E65 Re-Cycling Garden Waste l No-till Gardening

This video shows how I created a no-till garden bed using:
– All of my saved cardboardboxes (two year’s worth of boxes)
– Brambles and small trees
– Grass clippings

I also had a visit from my nephew’s and have new camera shy volunteers staying with me.

Three years ago I bought an abandoned old school with a massive overgrown garden in Sweden. I’ve tried to tame the garden now and then while renovating the first stage of the house. In this vlog I’m turning two huge piles of brambles into a future garden bed using the no-till technique. So if I look at this garden long term and all of the work that needs to be done, then I have a lot of landscaping to do, which includes removing some unwanted vegetation and planting some new that completes the existing. So I’m trying to be smart about this and think ahead. When removing things and taming the garden, I am going to create a lot of garden waste just like I did in this winter. And I have in the past tried to take it to the recycling site, but that took me like two days to do all of those rounds. So I might as well spend a bit more time, maybe twice as much, but then I don’t have to pay for new soil and compost. And I’m saving resources by not transporting things back and forth, and it just feels better to recycle it from the garden, of course. It’s time to deal with this massive mountain of carnage that I produced last year. Great job. If you’ve followed me a while, you might have seen me do this dead hedge before. I have two now underneath this beautiful copper beached tree. And this is also one way to take care of your garden waste. And it’s actually a lot less work because you don’t have to cut it into smaller pieces. You can just weave it like this. And I’m definitely going to do more of these further in here when I clear out this whole space. After the garden waste has decomposed for two years this area will be ready for planting. I plan to plant cranesbill or big root geranium as it’s a tough perennial and you need that underneath a tree like this. This geranium is great because of two things. One, it’s very hardy. It can survive underneath the tough microclimate underneath a tree that’s gonna be very dry and don’t get a lot of sun. And secondly, this geranium, it starts a war on other plants. So it releases a chemical that makes it harder for other plants and vegetation to establish or even to grow.