How to Grow a Resilient Garden with Morag Gamble

[@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife]

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[@naturewoman1274]

I can't believe you only have under twenty thousand subscribers you should have millions you're so inspirational thankyou

[@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife]

Thanks so much Kirsten!

[@marcuspedro990]

OMG!!!! I Love! Love! Love!! your videos! ... Very Educational, and Inspirational, and Empowering. Thank you for sharing, you are Greatly Appreciated.

[@jimbattaglia8317]

Love watching you in your garden. You are so beautiful and so natural in your approach and a wonderful and knowledgeable conversationalist

[@OriginalRaveParty]

Beautiful lady. Beautiful garden. Excellent knowledge. Thank you.

[@tere11]

Thank you! Glad you're all well.

[@styxga7894]

What a beautiful gardener ❤️

[@piknikist]

thank u very much for sharing the knowledge Morag... please keep them coming.

[@mikehurdiss226]

Great update! Looking forward to your no dig redevelopment. Hope the weather is kind to you. Best wishes Mike

[@Ajsallotment]

I just wish we had a better climate over here in the UK so we could grow all year round and have such a variety of fruit .

[@sofilia2000]

Hi Morag, Beautiful garden, when you mentioned that you make pesto and hummus with the society garlic, I thought how lovely it would be to see you create meals with your harvest. I think that would add to the inspiration that you already give :) Sophia

[@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife]

Thanks Sophia, I have been thinking about doing that - when I get back at the end of the month, I'll do some cook-ups. Kind regards, Morag

[@MrBrianDuga]

So glad you still have abundance. Loving your videos, thanks for all the knowledge. It's inspiring.

[@barbaramccasland1891]

So glad I found your information on gardening. Excellent. Looking forward to gardening with you in the future. Barbara

[@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife]

Thanks Barbara :-)

[@mariapage4753]

Lovely video... thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.

[@charlesbale8376]

Good advice/information, enjoyed the video

[@urban9361]

Thank you Morag. Great info as per usual. I’m looking forward to getting the ones I don’t have yet😀👍🏻

[@STEAMLabDenver]

I just planted some Holy Basil. 🥰

[@marcelosellaro3409]

Very inspiring!

[@Cdngardengirl]

Wow, that really was some shredding hale you got. Perhaps a clear plastic 'roof' over lettuce crops to protect against such extremes in future?

[@azzas15]

great video and info. cheers

[@shininglight2644]

your garden and videos are lovely.....

[@markg9971]

great garden inspired

[@dancingcedar]

Thank you for an inspiring video. I live in hthe Pacific NW of the USA, and many of your plants would not do well here. I would love it if you would say the climates in which they do well, so I would know to ignore the ones that grow in, for example, the tropics. Thank you. Blessings :)

[@rachaelsmith684]

Hi Morag - what was the name of the legume that you had amongst the fruit trees that provided some of your plants protection during the hail storm?

[@robertoramirez8624]

I love kale good for soup

[@alinaspencil]

I've been enjoying your videos and am learning a lot. What do you do when you stick an annual in amongst perennials/trees? Do you just add a scoop of compost, then mulch? Also, is there a name for the perennial leek variety? Does it grow from seed?

[@artmelodic]

Im trying strawbale gardening but alas whilst the plants would love it the local rodents(rats and mice) are loving it too altho to be fair they got in first in my previous veg garden too. As the rats reside in neighbours sheds and seem immuned to the strong smelling herbs Ive planted to deter them Ive given up atm until I can afford rodent proof mesh. I wont use poisons. Ive used talc on seedlings and Diatomacious Earth food grade but alas winter rain destroys those methods. I love gardening but am I confess starting to give up on being able to have a productive food garden until I can deter my pesky visitors.

[@patgsmith5538]

hi my name is Patricia Smith United States I would like to know are you going to ever grown in a sunchoke are some artichoke plants? but I love your permaculture design it is beautiful.

[@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife]

Yes, I love artichokes. You can see some in the corner of the picture of my garden/house on the front page of my youtube channel. kzbin.info

[@patgsmith5538]

You have a beautiful perennial and annual Garden . I would just wondering are you growing any Jerusalem artichoke another name for it is called sunchoke

[@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife]

Oh, yes - sometimes I do. There's none in my garden right now. Thanks for reminding me!

[@patgsmith5538]

You're welcome

[@karenkilburn6868]

What about those of us in cooler climates. Frost is my worst enemy. It kills most things. Unfortunately a lot of traditional permaculture plants are tropical types. What are you going to eat until your salad plants grow. It could be too hot for many of them. Ive got sweet spuds but only for the leaves as i doubt our season is long enough for tubers. The frost will kill them off though. Kale gets eaten by the white cabbage moth so i only grow it when the moths are gone in the cooler months. I have beans, capsicums, tomatoes and eggplants growing. The last three i will have to cover with mulch in winter to protect them and frost sheeting. Any ideas on hot to grow food the permaculture way in cool areas with heavy frosts. We do get up to 32 in summer and its very dry.

[@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife]

Until the lettuce comes back, I've got mizuna, cranberry hibiscus, Brazilian spinach, parsley, sorrel and other greens to use. We also get frosts here most years. I've found that having some cover also protects from frost. Until my food forest pioneers were developed I lost a lot of things from frost (as well as sunburn). I'd suggest looking towards the cool climate permaculture forest garden books available. Also of course, there's food preservation to get us through the times when growing in the garden isn't possible (here in the subtropics it's usually OK most of the year as long as we carefully select species that manage the hot humid times.)

[@ahamoments132]

@@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife Same here, Morag. We get occasional frosts, too, right up to the vege gardens. When our space was still very open, west facing and at the mercy of any frost and hail or brutal sun, we lost many more plants. Due to the ever-drying climate around here we have just installed a number of raised wicking beds. Hopefully that will reduce our water usage significantly :) I have learnt to grow some taller herbs in various positions and plant shade-needing plants on the appropriate side of them, and the same thing works with protection from frost to a degree. :) I've been concentrating on as any edible perennials as I can, now, rather than the more tender lettuces etc unless the weather seems gentle. Sambung nyawa (Gynura procumbens) is a great plant. It's a straggly climber, but if you keep eating the new shoots, it can be kept manageable. Our plant has tolerated frost (outer leaves blackened eventually, but the centre is still very much alive and racing to be eaten :) It is good as a partly-crunchy salad green and as a stir-fry green, and is a good medicinal plant as well. I love this plant and have been giving cuttings (very easy to propagate) to lots of friends. It doesn't even seem weedy, as it flowers, a small yellow daisy flower, but I've not noticed any baby Sambung anywhere near the adult plant. That makes it even better! :)

[@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife]

I've seen great success in greenhouses/poly tunnels/conservatories in cool climates.

[@ahamoments132]

Karen, I remember visiting something called the 'wisdom garden permaculture garden' somewhere in the blue mountains (definitely just a village or two distant from Katoomba, anyway). I can't find it on the web, but in truth I visited it decades ago. I remember it because they had mangoes and avocados fruiting in a district that sees not just frost but snow. They just got very clever in creating microclimates that trapped heat and shielded plants from the cold weather. We have to deal with the opposite problems up here, and there are temperate species that I long to plant. I really want a Hawthorn bush, as I have heart issues and use Hawthorn as a natural supplement. If I can get cuttings from anyone, I would push limits in a bid to grow my own medicine .. I guess that's what we all do, just try as many things as we can, and, as Morag's video noted, see which plants are the most resilient in our area. I feel your pain, though.. I watch many US permaculture or food forage videos, and they just walk out the door and have edible and medicinal weeds at their finger tips!! We have some, but not the variety available to cooler climate folk. The Sambung (Longevity spinach) that i mentioned in my previous post seems to grow continuously in my shade house.. I've had cuttings of that but also of many species in there for many months.. the shade house protects not only from sun and frost but also keeps the temp cooler... perhaps like Morag said a polytunnel etc would help.

[@naturewoman1274]

I morag do you have a book out by any chance

[@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife]

Not yet, but working on it. I currently have an online course, The Incredible Edible Garden, at www.thegoodlifeschool.net and in that I have compiled in videos, presentations and notes much more detailed content.

[@ruthbarrett8907]

Can you tell me what kind of kale that is? Love your vlogs!

[@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife]

Thanks! That one is curly kale.

[@hidhawkes]

Love your videos. Love your skirts also.

[@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife]

Thanks!