Tour of our permaculture kitchen garden
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- Welcome to our permaculture kitchen garden in the Netherlands where we grow lots of vegetables in raised beds without digging.
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You have an amazing garden! Beautiful!
Thank you! I believe a beautiful garden is usually more productive, since when you enjoy spending time there, all the crucial small jobs tend to get done at the right moment :-) That said, our garden is about 5 km from our house and I would like to be there more often...
GrownToCook Its like the old saying... " the best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow" Clearly your shadow has done wonders as your garden and attitude are both beautiful. Congratulations on purchasing the property!!
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Good to see you again Vera and the garden looks great.
Amazing to see you looking at other channels !! Your amazing charles !
WOW, nice garden
Als een Amerikaanse Expat in Nederland, ik ben u voor de Engelse verklaaring dankbaar.
Hello and thank you for the video. I have quite recently subscribed, so with more than six years of videos to catch up, I am like a new seedling, and will need to listen much before saying anything. I will try to remember to like each post as I watch. Again, thank you, and I'll be watching :-).
Thanks so much for watching and subscribing! I am considering how to fit making videos into my life again this year, so hopefully there will be some new ones :)
Beautifully laid out garden and very clear/concise and helpful video THANKYOU so much
I love your videos Vera! Thank you for sharing! Love from Costa Mesa.
Lol I can hear your chickens calling you. Mine do the same. We call our shovel the bug stick. They get so excited when they see me pick up the shovel. Great garden buddies.
They are actually our neighbours' chickens - but we do enjoy their presents and the eggs we can barter :-)
Your vegetables look super healthy and your garden looks amazing!
Hey, I love your guidance of what to plant after you harvest x. I always struggle with this and am always planning for the next harvest due to lack of space and during Winter in Australia, lack of sunshine. Thanks!
This garden looks amazing. Kudos!
Thanks so much! My pride and joy :)
I plan on moving to the Netherlands soon, and its so interesting to see how the climate allows for such lush greenery versus the hot, dry place I currently live in. I can't wait to not have to worry about too much irrigation and also safely grow bunches of lettuce and greens without worrying about sun damage and heat exhaustion. Thank you!!
That will be a change indeed!! Good luck with your move and if you'd like a more thorough guide to gardening in this climate, please check out my book EDIBLE PARADISE: www.chelseagreen.com/product/edible-paradise/
Gaaf om een keer mee te kunnen kijken in een project wat in Nederland floreert. Dank voor de inspirerende inkijkjes!
RB1844 Dank je wel!
Soooo gorgeous!!✨
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Thank you !!
What a lovely garden! Thanks for sharing!
You have a very productive plot. Very easy to see the work you've put into it. I especially like the red/dark stalk corn that was growing back there. Very beautiful place to grow plants at. Wow.
Hello from the bottom of Australia!!
What a lovely tour. Thank you.
Thank you!
Greetings from Australia...Keep doing the good work...
Thank you, Chantal!
Thanks a lot! I loved reading your book, and finished it almost in one go. I love how you somehow take the stress out of it, and make me feel like 'I can do that!' I think that probably is because you explain why you do something and give different approaches to reach an outcome.
ElleCappuchino Thank you for your kind words! That is exactly how I hoped people would feel after reading my book :-)
Great job. Useful info concisely delivered.
Abelhas nativas....presente Inevitável !!!!!
I enjoy your videos.
I love your garden !
Your garden is lovely!!
Thank you so much, Nancy!
Looks great! You are doing good work! Thank you Vera
Beautiful garden! Thank you for sharing & thank you for converting metric demensions to imperial units! :)I look forward to seeing more of your garden & food forest!MeanJean-- North Idaho, USA.
Thank you! I hope I get the conversions right :-)
Can you do a video on how you control pests like caterpillars, slugs and snails?
That was beautiful
good job
Great garden, great info, great person, thanks
Great 👍
Beautifully presented,
Beautiful garden!
Thank you, Shelly!
Nice
Just subbed you from Hughs channel.
Greetings from UK
Thanks for subscribing!
Very interesting and informative 😊
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
Love it, thanks!
Beautiful garden ,you beautiful too
Wow great nutrition info 😇
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
Nice video...
Thank you!
Great Garden!
Leuk mooie tuin! groeten uit Zweden
Dank je wel, David!
I enjoyed your video .
Thank you so much!
I hope our Dutch friends are growing some interesting weeds: Q stereotype :)
Beautiful people, nice country and always welcome in Britain.
Thanks, Simeon! Our wild days are far behind us, it's all fruit & vegetables now :-)
Ha ha I think the Dutch take it all with some humour. Young Americans going to Amsterdam always makes me laugh. There are other things to do: arts, museums but I can't stand the British drunk on stag and hen parties. Do you recommend any small cities, nice country places. I like my bicycle and touring on that. If there are some natural places to camp that would be really good. Many thanks.
The Netharlands is perfect for a vacation on the bicycle! You can have a look at this site for Natural Campsites: www.natuurkampeerterreinen.nl/en/campsite-locations/ A random pick of some of my favourite small towns to visist: Giethoorn, Zutphen, Leeuwarden - hope that helps a bit :-)
thank you. most kind X
Simeon Banner Britain in the house...tut tut tut... 🇬🇧🧐
Just found your videos. Inspirational and will work to have a garden and food forest like you in our home in Victoria Australia. A question, how do you do crop rotation? If I plant different veggies in different seasons in one year, is this sufficient for crop rotation to prevent pest problem ?
Love your videos, you give exactly the info im looking for on which plants serve different purposes. This will be my first year planting my garden using permaculture techniques and im excited to see the results. Im in Wisconsin and planning to get some land to start a permaculture farm/ forest in a year or two. I wonder if we have similar climate.
Very nice :-)
Мне нравится! Очень гармонично !
Great video and fine garden. I am interested in your saying that you have organic allotments in the Netherlands, that is something that should be available throughout the World. Too many people find to their cost that allotments particularly, urban ones, are situated on brownfield sites, that is ex industrial sites, where the soil is full of heavy metals and other pollutants. Good Luck, thanks for your sub and I subbed back, Andy
Hi Andy, I have answered before but my answer seems to have dissappeared, so I don't know whether you got it. Thanks for your comment and subscribing to my channel! Here in the Netherlands there are both conventional and organic allotments in many cities and it is great to have the option to choose organic. Our allotment in the east of the country was incidentally the very first organic one in the Netherlands back in the seventies. It used to be a conventionally managed field so the soil was not great to start with (it is also rather sandy) but it has been greatly improved over the past decades.
Vera I have been looking for what I thought you said in one of your video and that is the design of your food forest which you started in 2016...I cannot find it could you please lead me to it?
Why is peat a problem for container blueberries
Beautiful garden can I come there on vocation I will pay for that
Puts my garden to shame. You put a lot of time, labor and thought into that and it is clearly paying off!
Thank you! It is more thought than labour :-) The raised beds are a lot of work to set up but so much work is saved later. We don't dig and mulch everything which means almost no weeding, less watering and helathier soil. Also, most of our plot is actually planted with fruit trees and other perennial edibles and will therefore require much less work once established.
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This is such a lovely garden. As I've already mentioned in Instagram, this is inspirational - my own garden is headed to look this way, following the same principles. Have two questions: how do you manage to have such healthy plants? what's your average summer rainfall? (in the Mediterranean countryside, if I don't water I can only grow rosemary :/ )
Thank you, Gaby! I would love to hear more about how this approach is working for you in your climate! I don't have many tricks to keeping my plants healthy and we do have occasional disease and pest problems - for me that's part of the whole and I try not to fret about slugs :-) I think taking good care of the soil, no-digging, compost and mulch go a long way to to ensure healthy plants. I use netting over brassicas after planting out but not much else by way of protection. No spraying, not even with plant extracts and such.
Our avarage rainfall is about 70 mm per month, but it's not very evenly distributed. This year for example, we had just 33 mm in May, but 85 in June. After that: 69 in July, 43 in August, 30 in September. (These are official data from the weather station, as I do not measure the rainfall myself). It only rained once in September as far as I recall! We do get good results with much less watering than the surrounding gardens that are run more traditionally.
But our climate is for sure a lot wetter than yours... What is your rainfall?
GrownToCook Don't have exact rainfall data with me now, but this summer we ran out of water in our well, which is pretty deep. Last two summers heat + drought made it a challenge to keep the veg garden going strong. Have friends with a Forest Garden and they've struggled a lot these past two years.
I think the stress of heat + uneven irrigation makes it easy for diseases to prey in. Maybe the climate variable is a huge factor in the equation, more important than the others (i.e. soil, association, mulching, variety, etc). ?
Inadequate moisture is definitely a huge cause of stress for the plants and the techniques I mentioned will not make up for lack of water. However, mulching and lots of organic matter in the soil help to conserve moisture and make the most of what rain/water you get. Our climate has its own challenges but yours is probably the more difficult as far as growing annual vegetables is concerned!
Hi Vera,
I just found your channel...
Can you help me figure something out?
Can you tell me how wide your paths + how long your beds + how high your beds are and why.
I ask because (warning I'm long winded )
i started an allotment this January. Because I'm home with a chronic ptsd and a worn out back. I needed to get out and have something to do...and Because gardening is very therapeutic and Iove that I can be able to provide for my fam in this way ... but to be able to have a veggy garden and feed my fam i need to practice permaculture... and indeed do
1- no digg = healty soil, ( and Less back pain😁)
2- mulch mulch mulch (Less weeding fluffy soil easier planting ( aka less back x2 )
3- polycukture /diversity by having many plants in 1 bed. Attract natural predators + pollinators battle bad nematodes and makes it look pretty. So less pests and less work for not...more produce for no extra work (double whammy)
But I just can't seem to make up my mind about the paths and lengths of the beds...
I want 1,2 meter wide beds the max I can reach over halve across...
but what lenghts would you advise 2 /2,4 or 3 meter beds...
and the pathways is 45cm the minimum ? How wide are yours? ( ps I have a 130m2 plot so space is limited )
And last but not least how high are your beds ? I wanted to make them 30cm high for my back... but... I also don't want to haul water buckets every day in summer... and water my plants because my beds loose to much moister....And having lower beds keeps more moister inside. But means more bending over..
Thanks it you read True all of that.
Groetjes van Roos Uit nederland.
I wrote in English so more people could benefit from the answer
Kind regards rose🌹
Hi Roos, my beds, too, are 120 cm wide and it works well for most crops. However, if you have a lot of back pain, narrower beds might be easier to work with (100 cm). Our beds are 280 or 300 cm long - this works well for us but the length is less critical and can be varied depending on your needs and the size of your garden. In my previous garden I alternated path of 30 cm wide and 60 cm wide (this is enough for an easy access with a wheelbarrow). In our current garden I made all the paths 60 cm wide and am happy with that decision. Once plants start growing and spilling out of the beds, the paths can quickly become too narrow! The beds in our garden are just 15 cm (or in some cases 20 cm) tall. This is sufficient and we do not have problems with the beds drying out. But if wood were not so expensive here in the Netherlands, I might make them a bit taller! There is more information on permaculture gardening and different kinds of raised beds in my book ‘Tuin smakelijk!’ (www.bol.com/nl/p/tuin-smakelijk/9200000049771947/) if you’re interested. I hope this helps, good luck with your garden!
GrownToCook hi Vera, thank you for your swift reply and advise i will certainly use it🖒❤
Kind regards rose
Oh I forgot my question. I have recently spread a layer of horse manure in a bed, and covered it with cardboard. But I didn't realise I should have used well-rotted manure. Would you advice I'd wait a whole season before planting? Or could I get away with planting out my tomatoes there this year?
thanks for your help!
I'm sure you can get away with planting tomatoes this year - the first year I had my allotment I grew carrots in a bed with fairly fresh manure which goes against all gardening wisdom - yet we got some really good carrots that year :-)
Love your garden. Do the raised beds cause a slug or snail problem?
Thank you! No, it is not my experience that raised beds create a slug problem. In our rainy climate, slugs are something we always have to deal with but it does not seem better or worse in raised beds.
Thank you for your reply. I have tried the yeast, sugar and water trick and it works well in high traffic areas. However, i now just put on a headlamp at night and go out and pick them off my seedlings and plants.
I found that coffee grounds around susceptible plants work surprisingly well. We also installed a little pond, mainly to attract frogs (they are slug-eaters) and that seems to help, too. At this moment we have a problem with slugs in the greenhouse (they undoubtedly enjoy the micro-climate) and I'm spreading coffee grounds there.
I have tried coffee grounds, the yeast, sugar water trick (these caught plenty), metal, copper, etc. I have succumb to putting on a headlamp at night and picking them off one by one. It is working as the numbers are decreasing immensely. Thank you for the tip on a pond. I was going to do this soon and run my grey water through some reed beds and then into a small pond which can hopefully attract some frogs.
mooi :)
Dank je wel, Jan!
Blijkbaar volg ik je al op instagram :D altijd leuk om te zien hoe anderen het aanpakken in hun moestuin. Ik ben met de voorbereidingen bezig van de nieuwe. Bessenstruiken, klein fruit en asperges zijn al geplant. Nu verder de grond afdekken om volgend jaar mooi te starten.
Dank je wel voor het volgen en leuk inderdaad om te zien hoe anderen dingen doen! We hopen dit jaar wat regelmatiger video's te maken, ook over het voedselbos gedeelte van de tuin :-)
ik kijk ernaar uit ;)
do you grow everything i raised beds i find no dig works much better like this
Yes! We grow all annual produce in raised beds - I find this works best on this scale, too!
Hello! I’m new here. Will you please tell me what permaculture gardens are? Thank you so much.
Hi Chris, I'm planning to do a video on what permaculture means in March or April!
GrownToCook...Thanks so much! I’ll look forward to it!
So how do you keep (preserve) all that you grow? Freeze it all? What if the power goes out?
Whipping Post We have no freezer (because of how much energy it uses). We use natural storage, some stuff is in the cellar and winter squashes and sweet potatoes in crates in an unheated bedroom. I dry some herbs, corn, chilies, mushrooms and beans. I make some chutney and fruit preserves. And some vegetables are hardy enough to pick from the garden in winter: kale, parsnips, leeks, winter purslane... I’ll try to make a video about eating from the garden in winter:-)
Right after i left that comment i looked into how to store produce. Im very impressed that you guys do what you do. I think that is great.
Can you grow year round?
No, our climate is relatively cold (here is a video on our growing zone if you'd like to know more: ruclips.net/video/Z0YdKOBat4M/видео.html) and also because we are rather far to the north's winters are to dark for growing much. Some things are hardy enough to survive the winter , but between October and February, very little growth is happening
Sub ya, here from México. Good video.
Nice, garden but most of the veggies are damaged by either sickness or pests. And you didn't actually show any veggies, just foliage. How can this garden sustain you?