9 Crops To Prioritize Sowing in May for Self-Sufficiency 

Harvested my first 3 strawberries this morning, was so excited!!!

I cut my purple sprouting broccoli and left stumps... They regrew and I have had second harvest. Same thing with cabbage. Who knew?

Loved the term “edimental”! Although it is warmer in the climate where I live, I plant basil in April and then pinch off a few tops every week or two and put them in glasses of water on a sunny windowsill to propagate new basil plants. Once they have some decent root growth, they go back in the garden! A never ending supply of basil until fall!

I am so thankful for you, Huw! I hear Great Britain may be facing a serious food shortage this year. I hope and pray people are inspired by your videos and workshops and start growing their own food ... and maybe consider growing extra, if possible, to share. Bless you!

Oh, oh, oh, swiss chard and perpetual spinach stems made as tempura. Delicious!

I just keep admiring your wonderful garden, Huw! Beautiful and very efficient! ❤

Thank you, Huw for the gardening encouragement for May. Happy spring!😊

Great vid thanks for sharing so much knowledge.. We have built our hinged hoop house from the self sufficiency garden book and vid and it is an absolute game changer with the poor weather we have had 🙌🙌🙌👍👍👍

Cheers Huw. ♻️Happy gardening, Terry King.

I’m growing ten different kinds of winter squash this year, love them!

I absolutely love watching your videos. Can't wait to get the book.

I waited for your trays to be available in Poland since they were out for the first time but it took too long so since this year I'm an official reseller myself. 😊 thanks for your good work again!

I have my US copy of your book on preorder and I’m so excited for it!

Been eagerly and patiently waiting for my copy!

Pre-ordered your book. I cannot wait to get it

Brilliant as usual and loving your Self Sufficiency book.

Anxiously awaiting your book across the pond. I grew leeks for the first time over the winter. Still have a few more to harvest. Like to douse them with olive oil and roast them. Also roasted leek scapes. They taste like asparagus with a hint of onion. Yum.😊

My courgettes are going nuts this year,got my first real greenhouse to asemble this year,your book is a great help too ,good value for money

Grow at home .... harvest when needed .... Great garden Huw 👍

Can't wait for your book to arrive! I'm in Maine in the US and seem to have a similar growing season to yours. Curious if you open your garden to visitors? I'm hoping to visit Wales next year.

My book is coming 7th of May! Can't wait!!

Cream of Fennel soup with Pernod is my favourite! Don't knock it 'til you've tasted it. 😍

Started Basil, chards, cilantro, parsley, oregano, pineapple sage and mint. Oh yes cucumber , cherry tomatoes and strawberries Thank you for all your tips

I just started a bunch of butternut squash today. I don’t personally like the taste of nasturtium but I still grow it every year (the annual type). Grows very well in my experience, cool looking flowers and the leaves remind me of lily pads.

Looking good, plants too 😀

Purple sprouting broccolli is my fave veg, eating raw is devine,also putting on home made pizza it's scrumptious. Great recommendations Huw. Thanks for reminder to get this years leek seeds.

I'm out of the country for all of May, praying for my allotment neighbours to help me out 🤞🤞🤞

Can’t wait for my book to come! I’m here in the states 😊

I started Nasturtiums from seed a few years ago and haven't had to buy seed since. Or start my own. They've self sown since then!

Good stuff, Huw

Your book is pre-ordered and will be an early mother’s day gift to myself! Love your videos Huw. Would love to see how you would tackle other climates like suburban Colorado lots (you’re more than welcome to experiment on mine)! ☺️

From watching your videos your growing timeline is about 6-8 weeks after mine. I grow a ton of basil and dry some and grind up to cook with as a spice. I freeze some in oil. Also holy Basil I makes a wonderful tea. Lastly I eat as much fresh basil as possible while I can on pizza, sandwiches, tomato salads, and anywhere else I can. I’m definitely going to try your early non-pruning method with my tomatoes next time.

Hello Hugh I did Gardening vegetable gardening for the first time last year was really pleased with what my crop bought me in. I have made a kind of large Green House but I need to know where I can get grated plastic for the roof and the plastic for the sides, not working out too expensive please can you advise me?😊

1st thumbs up and 1st comment! First time ever! Excited to see what's coming up!

You’ve just reminded me to plant some basil!!

Purple sprouting broccoli and Fennel! Very good.

Very nice garden❤❤❤

Very nice garden👍

How would you make sure that the PSB survives for the 11-12 months? Regarding pests and climate

Thanks for the heads up about perennial nasturtiums. Will see if i can source any. I have some asturian cabbage tree which i saw on your videos and am going to plant very soon. Also i take from your narrative that you are pretty much on board with whats going on regarding the food supply. Its vital people realise that your videos are a potential life line, and i mean LIFE line, IF and only IF they will actually put them into practice. Come on people, dont lets roll over and let them cow us down, we can see this through! Stick with Huw and others that are going out on a limb to advice us as subtly as they can. Real food shortage incoming. God bless

Thanks cap

Hi just got your book 📖 looks really interesting...can you confirm you have considered all environment within UK when writing this, thanks and living near to the sea will this impact on some crops e.g. moisture is more salty etc. 😊

Where do you get those style garden beds.

Huw wanted to run an idea by you. I'm a very impatient Gardner and on my allotment I have some power with a solar panel but I really want a heat mat to greatly improve germination times but I can't create enough power. I had a thought. If I raised a paving slab, prob the thick local authority ones up on bricks then put candles underneath it, I could warm up the slab, put my trays on top and keep them warm to increase germination times. If I made an olive oil candles they would last a lot longer than using tea lights. Have you ever seen anything like this before?

Hooray, you realised you'd posted it privately!!!

Sowing broccoli in May...man I'd love to. I've just finished all my sowing, up-potting and transplanting and everything is already struggling. 90+F days already and Spring isn't even officially over. All my pollinator flowers are going to die before anything can feed off them. I moved back to the desert in December (Southern Nevada) and have been kicking butt setting the garden up since. I've thrown all my seeds at the wall to see what will actually survive the heat as I have MINIMAL shade that is usable and couldn't even consider planting brassicas until Sept. I'm also doing the bulk in containers so I can move them around to see where things will be happiest and of course have loads of 'experiments' going. I spend all day in the garden fretting over crops that have wilted by noon and are being beaten up by high desert winds.😮‍💨 I'll be needing to fatten up my seed stock again it seems😆

Where can I buy those nasturtium tubers from please?

0:33 Purple sprouting broccoli 2:00 Peas 3:10 Leeks 4:10 Leafy greens - lettuce, perpetual spinach, chard 5:25 Florence fennel (Rondo) 6:36 Winter squash 7:28 Potatoes (lots) 7:54 Basil 8:29 Perennial (climbing) nasturtium

"Edimental" - An edible ornamental. Love it! ♥

Random question: is the “US version” of your book any different from the UK version? I ordered and adore the UK version because I wasn’t willing to wait until May 😂 but im from the US and sometimes I struggle with the different names the plants are called UK vs US. Just wondering if the us version is edited differently 😅

Very helpful video again as usual. I’m in Scotland and can’t seem to be able to source Purple Sprouting Broccoli Clarence that you recommended - only Claret F1. I wonder if you can share a link for your source. Many thanks again for all your videos and excellent new book.

Great vid Huw. Just out of curiosity, do you have a new mic? I found it a little bass-y on my end compared to your usual vids. Sounded like you were doing a Brian Blessed impression!

How do you keep the snails off the purple sprouting broccoli? My plants have been decimated despite my best efforts.

My wife grew peas last year, but I never had any, as she would eat them all in the garden while picking them... 😢

Does perennial spinach survive frost?

Where can I get these perennial nasturtiums?

I am just eating my last Crown Prince from my harvest last year. Truly a wonderful crop.

I'm from Indonesia, I want to ask about any flowers, please repel the whitefly bugs, the leaves often turn yellow, the leaves wrinkle, camphor fertilizer, which is good to use, fruit, please get another stone, sometimes the roots rot, wilt

What is your growing zone? maybe I missed that

Is there a german edition of your book in the pipeline?

We can't grow purple sprouting brocolli!! Maybe it's too warm here?? They grow enormous and do not flower

Do you worry about cross pollination with different varieties of squash growing together?

I am loving your book, thank you for writing it! Definitely takes the pain out of thinking what to plant when. And I didn't know that there are perennial nasturtiums! Where did you find yours? 💚

What’s the botanical name of the perennial nasturtium? I’m having no luck googling it. TIA

But do you grade the peas? How do you check for A-ness? (Please someone get the reference)

How do you protect your purple sprouting from all the things that want to eat it. I’ve never had much success

Do perennial nasturtiums have a different name they go by maybe??

My soil is all clay. I’ve just found out about container gardening (outdoors) and I’m very curious about what I might be able to grow this way.

It's gotta be 'BASIL'. There's a shocker Huw 😂

Can anything be grown without any protection of greenhouse, covers etc

I'm having a hard time finding that perennial nasturtium. Either by seed or root or tuber cutting. All my nasturtium are annuals and die in the cold. I'm a zone 7a. Anyone know where to find this plant? I'd love to have it in my garden!

Diolch Huw, rwyf wrth fy modd cheesy cennin ac rwyf wedi hau llawer o hadau.

I planted garlic last november, when will it be ready to pull please?

Purple sprouting broccoli takes up too much space for too long a time for relatively little reward compared to other veg !

Hi huw Richard’s that was amazing veg garden 🪴 you have there and yes I’m a Welsh man 🧍‍♂️ and I can’t stand leeks the wife likes 👍 them but not me sorry 😔 David ❤️🇬🇧👌👍🪴🧍‍♂️

mate, i think your mic might need a fix

t-shirt idea: "Leek Lover"

I was watching the subtitles and it kept saying Neriums while I was looking at nasturtiums. Neriums are deadly poisonous, of course. Please consider writing up your scripts and uploading proper subtitles rather than relying on the automatic nonsense generators. Captions are very important for accessibility for the deaf.

Huw, I love your videos, but the subtitles are dreadful. Would you like someone who understands your accent to write them correctly spelled? Because the AI you appear to be using thinks you're growing Ober Jeans! Lolol.

Edimental.........

I hope this is all Carbon neutral..Garden gangsters !!!!! Lol...