SIMPLE & COMPLETE Guide To COMPANION PLANTING! Use Your Plants To CONTROL Pests & OPTIMIZE Growth!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Welcome to Willows Green Permaculture. Magali and I are here to chat with you and answer any questions you might have! Enjoy the video! Thank you everyone for hanging out and chatting with us. Don't forget to leave a question in the comments if you have any, or any comment too!

[@wild-radio7373]

I have a question about a recent short video you posted♡ It was the short where you ate all the flowers... at the very very end, it started to talk about fuchsia flowers... but my video cut off before I found out if they were edible!!😢 please help.

[@nmayor4232]

Deliberately cutting back potatoes and sunflowers is something I would have neuer thought of. Guess I am still in the mindset that originates from commercial agriculture. I need to experiment more while I still have the supermarket as a backup.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Experimenting is the best way and having a back-up makes experimenting so much easier and more fun! And yes, the commercial agricultural mindset has conditioned us with many u helpful expectations like perfect shaped fruit, unusually large sizes and not a single bite from little bugs.

[@teagoldleaf4137]

Just the other day, I was telling my husband about the 3 sisters corn, beans, squash and how we should adopt this method. I've been wondering about what other companions exist. It's like you read my mind 🌱😊

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@TheTamrock2007]

Such a helpful and enjoyable video to watch with my coffee. My little garden is doing well this morning 🎉

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you so much!🙏 Enjoy your coffee! 😊

[@mcquaimc]

Your videos are rich on gardening knowledge and this video is no exception - for one thing I never knew borage leaves are edible and I love it in the garden for attracting pollinators but one complaint it can get greedy for space. Now I know how to manage them. Thank you. I’ve learned so much,

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you so much! Yes, borage can get huge, and it self seeds like crazy!

[@kleineroteHex]

My borage had self seeded, humongous! I let it go for the bees for the most part and new plants are already emerging😊 Yes, carrots and tomatoes do well even in buckets!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@222mmax]

Yes please thank you God bless you Maranatha

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@barbsoddznendz1896]

You were right in your comment to me in another video about the deer eating the top leaves of my bean plants. I left them there and they sprouted side shoots and kept growing.😊

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Wonderful! Thank you for letting me know Barb!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Hello Barb! I haven’t heard from you in a while. How are you?

[@barbsoddznendz1896]

@@WillowsGreenPermaculture hello Stefan! Thanks for checking in. I have been busy with different things and haven't had time to catch up on videos. I still have lettuce, beans, carrots, radish, beets, peas, eggplant, kale, arugula, and one grape tomato plant growing. And my loofah plant is doing great except I accidentally cut a vine that had a long fruit growing so I had to harvest it green but I did it! My first time growing loofah. How did your loofah do? I remember you said you were growing it for the first time too.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@barbsoddznendz1896 Hi Barb. Just looked for this message after your other one. I have a bunch of green ones that I'm ripening in sunny windows, and I have a few I've left on the vine, following a few hard frosts we've had. The plants are mostly dead but I want to see how the loofah does in the dry cool weather we're having. We shouldn"t have any sub zero temperature in the next couple of weeks, and lots of sun, so we'll see. I' m trying different things. I'm hoping one at least gives me seeds. I'm going to record process a couple of green ones and we'll see what happens! But I'm giving them. some more time.

[@MySelfReliance]

Excellent video

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@rahneclark1902]

I like the name Willow green permaculture. Thank you for the video

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you! Several years ago, when I was doing Shodo, Japanese calligraphy, as a hobby, I asked a very good friend of mine from Japan for an expression I could practice with my Shodo that spoke about the well-being we feel when we are in contact with nature. He told me of an ancient Chinese poem, the first line of which is - Willows Green Blossoms Red.

[@sharlenec7289]

Always enjoy your videos. Everything is growing so fast. I have mammoth sunflower over 7 ft tall and are blooming & picked 5 gallon bucket of green beans. I have been having problems with cucumber fungas, squash bugs and japanese beatles. I hand pick the insects & sprayed cucumber plants with hydrogen peroxide and water mixture. Best wishes

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

For the squash vines borers, bury your vines everywhere you can under mulch or a little bit of soil. They will sprout new roots at the leaf nodes and so will be able to survive squash bucket attacks.

[@sharlenec7289]

Thank you I did as much as possible. I've been putting small pieces of cardboard around squash the bugs like to hide under it and then I can just flip it over and SQUASH them. It's 100 here today with the heat index. Canned 12 quarts of green beans today. Have a great weekend.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

I love the cardboard trick! I often see the bugs scurry under the leaf when the see me coming, so I just pass my finger under the leaf, and I usually find them. I might just try that cardboard trick!

[@marilynmitchell2712]

My green beans are a few inches tall. It wasn't warm enough to plant them till the middle of May.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@marilynmitchell2712 Here I have to wait until the very end of May to plant beans. I still have a couple of areas I'd like to plant some more.

[@annetted8113]

Great garden and video! I'm definitely going to plant calendula next year.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

That's great! You"re going to love it! Sometimes it self-seeds and comes back on it's own too. However, the seeds are super easy to collect and keep from the dried flower heads. You will only ever have to buy a single packet of seeds.

[@annetted8113]

@WillowsGreenPermaculture I was wondering what I should do about my purple clover. The bees are loving it but it's taking over my garden. Having a hard time pulling it up. Can you give me permission? Lol

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Clover is a tough plant I think. I would keep that in a separate pile, along with the other tough ones, like creeping charlie, grass and so on. Let that pile cook, or use it if you have areas that need vegetation to prevent erosion or something.

[@claudiatojo3217]

Hi, thank you for your work. You and a few other permaculture youtubers made me underestand that everything and everyone has a place and a function...you just have to find it...and i cant tell you enough how much i needed to learn that...❤

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@teagoldleaf4137]

Wow your squash has already come so far along! Where in Canada are you ? When did you plant the squash and what variety did you use? We planted on Victoria day, and our squash has hardly budged. Your gardens are lovely 🌱✨️🌱✨️🌱✨️

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

I sowed the squash in the Three Sisters beds at the same time as the corn, on May 8th. It's normal for your squash not to have shown up yet if you sowed Victoria Day. It'll pop up soon, and the advantage for you, is cucumber beetle season is over. Also, if you bought your seeds, they always take a little longer than the ones you collect, which will be adapted to your conditions.

[@teagoldleaf4137]

@@WillowsGreenPermaculture thanks for your reply and encouragement 🙏

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@teagoldleaf4137 You're welcome! It's a real pleasure!

[@marilynmitchell2712]

​@@WillowsGreenPermaculturemy squash are still small even though I planted them around May 8 too.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@marilynmitchell2712 Give it time. Some of mine are still very small too. So long as they have lots of sun and not too much competition, they'll take off at some point as the days get hotter. Make sure they get the water they need if you don't get rain.

[@creativeone3392]

Please put me on your list! Many thanks. Be well, be safe.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you! You too! All you need to do is hit the subscribe button! 😊You can also hit the notification bell so you don't miss a video!

[@rahneclark1902]

Hi how do you decide how far apart to put them from each other. How far apart timing do you plant so successful. I would like to try this 😊

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

For spacing, I space them a little further apart than the full size of the plant. For timing of the planting of different plants growing together, I will make sure the slower growing smaller plants have time to grow before putting the larger plants in. The timing will also depend on things like if the plant is frost, tolerant, or not, so you just need to know one or two things about each plant to know about timing and spacing. If I don’t know these small details, I check it out on the Internet. The information is usually pretty accurate because it’s simple information.

[@hqprivat]

Hello Magali and Stefan, a very, very nice place you guys have established there. I am curious, do you have any problems with snails and/or slugs? Or do you have natural predators who take care of them? We are drowning with slugs this year here in Denmark :-( I am looking for a natural way to handle them. After all they are a part of nature and we need some of them to handle the decaying green stuff. What kind of climate are you in? Costal, in land? Wish you all the best, Hajo from Denmark

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you! We are inland in a somewhat humid area. If you can attract frogs and toads or even little snakes to your garden they will help you a great deal with the slugs and the snails. Check out some of our other videos about this. I’m gonna make a playlist about bugs and pests. Birds also help us control the slugs and snails. For frogs if you have pieces of logs, or other wood or wood chips or old broken pottery, put them in around your garden as shelters for them and for birds put in vertical pieces for purchase like long stakes, branches teepees, anything really. All the best to you too!

[@hqprivat]

Thank you, I will try that!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@hqprivat That's great! Good luck!

[@Egret13-ps5te]

Hi from Germany, I liked your Video very much, thank you! Do you plant your veggis every year in the same spot? Ive been told, the karrots are not alloyed to be planted for 7 years at the same spot. Whats your oppininon? All the best for you from Taffy

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Sometimes I plant them in the same place. The reason you should avoid this is probably because of bugs, but I use biodiversity and companion planting to control the bugs. Bugs only become a real problem with a monoculture. I think the seven year rule applies more to a monoculture of a large space having only carrots in a big large space, because with a monoculture bugs can wipe out an entire harvest.

[@Egret13-ps5te]

Thank you very much for your answer. I feel the same way, but i am a beginner - anyway, it all works fine out :-)

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@Egret13-ps5te It's a real pleasure. All the best with your gardening! You're going to do great!

[@danielapettus7693]

❤😊

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

😊

[@SdaCosta22]

@willowsGreenPermaculture thanks for all your videos very informative stuff and so great to have it all in a Canadian climate. I have a question about soil do you buy compost/ soil/ wood chips or make your own compost and do you add any soil amendments? Thanks very much keep doing what your doing!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Hi @SdaCosta22. Thank you for your comment! We do make our own compost. And at the end of the season, we cover our garden in leaves, which encourages the soil life to work the soil for us through the winter. Sometimes we add mushroom compost too! And we get woodchips for free from arborists, but we don’t put them on the garden. They’re for the pathways, and also for areas where we are soil building. Soon I should be publishing a video on closing the garden in which I will talk about this.

[@roosterqmoney]

those prickles can draw blood eventually if you grab em willy nilly

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

😊 Which prickles are those?

[@KASA0828]

how do the rabbits not bother the plants?

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Check out this video for the in depth answer, and it applies to all wildlife foragers. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIetpaN-hK-Cj5Ysi=rrNP49qqRnrVWEl1 The short answer is: a wire mesh fence at least 3 feet tall and buried 2 feet under. But this is not necessary when you apply the principles of the long answer you’ll see in the video.

[@Gratus-i6d]

Je serai très contente de venir voir et apprendre des choses chez vous Mme Magalie 21:58

[@Gratus-i6d]

Je serai très contente de venir voir et apprendre des choses chez vous Mme Magalie

[@Gratus-i6d]

S'il vous plaît, comment vous contacter pour planifier une visite ?

[@Gratus-i6d]

Bonjour, Merci pour ce beau travail de la nature! Comment faire une visite de votre domaine et en apprendre davantage?

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Bonjour. Merci pour le commentaire. Cela sera un plaisir de prendre contact avec toi pour une visite.

[@silviaincer523]

Absolutely useful

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@laurakamal8842]

One of the most helpful videos I have ever watched. Beautiful flowers

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@slampersand3145]

Just found your channel and am just so grateful and impressed. Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge 😊🙏🕊️

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you! Welcome to Willows Green Permaculture!

[@michellerahn]

Does it rain in the growing season? How do you water?

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

If needed, we water the main SunGarden by hand with a hose. Usually only in the late spring when we’re transplanting into the garden and only if we don’t get rain. Once the plants are established, we don’t water. We don’t water any of the other garden, as they are all placed on top of areas where water accumulates. As well, they are all beyond the range of our hose.

[@michellerahn]

This video has a lot of very important info. I especially like to hear of your experience with potatoes 🥔 and squash. I have just planted butternut squash and it is leaping out of the soil! Will plant it with potatoes, which seem to be the easiest thing to grow in an area with animals and bugs.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

I’m not sure I’d do it deliberately. I did it by accident. But I showed it to illustrate how different plants can hide key plants from certain hungry insects.

[@user-ii3hl8rw6n]

This is so interesting! I am learning .....

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@JeromeArmstrong]

WOWOWOW, thank you so much.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

It's a real pleasure!

[@jonslaughter3369]

Great stuff as always. Thanks for all the info! I took notes.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@atranimecs]

subscribed and thumbs up! glad to support you in all your hard work! thank you for all the shared knowledge

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you! Welcome to Willows Green Permaculture!

[@marilynmitchell2712]

I count my plants in my tiny garden in the city. What do I grow to repel moles?? I tried onions circling my 8 squash sprouts this year. I try marigolds and mint to discourage the deer who walk diwn the road only 20 feet from the garden.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

I wonder if rutabaga could work. It has such a large root! How have your solutions been working?

[@northerngirlhobbies]

Awesome tour, you have given me more ideas! I'm dealing with cucumber beetles here. Any other ideas besides squashing them and using diatomaceous earth?

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Planting as late as you can. Here cucumber beetles seem to have done their thing by mid-June. Another thing you can do is plant trap squash first - a whole bunch of them. All you have to do is make sure you keep some seed from some of your squash in the winter, preferably Queensland blue or blue ballet. Those seem to be really popular with the cucumber beetle. The ones you want to harvest from, sow them ahead of time in pots. Not too small. It’s good to let your squash get to a good size before transplanting. Also, once they are a decent size (you have at least one leaf that’s about the size of your hand let’s say) they’re less susceptible to the cucumber beetle. Transplant them when they’re ready.

[@bonstar3221]

Thanks for the video i learnt a few new things that i will give a try come spring with the corn beans and squash and potatoes thanks a heap from AUSTRALIA . 😊

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you! I’m not really recommending that you plant potatoes with your Three Sisters, only that, like what happens with so many other companion plants, I observed that they seem to mask the squash sprouts from the cucumber beetle. You could get that from a flower or an herb that would take up much less space than a potato.

[@Memeontherun]

And the sunflowers well they pretty and bring hummingbirds 😊 .... Subscribed :))

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you! Welcome to Willows Green Permaculture!

[@rogerkenworthy6380]

Hi Stefan; thanks for sharing your knowledge, I'm so glad to find your channel. With such a large garden (how big of an area do you garden?), how did you find enough cardboard, soil, and wood chips? Cheers Roger

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

If I add all the gardens together, with the orchard, it’s probably about 1/4 acre. The main garden out front is 1/10 of an acre. I got the cardboard for free from grocery stores, the liquor store, and the big pieces I got from stores like Moores and some big box stores. All for free. The woodchips I get for free from arborists. When we set up the garden, I purchased 20 cubic yards of triple mix. Well worth it when faced with the prospect of removing 1/10 of an acre of grass. It was enough to cover the main garden overtop the cardboard to sufficiently smother the grass. We did it at the beginning of January 2020, and by the end of April, we were able to plant in it. The cardboard was sufficiently decomposed, the plant roots could grow through it. I prefer to do that sort of thing in the fall just before the winter to give it more time, but we moved here in December.

[@rogerkenworthy6380]

@@WillowsGreenPermaculture Thank you for this information. I guess it's time to grab a shovel. Amazing in just a few months you were able to plant a garden. All the best and again, your content is A++ Cheers Roger

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@rogerkenworthy6380thank you Roger!

[@joshholschuh1847]

I just planted my third corn bed and I always germinate my seeds before I put them in the soil, so I'm less likely to have an empty plot, but for some reason one of the corn plants is pushing another entire corn plant.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Are you sure they're not side-shoots growing out the base of the plant? Corn often does that, like the several tillers of a sorghum plant, for example. If the main stem gets damaged, one of the side shoots takes over if needed, and will grow as tall as the main stem. If it's an entirely separate plant, and the second one isn't too big, you could gently separate it and replant it. Give both plently of water if you try this.

[@n.s.2737]

Grateful to have found this channel. Not only is it so useful and rich in information but also so good to the soul to hear such a gentle person talk about what they clearly love. ❤

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you n.s.. This means very much to me. ❤

[@annhienreview-dw9zk]

It's quite interesting to watch this video.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@ziyuchan7468]

Thank you. Great effort and passion put into sharing your knowledge that came from years of hard work and observation. Priceless.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you so much!

[@lkhfun6575]

Thanks!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

It's a pleasure!

[@loreleycalvo]

Un fuerte Abrazote para ti y tu hermosa familia !!! Un video que miré varias veces !!! Desde Uruguay 🤗

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

¡Muchísimas gracias Loreley! ¡Igualmente!

[@denisdufresne5338]

Companion planting is a pale but useful tentative to diversify like nature does.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Precisely. You might say it’s the first tentative step in a person’s journey toward immersing themselves totally in nature’s biodiversity.

[@Bling874]

Thank you that was wonderful and really informative 😊

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you! 😊

[@kleineroteHex]

Thanks, going to put beets with my peppers in a month, let the peppers grow a bit. I was already wondering what to plant/seed there😊

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

That’s great. Good luck!

[@kleineroteHex]

The squash borers don't seem to be deterred by the prickles😢 You must eat a lot of peppers!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

No. They’re not. They don’t like butternut squash vine though. It’s harder. Wherever you can, bury your squash vines (not the leaves, just the vine, under mulch or soil). . At each leaf node, the vine will grow roots, and so will survive a vine borer attack and eventually thrive.

[@kleineroteHex]

@WillowsGreenPermaculture thanks! Not so easy in my cramped space, but definitely worth a try. Will get butternut for next year!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Good luck! The vine doesn’t need extra space, just extra roots. Any squash related to butternut will have a similar effect. Crookneck another one.

[@erschaffenswert]

Great ideas. Thanks for sharing!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

It’s a pleasure! Thank you!

[@LynnMoore-s6g]

Really enjoy ur information! Has helped me lots with my garden! God bless!!❤

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

I’m so glad! God bless you too!

[@Caddywoman]

What zone are you in? Thanks

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

5b. Could be 6a or b when Ontario comes out with a new map

[@thebusybrownangel5829]

Thank you for sharing your wisdom 💚

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

It's a real pleasure! Thank you!

[@lizoconnor2752]

Im not a vegetable gardener but I really enjoyed this!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you so much!

[@junkinjodi]

I grow lemon balm for tea

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

This year I've planted more for our, so far, empty beehive. I think I will definitely harvest some for tea!

[@junkinjodi]

Are there mustards that aren't hot. I grew mustard one year it was so hot you couldn't eat it

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

I'm guessing that for mustard, it's likely growing conditions that determine how hot it is. My guess is that the drier the conditions, so long as the mustard can still grow well, the hotter it will be, because the 'heat' property of the plant will be in higher concentrations than a mustard that's got a ton of water. That's just a guess, though.

[@RayMirshahi]

I have noticed that cucumber beetles usually attack weak, stressed plants. For example, if my cucumber plants don't get enough sunlight or enough nutrients (poor soil), they often succumb to bacterial wilt that's transmitted by cucumber beetles while plants that are not stressed are unaffected. Fellow retired teacher from Ontario here! Take care and happy growing. Thanks for the video.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Absolutely. Water too. Squash family plants need alot, especially up front. The faster they can get started and get past that small seedling stage, the better. Sometimes it's just better to wait. Now (mid-June) is probably the best time to direct sow to avoid the cuc-beetle. But you have to make sure they get full sun, and this time of year everything is growing like crazy!

[@seanimadavha1051]

The garden is so beautiful and green

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!🌿🌳🍇

[@TheOneSnack]

Thanks for this

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

You’re welcome!

[@CinnamonKennedy]

That was very helpful thank you 🙏

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

It’s a pleasure! 😊

[@marymelendez1016]

Thank you! Beautiful garden. Yah’s blessings.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@mssavedin92]

what about pruning down the potato plants? Theyre 2.5 feet tall and will get taller, thats something I need to know. Please let me know.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Yes, you can prune them back as much as you want. It just means they’ll have a little less energy for the potatoes. But, when they fall over, they’re also not as efficient. I’ve pruned them before and I’ve gotten just as much harvest.

[@mssavedin92]

what zone are you in and what area of the country? Your garden is beautiful.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Ontario, north of Lake Ontario about 30 minutes. Zone 5b, although it’s probably gonna be 6a or b when the map ever gets updated. Thank you!!

[@mssavedin92]

@@WillowsGreenPermaculture So nice to hear you're in Canada...your garden and way of gardening is fantastic, so natural, I love it! I am en-route to changing my methods, it just makes sense so thank you for all your info, its very helpful indeed. .

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@mssavedin92 Thank you for sharing! I appreciate it!

[@peterellis4262]

chuckle. If, like me, you're a genetic "taster", fresh cucumber can never be likable ;) The bitter chemical signature taste is not one to adapt to ;) Pickled they're fine. My wife finds cilantro tastes like soap.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

That’s funny about the soap! I can relate! I Probably felt the same way the first time. The first time I tasted papaya I thought it tasted like vomit. Now I absolutely love it. I do love, pickled cucumbers, but I also like to have a few fresh ones in the summer. Not a ton though. There’s nothing like a cucumber and tomato sandwich.

[@avag1424]

So happy to have found your channel! Thank you for all you are sharing in your gardening journey. I have been transforming my suburban property into a food forest for over 10 years now, and love so much how the learning is ever ending🙏 In a past vid you showed weeding and just placing those pulled weeds as mulch around same area, instead of composting them. Was one of those moments where I thought, yes! Of course makes sense, as I do that chop and drop with my comfrey plant leaves…so why not do that with “weeds”👍 You have taught me so much more in this vid also….I threw some carrot seeds many weeks ago into a raised bed where I plant tomato seedlings because I saw bare soil😜…and now in this vid you share how that can work so well! So much fun, this surprising confirmation from you that this interplanting works so well when it was just a random planting choice on my part! 😊🙏❤️

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@avag1424 Thank you! It is great when that sort of thing happens. I love when I learn things completely randomly!

[@theplantaholiclady]

How you give the Gandalf vibe 🪶

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you! 😊 😊😊

[@toneyjohnson8910]

Great information i'm sure I watch it over and over.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you Toney!!!

[@Sugo669]

Hello, thank you for your informative videos. Very often you talk about B-bombs or Bbombs (that's what the translation in the subtitles says). What is that or which plants are meant by that?

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Bee Balm. A type of Monarda. 😊Thank you!

[@Sugo669]

@@WillowsGreenPermaculture Aaaah ok, thanks! I know this as "Indianernessel" (Indian nettle)

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@Sugo669 You're welcome. If ever I have time, I'll go in and correct the automated subtitles.

[@samanthabrown9671]

Great video

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you Samantha!

[@peterellis4262]

On the topic of animal pressure on our gardens - one of my major strategies is to deflect them away from my garden plantings - we're on twenty acres of almost undeveloped woodlands, adjacent to a wildlife reservation, so there's a huge amount of "native" food available. I just try to make my plantings a little harder to access ;)

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

That’s fantastic Peter! And it really is the way. Giving animals the food they need and the space they need. It’s something we really have to try to do better as a society because not all individuals have enough space that they can give to animals on their own. It’s funny, I say almost exactly the same thing, word for word, as your comment, in the following video, if I recall correctly: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIetpaN-hK-Cj5Ysi=GidJ3lXc1SeLcr-n