What is Chaos Gardening? - Chaos Garden Tour
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In the video, I take a tour of my permaculture garden, which some people have confused with a chaos garden. The difference between the two is that permaculture aims to replicate nature while chaos gardening is more spontaneous and disorganized (which favors natural selection).
In the video, I explain how I acquire bulk packages of seeds from Amazon and scatter them randomly throughout my garden. This creates a diverse range of plants, including kale, sunflowers, beans, passion fruit, blackberry vines, clover, and more. I allow natural selection to determine which plants thrive and which ones don't.
Occasionally, I intervene when a monoculture starts to form or when one species dominates an area. In these cases, I'll add a mixture of seeds to promote diversity. I'm a big fan of Masanobu Fukuoka's approach to gardening, which emphasizes the importance of allowing plants to contribute to soil biology. This is why I prefer diversity over monoculture.
To get started with your own chaos garden, simply mix all the seeds you want to plant together and scatter them throughout your garden area. Then, sit back and let nature take its course. I hope you find this tutorial helpful and that you enjoy your own chaos garden as much as I love mine. Thank you for your support! đ
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Lots of happy little plants
This makes my heart happy and my ADHD brain think that maybe I can actually garden. Sincerely... Thank you â€
Now this is my kind of gardening. Iâm not good at organizing and it stresses me out trying. I always fail. But I think this would be perfect for my very small yard and ADD brain. Your garden is beautiful!
Yup! Itâs also a lot of fun to teach my kids to forage around our own yard and identify things popping up. I usually forget what seeds I sprinkled so itâs almost like Christmas when I see random things popping up in the yard. Thanks for watching!
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What did the ground look like when you scattered seed? Was it completely bare, loose soil, or was it already growing various species of plants/weeds? Love it dude, thanks for sharing.
I broadcast seeded right onto kale and clover and other plants/grasses. I have various plants all over my yard. My first planting was a mixture of grasses and clover right onto a quarter inch of manure that was on top of roughed up clay/loam desert soil
Great idea. I can only grow in containers, but there I practice chaos gardening on a small scale. đ
Nice work! Itâs always best to start small and work your way up.
I absolutely love this! I'm a newbie and my issue would be remembering what is what. Do you just learn what each plant looks like when it comes up?
Yes! After a while, I memorized what each seedling looks like. My sanctuary is my garden so I go out there after work for at least 5 minutes each day to wander around so I get pretty familiar with everything. Its very therapeutic!
Iâm zone 7a. Upper Chihuahuan Desert.A friend died and left us her seed collection, some 30 years old or more. I canât till so I just went out and made about 10 trenches, 2â deep and about 60â long. The soil is very compacted here in the desert. 5000â elevation. I donât know what all will grow. I threw in seeds for those trenches and covered them up. A bunch is coming up. Weâll see what survives. Anything is better than goatheads and bare dirt!
Nice work! A half inch of mulch around the seedling would help as a soil amendment and to invite worms. Best of luck! Sounds like fun!
@@thechaosgardener mostly a work of desperation. The previous property own scraped the place bare every year for 10 years. I actually did mulch but thank for the advice. A broad spectrum of little seedlings are poking their heads up today. Sorghum Sudan grass, 3 different clover species, beans, corn, daikon radish, possibly some turnips are all sticking their heads up. Sunflowers too. Iâm not expecting a huge harvest but Iâm getting roots growing and pumping exudates to bacteria and fungi in the soil. Any harvest will be gravy!
@@dr.froghopper6711 beautiful work! Keep me updated. Iâm working on a new homestead that was used for parking cars and itâs amazing how quick the transition can be with a little mulch and diversity of cover crops
@@thechaosgardener hey, if any of that parking lot soil is contaminated by oils or fuel, look up Paul Stamets experiments using Oyster Mushrooms (Pleurotus Ostreatus) to clean contaminated soil. Itâs pretty amazing work and provides a natural means to denature the oil and decontaminate the soil. Good luck!
@@dr.froghopper6711 thanks! Thatâs exactly who inspired my mycology side of my research! Woodchips and oyster on some and winecap on others. Iâm already seeing a huge increase in worms and soil fauna after only a year
My kinda style!đ€© I enjoy organization. In the garden but I try and emulate the type of organization which manifests in nature.
Thanks for sharing your work, glad I found the channel I'll be looking forward to more. :)
Thank you for your support! I agree. It is truly a pleasure to watch natural selection at work. I also love watching the symbiosis between plants. đ thanks for following.
This is so smart! Thank you for sharing this!
Thank you for the kind words!
Love this so much. You amaze me.
Awww, thanks baby
I think you were intercropping in a unique way. I realized that when we do that we have less pest. And your plants looks healthy too.
Try this! There are so many benefits to intermixing.
Also your garden looks so similar to mine (but from a subtropical climate instead of the pnw)
I feel so seen! Thank you!
So awesome. Rather than just random weeds you still have harvest and ground cover. Fun.
Thanks for the support! I appreciate it!
Hi there! Iâm a new subscriber and am so glad I found your channel. I love this concept and enjoyed the tour.
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Mr Fulton your name is Michael!!!! I never knew thattt
I love your videos. Do you recommend nitrogen figures like clover or wood chips for fruit trees? It's one better than the other for adding nutrients to the soil?
Thanks, I believe soybeans, clover, and peanuts are more sustainable than wood chips but when youâre trying to get started wood chips does a great job at creating a home for worms, isopods, springtails, and vital microbial life. Clover does the same but it requires less input. My goal was to stop requiring input and be fully sustainable besides water. Iâve more recently started chaos seeding with bulk soybean seed and its nice to have fresh edamame.
You can grow all that in our soil here in Az? Wow! I'm doin it wrong đ
Yup climate is perfect just need a couple inches of free arborist mulch and you can grow anything
Is it possible to do this in cold climates where you have grass? I want to get rid of the lawn but it will take some time and I'm afraid that if I sow random seeds here and there, my SO will accidentally mow the plants. Do you have to kill the lawn before you start or do you just plant and try your best to flag the plants that come up?
I just scatter seed everywhere. I live in Missouri now so itâs fairly cold and it works the same. I try to do most of my chaos seeding around the perimeter so I donât accidentally mow my kale. I have a lot more land now so thereâs a few spots I have that I let chaos take over
@@thechaosgardener oh that's a really good idea! Can I scatter seed now or should I wait until spring? If so what seeds should i scatter now?
Question, what is your aphid populations like, I plant fennel, the ladybugs just love them, the best plant for them to reproduce themselves, but my brassicas get aphids about March 1, and it's so tough to do the water blast thing, I'm like you, chaos plants too, I have 2 raised beds for our Brassicas, lettuces, beets, carrots, that we plant Oct1, as I can cover them.
But in my chaos cover cropping I get explosions of aphids, til the temps hit the +100s, I plant 2 cycles, heat, coot tolerant cover crops, and it seem the prefatory bugs can't keep up.
Any tips?
Great question. The first year I chaos gardened I had massive problems with aphids. This last year I had an explosion of assassin bugs. Every plant always has one. They suck the life out of every aphid. Itâs pretty awesome because they always have a dead bug stuck in their creepy proboscis. Favor beneficial insects and eventually they will come take over
@@thechaosgardener I have some around too, noticed them over wintering in the stack of wood I collect to burn charcoal to layer into a compost pile, it's a yearly chore I just do, but maybe I should buy a bunch more, from Arbico ??, As last year I covered my cover crop with chips, tilled in in Feb. and now I have a chest high hayfield of legumes, grains, (no clover, alfalfa) I have several clumps of alfalfa that I chop/drop or put in a buried 3" bucket in my tomatoes patch worm farm lol .
So maybe more would help, I have a shop vac out by my Zucchinis, Tomatillo and have got lots.
Got some chickens, but shoulders of got bantams, the are less aggressive scratching, as the Australorps love their bugs, but are to big and damaging, live, learn.
I also live in the Sonoran Desert in zone 9b where roof rats are problem. My neighborhood is about 40 years old with a lot of mature citrus fruit trees and I fear roof rats will always be near. I've been told the best I can hope for is to make my yard the least attractive in the area for them to nest in by keeping vegetation trimmed up away from the ground and denying them any coverage. Your jungle looks like the perfect habitat for them. How do you fight to keep them out of your yard?
I have since sold that house and bought a lot more land but the main thing I did was keep live traps near a couple points I determined to be high traffic and I caught them all with peanut butter bait. I had a ball python and caught enough to keep him full and happy. I would quarantine them for a few days to make sure they werenât poisoned. I also had a dog that loves eating squirrels and would have eaten rats given the opportunity. Good luck! Check the traps daily of you want them alive
What zone are you in? Im still a newbie.
The garden in this video was in zone 9b. I have since sold that house and moved to zone 6b so I could have more land. I still use the same strategies though. If you look in my more recent videos youâll notice a lot less tropical type plants.
don't eat those morning glory seeds unless u wanna meet the devil on a bad day đ