Filling Our Permaculture Project With Perennials for Multiple Uses | Huw's Garden Diaries
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Today is a deep dive into how I am integrating perennials within our permaculture site, which up until now, has been heavily focused on annuals and landscaping, considering how new it is. However, perennials are a permanent feature and bring so many benefits to a landscape that compound over time. With exception to their initial cost, the more seasons that pass by, the greater the impact of that initial investment becomes. This video the very first in a new, more informal, video series to share thoughts, ideas, and discoveries as close to real time as possible - happy watching!
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As you go from plant to plant, it sounds like me over the years -"well, I want veggies, so I need companion plants. Well, I want my own compost, so I'll get rabbits. Well, I have rabbits so I need willow and comfrey!" 😅
Inspiring as ever 😄 I've a 35m² front garden and over the years you and your fellow youtubers have contributed (through your content) to it now being filled with everything from dwarf root stock apple trees to perennials like fennel and kale, a hawthorn hedge, wildflowers and everything in between 🤓
WOW! - It must be the most beautiful front garden around!
Any ideas for a wildlife pond thrown in there too..?!
(Keep your knickers on Huw - we all know you guys have wildlife ponds at your place !
I meant for Karelian VO to think about a wildlife pond was all ……… lovely things they are if you have the space for one and really bring in the wildlife and predators to munch up this slugs and snails!)
@@jackstone4291 I thought this was under a different comment my apologies hence why it's now removed haha and a good idea for a small garden indeed😍🌿
Hope you well Huw and your whole time not taken up replying to all these comments !
We all love the videos and filming and the content - really interesting, helpful, useful, insightful, practical.
(Thanks for touching upon the importance of fungus/mycelium in all types of gardens as well!)
I can't wait to see this garden in 10 years and will be the garden of Eden of West Wales😁.
HUW, the only reason I speak up is because I planted blueberries in pots last year. Pine needles, when green, are acidic. But by the time they become brown, they are close to neutral. Same thing with used coffee grounds. By the time the coffee brews, the grounds are almost neutral. The 3rd item suggested to me was white vinegar. While vinegar will acidify, it is temporary and rough on soil microbes. I wound up using spaghum peat moss mixed with a coir potting mix and homemade compost. Happy gardening!
If you want to do a normal food forest but are worried about sunlight a good rule for the UK is to find the eventual max growth width of your trees and add 30% to that. It’s a more savannah style of planting and let’s light underneath. Anyway, loving the vids! Must come see you soon! 😊
When you say add 30%, is that for the spacing between plants?
@@ricos1497 yes. So if a tree states it has a maximum growth width of 3m, add 1m more (that’s 30% of your initial 3m) to your spacing and then you’ll always have sunlight getting to ground level in your food forest.
Just chop and drop, don't worry about eventual size apart from a few favourite dwarf stocks
What a gorgeous project! I love the way a garden promotes community and a healthy lifestyle.
Your excitement for this space is palpable! Very cool to have the chance to truly curate a raw area to your vision like this. We have recently purchased a piece of large acreage that we will be building a future home on and I constantly find myself daydreaming about all the planting possibilities. It’s really inspiring to see your intentional planting of more “wild” areas as I have lots of plans to do the same. I’m really looking forward to seeing your space transform!
Really happy your doing real time videos. I follow along because I am zone 7b new jersey, USA. Also, would like to see what's been sown in the poly tunnel getting ready to be planted out next!
Hugh Fearnley-Wittingstall started a project some years ago where people with land they weren't using could register it and the website matched it with people looking for space to garden. I'd be interested to know how it went and whether it should be resurrected.
What a brilliant idea.
Every Tree Bush and Flower look great. I feel calm and very happy to see it all. We still have a few feet of snow, can't wait to get planting and and see everything grow. Thanks Huw another wonderful Video.
I Love the perennial focus and plants going in 👍
Great work Huw!
Your work is an inspiration to many!
Thank you so much!
Super stuff there that you all are doing Huw! Great 2c. Just saw a new film this aft here in Holland called ‘Onder de Maaiveld’ - ‘Below Ground Level’. It’s a film about the vast netwerk of life below the surface. You’d have to see if it’s 1 available to you there and 2 if it can have English under titles. You and anyone else will find it fantastic!!👍👍😉👋
Mint as cover crop is a good idea - if it grows too much you can turn it into delicious liquor :D
Huw - my experience with perennials the past three years at my no-dig allotment (started September 2019) is that some do very well, some do well for a couple of years then depart this earth and some simply don't find the local soil to their liking. I've found that wild lupins, Russian olive, tansy, yarrow, lovage, chives, rhubarb, comfrey, Ligularia, Echinacea Pallida, Hollyhock seem to do really well on London clay; Artemisia did well for two years then dropped down dead; Siberian Pea Shrub seemed to have died, then suddenly reappeared with a vengeance and I now have a well established bush. It's often quite difficult to discern which bits of a flat plot will be best for particular perennials, which is why I waited for three years before planting apple and plum trees, asparagus crowns.
Most useful perennials I've ever grown are: purple tree collards/Egyptian walking onions/multiplier onions/ Jerusalem Artichokes/Moringa/Chinese toon tree.
Its funny every gardener I've ever met starts out with annuals and eventually turns into a permaculture Food Forrester with perennials.
If you want to know the best most useful perennials vegetables read Eric toensmeiers Perennial vegetables....its the Bible.
I love how thought out everything is! The wicker for baskets is something I just love!
Wow! I didn't realise the definition of an orchard and now it turns out I have one! I planted 3 apples, a cherry and a crab apple last autumn (all column trees as I have little space). Thanks so much for the info.
Your comment about mint as ground cover got me inspired, I am thinking about using creeping thyme and wild strawberries around currant bushes in the same role.
Mint as ground cover freaks me out a bit 😅, but we’ve got creeping time all along our gardens as a living mulch. It works great and isn’t too invasive.
@@spoolsandbobbins Definitely not mint 🙃. Thyme is starting to spread already, but I hope I have time until my sown yellow and red wild strawberries are big enough to be transplanted to their final location.
Great to hear more about perennials such as perennial kales/cabbage trees, asparaguses, Chilean guava, Honeyberries, fennels, fruit trees/bushes, mini kiwi vines, rosemaries/thymes/sages/mints/etc. lovely to see
It seems like a dream. Like a heaven on Earth.
I love how you have intertwined food production with the beauty of the landscape. I believe that a garden can be both productive and beautiful. I have created a very linear garden layout with arches for growing fruits and vegetables with a few flowers to attract the bees.
I’m planning to buy several trees to plant on the north side of the property as a screen from storms. What type of willow would I buy if I wanted to use some cuttings for baskets? My grandmother made baskets and I would love to continue the tradition.
Thank you for your videos 😃
Lovely hearing about how far you all have gone with the perennials! As you were mentioning previously there is definitely lack of space for people that want to garden and make food forests. My own fruit trees have been in pots for last 3 years, and probably hate me very much for that 😂
I have started more and more prennials now, trees and bushes and more :)
Hey Huw, nice project you’ve got going on there, there’s something you might want to look into a bit more, appareantly adding pine needles doesn’t change the ph of the soil, that seems to be a debunked muth. And Nate from Garden like a viking says that plant roots alter the ph around them to their own liking and need no help from us to do that.. Makes sense after hearing Paul Gatchi saying that he has all kinds of acidic, neutral and alkaline loving plants growing happily right next to eachother without doing anything to the soil. Btw can you get free fall leaves and or woodchips from your municipality, that could kickstart your fruittrees imensly if you mulch them royaly so you create more of a fungal dominated soil than a bacterial dominated one. Have great one 🙂
Huw, did you visit Alan Carter's food forest in Aberdeen when you were up in Rhynie? If not, you should take it in on your next visit. He also has a book "food forest in your garden" which is well worth reading.
This was a fantastic video, very inspiring, thanks.
I planted walnut and Hazel nut trees forty years ago, we have had a handful of nuts in that time, squirrels have stripped them every year!
That’s a bummer… there must be a way to prevent squirrels. I heard they hate the smell of alliums
Willow hedge great habitat for nature
We 100% need drone shots of the site to see how it changes over time
Oh my gosh! I was wanting to plant some willow for basket making! 😆
So much going on huw I love it, I’m in a similar position at the Smallholding right now I’m looking at a perennial food forest aswell, so many different plants to try !
Absolutely stunning. Ambitious and inspiring. I am excited to see this develop. 😄
Should be the happiest chickens in earth..... ist's like paradise for them! 🐓🐔🐣
Your farm is amazing! So beautiful and productive! That is the biggest Ash tree I think I've ever seen! The layout, shape and existing natural formations are such an impact-full component of gardening. For example, we are a semi-alpine, low-lying, high water table farm, with a creek dividing our fields. Plus, we have a majestic line of Black Walnut trees along our entire northern boundary. All that to say, using what can be seen as a challenge, to our advantage is so much part of the fun. Thank for the tour!!
Love the way yall put this video together!! Love following you and learning things...I just ordered some of your propagation trays and can't wait to plant in them!
I like Direct Plants too, always had good quality stuff from them.
I too started growing Basket Willow last year (10 pegs), to be exploited later for more cuttings and all the usual old garden projects.
I did not mulch around them, but planted each one in a small individual hollow dug out of the grass for water to collect every time it rained (my garden slopes, so these hollows will contain rainwater for a while longer after everywhere else has drained).
Over this past 2022/23 planting season I bought as many young apple trees as I could each time I saved a little money.
I did this because I realised that if I procrastinated any longer, the price of fruit trees would just go up and up until next Autumn. I didn't want to be regretting not buying them 'now' while I could still afford the number I could.
And the difference in the look of the garden for at least a dozen new apple trees! (As well as a few cherries, wild pears, Amelanchiers, Aronias, and the list goes on a bit).
It looks so much 'fuller' for having that 'skeleton' of taller, upright trees. I know I won't be able to let the flowers produce fruits on these new trees this year (sadly, as at least one has bundles of blooms forming. But I'll be good).
I think this is the year when my ground finally looks more like a permaculture garden and less like a field with a few little sticks sticking up.
I chose mainly Jonagold apples (7-8 of them) - as these are meant to have really good storage capabilities (up to 6 months!)
I'm fine with the properties of Jonagold regarding taste, crunch, etc - but my absolute favourite apple is Egremont Russet, which has a disappointingly lousy storage time (I was told 2 months at a push, but less is optimal. A pity because they were dearer to buy as well).
Didn't know that about Magnolias - and to think I used to work in a garden which housed the National Collection. Nobody there ever told me they can be turned into syrups.
Well, I have 3 Hazels, 3 flowering currants and a few Coltsfoot roots waiting for me to plant. Happy permaculture gardening to all!
Beautiful, I really enjoyed that.
Yes, inspiring and lots of learning for the viewers.
Thanks!
Had never heard of cob nuts but Google says they are hazelnuts. 😀. Even though I have been around magnolias all my life, I also didn’t know the flowers are edible. I wonder if that is all magnolias or just stellata?
My cottage garden is situated on a sloped and rocky zone 4 deciduous forest. It is surrounded by sugar maples and clearings provide a good home for raspberries and blackberries. I have so far cultivated a small plot where I grow annuals suitable for shade and partial shade.
The rocky slope part of the garden was just a pile of rubble when we first arrived, it was covered with overgrown shrubs that were planted there to stabilize it. This is where I am planting perennials. I am slowly clearing it, removing small rocks and replacing them with bigger rocks, creating small growing areas between the rocks. I am focusing on shade to partial shade tolerant perennials, such as bee balm, hostas, mint, lemon balm, etc. I do experiment a lot with plants and see what takes. Chipmunks quite like to munch on the hostas, they live in the trees above, so last summer I sprayed the leaves with a hot pepper solution, only one generous application was enough to teach them to stay away for the rest of the summer.
Saucer magnolia petals are my favorite, I put them in stir fry in place of ginger. Pickled and syrups are great too but for how I cook I think it's underrated raw
Any kind of magnolia will do? Here in Portugal we have so many diferent varieties
Great to hear about the ideas and possibilities. Thanks!
Oh man. 😮The daffodil was pretty!
Youve worked so hard. Loving the arbors. Oit of my price range.
I have learned so much from your videos
Nice space and good choices for the new perennials! I have and love them all. The hazelnuts look a bit too close to the cherry blossom tree though…
Good to see the featuring of all the varieties of flowers and seeds
What a gorgeous spot! 💚🌱😍
I‘ve got mint growing under my raspberries and the blackberry, seem to get on fine and we get a double crop on the same piece of land.
This is very Interesting I have learned a lot from your Videos Huw I like the longer you have touched on a lot of different aspects in this Video an I like it.
Brilliant video that's Huw!
Hello friend...nice sharing 👍👍👍 great job
Love it. Going g to be implementing some of these ideas in my new garden
I'm looking forward to see how your new areas progress. The new format is good but I'd prefer a little less camera movement as the constant moving gives me a headache.
Speaking of used coffee grounds, there's another "garden task" I think needs promoting. I mentioned it on Roo's Life recently.
In making compost, one collects compost materials over the growing season. A resource one either is constantly having an eye and ear open for or planning a routine task to brainstorm/pick up local resources.
❤️ Love! Love! Love! This video! One has to have discernment to appreciate the vision. I get it and can't wait for the follow up. 😊
tap o north is so cool!
Love it. So many goals!! Thanks for the inspiration and wonderful knowledge (hello from Nova Scotia, Canada)
Awh thank you so much!
Lov that !! We need to see more of your evironement to better understand how your place works in his integrity. I really hope to see more videos outside of your metalic blankets. Keep it like that, we love your work !
Love the idea of a linear food forest and the reasons you gave for that aproach. Tried the 3 sisters planting the other year and it may be ok in parts of America but not right for Yorkshire. Right plant right place but also right planting right place!
Thank you Huw and team. I have plant envy, especially the fruit trees and shrubs ☺️ I'm hoping to get some more into my garden this year, but on a low budget.
I love your channel! You do amazing work. In the US zone 6b Honeysuckle is very invasive. It is killing (chokeout) mature trees. For the last 7 years I have been trying to kill it in my woods. Side note I did make honeysuckle jelly last year it was tasty!
In Portugal too. We have both the wild and cultivated ones and they get everywhere. But they are good for insects
Thanks Huw for another lovely and informative video. Your passion is truly infectious😃!!
Could please share the link to the nursery where you bought your trees, grapevines etc. I am looking for the right rootstock for my home garden but not sure where to go. Thank you very much
oh my, you just destroyed the daffodil!!! :)
Great vid as always Huw, thanks
Thanks now I had to order some Jostaberry plants lol.
In my next lifetime, we’re getting married. 😅 I adore your videos and your thought process.
Hahahaha fantastic 😂 Glad you enjoy the videos🌿
@@HuwRichards deal.
This is so inspiring, thank you
Tree mallow is a good one to grow, nice flowers, edible plant, grow to a good height for screening
Looks wonderful - super projects! 🤩
Hi Huw I must have a mini orchard as we have a pear 2 apples and a plum and then just to the side a walnut tree. And about a 100 yards away we have a cherry and a bramley apple
I didn’t know you could use magnolia flowers that’s amazing
Shredded pine bark is better than pine needles to maintain acidity.
love this guy!!!
I'd like to hear what you do about grey squirrels if they DO turn up to bother your cobnuts. In our part of Bristol there are dozens of greys, and no inventiveness on our part has yet defeated them. We are thinking about making a chickenwire cage 15 feet tall - which shows how desperate we feel.
I also wondered about the Ash tree you showed. Chalara is coming - even if not in West Wales yet. So why not plant some replacements now? Maybe a thick native hedge with some forest trees at intervals stood in it would maximise aesthetic and wildlife value. Oak & lime live long and give lots of food for birds. And 'coppice and standard' is the traditional woodland structure in Wales that has been neglected in the last century. If you DO plant a native hedge thick enough to be nested in, I'd be pleased to come & lay it for you - and to teach anyone who wants to learn the technique - in 10-12yr time.
Outstanding video as usual, Huw! However, I would like to point out something for the blueberry enthusiasts out there, pine needles DO NOT make you soil acidic, it is a common misconception caused by old books/outdated information. Video explained by the professionals in that area of expertise can be found here: ruclips.net/video/_B8-1sVcfzE/видео.html Cheers 🙂
Oh very useful to know thank you!
You should grow more perenial vegables like tree collards, sea kale, Babington leek, garlic chives, chives, walking onions, nodding onions, Turkish rocket, camas, Oca, yacon, causcasian spinach, good king Henry, Chinese toona, Chinese yam, Japanese yam discorea, rare rheum or rhurbarb spcies, red sorrel and sorrel, New Zealand spinach, water spinach , edible rare sunflowers like non rare jursuleum artichoke and rarer kinds like maximillion tuberous sunflower, wild kidney beans, runner beans, oxyria sorrel, edible perenial hibiscus cold hardy species like rose of Sharon and marshmallows, False nettle, wood nettle and a lot more.
That massive old tree behind you where flowery cherry is ahhh you just said it an ash tree. It’s absolutely amazing. How long do cobnut trees take to grow
Hi Huw, just wondered if you had any problems with crop binding running your hens on hay? The old poultry breeders round my way taught me that if you used it as bedding the risk of crop binding was particularly high. They used straw yards, wood shavings (sometimes back in the day peat) or wire flooring as an alternative. I wondered what your experience has been?
Hay Huw I've just started getting into this stuff and I was curious have you ever conceded growing bamboo for the cains and for mulch I'm in similar area to you and it looks like it will grow here also bamboo mulch contains a lot of nitrogen so it seams ideal with it notorious quick growing time.
Hello Huw, it would be good to hear what your definition is of a food forest. Thank you.
Huw, are you familiar with David the Good's Grocery Row Garden concept? (I'm sure it's not unique to him, but his videos are where I learned about it.)
I use mint and pennyroyal among the strawberries that are my lowest level of the food forest
you should plant some of those perennials and other things in the chicken area, give them shade and interest. poor things are living in a bare patch.
If you listen to what I said from 14:45 you wouldn't have written this comment😂
Any chance of a planting map, Drone view to see lay out in full?
Watched you plant that mint in your garden bed and cringed...very invasive
Are your magnolias the large tree type? That would be an impressive impact indeed!
Hi this is Of topic but need your advice....this is my first year gardening so im pretty clueless to everything lol..ive got loads of black fungus gnats swarming about my raise beds and ive not even planted anything yet...is my garden doomed before it even gets going? What should i do 😢
They arent the really tiny ones you get round your house plant's these are bigger...slim black flies about a cm in size....but theres loads...
I'm enjoying your recent videos very much Huw, very inspiring. Mwy o Gymraeg plis!
Totally off topic but have you heard of electroculture? Would love someone of your influence to give it a serious go and see if it makes a difference or not.
Did you interplant the liner orchard with nitrogen fixers?
Love love love the content of your videos Huw, but is it really necessary for the ‘constant movement’ of the cameraman? It’s trendy lately but very off putting while watching 😞 motion sickness is felt 😢
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You probably know this but, blueberries need cross polination.
Also, choose fruit trees cultivar that are resistent to diseases. I have 300 fruit trees and only two apple cultivars and 3 peach trees get sick. This is very Important if you don't want to spend the rest of your life sprayig them
Hi, can you make sure that the text is in Danish by plotting Danish on, thanks in advance
How do you deal with animals in the garden? We have deer, groundhogs, chipmunks etc.
Love the concept of a linear food forest for UK climate.
Martin Crawford is the godfather of UK food forests!! Check him out.
What is the annual rainfall in your location? Do you need to provide irrigation for your trees?
Great video. But please let's not perpetuate the myth that pine needles acidify soil. It has been disproven in many studies. The needles themselves are acidic, but they do not lower the ph in any measurable way, even in quite large amounts.
06:36 I have Magnolia stellata and I read it is not one of the Magnolias that are good for edible infusions. Can anyone on this Channel confirm or refute that from personal experience?
What's the deal with coffee grounds in compost? I've heard for and against using it
Great video 🙂 Just some constructive criticism, the filming at the start of the video was very mobile and a bit disjointed from the script. It made it look quite amateur and made me feel a little ill. 🙂