1. Don’t turn soil over - which brings seeds to surface. No tilling. 3:30 2. Mulch. 5:32 3. Plant densely and quickly. 7:33 4. Cover cropping. 9:06 5. Pull weeds daily when small. 11:00 6. Chop and drop into mulch if weeds out of control. 13:00 7. Garden row tarp cover. Burn. 16:10
There's something great about this particular garden channel! Simple and to the point no fluff makes a lot of sense everything you said thank you for teaching me and inspiring me I feel like maybe I can do this now
You can cook lambs quarters like spinach or, if you haven't got that many, dehydrate and put in your greens powder. LQs are one of our most nutritious plant allies. And purslane is great in salad No reason to not brings those friends into the kitchen
As always, great content and tips. You guys really hit this out of the park with me. You laid the methods out and made them easy to understand. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for this video. I start a new garden this year and I will try to apply some of your strategie to help me keep my garden without seeds. That's one of my goal this year and it will not be easy with 3 little kids.
I learned so much today. I am going to start a 1/4-acre garden next year. Right now, I have a small yard and doing vertical and container gardening. I might do a small lettuce garden in the next few weeks. I watch your video's all the time and they are so great. I stay up past my bedtime just to watch both of your knowledge. Thank you
You hit on so many practical applicable methods. I’m in Idaho too...little south but still in the panhandle...everything you said I could definitely relate to!!! Thank you for putting this out! I truly appreciate you taking the time for this important and informative video.
Very well said. Every bit of information you spoke of, is precisely what is to be done. This is the same method of gardening that works here in South Dakota. The earth is a garden that was never designed to be barren. The soil does not like to be naked.
Excellent discussion of proven organic, soil-building weed-control strategies. Beautiful garden, especially considering its age. What zone are you in, and where in Idaho? Thank you. Love your wife's food preservation and storage videos. Looking forward to all those kids getting old enough to really help you out! From Homer, Alaska.
By not tilling you also leave the worms in peace to do their thing. 😁 I love your garden. It’s hard to imagine you haven’t lived there for years. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
This is wonderful. Thank you for the explanation of your thought process and why you do what you do. I especially love your acknowledgement of God. You and your wife are a blessing to me as teachers and as an example of a Godly couple. Keep sharing your wisdom!
People just mention bind weed but covering with cardboard then a raised bed didn't even slow it down. Have a large hill of wood chips bind weed came right up through it too. I am going to build my beds on legs. For now I am taking out the beds laying more cardboard then wood chips and using plastic boxes to plant in. When the bind weed comes up I will try vinegar next. Unless someone has a secret miracle to stop it.
Good explanations of the reasons weeds return. Florida weeds are fierce and we dont get much frost to kill off the weeds or bugs. Always a challenge lol. I can see some of these methods may be helpful here though.
Not sure if you did a video on it, BUT I’d love to learn how you build your high tunnel! I see you used some metal fence type material and I’m curious of what you do and why. Hoping to garden smarter not harder😊
Thank you for your wonderful channel. I bought your canning master class. Wooow. Trully amazing. Learned so much. Can you please talk about what kind of natural fertilizers do you give your garden . Thank you and God bless you
You guys are amazing, I need to get better about commenting, to at least say thank you for the information! I’m doing a few fermentation preservation methods for the 1st time this year, that I learned from you guys! Thanks for what you do! 🇺🇸💚
Great video, thank you! I purchased two large heavy duty tarps this year to try an experiment in my garden. The wind always blows a lot of my coverage leaves off of my garden so I plan on using the tarps to hold the leaves on there until they break down good enough and also to kill a lot of the weed seed that I have been having trouble controlling. If this works well then I will purchase more tarps in hopes to completely cover my gardens.
Thanks for the informative video. New gardener and am just learning about cover crops. Can you explain how would cover cropping work if you're doing no dig method? Do you not till the cover crop in? Just leave it on the surface? Just curious can these 2 methods work together in a vegetable garden.
I have had a bad back for five years now. But I have trouble last few years on maintenance in my garden . Would you do a video on that maybe some ideas that I haven't thought of
Excellent! What a beautiful garden the second year. We are in the first year at our new place, so next year will be a lot different too. Still not sure what we are going to do to set up the beds but learning a lot about the place. Your kind of garden is what I'm aiming for.
Hey Josh, have you ever thought of using drip tape or T-tape to water your garden? It surely cuts down on water use and then over spraying the ground and promoting weed germination. It's very inexpensive, very efficient, and provides the water your plants need. awesome video on a weed free garden.
I love your northern climate perspective. We live in northern Vermont and it seems our climate is similar to yours -- and our weeds. Remember -- some of those "weeds" are delicious food! I love purslane and lambs quarters, especially in spring. I have areas where I actually encourage them to grow. We follow the no-till practice, a la Charles Dowding. Thanks for all the fantastic information -- very motivating for me.
What do you mulch with? I use pine flake in my chicken coop and barn...when I clean them out could I put that in my walking rows in the garden? I was thinking over time it'd make good compost.
When not using the tiller, what is the machine in the beginning of your video? Great video by the way!!!! Learned a lot.....will have my husband watch👍👍👍 Thank you👍
Ha LOL, great plan look at your topic and first pictures are your having some of your children doing the weeding. How many plans have you got ( how many children lined up to pull weeds?)
Good partnership - I like that they both don't go off on strange personal tangents - they talk about what the subject is with just a little thrown in for flavor. Good in - this is a personal lament - why do all homesteading guys have beards :( This guy is very nice looking and would look great clean shaven - it is like a homesteading uniform - the ucky beard. :) Thanks for sharing guys .... it does help the spirit to hear others enjoy the same life style.
Lol, a bunch of us like our bearded men. It’s just a matter of preference I suppose. I would think he would look very strange without the beard. It’s at least nicely trimmed and doesn’t make him look like a mountain-man.
@@rebekaheager9518 :) YES that is SO true - he would look like a different person :) He is still handsome - I just wonder why all the homesteading guys do the full beard - but I wonder that only because, as you say, it is my preference - so that is what I see. :) Very much enjoying catching up on your vids - I just stumbled across them 2 weeks ago.
I'm taking time to learn and apply thank you I also have learned about certain wild EATABLES in as a omega-3 healthy fats for wild edibles and they're pretty awesome Foods free foods and all these weeds that are edibles should be stars as representatives for where a lot of other vegetables come from our cultivation generation.👩🌾👨🌾👩🔬👨🔬💦
I see you don't have couch grass. I have loads of it. I made two raised beds last summer, put lots of cardboard down, overlapped, all that stuff, filled it with lovely compost and worm castings and vermiculite and peat moss. The couch grass ate the beds up in just a few months. I'm seriously considering using glyphosate on the entire property. Just kill everything and start from scratch. It's either that or move.
With the chop and drop method of weeding creating a sort of “mulch” could one replace the traditional wood mulch with grass clippings? I have a huge lawn and always have plenty of grass I can gather, however much in my area usually coasts more than my budget will allow at this time.
I'd like to know how you manage bindweed. It doesn't matter what I do, I can't get it under control. I am doing all these methods already. I'm in southern Idaho.
That purslane is more nutritious than most of your plants. I do weed out most of it, but you can let a few grow and just pick off a few branches of it here and there and use it to add to salad, sautee up in frying pan with eggs, there is a whole lot you can do with it.
You mentioned that you pull the mulch back when you plant. Do you then put the mulch back around the plants once they have sprouted or do you leave it between the rows until you finish harvesting? I live on half an acre and it's mostly landscaped so I am growing vegetables along the borders between the rosebushes planted by the previous owner. We get weeds coming through the fence from the neighbor's yard, but my flower/vegetable beds are non-till. However, I want to try amending the soil this fall and mulching to keep down the purslane and spurge that do keep sprouting.
What do you mulch with? Does weed free straw work? Live in a small town so have access to feed stores but live on a city lot. The front yard is the main veg. Garden.
Because of knee problems, my gardens and property have been neglected. My problem beyond weeds is plants that will become trees; a lot of red bud, Catalba and ash trees. Any suggestions on killing the unpullable ones without the use of chemicals? I am an organic gardener.
Strip a circle of bark around the base or near the base. Also, I'm not sure about trees, but urine sprayed on plant leaves for 3 or 4 days straight kills the plant.
Do you rotate your crops? I've been fighting weeds every year and it husband set stones all around paths to try to keep them contained but it'll make rotating crops difficult. Also, how do you have enough compost to lasagna garden it in the winter?
We are struggling to control thistle this year. They have taken over a large area of our garden. We have pulled so many but we can’t keep up. Any suggestions. Thanks from Western Wyoming.
Woah, woah, woah, woah! Are you tossing that purslane?! And the lambsquarters? Dude, most of your weeds are more nutritious, even medicinal, than what you're planting. Some of it is even more delicious. Cooked lambsquarters are better than spinach and the seeds are a superfood. Purslane, besides being crispy, tart, juicy and delicious are a fantastic source of vitamin K, as well as others. That might be a more super superfood than kale. I've tried growing purslane and chickweed so many times, but the chickens keep getting to it and there's never any left for me. I think the only one you listed that might actually be undesirable is bindweed.
Hi Josh, great video, as usual. I was surprised that you consider purslane as a weed to get rid of, though. I‚d have thought that Carolyn would have figured out how to use it in the kitchen, since she’s always so creative with unusual herbs etc. Even if she doesn‘t want to do that though (and I love it in salad or use it like spinach or chard), look into using it intentionally as living mulch or as a companion plant. It really helps me control all the other weeds. Plus, as I said, I can eat it when I pull it out to make space for my main crop.
I thought the same thing. Purslane, mallow, lambs quarter, amaranth are all edibles and often have more nutrients than the crops we plant. It’s free food that we all too often don’t take advantage of. Just like dandelions. People spend so much time and money trying to get rid of their when the whole plant is edible and even medicinal. The leaves are great for digestion. Can be eating in salads or cooked. The flowers can be used to make jelly. The buds are great fermented and used as you would capper’s. The roots make a great coffee like drink when chopped and roasted. Which is also good for digestion your kidneys and liver. And instead of using these we try and kill them by digging or even worse putting poison in them. There are so many wonderful plants that most know nothing about that are all around us.
Same. I pulled all"weeds" last year, then researched them, now I know better and will be leaving them or relocating them. Trying to keep everything that is beneficial. Massive learning curve.
Thank you for expressing my core values of gardening! I have been using all these strategies with phenomenal results. I still can't convince my own Dad to go no dig, but I'll never go back. I actually don't weed except incidentally as I go through the garden watering or harvesting. After three years I too barely need my hoes and cultivators. I think I'm ready to get rid of half of my garden tools! Thanks for including this detail as well.
Garden looks great. I use the "if you can't beat them, eat them"...pig weed is like spinach and purslane has amazing health properties and is great in salads, stir fries or steamed. The leaves of purlane will also root and start new plants, so I try and dispose of them. Chickens like them all too! The weeds got way ahead of me this year so dealing with them is a priority and I hope to do better next year. Good thing this year is that the weeds are holding the corn up right from all the wind we have had...lol. Oh well, that's why we say we live in next year country! I have tried the straw mulch but found the weeds worse and the sow thistle, canada thistle (roots a mile deep), and quack grass were worse than ever and more difficult to pull as they were very large...perhaps i was doing something wrong??
As a new gardener this is amazing information! However in my front bed I have wild morning glories how do i get rid of them pulling them seems to make them worse
That is a truly evil and pernicious weed. Constant pulling is the first step. If it is getting worse, then you have to start spraying each plant base with Roundup, and keep weeding. If that does not work, then there are herbicides that are more potent and will clean things up, but you will not be able to garden that area for a couple years. Either way, timeline is the same. One is work, the other is sit around and wait.
We often forget that wild animals used to roam freely, grazing those weeds before we humans came along to build fences, buildings, roads etc. Now the pollinators, birds, and smaller animals need them for seeds and food to get through the winter. Weeds in the garden though, makes feeding ourselves alittle bit harder! Great tips
Interesting that you look at Purslane as a weed, it’s super nutritious. Another really easy strategy for we’d plants that have set seeds is to pile the seed stalks in a barrel with water and rot them down. Use 2-3 vessels so you can ensure they rot well in one while filling next one, use as liquid fertiliser once finished.
That’s something I get confused about. You have mulch (say wood chips)on your bed. When you go to plant you just move the mulch aside and leave it off. That seems like it is taking nutrients away. Apparently it doesn’t. Good to know. 👍
Just curious...what is the purpose of the garden rows being mounded up like that? I'm trying different methods this year but not sure the reason for this. I'm in colorado where the soil is like brick. It's very windy hear and not tons of rain. I often make a flower bed by digging out a big hole, mounding the dirt on the sides to dry and make a border to hold in the moisture and keep things from blowing away. Like waffle gardens or a lasagna trench.
1. Don’t turn soil over - which brings seeds to surface. No tilling. 3:30
2. Mulch. 5:32
3. Plant densely and quickly. 7:33
4. Cover cropping. 9:06
5. Pull weeds daily when small. 11:00
6. Chop and drop into mulch if weeds out of control. 13:00
7. Garden row tarp cover. Burn. 16:10
There's something great about this particular garden channel! Simple and to the point no fluff makes a lot of sense everything you said thank you for teaching me and inspiring me I feel like maybe I can do this now
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@Andres Justus Flixportal :)
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Thank you, you talked about so much that I didn't know about. God Bless you, and your family
You can cook lambs quarters like spinach or, if you haven't got that many, dehydrate and put in your greens powder. LQs are one of our most nutritious plant allies.
And purslane is great in salad
No reason to not brings those friends into the kitchen
As always, great content and tips. You guys really hit this out of the park with me. You laid the methods out and made them easy to understand. Thank you for sharing!
Such beautiful, healthy looking beds
What do you use to mulch you garden with?
When I was a kid, I was the “automatic weed puller” 🤣🤣
How I hated that job😂
Great information. I need this right now. You and your wife are an inspiration. Thank you.
You may want to keep the purslane. It’s highly nutritious & tastes good too!
Very interesting. I have gardened for many, many years, but I found this video full of awesome information
Thanks a lot Josh.LOVE ND BIG SUPPORT FROM NEPAL.
Thank you for this video. I start a new garden this year and I will try to apply some of your strategie to help me keep my garden without seeds. That's one of my goal this year and it will not be easy with 3 little kids.
I learned so much today. I am going to start a 1/4-acre garden next year. Right now, I have a small yard and doing vertical and container gardening. I might do a small lettuce garden in the next few weeks. I watch your video's all the time and they are so great. I stay up past my bedtime just to watch both of your knowledge. Thank you
You hit on so many practical applicable methods. I’m in Idaho too...little south but still in the panhandle...everything you said I could definitely relate to!!! Thank you for putting this out! I truly appreciate you taking the time for this important and informative video.
Very well said. Every bit of information you spoke of, is precisely what is to be done.
This is the same method of gardening that works here in South Dakota.
The earth is a garden that was never designed to be barren. The soil does not like to be naked.
Excellent discussion of proven organic, soil-building weed-control strategies. Beautiful garden, especially considering its age. What zone are you in, and where in Idaho? Thank you. Love your wife's food preservation and storage videos. Looking forward to all those kids getting old enough to really help you out! From Homer, Alaska.
By not tilling you also leave the worms in peace to do their thing. 😁
I love your garden. It’s hard to imagine you haven’t lived there for years.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
This is wonderful. Thank you for the explanation of your thought process and why you do what you do. I especially love your acknowledgement of God. You and your wife are a blessing to me as teachers and as an example of a Godly couple. Keep sharing your wisdom!
Thank you!!
Purslane is insanely nutritious, pick it and toss in in salad or a smoothie
Absolutely
I was just going to grow some, hopefully.
@@Madskills-hw2ox I grow it on purpose every year :)
People just mention bind weed but covering with cardboard then a raised bed didn't even slow it down. Have a large hill of wood chips bind weed came right up through it too. I am going to build my beds on legs. For now I am taking out the beds laying more cardboard then wood chips and using plastic boxes to plant in. When the bind weed comes up I will try vinegar next. Unless someone has a secret miracle to stop it.
Good explanations of the reasons weeds return. Florida weeds are fierce and we dont get much frost to kill off the weeds or bugs. Always a challenge lol. I can see some of these methods may be helpful here though.
Not sure if you did a video on it, BUT I’d love to learn how you build your high tunnel!
I see you used some metal fence type material and I’m curious of what you do and why.
Hoping to garden smarter not harder😊
Beautiful garden👍
This was such a great video, and I learned a ton. I also love how you explain how God designed everything to work.
This has been very educational. You make it easy to follow and understand. Thanks👍
Thank you for your wonderful channel. I bought your canning master class. Wooow. Trully amazing. Learned so much.
Can you please talk about what kind of natural fertilizers do you give your garden . Thank you and God bless you
Thank you. Love ur garden. I just bought a tiller... Rrrrr its all new ground n needs a till cause its hard.
You guys are amazing, I need to get better about commenting, to at least say thank you for the information! I’m doing a few fermentation preservation methods for the 1st time this year, that I learned from you guys! Thanks for what you do! 🇺🇸💚
Great video, thank you! I purchased two large heavy duty tarps this year to try an experiment in my garden. The wind always blows a lot of my coverage leaves off of my garden so I plan on using the tarps to hold the leaves on there until they break down good enough and also to kill a lot of the weed seed that I have been having trouble controlling. If this works well then I will purchase more tarps in hopes to completely cover my gardens.
When you said weeeds, I was happy. 😁
Thanks for the informative video. New gardener and am just learning about cover crops. Can you explain how would cover cropping work if you're doing no dig method? Do you not till the cover crop in? Just leave it on the surface? Just curious can these 2 methods work together in a vegetable garden.
Fabulously helpful. Thank you!
I have had a bad back for five years now. But I have trouble last few years on maintenance in my garden . Would you do a video on that maybe some ideas that I haven't thought of
Excellent! What a beautiful garden the second year. We are in the first year at our new place, so next year will be a lot different too. Still not sure what we are going to do to set up the beds but learning a lot about the place. Your kind of garden is what I'm aiming for.
Thanks for bringing no dig to your audience! 😊
Great information! Please tell me how you go about getting your rows so straight and spaced apart? Thank yall!!
Another Idahoan. Good to see you. I'm curious about what zone you are growing in.
Hey Josh, have you ever thought of using drip tape or T-tape to water your garden? It surely cuts down on water use and then over spraying the ground and promoting weed germination. It's very inexpensive, very efficient, and provides the water your plants need.
awesome video on a weed free garden.
I love your northern climate perspective. We live in northern Vermont and it seems our climate is similar to yours -- and our weeds. Remember -- some of those "weeds" are delicious food! I love purslane and lambs quarters, especially in spring. I have areas where I actually encourage them to grow. We follow the no-till practice, a la Charles Dowding. Thanks for all the fantastic information -- very motivating for me.
You didn't mention "EatTheWeeds" Purslane and lambs quarters were food crops as was crab grass. and amaranth. You also had a lot of chickweed.
Que família linda! Que Deus abençoe vocês todos aí amém 🙏🏿
I dug bind weed covered with cardboard laid raised beds over it and wood chips round the beds. DID NOT SLOW The BINDWEED ONE BIT
Horse Tail is really tough to eliminate
What do you mulch with? I use pine flake in my chicken coop and barn...when I clean them out could I put that in my walking rows in the garden? I was thinking over time it'd make good compost.
É uma pena que não sei falar inglês.. Mais admiro muito tudo que vocês fazem aí.
When not using the tiller, what is the machine in the beginning of your video? Great video by the way!!!! Learned a lot.....will have my husband watch👍👍👍 Thank you👍
Thank you for this video.
Purslane and goosefoot are wild edibles. They can be eaten, especially purslane.
Ha LOL, great plan look at your topic and first pictures are your having some of your children doing the weeding. How many plans have you got ( how many children lined up to pull weeds?)
Good partnership - I like that they both don't go off on strange personal tangents - they talk about what the subject is with just a little thrown in for flavor. Good in - this is a personal lament - why do all homesteading guys have beards :( This guy is very nice looking and would look great clean shaven - it is like a homesteading uniform - the ucky beard. :) Thanks for sharing guys .... it does help the spirit to hear others enjoy the same life style.
Lol, a bunch of us like our bearded men. It’s just a matter of preference I suppose. I would think he would look very strange without the beard. It’s at least nicely trimmed and doesn’t make him look like a mountain-man.
@@rebekaheager9518 :) YES that is SO true - he would look like a different person :) He is still handsome - I just wonder why all the homesteading guys do the full beard - but I wonder that only because, as you say, it is my preference - so that is what I see. :) Very much enjoying catching up on your vids - I just stumbled across them 2 weeks ago.
I'm taking time to learn and apply thank you I also have learned about certain wild EATABLES in as a omega-3 healthy fats for wild edibles and they're pretty awesome Foods free foods and all these weeds that are edibles should be stars as representatives for where a lot of other vegetables come from our cultivation generation.👩🌾👨🌾👩🔬👨🔬💦
What if you struggle with termites? How do you mulch?
Great tips!
Good information
I see you don't have couch grass.
I have loads of it.
I made two raised beds last summer, put lots of cardboard down, overlapped, all that stuff, filled it with lovely compost and worm castings and vermiculite and peat moss.
The couch grass ate the beds up in just a few months.
I'm seriously considering using glyphosate on the entire property. Just kill everything and start from scratch. It's either that or move.
With the chop and drop method of weeding creating a sort of “mulch” could one replace the traditional wood mulch with grass clippings? I have a huge lawn and always have plenty of grass I can gather, however much in my area usually coasts more than my budget will allow at this time.
Yes! Adds nitrogen to the soil!
I'd like to know how you manage bindweed. It doesn't matter what I do, I can't get it under control. I am doing all these methods already. I'm in southern Idaho.
That purslane is more nutritious than most of your plants. I do weed out most of it, but you can let a few grow and just pick off a few branches of it here and there and use it to add to salad, sautee up in frying pan with eggs, there is a whole lot you can do with it.
Do you use humanure compost in your garden?
É isso mesmo? Salsinha, alface, milho ou sorvo?Os pés bem alto, Quiabo? Tem abóbora também né? Obrigada.Boa colheita..
Can you talk about pests. BUGS. ?
What mulch do you use?
Can any type of wood chips be us d for mulch? I've heard that some types of wood aren't good to use for mulch.
What do yiy mulch with?
You mentioned that you pull the mulch back when you plant. Do you then put the mulch back around the plants once they have sprouted or do you leave it between the rows until you finish harvesting? I live on half an acre and it's mostly landscaped so I am growing vegetables along the borders between the rosebushes planted by the previous owner. We get weeds coming through the fence from the neighbor's yard, but my flower/vegetable beds are non-till. However, I want to try amending the soil this fall and mulching to keep down the purslane and spurge that do keep sprouting.
What do you mulch with? Does weed free straw work? Live in a small town so have access to feed stores but live on a city lot. The front yard is the main veg. Garden.
I use lawn grass. It's usually seed free.
Ok, I’m confused. I thought corn was supposed to planted in multiple rows for germination. Yours is in 1 long row.
How do you deal with bind weed?
Because of knee problems, my gardens and property have been neglected. My problem beyond weeds is plants that will become trees; a lot of red bud, Catalba and ash trees. Any suggestions on killing the unpullable ones without the use of chemicals? I am an organic gardener.
Strip a circle of bark around the base or near the base. Also, I'm not sure about trees, but urine sprayed on plant leaves for 3 or 4 days straight kills the plant.
Do you not like purselain, I hear that they are more nutrishusas than most plants in a garden.
Do you rotate your crops? I've been fighting weeds every year and it husband set stones all around paths to try to keep them contained but it'll make rotating crops difficult. Also, how do you have enough compost to lasagna garden it in the winter?
What are you mulching with?
This year we used a hardwood shaving from a local cabinet shop
👍👍👍👌♥️♥️♥️
What kind of much is suggested?
Do you eat amaranth?
We are struggling to control thistle this year. They have taken over a large area of our garden. We have pulled so many but we can’t keep up. Any suggestions. Thanks from Western Wyoming.
If it's milk thistle, you can eat it. The fried stripped stalk tastes like eggplant to me.
On the horse thistle, I just pull'em up and burn'em.
I'm sorry I meant to say thistles not Souls
In south Texas it’s weed season all year! Lol! I’m laughing , but it’s not funny.
cardboard in rows not pretty but great for lots of things
Woah, woah, woah, woah! Are you tossing that purslane?! And the lambsquarters?
Dude, most of your weeds are more nutritious, even medicinal, than what you're planting. Some of it is even more delicious. Cooked lambsquarters are better than spinach and the seeds are a superfood. Purslane, besides being crispy, tart, juicy and delicious are a fantastic source of vitamin K, as well as others. That might be a more super superfood than kale. I've tried growing purslane and chickweed so many times, but the chickens keep getting to it and there's never any left for me.
I think the only one you listed that might actually be undesirable is bindweed.
All those weeds he was naming, are edible, lol. EAT THEM.
Thank you!!
Hi Josh, great video, as usual. I was surprised that you consider purslane as a weed to get rid of, though. I‚d have thought that Carolyn would have figured out how to use it in the kitchen, since she’s always so creative with unusual herbs etc. Even if she doesn‘t want to do that though (and I love it in salad or use it like spinach or chard), look into using it intentionally as living mulch or as a companion plant. It really helps me control all the other weeds. Plus, as I said, I can eat it when I pull it out to make space for my main crop.
I thought the same thing. Purslane, mallow, lambs quarter, amaranth are all edibles and often have more nutrients than the crops we plant. It’s free food that we all too often don’t take advantage of. Just like dandelions. People spend so much time and money trying to get rid of their when the whole plant is edible and even medicinal. The leaves are great for digestion. Can be eating in salads or cooked. The flowers can be used to make jelly. The buds are great fermented and used as you would capper’s. The roots make a great coffee like drink when chopped and roasted. Which is also good for digestion your kidneys and liver. And instead of using these we try and kill them by digging or even worse putting poison in them. There are so many wonderful plants that most know nothing about that are all around us.
Same. I pulled all"weeds" last year, then researched them, now I know better and will be leaving them or relocating them. Trying to keep everything that is beneficial. Massive learning curve.
Purslane is great, but I know if I don’t stay aggressive with it, it will take over my garden quickly and choke everything else out
Thank you for expressing my core values of gardening! I have been using all these strategies with phenomenal results. I still can't convince my own Dad to go no dig, but I'll never go back. I actually don't weed except incidentally as I go through the garden watering or harvesting. After three years I too barely need my hoes and cultivators. I think I'm ready to get rid of half of my garden tools! Thanks for including this detail as well.
Garden looks great. I use the "if you can't beat them, eat them"...pig weed is like spinach and purslane has amazing health properties and is great in salads, stir fries or steamed. The leaves of purlane will also root and start new plants, so I try and dispose of them. Chickens like them all too! The weeds got way ahead of me this year so dealing with them is a priority and I hope to do better next year. Good thing this year is that the weeds are holding the corn up right from all the wind we have had...lol. Oh well, that's why we say we live in next year country! I have tried the straw mulch but found the weeds worse and the sow thistle, canada thistle (roots a mile deep), and quack grass were worse than ever and more difficult to pull as they were very large...perhaps i was doing something wrong??
Purslane is an edible full of omega 3. It's good fresh or cooked.
Both purslane and lambs quarter’s are edible.
So true. I and my friends love them. I've even frozen and canned pokeweed. God has given us a lot of natural food for us to use for food and medicine.
Doesn't planting a cover crop just leave you fighting that all season instead of weeds?
Useful information! Thank you.
As a new gardener this is amazing information! However in my front bed I have wild morning glories how do i get rid of them pulling them seems to make them worse
Another great video Josh! Thank you! I would love to know what your solution is for dealing with bindweed.
That is a truly evil and pernicious weed. Constant pulling is the first step. If it is getting worse, then you have to start spraying each plant base with Roundup, and keep weeding. If that does not work, then there are herbicides that are more potent and will clean things up, but you will not be able to garden that area for a couple years.
Either way, timeline is the same. One is work, the other is sit around and wait.
Purslane, cilantro, garlic, onion, jalepano,pork, salt. You're welcome.
We often forget that wild animals used to roam freely, grazing those weeds before we humans came along to build fences, buildings, roads etc. Now the pollinators, birds, and smaller animals need them for seeds and food to get through the winter. Weeds in the garden though, makes feeding ourselves alittle bit harder! Great tips
I love weeds! Have gotten books to use them for medicine. Great addition to the garden!
Thanks for all the strategies to keep weeds out of the garden ❤️😇❤️💕
Interesting that you look at Purslane as a weed, it’s super nutritious.
Another really easy strategy for we’d plants that have set seeds is to pile the seed stalks in a barrel with water and rot them down. Use 2-3 vessels so you can ensure they rot well in one while filling next one, use as liquid fertiliser once finished.
I love the idea of planting carrots with cilantro and spinach! That’s very interesting.
That’s something I get confused about. You have mulch (say wood chips)on your bed. When you go to plant you just move the mulch aside and leave it off. That seems like it is taking nutrients away. Apparently it doesn’t. Good to know. 👍
Just curious...what is the purpose of the garden rows being mounded up like that? I'm trying different methods this year but not sure the reason for this. I'm in colorado where the soil is like brick. It's very windy hear and not tons of rain. I often make a flower bed by digging out a big hole, mounding the dirt on the sides to dry and make a border to hold in the moisture and keep things from blowing away. Like waffle gardens or a lasagna trench.