forest... That looked about the size of my whole garden?? 🤣 Come ooooooooooon, you're going to do it! Right? RIGHT??? 😉🙃😂
And you could plant a few kilometers along the borders with the neighbors - with hazels and walnuts and pecans and more hazels and cherryplums *drool*
@@MartinaSchoppe Hahahah I feel the pressure! According to my husband and all the retreat-participants, they need the grass that we have for yoga and meditation practices :) But I am trying to get my husband to agree that we need to buy another piece of land for MORE trees
Be very careful how you dispose Japanese Knotweed! Do not throw them on the ground as few center meters of branches can grow root and become a new patch. Don't try to dig up the root since it can grow several meters deep. They can penetrate weed control fabric and crack concrete floor. We have been battling with Japanese Knotweed 3rd year in a row now, Their root can stretch out under ground so we are constantly checking any new growth. One thing we noticed is that it stopped stretching when it hits the wild raspberry patch. Because Glyphosat can only be used by licensed professional weed control companies in most companies now, the only way for private person to combat with this monster is, cutting, cutting and cutting and hope in one day, the nutrition stored in the root will be depleted some day. But sadly, it may be just hibernating. So you have to check year by year. In Sweden, private home owners must secure the cuttings in the plastic bags and contact the local waste management companies. It is illegal to transport them in the trailer without the plastic.
Yes, thank you :) I am being very careful when disposing of the Japanes knot weed, I know they need very little opportunity to regrow. Powerful plant. We don't have any specific rules here in Denmark regarding disposal of parts or elimination, but I have decided that this should be one area where I really commit to cutting back several times every year. Best of luck with getting on top of them in your garden!
Those are massive roses. The rain has definitely helped with the rapid plant growth this year.
I can almost feel the vibrancy and energy! Stunning 😊
Everything looks so lush. Amazing
I love your gardening style. I do it the same way. My garden is full of food, fun, surprises, magic and never-ending joy ❤
Thank you 😊
I'd totally come to help, but I'm busy harvesting mulch in my own garden. Stinging nettles, greater burdock (those beasties are higher than me and the leaves... gigantic!!), bishopsweed [Aegopodium podagraria], bindweet, sticky willies and thistles... and comfrey, of course. As I want to make a new garden bed and plant it in the fall or next spring, THATS where all the mulch goes 😉 And around the tomatoes. They seem to like that. Amazingly I'm finding plants under the burdock jungle... Are burdock leaves edible? Do you have a video about all the roses?
Thank you Martina 😁 All that lovely mulch sound amazing! I checked with pfaf.org and it looks like both greater and lesser burdock are edible - I will try them too 😋 I have made a WHOLE video about my roses if course 😇
Here is a link to the rose video :) th-cam.com/video/0V4n_sCIv7A/w-d-xo.html
@@inspiratoriet96 Thank you! 😍 ☺I had a vague memory of a video with a lot of rose content. But wasn't sure ☺
The nettles are perfect size for fiber! See Sally Pointer’s channel. The roots are also medicinal.
Thank you, how exciting - I'll have a look at her channel :)
Oj så höga nässlor! Ja, det är både på gott och ont. Vad det växer! Här har vi haft en kylig period med rätt mycket regn, bara +3 senaste natten men i helgen verkar värmen komma tillbaka! Underbara rosor!
Højere end mig nogle steder :) 3 grader - det var koldt!!! her er vi nede omkring 10 grader om natten og det er virkelig koldt for årstiden. Men nu er der jordbær og roser og jeg er lykkelig. Knus til dig, Inger
I really enjoyed seeing how the outside garden has influenced your mind's creativity with its shapes, colors, and loveliness. It also came as a surprise to me that you do this type of art! It was very fun to have a backstage look.
Thank you! I'm am so happy you enjoyed it :)
Nicely said
Thank you for sharing this part of your life with us. ❤
I would love to hear more about the sausage factory. My farther was a sausage maker back in the day. I feel like your explanation sheafs some light on it please go into more detail?
Hi Kara :) Well, to make a sausage you have to mince a lot of different ingredients, and what comes out of the spout is very uniform. It is just an analogy for what we do in society - creating "normalcy" with our education system, our cultural pressures etc. I think humanity is much more interesting and powerful in a freer and more creative expression of life and how it could be lived :)
Thanks for sharing. I can never get enough of your garden videos. 😊
What a great variety! Nom nom x
Congratulations to 2000 subscribers!! You deserve so many more! I don't know why you keep telling us, that there are so many weeds? We can't see that on the videos! Everything looks green and full of flowers. 😂 About two years ago I weeded and weeded and weeeeeeeeeded for hours in the bed next to the street and one of the neighbors wandered by several times that day, and when he went past in the evening, he said: "What have you done all day, it looks just like this morning!" He looked REALLY confused, when I said "Thank you for the compliment! That is exactly how it should be looking!"🤣🤣🤣 He is one of the "the lawn can not be higher then 2 centimeters and there have to be sharp edges between that lawn and the pavers... He must have expected to find it all cut to the ground but, nope. Still looked like the wild jungle minus a huge heap of nettles, thistles, bindweed and comfrey - placed as mulch under the trees, shrubs and flowers... This year I have so much more mulch 🙃🙂🙃 because I also have to cut back flowers to be able to find the pathways. Not everywhere, yet - my food forest is only half as old as yours, but in some places... selfsown flowers in the paths and running strawberriies and raspberries... BTW the raspberries: mine are on the lowest and therefore wettest spot in my garden but they seem to love it there. I put about three to for bigbacks of leaves between my three rows. Or last fall it was almost half of one of those huge rolls of hay... the soil creatures are soooo hungry 😆
Thank you so much Martina!! I am so grateful to everyone who wants to follow the garden :) I totally agree with you regarding weeding, I think it matters less than we think - another example of needless doing..... I do want to take out some of the stinging nettles, sticky willies, bindweed, some grasses and stuff like that because they smother the other plants. And the comfrey falls on top of everything else like you say, and if I take them out now, I think the second flowering is beneficial for the insects. My pathways are also "illegal nurseries" of extra flowers, herbs and strawberries - ready to be given away or planted somewhere else - such natural abundance :)
Jeg elsker haven så meget ❤️
Another wonderful video! So much that I am in love with seeing. ❤💚🌱
Thank you, Kara 😊
It’s just stunning! Glad you saw the ‘Honesty’ comment! I nearly fell out the bath 😂 The 2m grass you can’t remember the name of is Stipa Gigantissima . Thanks for another lovely video xxx
Haha 😁 thank you - "gigantissima" should be easy to remember, very fitting 🤩
Så smukt og magisk!
Tak 😊
I can’t get over how cold climate, northern hemisphere gardens go from barely anything in the garden in winter to that much abundance in the late spring & summer. How do that many plants hide in the soil just waiting to appear? An amazing transformation.
Me too! It's proper magic and it completely blows my mind every spring :)