I think my favorite hack is the TP roll planter. We certainly get plenty of the rolls through the year and they are much better use in a garden than in a landfill.
2nd year running growing climbing beans (trail of tears). Both years very slow to getgoing, just not growing at all - clearly they don't like Derbyshire (or me!)
Great video, relatively new subscriber here & just take a look at the self sufficiency garden video as I now have a full size plot. Treated myself to a proper 10ft x 15ft tunnel which we put up a couple of months ago & is now full. Husband just bought me some of your module trays for my BDay too 😊 might have to invest in the book now for tips on successional growing/utilising the space I have.
You usually remove suckers for two reasons: one is disease, the closer tomato leaves are to each other, the more they are prone for diseases like mildew. The second reason is mostly interessting for tomatoes with big fruits, like beeftomato, because they have such big fruits, it takes a lot of energy to ripen them. If the tomato-plant has too many fruits and the growing season is too short, none of the fruits will actually ripen. I've experienced both these phenomena in my garden already, and I've only had it for a few years. I guess for the second reason you can keep the suckers, but cut away the flowers on them.
LOL, I love your videos and have learned *so* much from you over the last few years, but it's always hilarious to me when you do the 'what to plant now' episodes, given I'm in California, and it's pretty much impossible to grow 90% of what you're talking about here at this time of year. :D
I think more leaves is definitely going to = more energy. But not pruning may quickly get out of hand with a wild dense plant that is hard to manage and keep disease free. My guess is that not pruning will not give enough benefit to be worth the work of maintaining the more complex wild plant.
there are people creating new permaculture techniques using modern science .... you dont have to use ancient techniques . modern permaculture is a hundred times better than ancient tech
Thanks Huw! You showed putting beans in after harvesting garlic. I think it might make a useful video to generalize that: what can you sow when you harvest something. To keep the beds working.
If you put some in a bucket and cover with water, leave for up to a week then drain the liquid. And use as plant food. Put solids around plants as mulch.
Oooh that's interesting! I am one of those anti-coriander, my husband loves it! Thank you - Peruvian mint on my list! I seem to be on the ball this year - went to a garden centre and saw their tomatoes were the same size as mine so I was very happy I'd got my timing right this year. Fingers crossed the sown seeds germinate!
Thank you sir. Seems here in the u.s., everyone is crazy about how they garden...i do the best i can with the little I have and my food grows, my children eat, waste goes back to composting and the cycle repeats!
I don't quite understand.. To ferment I need to purchase quite a lot of sugar - but using just nettle tea it's completely free to produce. Is it really worth it to purchase the sugar to make this compared to just plenty of the free stuff?
I am having great success putting clipping around everything. About 1-3 inches. Also , I have an area that I let Mint and Lemon Bee Ballm take over. I cut the plants leaving about 6-12 inches of growth. I wrap the cuttings around squash for bug pressure. And it fertiazes as well Thank you so much for the tips! Rhonda from Tennessee 🌻🌞🌻
Can you make a video about pine needles and pine cones? i have so much needles on my property and wondering if i can utilize it in gardening and/or yard. Thank you.
Hi, Bit of a random question... Is there a particular platform that works best for you as a seller? I know from my own experience of selling online the fees can be huge on certain platforms *cough cough, paypal, cough cough* especially when combined with the fees my website provider add on. So who charges you the least? I'd prefer you, as a creator get the best value when i spend. Amazon/Hive/whatever the other ones were that i can't remember lol which one means you end up with the biggest slice of the doe for your hard work? Like i said, random, but i wanted to ask before i buy 😂
Hi! Thanks for the video. Can you tell me which make of metal raised bed you recommend? I think I remember something particular about the paint being non-toxic?
Good video Huw - thank you. Having just read your new book 'Self-Sufficiency Gardening', I've now bought 7 x 30L containers to try & grow some spuds in. I don't buy proper seed potatoes (too expensive) so I buy extra spuds at Tesco's when they're on special offer (15p x 2kg), store them for a few months, chit them, now planting in those containers. One video I'd watched suggested planting the chitted spuds at different levels in the containers, so that the now spuds that grow outwards don't directly compete with one another. The chappie said that he had a noticeably larger spud harvest - any thoughts on that? Also going to try planting a couple of tomato seedling in the top of the spud containers for a mixed crop. I'm guessing that the lower spuds & the upper tomato plants won't directly compete with one another. Also slugs have been devastating my garden this year, spud leaves & tomato leaves, (way too much rain). So I've lined the bottom of each container with half a black rubbish bag & just poked 4x small holes through for drainage. The holes in the containers would otherwise allow those horrible slugs to get in through the large side holes into the containers & munch the tubers, as they have done with the spuds planted in open soil elsewhere. I'm an experimenter. Glad that you mentioned succession sowing to follow the spuds after harvesting. Regards, JohnnyK.
My garden club has sown over 15 vegetable plants between May and June. We have a beautiful amazing garden!!! Lots of wonderful praises and compliments from rhe community. We will have an abundance of crops! The rewards of hard work are paying off!!!
I like the way she explains about everything is not perfect. She is just so charming, humble and inspiring. This video inspired me to start my own small garden.
Great. I also utilize the concepts of no-dig. But I’m not interested in joining a cult. In my garden I simple do what feels right. Focus is the most important thing. Focus do grow vegetables, not focus on some outside dogma.
Pre ordered your book and just got it. I live in Western North Carolina USA. My ancestors are Welsh and came to my County in 1730. Gardening is my passion. Thank you.
Hello Huw just a quick post as I think we need a new tomato post.... it's now June (2024) and not sure as I'm running low on large pots and any tips on doubling up pots / is this safe etc etc and as it hot in the green house and feeling plants should I still stick to a every two day watering ..... and any other tips for us novice greenhouse growers #HuwRichards @HuwRichards
