The little birds love the seeds in sweetgum balls in winter. I use my mower under a sweetgum tree here to pick up and chop the leaves for garden mulch. The really bad drought and heat in Louisiana last year wiped out my white clover in my yard and I replanted this fall with a half pound of inoculated seeds. I just got a pack of Comfrey seeds to try too and a brand new gorgeous Prime Ark Freedom Blackberry bush. It`s inside under lights blooming. I also got a couple of big packages of pollinator flowers and scattered them around for the bees. I tried and failed with garlic over and over so I just planted what we call "Magic Garlic" in the Deep South...Elephant Garlic. It has been 24 years since I had any and two cloves accidentally peeled and I ate them raw with sardines. Hopefully the cloves I planted will thrive and reproduce. It`s a perennial that can be left in the ground to spread faster if you harvest the scapes to eat and don`t let them bloom. Don`t harvest it all the first year, basically. I successfully created nice rich no-till soil in 2 seasons with various beans, chaos cover crops & cow peas plus heavy mulching with all my grass clippings and chopped leaves. I added bone meal, dry leaf mold from the forest in mid summer, urine, limestone dust and some organic fertilizer with 20 microbes and the earthworms are thriving. Mushrooms popped up everywhere. I plant vining Red Ripper Peas under all my fruit trees and keep the vines on the ground and leave all roots in the soil.
Pasture Raised PIMP. Great video as always, thanks for showing some of the different methods for bedding down for winter. If you travels bring you to lower middle TN, a consult would be greatly appreciated. I'll be headed up to PA for Xmass and New Years, so that time would not be good but any time after that would work. Prayers to you and your family, God Bless from TN.
I just moved into a new build this summer. I did a temporary garden using grow bags and pots. This fall and I started my perennial food forest work fruit trees, berry bushes, Jerusalem artichokes and wild asparagus. I'm in 6b high mountain desert at 7000' so we're getting hard freezes and snow. I've started my real compost pile with leaves, debris from splitting wood, plants & potting soil and covered it with cardboard. Next spring, I'll get some manure and add grass clippings and worms. I just put together 6 raised beds and used up my compost has been cooking all summer. Btw, I lead a chaplain crisis team and we were planning on coming in January but I hesitate to bring a bunch of retired ladies to areas that are toxic.
It's cold here in Idaho, we were 17° till 9 am, it started going up. We don't have any sticking snow yet (hopefully only up in the mountains), but I'll have try the clover option.
Sharing your interview with Tony with my mom, and hopefully a lot of other people as I have opportunity. Thank you for taking the time to go on a large platform and share the truth with so many people. I did chop and drop with my kale. Decided not to overwinter this year so I could bury the whole growing area in leaves. I tarped it after laying down a thick layer of leaves, per someone else's recommendation. Hopefully that will help, I have too much clay, too little organic matter.
Hi William, hope y’all are well. Thanks for the tips. 😊 Do you think a scythe will work on the rose here? Sweet gum is a great medicinal tree. Awesome for colds and flus. The little gum shaped seeds are the medicine. 😊
Thanks to you and your dad and a few others, I’ve learned a bunch in the last 4 years. Clover was down in my gardens a couple months before we got hit with our first snow. Virgil may be surprised when I tell him I want a broad fork for Christmas; then again maybe he won’t. Glad to see you back!
Wish you all the luck for winterizing your garden. Look out the window today and mine is covered with snow. Just trying to keep my compost pile working for awhile. Waiting on seed starting in a couple of months.
It’s the cycle of life it happens in the soil if you have soil not dirt I love your channel and your Dads channel I have gained so much knowledge from both of you have any tips to get rid of bid weed I would love to know everything I see on line says round up and I will not do that even if I never get rid of all of it God Bless
This was outstanding info. Thanks PC! I live in Kansas. Currently 29*. Last year it was -17*. Not the norm. What are the best Winter crops, if any? I have cabbage, and some onions that are holding it down.
Your fallow bed is what my whole garden looks like this year lol. Instead of sweet gum I ended up with black mulberry, bradford pear, and catalpa trees
You say people can broadfork even if they already have snow on the ground. I am picturing those up in the lake effect areas that just got 3-4 feet of snow trying.
I was thinking that my condor machete was dull... So after I realized I had abused it for over 2 years, 🤔 I thought maybe I should sharpen it... I hit everything with that thing, & it is holding up very nicely. Thanks for the words of wisdom - think I have some red clover seeds laying around here somewhere! 🤠
#permaculture Q&A: You mentioned your goal was to get sheep and your dad also has sheep and not goats. Why sheep over goats? Is it for the meat? How does someone decide which is better?
If you can work the soil, plant. If it's too solid (frozen) wait. Just my 2 cents, I just planted 3 apple trees, raspberry bushes, and goji; sheet mulching the entire time, building better environment for future endeavors. God Bless from TN.
Ooh, I do have a question for you! What are your recommendations for companion crops in a garden? I remember a video where you mom and dad talked about sticking potatoes in all sorts of areas and I've also seen some recommendations for planting pollinator attracting flowers around vegetables, would love to hear your input for those of us who are trying to get the most out of a small space.
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For me, winter is not coming it is already here. I had to dig a posthole yesterday. I had to go through three inches of frozen ground.
love your vibe man! Starting my first serious garden after years of half-passing it. You got a subscriber here!
The little birds love the seeds in sweetgum balls in winter. I use my mower under a sweetgum tree here to pick up and chop the leaves for garden mulch. The really bad drought and heat in Louisiana last year wiped out my white clover in my yard and I replanted this fall with a half pound of inoculated seeds. I just got a pack of Comfrey seeds to try too and a brand new gorgeous Prime Ark Freedom Blackberry bush. It`s inside under lights blooming.
I also got a couple of big packages of pollinator flowers and scattered them around for the bees. I tried and failed with garlic over and over so I just planted what we call "Magic Garlic" in the Deep South...Elephant Garlic. It has been 24 years since I had any and two cloves accidentally peeled and I ate them raw with sardines. Hopefully the cloves I planted will thrive and reproduce. It`s a perennial that can be left in the ground to spread faster if you harvest the scapes to eat and don`t let them bloom. Don`t harvest it all the first year, basically.
I successfully created nice rich no-till soil in 2 seasons with various beans, chaos cover crops & cow peas plus heavy mulching with all my grass clippings and chopped leaves. I added bone meal, dry leaf mold from the forest in mid summer, urine, limestone dust and some organic fertilizer with 20 microbes and the earthworms are thriving. Mushrooms popped up everywhere. I plant vining Red Ripper Peas under all my fruit trees and keep the vines on the ground and leave all roots in the soil.
Pasture Raised PIMP. Great video as always, thanks for showing some of the different methods for bedding down for winter. If you travels bring you to lower middle TN, a consult would be greatly appreciated. I'll be headed up to PA for Xmass and New Years, so that time would not be good but any time after that would work. Prayers to you and your family, God Bless from TN.
Simple and easy is perfect!!
I just moved into a new build this summer. I did a temporary garden using grow bags and pots. This fall and I started my perennial food forest work fruit trees, berry bushes, Jerusalem artichokes and wild asparagus. I'm in 6b high mountain desert at 7000' so we're getting hard freezes and snow.
I've started my real compost pile with leaves, debris from splitting wood, plants & potting soil and covered it with cardboard. Next spring, I'll get some manure and add grass clippings and worms. I just put together 6 raised beds and used up my compost has been cooking all summer.
Btw, I lead a chaplain crisis team and we were planning on coming in January but I hesitate to bring a bunch of retired ladies to areas that are toxic.
It's cold here in Idaho, we were 17° till 9 am, it started going up. We don't have any sticking snow yet (hopefully only up in the mountains), but I'll have try the clover option.
Thx William! 😊
Sweet gum, liquidamber stryrasiflua, spell check, the resin has been used as a cold and flu remedy.
The resin smells great too. I peeled a strip of bark off a sweetgum nearby to collect the sap.
You can make a tea with the leaves and green gumballs can be.used.
I was about to post the same only about making tinctures with them.
Sharing your interview with Tony with my mom, and hopefully a lot of other people as I have opportunity. Thank you for taking the time to go on a large platform and share the truth with so many people.
I did chop and drop with my kale. Decided not to overwinter this year so I could bury the whole growing area in leaves. I tarped it after laying down a thick layer of leaves, per someone else's recommendation. Hopefully that will help, I have too much clay, too little organic matter.
Hi William, hope y’all are well. Thanks for the tips. 😊 Do you think a scythe will work on the rose here?
Sweet gum is a great medicinal tree. Awesome for colds and flus. The little gum shaped seeds are the medicine. 😊
Good video. I love clover and scythes. Going to have to get a broad fork and machete soon. Be safe on your next trip back to N.C.
Thanks to you and your dad and a few others, I’ve learned a bunch in the last 4 years. Clover was down in my gardens a couple months before we got hit with our first snow. Virgil may be surprised when I tell him I want a broad fork for Christmas; then again maybe he won’t. Glad to see you back!
Just got the Meadow Creature 16" fork.
Give the gift that keeps on giving...If you continue to use it. LOL Perm culturally speaking. God Bless from TN.
Zone 5b. 20-35 degrees every day now.
Wish you all the luck for winterizing your garden. Look out the window today and mine is covered with snow. Just trying to keep my compost pile working for awhile. Waiting on seed starting in a couple of months.
It’s the cycle of life it happens in the soil if you have soil not dirt I love your channel and your Dads channel I have gained so much knowledge from both of you have any tips to get rid of bid weed I would love to know everything I see on line says round up and I will not do that even if I never get rid of all of it God Bless
This was outstanding info. Thanks PC! I live in Kansas. Currently 29*. Last year it was -17*. Not the norm. What are the best Winter crops, if any? I have cabbage, and some onions that are holding it down.
QUESTION: how deep can comfrey roots grow? 👍🙏🌻
Your fallow bed is what my whole garden looks like this year lol. Instead of sweet gum I ended up with black mulberry, bradford pear, and catalpa trees
You say people can broadfork even if they already have snow on the ground. I am picturing those up in the lake effect areas that just got 3-4 feet of snow trying.
I was thinking that my condor machete was dull... So after I realized I had abused it for over 2 years, 🤔 I thought maybe I should sharpen it...
I hit everything with that thing, & it is holding up very nicely.
Thanks for the words of wisdom - think I have some red clover seeds laying around here somewhere! 🤠
#permaculture Q&A: You mentioned your goal was to get sheep and your dad also has sheep and not goats. Why sheep over goats? Is it for the meat? How does someone decide which is better?
# permaculture question
I have peas and oats growing in my veg garden along with comfrey do I turn it over in the soil in the spring?
Hi William, I ordered several bare root fruit trees and a few Italian stone pine (in a pot). Should I plant them now or pot them for spring planting.
Why do people want to help them, and not even include their grow zone? I guess you dont want the answer to your question sir...
If you can work the soil, plant. If it's too solid (frozen) wait. Just my 2 cents, I just planted 3 apple trees, raspberry bushes, and goji; sheet mulching the entire time, building better environment for future endeavors. God Bless from TN.
I was told weeds tell you what your soil is missing and sounds like carbon is missing cause weeds don't like carbon.
Ooh, I do have a question for you! What are your recommendations for companion crops in a garden? I remember a video where you mom and dad talked about sticking potatoes in all sorts of areas and I've also seen some recommendations for planting pollinator attracting flowers around vegetables, would love to hear your input for those of us who are trying to get the most out of a small space.