RED gardens "simple garden"

This garden system was developed in Ireland, a very different climate than mine (Sudbury Ontario Canada) but it contains crops I already grow.  I'm interested in trying to recreate it.  Thoughts?

 

It should be simple!

I love RED gardens. I really appreciate the openness and methodical approach. Bruce (I believe that's the farmer's name) scripts his videos and keeps everything very efficient to watch too. If you can handle 1.5x to 2x speed you can learn an incredible amount of information in an afternoon just from watching his video backlog.

It would seem to suit if you want to get the most crop for hours invested.  As the farmer says there are things to go wrong however.  I dislike the monoculture nature of the strips.  I think as well that having a fourth strip, maybe of beans/peas or a green manure crop, could provide a bit more compost material, that could then be sheet composted together with the brought in materials as suggested before the squash crop.
This wouldn't work for me, I prefer a much more chaotic approach.  The sheet mulch material would fly away in the wind and be dug up by the dog hunting mices, squash would have no chance of ripening outside either so I'd need an alternative bulk crop.  Potatoes yes, roots yes, legumes yes, in fact I think a standard 4 year rotation including brassica rather than squash would suit here better, but the legumes and brassica might be more continuous cropping, and that is what he is trying to get away from. Legumes for drying then and maybe a grain instead of brassica, that would be fun, with an overwintering green manure, or corrugated cardboard winter ground cover.

His videos are excellent he has a summary video somewhere unfortunately I cannot remember the title where he compares the time cost of each of the garden types vs the output. I love numbers so his videos with statistics are great.

Nancy have you tried squash on black plastic? Not the way he is doing it but well spaced ones, I find it gives them the extra heat they need and gives me a certain crop whereas growing them loose on soil means I get a crop of early ripening squash every other year. We have average temperatures in the summer of 16C and plenty of rain and overcast days. I've found crown prince (which is what he has there) and Uchi kiri both ripen here.

Thanks Skandi,
Thanks for the tip with the black plastic.  I suspect we don't eat squash enough to be worth trying at the moment. Every now and then I grow them in the tunnel, but they also need a lot more feeding than I am able to provide.  I do have a bit of black plastic which is clearing ground for a bluberry patch extension, so maybe I could try some experiments in the future outside.  There are probably other plants as well that would benefit from a little more ground heat. We may be too cloudy and windy for it to work, but until you try you never know.....and times change as you say.