SAVING WATER AND NUTRIENTS USING SWALES - Weedy`s Garden Walkabout

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  • Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
  • In this episode from www.theweedygarden.com I explain what a swale is and how they benefit the garden by slowing down the water and holding onto nutrition in the soil under my fruit trees. It`s permaculture inspired and totally organic up here on the hill - far away from any town and even further from a city.
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    Weedy
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Комментарии • 84

  • @Stanley-xd1gf
    @Stanley-xd1gf 7 месяцев назад +21

    A big hug from the forests of Brazil. Here we have a master who works the soil just like you. His name is Ernest Goetsch. Swiss by birth and Brazilian at heart. I suggest you research your work with syntropic agriculture. Health and peace to all.

    • @TheWeedyGarden
      @TheWeedyGarden  7 месяцев назад +8

      I know of him and have been inspired also 💪🏻😃👍

    • @jeff6899
      @jeff6899 7 месяцев назад +1

      Thx for share ! Have located him as well on youtube. Blessings...

  • @nickbrailey990
    @nickbrailey990 5 месяцев назад +1

    Nice one weedy

  • @tammytamz3046
    @tammytamz3046 7 месяцев назад +2

    Cool video!

  • @loinguyenngoc8603
    @loinguyenngoc8603 7 месяцев назад +1

    Beautiful ❤❤

  • @lockstock9170
    @lockstock9170 7 месяцев назад +2

    Nice cheeky cubensis 😂😂

  • @regen_greg
    @regen_greg 7 месяцев назад +1

    Do you need to do anything to maintain the swales? I'd imagine after a few years they might fill in and stop doing their job

    • @TheWeedyGarden
      @TheWeedyGarden  7 месяцев назад +1

      Vegetation hold it together. The only time I repair them is when the bush turkey digs them up

  • @brucejensen3081
    @brucejensen3081 7 месяцев назад

    I think you would have been better to snake your drainage, so it takes longer for water to get from A to B. Not have areas that can get waterlogged. More soil would need to be moved with what i am saying, and longer recovery time, but long term it would be better.

    • @TheWeedyGarden
      @TheWeedyGarden  7 месяцев назад +2

      nothing gets waterlogged as the soil drainage is 💪🏻🤌🏻

  • @danielson2303
    @danielson2303 7 месяцев назад +12

    I cant wait to build a swale fruit forest at home. Thanks for the inspiration

  • @TheSunnyTrails
    @TheSunnyTrails 7 месяцев назад +3

    Thanks weedy god bless you. Remember Jesus loves you

  • @NarrowRoadLiving
    @NarrowRoadLiving 7 месяцев назад +11

    I love water harvesting videos. Especially swale systems.

  • @GrandmomZoo
    @GrandmomZoo 7 месяцев назад +4

    Thank you Weedy!❤

  • @lpmoron6258
    @lpmoron6258 7 месяцев назад +3

    I needed a Weedy video! I have got the spring fever. It has been so nice here. Everyone says snow on Monday. 😢 We are supposed to have a big emergence of cicada this summer. Thanks Weedy!

  • @tomsuber1794
    @tomsuber1794 7 месяцев назад +3

    I would love to see a contour map of your beautiful garden. You’re awesome dude I can’t ever wait for the next video.

    • @TheWeedyGarden
      @TheWeedyGarden  7 месяцев назад +2

      Well if you pause at 5 seconds in you can see the contour map

  • @ellenorbjornsdottir1166
    @ellenorbjornsdottir1166 6 месяцев назад +1

    and I'm up here in the "warm subarctic" (more specifically, roughly 54°N, 122°W) with half a mind to plant a hedgerow of seabuckthorn and Osage-orange (Maclura pomifera)..

  • @leifkemp
    @leifkemp 5 месяцев назад +1

    Getting ready to build-out our 2nd farm (we are a non-profit in Long Beach, CA). It happens to have quite a few acre feet of slope I look forward to incorporating with swales! ❤

  • @KootsD
    @KootsD 6 месяцев назад +1

    Nice little cubensis there friend ;) Love the gardens and the videos! Love from Canada!

  • @alexanderoborne5872
    @alexanderoborne5872 7 месяцев назад +2

    Roc it weedy ☯️👣🎸

  • @jeremy9806
    @jeremy9806 7 месяцев назад +1

    I bet you get plenty of cubes growing from those cow patties in the swales 🍄

  • @pasveritas1872
    @pasveritas1872 7 месяцев назад +2

    Thankyou Weedy. Beautifully explained
    🥑🍇🍋🍐🍌🍉🍊

  • @milipwn
    @milipwn 7 месяцев назад +2

    your video's are in a leauge of their own man! so consistent too!

  • @Colin-pg2su
    @Colin-pg2su 7 месяцев назад +3

    Swale of a time, with the perma gang. 🎉

  • @s-c..
    @s-c.. 7 месяцев назад +4

    You’re such a sweetheart Weedy, one of life’s innocents 😊 I love how you look after your patch of the planet & everything living on it 👌

  • @carmypanda
    @carmypanda 7 месяцев назад +1

    You have awesome friends!

  • @ak47ravzi
    @ak47ravzi 7 месяцев назад +1

    God bless you my brother 🙏🌍I have learned a lot from your quality videos my dying wish is to visit your garden 🪴 sitting under a shaded tree feeling that energy that would bring tears to my eyes 🌳

  • @mattoc2965
    @mattoc2965 7 месяцев назад +2

    Loved the quick cut at the 🍄 bit

  • @grn6267
    @grn6267 7 месяцев назад +1

    Beautiful video again mate! I love the tour so far...cant wait for the next episode
    Can we make swales to already established trees ( if the contour is correct)?

  • @dnawormcastings
    @dnawormcastings 7 месяцев назад +1

    Great video as always ❤

  • @acts.412
    @acts.412 16 часов назад

    Really enjoyed this and a lot of your other videos. Thank you Weedy. I'm learning a lot from you ! 😊🙏🌱🌻☀️

  • @jessicaheger1880
    @jessicaheger1880 7 месяцев назад +1

    I love your videos so much! Have you tried planting vetiver grass on the edges of your swales? Very deep roots, great for stabilizing sloped land, wonderful chop and drop plant, and you can even harvest the roots to make an essential oil that's supposed to help with focus. Good for zones 9a through 10b. Looking forward to your next video! Love from Florida ❤️☀️

    • @TheWeedyGarden
      @TheWeedyGarden  7 месяцев назад

      Actually do have a little bit of it but it grows too big and takes up too much space

  • @gardennonsense
    @gardennonsense 7 месяцев назад +2

    Nice 👍

  • @GardeningwithDave
    @GardeningwithDave 7 месяцев назад +2

    I can’t wait to own a property like that down the road ❤. Thank you for walking us around your beautiful property.

  • @geoffreyhowe7109
    @geoffreyhowe7109 7 месяцев назад +1

    Enjoyed the video, but shouldn't it be COLLECTING water, not harvesting?

    • @TheWeedyGarden
      @TheWeedyGarden  7 месяцев назад +2

      Saving water, harvesting, collecting ect ect ect. I guess I have harvesting on my mind atm

  • @manuelaalves4046
    @manuelaalves4046 7 месяцев назад +1

    It's a joy watching your videos. Thank you

  • @SC-fk9nc
    @SC-fk9nc 7 месяцев назад +1

    Way to go Weedy!

  • @quikoucat
    @quikoucat 7 месяцев назад +1

    🤘🤘

  • @narelle4868
    @narelle4868 7 месяцев назад +1

    I've been doing "chop and drop" since you mentioned it in one of your earlier videos. Thankyou. 😀

  • @AgroecologicalSystems
    @AgroecologicalSystems 7 месяцев назад +1

    Lookin good dude

  • @ellenorbjornsdottir1166
    @ellenorbjornsdottir1166 6 месяцев назад +1

    3:31 is that straight camera flow or CGI?

  • @lexamehrtens2113
    @lexamehrtens2113 7 месяцев назад +1

    I love your videos, so much awesome fun knowledge organic to learn and thank you for sharing, God Blessed you ✨

  • @christian9140
    @christian9140 7 месяцев назад +1

    Hey Weedy, what area does your lot have??

  • @JoyoftheGardenandHome
    @JoyoftheGardenandHome 7 месяцев назад +1

    How do you keep the paths clear?

    • @TheWeedyGarden
      @TheWeedyGarden  7 месяцев назад +2

      The paths around the veggie garden are lined with rubber mats and covered with sawdust. The food forest I mow and weed

  • @MM-wd4hq
    @MM-wd4hq 7 месяцев назад +1

    Thankyou weedy so much for your video, informative and fun😂❤, had to laugh also when you said cicadas were quiet.. I couldnt hear if they were because I've got heaps grasshoppers and crickets going off atm.😂 Have a wonderful day.

  • @rahulmalsani6202
    @rahulmalsani6202 7 месяцев назад +1

    ❤❤

  • @ManivaHouse
    @ManivaHouse 7 месяцев назад +1

    💚

  • @musoandafan965
    @musoandafan965 7 месяцев назад +1

    I like the part where you run around with your arms outstretched! Great vid Weedy "smarter than a bush turkey"

  • @piknikist
    @piknikist 7 месяцев назад +1

    Nice little gold top their😊... happy growing brotha🙂

    • @TheWeedyGarden
      @TheWeedyGarden  7 месяцев назад +3

      They are everywhere

    • @piknikist
      @piknikist 7 месяцев назад +1

      @TheWeedyGarden
      Love your progress up there bro, it soothes the soul to watch!!👍💪

  • @anne.christine
    @anne.christine 7 месяцев назад +1

    Where do you get the dwarf mango and support tree from?

  • @dieodd9866
    @dieodd9866 7 месяцев назад +1

    You are so blessed to have some brother in soil that have the same vision of permaculture.Your videos are always a refreshing & full of good knowledge thank you sir! New Zealand seems to be e real paradise in term of bio diversity .Keep weeding our souls! cheers!

  • @annikasyren3696
    @annikasyren3696 7 месяцев назад +1

    Tack!

  • @zenclimber
    @zenclimber 7 месяцев назад +1

    How to you like that Flow bee hive?

    • @zenclimber
      @zenclimber 7 месяцев назад +1

      Can you do a video on it?

    • @TheWeedyGarden
      @TheWeedyGarden  7 месяцев назад +1

      @@zenclimber yes it is in three episodes, so next weekend aboutish 👍

  • @daleireland
    @daleireland 7 месяцев назад +1

    The garden is going gang busters weedy! Well done

    • @TheWeedyGarden
      @TheWeedyGarden  7 месяцев назад +2

      You bet it is Dale 🫵🏻👍😄