Wilderness Tamed wants to look at ways to enhance your garden for you and the wildlife that shares it with you. Gardening tips, traditional crafts, organic methods and most of all wildlife friendly ways to manage your space. Speaking of wildlife, there’ll be a few videos on wildlife and how to care and respect the animals we share the planet with. We want to help you get the most from your garden without you doing too much. Enjoy your outdoor space and relax in it. Don’t view it as a place where a whole load of jobs need doing. Sitting back and watching these videos of me doing most of the work is one way to start. So grab yourself a drink and enjoy.
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It’s rare to find a man who’s not concerned about “finishing first or finishing fast” Long live the scythe!
There's a lovely Swahili phrase (which I can't remember in Swahili) which roughly translates as 'Be late, but get there.' I quite like that.
Do you ever play with your snath set-up? I can’t help thinking that dropping the grips a couple of holes would make it a lot less heavy going, especially along the fence line.
Nah.
@@WildernessTamed ah well, there’s no helping some people 😆
Lovely 😊
Its a picture, that. A real labour of love.👍
Thank you. Not that much labour to be honest, which is the hole point.
My sister has a eucalyptus tree and that drops tons of leaves and bark. She would like to get rid of it but apparently it has a preservation order on it and the council send people out to inspect and trim it every couple of years.
Is that in the UK? Seems daft having a TPO on a none native tree.
@@WildernessTamed Yeah its in the UK and that's exactly what we thought but they seem to be very strick with it. My sister might know more regarding the reason for it having a preservation order, I'm just recalling what I remember from around the time that she moved in.
@@tommyt4062 Are the council trimming it because it causes an issue with overhead cables or something? Or is it potentially unstable? I often find a subtle bit of ringbarking can accelerate a trees decline.
@@WildernessTamed My sister wanted to remove it but was told she couldn't. The council said only approved contractors could work on it and they send their own people. The tree is pretty big, maybe 50 foot and is apparently very healthy. She lives in a little village and the cottages where she lives used to be connected to orchards so maybe there's historical reasons they don't want it touched or maybe its a particular local councillor? My uncle has lots of oak trees on his land and it makes perfect sense that they should be preserved after we chopped so many down but a eucalyptus tree makes no sense to me. I'll have to ask my sister, she may have learned more about it?
I'm sure you're right. There'd be more jobs too or use community service offenders.
Saying the nans close yo s heart attack while holding in syth. Has ms thinking your Death. 😅
I was a Gardner and suffered a massive heart attack. I am female and was not over weight
Thank you for watching and commenting. Glad you are still with us.
Mow my city lot with a push reel mower. Had to use the electric sythe to get it started. Several days work and I was huffing. 220lbs, 6ft, 67yo. Let it grow to long.
Put some clothes on before your viewers get heart attack dunno,just a ponder😅
This is some of the most views I’ve had, so maybe not. 😉
You're spot on, hard physical work saves you money and saves your life.
That was so smug and arrogant, sounds like a vegan
Smug and arrogant are my middle names. Also sounds like a good name for a firm of lawyers 😃. Not a vegan but I don’t eat beige food.
😂😂😂😂
I need a syth where does one find one in USA?
Is this Irony ?
Hi Vicky there is a group in the US. They are on Faceache (if you’re on it) I’m not. Chap who runs it is very helpful. Not sure if Austrian scythes are that readily available over the pond.
Botan Anderson sells these Austrian Scythes in the USA. You can find him at One scythe revolution
@@SomersetScytheSchool That's the chap. Couldn't remember his name. Thanks
I’m in better shape than you and I got a riding mower 🤷♂️ think it’s what you put in your face that’s the problem not how you mow your nettles, I do like grass better though maybe you should get some grass instead of nettles 🤷♂️ just a thought 😂
Thanks for watching and commenting. They aren’t my nettles. I’m keeping them in check for a local nursery. It’s nice to have a playground to use. Trust me I mow plenty of lawns and meadows.
The way they mow their grass, manage their vegetation…. control their food intake….could influence physical outcomes, perhaps 🤔
God's gym 💯
Scything has certainly helped me stay fairly trim 😊
The team mowing demos were definitely the highlight of the weekend for me.
Very relaxing to watch
Love that! I l have one clump growing in the garden and can't wait until it flowers!
It's a winner.
You’re a bloody nutter😂
Nice save 👏
Looks good, keeping my hope up for its healing! 👍
Thank you. It's incredible how resilient and hardy trees are.
Very pretty - for about a week 🤣
They flower for ages and you know it. Plus the foliage is evergreen and rather nice.
@@WildernessTamed JK. looking at my garden I’ve got pots of wild violets, forget me nots, herb Robert, evening primrose and ox eye daisies - all self seeded and requiring no maintenance.
Hi john. My hedge is 2 metres wide and 4 metres high. It's a nightmare to prune. If i cut it all back to 1 metre high and wide, do you know if it will grow back and how long it will take for it to be a hedge again? Thanks.
Hello @lyndilu2235 many thanks for getting in touch. A lot depends on what kind of hedge it is. But regardless of that, please don't cut it during bird nesting season. Wait until the autumn before you go reducing the height and width dramatically. I would also suggest, do one, one year and follow up with the next the following year. Too much can seriously stress the plants. I generally reduce the height in the first year, then thin the hedge on one side the second year and a final cut of the other side of the hedge in the third year. I hope this helps. Let me know what plants your hedge is made up of and I can assist in greater detail.
@@WildernessTamed thanks John. My hedge is a laurus cerasus.
With Laurel not many birds will nest in them as they have quite open branching. They recover fairly quickly from a good hard pruning. The one in this video is sending out a lot of fresh new growth now. Cut it back about 50cm lower than you want the desired height to allow the new growth to fill out and grow to the final height and width.
Nice transformation. I reckon a meandering path rather than straight lines would add interest and a more natural feel to it.
Thanks for this, I’m always looking for new alternative methods to add to my repertoire. I went straight out and tried it and it worked (of course). And it’s a lot better than kneeling down with the tip of the blade on the ground. Just a couple of caveats: you need to make sure that the top of the snath is well stuck into the ground to make sure it doesn’t slide away from you and let the blade slide down your leg, especially if you are using a long snath and/or wearing shorts. (Cue hairless right thigh). And I find some beginners are very wary of the “left hand spider fingers” so an alternative for the burr removal step might be supporting the blade under the left forearm, with the heel resting in the armpit. I found that worked well.
Perhaps you could do short in response to mine showing those points. Tag me 👍🏻
@@WildernessTamed your request is my command! 😉
So the docks in my field are getting really nicely established 😂
That’s just your opinion or bad management 😉😆
Only a light misting required.
Isolation isn't successful, as the weedkiller is likely to affect the root systems of neighbouring plants. Do you use glysophate?
Sometimes as well as vinegar. But I only use vinegar on drives and patios, not bare soil.
Glyphosate doesn’t travel through soil. It isn’t affective in soil only on cellulose and plant tissue.
Pull them out!!
@@beauvaisboy not so easily done with dogs mercury that is in amongst other plants with delicate root systems. But generally I would yes.
Thanks for pointing out that it doesn’t work in every situation 😊
This is the council who bought 80 hawthorn bushes to put in between the empty beer and wine bottles on the banks of the Tyne, but Del boy and cronies only ordered 800. Good old Gazahead Council
Straight to the point. Liked it
where does your tire dust go while you are driving? not into the environment?
Fly tipping is worse than driving.
Complete tossers the lot of ‘em 🤬
I’m with u bro
This is fantastic! One question - Can you adjust the height of the cut for the type of grass? I have a zoysia lawn that is supposed to be cut to 1.5 - 2 inches. Could I scythe cut it to that height? Like you said, I don't want brown or dead grass!
Hello BethArnold-xp1os many thanks for watching and commenting. You can make minimal adjustments by using a wedge slotted in behind the tang of the blade to lever it up from the snath but you're looking at millimetre differences. Once you're proficient you can mow with the blade held higher, rather than rubbing it over the grass as I am doing here. But the blade needs to be super sharp otherwise you just fold the grass over.
Arts and craft I love it!
Thank you Bob
Loved the cologne ad 😂 Can almost smell it from here
Good stuff! Little small for swimming tho..
Not if you’re a frog 🐸
Throw leader ( joke - so called ) of council and add ll his 9 on cabinet and ALL in house solicitors in jail for LIFE.
Gateshead is big time corrupted. They get money under the table doing private jobs for cash using people’s and gov vehicles and equipment to do it with. And ignoring the work of the borough.
I love your videos. I particularly love your accent. (I was born in Sunderland but left the north east forty years ago). But I have a real problem with the contrast in volume between your speaking voice, which is barely audible, and the music, which is very loud. Do you think you might be able to do equalise the volume across the whole of the film? Hope you can. Cheers.
I do my best to balance things out in the editing process. I shall attempt to improve this. Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it.
Can’t help wondering what strange fungi you’d been imbibing when you made this one 😂
What’s the music track you used on this? It’s got a lovely horn part!
The composers name is in the credits at the end. And if you believe that.......It was just a piece that came with the trailer template in iMovie
What’s the best time of year to empty and renovate a pond like this to avoid disrupting the current resident wildlife?
Winter when the weathers really pants and the water is freezing. According to Natural England. I go for October when it's just and so bearable and most amphibious have left.
@@WildernessTamed b****r! Looks like I’ve missed my chance then
Bother! Guess I’ve missed my chance for this year then.
Cue the A team music. Cant decide if you're Hanibal or mad Murdoch. One things for sure you're fond of a treat digging that oot, Would blinding that with a couple of dumpy bags of builders sand under the felt be a good idea? It would certainly smooth out some of the sharp edges.
Would have just added to the expense of the project and the labour involved with little to no improvement. That felt underlay is pretty robust stuff.
I saw a common lizard near Drakes Stone in Northumberland. I've seen adders in the Breamish valley too. Its only a few miles from my front door.
Ah yes, up round the Cheviots is a top spot. Ingram and the Breamish valley are great areas.
Not arguing with you. But I would like to know why for I do not know?
Why what? Why St Patrick is a pillock? Because of the legend that he removed all the snakes from Ireland. It's nonsense of course, because there weren't any anyway, but to celebrate something like that just seems nuts, to someone who has dedicated their lives to reptile conservation.
That was a lovely little ramble. I’ve seen plenty of snakes in my time but I don’t think I’ve ever spotted a common lizard in the UK. Would love to though. Nice to see a bit of sunshine too. Keep the videos coming 😊