Very cool! I’ve made beds like this before and it kills fine fescues easily. I wonder if this would kill violets. With no dig methods, unless I apply 8-12” of compost, or 6” of woodchips, violets will grow through and be bigger than before. I learned this by experience. :/ I’ve dug violets out by hand before, however it is extremely time-intensive since in the spots where they are, they’re everywhere. I wonder if I could do something like this.

Why does your accent sound like an American just doing a fake Irish accent?

Just wondering how your chickens avoided getting in the trap? Oe is it not in the actual coop?

Hi from co limerick..thank you.great video.well explained..

Hi Barry. New sub here from New Brunswick, Canada. I'm also 50 % Irish on my mothers side. I will be starting a similar method you've used for a few of my beds. As a suggestion, it is difficult to hear you, so I'm not sure if that is a microphone issue? I also noticed that your last video was a year ago. Have you stopped or lost interest in sharing your journey?

Why so few likes and comments here..? Greetings from a fellow martial artist permaculturalist in the Sligo / Leitrim area. We've a plot of land, tunnel, fruit trees, rewilding area, a little community of like minded direct neighbours and a big like minded community throughout Ireland. It's good to connect.

Thanks for the video, I heard of double digging but wantrd to see if therr were less labour intensive ways to do it

Hi, newbie here. Great videos ❤❤ so all i have to do is get some russet potatoes, put them out in sunlight and i gat them to "sprout"?

Ruby ❤

Sounds great Barry. Be kind to yourself. I appreciate whatever you can do to keep us inspired even down under here in NZ.

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I’ve never seen potatoes planted like this and sure would like to see how you plant your potatoes and how you finish this bed. Am learning lots of new ways to garden.

Hope everything is ok.

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Much appreciate it - - great content🌱

Thanks for keeping it fresh Barry

Love the accent - boyocharr!😂❤

Do any of your videos show how to make the beneficial bacteria tea please? Is it the same kind of tea that is used for Bokashi composting please? During the winter, I had to use the Bokashi method because it was too cold to add kitchen scraps to my outside compost bins. However, I was told not to feed it to the worms because it is too acidic. So I have added the winter Bokashi anaerobic compost to my tumbling composters now that the warmer weather is here. Then I thought to add it to the worm bins. HOWEVER, because it is not cold at the moment, I have also been giving the worms vegetable peelings sprayed with beneficial bacteria from a purchased EM (essential microorganisms) liquid, diluted. Can you please confirm that it is safe to do so. Don't shoot me but I did add some Guinness to the liquid EM tea. The only thing I noticed was a lot of singing from the bin, and a bit of fiddle playing. Did I wreck the composition of the liquid by doing that? I read somewhere that it is OK to add beer. I didn't add any Jamesons because I wanted the worms to concentrate on the job.

If you leave that set up for three months, while waiting for the worm castings, does that mean you have set up another bin for the next lot of kitchen waste? I have two small bins on the go but do not know when I should stop feeding them and the bins are filling up. How many bins do you think should be on the go at one time?

Is it ok to add sawdust with the kitchen scraps?

I am a new grower. I was not sure how to use the commercial biochar that I had purchased. I was told that it is already activated. As they are calling it biochar and not charcoal, I have to assume that this is correct. They told me to put it into my compost , or add compost to it and let it sit for at least two weeks before using it. At this stage, if added to the soil after two weeks or so, will it fail to release the nutrients for two years as some people are saying, or will it release the nutrients right away?

Thank you for the video! Do you have any issues with flies from food scraps or chicken manure?

It's weird how there is this stigma with human urine, but are people are fine with cow/chicken/horse manure etc.

Thinking about doing this for our gardener this year. Wanted to do a no dig but just too expensive to start. Planning on doing 12, 20 foot rows with this method. Is there anything you recommend not planting in beds like this for the first year? We will be planting mostly tomatoes, peppers, squash, melons, beans, peas, and corn.

This looks fantastic, it would be great to see an update.🙂

Thank you for the great examples of how you use it in the coop. Very informative and to the point! Definitely subscribed 👍

Greetings from Oregon coast, I will be watching. 😊 I liked your biochar video.

We just found your channel and subscribed! So much great information and ideas. Look forward to watching more of your videos both past ones and ones in the future. Keep up the great work! ☺

Love this video! It perfectly describes what was in my mind for our chickens that we just got! Glad we found your channel. :)

The Irish accent gets me every time.

I look out the window at a huge useless lawn when I wash the ware and imagine the thing producing all our food but haven't a notion of where to start. Good video.

I wish to have a lawn that I could turn into vegetable garden but I have couch grass infested land.

I enjoyed watching your video about your chicken composting system. I’ve done that too, but just this weekend I put in some things to try and mix permaculture and composting so I can plant fruits and berries in the space and have a big enough compost pile they can eat the bugs and worms through the winter. (Oregon gardener, zone 8) I’ll be watching more…

is there any particular reason you only have your lights on 8 hours a day? couldn't you get faster growth over a shorter period of time if you had them on for say 16 hours a day?

I’m following the lazy bed method of your pumpkin patch so thanks for showing! I’m in a similar climate to you so I’ll be checking in to see how it goes your end too! Thanks for the vid

Great method for composting !

very close to what I do, I just dumped all compostables into my chicken runs, Chickens would peck out any foods they find, insects and worms it attracted. Shoveled it out once a year and used it to fill pots that I grew landscaping trees in. When I cleaned out my coops I just threw it in the run and let the chickens scratch through that too. by the end of the year the ground level would be about a foot higher than when I started. It was fairly compacted but loosened up as soon as I shoveled it up. Chicken scratching will break things down so fast... I ended up getting more chickens just to make more compost.

Urine, not only is it great for charging the biochar, the biochar is great at eliminating the odor of Urine.

keep it up.. nice video.. love from Kashmir

welldone!!

did you have to expand your coop size for the extra 10 chickens? I'm in zone 8 in the USA and was thinking of just building a small greenhouse and putting nesting boxes in it to save me the trouble of building a coop.

Turkeys shit. Bigger and more. Just like the Aztec.

Barry what's going on with you and the Channel i hope all is good Happy Christmas to you and Yvonne and all the family i was loving the channel then nothing for ages please start posting more videos you's where doing a fantastic job

A wood chipper does a great job grinding the charcoal. Does it fast.

Really I like this, have got some some idea in this matter 😍👌👌👏

Hey Barry, I've been watching your videos from the beginning and I just love your ideas and what you are doing. I've just bought a house with 2 acres and am working towards what you have. I'm in Canada with a different climate, but growing is all the same in the end. You are one of the best I've seen in years of research. Thank you for your videos and I hope you make more. I see its been a while since you posted.

Would a JADAM liquid fertilizer work well to activate biochar? If so, what would be the best plant matter to make it from? Also, can you mix and match what you inoculate it with?

If you use a biogas digester you can add it to some soil and use the effluent from the digester to inoculate it. The effluent is basically a liquid fertilizer full of microbes that break down organic matter and release the nutrients into the soil.

So the grass will just die off in the bead and become fertilizer?