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Don’t do it ~ why sow in December and January?

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@glassbackdiy3949 8 месяцев назад

sound advice, cheers Steve

@andrewlee5237 8 месяцев назад

Hi Steve your views in this video definetly resonate with me, but sadly I am no where near as disciplined as you obviously are. I love growing fruit, vegatables and flowers which are such a positive affect on my mental health. I am sure I have a mild form of SAD but RU-vidrs such as yourself and others I follow give me that positivity to get me through the winter. Long may your channel continue 🤞🤞

@SteveRichards 8 месяцев назад

I’m growing plenty of seedlings in winter though, my point is that RU-vidrs rarely seem to explain why they are doing it, because most of the time it’s a really bad idea, but in the right situations it can make sense. I’m at least trying to explain why : all the best - Steve

@bernadette6211 8 месяцев назад

I love to see things growing too. I have a beautiful 3 tier terracotta sprouting container. I started sonnentor sprout trio and alfalfa. They are so fresh I have a crop in days. I've been spending my free time in the garden just tidying up edges, harvesting and mulching. Its so satisfying and helps to keep SAD at bay. I actually spend more time in the garden in winter than I do in summer. I usually start my grow lights in January. Thanks for your video.

@SteveRichards 8 месяцев назад

it's great to get ahead with all of those little jobs in winter : All the best - Steve

@GARDENER42 8 месяцев назад

I used to sow my tomato seeds on New Year's Day to try for an earlier crop. One year, I didn't get them sown until late February & have been doing so ever since, as the difference in first pick averages a week.

@SteveRichards 8 месяцев назад

I should imagine you get a bigger overall yield too

@DB-pm2vy 8 месяцев назад

WELL I'm tucked up well indoors with layers on.. the best thing I can do is not slip and break a leg... I usually don't start sowing until February as I've no polytunnel or greenhouse. The kale and spring cabbage are under scaffold netting and the red cabbage, leeks, kallettes , garlic and PSb are having to take their luck. Its -4 here today which isn't as bad as further north but N. Yorks has had the stuff coming off the N. Sea which has been pretty wintry and white. Leeks need harvesting, kale is doing fine and hopefully I'll provide all the veg for Xmas dinner. Take Care everyone , Doreen

@SteveRichards 8 месяцев назад

Even Feb is early if you are starting everything on window cills so you are doing great. Good luck with the red cabbages after a hard frost

@myjourneyintogardening 8 месяцев назад

Thank you so much. This will help me a lot!

@StellasVegetablegardens 8 месяцев назад

Funny that you are talking about this. I get severe SAD so much so that I used to end up on antidepressants by the end of jan. I found that watching something growing in the winter help me feel happier so i was thinking about starting some pak choi indoors with a plan to take it outdoors when it gets big enough. i will try to wait till feb for my tomatoes but i usually keep one indoor tomato plant which i sow in December 😁 problem is they always end up too big 😅

@SteveRichards 8 месяцев назад

Yeah, leggy and unhealthy, I find that with tomatoes too unless I sow them in late March or early April, makes almost no difference to the harvest date and the plants are so much healthier. This year though since I have grow lights and a heated greenhouse I’m doing tomatoes in February too, I stand a better chance of keeping them healthy

@bitchywoman 8 месяцев назад

I keep tons of house plants and start my seeds early under lights to help with my seasonal depression. I think just being under the grow lights with my plants cheers me up! This year I want to move my set up to my bedroom closet and make it pretty so I can have a pretty seedling area.

@tony1kenobi468 8 месяцев назад

Bought into the RU-vid December planting last year and the effort was not worth it. Heat mats/lights can only do so much and as you said Steve the later seeds grew so much healthier.

@SteveRichards 8 месяцев назад

That’s right, you need to be very choosy about what you grow and how you grow it for it to be worthwhile

@myrustygarden 8 месяцев назад

I can’t believe your in shorts 😂. I am not sowing anything here because well everything is frozen so I’ll plan instead. Sorting and planning is my December jobs and Jan too. Have a fantastic weekend Steve stay warm, Ali 🥶🥶🇨🇦

@TheFarmyardGarden 8 месяцев назад

Those shorts are shorter than Duncan’s too!

@SteveRichards 8 месяцев назад

I like my shorts actually short, none of those knee length things

@TheFarmyardGarden 8 месяцев назад

@@SteveRichards it’s a joke in our village that my husband farms year round in shorts and chunky safety wellies

@SteveRichards 8 месяцев назад

I’m in longs today, once it gets below -5c it’s a little too cold for bare legs, so I take the opportunity to wear longs and enjoy a hike through our mountainous dune system and its spikey marren grass

@lynnpurfield9430 8 месяцев назад

I have very cheap and very bright t lights for growing microgreens in the back bedroom. They have worked out great through November and cost very little but Ibstart them off on heat cables and I dont think it costly at all

@lynnpurfield9430 8 месяцев назад

I am going to be trying out micro greens during December and January for the first time. I do find a joy in this as the the garden is getting harder to tend to and spending indoor time is feeling a bit claustrophobic already.

@SteveRichards 8 месяцев назад

I’m out for most of the day most weather so I’ve no issue with claustrophobia. I’ve started some mini greens though, not micro greens yet

@lynnpurfield9430 8 месяцев назад

@@SteveRichards yes, I started with mini greens in compost bags on their backs on staging in the polytunnel. It worked out so amazingly but as you know the growth slows right down now and so pickings are a bit severe on the plants. I always failed at sprouting but liked the concept and so micro greens came to my attention and won me over. Now, if you have a bit of warmth to germinate and then bright lights to make the seedlings stand to attention and green up, any stage is good food until the leaves look poor and lesthery. They can be tiny second leaves or quite big baby leavrs depending on the grow mix...I just use organic compost.

@lynnpurfield9430 8 месяцев назад

@@SteveRichards I am much improved but still not able to be out cycling or travelling yet. The garden is my haven still and its damn cold. I managed to mulch the leeks, chard, celery and parsley and make hoops with good fleece over the compost bags of winter goodies on the staging but there is so little time to get on with stuff before it gets dark.

@SteveRichards 8 месяцев назад

very cold here too, -6c in the garden and -8c on the allotment, I even put long trousers on today, but that was also because I was hiking in the dunes and marram grass is very spiky on bare legs

@bewoodford2807 8 месяцев назад

I don't think I'm dedicated enough to grow things much out of season. Generally I find that most things grown in February catch up with any early sowings. The only things I do consistently grow, throughout the year are lettuce and micro greens as we save a fortune growing our own salads. I grow a lot of tender ornamental plants whiuch havee to be overwintered in a frost free greengouse so I take advantage and ngrow my salads in there too. I do have some cheap grow lights but I'm not sure they give enough light. I am not knowledgeable about groww lights and bought some LEd strip lights which were sold as growing lights but I am sure they are notr ass seedlings still grow leggy under them. I don't know how to find out more about setting up a lighting system as I would like to learn more and what the correct lights are and how easy is it to set a systam up. I have the same lack of knowledge about auto watering systems too- all things I really need help with as I am not a technical person. Thanks for the reassurance that growing early isn't necessary for most gardeners. Happy gardening 😃

@SteveRichards 8 месяцев назад

It doesn't take much dedication though, it's about 5 hours a week for me in winter, 3 hours of which is spent harvesting : All the best - Steve

@SteveRichards 8 месяцев назад

I cover grow lights in this chapter of my ebook steverichards.notion.site/Growing-with-lights-1b69ebde72a345ab890f2cdc1fced4e3?pvs=4

@TheFarmyardGarden 8 месяцев назад

I’m a bit worried about things sown in September in the polytunnel. We got down to -6° c last night and my alpine lettuces and chard all look like wilted mush today.. no difference to the ones under 30gsm fleece and ones not covered. My purple sprouting broccoli outside, one lot fleeced and under envirmesh looks as terrible as the uncovered “spares”. 🙃

@SteveRichards 8 месяцев назад

That doesn't sound right, lettuce should be fine under fleece way below -6c. My tunnel was -5c last night and under thick fleece the lettuce showed no sign of being frozen, lettuce without fleece was in good condition too. Maybe it was colder than -6c or perhaps something other than the frost. I'm not sure that environmesh helps much against the cold, especially on a still night, so I'm not surprised by that. My PSB leaves were all wilted to the floor, but picked up nicely by 2pm : All the best - Steve

@TheFarmyardGarden 8 месяцев назад

@@SteveRichards I went across just after I posted this reply and all the lettuces had perked up, even those not under the fleece in the polytunnel. The PSP was under encviromesh with fleece on top. It still looks unhappy but it’s really huge and I think the leaves are just heavy under the weight of the frost. It rained lightly before it froze here last night. Clearly I over reacted. Only thing which still looks a tad sad is the chard in the polytunnel

@SteveRichards 8 месяцев назад

Yeah, chard might well suffer, I rarely find mature chard gives me much of a winter harvest after a few hard frosts

@44birdie44 8 месяцев назад

Steve, with work commitments and weddings the past three weekends in a row I didn't get a chance to sow some of my garlic and broadbeans. Would it be worthwhile sowing them out this weekend? Or is it too late for the garlic? I know the broadbeans can be sown early in the new year. Thanks

@SteveRichards 8 месяцев назад

you could start the garlic in modules now and plant them out once they've started growing and yes, broad beans are fine in February : All the best - Steve

@DB-pm2vy 8 месяцев назад

My broad beans are definitely waiting until February.. It took me a long time to track down Windsor BBs and they're not nearly as hardy as the field beans already in the ground. If the weather is like this in the New Year it could be late February.

@SteveRichards 8 месяцев назад

It’s been too cold here for broad beans, almost lucky that the mice ate all mine and I sowed a batch in modules to replace them.