Drier periods seem to be happening everywhere – especially in places that are used to year round rain. In todays video I show what I’m doing to help create a more resilient garden in drier times that requires less additional water and less time tending to stressed plants.
Huw Richards
Make Compost from your garden pathways
Elaine Ingham’s Soil Food Web School
My Soil Food Web video
https://youtu.be/iiAcmdoPft0
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Lovelychanges in the past 5 years😀🇦🇺
You’ve got a beautiful and thriving property Linda🌱🌱 It’s always good to be preparing ahead for the seasons. Have a wonderful day lovely xx Cathi xx 😘
Your garden looks amazing as always and the word is we will have a drier summer coming up, this will affect all of our gardens. I'm wondering just how dry Wonthaggi will get as we get a huge amount of rain, less could be better out here.💦🌞💦
I'm just learning about Climate Analogues. Great to see how you're preparing for the coming climate shifts.
Great video Linda, I love your content and ideology 🙂 I had found that utilizing time to collect resources and preparing compost and chip in my own instance with available bio mass on my property has led me to transfer what I would spend on off property inputs into areas of water retention and other yield increasing improvements, I am in the sub tropics though.
Chop and drop in paths saves so much time and energy. Managing compost piles is for the young.
I also found that my chip paths turned into amazing compost and although I only use mulch that I have put through the chipper myself I thought a-ha compost without a compost bin. I saw Huw talking about the path compost system lol he 'stole' it from Liz Zorab and she had 'accidently' made path compost through wood chip paths too. It's great that these ideas are shared between different channels, it shows that we are all on a similar wavelength. Take care and have a great week, too cold and wet outside to go into the garden and getting over a heavy cold which takes the energy level way down.
Will the paths eventually be higher than the garden beds? Would that be a good thing in a drier climate anyway?
What a great ending showing the development of your front garden over the years.
The gardens look amazing. I loved seeing it getter better and better over the last few years . I love a good permaculture solution. Thank you for sharing lovely ❤❤
You're rocking those overalls! Just the thing for gardening as icy weather kicks in.
I loved seeing how you have transformed a bare paddock into your food paradise. Well done.
I've often toyed with the idea of building a simple vertical axis windmill to pump water up a slight slope. There are numerous ways to do it.
You have all that lovely water in your dam, and a windmill trickling water up to your garden whenever there's a breeze, would be a fun and profitable project.
I find that although mulching reduces soil surface evaporation, the plants' leaves transpire water, and also the water table recedes inexorably through a dry summer. It sinks metres below the root zone. Having a handy water supply makes such a difference.
My first 6 giant broad beans showed some green today!
This is by far one of the most important videos ever put up on YouTube.
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Great video Linda. I’ve been doing the pathway compost after watching what was probably the same Huw Richards video about a year ago. I use mainly smaller, less woody materials like young weeds and bolted greens, and it’s working really well. Apart from building up the nutrient layer and soil web between the beds, it means I’m not lugging a tub full of weeds around the garden with me all the time. I do top up the wood chips occasionally, but far less often.
Thankyou so much, very well explained, I live in NE Victoria and we get from snow/icy to boiling in a matter of days, then without warning freezing again, very difficult to garden here but I am succeeding, your garden looks so lovely