10 Money & Resource Saving Tips for Gardeners (Featuring Chris Towerton on Permaculture Swales)
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Our approach to frugal gardening isn’t just to look for great deals on gardening products, though that can sometimes be very helpful. Instead, it’s to not buy products at all whenever possible. We also do our best to limit the use of other purchased inputs like water and electricity. Today I share 10 strategies that allow us to get great results while spending very little money on gardening products and other inputs. If you shop on Amazon, you can support OYR simply by clicking this link (bookmark it too) before shopping: http://www.amazon.com/?tag=oneya-20 1) 0:33 Have your soil tested before buying and applying fertilizers and amendments 2) 1:31 Make your own compost from free local resources 3) 2:54 Mulch your garden with free local resources 4) 4:31 Grow nitrogen fixing cover crops 5) 5:03 Grow in polycultures 6) 6:14 Grow edible perennials and self-sowing annuals 7) 7:09 Save seeds 8) 7:34 Grow most plants from seed instead of buying plant starts 9) 8:07 Repurpose, reuse, and upcycle 10) 8:31 Conserve water 9:47 Chris Towerton on Permaculture swales "Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond" by Brad Lancaster: http://amzn.to/2aN3b9h "Edible Perennial Gardening: Growing Successful Polycultures in Small Spaces": http://amzn.to/2axqTZj "Integrated Forest Gardening: The Complete Guide to Polycultures and Plant Guilds in Permaculture Systems": http://amzn.to/2ahhQuU Cool weather cover crop seeds we use: http://www.groworganic.com/soil-builder-mix-raw-lb.html Rob Bob's wicking bed videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/bnbob01/search?query=wicking+bed Chris Towerton's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrChrisTowerton Join me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oneyardrevolution One Yard Revolution is all about growing a lot of food on a little land using sustainable organic methods, while keeping costs and labor at a minimum. Emphasis is placed on improving soil quality with compost and mulch. No store-bought fertilizers, soil amendments, pesticides, compost activators, etc. are used. Channel Page: http://www.youtube.com/user/OneYardRevolution
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I love that cat!
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You grow such an enormous amount of plants together! Do you ever have issues with any of the taller, bush or vine types shading out the shorter ground level stuff? I'm looking to polyculture this year in my own garden (I'm in zone 5, like you.) but I'm having trouble figuring out what will grow well together in terms of greens and root crops surrounding tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, and strawberries. I don't want to plant things together that might compete too aggressively for resources. Any tips?
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Mahalo 4 the excellent info in your vids. I look forward 2 putting into play here in the islands...
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How do you manage to get seeds from your kale? Mine never goes to seed before winter.
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Very well explained. Thanks for sharing these helpful tips.
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Great video and tips! Thank you for sharing!
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Thanks for posting!
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Do you find you can skip rotation of crops by growing in polyculture? We are new backyard gardeners and inspired by you videos - thanks!
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Great video!
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No autumn leaves, grass clippings or horse manure to be had around here. Unless I get some grass clippings from a gardener from another property, and that probably has Roundup sprayed on it cause it's mostly weeds to start with. I can get all the coffee grounds I want but I'll be off balance with just kitchen scraps, egg shells and coffee grounds. Though my two worms towers are breaking this down pretty well, it's nowhere near going to provide that much compost. I am really intent, as I will mention in an upcoming episode, to get to no bought amendments next year. And I will take your advice about soil test, but I would have to do several around the front yard cause they've all had slightly different treatment as the garden developed. I've noticed now that I've had my wood chips down that I'm getting more mycorrhizae are appearing in the chips. I'm hoping wood chips with a small amount of earthworm compost will do the job. I'll also use some peas and oats again this year, but probably not vetch, haha. Do you like to eat miner's lettuce? I never tried it. I'm going to go more toward polyculture next year. Take the winter off basically and plan things. Thanks for a great video and especially to the amazing Chris Towerton!
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I live in northern Indiana and I highly recommend wicking beds. I cant praise them enough. I have a garden with multiple raised beds. I run a drip line to all my beds to make sure they get the water they need, but I dont need to run a line for the wicking beds. I started a few wicking beds and they did so good I started more. Anywhere I can practically use one is slowly getting changed over to them, I like them so much. I have this year filled them once and the soil stays perfectly moist. Here is a diy video if you want to see how I build mine. I now have like 25 of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZR32uVU-vc
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haha if your are in the chicago area, water is free?:))
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well informed!
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Ghost came out of your hand at 52 seconds in, went up to your left shoulder..... Great vid
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I've never tested my potting soil I jest keep adding manure,grass clipping s,an food scraps an turned it threw out the winter an let it get all the snow on it that I can.
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Great video! Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge :)
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Always good info and food for thought. Thanks
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A great tip video ....I was wondering where you got your rain barrel connector to your downspout it looks very unique?
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Wait, did you just say that we don't have buy composting worms??? And that well feed native worms do has well LOL
Nice to see Chris as well Hooroo :-D
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