Everyone’s gardens get like this at this time of the harvest/garden year. Don’t be embarrassed that’s why we have winter to clean up!

@freedomforestlife

9 ай бұрын

Aww - Thanks Maria 🙏 I do sometimes beat myself up about not staying on top of it all ! 🤣 Making this video really did help me to feel better about it too - sharing is always such a good way lighten the load 😊 and it is honestly so productive and beautiful up there, so I do just remind myself about that if it feels overwhelming. Thanks for watching and your kind comment as always 💚✌️🌿

it looks amazingly productive! and beautiful!

@freedomforestlife

9 ай бұрын

Hey thanks Suzie 💚 Hope you enjoyed the vid and thanks for leaving us a lovely comment too 🙏✌️🌿

Hi Dan and Laurie I struggle big time with sheep sorrel too with my acid soil. Have tried covering with cardboard and 20cms of straw for 12 months and it still comes back. Have tried plastic for 18 months and guess what, it still comes back. Best trick I've found is to dig it out as much as you can which goes against the grain I know, with no dig but sometimes needs must, and then add a good sprinkling of agricultural lime which is actually nothing more than chalk. It raise the PH which the sheep sorrel hates. It does not get rid of it completely but severely knocks it back for the season and allows you to be able to get on top of it when it does come back weaker. Good luck!

@freedomforestlife

9 ай бұрын

Hey thanks - this is really GREAT advice 🙏 We too have naturally acidic soil and that would explain why they seem to thrive through the woodchips too (which can often be slightly acidic too). Sounds like the occasional dose of lime could really help us just keep it at bay a little more 💚✌️🌿

Thank you for another amazing video ❤

@freedomforestlife

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoy it Angela - Thank you for watching 💚✌️🌿

Nice update on your gardens. We would really appreciate a video about your curing and storing methods for the sweet potato and yakon harvests.

@freedomforestlife

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the vid and perfect timing with your message, as we started on the sweet potato today, so had it fresh in my mind and have started filming some segment about the curing process, it will be a separate vid to the harvest as need to film the steps as they come up over next couple weeks. Thanks for watching and commenting - see you here again soon 💚✌️🌿

Yeah 🎉Sweet potato harvest in the pipeline 🎉

@freedomforestlife

9 ай бұрын

Ha ha - Yep coming soon Val 🙌✌️💚

Looks like the recent rains have done wonders for the plot. A surplus of any crop is a very nice problem to have - looks like you're inundated and can take your pick of the bountiful harvest. Keeping chickens on the site may not be an option for you, but if you could get a few of them in one of those moveable coops they could be your natural answer to the sorrell seedlings. They'd clear the area for you in no time. Roll on December and yacon harvest time!

@freedomforestlife

9 ай бұрын

Hey Tony - Lovely to hear from from you - That could be a really good idea going forward about the Chickens/Tractor .... We have been talking about chooks sometime in the future ... this sounds like another make in their favour - Thank you 🙏 Yacon coming soon for sure 🙌 How are your plants looking ?? ✌️🌿

@tonyr7393

9 ай бұрын

@@freedomforestlife My yacon plants look really healthy at the moment and are all 4 to 5 foot tall and bulking out nicely. On the clay soil they do tend to wilt as soon as we have a dry spell, and i'm guilty of not mulching them enough, but hopefully they're on course to provide some nice tubers in the next couple of months. On another topic, just to update you on the lovage vs Korean Celery vs celery leaf.....tastewise the celery leaf wins hands down, so if i'm growing just one variety there's no contest. It's a small plant though so you need a lot of them growing. The lovage produces an abundance of very strong tasting leaves, far more than i think anyone could realistically consume, and it would look good in a border so i'm keeping that as an emergency backup during the warmer months - it will die back over winter. The Korean celery sits somewhere in between the other two, and as it should be harvestable year round i can see it being of some use during the colder months so i'm hoping it will come into its own this winter. It has a more pleasant taste than the lovage and if the plants bulk up enough over the next year it may be the case that i'll eventually do away with the lovage and rely solely on the better tasting other two. So as things stand........Gold - Celery Leaf; Silver - Korean Celery; Bronze - Lovage.

Hello I found your channel and I just joined thank you for letting me join awesome video Rosa olbera from Texas

@freedomforestlife

8 ай бұрын

Hey Rosa, Great to have you here with us in the UK all the way fromTexas 🙌 Hope you enjoy catching up on our videos and what we get up to here.💚✌️🌿

Hi again, should have also said thank you for the names of varieties of beans that you grow for drying. I do several but am always looking for new ones so will try to find some seeds of the ones that you do to add to my garden.

Hi great video again, maybe if you've got too much space to maintain do more of a layered plan that will maintain itself for areas you can't keep on top of or do open days for volunteers etc I'd love to have the kind of space you've managed to get it's amazing.

@freedomforestlife

9 ай бұрын

Hey Sam, thanks for your great suggestions 🙏 we have started discussing the possibility of having someone who’s keen to learn, come help us once a week or so next year, in exchange for the experience and a veg box. We have very limited parking and access here, which unfort really limits us on opening up to people more right now. Probably one of the things that made this land less desirable/more affordable! we do feel very pulled often as we are keen to find ways to share what we have here on a more tangible level, however the access thing/ facilities need a lot of improving beforehand, which then means less gardening time for Dan 🤪🤣 we do feel truly grateful for this space and share it in ways that we can right now, with the videos/post etc and hopefully this will unfold far more over time - we have SO MANY exciting plans, just not enough hours in the day 🤣🤣🤣 thanks for watching again and being with us 💚✌️🌿

@freedomforestlife

9 ай бұрын

Just wondering if you’ve come across this vid of ours already Sam : Buying A Woodland UK | How Living With Tribes Inspired Self Sufficiency | Tips on how to find land kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z5Vox6-YeLOfZKg.html Dan shares quite a bit on how he managed to find this place and how it all unfolded … We also presented a permaculture workshop with an amazing perma architect guy back at the start of this year, the first half is on vid on our page - we shared a lot about the land development in there … I think the video has a picture of Dan with tribes, can’t remember the title without checking ✌️🌿

@samhaynes2

9 ай бұрын

@@freedomforestlife It really is amazing what you've done we don't have any land with our house so I've set up 3 allotment plots. After doing my PDC this Summer I'm sold and we are just waiting for my partners business to be set up and then we are looking and transitioning to somewhere with some land. Your abit far from us otherwise I'd offer to help out. Just keep at what your doing the land will do what it needs to if you leave areas alone a little bit. Maybe do some permablitzing to get some of your ideas created for free and rather than people driving make them aware beforehand that space is limited could be an idea.

@freedomforestlife

8 ай бұрын

@@samhaynes2 wow 3 allotment plots - that’s a good amount of space for growing 🙌 good on you for following your hearts - it can be done for sure 💚

@freedomforestlife

8 ай бұрын

@@samhaynes2 wow 3 allotment plots - that’s a good amount of space for growing 🙌 good on you for following your hearts - it can be done for sure 💚

How about a case?

C S A for locals?

@freedomforestlife

5 ай бұрын

Hi Michelle, thanks for watching/commenting, yeah we would defo like to somehow involve local coummunity when it comes to surplus', trying to work out how, that is cost/time effective is the sticking point though. We're not growing the volumes of food regularly to make guarantees for CSA's right now, so its not something we can commit to yet, and we have very limited access and parking which makes everything a little more challenging, but we'll get there 😃 selling certain crops locally is defo part of our future plan. 💚✌️🌿

why don't you invite families and friends to harvest what will go to waste and in return help in the garden.