This will change how you garden, forever.

My two golden rules of gardening summarized. Many tips and strategies that play into these. Your entire focus in your garden needs to be on these 2 things. Not because I say so. Because that's how nature works - and nature has "growing stuff" on lockdown. We only need to learn by looking how nature grows things.
Home gardeners seek to emulate industrial agriculture practices in their garden. Why? Industrial agriculture has to make concessions in order to allow few people to tend massive acreages, and drive giant machines for harvest. We should not be seeking to mimic that in a home garden. The moment we do, we give up our biggest advantages. Yes, we home gardeners can have MASSIVE advantage over industrial agriculture. If you aren't taking advantage of that, then you are doing more work than you need to do, and creating problems that you don't need to be dealing with.
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[@TheWeedyGarden]

New sub here. Mate! From The Weedy Garden in Australia I would just love to commend you on your storytelling of this life cycle. I’m working on an episode that tells this same story and it’s really nice to have my information confirmed. When I started gardening just over a year ago when the first lockdown started, this was the first thing and the only thing I needed to be able to see clearly to get the ball rolling. Once I understood that the soil is the stomach for plants, it changed my whole perspective. Thanks for sharing your understandings 🙏👍🏼👌💪🏻😃 David from Australia AKA Weedy

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Oh wow, I'm so happy to have you here. David, you are actually my single favorite channel on all of KZbin (well, you, Edible Acres and Happen Films are all probably tied). You just started relatively recently, but your videos are probably the highest quality gardening videos anywhere. Thanks for stopping by. If I may be so bold as to recommend one of my videos for you to watch (it will definitely help your current project), check out this one on Soil microbiology - it's been very well received, even by some of my viewers who work directly in that field. kzbin.info/www/bejne/goCQoKaqeJakY5Y

[@breedingbubbles]

Wow, two KZbin greats. You both have great content!

[@k8m883]

Another shout out from Australia, huge fan of Weedy Garden videos are so beautiful. Just found this channel and loving it

[@edgehaven8485]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy @TheWeedyGarden I feel so lucky to have come across David and Keith this week (David via Keith). I haven’t been able to garden for many years, but I’ll start again this year. I’ve been looking for the right approach. I now know that building a system for enriching our soil comes first, and then I can envision 2, maybe 3, swales on one side of our dry east-facing front yard. I’m thrilled to see that a simple way I can construct plant beds should fix this dry, nutrient poor area. I know I’ll eventually eliminate a lot of our lawn. It’s dry and weedy, but I couldn’t stomach using weed killer and fertilizer. Now I know what to do! Thank you for your incredible videos! Both of you are phenomenal educators and very talented at what you do. I’m inspired!

[@TheCloud175]

How fun would it be to have a show like Gordon Ramsey's "Kitchen Nightmares" but for gardens, and you just go around visiting people with struggling gardens and teach them what they're doing incorrectly and help them learn how to do it better. Maybe with a little less cursing than Gordon though cause you seem like a pretty chill dude.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

That would be fun. I guess only problem is that it takes time. It's not like I can just slap 2 pieces of bread on someones face and call them an idiot sandwich, then fix their recipe and business in a day. I have to tell them what works longterm, have them do tons of work, then say "just trust me, and I will see you in about 2 years". Lol Part of this long term strategy stuff is that's exactly what it is... long term snowball. Nature is more patient than we are.

[@Viva_la_natura]

Your passion is contagious. You're dialed in. It's not us that changes the garden, it's the garden that changes us.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

100% !!! I am forever changed, right down to my core values and how I raise my children. I am not the same person I was even 5 years ago. Gardening and permaculture is the best thing that ever happened to me, my family, even my extended family. We are all getting into it.

[@teagoldleaf4137]

Yes! I'm watching this video totally dialed in. I can't wait to start this method of gardening 😊

[@jeffskinner1226]

This really was one of the best and most important Permaculture videos I've seen.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks man, tell all yo frens

[@michaelking3206]

I know this is a late reply but I just saw your video. I have been trying to get a foothold in permaculture for my 1/4 acre lawn and there's just so much out there, it's alot to take in. You have literally just blown my mind with the truth about how plants are fed and how they don't mine nutrients from the soil! Thank you for the way you teach and explain things! You're a godsend!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks! I hope this all helps :)

[@kellytankersley1962]

Game on! This is exciting. I am just discovering permaculture! It makes so much sense!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Welcome to the start of the rest of your life.

[@matthewloomis2942]

Same and he's the best teacher on youtube when it comes to permaculture...nobody else explains what there doing better than him....

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

🥰

[@bradlafferty]

This lesson just put me on my ear! I have a weedy garden and now I know why my plants are producing like crazy! How awesome! Thanks eh?!

[@perma-steve5641]

Great video. I've been encouraging people to appreciate wild plants (weeds) for years & your video really nailed it ! These plants are super-important for the health of the soil, the wildlife (think pollinators et al here) & hence for us. Just because a plant has no known benefit does not mean it is worthless - nature is extremely powerful & everything has a role to play.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Awesome, good work 💪

[@Slipping_thru_the_Seams]

so many weeds are actually edible and/or medicinal. nature is beautiful

[@LittleGardenSK]

“Never bare soil!” Love it 😍

[@nayrtnartsipacify]

this guy sounds like me when i talk about plants gardens and biology in general.

[@shineyrocks390]

Most of this I knew. Some I did not know. How you break this down to a preschool level, I like that. Most gardeners on KZbin don't explain it in such simple terms and details. That's excellent cause not every viewer is gonna be an established gardener. It may be the very first time they've even heard of a nematode or mulch. Also was drawn to what Paul said as we get older we don't want to work as hard. It's amazing how we as humans slowly start to breakdown as time goes by, this method of gardening actually gets stronger as time goes by. Proving as we decrease it increases, making work easier for us old folks and making it more abundant so we stay eating and just enjoy the garden. People say this doesn't work. I say people are lazy natured and want instant success and gratification in the same day. It's not the garden who is failing. Truly I'm not growing the garden, the garden is actually growing me.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Totally agree. It's good to set up a self sufficient land design, so that it can grow as God intended. Nature already has all this figured out. Sometimes we just need to set it up and then stop mucking about and get out of out of way. We can add fertility, but keep it as natural as possible. I'd rather shred leaves and refresh mulch, ajd take a sow long term soil building approach, and let all God's creatures, micro and macro, do the work. That's better than chemical fertilizers.

[@freedomunltd]

0:00​@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy So well said - Dr Rosemary Mason and Dr Vandana Shiva are two of the most dedicated scientists, warriors in defence of maintaining the integrity of the soil, of making people aware of the grave peril we all are heading into, caused by those who are hellbent on demonizing Nature itself in order to control both it and humanity with your videos being also such an inspiring guide on how to ‘be’ during our time on this Earth, thank you

[@RussellBallestrini]

Hey buddy, I didn't get it on video but yesterday my son and I were doing a trial of grass clippings and cardboard only cold compost and one of the bags of grass that I harvested from somebodies road side, it didn't have grass in it, it had what looked like the top 3 inches of forest floor. Instead of composting this material, I literally just spread it out on the south side of my house which is very shady, like a forest. Somebody took the time to bag up their forest (likely a lawn mower?) and put it in paper bags for me and I applied it to an area I'm trying to grow a food forest. You cannot make this up. I couldn't puchase a bag of forest even if I wanted to, and yet people throw this fertility away non-stop. How do we educate the masses? We need these topics to become mainstream.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Haha crazy! A permaculture friend of mine named Pierre (will do a video on his setup one day) has this great saying. He says that he used to be so frustrated and upset with the wasteful world we live in. But now he sees it as a great gift to him personally. People just want to throw away all their fertility, so "now I get to collect it from them". I think it's a nice silver lining type way to look at our current world. I'm with you though. I would rather we wake people up and change the way we operate on this planet as the collective "apex species". We have the ability to do so much good, we need to want to, need the passion and purpose to act, but first we need to relearn what good looks like. Part of that is reprogramming what we think we know. A lot of our actions are based off the industrial revolution and ways companies almost brainwashed us, so they could sell us more stuff and drive more profit. Clover being taken out of grass seed mixes, so they could sell us fertilizer. That's an example. Raking up and bagging leaves so they can sell us leaf bags, and compost is another. Someone bagging up old growth forest soil though? That's on a whole other level of cluelessness.

[@tylerehrlich1471]

Part of me wants to educate the masses to stop wasting, part of me wants to educate the already educated about where to go pick up free fertility! :P

[@CuriousinNY]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I agree wholeheartedly. But I have a QUESTION: do I need to be concerned about the grass that is in with the leaves? I use to think like you both but after I heard you should not add grass to your compost or garden if it has been sprayed with weed and feed as it will hurt the soil biology and hamper the growth of plants. So I stopped gathering the bags from the roadside. I live in a housing development where just about everyone sprays their lawns for that pristine look and in the fall bags their leaves. So, before I knew this about being careful about using grass that has been sprayed I connected with a landscaping company that comes regularly in the area and as he was mowing and gathering all the leaves in his huge lawnmower, I said I’d be glad to have him dump the leaves on my property because I garden and I could use them and that way he doesn’t have to pay to get rid of them. So now I have this HUGE pile and don’t know if I can use the leaves because I dont know if the grass in the leaves was sprayed or not. What is your thoughts on this?

[@judifarrington9461]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I had trouble finding it, but bought a big bag of clover a couple of years ago and scattered it all over my back yard. It was my first attempt to attract bees and other pollinators to my vegetable garden. I love clover!

[@debramartell8531]

Hello from Ottawa, I agree with everything you share with us, it makes perfect sense to work with Mother Nature and not against her, to support and create the healthiest foundation for growing everything possible. Thank you for sharing your knowledge it will improve the world one gardener at a time as they awaken to Nature’s natural way 🦋

[@midwestribeye7820]

This video really changed my mind on how I want to garden in the future. I was just getting ready to till an area!😮😬

[@VeronicaKirin]

Yep. I would have managed my garden in a totally different way had I had this video when I started nearly a decade ago. For a time, I'm gardenless, but I'll be keeping these three commandments close in the future!

[@yLeprechaun]

Great crash course!! This is quickly becoming my favorite permaculture channel. And permaculture is my favorite subject, so...;)

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks! Permaculture is my favorite subject also 😍

[@kescah]

For those who want a more aesthetic look to the garden, as you've said, trim it out with something attractive, but also never plant one of a plant (except maybe a tree), but always a higher odd number, 3, 5, 7. They can alternate with an odd number of another plant or be attractively spaced out in the guild. This gives a garden a more finished look. I want three or more of the same variety of, say, tomatoes, for the look of it; the varieties don't all look enough alike for my picky ways. It is nice to have a color scheme in each area if you have enough land to grow what you want that way. All white blossoms in an area are very cheering. A blue area, a purple area--really pretty. But I usually work some white in everywhere simply because it brightens up your spirits. So learn what color the blossoms will be on your tree and highlight that color around it, or use complimentary colors (opposites on the color wheel) like blue and orange. Red goes well with green leaves, and yellow and purple are great. You can also do blends, like red, orange, and yellow or other side by side colors on the rainbow. Red, purple, blue. Your gardens have a nice shape, making for meandering paths around them. That's appealing. Pinterest has some pretty ideas for stepping stone paths; there is even one idea that includes flagstone mixed with sliced slabs of various sized trees (since we had some dead ones to cut down) with low lying crushable plants pushing up among them. Check out the pictures. And there are beautiful garden ideas, too, that can be incorporated with the permaculture effort.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

This is such a good post and I wish I saw this when I got started. I have been leaning towards this kind of planting more as I go. When I started I wanted diversity and I thought that meant no plant clumps. But having 3-4 elderberry here, 3-4 haskaps there, a section of strawberries there, its definitely not a bunch of monocultures lol. Monoculture is really like an ACRE of nothing else... not small patches. When I plant out the lower area, its definitely going to be with more clumps here and there and less 1-ofs. For the pathways, I'm definitely going to beautify some of my areas as time goes by. I added some edging logs in places and it makes it look so nice. I think next season will be a 50-50 mix of effort split between planting the lower area and working on aethetics. Then likely I will be as big as I want this to be, and will focus on making a beautiful permaculture forest. Great post, love it and totally agree.

[@kescah]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I can't wait to see it develop! You really have worked and have the best of everything there. So your daffodils, for example; have 3, 5, 7 clumps. Interspersed with 5, 7, 9 clumps of lillies. Or something that will come up as the daffodils are still there but fading. You can plan your perennials to come up one after the other and keep an area beautiful. Plan the area out as a time lapse... :D It's some planning work, but so much fun.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Indeed, exactly. I think once I get the lower area planted out in the bigger things (bushes and trees) I will likely exceed my yearly expenditure (depends on how many videos I can make in the winter time, any money from this channel goes straight into the soil). I would like to put another big order in at a fairly local nursery that specializes in native flowers. www.nativeplantnursery.ca/

[@kescah]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I don't mean to insinuate that you need more flowers. They're great, but the same principles apply with anything you plant; 3 looks better than 2 or 4. And 1 looks as if it were an accident. Just a design principle. And thank you for all I've learned from your videos; it has changed my life!

[@hollyjordan1307]

This is amazing....I've watched this 3 times...im excited for summer....

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Same!

[@victorybase5847]

This will change everything. I hope. It won’t change the fact that I have 2 acres of wild blackberry canes ruining my gardening attempts but it certainly gives me the basic building blocks to make my lush food forest a reality. Thank you

[@drawyrral]

It is strange to hear a human making so much sense when it comes to Nature.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Lol

[@myronplatte8354]

That's what the stereotype is: man versus nature, the never ending battle. As if we don't have a choice, as if it was an ingrained part of human nature to be idiotic. It's all tied up with manifest destiny and "civilization" versus "savages".

[@StayDownComeUp512]

​@@myronplatte8354man is nature, but the word nature others us and we think we are outside of nature. Everything on this planet is nature. The things we build are as natural as the ant hill. We're just a tad more fancy.

[@myronplatte8354]

@@StayDownComeUp512 I actually disagree with that. But the nuance of why is super hard to describe without launching into a long lecture about patterning and stuff like that. Christopher Alexander convinced me.

[@StayDownComeUp512]

@@myronplatte8354 if we all agreed life would be boring. I'll peep him.

[@allenlebo]

I really want to thank you for the education I've gotten through your channel throughout this pandemic. I don't have a food forest and I do like more of a traditional, "pretty" garden. However, I have begun to rethink a lot of my practices. For instance, chop and drop instead of simply pulling weeds. I've also bought a large bag of bio char from Airterra in Alberta(I think) and inoculated some of it to use in my garden. I've covered all my beds with (free!!) wood chip mulch and some cardboard. I've planted some comfrey to use as chop and drop and to makes into salves. And I've learned to use daikon radish (too late for this year, oh well) to break up my heavy clay soil. You really deserve one million subscribers for the education you provide. By the way, my one ground cherry plant is still producing tons of delicious fruit, tasting nothing like the ones they sell in the store. I've just saved a ton of seeds from just a small handful of ripe berries to plant next year. It was the easiest thing I've ever grown. Try it

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks so much, very kind. We did have ground cherries this year, very tasty. Make sure to innoculate your biochar before you put it into the ground. My biochar video (one of my first ever) has all the details at the end of it.

[@heavymechanic2]

I just discovered this channel and have been working toward the concepts in this video. Chopping down large weeds and piled them in a compost heap, covered with grass clippings and wood chips from brush to later use in a vegetable garden. Also place grass clippings around vegetable plants as mulch and later till it in the soil, just skip the compost process. Planted fruit trees and dutch clover as a ground cover to recycle nutrients back for the trees. Working on getting blueberries and haskap established, and some flowers to take care of the honeybees placed on this land.. My neighbor don't get it, he sprays the grass along fences and later has a Canadian Thistle Forest, which is a bigger problem than cutting a little native grass.

[@grandavepermaculture]

I am very interested to know what variety of “ground cherry “ you are have good success with in your climate zone. Thanks!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

The ones I grew were called "goldie"

[@gita1649]

You should have millions of views

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks Gita 😊

[@juliansmith4230]

This changed the way that I garden more than anything I've watched. Thank you.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Awesome!

[@thesoilguru3509]

WOW! JUST WOW!

[@carriad11]

Greetings from Nova Scotia again! Great advice and essentially how I garden as well! To Canadian gardeners may I say that it is just about impossible to find a site that gives a Canadian climate perspective and so your site should be a Canadian’s go to site! Far too many gardening sites are Southern USA based and offer very poor advise as they do not relate to our ever returning harsh winters!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks 😊

[@nicoledoucet6125]

Cheers to that from interior BC

[@lavendercottageflowerfarm3281]

Yes, thank you👍

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks for watching

[@johnepright56]

No, not overkill. Perfect and thorough. Helped to understand the diversity. I personally can't choose hardly any of same selection of plants. Listening from Florida.

[@yananagaran4286]

Why is this channel not popular?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

You clearly haven't told enough people about it yet Yan! It's all your fault! Seriously though, thanks for the compliment.

[@estherchandy6292]

Just ...thank you. Eye opening

[@shawnpnw6523]

Thank you for the upload!

[@sueshaw6609]

Love love love this video

[@hollybritton7255]

Wow!!!! Thank you

[@boppingbetweenworlds8309]

Love this video.

[@alisonmcinnis9997]

Wow this video blew my mind.

[@delimasimamora5500]

Thats amazing , im not worry about weeding anymore . Thanks so much from New Zealand

[@kimheartsuds]

Well explained, thank you!

[@jewel2022now]

Love this all. Thank you for sharing you wisdom💝

[@kajex1rc351]

Thanks for sharing!

[@goupigoupi6953]

Your soil looks much better than mine. I have way too much clay and potassium.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

The solution is always 3 things: plants, mulch, and time.

[@bikre]

I never thought about unwanted plants this way, but that explains some of my problems perfectly 👍

[@deborahjudyboucher1072]

I've been watching your channel for a few months now and I just saw this one. I've already shared it to others I know. Two family members say my gardens are a mess because there are plants everywhere. I hate to kill anything so my gardens look much like yours except no food is grown. I wish I would have done it differently now.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

This is honestly one of my favorite videos. It's an older one, and I ramble a bit in it, but its a great video. I should almost redo it this season.

[@carybradley3968]

Brilliant! Thank you for repeating a few basic principles so my brain can learn the concepts! Yay!

[@jeannechin5052]

Such good advice. Thanks!!

[@sherryhawkins6682]

Excellent video! I love how you get to the point, and then elaborate, rather than leaving us to the end to find our what your 2 golden rules are. Also, thank you that you review the main points at the end of the video. This helps lock the lesson into our memories. Many Thanks !

[@hollybritton7255]

Thank you!!!!

[@younggary7849]

love your passion.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks for the feedback Gary!

[@lidgeacreery7766]

Excellent, as usual.

[@stevekeiretsu]

Best distillation of the principles yet!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks for watching Steve :)

[@Liftingup]

You did change how I garden, thank you. 🐸

[@philipcarrigan4352]

Thanks mate, I think that what you say is the go . It makes sense and feels good. Intuitive.

[@InappropriateShorts]

best education on gardening and soil ever

[@ryankahlor3563]

Thank you

[@breedinginsects4785]

Live your scientific approach… very refreshing. Great concepts, I learnt heaps.

[@ponytaclub5539]

Bravo 👏

[@wwcreations1]

That was awesome. Now I understand my mistakes and can go forward with more knowledge.

[@raqueliatheimpatientgardne8196]

How absolutely fascinating!!.....LOVE your approach!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks for watching:)

[@Abundantman777]

TY so much for pushing me into a higher level of gardening!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

So nice of you, thanks. And good luck :)

[@lynsmith2698]

Wow….I learnt so much. Fantastic video 🇨🇦🐝

[@homesteadhaven6024]

That was really great - way to pull it all together for us! Especially the point about ‘weeds’ feeding the soil. May I please ask questions? I’m totally on board and want to be a religious no-tiller. Until now, we’ve managed with sheet mulching and solarizing to create new beds from dense and diverse meadow and a gravel-laden field formerly used as a parking pad. Gross! But this year our goal is to grow ALOT more food so we have 5000sq ft of new growing space which we’ve had chickens building up for three years. I had hoped we’d have arable ground to work with but instead, it’s still silty clay (albeit lovingly filled with manure). The water wasn’t draining. Half was ok - and that’s where we planted a food forest, but we caved and tilled the half designated for food crops. We wouldn’t have been able to plant into it otherwise and hundreds of plants needed to go in the ground. Aside from covering the garden in wood chips and continuing to add organic material and rabbit manure throughout the summer, what else can we be doing to ensure we tenderize the silty clay and never till again? Second (if that’s ok - I just know you’ll have ideas for us!), the fields are overrun with burdock and thistle which do have medicinal uses but there’s too much of it and they are avid spreaders and stick to the sheep’s wool and prickle their mouths - would you chop and drop them too? I have lifted many of them up with a fork and left them drying out in the field with their entire taproots exposed hoping they give up the ghost. Should I try to compost them? You’re probably gasping right now, but this is the reality of permaculture in non-ideal circumstances. I feel like I’m compromising so many of my permaculture principles! I really appreciate the time it takes to reply. I promise I’ll do a garden tour video to share my newbie adventure with others.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

For the first, Daikons. Daikon radish everywhere. (Buzz lightyear). These things are the craziest natural soil busters on planet earth. They will break up and aerate your clay soils but do so in a non disruptive way. You can eat some of the radish greens as food, but end of season you leave all the 2 foot long, 5 inch diameter turnips in the ground. These will be consumed by worms and turned into in situ worm castings. The holes they vacate will fill with life, but not 100%. Channels and groves from old roots will leave pathways for air and water and other plant roots to slowly take over. For number 2, let me answer that separately

[@homesteadhaven6024]

Canadian Permaculture Legacy I thank you!!! Daikon radish it is!!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

For number 2, the burdock, etc... yeah I know they are a pain because of the burrs late season. But they are just so valuable for organic matter. I honestly see them as a gift not a problem. I have them everywhere myself. The key to turning the relationship from hate to love is to keep an eye on them and watch for when they flower. Harvest them just before (if you to keep them), or after (if you want to slowly remove them). Never let them make seed (burrs) or you will get more. Never dig them, or you will get WAAAY more. You will never ever never ever NEVER EVER get every root fragment, and when you break them by digging them up, you just turned 1 plant into 5. Them regrowing after a hard cut is honestly a gift though. You need to see the gift you have. And if you still want rid of them, then just keep harvesting them constantly and using their fertility as chop and drop fertilizer, or a free source of greens to combine with free browns in the fall (leaves) and make TONS of compost. Deep taproot plant nutrient heavy compost. Again, such a gift. One last option... chop them and drop them literally in place. You can do this manually, or you can also just start mowing the field with a mulching blade. Just make sure you leave all the mulched cuttings down. This will build soil and turn the field into something burdock doesn't want to grow in any longer. And you will slowly transition your field from burdock to wildflowers. Last tweak to this... mulch mow a row ahead of your chickens. Wait 2 days, and some soil MACRObiology will move in and start eating it. Now graze your chickens through that swath. Bam, free protein from a bug, slug, fly larvae, and worm fiesta. Let those ladies get some free meals, break any pest cycle at the larvae stage, and manure the laneway. Then rotationally graze your whole field like this, 1 strip a week. Modified option 2, run cows or larger animals 2 days before the chickens, let them eat and manure down. Then follow with the chickens who will pick and scratch and spread the horse manure and eat all fly larvae at the same time. So many solutions! Let me know what way you are leaning.

[@homesteadhaven6024]

Canadian Permaculture Legacy ok, that was like a whole magnificent uni course in one reply! Amazing! Your ideas combined will work perfectly: chop them and lay them down in the section the chickens will be moved to next and let it sit a few days - feed the soil, feed the birds, learn to love burdock and thistle. You’ve sold me! Thank you VERY much for taking time to craft such a helpful reply.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks! I'm glad it was useful to you. I will pin this so more people can see this response. Hopefully a few people can get helped by it. All the best Angela, thanks as always for your amazing comments and feedback. It is so welcomed!

[@akrealestatebroker]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Totally agree with you. Blessings to you and your family!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks Mark :)

[@nikleigh456]

great video !! I have been gardening for twenty years. thought I was getting pretty good. now I watched your vid. makes a lot of sense. thnx for shining the light!!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Cheers 🍻

[@marshhen]

So excited to discover your channel. This is an ideal video to share with my friends and family because it makes the case so clearly. Whenever I say the word permaculture their eyes get wary and they tune out. This on the other hand, gets right to the heart of the matter for any gardener and is thus a PERFECT gateway video to permaculture as a way of life.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Please do! That's awesome. I have an "essentials" playlist. Make sure to check that out first - unless of course you want more blog style "day in the life of" type videos.

[@terrytillman5715]

Great information! thank you!

[@revagreen2303]

Wow this is a whole different take on gardening and I am here for it!! 🙏

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

❤️

[@NWTejas]

Great channel. Thank you for not filling the time with nonsense.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks. This is one of my earlier videos, and I think if I made it more recently, I could have trimmed it down to about 12 minutes or so. That being said, I just love this video for how amazing everything looks. The time of year when this was filmed is my favorite time of season here.

[@saltriverorchards4190]

Excellent info here in this video. Thank you

[@SheEsq]

Outstanding.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

❤️

[@michelranger2285]

Excellent intelligent video ... thank you for sharing it!!!! Love it !!!👍🏼😊🌴🌱

[@HollerableXs]

Love this video! Chop and drop!

[@michelranger2285]

Excellent video !!

[@silversprout8974]

Mind blown. Thank you for all of your informative videos.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

So nice of you

[@mortonvrose]

Permaculture is the way of nature. Thanks for ur great program.

[@SmashPhysical]

So glad I found your channel, I've always preferred a more 'natural' look to my gardens, but will be taking it to another level this year. Such great information, thank you!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Wonderful!

[@MrNicong]

I really appreciate your explanation. It all makes sense for me now. I won’t be fighting weeds/unwanted plants anymore.

[@tinycabininthewoods7111]

Beautiful explanation im working on my permacultur feild. This is the great video

[@alive3589]

love it

[@barbarahimmelbauer-mayer340]

Thank you for this ingenious lecture!!!!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@seangallagher8941]

Awesome info Thank you

[@bosquebear1]

Ezcellent advice!

[@josephtastic]

concise. Good one

[@MarielleArchambault]

Loved your video! It made me tie the knots with what I had previously watched on KZbin for many years. Thanks a million! 💝🙏🌈

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Awesome!

[@SerRegenera]

Hi man! happy to hear your words and share feelings about soil life and the way of gardening, we are beings of the woods. beautiful food forest and thank you for all the content you share.. Love and Bless from Uruguay

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thank and right back at you :)

[@alicepettit164]

studying permaculture for year and u just flipped my script.Most important video ever seen on topic.TU

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thank you so kindly.

[@magda5820]

THANK YOU THANK YOU !!! BLESSINGS

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thank you :)

[@punisher6]

great video appreciate the explanation.

[@richt4297]

Another quality Vid....you supply us heathens with amazingly useful information, thanx for your time.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

LOL cheers

[@albertnongrum1021]

Best gardenner ever,I really fascinating watching over and over again.thank you for this video my friend.

[@allisonbarrett373]

Best permaculture video ever! Killed job.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

❤

[@masonmason22]

Interesting approach. I might have to make some patches following your rules just for comparison on how well it works. Thank you for taking the time to make this video.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Oooh science! Fun!

[@jensummer3549]

Another fantastic video full of info that I want to hear! It always felt wrong weeding the garden. Great to hear scientific facts to back that up. Thank you!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

It's all about the science! Gardening can be a spiritual experience and that's great. But our actions should always have a solid fundamental reason behind them. Stuff like how bad weeding can be is so weird when you first hear it, but it makes so much sense when you stop and think about it. Most things we call weeds are spikey deep taproot ugly plants that grow in dead or recently disturbed soils. They germinate because this is the environment that they have an advantage in. Deep taproots access nutrient in dead land, and nitrogen fixing helps get nutrients in depleted soils. So when we disturb the soil by pulling plants out and tilling, we get MORE of those things. Then we keep taking them away, and allt hat stuff has molecules and atoms in it. We systematically remove it and we deplete our soils further! We make weeds try even harder to heal the scab we keep picking! And the solution is so easy. USE the weeds to BUILD fertility. The soil now becomes an environment they can't compete in anymore, so they stop germinating. Flowers and bushes can now outcompete them easy, so they sit dormant and wait for their time again. A trampling animal, a wind storm uprooting a tree and earth, a landslide, some kind of disturbance. So they sit and wait and no longer germinate. Our goal with weeds is to use them, not discard them.

[@EricThomson]

Best explanation I have ever seen. All gardeners need to see

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks Eric

[@kristopherbichsel9230]

Great video. In my many hors of soil research, you are right on.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jayspermacultureallotment]

Amazing video, so many important lessons 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks Jay

[@millennialhmong7121]

Binge watching your videos. Thanks for the awesome education.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

thanks and welcome to the family! Make sure to check out the comment sections, there are so many amazing viewers who share their expertise. Having so many experienced growers watching is a real bage of honor.

[@dalidazee5695]

Thank you, very helpful!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jeffrey6019]

Hello from Malaysia! Great to know people that really care about the proper way to gardenin or farming! I will always support you!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks for watching from across the world!

[@tammyhoushour8070]

Thank you for referring me to this very eye opening video.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks for watching :) Plants don't really take nutrients out of the soil. They feed the soil and the soil microbiology provides the nutrients. More plants, more microbiology food, more microbiology, more plant food. The whole "plants stealing nutrients" myth comes from when we have bare soil, we have no food soil web, and thus have to feed our plants ourselves. In that case and that case only, there's only a finite amount of nutrients, and the soil web is dead, and more plants means less nutrient per plant. But the key is to not grow like that.

[@Muninn801]

I'm surprised that the video title became true for me. I'm now designing my yard with a whole new mindset. It seems so obvious once it's pointed out to you!

[@Konradafunk]

Weeds are our friends. However because we do not understand thier vital role we have made them our enemies. This video is golden and will make anyone a successful gardner.

[@carmilianasfruitpickingfar803]

Very interesting topic