Yo guys, thanks heaps for watching! If you enjoyed the video, feel free to share it with a friend who might also enjoy it or find it helpful 😁. Happy growing!
Very nice presentation. An early schoolbook of mine showed native Americans planting seed with a dead fish in conjunction with this three sisters. Yours is the best example I've seen.
Great explanation. I have used a similar method for over 20 years. It truly builds up new soil from easily obtained materials, and makes great use of cover crops. Looks like beautiful land there, reminds me quite a bit of our Northern California landscape.
Great stuff. I do this on a very small scale in suburbia. In the subtropics our worst vege growing time is midsummer so I plant soya beans and tepary pawl beans as a summer green manure. Works a treat.
Finally a Kiwi presenter I can follow. Tired of watching Northern hemisphere ones that are not in sync with our seasons. Not sure if you do this but a monthly planning video of what to do that month would help a lot. Where do you live? are you subtropical or temperate climate? thanks
Hey, I’m just below the Auckland region - I would say more temperate than sub tropical, but I try to push the limits a bit. That’s a good idea and something I may be able to explore doing in the future :). Thanks 😊
Your videos are fantastic - concise and well presented - you're the only TH-cam gardener I've subscribed to. I'm wondering how long do you need to wait after terminating the cover crop until you can plant vegetables in there?
Thanks so much for the comment! You can pretty much plant in there straight away if you want, and the cover crops can die back and decompose as your other plants grow :). Might depend a little on the type of cover crops you grow, but I usually just wing it and experiment a little. Some people turn the cover crops into the soil, but as I do no dig gardening I prefer the just chop off at the base and leave the foliage as a mulch
I was flowing your channel since the coconut and date fruit seedlings and it helped me to learn new things. I have suggestion I started using manuka honey if you can make a video about manuka plant I Appreciate it. Many thanks about the great contents.
Definetly will try this next year but on a smaller scale, what season and time did you sow the corn, gourd and bean seeds? Also won't the shaded plants not grow as well because there isn't enough sun?
Cool man hope it goes well! I actually find a bit of competition can actually be a good thing as it can encourage more vigour in plants and they grow and scramble to maximise sun. Also as corn are a tall thin plants there is still plenty of sun that shines down through the plants. They are getting to the stage now that the gourds are exploding out the sides of the bed and climbing the corn plants, so they certainly will do what they need to to get the light they need. I sowed my corn in mid oct and planted the bed up in mid Nov :)
@@TheKiwiGrower Ok cool, will be making a video on this if I plan to do it nex tyear so I can show you, also can I sow seeds slightly earlier here where I live because there is no frost during winter?
Hiya. Do you know of any other good NewZealand garden TH-cam channels other than homegrown happiness? (who I already follow :) ) your channel has been great for me to follow as we are in a windy exposed section too !! Appreciate all the work you put into your videos.
How do you keep the cover crop from continuing to grow since the roots/ stalk is still alive.. Like are the plants you start with taller than what remains of the thrashed down cover crop?
If I have a perennial bed, can I take the cut cover crop and use it mulch it around my perennials or do I need to cover it with an actual mulch or compost?
There is tonnes of options and it really depends on your space. I used mostly lupins which are great for adding nitrogen, you could also use peas for that too. But yes now is a good time to put cover crops in, just do a bit of research about what does well in your area and what you want to achieve out of it (eg - added nitogen, loosening soil etc)
Have xou got a root cellar? How do you keep them do you leave some in vround and hsrvest some to store for if you eat in two how to store over for winter?
No we don’t have a root cellar. Well just store any long lasting gourds somewhere cool. This is our first year here since we built our house, so just working it out as we go :)
Hi Paul sorry for the late reply. I was using the cardboard to suppress weeds and mulching my feijoa trees at the time, so just decided to also add some of the green mulch underneath to increase the organic matter in the soil overtime and feed the soil life, which in turn will help with water retention and feeding my trees. I put it underneath everything to help it break down quicker. The cardboard will rot away in around 2 months, just leaving the woodchips to slowly decompose overtime, and help with continued weed suppression. Cheers
Oh my Dogs! He ("Mr Hunky 🥝 💪Man" ) talks so fast I had to lower the playback speed from 1.0 to 0.75. These aging ears of mine just can't hear that fast😉
instead of cutting the plants down by hand, I believe that letting animals graze like sheep goats or chickens and take them down naturally would be less work and far more fertile if you are able
problem with all the organic stuff, besides average cropping, is the cost and work required. you need to spend entire days doing this stuff. i'm off the organic koolaid. good in theory, but some soils do need to be worked. As always, organic proponents take the summary of research (e.g. overworked farmland) and take unscientific extreme positions based on fairyfloss. it does get the ratings. i now grow much better plants in a fraction of the time. after all, not saving the planet by spending big on mostly woody materials, which almost all goes into atmosphere. wood eating bacteria are not great veggie mates. mushrooms grow great in lots of decomposed wood. cover crops are good, if you got the room.
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Yo guys, thanks heaps for watching! If you enjoyed the video, feel free to share it with a friend who might also enjoy it or find it helpful 😁. Happy growing!
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Very nice presentation. An early schoolbook of mine showed native Americans planting seed with a dead fish in conjunction with this three sisters. Yours is the best example I've seen.
That’s really interesting, thanks for that! Glad you enjoyed :)
The best no dig bed I’ve seen! Thanks for sharing 🙏
Great explanation. I have used a similar method for over 20 years. It truly builds up new soil from easily obtained materials, and makes great use of cover crops. Looks like beautiful land there, reminds me quite a bit of our Northern California landscape.
Thanks heaps for the comment :). Great to hear others who have used similar methods :)
So satisfying watching you chop down that green mulch! And awesome to see how well your no-dig bed is doing 😍
Thanks :). Stoked with the results !
So much information here, so inspiring to see this method
Glad you enjoyed! 😁
Great stuff. I do this on a very small scale in suburbia. In the subtropics our worst vege growing time is midsummer so I plant soya beans and tepary pawl beans as a summer green manure. Works a treat.
That’s awesome. Great way to keep the soil healthy when your not growing food!
I wish I saw this before I started work on a brand new allotment 😅 brilliant video
Finally a Kiwi presenter I can follow. Tired of watching Northern hemisphere ones that are not in sync with our seasons. Not sure if you do this but a monthly planning video of what to do that month would help a lot. Where do you live? are you subtropical or temperate climate? thanks
Hey, I’m just below the Auckland region - I would say more temperate than sub tropical, but I try to push the limits a bit.
That’s a good idea and something I may be able to explore doing in the future :). Thanks 😊
Your videos are fantastic - concise and well presented - you're the only TH-cam gardener I've subscribed to. I'm wondering how long do you need to wait after terminating the cover crop until you can plant vegetables in there?
Thanks so much for the comment! You can pretty much plant in there straight away if you want, and the cover crops can die back and decompose as your other plants grow :). Might depend a little on the type of cover crops you grow, but I usually just wing it and experiment a little.
Some people turn the cover crops into the soil, but as I do no dig gardening I prefer the just chop off at the base and leave the foliage as a mulch
thanks kiwi! i'll share out to our local gardening group
The Kiwi Grower, you are also taking GHGs and putting them back into the soil comforting Mother Earth! Love it!
Awesome video! Bees would have been loving your place! 🐝
Thanks! Yeah we have a few bee hives so it was great for them :)
I always a pleasure watching your videos. Very informative.
Thank you! 😁
Suns out guns out! 😍
Wow that so good to learn how to do like you thanks for the idea
No worries :)
Love the wild flower meadow 🙂
Awesome! Thank you for the video.
A lot of great material there :) awesome.
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I was flowing your channel since the coconut and date fruit seedlings and it helped me to learn new things. I have suggestion I started using manuka honey if you can make a video about manuka plant I Appreciate it. Many thanks about the great contents.
This is so awesome, thanks for sharing.
😁 Glad you enjoyed. Thanks for watching!
Home Grown Happiness! Give some Aroha to that channel people.
Hardout, Elien is awesome!
Your brilliant I love your videos
Thanks :)
So cute 😊😊
Thanks for another great video. Very inspiring.
Thanks Angela! 😁
Definetly will try this next year but on a smaller scale, what season and time did you sow the corn, gourd and bean seeds? Also won't the shaded plants not grow as well because there isn't enough sun?
Cool man hope it goes well! I actually find a bit of competition can actually be a good thing as it can encourage more vigour in plants and they grow and scramble to maximise sun. Also as corn are a tall thin plants there is still plenty of sun that shines down through the plants. They are getting to the stage now that the gourds are exploding out the sides of the bed and climbing the corn plants, so they certainly will do what they need to to get the light they need. I sowed my corn in mid oct and planted the bed up in mid Nov :)
@@TheKiwiGrower Ok cool, will be making a video on this if I plan to do it nex tyear so I can show you, also can I sow seeds slightly earlier here where I live because there is no frost during winter?
@@TobyJin yea should be fine to do it earlier
@@TheKiwiGrower Also what sort of gourds and beans did you plant? can you use any for this project?
Just use what you like. I did sugar sweet, bottle gourd and butternut I think
Hiya. Do you know of any other good NewZealand garden TH-cam channels other than homegrown happiness? (who I already follow :) ) your channel has been great for me to follow as we are in a windy exposed section too !! Appreciate all the work you put into your videos.
Love your videos
Thank you 😁💚
Did you say the cover crop was lupine? Was it the only cover crop or was it a mix? Not sure if i missed it but how long did it take to get that big.
Wow👍👍
How do you keep the cover crop from continuing to grow since the roots/ stalk is still alive.. Like are the plants you start with taller than what remains of the thrashed down cover crop?
If I have a perennial bed, can I take the cut cover crop and use it mulch it around my perennials or do I need to cover it with an actual mulch or compost?
What country you are from, I like your way of life
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New Zealand 🇳🇿 😁🌱
And also can you show me how big your coconut palm tree is now🥥🌴
I watch your video were you grow the coconut palm tree from a 🥥🌴
This is so cool! Where in NZ do you live?
I’m just south of the Auckland area. Glad you enjoyed! 😎
I live in Australia and its May now can I plant cover grounds to prepare for summer planting? What seeds can I use to cover ground?
There is tonnes of options and it really depends on your space. I used mostly lupins which are great for adding nitrogen, you could also use peas for that too. But yes now is a good time to put cover crops in, just do a bit of research about what does well in your area and what you want to achieve out of it (eg - added nitogen, loosening soil etc)
Have xou got a root cellar? How do you keep them do you leave some in vround and hsrvest some to store for if you eat in two how to store over for winter?
No we don’t have a root cellar. Well just store any long lasting gourds somewhere cool. This is our first year here since we built our house, so just working it out as we go :)
is your coconut doing well? 😀
i do not understand the cardboard on top of the green mulch and then woodchip mulch on top of the cardboard??? what is the thought process there?
Hi Paul sorry for the late reply. I was using the cardboard to suppress weeds and mulching my feijoa trees at the time, so just decided to also add some of the green mulch underneath to increase the organic matter in the soil overtime and feed the soil life, which in turn will help with water retention and feeding my trees. I put it underneath everything to help it break down quicker. The cardboard will rot away in around 2 months, just leaving the woodchips to slowly decompose overtime, and help with continued weed suppression. Cheers
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😝 Thanks! 😎
Oh my Dogs! He ("Mr Hunky 🥝 💪Man" ) talks so fast I had to lower the playback speed from 1.0 to 0.75. These aging ears of mine just can't hear that fast😉
instead of cutting the plants down by hand, I believe that letting animals graze like sheep goats or chickens and take them down naturally would be less work and far more fertile if you are able
Yes definitely a good point. This area however has lots of young fruit trees around it so I wasn’t able to put any of my stock through here :)
Where is the follow up video?
Growing a NO DIG Garden from START TO FINISH th-cam.com/video/i3HfAuQut0E/w-d-xo.html
Gawd, why do I find this guy so hawt?
10% here for the plants, the other 90% is for the beef 👀
You are so handsome :)
problem with all the organic stuff, besides average cropping, is the cost and work required. you need to spend entire days doing this stuff. i'm off the organic koolaid. good in theory, but some soils do need to be worked. As always, organic proponents take the summary of research (e.g. overworked farmland) and take unscientific extreme positions based on fairyfloss. it does get the ratings. i now grow much better plants in a fraction of the time. after all, not saving the planet by spending big on mostly woody materials, which almost all goes into atmosphere. wood eating bacteria are not great veggie mates. mushrooms grow great in lots of decomposed wood.
cover crops are good, if you got the room.