The Permaculture Vegetable Garden

In this video we take a close look at our permaculture vegetable garden. I show you the layout of the garden, how the chickens help us with weeding and slug control, how we maintain a high level of soil fertility and a few more interesting things about vegetable growing.
0:00 Intro
0:31 Layout
0:58 Vegetable Beds
1:58 Chickens
3:03 Soil and Fertility Management
4:52 Cover Crops
6:40 Interplanting
7:04 Multisowing
7:39 Pest Management
8:33 Outro
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[@1Lightdancer]

Such a lovely garden - i love the way your beds and paths follow the contours of your site. I'm in Oregon zone 8b, and am planting field peas and broad beans for cover and greens, plus other winter hardy seedlings

[@groworganic1077]

Beautiful organic garden. Pleasure to watch.

[@MissBetsyLu]

Very nice garden and video. Blessings everyone everywhere and always

[@123WorryFreeGardening]

Great video! The techniques shown are sustainable and efficient. This is for all gardening enthusiasts. I love watching permaculture principals in action.

[@manuelangerer-permaculture]

Thanks a lot! :)

[@johnsmit5516]

Amazing garden, thanks for sharing

[@pascalxus]

Beautiful garden 🎉

[@CatherineandRob]

Super thoughtful system!

[@zielonerabaty]

So beautiful garden 😍

[@Paula_T]

Beautifully done.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Excellent video!

[@pang-ngiavang1956]

Such an amazing and beautiful garden you have!!!

[@bene_victus]

Hey manuel, schön deine stimme zu hören und euren wundervollen garten zu sehen! es war ein wahrer genuss. lg benedikt

[@manuelangerer-permaculture]

Hey Benedikt, voll schön von dir zu hören! Danke für das wundervolle Feedback, ich habe mich sehr darüber gefreut!

[@pastihijau5043]

Beautiful garden

[@mphil8433]

Thank you so much!

[@Yourgolfplace]

Another awesome video with great tips and highlights the very clever design you have integrated into your whole garden system. Thanks for sharing

[@arodadobarro]

It was a pleasure to look at this presentation❤ thank you and good luck

[@user-lo5bc8lu9j]

What a beautiful garden！And your channel makes me happy and gently.Thank you very much！from Japan

[@douglasbyers3094]

Very nice video. Good job brother.

[@milipwn]

very nice informative video of the system you have going! goodjob!

[@grashupfer5143]

👏👏👏👌👌👌 Sehr gute Erklärung!

[@brianpeers]

I suggest that you set up a donation feature/option as I for one will be happy to gift you a couple of Euro’s now and again to keep up the good work that you do.

[@manuelangerer-permaculture]

Thanks a lot for your suggestion. What do you think would be the best way to set this up? Any recommendations? What is your favourite way to support people like me?

[@jaybolt100]

Yeah.. we will support you for the serenity u share ❤❤❤ Jai jawan, Jai Kisan (Hindi)

[@brianpeers]

@@manuelangerer-permaculture I have no idea on how to set up a KZbin donation feature but there must be lots of information available on how to do it.

[@karenpeddicordbaranauskas3211]

This, by far, is the best and most beautiful, permaculture vegetable garden and video I believe that I've seen. Thank you for the inspiration, education, and beauty.

[@manuelangerer-permaculture]

Thank you very much for your kind words! @@karenpeddicordbaranauskas3211

[@LarisSurvival]

Nice video. Greetings from Slovenia!

[@zakariaelrhandouri3054]

Your videos are special so so special ! thanks man so much from Africa 💚

[@manuelangerer-permaculture]

Thanks a lot!

[@jugnoothelight8662]

wow nice video , great job

[@Taman_zainurnisa]

saya suka kebunmu, dan saya juga suka menanam sayuran organik, semoga sukses kawan

[@sowgroweat6987]

Wow, Chickens, chicken composting, permanent beds and was that a passive solar greenhoiuse, I might well love this subscription

[@manuelangerer-permaculture]

Thanks a lot!! :)

[@Familygarden88]

Very nice to view, subscribed 😊

[@caretechnicaltv2699]

You are really good at garden design.

[@manuelangerer-permaculture]

Thanks a lot! :)

[@TieuCaTV2024]

dream farm❤❤❤

[@rubygray7749]

What a wonderful garden you have! Last year I began a new no dig garden area. Many benefits but also some teething problems. I don't have snow in winter, so I can grow quite a few crops at all times of the year. But in Tasmania we had months of winter rains which turned the garden and paths into a quagmire. And possums have destroyed many plants, especially fruit bushes. I am soon going to build a similar area around the garden fence for my pekin duck snail patrol, and chickens who will I hope, help to control the crickets which thrive in the woodchip paths, and eat my seedlings at night. I'm looking forward to watching much more of your channel!

[@manuelangerer-permaculture]

Thanks for your comment! Yes, if it rains for so long it can be challenging. I`d need to see your property if something can be done about this. One thing you can try with the possums is to put up some electric fencing around your fruit bushes. Then you add a few pieces of aluminium foil (the one from the kitchen) and put a bit of peanut butter on it. The possums will want to eat the peanut butter and get a small shock. Do this once a month and they won`t come again to your bushes. (This works also with deer in our climate). The chickens will definitly help to decrease your chricket population, it helped in our garden a lot! All the best, Manuel

[@fionaanderson5796]

I think Manuel is talking about American opossums. For Aussie possums, just get a bag of blood and bone and tie sachets filled with a small handful onto the bushes or garden stakes. Apparently it smells like predator and they keep away. They will need to be refilled every so often, especially if you've had a lot of rain as it is soluble. Bonus is your plants get a feed. If you have space in another part of the garden, consider planting possum food so they go there instead of the vegie patch.

[@rubygray7749]

@@fionaanderson5796 Thanks for the helpful advice!! My "vegetarian" possums steal the cat food at night, including roast chicken and cooked meat, so I think they'd lap up blood & bone as a real treat! It's just not possible to grow things for the possums. They can't bear to leave any small plants uneaten. Fruit trees are decimated. Feeding them just encourages them and helps them breed & multiply. I've had to drag out the trap again. Have caught 7 this month, with all their mates still holding dance parties on my roof at night.

[@fionaanderson5796]

@@rubygray7749 My goodness! What are you breeding down there? Possums are well known to eat insects, I'd never heard of them eating chicken. 7 on one property sounds a lot, they're territorial, and that's more than a family unit. What are you doing with them once you catch them?

[@rubygray7749]

@@fionaanderson5796 I'm on a farm with lots of bush nearby. There would be hundreds of possums, a self-perpetuating population. They don't get the chance to return once caught.

[@floricel9898]

Congratulations, inspiring! What a view! How you manage to mantain an order on the salads regarding the invasion of the snails? :) Thank you in advance.

[@manuelangerer-permaculture]

Thanks :) what exactly do you mean with your question?

[@vincofrohlich5854]

Hey Manuel, your garden looks like heaven to me ! :) I have some questions that was not 100% clear from the video - 1. what are the types of cover crops that you use ? 2. on spring, do you remove the cover crops that dried during winter ? or do you leave them in place and put the mentioned 3cm of new compost on top ? Sending peace from Slovakia 🟢🟡🔴

[@manuelangerer-permaculture]

Hey there! I use vetch, clover, grains, alfalfa, lupine and mustard as cover crops. I remove the leftovers in spring before I add new compost!

[@OmasteneOkno]

Very nice soil. I like those chicken run around garden. I had wooden edges like you but with thicker boards. After 5 years they rot like paper. Are you going to replace yours for something more permanent or just replacing damaged ones?

[@manuelangerer-permaculture]

Thanks! Yes the boards may be a bit thin, but I`m surprised at the good condition they are still in. Once they rot away I`ll build a more permanent edge. I wanted it cheap to start with because I wanted to see if the system and the form of the beds is right an good to work with!

[@OmasteneOkno]

That make sense. Good luck.@@manuelangerer-permaculture

[@wunderwuzi4837]

I really like your approach with cover crops. What plants are you sowing? I recognised yellow mustard but couldn't identify the others.

[@manuelangerer-permaculture]

Thanks! Yes, somehow the mustard went crazy this year and overtook all the others. I like to sow vetch, lupine, buckwheat, peas, beans, alfalfa, clover and some grains.

[@wunderwuzi4837]

@@manuelangerer-permaculture Thanks for the additional information. I will definitely try out a few of them next year. :)

[@madleech]

Great video! What do you do to stop birds scratching up your seedlings before they get established? The birds in my garden are so destructive when they think there is a worm to be found :(

[@manuelangerer-permaculture]

Thanks! I do not have a bird problem in the vegetable garden, they always look for food in the chicken pen. I know this can be a big problem and the only thing that helps is to put some netting over the seedlings until they have established.

[@gianfrancopaladino961]

What type of cover crop plants do you use?

[@gardeningwithkay]

I really want some chickens but I know it’s a lot more work and I’m already struggling with looking after my vegetables 🙈

[@bikesoledad]

Hi.Bitte was hast du für die Gründungen ein gepflanzt?.Danke

[@manuelangerer-permaculture]

Wicken, Senf, Ackerbohne, Phacelia, Alexandrinerklee, Lupine, Sommerhafer

[@nadbri]

Ich hatte die gleiche Frage und fand sie in den Kommentaren schon beantwortet. Top! Danke.

[@carmenwallraf5250]

Hallo Grashupfer, das Video kann mit deutschem Untertitel angeschaut werden. Vielleicht hilft dir das weiter😊.

[@mphil8433]

What's the name of the cover crop you use?

[@manuelangerer-permaculture]

In this video you see mostly yellow mustard. But I also grow vetch, lupine, alfalfa, clover, grains and buckwheat as cover crops!

[@Blue1Sapphire]

How many hours a week would u spend in your garden?

[@manuelangerer-permaculture]

I need about 4-5 hours a week for the vegetable garden. This of course changes during the seasons from zero in winter to 15 hours a week in August and September when the big harvests are done. I need another 3-5 hours a week to maintain the rest of our garden. Most of this time goes into mowing.

[@suryaprakash7917]

Sir can you grow honey bee's 🐝🐝 that you can get wax and honey ❤❤

[@notbarbie582]

What is your location? Not to be stalking/creepy, just to know if you’re in an area similar to me. Even growing zones vary wildly

[@manuelangerer-permaculture]

I am from Austria, north of the alps in Zone 7a!

[@wolfkartoffelkonig871]

Your English is quite okay but one can still hear that you are from Austria. Wo bist denn her? Abo is fix

[@manuelangerer-permaculture]

Kirchdorf in Oberösterreich! Danke für`s Abo!

[@grashupfer5143]

Wäre schön auch auf Deutsch 🙏. Englisch verstehe ich nur bedingt. 🙈

[@manuelangerer-permaculture]

Danke für dein Feedback, derzeit habe ich das aber nicht in Planung. Ich mag es, dass die Videos so die ganze Welt erreichen. Liebe Grüße aus Österreich!

[@carmenwallraf5250]

Es besteht die Möglichkeit das Video mit deutschem Untertitel anzuschauen

[@hemanthadayarathna7835]

මම අසයි ඔයාගේ රටට එන්න ඔයට උදව් කරන්න

[@AdrienGiboire]

Nice garden. One thing though: No, chicken do not produce eggs for us. This conception must change.

[@manuelangerer-permaculture]

Thanks! Yes, eggs are a birds way to make more birds. I said that in the context of our vegetable garden ecosystem, where the chickens play an important role. You could also say that the salad didn´t grow for us because he also wants to bloom and make more salads. But that`s not how I look at gardening. I am aware that I take the eggs from our chickens. And I am aware that I take the life of the salad to sustain mine. And that`s the core of food: The dilemma that I have to take life (whatever form I chose to eat) if I want to sustain mine. And I do gardening because I want to do it in the most sensible way. I integrate as many living things into our garden to make it function as close to nature as possible while providing us as much food as possible. Our chickens take care of so many slugs, crickets and other stuff while eating those things. It it is a good feeling that I don`t have to kill all those animals through my hand (or collect all the slugs and bring it to the next forest where those slugs will desturb the ecosystem) but to rather use them as food to produce more food for my family in form of eggs.

[@HeatherBreslin]

Well said 👏

[@dilgoonewardena6488]

You are not " taking the life" of a salad.. trying to equate a living, breathing chicken to a plant is dishonest.

[@MonkeyBoy-sd9vc]

​​@@dilgoonewardena6488just shut the fuck up and eat the eggs...