THRIVING IN A SURVIVAL GARDEN - A Day in the Life

good morning and welcome back to the weedy garden it's a beautiful morning here it's been raining for about a week i've been wanting to do this episode for about a week or so but every morning i wake up and it's raining i'm just gonna have a bite to eat mmm i'm a bit starving so i'm just gonna start to eat before i tell you what's going on a bit of a special episode this time i'm gonna see if i can make one episode in one day [Music] [Music] [Applause] good morning girls [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay time for breakfast good morning i'm going to see if i can make one episode in one day so i'm going to finish my breaking and wash up and i'm going to do a bunch of things around the garden today actually it's a bit of a special time at this moment i've got this little experiment going just to get really connected up here because at the moment i'm actually living up in the garden to try and see what it's like to eat my own weight in food from the garden so i'm not going to leave the garden until i've eaten my own weight in food which is about 95 kilos when i started i've lost a few kilos probably so we're probably down to about 90 now so i'm just going to stay up here and eat my own weight in food i've got some olive oil and a bit of salt and pepper i want to see what it's like see if i can get really connected my mind and my body and my soul i know i feel i've got a pretty good understanding of soil and the sun and the system i'm a photographer actually and i started the weeder garden about a year and a half ago almost two years ago i always had a dream to make my own garden where i could just walk around and eat my own food i'm going to try and make as exciting as i can so you can get as many tips from what i've learned about how to grow wonderful colorful natural clean organic food joe we're going to look around the garden i'll just eat my breakfast oh no it's going to rain again oh at least we've got breakfast over and done with a it doesn't matter about the rain we might get a bit wet today i might get a bit wet today [Music] so you've heard of cow manure and uh i've heard of course manure and then we've got chicken manure and then you've got dog poo this one here and this is called human newer and that's actually really really good for the garden well everything that's come out of the garden it's gone through me and it's gonna go back in the garden again so i've got a lot of i've got a load of biochar and a lot of sawdust in this and a lot of i've got some bit lactobacillus bacteria as well so so i'm just going to put this in my compost or my compassion i'm gonna make a new one so this one's gonna be my main ingredient [Music] just some scraps from the garden here i've just been collecting kitchen scraps as well while i've been eating up here and um i'm going to harvest all my comfrey as well get a good mix of greens and browns i'll put a bit of charcoal on that too a bit of crusher dust [Music] a couple of handfuls of old compost this is old compost to get that bacteria going half a liter of lactobacillus bacteria and half a liter of molasses mixed with eight liters of water they can live in an anaerobic and an aerobic environment okay just wear this down a bit and then we'll cover it up with plastic so i make one of these about once a month that'll sit there and heat up now i'll come back and turn that in two days and i'll turn it every second day for about 21 days and then it should end up end up being like a new beautiful soil like that all right next job so time to feed the worms and um this rain's probably going to set in all day long although it does look nice over there i can see some sunshine on its way but my worms are doing great i call this place wormville beautiful you've got on this side i've got um just my castings see castings worm castings beautiful and on this side i'm feeding them oh look at all those worms [Music] see them there crawling around very happy trying to feed them some new stuff so i've got um i've got a rotting tomato here that the bugs have got into and i've got a zucchini plant that just didn't make it and then i put a bit of brown brown on which is just dried grass which has been laying out in the rain so it's a bit damp which is nice some comfrey i'll just break it up a little bit so i can get to it and put a bit more brown in between there a bit more comfrey and a bit of brown so by just putting it on top like that if it does get hot because of the compost um reaction doesn't matter because the worms won't the worms won't go up into it if it's too hot for them they just stay where they are that's good i might just give that a little bit of biochar gonna get it wet again i'll do this quick and then i'll go in and do something else inside i think good good little worms there you go there's breakfast dinner lunch for you for the next week or so [Music] that and then we put this down [Music] i wanted to show you these beautiful butternut pumpkins and how i got them growing because you might notice that a lot of the times you look at your pumpkin plan a little pumpkin or the little zucchini comes out a little squash comes out and then when the flour dies the little fruit dies as well that's because it hasn't been pollinated all right so to help that along sometimes the the flowers are covered over with leaves or sometimes there's like a lot of male flowers and not many female flowers you can tell the difference between the male and the female this is a male and this is a female [Music] so what you've got to do is you've got to take off the pedals because the bees don't need to find it and uh and um you just break it off and you tap it in and you touch it like that and that's basically how it gets pollinated and uh and they end up looking like this you've got i've got one two three four five six seven eight nine nine little butternut pumpkins but that's enough from this little vine because i want to keep it in this little area i'm going to have to go inside i might go and look in my microscope okay [Music] okay so i want to show you a few things under the microscope um first of all we'll just put in a little i've collected a bee's wing i think that's pretty interesting so if we just look at the bee's wing close up you can see there look look it's got like little hooks on the corner of the wings i love looking at close-up stuff this b-wing looks amazing and then we can look at its eyes this is really interesting wow look at that that's the bee's eye it's not just one eye it's got hundreds and hundreds of little eyes they've all got little hairs on them look at that wow and um that's a stinger [Music] and and if we look at some water and then we can just put a little couple of drops of water on this this is water from the water drop where the bees drink one drop of water then we put a little slide on top like that let me put it in here okay and then if we look at this you can see [Music] how much there is in just one little drop of water you can see if i move the focus from the top of the water drop to the bottom of the water so much life in there so much life and here we've got a little sample of um my worm castings a little sample from the worm farm and you can see all the little mites lots of mites in there micro they're really really small you can almost just see them with your bare eyes but um they're not a problem for the worms they don't hurt the worms they're just basically competing with the food but because there's so much food it doesn't really matter this is the pollen from the corn and this is the corn the little corn hair on the ear you can see how the the pollen sticks to the hair that's how it gets pollinated [Music] so interesting looking through the microscope [Music] time to harvest madagascar beans i don't harvest them when they're green i harvest them when they've turned brown and um and then the little beans inside are nice and hard and i'll put them in a bottle and then i soaked them in water for 24 hours before i cook them and they're very high in protein plant like this can give me about 40 kilos of madagascar beans a couple more here so you want to wait for them to get a bit brown because inside the brown pod this is beautiful there's probably usually about three madagascar beans so i'll just take those up to the kitchen and put it in a bottle see every time we get a pineapple from the shop we chop the top off and put in a glass of water and you can see i've got these little bugs on me see see how it's getting roots so it's just been sitting in the glass of water now it's ready to go in the ground so i'll just put it like just on top of the ground there like that i'll put a bit of yummy compost soil which i made up there not from today it's really a batch and then some new mulch should be happy there little buddy one little pineapple hopping in this whales okay [Music] and moving right along i might go and bag these bananas the bats have been looking at them so i'm going to bag the bananas now because if i leave them open when they start to ripen the battle the bats come and the parrots come so i just got this feed bag like a chicken food bag that i've turned inside out and then i put these little holes i hold little splits around the top and then i'm just threading my string through sewing like that let me climb up the ladder first of all i just want to chop down the top off the end flower [Music] all righty let me just put this over that's it [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] me okay we might get a bit of nice weather seems like that storm's not coming over here these elder flowers are coming on real nicely and i'm going to make some elderflower cordial it's a recipe i got from denmark i just leave these here like that nice and but it's pretty easy all we got to do is mix some water i think what i'll do is i'll put the recipe on i'll give the recipe on my newsletter actually on my newsletter so if you go into my web page which is theweedygarden.com and um join the newsletter which is free of course and i'll put the um i'll put the um the recipe for this beautiful yummy tasting cordial up i'll put that on the next newsletter oh these ones look nice around here i'll leave some for the bees [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] and lunch for today okay [Music] action [Music] [Music] morning [Music] so after all that trimming i feel like doing a little bit of trimming of my own so i'm going to try and trim my beard it's getting a bit weedy it's not easy with these scissors that's better oh that's nice i'm gonna go for a swim [Music] [Music] mission so that'll have to do the swimwear have to get back to work now okay that was a nice little swim so i'm going to fill my honey jars up again from my flow hive so i just put my my suit on first because i don't want to get bitten by the bees although i've been bitten once it doesn't hurt too much okay claustrophobia attack okay here we go and then this is my j tool all right let's hope they don't bite me on my feet i don't want to get beaten on the foot i'm going to take my gloves off because it's still way too hot stick that in here [Music] so you can look in that side see how they're working in there [Music] see how i've got this net on here this net stops the wood from falling over the back there when i chop it see it falls out the front but that's okay because i can just pick it up from the front sometimes it just keeps it in there my mother taught me this it keeps the wood from falling off the back it's really easy just a bit of mesh and i've just nailed it in or you can screw it in around around the back just making some wood for my fire for my bath [Music] not too bad i'm gonna have some pecans [Applause] [Music] okay time for dinner time for dinner i might just stoke up that bath water so it's nice and warm [Music] ah this this is really this is really delicious mmm wow oh man this is great this is one of the best meals i've had so far [Music] [Music] good night cookies [Music] hey cookie you want to move your bum in [Music] come on girls [Music] [Music] [Music] okay before i go to bed um i'm going to set this camera up to photograph the stars while i'm sleeping if we look in here we can have a look at the picture uh i just press this and see ah that looks pretty good okay so i've got um i've got my wide angle lens on which in this case is the 14 to 24 zoom i've got on here i've set it on infinity i've got it on 14mm zoom i've got a wide wide angle and i've got it on 2.8 and i'm shooting at at 8 seconds at 3200 asa i do an 8 second exposure every 20 seconds so i'm going to just let that run now and go to bed [Music] being in this garden and hearing the birds outside with my feet on the ground feeling the earth underneath my toes i'm beginning to live in a flow of what i call the feel good factor kind of feel like my energy is vibrating at a frequency that is finally lined up with what the universe has been attempting to deliver to me my entire life i'm finding some on the outside but most of it comes from the inside you could call it a bit inside out but i feel it to be true for me hope you enjoyed the video hope you learned something beautiful healthy happy plants have a nice day and i'll catch you later beautiful stars okay so good night it was a good day that was a really good day

Channel: The Weedy Garden

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Length: 29min 47sec (1787 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 23 2022