EASY Compost, Permaculture Food Forest Garden, Foraging in Woodchips, Container Gardening Raised Bed
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- Permaculture Vegetable Garden Growing all kinds of Low Maintenance Food Forest Garden with no work or watering. Growing in the ground in woodchips as well as container gardening in wading kiddie pools as ponds as wicking garden.
Growing TONS of Food EASY in Wood Chip Soil & Container Gardening & DIY Kiddie Pool Fish Pond Garden (DIY Food Ponds)
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When you said food forest you weren’t kidding. Love the plants that attract birds and beneficial insects. Thanks for the tour.
So nice of you, thanks.
Me too, love your place and all your videos.
Robbie, you just gave me an idea! I've been meaning to get some fabric to make a shade cloth out of and once you talked about Gary's sun/shade contraption, I realized I could cut some squares into the fabric to do the same. May not be anywhere near the same effect as Gary's, but worth a try! Will be experimenting soon. Thank you!
Oh is there a video of how Gary set up his ponds? I love the idea of water conservation in a food forest.
Way to go Gary! Ask Gary how he keeps his soil in the buckets in the kiddie pool from getting soggy. Both of you are amazing! I am in zone 7b, with heavy clay, thanks to Robbie, I am successfully gardening in totes. Love you both!
A number of things help. If you think of the bucket as an upside down pot, I make sure the soil is free draining and has a consistant texture. The water wicks from the bottom holes to the top as the sun dries the surface. We don't get a lot of rain but when we do the water flows down back into the pond. The roots of most plants stay above the water line. My soil mixes are based on our native clay but are amended to suit what I want to grow. The mix going into the buckets or totes is best described as loamy. Clay, sand and compost.
As we age, its so important to make our passion easier to incorporate in our daily routines. What a lovely set up!!! Love your videos!
Thank you, your welcome.
So, I just decided. I'm gonna stop gardening and just move myself and my crops to your house. Need any free labor? Lol 😆
I'm coming with you as well .. lol ...
Me three🤗
His garden is quite amazing...so much reused, so much green, and bunches of FOOD, SOLAR, and PONDS...OH MY! Fun too....
He seems to thrive on reuse and just puttering. LOVE IT!
Yes he does, thanks.
It really is!
I used to make a strawberry rhubarb sponge cake, I like it best mixed...but rhubarb pie is pretty tasty too with vanilla ice cream on top. LOL!!!
Robbie, what can I grow in a 2 gallon bucket from a local bakery? Hot chili’s work?
Would be nice to see a video showing Gary how he sets up his pools and plants.
Gary is a genius
Thank you.
That's a heck of a edible garden. Wish I had the space for that
Thank you.
I love watching your videos. Since I am newly retired I want to start a garden and enjoy the information that you and Gary supply. Keep up the great videos. Thank you.
Thank you, your welcome.
His garden looks amazing but, I would be overwhelmed. There is sooo much there.
It’s beautiful I dream of having a garden like that!
Thank you.
Great tour! Thank you, Robbie. I learn so much from both of you. I am very interested in building a tiny pond in my back yard with mosquito fish. I would really appreciate some tips and pointers. Blessings!
I love you two, what wonderful spaces you have created , I am so inspired to do more in my little yard. Thank you for sharing your wonderful spaces !!!!!!!!!!!
You are so welcome!
OMG Would LOVE to learn how to plant low cost LOW MAINTANCE pond/kiddie pool container garden - how to set up the buckets/containers and pool with fish ...PLEASE make a video of how to!!!
Hi Robbie! Love your videos. Just wanted to tell you I switched to homemade nectar using your recipe and WOW. I went from filling one feeder once every 8-10 days to two feeders being filled every four days! I’ve had a feeder for years and have never seen so many birds visiting. Thank you for inspiring me to make it myself.
What’s the recipe?
I like the idea of not having to water so often!
So do I, it makes gardening more enjoyable.
Those feeder fish really hit the jackpot in life! 😂 It's so interesting how the sun-shade-sun-shade works. I suppose as gardeners we do best when we try to imitate the complex way plants would grow in the wild. Thanks for the dose of green and sunshine!
Thank you, your welcome.
I love the kiddie pool idea.
Thank you.
Hi Robbie and Gary! The weather looks nice there for gardening, its still cold and cloudy hear along with rain and threatening tornadoes! But hoping for better weather in April! Right now, I am enjoying your garden. 😂❤👋
Loved the garden Gary and the video about it. I think it will be a great idea to build on my southern
Go for it!
Thanks! I am looking forward to part 2 because I really need to garden as easy as possible. I would like him to explain the pool and planter.
He should grow passion fruit. They are purple one and yellow one. Flowers are beautiful, fruit can make a drink, smells good.😊
Actually I have two small plants; purple variety, in our back room waiting for the nightime temps to get a little warmer. I grew up with passion fruit and it will be great to have it again!
Robbie and Gary, happy first day of spring to you and yours.
Are you as excited as I am? Our last frost date is tomorrow in zone 9b.
Looking forward to more videos from you.
Wow, his garden is so amazing
Thank you.
I just love all the videos you do.
Thank you, your welcome.
Tell Gary to try this with grow bags!!! Works wonderfully. And...the blue reusable Wal Mart shoppimg bags make awesome grow bags. I did just this with a baby pool and Wal Mart bags a few years ago. The great thing about doing this with the bags is the roots air prune themselves.
WHOA that sun shade strategy is brilliant!!
Such a beautiful interesting garden.
Thank you.
YOU ARE BOTH ADORABLE!🌻
❤FROM DALLAS TEXAS
Thank you.
What a wonderful treat!
Thank you.
Thank you for sharing Gary's garden! Love his garden!
Thank you, your welcome.
Wow came across this just when I needed to! Been wanting to do container gardens for some time, not experienced at all but wanna grow my own food. I love the low maintenance for the reason that it just seems like it's how nature intended and nature knows best, everything working in sync. I hope to achieve this level of harmonic low maintenance.
Glad it was helpful!
Wow! Gary's got it going on in his garden 😍 Thanks for sharing 💜
So nice of you
Robbie,
I have three Jackfruit trees that have sprouted and I hope they make it. Great look at Gary's garden, it really looks like he has a good thing going.
Best of luck!
Love, love, Gary garden, all that green in the winter time even better!!!! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you, your welcome.
Beautiful food forest. Everything produces food perfect❤️🌻
Yes, thank you
Thank you so much for this your. Gary's garden is so mysterious. Glad to get a lil peek.
Your welcome
Thanks for the walk through, I enjoyed it all. Quite the garden he has there.
So nice of you
Robbie, both your gardens are awesome. Love all your updates. But don't forget to make a video how Gary makes his rocks! Thank you! And don't forget to eat what you grow! Love it!
AWESOME ‼️ Thanks for sharing Robbie
Thank you, your welcome.
That's the beauty of nature's way. Gary IS breeding mosquitoes - and LOTS of them - but that's what dragonflies eat and they NEED a lot of mosquitoes. It's their FOOD - their very LIFE - it is the way of things. Which is why mosquitoes multiply so fast in areas where they eliminate standing water in an attempt to control them. Because mosquitoes multiply fast while dragonflies multiply much more slowly and they BOTH need standing water to breed in but the dragonflies take a lot longer. So, yeah, what you do when you eliminate standing water is you eliminate the mosquitoes predator - not mosquitoes which multiply so fast that they can breed in very little water, very quickly where as dragonflies need more stability in the water to accommodate the time it takes the eggs to hatch. You can TEMPORARILY reduce the mosquito population but without dragonflies, you're not going to have much luck because you'll end up with HORDES of mosquitoes with no dragonflies to EAT them.
It's the same with "gut flora" and why one gets an explosion of "bad" gut flora in their digestive tract after being given antibiotics because the "bad" guys need so little and multiply fast and repopulate very quickly but the "good" guys that eat the "bad" guys take forEVER to get their population back up so you take more antibiotics and just get stuck on a merry-go-round. The bad guys explode because in nature, the "good" guys eat so much of them they NEED a lot of them but if you've eliminated the "good" guys...the "bad" guys have no predators and just take over. But HOORAY for fermented veggies!! It's chock full of "good guys" which is why probiotics can have such a profound effect. Once you take them, they just go crazy eating up "bad guys" by the buckets.
A balanced insect population will maintain just the right amount of "bad" guys to feed just the right about of "good" guys. It will govern itself. IF you let it and the more dragonflies you have, the more mosquitoes you have. Less mosquitoes and the dragonflies will go look for more, elsewhere - in and out of this and that area as the mosquito populations fluctuate. EXCEPT in areas where you eliminate their breeding ground along with the mosquito breeding grounds because it's the same breeding ground for both. Just like your gut. So eat your fresh veggies in the summer, fermenting (which basically means "slowly rotting") veggies in the winter and let nature do her thang. Just like making soil - with boatloads boatloads of tiny "enemies" and the "allied forces" that eat them. An army that literally marches on its stomach.
It is the way of things. And it's why your way of gardening can go on for years in a single tote. Because it's NOT full of compost - "compost" is dead. What it's full of is life - it is compostING, not compostED. It's a whole planet, in and of itself, teeming with life. Which is why you continue "feeding" it. If a tote would hold up - it could go on forever. Just like the earth. You even get great amounts of the necessary manure to feed the "bad" guys that feed the "GOOD" guys, thanks to the worms. You could put a tote on the ground to get it some worms and then put it on concrete and as long as was fed, whether by its own debris or your scraps, it would maintain a complete colony of worms of just the right population to keep it going. The worms would breed more when there's more food and less when there's less food. Same with the manure makers in Gary's ponds - the fish.
Your totes continue to drain well because you're top feeding the allies, retarding the rot/fermentation of the wood. That's what "rot" is. It's something that's being eaten by something else. If people fed the soil around their fence posts, they'd probably last a whole lot longer. You could probably tell when your soil needs "fed" by how quickly a popsicle stick is consumed by it. I doubt a popsicle stick would last much more than a day in starving soil. Not actual DEAD soil, but HUNGRY soil. STARVING soil.
Nature is SOOO flipping awesome and right and smart and man is mostly SOOO flipping not, ROFL!! It never fails to amaze me that man is SOOO not interested in the reality of such things. He thinks he knows everything so he's stopped exploring - but that's okay because it pretty much makes the realm of the unknown - i.e. the whole REST of reality, where we explorers prefer to live - a whole lot less crowded and profoundly les..."whiny".! Sowing and reaping and exploring and discovering - THAT'S life!! Love to you both!!
Sure wish I could grow Papayas in Oregon. I love those smaller ones.
I thought the same the other day as I made a papaya smoothie.
- the seeds are drying now..
I've heard the seeds can be ground up as a pepper alternative ??
I doubt I'll ever get fruit but anxious to see if I can maybe get a sprout- Indoors of course as I'm in Northern Ontario, 🇨🇦
Simply lovely !! 🌿🐇👍
Thank you! 😊
Beautiful Gary!
Thank you kindly
How wonderful! 🌿💚
Thank you! Cheers!
I'm so excited that we're getting our 1st kiddie pool pond tomorrow! 👏😁
We can't wait to plant in it & add our mosquito fish in there too!
That's great. It sounds like you were able to locate some mosquito fish.
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy yes! Vector Control gives them out for free.
The grandkids decided to use the kiddie pool instead. 😢 Then the dogs jumped on it when it was upside down and made a few holes in it! 😭 I guess we'll just end up putting soil in it to plant directly into it.
Thank you for the lovely garden tour! Kitty and her broccoli. 💕 I’m going to have to try that purple sprouting broccoli sometime. I’ve discovered that broccoli leaves are actually delicious too, roasted with other veggies.
Thanks that was FUN!
Thank you, your welcome.
Love it! You two are an absolute wealth of knowledge and inspiration. Does he ever have problems with raccoons eating his fish?
Thanks. No. In our area the coyotes have removed the raccoons plus most other small land mammals and birds. They don't have anywhere to sleep or shelter between here and the more built up neighborhoods.
Love yall ! God bless...
Thanks.
Gees, I could spend hours creeping about in gardens. Actually , I am a part time garden peeping Tom. My swivel head and eyes at the ready during garden season. Thanks for sharing .
That was fantastic! Thank you for the wonderful tour and pointing things out. I am such a city slicker it's so sad yet I have a big yard. So much potential. It's only myself to blame I feel guilty. Where do I start. I love the ponds. Many Tnx agn !
Glad you enjoyed it!
A treat! You can say that again! OK, it sounds like we’re all moving to your house.
Fascinating
Thank you.
Amazing!
Thanks!
Love it
Thank you.
Love your videos!
Did Gary build the structure sun shade sun shade ? That does indeed help plants both your gardens are beautiful ❤️
No it was here when we bought the property. He just repurposed it for a garden.
Glad you like them! Thanks.
Questions: about Gary’s bananas, do they taste like bananas tasted long also, like the banana flavored candies? Bananas in the store taste almost like nothing anymore. Re duck weed, does enough sunlight get thru to make the fish happy? I enjoy the tour, of Gary’s “Green Man Cave” , thank you 👍🏻♥️😊
I have several varieties of bananas that taste different from store bought. Firstly I can pick them ripe, or sometimes over ripe. The Manzano variety has a slight apple flavor. The Goldfinger is commercially grown and is the most like store bought. The duck weed creates filtered light reducing algae growth. The fish do well in this environment. Thanks.
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy Thank you very much for responding. 😊
I didn't know Kitty made pools 😉🥰
She's a clever little terrier!
iiiii love it!!!!!!!
This was a surprise to me, I went outside to collect some wood and rocks, and never did my project, but I got his done instead 🙂
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy i love it man that's the direction im headed love it !!!
Holy man lol. Everything is beautiful 🥒🍅🍌🍏🥕🥗 thank u for sharing ❤ I grew up on rhubarb but I don't like it much as I'm older anyways the garden yours and Gary looks phenomenal great job
You are so welcome
Hey Robbie do u have any tips on how to control duckweed? My mother-in-law pond the duckweed has over taken her pond. She wants to use a product that's natural and she doesn't want anything that has chemicals in it. Any recommendations would be great. Thank u :))
STUPENDOUS
Thank you.
I have an old refrigerator sitting in my yard how do I convert it into a garden bed?
I basically removed the door and laid it on it's back. I drilled some holes in the plastic liner on the side walls to ensure it had drainage.
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy Thank You that will be my new project today. Love your gardens and hope to one day have one as lovely as your gardens❤
Speaking of mosquitos....
What do you do for the buckets in your chair garden to prevent mosquitos?
I use the water coming out to Re-Water my plants, and there are not mosquitoes as it does not sit that long, and if there were any larva in there, it is extra "fertilizer" for the plants so all is Great! 😋
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy
I live in NC and we get more rain than you guys lol So what do you recommend.
I like the fact that I don't have to drag the hose out or carry water, plus it is compost tea..
The little mosquito dunks?
You should make Gary a strawberry rhubarb pie. He may like that.
Garry when are you going to show us how to make those bricks? Robbie keeps teasing us : )
Yes Angela I know. I have started a video. Right now I'm swamped with work but will get something out soon, Thanks.
Beautiful greens! So pretty and fresh! 😋 what are you using to get your veggies like this? Thanks, Happy Gardening!
My soil was built up by adding arborist woodchips on top obtained from a tree trimming service. It takes a few years but now it's very rich. Earth worms and microbes do most of the work. I just plant and water.
Gary, Robbie - where do you get the wood chips and do the fish need aerators? Love the videos, they are so helpful and educational! Thanks
I get the arborist woodchips from a tree trimming service. It's the leaves and branches that they put through a wood chipping machine. The fish I have gulp air so they can live in low oxygenated water but do like the ponds set up with solar pumps.
Gary and ur garden looks great and easy. I like the buckets in totes and pool but not sure if it will be too cold for my area. i also wobt be able to grow nov to march. I live Westchester NY so we are in zone 7a. would you tell me what temp zone you are?
Do you have a video of you or Gary watering your gardens?
great idea, that would be a nice video Robbie
I do have an old video somewhere here, LOL, but I will make another one soon, it will be boring, as it is fast and easy, which I showed one, and for Gary, he does almost no watering, Thanks!
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy I found the video! Thank you so much! Here's the name in case anyone else wants to see it: Vegetable Gardening FOREVER 'Make Routine EASY' Container Gardening Harvest Watering Growing Cooking
Did Gary build the sun shade sun shade structure it does indeed work both your gardens are beautiful ❤️
No it was here when we purchased the propery, I just repurposed it for my garden.
How does he make his rocks?
Please how to make the kiddie pool wicking garden? How do you prevent the soil in the pots from going soggy?
Would Gary please tell exactly how he sets up his kiddie pool inside a kiddie pool raised bed with water in outer pool?
I think you might have more views if you could split these topics into separate videos.
We do, I have long videos, like a garden tour, or vlog, and short videos on each Topic, and so much more to come, Take care
Oh fish? What kind of fish ooh dragon flies
Gambusia or mosquito fish.
When you take cuttings how do you start it
Can I ask what zone your in ? Im 8b - curious what works for you how i would have to adjust to my zone.
We're in zone 10a. The best way to find out is to try small experiments. That's how I got to this point in our zone.
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy Thx! 😊
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy Im giving moringa a go -just planted seeds by two methods. Someone 45 min north of me was successful in keeping one alive for 3 yrs. so will see what happens. Would really like to see some pods put on but realistically looking at them being annuals for me. Hoping the leaves are just as/or close to being as beneficial as a well established tree. Y’all give this brown thumb hope of turning green - 7 totes up and running on my deck!
Wonderful garden..where’s kitty’s
Thanks, she was in the house napping!
How do you keep the deer out? Looks fabulous
I have a six foot fence around my garden. So far the mule deer haven't been hungry enough to bother leaping it. They tend to just mosey around as they find plenty to eat on the outside. Thanks.
Where can I get Egyptian walking onions? You made me fall in love with them and I can’t find them around me.. the online seed places i checked either don’t carry them or are out of stock
I bought my bulbs on Etsy.
Rhubarb!!!
Robbie, have you ever or are you or Gary growing taro? I just 2 days ago found out that I can seasonally grow it, and that it's actually a type of "elephant ear"! I bought 2 organic "roots" of taro and turmeric each from Kroger. Great addition to a food forest, don't you think?
Yes I grow a small cultivar that I bought from an Indian market. It has a small leaf and only grows maybe a couple of feet tall. Not as impressive as the larger but doesn't overwhelm my ponds. Yes Taro is a great addition to add variety.
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy Thank you for the reply! That gives me a lot more confidence in going forward with this project. I'm not "in the know" as far as the cultivar of mine, so if it's one of the bigger sizes, I'll just move it to a more suitable spot and put it to work protecting my "out of season" plants that can't tolerate the heat to hopefully extend their lives. Hopefully I can have a win win situation!😊🍀☀️🌴🌡🌱🥬
Much love and God bless.
I would like to ask Gary what is his favorite plant in his garden?
Looks cool. What about mosquitoes
The fish and the Dragonfly nymphs clear out the wrigglers. When the adult dragonflies emerge they eat a huge number of flying mosquitos.
I got to keep neighborhood cats out my garden.
What are the dimensions of Gary’s garden?
I am unclear...carrots (eg) grown in water? Is there any soil?
Yes they are in buckets with soil. The bottom has side holes and sits in water. The soil where the carrots are growing is above the water line and the water is wicked up to the carrots.
When did you plant the artichokes?
Two years ago. Here it's perrenial so it keeps comming back from the roots.
I'm almost expecting to see a giraffe or a monkey .
do you have fresh water running to all the ponds ?
No I just top them up as needed by spraying tap water into them.
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy very nice
Wait...a refrigerator planter?
Raccoons? They love ponds and tear them up here where I am. They Ate all my fish. My yard is fenced but they don’t seem to mind.
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What zone are you guys in?
USDA zone 10a, Sunset zone 23.
Hello! When do the Orioles usually arrive in your area?
The Males showed up about a week ago, females should be here soon. Males come in first, Take care!
Robbie and Gary Gardening Easy thank you! 😊
we are in ventura county...Southern California, I have orioles coming to my jelly, orange and surge water oriole station already 3-18-21
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy they are at our home In Ojai too the males are SO pretty, do you feel oranges or grape jelly or just sugar water? do they like eating any other things in your garden, bless
Laura W. I'm in Santa Barbara, so the Orioles should be here any day now 😊
RHUBAR"B"...RHUBARB
NOT RHUBAR........🙃😬
Where can we buy some duckweed?
The duckweed came from a friends pond. It's a wild weed so you may be able to find it at a lake or a pond somewhere.
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy thanks!