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Great song.

Thanks I'd rather keep the preserve in the preserve

Hi Joel I want to send some pics of my pond to you I need some advice please? What’s the best way for me to send my pics to you? Email?? Thank you Looking your work thanks again for all this great info Willie

Any chance you'll ever do an interview with Dave Goulson?

What you do and promote is so important and commendable. Future generations will owe you a debt.Well done.My garden is a wildlife haven (i hope). I've planted a mixed native hedge.Hawthorn tree.Every single plant is bee and butterfly friendly. I've made a dead hedge,log pile,meadow. A decent sized area left to do its own thing,mainly brambles.The one thing missing and probably the most important is a pond.Only because i'm really struggling to find sub soil.Any ideas/suggestions?

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With no circulating water pomp, it's just a home for mosquitos.

I can’t get a hold of flowering rush plant in USA what would be a good substitute? I love your video. It is the best!!

Newts! Frogs! Toads! All things for which I am not responsible. If people wish to obsess over such things ---- help yourself. I have other things that concern me.

just like mints their extensive root system also allows them to break down hard slow draining soils

Superb 👌

You're an angel, those heirloom roses will be there forever!!

I do not even own a mower. I am considered a weird anti-social person in my neighbourhood, because I do not have a lawn and I do not make a horrific noise with a mower every saturday. Everybody around points fingers at me calling my garden slug-hatchery. I am so happy somebody actually does speak up for wildlife and natural habitat. Thank you .

That's awesome huys. My 80 something year old neighbor wants to pay the guy across road 50 bucks to mow her yard, then when he can't, she asks me to do it for $20 & I'm a professional horticulturist, landscaper & irrigation Technician, so I told her, umm absolutely not, how dare u offer to pay a woman way less than a man & I'm a professional not just another Joe off the streets, mind u I have done soo much around her home for her without her asking for 18 years, so I WAS EXCEPTIONALLY OFFENDED & just stopped doing everything! It sure is a sad horrible day when an older woman discriminates against another woman by not offering equal pay. Goes to show not all women appreciate those women that fought hard for our rights!

Can we have a campaign for Councils to cease from lopping all but the primary trunks on trees in our streets? If they talk about reducing carbon then surely we need trees to grow branches and leaves. Councils are absolute hypocrites and we all know there are dodgy outsourcing deals tied in with these so called 'tree surgery' companies, tree butchery more like. I want to see a naturally grown tree in all its glory in spring and summer not stubs of trees with the disparate spots of greenery occasionally emerging. Make all tree management in house. Secondly, can we also have a campaign to stop councils using herbicides? Which are poisonous to wildlife and useless. Reintroduce cutting only, for all council land maintenance, and give a few more people a useful job.

Sounds good to me. I used cut my grass regularly but became mindful of a lawn's absolute desert to wildlife. Leave grass as high as possible at all times except for excessive coverage - as Joel implies, this can out-compete everything else to biodiversity's detriment. One cut a the end of September sounds sensible and dead grass does need to be cleared. To maintain a optimal wildlife garden, this still needs observant and careful management. I don't use mechanical mowing machines: use shears if you have a small garden or a scythe for a larger one - get a capable person/s to do this if you're not capable. Use all the dead /cut vegetation for the magical compost. Recycling all the organic matter in your garden is a great feeling. Sure, trim around veg patches, or flower beds, to deter so many snails and slugs, borders or a narrow path but leave the rest. I cut mine a little in spring to allow the young grass to grow through the summer being mindful of any overgrowth or problems. By cutting regularly you're also allowing the grass to die back and for moss to take over. I had to solve with because I was tired of spreading grass seed every year without any significant effect. Now, by allowing the grass to maintain a near natural life cycle the moss has been out-niched and other plants fill any gaps. Accept weeds of all sorts because of their usefulness to wildlife (and for their beauty a fully grown thistle for example or a bed of nettles) but if they're out-competing the surrounding species some weeding, by hand, is necessary. And don't forget many 'weeds' are edible or medicinal. Absolutely desist from using any artificial herbicides or pesticides and go totally organic, you'll be amazed and delighted at the amount of interesting, exciting and important flora and fauna that reinhabit the area.

Always as amazing as ever ❤

Awesome. Absolutely gorgeous to watch🥰

We had one this week too, on our little wildlife pond....😊

Perfect Rocky tune for this 😀

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This video, and many more of your videos, has motivated me to leave a patch of our lawn for a no mow summer! I have a newish build garden but I have planted trees, built a barrel pond, left ‘weeds’ to grow and now can’t wait to see what visits the patch I’ve left. I definitely have a resident toad so I hope he enjoys it 🙂

What a great job Joel Love this channel 🥰

God BLESS YOU!!!!♥️♥️♥️

Yeees! Water is magical, water is life and I could not have a garden without lots of water! 👌🥰

I am amazed that you can talk about one after another of my most hated weeds 😵‍💫🤢😂 If I put lots of other plants in that flowers at the same time, please Joel I don’t want to look look like I don’t care about our small friends… 😵‍💫🤢 😂 But those weeds Noooooooo🤬😬😂🤣😂

Félicitations ! C'est tellement difficile de trouver des entrepreneurs respectueux de nos critères

Omg! I have said this! When I do mow after I’ve let it grow, the bugs are running around screaming”no, my babies!” I can tell I’m totally disrupting a whole city that has been made and I set them up to make a home so I can just mow it down. I decided after this year I’m not doing it again and am leaving two areas to just go wild all the time.

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, thank you very much!! GrandPapa is now happy and worry free for his roses and birdies..... All thanks to you!! 🫠

I'm in Ontario, Canada so I've been pulling and cutting this for the last two weeks as it comes into flower. Actually I'm going on a local nature club walk this weekend called "Beauties and the Beast", garlic mustard is of course the beast.

Today is National Be Kind to Neighbor Day

All this wildlife in your front garden,amazing

leaving grasses grow all year (what we do) always makes me question whether it’s preventing beneficial seeds from growing. We don’t see a lot of wild flowers maybe due the the sandy soil in our area. Would mowing once a year encourage more plant diversity?

Haha, who caught that moment is the winner 😆

Perfect song for your kindness 🙏🏻 that will mean so very much 🙏🏻

I did this last year and it was awesome 👍 I mowed a total of 3 times all 2023. The local fauna were definitely appreciative. We attracted swathes of dragonflies who ate all the mosquitoes 🙌✨ The local ordinances for renters frown upon this practice though 😕 One last thing, our property was MUCH cooler in the summer months and into the evening due to evaporative cooling (I assume). 👍

I love that digging bar with the blade end. I hand dug a pond on my property a few years back where the ground was clay with rocks embedded in it. Nice for the final pond, which did not need a liner, but it means every scoop I dug out had to be fought for with a pick, and some angles were not easy to swing a pick at. I did have a digging bar but the flat end is less than 2 inches wide and it made for slow going. As a side note, if you have clay soil it does make for a very natural pond, but with no liner size limits you may end up thinking "just a little deeper, just a little wider, just another hour of digging today" and that's how the my plan of a three foot deep goldfish pond got a little out of hand and now I have an eight foot deep pond with a bass and some trout living in it.

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Mosquitoes say THANKS about this idea in your garden 🤦🏻‍♂🤦🏻‍♂🤦🏻‍♂🤦🏻‍♂

I agree you that a no mow summer would be ideal but I don't feel you are really correct about no mow May. It is designed to allow for pollinators such as bees to use the early flowers such as dandilion. Coming out of winter, they really need these early flowers. It allows them to gather a large amount of resources in little time. Once it gets to summer though, flowers are much more abundant and bees don't really need your lawn for them. So keeping tall grasses in your lawn will be less beneficial to pollinators and maybe more detrimental to you because it attracts things like ticks.

Your kindness and care will be returned to you, tenfold ❤❤

I’ve always thought this!!! A few years back my mum was like “we’re doing no mow May 😇.” I was a bit confused. I was thinking, “so you let it all grow for wildlife, then destroy it once you have given all that wildlife a habitat?”

WARNING: a word of warning. Every year I have my grasses cut from September until November. Then except for the curved walk pathways, they are pretty much left alone all year unless they had popped up voluntarily in the edibles raised beds. Blue tits love to feed in the long grasses and robins prefer to hunt worms in short or moderate length grass. However, if you have bird feeders, you are asking for trouble. A combination of bird feeders and long grasses will attract rats into your garden to nest. Better to stick with just long grasses unless you love rats as ‘wildlife’ in your garden?

Joel I see a Meadow there waiting to happen....

Volunteering is such a great way to gain experience feel like you're doing something very worthwhile ... I got a job as a Drugs worker, only because I volunteered for the same organisation first.... zero experience other than life experience. Great interview, love Iolo.

Okay you've convinced me lol let's do this 💪

By Jo, I think he might be right! Thanks mate. Simple message. Tell us how majestic a meadow looks in summer.

great vid - mosaic of habitats

Ty