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Hello, thank you for your video. Did you have a follow up on this? I was thinking of doing something simiar and looking for videos if anyone has done it already and how it worked out. Thanks

I loved going to Christmas Common watching the Red kites, such a beautiful place. One tried to take one of my chickens here in North Shropshire.

Great review. Thanks!

Looks great! Im not sure whether to get this or the 2 seconds xl pop up tent. How tall are you, I'm 6 foot and worried that the one you have will be too small.

had the same thing happen

4:45 the bacteria and the "molds" are what you want when you're doing this kind of ferment lol wiping the outside is good cus its sticky and will attract bugs but the inside you can let be

I like that idea but I have a little hint for you to get you up and running quicker. Why not buy some watercress from the shop and submerge that in water and it will route quite quickly and give you a faster crop just to get you started while your seeds develop. I personally grow mine in a flood and drain system in clay pellets and the shop watercress doubles its size in about a week so it's a very fast way of growing also a bag of watercress is just over a pound a bag watercress seeds although a lot in a packet are over £3 usually

My best bit of kit for bad back is a medical back brace, you have to be refered by your Dr and go get measured up, had to pay for it, £47 ~15yrs ago, it's a bit like a cross between a wide weight lifting belt and a girdle, velcros together and really provides a lot of support, I wear it anytime I'm doing anything that involves leaning forward a lot, specially bench work, or tunring over the compost pile, I have 2 broken bones in my back causing a spondylolisthesis and 4 degenerated discs, a bad sneeze can put me in A&E, so the brace has been a life saver letting me get on with most things, highly recomended if you suffer with a bad back, I can do 4 times the work with it on compared to without it before I have to take a break.

Love it, looks a bit weird but if it does the job, great. I am getting bad knees so I may well buy one.

I’ve seen someone in the us testing one. But yes I was like ohhh looks interesting

Well done to your Son :)

You could use frozen strawberries for smoothies too.😊 If you happen to read this, I'm wondering how the electroculture went. I couldn't find a follow up video.

Lmao, the copper crown 😂😂😂

Where are all the men like you hiding?

same for me in Belgium on the 11 and 12 of June

Gutted! I hope they recover ok. Mad season

What’s a great video? How many times can you say two seconds?😂 I would love to know how waterproof it is as I’m looking at getting one myself and I’d love to know where you get your pop-up awning from?

Molasses feeds bacteria mostly, if that’s what you are after, then so be it. Microbes do not all eat the same foods Fungi would rather have humic acid, or kelp. The food you use , matters. I use many inoculates to inoculate, so select bacteria and fungi, Mostly fungi dominate. And never use molasses, my bacteria counts are fine. It’s fungi that’s the problem area, and that’s pretty common for most soils. Just saying.

So I've been researching these ovens hoping to buy one. Because you burnt yours on top of a wet wooden decking yours is the only video that I've seen - out of about 10 - that conveys the amount of heat it kicks out. I was happy to burn it inside of my tent on top of the ground sheet thinking the legs would be high enough to keep the heat off the floor. Yep, I will be sure to buy a heat resisting mat to put it on. Thanks for sharing. I hope you have many evenings with a beer on your allotment cosied up to your stove.

Thank you

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I have heard that magnetism proceeds in a southwest direction, I would translate as clockwise.

I missed this one. ❤

How old where they at this time?

To hot water can kill your Scobie

I am confused, do you wrap the wire clockwise from the side or end view?

I like your design. Only thing I would add is the end of your wire should always face North.

Beautiful, thank you for sharing

how do you keep the rats from making leaves as their nest/home ? I had set piles of leaf bags in the corner of my backyard and next thing I know is the rats chewed trough the bag and were nesting in them.

Superbeautifull place to cut, be carefull to not cut yourself, i cut myself tree weeks ago in the foot, 5 days in hospital and now walking like a duck.... I think from now on i will were some protection!

That’s gorgeous, and there not cheap.

I'm new to understanding fire wood. How is firewood rated? Like how much heat can you get from this? Is there an equation of the weight and type of wood to BTU or something like that?

Any hints on stopping the squirrels eating them. I bought 3kg last Autumn and planted them out as they germinared in a bag of compost. Squirrels ate 99% in a night.

This will be my first year trying too! I like in a suburb with an average back yard but am still excited! I only gave 2 seeds tho!

I plant my main crop spuds around the 15th-20th of April but I buy the cheap dust sheets from homebargain as a fleece with straw on top of the containers as this will stop any late frost damage, I have copper pipes under the buckets to deter slugs and seems to reduce them eating foilage. Those number of buckets look impressive all lined up and well done.

Hiya, I'm definitely going to have a go germinating hazels with the method you used. Do you think it would be okay to mix in other seeds like acorns/conkers/beech nuts in the same container? Many thanks

I love some ducks

Another great video! I've gone with Pink Fir Apple and Sarpo Mira this year in a similar set up to yours.... Don't think i'll get 350kg though!

thanks for the update,what else are you aiming to be self sufficient with ?

I do mine in a very similar manor, I found woodchip or grass clippings round the bottom encourages roots to extend into the soil, higher yeild than when I had them on concrete, birds n moles get stuck into it so it must be full of life, I trialed different home made composts last yr some with BF&B some without, no difference in yeild surprised me. I start mine in the GH planted St paddys day, brought them out this week, poor light levels made them stretch a bit so I also used the builders bag pins and string to stop the flop, works well, they've just started flowering. I've not got a watering system tho, it does get a bit tedious in hot weather, maybe a project for next yr, this yr's project is a chicken plucker from a washing machine, just gathered all the parts!

Lovely what a bit of sunshine can do for us gardeners.

Nice detailed video this one mate really enjoyed it. Don’t forget with feeding the squash plants you can use vermicompost and make worm tea/ compost tea and feed them that. If you have the ability in vermicompost.

there’s a guy on here name will survives trying to figure out his gardening situation as he builds a homestead in the middle of the mountains and could probably use your insight on gardening as his last video was about potatoes and plants dying and it’s all to prepare for food to eat in the winter

If you aren't gonna turn the pile to aerate, you can probably wet the leaf mulch down with nonchlorinated water and throw a tarp over it. You will get a faster breakdown due to saving the moisture and keeping the sun off the outside of the pile. That has been my experience, anyways. I am in a slightly warmer climate than UK.

You’ll probably find chokes coming up in that bed year after year because they regrow from the tiniest tuber. I grow mine in pots for that reason and they do well.

Yes, the slugs are a real pain. I picked about 20 slugs off my sweet peas yesterday evening in the rain. Went out tonight and picked another 5 off. Hopefully that has reduced the population in the area enough to let the sweet peas grow now.

I'm growing Uchiki Kuri for the first time this year too. Crown Prince I've grown for the last 4 years and they are excellent to eat. They also store exceptionally well. I just finished my last one from last year which was just sitting on my kitchen windowsill for 6+ months. Only issue I have with Crown Prince is the large size. 3 of mine were over 5kg last year which I just find too big as only two of us at our house will eat them. OK if you have a big family who love squash though. That's why I'm trying the Uchiki Kuri this year to get a few smaller sized squash that can be eaten in one or two meals. I might try planting a couple of Crown Prince Squash right next to each other and not feed them to try and limit the size of them although not sure if that will work. Fruit that are too big is not a terrible problem to have I suppose.

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Nice one, With your Spag squash you roast them, Cut in half get rid of the seed and roast them cut side down for 20-30 mins take out of the oven and scrap out the flesh with a fork put a bit of butter on and some salt and pepper Yum. thanks for the video.

I’ve been growing eucalyptus like you, the ones I planted directly in the ground and failed, but the few that I potted up and placed near a wall I’ve done okay in the pot. I’ll leave them in the box for another season (they’ve been in for four months now) and probably park them up next year for about 30 cm high at the moment. Also I planted a load of coconuts and they were all that up and eaton probably by voles and mice . So what I’ve done now is plant seeds in a white plastic storage box with a lid. I did this with acorns and horse chestnuts and they’ve all grown and survived the slightly taller storage boxes. I’ve given enough room for the seedlings to Greg to 30 cm I didn’t put any drainage in the bottom I just made sure that Saul was fairly moist and then get the lid on. It created a microclimate and they thrivd A great method that I’ll be using again next year