If I Had To Choose One Method

[@lleestimer2547]

if only we all had a neighbor like you, the world would be a wonderful place.

[@REDGardens]

😀

[@joniboulware1436]

The most heartfelt takeaway from this was to have a garden where you enjoy spending time. While growing productively is one important goal, for most of us, gardening makes life more rewarding.

[@REDGardens]

🙂

[@gregbluefinstudios4658]

always interesting to go back and watch some of the older videos!

[@REDGardens]

That would be interesting, and a bit weird for me!

[@yevpt]

This is the most scientific channel on KZbin on vegetable growing. I follow it with great interest. Thank you for that !

[@REDGardens]

:)

[@maxandersen6532]

@@REDGardens Do you think that it would be better to grow in a garden with a perimeter where one side is equal to other, or to have one long row of equal square footage in terms of pests?

[@Casiusss3]

This and Charles Dowding

[@GarrettBodley]

@@REDGardens Do you have any resources on rehabilitating urban soil? Say in nyc? What kind of testing would you need, and is it accessible by mail?

[@REDGardens]

Max Andersen I don’t really know, but I think it depends a lot more on what is surrounding the garden, and how it is managed.

[@userjjb]

Honestly this is my favorite "small" KZbin channel. I truly appreciate the thoughtfulness that is apparent in everything you do Bruce. Your clear methodical approach combined with your obvious care for the land, the plants, and society makes your videos a true gem.

[@REDGardens]

Thanks for that!

[@johnboiger6376]

Yet another wonderfully detailed and great video. Can't thank you enough for sharing your intricate and thoughtful experience.

[@REDGardens]

Glad you appreciate my efforts.

[@PhilKJames]

I love how you’re not rigid in your orthodoxy and you explore what works for you based on the climate and land you have to work with.

[@SteveRichards]

I've been waiting for you to come to that conclusion, no one approach makes sense for everything, a mixed approach works best and that's what we do. As you say picking one is a false choice, you can pick for example "no dig" and still get benefit from digging stones out of your carrot bed, you can grow 90% of the plot in straight lines of mono-culture crops and still interplant where it makes sense, you can grow 75% annual plants but still have 25% of perennials around the borders etc : All the best - Steve

[@REDGardens]

We'll said. Thanks.

[@TheNapalmFTW]

I love your videos. I watch a handful of gardening KZbinrs. You, huw Richards and Charles Dowding are three of them. I take different things from each of you. I appreciate your content.

[@REDGardens]

Thanks, that is a good crew to be grouped in with!

[@antonlampe2272]

This channel is so high quality, its unbelievable.

[@REDGardens]

Thank you!

[@iSinkic]

Great video like always! With the no-dig method, i found it to be really important to compress the compost after spreading it by walking over the bed. It works like a sheet of compost mulch that way and doesn't dry out as fast, blow away in the wind or wash off by rain. It basically stays together and binds with the soil underneath. If you do it right the compost mulch will last the entire season and longer. You will also have to add significantly less compost every year. The first "investment" is crucial. Greetings from Slovenia!

[@REDGardens]

That is interesting. Will have to give it a try.

[@lynnmacro3044]

I agree, after the first year only an inch - 2/3 centimetres are necessary once a year. Charles Downing.

[@monicacruz4407]

Yes, initially no-dig needs a lot of compost, but that really drops off. Tamping down is essential. Dowding* if anyone is searching

[@PrairiePlantgirl]

I love all the deep thinking and analysis you put into your gardens and videos.

[@ciarfah]

I feel quite lucky to have found not only a gardener with a similar mindset to me, but one with advice directly relevant to my climate. Thanks for all you do :)

[@REDGardens]

Glad you found my channel!

[@somatder]

I am very impressed with the quality of crops you grow, they look soooo lush and well kept! You sure are doing a great job, both in the garden and in your videos

[@REDGardens]

Thanks so much!

[@metamud8686]

"If I had to choose one method" .... I would do all ;-) I so agree with your nuanced answer. Having followed your videos for a while, nothing came as a surprise and I really follow your reasoning. It's so good to hear you explain the nuances, rather than say "X is the best" without taking context into account, just for the fun of getting 1M youtube views. Thank you for taking the time, time and again, to meticulously measure, show and explain all these nuances. Great job!

[@REDGardens]

Haha, yep, I would do it all! Thanks!

[@phifediggy9659]

So concise, you don't babble that's what I love about this channel you get to the point very quickly

[@REDGardens]

Thanks, I figure I don't want to waist people's time.

[@Aermydach]

Thank you, Bruce! This is a great summary of what you've been exploring for these past few years. Your videos are a great contribution to the movement, particularly this one. I'm looking forward to more.

[@REDGardens]

Thanks!

[@kennethoakes9313]

Bruce, I appreciate the sincere comments about your concern for all of humanity's well being, and also sustainability at the local level. Your content is well thought out and very useful in my own small efforts to encourage food sovereignty in the rural community where I live. Thank you.

[@elemeno9463]

You're my new favourite channel. Can't believe it took this long to find your stuff. Great videos.

[@evilroyslade2491]

Spent this season in 90F and 1 or 2 thunderstorms every week. Plants grew vegetation like a jungle, tomatoes split and sweet peppers had rot spots in multiple places. Next year I will build a Greenhouse tunnel-like yours and feed my raised beds compost.

[@farmerchick3040]

I can't wait to have a green house. Winter growing would save me a lot of money on fresh veg in the winter. Salad greens especially. Bush beans and bush peas are are great companion crop for taller slower growing summer plants. They grow and finish first and you can chop and drop the plants as a nitrogen rich mulch. I've begin implementing practices from all of your gardening methods with no dig being my primary method. I only dig where I'm planting root crops.

[@toddberkely6791]

perhaps the best gardening channel on the tube?

[@REDGardens]

Woah, thanks!

[@hshx1n]

This is the video I’ve been looking for all day. Thank you 🙏🏽

[@REDGardens]

Yay!

[@chahineyalla4838]

You are an inspiration for me to question what I have learned now that I started growing vegetables for my own consumption. I got into gardening through permaculture, and I needed to explore other ways to go about it. Thank you for being out there.

[@REDGardens]

Glad I could make a small contribution to your journey!

[@fawn1785]

New gardener here. Last year I tried the "Square Foot" gardening method in my raised beds. It was a mess. This year I'm going to follow the "Succession Gardening" practices limiting each bed to only 2 types of vegetable plants: one vertical and another spreading.

[@REDGardens]

Sorry to hear about the mess, hope this year is more successful for you.

[@priayief]

I'm impressed! Logical, objective and comprehensive. Thanks.

[@REDGardens]

:)

[@pinkycharles8762]

Hi love the way you narrate your day videos, am from Trinidad

[@trollforge]

Your graph @ 1:19 made me laugh! -9C after New Years is a sign it is time to put the winter coats away, 0C it time to put the spring coats away, and 7C is the beginning of shirt free weather, and 18C is time to clean the air conditioner, 35C is drink plenty of water at work, 38C is time to call it quits...

[@mandyonline17]

Your sharing of your knowledge is helping me to feed myself and occasionally have a little to spare for my neighbours and friends. I only have a small garden out front of about 15 X10 meters available but through the confidence you share, I hope to put my small back garden to food production with a home built poly tunne forl next years growing season. Please do keep helping in the way you do.

[@unpaved7040]

thx. you seem like a kind soul.

[@thrivinginamber2642]

There is exactly one unique method for each of us, it is "Everything you do, all together" let it be tempered by knowing what each of the plants do, and letting them do those things, and in knowing that it's the plants that grow, and we grow by listening to them.

[@REDGardens]

:)

[@Tomhohenadel]

Very interesting discussion. Thanks Bruce, always look forward to your videos

[@REDGardens]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@calebpreister8454]

YESSSS! Our world NEEDS more local, sustainable, and healthy food.

[@sixfigurebookkeeper7588]

Wow! I am thoroughly impressed by your well thought out answer. This is rich content - thank you

[@REDGardens]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@13c11a]

I just discovered your channel and have subscribed. Your comments are very thoughtful. Thank you.

[@REDGardens]

Glad you found my channel!

[@timchaffin5663]

I'd agree, absorb knowledge and mix different techniques for the climate your in. I just started a garden, used intensive for base, then added 12,000 lbs compost on top and tilled base and compost togeather for a 10"-12" layer, 36'x48'. So far things are growing great. Started direct sow May 21st through June 11th. It's been a cool wet spring, morning temps low 40's to low 50's.

[@healthyrootsstrongwings538]

Your work is greatly appreciated! Thanks for keeping us all up to date on all your findings :) I have have a KZbin chanel too but lately feel more like doing the work than making videos of doing the work ☺🐛 Happy growing and keep us in the loop :)

[@REDGardens]

Thanks. I know that feeling. Sometimes I wish I could simply grow food, and not have to keep track of everything, and film anything that might be useful in the future, and constantly be thinking about the next video!

[@healthyrootsstrongwings538]

@@REDGardens Surely you've got a nice routine down😃! You could even mãke a video about how you go about making video's 🤗 Anyway happy days and thanks again!

[@NoZignature]

Even though i personally might not use this information it is comforting to know that it is out there. We need to rethink how we feed the world and I think this is part of the solution.

[@REDGardens]

Thanks, I agree!

[@pamelawillis9714]

Always interesting and worthy of my attention. Thank you.

[@REDGardens]

:)

[@jamiemcdougall8365]

I grow mainly no dig but I do agree about the amount of compost required. It is hard to get it and does limit some people, it certainly did prove problematic for me in the initial setup years. On the one hand I sometimes wonder if the same amount of compost would be needed even if I was double digging, to ensure there was sufficient nutrients for intensive cropping but I think there is obviously more to it than simply the nutrients in the soil. For example, the ground needs to be inna relatively friable condition for the plants to grow and this simply takes a lot of compost to provide that and or some time to allow the worms and organisms to work the soil. Great video!

[@happyjohn2035]

Thanks for a thoughtful video. I live in a similar environment in Scotland and have over the years increased protection for my crops but used glass rather than plastic and use greenhouses and mini greenhouses. Though maybe more expensive in the short term no worries about having to recover and disposing o f plastic waste. I worry about the amount of plastic membranes now in use which all degrade leavening fibre in the soil which cannot be cleaned up so called weed control fabrics don't work long term but I expect they are promoted because someone is making a lot of money.

[@REDGardens]

I would love to shift more towards glass houses. Plastic is a bit of a worry for me, but I find the polytunnel plastic to be the most durable and useful of all the plastics that might end up in the gardens. The ground cover fabric does really need to be managed well.

[@vossierebel]

If I had to begin tomorrow I would watch this a few times and glean the best practice methods you have developed!! Thanks!!

[@louiseanderwin1]

EXCELLENT conclusions, Bruce. Garden according to your climate, plot size, and material and time resources. Observe the garden and figure out what works for you, one size does not fit all. I too use a hybrid of no dig, polyculture and tiny polytunnel, on my small site, and did do some digging first to clear debris. I am amazed by the abundance produced in a short space of time.

[@REDGardens]

Thanks. I think there is so much to benefit from various hybrid methods, that evolve over time.

[@adamjones9600]

Great cadence, shots, content and editing. I'm not even a gardener but I'll subscribe. Thanks!

[@REDGardens]

Thanks!

[@foggypatchfarm6048]

I've been growing in a mostly no-dig manner, but I want to add in most all of Steve Solomon's soil testing and ammendment advice (the extensive method).

[@REDGardens]

It is an interesting mix, or refinement, to not simply assume that the compost is all the garden needs.

[@tintunbirha]

I just have a roof (2000 sq ft) to work on. I have just started. But your advice and experience is valuable. From your talk extensive method in grow bags seems to be the answer.

[@REDGardens]

Excellent. Hope you grow lots and learn more!

[@catherineairadion5275]

Been refreshing for new videos, I can't get enough of your content

[@REDGardens]

Glad you like them! Sorry for the delay in getting the next one out. It is filmed, but I still need to edit it. Hopefully will be out this weekend.

[@flofi4397]

The space of the tunnel ist just great. It is very high and broad. Passive water system would be good I think.

[@REDGardens]

Yes, that would be good.

[@samsmith838]

Very useful. Clear info and very helpful. Thanks

[@evilroyslade2491]

I enjoy and learn a lot from your videos. Thanks. It must take a lot of planning and time.

[@MATFarm22]

Your videos are very useful! I´m very glad, I found this channel. I´m watching since 9k subscribers and I really like your content. Keep it up!

[@REDGardens]

Glad you found my channel, and are still watching!

[@benjanameldt]

Your an absolute champion mate, good on you

[@REDGardens]

Thanks! 😁

[@shermdog6969]

Think it depends on location. Poly tunnel in my area will cook everything in it no matter on ventilation. Great video, lots of info.

[@eugenesanderson6742]

I agree that there is no single method. It would depend on the type of soil you have, the type of crops you have and also the weather/rainfall. We have clay soil, it's extremely hard to work with, no dig methods do not work and double digging is required for any root type vegetables such as carrots. Personally, I would choose double dig and the polyculture, mainly due to polycultures being more pleasant to the eye than motonomous gardening, but also partly due to the fact I want to upgrade to a permaculture garden... which also incorporates trees (fruits, nuts etc) Love your vids. Keep it up!

[@Marialla.]

You are so right that one size does not fit all! Not only soil/weather/crops must be considered, but also personal issues of time/garden space/money to invest/physical strength and energy and mobility/and values that the garden seeks to fulfill. Everyone's circumstances are different, so every gardener must choose wisely from all the techniques and methods suggested to find their own personal best approach!

[@REDGardens]

Agreed!

[@mm-nk3qe]

Love your videos. So much to learn

[@georgelionon9050]

Thank you for coming to answer your "research question" and as usually the answer is "it depends". And you answered the follow up question as well "what does it depend on"?.

[@REDGardens]

Yes, "what does it depend on" is a crucial question to answer.

[@DavidHendersonHean]

Excellent Overview of techniques and philosophies - thank you!

[@Mrader1983]

Great video as usual. Thanks again

[@danielfisch655]

As always, it's all about the "context". Great video and thank you for sharing.

[@REDGardens]

Yeah, context.

[@danielfisch655]

RED Gardens 👍🏽👊🏽😷

[@johnkay4701]

Hi Bruce, thank you for this latest video. You start by favouring your polytunnel, for intensive, high yielding, season extending & personal protection / comfort. All the same reasons that I've erected a cheapy polycarbonate greenhouse. I don't know whether you have had experience of a greenhouse as well as your massive polytunnel, but I'd like to hear your views as to your comparative experiences if so. I'd purchased my cheapy polycarbonate 8ft x 16ft greenhouse as opposed to a polytunnel because:- 1). The side guttering collects water into a water-butt (I live in very dry Colchester, Essex) as the facility to collect water in the summer is valuable to me. 2). I've heard that although twin-wall polycarbonate has a shorter life than glass )& I could not afford glass anyway), it should outlast the polythene of a polytunnel. 3). Gale propelled objects can fatally damage the polythene of polytunnels, where-as the polycarbonate should be a tad more robust when clobbered during high winds. 4). Twin-walled polycarbonate might be a tad better insulator during the cold winter months, thus hopefully providing better winter growing conditions? Your thoughts please Bruce? And any thoughts from others that read my amateur comments? Regards as always, JohnnyK.

[@mther123]

Sir, I will flow your methods, video is excellent, You are the best.

[@REDGardens]

:)

[@objektivone3209]

Another great video from RED Gardens. Please do make a update about your latest conclusions about the composting system of yours.👍👍👍👍

[@helicart]

Really appreciate your efforts to get this info to the world Bruce. I'd be interested in your labour input analysis for these gardens. i.e. How many man hours a week does it take to keep 1,5,10 families in vegetables. For clarity, I am into whole food plant based science, which recommends eating more vegetables... especially leafy greens i.e. 0.5kg a day (8 cups raw) of non starchy vege per adult (not potatoes)...so 7kg/wk for 2 adults, and say 4kg/wk for 2 younger kids = 11kg/week I would suggest a variable mix of rocket, baby spinach, collard and mustard greens, kale, tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, red cabbage, string beans, beetroot, carrot, onions.

[@eldritchjoe7642]

I genuinely get so much out of your videos. Thank you for the doing the hard work! (From far north New England, I need all the help I can get!)

[@REDGardens]

Thanks, and good luck!

[@gaijinvillager4624]

I'm so glad I found this channel today!! I am starting my first farm soon and I am doing my best figuring out which farming method would be best suited for me. Your videos are a great resource for me to learn and understand the differences which will hopefully allow me to find success with my farm more efficiently. Big thanks and wishing a good season in 2022.

[@-Rickster-]

I’m going to try a combination approach using square foot gardening which crosses intensive and poly culture whilst attempting to keep it as no-dig. I can’t wait to start (as soon as my youngest stops walking all over the soil and pulling them out) next year. Live in north Oxfordshire.

[@REDGardens]

Hope it works out for you!

[@-Rickster-]

I’ve been watching from near-beginning and it seems like you could just about answer it this year. Fantastic job Bruce!

[@REDGardens]

Thanks 👍

[@johncourtneidge]

Thank-you. A lot to discuss here.

[@REDGardens]

:)

[@Gaspa79]

I'm impressed. Great video

[@REDGardens]

🙂

[@hairybass480]

Great video.

[@philhannah100]

Great video. I've been waiting for a comparison video for a while now 🙂 I'm happy to see your channel growing! One suggestion.. your title could be tweaked to get alot more views. Eg "What garden method works best" or No Dig vs Double Dig and other methods.." something like that. I've been watching your videos for a long time and understand the title but someone stumbling along your video wont have any idea and might not be interested.. just a friendly tip! Thanks for the video.

[@REDGardens]

Thanks for the tip. I struggle with the titles, and try to find a mix between a title that followers of the channel will understand and appreciate, and titles that grab attention of others.

[@davegaskell7680]

Excellent video, and excellent channel in general. I've only got a relatively small area for growing vegetables (3 raised beds each of 0.9m x 3.6m so approx 10 sq m in total) and I've been making my own compost for quite a few years which I use on these beds but I read Steve Solomon's book in the autumn, got a soil test, have remineralised the beds and am changing my approach to how I make compost (which is really vermicompost) by, in effect, adding 4-6 litres of a version of COF into each of my compost bins (I have 5 of the 'dalek' type of bins). It is interesting that you find the Extensive Garden to have the tastiest harvests (possibly because they're the most nutritious?) as that's pretty much the point of Steve Solomon's approach. I'm optimistic for great results in 2021. Keep the videos coming - they're excellent and inspirational.

[@Chris-op7yt]

good explanations, again. i still havent setup a greenhouse and often end up throwing out a late (hopeful) crop of beetroot, for example. which partially grows and then completely stalls when cooler weather comes, which is unpredictable here. i'm definitely over adding massive amounts of compost, which is both intensive and problematic in our heat, and is often gone part way thru season, collapsing soil structure.

[@REDGardens]

That is interesting about he soil structure collapsing. What kind you have? Clay?

[@Chris-op7yt]

RED Gardens : mostly clay and silt. when organic matter (compost) breaks down, it becomes also silt like in size and most of it gone in three months. most avid gardeners in my zone see similar results, with deeper soil completely dried out and season harvest cut short. that's why maybe need a watering system and/or inorganic mulch or something, as hand watering daily is not good enough. organic matter only makes things worse in these harsh conditions. greenhouses (if not an oven) help a lot around here, for people that have them. hot windy days in summer of near or over 40 degrees Celsius, knock crops around.

[@trillium7582]

A really excellent video, thank you! Would you consider another video going further into your ideas for a hybrid approach using different methods at different points in the garden's "succession"? Just what you said here is brain-expanding stuff. I'm very curious about the potential for creating a simple start-up system where people could get a harvest of storage crops (winter squash, potatoes?) as the yield of a first-year new garden space, while helping to prepare the soil for higher productivity the following year...?

[@noahsas7795]

such a good idear 😌🤙🏼

[@REDGardens]

I think there is a lot to that idea, and is kind of the basis of the Simple Garden approach that I developed, though I haven't taken that to the next level of developing a succession of steps to develop a growing space.

[@mashari3610]

Thank you!

[@TheogRahoomie]

I can’t wait to get some land so I can do a poly tunnel garden. It’s pretty darn cold where we live I just had to cover my garden on June 9th because it got down to -2 Celsius

[@REDGardens]

That is a late frost! Where are you based?

[@TheogRahoomie]

RED Gardens Vanderhoof, British Columbia and ya that’s a late frost even for us.

[@billherrick3569]

excellent as always. Great vision you have.

[@REDGardens]

Thanks!

[@assamfoodforestnursery4010]

Very genuine observations. .n theories

[@REDGardens]

:)

[@drumminsonlive9199]

Good information Thank You...

[@driver777]

Thank you, sir.

[@REDGardens]

:)

[@gernblenstein1541]

Great content, brother!

[@REDGardens]

Glad you think so!

[@DanielSousa-O]

Great video

[@REDGardens]

Thanks!

[@djriddell1]

Fascinating! Thanks

[@timobreumelhof88]

I have been watching a lot of you videos with great interest and there's something that I have noticed. You mostly seem to plant your crops in line with the length of the bed. I mostly plant perpendicular to the bed. To me it feels more efficient when removing weeds and I feel like I have to bend over the plants less when removing weeds. I also felt like I could make the beds wider, loosing less "path-space". But I'm not using a seeder and I guess that you have good reasons to do this "your way", I'm really interested what the your reasoning / ideas are on this. :-)

[@bonniepoole1095]

Your comments and ideas are always welcome! I share these videos with my local organic garden community. Thanks for your work!

[@REDGardens]

Awesome, thanks for sharing my videos!

[@wellnesspathforme6236]

Thanks for caring and sharing. You are the change truly aware people want to be. Check out Morley Robbins to understand why magnesium and copper sulfate are so important to add in to the soil. It takes bacteria to help plants absorb minerals, so that means the microbiome needs to be on point, too.

[@REDGardens]

Thanks for the suggestion.

[@kamerona]

Another great video, thanks so much

[@REDGardens]

:)

[@thefamilyfarm9035]

Love your projects!

[@REDGardens]

Thanks!

[@robertdbettis]

I have been wondering what you have been up to! Thanks for another great video. Please upload catpions 🙏🏽

[@REDGardens]

I will try to get the captions uploaded soon, it is something that I have fallen behind on in these past fey busy months.

[@SgtSnausages]

You're farkin' AMAZEBALLZ, my man!

[@REDGardens]

Thanks!

[@Mikeecoman]

Excellent informative video as usual.

[@gailthornbury291]

I too love my polytunnel. The only thing I can think of to improve it is two polytunnels...

[@REDGardens]

Exactly!

[@andreajones7023]

Right choice, am in the middle of putting my polytunnel up this week.

[@REDGardens]

Have fun with the polytunnel growing!

[@bigwheelsturning]

Have you ever used a "light meter" to see how many lumens/foot candles of light come through the polytunnel as the year progresses from winter to winter during the growing seasons? I was out with my meter today to see how much light I was getting in my garden area, to see if it was worth the cost to install my own polytunnel.

[@theressomelovelyfilthdownh4329]

How do you feel the other gardens would do if you managed to use the same amount of organic matter as the no dig garden. Assuming you could get hold of the organic matter and some help barrowing / digging it into the site?

[@tomtenbrunsel266]

At my age, I choose the Ruth Stout no-dig, no-water method. Just throw out a bunch a hay and plant in it and sit in my Adirondack chair and watch it grow, author of Casual Gardening😎

[@bigwheelsturning]

I'm trying that method myself this year.

[@REDGardens]

I wish it was so easy around here, but the slugs that kind of method would attract would make it very difficult to grow anything.

[@bigwheelsturning]

@@REDGardens Living in the Pacific NW, land of the "giant slugs"; I haven't had that much of a problem this year. Some nipples, but slug bait seems to take care of most of them. More worried about the rabbits and deer. May put up a "high tunnel" this winter to be on the safe side. Cold weather, clouds, and rain are the biggest detriments to the garden.

[@rory6089]

I've spent a lot of time exploring polytunnels, but when you see what becomes of the plastic at end of life (normally around 5 years), I think we have enough plastic in our oceans and in the food chain already.

[@rory6089]

BTW what part of Ireland are you in? Hello from Derry!

[@rory6089]

You're in Tipp! :-)

[@REDGardens]

@@rory6089 Yep, I'm in Tipp! We do have enough plastic in our oceans and many parts of our lives, but if i had to get rid of as much plastic as possible from my life, I think polytunnel plastic would be one of therein uses I would choose to keep.

[@rory6089]

@@REDGardens I know it's expensive, but we should probably be trying to use glass instead, maybe even old double glazing that is "end of life" but can be repurposed. (I did a little digging into the Ecovillage you are based at, I think I'll pay it a visit at some point once we get on top of this pandemic).

[@REDGardens]

@@rory6089 I would love to go with glass, and at a smaller scale using repurposed double glassing can be really good option. For a larger scale, something comparable tin size to my current polytunnels it is more difficult, not least because it would need a lot of gas and fairly standard sizes. The cost of new glass is one expense, but It also requires a much stronger frame to keep it rigid in the wind - it is amazing how much the polytunnel can flex in the high winds we get. Stronger frame means more cost and more material. all doable, but not easy or cheap.

[@enigmatum100]

Very interesting, but I don't really understand what the "extensive" garden is, I guess you explained in other videos.

[@Go-zi1py]

I grew up in the southern USA on a large family farm and grew huge gardens with tractors and fertilizers but as I live in the suburbs now I plant a square foot raised bed garden as developed by Mel Bartholomew. It is a great system why don't you test out his method in a bed or two and compare it to your other beds.

[@chantallachance4905]

For the homemade fertilizer Korean Natural Farming M. Cho its the best