I allowed my yard to weed this year and was blessed by so many medicinal weeds! Plus a wild raspberry bush. Cannot wait to see what sprouts next year! I live in NJ in the US.
Wow I can image, there were a few monarch circling around my garden though I'm not sure what plants they landed on, they might be there for the conifer trees
That Shaggy Soldier reminds me of a native plant we have here in North America, called Bidens alba. It looks very similar and is very aggressive re-seeder and in the same family. It's edible and considered a medicinal. Every pollinator is attracted to this plant, it's considered one of the top pollinator plants here in Florida.
A Poem quickly inspired by you mentioning the invent of the lawnmower: We wanted to sell lawn mowers So we vilified the dent-de-leon. Did away with the achillea, mullein, and violet. We wanted to sell pesticide, So we dimmed the stars of clover, Chickweed and ground ivy. Mosquitoes, flies, butterflies, and bees Get rid of them all, nothing will stop money. Caterpillars on the trees be gone, Don’t care about the birdsongs, Let them dwindle due to nothing to eat. No need for fireflies, Making memories with our children. No need for chirping crickets While we sit fireside, enamored crackling melting our stress. No need to smell peppermint, Or feel lamb’s ear. They are useless because we don’t know them now. Comfrey doesn’t do anything for muscles or skin, Not because it lost its power, but because we gave ours away. And we’re not a lost cause. In a generation, we can connect again.
I stopped mowing the lawn 2 years ago and it's so nice to see how many different species of flowers were hiding in plain sight among the "green desert" just waiting for a chance to grow and not be cut down. And natural pathways have formed on where I walk.
I live in the High Desert. Many years ago I started using the JADAM method of fertilizing which basically uses the biomass on your property to make fertilizers and natural pesticides. It has worked exceedingly well here…I use whatever grows on my farm plus all the prunings. I also had struggled with quack grass here. Finally I just said to heck with it and I just keep it trimmed to ankle level. I discovered that it keeps the water in the soil better and protects the trees, bushes and plants from the heat….it keeps the soil cooler and relieves the stress from the high heat here in the summer. My water bill has actually gone down.
Looking at all those lawns.... If only the tide would turn and people en masse embrace a more relaxed and nature-connected approach to their yards and gardens (a shift I believe is happening right now, but I would like it to speed up a bit), all this disgusting green waste lands, will be low hanging fruits in a small scale rewilding of entire landscapes. Creating habitats and corridors for small wild life. And there is nothing more rewarding (and addicitve) then watching what appears when you stop keeping the area sterile. A garden aimed at connecting to the land, not shutting your territory away from it.
I'm sorry but the definition of a weed is simply a plant that is growing somewhere that you don't want it to be growing... therefore if they are the "solution to your problems" and "friends not foes" then they aren't weeds by definition.
So enjoyable to learn how to understand what the plants are revealing about the soil, and how you've helped to increase the presence of wildlife. I wonder if you could boost your garden's social acceptability by putting up official signs stating that this is a rewilding project. Maybe a university might allow you to do this as a horticulture project. That might cause others to see your efforts in a different way. Am looking forward to your future garden videos.
Thank you for your suggestions, I'm only renting the house so I'm not able to put up any signs as part of the restrictions. I'm lucky they allowed me to plant the garden. But I would surely do that if I owned the house. I will be posting my next update on 26th October
I love this! We live on 5 acres, and purposely only use 1.5 acre for ourselves. The local wildlife are welcome and our food scraps are never wasted. I also created a small "wildlife oasis" (we reside in a Mediterranean chaparral biome) with fresh water, moist ground, and all kinds of seeds. My husband, cat, and I are thoroughly entertained on a daily basis. 😊 Rats and mice that threaten our home are live-trapped and brought to the nature reserve next to us. My crops are in raised beds and protected with hardware cloth. Love thy neighbor - even the animals. 😁
Bah... We had a lot of weed in the garden - and they were full of slugs and voles. At night the slugs moved to the vegetables - eating all salat plants, half of the paprika and zucchini and a lot of bean plants. And in the ground the voles ate up many roots of the beans and the plants died and the roots of more than half of the strawberry roots and plants died. And the high weed plants are full with mosquitos! This year I started to rip out all of the sucking weed stuff to get rid of the slug and mosquito pest and I will set up traps for the voles! Yeah, if you have no pest animals in your area - go one with growing the weeds! But I will get rid of those plants, because I want to have a yield again!
Its lovely, I hope to provide more info soon, do make sure to check out our website leafoflife.news and sign up for updates so I can keep you in the loop. Thanks
Let’s just say, I’m old now, gardened all my life, including permaculture, and lol 😂. It’s alright, I went through all of this many years ago, you have to find out somehow. Have fun.
Thats great, I guess you are taking a rest from it now? Yes I have been learning about it since 2016, permaculture also but not so into permaculture prefer to learn from the traditional and ancient techniques which permaculture has taken alot of elements anyway
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I allowed my yard to weed this year and was blessed by so many medicinal weeds! Plus a wild raspberry bush. Cannot wait to see what sprouts next year! I live in NJ in the US.
Thats fantastic 👏 😀
Beautiful! I started going wild this year and was surprised with a lot of milk weed which I didn’t plant. The Monarch butterflies had a feast👍👍
Wow I can image, there were a few monarch circling around my garden though I'm not sure what plants they landed on, they might be there for the conifer trees
That Shaggy Soldier reminds me of a native plant we have here in North America, called Bidens alba. It looks very similar and is very aggressive re-seeder and in the same family. It's edible and considered a medicinal. Every pollinator is attracted to this plant, it's considered one of the top pollinator plants here in Florida.
Yes I think its the same plant, Mexico is in North America also 😄
You have a beautiful little plot there, full of life.
thank you!
A Poem quickly inspired by you mentioning the invent of the lawnmower:
We wanted to sell lawn mowers
So we vilified the dent-de-leon.
Did away with the achillea, mullein, and violet.
We wanted to sell pesticide,
So we dimmed the stars of clover,
Chickweed and ground ivy.
Mosquitoes, flies, butterflies, and bees
Get rid of them all, nothing will stop money.
Caterpillars on the trees be gone,
Don’t care about the birdsongs,
Let them dwindle due to nothing to eat.
No need for fireflies,
Making memories with our children.
No need for chirping crickets
While we sit fireside, enamored crackling melting our stress.
No need to smell peppermint,
Or feel lamb’s ear.
They are useless because we don’t know them now.
Comfrey doesn’t do anything for muscles or skin,
Not because it lost its power, but because we gave ours away.
And we’re not a lost cause.
In a generation, we can connect again.
True weeds (Weedus Weedicus) are actually very rare. Thanks for the video in praise of weeds! It's a message that must be shared.
Well said!
Imo the only true weeds are invasive species that out compete natives
Yes, I would like a tour and I do like the forest you've got there. It's nice.
George Davis
Thanks for letting me know!
I stopped mowing the lawn 2 years ago and it's so nice to see how many different species of flowers were hiding in plain sight among the "green desert" just waiting for a chance to grow and not be cut down. And natural pathways have formed on where I walk.
I look at weeds as the unofficial cover crop...
Maybe they are the 'official' cover crop 😉
I live in the High Desert. Many years ago I started using the JADAM method of fertilizing which basically uses the biomass on your property to make fertilizers and natural pesticides.
It has worked exceedingly well here…I use whatever grows on my farm plus all the prunings.
I also had struggled with quack grass here. Finally I just said to heck with it and I just keep it trimmed to ankle level. I discovered that it keeps the water in the soil better and protects the trees, bushes and plants from the heat….it keeps the soil cooler and relieves the stress from the high heat here in the summer. My water bill has actually gone down.
After research I discovered that 80% of my garden weeds are edible. This changed my view of weeds completely.
Looking at all those lawns.... If only the tide would turn and people en masse embrace a more relaxed and nature-connected approach to their yards and gardens (a shift I believe is happening right now, but I would like it to speed up a bit), all this disgusting green waste lands, will be low hanging fruits in a small scale rewilding of entire landscapes. Creating habitats and corridors for small wild life.
And there is nothing more rewarding (and addicitve) then watching what appears when you stop keeping the area sterile. A garden aimed at connecting to the land, not shutting your territory away from it.
totally agree
Some of the weeds are edible in Indonesia 😮
I would like to see you cook and eat the plants that most call weeds.
Yes so would I
Good idea, well alot of them i just eat fresh for the highest nutritional value. There's something else I do with them and I'll save that for part 2
I'm sorry but the definition of a weed is simply a plant that is growing somewhere that you don't want it to be growing... therefore if they are the "solution to your problems" and "friends not foes" then they aren't weeds by definition.
thats exactly right, thats why I call them volunteer plants but alot of people want to call them weeds
So enjoyable to learn how to understand what the plants are revealing about the soil, and how you've helped to increase the presence of wildlife. I wonder if you could boost your garden's social acceptability by putting up official signs stating that this is a rewilding project. Maybe a university might allow you to do this as a horticulture project. That might cause others to see your efforts in a different way. Am looking forward to your future garden videos.
Thank you for your suggestions, I'm only renting the house so I'm not able to put up any signs as part of the restrictions. I'm lucky they allowed me to plant the garden. But I would surely do that if I owned the house. I will be posting my next update on 26th October
I love this! We live on 5 acres, and purposely only use 1.5 acre for ourselves. The local wildlife are welcome and our food scraps are never wasted. I also created a small "wildlife oasis" (we reside in a Mediterranean chaparral biome) with fresh water, moist ground, and all kinds of seeds. My husband, cat, and I are thoroughly entertained on a daily basis. 😊 Rats and mice that threaten our home are live-trapped and brought to the nature reserve next to us. My crops are in raised beds and protected with hardware cloth. Love thy neighbor - even the animals. 😁
Thats great you take care of the animals also love it 😀 😊 ❤
Bah... We had a lot of weed in the garden - and they were full of slugs and voles.
At night the slugs moved to the vegetables - eating all salat plants, half of the paprika and zucchini and a lot of bean plants. And in the ground the voles ate up many roots of the beans and the plants died and the roots of more than half of the strawberry roots and plants died.
And the high weed plants are full with mosquitos!
This year I started to rip out all of the sucking weed stuff to get rid of the slug and mosquito pest and I will set up traps for the voles!
Yeah, if you have no pest animals in your area - go one with growing the weeds! But I will get rid of those plants, because I want to have a yield again!
What app did you use to identify those plants. Very cool concept and good to know some new edible plants as well.
PictureThis looked like. PlantNet is also another good one.
ios ids are horrible in my experience btw
I think its called plant ID there are many. Though dont trust them 100% its not always correct, do your own research
@@LeafofLifeWorld thank you so much
I love that house. I need more information about the development
Its lovely, I hope to provide more info soon, do make sure to check out our website leafoflife.news and sign up for updates so I can keep you in the loop. Thanks
Let’s just say, I’m old now, gardened all my life, including permaculture, and lol 😂. It’s alright, I went through all of this many years ago, you have to find out somehow. Have fun.
Thats great, I guess you are taking a rest from it now? Yes I have been learning about it since 2016, permaculture also but not so into permaculture prefer to learn from the traditional and ancient techniques which permaculture has taken alot of elements anyway