The Black Plot
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- An introduction to the intermediate scale, 1000m2 growing space that is a big new development for the RED Gardens Project.
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"It's called the Black Plot because I always wear black"
Keeping it simple.
Keep it up. This channel calms my whole being.
Thanks!
You're a real inspiration. Thanks so much for the great work and videos sharing. Really awesome.
Ah, thanks for the great comment!
Now I understand the current channel logo :)
It is all there - apart from the fact that I now have the possibility of 7 gardens plus the black plot.
Not looking forward to zombies attack. Great video, thanks for sharing!
I agree about the growing more and more. I noticed that the more I grow, the more I want to grow, and decided to focus the effort. My solution was an experiment and a huge learning curve, growing food for a one year supply. The extra goes to friends, so far, it has been an amazing experience.
I just came to say here that your channel and the way of delivery is absolutely awesome. Thank you very much and please keep it going!
Ah, thanks so much for atet really supportive comment!
Really appreciate you and the RED Gardens project. You are helping me get into gardening for my family and friends!
Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge. You are helping my family and community to eat better. God bless you!
I am really glad to be able to make a difference for you.
I started growing food two years ago come April. I started with 4m X 4m raised bed at home and fixed the broken greenhouse. By late June I also had a polytunnel and we had mad some food growing space among the garden beds. Come the September I asked about a half plot allotment and October the 1st I got it and the half beside it. I did really well last year....I now have 2 allotments, all the growing space at home still and a small area in the field near where we keep our horses haha. It's very addictive but so good eating our own food.
Wow! That is a fast start! You are one of the lucky ones who made it through the first year. I know so many people who struggled and ended up giving up. Well done! I agree with you - it is addictive, and so wonderful to be able to eat your own food.
RED Gardens I'm hoping to get us veg self sufficient. We are almost there now and that's off one allotment. Now I have 2 and an area about the size of a half plot in the field I'm hoping to have an stall and honesty box outside. The area in the field can be expanded as the farmer is a friend and he will gladly accept some fresh produce too. Eventually I would like to scale up even more.
What is an allotment?
I live in Nevada, USA.
Richard Ryan it is a parcel of land the city corporation gives citizens to use for food growing for personal use only, usually 120sq metres. Usually charged at €1 per m per year.
I really love your videos. You're approaching gardening from the viewpoint of a good engineer, and that just fascinates me. :)
Thanks. I think I may be an engineer at heart, so interesting see that is coming through in my videos!
I'd really like to see how this whole series of projects turn out and the answers you'll be able to come up with!
This is exactly the approach I've taken, I converted half of my garden to produce food and keep chickens, I wanted to raise my own meat birds but unfortunately due to local restrictions I'm not allowed to keep a rooster
Been binge watching both these channels didn't expect to see you comment here.did you think about quails for meat production.
@@justalettert2437 thought about quails not a fan of the amount of work involved in a 'little' bird
Cool...great video.
I love your series!
Sounds like a big project. If only I live near you, I would be your best green pal =] Novice gardener here, just started making my 1st compost pile today and tested making dry leaves mulch 2 weeks back. Been a resident of high-rised building in state-city Singapore, I am hoping to find neighbors who can accommodate me putting plant pots along their corridors in the near future. So envious of the land and resources available to you =] All the best!!
Singapore is quite a different context to what I am working with! It is great to have the space, but sometimes too much can be a problem - nothing gets the attention it needs.
Exactly we have to learn in many book, videos on RUclips
I like Charles Dowding to he change my life gardener I buy 2 book salad leaf and winter I live in Quebec
we find a lot of Urban Farmer videos on youtube
Its new this year for me and its work so well make your on compost tea Korean Natural Farming M. Cho he change my life garderner to
Thank you to partage your connaissance with us
A walled garden, with trees and hedges further out, I think, is the way to go to help reduce the wind.
By the way, just so you know, I'm not keen on raw carrot.
Exciting project Bruce --another great video .
Just found your channel and enjoying all your very thoughtful, intelligent and well presented content. We LOL’s at the reason for the name “Black Plot”!! Thank you for putting all the time and effort into this channel and sharing your successes and failures as this helps with learning!
Glad you found my channel, and that the name Black Plot brought you some laughs!
Great concept and rationale
Oooo, I can taste those carrots.
:)
Do you have a video of different trellis designs? Red gardens is the only instructional site I have ever subscribed to.
No, sorry, i don't. i haven't really explored trellis options.
Very sincere and instructed videos
:-)
Do you have a video where you describe your management practices? Specifically, where you include details on the documentation that you use to manage the various plots, how you document your experiments each year, what crops went where, what soil tests you ran, where you ran them, what the results of the tests were, what you did about it with amendments and what amendments, what the results of the changes were, and what you plan to do in the future. Do you track this down to the row, bed, garden? Our garden is modest, we have a hundred square meters of traditional garden, bulk tilled, turned into rows each year, randomly amended, etc, and another 100 square meters of Ruth Stout deep mulch that was planted recently, using a few bales of straw and a few hundred pounds of quality soil. I have a raised bed with great sun that grows peppers well all sitting on terrible dense clay. But I don't document any of it, and I think that's a mistake. We achieve a certain yield, it's enough to be entertained and supply us with a few months' of onions and tomatoes, a year of jalapenos and other peppers, but that's about it. And that's fine for us for now, in these circumstances, it's a garden that frankly we don't need because we live in a region with great abundance, low prices and grocery stores like Wegmans (look it up :) ) But I want to maximize my yield and produce real change, and I think the only way I'll do that is through real management. Hoping you have a video like that already, or would consider producing one, or integrating the methods you use to track the data into more videos and I can pick up what you're putting down. Thanks!
Inspirational! Thank you.
Lol..i too need more growing area...tho im changing to growing much much more flowers to attract polinators and keep them here.
It often seems to be that way with growers - always needing more space.
I’m guessing the black garb is an Architectural throw back 😂
Yep, that is when it all started.
Thank you for promoting diversity of people and crops:) You have a great objective and respect for the soil and what it can produce. "The number of people you can feed and your relationship to them" This is data that has NO competition:) I like your honest acknowledgement that we, including the animals are ALL greedy in some way.
Thanks for your comments.
RED Gardens, how did you clear the grasses, bushes and weeds to create the plots?
Hi, didn't see your comment until now. I just did a video about the Lazy Bed method I used to create the plots. ruclips.net/video/DeqEvXdrKo0/видео.html
Basically, used a sharp spade to cut the grasses and turned it over.
Yes. My question was answered with the new video. Thanks and Keep updating
Cardboard from the dump...
Black like the rich quality soil will be after a few years of bruce+Biochar...
Yep, biochar is yet another reason to call it black, but it could be a year or more before I get around to charcoal making.
eemm nothing like carrots straight from the dirt ,,,
Old Chinese saying. Men till, women weave. I believe this is true based on observation of myself and my wife.
Interesting ... will have to think about that for a bit.
Can you tell me about the basket planters at 4:45 please? I haven't seen them before.
These are examples of potato towers that I found on the internet.
Black plot is a GREAT name and recalls the 'dark side' of the future, the current restrictions upon private enterprise like backyard farming and the predominant color of you clothing...:)
Will nobody run a hawthorn and bramble hedge vs zombie trial? :) There is so much wasted space within most cities (monoculture lawn patches) it would be so cool if more could be given over to community growing plots. :)
I like that - hawthorn and bramble hedge to defend against zombies!
johnny cash always wears black too :)
Yep, and I have similar reasons ;)
Haha the black and the red work well together, I didn't suspect you being an anarchist ;)
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Lol! This made me laugh. Zombies
Esto no es metal pesado :c