I tried to live off the grid in the desert, the desert kicked my ass. It's definitely not for everyone even with water and solar. This was a great video! But the part of the desert I was in had soft fine sand, nothing could grow there

@desertpermaculture-thar1726

4 жыл бұрын

If u have water, the sand is the best soil to grow...Try mixing some pond clay a little when ever u give water...Grow in shade..Just a suggestion..

@TheTrillionDollarTradeMovie

4 жыл бұрын

I agree with you. Humidity you cannot change in the desert, and is what plants need

@SimpleEarthSelfReliance

2 жыл бұрын

I would swop my hard rocky stuff for sand any day, as soil-building is faster line in that for me. Adding humus and building bio content is key in sand. Low humidity is controllable by tunnels if needed, but there's always an answer in permaculture. A layered "food forest" approach solves the humidity micro climate, but it takes sometime and work (and patience). I agree, it's not for everyone. It's hard for sure, I have to source motivation many a day to get through - but I guess having to succeed to survive is my major motivator :)

I could listen to the guy in the hoodie talk all day.

My ag teacher showed me this, Mr. Reed, If you’re seeing this, you were my favorite teacher

@PfrmRc

Ай бұрын

I Dont remember you, but Stacey was my favorite teacher

Thank you so much for sharing this video. I live in AZ and it's hard to find a type of garden bed that works for my area. This style will suite me just fine.

@dannyhenderson308

5 жыл бұрын

Did it work?

@JephWyte

4 жыл бұрын

Where in AZ are you? I'm in Flagstaff but bought land near Grand Canyon. I'm figuring raised beds are my only option 🤷‍♂️

@buttcheeksmcgee4272

4 жыл бұрын

@@dannyhenderson308 it sure did!! I grew cabbage, kale, tomatoes, green beans, spinach, onions, garlic, and corn last year into this year

@buttcheeksmcgee4272

4 жыл бұрын

@@JephWyte Hey Jeff!! I live in Safford. Southern AZ. Very hot!!! We are hitting 106 today Flagstaff is beautiful haven't been there in 7 years. I loved it though.

I just built some of these. I live in the Mojave desert. well a little below it.

The contrast between accents makes my brain hurt.

@GottHernea

5 жыл бұрын

"Wahffel Gahden" >_

@celiarosita

3 жыл бұрын

I love it!!! The earth is everyone's home, everyone's sustenance... it is easy to forget and this is a sweet example of how we can come together, learning from ancient traditions, always giving them credit, and paying it forward so that others, too, may be able to continue to grow and survive and share!

@LaurieJoanna

3 жыл бұрын

No doubt! 😅

I grew up in imperial valley ca my tata was a irrigation man that did flat i know this techs its amazing that it makes me so proud of our gifts we can pass on to our children

I was on pins and needles that those two gents were going to reenact the civil war and take their garden tools to one another. I envisioned the gentleman with the southern drawl to start yelling “The south shall rise again” while the fella with the thick Harvard yard accent shouted “I intend to make Georgia Howl “! Brilliant! Cheers mates!!

@johnwood8441

2 жыл бұрын

Well New Mexico was actually invaded by confederates but were stopped north of santa fe by union forces

That combined with wood chips or grass mulch would be incredible

Great way to explain a simple and best way.

So very helpful, creative, exciting, and informative!!

This is great info, but if they added some sticks or dead plants to that swale structure it would also become fertilizer and retain water better in the soil over time.

nice video. thanks for sharing

In northern New Mexico its difficult to grow anything. The ground gets very hard and the winds are horrible.

Great job !

Thanks i used this to help me on my essay for school!

@brooksanderson2599

7 жыл бұрын

Its good to see young people taking an interest in agriculture. Too few do.

Great video. I would much rather watch videos like this than see how to refinish a dresser into some shabby chic trash.

very helpful, thank you

Appreciated

Just watched this segment on the Magnolia Network. I would've liked to see an auger being used before adding amendments.

I googled that it takes plastic bottles 450 years to disintegrate i have had plant roots in a bottle for awhile. Do you think there might be a way to use the bottles that can keep the water around for longer time and help with hydrating the desert atmosphere?

I love This Old House. How the heck did you get Buster Scruggs as a guest? Just kidding. The guy's cool.

Haha Saudi Arabia will be so hyped if this works there

Missing one thing to make it perfect and retain moisture. MULCH.

Look good I would like to have dirt as we're on rock go down 15 feet. It not that cheap to garden in arid places.

That man with the hat had a very nice dialect. ....where is it from?

Ok this is great and all but with our water shortage, that long hose needs to get picked up and put in the shade every day. Otherwise your putting out about 10 gallons of water trying to cool it off. If you are watering at 4am not a problem. Another issue with that hose is squishing other plants and when it’s 105 F at 8-9am or even 8-9pm who the heck wants to be out watering that waffle? I don’t see it as a good fit for me, I hate our summers and baking in the heat when trying to get my wilted garden to perk up. The heat and sun just make me want to become a cave gardener. Sorry for the Betty-downer, good video :) !

Wicked smaht.

How do you protect against all the animals that will feed on your new lettuce

i live in Arizona how do you keep the silver back rabbits from eating you're lettius?

@Jml5447

8 жыл бұрын

a .22

@Maxid1

8 жыл бұрын

Every other plant has a claymore mine buried under it.

@BlackSwan912

8 жыл бұрын

+Joshua Learn ha ha ha

@tamu7243

8 жыл бұрын

your* sorry, don't hurt me.

@daltonjones4712

6 жыл бұрын

Visit airguns of Arizona

How is that man wearing a hoodie in the middle of a desert!

@TheBushdoctor68

8 жыл бұрын

Because layers keep out the heat. Never noticed how bedouin people are almost entirely covered in several layers of cloth?

@etiennecouture1552

7 жыл бұрын

Because it's in the morning. Deserts are cold at night, so the temparature will rise up and he won't wear it anymore at noon.

@fingersoup

6 жыл бұрын

It gets cold in the desert.

@patrickotte5982

4 жыл бұрын

It’s probably also sometime near winter

@kqdwills

2 жыл бұрын

It's cold and very windy nearing the end of April here in the Mojave desert. I was just watering the veggies in my raised beds wearing a hoodie. Today hi/low of 62/38, added in the strong, consistent wind, it's miserable to be out there even under the sun, and the water flashing all over the places.

Can you do this in the middle of Sahara?

@fingersoup

6 жыл бұрын

Depends on the species and the soil, I'd say.

@cintulator2

6 жыл бұрын

Of course, you can reforest those areas....if you want so

@timfrey2358

4 жыл бұрын

yes but you'd have to import more soil because most plants can't grow in only sand.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way

If compost is sterile how come it has microorganisms?

@wandasway6882

2 жыл бұрын

It's the microorganisms that leave the nutrients that go into the plants.

For all the time, effort and cost of watering these days its allot cheaper just to buy it at the stores. I've tried growing vegetables and its harder than hell to do. The only thing that came up were potatoes.

@wandasway6882

2 жыл бұрын

If u like all the chemical food without any true nutrition.

What about rodents in outdoor desert gardening?

It ain't easy!!

woodchips is better

says add mushroom compost for microbes ...than says it must be sterile...you can't have both, guys....

@anthonyqueenmusic7523

8 жыл бұрын

They're talking about weeds

@niclvn5198

8 жыл бұрын

can you add coconut coir, peat moss, chicken manure. perlite and organic bagged soil? will that do well in the conditions

That's a great achievement, but to be fair you don't have any other hurdles than lack of water. No persistent underground weeds that pop up every few inches, no cats that dig up your just seeded patch to poop in, no thousands of snails and slugs that eat *anything* that you put in the ground. This year I planted dozens of different crops and all I'm left with are a few corn. Seriously, I could get a better harvest in that desert than what happened in my backyard this summer.

@suzyhomesteader2454

7 жыл бұрын

TheBushdoctor68 There are cats in the desert. We may not have snails, but we do have 30 to 60 mph spring winds, very high UV index, soil that is so alkaline it poisons the plants. lack of water and rain. That's why the native American Tribes did the waffle gardens.

@desertodavid

5 жыл бұрын

Obviously you have not lived in the desert. There are many more adverse conditions in the desert that other environments don't have to deal with other than just lack of rain. The sun is very hot and literally Cooks the soil. It typically is around a hundred and fifty to a hundred sixty degrees Fahrenheit on the surface. Another big factor is wind. There's nothing to stop it. No trees very few houses. Soil itself has hardpan everywhere. In the Southwest desert it's called caliche. Water will not penetrate through it. Therefore your plants will suffer from root rot if given enough water. Another big factor is a wide variation in temperature on a daily basis as well as year round. Between the lack of water, dry air sun and wind plants suffer more from a very high transpiration rate. So basically, the desert is the hardest environment to grow plants in. that's why it's called a desert.

@blissfulacresoffgridhomest2098

5 жыл бұрын

@@desertodavid Your comment is totally right on! We live between Kingman and Bullhead City in Arizona. Trying to grow a garden and fruit trees has been challenging . We need to use shade cloth, netting, fencing, and had to break through 16 & and a 1/2 feet of calache clay for our fruit trees. Looking for a way to conserve water to garden is an on going challenge. Thanks for sharing.

@timfrey2358

4 жыл бұрын

lmfao all of those things are a problem here, are you serious? we have tons of weeds and the worst - Bermuda grass which is impossible to kill, thousands of feral cats, birds, locusts, we get all the same pests you get in the east, corn borer bugs, squash beetles, scarabs, thrips, aphids, huge grubs especially palo berde beetle grubs that grow up to 7 inches long and 2 inches thick which devour the roots of huge well established trees.

Pueblos invented that a long time ago and built a flourishing culture. Incas too. Nowadays UN ships an endless stream of rice, oil etc to Africa.... Maybe people are just different...

The problem will always be too little humidity for greens, as well as scorching winds. I have tried for over 3 years, nothing works, sigh, the harsh reality

@brothaman1571

3 жыл бұрын

Get shade cloth

@TheTrillionDollarTradeMovie

3 жыл бұрын

@@brothaman1571 Thanks, but did I mention I have a 100 square meters under 40 to 60% shade cloth? Its just we are 5000ft above sea level with an average of 20% himidity

That is not clay soil. Tn has clay soil

0:15 American Aborigines

@EthericalOne

5 жыл бұрын

Dont Worry About it of course ! We need to get back on our own technology

All that bare soil is destroying my life.

The scripted accent doe

Not real desert, Come to Australia and i will show you real desert country