Winter Sowing and Planting in our No Dig Garden - Gardening in Portugal

It's Autumn in the veg garden and it's time for a tidy up and a refresh of the beds ahead of some winter seed sowing and planting. We've got a lot growing already but we've got some garden chores to do as we prepare for the winter.
Join us for a selection of gardening bits and pieces and a trip to one of our favourite garden centres here in Portugal.
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[@heatherleask3752]

Your gardens are the neatest and most organized. So envious to be in a climate where you can grow all year round. To be able to harvest salad greens whenever you want is a dream. Look forward to every video you put out.

[@natvgerkin]

Hey Folks, hope you are both well. Any chance of a quick run through your drip irrigation in a future garden video please? Also, with carrots, we have found that interplanting with leeks completely stops carrot fly, onions didn't work but leeks did. All the best to you.

[@MAKEDOGROW]

We didn’t film the irrigation setup at the time, but we did do a write up and live walk around in our members club. We’ll probably do a YT video when we do an upgrade to the system - including hooking it up to our well and rain/grey water collection, but that’s a couple of years away yet

[@arturrosa3166]

I'd seen cat nibblling at grass many times but I had never seen any nibbling at big leaves like that. For some reason, that was hilarious. 🙂

[@dianeleirer9878]

I had the same thought!

[@mariushegli]

I have nothing to say really, but I appreciate your content, and wish to help with the yt-algorithms.

[@lynnes3659]

Good luck with your labeling. I gave up on plastic labels and a Sharpe on all outside garden plants. The sun faded them out here in Tennessee and after a few weeks, it was like I had never written on them. I only use them for starting my plants indoors or on the porch now. I invested in some good stainless steel labels and a garden pen from Amazon for the garden; they work really well. Hope you have better luck than I did with the plastic ones. Your garden looks really nice.

[@rt3box6tx74]

Those fancy plant markers are too pricey for me. I cut up empty white bleach jugs and use perm laundry sharpie. That way I can size then to my preference.

[@delphine88313]

I just purchased a marker on Amazon someone recommended. It came with labels .I will see if this works for OUTSIDE if not will use the app to identify everything. Lol

[@elenaconstantinou6514]

Great work! About the start of the plating season in the Mediterranean Autumn is the right time since spring and summer are so dry. In the island of Cyprus we even have a protector saint for planting who is celebrated in Autumn 😊

[@Bobrogers99]

Weeding is tedious work, but the garden looks so good when you're done!

[@Gummmibaer]

Oh man you can never get out of a garden center without buying much more than you came for. Theyre just the best shop. Things that came into my mind watching this video: I really like to grow kale and black cabbage over winter. They can easily handle cooler temperatures and frost, look beautiful and taste great. If there are nettles on your property you might look into making your own nettle manure. Really easy to do and might be a good addition to compost as a diy fertilizer. Hope the carrots will work. Many people say that they dont like being transplanted and are better direct-sown. Guess youll find out ;)

[@flowersflowers473]

The nettle compost (nettles in water) stinks to high heaven once it is fermented😂

[@Gummmibaer]

@@flowersflowers473 ye you should keep it covered and position it wisely (not next to houses or regarding wind direction). But its manageable and worth it.

[@MegaCassy11]

Your portuguese accent is improving so much, well done!! The word couve is a tricky one to know the gender, because it doesn't end with "o" (male) or "a" (female). It's one of those words the you just need to memorise the gender and it's a female word, which means if you write an adjective after the noun couve you need to write it ending with and "a". So it will be couve roxa. Chard is acelga. 😊😊😊

[@everywheresunshine]

Hi, your garden looks so lovely and good organisation, you are amazing. Thank you so much for sharing this tips.

[@nelsondesilva3916]

Yes Kylie, bit slow on the "byeee". Love watching your stuff. I'm keen to see what you do with the "couves" and what your take on it will be. Love your stuff.

[@delwyntatton2742]

You can sow leeks in clusters of 3. I pull the larger ones when still small and use in lieu of spring onions.

[@patriciamilnes4793]

Enjoyed watching this week's video over my Saturday morning coffee...in the foot of very grey Malvern Hills. For someone who always says they don't know very much about growing veg...you appear to have green fingers...obviously you are naturals! Wishing you both much success with your autumn planting. Can't wait to see the results.

[@vickihoneycutt456]

Beautiful garden, weed free hate seeing garden full of weeds. Again love that you do these tasks together! When my husband and I had garden we also raised our own beef,pork chickens, lived every minute of it. At one time when we were sitting at the table I told my husband and daughter e erything we're eating we grew ourselves. Enjoy the food you're raising and the memories you're making💙

[@bruxanja]

I"ve been following you for a while now, being amazed on how you do this project. Today I was amazed about your great Portuguese accent. Never heard you speak Portuguese

[@ronnalavadure2152]

RE: CARROT SOWING.... you don't need a piping bag ....a Ziploc/ plastic bag with the corner cut out will work just as well 😀

[@vickyoakes4584]

I love a nice garden, and you my friends know how to put in a nice garden!

[@CoffeePorchPonderer]

You’re garden is lovely even as you put it to sleep for the winter. Y’all have done such a beautiful work in that space.

[@vickiturner7349]

Hello to you both. In Australia as you may know we use sugar cane mulch for between gardens for walkways !!!

[@sharol946]

I find I learn something in each video that you share. The comments have taught me so much as well. I can't wait for you to explore mushrooms .

[@ginapereira2301]

You mentioned how your collard greens grow so fast. Do know that Portugal has the perfect soil to grow collard greens. “Caldo verde” soup is popular in Portugal. It makes a very healthy soup, made with collard greens. Also, if you cut them up, add some water and a bit of flour, your chickens will love them. This will keep your chickens healthy. Love your show!

[@gotab012]

Eggplants and peppers grow in my garden for three-year already. I cut them every winter and in the spring they start to grow up again. Sorry for my English.

[@monalingan9523]

Love the way Kylie always throws a bye in at the end. Your garden is so organized and pretty to the eye.

[@zlatahume3134]

You could put some radishes in the middle of the carrots…

[@jillismyname]

Looks great! I love how you are sharing the Portugese veggie names too!

[@gavinhall3669]

Why did you pull out the Eggplant? Mine are now nearly 5 years old have more fruit each year. OK you did keep one.

[@isobelhubble1153]

I was wondering that too because it’s my understanding that they are perennial. I’ve brought mine inside to try to over-winter it to replant outside in the spring. I live in Ottawa, Canada, where it get very cold in winter.

[@MAKEDOGROW]

Just not sure they’ll overwinter outside. But if they, and the peppers, do then we’ll dedicate one bed to perennial veg. At the moment we need all the bed space until we expand again

[@louistorcello3525]

Carrot seeds are always a pain the best you can do is plant as you have and thin out as they grow. We often enjoyed baby carrots and their tops are edible. Be careful when harvesting not to disturb the ones next to them.

[@andreacrashe9894]

*The garden is looking great after a couple of days working in it.*

[@joansmith3492]

nice garden!

[@ericktaylor-webb6711]

In the winter months i cut back my pepper and chilli plants. so they start producing new side shoot for next year crop. and this is my third year at doing this method and its working well. i just cover the plants and keep a watch over them i cover them with fleece to add a bit of warmth

[@bryansarty3821]

I like the tip about the boards over carrot seeds. Rarely or never had much luck with carrot seed.

[@dtgphoto]

Great work. Interesting seeing the garden centre.. Thanks for that. Will be heading there very shortly

[@HelenRullesteg]

Enjoyed watching that. My cat also nibbles on all kinds of stuff, not sure why as she has lots of grass to eat, gourmet cats maybe ;-)) - when I take out plants like the aubergine, I cut them off at ground level and leave the roots to decompose in and feed the soil organisms, tip from Charles Dowding.

[@Mrs-Emcee]

Great work again! Why not plant in between existing plants. And carrots can grow with almost anything. Plant root veg together with stuff that grows above the soil. That way you have much more space. Also the broad beans can be sown much closer, like 15 cm each way. But your garden looks great! Wish our growing season as that long! 😊 ……ah, saw later you did some of it😅

[@bolski-uitlaatstore9130]

This is what I do too, especially when the harvesting seasons are different . Garlick, strawberries and asparagus quite close together.

[@mishinha]

Wow, that compost looks great! Almost like cocoa powder! 😜

[@ruthconstantino6861]

Love that you garden, eat from your garden, work at ever improving your garden and soil. So inspiring 🤗.

[@marciafernandes3460]

Your Portuguese is very good 👍👍👍

[@steveiboy]

Love your relaxed attitude and methodical approach! just a fyi don't stand on your no dig beds and a lot of the annual salads etc you can just cut at ground level and let the roots break down and open up the soil.This is also the best option for legumes as they fix nitrogen from the air on their roots, so leaving them is more beneficial. Keep up the good work! much

[@mariamiskimmon5437]

Yum yum. Cant wait to see everything growing. Great video …

[@ruthnoronha8206]

Nice bit of gardening. Glad you can still grow stuff even now. Thanks for sharing.

[@lw9837]

Wanted to add a comment on your harvest video, but there was no comment box! Can’t remember if you have an oven. Here in Canada we grate our zucchini (courgettes), squeeze out excess liquid, then bake zucchini bread or chocolate zucchini cakes. When it was too hot and I couldn’t stand to turn on the oven, I’d grate the zucchini and freeze it, to pull and bake in winter. Never occurred to me that you can make wine with zucchini!!!!!

[@lizschultz1]

I'm in Australia and grate/freeze mine too - for zucchini slice and zucchini and carrot fritters etc, etc Yum!

[@ksemery]

Envious that you are able to plant anything this time of year. And the variety and just the abundance available is fabulous! ❄️🇨🇦❄️ Enjoy 👍🏻

[@alshirley3444]

Have you thought of doing any hanging gardens with a watering system that way you could use the vertical for lettuces or strawberries or herbs and then have the alliums and the root vegetables in the ground

[@oldmangardening444]

I love your videos. You explain things very well and have many great ideas. They’re also an inspiration and a roadmap for smaller channels like myself to want to continue and create better content to grow like your channel. Thanks again -OMG

[@sarab3960]

Hi there 😊 chard is ‘acelga’. I think Agriloja has already garlic bulbs. Not sure if it’s far from where you live. Your Portuguese sounds great! Tip pimento - veggy / pimenta - spice … then you can add after the type. Pimento verde 🫑 pimenta preta (black pepper)

[@patriciavarela240]

Acelga 😉

[@sarab3960]

@@patriciavarela240 já mudei 😅 o autocorrect não gosta muito de escrever em duas línguas ao mesmo tempo.

[@valeriepritchard677]

I find a clovehitch stops string from sliding, even on new bamboo canes.

[@Portugal.Ribeiros.Quinta]

i like your portuguese your accent is prefect well done👌

[@KallyMaria]

Couve Chinesa - Pak-Choi Joi Choi - Brassica ...Bem vindos ao meu Pais e a minha terra 💪💪

[@thifasmom]

Lettuce and chard are some of my chickens favs as well but funnily enough brassicas are their absolute favourite greens to receive I even plant some in their run for them to eat.

[@kikoempis]

Loved your portuguese! Your accent is very very good! Just a little correction, FYI: Couve roxa (not roxo), couve is feminin, like cebola, despite not ending in an "A". The words ending in "E" are very tricky, some are male, some are female, there's no rule... Francês only has one accent (you got it right the first time, lol), the "hat". The "Ç" can only come before an "A" or an "O", never before a "E". Because the regular "C" before an A or O sounds like a "K", so you need to use the "Ç" to sound like "SS", instead of "K". A normal "C" before an "E" always sounds like "SS". And lastly Coração, does not have an "U" in it. (some portuguese people make that mistake as well, don't worry :) ) I'm very proud of you! Your Portuguese has come a long way, and I can't believe you can actually write quite accurately. Oh, Pimentos and Pimentas.... both exist... Usually we use pimentAs to refer to spices, like black, white, green, etc, peppers. And pimentOs to like bell peppers, padón peppers... I guess pimenta/s is for the ones you grind and use as a spice, and pimento/s to the ones you can actually eat the flesh. Keep it on! Love your channel!

[@mishinha]

yeah! My "guess" is that pimenta, being a feminine word, refers to the smaller produce whilst pimento, being masculine, refers to bigger items. 😃

[@markt.3685]

I know the over buying of plant syndrome from personal experience. Thanks for the info on the planting of the carrot rows with garlic and onions to hopefully keep the vermin away. Also, keep us posted on how the transplanted carrots in the raised bed goes, because I've heard it isn't easy for them, but I am curious. Cheers!😎👍

[@MAKEDOGROW]

We checked on the transplanted carrots today, they’re doing amazing. Who knew!!

[@carolleenkelmann4751]

Hi. Have you given much, if any thought, to growing perennial vegies (apart from Asparagus.) I was surprised just how many choices one has.

[@carolbulmer8253]

Thank you, Kylie and Guy. Your videos are always full of good information❤️❤️

[@toviahcrowell6360]

I have been watching the 2 of you for a year NOW and its been a lot of fun . Thank you!!! You are both looking much cooler Thank Goodness.

[@Nulife23]

What beautiful veg gardens! Isn't it wonderful to be able to grow alot in Portugal! Did you know that the leaves of the broccoli plants are more nutritious than the head?! Yes...I cut them up and dehydrate to add to my 'vegie flakes' which I add to soups and other food. Also strawberry leaves, grape leaves and fig leaves are very good for you. Well happy gardening!

[@jeantriplett8478]

Always interesting and entertaining.

[@lynh8378]

The garden seems lots of work but so amazing! Love watching the progress. Have a wonderful day.

[@danwilkin3031]

The voles seem to love alliums in our place

[@PawelGonera]

I recommend carrots seeds on the paper band. Much easier to maintain spacing that throwing this little beasts by hand.

[@johnscarborough8425]

This is my favorite way to freeze cabbage. Homemade Freezer Cole Slaw Recipe A homemade freezer cole slaw recipe made with fresh garden cabbage, sugar, vinegar, and water. It is seasoned with celery and mustard seed. Serves: 15 • 1 medium head of fresh cabbage • 2 cups sugar • 1 cup white vinegar • ½ cup water • 1 teaspoon celery seed • 1 teaspoon mustard seed 1. Grate the cabbage or put through a blender or food processor and drain well. Place in a large mixing bowl and set aside. 2. In a medium saucepan, combine the sugar, vinegar, water, celery seed, and mustard seed. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Let cool. 3. Pour over cabbage and stir to moisten. 4. Refrigerate for 6-8 hours and allow flavors to marinate. 5. Save out enough for 1-2 meals and place the remainder of the coleslaw in freezer bags or plastic containers and freeze.

[@kebergify]

Guy, thank-you for adding in your zone!! I had been wondering that but didn't want to ask. Lovely garden, you both put so much work into keeping it tip top. Love it! I garden in the Midwest USA, zone 5b...so my season is over. Snow is coming soon. Love to see your citrus and the fact that you're planting so much now. Enjoy the salads. And please show us a shot of the chicken ladies enjoying some spinach salad as well!

[@carolerodeghiero8157]

Love the videos

[@farmyourbackyard2023]

On the legginess of your plant starts, I purchased a two pack of LED shop lights that put out 5000 lm and use about three dollars worth of electricity per year. Think this could easily work with your solar system, and negate some of those issues. They were about US$25 for two, so about $12.50 to cover 3 to 4 of Charles Dowding‘s CD 60 plug trays. That’s what I use for my starts.

[@taniakeldin]

Vegetables rule!!

[@ThatBritishHomestead]

I love this!

[@norma204]

Beautiful, you guys are awesome!😍

[@jerrylion45]

Great video 👍🏻

[@Leed216]

Sharpie markers won’t last in the garden. One needs to find use a garden marker where the UV rays won’t make it disappear. I also use cut strips of yogurt containers as markers in the garden.

[@kimsparks7871]

Your gardens are so neat and beautiful

[@rodroper211]

if you want the wood chips/pine bark to break down throw a few handfuls of urea or any high nitrogen product such as chook crap over it. works wonders.

[@mindofalbion]

very interested in seeing a vid on improving the compost

[@Sarddukkar]

Your kitchen garden is looking lovely! Keep up the good work.

[@gratitude1]

You would have a lot less work to do if you did more "chop-n-drop" practice. Leave those roots in the ground - cut them at ground level and leave the roots to decompose on the spot, (unless diseased). Leave those weeds you pull right where they drop, cover the beds with local plant matter, pulled up weeds, hay, what ever. . . Weed seedlings have a hard time coming up through the decaying plant mass so gradually you have less and less weeding to do. In not too long a time (over the winter?) you will have a healthy bed cover that is essentially composting right in the bed. Pull back the plant matter/mulch and plant in the bed soil when you need to. If you cant bear to drop the clippings on the bed itself, drop them in the pathways - save the cost of buying mulch, of hauling compost (its right there), I've gardened for 30+ years and am in my 70's. I find that this kind of lazy gardening, (chop n drop, Ruth Stout ideas) works very well and with far less effort. The "neat" look is not the way nature does it. Nature abhors bare ground. Nature rarely follows straight lines!

[@arturrosa3166]

Excellent attempts at Portuguese, congrats! It's "couve roxa" because "couve" is a feminine word ("roxo" is for masculine words - yes, genders are somewhat arbitrary in plants and objects...). "Coração" is actually spelled without a "u". And about your doubt in accents, whether a word had two accents, there are no portuguese words with two accents. We only have one accent in any single word (the tilde is not considered an accent, it's just a symbol to nasal a vowel, so it's possible to have a word with a tilde and an accent). The plant is "pimentos", "pimenta" is the spice. As far as I know, "chard" is "acelga", aka "beterraba branca".

[@lindahyles1331]

Good luck 🤞 😃👍🏻

[@moira9265]

A tip for better germination of carrot seeds I learned recently, is to put them in a little of moist sand in a glass jar or in a little box. Leave them for 3-7 days, they will start to germinate and can then be sowed. Also the sand helps with equal distribution when sowing, because it is easily visible…

[@lizschultz1]

So enjoyed this video as I'm off to sunny Qld all winter this year and will be putting my beds to sleep, so I got my 'fix' of winter veg sowing and planting. So happy to see you placing boards over your carrot seeds - just don't expect anything green when you lift them. Your pathetic looking sprouts will be more white and yellow and somewhat flattened. But within a few days of light they'll be upright and green - suggest you prop up the boards for a few days to acclimatise them. Hard to tell but I tend to think you may be sowing your seeds a bit too deep which can affect germination - a 1/4" is extremely shallow. Just thought I'd also throw in that you don't need to be concerned about pine bark on your paths and acidity. Yes, pine bark is acidic, but the amount likely to leach into the ground is not only minimal, but your alkaline clay soil may even benefit. If you were directly mulching around alkaline loving plants, then that could be an issue. So if it's cheap and readily available, keep on using it - it's never been a problem for me, and if I recall correctly, not for Charles Dowding either. Love everything you're growing over winter but I didn't hear you mention swedes - they're a favourite of mine. Oh, and I love that you're leaving roots (mostly) to feed the soil - so few people seem to do this - such a waste. Well done you two- looking forward to your harvests and how well things went. Lastly, re: your beans - you significantly disturbed that soil and with it being alkaline, would not have suited beans. Suggest adding a generous amount of compost where you plan to grow them next season as it's the best way to gradually lower the ph. All the best.

[@notyouraveragegringos]

If you have a sawmill nearby you should be able to get Wood chips and sawdust from them. We will be buying some Wood chips from the sawmill we ordered the wood for our roof from. I feel like we’re behind on gardening but we are still trying to get our house ready for winter. One step at a time! Love your channel. Keep up the amazing work! 💕

[@offgridwanabe]

You have beautiful gardens. Winter gardens here in Canada are inside lol so we are limited to what we can grow so I am jealous. Some Purple Kohlrabi would grow good in your winter garden. We just harvested our Bullseye beets and they were marvellous. I did some carrots on wet paper towel until germinated then planted in garden they take forever to germinate but it worked and they did ok in the garden. Cheers

[@sarahlovesdonuts9601]

I do chicken math with plants too!!! I’m always afraid that I will not have enough😂😂😂. Love you guys. 💗💗💗And Kylie, I feel like we are very much alike. I like to do physical work too. Maybe it’s because I want to get things done quickly🤷‍♀️.

[@simplifylifenow]

The garden looks great! In my experience (limited to growing garlic in the Netherlands) supermarket garlic grows just fine when you plant it. You may indeed have to fill it in the fridge first as Portugal has less for days than the Netherlands does.

[@nadiafette4700]

Just a heads up peppers are perennials in some zones, I am in Northern California zone 10a which I believe is similar to your climate and I grow my pepper plants as such and get great yields year over year. You may want to give it a try. Love your videos very informative and inspiring.

[@CatarinaAntunesYouTube]

Excellent native accent, congrats!

[@mandregomes]

Nice video. I think shard is acelga in Portuguese.

[@bridgetcarrancho846]

Have you chaps seen any of Huw Richards KZbin videos? He’s got so many awesome videos on growing veggies.

[@kerrylynnparsons9441]

Fantastic garden progress!!! I learn so much from your channel. My winter garden consists of 3-5 feet of snow and ice!!! So my fall gardening consists of planting trees and bulbs. The rest of my gardening continues in the Spring. I start plants/seedlings inside in mid-March. Plants go outside end of May/early June. Do you plant rainbow chard??? It is so pretty!!! I am planning to build a garden cage totally wrapped in fine wire caging to prevent critters from raiding my food sources!!! I am thinking of attaching a greenhouse/garden shed to the end of my garden cage. I love how full and rich your gardens look!!! I have plenty of compost made from my forest but I also add compost from the garden shop for the same reasons as you. 😁❤️❤️❤️🎶🎶🎶👍👍👍👏👏👏🍂🍁🇨🇦

[@gaynor3976]

I must be more naive than I realise coz I've never seen or heard of purple carrots even though purple is my favourite colour lol. I always look forward to your Saturday and Monday videos so thank you xx

[@elisabecas]

Hi!! Did you come to Viseu? I never went to that garden center but I liked what I saw. There's another one in Viso, Criaverde, I think. You are doing such wonderful job in you farm 🙂 And your portuguese is goog!

[@irismarks4637]

@MAKE. DO. GROW. I'm sorry I only saw the video now. I wanted to tell you Guy that it is not good to put so much pressure on a young seedling and in general on plants that are planted. Good watering will already tighten the soil to the block of the seedling and remove the air. This way the plant is more likely to put out new roots faster. Strong clamping will make it difficult for the plant to develop roots. I made several attempts in this matter and this method is very successful. Thank you very much and I hope you will help with this tip. Iris from Israel.

[@chrishamilton-wearing3232]

Compost comment. I'm sure you know this but I shall say it anyway. Nettles are packed with nutrients which is why people make nettle tea. But, they are also good for adding to your compost pile as they will release those nutrients as they break down. They are also gòod for putting into planting beds/holes/troughs or whatever. Cut some of the leaves off a shove a bunch of them under whatever you are planting. Voila ! a natural slow release organic fertilizer for free. Comfrey has similar properties. Thanks for the info about moles and alliums, I counted 60 odd molehills in the lawn recently.

[@MAKEDOGROW]

Unfortunately nettles and comfrey isn’t something that’s easily available. It is on our list …. for one day when we have some time (many years from now)

[@chrishamilton-wearing3232]

@@MAKEDOGROW Well, that's a first. A shortage of nettles. We are in mid west France and it's nettles a go-go here. We have an especially lush and vigorous patch on top of the filter bed for the fosse.(septic tank). I'm hoping that the forthcoming chickens will munch on them, the interweb fountain of knowledge assures me they do eat nettles so we could have some rather chubby chicks. Should you feel so inclined, you can see the nettles and much more ( collection of hens, construction of chicken run, pizza oven, raised beds etc) on my soon to be launched channel. 🙂

[@mossfairy3060]

Im new here and loving your vlog

[@trigelrice7291]

Just a tip from a professional grower: if you use a wax pencil or crayon on the labels the name will last longer. Permanent markers fade quickly in the sun. Really good job on the garden!

[@rudymazar8666]

You have sieve the soil almost to sand texture otherwise they don't grow straight or even no straight ..good luck !!!.

[@pedroalves5401]

About the labels: 1. Brócolo roxo (not sure about this one) 2. Brócolo 3. Couve-flor 4. Couve galega 5. Couve roxa 6. Couve coração 7. Alho francês 8. Cebola roxa 9. Pak-choi 10. Feijão-fava 11. Rúcula 12. Alface 13. Espinafre 14. Pimento 15. Acelga 16. Cenoura I hope it helps you! You are doing great especially considering how complicated Portuguese can be.

[@eduardofusion]

no brasil chamamos de alho-poró

[@LaReynedEpee]

In the UK it's common enough to sow plants in modules in early Autumn and overwinter them under cover to steal a march in Spring and get earlier crops. Don't know if that will work the same in your climate. To feed your plants, are you able to collect your chicken manure? One of the best plants foods. I wonder if comfrey will grow there. Another powerful plant food.

[@LCamp-cr7fs]

Decades ago I ran across Square Foot Gardening. Although I did not have a space problem and had no intention of double digging, I learned a lot about companion and succession planting. BTW, my father always added sharp builders sand to his carrot bed because they like porous soil. Guy, if you are gender confused, when it comes to languages, try German. We have three genders which make even less sense than the ones in Romanic languages.

[@avagabondlife]

On wood chip - we are in SW France & by chance came across an arborist who wanted to get rid of wood chip on a regular basis. Apparently disposing of wood chip is an on going problem for all arborists (at least here) as they have to pay to dump it. He was more than happy to give us a much as we could take - it was a win win. Maybe check with local arborists?

[@MAKEDOGROW]

Everything here goes to the paper mills or to make pallets for heating ☹️

[@ChiquitaHluchan]

please explain more about installing solar energy

[@glenyscallaghan1195]

Bye ❤❤

[@layna8924]

HELLO KYLIE & GUY...YOUR METICULOUS ATTENTION TO DETAIL HAS BROUGHT YOU NOT ONLY A BOUNTY, BUT, TAUGHT MANY WHO VIEW SKILLS THAT THEY CAN USE IN THEIR OWN SITUATIONS...YOU HAVE, ESSENTIALLY, BECOME TEACHERS OF AGRICULTURE...AS OTHERS HAVE STATED, IT IS A BLESSING TO BE IN A PLACE THAT YOU CAN GROW A GARDEN YEAR ROUND...THANKYOU FOR SHARING ALL THE THINGS YOU HAVE LEARNED BY TRIAL & ERROR, MUCH APPRECIATED...🙏🏻;)