So I’m new to gardening and never used mulch before. You said never to use mulch that’s not broken down on garden bed so as one that’s starting out would you recommend I used bagged mulch on the garden bed and then in the pathways use the mulch I can get from tree servicing co? At least to start out that way for this first year?
Start a Lazy Garden From Scratch | NEVER Weed/Water Again! ruclips.net/video/hfBSgHgcSc4/видео.html In case you didn’t catch the video above, the answer to your question is actually that you totally can use arborist chips the first year on top of your garden, but I recommend you screen them first so you can weed out the larger wood pieces, and mix your screened chips about 50/50 with compost. What I mean by screening is to build a square wood frame just a little bit bigger than your wheelbarrow and secure a piece of galvanized hardware cloth with 1/4” or 1/2” square holes in the bottom of the frame using 1/2” staples. It’s best if the frame is at least a few inches deep. Lay the frame wire side down over your wheelbarrow and put a couple shovels worth of woodchips into the screen. Shuffle the screen back and forth over your wheelbarrow so that the woodchips smaller than the holes in the wire fall down into the wheelbarrow. Use the larger chips leftover for your pathways and the smaller chips that collect in the bottom of the wheelbarrow as your mulch on top of the garden beds.
I use mulched leaves on my beds around my plants. I mow the leaves and dump it in a location I can scoop from. The bottom is usually back to soil by the time I get to it.
@@AnneofAllTrades I am looking forward to the next video. I am working on a garden from scratch. I haven't planted one in 3 years, so I am starting over.😒
You are absolutely correct. These folks are checking their data with any number of university horticultural agricultural departments. There is tons of information, all people have to do is read and not listen to people who don’t know what they are doing. Please folks. Now where wood ash can be used in small amounts to increase calcium etc and raise alkalinity levels - do it with advice of a proper soil sample sent through your local county extension service for like $8-$12. Every county in the US has one. You get the boxes, instructions etc to collect and send off.
Truth, but if you think about the compounding nature of weeding and watering over time, one afternoon of work instead of an entire season of daily chores doesn't really seem that "hard" to me.
@@AnneofAllTrades I'm trying to apply this and see if "lazy gardening" methods work for "disabled gardening". I've got days where I have all the spoons (i.e. energy and manageable pain) in the world followed by weeks of barely making it to the office and back. I'm usually useless for the month of August due to the heat and humidity here in the Midwest. My hope is that if I put in the work now constructing my beds and mulching them before I can even put plants in the ground, it'll be able to tide me thru the rougher patches.
I love that part of it. I'm working hard right now growing soil that we didn't have from the beginning. Collecting every organic debris I can lay my hands on, building beds out of it dragging all this material around the yard that in the future I hope to call a garden without any hesitation. This year I have a large area that is ready to be planted. I'm dreading it a little bit not sure if some of the soil is really ready or it might be a big flop for this year. I know that in the following years it will get better for sure.
@@mercurybard9794As a fellow spoonie I'll say methods like what Anne uses have really helped me a lot 🖤 Some days I have more energy and focus than others and I try to really use those times to my advantage to set up systems and accomplish tasks that will help me in the future when I can physically or mentally spend little to no time/energy. I'm still (sometimes painfully slowly) setting up my garden/yard to be anything useful but I know that once it's fully established things will be way easier to deal with.
I started using cardboard 3 years ago when I learned about no till gardening with Charles Dowding. Didn't realize how much tilling disturbs the microbes, worms, and critters in the soil. I'm learning more and more about fungi, mycelium. Didn't realize that the white on the mulch was actually beneficial. Thank you for all the excellent advice! Happy "lazy" gardening!😄
Same, years ago I literally used to get rid of mulch and soil that had that mysterious "white stuff" on it because I thought it was contaminated with something bad that would hurt my garden/yard ecosystem. I'm really glad I've learned better since.
I reckon a green thumb is inherited. I’ve noticed that I don’t get well received when I give a thumb up. This lady is bonafide and true. She is an ordinate source of good produce.
... it had never occurred to me that I could rake the pathway woodchips that had been breaking down all winter onto my beds to add easy decomposed matter to my soil. I had just been dumping new wood chips on top of my paths over and over as the mulch slowing "disappeared". I'll be going out in to my garden right now, that you
I just dug my walkways into my rows today - it was glorious. The soil is getting more and more beautiful every year from this very same practice. :) Agreed.
We have been blessed with arborist chips beyond my imagination and now I need an end loader 😂. I garden in ground because it’s so dry here and dug the paths down initially and filled them with bark. It’s helped tremendously and now we are finally seeing worms 💃👏🏼💃👏🏼.
If you haven’t already discovered this tip: use a 16 prong hay fork instead of a shovel moving mulch. You’ll realize pretty quickly you don’t actually need an end loader (though having one would be nice)
I use old shower curtains to drag things around the property -- compost mixes, tree trimmings, etc. -- like you use that kiddy pool. (Heck, if you look up my house on Google Maps, the current satellite picture was snapped while I must have been trimming the front bushes because you can see the shower curtain I was loading branches on clear as day. 😅)
I often use tarps to do that but honestly that's a great use for old shower curtains that usually just end up in the landfill! Plus then I wouldn't risk tearing up a good tarp by dragging it around.
I asked the old timer at the feed store what he thought about the projected last frost date and planting. He said, "End of April/early May. If you put them in before that, they'll be chibberin' in the soil and won't grow as well once it is warm. I've seen em. You can see em just chibberin'. 😂
Thank you for confirming my practices of procrastination and Hügelkultur, which basically means I dump all the old sticks, branches, leaves, sawdust, food scraps, and flower garden trimmings into my food garden every year. Going on 3 years of yummy food~
That is the system I use …..put free wood chips in pathways, then use it in your planting areas when the chips have broken all down. Works perfect!!!! Love your gardens!
I compost everything meat eggs feathers I mean everything over the years this has served me well plus wood chips I’m good so far I’ve gardened since I was 11 I’m 67 now I’m just saying
Anne I have watched you here and there over the years and recently found your content again. I have to say you are an amazing woman. I don't see much of your husband but I hope yall are growing well together. I watched last years live announcement recently and that is the most of seen of him. He seems like a good dude. Yall seem like great friends. Relationships are work and so is homesteading so I can imagine at times throughout it can be difficult but finding your way back to that innocent connection that was the start of it all is so important. I wish yall well.
Thanks so much for the kind words of encouragement! Though we are now working together, Adam isn't *in* many of the videos because more often than not, he is behind the camera, and he prefers it that way. Since leaving his corporate job he does have more flexibility to help with farm projects on occasion when asked, it still isn't his favorite way to spend his time or energy, so I try not to ask more often than I need to, which honestly, isn't often. While anyone who has been married would be the first to tell you marriage is hard, I think one of the secrets to a healthy relationship is learning one another's strengths and weaknesses and working together to use both in whatever ways possible to benefit the whole. It's healthy to have separate interests, up to the point that they don't create separate lives. That's probably the most difficult and valuable lesson we've learned throughout our marriage.
@@AnneofAllTrades I appreciate you taking the time out of all your chores... I kinda feel guilty for even commenting in a way that might cause you to respond. I like the viewpoint of being "equally yoked" with your core beliefs. If those are different then its a difficult road to travel. If aligned than you can get anywhere. I am looking to buy land in the next month... I can't wait to start a homestead... I have a big to do list but only way to get there is one step at a time. Again thanks for your time Anne.
I have been watching gardening videos for ages, I have never witnessed one as well explained as this, I really enjoyed it so thank you so much. Now I will go and watch the rest of your videos 😊. Saluts from Tunisia 🇹🇳
Planting late is something that we're just now learning :-) We always waited for the weekend after the "last frost", but then a couple weeks later things die off from the cold! We're waiting until June to plant tomatoes this year!
The farmers almanac site will tell you the perfect days to plant everything for your zip code! Last frost dates can be deceptive because that's just less than like a 50% probability. it can still get too cold for certain plants.
The method that I use is to look at ‘marker’ plants. Wild things like dandelion and clover. If they are flowering you know that it’s warm enough to plant. It doesn’t make sense to use calendar dates, they have nothing to do with how warm (or cold) it is. The plants ‘know’, the farmers almanac is just a light hearted suggestion based on previous history. Or you could be really scientific and use a soil thermometer that’s 6” long or a compost thermometer that’s 2’ long. Possibly even average the 2 temperatures. If soil is 10C you can plant everything except the ‘tropicals’ - tomatoes, peppers, squash etc.
Laying down heavy mulch in the pathways, letting it break down over time, then raking it up on top of where you plant...that's a pretty good system . 14:31 I live in Tennessee, so this is pretty accurate. 16:02 Something I'm willing to live with versus hearing this in the inner city.
watching you from Az and even with or without rain we get weeds. Love your garden video. Trying to find my way through grief and love your videos. Huge thank you
I love the idea of mixing the seed. Going to have to try that one in at least half my garden to experiment. ;). I did plant my tomatoes early because I hate working in the heat. Oh well.
Well this is my new favorite garden channel. I call myself "lazy" at work because I'll do extra effort to set me up to do less in the long run... So your method really speaks to me! Adding mushroom spores is genius. Is there a certain time of year that's best to do that step? I am somewhere between "the pollening" and "actual spring" 😂
Remember, don't give up if this doesn't work yet. you'll need a year of mistake making before you find what works just right for you in your environment. I don't do everything this lady says but I have my own lazy garden. Keep going and you'll make it.
Preach! In the “start a lazy garden from scratch” video I talk about how it takes a couple years to get in the groove both habits and soil building wise. My year 5 garden in this location is much further along in that way than the year 1 garden I started this spring for that video, and as you say, persistence is key!
“Your show is fantastic! During your discussion about mycelium aiding soil aeration, it jogged my memory. After I mulched my garden with wood chips, I observed a significant increase in earthworms-a multitude of them! This spring, when I planted trees, I was pleasantly surprised by how quickly my soil transformed. The earthworms turned the once compact lawn into a light, fluffy soil that I’m confident plants will thrive in.”
The holes they make and dead material they eat creates the perfect environment for plant roots to take hold. Their secretion is phenomenal for the plants too! You sir are winning.
I got the wood chips from arborists just like Anne does. I covered my lawn with them almost foot high. Warms converted it to most beautiful planting soil within months. I can now plant veggies anywhere I want. Also I found no difference between areas I used cardboard over the grass and where I put chips directly so I would skip cardboard if you have enough chips. BTW a year later the chips have settled and decomposed to only a few inches thick layer.
@@zlatanfazlagic ah perfect ok. Thats a lot of bark so i dunno if I can do that deep but i am putting down a fake lawn for my aunt so if i put bark underneath then in a few years it might be decent again. The soil went to shite when the planes above started dropping poison and my aunt isn't a gardener so she didn't know to put anything like compost. Its grey dust now. So hopefully this will work out will help the weeds as well so finger crossed. Thanks for the tip.
I'm just starting my own food garden this year. I'm happy to see that my very lazy sprinkling of seeds across carefully prepared garden beds is a perfectly valid technique.
They do need to be seeds that will get along. Some plants cancel out each other's growth. That isn't to say they won't grow but that they won't do as well, will be weaker and subsequently more susceptible to pests and disease. Check into companion or guild planting. Good luck 🎉
In Europe they now want gardeners to wear masks to protect them from the soil. I thought it was well established that children who did not play in the soil were more sickly. Just one among many things they are getting wrong lately.
....and your are not disturbing the planting bed either, not turning it upside down is good for the soil. Just top it up each year. People think the roots go really deep but most plants are very shallow
I work on a farm and it seems like we’re always doing things the hard way. We have sandy soil, and we’re always spading or hoeing or raking or rototilling or some dumb thing while all our tilth and water are running away. We don’t use compost, and just started using grass mulch this year. Now I’m learning on my own and finding out that maybe my boss doesn’t know everything haha. This is what I want my garden to look like some day. Not lazy, it’s doing it right. Still working on him with the woodchips plan
I love All the info as well as the simple common sense approach she shares. It works ! This is the most all around informative videos ive found. Thanks Anne !! LOVE you videos ❤ keep up the great work
Ive been covering my veg patch with old manky straw or hay from a local farmer for a few years so its free and the worms love it as it keeps the soil moist and i have much fewer weeds and i only water twice throughout summer. Once xhen i initially plant and again if its really been a dry summer. I always used the well water before i used this method of gardening and by the end of summer the well was almost empty. Now its practically full at the end of summer as i only use it as drinking water for my mule and Shetland pony. In summer i use the water from my washing machine to water my pot plants and its amazing how much water is saved by doing this too. I cut the lawns on a high setting to protect the earth and at the same time allowing low growing wild flowers to bloom. Work smart not hard 😊 and do your bit to help the planet .
My compost is doing great! I even do it in the Brrr cold winter in Michigan. I don't have critters like you for poop, so I use deer and wild turkey poop. It's ready to screen just in time.😀BTW, Your pond is looking great! I remember when there really wasn't a pond at all. Your piggies did a great job. 🐷🐷💚💚 What kind of fish are you putting in?
I am 51 and finally starting an in ground garden. I have endless motivation but my energy is not like it was 20 years ago. I'm learning so much from you. I've been fortunate to source a lot of supplies for minimal cost or free. I even got a garden fork for free (game changer!). Thank you for sharing your journey ❤
We moved to AZ 3 years ago and I've built a raised planter that's 2'x4' and repurposed a 100 gallon metal trough that's basically a 2'x4' oval into another raised planter and just planted radishes, carrots, spinach and lettuce in them 3 weeks ago. I used old seeds, some of which came with us from Georgia that were dated 2018, and all have sprouted! I just thinned a few radish sprouts today. Brought the ones I pulled in, rinsed them off and ate them. Wow, those tiny little things were packed with flavor! Can't wait until they actually form radishes and I can harvest those.
Wow - thank you for the very concise and easy demonstration of how and where to plant wine cap spawn. Mine is waiting in my fridge for our Zone 5a spring to stay, and I LOVE how you're doing that! Huzzah for "lazy" gardening! I'm also almost ready to give up my raised bed board edges in favor of your method of walkways. 🙂 I am always so encouraged by your demeanor and your content! 💗
I've started to using mulched up leaves from our sycamore as a soft "mulch" and as my method improves each year I get less and less leaves. Plus I love including the path mulch migrating into the beds over time!
The cardboard recycling bins for the city are my favorite place. Rollie pollies, or whatever you call the round bugs some people call them pill bugs, they actually help build soil.
The ONLY issue with cardboard is if it has coatings on it or colored ink. Typical cardboard boxes with black ink or very little colored ink is great to use, as in it's beneficial to the garden, as in it's excellent for these walkways and it's also used for some no-dig techniques.
I think it's good to sort cardboard, discard the shiny coated layers, pull off tape and pull out staples. It may take a bit longer but it's worth it in the long run.
My cardboard hack is to leave them outside for a while especially if it’s raining. All of the tape becomes loose or dry and is easily pulled off. It also is more pliable to place in your garden bed or path
Love your channel! It's a huge goal to buy a home with acreage next year, and meanwhile I'm doing my best to 'city-stead, and learn all I can about the things I plan to do once God blesses me with the homestead I'm dreaming of.
Same here, I'm also a city steader! Started 4 years ago, all organic, reusing items from the neighborhood or free site and make my own compost leaf mold seaweed and a weed liquid fertilizer(I love by the ocean so seaweed is plentiful here. Basically trying to learn and make my big mistakes now so I'm ready if/when the time comes I need to grow most of not all our veggies. Last yr I learned the power of flowers, this yr I'm planting almost as many flowers as veggies! Great video enjoyed learning some new tricks and tips
I’ve never had success with the back to eden style garden but I didn’t know you had to do the cardboard every year. Makes sense! Thanks for this video!
The cardboard depends on where you live. I tried it in my dry Utah climate and it still hasn't broken down. But for wetter states I think it can be helpful. Now I will just use a thick layer of woodchips.
❤ love this, the wood chips way of growing is not something that is widely known where I live, but it has made our berry garden soil health improve so much the past 8 months. Now the next project is our newly planned vegetable field. Our fruit trees are doing okay, properly better this year as they have been pruned for the first time in several years.
I used this method to repair garden and yard damage from neighbors spraying my place with roundup. I laid cardboard over everything 3 layers, my mulched leaves and the load of wood chip from the electric company. ( Was the best thing ever!!!) I put over 20" of stuff down. Ok maybe overkill, but...I just experimented... After a couple weeks (maybe a month.) the rain hitting it all i decided to just toss down everything, my old odds n ends. literally tossing them in a parmasagn cheese jar and sprinkled em down , everything fruit, veg, flowers... To my surprise I came back a month later and had the biggest plot of random plants growing, it was neat. I didn't expect it at all, just wanted to see if anything would grow. Now it's a bit more organized but I do it the same way!
this is such a lovely video. loved the dogs obsessed with the bunny in the background! you really explained the soil stuff so well! loved it and i’m very educated! you did a GREAT job!
Ty for the info. weve had a garden but were never mindful about it. Now we live in the country and we want to plan it this time❤ this and ur channel are going to be soooo helpful
The speed at which it breaks down has a lot to do with climate, but yeah, it should break down in about a year. If not, and if after the first year you’re not dealing with as much weed pressure, you can forgo it moving forward.
First time to your channel and I'm in love. Thank you for your lazy gardeners video. Started gardening after 2020s covid fiasco engulfed the world and I'm ALL in. Zone 8b here and have learned that evergreen strawberries have been my greatest success even though, haven't gotten a big yield during the first 2 years but this past winter, I left them in the raised bed covered with my huge oak trees dried leaves. They did wonderful with their runners, (with a little staking down help) produced over 50 individual plants. Not too bad from the 6 plants I started with. They are now happily residing in a 5 tier grow tower, with some sweet gem lettuce thrown in there, a 20"x40" raised bed, and finally a 6"x20" in diameter raised bed. Yields are coming through, not too much, maybe 3-4 strawberries every 1 1/2 weeks. I would have had more of a yield if it weren't for the pill bugs. They are in allll of my raised beds....they seem to thrive more in my strawberry patches. I've covered the circular bed since I have it right on the ground with some weed barrier cloths and brown paper bags as base and then filled in with raised bed potting soil and some amendments here and there from compost to strawberry fertilizer. Have been doing that in all my beds now that if they are on straight ground. I have extremely heavy clay soil here and I'm trying to use my tree's huge leaves every year to feed the areas of the garden I want to direct sow in. It's coming along nicely now. I've put some beer traps but I ain't catching enough of those rolly pollies to compromise my yield. So, I got some nylon string baggies to wrap around the strawberry as it grows and things were going well, until either a squirrel or a rabbit managed to un-string the baggie and got to the most mature one of the bunch! Now I've tied a bow to all the baggies, even the ones inside the netting dome I created over the circle strawberry patch. Any tips on pill bugs? Something that's natural. I use cold press neem oil ALOT and the Mosquito Bites (though not as much as I should). My biggest pests are : pill bugs in strawberries, gourds, lilies, snapdragons, peach tree, fungus gnats, rusting of the Carolina jessamine, leaf miners on the hollyhock leaves (hopefully this year they bloom as they are biannual) been waitin' for a hot minute, mites on carnation seedlings, beetles on roses, some type of flea, they mostly reside in the chamomile, stevia, forget me nots, I want to be lazy gardener but these pests won't let me!
First time seeing your videos and I've learned so much. This was very informative and I look forward to see how you started the garden to get it to this kind of easy maintenance level.
Thank you for this wonderful video! I'm going to start growing on our allotment that has only 10 cm of soil and pure clay under, this will be the way I tackle that mess and build up the soil.
You are correct, I misspoke on the wood ash. It makes the soil more alkaline. But none of that really matters when you have fairly well balanced soil to start
Please save yourself MORE work: drive your wheelbarrow on the bare cardboard to the end of the row, THEN dump it, so you don't have to drive in the uncompacted wood chips. Much easier!
Wow so refreshing and knowledgeable.. The kind of woman I dream of finding some day.. You are a rare bird my dear! Thank you for sharing with all of us.. You Rock!:)
So hey, nice channel.. I have a 1/2 acre. Full of weeds.. It’s hard to get motivated to get into a garden.. I have planted things in the past. The cardboard!! Great information..I think I’ll try it.. I just need some enthusiasm.. And watching your videos is helping me to get off of my butt and get out there.. I like growing pumpkins.. They are easy to grow. And now that they want $10 bucks a pumpkin at Halloween time. Just blows my mind.. zucchini grow good also in my backyard.. I don’t even have to do anything to the soil and it grows.. But the weeds piss me off. And I don’t want to spray weed killer on the ground.. I have a Well. Don’t think it’s a good idea to be spraying chemicals on the ground.. So I kinda gave up on gardening.. And I have used the weed barrier stuff. Have about 10 rolls of it in my shed. It kinda works… But the cardboard idea? Love it .. thanks..
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So I’m new to gardening and never used mulch before. You said never to use mulch that’s not broken down on garden bed so as one that’s starting out would you recommend I used bagged mulch on the garden bed and then in the pathways use the mulch I can get from tree servicing co? At least to start out that way for this first year?
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In case you didn’t catch the video above, the answer to your question is actually that you totally can use arborist chips the first year on top of your garden, but I recommend you screen them first so you can weed out the larger wood pieces, and mix your screened chips about 50/50 with compost.
What I mean by screening is to build a square wood frame just a little bit bigger than your wheelbarrow and secure a piece of galvanized hardware cloth with 1/4” or 1/2” square holes in the bottom of the frame using 1/2” staples. It’s best if the frame is at least a few inches deep. Lay the frame wire side down over your wheelbarrow and put a couple shovels worth of woodchips into the screen. Shuffle the screen back and forth over your wheelbarrow so that the woodchips smaller than the holes in the wire fall down into the wheelbarrow. Use the larger chips leftover for your pathways and the smaller chips that collect in the bottom of the wheelbarrow as your mulch on top of the garden beds.
I use mulched leaves on my beds around my plants. I mow the leaves and dump it in a location I can scoop from. The bottom is usually back to soil by the time I get to it.
@@AnneofAllTrades I am looking forward to the next video. I am working on a garden from scratch. I haven't planted one in 3 years, so I am starting over.😒
@@liebekatz1 we’ll get you started off right.
You are absolutely correct. These folks are checking their data with any number of university horticultural agricultural departments. There is tons of information, all people have to do is read and not listen to people who don’t know what they are doing. Please folks.
Now where wood ash can be used in small amounts to increase calcium etc and raise alkalinity levels - do it with advice of a proper soil sample sent through your local county extension service for like $8-$12. Every county in the US has one. You get the boxes, instructions etc to collect and send off.
Note to newbie gardeners: Lazy gardening only works if you do the hard work up front. Great video; great information.
Truth, but if you think about the compounding nature of weeding and watering over time, one afternoon of work instead of an entire season of daily chores doesn't really seem that "hard" to me.
It's a mind set -- think of how you can give your future self a gift ... do the preventive measures now so it's easier in the future
@@AnneofAllTrades I'm trying to apply this and see if "lazy gardening" methods work for "disabled gardening". I've got days where I have all the spoons (i.e. energy and manageable pain) in the world followed by weeks of barely making it to the office and back. I'm usually useless for the month of August due to the heat and humidity here in the Midwest. My hope is that if I put in the work now constructing my beds and mulching them before I can even put plants in the ground, it'll be able to tide me thru the rougher patches.
I love that part of it. I'm working hard right now growing soil that we didn't have from the beginning. Collecting every organic debris I can lay my hands on, building beds out of it dragging all this material around the yard that in the future I hope to call a garden without any hesitation. This year I have a large area that is ready to be planted. I'm dreading it a little bit not sure if some of the soil is really ready or it might be a big flop for this year. I know that in the following years it will get better for sure.
@@mercurybard9794As a fellow spoonie I'll say methods like what Anne uses have really helped me a lot 🖤 Some days I have more energy and focus than others and I try to really use those times to my advantage to set up systems and accomplish tasks that will help me in the future when I can physically or mentally spend little to no time/energy. I'm still (sometimes painfully slowly) setting up my garden/yard to be anything useful but I know that once it's fully established things will be way easier to deal with.
I started using cardboard 3 years ago when I learned about no till gardening with Charles Dowding. Didn't realize how much tilling disturbs the microbes, worms, and critters in the soil. I'm learning more and more about fungi, mycelium. Didn't realize that the white on the mulch was actually beneficial. Thank you for all the excellent advice! Happy "lazy" gardening!😄
Same, years ago I literally used to get rid of mulch and soil that had that mysterious "white stuff" on it because I thought it was contaminated with something bad that would hurt my garden/yard ecosystem. I'm really glad I've learned better since.
I reckon a green thumb is inherited. I’ve noticed that I don’t get well received when I give a thumb up. This lady is bonafide and true. She is an ordinate source of good produce.
You could make this video once a season every year and I would absolutely watch them all 👍
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yuppp ~ 🌿🤍☘️🌱
I found this way of gardening a couple years ago. I now grow beautiful flowers and food not lawn. Glad I found you.
I love that you promote the use of mushrooms in the garden.
... it had never occurred to me that I could rake the pathway woodchips that had been breaking down all winter onto my beds to add easy decomposed matter to my soil. I had just been dumping new wood chips on top of my paths over and over as the mulch slowing "disappeared". I'll be going out in to my garden right now, that you
That makes my heart sing
Poor Lucy no water in the pool. No wonder she's cranky😂
Me too! Need to get to my allotment right now to fix this. Thanks@AnneofAllTrades amazing video. I love you .. blueberries I stole from the forest 😂
I just dug my walkways into my rows today - it was glorious. The soil is getting more and more beautiful every year from this very same practice. :) Agreed.
Glorious is one of my favorite words.
We have been blessed with arborist chips beyond my imagination and now I need an end loader 😂.
I garden in ground because it’s so dry here and dug the paths down initially and filled them with bark. It’s helped tremendously and now we are finally seeing worms 💃👏🏼💃👏🏼.
If you haven’t already discovered this tip: use a 16 prong hay fork instead of a shovel moving mulch. You’ll realize pretty quickly you don’t actually need an end loader (though having one would be nice)
I use old shower curtains to drag things around the property -- compost mixes, tree trimmings, etc. -- like you use that kiddy pool. (Heck, if you look up my house on Google Maps, the current satellite picture was snapped while I must have been trimming the front bushes because you can see the shower curtain I was loading branches on clear as day. 😅)
Hahaha that’s so smart. Sometimes I use tarps in a similar way
Old, small tarps work great also !
I often use tarps to do that but honestly that's a great use for old shower curtains that usually just end up in the landfill! Plus then I wouldn't risk tearing up a good tarp by dragging it around.
I asked the old timer at the feed store what he thought about the projected last frost date and planting. He said, "End of April/early May. If you put them in before that, they'll be chibberin' in the soil and won't grow as well once it is warm. I've seen em. You can see em just chibberin'. 😂
Old timers are the best. They have wisdom and will spill it all over you any way they see fit. No cares given. 😂
Yes! Wow! She’s a great American example for everyone. Beautiful work. Labor of love.
I love how curious the animals get while you're filming. So much fun.
Thank you for confirming my practices of procrastination and Hügelkultur, which basically means I dump all the old sticks, branches, leaves, sawdust, food scraps, and flower garden trimmings into my food garden every year. Going on 3 years of yummy food~
I love this idea of transferring the old chips to the beds and then putting new chips in the patches!
That is the system I use …..put free wood chips in pathways, then use it in your planting areas when the chips have broken all down. Works perfect!!!!
Love your gardens!
I love your advice, style and energy. Thanks.
I compost everything meat eggs feathers I mean everything over the years this has served me well plus wood chips I’m good so far I’ve gardened since I was 11 I’m 67 now I’m just saying
Do you have any tips?
@@Brittanysplittanyshe gave one....compost everything
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This style of gardening has been a life saver for me.
This is how we do it!! We hardly ever spend money on our garden. It’s the best.
That’s what that white gunk in the persimmon grove is!! Trippy
Anne I have watched you here and there over the years and recently found your content again. I have to say you are an amazing woman. I don't see much of your husband but I hope yall are growing well together. I watched last years live announcement recently and that is the most of seen of him. He seems like a good dude. Yall seem like great friends. Relationships are work and so is homesteading so I can imagine at times throughout it can be difficult but finding your way back to that innocent connection that was the start of it all is so important. I wish yall well.
Thanks so much for the kind words of encouragement! Though we are now working together, Adam isn't *in* many of the videos because more often than not, he is behind the camera, and he prefers it that way. Since leaving his corporate job he does have more flexibility to help with farm projects on occasion when asked, it still isn't his favorite way to spend his time or energy, so I try not to ask more often than I need to, which honestly, isn't often. While anyone who has been married would be the first to tell you marriage is hard, I think one of the secrets to a healthy relationship is learning one another's strengths and weaknesses and working together to use both in whatever ways possible to benefit the whole. It's healthy to have separate interests, up to the point that they don't create separate lives. That's probably the most difficult and valuable lesson we've learned throughout our marriage.
@@AnneofAllTrades I appreciate you taking the time out of all your chores... I kinda feel guilty for even commenting in a way that might cause you to respond. I like the viewpoint of being "equally yoked" with your core beliefs. If those are different then its a difficult road to travel. If aligned than you can get anywhere. I am looking to buy land in the next month... I can't wait to start a homestead... I have a big to do list but only way to get there is one step at a time. Again thanks for your time Anne.
I have been watching gardening videos for ages, I have never witnessed one as well explained as this, I really enjoyed it so thank you so much. Now I will go and watch the rest of your videos 😊. Saluts from Tunisia 🇹🇳
So glad to hear it! Thank you!
Absolutely excellent! Your experience is appreciated.
Glad it was helpful!
Planting late is something that we're just now learning :-) We always waited for the weekend after the "last frost", but then a couple weeks later things die off from the cold! We're waiting until June to plant tomatoes this year!
The farmers almanac site will tell you the perfect days to plant everything for your zip code! Last frost dates can be deceptive because that's just less than like a 50% probability. it can still get too cold for certain plants.
Farmes almanac for my zone said 4/7/24 is last frost date but I'm going to wait until at least 4/22/24 to start.
The method that I use is to look at ‘marker’ plants. Wild things like dandelion and clover. If they are flowering you know that it’s warm enough to plant. It doesn’t make sense to use calendar dates, they have nothing to do with how warm (or cold) it is. The plants ‘know’, the farmers almanac is just a light hearted suggestion based on previous history. Or you could be really scientific and use a soil thermometer that’s 6” long or a compost thermometer that’s 2’ long. Possibly even average the 2 temperatures. If soil is 10C you can plant everything except the ‘tropicals’ - tomatoes, peppers, squash etc.
Laying down heavy mulch in the pathways, letting it break down over time, then raking it up on top of where you plant...that's a pretty good system .
14:31 I live in Tennessee, so this is pretty accurate.
16:02 Something I'm willing to live with versus hearing this in the inner city.
Fantastic guide indeed. Educational and straight to the point no BS. Thank You…✌🏽🙌
watching you from Az and even with or without rain we get weeds. Love your garden video. Trying to find my way through grief and love your videos. Huge thank you
Oh buddy. I’m so sorry you’re grieving. Howdy Donkey sends a big hug.
I love the idea of mixing the seed. Going to have to try that one in at least half my garden to experiment. ;). I did plant my tomatoes early because I hate working in the heat. Oh well.
I am so very happy that your channel appeared in my feed! Fantastic!
So glad you’re here!
I'm lazy, now I just need a garden.
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Start a Lazy Garden From Scratch | NEVER Weed/Water Again!
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Well this is my new favorite garden channel. I call myself "lazy" at work because I'll do extra effort to set me up to do less in the long run... So your method really speaks to me!
Adding mushroom spores is genius. Is there a certain time of year that's best to do that step? I am somewhere between "the pollening" and "actual spring" 😂
Thanks.
I love the mushroom idea. Thats a great idea for all that dead space!!
This is one of my favorite videos of yours it has changed the way I garden and love the simplicity of it. Great job
So glad to hear it!
Remember, don't give up if this doesn't work yet. you'll need a year of mistake making before you find what works just right for you in your environment. I don't do everything this lady says but I have my own lazy garden. Keep going and you'll make it.
Preach! In the “start a lazy garden from scratch” video I talk about how it takes a couple years to get in the groove both habits and soil building wise. My year 5 garden in this location is much further along in that way than the year 1 garden I started this spring for that video, and as you say, persistence is key!
@@AnneofAllTrades I haven't seen that video yet. You make great content so keep it up!!!
Love this one too!! I can't wait until I have some land and can actually take advantage of all this wisdom you share. You rock!
“Your show is fantastic! During your discussion about mycelium aiding soil aeration, it jogged my memory. After I mulched my garden with wood chips, I observed a significant increase in earthworms-a multitude of them! This spring, when I planted trees, I was pleasantly surprised by how quickly my soil transformed. The earthworms turned the once compact lawn into a light, fluffy soil that I’m confident plants will thrive in.”
The holes they make and dead material they eat creates the perfect environment for plant roots to take hold. Their secretion is phenomenal for the plants too! You sir are winning.
Wait did you put bark on your lawn?
@Padraigp I'm assuming he mulched his garden beds and the worms have worked their way through the grass maybe between beds or even just multiplying.
I got the wood chips from arborists just like Anne does. I covered my lawn with them almost foot high. Warms converted it to most beautiful planting soil within months. I can now plant veggies anywhere I want. Also I found no difference between areas I used cardboard over the grass and where I put chips directly so I would skip cardboard if you have enough chips. BTW a year later the chips have settled and decomposed to only a few inches thick layer.
@@zlatanfazlagic ah perfect ok. Thats a lot of bark so i dunno if I can do that deep but i am putting down a fake lawn for my aunt so if i put bark underneath then in a few years it might be decent again. The soil went to shite when the planes above started dropping poison and my aunt isn't a gardener so she didn't know to put anything like compost. Its grey dust now. So hopefully this will work out will help the weeds as well so finger crossed. Thanks for the tip.
I'm just starting my own food garden this year. I'm happy to see that my very lazy sprinkling of seeds across carefully prepared garden beds is a perfectly valid technique.
They do need to be seeds that will get along. Some plants cancel out each other's growth. That isn't to say they won't grow but that they won't do as well, will be weaker and subsequently more susceptible to pests and disease. Check into companion or guild planting. Good luck 🎉
I love watching watching your lazy gardening videos. I love the fact that you are not wearing gloves either.
You’ve gotta touch the soil with your skin to get the mental health benefits it has to offer ;)
@@AnneofAllTrades I love it.
@@AnneofAllTrades exactly! It like earthing with your hands instead of feet!!
In Europe they now want gardeners to wear masks to protect them from the soil. I thought it was well established that children who did not play in the soil were more sickly. Just one among many things they are getting wrong lately.
I try so hard but my hands need dirt😂
....and your are not disturbing the planting bed either, not turning it upside down is good for the soil. Just top it up each year. People think the roots go really deep but most plants are very shallow
Yeah tillage is simply not the way for longevity of soil health or nutritional availability for plants
You ROCK!! Thank you so much!
12 Seasons...! I feel you, coming from a peninsula swept by winds off the southern oceans !
Anne- ....love your videos and passion that fuels them. No doubt you are a Ruth Stout fan too.
Happy Gardening,
I work on a farm and it seems like we’re always doing things the hard way. We have sandy soil, and we’re always spading or hoeing or raking or rototilling or some dumb thing while all our tilth and water are running away. We don’t use compost, and just started using grass mulch this year. Now I’m learning on my own and finding out that maybe my boss doesn’t know everything haha. This is what I want my garden to look like some day. Not lazy, it’s doing it right. Still working on him with the woodchips plan
Excellent video. I love lazy 🌞🌞
I love All the info as well as the simple common sense approach she shares. It works ! This is the most all around informative videos ive found. Thanks Anne !! LOVE you videos ❤ keep up the great work
Ive been covering my veg patch with old manky straw or hay from a local farmer for a few years so its free and the worms love it as it keeps the soil moist and i have much fewer weeds and i only water twice throughout summer. Once xhen i initially plant and again if its really been a dry summer. I always used the well water before i used this method of gardening and by the end of summer the well was almost empty. Now its practically full at the end of summer as i only use it as drinking water for my mule and Shetland pony.
In summer i use the water from my washing machine to water my pot plants and its amazing how much water is saved by doing this too.
I cut the lawns on a high setting to protect the earth and at the same time allowing low growing wild flowers to bloom.
Work smart not hard 😊 and do your bit to help the planet .
Soon it will be no-mow May!
Never thought of roots as transports for microbes ❤that’s so cool
Thanks for sharing!
Love your energy!!!
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such great info! I will be doing woodchip paths from now on 😄
This was so incredibly in depth, yet concise. You're going to be my new favorite gardening channel! Thanks for sharing your wisdom!
What a relief! I've been saving the cardboard over the winter!
You have a good personality. 😊
I got a truck load of mushroom spawn and spred it all over the garden,yard, and surrounding forest!
Good on ya
Our wood chips seem to be naturally seeded with Inky Cap spawn. They're dainty and beautiful - and then they're NOT! (They turn into zombie mushrooms)
Yes mushrooms compost is a great product if you can get it:)
My compost is doing great! I even do it in the Brrr cold winter in Michigan. I don't have critters like you for poop, so I use deer and wild turkey poop. It's ready to screen just in time.😀BTW, Your pond is looking great! I remember when there really wasn't a pond at all. Your piggies did a great job. 🐷🐷💚💚 What kind of fish are you putting in?
Thanks for existing! Also to the RUclips community!
Not to mention the additional uptake of carbon in the air, your type of gardening is great for decarbonization and healthier air quality.
My motto in life: work smarter, not harder! Great tips :)
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I am 51 and finally starting an in ground garden. I have endless motivation but my energy is not like it was 20 years ago. I'm learning so much from you. I've been fortunate to source a lot of supplies for minimal cost or free. I even got a garden fork for free (game changer!). Thank you for sharing your journey ❤
We moved to AZ 3 years ago and I've built a raised planter that's 2'x4' and repurposed a 100 gallon metal trough that's basically a 2'x4' oval into another raised planter and just planted radishes, carrots, spinach and lettuce in them 3 weeks ago. I used old seeds, some of which came with us from Georgia that were dated 2018, and all have sprouted! I just thinned a few radish sprouts today. Brought the ones I pulled in, rinsed them off and ate them. Wow, those tiny little things were packed with flavor! Can't wait until they actually form radishes and I can harvest those.
Good on you! Keep growing!
Radish seedlings are super tasty! Call them 'Radish Microgreens' if you want to be fancy 😊
Wow - thank you for the very concise and easy demonstration of how and where to plant wine cap spawn. Mine is waiting in my fridge for our Zone 5a spring to stay, and I LOVE how you're doing that! Huzzah for "lazy" gardening! I'm also almost ready to give up my raised bed board edges in favor of your method of walkways. 🙂 I am always so encouraged by your demeanor and your content! 💗
Glad it was helpful!
I've started to using mulched up leaves from our sycamore as a soft "mulch" and as my method improves each year I get less and less leaves. Plus I love including the path mulch migrating into the beds over time!
Leaves and pine straw, free !!
This idea I can learn to love .
Great stuff and easy to follow
Wow. So much accurate and well researched stuff. Had never watched a presenter making so much sense.
The cardboard recycling bins for the city are my favorite place. Rollie pollies, or whatever you call the round bugs some people call them pill bugs, they actually help build soil.
The ONLY issue with cardboard is if it has coatings on it or colored ink. Typical cardboard boxes with black ink or very little colored ink is great to use, as in it's beneficial to the garden, as in it's excellent for these walkways and it's also used for some no-dig techniques.
I think it's good to sort cardboard, discard the shiny coated layers, pull off tape and pull out staples. It may take a bit longer but it's worth it in the long run.
I wholeheartedly agree
My cardboard hack is to leave them outside for a while especially if it’s raining. All of the tape becomes loose or dry and is easily pulled off. It also is more pliable to place in your garden bed or path
So happy I found you, I’m also a lazy gardener. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🌱🌱🌱
Love your channel! It's a huge goal to buy a home with acreage next year, and meanwhile I'm doing my best to 'city-stead, and learn all I can about the things I plan to do once God blesses me with the homestead I'm dreaming of.
That’s what I did for 6 years before we got acreage! Good on you for starting g where you’re at, with what you e got.
Same here, I'm also a city steader! Started 4 years ago, all organic, reusing items from the neighborhood or free site and make my own compost leaf mold seaweed and a weed liquid fertilizer(I love by the ocean so seaweed is plentiful here. Basically trying to learn and make my big mistakes now so I'm ready if/when the time comes I need to grow most of not all our veggies. Last yr I learned the power of flowers, this yr I'm planting almost as many flowers as veggies! Great video enjoyed learning some new tricks and tips
Here i am in florida watching all my brassicas bolting from heat, and youre just getting started. I'm almost in the "too hot for most plants" season
❤👋🙂🇦🇺 Thanks for sharing your experience with us ❤
I’ve never had success with the back to eden style garden but I didn’t know you had to do the cardboard every year. Makes sense! Thanks for this video!
The cardboard depends on where you live. I tried it in my dry Utah climate and it still hasn't broken down. But for wetter states I think it can be helpful. Now I will just use a thick layer of woodchips.
@@nicolewilliamson1850 I definitely live in a wetter climate.
When I lived in Washington I never even had to use cardboard, but down here the annual re-application is croosh
@@AnneofAllTrades That makes sense to me. I live in East Tennessee too.
Thanks for txt back , wish you and ur family well. I enjoy ur channel and keep up the good work, God Bless... My wife likes ur show also.
Yay perfect video i need!! Im starting to move away from container gardening and raised beds and do exactly what you are doing!
❤ love this, the wood chips way of growing is not something that is widely known where I live, but it has made our berry garden soil health improve so much the past 8 months. Now the next project is our newly planned vegetable field. Our fruit trees are doing okay, properly better this year as they have been pruned for the first time in several years.
Thanks for all your explanation! I absolutely appreciate your channel! Thank you!
I just wanted to say .. Anne.. you are a badass. Im really enjoying your videos im inspired. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience.
I used this method to repair garden and yard damage from neighbors spraying my place with roundup. I laid cardboard over everything 3 layers, my mulched leaves and the load of wood chip from the electric company. ( Was the best thing ever!!!) I put over 20" of stuff down. Ok maybe overkill, but...I just experimented... After a couple weeks (maybe a month.) the rain hitting it all i decided to just toss down everything, my old odds n ends. literally tossing them in a parmasagn cheese jar and sprinkled em down , everything fruit, veg, flowers... To my surprise I came back a month later and had the biggest plot of random plants growing, it was neat. I didn't expect it at all, just wanted to see if anything would grow. Now it's a bit more organized but I do it the same way!
this is such a lovely video. loved the dogs obsessed with the bunny in the background!
you really explained the soil stuff so well! loved it and i’m very educated! you did a GREAT job!
This is my style of gardening! I call myself the haphazard gardener. I will definitely try the mushrooms!
Ty for the info. weve had a garden but were never mindful about it. Now we live in the country and we want to plan it this time❤ this and ur channel are going to be soooo helpful
Excellent video, Anne! Thx for sharing!!
I really enjoy your videos. I am slowly changing to a permaculture type garden vs my raised beds. All your info is super handy. Thank you.
Wood ash neutralizes soil pH by the way. It's alkaline.
You’re totally right. Misspoke in a big way on that one 😅
The cardboard breaks down to almost nothing every year? That's wiiiild. I'm so pumped to start my garden this year with all of this information omg
The speed at which it breaks down has a lot to do with climate, but yeah, it should break down in about a year. If not, and if after the first year you’re not dealing with as much weed pressure, you can forgo it moving forward.
First time to your channel and I'm in love. Thank you for your lazy gardeners video. Started gardening after 2020s covid fiasco engulfed the world and I'm ALL in. Zone 8b here and have learned that evergreen strawberries have been my greatest success even though, haven't gotten a big yield during the first 2 years but this past winter, I left them in the raised bed covered with my huge oak trees dried leaves. They did wonderful with their runners, (with a little staking down help) produced over 50 individual plants. Not too bad from the 6 plants I started with. They are now happily residing in a 5 tier grow tower, with some sweet gem lettuce thrown in there, a 20"x40" raised bed, and finally a 6"x20" in diameter raised bed. Yields are coming through, not too much, maybe 3-4 strawberries every 1 1/2 weeks. I would have had more of a yield if it weren't for the pill bugs. They are in allll of my raised beds....they seem to thrive more in my strawberry patches. I've covered the circular bed since I have it right on the ground with some weed barrier cloths and brown paper bags as base and then filled in with raised bed potting soil and some amendments here and there from compost to strawberry fertilizer. Have been doing that in all my beds now that if they are on straight ground. I have extremely heavy clay soil here and I'm trying to use my tree's huge leaves every year to feed the areas of the garden I want to direct sow in. It's coming along nicely now. I've put some beer traps but I ain't catching enough of those rolly pollies to compromise my yield. So, I got some nylon string baggies to wrap around the strawberry as it grows and things were going well, until either a squirrel or a rabbit managed to un-string the baggie and got to the most mature one of the bunch! Now I've tied a bow to all the baggies, even the ones inside the netting dome I created over the circle strawberry patch. Any tips on pill bugs? Something that's natural. I use cold press neem oil ALOT and the Mosquito Bites (though not as much as I should). My biggest pests are : pill bugs in strawberries, gourds, lilies, snapdragons, peach tree, fungus gnats, rusting of the Carolina jessamine, leaf miners on the hollyhock leaves (hopefully this year they bloom as they are biannual) been waitin' for a hot minute, mites on carnation seedlings, beetles on roses, some type of flea, they mostly reside in the chamomile, stevia, forget me nots, I want to be lazy gardener but these pests won't let me!
So glad you’re here! Stick around, we can help you solve most of those issues.
First time seeing your videos and I've learned so much. This was very informative and I look forward to see how you started the garden to get it to this kind of easy maintenance level.
Thank you for this wonderful video! I'm going to start growing on our allotment that has only 10 cm of soil and pure clay under, this will be the way I tackle that mess and build up the soil.
The only thing I wonder is that you say wood ash makes the soil more acidic, I thought it was the opposite that it makes it more alkaline?
@@Qotusyou’re not mistaken.
You are correct, I misspoke ;)
You are correct, I misspoke on the wood ash. It makes the soil more alkaline. But none of that really matters when you have fairly well balanced soil to start
@@AnneofAllTrades of course, just making sure! Our clay soil is acidic to begin with, so we use ash to bump the pH up.
You are so inspiring and I love your content and zest for life. I just found your channel and I have already learned so much. Thank you !!!!
Thank you so much! I’m so glad you’re here!
This was a great video! Even though I live in Finland, I got something out of the 12 seasons you have in Tennessee! Good luck with your efforts!
Awesome garden video. Thanks for sharing this video with us 👍.
Please save yourself MORE work: drive your wheelbarrow on the bare cardboard to the end of the row, THEN dump it, so you don't have to drive in the uncompacted wood chips. Much easier!
Hahaha brilliant save there 😂😂 I often notice things like that when watching videos back and am like… what the heck was I doing??
@@AnneofAllTrades 😅
You are my new favorite!!! Thank you so incredibly much for this! 💚🤩💯
Well, crap, I've been doing it for a while. I even bought a good tiller. Thanks for your valuable tips.
Wow so refreshing and knowledgeable.. The kind of woman I dream of finding some day.. You are a rare bird my dear! Thank you for sharing with all of us.. You Rock!:)
this is what i needed to see! Looking for the video of how you created this garden
I think we’ll do a followup showing how to start from scratch in a couple weeks :)
thanks for this video, inspired and bought a bunch of seeds, going to make my whole back yard like this.
So hey, nice channel..
I have a 1/2 acre. Full of weeds.. It’s hard to get motivated to get into a garden.. I have planted things in the past. The cardboard!! Great information..I think I’ll try it..
I just need some enthusiasm.. And watching your videos is helping me to get off of my butt and get out there..
I like growing pumpkins.. They are easy to grow. And now that they want $10 bucks a pumpkin at Halloween time. Just blows my mind.. zucchini grow good also in my backyard.. I don’t even have to do anything to the soil and it grows.. But the weeds piss me off.
And I don’t want to spray weed killer on the ground.. I have a Well.
Don’t think it’s a good idea to be spraying chemicals on the ground..
So I kinda gave up on gardening.. And I have used the weed barrier stuff. Have about 10 rolls of it in my shed.
It kinda works… But the cardboard idea? Love it .. thanks..
I love your videos! Please make more of food lazy gardening!
Here for the first time. I really like your videos. Thanks (from Italy).