Great video, Lily. I've been following you for a while, but this might be my first comment. I'm a US citizen, but lived in Scotland for about 20 years. Even though I have acreage now, I didn't for a long time and prefer containers and raised beds. I had 2 donkeys for several years, and a couple cows. They made composting easy. But I did exactly what you're doing in a raised bed. I turned all my raised beds into a worm farm. I have rabbits now. They are perfect 'fertilizer', or compost. I went back to Scotland for 5 years and the guy on my farm, let it go to weeds. All my worms and my huge green house are gone. 12 years of work gone and I'm starting over. I'm old now, 67. But I know what I'm doing, which helps. Thank you for encouraging young people to do this. I appreciate you very much!
With all due respect, so you’re not 21 anymore. Are you healthy are you well. When you’re let’s say.. 86 you’ll look back and think 67 wasn’t so old after, all. Retirement is a “man-made” conventional, construct that deserves the two finger salute if it talks any healthy 67 yr old into accepting the “I’m an old person,” mindset. We are conditioned to believe it & more. Bollicks. With so called age comes wisdom and like a good wine, maturity. Age is just a number. Take good care of yourself. Love yourself. Steer, clear of non-organic everything but yes, you will be an aged 67 year old if that is your mindset. “Drop it.” I’m trying to save your ass here 🙏🏼💕🙏🏼
Great comment I'm older 68 and our kids need to learn I didn't like gardening when I was young 5 to 20 I weeded moms garden hated it but it took I'm retired and my most best thing is my garden
To make soil, I mulch up the leaves from my maple trees in the fall and pile them up on my raised beds. Over the winter I stir them up every once in a while and when spring comes my raised bed is full of nice rich mulch/ soil.
My wife started doing exactly that about 3 years ago and my soil looks and feels great. The worm population has doubled and my yield is as good if not better than when I used store bought compost
We used to make Grandma juice. Cow or horse shit in a dust bin 1/3 full and 2/3 rain water, allow to marinate for a few weeks then use to water plants. Kitchen waste, grass cuttings, newspaper, leaves, fish etc in a separate compost bin. Ask your local council what free waste they have, grass cuttings from parks etc. Leave 1 bed empty for a season to allow it to rejuvenate itself. Rotate the veg in a different bed each year. Check soil ph levels. Some plants wont grow if certain other plants have been there the year before. It is important to nurture the soil just as much as the plants, treat it like another plant 😊
Good to see old knowledge in the modern world. My grandfather used to dig a trench down his vegi garden, fill it with scraps, cover and leave that strip fallow for 6 months. He was doing this in the 1930's. Thanks for another great video Lilly!😀
I’ve done that for years. I call it “compost in place.” Sometimes I get amazing surprise crops: garlic, potatoes, tomatoes, arugula, and pumpkins. I’m in the US South.
As a life-long herbalist, I know that finding a decaying log covered in moss in the woods provides excellent biomaterial for your soil. Such logs are rich in mycelium, which is beneficial for plant roots. You can break up the softer pieces and mix them with your soil. However, it's important to only harvest a maximum of half of the log, and only take one log out of every seven in the area to ensure that there will always be plenty for both your needs and nature.
Another good practice is to harvest stinging nettles and other green matter, put it into 5 gallon buckets, top it up with water and leave to sit, stirring occasionally for a few weeks. When ready, put the water into a watering can, dilute at a ratio of 10/1 ratio of water to liquid fertiliser you've made and supply to the soil. Stinging nettles are abundant around Europe and as we ell know, it spreads like wildfire...so never a problem to find it. Broken down to a fertiliser, it will put back so many great nutrients into the soil
I bought a few thousand tins of canned vegetables a while ago as it will be too hard to protect a vegetable garden when everyone else starts to go hungry 😢.
Went offgrid and had to start from scratch literally in virgin forest land, bought garden soil ,3 truck loads but my garden was a disaster , very poor soil. So last winter I got rabbits , they're quiet, not smelly and their waste can go directly into the soil. What a different garden this year, it's booming! I even use the urine as a pesticide/fertilizer. 100 ℅ recommend them, they're cheap to feed too.
Lily there is a channel called Self Sufficient Me with a guy from Australia. He does this also and he even adds dead birds and things from around his property. He’s had amazing results. Thanks for the reminder! Trying to build a big compost pile in the suburbs is not easy. This is a great substitute.
personally, I don't want a compost pile....for me its easier to just bury my waste in the beds....during the winter, I do save my egg shells in the freezer so I can use them in the spring....
Mark always brings a smile to my face. He tells the things that work and the ones that didn't. I garden in zone6. I make much of my own compost , a road kill will really help a apple tree do well.
Smart move deciding to cancel the horse manure, given the horses weren't fed a natural/organic diet, and were also on medications. A lot of people would forget to take that into consideration, which is easy to overlook.
I got giant zip ties and set together pallets into 6 big compost bins. I rotate thru filling and clearing them out. I have a small chicken flock & 3 rabbits. Our home made compost nourishes a huge productive garden. We buy no fertilizers. 💓 love your channel Lily. 👌
I was buying compost in 2020 but not anymore ... I got chickens and harvest leaves and fir needles, shred wood etc I make my own compost. I made lots of biochar and then I found a burn pile already mixed with soil so just needs inoculating. I make garden beds by laying out cardboard and piling compost on -- then I use coffee bean bags for the edges and paths. We have very rocky soil because we live in the Rocky mountains in BC so cultivating is not easy. It's excellent soil but so many rocks. The neighbor said "At Harrogate we grow rocks" Thank you for the video --- excellent information!!!
Nice garden Lilly. I have 4 acres in Alaska that I grow all our fruit and vegetables on. I built raised beds inside our 70'x32' foot high tunnel or hoop house. Not sure what you call them in Austria. Right now, I have 36 tomato plants, 24 pepper plants, 52 asparagus plants, 12 cucumber plants, 10 summer squash plants, 10 pie pumpkin plants, 2 horseradish plants, lots of garlic, potatoes, onions, celery, strawberries, apple trees, haskap and raspberries. Every summer I catch a couple hundred wild pacific salmon. I use the salmon carcasses to make compost, along with rabbit and chicken manure. I have a 20-foot shipping container buried into the side of a hill for long term storage of the crops and canned food.
I make my own compost too. What you buy is usually not decomposed enough. All you get is wood shavings or wood chips. Leaves are good to use as a ground cover and then till it in to the soil. One other thing . . . you always crack me up when you say, "it really sucks" I don't know why, just cracks me up.
Are you able to gather scraps from local restaurants? Also used coffee grinds from cafe's and coffee shoppes. Don't forget egg shells are great in the soil. Wood ash from your campfires will supply all the potash your garden would need. I gather mass amounts of wood ash from a local sawmill that burns their sawdust. Happy gathering!
My grandfather was a vegetarian who grew almost all of his own food after retirement. He would allow the corn stalks and tomato plants to naturally decay, cover them with straw for the winter, then roto-till the organic matter into the garden. He would also burn the garden before winter i think he used kerosene. He also would get 2, 55 gallon metal drums with cow manure & compost and roto-till that into the garden before bringing the plants outside to plant them in the garden in the spring time. He would rotate the plot every 7 years to a new location on the property. According to the Bible this is God’s way of growing food plots.
I don't buy any mulch or fertilizer. I use livestock manure and compost on my vegetable garden. I also put the ashes from the fire pits on the vegetable garden and fruit trees. I only buy seeds. In my childhood, human urine and excrement were also driven into the field. You can use that up if you compost carefully for three years. I live in a 19th century house with a good cellar. The cellar holds all the food for the winter and the granary holds the grain. I can fish in summer and winter. We also hunt deer, among other things. I think we will survive here unless the government comes up with something to ban subsistence farming. I'm just about to go blueberry and mushroom picking in a nearby forest.
Compost in place. You can ask your local fish monger for trash fish guts, scales, heads, and bones. You can also ask your butcher for bones, guts, etc. Since you regularly camp in the woods, gather a load of dried leaves. Leaves gathered from the forest floor are the best. Gather rotten tree branches when you can find them. Pack the remains of your campfire (burnt wood and ashes) and/or buy charcoal. Dig deep enough in your beds so it doesn't smell. Put tree branches down first, then the leaves, then the fish/animal guts, then the charcoal/ashes/burnt wood, then leaves, then animal parts, then charcoal, then leaves, then soil. If you can get grass clippings that will be a fantastic addition too. Top with soil and let it all decompose for at least a month.
Enjoyed your garden tour and showing the produce. Quick price update from the USA..Ky to be more exact. A bushel of green beans $70. dollars. Cans of green beans, corn and peas this spring were $.69 cents are now $.99 cents. Seeds are tripled in price. Many stores do not have them this year or the selection is poor. Canning jars are very expensive.
Put your kitchen waste in buckets with rain water. The waste water will be your fertilizer. Check out the viking gardener. Among others. It's so powerful that you'll have to dilute it. Also, egg shells ground up and mixed with vinegar and set aside for 2 weeks will become good calcium deposts mixed with water and used to water your plants. Etc.. charcoal is also good mixed with your liquid kitchen scrap fertilizer, will turn to biochar and help your vegetables to absorb the nutrients from the soil and liquid ferts.
"Put your kitchen waste in buckets with rain water" - dilution is ~1:10. One part "fertilizer" to ten parts plain water. The "charcoal" is real charcoal - not treated charcoal briquets. That sounds like a "Duh!" but some do not know the difference between the two. Great advice though! 😀❤
The ground up shells add calcium but soaking them in vinegar is to increase the acidity of the soil, usually for fruit bushes like blueberries. Ground up egg shells are also a popular way to deter slugs. I do my compost tea in a full sized rain bucket and water liberally with zero dilution. When its empty and i clear out all the gooey plants i'll drain them to create a concentrated fertiliser which needs diluting. Bio-char is used to treat soil and you really need to know your soil compostion and what you're doing before going that route. Have you actually done any of this or just blndly giving tips off of watching other videos?
Hi lily from Australia I live in Tasmania so colder climate than on Mainland my Husband and I made a small solar heater for our greenhouse so in winter we keep it going and it just stops frost and keeps the beds warm enough to still grow. Also do what you do we put scraps in but also have containers we put scraps in has some soil in it to help and when warm we make it a liquid manure and put back into new compost we make. We now make most of our own soil by doing this and going to farmer next door hehe and getting horse manure we keep three laying chickens which helps too.
In my town (USA) in the Autumn, people put their leaves in bags and it goes out for leaf collection. I ask if I can have the leaves; and in the summer, I get grass clippings from a lawn mowing company. The mower fella knows I don't want chemicals in the grass.... And no one sprays their maple, oaks and other trees... so; with both of those, I'm able to make compost. I also use the wood chipper, and chip up all my privet, lilac and other understory branches; and that is added in as well. I flip my compost bi-weekly. It breaks down very fast. I built a 2 bin compost system so the compost is contained. I also use the BOKASHI system. All my "wet" kitchen scraps go in the bokashi bin. I keep a spot in my garden just for burying bokashi. Once the bokashi is ready to be dumped, I put it in the spot deemed for bokashi; the dirt is BLACK GOLD after the worms and other great microbes eat up the bokashi. I use Bokashi tea (diluted) to water my garden. The left over "tea" goes in my pond, where MY maple leaves "fester" from fall to spring. I have a great system here. I have very little food waste; We make correct portions for our meals; and rarely have leftovers. If its 'organic' its composted, and returned to earth.
I have a composter and save all my kitchen scraps too! Egg shells, coffee grounds and scraps from fruits and vegetables are all great for the garden. I also add the ash from my wood stove too! I also relocate earthworms I find in the driveway and place them in my raised beds.
Another thing to consider about using animal manures is if the pastures have been treated with an herbicide called Grazon. If it is used, then the animals eat the grass and weeds and pass it into the manure and then that is passed into your gardens and then your plants will not grow properly or at all in many cases.
@@stshnie indeed! I have heard stories of people who were unaware of it even being a possibility and the negative consequences. If you are counting on a good growing season, it can be devastating!
Thank you for this. My wife has been composting kitchen scraps for a while. I am sharing this with her. She uses a lot of grow bags because our soil still sucks.
I make my own fertilizer (compost teas) (comfrey, fish, microorganisms, nettle) and I have chickens now. You can take the chicken manure and put it in water for a few days and add it to your plants, ratio 1/50. Even my own urine goes into the composter. It is rich in phosphorus, nitrogen, potassium etc. On Saturday I get a trailer full of horse manure from a friend. They only feed organic straw and hay. I will give it to the chickens first so they can pick out the insects, larvae and seeds. I highly recommend "Garden Like A Viking" and "David The Good".
Thank you Lily! Great video. I also put some really old wood at the bottom of my raised beds, which acts as a sponge to hold rainwater for a long time. And I compost my own manure, which is normal. People think it's strange, but it isn't. I have read about this practice, how to do it safely, and done my research. It's amazing, easy, and a winner for the planet and my garden. Next for me will be rabbits and chickens. Love to you from the Chicago area. -Robert
In Hi dear, your garden is beautifully done ! When winter comes, you can cover the top of the soil with collected dried weeds if you don’t have pile of hay or straws. It keeps generating heat for the compost worms to be active even in cold winter. (& Could cover with tarp or card boards over the dried weeds too)
Fantastic, thank you Lilly. Have a small balcony bed, and window setup's, it's great growing food, even in a small space, you make the most of things .. great job.
You are already aware compost is nothing more than reclaimed fibers and vegetable/grain food scraps, except not meats, or fats. If you want to move from direct composting to constant composting you will want to buy 5 gallon buckets with lids, or something like that you have available locally. Each day you have table scraps to compost, put it in the bucket and cover with the lid. After a day, or two, you want to put some dry materials, which can be dried grass clippings, tree leaves, or pretty much anything ready to compost as the "brown" (dry fiber) component. The purpose of the brown component is to help control the wet parts, which is normally your kitchen scraps. If you are doing this each day whenever the wet parts are available, by the next spring you have compost ready to feed new seedlings. You may even want to add lots of water to make a soup, but smell can be an issue. It will likely take more than a month for the smell to be controlled to a pleasing degree. Add the compost soup between the plants since it isn't the soup the plants feed from, but what the soil critters leave behind after consuming the compost soup. Just be careful not to drown the critters, so too much rain/watering can delay progress.
On your advice, Lily, I planted tiger nuts this year. I haven’t harvested any yet, but they are thriving in two patches, which look like ornamental grasses, in my front yard.
When I first received my garden plots I pulled so many easy to pull out sedges including the "nuts" in ignorance. I have learned in Lilly's previous video about these TIGER NUTS and have allowed them to grow this year. Hopefully I am not too late to harvest them. Have to check info.
It'd be cool if the cages could be put directly over the beds. No shoveling the rabbit poop. I put bins under my rabbit pens. They were large and part of each one was closed in and the other part was covered but wire on the sides and bottom. I had two rabbits in each hutch.
I saw a RUclips channel where they built Portable That they could wheel Around the property to allow it to fall directly on the ground in those areas for a certain number of days and then they would move then to another area That way it didn't happen have to be collected in a That way it didn't have to be collected in a bin it just That way it didn't have to be collected in a bin it just went That way it didn't have to be collected in a bin it just went directly on the groundground. Very clever idea
Good to see your garden. Still struggling with mine. My Jersualem Atrichokes (Sunchoke) are mostly in 5 gallon and are quite tall. My first year. If you want to make tomato sauce you likely want a paste tomato like Roma-style. They have more meat. You can dehydrate them and have your own "sun dried" tomatos. Also I do freeze dry my excess and the powder can be used for many things depending on how much water you add. It is a shame my (adult) daughter has such a strong allergy.
Great idea! I just start a compost heap - put in grass cuttings, vegetable / kitchen scraps, the leftovers from my garlic harvesting, and the leaves that drop in autumn, bits of cardboard(with the cello tape removed) broken egg shells and all the remnants of tomato plans/other vegetable plants that have done their cycle. Nothing is wasted. left for a year or so :)
Lilly I just love your videos. I am always interested in what is going on in Europe since the news really tells us nothing. Thank you for keeping us updated and for this great gardening video.
In the autumn, go to the forest and rake up fallen leaves. They are totally organic. Cover your raised beds with a deep layer of leaves. Maple leaves are the best because the worms love them, but any leaves will work. In the spring, move the leaves aside and plant your vegetables. When your plants are small, surround them with the remaining leaves, just don't cover the stems. This will keep the ground moist, suppress weeds, and feed the worms and soil biota. You will be delighted with the results. Sometimes, a farmer will let you haul away spoiled hay. It got rained on, and the cows won't eat it, but the worms will. Of course, it may not be organic.
Avoid using the leaves of the beech trees, the holly leaves and the leaves of Laburnum bushes as they take a long time to start to breakdown and the worms will also reject the leaves of these trees and bushes as they are virtually inedible for the worms. This is why if you walk around a beech tree at any time of the year you will find that the dead leaves will be thick enough to cover the tops of your boots. The leaf litter from these trees is also a great way to pick up ticks.
Comfrey is a good option as a fertilizer as well as alpaca poop. Some people also collect their weeds and put them in a bucket with some rain water for a few weeks and use it as well.
Greetings again Lilly. My wife watched this, really liked it, and wanted me to comment on what she has done that REALLY helped with cucumbers. After getting marginal results for a few years, this year she has occasionally sprayed a baking soda and water solution on them, and poured any extra in their grow-bags. They have been much more prolific, and she is getting a lot of cucumbers for her salads now. I hope you find this helpful.
You have a very beautiful garden. Glad it produces well for you. I have always done conventional gardening, tilling or discing the earth, making rows or mounds, etc. , but I will start making some raised beds similar to yours and making a good soil. I always used the dirt in my field, some crops do well but i haven't had good luck with crops like carrots, onions and garlic.
My wife is a teacher, and the schools are now broken up for summer. This is the time the school renews the things in the playground. I’ve just dismantled a couple of huts that were about to be skipped, all good wood. I have enough wood now to make at least 8, 4x4 raised beds, and many, many more planters, and bird and bat houses. I’m sure I’m creating more CO2 though doing this up cycling. I don’t know, what do you think about it me lovely?
We NEED more CO2. It is at it's lowest level it has ever been. The Green agenda is killing us because CO2 equals abundant life. We have been lied to in the most egregious way, my friend.
I wonder why you do not have an old-fashioned compost heap? I have two side-by-side: one I build up with kitchen scraps, grass clippings (often contains soil because of molde hills), leaves. The other one is ripe compost from the year before and I use for the raised beds. Then I cover the current heap with a fine-meshed insect net (it is under an oak, so the acorns do not fall into the compost) and I fill the empty container for next year. This works very well and it costs nothing.
We bought 32 gallon black plastic garbage bins with lids. My hubby drilled about a 2” hole around them and that’s what we put our scraps in. He only leaves them for a month or so, then works them into our raised beds. We also rinse and save all our egg shells, mince them fine and add them to our beds. We buy back yard chicken eggs from friends, bought two 5 gallon buckets for them to put the chicken compost into and we spread them into our beds. I have two 10’ long beds that are three boards high, X 4’ wide, two 10’ long three board high X 2’ wide beds, two 10’x 2 boards high X 2’ high, and 2 10’ long X 1 board high. We must be doing “something” right, because I planted 10 pounds of organic potatoes and got 80 pounds back. lol We just finished the 1 board high beds for our tomatoes next year. This year, I had them in the 3 board high gardens and I needed a 4’ step ladder to “step” into the garden so I could tie them up, and now I’m not tall enough. In truth, I have “sequoia” tomato plants in my garden, you can’t even believe how tall they are or how much they’ve produced. I’ve got my garlic ready for fall planting, and have two beds ready for these. He put rocks in the bottom of our gardens to help reduce the amount of dirt required to fill them, and then just had dirt delivered through the company he works for. I had to pay the delivery guys in my homemade bread. lol As far as fertilizer, we just use some organic stuff he mixes up, but we only use it a couple of times a season. Weeds aren’t much, so lucky there. And maybe because they’re so high, bugs aren’t too bad either. Good luck to everyone … IF someone would have told me I’d have a huge garden, and that I’d be canning the food I do in my retirement, I’d have sent them for a mental health evaluation, yet here I am living that life. We also sign off on 5 acres with a creek on it this Friday, so if this debacle comes off the tracks we have property to build on and move too. I’m so over ALL OF IT! Good luck, God bless, pray and prep. ❤️❤️❤️
Wahta coincidence, just watched your adventure on Naked and Afraid. Great job out there, I am from an area about 100 miles north of where you were and its very much same climate. The heat, terrain, weather, and the challenges are no joke. You guys did awesome!
Hi @survival Lilly I also bury kitchen scraps in my garden. But I also started removing the weeds that sprout in my garden and bury the weed plants too. I usually pu the weeds out before they go to seed.
Miss Lilly, buy yourself a cheap blender and mark for garden use only. Your food scraps cut up a little smaller and blend with clean water. No water with chlorine or chloride, but you can off gas it if that’s all you have. Then dig a trench and pour the slurry into it. As for weeds you can chop and drop them in they will also feed. Some people feel their weeds have seeds, you can pour boiling water on them, that should kill the seeds. And then use as fertilizer. Of course let it cool off.😃feed the soil and th soil will feed your vegetables. Hope this helped.
Liebe Lilly, diesen schwarzen, kleinen Küchenabfallbehälter hab ich auch. Genau den - ja, ich hab ganz genau geschaut! 😉 Ich war damals die einzige, die den bestellt hat. Dabei ist der echt praktisch - zum Einhängen am Türl und mit grünem Deckel. Schön, dass ich nicht die einzige bin auf der Welt, die den benützt. Danke (nicht nur für diese Erkenntnis, sondern) für das Video!
Just a tip to add food waste to the beds while they have plants in them…..get PVC pipe that’s 4-6 inches diameter and at least 1 1/2 feet long, these sizes can vary so just find free scraps that are left over cut off’s. Drill holes all over pipe, just big enough for worms to fit through, dig a hole in the middle of your bed and bury the pipe vertically leaving enough sticking up so you can find it or if your pipe is longer, it can stick up more. Now just put your scraps in the pipe as you get them and worms will do the rest !!! You can put a PVC cap on it or I just set a saucer (small plate) on top to keep critters out. The sizes and depths can be whatever works for you, the pipe you have and how deep your bed is. But there has to be worms in the bed !
You should look into one of those kitchen counter composters. You put your kitchen scraps in it and in 24 hours it is compost. It looks amazing. Of course it takes electricity to run.
Where do you/neighbors get rid of lawn cuttings after mowing? I mulch my plants with my grass cuttings to keep weeds down, then till into the soil in the spring. This way, I don't have to pay the garbage man to haul away. Saves money plus fertilizes my soil and helps break down the clay soil.
Awesome garden Lilly. I see you put a sprig of Lavender with your garlic. To keep bugs away? My chickens get on my Lavender plant and roll around on it. I was going to get some potting mix, but it went to 25 dollars a bag from 9 dollars. I had some cumbers die off too. What a year. Love your raised beds
Hello from Virginia USA zone 7a! At the end of growing season, you could try a cover crop of cold hardy clover for nitrogen or some other cold hardy vegis covered by straw or fall leaves. Then just cut and chop them into the soil and let it feed the worms! Good job! Looks great!
Loved seeing all of your garden! Thanks to one of your previous videos I started growing Jerusalem artichokes and tiger nuts. I wanted to share a photo of my garden here but not sure how.
Great minds think alike. Same here with the organic soil, then disappointing compost from a local farm that was off the charts alkaline. I just compost directly in the beds now, in pieces, and add chopped up banana peels and dried leaves. I have soul test strips and those help. Your garden looks great!
Lily, do you ever use the hugelkultur method? That would save using some soil and create some heat for the garden to sometimes last longer entering winter.
Great info !. Liked the videos on solar as well .. You're thinking outside the prepper box .. Bushcraft skill are great and everyone does those but you're providing great info outside the box .. Anyway you really are providing good info and its presented well.. You do a great job .. Thanks ..
This idea is ok for root crop beds but for my other raised beds i like to stick to the no dig principle. My garden waste bin is my stage one composter and has never been put out since they were introduced lol infact i still have one of the original recycle tubs we had before the bins which i use for weeding and stuff. I have a dog so my back garden is a mix of grass and raised beds. I will add a layer of grass on the beds every now and again when i think they need it. Theres a farmers field with a stream and willow trees opposite my house, i harvest the willows to make my own trellises which eventually end up as wood chips. Got a few barrels so make compost tea in one of them, doesn't need diluting.
Making your compost and fertilizer are the absolute easiest. Horse, chicken or cow manure is the easiest. If you do not have any close, you can typically call most any farm and they will sell it to you or most will let you have it for free. I use kitchen scraps for compost and get my friends to keep theirs and I collect it. I keep my coffee grounds, chicken egg shells and banana peels to spread around. A veggie garden is very easy. Heirloom seeds are the easiest due to being able to keep your seeds from your harvest for next year.
You could grom some oil hemp. Excelent for tea and green powder to use in smoothies fow example. Helthy seed's. Natural cbd. High plant so it will not take a lot of space. You can grow some thing underneath it. Finola is a Finish oil hemp that is grown on feilds too.
Great video, Lily. I've been following you for a while, but this might be my first comment. I'm a US citizen, but lived in Scotland for about 20 years. Even though I have acreage now, I didn't for a long time and prefer containers and raised beds. I had 2 donkeys for several years, and a couple cows. They made composting easy. But I did exactly what you're doing in a raised bed. I turned all my raised beds into a worm farm. I have rabbits now. They are perfect 'fertilizer', or compost. I went back to Scotland for 5 years and the guy on my farm, let it go to weeds. All my worms and my huge green house are gone. 12 years of work gone and I'm starting over. I'm old now, 67. But I know what I'm doing, which helps. Thank you for encouraging young people to do this. I appreciate you very much!
With all due respect, so you’re not 21 anymore. Are you healthy are you well. When you’re let’s say.. 86 you’ll look back and think 67 wasn’t so old after, all. Retirement is a “man-made” conventional, construct that deserves the two finger salute if it talks any healthy 67 yr old into accepting the “I’m an old person,” mindset. We are conditioned to believe it & more. Bollicks. With so called age comes wisdom and like a good wine, maturity. Age is just a number. Take good care of yourself. Love yourself. Steer, clear of non-organic everything but yes, you will be an aged 67 year old if that is your mindset. “Drop it.” I’m trying to save your ass here 🙏🏼💕🙏🏼
Great comment I'm older 68 and our kids need to learn I didn't like gardening when I was young 5 to 20 I weeded moms garden hated it but it took I'm retired and my most best thing is my garden
I am not a gardener or a survivalist. I just really like Lilly. She is so nice.
Yes It is true 👍 , and she always give practical solutions , there is no porn fear
To make soil, I mulch up the leaves from my maple trees in the fall and pile them up on my raised beds. Over the winter I stir them up every once in a while and when spring comes my raised bed is full of nice rich mulch/ soil.
My wife started doing exactly that about 3 years ago and my soil looks and feels great. The worm population has doubled and my yield is as good if not better than when I used store bought compost
Yes, store bought compost definitely not as good these days, and dearer!
We used to make Grandma juice. Cow or horse shit in a dust bin 1/3 full and 2/3 rain water, allow to marinate for a few weeks then use to water plants.
Kitchen waste, grass cuttings, newspaper, leaves, fish etc in a separate compost bin.
Ask your local council what free waste they have, grass cuttings from parks etc.
Leave 1 bed empty for a season to allow it to rejuvenate itself. Rotate the veg in a different bed each year.
Check soil ph levels. Some plants wont grow if certain other plants have been there the year before.
It is important to nurture the soil just as much as the plants, treat it like another plant 😊
Good to see old knowledge in the modern world. My grandfather used to dig a trench down his vegi garden, fill it with scraps, cover and leave that strip fallow for 6 months. He was doing this in the 1930's. Thanks for another great video Lilly!😀
I’ve done that for years. I call it “compost in place.” Sometimes I get amazing surprise crops: garlic, potatoes, tomatoes, arugula, and pumpkins. I’m in the US South.
As a life-long herbalist, I know that finding a decaying log covered in moss in the woods provides excellent biomaterial for your soil. Such logs are rich in mycelium, which is beneficial for plant roots. You can break up the softer pieces and mix them with your soil. However, it's important to only harvest a maximum of half of the log, and only take one log out of every seven in the area to ensure that there will always be plenty for both your needs and nature.
I might be wrong, but if I'm not mistaken in Austria, there are laws that you can not take anything from the forest.
Another good practice is to harvest stinging nettles and other green matter, put it into 5 gallon buckets, top it up with water and leave to sit, stirring occasionally for a few weeks. When ready, put the water into a watering can, dilute at a ratio of 10/1 ratio of water to liquid fertiliser you've made and supply to the soil. Stinging nettles are abundant around Europe and as we ell know, it spreads like wildfire...so never a problem to find it. Broken down to a fertiliser, it will put back so many great nutrients into the soil
Drink nettle as a tea, very healtjy🙂
This is a great method to great fertilizer spray!
I bought a few thousand tins of canned vegetables a while ago as it will be too hard to protect a vegetable garden when everyone else starts to go hungry 😢.
Me too! 😊. Plus I canned 100's of jars of meat, everything except goat!
Went offgrid and had to start from scratch literally in virgin forest land, bought garden soil ,3 truck loads but my garden was a disaster , very poor soil.
So last winter I got rabbits , they're quiet, not smelly and their waste can go directly into the soil. What a different garden this year, it's booming! I even use the urine as a pesticide/fertilizer. 100 ℅ recommend them, they're cheap to feed too.
Big mistake could have tilled that virgin forest soil newly laid topsoil is almost sterile only comes good approx 2 years
Rabbit good for helping to heat a green house in cold weather
Forests usually have the best soil its where ai get mine from all free of course
@@Napoleonwilson1973
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Lily there is a channel called Self Sufficient Me with a guy from Australia. He does this also and he even adds dead birds and things from around his property. He’s had amazing results. Thanks for the reminder! Trying to build a big compost pile in the suburbs is not easy. This is a great substitute.
Works better in a warmer climate.
personally, I don't want a compost pile....for me its easier to just bury my waste in the beds....during the winter, I do save my egg shells in the freezer so I can use them in the spring....
You have to remember too that he lives in SE tropical queensland. A lot of his success is due to the warm weather.
I often watch his channel too.... Great for gardening.... But of course for tomatoes he lives in the perfect climate.
Mark always brings a smile to my face. He tells the things that work and the ones that didn't. I garden in zone6. I make much of my own compost , a road kill will really help a apple tree do well.
Nice garden Lilly!🌸
plant more berries.
Add Fishbones to promote root growth😊 go to market where are fish are filleted and ask for the bones some people give them and some people sell them😊
Smart move deciding to cancel the horse manure, given the horses weren't fed a natural/organic diet, and were also on medications. A lot of people would forget to take that into consideration, which is easy to overlook.
I got giant zip ties and set together pallets into 6 big compost bins. I rotate thru filling and clearing them out. I have a small chicken flock & 3 rabbits. Our home made compost nourishes a huge productive garden. We buy no fertilizers. 💓 love your channel Lily. 👌
The tradition of growing a vegetable garden is still alive in Lithuania. My parents still grow potatoes.
I was buying compost in 2020 but not anymore ... I got chickens and harvest leaves and fir needles, shred wood etc I make my own compost. I made lots of biochar and then I found a burn pile already mixed with soil so just needs inoculating.
I make garden beds by laying out cardboard and piling compost on -- then I use coffee bean bags for the edges and paths. We have very rocky soil because we live in the Rocky mountains in BC so cultivating is not easy. It's excellent soil but so many rocks. The neighbor said "At Harrogate we grow rocks"
Thank you for the video --- excellent information!!!
Thank you, Lilly! Your garden looks great, and very practical! ❤
Nice garden Lilly. I have 4 acres in Alaska that I grow all our fruit and vegetables on. I built raised beds inside our 70'x32' foot high tunnel or hoop house. Not sure what you call them in Austria. Right now, I have 36 tomato plants, 24 pepper plants, 52 asparagus plants, 12 cucumber plants, 10 summer squash plants, 10 pie pumpkin plants, 2 horseradish plants, lots of garlic, potatoes, onions, celery, strawberries, apple trees, haskap and raspberries. Every summer I catch a couple hundred wild pacific salmon. I use the salmon carcasses to make compost, along with rabbit and chicken manure. I have a 20-foot shipping container buried into the side of a hill for long term storage of the crops and canned food.
I make my own compost too. What you buy is usually not decomposed enough. All you get is wood shavings or wood chips. Leaves are good to use as a ground cover and then till it in to the soil. One other thing . . . you always crack me up when you say, "it really sucks" I don't know why, just cracks me up.
Are you able to gather scraps from local restaurants? Also used coffee grinds from cafe's and coffee shoppes. Don't forget egg shells are great in the soil. Wood ash from your campfires will supply all the potash your garden would need. I gather mass amounts of wood ash from a local sawmill that burns their sawdust. Happy gathering!
Rabbit poo is good fertilizer, make your own compost and raise worms for the casings.
raise rabbit is great i hear there poo is the best
Tree leaf compost is at least twice as good as using animal shit....But it doesn't matter, facts have no effect on most of you.
My grandfather was a vegetarian who grew almost all of his own food after retirement. He would allow the corn stalks and tomato plants to naturally decay, cover them with straw for the winter, then roto-till the organic matter into the garden. He would also burn the garden before winter i think he used kerosene. He also would get 2, 55 gallon metal drums with cow manure & compost and roto-till that into the garden before bringing the plants outside to plant them in the garden in the spring time. He would rotate the plot every 7 years to a new location on the property. According to the Bible this is God’s way of growing food plots.
I don't buy any mulch or fertilizer. I use livestock manure and compost on my vegetable garden. I also put the ashes from the fire pits on the vegetable garden and fruit trees. I only buy seeds. In my childhood, human urine and excrement were also driven into the field. You can use that up if you compost carefully for three years. I live in a 19th century house with a good cellar. The cellar holds all the food for the winter and the granary holds the grain. I can fish in summer and winter. We also hunt deer, among other things. I think we will survive here unless the government comes up with something to ban subsistence farming.
I'm just about to go blueberry and mushroom picking in a nearby forest.
Compost in place. You can ask your local fish monger for trash fish guts, scales, heads, and bones. You can also ask your butcher for bones, guts, etc. Since you regularly camp in the woods, gather a load of dried leaves. Leaves gathered from the forest floor are the best. Gather rotten tree branches when you can find them. Pack the remains of your campfire (burnt wood and ashes) and/or buy charcoal. Dig deep enough in your beds so it doesn't smell. Put tree branches down first, then the leaves, then the fish/animal guts, then the charcoal/ashes/burnt wood, then leaves, then animal parts, then charcoal, then leaves, then soil. If you can get grass clippings that will be a fantastic addition too. Top with soil and let it all decompose for at least a month.
Enjoyed your garden tour and showing the produce. Quick price update from the USA..Ky to be more exact. A bushel of green beans $70. dollars. Cans of green beans, corn and peas this spring were $.69 cents are now $.99 cents. Seeds are tripled in price. Many stores do not have them this year or the selection is poor. Canning jars are very expensive.
Put your kitchen waste in buckets with rain water. The waste water will be your fertilizer. Check out the viking gardener. Among others. It's so powerful that you'll have to dilute it. Also, egg shells ground up and mixed with vinegar and set aside for 2 weeks will become good calcium deposts mixed with water and used to water your plants. Etc.. charcoal is also good mixed with your liquid kitchen scrap fertilizer, will turn to biochar and help your vegetables to absorb the nutrients from the soil and liquid ferts.
how long does it take to make the compost tea with the kitchen wastes?
"Put your kitchen waste in buckets with rain water" - dilution is ~1:10. One part "fertilizer" to ten parts plain water.
The "charcoal" is real charcoal - not treated charcoal briquets. That sounds like a "Duh!" but some do not know the difference between the two.
Great advice though! 😀❤
The ground up shells add calcium but soaking them in vinegar is to increase the acidity of the soil, usually for fruit bushes like blueberries. Ground up egg shells are also a popular way to deter slugs. I do my compost tea in a full sized rain bucket and water liberally with zero dilution. When its empty and i clear out all the gooey plants i'll drain them to create a concentrated fertiliser which needs diluting. Bio-char is used to treat soil and you really need to know your soil compostion and what you're doing before going that route. Have you actually done any of this or just blndly giving tips off of watching other videos?
You can always ask neighbors for their kitchen scraps as well. Esp. if they don't garden - if you give them a bucket, they may be happy to share.
Hi lily from Australia I live in Tasmania so colder climate than on Mainland my Husband and I made a small solar heater for our greenhouse so in winter we keep it going and it just stops frost and keeps the beds warm enough to still grow. Also do what you do we put scraps in but also have containers we put scraps in has some soil in it to help and when warm we make it a liquid manure and put back into new compost we make. We now make most of our own soil by doing this and going to farmer next door hehe and getting horse manure we keep three laying chickens which helps too.
Good tip for compost in raised bed , thanks . I like your garden Lilly !
In my town (USA) in the Autumn, people put their leaves in bags and it goes out for leaf collection.
I ask if I can have the leaves; and in the summer, I get grass clippings from a lawn mowing company.
The mower fella knows I don't want chemicals in the grass....
And no one sprays their maple, oaks and other trees... so; with both of those, I'm able to make compost.
I also use the wood chipper, and chip up all my privet, lilac and other understory branches; and that is added in as well.
I flip my compost bi-weekly. It breaks down very fast.
I built a 2 bin compost system so the compost is contained.
I also use the BOKASHI system.
All my "wet" kitchen scraps go in the bokashi bin.
I keep a spot in my garden just for burying bokashi.
Once the bokashi is ready to be dumped, I put it in the spot deemed for bokashi; the dirt is BLACK GOLD
after the worms and other great microbes eat up the bokashi.
I use Bokashi tea (diluted) to water my garden.
The left over "tea" goes in my pond, where MY maple leaves "fester" from fall to spring.
I have a great system here.
I have very little food waste; We make correct portions for our meals; and rarely have leftovers.
If its 'organic' its composted, and returned to earth.
That's exactly how I compost at times. I tried it as an experiment many years ago and was surprised at how fast it broke down.
I have a composter and save all my kitchen scraps too! Egg shells, coffee grounds and scraps from fruits and vegetables are all great for the garden. I also add the ash from my wood stove too! I also relocate earthworms I find in the driveway and place them in my raised beds.
Another thing to consider about using animal manures is if the pastures have been treated with an herbicide called Grazon. If it is used, then the animals eat the grass and weeds and pass it into the manure and then that is passed into your gardens and then your plants will not grow properly or at all in many cases.
Yes. That’s what I was thinking. It’s called aminopyralid contamination and can wreak havoc in a garden.
@@stshnie indeed! I have heard stories of people who were unaware of it even being a possibility and the negative consequences. If you are counting on a good growing season, it can be devastating!
Greetings from Illinois USA! Thank you for sharing your wisdom and experience!
Thank you for this. My wife has been composting kitchen scraps for a while. I am sharing this with her. She uses a lot of grow bags because our soil still sucks.
Hi Lilly! Love your garden/green house😊! Could you do a future video on how you harvest various crops that you are growing?
I make my own fertilizer (compost teas) (comfrey, fish, microorganisms, nettle) and I have chickens now. You can take the chicken manure and put it in water for a few days and add it to your plants, ratio 1/50. Even my own urine goes into the composter. It is rich in phosphorus, nitrogen, potassium etc.
On Saturday I get a trailer full of horse manure from a friend. They only feed organic straw and hay. I will give it to the chickens first so they can pick out the insects, larvae and seeds.
I highly recommend "Garden Like A Viking" and "David The Good".
Thank you Lily! Great video. I also put some really old wood at the bottom of my raised beds, which acts as a sponge to hold rainwater for a long time. And I compost my own manure, which is normal. People think it's strange, but it isn't. I have read about this practice, how to do it safely, and done my research. It's amazing, easy, and a winner for the planet and my garden. Next for me will be rabbits and chickens. Love to you from the Chicago area. -Robert
More gardening videos please!
Your gardens look nice.
In Hi dear, your garden is beautifully done !
When winter comes, you can cover the top of the soil with collected dried weeds if you don’t have pile of hay or straws. It keeps generating heat for the compost worms to be active even in cold winter. (& Could cover with tarp or card boards over the dried weeds too)
Fantastic, thank you Lilly. Have a small balcony bed, and window setup's, it's great growing food, even in a small space, you make the most of things .. great job.
You are already aware compost is nothing more than reclaimed fibers and vegetable/grain food scraps, except not meats, or fats. If you want to move from direct composting to constant composting you will want to buy 5 gallon buckets with lids, or something like that you have available locally. Each day you have table scraps to compost, put it in the bucket and cover with the lid. After a day, or two, you want to put some dry materials, which can be dried grass clippings, tree leaves, or pretty much anything ready to compost as the "brown" (dry fiber) component. The purpose of the brown component is to help control the wet parts, which is normally your kitchen scraps. If you are doing this each day whenever the wet parts are available, by the next spring you have compost ready to feed new seedlings. You may even want to add lots of water to make a soup, but smell can be an issue. It will likely take more than a month for the smell to be controlled to a pleasing degree. Add the compost soup between the plants since it isn't the soup the plants feed from, but what the soil critters leave behind after consuming the compost soup. Just be careful not to drown the critters, so too much rain/watering can delay progress.
Great video, Lily. I've been composting in my beds for years here in Texas. You have a wonderful garden!
Hi Lilly- beautiful garden! I used shredded deciduous leaves as a base for my beds. Good Work!☮️&🌱
Vitamin Pee. Works amazing.
10-2-4 npk PLUS lots of other super important minerals.
On your advice, Lily, I planted tiger nuts this year. I haven’t harvested any yet, but they are thriving in two patches, which look like ornamental grasses, in my front yard.
When I first received my garden plots I pulled so many easy to pull out sedges including the "nuts" in ignorance. I have learned in Lilly's previous video about these TIGER NUTS and have allowed them to grow this year. Hopefully I am not too late to harvest them. Have to check info.
Beautiful work Lilly!!
1) Keep a couple of rabbits and chickens for their droppings.
It'd be cool if the cages could be put directly over the beds. No shoveling the rabbit poop. I put bins under my rabbit pens. They were large and part of each one was closed in and the other part was covered but wire on the sides and bottom. I had two rabbits in each hutch.
I saw a RUclips channel where they built Portable That they could wheel Around the property to allow it to fall directly on the ground in those areas for a certain number of days and then they would move then to another area That way it didn't happen have to be collected in a That way it didn't have to be collected in a bin it just That way it didn't have to be collected in a bin it just went That way it didn't have to be collected in a bin it just went directly on the groundground. Very clever idea
They will eat the veggies :)
@@anniereddj The chickens and rabbits will eat the leaf scraps from the garden.
@larissagildarasina7580 You keep them in their cages, and you feed them the leaves and scraps from harvested veggies.
Good to see your garden. Still struggling with mine. My Jersualem Atrichokes (Sunchoke) are mostly in 5 gallon and are quite tall. My first year. If you want to make tomato sauce you likely want a paste tomato like Roma-style. They have more meat. You can dehydrate them and have your own "sun dried" tomatos. Also I do freeze dry my excess and the powder can be used for many things depending on how much water you add. It is a shame my (adult) daughter has such a strong allergy.
Great idea!
I just start a compost heap - put in grass cuttings, vegetable / kitchen scraps, the leftovers from my garlic harvesting, and the leaves that drop in autumn, bits of cardboard(with the cello tape removed) broken egg shells and all the remnants of tomato plans/other vegetable plants that have done their cycle. Nothing is wasted. left for a year or so :)
Composting in place it wonderful
Lilly I just love your videos. I am always interested in what is going on in Europe since the news really tells us nothing. Thank you for keeping us updated and for this great gardening video.
In the autumn, go to the forest and rake up fallen leaves. They are totally organic. Cover your raised beds with a deep layer of leaves. Maple leaves are the best because the worms love them, but any leaves will work. In the spring, move the leaves aside and plant your vegetables. When your plants are small, surround them with the remaining leaves, just don't cover the stems. This will keep the ground moist, suppress weeds, and feed the worms and soil biota. You will be delighted with the results.
Sometimes, a farmer will let you haul away spoiled hay. It got rained on, and the cows won't eat it, but the worms will. Of course, it may not be organic.
Avoid using the leaves of the beech trees, the holly leaves and the leaves of Laburnum bushes as they take a long time to start to breakdown and the worms will also reject the leaves of these trees and bushes as they are virtually
inedible for the worms. This is why if you walk around a beech tree at any time of the year you will find that the dead leaves will be thick enough to cover the tops of your boots. The leaf litter from these trees is also a great way to pick up ticks.
@@andrewcoates6641 Pine needles are also bad, because they are too acidic for anything other than berries. And laurel hedge leaves are poisonous.
Comfrey is a good option as a fertilizer as well as alpaca poop. Some people also collect their weeds and put them in a bucket with some rain water for a few weeks and use it as well.
Very pretty garden❤
Greetings again Lilly. My wife watched this, really liked it, and wanted me to comment on what she has done that REALLY helped with cucumbers. After getting marginal results for a few years, this year she has occasionally sprayed a baking soda and water solution on them, and poured any extra in their grow-bags. They have been much more prolific, and she is getting a lot of cucumbers for her salads now. I hope you find this helpful.
You have a very beautiful garden. Glad it produces well for you. I have always done conventional gardening, tilling or discing the earth, making rows or mounds, etc. , but I will start making some raised beds similar to yours and making a good soil. I always used the dirt in my field, some crops do well but i haven't had good luck with crops like carrots, onions and garlic.
My wife is a teacher, and the schools are now broken up for summer. This is the time the school renews the things in the playground. I’ve just dismantled a couple of huts that were about to be skipped, all good wood. I have enough wood now to make at least 8, 4x4 raised beds, and many, many more planters, and bird and bat houses.
I’m sure I’m creating more CO2 though doing this up cycling. I don’t know, what do you think about it me lovely?
We NEED more CO2. It is at it's lowest level it has ever been. The Green agenda is killing us because CO2 equals abundant life. We have been lied to in the most egregious way, my friend.
Good. The plants need the CO2 to grow!
I wonder why you do not have an old-fashioned compost heap? I have two side-by-side: one I build up with kitchen scraps, grass clippings (often contains soil because of molde hills), leaves. The other one is ripe compost from the year before and I use for the raised beds. Then I cover the current heap with a fine-meshed insect net (it is under an oak, so the acorns do not fall into the compost) and I fill the empty container for next year. This works very well and it costs nothing.
We bought 32 gallon black plastic garbage bins with lids. My hubby drilled about a 2” hole around them and that’s what we put our scraps in. He only leaves them for a month or so, then works them into our raised beds. We also rinse and save all our egg shells, mince them fine and add them to our beds. We buy back yard chicken eggs from friends, bought two 5 gallon buckets for them to put the chicken compost into and we spread them into our beds. I have two 10’ long beds that are three boards high, X 4’ wide, two 10’ long three board high X 2’ wide beds, two 10’x 2 boards high X 2’ high, and 2 10’ long X 1 board high. We must be doing “something” right, because I planted 10 pounds of organic potatoes and got 80 pounds back. lol We just finished the 1 board high beds for our tomatoes next year. This year, I had them in the 3 board high gardens and I needed a 4’ step ladder to “step” into the garden so I could tie them up, and now I’m not tall enough. In truth, I have “sequoia” tomato plants in my garden, you can’t even believe how tall they are or how much they’ve produced. I’ve got my garlic ready for fall planting, and have two beds ready for these. He put rocks in the bottom of our gardens to help reduce the amount of dirt required to fill them, and then just had dirt delivered through the company he works for. I had to pay the delivery guys in my homemade bread. lol As far as fertilizer, we just use some organic stuff he mixes up, but we only use it a couple of times a season. Weeds aren’t much, so lucky there. And maybe because they’re so high, bugs aren’t too bad either. Good luck to everyone … IF someone would have told me I’d have a huge garden, and that I’d be canning the food I do in my retirement, I’d have sent them for a mental health evaluation, yet here I am living that life. We also sign off on 5 acres with a creek on it this Friday, so if this debacle comes off the tracks we have property to build on and move too. I’m so over ALL OF IT! Good luck, God bless, pray and prep. ❤️❤️❤️
This is a great video. Thanks for your efforts from Alaska
Wahta coincidence, just watched your adventure on Naked and Afraid. Great job out there, I am from an area about 100 miles north of where you were and its very much same climate. The heat, terrain, weather, and the challenges are no joke. You guys did awesome!
Hi @survival Lilly I also bury kitchen scraps in my garden. But I also started removing the weeds that sprout in my garden and bury the weed plants too. I usually pu the weeds out before they go to seed.
Nice garden ❤ we need to do what we can
Lilly Mi amiga de Austria saludos desde Uruguay, 🇺🇾👍
Thanks Lilly! You have made a really inspirational and positivity promoting video! ❤
Miss Lilly, buy yourself a cheap blender and mark for garden use only. Your food scraps cut up a little smaller and blend with clean water. No water with chlorine or chloride, but you can off gas it if that’s all you have. Then dig a trench and pour the slurry into it. As for weeds you can chop and drop them in they will also feed. Some people feel their weeds have seeds, you can pour boiling water on them, that should kill the seeds. And then use as fertilizer. Of course let it cool off.😃feed the soil and th soil will feed your vegetables. Hope this helped.
Lilly, what about having bees, butterflies and pollinators around? In your greenhouse, with tomatoes and strawberries etc.?
Thanks for the tour!
Your garden is looking great! It can be hard work but it’s very rewarding
You’ve learned a lot with your garden! Nice job
So interesting!!! Information I can use!! Thank you Lilly !!!!
I love you girl! You are so intelligent about actual real life and living. Thank you 👍🏻
Liebe Lilly, diesen schwarzen, kleinen Küchenabfallbehälter hab ich auch. Genau den - ja, ich hab ganz genau geschaut! 😉 Ich war damals die einzige, die den bestellt hat. Dabei ist der echt praktisch - zum Einhängen am Türl und mit grünem Deckel. Schön, dass ich nicht die einzige bin auf der Welt, die den benützt. Danke (nicht nur für diese Erkenntnis, sondern) für das Video!
Just a tip to add food waste to the beds while they have plants in them…..get PVC pipe that’s 4-6 inches diameter and at least 1 1/2 feet long, these sizes can vary so just find free scraps that are left over cut off’s. Drill holes all over pipe, just big enough for worms to fit through, dig a hole in the middle of your bed and bury the pipe vertically leaving enough sticking up so you can find it or if your pipe is longer, it can stick up more. Now just put your scraps in the pipe as you get them and worms will do the rest !!! You can put a PVC cap on it or I just set a saucer (small plate) on top to keep critters out. The sizes and depths can be whatever works for you, the pipe you have and how deep your bed is. But there has to be worms in the bed !
You should look into one of those kitchen counter composters. You put your kitchen scraps in it and in 24 hours it is compost. It looks amazing. Of course it takes electricity to run.
Next year try the strawberries outside as they do well and bring your cucumbers under glass, they work better in the greenhouse
Where do you/neighbors get rid of lawn cuttings after mowing? I mulch my plants with my grass cuttings to keep weeds down, then till into the soil in the spring. This way, I don't have to pay the garbage man to haul away. Saves money plus fertilizes my soil and helps break down the clay soil.
Garden looks great!
Awesome garden Lilly. I see you put a sprig of Lavender with your garlic. To keep bugs away? My chickens get on my Lavender plant and roll around on it. I was going to get some potting mix, but it went to 25 dollars a bag from 9 dollars. I had some cumbers die off too. What a year. Love your raised beds
My cucumbers are starting looking like that but they are still pumping out cucumbers. They are my favorite. Planting way more next year. 😊
Kudos to you! ❤🎉
I find gardening hard. So much to learn and remember. Not to mention the physical work. You are such an impressive person!
Hello from Virginia USA zone 7a!
At the end of growing season, you could try a cover crop of cold hardy clover for nitrogen or some other cold hardy vegis covered by straw or fall leaves.
Then just cut and chop them into the soil and let it feed the worms!
Good job! Looks great!
Loved seeing all of your garden! Thanks to one of your previous videos I started growing Jerusalem artichokes and tiger nuts. I wanted to share a photo of my garden here but not sure how.
Your garden has become wonderful...great job Lily 👍
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Great minds think alike. Same here with the organic soil, then disappointing compost from a local farm that was off the charts alkaline. I just compost directly in the beds now, in pieces, and add chopped up banana peels and dried leaves. I have soul test strips and those help. Your garden looks great!
Your garden is beautiful
Lily, do you ever use the hugelkultur method? That would save using some soil and create some heat for the garden to sometimes last longer entering winter.
Great info !.
Liked the videos on solar as well ..
You're thinking outside the prepper box ..
Bushcraft skill are great and everyone does
those but you're providing great info outside the box ..
Anyway you really are providing good
info and its presented well..
You do a great job ..
Thanks ..
This idea is ok for root crop beds but for my other raised beds i like to stick to the no dig principle. My garden waste bin is my stage one composter and has never been put out since they were introduced lol infact i still have one of the original recycle tubs we had before the bins which i use for weeding and stuff. I have a dog so my back garden is a mix of grass and raised beds. I will add a layer of grass on the beds every now and again when i think they need it. Theres a farmers field with a stream and willow trees opposite my house, i harvest the willows to make my own trellises which eventually end up as wood chips. Got a few barrels so make compost tea in one of them, doesn't need diluting.
Making your compost and fertilizer are the absolute easiest. Horse, chicken or cow manure is the easiest. If you do not have any close, you can typically call most any farm and they will sell it to you or most will let you have it for free. I use kitchen scraps for compost and get my friends to keep theirs and I collect it. I keep my coffee grounds, chicken egg shells and banana peels to spread around. A veggie garden is very easy. Heirloom seeds are the easiest due to being able to keep your seeds from your harvest for next year.
Your garden is amazing 🤩😍
Great job. Nice garden
I love Lily’s videos!
I really enjoy your gardening videos, and the others too...thanks for sharing
You could grom some oil hemp. Excelent for tea and green powder to use in smoothies fow example. Helthy seed's. Natural cbd. High plant so it will not take a lot of space. You can grow some thing underneath it.
Finola is a Finish oil hemp that is grown on feilds too.
nice garden
You are so inspiring! ❤ thanks Lilly! Jerusalem artichokes I will try and grow them! California here blessings to you! 🙏🏻🕊🧂😇💕. Stay safe and strong