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We grew up without access to a garden, all we had was a small patch of concrete, I know many people are in that same situation so I wanted to do something to help you grow despite access to a proper Garden
Thank you for keeping gardening at a real people centred level, encouraging by positive example and maintaining the focus on growing not spending. Thank you for your presence here on RUclips and for you continued good work in getting people growing, getting people fed and getting people educated in a positive life improving activity man. Neighbours helping neighbours, great to see. Thank you so much man! 👍 🏴
This is the BEST channel. Gardening doesn't have to be expensive, it should be available to all. And it doesn't have to look like Pinterest to be super effective.
This is another great video Mothin. It's inspiring to see such practical, affordable, down to earth, do-able content that anyone can have a go at. All it takes is a person to have one little success with this; perhaps growing a pot of fresh herbs, and they become inspired and motivated to start growing food. Food security and sustainability is the future.
I was littarly about to go to my local garden centre to buy more pots and compost.. so happy I watched this channel... I cut the grass yday so I will use that to fill... only just started planting but I've caught the bug
Hi Mothin. This is possibly the best gardening video I have seen on RUclips to date, and I watch loads! I am doing lots of container veg this year inspired by the Home Grown Veg channel amongst others, to supplement what I can fit into my garden raised beds. What you have demonstrated today has taken this to the next level. I can't wait to implement your techniques. We are lucky to have a ready supply of mole hills, seaweed and forest leaf mold nearby to fill our buckets with but my garden scraps, roots, old compost etc have always gone in the compost bins. Not any more! What I find really exciting is the thought of easy ready made garden compost to spread over the beds in winter simply by emptying the containers! Brilliant! Thanks so much for sharing 😃
What can I say , it's old school and it works . I literally do nothing diffrent and why should I as old school is always the way . Great to see your passing it down god bless
Best gardening programme for UK I've seen - just discovered - absolutely brilliant. Impressed with your sensible ecological knowledge. All gardening should be as soundly organic as possibly. I never use artifical materials, if possible, except containers or covers and then reuse as much as possible. This seems to to your philosophy also.
So glad you like it, i try to work with nature rather than against it, recycle and reuse as much as possible to show people how to grow without spending a vast fortune
Thank you for showing us how to repurpose, reuse, and have an economical garden. With inflation and the cost of everything going up so fast, people need to be growing their own food. Also, the food is much healthier! Bless you.
Your neighbour is a lucky lady to have you do this for her. I converted my side concrete garden to container gardening and did pretty much the same.but like you say they dry out pretty easy,so after over ordering some pea shingle,I put it in the bottom but instead of drainage holes in the bottom I put them about 1.5" in the sides, sort of like the self watering ones it stored some water away from the roots in the stones. Saved a lot of water and worked really well. Love your videos Monthin and the cinema family watch of your TV premier (congrats). P.s. 100% germination on my chillies doing it the way you showed with the tea. Thank you because last year I had 3 very late plants after germination problems.👍
Your garden looks amazing! I can see you put a lot of hard work into it and it really shows in your plants. I wanted to get out in my garden today and plant some cucumbers but it was our first 90+ degree day of the year and I just could not handle the heat. I just love to garden but I still have a lot I want to learn. I make garden videos too. I hope we can learn more from each other as we grow our gardens! 🌺🌻🐝🌸🌼🍅🫑👨🌾☀️🐇
Thank you so much for this. I have just filled up my enormous veg trug using all the raspberry and clematis prunings in the base. Keep up the good work.
Genius way of filling large containers. Great for shallow rooted plants. Must admit I've been filling them with compost albeit my own. I suppose if you're overloaded with compost you can do it, whilst it can produce excellent crops and it can of course be recycled. Recommended with spuds though, one spud per bucket.
This is great! I do something similar over winter; in the autumn I take the Halloween pumpkins and sink them into leftover pots of soil/compost and it creates beautiful compost by Spring!
The green crates are what I use, I ask my local fish and chip shop and he leaves them out the back fore to pic up, also along with his potato paper sacks for the weed surprising cover.
Great stuff! Don't know if you'll find this funny, but I had to laugh: About halfway into this vid I paused it a couple times because I thought I heard my cat meowing at the door..... after a few false alarms I realized that I was hearing children playing in the background near you. 🤣
Thank you, I never thought of placing kitchen scraps, garden waste & cardboard etc...at the bottom of the container. Also giving used potting mix another life. Buying a lot of potting mix & replacing it becomes financially prohibitive. I'm going to do it this way from now on & hi from Western Australia, I've subscribed.
Such a great video! We are tying to start a veg garden in our small garden this year and I’ve been so worried about how much it’s going to cost and how to compost! You’ve answered so many questions I had here! Really great thank you x
I love the topic! I'm creating a large garden this year with the same type of plans for mostly containers. I spent the money on the seeds so the rest needs to be low cost.
Thanks M, inspiring stuff as usual. I like the sound of the Plot to Plate series too, looking forward to that. And good luck with the Green Party (a LOT of decent people left the LP around the time you did).
Great ideas to inspire people who are on a budget and worried about the cost of gardening. My question is what happens when the food has decomposed and the plants are starting to sink in deeper into the container? Many thanks
I'm counting on some settlement so the plants get some protection being lower down. perennial plants mulch them again next year, for annuals repeat a new layer of scraps then compost
Maybe an idea to make videos for small gardens designs. I have a new house with a garden 50m2, so designing my garden i am thinking to have a sitting/walking area of 25 m2, pathway 5m2, shed 5m2 and dont know what to grow in 15m2. I know i will go vertical. But what can be recommended for me? Maybe you can show a 15 m2 garden and advise what to plant. I think a lot of people in the city wouldn't plant more than 20m2.
Superb video - thanks for your time and effort in making it. I'm trying using woven rubble sacks to grow potatoes in, not as cheap as your solution but a lot cheaper (£2.95 for 5 at Toolstation) than the big plastic pots I've seen people use elsewhere . I've been using sieved garden soil/compost to fill them but having seen this I'll try putting garden/kitchen waste in e.g. shreddings, moss from lawn etc. All the best and thanks again.
We grow our potatoes in bags, with two inches of old garden soil to sit the potatoes on and then fill the bags with our shredded paper and grass cuttings. It has worked really well and the resulting compost is great for adding to our beds or pots when we harvest. We find things compost best with living roots in them as the exudates from the roots attract more life to soil.
Thanks for that great to see something for people with limited outdoor space or who want to use up every patch. Going to make up a some of those to give to my kids both of whom only have small patches of concrete. Regarding your food waste - I only compost veg and fruit peelings and coffee but you've put bread in. What food waste can you put in to a compost bin
With this method I use everything. I'm quite open when it comes to composting I put anything that has once lived in, there might be rodent problems if you don't manage it right, so that's something to think about
This is fantastic Moshi, t's like the Hugelkultur method on steroids....love it!!! Will be doing loads like this.. Do you think potatoes and oca would do well this way too?
love your methods of filling up the containers :) one thing i want to ask, when using compost from last years containers, do you not worry about slugs etc being in that soil?
Re: the plastic bottle idea on the bottom, “One of the stupidest ideas I can think of” 😂 totally agree. Been seeing this horrible idea come back recently and I’m glad to see you put it to rest… quick question, I didn’t see you drill holes to the containers you got from the supermarket. Do you do that? Maybe I wasn’t paying attention to that part
@@MyFamilyGarden hmm but wouldnt the microbes/bacterias in the soil have a better chance to break down the scraps if the soil is touching them? I guess when you water the soil will eventually flush down and mix in with the scraps but just in case you have some incredibly fast growing plants that have roots that reach down that far in daysl
@@MyFamilyGarden yeah but i think it would work, still a bit wary of plants stunted growth when reaching the manure/food scraps as theyre competing for nitrogen but im sure youll show us the success you have.
Fresh manure would potentially burn the roots but buried deep enough would give it enough time to break down, food waste and manure are both very rich in nitrogen, I've planted a similar tub up today so the next update in this series will explain my thoughts etc
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We grew up without access to a garden, all we had was a small patch of concrete, I know many people are in that same situation so I wanted to do something to help you grow despite access to a proper Garden
Thank you for keeping gardening at a real people centred level, encouraging by positive example and maintaining the focus on growing not spending. Thank you for your presence here on RUclips and for you continued good work in getting people growing, getting people fed and getting people educated in a positive life improving activity man. Neighbours helping neighbours, great to see. Thank you so much man! 👍 🏴
Exactly what I was thinking! From US 🇺🇸 thank you!
Absolutely, couldn't agree more. great values in many ways.
This is the BEST channel. Gardening doesn't have to be expensive, it should be available to all. And it doesn't have to look like Pinterest to be super effective.
Filling containers cheaply is always on peoples minds good video mate
This is another great video Mothin. It's inspiring to see such practical, affordable, down to earth, do-able content that anyone can have a go at. All it takes is a person to have one little success with this; perhaps growing a pot of fresh herbs, and they become inspired and motivated to start growing food. Food security and sustainability is the future.
I was littarly about to go to my local garden centre to buy more pots and compost.. so happy I watched this channel... I cut the grass yday so I will use that to fill... only just started planting but I've caught the bug
A great video helpful in saving money and recycling. I can't believe what I could have used but threw away. Not anymore. Thank you for this video.
This is exactly how I make my soil for free. Very useful. Nothing goes wasted. Gave you a Big thumbs up 👍.
Hi Mothin. This is possibly the best gardening video I have seen on RUclips to date, and I watch loads! I am doing lots of container veg this year inspired by the Home Grown Veg channel amongst others, to supplement what I can fit into my garden raised beds. What you have demonstrated today has taken this to the next level. I can't wait to implement your techniques. We are lucky to have a ready supply of mole hills, seaweed and forest leaf mold nearby to fill our buckets with but my garden scraps, roots, old compost etc have always gone in the compost bins. Not any more! What I find really exciting is the thought of easy ready made garden compost to spread over the beds in winter simply by emptying the containers! Brilliant! Thanks so much for sharing 😃
What can I say , it's old school and it works . I literally do nothing diffrent and why should I as old school is always the way . Great to see your passing it down god bless
Best gardening programme for UK I've seen - just discovered - absolutely brilliant. Impressed with your sensible ecological knowledge. All gardening should be as soundly organic as possibly. I never use artifical materials, if possible, except containers or covers and then reuse as much as possible. This seems to to your philosophy also.
So glad you like it, i try to work with nature rather than against it, recycle and reuse as much as possible to show people how to grow without spending a vast fortune
Thanks Mothin, I had never thought to add my kitchen waste to pots like this rather than the compost pile. I shall try this
I can't wait to see how this little area is transformed x
Thank you for showing us how to repurpose, reuse, and have an economical garden. With inflation and the cost of everything going up so fast, people need to be growing their own food. Also, the food is much healthier! Bless you.
Fantastic. Thoughtful, ecologically beneficial.
Your neighbour is a lucky lady to have you do this for her. I converted my side concrete garden to container gardening and did pretty much the same.but like you say they dry out pretty easy,so after over ordering some pea shingle,I put it in the bottom but instead of drainage holes in the bottom I put them about 1.5" in the sides, sort of like the self watering ones it stored some water away from the roots in the stones. Saved a lot of water and worked really well. Love your videos Monthin and the cinema family watch of your TV premier (congrats). P.s. 100% germination on my chillies doing it the way you showed with the tea. Thank you because last year I had 3 very late plants after germination problems.👍
Your garden looks amazing! I can see you put a lot of hard work into it and it really shows in your plants. I wanted to get out in my garden today and plant some cucumbers but it was our first 90+ degree day of the year and I just could not handle the heat. I just love to garden but I still have a lot I want to learn. I make garden videos too. I hope we can learn more from each other as we grow our gardens! 🌺🌻🐝🌸🌼🍅🫑👨🌾☀️🐇
Thank you so much for this. I have just filled up my enormous veg trug using all the raspberry and clematis prunings in the base. Keep up the good work.
Fantastic, hope you have a great season
Ma'sha'Allah brother, and JazakhAllah for all the helpfull tips subhanAllah
This video is right up my street.. Love your videos. Thank you
Totally inspired! You've reassured me that I can do it! Thank you sooooo much 🤩
Lovely ma sha Allah
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Awesome hacks - sustainable and budget friendly 😄
Great video Mothin ! I have learned more yet again from you...so useful this is... thank you very much.
Genius way of filling large containers. Great for shallow rooted plants. Must admit I've been filling them with compost albeit my own. I suppose if you're overloaded with compost you can do it, whilst it can produce excellent crops and it can of course be recycled. Recommended with spuds though, one spud per bucket.
Love your videos , my absolute favourite gardener :)
This is great! I do something similar over winter; in the autumn I take the Halloween pumpkins and sink them into leftover pots of soil/compost and it creates beautiful compost by Spring!
Nice. Try planting a pumpkin in one of those big bins like what you prepped for the strawberries, they like that stuff too
that's the plan once i fix that area up properly
You are my inspiration , thank you great job
Very nice channel and great economical gardening ideas.
You are an inspiration!!!!
Brilliant as ever. Makes me think it’ll be ok using part composted stuff to help fill our raised beds.
I mulch all my beds with semi broken down compost, prefer it breaks down on the beds
@@MyFamilyGarden Thank you 🙏
Some great ideas... thank you
Yuhu nice tips
Thanks you for share
Garden Lover
Wow what a great idea. I just have to try this
Great video mate as always 👍🏽good to see your hints an tips on how to recycle an reuse keep up the good work
Inspiring video, Thankyou!
Great information, thank you 🥕🍅
Assallam alaikum bro really inspiring going to try getting growing some veggies and herb's this year IA.
Great video, showing that you can garden on a tight budget, great ideas. Looking forward to seeing how the container garden progresses 🙂
Brilliant 👏👏
The green crates are what I use, I ask my local fish and chip shop and he leaves them out the back fore to pic up, also along with his potato paper sacks for the weed surprising cover.
Just love it boss!!
Great stuff!
Don't know if you'll find this funny, but I had to laugh:
About halfway into this vid I paused it a couple times because I thought I heard my cat meowing at the door..... after a few false alarms I realized that I was hearing children playing in the background near you. 🤣
🤣🤣🤣 even with the mic on couldn't muffle out their laughter
That's a great way to use items that would of been throne into landfill thanks for sharing 👍
So so helpful
Thanks for info 😊👍 I’m thinking of planting in containers when the starts on my greenhouse tables go out to the garden and space opens up.
Fantastic video Mothin. Thank you so much, great ideas to fill up the bottom of large beds.
Thank you, I never thought of placing kitchen scraps, garden waste & cardboard etc...at the bottom of the container. Also giving used potting mix another life. Buying a lot of potting mix & replacing it becomes financially prohibitive. I'm going to do it this way from now on & hi from Western Australia, I've subscribed.
Great idea's Mothin keep up the good work
Such a great video! We are tying to start a veg garden in our small garden this year and I’ve been so worried about how much it’s going to cost and how to compost! You’ve answered so many questions I had here! Really great thank you x
I love the topic! I'm creating a large garden this year with the same type of plans for mostly containers. I spent the money on the seeds so the rest needs to be low cost.
Excellent video, great ideas for gardening on a small budget👍
Thanks M, inspiring stuff as usual. I like the sound of the Plot to Plate series too, looking forward to that. And good luck with the Green Party (a LOT of decent people left the LP around the time you did).
did you see this playlist ruclips.net/p/PLNBh-xpyg_q8g6SzrSeBwMVZLbQUBTmgq
@@MyFamilyGarden computer says I watched the first of the 12. Didn't realise you'd done them already! Cheers mush
Great ideas to inspire people who are on a budget and worried about the cost of gardening. My question is what happens when the food has decomposed and the plants are starting to sink in deeper into the container? Many thanks
I'm counting on some settlement so the plants get some protection being lower down. perennial plants mulch them again next year, for annuals repeat a new layer of scraps then compost
Maybe an idea to make videos for small gardens designs. I have a new house with a garden 50m2, so designing my garden i am thinking to have a sitting/walking area of 25 m2, pathway 5m2, shed 5m2 and dont know what to grow in 15m2. I know i will go vertical. But what can be recommended for me? Maybe you can show a 15 m2 garden and advise what to plant. I think a lot of people in the city wouldn't plant more than 20m2.
Superb video - thanks for your time and effort in making it. I'm trying using woven rubble sacks to grow potatoes in, not as cheap as your solution but a lot cheaper (£2.95 for 5 at Toolstation) than the big plastic pots I've seen people use elsewhere . I've been using sieved garden soil/compost to fill them but having seen this I'll try putting garden/kitchen waste in e.g. shreddings, moss from lawn etc. All the best and thanks again.
One thing I should have mentioned the kitchen waste in the bottom won't be good if you're growing root veg
We grow our potatoes in bags, with two inches of old garden soil to sit the potatoes on and then fill the bags with our shredded paper and grass cuttings. It has worked really well and the resulting compost is great for adding to our beds or pots when we harvest. We find things compost best with living roots in them as the exudates from the roots attract more life to soil.
Thanks for that great to see something for people with limited outdoor space or who want to use up every patch. Going to make up a some of those to give to my kids both of whom only have small patches of concrete. Regarding your food waste - I only compost veg and fruit peelings and coffee but you've put bread in. What food waste can you put in to a compost bin
With this method I use everything.
I'm quite open when it comes to composting I put anything that has once lived in, there might be rodent problems if you don't manage it right, so that's something to think about
This is fantastic Moshi, t's like the Hugelkultur method on steroids....love it!!! Will be doing loads like this.. Do you think potatoes and oca would do well this way too?
This won't be very good for root veg, the worms that this will attract will eat the veg too.
This is a good method for potatoes
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@@MyFamilyGarden thank you xx
love your methods of filling up the containers :) one thing i want to ask, when using compost from last years containers, do you not worry about slugs etc being in that soil?
Not really, slugs will find their way into pretty much anything, a balanced ecosystem is what's important even in a patio garden
Does the black container have holes in it?
Re: the plastic bottle idea on the bottom, “One of the stupidest ideas I can think of” 😂 totally agree. Been seeing this horrible idea come back recently and I’m glad to see you put it to rest… quick question, I didn’t see you drill holes to the containers you got from the supermarket. Do you do that? Maybe I wasn’t paying attention to that part
The black ones they had holes drilled in already, I forgot to mention that
Sorry to be a bother but in another video you mentioned a wormery can you please tell me how to make one I’m on a budget as a pensioner 😊
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id mix in the food waste with soil a bit first tho
It's better to layer for a pot like this than mix
@@MyFamilyGarden hmm but wouldnt the microbes/bacterias in the soil have a better chance to break down the scraps if the soil is touching them? I guess when you water the soil will eventually flush down and mix in with the scraps but just in case you have some incredibly fast growing plants that have roots that reach down that far in daysl
compost is just way too expensive, you could mix manure and garden soil etc. to make things go further.
Manure would serve the same purpose as the kitchen scraps
@@MyFamilyGarden yeah but i think it would work, still a bit wary of plants stunted growth when reaching the manure/food scraps as theyre competing for nitrogen but im sure youll show us the success you have.
Fresh manure would potentially burn the roots but buried deep enough would give it enough time to break down, food waste and manure are both very rich in nitrogen, I've planted a similar tub up today so the next update in this series will explain my thoughts etc
@@MyFamilyGarden appreciate it bro, will be tuned in.
you should have taken the planter to your neighbour BEFORE you watered it. lol.................................brian
That's what my wife said when she saw me trying to lift it 🤣🤣🤣
HOW CAN I STOP MY NEIGHBORS CAT FROM DOING ITS BUSINESS KN MY PATIO
It'll need covering