Well done Linda! Your Permaculture kitchen garden is so productive and very beautiful even in winter. Protecting covering and enriching your soil with chop and drop and more is paying you very richly indeed. Citrus is my absolute favourite…your trees🙌🙌🙌👀👀Pineapple sage is super easy to root from cuttings.Such sweet little birds searching for snacks.
Hi Christa pleased I’m entertaining you over breakfast! It’s an easy but really productive style of gardening - everyone’s a winner 😊 Enjoy the rest of your day!
Chop and drop gardening makes so much more sense to me, like you said food for the soil and we are working with our garden, using the resources it offers us, creating a lovely habitat for everyone and everything. I discovered recently when I decided to plant out extra volunteer borage plants that my citrus love having them growing underneath, borage and tomatoes seem to make wonderful campanions for citrus! ❤
Ha ha yes my gardens look messy but I can usually find something to eat. I leave some fruit on the trees for birds and whatever wants some Winter eating. I was stressing about some weeds but worked out as long as I chopped it before it seeded it was fine. Take care =-)
Oooh love the tip on just having autumn fruiting raspberry. Chop them all is easier for me to remember 😂 that red leafed bloob is incredibly beautiful.
Looks like some ‘Willy Wag Tails’ around your garden. They are very cheeky and gutsy little birds… I have seen them chasing off crows from their territory!😅
How exciting to be in the design phase. This way of gardening suits me perfectly. With such a big property (5 acres - certainly big enough for just me) I can keep moving around to the different areas doing a chop and drop (so satisfying) and move on to the next knowing that that area can now take care of itself!!
Most people don't understand that gardening isn't all straight and organized -- I moved to the country to have enough space to do whatever I want and not have 'spectators' criticize my messy gardens. I've been here for my fourth garden season ... the place had been a homestead but not tended to for the past 20+ years as the previous owners got older. I've been trying to tend to the fruit trees while building gardens ... work in progress for sure! Thank you for your video :)
Yes people do like an organised garden in suburbia. I had to grow a hedge to hide my front yard veg patch and chickens when I lived in Melbourne haha! Sounds like you've got a project on your hands - what fun. I just love turning these manicured spaces into wild abundance. I hope you get it turned around soon! Thanks for watching 😊
If you compost the weeds and return them that’s fantastic too - that adds not only organic material but also additional micro organisms to the soil. I have so much organic material to recycle that I find for this garden it’s quickest & easiest just to slowly decompose it in place. If you have the time & energy for moving it all around - great. This is just a quick & easy way to manage the garden and it’s still super productive!
I love this so much! This way of gardening is even more beautiful to me than the perfectly manicured garden. Constant back breaking weeding, constant watering, constant amending, constant pesticide and herbicide application and for what??? I want to ENJOY my garden and I want to watch nature enjoying it, too. Why work against mother nature? I let nature do what she does best and my garden is all the better for it. This is my style of gardening and I wouldn't have it any other way! Great job!
Thanks Jessica - my thoughts exactly!! We need more of us working alongside nature and reducing all of those horrible chemicals. I love the birds, frogs, and insects in the garden. Even the snakes have their place - we’ve just got to respect each other and stay at a distance haha! It all brings me joy 😊
Hi Linda. Thank you for your videos they are wonderful and motivating. My question is about your Sickle. It makes it look easier as I have some physical restrictions, Could you tell me where yo got it from as the shape and size is perfect.
What is that variety of blueberry bush you have with red leaves? I've never seen one like that! Also, I love citrus trees! I have a Meyer Lemon I bought at a big box store a few months ago, but keep it in a pot because if I ever had to dig it out of the ground I don't think I'd be up to it physically. I'm putting in several garden beds his year over the past 6 months because next year I may not be able to. (I'm around your age I think, but have medical conditions that make me fatigued and in pain if I do too much physical work). I am digging them from scratch, amending and tilling them to make the soil the right well-draining condition that it needs, as this soil needs alot of work to be up to snuff! Have been putting fencing around some areas to keep animals out. Some of the areas are full of rocks and roots; the pebbles and rocks the previous owner put there on purpose as well as burying insulation around the property for some odd reason and so I have to do the heavy duty work digging that stuff out and amending the red clay with compost and potting mix every other day to let my body rest in-between. I still have alot of seedlings yet to go in the ground and may miss the window for some of them that are hardening off on the porch right now; some tomato plants losing leaves because I'm really struggling to keep up in this hot weather. Really wanted to get out there to plant today but just wasn't feeling well enough. I'll be glad when the hardest part is over and all I have to do is maintenance. Your video was helpful on several things I an incorporate.
Hi there and thanks for such an informative comment - love to get to know my viewers. Great for you to get out and do what you can - very therapeutic even if it does wear you down at times!! I hope your health turns around for you so you can continue to enjoy getting out and working in the garden. But sounds like you have a plan in case you can't - having a lot already established and on their way is a good thing to be working towards!! The wonderful thing about citrus is that they can be grown very successfully in pots so your Meyer lemon should become productive for you. A friend gifted me that particular blueberry plant and I lost the tag before planting it so I'd only be guessing at the name - maybe Sunshine Blue!?? I'm trying to propagate some more plants from that one but have tried before and wasn't successful - I'll keep trying because it will be definitely worth the effort to get some more! Thanks for watching 😊
Snakes are pretty much everywhere. I am careful and observant during warmer weather especially. I keep my back yard clear so I can see snakes if they slither through. In these garden areas I’d rather build soil and create spaces where nature wants to be rather than sterile areas that are ultimately harder to manage. If I spot a snake, which I often do in this garden, I clear out for a bit then make sure I bang around a bit when I go back in! Thanks for watching 😊
It's all looking fab Linda. It's amazing to see the things that go through the winter in your garden, like the pineapple sage, that die back (or die completely) in our winters.
@LizZorab thanks Liz! It’s been an unusually warm start to winter here. Many plants would have normally been knocked down by frosts already! Just never know what the weather will bring these days!! (Don’t mind delaying the cold a little bit 😆)
I often have copperhead and tiger snakes moving through this garden in warmer months. They don’t live there just like eating the frogs as they pass through!
I admire your knowledge about how to care for a permaculture garden.
Lots of hands on experience helps!! Thanks Vicki!!
Well done Linda! Your Permaculture kitchen garden is so productive and very beautiful even in winter. Protecting covering and enriching your soil with chop and drop and more is paying you very richly indeed. Citrus is my absolute favourite…your trees🙌🙌🙌👀👀Pineapple sage is super easy to root from cuttings.Such sweet little birds searching for snacks.
That’s why I love, love, love chop and drop - happy birds, bees and me 😊🐝🦜
Good morning just having my coffee and breaky☕🍳 Love the way you garden and enjoyed your video very much.🐦🌼🐝
Hi Christa pleased I’m entertaining you over breakfast! It’s an easy but really productive style of gardening - everyone’s a winner 😊
Enjoy the rest of your day!
Chop and drop gardening makes so much more sense to me, like you said food for the soil and we are working with our garden, using the resources it offers us, creating a lovely habitat for everyone and everything. I discovered recently when I decided to plant out extra volunteer borage plants that my citrus love having them growing underneath, borage and tomatoes seem to make wonderful campanions for citrus! ❤
Yes! A great environment for us all!! Observe and interact - permaculture at work again! Borage under citrus trees is a great tip - thanks Joanna!!
I love your garden...done the way nature does it is best!
Thanks Shannon 😊
I love natural looking gardens more realistic and animal friendly
They are indeed 😊
Ha ha yes my gardens look messy but I can usually find something to eat. I leave some fruit on the trees for birds and whatever wants some Winter eating. I was stressing about some weeds but worked out as long as I chopped it before it seeded it was fine. Take care =-)
Yeah it’s a nice chilled way of gardening 😄
Lemons and herbs close to the kitchen, are such a must . Yours is a beautiful kitchen garden. Thanks for sharing lovely ❤❤
Thanks lovely for watching 😊
Oooh love the tip on just having autumn fruiting raspberry. Chop them all is easier for me to remember 😂 that red leafed bloob is incredibly beautiful.
Yeah I need easy to remember too!! I love the colour of that blueberry and its fruits amazing!!
Looks like some ‘Willy Wag Tails’ around your garden. They are very cheeky and gutsy little birds… I have seen them chasing off crows from their territory!😅
I love the little birds around here - Willi Wag Tails and the blue wrens - all beautiful!!
We have similar approaches and aesthetics, so I love seeing what you’ve achieved. Very inspiring as I (finally) get my design together.
How exciting to be in the design phase. This way of gardening suits me perfectly. With such a big property (5 acres - certainly big enough for just me) I can keep moving around to the different areas doing a chop and drop (so satisfying) and move on to the next knowing that that area can now take care of itself!!
Most people don't understand that gardening isn't all straight and organized -- I moved to the country to have enough space to do whatever I want and not have 'spectators' criticize my messy gardens. I've been here for my fourth garden season ... the place had been a homestead but not tended to for the past 20+ years as the previous owners got older. I've been trying to tend to the fruit trees while building gardens ... work in progress for sure!
Thank you for your video :)
Yes people do like an organised garden in suburbia. I had to grow a hedge to hide my front yard veg patch and chickens when I lived in Melbourne haha! Sounds like you've got a project on your hands - what fun. I just love turning these manicured spaces into wild abundance. I hope you get it turned around soon! Thanks for watching 😊
So inspiring!!
Thank you 😊
I’m getting my head around leaving the weeds after chopping on the ground. I always thought they should be composted then returned.
If you compost the weeds and return them that’s fantastic too - that adds not only organic material but also additional micro organisms to the soil.
I have so much organic material to recycle that I find for this garden it’s quickest & easiest just to slowly decompose it in place.
If you have the time & energy for moving it all around - great. This is just a quick & easy way to manage the garden and it’s still super productive!
I love this so much! This way of gardening is even more beautiful to me than the perfectly manicured garden. Constant back breaking weeding, constant watering, constant amending, constant pesticide and herbicide application and for what??? I want to ENJOY my garden and I want to watch nature enjoying it, too. Why work against mother nature? I let nature do what she does best and my garden is all the better for it. This is my style of gardening and I wouldn't have it any other way! Great job!
Thanks Jessica - my thoughts exactly!! We need more of us working alongside nature and reducing all of those horrible chemicals. I love the birds, frogs, and insects in the garden. Even the snakes have their place - we’ve just got to respect each other and stay at a distance haha! It all brings me joy 😊
I like the tool you're using,what is it called?Love your garden as well.
Thank you!! It’s called a long grass sickle- you can get them from Japanese Tools!
Hi Linda. Thank you for your videos they are wonderful and motivating. My question is about your Sickle. It makes it look easier as I have some physical restrictions, Could you tell me where yo got it from as the shape and size is perfect.
Hi Rhonda - thank you!! The sickle is very handy & certainly does make things easier! I got it from Japanese tools. It’s called a long grass sickle
amazing kitchen garden 😍 👌👌👌💚💚💚
😊🐝🦜🌱🪻
What is that variety of blueberry bush you have with red leaves? I've never seen one like that! Also, I love citrus trees! I have a Meyer Lemon I bought at a big box store a few months ago, but keep it in a pot because if I ever had to dig it out of the ground I don't think I'd be up to it physically. I'm putting in several garden beds his year over the past 6 months because next year I may not be able to. (I'm around your age I think, but have medical conditions that make me fatigued and in pain if I do too much physical work). I am digging them from scratch, amending and tilling them to make the soil the right well-draining condition that it needs, as this soil needs alot of work to be up to snuff! Have been putting fencing around some areas to keep animals out. Some of the areas are full of rocks and roots; the pebbles and rocks the previous owner put there on purpose as well as burying insulation around the property for some odd reason and so I have to do the heavy duty work digging that stuff out and amending the red clay with compost and potting mix every other day to let my body rest in-between. I still have alot of seedlings yet to go in the ground and may miss the window for some of them that are hardening off on the porch right now; some tomato plants losing leaves because I'm really struggling to keep up in this hot weather. Really wanted to get out there to plant today but just wasn't feeling well enough. I'll be glad when the hardest part is over and all I have to do is maintenance. Your video was helpful on several things I an incorporate.
Hi there and thanks for such an informative comment - love to get to know my viewers. Great for you to get out and do what you can - very therapeutic even if it does wear you down at times!! I hope your health turns around for you so you can continue to enjoy getting out and working in the garden. But sounds like you have a plan in case you can't - having a lot already established and on their way is a good thing to be working towards!! The wonderful thing about citrus is that they can be grown very successfully in pots so your Meyer lemon should become productive for you. A friend gifted me that particular blueberry plant and I lost the tag before planting it so I'd only be guessing at the name - maybe Sunshine Blue!?? I'm trying to propagate some more plants from that one but have tried before and wasn't successful - I'll keep trying because it will be definitely worth the effort to get some more! Thanks for watching 😊
Doesn't chop & drop of weeds give a hiding spot for snakes?
Snakes are pretty much everywhere. I am careful and observant during warmer weather especially. I keep my back yard clear so I can see snakes if they slither through. In these garden areas I’d rather build soil and create spaces where nature wants to be rather than sterile areas that are ultimately harder to manage.
If I spot a snake, which I often do in this garden, I clear out for a bit then make sure I bang around a bit when I go back in!
Thanks for watching 😊
It's all looking fab Linda. It's amazing to see the things that go through the winter in your garden, like the pineapple sage, that die back (or die completely) in our winters.
@LizZorab thanks Liz! It’s been an unusually warm start to winter here. Many plants would have normally been knocked down by frosts already! Just never know what the weather will bring these days!! (Don’t mind delaying the cold a little bit 😆)
Isnt that where your brown snake lives around the pond??/
I often have copperhead and tiger snakes moving through this garden in warmer months. They don’t live there just like eating the frogs as they pass through!
Oh my! I thought she said "Hot & Smelly Permaculture" then I saw the name of the channel. 😂
🤣 I’ll have to watch my pronunciation in future!!