My rewilding activity steps outside of my yard for a moment and I hope this is a trend. Despite the cooler temperatures of the fall I had a shocking visitor to the garden. Watch the video to determine if you are an Earth Warrior?
What a great way to interact with neighbors; offering to help rewild their yard. I also am planting native plants at a neighbor’s yard. It’s a great way to share the excess of native plants in our yard and help someone who struggles to maintain their flower beds. Fortunately her son who lives out of state is into native plants so when he stops to visit his mother he puts in a good word for the plant choices. Keep up the great work, Warrior.
Dan - Thanks for being an Earth Warrior yourself and making a difference for wildlife! Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment, it means a lot to me!
Inspiring and Awesome stuff Jeff and keep up the good work. If we all take a bit of responsibility for our fellow inhabitants the 🌍 would be a richer place 👍 Devon, UK 🇬🇧
Dominic - glad you enjoyed. I am hoping more people will learn about rewilding and the value it brings to wildlife but also to humans. I love the garden and the changes it has brought about in me and the people who have seen the transformation of the yard over time. Hope you will be able to watch future episodes as I publish them. Take care!
Anytime you go against the neighborhood 'norm' of landscaping and follow a passion that you have you will get those nagging questions in your head of whether or not you're doing the right thing with your yard. When we did this with our last property it was fun to watch the birds, bees, moths, butterflies, and other insects come to our yard and we realized that we were in their territory and not the other way around. Continue to follow your passion and enjoy the journey along the way. The process is worth the provision of a native-filled yard.
I may quote you " we realized we were in their territory and not the other way around"; refreshing perspective! I have been completely mesmerized by all the new creatures I have seen in the garden. Every time I see a new species I repeat to myself "if you had any doubt this should reinforce this is right, good and necessary". It is interesting I have had many neighbors stop and state, "I can't wait to see the garden in bloom this year.
Don - Yes the channel is above 1,000 but still not monetized as need to reach 4,000 hours of viewed content in a year. This may take longer than I thought but still enjoying the journey!
Another Golden Great! I've shared some of your videos. I've found them to be gentle, kind, honest, and open hearted. I suppose that might be a reflection of you. Lovely videos.
Father Philip - I can't clam to be the person you describe but with all the negative "messages" we receive throughout our day I work very hard to be positive, supportive and provide hope. It is extremely pleasing to receive your messages and I don't know why but they make me emotional. Thank you for your interest in my videos and I am very pleased you find value in them.
@@Jeffswildlifeadventures I've put up about 1.4K videos and I know the effect of a nasty comment (people seem to think they can say anything to their computer without realising there is a person back there). I also know how heartening a nice comment is. You deserve it. I only very rarely comment - perhaps once every month or two. There is something very refreshing about your videos that must emanate from you. Thank you. God bless you!
@@ArchimandritePhilip thank you! Some how this comment slipped through till now but it made my day! Take care and God bless you and all the folks in the UK.
My neighbor is awesome and I am so grateful she agreed to my proposal. I am hoping others will approach me to ask for help. Wouldn't it be great to see a whole neighborhood rewilded, I can only hope and dream!
Earth Warrior Patti - I wish you good luck on your mission! Together we can have a significant positive impact in preserving nature and all the wildlife which call it home!
Thank you for staying with me on the journey. I plan to continue for a long time. Glad to have you along for the ride. Thanks for leaving a comment to let me know you are there watching and are enjoying the journey!
Oh I love this series so much! You got your neighbor to participate! That's amazing and so wholesome. At 5:20 you show some seedlings you aren't sure what they are, but you think coneflowers. That is possible, but to me they look like asters. But the base does look like coneflowers. The leaves are why I think they could be asters. I get lots of aster volunteers in my garden, so that's one reason I say that. I can't wait to see what they turn out to be.
It makes me happy to know you are enjoying the series!!!! You have a very good eye. The taller plants are asters. Late summer I look one cone flower head which had completely dried out and I scattered the seeds in a broad area. Later I came back and planted three asters. Interesting it appears the cone flowers germinated in the area I disturbed. This phase of the garden is fascinating as it’s starting to self determine what the future will look like. Fall Obedient plants are all over. Goldenrod is spreading, I may have some salvias which have self seeded. Just amazing to watch!!! Look forward to hearing from you in future episodes. Take care and thank you for watching and leaving a comment!
@@Jeffswildlifeadventures You can also start purple coneflower indoors if you want to try it. They don't need the cold stratification that other natives do. Wild Bergamot also doesn't need cold stratification either. I've been happily growing some natives indoors under a grow light the past few weeks, including those flowers I mentioned as well as some native grasses. There are several native grasses that don't need cold stratification either or can do with just 20 days or less! It's so cool. I also started some seeds in the fridge to get some cold stratification on the ones that need it. I see mixed opinions on if the grasses I am growing need cold stratification or not, but I can say that Canada Wildrye, Switchgrass, and Side Oats Grama can germinate without the cold stratification. They may get more germination with some stratification, though, so to test this, I've also put some in the fridge for 20 days...Happy native plant growing!
I have been working on winter sowing. About three weeks ago I started Butterfly Weed and have a germination rate of 50%. I recently planted Purple Cone Flowers, Rudeckia and yesterday planted Wild Bergamot and Side Oats Grama. I still have seeds for Little Blue Stem, Iron Weed and Joe Pye Weed. Growing plants from seeds is a whole new experience for me and is a lot of fun. Thanks again for all the comments and recommendations. Based on your comments it seems I am on the right path!
It is such a joy to be able to able to give wildlife a home. I am hopeful my approach allows people to understand the positive impact they can have in their own way. Maybe rewilding will become the latest trend - we can only hope.
I am enjoying your enthusiasm. I think I am a bit crazy like you too!! But all I can think is .... why doesn't he invest in a wheelbarrow, or hand-truck? Maybe others have already suggested it, but it is certainly an environmentally stable, and very old-school method that has existed for centuries to help with heavy transport, and moving larger quantities than your one bucket at a time method. I love mine: the barrow for moving heaps of mulch (thanks to tree-cutters for that free earth gift) and the hand-truck for the big rocks I try to scrounge. Up here where I am, the sources for rocks don't seem to be as available as where you are.
I have had a lot of other yard equipment and got rid of it to clean out the garage. I have thought about rebuying a wheelbarrow but have just kept it simple. The hard work is done so now its more about enjoying the garden and watching the amazing creatures which call the garden home and the flowers which are blooming. I am sure there are lots of questions people are asking when they watch the videos as I realize I have not always taken the easiest path to accomplish certain tasks. I really appreciate you watching the videos and your concern. Maybe I should have titled the channel "Caveman Gardening". Take care!
The lack of native plant availability is an issue where I live too. There's only one farmer's market stall in my city that does it and last year they sold their entire stock on the first weekend. Gotta get good at propogating seeds.
I have been a complete failure at growing plants from seed! I will continue to work on figuring out how to grow plants from seed but its kind of amazing any plants grow in the wild as the success rate doesn't seem to be that high. Hope you have better luck than I did and I will be trying again in the fall. Take care!
Nate - Will be interesting to see if I can get anyone else to "rewild" some portion of their yard? Working on a couple of idea to capture my neighbors attention. More to come on this. Thanks for watching and the words of encouragement!
Hello Jeff, do you have any suggestions on where to buy local native seed packets? Also want to add that you have inspired me to carve out some areas of my yard in Houston to rewilding as well! Thank you for your videos!
Austin - Thanks for watching and I am always glad to hear of others taking on the challenge of rewilding. My next video will address your question in a bigger way but let me give you what I know right now. I have bought seeds from Prairie Moon Nursery - a mail order company. Their website is great as you can filter by zone, location and type of plant. I believe the issue I am going to have with growing plants from seed is the length of time it takes for the plants to get to a meaningful size. I think it is important to plant a variety of plants including those that will grow fast so your garden looks like something other than dirt and mulch. One way to save money is to propagate plants. This allows you to buy one plant and then take some cuttings and generate other plants. Two plants which I have had great success propagating is Gregg's Mist Flower and Texas Rock Rose. I think Turks Cap may be a good candidate for propagation but have not tried yet - will try this spring. If you have other questions at any point, feel free to contact me through RU-vid even if the question does not pertain to the video you are commenting on I will attempt to address.
