It is a daunting task to clear up after someone else has carelessly done such devastation. But as a team we all know you will be there 💪💪. Have a fab week ahead, Ali ☔️⛈️🇨🇦
I find it much easier to have composters in the centre of the garden, probably because I don't enjoy walking back and forth over and over again. Mine are under a cherry tree, mostly because I live in a temperate rainforest zone and compost gets too soggy, especially in winter. You've all done well to get this mess reduced so much it's easier to see where things could go.
Our plan is to stick most of it in the pallet compost bays once they're up. Thankfully most of this weed material is annual so no perennial roots mostly
its a lot work but the end goal making it more easy to maintain and work on. you made a great start. id say try go the easy option is cover them, if you got containers you may be able to make some plant fertilizer out them. get something useful out the hard work clearing the weeds. grow veg Chanel has a few methods like compact bucket full weeds fill with water and cover or dry way pack with weeds with a bucket holes in put weight on top and as it breaks down it drip in to a bucket below and get a constraint fertilizer. im trying that out now see how it goes and weeds what still left put compost pile what not fully broken down. maybe an idea to break up clearing the pot a change of job . raised beds, id try over time try and keep raising then higher and higher, till a height what makes life more easy , you can get good stack-able bed packs a few extra supports they could easy be raise a lot higher to to bowing, that is what i plan on doing as a good number beds about waist height eventually but compost is expensive so i may even try Layered Garden Beds or Hugelkultur method, In addition to pieces of wood, the most successful hugel beds include layers of organic matter such as rotted hay, grassy sod turned green side down, pulled plants, or food waste and topped of with compost you normally used so all that other organic matter will take up a lot space and break down over time a good way filling a very deep or very tall raised bed. few ideas what could save you some money and beds being higher better to work on as for me leaning down at ground level its very bad so higher the better it reduce the back pain
I've used hugelkultur to fill a few raised beds on my existing plot. Worked really well. Watch my video from early last year 😊 we plan on bulk making compost in several pallet bays. Going to gather as much material as we can. I'm even going to be scraping up my wood chip paths and composting that before spreading fresh wood chip. There's several tonnes of it at least!
@@downtoearthwithjim so you have loads organic matter, that save you a ton money filling those raised bed. have you ever thought of double or three times stacked raised beds a bit higher certainty help for working on them less bending down. b&q have some wooden ones with hinges what look like they easy stack-able the longer ones id sure add few supports and screw then together and they not a bad price. just a thought and reaching down to ground level its hard work on knees and back having bed higher than just one level could help with that . looks like you made a good start, looking forward to see the progress
The plot is screaming hugle culture to me. Use those branches put them to good use. I cut down my very big and old apple tree I made hugle culture beds 😊
I'm all for using hugelkultur. Done it a few times on my existing plot. Works great. Lots of larger logs to use to line the bottom of the raised beds 😊
Don't you have a streamer and a saw? Where does the soil for the raised beds come from? That wees suppressant material is quite expensive.So is building raised beds. Good luck.
We've got 90 metres of weed suppressant membrane. Not cheap but a long term investment that should last many years. We just don't have the time or energy to be digging the ground. No dig is how we are going to go. The soil to fill the raised beds is probably going to be a mixture of wood from the tree, homemade compost, and bulk bought top soil
It can be especially if those chemicals leech into the neighbouring soils on all sides. Unfortunately water can cause chemicals to move where nobody sees, but the results can be disastrous.
Ideally we only want to be using weed killers to clear weeds on paths which aren't close to plants. My mum has some, but we probably won't use it much if any at all
James that will be a great areas for the bucket spuds. made a good dent in it already
It's an ideal spot isn't it. Can use the bulk made compost from the pallet bays to fill them up for spuds too 🥔
It is a daunting task to clear up after someone else has carelessly done such devastation. But as a team we all know you will be there 💪💪. Have a fab week ahead, Ali ☔️⛈️🇨🇦
Thanks Ali! I hope you have a fantastic week. Congratulations on 1k subs! 🥳🎉
@@downtoearthwithjim thank you 😊
Wow you and your family did a good job with that plot.you certainly know how to work hard. Good job.😊
Thank you so much!
I find it much easier to have composters in the centre of the garden, probably because I don't enjoy walking back and forth over and over again.
Mine are under a cherry tree, mostly because I live in a temperate rainforest zone and compost gets too soggy, especially in winter.
You've all done well to get this mess reduced so much it's easier to see where things could go.
We have the entire winter too, so hopefully we can get it right for next spring.
Buy some large dustbins. Fill them with weeds and then with water. In 6 months time you can use the fluid weed tea as fertiliser.
Great idea!
Great job Jim , so tough but the rewards will be great , keep up the good work mate 👍
Thank you! Hopefully get some weed membrane down in the next few weeks then start building on top of it! 😊
Well done producing a load of compostable material which will be very useful next Spring.
Our plan is to stick most of it in the pallet compost bays once they're up. Thankfully most of this weed material is annual so no perennial roots mostly
Great progress guys 🎉
Thank you! Hard work but it's going to be worth it I know it 😊
Well done 😇👍
Thank you!
Even the tree will make good compost eventually. You could use the larger, stronger pieces of wood for support structures😏😏
That's a great idea with the branches! There's a lot of long branches we could use
Fantastic work guys 😊
Thank you! We will get there 😊
its a lot work but the end goal making it more easy to maintain and work on. you made a great start. id say try go the easy option is cover them, if you got containers you may be able to make some plant fertilizer out them. get something useful out the hard work clearing the weeds. grow veg Chanel has a few methods like compact bucket full weeds fill with water and cover or dry way pack with weeds with a bucket holes in put weight on top and as it breaks down it drip in to a bucket below and get a constraint fertilizer. im trying that out now see how it goes and weeds what still left put compost pile what not fully broken down. maybe an idea to break up clearing the pot a change of job . raised beds, id try over time try and keep raising then higher and higher, till a height what makes life more easy , you can get good stack-able bed packs a few extra supports they could easy be raise a lot higher to to bowing, that is what i plan on doing as a good number beds about waist height eventually but compost is expensive so i may even try Layered Garden Beds or Hugelkultur method, In addition to pieces of wood, the most successful hugel beds include layers of organic matter such as rotted hay, grassy sod turned green side down, pulled plants, or food waste and topped of with compost you normally used so all that other organic matter will take up a lot space and break down over time a good way filling a very deep or very tall raised bed. few ideas what could save you some money and beds being higher better to work on as for me leaning down at ground level its very bad so higher the better it reduce the back pain
I've used hugelkultur to fill a few raised beds on my existing plot. Worked really well. Watch my video from early last year 😊 we plan on bulk making compost in several pallet bays. Going to gather as much material as we can. I'm even going to be scraping up my wood chip paths and composting that before spreading fresh wood chip. There's several tonnes of it at least!
@@downtoearthwithjim so you have loads organic matter, that save you a ton money filling those raised bed. have you ever thought of double or three times stacked raised beds a bit higher certainty help for working on them less bending down. b&q have some wooden ones with hinges what look like they easy stack-able the longer ones id sure add few supports and screw then together and they not a bad price. just a thought and reaching down to ground level its hard work on knees and back having bed higher than just one level could help with that . looks like you made a good start, looking forward to see the progress
You got rained on pretty hard, very soggy! Good job felling the tree now, I’m told they only get bigger as time goes by, lol.
That's usually how it works haha 😂 I mean it's pretty big now. It's only going to cause problems later on if I leave it
😇👍❤️go for it
The plot is screaming hugle culture to me. Use those branches put them to good use. I cut down my very big and old apple tree I made hugle culture beds 😊
I'm all for using hugelkultur. Done it a few times on my existing plot. Works great. Lots of larger logs to use to line the bottom of the raised beds 😊
Don't you have a streamer and a saw? Where does the soil for the raised beds come from? That wees suppressant material is quite expensive.So is building raised beds. Good luck.
We've got 90 metres of weed suppressant membrane. Not cheap but a long term investment that should last many years. We just don't have the time or energy to be digging the ground. No dig is how we are going to go. The soil to fill the raised beds is probably going to be a mixture of wood from the tree, homemade compost, and bulk bought top soil
I know its a real no no but if your creating a raised no dig bed allotment is it really so bad to use weed killer to clear the site
It can be especially if those chemicals leech into the neighbouring soils on all sides.
Unfortunately water can cause chemicals to move where nobody sees, but the results can be disastrous.
@@ninemoonplanet Yes i understand that but you can use contact weed killer that's only effective for one hour on a dry day so no leeching
Ideally we only want to be using weed killers to clear weeds on paths which aren't close to plants. My mum has some, but we probably won't use it much if any at all
After having aminopyralid damage, rendering 2 beds unusable for the foreseeable, I don't want to risk any other contamination