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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- Mini site tour:
Black locust isn’t a toxic chemical but an epic succession establishment strategy.
Swales as chinampas - NOT for harvesting water but to get above it.
Black currants - one of the biggest winners ever,
nanking cherry management, clay soil benefits, black walnut
medicine gardens, herbaceous perennials, thyme and bee impacts, cornelian cherry
bushes in the veggie gardens, fall crop timing, compost update: moved to hardware cloth over pallets, goumi, etc.
yeah... i like my clay soil too! lots of nutrients bound on those colloids if you know how to help unlock them.
I love your "erBP's" term
yes... they are just plants... mowing can change "plant terrain" very quickly.. :)
me too... black-caps over raspberry... love both... but black-caps are so sweet and also one of the earliest berries to come out and greet us for the summer!
awesome! I didn't know black currant layer cloned so easily... thanks for the tip!
I'm excited to see your grafted pear on Mountain ash... I had watched the actual grafting video and have occasionally wondered what it looked like this summer.
what was that last bush that died back to ground.. "Gummi"?
I have an Autumn Olive here in the back field... just discovered it this summer... its more like a tree.. :) tried a few and they have a unique flavor... glad to have discovered these!
A great video... thanks for sharing!
Goumi.. yes, a very early autumn olive relative. They don't spread here at all - actually winter kills em back sometime.
Thanks for the info!
hey... just checked your website... dont see any seaberry plants for 2017.. when will those be available? please contact me... Both I and a friend are in the market.
Beautiful place and what a view!!!
Thanks for all the tips on the fruits. My wife won't touch the black currants but we never thought to use the leaves in tea! Thanks Ben. :-D
The locusts you see in zone 1 here have been there for about 6-8 years and are cut once every year or two (pollarded) high enough to make tool handles and other materials out them (bows at some point). There have been about 30 more than there are now as we have killed a bunch of them cutting them at the base where we only wanted them for soil decompaction services.
thanks ben, as always i need more vids like this outta you, great info all around and great diversity for your zone, appreciate you sharin the wisdom.
thanks!
will try to make more. uploading them swamps my connection for hours though - shooting em is easy, uploading not so much.
Hey Ben, Good to see some updated content. I love what you're doing, and I missed seeing me some Ben Falk alerts on youtube. I love the tours of your space. Just a slight critique -- the walleye vision plus the jumping around is kinda rough. It's hard to orient myself with everything moving so quickly and plus it being distorted. The planting of the cabbage in the raised bed was good as far as movement goes (the next video). If it were a choice though, I'd rather see me some more Ben Folk in my alerts.
Ben, that oak looks like it is being feasted on by a yellow bellied sap sucker. It's basically a type of wood pecker that drinks the sap of trees. It usually does not kill the tree unlike true woodpeckers.
thanks nice eye!
I grew up in Western ny too and my grandpa had a huge black walnut tree and every year we would get all the walnuts and my sister and I would throw then at each other but a few years ago lighting struck it twice somehow and it fell
I had no idea you could graft pears onto mountain ash!! Wow!
Bounty of the land.
Love the vids, keep them coming. One question what type of dogs are those?
Is this mountain ash Sorbus americana, or Sorbus aucuparia? The latter is native to SW Norawy. I know it's possible to graft apples to these. Is there an advantage to doing this over pear or apple root stock?
Are you fully off grid? I see you talk about wells, solar, and the infamous wood stove but I wasn't sure.
No, we have the grid here.
Beautiful gardens. However I couldn't watch too long as all that camera movement makes me dizzy.
480p? what is this 2011?
yeah, takes hours to upload anything higher.
Dude. you should checkout the other one i just uploaded - 360 pixels ftw. Still took an hour to load and swamped my 5 year old computer.
Hahaha. Better than no videos
Organic, pasture raised resolution.
Man, I loved the tour but I had to quit watching after a couple of minutes. Please make this more steady and quit shaking head back and forth. I got sick from this video, lol. Thanks.