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Thanks sooo much for all the amazingly positive feedback through the comments. These last couple of days I HAVE been trying to answer them all, but I didn´t anticipate that my video would be so widely viewed. Please forgive me if I do not respond. I need to water, I need to plant, I need to film, experiment, edit, eat, sleep and cogitate over my next episode. But I do read them all, and because of them, I have learnt heaps more. The amount of positive comments like these are fuel for a creative soul such as myself. Bless and thanks for all the great tips and links and feedback. It´s incredible :-)
You might want to 'pin' this comment to the top of the comments before it gets lost amongst all of us admirers 😉 Your talent is astounding. Thank you for sharing it x
Your video filmography surpasses everything i have seen here. .. please keep it up. .. Had me jumping out of my skin early hours this morning. .. Thanku
Your a true gem, what your doing is exactly what so many people are looking for and want to follow. The skill you have in video making is truly next level and brings such a breath of fresh air. Keep up the AMAZING work and cant wait for the next ones! Bell is on!
For some reason I cannot understand, most gardening channels are agitated, hyperactive, bordering on tense, and the reason for this is a mystery to me. But the Weedy Garden is the exact opposite; it is calm, serene, kind of zen, and aesthetically fascinating. Besides, I feel it is the best at providing great information on matters of gardening and the environment as well. Thank you so much for this gift.
Totally agree! I think it's precisely how David describes his own channel. He started with the camera then pointed it at the garden. His art is showing off the vibrancy of what he sees. I just stumbled across the channel and loved this film. Beautifully made. Thank you!
Maybe bc its non profit, takes of some tension. I still managed to produce more than twice my bodyweight in fruits and vegetables harvest this year as a beginner. And the harvest has been increasing every year, hopefully and highly probably more next year🙌 Inspiring videos by the way. Keep up the good work!
I came to say exactly the same, and I'm not surprised to see others have had the same reaction. There is a beautiful simplicity here, working with the land rather than beating it into submission. 💚
Incredible. You were a seed waiting to sprout and when faced with the pandemic adversities, learned at a masters speed and comprehension how to use your existing extraordinary talent to build a new one. You transcended and composted a dark time into light and tell the story of connecting to the multiple dimensions and relationships of growing our own food in a uniquely beautiful spiritually rooting way.
This is the first gardening channel that I feel like I'm watching a documentary from National Geographic, Discovery Channel and Netflix. Thank you for an epic cinematography and content. Keep on Gardening Mr Weedy Garden. 👏
Dear Mr Weedy Gardener, I honestly think this is the most beautiful short film I have seen on youtube. Thanks for your creativity and vision and spirit.
And think...I have not even replied to your comment. It somehow slipped past my eyes. And now it is the most popular comment on the most popular video and I see it first now after 9 months. How weird is that? 😐 But thankyou.
Maybe this is what is wrong then? As I don't rememeber ever using these skills in practice. It's called gardening. Ignorance, people will learn your ignorance. This doesn't get taught in our schools and if it is, it isn't taught practically.
Agree! In high school, the word gardening or growing your own food was not part of the students vocabulary. In science class, we didn't even know what makes plant grow (chemical compounds) and photosynthesis is just the tip of the ice berg. If Jay is a real teacher, he should know that the science curriculum is the same as the science I took when I went to school. Same old lethargic principles with a new twist--AI! Let see if AI will milk a cow in the near future or will do gardening. Best skills are those that one learns and don't forget. E.g., riding a bike, you could drive a Ferrari, but when you hop on a bicycle to ride it again; you are not going to fall on your a$$.
Wow! I hope you are right. That would be awesome, but as long as I am having fun, it’s worth the effort if only a few people at lease might be motivated to get into it and get dirty hands. Stay safe and thanx for your feedback
Enjoyed the video. I would like to point out that bacteria are actually eaten by the plants during Rhizophagy, which gives the plants the nutrients that they need. Also, I have been following the work of Elaine Ingham which goes into the details of what the microbes are doing in the soil.
To all those folks who, with good intentions, are sugesting to aerate their drum of bacteria, PLEASE DO NOT. That will defeat this purpose. To make it clear to everyone, this is NOT a compost tea. A compost tea is aerobic. This brew is anaerobic. If you pump air through it, it will kill the bacteria we want for later ok. Happy brewing.
Thanks for the recipe.I'm going to make this into a probiotic and drink it. Rice water, organic whey and organic blackstrap molasses. After 21 days fermenting will let you know what it taste like;) Thanks again from NZ.
Didn't realize that the video was just under 12 minutes. I felt like watching a 45 minutes video. So much information.. I had to focus, rewind and re-watch to catch the details..Amazing video.
Bad smells? Mould? Chlorine in your water? Can’t find the right milk or get your hands on UNSULPHURED BLACKSTRAP molasses? Read the following. It should clear up the confusion. It´s important at this stage to note that I have found that 100 litres is way too much for a garden my size. My friend has 100 acres, so he makes 100 litres at a time. For The Weedy Garden, 10 litres is plenty, because I have also found out that it´s best to make a fresh batch every month. As time goes by, heat and light can change your brew. It can turn acidic over time, it can also turn alchohol over time, and in the wrong conditions of heat and sun, it will die and rot and smell like a dead rat. I made my first brew like this video explains, and it went great until it went off in the sun. It is one of many ways to make LAB or EM, KNF or soil bacteria as I call them. I did the 7x7x7 day preceedure only because of the way I was shown when I learnt from my mate Ben. You can use more rice and less water, less rice and more water, less or more milk...it does not have to be by the exact messurements of my video. Since making this video, I have learnt a lot about these LACTOBASCILLUS BACTERIA, and how to look after them and use them. Here are some new insights that I will be incorporating into video nr 6. Forst and foremost...if anything you do smells bad, START AGAIN. TRUST YOUR NOSE. 30% of our DNA is dedicated to our sense of smell and taste. A built in survival mechanism. Trust it. Having said that, the smell of chicken shit cider is not the best, but there is a difference between the smell of a farm and the smell of a city sewage. Wash some white rice with fresh water. If you have town water which might have chlorine in it, fill a bucket and let it sit for 24 hrs to let the chlorine evaporate. Chlorine is a gas and will leave the water within 24 hrs and make it then suitable to use for making your bacteria solution. After you have poured off the rice water, put it in a clean jar and cover the lid with a paper towel or a cloth so the air can get in and the flies and bugs stay out. The starchy water is sugar which feed the lactobascilli and lots of other bacteria that might have been on the rice, in the water, in the jar before you used it, on your hands or on the spoon you used to stir it. But we will deal with them in a second. Now, have a smell of it. It should not smell of anything. Ok...So far so good. Now leave it for at least three days. If you live in a hot climate, it might just take only three days. If it is cold...perhaps five or more. THE IMPORTANT THING is the SMELL. After three days, check the smell. You want to add milk as soon as your rice water starts to smell SWEET! Mine kinda smelt like a fresh sour dough. If it smells rotten and has mould growing on top, you might want to start again, and this time make sure it´s COOL AND DARK. Like a fresh forest floor in the morning kinda spot. You need a milk with cream and lactose, so vegatable based milks don´t do the job. They don´t have lactose. When it starts to smell sweet, add the milk. I hear now that any dairy milk is good, but full cream is best. The lactobacillus bacteria (our guys) turn the lactose into lactic acid, which kills all the PATHOGENS and bad bacteria that we don´t want. The other bacteria do not like the acidic environment the LACTOBASCILLUS BACTERIA are producing. People have been using these BACTERIA in fermenting and cheese making and soil making for EVER. Our stomach is full of them too. A few days after pouring in the milk, it seperates into kurd and whey. Kurd is what you can make cheese from. The whey is the watery liquid. It only needs to take a few days to seperate the kurd from the whey. When I did mine, it only took a few days.It´s best to leave it for at least a day or two after it seperates. I said in the video 7 days, but since learning more, it is not necessary to wait that long. If you wait too long it will go rotten, especially if it is warm. When it has done that, strain and collect the two seperately. Make cheese from the kurd if you know how, but keep the whey, and DON’T let the sediment in the bottom come into your whey. You should have clearish, slightly greenish, milky but clearish whey (see mine in the video). Now you have your lactobascillus bacteria in a jar and NO OTHER bacteria or pathogens. This IS your anaerobic bacteria brew. If you want more of them, they will need to breed and multiply. To do this they need space and food. Water is the space, and molasses or brown sugar is their food. They start multiplying at a rate of double every 20 minutes, so if you leave it sit in the drum for seven days, your bacteria colony is about as dense as it was in the whey, but now you have a big drum of them. Measurements are NOT specific, but just a guide. Any combination almost would work, it’s just a time equation then. No need to use a 100 litres drum. It is too much for a small garden. Keep it cool and dark. It can keep for a year, but there are many things that can happen to make it harmfull. Heat and light and time are the worst enemies. These days I make a fresh 10 litre batch each month. Keep it stored in a cool dark place out of direct sun. USE YOUR NOSE!!! Anything sweet or cider is good. Any smells like bad farts or dead rats or alchohol is BAD!! Anything white is generally good, anything black is generally bad. If you see any signs of white mould, it is not a “problem”. Perhaps it is just your brew flowering. Fungi is aerobic and eats anaerobic bacteria for breakfast, lunch and dinner. If you have mould growing on top, no doubt they are just eating and living off the poor anaerobic bacteria that are on the very top layer which is in contact with the air. But after time they get heavy and fall in and that can begin a rotting process that starts very slow but gets faster and faster until one day it is harmfull for your plants. Don´t use more than once every two weeks. Experiment first on sections of your garden and wait for fourteen days to see any results or change. Hope this answers some of the questions and explains the process better. TRUST YOUR NOSE!!! Happy growing
Thanks for more info! Ive finished my bucket and was wondering if to make a new one you would use the remaining juice and add more water and molasses or would you go through the whole process to catch the bacteria again??? Cheers mate youre a legend!
Awesome information with so much detail, you have further inspired my desire to harness nutrient resources natural and such an enjoyable experience. Its just life right. Happy gardening, and i look forwards to growing with you.
The bacteria juice stays in the drum for at least SEVEN days to get the numbers up. They multiply at a rate of doubling every twenty minute. After a week, you can use it in your watering, but stick to the micro dosing of approx 1/100 and don´t do it more than once every two weeks. Best if you make a test on a section of your garden first, and wait 14 days to see any results. It can go bad, turn acidic, and become alchohol, so keep in cool and dark and it would be safe to use within the following month. I throw mine on the compost after that. Here it is too hot to keep it for more than a month. NOTE however that they need food, so there has to be lots of dead organic material in the ground for them to eat. It can last for a year, but you really need to know what to look out for regarding it going bad. Heat and light are the worst enemy. I don´t use it much anymore for watering directly on the plants, because I use my free home made organic fertilizers instead if I need to...see Video no 4 for that.
Great video and great garden set up. An idea I tried for organic control of green caterpillar/white butterfly, is to cover the garden bed with netting and dust the plants with diatomaceous earth. The net prevents the butterfly getting in and the diatomaceous earth kills the caterpillars after they eat the leaves and dust. Check it out, its awesome and organic stuff.
Get an aquarium pump and a manifold for 3 or 4 stones and aerate the barrel of soil organisms. It will reduce the risk of it going anaerobic. There even more advanced techniques (like harvesting litter from the forest) all practiced in KNF (Korean Natural Farming). This is EM1, effective micro-organism stage 1.
This would be great over my woodchip medium i've been building for the past few years. It's already full of microbes and fungi. It would be like adding gasoline to fire, I think.
Can I just say: You are healing to my soul. I didn't know how much I needed to find you. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and being on this planet. I love us humans.
I have been teaching horticulture to teenagers for over 10 years now. I have dreamed of a recourse and a video like this in all that time. this is outstanding!! please please please make more. you are an amazing ambassador. thank you. thank you so much.
I've been an avid gardener for decades and I can whole heartedly say that this is the most beautiful, inspiring and helpful gardening video I've ever seen. Even though you just started gardening it's clear to me that you have a magical earthiness (ie: elvish/garden gnome/hobbit) and a kind and beautiful soul. I'm very excited to make a batch of soil bacteria for my garden and compost bin. Thank you for contributing so much beauty at a time that it is most needed.
I have watched this on August 4th and it was like a breath of fresh air, I was mesmerised. I am in the UK were everything seems to be all doom and gloom but your video lifted the spirit and made me realize that God is in his heaven and all is right with the world. When I work in my garden tomorrow I will see it with different eyes even if the caterpillars have eaten my greens. Thanks so much.
I am inspired anew! I love that you carried the caterpillar 🐛 far away and put him down and then warned him to be careful for the bird. So precious! Knowing you exist on this earth has given me hope for tomorrow. 🤗😘 🦋🐌🐝🐞🐓
I accidentally discovered a few years ago if I grow plenty of coriander (it comes up on it's own every Winter now) I don't have any bugs eating my broccoli. I keep a healthy balance or try too, by growing plenty of herbs and flowers amongst my vegetables. And I never have to spray. The good bugs do all the work for me. I enjoyed watching your episode very much. Can't wait to see your next one. Blessings Jo
Weedy! I have been following you for a few months now, and I finally worked my way down to your first video! I love the work you do, you have such a way of explaining things in digestible bites! I am beginning my own permaculture journey too! Thanks for everything you do! Much love! ❤❤❤
This is worthy of being on a National Geographic program. Thank you for being generous enough to share this with the world. Your photography is exceptional! More please.
If I did that, it would be different and there would be someone there telling me how it should be. This is a platform everyone and anyone can watch for free, and I can sleep in, work all night, or go the the beach when I want. I rekkon this is more free and organic. Just me and the birds and no production team with all their bags. But I take your comment as a huge compliment. Thanks :-)
My most favorite gardening channel on youtube. Absolutely great to see another human being passionate about the growing food! The world needs more of us.
Yeah. Just a heads up...I can’t promise that it’ll always be about gardening (eg video nr 9), but all of them WILL have something to do with thriving, by eating and growing food, but also allowing your creativity to come through. When that happens for the “majority”, then all will be well. To get ther however, the best path is connecting BACK to the natural rythms and cycles...and order...of nature. Happy growing...in all ways.
Took approximately 1 minute and 10 seconds into this, my first view, before I subscribed and decided to watch every single video you have produced. Just for your records.
Goddamn.... I was looking for gardening tips, not expecting to be brought to tears by a BBC Earth level documentary mini series.... can’t wait to see more.
That was pure brilliance from start to finish, an instant favourite. I never bother commenting on RUclips, but I just had to on this. Bravo matey! I can't wait for the next instalment.
I am in love. This is the single best RUclips video I think I have ever watched. Inspiring but so stunningly beautiful. I am working on some videos for beginner gardeners and this is definitely going to be my first recommendation for anyone who wants to know more. No matter the level of experience everyone should see these videos. Thank you so much for doing this and sharing them with us. Can't wait for more.
I am going to share this video with my students. We start class with “good things” and since covid they are pretty quiet and sad. You sir will be my good thing to share 😄👍
I love the energy, the love, the care, the authenticity, and the editing in this video. You have such an amazing way of sharing. I've subscribed and I'm looking forward to more videos :) Thank you!
Mate you’re a such creative person Bit of good comedy, bit of good knowledge, Bit of good ethics Bit of good communication Lots of skills and Lenses 👍🏽👍🏽
I really cant understand why this excellent content and very well polished video has 252 dislikes, i mean what the heck is wrong with those dissers!? They must love or have a financial stake in the babylonian concrete jungle. I know what world id like to live in and i am being part of the solution also, if everyone who is able to garden, ie, has access to land however small, started a permaculture garden it would give us folk much more food security, and that's without mentioning the well being that comes from eating quality food and connecting with the vital earth energies. This world has so many problems some great and some small, but a step towards providing food security for our and the future generations is a step in the right direction. 👍❤
This is honestly such an amazing video! The camera work, editing, soundtrack, information and topic!!! I’m so excited to see any other content you’re going to release.
I think this is the best enthusiastic thing I've seen on RUclips. Love camera work, filming and gardening myself, and the way you've put this together is like a breath of fresh air! Great job! Thanks for making it.
Man, you’re a freaking legend. I have literally watched thousands of hours of educational video and I can easily say that this is up there with the best I have seen! Kudos to you, and hope that I get the pleasure of hanging out with you one day.
Man, what a masterpiece! I'd be happy to have all that camera equipment at my disposal someday, too. I love your presentation style along with top-notch footage and sound design. You've inspired me as a videographer and a gardener. Can't wait to see more from you!
My first love in life-planting fruit trees. Not for commerce but for passion, my first love. Left it behind in search of a livelihood. Lived life so far and I am turning 50 this October 2023. Now decided lo live life than live for a livelihood. Thanks for the motivation. Really really thanks. I am starting my life, all over again, from the time I was 17 years old. And I am loving it already, by seeing your videos, which has motivated me like anything.
What a delightful find! You’re like the David Attenborough of experimental amateur veggie gardening. And I’ve learned something to boot! Subbed and looking forward to more :-)
I started watching for the gardening tips, but then, wow, what wonderful images and videography. The time, equipment and commitment that went into assembling this short video presentation is in tip and iceberg territory.
I found you while browsing with my Oculus on. Decided to switch to my phone because I didn’t feel like getting out of bed to move 360 lol anyways I’m so happy to have come across your page and I’ve learned so much from just watching 2 videos so far. I’m interested in starting my own garden soon yet I’ve always felt I don’t have a green thumb but you’ve videos give me the courage to go for it. I grew up eating all that we could grow from a garden rather than buy it from a grocery store and the older I get the more I want to get back to doing this. My granddad always enjoyed hunting and fishing and we’ve always had a garden. I want to get back to growing the things I eat. Thank you!
This is one of the most inspiring and educational videos i have ever seen in my life, the way you put this video together with your knowledge is seriously amazing, thank you thank you thank you
Everything about this makes my heart sing. I appreciate the time, delicacy, approach and insight. It is truly inspirational on so many levels. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Oh you are a gift to humanity!!!!! I love the soil bacteria formulat. I have to do this TODAY! I have poor soil. I am so excited. Your videos are the best!
My dream garden is in the Desert of SoCal. It's a process. My first yr of composting was a success so I upgraded my compost pile to allow for more earthworms. I dug a shallow pit. It's wonderful. I go to the back yard just to sniff it 😂
What a great beginning David, hope to see more from you soon! Everybody else already made such wonderfull comments, I concur! Keep on sharing! Hi from The Netherlands! :)
im showing this to my grade 4 students to inspire them before we are learning to plant lettuce seeds. peace, love, and respect to you! p.s. love the jazz music, so many different parts coming together for one goal, similar to soil life
MATE😁 Flipping Awesome!!! This is a million times better watching than the compost on TV in NZ Thank you! ....I subscribed in the first 2 minutes... Beautiful... looking forward to many more 👏👍💚
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Thanks sooo much for all the amazingly positive feedback through the comments. These last couple of days I HAVE been trying to answer them all, but I didn´t anticipate that my video would be so widely viewed. Please forgive me if I do not respond. I need to water, I need to plant, I need to film, experiment, edit, eat, sleep and cogitate over my next episode. But I do read them all, and because of them, I have learnt heaps more. The amount of positive comments like these are fuel for a creative soul such as myself. Bless and thanks for all the great tips and links and feedback. It´s incredible :-)
Take your time and let it happen. It’ll probably work out better.
You might want to 'pin' this comment to the top of the comments before it gets lost amongst all of us admirers 😉
Your talent is astounding. Thank you for sharing it x
No sir you are incredible thank you 🙏🏻🥰
Your video filmography surpasses everything i have seen here. .. please keep it up. .. Had me jumping out of my skin early hours this morning. .. Thanku
Your a true gem, what your doing is exactly what so many people are looking for and want to follow. The skill you have in video making is truly next level and brings such a breath of fresh air. Keep up the AMAZING work and cant wait for the next ones! Bell is on!
For some reason I cannot understand, most gardening channels are agitated, hyperactive, bordering on tense, and the reason for this is a mystery to me. But the Weedy Garden is the exact opposite; it is calm, serene, kind of zen, and aesthetically fascinating. Besides, I feel it is the best at providing great information on matters of gardening and the environment as well. Thank you so much for this gift.
love your comment Chico. Thanks so much 🙏🏻😃
Totally agree! I think it's precisely how David describes his own channel. He started with the camera then pointed it at the garden. His art is showing off the vibrancy of what he sees. I just stumbled across the channel and loved this film. Beautifully made. Thank you!
Maybe bc its non profit, takes of some tension. I still managed to produce more than twice my bodyweight in fruits and vegetables harvest this year as a beginner. And the harvest has been increasing every year, hopefully and highly probably more next year🙌 Inspiring videos by the way. Keep up the good work!
I came to say exactly the same, and I'm not surprised to see others have had the same reaction. There is a beautiful simplicity here, working with the land rather than beating it into submission.
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Incredible. You were a seed waiting to sprout and when faced with the pandemic adversities, learned at a masters speed and comprehension how to use your existing extraordinary talent to build a new one. You transcended and composted a dark time into light and tell the story of connecting to the multiple dimensions and relationships of growing our own food in a uniquely beautiful spiritually rooting way.
This is the first gardening channel that I feel like I'm watching a documentary from National Geographic, Discovery Channel and Netflix. Thank you for an epic cinematography and content. Keep on Gardening Mr Weedy Garden. 👏
Dear Mr Weedy Gardener,
I honestly think this is the most beautiful short film I have seen on youtube.
Thanks for your creativity and vision and spirit.
Cheers to you 👍🏼🐨🦶🏻🎥💚🇦🇺🐛🙃
Amen to that 🐛🦋😎
Yes! Finally someone who can EDIT!
Woow amazing video. Please keep on making content like this. Thank you.
I Agree. Marvelous work.
My new favorite channel. Wonderful.
This is what we call QUALITY CONTENT 👌👌
No, it's super quality content. It deserves short clip / documentary oscar
Completely agree with you.
Hey i recently watched your video about grape vine
And think...I have not even replied to your comment. It somehow slipped past my eyes. And now it is the most popular comment on the most popular video and I see it first now after 9 months. How weird is that? 😐 But thankyou.
@@TheWeedyGarden You know what the best thing to do with bullies and liars is?
Do what they say :D Enjoy ''lockdown'' m8t
THIS is what they should be teaching in school. Mother Earth would appreciate your assistance.
Right! We need to become more organic and depend less on mono-agriculture
AGREED 👍
We do teach this in school. It’s called Science. Yes, I am a Science teacher.
Maybe this is what is wrong then? As I don't rememeber ever using these skills in practice. It's called gardening. Ignorance, people will learn your ignorance. This doesn't get taught in our schools and if it is, it isn't taught practically.
Agree! In high school, the word gardening or growing your own food was not part of the students vocabulary. In science class, we didn't even know what makes plant grow (chemical compounds) and photosynthesis is just the tip of the ice berg. If Jay is a real teacher, he should know that the science curriculum is the same as the science I took when I went to school. Same old lethargic principles with a new twist--AI! Let see if AI will milk a cow in the near future or will do gardening. Best skills are those that one learns and don't forget. E.g., riding a bike, you could drive a Ferrari, but when you hop on a bicycle to ride it again; you are not going to fall on your a$$.
Holy kamoli I have never fallen so hard for a RUclips channel. I've started farming in my apartment and this is such a lovely way to learn
There are not enough adjectives to describe how good this is, but one comes to mind immediately. Joyful
Your filming and editing of this video is superb. I predict big things for your channel. great job
Wow! I hope you are right. That would be awesome, but as long as I am having fun, it’s worth the effort if only a few people at lease might be motivated to get into it and get dirty hands. Stay safe and thanx for your feedback
Amen to that!
Enjoyed the video. I would like to point out that bacteria are actually eaten by the plants during Rhizophagy, which gives the plants the nutrients that they need.
Also, I have been following the work of Elaine Ingham which goes into the details of what the microbes are doing in the soil.
@@samapperson89 Elaine Ingham really knows her bacteria and microbes
I couldn't agree MORE!
If I could take my kids anywhere for a holiday...it would be here with this beautiful human!
Quote of the day! 😊💚😃🙏
I stopped the video in the middle... Just to hit the LIKE button. I'm truly mesmerized
I was a professional gardener for twenty years and learned to appreciate beautiful soil as much as beautiful plants.
This is a real movie in real life ! Awesome weedy
To all those folks who, with good intentions, are sugesting to aerate their drum of bacteria, PLEASE DO NOT. That will defeat this purpose. To make it clear to everyone, this is NOT a compost tea. A compost tea is aerobic. This brew is anaerobic. If you pump air through it, it will kill the bacteria we want for later ok. Happy brewing.
Pl. Advise on organic
PESTICIDES.....how to create it
Thanks for the recipe.I'm going to make this into a probiotic and drink it. Rice water, organic whey and organic blackstrap molasses. After 21 days fermenting will let you know what it taste like;) Thanks again from NZ.
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I look forward to your update.
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Please reply to your comment so I’ll get a notice. Thanks!😘🌻
@@jofipps376 hi
Didn't realize that the video was just under 12 minutes. I felt like watching a 45 minutes video. So much information.. I had to focus, rewind and re-watch to catch the details..Amazing video.
This is the best FIRST video of a RUclips channel I've seen. Just beautiful.
Normally I complain when creators spend 15 minutes getting to the point but this was freaking awesome!!
A real tour-de-force! Amazing video, worthy of the the word “content.” Welcome to the RUclips gardening community.
Thanks mate
Best gardening channel out there !
Nice. Thanks
This is the single most incredible one-video RUclips channel I've encountered in fifteen years. You *have* to post more. You've got us, man. Moar!
Liz Zorab sent me and I'm so glad!
It's how I landed here too. So glad. This is amazing and incredibly rich. I'll be watching it again and again.
Me too 🥰
Me too and I love it!
Thanks Tony Smith for sharing this : so enjoyablevideo I subscribe of course greeting from a French grand dad
Me too
you are the definition of the survival, the peaceful and the smartest person in any condition.
Bad smells? Mould? Chlorine in your water? Can’t find the right milk or get your hands on UNSULPHURED BLACKSTRAP molasses?
Read the following. It should clear up the confusion.
It´s important at this stage to note that I have found that 100 litres is way too much for a garden my size. My friend has 100 acres, so he makes 100 litres at a time. For The Weedy Garden, 10 litres is plenty, because I have also found out that it´s best to make a fresh batch every month. As time goes by, heat and light can change your brew. It can turn acidic over time, it can also turn alchohol over time, and in the wrong conditions of heat and sun, it will die and rot and smell like a dead rat.
I made my first brew like this video explains, and it went great until it went off in the sun. It is one of many ways to make LAB or EM, KNF or soil bacteria as I call them. I did the 7x7x7 day preceedure only because of the way I was shown when I learnt from my mate Ben. You can use more rice and less water, less rice and more water, less or more milk...it does not have to be by the exact messurements of my video. Since making this video, I have learnt a lot about these LACTOBASCILLUS BACTERIA, and how to look after them and use them. Here are some new insights that I will be incorporating into video nr 6.
Forst and foremost...if anything you do smells bad, START AGAIN. TRUST YOUR NOSE. 30% of our DNA is dedicated to our sense of smell and taste. A built in survival mechanism. Trust it. Having said that, the smell of chicken shit cider is not the best, but there is a difference between the smell of a farm and the smell of a city sewage.
Wash some white rice with fresh water. If you have town water which might have chlorine in it, fill a bucket and let it sit for 24 hrs to let the chlorine evaporate. Chlorine is a gas and will leave the water within 24 hrs and make it then suitable to use for making your bacteria solution.
After you have poured off the rice water, put it in a clean jar and cover the lid with a paper towel or a cloth so the air can get in and the flies and bugs stay out. The starchy water is sugar which feed the lactobascilli and lots of other bacteria that might have been on the rice, in the water, in the jar before you used it, on your hands or on the spoon you used to stir it. But we will deal with them in a second.
Now, have a smell of it. It should not smell of anything. Ok...So far so good. Now leave it for at least three days. If you live in a hot climate, it might just take only three days. If it is cold...perhaps five or more. THE IMPORTANT THING is the SMELL. After three days, check the smell. You want to add milk as soon as your rice water starts to smell SWEET! Mine kinda smelt like a fresh sour dough. If it smells rotten and has mould growing on top, you might want to start again, and this time make sure it´s COOL AND DARK. Like a fresh forest floor in the morning kinda spot. You need a milk with cream and lactose, so vegatable based milks don´t do the job. They don´t have lactose.
When it starts to smell sweet, add the milk. I hear now that any dairy milk is good, but full cream is best. The lactobacillus bacteria (our guys) turn the lactose into lactic acid, which kills all the PATHOGENS and bad bacteria that we don´t want. The other bacteria do not like the acidic environment the LACTOBASCILLUS BACTERIA are producing. People have been using these BACTERIA in fermenting and cheese making and soil making for EVER. Our stomach is full of them too. A few days after pouring in the milk, it seperates into kurd and whey. Kurd is what you can make cheese from. The whey is the watery liquid.
It only needs to take a few days to seperate the kurd from the whey. When I did mine, it only took a few days.It´s best to leave it for at least a day or two after it seperates. I said in the video 7 days, but since learning more, it is not necessary to wait that long. If you wait too long it will go rotten, especially if it is warm. When it has done that, strain and collect the two seperately. Make cheese from the kurd if you know how, but keep the whey, and DON’T let the sediment in the bottom come into your whey.
You should have clearish, slightly greenish, milky but clearish whey (see mine in the video). Now you have your lactobascillus bacteria in a jar and NO OTHER bacteria or pathogens. This IS your anaerobic bacteria brew.
If you want more of them, they will need to breed and multiply. To do this they need space and food. Water is the space, and molasses or brown sugar is their food. They start multiplying at a rate of double every 20 minutes, so if you leave it sit in the drum for seven days, your bacteria colony is about as dense as it was in the whey, but now you have a big drum of them.
Measurements are NOT specific, but just a guide. Any combination almost would work, it’s just a time equation then. No need to use a 100 litres drum. It is too much for a small garden. Keep it cool and dark. It can keep for a year, but there are many things that can happen to make it harmfull. Heat and light and time are the worst enemies. These days I make a fresh 10 litre batch each month.
Keep it stored in a cool dark place out of direct sun.
USE YOUR NOSE!!!
Anything sweet or cider is good. Any smells like bad farts or dead rats or alchohol is BAD!! Anything white is generally good, anything black is generally bad.
If you see any signs of white mould, it is not a “problem”. Perhaps it is just your brew flowering. Fungi is aerobic and eats anaerobic bacteria for breakfast, lunch and dinner. If you have mould growing on top, no doubt they are just eating and living off the poor anaerobic bacteria that are on the very top layer which is in contact with the air. But after time they get heavy and fall in and that can begin a rotting process that starts very slow but gets faster and faster until one day it is harmfull for your plants.
Don´t use more than once every two weeks. Experiment first on sections of your garden and wait for fourteen days to see any results or change.
Hope this answers some of the questions and explains the process better.
TRUST YOUR NOSE!!!
Happy growing
Thanks for more info! Ive finished my bucket and was wondering if to make a new one you would use the remaining juice and add more water and molasses or would you go through the whole process to catch the bacteria again??? Cheers mate youre a legend!
@@williamversace1485 use the last of the mother brew 😉
@@TheWeedyGarden thanks so much mate! Much appreciated 🙏
Awesome information with so much detail, you have further inspired my desire to harness nutrient resources natural and such an enjoyable experience. Its just life right. Happy gardening, and i look forwards to growing with you.
Hi Mate, where I live the water has cloramine, it does not evaporate..bugger..
I love the Teddy Bear waiting for the starch water. You made me laugh!
me too!!! lol
Me three!
Full of creativity. Terbaik !!!
The bacteria juice stays in the drum for at least SEVEN days to get the numbers up. They multiply at a rate of doubling every twenty minute. After a week, you can use it in your watering, but stick to the micro dosing of approx 1/100 and don´t do it more than once every two weeks. Best if you make a test on a section of your garden first, and wait 14 days to see any results. It can go bad, turn acidic, and become alchohol, so keep in cool and dark and it would be safe to use within the following month. I throw mine on the compost after that. Here it is too hot to keep it for more than a month. NOTE however that they need food, so there has to be lots of dead organic material in the ground for them to eat. It can last for a year, but you really need to know what to look out for regarding it going bad. Heat and light are the worst enemy. I don´t use it much anymore for watering directly on the plants, because I use my free home made organic fertilizers instead if I need to...see Video no 4 for that.
Beautiful' thanks... if you're a novice I'm a bacteria fart🦠🤣 in all seriousness though' can't wait to see all the hard work you put in
Great video and great garden set up. An idea I tried for organic control of green caterpillar/white butterfly, is to cover the garden bed with netting and dust the plants with diatomaceous earth. The net prevents the butterfly getting in and the diatomaceous earth kills the caterpillars after they eat the leaves and dust. Check it out, its awesome and organic stuff.
Get an aquarium pump and a manifold for 3 or 4 stones and aerate the barrel of soil organisms. It will reduce the risk of it going anaerobic. There even more advanced techniques (like harvesting litter from the forest) all practiced in KNF (Korean Natural Farming). This is EM1, effective micro-organism stage 1.
After the teas has been made, could you use an air pump to make it more aerobic? That would probably supercharge it!
This would be great over my woodchip medium i've been building for the past few years. It's already full of microbes and fungi. It would be like adding gasoline to fire, I think.
Can I just say:
You are healing to my soul.
I didn't know how much I needed to find you.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and being on this planet.
I love us humans.
Can’t wait for more videos
Beautifull just pure beauty
When an artist makes a garden. Thank you!
I think you are living with a delicate ecosystem in the most interesting and intelligent way.
I have been teaching horticulture to teenagers for over 10 years now. I have dreamed of a recourse and a video like this in all that time. this is outstanding!! please please please make more. you are an amazing ambassador. thank you. thank you so much.
I've been an avid gardener for decades and I can whole heartedly say that this is the most beautiful, inspiring and helpful gardening video I've ever seen. Even though you just started gardening it's clear to me that you have a magical earthiness (ie: elvish/garden gnome/hobbit) and a kind and beautiful soul. I'm very excited to make a batch of soil bacteria for my garden and compost bin. Thank you for contributing so much beauty at a time that it is most needed.
I could not have said it better Veronica .....perfectly put
HOW I JUST LOVE YOUR VIDEOS IN EVERY POSSIBLE ASPECT! ACTUALLY, I THINK I LOVE YOU TOO!
Glad u r watch’n 👍😄
I have watched this on August 4th and it was like a breath of fresh air, I was mesmerised. I am in the UK were everything seems to be all doom and gloom but your video lifted the spirit and made me realize that God is in his heaven and all is right with the world. When I work in my garden tomorrow I will see it with different eyes even if the caterpillars have eaten my greens. Thanks so much.
Yep, agree 100%
I am inspired anew! I love that you carried the caterpillar 🐛 far away and put him down and then warned him to be careful for the bird. So precious! Knowing you exist on this earth has given me hope for tomorrow. 🤗😘 🦋🐌🐝🐞🐓
I accidentally discovered a few years ago if I grow plenty of coriander (it comes up on it's own every Winter now) I don't have any bugs eating my broccoli.
I keep a healthy balance or try too, by growing plenty of herbs and flowers amongst my vegetables.
And I never have to spray.
The good bugs do all the work for me.
I enjoyed watching your episode very much.
Can't wait to see your next one.
Blessings Jo
I am going to do that too. Herbs, flowers and veggies 👍🏼
I've been watching your videos since the first one. I started my Permaculture journey with your video about Swales the day after you posted it.
Wow, a gardener through a photographer's eye makes for a great video to watch. Subscribed.
Indeed. This is such a joy to watch.
Yeah
The genuine spirit of all this is beckons my Soul. Simply beautiful. Thank you for this
Awesome feedback. Thanx sooo much 💪🏻🤗
Weedy! I have been following you for a few months now, and I finally worked my way down to your first video! I love the work you do, you have such a way of explaining things in digestible bites! I am beginning my own permaculture journey too! Thanks for everything you do! Much love! ❤❤❤
Thanks for watching girl 🤗👍
This is worthy of being on a National Geographic program. Thank you for being generous enough to share this with the world. Your photography is exceptional! More please.
If I did that, it would be different and there would be someone there telling me how it should be. This is a platform everyone and anyone can watch for free, and I can sleep in, work all night, or go the the beach when I want. I rekkon this is more free and organic. Just me and the birds and no production team with all their bags. But I take your comment as a huge compliment. Thanks :-)
The Weedy Garden yes some of my friends call that the KISS method. Keep It Simple Stupid. Stay simple, better for your long term health.
My most favorite gardening channel on youtube. Absolutely great to see another human being passionate about the growing food! The world needs more of us.
Yeah. Just a heads up...I can’t promise that it’ll always be about gardening (eg video nr 9), but all of them WILL have something to do with thriving, by eating and growing food, but also allowing your creativity to come through. When that happens for the “majority”, then all will be well. To get ther however, the best path is connecting BACK to the natural rythms and cycles...and order...of nature. Happy growing...in all ways.
@@TheWeedyGarden sounds lovely!
I am glad you left this video in. I the spring time I can use 80L of this stuff as the garden is waking up!
Thanks Weedy
Very pleased to see you get more views, also through my pal Liz. Beautiful video and I look forward to watching the next one 💚
Thanks so much for sharing my video. That was kind of you.
Omg.... this is so beautiful thank you. Plus, you have such a soothing storytelling voice. I’ll be following...
Thanks Sonia. Maybe I can get a job if David Attenborough EVER retires 🤣🤣🤣
@@TheWeedyGarden Yes! He would love you.
He's not allowed to retire, it's against the law!
So true, his voice pitch, tone and pace cause one to "tune in" to what is being said.
Took approximately 1 minute and 10 seconds into this, my first view, before I subscribed and decided to watch every single video you have produced. Just for your records.
Goddamn.... I was looking for gardening tips, not expecting to be brought to tears by a BBC Earth level documentary mini series.... can’t wait to see more.
That was pure brilliance from start to finish, an instant favourite. I never bother commenting on RUclips, but I just had to on this. Bravo matey! I can't wait for the next instalment.
Best gardening video ever
I am in love. This is the single best RUclips video I think I have ever watched. Inspiring but so stunningly beautiful. I am working on some videos for beginner gardeners and this is definitely going to be my first recommendation for anyone who wants to know more. No matter the level of experience everyone should see these videos. Thank you so much for doing this and sharing them with us. Can't wait for more.
I am going to share this video with my students. We start class with “good things” and since covid they are pretty quiet and sad. You sir will be my good thing to share 😄👍
I love the "good things" start. I'm going to copy that for my class 😁
I love how you save the caterpillars - lol. I do the same. I can't squash them
I love the energy, the love, the care, the authenticity, and the editing in this video. You have such an amazing way of sharing. I've subscribed and I'm looking forward to more videos :) Thank you!
Ditto. Couldn't have said it better
Was using the wrong profile before but it was me who answered you before ;-) Thanks for your feedback
Mate you’re a such creative person
Bit of good comedy,
bit of good knowledge,
Bit of good ethics
Bit of good communication
Lots of skills and Lenses 👍🏽👍🏽
Glad you enjoyed it
Photographer n gardener my fav...❤
This is almost like a mini documentary. I appreciate all the time and energy that went into this project. great job!
I really cant understand why this excellent content and very well polished video has 252 dislikes, i mean what the heck is wrong with those dissers!? They must love or have a financial stake in the babylonian concrete jungle. I know what world id like to live in and i am being part of the solution also, if everyone who is able to garden, ie, has access to land however small, started a permaculture garden it would give us folk much more food security, and that's without mentioning the well being that comes from eating quality food and connecting with the vital earth energies. This world has so many problems some great and some small, but a step towards providing food security for our and the future generations is a step in the right direction. 👍❤
Hear hear!
Photography + Gardening = Quality Nature Movie 🦋
This is honestly such an amazing video!
The camera work, editing, soundtrack, information and topic!!! I’m so excited to see any other content you’re going to release.
Thanks. Am working on it 💪🏻🐨🥕
I think this is the best enthusiastic thing I've seen on RUclips. Love camera work, filming and gardening myself, and the way you've put this together is like a breath of fresh air! Great job! Thanks for making it.
We need more of this wonderful content
The best gardening channel ever. Knowledgeable , humble and the video/photography is off the chart. What a legend. Thank you
Very very cool. All round, from the camera work to commentary and content. Thank YOU! Rudolph Steiner would be a happy man watching this!
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Oh...mate...you are amazing. A best video I ever seen in my life. 😍
Man, you’re a freaking legend. I have literally watched thousands of hours of educational video and I can easily say that this is up there with the best I have seen!
Kudos to you, and hope that I get the pleasure of hanging out with you one day.
as a video editor, i can see much effort went into making this. This is not a tutorial, this is art. Very good job, subscribed immediately
My congratulations for everything !!!
Man, what a masterpiece! I'd be happy to have all that camera equipment at my disposal someday, too. I love your presentation style along with top-notch footage and sound design. You've inspired me as a videographer and a gardener. Can't wait to see more from you!
New sub here on the recommendation of Liz Zorab at Byther Farm. Love what you're doing and can't wait to see more!
So nice to hear. Liz has sent a few viewers here. Thanks to her please 👍🏼
My first love in life-planting fruit trees. Not for commerce but for passion, my first love. Left it behind in search of a livelihood. Lived life so far and I am turning 50 this October 2023.
Now decided lo live life than live for a livelihood.
Thanks for the motivation. Really really thanks. I am starting my life, all over again, from the time I was 17 years old. And I am loving it already, by seeing your videos, which has motivated me like anything.
Tanya from Lovely Greens recommended watching your video. I love it! Beautiful work, looking forward to seeing more. Thank you!
Wow, fantastic information! I can't wait to see how you compost in 21 day!
What a delightful find! You’re like the David Attenborough of experimental amateur veggie gardening. And I’ve learned something to boot! Subbed and looking forward to more :-)
You're a great photographer n an ace Gardener
I started watching for the gardening tips, but then, wow, what wonderful images and videography. The time, equipment and commitment that went into assembling this short video presentation is in tip and iceberg territory.
Can't wait to see the next episode. It would seem that the pandemic has some silver linings.
Just beautiful!!
What an absolute joy to find your channel. Beautiful, gentle, genuine sharing for the greater good thank you.
So glad you found my channel. Welcome 💚👍🏼🎥❤️🥦🌏🇦🇺
I found you while browsing with my Oculus on. Decided to switch to my phone because I didn’t feel like getting out of bed to move 360 lol anyways I’m so happy to have come across your page and I’ve learned so much from just watching 2 videos so far. I’m interested in starting my own garden soon yet I’ve always felt I don’t have a green thumb but you’ve videos give me the courage to go for it. I grew up eating all that we could grow from a garden rather than buy it from a grocery store and the older I get the more I want to get back to doing this. My granddad always enjoyed hunting and fishing and we’ve always had a garden. I want to get back to growing the things I eat. Thank you!
This is so much more than a normal video, this is Art! Thanks!
I have just found my favourite channel on youtube. We need more people like Mr Weeedy
This is one of the most inspiring and educational videos i have ever seen in my life, the way you put this video together with your knowledge is seriously amazing, thank you thank you thank you
Praise The Lord!! This is such evidence for This creative brilliance! Your video is just so beautiful and inspirational. 🙏💯🤟
Thankyou kindly. love your username lol
Everything about this makes my heart sing. I appreciate the time, delicacy, approach and insight. It is truly inspirational on so many levels. Thank you for sharing it with us.
nice with you you are a good man
Oh you are a gift to humanity!!!!! I love the soil bacteria formulat. I have to do this TODAY! I have poor soil. I am so excited. Your videos are the best!
Mate you are one proper legend. I’ll be following your journey and creating my own little garden of love
Here on the recommendation of Liz Zorab at Byther Farm. Wonderful filming, editing and storytelling. Looking forward to following your journey.
My dream garden is in the Desert of SoCal. It's a process. My first yr of composting was a success so I upgraded my compost pile to allow for more earthworms. I dug a shallow pit. It's wonderful. I go to the back yard just to sniff it 😂
Amazing! Great camera work and info. Please keep going! Subbed!
What a great beginning David, hope to see more from you soon! Everybody else already made such wonderfull comments, I concur! Keep on sharing!
Hi from The Netherlands! :)
Wow! A feast for the eyes and the mind! 👌
I am a hardcore RUclips user, and dude this video just hit me on the face!
What a insane content.
im showing this to my grade 4 students to inspire them before we are learning to plant lettuce seeds.
peace, love, and respect to you!
p.s. love the jazz music, so many different parts coming together for one goal, similar to soil life
The numbers in the videos are a nice, unique, touch!
MATE😁 Flipping Awesome!!!
This is a million times better watching than the compost on TV in NZ
Thank you! ....I subscribed in the first 2 minutes... Beautiful... looking forward to many more 👏👍💚
Me too Katherine. From Nth Auckland
Paula Wagstaff ditto, from Vermont. USA
I have learnt a lot today. no excuse for procrastinating anymore now.
Forget the gardening, your photography & videography is fantastic!