It doesn't matter how many of your videos I watch, I always find one amazing one I haven't seen yet. Thanks for all your hard work (and amazing production values), Huw! Loved this.
I've watched this so many times and have recommended it to so many too! I'm really keen on trying the tile edging on my tunnel to catch water, brilliant idea!
Brilliant video. I love the fact she now gardens intuitively. There is a site called One Yard Revolution where the owner gardens organically in Chicago and shows you how to garden year round, in wind, snow etc. He doesn't do as many videos now as his garden is mature but his archives are amazing and particularly suitable for small gardens. I watched him avidly before setting up a similar system on my allotment.
She has a moderating effect from the ocean. In Central Manitoba , Canada, (colder than Chicago) we would need supplemental heating to protect against nighttime frost during spring/ planting fall harvest. Her location also has a short 24 hr sun growing season. I’m intrigued to learn how her nectarine tree survives the long winter nights when the northern lights are glowing.😅
Can I just say, you need to paint the milk bottles black with a none toxic marine paint! The black heats the bottles up much more then the white which reflects heat and does not absorb and release heat as good as the black. We have a 320 liter black water butt inside a greenhouse and it emits so much warmth at night when ever its been sunny even in winter. Hope this helps.
@@andymoore9977 Make a guttering on the outside with an inlet pipe sealed with aqua seal. The type used for glass aquariums is best because it is none toxic. You can save so much water from both sides of the polytunnel. Dont forget you will need an overflow pipe leading to some where as well either another water butt or grow bed etc as you get so much water off a poly tunnel
Very nice to see indeed. It’s “only” the wind that makes things outdoors difficult. Plenty of sunshine in summer, usually sufficient rains. A wall or a natural wind break will do wonders to grow vegetables & berries.
A lovely and very interesting video. I grow vegetables and fruits in Norway (62 N). There are many challenges with the weather and the season is short and we have hard frost in the winter. But there's a lot that grows well if you find hardy varieties. I winter sow in frozen soil in an unheated greenhouse and many plants can overwinter if you give them a little shelter. I totally agree with what you say about the principles of cultivation, pest control and building the soil, as nature itself does. The peas from Sweeden, have you got a name, Susan? Thank you so much for sharing this Huw and Susan.
I love the idea of growing nicotiana as a natural fly catcher, I'm going to be doing that next year! What a lovely video Huw, thanks to Susan for sharing her experience and yay for polycrubs!
Fascinating. I would love to see a follow-up from/with her on her outdoor permaculture efforts too. It's amazing to think Shetland was once covered by forests but that means forest permaculture is a real possibility there.
I would go as far to say it's possible throughout the whole UK as it was once covered in forest and is in the current state due to farming, which needed to have the trees cut down to be able to plant in open ground. I recently learned that Sherwood Forest was once as far as Derby, much bigegr than it is now.
@@PeterMaddison2483 I sure hope permaculture and food forest methods start to spread here and over there. I'm slowly working on transforming my front and back yards. Even though I've still so much to do, already the variety of insect,s butterflies, and bird life that I see shows me it's a healthier ecosystem than my neighbors' standard grass yards with 1 tree and a couple of shrubs.
@@TheWBWoman I wish we had the land to be able to do the same, but we live in a small bungalow with no front garden and a bog for a back garden (we live on the egde of a flood plane). Were in the process of getting it slabbed and putting up 4 raised beds and a greenhouse
@@PeterMaddison2483 Cool! If you have boggy conditions and some part of your back garden remains prone to floods, Rose Mallow is a pretty stunning water tolerant plant. It's a type of hibiscus that's an annual. Some of mine have stunning flowers as big as 10-12 inches in size this year. They look very tropical.
@@TheWBWoman Were getting the whole garden slabbed and having 4 raised beds in instead as my wife is disabled and would not get up off the floor if she bent down to garden.
WoW, loved this and the presenter Susan is so knowledgeable and gentle spoken, just like Huw. I could watch them both for hours. Wish I could afford one of these polycrubs! I would always be in the garden
just beautiful. working my way up to something like this, loving the process so far. learning more and more about the natural world is my favorite part, and with every harvest I just feel so much gratitude.
Thank you for this great video, both informative and inspirational! And congratulations to Susan Hinton Jenkinson for her admirable green achievements!
Well done Susan. Great to see you again and the crubs are looking fantastic. You are both doing a really good job there. I was in Shetland the other week and passed your place - but lack of time....😁
Very interesting, thanks! We have a similar climate here in Stornoway (Western Isles) - love the idea of making hot water bottles for plants in polytunnels.
What a fantastic video! Well, I love all your posts 😊 This young lady is delightful & provides such great examples of permaculture, handling an extreme climate &, of course, our ruined food supply. Wonderful! I'm studying permaculture with Geoff Lawton, so I'm loving this ! ❤ Thanks so much Huw & greetings from Virginia Beach, Virginia - east coast, USA 🎉
Your garden is lovely. I’m just starting to garden. I’m hoping to do half as well. Thank you for your encouraging words. What a relief to know following your instincts works so well.
Love the tips! 1. Love the nasturtiums around the base of the Apple tree. I will be doing that this summer. Two. Love the ornamental tobacco plant that has sticky leaves to capture the flies. These are brilliant tips!
Congratulations on conquering the challenge posed by those strong winds. I spent the summer of '79 in Shetland, particularly on Papa Stout, and saw people's best efforts at growing next to walls thwarted by its severity.
Love the video, and thank you for showing the best ways of growing in the northern hemisphere. Great selection of plants, and your beans look so healthy. 🌹
Great video Huw, I’ve been eying up polycrub’s for a while now. If you go again we’ll have to bribe you to bring one back on route with an offer of free lodging in Northumberland. Only kidding about the crub, but I would like to get my hands on that small one they are carting around the show grounds.
Amazing video, very informative..and i like your garden..sort of vegetables grocery❤ You really reap your labor. I wish our soil here like there.. Continue to grow plants and food..God bless you.
Wonderful, thank you! I love how she doesn't apologize for having weeds and insects in her garden - most people would. I think every weed is useful, we just don't always know how to use them. What zone was this in?
Love it :) another modern day hero, those long winter nights with little sun may be good for certain fungi, not too sure but maybe look into that if your interested
I’m in Sweden and I’m growing in the same latitude. I’m guessing we have warmer summers and colder winters then the shetlands, because islands basically have the whole ocean work as a massive temperature stabiliser all year round. But here the problem is that even if you have a greenhouse, it’s still winter outside and it gets well below freezing. Tons of snow. Even if you manage to keep the ground inside the greenhouse warm enough to grow mushrooms in. The air gets incredibly dry when it’s like -12 c downwards. Like the driest air you can imagine, and that is all surrounding the greenhouse. Like the air being so dry I have a issue that my hands start to bleed on the regular in the winter from my skin cracking from being so dry, due to the air sucking the moisture out of any exposed skin. Lots of lip balm and moisturisers involved in the winters here. So keeping the sort of moisture you need for growing mushrooms in the green house is probably going to be hard (I don’t know for certain though) Small drafts and leaks will suck the moisture out quick. But yeah mushrooms love it hear during autumn. Not too much light, and it’s very wet that time of year here before it gets below freezing. But maybe it would work for the winters in Shetland. And when she says the days get short in the winter, that is sort of a understatement. We are talking the type of dark like you only get like around 1,5 h of sunlight in the darkest day of the year. Where the sun never really rises. It just goes from sun rise to sunset and then pitch black for the remainder of the day.
What a beautiful way to wake my brain up and get in to the day here in Japan, far from the Shetlands. So many questions. One of them was going to be about the Polycrub thing, so thanks for the link at the end. I am very impressed with, and pleased to see/hear, this lady's knowledge and enthusiam. If I had one of those Polycrubs here (not that you need such things in southern Central Japan), I'd just sit in it relaxing, surrounded by the greenery. Thank you.
I love your video! I totally agree with you about the benefits of so called weeds! I’m in the mountains, at Pinantan lake, BC, Canada, I used to have a large garden and now I harvest weeds like St. John wort, and wild edibles! Thank you! It’s lovely their! 🌻
That's pretty amazing. When I saw those apples all kinds of ideas popped in my head. Thank you for sharing. And yes I started gardening because of poisons.
