How did you get the clover to grow through the woodchips? did you rake it back, plant, and remulch once it poked through? I planted a bunch of cover crops in the woodchips, but it seemed like only the rye and peas came up. I pulled one of the rye up to check it out and realized that it was completely rooted in the woodchips and never actually made it to the soil. I have about 6 inches of woodchips and was starting to think it might be too much to also have a cover crop. I was also wondering the extent to which exudates coming off the rye would affect the decomposition of the woodchips, could there possibly be mycorrhizae that early in the decomposition process? I showed those roots in my latest video at the 6 minute mark if you want to check it out. My goal is to still get them into the soil, but it's interesting seeing those pioneer species spreading soil biology to new areas

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

4 жыл бұрын

2 options here... either just scatter the seed with the woodchips already down, or rake back woodchips, scatter clover seed, let it be a green mulch this season, in the fall add woodchips on top. For option 1, clover is a nitrogen fixer, so it has no problem rooting into a nitrogen depleted zone of a heavy carbon mulch layer. For option 2, once the clover has a strong root base, some strands will be able to push up through the woodchips on the 2nd year. Once even one strand pushes up through them, it will use that as a "nursery branch" to feed the entire plant. Because clover is actually a creeping vine, it then just travels across the top no problemo. The only thing you can mess up is if you sow the clover then smother it with mulch while it's a baby still. This is a great comment, and I'm going to pin it for exposure. Thanks for watching and asking the question. I'm sure this will help someone else too!

@Matrix2458

4 жыл бұрын

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thanks! That's good advice, option 1 sounds super easy. The nursery branch explains my creeping charlie and bermuda grass too, I'll have to be on the lookout whenever a branch pokes through the mulch. Might have to cardboard/black tarp some of it, but hopefully I can proliferate the clover enough to fill that niche so I won't have to deal with it as much in the future. Didn't know clover was actually a creeper, that's very interesting.

@SebR-FR

3 жыл бұрын

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Indeed, I was on the point to ask the same thing !

@safabee

3 жыл бұрын

I’m about to try to build soil on what is essentially a big patch of sand. I’m trying to figure out how to get started and I’m thinking, first start by sheet mulching with cardboard and wood chips, then after some time, cover the top of the wood chips with pioneer / nitrogen fixers like clover. Does this sound right to you? If so, how long should I leave the wood chip mulch down before introducing clover? Can I just throw the clover seeds down on top of the wood chips? Any other tips for getting the soil started?

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

3 жыл бұрын

Stuff like pioneers will actually do best just seeded into the bare soil/sand. Thats kinda their thing, Restoration of soils from bare dead dirt. You would do the woodchip sheet mulch if your end goal is to plant bushes and trees there. If your end goal is a veggie garden then make sure to out compost down. Woodchips on top is fine, but make sure all that carbon is balanced with some nitrogen from compost and manure. Your plan sounds pretty solid :) Sheet mulch then pioneers for the season, then move it into production next year. Sounds perfect.

Skip forward? Your so funny. I absolutely love all the context you put out.

I tell people I’m a soil farmer in the off season and it starts an interesting conversation

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

3 жыл бұрын

I like that 👌

"Stop worrying about the plants, and start worrying about growing soil." Looking good, friend. Really like the b-roll game you have been stepping into. Rad work, keep it up!

This is so true "the plants will come as a result of healthy soil" once we moved into our new place and started mulching and composting, dormant plants started reemerging, plants that probably hadn't grown in 10+ years, it's still amazing to see what springs up randomly!

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

4 жыл бұрын

Those are what I consider my "Christmas presents". Its always interesting to see what new plants I get each year.

No music, sounds of nature are preferable to electronic twaddle, IMHO, but love your content. But then again, I prefer text to pictures. Can't please everyone. Carry on!💚💧

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

4 жыл бұрын

I definitely plan on doing many ambience style videos once everything leafs out. Maybe I talk and say a thing here and there, but I also include moments of no talking, just walking and birds chirping and water tumbling. These ones aren't really appropriate for that yet though, because everything is still asleep and there isn't much to look at. Definitely appreciate the feedback, and I will be doing more of that in the future, absolutely. These videos are for myself as much as you guys, so that I can look back one day and watch my system grow. My personal favorite clips are the ones where I wake up early and the birds are just soooooo loud, and I go around filming them. Kind of like the last 30 seconds of this video here.

@ld6070

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing content, but completely agree on the need to reduce the music. I had to put subtitles on to hear the great advice. 😀

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, was a bad video program I used that messed up the music. Then I deleted the source files before checking it again after upload (it was fine after editing). So weird.

I will be placing my order for clover seed today. Thanks for all you do.

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers 🍻

Like the Clark Kent style glasses mon ami! Really enjoy your holistic approach to developing the world wide (soil food) web (sic.) which reminds me of that quote by Masanobu Fukuoka in The One-Straw Revolution - "An object seen in isolation from the whole is not the real thing"".

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

3 жыл бұрын

A great book. Probably the number one permaculture book I would recommend, even above permaculture one or the PDM.

You’re right.

Bloody Dock has done really well in my Aquaponics, even this winter with the greenhouse unheated.

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed! I picked it here because it is very cold hardy, and this thing is going to live outside. (I hope). I will likely bring in 2-3 of them and overwinter them inside, just incase. But my pond builder has them in his pond at his house, and they survived there.

Absolutely love your channel - great in-depth information, and so generous with your time in responding to comments and questions - as valuable as the video. One tiny personal negative - not a fan of the high-amp music - rather distracting from the gorgeous scenery/natural sounds.

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Thats definitely a popular comment, and saved me time in editing also. You will notice a lot less music added in the more recent videos.

Love the videos. Thanks

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 👀 🙂

Absolutely love the pond videos!!

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I will try to do more this season.

Great content. Thanks. Love the sound of running water. Would have loved some of your voice sharing your thoughts on your stream as you showed it (rather than the pop music). Either way I really appreciate all the info. I know it takes a lot to make videos. Thanks!

Very good video.

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

I use Egyptian Walking Onions instead of Daffodils. They are up and growing even before all snow is gone, providing greens for the kitchen too.

Really enjoyed this video. Thank you for this information 🎉❤😊

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

Hi Houtinnia(so?) is very invasive in Massachusetts and New England. Canada might be far enough north not to have to worry about that. Just thought I’d add that comment for others who may be further south than Canada.

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It seems perfectly behaved here, and wasn't on any invasive lists. It's always a good idea to check your local area invasive lists. Excellent comment.

I'm trying to improve my gardens this year. Clover, mulching, spring-blooming bulbs, native perennials... I hope to have blooms from spring to November next year. The pandemic has kind of thrown off my plans though.

I feel like half the food I'm eating is cover crop. I planted fava beans all winter and have just been chowing down on them - beans and greens - while still having enough to knock down as a green mulch

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's nice eh? Everyone is starting their seeds still, and I have been eating from the garden for a few weeks now.

Good Videos Packed With Tons Of Useful Info! Thanks Man! Keep Them Coming.... I Subscribed!

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. And awesome username 🤗

@grounds4life

4 жыл бұрын

Thank You!@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

i love ur account so much - could i suggest the music be less EDM heavy? perhaps something more lo-fi/ambient :))) i feel a little distracted by the heavy electronic production haha :)) !

@tommcallister1730

4 жыл бұрын

i'd also say that i love the organic sounds within the footage itself - it borders on ASMR in its calming effect..

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely. I'm actually more of a rock/country guy myself. Eagles, pink floyd, zeppelin, etc..

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

4 жыл бұрын

@@tommcallister1730 I actually really value the feedback. Super grateful you comments, thanks.

@tommcallister1730

4 жыл бұрын

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy of course :) i'm super into all your content so happy to help !

I like these soil life videos. I just ordered some clover! I'm not up for having a pond....I'd be worried a small neighborhood kid would fall in it:) A friend dropped off a rain barrel.... need to figure out where to put it!

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

4 жыл бұрын

One thing a lot of people do is get a kiddie pool and grow duckweed in it, and every few days use it to water gardens and then refresh it with new water (mosquitoes breed in like 4 days, so ideally every 3 days). That could be another option if you wanted to grow compost rich plants like duckweed for mulch, or compost or as chicken and duck feed, etc. For the rain barrel, see if you can build a small stand and get it as high as possible. This will give you a bit more pressure if you add a spout to it. And also, remember these can get VERY heavy when full. So make sure any deck or floor it is placed on is well supported.

I just dug up a couple of hundreds of snowdrops (Galanthus) from a raised bed to spread around the garden, and I realised that they provide another important benefit: Each year every plant punches through the soil from whatever depth the bulb is at. (Which can be quite deep, mine were 2-3 dm (8-12 inches) deep.) When the leaves die back they leave a vertical tunnel that aerates the soil and gives a path for rain infiltration. Free digging that feeds the soil food web instead of disturbing it!

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

3 жыл бұрын

A very keen observation :)

It would be nice if you could give us a time stamp for when you actually get past all the pond stuff.

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

2 жыл бұрын

Added thanks.

Came here after finding one of your reddit posts. Your content is very interesting and very informative! Thanks for what you do. If I may ask, how did you get to be so knowledgeable about permaculture?

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

4 жыл бұрын

I just have a learning attitude. I just love love love learning new things, and when I get into something I get REALLY into it. As a kid, I got into baseball, and played baseball every waking moment. Got really good, was MVP of my varsity baseball team in University. I take the same attitude in this. My wife always says, why can't you just have a garden? Why do you need to be so extreme always? I don't know, it's just who I am and will always be. When I started getting into this stuff, REALLY getting into it, I spent every free moment reading textbooks, watching videos, and listening to soil science podcasts on the way to work. The textbooks and soil science podcasts (John Kempf and Dr Ingham are MVP here) are where I learned most soil science stuff. But honestly, all the textbooks in the world only get you so far. At some point you need to put plants in the ground, and accept the feedback of the natural world. You move from theoretical space to empirical space. So a lot of my lessons were actually given to me by my land, by nature.

@beemorabi1592

4 жыл бұрын

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy appreciate the detailed reply :)

Very surprised you don't have snowdrops and crocuses! :)

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

2 жыл бұрын

I will see to add some this year. Thanks for the suggestions.

Love your videos. I've watched the majority of them already. Informative and inspiring. Question: Is there any particular reason you're planing Houttuynia cordata?

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

3 жыл бұрын

They came with the pond as part of a plant package. Some of the plants in the package were invasive, so I asked to swap some around. I never heard of these before, but anywhere I looked it said they were edible and non invasive, so I went with them. Any concerns I should know about?

@salmeli5886

3 жыл бұрын

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I'm an naturopathic doctor and focus on chronic Lyme/tick-borne infections. I use Houttuynia cordata commonly as a treatment for both Lyme and Bartonella infections, as tincture mainly. I plan to grow the plant in large quantities when I move to a new property in a few months, thats why I asked. There are no concerns that I know of. Its a safe and generally tolerated medicine with broad-spectrum anti-microbial (bacterial, viral, parasitic), immune supportive and mild anti-inflammatory/pain relief properties. You mentioned ticks being on your property. Be aware! One bite improperly managed can have devastating consequences.

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Indeed, I am extremely careful with ticks. I actually do a whole body inspection after anytime I go outside. We know someone with Lyme disease.

Hi! Recently found your channel through your insightful Reddit posts, big fan so far. I live in a neighborhood where everyone wants grass! I've been growing a few trees in my yard and mulching them. Would planting some early growing plants like daffodils in the mulch bed next fall be a good idea? My other daffodils seem to do well, but my trees are just mulch surrounded by grass.

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

4 жыл бұрын

For sure, set up a little guild. Give the trees a few bushes, some ground cover, herbs flowers, maybe grow some kiwi or peas up it! More roots, more root exudates, more soil life, more nutrient cycling, faster mulch breakdown, more organic material, etc. It all spirals in a positive-feedback-loop when you have more solar-panels-with-roots (plants).

@oldergolder6333

4 жыл бұрын

Are you here because of that huge reddit comment? I learned a lot from it and I’m glad I found this channel

@15:35 you talk about seeing how well that section around your creek develops in the coming years. Do you have a video you could reference that can show this, in summer of 2021 or even an update to this area now, in April 2022?

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

2 жыл бұрын

I let that area go completely wild once we decided on the pond next to the house. I had to dedicate all my time to planting that out. I may revisit this area in the next month or so, and set it up for a watercress factory for the chickens. Thanks for the reminder. If you don't see a followup in the next few months, remind me and I will go back. So many projects! But this one will be valuable greens for the chickens, so it should get some serious priority from me in the next months.

Maybe some rocks closer to the persimmon trunk?

Small detail but at 10:20 stems/bark in many plans do contain chlorophyll and are photosynthetically active. If you don't mind me asking, where did you find a cold-hearty kiwi plant? I would love to pick one up.

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed but if i recall correctly it was about 2% of the photosynthesis of the plant. Still something though. I got my cold hardy kiwi from Whiffletree.

Ух ты! 1:50 - Цапля! (почти ручная;))

Good day sir! Can black pepper plant a good companion of fruit trees such as avocado and lychee? Thank you

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

Жыл бұрын

yes

@arielramos8838

Жыл бұрын

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy thank you very much sir, I'm from Philippines. Salamat Po

did you plant your clover seed on top of the chips?

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

3 жыл бұрын

Not at first, but now I just toss seed everywhere. Rains bring them down. Put it this way, I prioritize existing mushroom mycelium over new plants. So if it's better for the plant to pull back the woodchips, but they will still do okay(ish) jist scattered on top, then I will choose to scatter them on top. However, if I'm planting something, like annuals, then you can't plant those in woodchips, so when I plant them, I may sprinkle in some clover at the soil level. Let it get a foothold next to my tomatoes, and spread outwards from there. I just try to disturb the soil as little as possible.

helps to go ... when did you see the change in the abundance of life in your garden?

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

2 жыл бұрын

It's hard to say because I wasn't looking for it... but it happened quickly. I'm sure things changed as year as the first year.

I will soon move into a Garden in zone 8. Would you also advice red clover as a nitrogen fixer? Or something else?

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

4 жыл бұрын

Red is an excellent nitrogen fixer also. However it can grow 2 feet tall or more. Ideally it is grown in an area that is only mowed a few times a year, and it is okay (aesthetically) to get a bit tall and wild looking.

@helio2k

4 жыл бұрын

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy it'd a very small garden, only 50m2 big. Would you suggest anything else on this small space?

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

4 жыл бұрын

For ground layer, I really like nitrogen fixers, because all ground covers spread. Its what makes them ground covers. So because of that, they can all tolerate repeated cutting very well and bounce back. And because they are nitrogen fixers, if I repeatedly cut them, they release thebnitrigen nodules to feed other plants when their roots shed them. So it really becomes a fertilizer factory. Dutch white clover is a lower clover. I would personally use some kind of clover, but stuff like groundnut can be great also. They will climb th bushes a bit. Bush beans can also work, but they are annuals and won't spread, so just sow them tight and packed. But honestly anything works. Pick your favorite herb even, that can work too.

Soul health!!!

I've read that some daffodils aren't as attractive to insects anymore after decades of selective breeding for human tastes. Are you able to find daffodils that are a wild types, or is that above theory simply not true?

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

4 жыл бұрын

Oh wow I never heard of that before. I have no idea. I do see bees going in and out of mine if that is anything.

Soil health!!! I hate auto correct...

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

3 жыл бұрын

And at the same time soil health is also soul health. Gardening is therapeutic.

hello my learned friend, you encouraged us on reddit to get involved and ask questions so I thought it might be fun to make a video response. kzread.info/dash/bejne/g5-s1tyKoay7YKg.html In the understandable event that you don't care to watch 10 minutes of me failing to get to the point, I'll summarise: 1. When you say it's a nonsense to think of plants 'competing for resources' and use that as a basis for removing 'weeds', which are actually doing a job, I take the point when it is trees vs daffs or clover, occupying different roles which naturally co-exist, or even co-depend. But if you are dealing with more 'like for like' cases (e.g. one ground cover species vs another), aren't there are some situations where competing for finite resources is a real thing, and removing some of a less-desired plant might be a valid strategy to encourage the more-desired one? 2. On the topic of covering soil with wood chip / mulch etc, one of my beds gets a thick natural carpet of dead leaves every autumn. I've attempted to respond to this firstly by choosing plants which naturally grow in woodland floor environments like tiarellas and snowdrops, and secondly, indecisively, by gathering some leaves to compost while leaving others to decompose/mulch, but I'm not convinced my approach is any good. Any thoughts on what - if anything - is best to do with this leaf fall? 3. Any thoughts on establishing completely new soil systems on green roofs and the like? Obviously I am not expecting bespoke personalised responses or anything, just chucking out some stuff you may consider worth expanding on in future, or maybe you have past videos already covering similar territory. Cheers!

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy

4 жыл бұрын

Stay tuned, this will be fun :)