How To Start A New Garden (From Start to Finish)

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Not one word spoken. How refreshing. The focus was the garden...that's what I love most about gardening...getting lost in the moment. Vision. Creation. Well done!

DAKneesy
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I loved the simplicity of how this video was made! So, so many YouTubers over-explain and clutter their content with words, words, and more words. Thank you for this refreshingly quiet, yet direct and helpful how-to!

jenmcclung
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I have watched many market gardening presentations on YouTube by the top sucessful market gardeners. This is without a doubt the best presentation I have viewed to date. No wordy dialogue, just clear precise and to the point valuable instruction. Excellent job Duthc Farmer!

TaiChiWithMe
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This is absolutely a NO DIG, NO WORD, NO COMMERCIAL, type of making a garden. Thank you, i enjoyed your show. I rarely finish other Youtubers type of gardening, too much narrations bore me to death.

tornrebsdugout
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18:25 made my heart melt. Having your daughter help is so heartwarming and such a great skill for her to share with you. She will be so excited to see the growth process till harvest. Absolutely inspiring! Keep sharing! 🙏🏻♥️

evyedelman
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This guy has a whole roll of cardboard and I'm over here breaking up Amazon boxes...lol! Love this video, thank you for sharing.

aquietplace
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This is wonderful! I've been doing this for several years now, but I generally wet the ground underneath, then wet the cardboard to help make it easier for the earthworms, and to have the plants underneath decompose better. I've started putting my autumn Leaves under the cardboard as well. They feed the soil very well. Thank you for this video! Awesome!

Dovey
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Really great demo on how to do a No dig garden. Thank you. Great job!
For all the persons poking at him about "digging" trees you want to relocate and rocks in your way is not the same as digging a space for a garden. No one gets to skip those steps of removing stone and small trees. If you have ever put in a garden from scratch then you KNOW this was WAY easier! The method I learned growing up is back breaking work that continues with weeding and weeding and oh yeah weeding some more. I've enjoyed my no dig garden and it only gets better every year. Try it!

dachsymom
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Sometimes, even if you want to be "no dig", you just have to dig, especially when you doing your initial garden prep. It depends on what you have to work with.
I tried to do totally "no dig", using cardboard boxes, grass & leaves. I was converting a grassy field that had been a pulp & paper tree farm for decades. It was cleared & seeded for grass 15 years ago. It had a very thin 4"-8" layer of forest compost over pure solid CLAY & lots of rocks all through the soil. I swear, you could cut out cubes of the clay & use it in a pottery studio, it was so pure.
My problem was that in some areas, the top layer amended nicely & drew in worms but nothing broke into the clay layer. Even daikon radishes failed - they just pushed themselves against the clay layer & grew up above the soil line. Plus, some spots were so full of rocks it was interfering with root growth.
I finally had to turn the soil with a fork & shovel, to break up the clay down to 10", and added organic matter to that depth. There just was nothing in the clay layer to attract the worms that are the best soil turners, aerators & decompactors that Nature made. (Except for fire ants - those miserable monsters are scarring my legs for life, but they do move soil around & eat a lot of garden pests.)
If I did it right, I expect that I will only need to do this the one time.

Herschel
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I've watched this video 3 times and it's so calming I just love it. Getting a truck load of compost delivered in 2 days and I'm so excited to get started with my garden and give this a try I just had to watch this again. Thank you for an awesome video ❤

jodieziegler
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This is the first video I've seen from your channel and I loved it. It's so peaceful to simply watch you work and listen to the birds and the music. Thank u for not adding narration. 😊

msmw
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Great example of how to start new no dig beds! The cardboard on a roll is pretty brilliant... I’ve never seen that before. Way easier than laying out boxes. The end result looks great!

UrbanHomesteadMomma
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A thing of beauty . A moving meditation!! Well done, Sir.

lisametzger-gott
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I get back to this video every now and then.
This is one of the most inspiring Youtube videos ever!
Please, we need more videos from you!
Greetings from the Algarve.

VitorMadeira
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This is just a passion, love, patience and focus. Without it, you can’t see the success of your labour. Great.

virginiaaduca
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The prep is always the hardest. Do it right though. Saves tons of work weeding. I’ve always recycled my cardboard boxes this way. Good thing he’s good and young. A nice big area he has tackled. I could see where you’d need cardboard on a roll! Nice job!

FloridaGirl-
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I’ve been changing my 1/4 acre yard into a food forest using free boxes, leaves chicken manure with woodchips one day at a time

WanderingNature
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I did something similar 5 years ago by dumping composted manure in piles and spreading in 8'x4' and 15 " deep. No sides. I top it off every spring bc it settles. Much much easier than digging.

jillhumphrys
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The mix of asmr and light background music was perfect. Very soothing. And the gardening is very inspirational as well.

amandarubio
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I did similar. I built a Dowden Bed (permission granted to call it this) that was high and packed, 6” deep within a frame. After it rested, I removed the frame. It was so beautiful, ya’ll. So clean and beautiful. Turns out, the method does not favor my hot, windy and semi arid summers. As I had always done, I was required to cover it with 6” hay, eventually knocking the bed down to about 3”. I had to drive 1-1/2 hour to pick up the compost, even. It’s just not sustainable for my environment but it was absolutely worth every effort, one of my greatest garden experiments. Today, my garden beds are still symmetrical and pleasing to look at. I’ve never had to touch the soil beneath and it rich and abundant now.

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