Creating Mud Mortars

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Who said garden structures had to be permanent? Making structures out of mud mortars helps to define edges without using tons of cement, which is an incredible pollutant globally. Connect With Matthew Rees-Warren: Matthew Rees-Warren is a gardener and author of The Ecological Gardener, which is out now Order The Ecological Gardener on Amazon (affiliate) Matt’s Website Matt’s Instagram Matt’s Twitter Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast.
0:16.3	I hope you're doing well.
0:17.4	Kevin Espiritu here.
0:18.4	We are joined again by Matthew Reese Warren Gardener and author of the ecological gardener.
0:23.6	We have been talking a lot about these different approaches to gardening that sort of increase
0:29.4	the amount of awareness I guess you have for your global impact in the world and also
0:34.8	decrease the amount of potentially harmful or wasteful things that we might be doing in
0:38.6	our gardens.
0:39.6	And so this one, today's topic, I have to confess Matt, I'm really not too up on this
0:44.3	topic.
0:45.3	So I'm curious, it's about creating mud mortars and I wouldn't even know where to begin
0:49.0	with this.
0:50.0	So why don't we start out with what they are?
0:51.8	Yeah, so mud mortars and ancient technique are a place to a sort of standard cement mortar
1:02.4	really.
1:03.4	So before we might all understand lime, so we might understand sort of lime renders
1:10.9	and lime pointing in quite old houses, but before lime there was mud.
1:17.3	So many of, especially maybe over here, because it's a bit of an old kingdom in the UK.
1:25.9	Many of the churches are still standing with mud mortars in them, and same sort of throughout
1:36.3	much of the ancient civilized world.
1:40.4	You know, before the lime kiln came along, mud mortars were used.
1:46.4	So it isn't as sort of tidied and, you know, it could have ecological as you think.
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