Ultimate food forest garden watering guide - part 1 

Volume is a little low on this video, and I want to hear every word! Thanks! :-)

That was me! That was me!! Haha I cant believe you answered my question in a video. How frickin great is that!!!! You've made me a very happy novice gardener 🤩🤩🤩

Banana the biochar acts as a condensation nucleus for the water to aggregate around so it is gathered in clusters rather than distributed evenly. That allows gaps for air without the soil becoming desiccated. Biochar is sexy stuff. Got to get a drum within drum system going here.

This was good fun. Signed someone that can't even keep tomato plants happy. I'm looking forward to jumping into more of these videos.

I'm currently going through the entire essentials playlist, taking notes along the way. It's amazing how much information is contained in each video. Thank you so much for your hard work and paving the way for people new to food forests :)

Eye & ear candy- thank you for sharing.

Good Stuff, comments for the algorithm.

I'm pretty excited to watch your forest grow 😁

Just discovered ur post....wow we r relocating back to NZ looking for volcanic land to grow our produce and build. Thank you so much for saving us time in the weeding, growing and being clean green with reduced footprint by casting the long shadow and by observing nature. It was a Canadian who emigrated to NZ who first introduced me to companion gardening minus the why

Great video!

Awesome food forest🐝

Thanks l for the water breakdown. I regret that our property doesn't have a running, year-round source of water. It has a well, but that is not very deep and turns out it is seasonal.

Love you videos, the valuable info is to the point & relevant to every gardener. Only thing I would like to highlight is sound, on many of your videos it fades off , as another poster wrote, it's important to hear all of the content, otherwise, your channel is an absolute must!

If you think about it, watering in the morning mimics nature. In the spring, summer, and early fall, dew tends to form overnight towards dawn as temperatures reach a low point that his the dew point. That moisture spends a minimum of time on the leaves before mean Mr sun dries it all up and devastates parasitic fungi. So watering at the buttcrack of dawn is probably the way to go just because nature does it that way mostly. It would be cool to see what botany and horticulture have to say. Does morning water produce more photosynthesis at peak sun? Is transpiration better regulated?

I'm loving these videos and new to permaculture. Prepping for a food forest next spring. BUT hey? Do you have a name dear gardener? People would like a name. I learned this on my own etsy shop, etc.... thanks, Kelly

Thanks for another great video. Learning so much! You sold me on the biochar. I went back to watch your initial biochar video. Would love to introduce it into my compost pile and my soil, but as I am in a subdivision I am unable to make it. Is there a way to source out biochar or perhaps a way to purchase charcoal that you could place into your compost pile? Regular charcoal from Canadian Tire, etc. would probably not do as it's source and process would be ambiguous, and probably not burnt clean. Any suggestions for us suburbanites with tiny backyards? Thanks!

That was great and the comments back and forth about the details (science of watering) are very helpful too. As I’m new to the science (and biochar) I’d like to incorporate it to help supercharge my vegetable garden soil - if I have a fire pit, should I take out the charred pieces left, mix them into my compost pile and then add them to my garden throughout the growing season? The biochar need to be mingling with compost first and then the compost is the delivery system? Is that the way? Thank you for this watering tutorial. Thorough as usual and very appreciated.

Interesting! I've heard of biochar and how to produce it, but I wasn't aware it was used in compost. Makes sense though! Composted biochar would probably compare favourably with terra preta, the highly fertile soil amendment that the original Amazonian natives used to build their food forests (which are still growing tons of food today, even though they've been neglected since the Europeans wiped out most of the indigenous population when they arrived). All you need now is some broken pottery shards. Got any earthenware dishes you can smash? ;) As an aside, if you haven't yet, check out the book 1491 by Charles C. Mann. That's where I first learned about terra preta. It's not about gardening or permaculture -- it's about what the Americas were like before the Europeans arrived, and it's absolutely fascinating.

The problem with watering in the middle of the day when the sun is up is that they get stressed by the rapid temperature change. The roots will suffer a lot if you put fresh water in a hot day. At least this is what everyone say to me, why i shouldn't water in the 12 . Also the plant focuses more on the leaves and the sun, and then will not store that much water. The leaves can change structure when it's hot, making them more vulnerable to umidity and molds. If you put water with an hot sun then it will generate umidity that can also do damage.

Yes if u recommend a biochar I would buy via your amazon link. Small city lot.

Long time listener, first time caller, love the videos and your reddit posts which are how I first found your channel. 3:00 discussing the lensing of water droplets on leaves; from a mechanical standpoint I agree that it is stupid, and that a water droplet wouldn't burn the leaf from heating. However, there is a biological mechanism that could explain this. With rapidly increased PAR levels like the magnifying effect from a water droplet, it can actually damage the chloroplasts by overloading the photosynthetic pathways. Photosynthesis naturally produces toxic byproducts that must be dealt with by the plants. If there's more light than the plants are adapted to, they won't have adequate mechanisms in place to deal with the byproducts which are highly damaging to the cells themselves (they can't just 'turn off' chloroplasts when there's too much light). This could cause a runaway chain reaction damaging the cells and extracellular structures. With the inconsistency of water droplets placement on the leaf and transient nature, it could create a yoyo effect where the plant is constantly having to heal damaged tissues in different spots on the leaf constantly, diverting resources from growth. Note that this is a theoretical mechanistic explanation for the water drops 'burning' the leaves, I couldn't find any studies in a brief search actually quantifying actual damage and photooxidative stress from water droplets, however it is fairly well established that mechanical stimulation (thigomorphogenesis) induces a stress response that helps increase the robustness of the plants and could actually be more beneficial than harmful. My guess is that water droplets would affect a small enough area for a short enough time that it wouldn't have any significant impact on the plants health, and it's never stopped me from watering plants in the sun, but thought it might be some interesting food for thought. Brief summary of photooxidative stress: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/1-4020-4225-6_6 Interesting article discussing the biochemical response to photoxidative damage due to increased light intensity: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4454199/ Paywalled article, but the publicly available abstract at least indicates that decreased temperature that would result from the water droplet cooling the leaf would compound the stress from increased light intensity: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1399-3054.1994.tb03042.x "Oxidative damage arises in high light principally when the latter is in synergy with additional stress factors such as chilling temperatures or pollution." Article about water droplet thigomorphogenesis stress response: phys.org/news/2019-10-impact-droplets-quickly-triggers-stress.html Paper it's referencing: www.pnas.org/content/116/46/23345

do you think orientation of the beds makes a huge difference, ie North/South vs East/West (particularly in Canada)?

Because it is so light and air-filled, is there ever a problem of heavy rains unearthing the biochar by it floating up?

How can you burn without oxygen when oxygen is required for combustion?

"Put trenches parallel to contour". Unfortunately an impossibility for those of us in the city since the first thing every general contractor does is level everything. 😩

Great content, however the excessive RU-vid ads you allow make it almost unbearable to watch.