Brian Dillon's Edible Forest Garden | Bosco's Garden Tour | Ep4
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- čas přidán 30. 09. 2020
- Take a tour of Brian Dillon's 20 year old edible forest garden, polytunnels, native broadleaf woodland and winter pantry in Ballycloven, Co. Kilkenny where he is busy canning, drying and fermenting his produce ahead of the winter months.
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WOw that is the dream. My Partner and I (~25 years old) are saving money to buy an old house away from the city. So nice to see people that done it
My partner and i have the same plan, as soon as I finish my education at get a job, we qualify for a decent loan, that can buy us a house that i close enough to the city that it isn't a hassle to get to work, but far enough out that it is on a plot of land that is at least 1500 m².
One of my favourite irish gardening videos that I've come across!
I'm a new gardner 2 years now. I have .apple.pear. cherry. Prun. Fig .blueberries. Redcurrants. Blackcurrant. Grape vines. Cape Gooseberry. Lemon. Orange .gogi berries. Hasksap berries .now my pomegranate seedlings are coming along . Everything I have is in pots I'm hoping to be able to buy a small plot of land so me and my plants can put down our roots. Thanks for great video
Nice one, Mark. Best of luck on your journey and hope you all find somewhere to plant yourselves soon.
Am about to start my gardening in cashel co tipperary
@@angelawambui1468 Fantastic! Not too far from us!
With God's blessing, you will have your land soon.
@@godonlylovesme1638 thank you and blessings from Ireland 🇮🇪 🙏
That's a really wonderful garden you have. I like the thing that's it's unlike other videos I see not very well maintained and they look too perfect like when I do gardening there's a lot of things that don't look too perfect. Your garden looks raw and i like that.
That kitty in the hothouse trying to get his attention🐈💖
really shows you need a diverse range of trees to plant a forest.
So cool!
This guy is absolutely authentic, cool and adorable. Besides his wisdom he sometimes looks Corey Taylor-ish as well! 😂🥗🤟🏾
😱I was in heaven. Probably gonna watch it again before bed for sweet dreams 😵💫😴
Haha, glad you enjoyed it! :)
This is fascinating, so very different from gardening in the middle of the US where I live. I love the way his tunnels look so casual with veg, flowers, herbs mixed in beds. His management of this property by creating compost and planting one crop after the other to maximize his space is fascinating. Thanks for this video, which felt like touring a garden with a friend. I miss Ireland and the lovely, creative people there.
Kilkenny, first time hearing the name, laughing
on the floor. it reminded me of Kenny >D
Comes from its gaelic name, Chill Chainnigh. Which means the church Chainnigh. AKA Saint Canice. Many Irish place names begin with the word 'kil' because of this.
wow this is my dream life
Brilliant i like that its not immaculate its natural and more like the rest of us!!!
Great video, I could listen to him all day. Thanks for posting. It has given me some great ideas.
Thanks for the feedback, George. Best of luck pursuing your ideas!
This was a wonderful video thank you and I hope you do some more
Beautiful blessings 🏴💕💕
Thanks for feedback, Abigail. More videos on the way! :)
Wonderful to see! Thanks for sharing
This is awesome ❤
we place a dark water barrel between our out door grape vines and have a tall stake that the grape vine is attached to that is taller than needed . When a frost is expected then you can drape green house plastic over the whole row and the taller stake keeps it above the actual plant and the water adds heat for a few extra degrees of protection(you weigh the bottom of the plastic with rocks to make a wider foot print so it doesn't touch the plants ). I live in zone 3 in Canada and early and late frost is an every year challenge.
What a gorgeous, gorgeous video esp for those of us who can't be in Ireland. Helped no end by the lovely Irish accent :) Thanks for making this, so good to see people interested in looking after the earth and planting in such diversity. ♥♥
Hi Jan, Thanks for the feedback! Glad you enjoyed the video.
Very Interesting Video... Well done.
In Austria the comfrey is an old medicine plant. We use the roots to make a special sort of Cream, which is used to heal bones. The leaves whe use für compost tea as usual. Your garden is wonderful, thanks for this tour!
VERY cool!
In old Ireland the roots were used for bones too by the "bone setters", also for sprains.
@@mrjl78 Fantastic!
In German comfrey is literally “Beinwell” = bone/leg well
Great video, i love these kind of garden tours.
It’s great to see how others are growing in ireland.
Thanks
Thanks Barry. Just had a look at your channel and subscribed. Great stuff! Fantastic to see more and more Irish garden channels popping up. Bualadh bos!
Namaste sirji. God bless you.
I love your garden and that small forest. It's such a beautiful place. 😍
Nice done👍 wish you and all gardeners a lot of success
I SO want a bigger tunnel! I neeeeeed more space...
I'm fortunate to have what I have. Many have no outdoor space.
But, oh. That tunnel. 🙂
Epic garden tour😎
Nice garden, great video. Thanks
A lot of practical advice, thanks!
You're very welcome!
Dream paradise
Really loved that, thanks
Thanks for the feedback, Declan 👍
Inspiring man, I'm contemplating moving to ireland. cheers for the vid.
Great video, i love these kind of garden tours.
thanks for sharing
Loved it - a wonderful tour.
Very nice
Amazing tour and host
Italian basi and holy basil are perfect for pesto and they are both perrenial. Just keep cutting the flowers off to make it grow large leaves. Always take afew sprigs and put in water on the kitchen window ledge. They will root easily and are a good back up in case rhe frost does take out the mother bush.
This is like all my dreams in 1
I love your Food Forest Garden
If the temps are only getting down to freezing, you could try poly with alcohol or charcoal heaters like you may use for hand warmers, etc.
Trick is always temperature regulation, but since you only need to increase temps by a few degrees in these scenarios, typically, you can often get by with fewer/smaller heaters rather than trying to adjust the output of a single large heater with a thermostat as most are not designed for those temps at the DIYer level.
Loved that garden, and it's approach. With so many trees, I'd associate some stropharia mushroom, it's mycrorizical to fallen leaves n some trees around.
All the best to a far cousin from the Buenos Aires forgotten irish diaspora
Great video, thanks guys
Very lovely 🥰
Fingers crossed my greenhouse looks this good in October... first year having a 20x10 foot, doing big cloth potters in mine.
Great tour!
Great information and very inspiring! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching :)
Hi Brian great video with well explained detail. The 1 thing I am surprised to see is that you have grape vines outside . Is the climate so much drier in Kilkenny ?. Normally I would expect it in a greenhouse more so. How old are the vines ?. I lived in Hungary for many years and I had a vineyard there and I had to learn about how to maintain it because the first year I lost my crop to mildew and fungi . I see you have wire behind it so you can train it into cordans and you will get a good crop from it. Also I recommend you disguard any bunches that are only small as they will weaken the larger ones . I was always proud of my garden in Hungary . My neighbours were always jealous of how much we got out of the garden. We had a variety of grapes called ( goats tits Desert type ) Some of my bunches were over 1.5 kg well worth growing . Your the only person I have seen growing marrows do you eat them or is it just for seed.? I PREFER MARROWS TO COURGETTES ANY DAY OF THE WEEK. We moved to Ireland back in 08 to a place called Oranmore just outside of Galway. I miss my garden and vineyard a hell of a lot and I'm envying you for what you have . You know that fruit & veg here is crap out of the shops no taste no flavour . Keep up the good work Brian it shows it's well worth it mate.
Hi Robert, thanks for your comment and questions. I will let Brian know you were asking and see if he will come on and answer himself if he has time. ~Shane
Comfry is also used in topical salves and balms to help skin and muscle pains
This year instead of storing apples in fruit boxes I bought a second hand large larder refrigerator and so far it looks to have been worthwhile with no rot in the apples just a small amount of moisture loss, but the apples are still crisp and juicy.
Loved your plot cheers B
Good idea!
Best apples I ever ate were left hanging on the tree until January, just two small ones as an experiment. But we only get light frost generally and it's doubtful I can get many past the bird problem, still usefully informative to ME.
Really good episode. Seemed a little short for all the things going on there. Can you guys make another episode there?
We filmed a tree pruning workshop there in
March of this year which you can find in our videos. Brian goes into more detail on how he manages his fruit trees in that. No plans to go back yet but I'm sure we will at some stage.
liked it, great garden, good dogs and cat :D
This video would make a great drinking game. Take a shot every time he says “em”! Great garden set up though.
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I love your greenhouse!
Super!
Amazing Information. Thanks.
Thanks you for the feedback :)
My chickens love comfrey ...
Tôi yêu khủng cảnh nơi đây ♥️
Enjoyed the video. Comfrey is a terrible invasive plant. Once your garden you'll never get rid of it. Ash tree die out is a problem where I live in Canada too. Like the gent here states diversity is the key. Eventually the ash will become immune but that may be 50 years or more. Thumbs up.
Hi Bill, thanks for the feedback. Glad you liked the video. :)
Excellent video and lovely place. What are the small hedges at 3:20?
Lovely way to create a small divisjon between sections in the garden.
Buxus - unfortunately also a big problem plant since the 'Buchsbaumzünsler' has dramatically spread in Europe. Here in Germany all the plants will be only skeletons within 2-3 weeks when it's caterpillars take their meal ... There's chemical solution and bacteria based solution as well (i think they destroy/eat the eggs) of the Zünsler ... But it needs to be repeated and generally spoken it's not worth the effort ... Buxus got used very often as hedges and has a distinct, cat piss like flavour to it. In baroque castle gardens buxus was often shaped as a geometrical solitaire plant or used as a border between paths and beds/planting areas, also for 'Irrgärten' ~ labirinth like hedges for the joy of the kings 🤯🦜🦠💉💉💉😭🌹
Sorry I forgot to mention in regards to your forest . There is a type of tree we have in Hungary called acacia or black locust . It is a fast growing tree hard wood cross grained very strong . It is used to make fencing , flooring, furniture and firewood it is the dearest fire wood in my country. Being that you have a forest there would you consider trying to get seeds from somewhere and raising your own trees ?. Just a thought.
You need to paint the end of the logs and the drilled bits with wax to keep them from drying out.
More like a densely planted orchard than a food forest
Great video. Hola from Florida USA sir. I was wondering what percentage of food would you say you consume per year from your garden? I realize you can't grow everything but you seem to grow the majority of what you eat. Also how many mouths are you feeding?
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ash tree or fungus on some trees you can treat trees with jeyes fluid around the tree roots not sure if this helps also can use kill honey fungus with jeyes fluid with washing up liquid with warter.
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i think we need to allow the ash trees to build up the resistance to the die back to pass on those genes to the future generations
That would seem to be the only option and luckily there are a few resistant trees but going on past events like dutch elm disease and what happened to sweet chestnuts in the US mid 20th century, populations were still decimated. We need to propagate the resistant trees in diverse reforestation efforts rather than the government subsidised single species plantations which I imagine have only contributed to the fungus spreading so rapidly.
What is the name of the organic grass that you mentioned at 5th min. I couldn’t catch it. Also, is this suitable for tropical/subtropical climates too?
Hi Rudy, it is Comfrey. It will grow in most climates and will thrive in tropical and subtropical areas.
@@BoscosGarden thanks!!
@@rudys3649 👍
Am !!!!
Куда постриженные газоны девают если коровы нет ?
Comfrey. How do I get hold of the seeds please. Do you have any to share? Thank you
You don't want seeds they are too invasive, you would upset your neighbourhood, use cuttings of bocking14, or just ask a friend for a root. I have planted under many fruit trees as a cut n drop, plus hens, geese, turkeys will enjoy it to keep then away from more valuable plants.B
@@briangable08 thank you for the information. So do I look for a root even when buying from eBay?
@@lynettemokgano9009 buy seeds online and grow the comfy in pots .that's what I do
Hi Lynette, not sure where you are but if you're anywhere near Kilkenny feel free to drop in and I will give you some. :)
@@BoscosGarden noted with thanks
Could I politely request that you consider uploading to Odysee also, please and thank you
Hey, I've tried but it won't let me sync with it even though I seem to meet the requirements. I will try again in the winter when I have more time on my hands.
@@BoscosGarden As a viewer and not a creator I can't offer any assistance, sorry. I would like to thank you for the effort all the same, fair play Bosco!
I can do it work can you give me a job please sir
Brian Singh Dillon ?
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I don’t mean to be pedantic, but Forest Gardens are grown to produce max food per Acre, so why ‘’Edible’’ had to be mentioned in the title, I have no idea!
I titled it in reference to David Jacke's book, 'Edible Forest Gardens' which is one of the best books on the subject of temperate food forests. Though Martin Crawford omitted the 'Edible' and named his book 'Creating a Forest Garden'.