Our 4 Year North Texas Permaculture Gardening Transformation

Wow!!! I wish I had thought about doing this when I first moved in and started my “now” gardens. What a transformation you guys have had. So cool!

Looking good you two.

Watched in full.

Y’all are an inspiration!! The house I am in came with a fully landscaped front yard cottage garden. It is totally organic and made up of native and adapted perennials. The previous owner had it all put in over the course of a year in 2018. Sadly, she had become ill and was unable to tend it properly as soon as it was done and then it was totally neglected the 6 months the house was vacant. I moved in late summer of 2020. I knew nothing about organic gardening but quickly began learning! All I can say is those are some tough plants because so many have lived through it all!!
This is a very deep 1/3 acre lot and the backyard was literally like a jungle. It had not been touched at all in the 30 years she had owned the property and was so heavily wooded and thick with vines you couldn’t see the fence line, let alone any of the neighboring properties. I am a single mom and work full time during the week. I don’t have the funds to pay someone and no friends willing to work that hard! I’m slowly but surely making progress on it all as a solo weekend warrior. It is now looking more like a little forest and you can tell I have neighbors in back and the front is growing and thriving. The soil here is as bad as y’all’s was. I haven’t even found a single worm in the lovely cottage garden, but there’s a ton of rollie pollies.
Last year, I used large pots including the plastic totes I had moved stuff in and bagged soil/ compost to grow vegetables along the edge of my driveway. Over the winter, I found some free mulch and have added a layer to the cottage garden. I have been working on making vegetable beds much as y’all have done by putting down cardboard and topping it with a massive pile of leaves and mulch. I bought a couple of bags of alfalfa pellet horse feed ($14 for 50lbs at the feed store) and scattered that out as well. It is breaking down with the weather and will hopefully add some good nitrogen into all the beds.
I have signed up for chipdrop but haven’t requested a load because it states they will drop up to 20 yards at a time and you have to take the whole thing. My only place to have them dump it is in my driveway and 20 yards would take up the whole thing. I gotta park somewhere, not to mention that it would take me several weekends to move that much in the wheelbarrow!! I also saw chipdrop charges the arborist $20 for each drop, I bet they’d rather not pay that and if I call one they’d be fine with dropping a more manageable pile for me at no cost to them! So thank you for giving me the idea to call them direct and also for the pictures letting me know it works and not to give up! Sorry for the long post but wanted you to know more about who you’re inspiring and why!! 😊

Loving the progress! Thanks for sharing the good and the bad❤️

You've done a great job.

Love this xoxox

Turned out beautiful! Yalls hard word definitely paid off.

Yall are doing great!!! I am loving your channel!

So wonderful!

Great video! The learning process is the absolute best. Even when it’s a loss, it’s a win!

Love these transformations you shared!!! I need to make sure I get good pics - I have plenty of room for progress over here haha!! You all have done sooo amazing!!! 😊👍❤️

Did you have clay soil. Where in Texas are you.

Can you give me some numbers for free mulch

Love it! Thanks for sharing the learning process you went through to get to a successful garden. North of Ft Worth here, and last year I had a mess of fails myself with the drought we had and dirt fails in a raised bed lol.... But this year will be lessons learned, God willing. May the Lord bless your family and give you an abundant harvest!

This is so encouraging to me! Arlington, Tx here and last year was my first year gardening. Just seeing how it gets better each year and doesn’t have to be “a home run” the first couple of years is so motivating to me.

Roughly speaking, where in North Texas are you?

I enjoyed your journey so far. I'm going through a similar adventure with less property. It really does change your life.

Hey! I saw you guys just subscribed to my channel- thank you! I haven't seen your work yet, but I love the name of your homestead and am so glad to connect with other Jesus lovers! Keep up the good work!!

Ive been learning ALOT m, checking out gardening books from our local libraries. Literally studying and taking notes like I’m studying for a degree lmao. Container gardening is our way of gardening at the moment, but WOW. Thank you for this informative video.

What a gorgeous transformation, I love it! Reminds me so much of what we're working on. We headed into our homesteading journey with the intention of taking things slow and steady so it can be done well and thoughtfully. We are on our second year at our property and we are already seeing such changes to our little space. Most markedly in soil and insect life.

Good job guys! Do you know what eco region y'all are in? Or general location in North Texas?

We cannot seem to ever get rid of the Bermuda grass!! We've laid plastic down to solarize it, then we put cardboard down, then mulch, tons of mulch that we get for $5 a yard. And it just keeps coming back. Do you have ANY suggestions or troubleshooting ideas? Our garden is sectioned off from a pasture (that is both Bermuda and native grasses). It's so frustrating.

New Subscriber, here for the ride🙏♥️🙏

I'm on my first year, hoping to eventually get a productive garden like you have in a few years! We are military, so we will move just as we are making progress, but I'm learning along the way.

How cute r u 2.. Nakud gardeners posted question about who folks watch n blands promise mentioned u so here i m checking u out 😊 good job