Very nice. The compost is looking great . Nasturtiums are my friends here , they are loved by chooks on days when i dont have as many greens for them , they grow far better than comfrey for me , they bulk up my compost with greens when im short and theyre now plentiful enough that my girl can pick flowers daily and it wont bother them. Haha. I really need to get loads of comfrey going. Yay for a wood chip pile . Thank you for sharing Linda ❤❤

Love watching your videos and being inspired. My veggie patch is on a sloping section of our property so a bit tricky but i think it can still work!

Nasturtium pesto!

Excellent video, Thank you for sharing.

A brilliant idea. Thank you for posting. Liked and subscribed 👍

Good morning thank you for letting us see how you clear and do your compost in with the path and how it's cycles.

That's great, friend. (new subscriber)

Well done Linda!

I got one from your recommendation, about to get another for my mum! Best thing ever in the permaculture/ no dig garden. Japanese Tools Aust has a referral link, you would have so many points for new tools 😅

very neatly done, bravo Linda! 😃

Looking good!!!! Can't wait to dig up my paths when I get a good day but I need to get the chipper out first. Step by step it will get done. Take care Linda =-)

Really loving these compost paths, Linda. Hopefully, all work as well as the initial trial as it seems to reduce efforts, always a good thing 😂

In the US, it’s recommended to leave twiggy plants like zinnias for the insects in which to over winter. Is this appropriate there? I leave catnip, milkweed and some other hollow stemmed plants until late spring. In fact, last year, I left everything standing until late spring. Several brassicas over wintered (frightening lack of winter in New England) and are now producing seed. Everything else had weathered down nicely and the cut stems of things were carried off by birds for nests. I think that the vegetation helped cover the soil against the rains we are now having instead of snow. Everything went either directly back onto the bed or in the paths. No digging. Whatever root crops that hadn’t fully decomposed, I just left. How lazy can I get, at 59.? In the past, I have mulched all with wood chips. I used to chip the paths regularly after scooping the previous year’s chips onto the bed. Will have to sell the house soon so i haven’t been investing in the garden as of late. Hence the abandonment last winter - which worked out nicely in the end. Now to integrate kitchen scraps directly into the garden. 10 years ago, I started a system where I chad a single long bed that I added everything to with the intention of letting it sit a year when full before planting. But then I moved from there. It’s something that I will experiment with again. I farmed dry beans on a small scale so I had a lot of good material to cover kitchen waste. Bagged leaves would do in the suburbs. Thanks for taking the time to detail your method.

Think of all those nasturtiums as comfrey mulch substitutes with benefits! I wish they would grow like that at my place, I can get killing frosts in any month of the year. However my wonderful selfsown calendulas create a thick tall colourful display throughout the worst of winter, and plenty of organic chop n drop too.

Very interesting. I'm sure your hard work will have rewarding results.

I love this method of nutrient cycling. Having the paths working for you instead of being dead spaces is such a great idea. It also means you don't have to drag all of that material to the compost and wait for it to decompose. It'll be right where you need it for next year. So impressed with your set up and grateful for your videos showing us how to do it too.

As we're in the US here and just starting summer, my chop and drop work has been focusing on grasses much more than trees. Many new tree plantings from this spring have been getting mulched with grass and briar clippings. I've had enough briar to cut back that I've been able to put thorny barricades around some of my nut and fruit trees ;)

Hello, I grew up on a farm in USA. My family are Irish. We have relatives in Australia my grandfather's cousins who have large sheep stations there.

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The Energizer Bunny has nothing on you!!

I love your careful assessment of your trees

Gosh that must be so therapeutic .. it is also watching it

Nice!

Job well done, it's great having as few weeds/ grass around the base. Still to tackle mine but too cold as you say no rush. Take care =-)

Oh, your trees will love the extra sunlight and mulch ❤ The hakeas here do very well, and some are indigenous to us, so i think i will plant more, as you say, they still provide good biomass. I'm interested to know how/where you learnt your equipment skills, eg tractor operation, chainsaw etc (those things not part of an urban lifestyle) I noted the powerlines near some of the self seeded trees near the fence.

Love chop and drop Linda🌱🌱 Your trees will hopefully produce lots of beautiful fruit for jam making season for your stand. I can barely keep up with mine. I froze lots of summer fruit and it’s been wonderful. Off to make some more jam this morning 🤣 Enjoy your Sunday xx Cathi xx 😘

At the beginning of the video, I thought, "Oh, no! The nectarine tree is dead!", forgetting that we are in opposite seasons and the tree had simply lost its leaves. When I remembered, I was so relieved. The green trees and grass and the brilliant sunshine in your videos can confuse me sometimes. Right now the USA is experiencing a record breaking heat wave. I hope your part of the world is not having extremes in temperature. Hope your hard work pays off in abundant fruit production.

Very informative video. Thanks Linda. I'm still very tentative when it comes to chopping and dropping tree sized bits. I usually drag them off to the side to decompose a bit first. Perhaps I need to chop things smaller, as you're alluding to. Thank you.

The stonefruit will appreciate that love. Hopefully they'll recover and grow well now. Thank you for sharing lovely ❤❤

thank you Linda 😁🥰

Is your comfrey the blocking 14 non seeding variety? The row of comfrey along one side if the bed looks ideal for chop and drop. How does it hold up in summer? Is it on the south side of the bed and gets shaded?

It sure was cold Linda, it was freezing here too. Bring on the longer days now 🙌🏼 xx Cathi xx 😘

Thankyou for this.🎉

Good luck with your trees. I love macadamia cookies.

Fingers crossed for the trees. Frost is a real beggar in the garden. have a good week. =-)

We get frosts here on our cattle property in QLD, first one Wednesday morning, I don't think our cattle had frost on them though! I was racing around hosing my tomatoes, ohhh the things we do for our gardens and beautiful food! It's the best time of year for me to grow tomatoes, but it's tricky being that bit inland and having a low lying property with the Winter frosts. If you have too big an area or awkward area to cover, hosing the leaves saves your plants as it's the sun hitting the ice that burns the leaves. Thank you for the reminder for us all, for our frost sensitive trees, especially if you don't fancy getting frozen watering the ice off, it was very special watching the sun come up as I stood there in all my layers though, sunrise on a frosty morning❤

Good day and thank you for sharing the update on your nut trees growth . They are looking pretty good

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I hope they thrive for you , I love macadamias . I've got to go and give some TLC to the bush tucker area this weekend and hopefully everything is OK there. We had -2.4 this morning. Frost at my neighbours. Quite brisk. Lol. Now a slightly warmer few days before more chill. Keep warm lovely ❤❤

Im wanting some frost to sweeten up my mandarins and navals.

Oooh, macadamia... i must find something for mine! I don't have obvious new growth, but perhaps some babying will get me some growth this coming season. It has been well mulched. Thanks Linda ❤

Your trees look like they'll be ok and hopefully will give you nuts in a few years.🙃😉😊

Thank you for another lovely video.

I just found your channel and immediately subscribed. You produce such lovely and informative videos! I just found permaculture about 2 months ago and it's been a complete paradigm shift, but a very exciting one. Thanks for what you're doing here!

Pluck dry fowl wet and waterfowl dry. Scalding and plucking machines don't really work for waterfowl. Best to just take your time plucking them by hand. Plucking is the main reason why they're not commercially as available as chickens. Plucking is not something quick and easy to do in very large industrial scale numbers.

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.

Everything looks so lush and green Linda🌱 Those pesky caterpillars appear from nowhere. I am a bit late planting my brassicas, so hoping the colder weather will help a bit with deterring them. Have a great week lovely, and I hope your stand is going well xx Cathi xx 😘

Beautiful flowers for you and the bees. My asparagus is looking good now that its growing in the hugelkulter raised bed. Its now 4yrs ago i planted the seeds . I wonder if they'll be big enough for a small harvest this spring. Thats some great piles ready for the compost path. My chook compost is looking pretty good so far. About half full and lots of piles left to add yet. Great job lovely ❤❤

Garden looks great, Linda, we've had great rain, my mini cabbages have exploded 😊

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 :)