When we moved to this apartment 2 years ago, in Mid April, as soon as we got a few basics unpacked, we laid landscape Timbers 3 feet outside our small back yard, lined with cardboard and sales flyers from the mail. Purchase a $5 wheelbarrow off of fb and a $30 truck bed full of compost/soil mix from the city recycling and topped the cardboard. I had to buy starts since where we moved from, there wasn’t garden space, but got them in and going. Now that we are moving again (so nothing planted this year that isn’t in a pot to take with us) I have actually dug up some of that good soil that has been cared for and put it in pots so I don’t have to purchase potting soil for them.
My neighbor just rototilled 2200 sq ft of my lawn for me to start gardening. Not quite as disruptive to the soil strata as plowing and way easier than broadforking with a broken leg. 😂 It will be no till from now on. I'm returning the favor in tomato starts.
I use bike boxes. Theyre huge. But someone said it also had some bad stuff in them. Even in raisin boxes for kids had bad stuff in them. I wonder if i could get som info on how they produce cardboard boxes?
On point as usual! And another great tip. If people get involved, on the ground level, with their neighborhoods, towns & cities they can grow food in their front yards, community gardens, or even just community space for gardens. The Answers for this mess will NOT come from the top. That whole layer needs to be allowed to peel off and die in the Suns light like they vampiric leeches they are. It'll be hard but we are born for this, people! That is what made America great. Not our Tech, not our Banks, or our ability to "kick ass" ut they fact that people who wanted to be responsible came form all over the world to do it here and blended all of that talent, techniques & knowledge into an aggregate of cooperative self-sufficiency, that can do truly amazing things when they stop being afraid, and just start.
We also do this style of gardening. I fell in love with it last year when I started an instant flower bed. Laid down cardboard topped with uncolored natural mulch and transplanted flowers in and made a border out of large rocks found on a walking trail nearby.
i move my cardboard boxes from time to time , the worms LOVE it. So, I spoke to a guy who use to sell farm material, etc he had told me that cardboard makers use a glucose(sugar) mix to help hold/bind the cardboard together, this may attractive all those critters that help build that soil
1:48 I chopped everything down, dumped 80 m2 of half finished compost a year ago and now I’ve got wonderful earth to plant into. The amount of worms is insane. They came after the fungus broke down. I didn’t use cardboard, cause I laid down 15 cm of the compost. There is an occasional blackberry popping up, but I can pull it out with one hand now that the earth is loosened up. I used cardboard on another plot using less compost. Both methods work perfectly!
What do you recommend for grasshoppers eating the plants? I have covered them with a bale of hay but they’re still eating everything. It’s so many of them they’re starting to attack my fruit trees too. Could it be my area? Im 1.5 hrs west of Forth Wort and we’re in a bad drought. Just wondering abt some remedies for these pests thx for advising us like you do.
And the type of farming we do, you don’t necessarily have a grasshopper problem. You have a lack of turkey and chickens problem. They will definitely bring them in the balance for you!
Can you make an instant garden with a layer of grass clippings, cardboard and another layer of grass clippings? I made one yesterday with a layer of chicken bedding/manure, cardboard and grass clippings on top. I plan to plant in it today.
I love love this and can't wait to try it. !!!!! I live in South West Montana so I'm having to wait a little bit. Hopefully this week or next.!! Got my cardboard and straw. And lots of plants iv grown from seeds. Just waiting for our night time Temps to get a little warmer. Thank yall so much for explaining how to do this !! I am so glad I found your channel !!!!! God bless all of yall !! Mary Lou
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 could I use commercially prepared pine shavings that I use for my chickens instead of straw? Also I have bagged pine shavings with chicken poop starting to decompose that I am planning to use with grass clippings for compost. But I am unsure if the chicken poop debris is too new to use in this manner?
I have been doing the same thing. cardboard down,wet it,add 1.5ft thick grass and leaf mowings and planted 75 tomato plants in it here in central Texas last year with not much watering. The worms came and tilled it and now its nice and i can dig down 8" by hand.
To me, this is the most effective way to garden hands down! No dig no weed, and from now on no till gardening!! Plus Outstanding results! These veggies will be amazing!
Another good one. Thanks for taking the time & energy to help America remember that we can take responsibility for our lives, and create abundance in our lives while regenerating the damage to our systems that short sighted "leadership" can cause. (See what I did there folks, the past rhyming, hunh, hunh ;) ) Curious. Have you heard of Jim Kovleski, and his sheet mulching technique? And if you are, do you have pros/cons about it?
Was thinking about going along the perimeter of my yard where I have been blowing leaves for years and planting cucumbers peppers maybe tomatoes directly into the leaves where they have been breaking down for years in the areas of the yard that gets a lot of sunlight. What is your opinion on that?
This is also doable over here at 6,500 ft. above sea level, just the thing to start during the rainy season which is now, that way come fall and winter(dry season)we'll have created rich topsoil just like ya all! Thumbs up Billy, your missus Michelle, and greetings from central Mexico! :)
I just cracked up! Sweating like joe Biden in a spelling bee! Hey Billy just put some of your bone sauce out around our garden. Going to see how it works out in a field setting. I seen Justin at metcalf mills seemed to have good luck with it I hope it works and I’ll definitely let you know! I’d like to get down that way and meet all y’all sometime we’re up in the northern part of North Carolina
Brilliant once again Guys Thank You. I am lucky as all my beds are established & I do "No Dig". We are struggling over here still with the huge rainfall which has been causing flooding since last year- but I won't give up !!!!. Cheers Denise- Australia
I would have said Joe biden at an elementary school. I love Pinball he is where ive been getting my news for a long time now,he did a live with the angry prepper and something spoke to me about needing to follow him. Havent been disappointed yet. Great job adding more planting space!
My "AHA! moment" came many years ago when I was pulling out a line of overgrown holly bushes planted along the fence line of my new-to-me suburban townhouse. After I raked away the rock mulch, I found a layer of old and deteriorating weed cloth. Under that weed cloth was the best dark crumbling soil, full of worms and their castings. That was the moment I discovered the power of mulching the soil. I started experimenting (before the internet) and checking in the library for information on rehabilitating bad fill dirt. I started using newspapers, cardboard, packing paper, magazines, junk mail, cotton bedding from garage sales. If it was biodegradable, it was fair game.
Thank you thank you!!! My hubby saw this video and now he is sold on this method and we just finished a 6’ x ??? and now I’m ready to add plants to that area!
I love it you guys. So simple and effective! We just got our garden going too. Direct sowed because we are so far behind. We had to clear the forest out first! LOL.
I have a lot of wind where I live too, more this year than any other year, but I can always put some firewood logs, rocks or bricks on top to hold it down. Actually, I just remembered I have some wood pieces from when I split wood that would probably be perfect to hold down the cardboard and it will break down while it's doing the original job.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 Thanks I'll give it a shot. Was concerned the plants wouldn't be able to root through the grass, even with a little soil on top. Worth a try and if anything it will be prepped for later.
Love it I've been collecting cardboard for a year. Used it last year did great in garden. My neighbors dont get it well I'm not weed eating like they are. Have a blessed day. Get it in the ground.
How interesting that you didn't use a layer of compost! Also interesting you're planting brassicas in mid May. I live in SC and would not expect them to do well if I planted them now. Are you in a place with a cooler summer? Still learning!
It’s pretty late to be planting them right now but they were given to us so we gave it a shot. Several of those varieties do well in warm weather though.
We bought our house last year and didn't close and move until July. I had my garden in pots at that time because of moving and did this exact method right off the deck to get some of the potted plants in the ground. It worked like a charm! I'm working with this method again this year to establish a real garden on a larger scale. I have a 4*40 bed ready for mostly perennials with annuals coplanted, a 4*8 bed for potatoes and more companion plants, and another 4*8 in progress. With more to go. I need to go hunt for more boxes so I can keep going. A broadfork is on my wishlist, but I'm working with what I got. Ooh, planted several trees and covered dosed them with your bone sauce. The trees we'd planted in the fall were eaten so I'm hopeful these make it. Thanks permapasture family! Always love your videos!
I just found 2 trays of my plant starts were eaten right off my deck. I believe the culprit is a resident muskrat. We've bone sauced the garden but now I'm thinking the deck. Would it help against a muskrat? I've been hardening them off and last night was the first all nighter they had out there, and now I've got to start over for half my plants. Or go buy some... And i still have the other few trays to protect before and after I get them planted.
Can I just say... I love you guys! You are informative, extremely knowledgeable, a true vessel for God's great abundance, and most of all you make me smile and laugh... Joe Biden at the Spelling Bee! Bahhhhh! Ha! Ha! Ha! 😊😊😊❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏Love you too Milk Boiy! Sorry probably not spelling that right!🤣🤣🤣
I love this ….but I am SOOOO OVERWHELMED right now I can’t even think and breathing is difficult🤦🏻♀️ Would love it if my hubby could be here to help. I have 10 trees (4 fruit, 2 elderberry, 2 service berry, and 2 blue spruce), 3 comfrey plants, a raspberry, black berry, 2 blue berry, and 120 tomato starts, 70 assorted pepper starts, as well as herb starts to put out. I’ve already planted some fruit trees, raspberries, beets, kale, lettuce, spinach, and garlic. Now I’m sitting here totally numb and confused😣 I’m 61, not dead. I have the energy but not a targeted game plan🤦🏻♀️
This method truly works. I use cardboard in all my gardens. Recently we purchased a new sofa there was a 3x3x1 wooden box. I laid down my cardboard, some tree branches- save on soil, soil and mulch . I planted potatoes, garlic and ? (Started raining forgot to label). In containers I planted ginger roots. Just laid cardboard & compost down for another garden. Am going to try 3 sisters planting corn, beans and squash). Best planting for all. Will be creating a garden for my left over comfrey. Thanks Billy& family for getting me the comfrey so fast. 🙏🏽👍🏽
Just found your channel, and love it, can you tell me about companion planting please. I'm 81 and I'm doing it, just need to know which things go togeather well. Thank you so much.
Very timely! Each year I create new raised garden beds and this year my Edition is as big as the rest of the garden put together. I pretty much do the same thing you do with broad forking and area, unfortunately I do have to put hardware cloth underneath because we have terrible ground squirrels, rabbits, moles and voles even something called a pika in other words everything that wants to eat my garden. On top of the hardware cloth I spread out aged chicken manure wet it down then put down a good layer of wet cardboard and newspaper on top of that goes compost. I'll make some pathways and then planting. Each year I just add in more compost and get straight to planting.
Well, I searched out this year-old video specifically to see what brand of broadfork you use. Looks like a Treadlite, if I'm not mistaken, so thanks for that. Couldn't help learning some more while I was at it, so thanks for that, too! And, yes, I'm already a big fan of Pinball Preparedness!
Well you can probably tell I'm on a Perma Pastures Farm Marathon today. See one then have to go to another one. YOU GUYS ROCK. Looks like ya,ll live in a beautiful place. Love what you do and Stand for God bless and take care.
Hey Billy, Pinball is my neighbor in East TN. If you ever come up our way you got to come over. I get a lot of my news from him also, as he is tuned in. Thanks for another great video PIMP Daddy 😉
This may sound crazy but I researched it and found that the droppings of my son's guinea pig is usable to put straight in the garden. I live on the air force base with a yard about 1000sq ft in Albuquerque. Growing things in Albuquerque is a challenge. I dug up hard calcified soil (we have very alkaline soil with high levels of calcium. I dug kitchen scraps, my guinnea pigs cage of wood chips and his droppings grass cuttings etc into this soil and after a few weeks planted this garden with some seedlings I started indoors and a bunch of seeds. Everything grew! I overplanted because I did not expect it. I ended up digging up and planting about a third of the barren backyard and have 4 kinds of squash, tomatoes, onions, garlic, peppers, potatoes, dill, mint, raspberries, beets, kale, carrots, zucchini, chives, lemon balm, tarragon, cabbage,lettuces of various types, peas, beans etc. I never expected to he able to fo this here and under these circumstances. I am very inspired by your videos and feel like I am learning so much leading into being more and more self sufficient.
Awesome information and a bust out laugh out loud moment seeing your expression as your looking at William, (camera) as she was pulling out more and more plants. Hold the Mind and Stay the Course! God bless!
Could I do this now in late August (on the TX/OK border) and plant into it now? Or would I be better off just doing the cardboard/straw and doing this in the spring?
I do instant gardening with boxes left intact. Like little raised beds. Cardboard underneath, whatever soil I have goes in the box, lots of straw on top of it all. Makes a great growing space in minutes. I can’t quite get rid of the bermudagrass yet, though. I thought I would be able to shade it out.
I was struck by what you said last thing in this video about origin of lawns. I agree with you, but I have a problem I have been unable to overcome here at my place. I have a small lawn. Everywhere I think of to put a garden, it will get in the way of something. Also, this lawn is on a sidehill. I have tried different places, but they seldom work out because they will get driven over or something. I have ten acres, but most is woods and what's close to the house and accessible for watering and other care is on the front piece of land that starts out as a point in what broadens out to an acute triangle. My wife and I have gotten in near arguments over where to put the garden next because nothing is ideal. Any suggestions? Do you have a Facebook page so I can send you a picture to give you a good visual of the lawn I have to work with?
We don’t have a Facebook page Ty. You can email me at billy@permapasturesfarm.com. In one of the upcoming videos I hope the showcase how to deal with situations like yours.
This is the exact method I'm doing this weekend with some potatoes a friend is giving me. I've got cardboard coming out my ears! lol I watch Pinball everyday. He's a wealth of knowledge.
In a suburban front yard that’s pretty much solid with roots from two large oak trees, how would you suggest doing this method? Is this a situation where you should just build raised beds? Thx!
Food is crucial. Btw love that you are doing Insta Garden. Been doing that for a while. Trying to amend my entire back yard. On year 7 of amending. One section at a time.
I have felt this was coming for several years. I know the Father in Heaven put learning on my heart. I started just learning by watching videos because that was all I could do. From there I started growing on my deck in pots. Now I have worms and chickens and this year I am putting in a garden in my front yard! I am trusting Yah to help me and he has. A year ago I could not walk more then 30 feet and spent too much time in a wheelchair. Now I can walk to the garden and do some work!
Some of the cardboard I’ve used is so thick, I can’t cut through it, I have to use a pick. Good to know that one doesn’t have to dig a hole as deep as the potted transplant. Since I’m so far behind on seed starting, will this work with seeds if the cardboard is pulled back?
My front yard has a garden in it, but it is also our main work area for a side hustle, back yard is too steep. But I did something similar to this in the sunniest spot in the back yard to double my garden area.
I love the T-shirt. Imagine if you had even more compost than you do? I have never seen this done with just straw and very little new soil for growing. I so much want to see how this looks in two more months. I so enjoy Michelle participating so well with you on the projects. I get the feeling she know so much more than you on vegetable gardening anyway 😁😁
Ha I just have loads of cardboard that I was gonna get rid of after undoing boxes, have a wasted area this would be perfect for. Just order some comfrey and more bone sauce. Much cheaper then putting up a fence and keeps the beauty of hill area.
have a source of sawdust as a mill is near but can' find much clean straw, hay or wood chips can this be useful as carbon source or is it too much fine particles
I've got tons of cardboard and I have straw and some bags of topsoil. I don't have a broad fork so I guess I'll have to use a shovel. I have a lot of potatoes to plant so this will be a good way to get those in the ground. I'm planning to expand my 25 x 80 ft garden to about 25 x 100 ft plus other random places around my yard. I found some 2 x 4's nailed together like a ladder and thought my chickens might use it but they had no interest so I filled it with some topsoil and manure and planted a raised bed garden for them. I covered it in hardware cloth and they just recently started being able to eat the greens through the holes. Have you ever planted seeds in an instant garden rather than plants? Are there some seeds that work better than others? I'm a fairly new subscriber so I haven't seen many of your videos yet to know if you've done this.
When we moved to this apartment 2 years ago, in Mid April, as soon as we got a few basics unpacked, we laid landscape Timbers 3 feet outside our small back yard, lined with cardboard and sales flyers from the mail. Purchase a $5 wheelbarrow off of fb and a $30 truck bed full of compost/soil mix from the city recycling and topped the cardboard. I had to buy starts since where we moved from, there wasn’t garden space, but got them in and going. Now that we are moving again (so nothing planted this year that isn’t in a pot to take with us) I have actually dug up some of that good soil that has been cared for and put it in pots so I don’t have to purchase potting soil for them.
That’s the kind of progress I’m talking about
Loved your joke sweating like Joe B. At a spelling bee 🐝 😂😂😂
Just keeping it real Connie
I loved it too.
Lol 😂 loved “sweating like Joe Biden at a spelling bee.
Thank you Connie!
LOVE THE T SHIRT! Michelle, it’s GOOD to see you contributing more on camera; it’s a given that you (and y’all) are beyond busy behind the scenes.
Thank you so much for that my friend. It is nearly impossible to get her on camera sometimes
My neighbor just rototilled 2200 sq ft of my lawn for me to start gardening. Not quite as disruptive to the soil strata as plowing and way easier than broadforking with a broken leg. 😂 It will be no till from now on. I'm returning the favor in tomato starts.
I definitely have no issues with a Rototiller when starting out.
After being foolishly nervous about not getting it perfect, I finally started my instant garden this weekend. I’m excited to see how it goes 😄
Now that’s the spirit my friend
How did it go??
Awesome! I knew I was hoarding cardboard for a reason. Now I know what to do. Thank you guys.
Don’t be afraid to go thick with it
I use bike boxes. Theyre huge. But someone said it also had some bad stuff in them. Even in raisin boxes for kids had bad stuff in them. I wonder if i could get som info on how they produce cardboard boxes?
On point as usual! And another great tip.
If people get involved, on the ground level, with their neighborhoods, towns & cities they can grow food in their front yards, community gardens, or even just community space for gardens.
The Answers for this mess will NOT come from the top. That whole layer needs to be allowed to peel off and die in the Suns light like they vampiric leeches they are.
It'll be hard but we are born for this, people! That is what made America great. Not our Tech, not our Banks, or our ability to "kick ass" ut they fact that people who wanted to be responsible came form all over the world to do it here and blended all of that talent, techniques & knowledge into an aggregate of cooperative self-sufficiency, that can do truly amazing things when they stop being afraid, and just start.
You said it all right there Christopher! If every small community would do just a little bit of this then the status quo wouldn’t matter.
We also do this style of gardening. I fell in love with it last year when I started an instant flower bed. Laid down cardboard topped with uncolored natural mulch and transplanted flowers in and made a border out of large rocks found on a walking trail nearby.
That’s what I’m talking about Marissa
You are inspiring me! Doubled my garden size this spring and growing new things too!
You just made my day Victoria
i move my cardboard boxes from time to time , the worms LOVE it. So, I spoke to a guy who use to sell farm material, etc he had told me that cardboard makers use a glucose(sugar) mix to help hold/bind the cardboard together, this may attractive all those critters that help build that soil
Never heard that before but it sure sounds interesting
1:48 I chopped everything down, dumped 80 m2 of half finished compost a year ago and now I’ve got wonderful earth to plant into. The amount of worms is insane. They came after the fungus broke down. I didn’t use cardboard, cause I laid down 15 cm of the compost. There is an occasional blackberry popping up, but I can pull it out with one hand now that the earth is loosened up.
I used cardboard on another plot using less compost. Both methods work perfectly!
What do you recommend for grasshoppers eating the plants? I have covered them with a bale of hay but they’re still eating everything. It’s so many of them they’re starting to attack my fruit trees too. Could it be my area? Im 1.5 hrs west of Forth Wort and we’re in a bad drought. Just wondering abt some remedies for these pests thx for advising us like you do.
And the type of farming we do, you don’t necessarily have a grasshopper problem. You have a lack of turkey and chickens problem. They will definitely bring them in the balance for you!
You guys intrigue me, you leave no stone unturned; from the beginner to the most advanced "you bring it" , always! 😃 Thanks, guys 👏🏾
Thank you so much for the Kind response Winslow!
Can you make an instant garden with a layer of grass clippings, cardboard and another layer of grass clippings? I made one yesterday with a layer of chicken bedding/manure, cardboard and grass clippings on top. I plan to plant in it today.
I love love this and can't wait to try it. !!!!! I live in South West Montana so I'm having to wait a little bit. Hopefully this week or next.!! Got my cardboard and straw. And lots of plants iv grown from seeds. Just waiting for our night time Temps to get a little warmer. Thank yall so much for explaining how to do this !! I am so glad I found your channel !!!!!
God bless all of yall !!
Mary Lou
I’m glad we found each other Mary Lou!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 could I use commercially prepared pine shavings that I use for my chickens instead of straw? Also I have bagged pine shavings with chicken poop starting to decompose that I am planning to use with grass clippings for compost. But I am unsure if the chicken poop debris is too new to use in this manner?
I have been doing the same thing. cardboard down,wet it,add 1.5ft thick grass and leaf mowings and planted 75 tomato plants in it here in central Texas last year with not much watering. The worms came and tilled it and now its nice and i can dig down 8" by hand.
To me, this is the most effective way to garden hands down! No dig no weed, and from now on no till gardening!! Plus Outstanding results! These veggies will be amazing!
I think more people would get involved in gardening if they knew about this method Patty!
Lmao 😂 ‘ i’m sweatin’ like Joe Biden at a spelling bee’!! I love that Red Russian kale!
Thank you so much Gina
I used lots of cardboard in my garden this year both my gardens doing well . Love Pinball channel
I love his channel also
Another good one. Thanks for taking the time & energy to help America remember that we can take responsibility for our lives, and create abundance in our lives while regenerating the damage to our systems that short sighted "leadership" can cause.
(See what I did there folks, the past rhyming, hunh, hunh ;) )
Curious. Have you heard of Jim Kovleski, and his sheet mulching technique? And if you are, do you have pros/cons about it?
I’ll have to look into his methods.
Was thinking about going along the perimeter of my yard where I have been blowing leaves for years and planting cucumbers peppers maybe tomatoes directly into the leaves where they have been breaking down for years in the areas of the yard that gets a lot of sunlight. What is your opinion on that?
It’s definitely worth a shot. These days I throw everything in the wall and see what sticks
I saw someone use a drill auger to get through the wet cardboard. That seems like a much faster way to get through the cardboard layer.
This is also doable over here at 6,500 ft. above sea level, just the thing to start during the rainy season which is now, that way come fall and winter(dry season)we'll have created rich topsoil just like ya all! Thumbs up Billy, your missus Michelle, and greetings from central Mexico! :)
Sounds awesome Joe!
I made an instant garden using the cardboard last fall, by spring the soil was amazing.
I sure hope more people start doing it!
BILLY..... IF YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD, YOU ARE ROYALTY!!!!!! ( I did get your meaning though) lol. Love your channel.
I love the way you roll my friend
Let’s Go Brandon!
Ha ha! That’s what I’m talking about
I just cracked up! Sweating like joe Biden in a spelling bee! Hey Billy just put some of your bone sauce out around our garden. Going to see how it works out in a field setting. I seen Justin at metcalf mills seemed to have good luck with it I hope it works and I’ll definitely let you know! I’d like to get down that way and meet all y’all sometime we’re up in the northern part of North Carolina
Thank you so much for your business my friend! I hope to have some sort of meet up in the future!
Brilliant once again Guys Thank You. I am lucky as all my beds are established & I do "No Dig". We are struggling over here still with the huge rainfall which has been causing flooding since last year- but I won't give up !!!!. Cheers Denise- Australia
Definitely hope the weather improves down there Denise !
I would have said Joe biden at an elementary school. I love Pinball he is where ive been getting my news for a long time now,he did a live with the angry prepper and something spoke to me about needing to follow him. Havent been disappointed yet. Great job adding more planting space!
Thank you so much Jess!
My "AHA! moment" came many years ago when I was pulling out a line of overgrown holly bushes planted along the fence line of my new-to-me suburban townhouse. After I raked away the rock mulch, I found a layer of old and deteriorating weed cloth. Under that weed cloth was the best dark crumbling soil, full of worms and their castings. That was the moment I discovered the power of mulching the soil. I started experimenting (before the internet) and checking in the library for information on rehabilitating bad fill dirt. I started using newspapers, cardboard, packing paper, magazines, junk mail, cotton bedding from garage sales. If it was biodegradable, it was fair game.
That’s what I’m talking about!
We love your t-shirt , I wish i knew where you get all your AMAZING SHIRTS ?????
I’ll pick them up from other patriots
Thank you thank you!!!
My hubby saw this video and now he is sold on this method and we just finished a 6’ x ??? and now I’m ready to add plants to that area!
That’s what I’m talking about Melissa
All these views and not enough likes! Get the likes up guys :)
I love it you guys. So simple and effective! We just got our garden going too. Direct sowed because we are so far behind. We had to clear the forest out first! LOL.
That sounds like progress my friend
With this weather at this time. My quick garden would blow away too windy. But cant wait to use this method on a rainy day. Thanks
It definitely works my friend
I have a lot of wind where I live too, more this year than any other year, but I can always put some firewood logs, rocks or bricks on top to hold it down. Actually, I just remembered I have some wood pieces from when I split wood that would probably be perfect to hold down the cardboard and it will break down while it's doing the original job.
would this work on top of grass? I have more plants than I have garden space and I want to put them to use.
Yes it does! Just be sure the triple of the cardboard in those areas.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 Thanks I'll give it a shot. Was concerned the plants wouldn't be able to root through the grass, even with a little soil on top. Worth a try and if anything it will be prepped for later.
Love it I've been collecting cardboard for a year. Used it last year did great in garden. My neighbors dont get it well I'm not weed eating like they are. Have a blessed day. Get it in the ground.
That’s what I’m talking about
I bet an old crusty hole saw with a hammer would hole punch planting holes in the card board like a champ.
I think you are probably right.
Now that is an absolutely brilliant idea!
That's how we start gardens out here in the western semi-desert. Maybe I'll put another little garden in this weekend.
That’s what I’m talking about
I'm going to try this method in my raised beds. Alternate straw and soil.
I think you’ll be happy with it Victoria
How interesting that you didn't use a layer of compost! Also interesting you're planting brassicas in mid May. I live in SC and would not expect them to do well if I planted them now. Are you in a place with a cooler summer? Still learning!
It’s pretty late to be planting them right now but they were given to us so we gave it a shot. Several of those varieties do well in warm weather though.
I so appreciate your effort, time and videos. Thank you.
Thank you so much Reese!
Make sure to use hay that hasn’t been sprayed with herbicides
I couldn’t have said it better myself Noah! I wish I would’ve remember to say it in the video
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 Very important intel. Consider a follow up video to help educate your audience.
We bought our house last year and didn't close and move until July. I had my garden in pots at that time because of moving and did this exact method right off the deck to get some of the potted plants in the ground. It worked like a charm! I'm working with this method again this year to establish a real garden on a larger scale. I have a 4*40 bed ready for mostly perennials with annuals coplanted, a 4*8 bed for potatoes and more companion plants, and another 4*8 in progress. With more to go. I need to go hunt for more boxes so I can keep going. A broadfork is on my wishlist, but I'm working with what I got. Ooh, planted several trees and covered dosed them with your bone sauce. The trees we'd planted in the fall were eaten so I'm hopeful these make it. Thanks permapasture family! Always love your videos!
I just found 2 trays of my plant starts were eaten right off my deck. I believe the culprit is a resident muskrat. We've bone sauced the garden but now I'm thinking the deck. Would it help against a muskrat? I've been hardening them off and last night was the first all nighter they had out there, and now I've got to start over for half my plants. Or go buy some... And i still have the other few trays to protect before and after I get them planted.
Don’t be afraid to add another coat of bone sauce in the fall when you’re able to do the entire tree. Thank you for your business my friend
@@echostanley9440 We’ve never tested it on muskrats so let me know how it turns out
Can I just say... I love you guys! You are informative, extremely knowledgeable, a true vessel for God's great abundance, and most of all you make me smile and laugh... Joe Biden at the Spelling Bee! Bahhhhh! Ha! Ha! Ha! 😊😊😊❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏Love you too Milk Boiy! Sorry probably not spelling that right!🤣🤣🤣
I love this ….but I am SOOOO OVERWHELMED right now I can’t even think and breathing is difficult🤦🏻♀️
Would love it if my hubby could be here to help. I have 10 trees (4 fruit, 2 elderberry, 2 service berry, and 2 blue spruce), 3 comfrey plants, a raspberry, black berry, 2 blue berry, and 120 tomato starts, 70 assorted pepper starts, as well as herb starts to put out. I’ve already planted some fruit trees, raspberries, beets, kale, lettuce, spinach, and garlic.
Now I’m sitting here totally numb and confused😣
I’m 61, not dead. I have the energy but not a targeted game plan🤦🏻♀️
This method truly works. I use cardboard in all my gardens. Recently we purchased a new sofa there was a 3x3x1 wooden box. I laid down my cardboard, some tree branches- save on soil, soil and mulch . I planted potatoes, garlic and ? (Started raining forgot to label). In containers I planted ginger roots.
Just laid cardboard & compost down for another garden. Am going to try 3 sisters planting corn, beans and squash).
Best planting for all.
Will be creating a garden for my left over comfrey. Thanks Billy& family for getting me the comfrey so fast. 🙏🏽👍🏽
Just found your channel, and love it, can you tell me about companion planting please. I'm 81 and I'm doing it, just need to know which things go togeather well. Thank you so much.
I’m glad things are working out well for you Alice! Blessings to you and yours!
Nicely done! I love how you guys simplify things! Thank you
Thank you so much my friend! That’s exactly what we hope to do.
Very timely! Each year I create new raised garden beds and this year my Edition is as big as the rest of the garden put together. I pretty much do the same thing you do with broad forking and area, unfortunately I do have to put hardware cloth underneath because we have terrible ground squirrels, rabbits, moles and voles even something called a pika in other words everything that wants to eat my garden. On top of the hardware cloth I spread out aged chicken manure wet it down then put down a good layer of wet cardboard and newspaper on top of that goes compost. I'll make some pathways and then planting. Each year I just add in more compost and get straight to planting.
Great minds think alike!
Have you had any issue getting hay? Also dig big Tatums shirt
We don’t really buy much hay but there hasn’t been a big problem finding any around here.
Hello. How do I order comfrey from you? Please and thank you
Go to the store at permapasturesfarm.com. Thank you for your interest my friend
How do I order compared from you? Please and thank you!
Check outpermapasturesfarm.com
Well, I searched out this year-old video specifically to see what brand of broadfork you use. Looks like a Treadlite, if I'm not mistaken, so thanks for that. Couldn't help learning some more while I was at it, so thanks for that, too! And, yes, I'm already a big fan of Pinball Preparedness!
Well you can probably tell I'm on a Perma Pastures Farm Marathon today. See one then have to go to another one. YOU GUYS ROCK. Looks like ya,ll live in a beautiful place. Love what you do and Stand for God bless and take care.
Hey Billy, Pinball is my neighbor in East TN. If you ever come up our way you got to come over. I get a lot of my news from him also, as he is tuned in. Thanks for another great video PIMP Daddy 😉
Thank you so much for the offer my friend
This may sound crazy but I researched it and found that the droppings of my son's guinea pig is usable to put straight in the garden. I live on the air force base with a yard about 1000sq ft in Albuquerque. Growing things in Albuquerque is a challenge. I dug up hard calcified soil (we have very alkaline soil with high levels of calcium. I dug kitchen scraps, my guinnea pigs cage of wood chips and his droppings grass cuttings etc into this soil and after a few weeks planted this garden with some seedlings I started indoors and a bunch of seeds. Everything grew! I overplanted because I did not expect it. I ended up digging up and planting about a third of the barren backyard and have 4 kinds of squash, tomatoes, onions, garlic, peppers, potatoes, dill, mint, raspberries, beets, kale, carrots, zucchini, chives, lemon balm, tarragon, cabbage,lettuces of various types, peas, beans etc. I never expected to he able to fo this here and under these circumstances. I am very inspired by your videos and feel like I am learning so much leading into being more and more self sufficient.
That Joe Biden joke was hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾✊🏾
Awesome information and a bust out laugh out loud moment seeing your expression as your looking at William, (camera) as she was pulling out more and more plants.
Hold the Mind and Stay the Course! God bless!
Cardboard is great, multispecies carbon. Mycelium loves to glues according the Paul Stamets.
You always have the best shirts
Thank you so much my friend
Could I do this now in late August (on the TX/OK border) and plant into it now? Or would I be better off just doing the cardboard/straw and doing this in the spring?
Can you cover with something other than hay/straw? Maybe pine bows? Or cut grass clippings?
I do instant gardening with boxes left intact. Like little raised beds. Cardboard underneath, whatever soil I have goes in the box, lots of straw on top of it all. Makes a great growing space in minutes. I can’t quite get rid of the bermudagrass yet, though. I thought I would be able to shade it out.
I was struck by what you said last thing in this video about origin of lawns. I agree with you, but I have a problem I have been unable to overcome here at my place. I have a small lawn. Everywhere I think of to put a garden, it will get in the way of something. Also, this lawn is on a sidehill. I have tried different places, but they seldom work out because they will get driven over or something. I have ten acres, but most is woods and what's close to the house and accessible for watering and other care is on the front piece of land that starts out as a point in what broadens out to an acute triangle. My wife and I have gotten in near arguments over where to put the garden next because nothing is ideal. Any suggestions? Do you have a Facebook page so I can send you a picture to give you a good visual of the lawn I have to work with?
We don’t have a Facebook page Ty. You can email me at billy@permapasturesfarm.com.
In one of the upcoming videos I hope the showcase how to deal with situations like yours.
This is the exact method I'm doing this weekend with some potatoes a friend is giving me. I've got cardboard coming out my ears! lol I watch Pinball everyday. He's a wealth of knowledge.
He is indeed Stephanie!
In a suburban front yard that’s pretty much solid with roots from two large oak trees, how would you suggest doing this method? Is this a situation where you should just build raised beds? Thx!
Worms love cardboard. Not shiny stuff or you'll be picking that stuff out for a long time.
Billy is twerking and working!
I have been known…
I've done this with just straw it worked great! Now I am going to add the cardboard to it. Congratulations on your son's marriage!
Thank you so much Scott
I've got a thick grass lawn where I want a garden. I also have a bunch of cardboard. Will this work in lieu of having the grass tilled up?
Thank you Mr Billy & beautiful Michelle ,
You always give me / Us great advice , GOD BLESS YOU ALL .
Mrs Josette Tharp
Montgomery, Texas 🙏🏻
Thank you so much my friend
I use cardboard to improve our food forest soil in the desert plus to cool the ground from sun. 🌵Susie
Love your videos
Food is crucial. Btw love that you are doing Insta Garden. Been doing that for a while. Trying to amend my entire back yard. On year 7 of amending. One section at a time.
Awesome guys!! You are royalty btw. You are a kid of the King!!
I use the broad fork on my ky clay. It is making a huge difference.
I love those things!
Don’t you just love that Treadlite Broadfork Billy?!
I do indeed Paul
I have felt this was coming for several years. I know the Father in Heaven put learning on my heart. I started just learning by watching videos because that was all I could do. From there I started growing on my deck in pots. Now I have worms and chickens and this year I am putting in a garden in my front yard! I am trusting Yah to help me and he has. A year ago I could not walk more then 30 feet and spent too much time in a wheelchair. Now I can walk to the garden and do some work!
Hallelujah!!
Amen!
Great progress Mindy! Way to go!!
Thank you all so much. I still have bad days but they are getting further apart
Well done Mindy!
Some of the cardboard I’ve used is so thick, I can’t cut through it, I have to use a pick.
Good to know that one doesn’t have to dig a hole as deep as the potted transplant. Since I’m so far behind on seed starting, will this work with seeds if the cardboard is pulled back?
I’m glad the stuff helps my friend
I would like to know about seeds too Billy .
Love your T shirts!
Thank you so much my friend
My front yard has a garden in it, but it is also our main work area for a side hustle, back yard is too steep. But I did something similar to this in the sunniest spot in the back yard to double my garden area.
How do you get rid of groundhogs and raccoons?
Mostly with bullets and a livestock guardian dog
I love the T-shirt. Imagine if you had even more compost than you do? I have never seen this done with just straw and very little new soil for growing. I so much want to see how this looks in two more months.
I so enjoy Michelle participating so well with you on the projects. I get the feeling she know so much more than you on vegetable gardening anyway 😁😁
You had me absolutely convinced that you are monitoring this place Dwight! Once again, you are correct. Ha ha!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 Sorry to inform you but it is more likely than the monitor in your house is that we have the same sort of twisted minds. 🤣
Another great video. I have used this system to some degree before, but I think I can improve it after seeing this video. Thanks.
That’s what I’m talking about my friend
Ha I just have loads of cardboard that I was gonna get rid of after undoing boxes, have a wasted area this would be perfect for. Just order some comfrey and more bone sauce. Much cheaper then putting up a fence and keeps the beauty of hill area.
Thank you so much Terri!
This was BRILLIANT! Can not wait to try it! Thank you thank you thank you
That's how I started my garden.
Never could grow anything in the space before.
I think more people would card and if they knew about these types of things
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 we gotta pass it on! 👌
have a source of sawdust as a mill is near but can' find much clean straw, hay or wood chips can this be useful as carbon source or is it too much fine particles
nice broadfork Billy , did that guy from Treadlite broadfork company ever get a hold of you ?
I’m afraid not. I probably need to reach out to them.
Where do you find the white portable fence you use to enclose the animals
If you do it in a national park is it a risk you do it behind bars next
Ayyyyy Treadlite broadfork gang!
I love that tool!
My lawn is clover!
That’s great news! You have plenty of nitrogen fixation going on
How I started my raised beds
Easiest way to do it
I've got tons of cardboard and I have straw and some bags of topsoil. I don't have a broad fork so I guess I'll have to use a shovel. I have a lot of potatoes to plant so this will be a good way to get those in the ground. I'm planning to expand my 25 x 80 ft garden to about 25 x 100 ft plus other random places around my yard. I found some 2 x 4's nailed together like a ladder and thought my chickens might use it but they had no interest so I filled it with some topsoil and manure and planted a raised bed garden for them. I covered it in hardware cloth and they just recently started being able to eat the greens through the holes. Have you ever planted seeds in an instant garden rather than plants? Are there some seeds that work better than others? I'm a fairly new subscriber so I haven't seen many of your videos yet to know if you've done this.
I now see that you answered the question about using seeds only on a previous comment. ☺
I love this! We have good ol South Carolina hard red clay
JB at a spelling bee. Lol
Wouldn’t that be a sight!
True love. I love it
Thank you so much my friend
This was great!
Thank you so much my friend
Thank you for this demo. I am trying this as soon as I can.