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The Chaos Gardener - Regenerative Living
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Grow your own food đ My goal with this channel is to share my passion for gardening and help people become self sufficient and self reliant thereby saving the world, one backyard at a time.
I'm a firm believer in what I like to call chaos gardening. It's all about embracing the natural symbiosis and organized chaos that exists in nature. By discovering the optimal microclimates for different plants, you can create thriving gardens and food, anywhere.
A little bit about me: I'm an independent botanical and mycological researcher with a passion for chemistry and physics. I'm also a certified educator in these subjects through the Arizona Department of Education. Additionally, I have a background in intellectual property law and pharmaceuticals, so I bring a unique perspective to my gardening.
My opinions are my own and donât necessarily reflect the opinions of anyone else.
I'm a firm believer in what I like to call chaos gardening. It's all about embracing the natural symbiosis and organized chaos that exists in nature. By discovering the optimal microclimates for different plants, you can create thriving gardens and food, anywhere.
A little bit about me: I'm an independent botanical and mycological researcher with a passion for chemistry and physics. I'm also a certified educator in these subjects through the Arizona Department of Education. Additionally, I have a background in intellectual property law and pharmaceuticals, so I bring a unique perspective to my gardening.
My opinions are my own and donât necessarily reflect the opinions of anyone else.
How to Harvest Red Leaf Lettuce Seed!
Welcome to âThe Chaos Gardener,â where we embrace natureâs wisdom to grow food sustainably and heal the soil. In this video, Iâll show you how to harvest seeds from red leaf lettuce that has gone to seed. Watch as I cut the entire top part with the seed stalk and let them dry, ensuring a bountiful harvest for future planting. Join me in mimicking natureâs natural selection to cultivate the best plants for your garden!
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Maypop Passion Fruit from Seeds, Update! (Passiflora Incarnata)
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Welcome to âThe Chaos Gardenerâ! đ± In this video, Iâll show you how to grow Maypop Passion Fruit from seeds using a method that mimics natureâs own processes. Chaos gardening is all about working with nature to create a sustainable, soil-healing garden. In this episode, I demonstrate the steps I took to successfully grow Maypop Passion Fruit (Passiflora incarnata) from seeds. Starting with scar...
Why Bradford Pear Seedlings Make the Best Rootstock for Pear Trees
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Welcome to âThe Chaos Gardener,â where we harness natureâs principles to grow food sustainably and rejuvenate the soil. đż In this video, Iâll explain why Bradford pear seedlings are the superior choice for pear tree rootstock. By mimicking natural selection, we can cultivate the strongest and most resilient plants. Join me as we delve into the benefits of using Bradford pear seedlings and how t...
How to Reinforce Grafts So They Donât Break Off in the Wind
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Welcome to âThe Chaos Gardener,â where we embrace natureâs wisdom to grow food sustainably and heal the soil. đ± In this video, Iâll show you how to reinforce top worked scions to ensure they donât shear off in the wind. By mimicking natural selection, we can cultivate the strongest plants and create a resilient garden. Join me as we explore practical tips and techniques to protect your grafts a...
Front Yard Potato Harvest! Teaching my Kids to Grow and Harvest Potatoes!
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Welcome back to âthe chaos gardenerâ! In this video, weâre diving into the exciting process of harvesting potatoes grown right in our front yard using a thick layer of mulch. đ±đ„ Chaos gardening is all about mimicking nature and letting natural selection guide us to the best plants. By utilizing our land in a renewable way, we not only grow delicious food but also heal and enrich the soil. Join ...
Apple Tree Bark and Whip and Tongue Grafting Update!
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Summer Grapevine Update
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Welcome back to The Chaos Gardener! đ± In this video, we dive into the art of growing grapes in Independence, Missouri (Zone 6). Discover how Labrusca grapes are thriving in our garden and learn the secrets to their success. Weâll explore the benefits of using mulch to enhance soil health and support your grapevines. Join us as we mimic natureâs methods to cultivate a sustainable and bountiful g...
When and How to Grow Tons of Garlic!?
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Lucas finally Eats his friend Findley the Fly
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Green jumping spider, Paraphidippus aurantius, eating a fly.
How and Why to Grow Bee Balm!
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Welcome back to âThe Chaos Gardener,â where we embrace natureâs wisdom to cultivate abundance. In todayâs episode, we dive into the vibrant world of bee balm, a pollinatorâs paradise. Join us as we demonstrate how to grow a thriving patch of bee balm using mulch, a simple yet transformative technique that nurtures your soil and plants. đż Why Bee Balm? - Discover the ecological and aesthetic ben...
Someone Stole my Wifeâs Flowers at 1am! We got a Flower Thief đ
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Next time just knock and ask đ€·ââïž. Iâve never had someone steal flowers from me before. Looked well prepared though with a nice gardening/horticultural tray. Cuts were impressively clean. Just strange to steal when I give so much for free.
Turn your Front Yard into a Food Forest and Chaos Garden! (Yes front yard!)
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I decided to turn my from your into a food forest chaos garden! Come join me in the chaos!
How I Multiply my Strawberry Plants for Free! (Bonus chaos gardening song at the end)
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Join âThe Chaos Gardenerâ on a journey to transform your land into a bountiful food source with sustainable practices that rejuvenate the soil. In this video, we delve into the art of propagating strawberries. Watch as we expand your strawberry bed and enrich it with composted mulch, creating the perfect environment for runners to thrive. Discover how this fertile addition not only boosts growt...
Springtail (Collembola) Invasion! (Maybe time to start a terrarium)
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It started raining and I noticed a huge bloom of springtails. Let me know if youâve ever seen them in big clumps like this.
How to Grow Passionfruit (Lilikoi) in Cold Climates!
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Join âThe Chaos Gardenerâ as we embark on a unique gardening adventure, defying the chill of Zone 6 to cultivate the tropical delight of passion fruit, also known as lilikoi. In this episode, weâll demonstrate how to harness the power of chaos gardening to grow this exotic fruit far from its native warm climate. Hereâs what youâll discover: Innovative techniques to protect and nurture passion f...
The seeds take their time but will germinate I bought some fruit and germinated the seeds and I got 100% I was surprised and wasn't ready soil wise, I had to rob peter to pay Paul...because I didn't think they would all germinate.
Yeah Iâve noticed the seeds need to be germinated right away. If you let them dry for more than a couple weeks the germination decreases rapidly. I went back and tried germinating year old seed and had very low germination but if right out of the fruit itâs basically 100%
why did my rose shoots dy off after planting in soil?
Thereâs dozens of reasons why rooting can fail. I would guess old cambium. Sometimes the cambium chooses not to differentiate into root cells for whatever reason and just dies. Donât let it get you down. Just do lots of cuttings and hope for the best. Sometimes if the roses are too old they will all fail.
It`s very odd but my lettuce plants in the garden never bloomed this year. They began bolting then quit growing. My new Dwarf Everbearing Mulberry trees have been pruned and topped repeatedly and two are now over 9 ft tall in their first year. If they hadn`t been pruned they`d be well over 15 ft tall. Last year`s tiny Brown Turkey Fig twig is now a massive 12 ft diameter tree. A cutting from it I planted in March is already getting huge and so is one of my new Celeste Fig trees.
Funny you say that. My mulberries went nuts too. Iâm thinking about removing them because they are just out of control
@@thechaosgardener I didn`t realize from the descriptions that these trees grow so huge. No fruits yet though except on my figs. I planted the 4 mulberry trees to help distract the birds from my figs, hopefully, and help feed my future chickens since feed is too high now. I left all the lowest branches in case they need to be cut way back repeatedly because I use solar and I can`t have 30 ft trees.
How are you controlling leaf miner on your lemon tree? All of my new leaves have leaf miner.
I didnât get any leaf miners. I think itâs because I had 50 miles in almost every direction of desert and they just hadnât found their way.
@@thechaosgardener Lucky you! Happy for that. Your tree is gorgeous.
Beautiful..teach me how to make my yard more productive fir hungry folk and myself. .thank yiu
Itâs mostly about taking the time to plant stuff. The more time you spend trying to grow stuff the more you learn that works and doesnât work. Gardening is mostly about experimentation because there are so many combinations of climate and soil conditions.Thatâs why itâs a good idea for everyone to grow something and once they master that thing then move on to another thing. Before you know it youâll be growing lots of things
It's amazing how you make plants fertile with pond water, it really helps 10:55
This is an update to this video: czcams.com/video/HyWZT2qE_fo/video.htmlfeature=shared
Hereâs an update on this sprouted seed! It just flowered! czcams.com/video/Q8Fl-mrvqa4/video.htmlfeature=shared
Maybe keeping those grafted trees short would be a good idea too.
Yup whatever makes sense. I have mine just high enough kids wonât mess with my scions since this is my front yard and I donât have a fence
Should the screw be stainless steel, copper?
I like the ones that are coated with a weatherproof polymer but I donât think it matters that much. Use what you have around
How can I get the leaves? I am in Fort Worth Texas
Usually you order stems for propagation material. I got mine on Etsy. I think I got 5 cuttings for $15 or so
Where are you from bro
This was filmed in Arizona near Phoenix zone 9b. I now live in KC Missouri zone 6b
@@thechaosgardener can you give me your contact number?
I am So relieved to know All of your crucial facts. My goal is to graft multi- fruit for my tiny garden. Thank you very much. đ
Mate I thought my pomegranate was small. Itâs two years old and around 9ft tall and very bushy.
Where is the link for the material ?
In the video description. Thanks for asking. Sorry it wasnât more clear
Thank you, sir, very helpful
Great video, very informative.
So you put rooting hormone on your cuttings and stuck them in moistened potting soil. What else, did you put them indoors or out, in the sun or shade? Everybody, including you, seems to give only half the directions.
I made more detailed videos when this one got popular but for some reason this one gets all the views. I like to use aerogardens because I can control the water and sunlight and I have a link below for that method. The soil method also works but itâs more unpredictable. Sometimes Iâll have all of them be successful and sometimes they all fail. I think it comes down to how fresh the cuttings are.
To answer your question I put them in a window with indirect sunlight. North facing works best until you get root growth
Uhhhh, you didnât tell us what to do next! Propagate in water or just directly plant in soil?
For some reason, everyone is digging up their potatoes early. The plant needs to be dead brown in order to build a tough skin for storage. Nice potatoes, though! It's good to get the kiddos outside.
Itâs true itâs best to wait. Especially for seed potatoes.
So you cut in summer time ? Hello from Dallas Texas
Winter is best but I didnât want to wait that long.
That intro is great đ
I appreciate the feedback! I had fun putting it together
Great video! Kids love learning â€ïž
60lbs of potatoes đ„ Thank you!!!
But you never said the name of the app..
Sorry Seek, itâs in the description. I added it to the title.
@@thechaosgardener Sorry! Just saw that. Iâm an idiot⊠thanks!
Mycelial raft
I overwintered kale and started harvesting seeds from 1 plant today. I will have about as many as are in that bag from 1 kale plant. Had a similar idea so that's how I ended up here xD I'm going to grow it everywhere. Even if you don't eat it, it is a great mulch producer. The leaves grow super fast. And then the seed pods are kind of like light peanut shells. Maybe you could compare to rice husks. Nice fluffy mulch material.
The whole purpose of is to have flowers so why are cutting them off?
To get twice as many
To get twice as many
Not trying to bash you, but your vines are too weak to bear grapes. The vines need more time to build caliper size on the trunk and a vigorous root system. Patience is a vertue when it comes to grapevines. I only let young vines bear a few clusters if it looks like I am getting bull canes on my cordons. Most vines grow three years before bearing grapes in their 4th leaf. Yeah, I could let some have clusters in their 3rd leaf, but experience has taught me better. I've killed vines before. Your cardboard can stop water from reaching the roots. They also provide shelter for voles that eat grapevine roots. Voles destroy grapevines underground. You have a lot of carbon. You might want to consider balancing that with nitrogen. All the best wirh your garden!
Thanks for the advice. I have a lot of work to do.
They help with parasites as well. Most detox contains black walnut husks. I wanna say you can use it for ringworms and food poisoning. Learn to heal you and yours naturally because we see man made shit come with a price. I also believe they (the government) is destroying natural shit so we HAVE to use man made expensive medicines. Everything is going to cost soon because everyone wants a piece of something.
Oh wow, i looked at my grape vines and this is true đźđ
How do you get the seeds or cuttings for that variety? I Google it and it just gives me sugar cane and ornamental sugar cane.
I got it from another CZcams person who was growing it locally.
Most of my maypop's flowers have 4 stigma right now, but still just 5 stamen.
Is it possible for all types of mushrooms
Not all types. Itâs specifically good for any mushroom that likes lignin and cellulose specifically. Some mushrooms prefer other substrates and youâd have to substitute the âmulch pileâ for the substrate for the mushroom or mycelia in question.
Are oyster mushrooms a category?
Yes
Do you have a full training video on mushroom cultivation?
Here is a playlist of the videos Iâve made of my related experiments regarding mushroom cultivation. Itâs by no means a comprehensive guide but its a decent resource. Thanks for the question!
đđ Excellent I subscribed to your channel đđ±
can these grow in zone 8?
They will grow for sure. Youâll probably have to harvest and keep stem cuttings indoors over the winter though. Winter will kill them since they are tropical
@@thechaosgardener Thank you ill be sure to do that!
Get you some Rapunzel tomato seeds they are a vining tomato thinking about 15 ft tall and these four plants will produce at least three 5 gallon buckets of tomatoes For just another little experiment that you might Find Interesting you don't have enough tomatoes for yourself your family and pretty much all of your neighbors the Rapunzel tomato gets about 3/4 of an inch long and are a really great sweet tasting tomato great for salads , salsa , pico de gallo ,and eating them right off the vine
Sounds delicious. Iâll have to get some started. I have lots of volunteer beefsteak tomatoes this year so I think Iâll have more than I can eat
I actually bought two sugarcane cuttings off of eBay and planted them in a 2-gallon pot they already had roots when I receive them in the mail after 6 Weeks they where 6 Feet been Using Flora Duo hydroponic fertilizer because to me this outperforms all of your other fertilizer even though it's for hydroponic I use it when Watering the Cane sugarcane requires a lot of Water so now I have taken it out of the pot and planted it in yard today is July 2nd it has roughly 3 months left to grow here In Indiana this was just an experiment but I think it's actually going to get to the point where I can get cuttings off of it for next Year haven't really figured out how to overwinter it yet other than putting it in parts and bringing it inside a great little experiment that actually might Work Out great video I will subscribe to your channel keep it going good luck with your sugarcane
The stems make a beautiful cup of tea when dry very yellow and nice if you want to try
Bonus Country Chaos Gardener Music at 5:57
Maybe he stole money from his wifeâs purse , and going to give her a stolen bouquet for forgiveness!đ€ŁđSo sorry for the Scum bag stealing your wifeâs flowers!đ
Donât kill these people! If you are lucky enough to have one around leave it alone. It will kill thousands of bugs you donât want and some nasty spiders too, like widows. They are zero threat to humans.
Why is there a fish in that jar. đą thatâs just mean. Please place that fish in adequate space in a tank.
Itâs a Gambusia. Itâs a lot smaller than it looks and they thrive in small areas and prefer stagnant water. Itâs selected for that exact reason. Look up âgambusia affinisâ.
I was born and raised in Merced Ca.
Nice! Lemoore California here! Class of â99
I heard you can clone just from a leaf??.
I can make anything grow roots. The problem is if it doesnât have a stem it wonât continue new growth. If you can make the leaf grow a new stem you might be alright. Iâve made a number of leaves grow leaves but they failed to grow roots and eventually died
- you could put up a little sign: "You can't steal these -- because we want you to have them" ;-)
The anaerobic fermentation sterilizes it for exceptional innoculation.