Annual garden beds, quick update.

[@JoyoftheGardenandHome]

Ok that's bananas. I'm 6a many hours south and you are maybe 2 weeks ahead of me in production!!

[@walrusiam6233]

"Annual garden beds, quick update." but you couldn't resist showing us the raspberries. :P Must be a permie.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

😆

[@annburge291]

Your annual gardens are looking so stunning. Makes me jealous...mine are wilting under sun, 45C, and covered with fine dust. I'm always surprised that the dying garden springs back to life when the sun goes down. Even the peach leaves are a bit burnt this year. Never mind. At least we have prickly pear always going strongly.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Yeah, we are having heat waves right now, but its nothing like what Mexico is getting. You are getting record temps, consistently, multiple days Ina row, weeks even. Massive crop failures all across the US, EU (Spain, Portugal, Italy), India, etc. This is going to be a really bad year for food and I'm pretty worried about global food supply this year, amd next year is apparently going to be even worse.

[@jacobeparsels9251]

Im in central California and my red Russian kale here is like a horror movie villain it will not die. Doesn't matter if we get a extra cold and lengthy winter to a blazing hot and dry summer the kale won't die

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

😆 🤣

[@growinginportland]

Your Egyptian walking Onion is strong with the force.

[@johnransom1146]

Glad you do this

[@Growinginontario]

Try growing purple beauty peppers and king of the north peppers from west coast seeds you won’t be disappointed.

[@MsCaterific]

❤

[@jons5898]

This spring we transplanted some Lambs Quarters that were growing in my daughter in laws flower garden into a 20 gallon pot and grew some Miners Lettuce from seed in another pot so we have some other greens to add to our cut and come again lettuce salads. I think they’re a good addition to the menu. I’ve read that Lambs Quarters are a close relative of Quinoa. 🤔

[@whereswendy8544]

Lush and lovely!

[@blessildajoy]

Yay! Thanks for the update❤

[@thepolycerateblacksheep]

I really would love to see a reflection video on your journey! i am interested in what you learned, what you would do different and how you as a person - especially your perspective on the world -changed (if so). is it how you expected it to be? are there things that you wish you could implement but the land doesn't wan't to let you? - like the gojiberry^^ a lot of permaculture videos seem to cover tropics or subtropics or at least warmer temperate climates. are there plants that were surprises to you as how they perform? but overall i would really love to know how you personally feel about and see your journey so far. sorry if I am asking to much I really don't mean to intrude your privacy

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Oooh this is a good idea. Can you do me a favor and if you don't see one in the next few weeks, remind me to do a video on that.

[@thepolycerateblacksheep]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy wow, thank you! I will do so!

[@Mercedes65]

Beautiful abundance!

[@ninemoonplanet]

My paprik pepper is finally growing fairly well. Sheesh. I have a shaded patio space with roughly 6 hours of full sun. 🙄 Compost this year had thousands (it seems like it) of tomato seeds. 😄 So I select a few every week, plant them up, and do a lot of hoping. Starting to get kale, cabbage seeds starts going. They're not quick to start, but once they're big enough, they'll be out in the shaded parts for a while.

[@dianaterpstra9771]

Hey, are prepared if you had to cull one of your chickens. I went through it last month. Quick and peaceful.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I know what to do. Never did it. I can make a kill cone, and have researched what to do.

[@annburge291]

It's much nicer doing it the halal method even if you aren't a Muslim. Hanging a chook upside down makes it choke. If you use the cone method you need to have an electric stunning device. The halal method is that you hold the chicken on the ground. Peck it on the back of the neck so it feels you are boss and it relaxes and doesn't want to fight. Then you give thanks (prey to Ala to make it halal) and then another person cut it's neck under the ear with a sharp knife. You hold the chicken calmly until you feel it has died. It's much calmer and without the squarking and flapping. It requires two people willing to be involved whereas the cone method requires one person.

[@djmoulton1558]

5:30 Well, that's not fair! You can't jump away like that and not identify what it was.

[@bgbthabun627]

i know right? I came here to ask this question!!!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Haha! I had to run into work so I didn't have time to look it up, but I did on my lunch just now. It's impossible to see in the video, but I remember his face because it was a foot away from me. It was 100% a Black and White Warbler. www.google.com/search?sxsrf=AB5stBhYTwhLyBp3elhuZzlq3AgcXMBqgA:1689782941972&q=black+and+white+warbler&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiXsoOAlJuAAxWOl4kEHeeHDf0Q0pQJegQIBhAB&biw=360&bih=571&dpr=3

[@djmoulton1558]

Cool! Thx very much for following up.

[@lrrerh8090]

Love your gardens…. Why do you build raised beds when growing in this way? Were you growing in the same manner on the ground? Or is it to protect a little better from rabbits?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Yeah, it was both to guard salad greens from rabbits (my wild style creates an abundance of rabbits), but also because my wife didn't want me to expand gardens any further into the back lawn, but was okay if I did it with raised beds. My father also had some health issues this year, and it made me think about how I will probably want raised beds when I'm his age, so I should build them while I have the energy and strength to do it.

[@lrrerh8090]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy yes, those will definitely come in handy when it’s harder to bend down and get back up. I’m only 50-ish and have troubles with it. The great thing about gardening is the nutrient rich food as well as moving around will keep you younger, longer

[@RemsFamily]

New sub from New-Brunswick! What part of Canada are you from?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Ontario, between Ottawa/Toronto

[@allisonwalton7667]

Annual garden looks great! Curious if you have squash vine borer issues where you are? They are consuming most of my garden time lately, even somehow getting under my covers somehow. A very frustrating pest.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Big time yes. It's a race to get as many squash as I can before the vine borers take down the plant.

[@Tennababy]

unrelated question- what are your thoughts on all the wildfires going on in canada, change of climate there, last year it was 50degrees at summer, in terms of permaculture, safety, future, liveability etc. very broad obviously but I thought damn theres quite some things going on

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

A lot of the reason for the fires are unrelated to climate change - poor forest management. These are valid reasons and climate deniers latch onto these as though they are the ONLY thing that matters. However, a huge reason for the fires this year is that in February we hit 20C in many areas where -30C is normal. We had flooding of areas in Feb when we would normally have snow staying built up. Nobody paid attention to this flooding, and what it signals. When springs came, less snow was around to melt, lands didn't get their normal refreshing of the water table, and when summer heat came, combined with less rain than normal, you had perfect conditions for fires. All the latter info is exasperated by climate instability and overall warming. So yes, fires always happen. (what many deniers say). Yes, summers are always hot. (what climate deniers say). Yes, forests have been mismanaged. But all of it is worse, and getting worse every year, and until we wake up, we can expect more of it. There is also tremendous inertia to climate, to CO2 emissions, and even if we stopped ALL emissions now, climate will still get worse for a good decade or more. Right now, today, we are largely feeling the releases of a few decades ago. We won't feel the full impact of today's emissions for another decade. So buckle in, because we have already sealed in a lot worse than this. We still need to change, but people don't have any idea just how much damage we've done, and that even if we wake up and clean up, we are still in for one heck of a ride.

[@janvallely8223]

Have Heavy Bermuda grass which survives smothering. I’ve been digging rhizomes out when I find them in my garden area. Zone 7. Do you think keeping plant trimmed to soil level will work on this aggressive plant?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

It will work for every single plant on the planet, some are just really quick at regrowing and need to be really kept on top of. However, there isn't a single plant on Earth that can survive without photosynthesis. So however you do it, chopping it constantly, or tarping over it for half a season. Nothing can survive being starved of light.

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

Lambs quarter is hated on because it spreads by seed so easily. Wild amaranth varieties are also hated on. But any amaranth can make a weed of itself. Red rooted amaranth is another good salad weed. Do you have that?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I planted it a few years ago thinking that I would have it for life if I let it go to seed. It never popped back up.

[@annburge291]

I used to have amaranth all over my city house garden but now I rarely have a plant and now I have lambs quarter popping up without me ever spreading seeds. I would like to have both because they are my main chicken greens. We also eat them.

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

@@annburge291 both seem to be annuals. So it is possible to eradicate in a small urban garden. You need to let at least one plant go to seed to have a continual supply.

[@annburge291]

@@ecocentrichomestead6783 it's to do with succession. Even if the amaranth seeds are in the soil, they won't germinate. My city house garden is now too fungal based for amaranth because the trees are now large. When I take some of the soil in flower pots to our lot outside the city, amaranth plants suddenly appear but not the lambs quarter. Malva is the edible that grows between the other two.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Eco, rhars not necessarily true. If you had amaranth once ever, you will have millions of seeds dormant in your soil seed bank. They will wait for a germination trigger to germinate. They like fire and disturbance to germinate. So even here where I haven't had them germinate in a few years, if I dug a new swale I would have a ton of amaranth germinate the next year.

[@fredfchopin]

How often do you have to water the annual beds?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

It completely depends on the weather. I don't water based on a schedule, I water based on the ability moisture. So if I pull back the mulch and it's dry, I will water. So far this summer if it hasn't rained in a week I will generally have to water.

[@heidiroycroft9465]

Do you trellis your raspberries? I didn’t see a support structure.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Nope

[@RM-te1pc]

how do you prevent deer from eating your garden?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Search "deer" on my channel

[@kaylablock1425]

How are you harvesting in the middle? Seems hard to get to stuff

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Not at all, I can reach middle from each side.

[@Orange_You_Glad]

What is the o-ring doing near the carrots?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

It's a worm tower. I discuss it in the video where I made the beds.

[@Cici447]

Where can I get comfrey to put in my garden? In Niagara Ontario area.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Check out a place called richters herbs in Uxbridge. They are maybe 4 hours away. There could be someone closer to you, but that's a place that is west of me.

[@Cici447]

Thank you. Love your garden….it’s magical at the same time as being wisely planned for providing for family. Wouldn’t it be so wonderful if everyone used their bit of property, no matter how small or large to contribute to useful purpose for humans and wildlife. Possibly this should be basic learning for schools to teach….food sources happen to be extremely important knowledge that all should be educated in even if not their passion. Possibly that kind of knowledge could even help teaching appreciation for other areas in life showing that everything isn’t just instant, the appreciation of how long things take to grow, the small things in life and the amazing way in which all things connect and interact and depend on each other in one way or another. Somehow possibly lost in the fast pace I Need Now world. Thankful for KZbin where young and old can learn so much from people like you who care.

[@johnrockyakarambobalboa8898]

how much do you water the beds?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I water as per need. I never water on a schedule. I put my finger into the soil and if it's dry I water, if not I don't. Different plants and weather will drastically change how much I water (as will the type of mulch). For these beds I would say that the average in this hot dry summer has been every few days.

[@johnrockyakarambobalboa8898]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy how much? maybe anserw ina intervall. volume per area? maybe do a video? i felt watering on the backend of a drought can destroy the soil, also. pH oscillation in tap water vs rainwater is problem for me... what pH do you have in your pond?