How to make a bog garden in an old tyre | Nature Break

You all loved my pond in a pot, so here's how to make a renter friendly bog garden from an old tyre. Any patch of slow draining soil will do, whether that's in a pot/tyre/sink/bucket or dug into the ground with a pond liner.
My wildlife pond in a pot video: • How to make a wildlife...
Plants I used:
Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummularia)
Ragged Robin (Lychnis flos-cucli)
Water mint (Mentha aquatica)
Pyramidal bugle (Ajuga Pyramidalis)
Arrowhead (Sagittaria sagittifolia)
Lesser Spearwort (Ranunculus flammula)
Amphibious bistort (Persicaria amphibia)
Pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium)
Bog pimpernel (Anagallis tenella)
Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)
Marsh marigold (Caltha palustris)
Yellow flag iris (Iris pseudacorus)
Water avens (Geum rivale)
Bog bean (Menyanthes trifoliata)
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[@SGTsparty]

Yes, please do a video on peat bogs, please. It's a fascinating subject (I'm particularly fascinated by the anthropological finds in them). Oh, and thanks for making these videos. :)

[@rolandtowen2595]

please keep updating us, I love it!

[@tempersteel2523]

Thank you Sally, I was having quite a rubbish day but then I watched this lovely video and its really cheered me up

[@manoune78orange]

It looks so good! Please keep showing us the evolution of it! You've inspired me to make my own pot pond. I live in non-rural France and I have a ground-floor apartment with a very small patio, but I found a big enough pot and some plants online, and now I'm waiting for more plants to try to make a sort of bog garden / stairway to the pot with other flower pots. The magpies absolutely adore it, and even though they sometimes try to pick at the hessian fabric, they haven't done any damage so far... and I've been able to see some smaller birds starting to take a look around too! Thank you so much for the inspiration!

[@ptrknvk]

I love how happy you look in this garden videos. I hope everybody can find so self-satisfactioning thing.

[@alsorew]

This video was _bogged_ down in details. (I don’t feel bad, because that pun can’t ruin this video. Great work, Sally!)

[@1224chrisng]

3:30 wow, she really doesn't like Pete doesn't she. is he her upstairs neighbor? is he her former co-worker that kept microwaving fish? terrible jokes aside, obviously peat doesn't release carbon whrn it decompose in the bogs where I'd assume it'd be anaerobic, but does peat decompose in aerobic environment? because if not, then what would be the mechanism of which it'd release carbon? can it be a carbon sink if we can somehow create it artificially?

[@Bjamz1138]

I really like these "small bit of nature in the yard" videos. Keep us posted on updates.

[@oddjobkia]

the amount of information you gave in this video is insane.. No posturing or gatekeeping... I loved it..

[@Ann__333]

I love that you're actually using stuff you have laying around... keep it simple. Reuse. Recycle.

[@FlyingFrog87]

Here in America, an alternative we use is sheep wool in our potting mixes. You know all those icky bits that can’t be used after the sheep is sheared. They can be turned into pellets, and mixed into the potting soil. It’s still kind of hard to fine though, and more expensive than Pete here. People who use the wool alternative say it holds moisture better than Pete.

[@mettebjørnskou]

Dear Sally, we love your two videos about the pond and bog garden ❤️ Would love to see how it's doing now :-) My daughter is a huge fan of your voice and begs me to play the videos late at night - it's making her calm and happy. All the best from Copenhagen.

[@itzjs2528]

We need a bog and pond update

[@McSherryStudioArt]

Lovely videos. Let me add my voice to the call for a pond and bog update.

[@TheDriftdog]

Please do an update on this here or Instagram as it’s nearly a year later, would love to see how it looks now ☘️🌿🌺🌸

[@annegeorgethomson3584]

I've really enjoyed your pond and bog garden videos. I'm about to make a pond In an old sink. I'd love to know how your wildlife area looks now and how you put together your tree stumpery and plant choices. It looks beautiful.

[@Lucas-DX]

The sequel we needed, but didn’t deserve! For real though I started watching your videos recently and I’m hooked. Please keep the great content coming. Very educational and very enjoyable to watch. Sending love from France :)

[@ennemuk]

The attack of the squirrels, nice 😂😂

[@punya1621]

Do update us on this in upcoming videos. Also, lovely garden!

[@EpicScizor]

How is the bog and the pond coming along? I'd love for you to give an update video where you go through how the plants have grown.

[@midnitesilverrun8631]

I’m confused because every grower I’ve ever seen that has large bog gardens only use peat or sphagnum and have never had any issues.

[@cdluggage]

Nevermind, i have been checking out all carnivorous bogs and just hit this video, its a regular bog so guess this is why it would not matter. Carn bogs require the soil media to be void of minerals. Unlike what shes planting most likely. I blame youtube for me being here lol since i have been investigating other growers and this one popped up.

[@BeingSardar]

Can you give an update on the pond and whether you got any frogs?

[@snozonator1804]

excellent video thank you sally, I am going to send this to my STEM group at college :)

[@kelliewithanienotay]

This is fantastic. I have a garden that is a blank canvas and I would live to turn it into a wildlife haven. Please keep updating us as you add to the area and as it matures and changes through the seasons x

[@stuartcurrie4725]

The empty compost bags would have made the perfect liner for your bog garden. I turn mine inside out and use in pots and hanging baskets etc

[@CuppaTeaAndASitDown]

The amount of birdsong you can hear in the background is amazing! Bog garden and pond are looking great!

[@jackstone4291]

Lovely video. Very warm and trustworthy, and interesting and easy to follow. (Good luck with the Yellow Flag Iris though!! That bad boy will multiply like anything)

[@secretaltruism4174]

I love these videos. Please do an update video to show how they're going

[@wyrmhand]

Building the Perfect Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder kzbin.info/www/bejne/nne9d52ljZeWfck

[@msaditu]

It does look lovely! This update on your garden made me so happy. Thank you.

[@jackstone4291]

Please which website did you buy all those lovely little plants from? (Saw the list of all those natives in the description). And a lovely great video of course !

[@liammckinney2918]

you want peat, pure peat soil. I've grown plant for awhile and using compost or anything with fertilizer or nutrients

[@dmnos6824]

5:55 What is the story with the wrist watch, I think it is a casio. I thought wrist watches had all but vanished due to smart phones.

[@thomaspaine5601]

That bin liner will rot and disappear very quickly.

[@goupigoupi6953]

Have you tried hiring a cat to help with the squirrels?

[@danielschilling2011]

now add mushroom! So exciting!

[@catherinemurphy873]

Beautiful. Thanks 👍

[@pariis1192]

Where did you order the plants from?

[@mollymole4075]

Excellent. Thank you.

[@michaelrobinson8581]

Can you use ericaceous soil

[@yourTurb0]

This old tyre is finally retyred.

[@nisdasuk3945]

Lovely plant 😊😊

[@MrOnlymoin1]

pond update please!

[@stubbsaquatics6080]

Must say I am loving your videos. I love bog gardens and bog filters for ponds.

[@zeabeth]

This is wonderfully shot. Neat, framing, colors, sounds. All around a positive experience

[@ThatGardener]

Love your garden so beautiful! Brilliant idea thanks for showing. You know i had same concern about chemical heavy metal leaching in soil issue. So happy you clarified. One option could be shady area or just using short term before leeching could occur? Thank you!

[@kroushtwilight5487]

I was brought to your channel from the Tom Scott skit. I loved your personality, and really wanted to see more of you in your "zone"...Wowza! I can tell your heart is in-tune with nature. I've tried growing a few small things over the years. Honestly, the flow of experience and information here is amazing! Almost feels like Bob Ross: Horticulture Edition, hehe. Thank you for sharing in the beauty of Mother Nature~ ~Namaste

[@Uncle-Mike]

Very curious. Why not 488,000 views? I would watch you sit on an old tyre in a garden for 14 minutes talking about telomeres. But you are happy doing it and we are happy watching it, so all is right with the world. Cheers!

[@robinr5337]

Watching this from the desert in New Mexico, USA. I might try something like this to grow more moisture loving plants in my yard. I don't think I can pull off actual bogg plants with our heat.

[@apoxuponme9575]

Purple loosestrife is deemed an invasive species here in Ontario Canada. Messes up our conservation wetlands... Looks pretty though! :)

[@mrbreider]

Lovely video, I'm going to want to do this myself someday! On the topic of keeping the squirrels away, would a little statue or dummy of a predator bird keep them at bay, or would they be too cleaver and inquisitive to be fooled by that?

[@treesandstuff...677]

Brilliant! Love it. Very engaging presentation style and lots of helpful advice for adding wildlife to a garden. Thanks. I might do this and post a video of my own. Glad the Robin enjoyed it too. 😃

[@MrOnlymoin1]

thanks for the important Peat information. lovely garden.

[@M0PM45T3R]

Pete Boggs? Think l knew him in high school... Neat video though, something to share with my gardening comrades ~

[@BillySugger1965]

When you want to film a video on peat bogs, come to the New Forest. We have some here and we’re not too far from you. I know of places teaming with insectivorous sundew plants.

[@Tammylynn64]

Old Tire 😊

[@Chew1964]

Have you seen Mark Roper’s squirrel-proofing video?

[@itzjs2528]

Do more of these

[@piplupcola]

Tried making a little wild cottage flower garden for my place and it got ragged by squirrels. Now there's bald spots all over it. Wish there was a good way to stop them

[@lapismosi8065]

I would have liked to seen shots of the bog planting from different angles in your yard, but the idea is nice.

[@green0563]

Your love for flora and fauna is palpable, loved this video, please keep them coming! I'd love one on peat bogs, yeah.

[@onocleesensible2851]

I love it, especially because it gives me a glimpse of UK native species. Seems so familiar and different at the same time, since it's the same families but different species than in Quebec bogs. I'm really curious to see what it will look like in a few weeks, please keep us updated.

[@connordavid907]

just came from watching the old rt podcasts with you on them, going through the backlog of your vids, cant wait to see more

[@devluz]

Welcome to another episode of Dr Page's Ponds or sould it be called Ponds with Page?

[@andiwhite76]

Where did you get your lovely selection of bog plants from? 🙂

[@UndeadScavenger]

The end-conversation with the robin just warmed my heart a little

[@geuwglesuxballz6074]

First I thought a tyre would be a much more exotic object, but then I remembered what it was from auto racing.

[@victoryamuscat2585]

I love your video. One question: Is there a reason you didn't open up the hessian and use it to cover the whole plastic pot and the whole tyre?

[@wesjales5578]

You should join the iNaturalist app 'its ok to be smart' did a video about it.

[@eroades]

Really love your enthusiasm! Hope everything works out this time and the gravel keeps the squirrels away. Would love to see what this looks like in a month or two!

[@rbphilip]

How did the pond and bog garden do over the summer?

[@apeironfarm1521]

So many more videos of you gardening please!

[@georgiashort5995]

Great vid, would love more updates on this!

[@tamasdedinszky9143]

I also think it looks lovely! Thank you Sally :-)

[@nicholashoi3155]

NATURE IS SO BEAUTIFUL

[@piplupcola]

One question but how do you deal with mosquitos with your little pond? I wanna make one but I live in the topics when mosquitos are quite the common thing

[@BayouChicGardening]

The frogs or toads will eat the mosquitoes

[@thomasa5619]

I’m trying a worm farm

[@alc5527]

PLEASE DO A BOG TOUR

[@varuntulsyan2558]

FINALLY PART 2!!!!❤️😭

[@silverink25]

Wait... Your telling me that in England you spell it 'tyre', because in America we spell it 'tire'.

[@AshArAis]

One less homonym! But still a homophone :)

[@fernandobautista3200]

Gracias por el video!

[@sharonpotter9932]

Looks amazing!

[@MajikManX]

Love it

[@tiesthijsthejs]

I don't feel like gardening with an old rubber tire and bin bags. Unless I'd like to garden consistently with the regular polluted ecosystems. Yeah you know what, I'll even add some empty bottles and leftover medicine. Some cans would really add flavor. It's gonna be a beautiful soup.

[@domy6827]

I have such a crush