Mollison or Lawton said you'll overestimate what you can accomplish in 1 year, but you will way underestimate what will be accomplished in 5. My experience: very true!
There's a gal with a permaculture channel that had a video on another gal's "2 year permaculture garden". It had fully mature fruit trees, etc. I called total BS in her comments section.
@@lesliekendall5668 Interesting, calling BS on someone helping herself and the planet. You realise of course you don't need to start from zero when you begin "doing permaculture", in fact most permaculture people are already in some sort of gardening habits, including growing fruit trees or veggies before they begin. Love your neighbor Leslie....
Huw and the crew behind it all -- we are watching your materials for a full year now and never said thanks, so it's about time: huge thanks guys. Our small garden in Bulgaria is as happy as it could be, and so are we.
I just wanted to say thank you for all your wonderful and inspiring videos. I'm learning a lot and dreaming of some day creating a garden of my own. All the best from Sweden!
I moved with only a massive collection of containers into a space with a large garden. I got stuck in right away with establishing a compost heap and planning. Over the year I have observed where the sun is, where the wind most often comes from, where the snow sticks, and where it moves. Now, in spring I notice where the snow first start melting and where it has collected. I have noticed the temperature and found out my last frost date. Now, my plan is about ready, and when the weather allows I will start putting permanent beds and features to build my garden as well as I can. My focus will be on edible things and not include anything poisonous. I plan to make sure no cats can use my beds as toilets and cater to bees and other good bugs. I even collected my neighbor's Christmas trees to use in my gardening as material all the while building a little goodwill amongst my townies. Fingers crossed my garden will be well established and producing soon.
May I ask what you are doing to stop the cats? I have had to put an individual fence around each raised bed. I do not own a cat but have about 5 wondering cats that enjoy my land.
@@melindaedgington9925 I don't really know if it will work, but someone said cats don't like anything sharp against their paws. I'll put branches from pine and spruce on top of my beds covering as much soil as I can. I'm also using the needles as mulch. As long as they are dry they won't do much for the ph of the soil. Cats like soft spots to poo in where they can dig to cover it. As long as you hinder them from digging you should be fine. I see people use decorative pebbles but that's not practical for me. Some folks even use chicken wire to deter our feline poopers. I will also use lavender and other strong-smelling herbs as borders for other reasons, something I hear cats don't like much. Best of luck with your gardening efforts!
@@Oktopia I tried the chicken wire and they just pooed on top of it. There are a lot of territory wars in my yard. They do not bury the poo if they are letting other cats know they have been there. I also once had a cat poo right on top of my oregano! Sticks have worked for me I use this method in my flower garden but I find after a year they start decomposing so I need to keep on top of it.
@@melindaedgington9925 they make a motion activated sprinkler. I've seen a video of a man who was in your situation and it "trained" all the neighborhood cats to stay away. Didn't take long either 🤷♀️ I only have my own cats and they would rather find a dry sandy spot than my moist raised beds. I wish you well! Stay strong!
Thanks for this. Loved it! I would add, that each person who practices permaculture has the potential to come up with something amazing that hasn't been designed before! And could tell the rest of us about it! :) Innovate, fail, succeed, and pass on what you've learned. But you can't do that unless you actually DO permaculture.
I'm in my 3rd year of permaculture. Have learned that there's A LOT of perennial vegetables out there. And edible flowers, etc. Did you know maple tree leaves are edible? The one failure I would tell everyone is that if they're planning on making "guilds" that they need to MAKE SURE that the tree likes the same amount of water that the plants do. Some trees don't like much water and are prone to root rot. In that way, I unknowingly killed an apricot tree and almost killed my hazelnut tree.
I don't know if I would call it a myth ot not but here in the USA there seems to be kind of an "all or nothing" mindset around permaculture, actually that mindset seems to be attached to most gardening methods. Personally, I use the aspects of permaculture that work for my small suburban garden combined with what works for me from various other methods of gardening to create a garden that meets my needs & is reasonable for the climate I grow in.
Permaculture isn't a gardening method. It's a set of design principles. And what's designed is different for any project/site. So you probably are using permaculture as it is intended. 😊
Ha I've gotten an allotment garden in January of this year and I've just jumped right in. I've been learning about permaculture and making plans for the garden (and then revising because I hadn't thought of a thing), made some beds, built some compost bins. And I'm just gonna figure it all out as I go. I'll make mistakes for sure. My harvest will probably not be as good as the neighbours' will be. But it's all good. It's about the process for me, not the result. I get to play around and experiment and I already love every second of it, as do my 2 small children. Thanks for the inspiration by the way, mr Richards.
I followed the no imported fertility mind set and found it took about for years using plant sheet composting but when I got my chickens it too about three seasons to get great fertility in my veg garden beds I'm in a zone six with a four to five month freezing weather😊
Very nice, Huw! I'm glad you mentioned the myth about having to observe the property to be designed for a year before starting anything. That idea has always thrown me for a loop. Now I don't feel so bad scrapping it.
I saw the reflection of the camera drone in the pond in one of the overhead shots. I like to look out for fun little things like that. The videography and editing are so beautiful. Hard to believe it's just TH-cam!
!0 is very true for us all . It took 6 +1/2 years to reveal that when we get -15C my garden cannot support mediteranian herbs in most sheltered areas. But the first discovery was that though I intended to use permaculture 'rules' when i was planning the move back from De Cymru to Gogledd rain forest in practice I was limited by the rocks under the ground. The diagonal strata that had defeated the former owner a retired farmer from just 1 1/2 miles upstream and over the river ruled the earth and determined where and what I could plant. With global warming flexiblity is the biggest challenge . No point in trying to outrun the wind , rain and sun. Stay flexible or starve.
A while ago I was told a local story, quite possibly an apocryphal or highly embroidered story, that a man went on a Permaculture design course, thought that to do Permaculture 'properly' he had to move to a rural smallholding and become self-sufficient so he did. And hated it because he loved his city life and knew nothing about the countryside or growing / raising livestock. Thank you for busting 12 of the other myths that surround Permaculture.
We just planted our first fruit trees today and have been laying out beds for our new garden and you have been such an inspiration and education source - thank you! I'm sure I will learn much more from you.
Actually, Permaculture started in Australia’s island state of Tasmania (where I live), which is a cool climate area. But I know people don’t differentiate, they see Australia as hot, period.
Great video. 100% people want a quick fix. Learning takes time. I love learning so not a problem. People get discouraged when not all goes well. Don't be afraid to fail.
Excellent for beginners! This covers maybe all aspects of the idea. About "Patience". There is no way to do gardening without Patience. Be it Permaculture or other way. If you want to do it another way - you'll do. But next year. Isn't it patience? Your advices are so real and correlated to real gardening. I'm impressed. Final words for beginners (and for myself): "Go For It" and you'll become "Expert". In any knowledge. Thanks!
Love to see the good works of another permaculture teacher. Thank you for the inspiring work that you do. May your gardens flourish and bear much fruit. Greetings from sunny Germany
Thank you very much for this Huw, and all your videos. Just an idea, but I would love to see you do some videos on making some of the pallet wood projects, like the bench and how you put the pallets together for compost boxes.
In much of Australia pallets are not a waste product. They belong to a big pallet company that charges a deposit for their use, pays much of that deposit when they're returned and maintains them
Same here (Netherlands). There are smaller type of pallets though which are a waste product, but that is really what they are... the small wood strips are not good for much
Yes Cassie, a small percentage of all pallets are owned by Chep and other companies as "rentals", and these are generally made from HARDWOOD, otherwise (and I worked for another pallet making company) they are made from cheap wood and SOLD to people for use, usually beginning at just $5 per pallet believe it or not.
Hey Huw! Thanks for the shoutout to the world's largest island...Australia! I love your permaculture videos and have slowly adopted some of the principles since 2020 when I first started in earnest. Did you hear about the two worms making love in dead Earnest? A little dark permie humour for you! This weekend I have added a white mulberry, super dwarf cavendish banana, rockmelons (cantaloupe), tomatoes, ginger, dwarf peas, dwarf snow peas and callalou. My favorite principle is observation and I enjoy walking around my garden nearly every morning and either taking photos, writing notes in my gardening journal or planning what I want to do in the future in a particular space. Permaculture fits my personality perfectly as my strengths include Strategy and Pattern Recognition. Cheers!
I have a small fig in a pot and some jerusalem artichokes, so today I added some radish, spinach and green purslane around the edges to reduce water loss, cover the soil to trap nutrients and to eat. Permaculture can be tiny.
I'm 100% waiting a year to plant fruit trees, I don't know how the shade will fall! Probably plant them in the north, as a sun scoop. But who knows? I'm also doing the first year with my perennial herbs in containers so I can move them around 😁 I'm not expecting to burst my cupboards with food this year, but with some hard work I might just create a bursting compost heap! That's a great start for the next year. ❤
Excellent video Huw, always love your content. It's amazing just how much can grow in just 4 years, never mind 5! Tip for starters, buy fruit trees that are already a few or couple of years old in pots, yes more expensive than from seed, but the savings not having to buy fruit for the few extra years outweighs it by a compost heap of cash - well maybe not that much but you get the drift. ;)
When it comes to expense, I look at permaculture as an attitude. "How can I use the resources I have to make a landscape that is sustainable now and forever?" The quick fix idea is for the lazy. For something to be sustainable, one has to sustain it.
Permaculture is a whole system design methodology. This part is very important and people tend to miss it. You don't have to do it all at once, as you said, but you need to keep in mind how what you're doing fits into your overall system.
Wow thats some extreme mist lol 😝 Its funny we have mist almost always about September October. A friend of mine who comes from a farming family in eastern European farming family says that as soon as the mists come tomatoes will ger blight. she is so write, i now use that as a rule.
Hi Huw, I very much enjoy your channel, great information, beautifully photographed. Last year you featured celtuce in one of your videos which unfortunately, I can't find anymore. I bought some celtuce seeds and just wanted to refresh my memory before sowing. Can you direct me? Many thanks
The myth that permaculture is only for plants is strange to me because I was taught that permaculture must include animals and as I start my own garden I felt I couldn't really implement permaculture because I'm not allowed animals in my city
Hi Huw, hey i wanted to ask u if permaculture can also be applied to container gardening? i dont have much space in my house to plant in the ground, but i do have space to have some sorts of raised beds against walls and also for pots, what would be the best advise u can give for container gardening and permaculture principles? thanks ive learned so much from ur videos
I'd like to mention another thing that nobody really talks about. There's nothing wrong with planting a food forest, I have one to a certain degree with 2 dozen or so fruit and nut trees, hundreds of berry bushes, a dozen or so edible greens and perennial plants which I forage through every year. My main source of food by far is in my vegetable garden though, there's no possible way I could live on fruit, nuts, greens and a couple/few perennial vegetables. There's tons of vids out there from all over the world where people live in there food forest with more food then they could ever eat, but you hardly ever see a veg garden. That I think is why many people shy away from it, it just doesn't produce what people want and like you mention....it ain't cheap to buy trees, bushes and perennial compared to seed packs.
It is extremely expensive in time and resources to gather enough for a 400 year Forest. Trees are not the expensive part, for the price of a car you can get all the plants. Time, Knowledge, permanent water management, permanent predator habitat, and land are the largest cost.
Hi huw. I’m just about to build my bed at my allotment, I’m not sure which direction to build them. If I build it north to south, it will seem a bit funny shape on my plot. What would you recommend???thanks for advice. ❤
I would personally look at/ talk to your plot neighbors and see how they have orientated their beds. If they all seem to be the same way there's probably a reason why.
Hi there, thank you for another fantastic content. I heard once that pallets are not good for purposes like that, because they are contaminated a lot of industrial chemicals, which may poison the soil, and us. Do you know something about it?
You need to look for the stamp on the pallet. It'll either say BR for bromide I think - which is the chemically treated one to avoid - or HT which is heat treated and safe for use. Xx
There are other myths that is very important.For example if you mix all kind of plants together you wont have insects because they cant find their favorite plants.And other things like this.I never see anyone in my life who has a production in a permaculture garden due to pests,diseases and weeds.I hope you get it😊
Yes,of course.I mean the permaculture is a myth.You can't grow food in a permaculture design because the fruit fly will destroy all your apples,cherrys,prunes,etc,the slugs will eat all your seedlings,the flea beatle will ruin your brassicas,the afids will destfoy your peaches,your peppers,kale,the birds,rabbits will ruin your peas and beans,botrytis will kill your flowers,your mulch will be the perfect habitat for all kind of insects,etc,etc.Permaculture is good to make youtube content to make some money,but if you want to eat food from your garden you have to apply an IPM approach.If you don't get it,is fine..
I am following your channel. I have never seen you use store-bought fertilizer. Am I missing something from your channel? So actually we don't need it. I have some fruit trees right now. Soon I am trying to grow vegetables. I always worry that I am not feeding my fruit trees enough. So I use a lot of fertilizer, blood & bone, trace elements, fish emulsion, and manure from the shop. Actually, I don't need all of them but only manure. I can save money.
I America, at least from what I was told, the blue painted pallets are often treated with methyl Bromide. I don't really know what that is or how dangerous it is, but it scares soccer moms, and hippie gardeners, and people who are overly concerned with that kind of thing, so I try to avoid it. Take my grain of salt with a pile of salt. Stay salty.
Here in the UK you look for the stamp which either says BR for chemically treated (the bromine) or HT for heat treated. We all hunt for the heat treated ones ❤
Don't sell. Plant for your children and grandchildren. It can't be permanent without multi generational habitation. Everytime I plant trees with my sons I tell them it is for them and they will do the same for their children one day.
@johnowens5342 I can't afford not to sell! What am i supposed to live on when i cant manage this farm? The garden is already too much for me. There's no work for my (grown) kids where I live ...
@andreahodson7031 I'm 75 and there's a reason so many young folks have left the country. There's just no work. I do lease some paddocks for grazing but we're pretty out-of-the-way and a lot of young folks don't want to live in circumstances out here. Give me some credit. I've been a permaculture designer for 25 years, I've thought this through. Us 'back to the land-ers' are dying off and those who come behind us, mostly, haven't got what it takes
I used to pick up pallets in my Mercedes E class, and they were free. Euro pallets aren’t, but there are lots of companies out there that have the disposable ones which the are more than happy for you to have. We used to pick them up bit by bit. We even built a shed out of them. It can be done for sure, just need to be a bit creative 😉
They are free at our local hardware store, plain wood (rather splintery), some nicer than others. The really nice ones they don’t give away, but that’s ok. I can fit 3 in the trunk of my car with the lid tied down, or borrow my sister’s truck for more.
The whole reason people use pallets is because they do get them for free. Either because they've bought something that was delivered on one, or because someone else did. Not always easy to find of course, but keep your ears and eyes open and ask around.
Mollison or Lawton said you'll overestimate what you can accomplish in 1 year, but you will way underestimate what will be accomplished in 5. My experience: very true!
There's a gal with a permaculture channel that had a video on another gal's "2 year permaculture garden". It had fully mature fruit trees, etc. I called total BS in her comments section.
Yea 100% the Perennials and People grow by themselves
Those first 2 years were so much work but the rewards of seeing what can be done is fantastic.
@letsgrowandprosper6562
Bull
@@lesliekendall5668 Interesting, calling BS on someone helping herself and the planet. You realise of course you don't need to start from zero when you begin "doing permaculture", in fact most permaculture people are already in some sort of gardening habits, including growing fruit trees or veggies before they begin. Love your neighbor Leslie....
Huw and the crew behind it all -- we are watching your materials for a full year now and never said thanks, so it's about time: huge thanks guys. Our small garden in Bulgaria is as happy as it could be, and so are we.
Awh thank you so much we are all so grateful!
I just wanted to say thank you for all your wonderful and inspiring videos. I'm learning a lot and dreaming of some day creating a garden of my own. All the best from Sweden!
Awh thank you very much!!!
I moved with only a massive collection of containers into a space with a large garden. I got stuck in right away with establishing a compost heap and planning. Over the year I have observed where the sun is, where the wind most often comes from, where the snow sticks, and where it moves. Now, in spring I notice where the snow first start melting and where it has collected. I have noticed the temperature and found out my last frost date. Now, my plan is about ready, and when the weather allows I will start putting permanent beds and features to build my garden as well as I can. My focus will be on edible things and not include anything poisonous. I plan to make sure no cats can use my beds as toilets and cater to bees and other good bugs. I even collected my neighbor's Christmas trees to use in my gardening as material all the while building a little goodwill amongst my townies. Fingers crossed my garden will be well established and producing soon.
May I ask what you are doing to stop the cats? I have had to put an individual fence around each raised bed. I do not own a cat but have about 5 wondering cats that enjoy my land.
@@melindaedgington9925 I don't really know if it will work, but someone said cats don't like anything sharp against their paws. I'll put branches from pine and spruce on top of my beds covering as much soil as I can. I'm also using the needles as mulch. As long as they are dry they won't do much for the ph of the soil. Cats like soft spots to poo in where they can dig to cover it. As long as you hinder them from digging you should be fine. I see people use decorative pebbles but that's not practical for me. Some folks even use chicken wire to deter our feline poopers. I will also use lavender and other strong-smelling herbs as borders for other reasons, something I hear cats don't like much. Best of luck with your gardening efforts!
@@Oktopia I tried the chicken wire and they just pooed on top of it. There are a lot of territory wars in my yard. They do not bury the poo if they are letting other cats know they have been there. I also once had a cat poo right on top of my oregano! Sticks have worked for me I use this method in my flower garden but I find after a year they start decomposing so I need to keep on top of it.
@@melindaedgington9925 Sounds like you have it tough. I feel fortunate that my landlady's cat seems to be on top of keeping other cats away. 😅
@@melindaedgington9925 they make a motion activated sprinkler. I've seen a video of a man who was in your situation and it "trained" all the neighborhood cats to stay away. Didn't take long either 🤷♀️ I only have my own cats and they would rather find a dry sandy spot than my moist raised beds. I wish you well! Stay strong!
Thanks for this. Loved it!
I would add, that each person who practices permaculture has the potential to come up with something amazing that hasn't been designed before! And could tell the rest of us about it! :) Innovate, fail, succeed, and pass on what you've learned. But you can't do that unless you actually DO permaculture.
I'm in my 3rd year of permaculture. Have learned that there's A LOT of perennial vegetables out there. And edible flowers, etc. Did you know maple tree leaves are edible? The one failure I would tell everyone is that if they're planning on making "guilds" that they need to MAKE SURE that the tree likes the same amount of water that the plants do. Some trees don't like much water and are prone to root rot. In that way, I unknowingly killed an apricot tree and almost killed my hazelnut tree.
Ohh!! Fantastic add!
I don't know if I would call it a myth ot not but here in the USA there seems to be kind of an "all or nothing" mindset around permaculture, actually that mindset seems to be attached to most gardening methods. Personally, I use the aspects of permaculture that work for my small suburban garden combined with what works for me from various other methods of gardening to create a garden that meets my needs & is reasonable for the climate I grow in.
Permaculture isn't a gardening method. It's a set of design principles. And what's designed is different for any project/site. So you probably are using permaculture as it is intended. 😊
So true. Well said.
Ha I've gotten an allotment garden in January of this year and I've just jumped right in. I've been learning about permaculture and making plans for the garden (and then revising because I hadn't thought of a thing), made some beds, built some compost bins. And I'm just gonna figure it all out as I go. I'll make mistakes for sure. My harvest will probably not be as good as the neighbours' will be. But it's all good. It's about the process for me, not the result. I get to play around and experiment and I already love every second of it, as do my 2 small children. Thanks for the inspiration by the way, mr Richards.
I followed the no imported fertility mind set and found it took about for years using plant sheet composting but when I got my chickens it too about three seasons to get great fertility in my veg garden beds I'm in a zone six with a four to five month freezing weather😊
Very nice, Huw! I'm glad you mentioned the myth about having to observe the property to be designed for a year before starting anything. That idea has always thrown me for a loop. Now I don't feel so bad scrapping it.
I saw the reflection of the camera drone in the pond in one of the overhead shots. I like to look out for fun little things like that. The videography and editing are so beautiful. Hard to believe it's just TH-cam!
!0 is very true for us all . It took 6 +1/2 years to reveal that when we get -15C my garden cannot support mediteranian herbs in most sheltered areas. But the first discovery was that though I intended to use permaculture 'rules' when i was planning the move back from De Cymru to Gogledd rain forest in practice I was limited by the rocks under the ground. The diagonal strata that had defeated the former owner a retired farmer from just 1 1/2 miles upstream and over the river ruled the earth and determined where and what I could plant. With global warming flexiblity is the biggest challenge . No point in trying to outrun the wind , rain and sun. Stay flexible or starve.
A while ago I was told a local story, quite possibly an apocryphal or highly embroidered story, that a man went on a Permaculture design course, thought that to do Permaculture 'properly' he had to move to a rural smallholding and become self-sufficient so he did. And hated it because he loved his city life and knew nothing about the countryside or growing / raising livestock. Thank you for busting 12 of the other myths that surround Permaculture.
We just planted our first fruit trees today and have been laying out beds for our new garden and you have been such an inspiration and education source - thank you! I'm sure I will learn much more from you.
Thank you Huw. You are so down to earth encouraging.
Actually, Permaculture started in Australia’s island state of Tasmania (where I live), which is a cool climate area. But I know people don’t differentiate, they see Australia as hot, period.
Great video. 100% people want a quick fix. Learning takes time. I love learning so not a problem. People get discouraged when not all goes well. Don't be afraid to fail.
Excellent for beginners! This covers maybe all aspects of the idea.
About "Patience". There is no way to do gardening without Patience. Be it Permaculture or other way. If you want to do it another way - you'll do. But next year. Isn't it patience?
Your advices are so real and correlated to real gardening. I'm impressed.
Final words for beginners (and for myself): "Go For It" and you'll become "Expert". In any knowledge.
Thanks!
Awh thank you so much!!!
Love to see the good works of another permaculture teacher. Thank you for the inspiring work that you do. May your gardens flourish and bear much fruit. Greetings from sunny Germany
Thank you very much for this Huw, and all your videos. Just an idea, but I would love to see you do some videos on making some of the pallet wood projects, like the bench and how you put the pallets together for compost boxes.
In much of Australia pallets are not a waste product. They belong to a big pallet company that charges a deposit for their use, pays much of that deposit when they're returned and maintains them
Same here (Netherlands). There are smaller type of pallets though which are a waste product, but that is really what they are... the small wood strips are not good for much
Yes Cassie, a small percentage of all pallets are owned by Chep and other companies as "rentals", and these are generally made from HARDWOOD, otherwise (and I worked for another pallet making company) they are made from cheap wood and SOLD to people for use, usually beginning at just $5 per pallet believe it or not.
Hey Huw! Thanks for the shoutout to the world's largest island...Australia! I love your permaculture videos and have slowly adopted some of the principles since 2020 when I first started in earnest. Did you hear about the two worms making love in dead Earnest? A little dark permie humour for you! This weekend I have added a white mulberry, super dwarf cavendish banana, rockmelons (cantaloupe), tomatoes, ginger, dwarf peas, dwarf snow peas and callalou. My favorite principle is observation and I enjoy walking around my garden nearly every morning and either taking photos, writing notes in my gardening journal or planning what I want to do in the future in a particular space. Permaculture fits my personality perfectly as my strengths include Strategy and Pattern Recognition. Cheers!
Cheers Man. A Tasmanian that was too young to meet bill. But the lateral thinking had an impact
I have a small fig in a pot and some jerusalem artichokes, so today I added some radish, spinach and green purslane around the edges to reduce water loss, cover the soil to trap nutrients and to eat. Permaculture can be tiny.
I'm 100% waiting a year to plant fruit trees, I don't know how the shade will fall! Probably plant them in the north, as a sun scoop. But who knows?
I'm also doing the first year with my perennial herbs in containers so I can move them around 😁
I'm not expecting to burst my cupboards with food this year, but with some hard work I might just create a bursting compost heap! That's a great start for the next year. ❤
Excellent video Huw, always love your content. It's amazing just how much can grow in just 4 years, never mind 5! Tip for starters, buy fruit trees that are already a few or couple of years old in pots, yes more expensive than from seed, but the savings not having to buy fruit for the few extra years outweighs it by a compost heap of cash - well maybe not that much but you get the drift. ;)
When it comes to expense, I look at permaculture as an attitude.
"How can I use the resources I have to make a landscape that is sustainable now and forever?"
The quick fix idea is for the lazy. For something to be sustainable, one has to sustain it.
The 13th myth is aligning Permaculture with gardening and agriculture. Permaculture is a MINDSET
Thank you for this! I’ve never looked into permaculture because I thought it was for farmers so I’ll definitely be looking into it now!
Yourcomment made my video worth doing!:D
Permaculture is a whole system design methodology. This part is very important and people tend to miss it. You don't have to do it all at once, as you said, but you need to keep in mind how what you're doing fits into your overall system.
Great information. Sometimes what something is not is more important than what it is.
Well done Huw, great video, thank you very much
Love this video. Another myth is that permaculture can't feed the world and that we need Green Revolution Agriculture for this task.
Great video. We are building little urban perma garden, feels great a while do something tiny. 🙂
❤ Love ❤ that beautiful tree in the background.
Wow thats some extreme mist lol 😝 Its funny we have mist almost always about September October. A friend of mine who comes from a farming family in eastern European farming family says that as soon as the mists come tomatoes will ger blight. she is so write, i now use that as a rule.
Hi Huw, I very much enjoy your channel, great information, beautifully photographed.
Last year you featured celtuce in one of your videos which unfortunately, I can't find anymore. I bought some celtuce seeds and just wanted to refresh my memory before sowing. Can you direct me? Many thanks
The myth that permaculture is only for plants is strange to me because I was taught that permaculture must include animals and as I start my own garden I felt I couldn't really implement permaculture because I'm not allowed animals in my city
I did the two day course, it was worth it.
I’m am getting some ground ready for fruit trees and I’m wondering if I put layers of grass clippings and sawdust down would help .
Hi Huw, hey i wanted to ask u if permaculture can also be applied to container gardening? i dont have much space in my house to plant in the ground, but i do have space to have some sorts of raised beds against walls and also for pots, what would be the best advise u can give for container gardening and permaculture principles? thanks ive learned so much from ur videos
I'd like to mention another thing that nobody really talks about. There's nothing wrong with planting a food forest, I have one to a certain degree with 2 dozen or so fruit and nut trees, hundreds of berry bushes, a dozen or so edible greens and perennial plants which I forage through every year. My main source of food by far is in my vegetable garden though, there's no possible way I could live on fruit, nuts, greens and a couple/few perennial vegetables. There's tons of vids out there from all over the world where people live in there food forest with more food then they could ever eat, but you hardly ever see a veg garden. That I think is why many people shy away from it, it just doesn't produce what people want and like you mention....it ain't cheap to buy trees, bushes and perennial compared to seed packs.
I noticed nasturtiums in milk containers on a pallet, do you have any photos of what that looks like when the flowers have matured?
I love permaculture! ❤🌍🤓
I've always thought permaculture was the cheap way to garden as I try to keep all my resources in a closed circle.
It is extremely expensive in time and resources to gather enough for a 400 year Forest. Trees are not the expensive part, for the price of a car you can get all the plants. Time, Knowledge, permanent water management, permanent predator habitat, and land are the largest cost.
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How long before we het Huw on Gardener's Question Time - Bob Flowerdew can't last forever!
I'd end up getting too controversial if you would put me on something like that😂
where can i find big data on permaculture guilds?
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Myth #13 - Must Have Herb Spiral!
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Hi huw. I’m just about to build my bed at my allotment, I’m not sure which direction to build them. If I build it north to south, it will seem a bit funny shape on my plot. What would you recommend???thanks for advice. ❤
I would personally look at/ talk to your plot neighbors and see how they have orientated their beds. If they all seem to be the same way there's probably a reason why.
Hi Huw I am trying your board method when sowing seeds but they still seem very slow to germinate esp carrots. Any suggestions? TIA
Hi Barry could still be the time of year and very cold soil/wet soil if early spring
Hi, can you make sure that the text is in Danish by plotting Danish on, thanks in advance
Hi there, thank you for another fantastic content. I heard once that pallets are not good for purposes like that, because they are contaminated a lot of industrial chemicals, which may poison the soil, and us. Do you know something about it?
You need to look for the stamp on the pallet. It'll either say BR for bromide I think - which is the chemically treated one to avoid - or HT which is heat treated and safe for use. Xx
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There are other myths that is very important.For example if you mix all kind of plants together you wont have insects because they cant find their favorite plants.And other things like this.I never see anyone in my life who has a production in a permaculture garden due to pests,diseases and weeds.I hope you get it😊
That's a tip rather than a myth
@@HuwRichards I have a 2 acre market garden i know what i am talking about
@@norbertszilagyi3330 sorry perhaps lost in translation, your message is hard to understand which aspect you're coming from
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Yes,of course.I mean the permaculture is a myth.You can't grow food in a permaculture design because the fruit fly will destroy all your apples,cherrys,prunes,etc,the slugs will eat all your seedlings,the flea beatle will ruin your brassicas,the afids will destfoy your peaches,your peppers,kale,the birds,rabbits will ruin your peas and beans,botrytis will kill your flowers,your mulch will be the perfect habitat for all kind of insects,etc,etc.Permaculture is good to make youtube content to make some money,but if you want to eat food from your garden you have to apply an IPM approach.If you don't get it,is fine..
Permaculture is awesome.
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Thank you!:)
Szkoda, że nie ma napisów po polsku :( można się tak wiele nauczyć. A rozumiem niestety tylko trochę. Pozdrawiam
I am following your channel. I have never seen you use store-bought fertilizer. Am I missing something from your channel? So actually we don't need it. I have some fruit trees right now. Soon I am trying to grow vegetables. I always worry that I am not feeding my fruit trees enough. So I use a lot of fertilizer, blood & bone, trace elements, fish emulsion, and manure from the shop. Actually, I don't need all of them but only manure. I can save money.
No need haha
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I America, at least from what I was told, the blue painted pallets are often treated with methyl Bromide. I don't really know what that is or how dangerous it is, but it scares soccer moms, and hippie gardeners, and people who are overly concerned with that kind of thing, so I try to avoid it. Take my grain of salt with a pile of salt. Stay salty.
Here in the UK you look for the stamp which either says BR for chemically treated (the bromine) or HT for heat treated. We all hunt for the heat treated ones ❤
It's soul destroying to put in all that work only to have the next owner/occupant rip it all out
Don't sell. Plant for your children and grandchildren. It can't be permanent without multi generational habitation. Everytime I plant trees with my sons I tell them it is for them and they will do the same for their children one day.
@johnowens5342 I can't afford not to sell! What am i supposed to live on when i cant manage this farm? The garden is already too much for me. There's no work for my (grown) kids where I live ...
@@cassieoz1702 offer to rent out pockets of your land and trade jobs
@andreahodson7031 I'm 75 and there's a reason so many young folks have left the country. There's just no work. I do lease some paddocks for grazing but we're pretty out-of-the-way and a lot of young folks don't want to live in circumstances out here. Give me some credit. I've been a permaculture designer for 25 years, I've thought this through. Us 'back to the land-ers' are dying off and those who come behind us, mostly, haven't got what it takes
pallets are not free. how could the gardener with an average family car pick up a pallet let alone the stack you are next to you.?
Back when I had a car I would take a crow bar and a hammer and disassemble them on site. People that use public transportation are likely out of luck.
I used to pick up pallets in my Mercedes E class, and they were free. Euro pallets aren’t, but there are lots of companies out there that have the disposable ones which the are more than happy for you to have. We used to pick them up bit by bit. We even built a shed out of them. It can be done for sure, just need to be a bit creative 😉
They are free at our local hardware store, plain wood (rather splintery), some nicer than others. The really nice ones they don’t give away, but that’s ok. I can fit 3 in the trunk of my car with the lid tied down, or borrow my sister’s truck for more.
I've collected several for free with family car, one at a time. Plenty offered via Facebook etc xx
The whole reason people use pallets is because they do get them for free. Either because they've bought something that was delivered on one, or because someone else did. Not always easy to find of course, but keep your ears and eyes open and ask around.
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A lot of no true Scotsman fallacy here...