It’s so good to see what can be achieved in a cold climate and to have something to eat all year round ,, it just shows, plants want to grow and survive ,, it is a drug when you see those green shoots appear,, we may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course, it’s our garden that is really nurturing us ,, best wishes, Lisa
Hello from Canada! Your tips for growing in winter and extending the season are super helpful. Would love even more on the polytunnel. You are so charming and a joy to watch, thank you for your videos. ♥️
Thank you so much Cassandra! It is lovely to hera that you like my videos and that you find them useful. I hope you will enjoy the videos in the future aswell! 😊
Wow Sara, what an inspiration. I am in the UK and everyone here complains about the weather and how cold it is, and it is too cold at the moment to put things out in the garden, but you have proved that it can be done! I have a load of seedlings that are ready to go out but I am waiting until it warms up - it gets to -1/-3 at night, but I think if I put it out now and protect them, they should be ok...! Fabulous video x
Loving your garden as it's coming together this spring. You are wise to have successional plantings everywhere to feed the family. People should remember that you are feeding four children, and working with their favourite foods...not trying to show off a bunch of exotic or rare crops! We have it quite cold and very windy on our side of the Atlantic in Nova Scotia this spring. Looking forward to seeing your lovely tulips Sara!🌷☀️❤️
Hi, Sara! I watched your video with great pleasure. I like everything you do in your garden. It's great that you can get a lot of straw. In my place it's impossible to find or buy straw. What a pleasant kitchen garden you have! In the North-West of Russia it's also still rather chilly and there's snow in some parts of the country-side. Tulips are one of my favorite spring flowers. I have a lot of them in my garden. Some of them look like peonies. They are wonderful.
I checked my garlic this weekend and they have come up! I put grass clippings and straw over them after planting them on Nov 23, and now Cledor is 5cm over the straw, and Sabadrome is just barely peeking up through the straw! 🤗 Yay! I’m so happy!
You do such a wonderful job and you send me to my garden with joy and hope after every video. Thank you so much for sharing and bringing possibility to the world.
Thank you so much for your experimentation! I did a tiny bit of winter sowing last fall in zone 6 (first frost in Oct, last frost in mid May) in the USA and I just planted spinach in the raised beds. We had Bok choy, Tatsoi, red romaine lettuce and Daikon radish growing in the raised bed with just plastic since September and we just ate the last of it in March. This year I will have a greenhouse to grow more throughout the winter! We have tried the "P" into our leaf bins, it helps break down the oak leaves!
I really enjoy your videos Sara, I wish I could send you my warm weather from Florida, I have tomatoes that I have been picking from and in the winter is when I grow them and pick them in spring, our summers are to hot, also a lot of kale and collards and lemongrass a lot of herbs and trying different flowers this year like flax which have a beautiful little blue flower and borage also which is an edible flower and great for the bees, have a great day :)
Thank you so much for all the tips and advice for growing in the cold .love your videos much love Lorraine in England.you are so good at speaking English.l love Sweden so much because l used to live in Goteborg.❤️❤️🌸🌺xxx
thanks to your demonstrations of what it is possible to sow in Winter in Sweden, we are already enjoying fresh spinach here in Surrey, England. Its so nice as small leaves. Small pea and broad bean plants, raised from seed, already planted out and some early potatoes, all under fleece. Its so helpful to see what you manage to grow in Sweden, as that means it will definitely be possible here. I wonder do you freeze your spinach as fresh leaves and then add it to your cooking or do you blanch it first? impressive number of projects on the go this year Sara, even by your standards! I hope you can continue taking us through the ‘small garden’ new veg beds at your cottage this year.
I am so glad to hear that! Yes it´s true, the gardening definietly works in Surrey too! I usually parboil the leves before freezing. This is how I do it (read the blog post) www.sarabackmo.com/how-to-freeze-spinach-leaves/?fbclid=IwAR0jYqNQTuVwZXXFuKDuQD5oZOUEjj2m4aygV-O_tATWuTak9i_UKz60aFg Best of luck and Happy Gardening to you Lara!
I put my peach tree in my 6 feets tall greenhouse I cut the top and fix the branches on a rope on each side of the tree it will grow on 11 feets each side..wall fruit tree I like it so much
I grew cabbage, cucumbers and lettuce in hay bales, they dried out very quickly so I wrapped the bales with old compost bags, everything grew really well we had so many cucumbers!
So pretty though. I loved everything. I loved your poly tunnel, and your hot bed. Loved it all. Your accent is really cool too. Im growing Tulips, Allium, Bachelor's Buttons and Carnation and Balsam. I've got my spinach, arugula and lettuce in a grow bag that Doller Tree Carries. I am branching out with other things. I live in an apartment so I have containers and grow bags. We also have things in the Church we planted in the garden as well. Thankyou for sharing I will pray for your tulips as well. 😁
Dear Sara ,. Enjoy your videos. Thanks for speaking about Jerusalem artichokes I've been curious about them for a long while. I'm in planting/hardiness zone 5b/6a in USA. I don't know if Sweden and other countries around the world go by the same planting schedule or not. If you do, what planting/hardiness zone are you in? I'am sure even southern Sweden is very cold in winter. Happy gardening! 😃🍅🍑🥕🍓🍏🎉
Can you tell us more about your hotbed, please. Specifically I'm interested in your lid. I have a cold frame with a big glass door on it. it is very heavy and awkward. I like yours better but wonder how it holds in the heat compared to glass. Tack!
Hi Sarah, How do you cook your radishes? I like them raw sliced in a salad or baked in oil and herbs with lots of other veggies. However I can't get my hubby to eat them. By the way are brassicas asparagus?
You will need plenty of pee for your huge straw hipe.🤪Why don‘t you just put it on the compost between several layers! So the compost will ripen earlier with the straw inside, that makes more heat and good air circulation, so that it will not go moldy . Your hot beds with horse manure are nice. Astonished, it gets 40 degrees warmth! Must be hard work to put the straw around. I have a hot bed with straw and horse manure made of wood, it‘s also enough warm inside. Good idea with the blankets, so you can recycle old textiles and need not throw them away. I always cover my bee hives with blankets in winter. But in Austria it’s not as cold as in Sweden. Styrofoam also works well, you can take styrofoam panels from bygg market. What I don’t like are all sorts of plastic tunnels, because I think, there’s enough plastic in the world. Have you ever seen the film „Plastic Planet“ in Sweden? I avoid plastic everywhere, when it’s possible. In cold areas it’s very important to grow indoors before. Then you have nice plants propagated when you need them in time. Lycka till for all your projects! 👍🙋♀️🌱🥕
