Sharing garden joy

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:09]The new >> [laughter] >> inhabitants of this garden.

[00:00:20]We have the one who's drinking Ginestra and the one in the back Lotta.

[00:00:30]Hello Lotta.

[00:00:35]They're goslings.

[00:00:39]Then we have the garden in all of its glory.

[00:00:45]>> [laughter] >> I recently planted tomatoes, different varieties with basil. It's looking a little bit sad.

[00:00:59]And the GT or marigold and here we have lots of um chard, different type of chards.

[00:01:15]Then more zucchini.

[00:01:21]That's soon going to be harvested. This is an old um cow manure that my neighbor brought us I think back in October last year.

[00:01:35]Here we have a little bit of a mix. By the way, hello.

[00:01:41]>> [laughter] >> My garden, for those who never been here, hello, hi. Um my name is Martina.

[00:01:49]And we live in this area in the central Italy on the hills and um I I'm a firm firm believer and and and supporter of wild gardening. So, I love to to let wild plants do their thing while also including cultivated plants.

[00:02:13]So, my garden looks looks very biodiverse and and wild.

[00:02:21]And yesterday I planted two mulberry trees.

[00:02:26]This is black mulberry.

[00:02:29]It's called gelsomero.

[00:02:32]See the scientific name, morus And I planted it here. I wanted the garden to also be shaded because this is the land and we have we have forests all around, but not in this big field.

[00:02:53]So, we recently fenced the garden.

[00:02:57]I made the majority of the fence and the little gates there.

[00:03:03]That's the house.

[00:03:04]And um we fenced it, so no dogs and chickens are allowed in.

[00:03:13]But these ladies, yes.

[00:03:17]The geese, yes.

[00:03:19]Because they love grass and wild plants. And yes, sometimes they also eat some some of the veggies, but not that much.

[00:03:34]Look at this.

[00:03:36]My goodness.

[00:03:39]Nigella damascena, I think it's called.

[00:03:45]This plant.

[00:03:47]And then I planted another mulberry tree there.

[00:03:52]And yesterday I also planted there. Let me show you. Hello.

[00:04:12]Yesterday I planted also This was a cutting of a willow weeping willow tree that [snorts] a friend gave me.

[00:04:25]And I have two more here.

[00:04:27]Or three actually. One and two that I want to plant. And also this one that needs to be planted.

[00:04:36]Because it has all of these beautiful roots. Just have to find like a perfect spot for it for for him or her.

[00:04:43]This is the compost area.

[00:04:46]A little bit messy.

[00:04:47]And uh here we have an attempt to grow the tree the three sisters.

[00:04:55]>> [snorts] >> But anyhow, I planted a willow here next to this bed because I want to create shade around here.

[00:05:04]But anyhow >> [sighs and gasps] >> um here there's an attempt of growing the tree sister three not tree three >> [laughter] >> sisters.

[00:05:17]I planted from seeds these beauties. These are sunflowers different varieties.

[00:05:25]And then I I really wanted I also planted from or sown um these beauties. These are a variety of beans that a man up in the north of Italy gifted us.

[00:05:42]But they're not doing super well.

[00:05:47]And we have zucchini. We have very little corn. That is not growing much.

[00:05:54]Basically, the three sis the three Wow.

[00:05:59]The three sisters are three plants.

[00:06:03]I think they're very famous in permaculture.

[00:06:06]Um they're three plants that are growing really well together.

[00:06:12]Zucchini kind of grows in the width. Like lengthwise, can you say that? Um [snorts] widthwise.

[00:06:21]And it kind of covers the soil and creates some shades on the soil. And then the corn or the sunflower grow in height. So then [snorts] the the beans can climb the corn. And they the also and the beans are nitrogen fixators fixers.

[00:06:41]So they all help each other. But anyhow, then we have I mean this is not really a proper garden tour cuz I it would be going forever, but I have a lot of yarrow growing wild here. I let it because yarrow is teaching me so much about boundaries and beauty. And here we have this I planted it on in my on my birthday.

[00:07:09]Variety Noa.

[00:07:11]And it's a grape.

[00:07:13]And I want it to climb the fence here that we made.

[00:07:19]And then I planted this baby. It's a clematis.

[00:07:24]Don't remember [snorts] the species name.

[00:07:27]It's genus.

[00:07:29]Clematis, I think.

[00:07:31]And it just bloomed.

[00:07:33]Look how gorgeous.

[00:07:35]And this is supposed to climb and it's climbing, too. It's supposed to climb the the fence. I want it to kind of like take over the fence, climb around that part of the garden.

[00:07:49]That's an artichoke plant. That's an apple tree. But that side is full of uh perennials.

[00:07:57]Elecampane and valerian root valerian.

[00:08:01]And then we have root a different motherwort there.

[00:08:08]This [snorts] is the attempt to grow the three sisters.

[00:08:14]This is the garden from this perspective. I need to organize that area because I really don't like the static of it. But basically it's a compost um area.

[00:08:24]We have also another compost there because the garden was um also going this way before I put the fence here.

[00:08:34]>> [snorts] >> Now it's just a beautiful wildflower patch.

[00:08:39]And that is a fence sorry.

[00:08:43]That is a compost bin that we created where we dumped a lot of our leftover veggies and our poo and pee.

[00:08:54]And now there is amazing after 2 years there is amazing compost coming from there.

[00:09:01]And um no yarrow.

[00:09:04]Yes. So meet Tamboji.

[00:09:09]Meeta and Mojo. Hello.

[00:09:14]Hello guardians.

[00:09:17]Yeah, thank you for joining me on this little video garden tour section whatever.

[00:09:26]>> [snorts and sighs] >> And yes.

[00:09:30]Stay tuned because my website is coming.

[00:09:33]Our website, We Grow Wild website with all the offerings and the writings, the musings, um and my creative sharings and expressions are coming uh on the website. And it's slowly being built. It took us months uh because Mick Mick coded it from from scratch.

[00:09:56]And uh very grateful. It took a while, but it's coming. So, stay tuned if you're interested in Yeah.

[00:10:05]uh reading about my musings and um Yeah. Getting sup- supported uh following our processes and um Yeah. There will be some offerings coming.

[00:10:21]So, Yeah.

[00:10:23]Thank you for watching.