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0:00 Intro
0:31 Weeds Are the Answer to Your Garden Problems!
2:43 3 Ingredients to Fix ANY Soil, the Lazy Way
3:03 Why I Hate Cover Crops (and 9 Other Fall Lazy Gardening Tips)
4:30 a quick word from our sponsor
5:33 FULL August Garden Tour 2024!
7:07 Watering Your Garden, the Lazy Way
8:09 FULL June Garden Tour 2024!
9:11 Start a Lazy Garden From Scratch | Never Weed/Water Again!
10:27 You're (Probably) Killing Your Fruit Trees
11:47 Get Rid of Pests in the Garden, the Lazy Way
15:57 FULL Spring Garden Tour 2024!
16:54 "Chard is disgusting"
Click here to support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/anneofalltrades
MORE ABOUT ME
I'm Anne of All Trades. In NASHVILLE, I have a woodworking, blacksmithing and fabrication shop, a selection of furry friends, and an organic farm. Whether you've got the knowledge, tools, time or space to do the things you've always wanted to do, everything is "figureoutable."
I became "Anne of All Trades" out of necessity. With no background in farming or making things, I wanted to learn to raise my own food, fix things when they break and build the things I need.
13 years ago I got my first pet, planted my first seed and picked up my first tool.
My goal is to learn and share traditional techniques and skills while showing my peers how to get from where they are to where they want to go, how to do the things they are passionate about, and what can be done TODAY to engage their own community and grow deep roots.
Whether it's carving spoons, making my own hand tools, restoring my antique truck or growing heirloom tomatoes, the farm and workshop definitely keep me busy and support - whether financially through Patreon, through shopping my affiliate links, through buying merchandise, plans or project videos, or even just liking, commenting, and sharing my content with others helps me GREATLY to keep producing quality content to share.
Get a better roadmap of how to grow deep roots and live the life you want by subscribing to this channel and be sure to check out my blog for even more
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00:00As a teacher, sometimes it stings a little to be publicly called out when we're wrong,
00:04but I truly believe that the best learners and the best teachers are those that aren't
00:08afraid to admit that they are wrong.
00:11Which I am.
00:12A lot, as it turns out.
00:14And that is what this video is all about.
00:19As we come to the end of the year, rather than doing the traditional year-end wrap-up
00:23full of sage advice, I figured a much better take would be making a video about all the
00:27times you all pointed out to me how I was wrong this year.
00:31Earlier this summer we released a video that ended up being way more popular than we ever
00:35thought it was going to be that was full of a whole bunch of contrarian advice about weeds.
00:40In that video I talked about how weeds are not actually the enemy like we've been told
00:44for most of our gardening careers.
00:46They can actually be really good indicators about what's wrong with your soil and the
00:50weeds themselves can actually be the recipe to fix our soil.
00:54But I really should have spent a whole lot more time in that video making a very important
00:58distinction.
00:59There is a huge difference between native weed species and invasive weed species and
01:05they need to be treated completely differently.
01:08Invasive weed species are just that.
01:10They are invasive.
01:11They're not going to follow the same rules or be quite the same indicators or even be
01:16the natural fixes for our soil that native weeds actually could be.
01:21It's a whole lot more difficult to get rid of invasive weed species through natural practices
01:27but it's not impossible.
01:28We have a couple invasive species here that have been especially problematic and I've
01:32really had to get out the big guns when it comes to dealing with them.
01:36And by big guns I mean sometimes I'll use plastic fabric to squish them and solarize
01:41them for a period of time or maybe I'll spray them with a salt and vinegar spray and try
01:46to nip them in the bud.
01:48Sometimes I will have to break my never weed or water your garden again rule and weed or
01:54cut off the natural water supply to certain weeds.
01:57Or in worst case scenarios bring in the pigs to do what pigs do best.
02:02And that's actually what we did in the forest behind our house which is we used the pigs
02:06to uproot the invasives in a much less destructive way than big equipment or chemicals would
02:11have.
02:12In that same video I said that wood sorrel was a great nitrogen fixer in our garden and
02:17I was, as it turns out, sorely misinformed.
02:20Wood sorrel, though it is delicious and edible, is not actually a nitrogen fixer at all.
02:26It looks like clover but it doesn't act like clover.
02:29Also in that video I called a plant the wrong thing and showed the wrong thing on screen
02:33and a bunch of people pointed that out.
02:35This ragweed...
02:36RAGWEED...
02:37Pigweed and ragweed are not the same thing.
02:42Thank you for catching that.
02:44In our Fixing Your Soil the Lazy Way video I talk about stealing things from the forest.
02:49That comes with the caveat that some places it's illegal to steal things from the forest.
02:54So check your local laws, check your local stuff.
02:57I get to steal from my forest because it's part of my property and I'm not actually stealing,
03:02I'm improving.
03:04At the end of this growing season we made a video called Why I Hate Cover Crops and
03:08the comment section in that video went wild with people staunchly defending why cover
03:13crops are really important.
03:15And here's the thing.
03:16If it works for you, it works.
03:19In that video I was talking about why cover crops don't work for me in this application
03:24here.
03:25But there are tons of applications where cover crops can actually really serve the gardeners
03:29that want to use them.
03:31Something I could have been a whole lot more clear about is the fact that we don't have
03:35a super severe winter here.
03:37So we can't reliably count on frost kill to actually kill off our cover crop.
03:44Come spring here, even if we have had a couple hard frosts, it's very likely for our cover
03:48crop to pop back up in full vigor and actually then become a huge problem to kill off.
03:54But if you're somewhere like Montana where it does actually get really cold all winter
03:57long and has snow and you can afford the gardening space to plant your cover crop and get it
04:03well established before the end of the season, go for it.
04:07More fertility in your soil is never going to hurt.
04:10A really great resource for learning more about cover crops if you are interested in
04:14using them is No-Till Growers.
04:16That is one of my favorite YouTube channels and every single video they put out is full
04:21of really really good solid gardening advice.
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05:33In a lot of my gardening videos you'll hear me talking about how in a lazy gardening system
05:37you don't need to rotate your crops.
05:40This is year four of growing Chinese long beans, other bean varieties, and peas all
05:46in the same spots over and over and over again without having to rotate.
05:52And that is true, but I was probably missing a little bit of context that might be pretty
05:58important.
05:59So let's clarify.
06:00If you've been using conventional gardening techniques in your garden for years, if you
06:03already have an established garden, or if you're just getting started gardening now,
06:09saying that you will never have to rotate your crops again might be bad advice because
06:13the key to being able to never rotate our crops again starts with having really really
06:19healthy soil.
06:20And all of these lazy gardening techniques will definitely help you build your soil over
06:25time, but I really also want to be careful to tell you things that are definitely true.
06:29Tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, beans, all of those things that we're told never to plant
06:33in the same place twice are definitely more prone to blight and diseases and pests that
06:39will live in the soil, but that is significantly less important if your soil is healthy because
06:45healthy soil will create plants that are more resilient and more resistant to damage by
06:50pests and disease.
06:51Yes, you can still rotate those things if you want to, even if you do lazy gardening
06:56and even if your soil is super healthy.
06:58But if you're able to build your soil up to a point where it's able to actually support
07:02your plants the way that they need, you don't have to do that stuff anymore.
07:07In the video Water Your Garden the Lazy Way, I talked about how ultimately our goal is
07:12to get to where we really don't ever have to water our gardens, but in that video I
07:17recommended that if you do have to use city water, it might actually help to fill up a
07:21couple buckets the night before with city water and let them sit overnight so that those
07:26chemicals would dissipate.
07:28I think I also mentioned that you can add vitamin C or ascorbic acid to that water to
07:32help those chemicals dissipate faster and easier, and a bunch of people commented on
07:37that video that I was not correct in saying that.
07:40So of course, I dug a little deeper to figure out what they were talking about.
07:43And sure enough, as it turns out, a lot of cities use a different chemical to treat their
07:47water than ours does, and some of those chemicals do not dissipate overnight, do not dissipate
07:53when adding ascorbic acid, and so the best way that you can figure out whether your city
07:57does that or not and what you can do about it is to call your local water district and
08:02say, hey, what do you guys use to treat your water, and is there anything I can add to
08:08it to help dissipate those chemicals?
08:10Earlier this year, you saw me planting hops, mint, oregano, and strawberries, all plants
08:16that tend to creep around the edges of my garden for a couple different reasons.
08:22One, because all those plants are really low-maintenance plants that tend to spread really quickly,
08:26and in areas where things like Bermuda grass are coming in from the outside and I don't
08:31want them to, I want to create as much competition for sunlight, for nutrients, and everything
08:38else that plants need to survive as I possibly can, and also get something that I actually
08:43want from that.
08:44Because otherwise, I could just let the weeds run amok, and who cares?
08:48It's a lazy garden.
08:49However, I think that doing that might have been a little bit of a bad example for some
08:54of my younger gardeners.
08:56Mint, oregano, and hops especially can become invasive even if we planted them on purpose
09:02in a real hurry.
09:04Ideally I would recommend that you plant all three of those things in a container so that
09:09they don't spread, because they're gonna.
09:12In the Start a Lazy Garden From Scratch video, you see me planting wine cap mushrooms in
09:16my new garden bed, and I think I should have been clearer in that video about why I was
09:21planting wine cap mushrooms specifically because I got so many questions from folks asking
09:27if they could just plant any kind of mushrooms in their garden, and so let's just talk about
09:31that for a second.
09:32There are only a couple of mushrooms that you can plant in your garden if you actually
09:36expect to be able to get mushrooms that you can eat from your garden, and I really recommend
09:41using wine cap mushrooms, especially if you've never grown any other kinds of mushrooms before,
09:46because wine cap mycelium is a whole lot more aggressive than, say, morel mycelium, and
09:53in that, the wine caps are a whole lot harder to screw up than some of the more sensitive,
09:58less aggressive mushrooms like morels.
10:02Wine cap mushrooms are a whole lot more easy to identify and differentiate between potentially
10:08poisonous mushrooms than a whole lot of other things that might pop up in your garden, so
10:12if you do actually want to eat the mushrooms that grow in your garden pathways and help
10:18retain moisture in your soil in your garden beds, then wine caps are a really good option.
10:23Plus, they taste good, and a lot of edible mushrooms don't.
10:27Last spring, I had my arborist friend Daniel come and re-teach me how to prune my fruit
10:32trees.
10:33Because our pruning video went kind of viral, a lot of people who have never seen my videos
10:37before felt the need to pipe in in the comment section, which I totally love because that
10:42provides so many opportunities to potentially learn new things, but one of the things that
10:47I saw so many times in the comment section that was interesting and kind of correct but
10:53probably needs further explanation here, is that fruit trees should actually be pruned
10:58differently than what we were showing.
11:01And that information is basically up to personal interpretation.
11:05And the correctness of people telling us that we should have pruned our tree into a vase
11:09shape instead of using a central leader like we talked about in that video kind of depends
11:15on what you actually want out of your fruit trees.
11:17In our pruning videos, Daniel teaches us how to prune for the longevity and health of the
11:23tree, with fruit production kind of being secondary to how healthy and how long that
11:28tree will actually live.
11:30And for those of us that care about investing in our trees and in our properties on the
11:33long term, I think that that's probably advice that will serve us a little bit more than
11:39just pruning for absolute maximum production all the time, and who cares if it snows and
11:44your tree splits and dies as a result.
11:48If you were to only read the comment section from the Get Rid of Pests the Lazy Way video,
11:53you would probably think that that video was absolutely riddled with misinformation,
11:58which I did definitely say a few things that were abjectly wrong in that video, but a whole
12:03lot more things just need to be talked about to give them a little more context.
12:07Let's talk about that.
12:09In that video, I mentioned that roly polies, those little potato-shaped bugs that tend
12:15to be everywhere in our garden, don't actually eat our plants.
12:18A lot of commenters were happy to tell me that I was completely wrong.
12:22Roly polies do actually eat our plants.
12:25And so, of course, I looked further into it.
12:28And here's the thing.
12:29Those commenters were both right and wrong.
12:32Roly polies will, to the commenter's credit, absolutely eat your plants.
12:37But if, and only if, you don't have enough decaying matter for the roly polies to eat
12:43first, because that decaying organic matter is actually their favorite food, and if there's
12:48enough decaying organic matter for the roly polies and a lot of other garden pests too,
12:52like termites and ants, to actually eat, then they will eat those things and stay away from
12:58your plants.
12:59And if we want our lazy gardens to actually work the way that we need them to work, we
13:04need to be providing all of those little pests tons of decaying organic matter to eat all
13:10the time so that they can actually help us decay it further, faster, which will ultimately
13:15result in way better soil.
13:17You never want to let your garden get to the point that the roly polies and other pests
13:21like that don't have enough to eat, because that will also mean that you don't have enough
13:25mulch protecting the top layer of your soil from evaporation, nutrient loss, and all of
13:31the other good things that happen when we do have enough of those things.
13:35Something really cool I learned due to the comment section in that video was why exactly
13:40copper does work to repel slugs.
13:42Slugs have a little bit of a static charge in their body, and when they come into contact
13:47with copper, because they are also wet and copper conducts electricity really easily,
13:52it shocks them.
13:54So they don't want to crawl over it, which is why it's a great thing to lay in and around
13:58our gardens to protect our plants, especially if we live in an area where there's tons of
14:03slugs.
14:04In that video, I also talked about using cheap, gross beer as a slug trap in that video, and
14:09I was specifically talking about Coors Light, because we have an ongoing joke on this channel
14:14about Coors Light being gross.
14:16But as it happens, Coors Light is actually the best beer I've found for using as slug
14:22bait.
14:23There's a couple reasons for this, but beer in general will work as slug bait, probably
14:28not as well as some other things, but you can also make your own homemade slug bait
14:33that does the same thing as beer, because it's basically the same thing, by mixing yeast,
14:37water, sugar, and salt.
14:39The yeast and sugar help draw the slugs in, and then the salt kills them.
14:44In that video, I also talked about swatting at carpenter bees with my electric fly swatter,
14:50and that whole scene was missing some really important context that got edited out.
14:55Carpenter bees, to many of the commenters' credit, are great pollinators in the garden,
15:00and definitely should not be targeted or killed.
15:03We have had an ongoing issue with a carpenter bee infestation in our home that has caused
15:09tens of thousands of dollars of damage and is a real pain, so yes, I'm constantly dealing
15:15with trying to get rid of them, because they are such a huge population and we need to
15:19deal with it somehow.
15:21But that's not the case for everyone, so take that sarcastic comment with the sarcasm it
15:26was intended.
15:27In that video, there was also a couple b-roll incidents where Farmer Adam got pictures of
15:32things mixed up, and we'll forgive him that every single time, because he's not a farmer
15:36and he's doing a really good job making really great videos.
15:39This picture is of a lady beetle, which is not at all the same thing as a lady bug.
15:46Lady bugs are fantastic for our garden, they eat aphids, we want them all day long.
15:51Lady beetles are an invasive species from Asia, and they are absolute turds we do not
15:55want in our garden.
15:56Or anywhere else, for that matter.
15:58In one of our videos, I talked about how I had just trapped my native honeybees.
16:04And that was a major misspeak that the commenters in that video were happy to point out over
16:10and over and over again.
16:11Honeybees are not native to North America.
16:13The commenters in that video were 100% correct, and what I said was not correct in that way.
16:19What I was intending to communicate, however, is that honeybees that have successfully survived
16:24the winter and have, in the spring, outgrown their colony and have swarmed, are going to
16:31be a lot better adapted to whatever your immediate climate and food availability is than some
16:39other package of bees that you have shipped in from some other place.
16:44And in that, it's a lot cheaper to trap your own bees, they're going to be better adjusted,
16:49and, well, why wouldn't we want to try to trap local, not native, honeybees?
16:55I want to take a quick second to officially address a short that I made as a total joke,
17:01but went viral and has generated most of the negative comments that I've gotten on my channel
17:07over the last couple years.
17:08Short is disgusting.
17:10It's really pretty in photographs, and if you want to be an Instagram influencer, plant
17:13this crap everywhere.
17:15But if you plan on eating it, I hope you have a lot of salad dressing or something else,
17:18because this is gross.
17:21In response to all of the commenters saying that chard is delicious when you cook it in
17:25things like bacon grease and butter and garlic, of course it is!
17:31Bacon grease, garlic, and butter are all delicious, but if you have to put something in those
17:37things to make it edible, it's gross!
17:40So I stand by what I said.
17:42Growing up with learning disabilities, learning anything has always been a challenge for me,
17:47and it's made me really shy away from ever teaching anything, especially in the spotlight,
17:53because I really don't ever want to steer anyone wrong.
17:57But at the same time, learning anything and actually having that information solidified
18:02in our mind is best done by turning around and teaching that thing.
18:06And one of my favorite things about making the videos that I do and sharing them with
18:10you is that I get the opportunity to turn around and teach what I've learned, but also
18:16to keep learning right alongside you.
18:19So please, keep those comments coming.
18:21I am so excited about tackling this next gardening season together.
18:25Stick around.
18:26Cheers!