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[@robinz2000]

What you're trying to do is to get us to think outside of what we were comfortable with. You gave us a bunch of different ideas which i greatly appreciate. From living plans to stone pavers. You did mention plastic but we don't have to use that. We don't want to. Thanks for stretching our brains.

[@user-wl6ge9gu9v]

String trimmer is also contributing to micro plastic. I hope to replace the string with a blade

[@julie-annepineau4022]

I look forward to my perennials growing enough to reduce my maintenance. I am a fan of wooden slabs to allow for mowing instead of trimming. I also got a good supply of wood chips to reduce the need for edge work and watering. We will see how it works for this growing season.

[@mrdeanvincent]

1:20 Here we call a string trimmer a 'whipper snipper' 😂

[@windhorse123]

Weed wacker!!

[@midwestribeye7820]

Great ideas! I plan on using mulch.

[@petekooshian5595]

Thank you Stefan! I'm young and inexperienced but I look forward to designing my own system someday and your videos help so much!

[@StefanSobkowiak]

Great to hear!

[@Warrior-In-the-Garden]

Great stuff.

[@StefanSobkowiak]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Dutlerveili]

Edges are definitely difficult to manage but plastic mulch? Doesn't sound to sustainable to me. Won't this produce a lot of microplastic?

[@StefanSobkowiak]

I don’t recommend it, most people can use plants and mulch as alternatives.

[@windhorse123]

Hi Stephan! We’re learning so much from watching your videos. Thank you 😊. We’re wondering how do you keep deer, woodchucks and other garden destroyers out of your orchard? Thanks in advance!

[@StefanSobkowiak]

Fenced for deer, let others in.

[@windhorse123]

@@StefanSobkowiak thanks!

[@barbarasimoes9463]

We started with only a few hosta here, and probably thirty years ago, I dug one up and with a hacksaw, cut that one clump into eight plants. It's best to do it when the unfurled leaves come up as spikes. You're not impeded by big, floppy leaves, and the plants don't suffer and get limp like they do if they're divided after the leaves have grown out. Today, I probably have several thousand, as I use them to line most beds. If I need more, and it seems that I always do, I just go to a bunch that haven't been divided in a while. I usually end up cutting off most of the flowers once they start to tilt and go wonky. Out back, I don't care so much, and I know the bees love to curl up in them for the night, so I do leave them where I can. It is the most effective barrier that I can use because the root becomes a solid mass and the leaves shade the soil so well that the earth is bare beneath. I have them in full sun as well as shade and everything in between. Sure, they're not as vibrant a green when in the sun, but they are not struggling to survive either. I know myself and I know that I'm not going to keep up with trenching a ditch; I like that look, but this is there forever and it looks tidy. In spring, one swipe of a rake will remove all of the leaf debris...or, you can just leave it and the spikes will come through. The unfurled hosta is edible, too. I watched a video where someone sauteed some and claimed it tasted like asparagus. It's uncanny how much it smells the same...the taste is rather bland but peppery. I'm glad I'm also growing asparagus! As I'm writing this, I'm wondering if the leaves are edible or tasty when they've grown out. My gosh, the salads I could have...I'm going to look into that!

[@StefanSobkowiak]

Haha salad, but a simple and versatile plant, absolutely. There are hundreds of different cultivars of hosta.

[@stijnt2377]

Potato potahto, I string trim but don't own a mower so it basically substitutes that. In reality I almost always end up using the blade because the plastic wire is kind of a pain

[@jackholman5008]

Good day sir; do have any good resources for the most potent nitrogen fixation trees especially in a tropical environment

[@StefanSobkowiak]

Lookup nitrogen fixing trees for tropics

[@midwestribeye7820]

Does anyone know if deer eat young Pawpaw trees? We have lots of deer pressure, but were told they won't touch Pawpaws because of something in the bark. Does anyone know if that's true?

[@luminousnutria3555]

Pawpaws are deer resistant. Deer will eat anything in the winter, if they're hungry enough.

[@CriticalThinker27]

Struggling to see how you still recommend plastic integration into food production when we know the trees transport the leached microplastics into the fruit. Maybe a natural fabric would be a possible alternative?

[@StefanSobkowiak]

I don’t recommend it, most people can use plants and mulch as alternatives.

[@prismatica8416]

Plastic is the poor mans choice, and poor people dont care about microplastics so much. That is unless you have arborists nearby who can do a free woodchip drop, but thats also an extreme amount of work to set up after its dropped. God i wish i could do that, but i live in the desert and plastic holds the water in very well so 🤷‍♀️

[@honestlee4532]

I don't own a weed whacker and I don't want one. Don't want a leaf blower or a lawn mower either.