Love how you are showing us how an experienced gardener can go about creating a new garden space. Always with thoughts of efficiency and looking for ways to make gardening easier and more manageable! 👍🙂
The polyculture you've created feels like the stuff of magic. And this tour showed how you weave this magic, which is similar to world-building in 3-D modelling, except you do it in the real world. Love it! (Also, applauding w/ you over parsnips. 💚 Roast beast w/ carrots, potatoes and parsnips...)
I love, love watching you go through your garden and sharing it all. What a gem of a gardener you are! I'm learning so much watching your videos. I also bought your book and, oh gosh, I so loved it.
Your vegetable garden is looking amazing! But what I’m most impressed by is that you can rattle off all the names of the different varieties of everything that you’re throwing in there. I love how you mix ornamentals and food together and have multicultural beds.
Thanks Eleanor - I don't have a young family to care for, we don't go out and about much, so I have plenty of time to work on the garden gently and bit by bit.
Wow, I thought, "how many videos have I missed???" Well done Liz, you worked so hard and so quickly. It looks fabulous. It will be so much easier to manage than you old veg plot.
Your garden is looking absolutely gorgeous. So organized and weed free. Here in Trinidad and Tobago it’s the start of the rainy season and everything looks lush for the moment. My garden looks almost like yours for now. 😊😊hopefully it remains that way.
You have a wonderful garden already, and it will be delightful to follow its progress. In these days of transportation bottlenecks, having your own vegetables will be fabulous. I garden in 8b Austin, Texas, where we have already had a 100 degrees Fahrenheit and will have more when summer officially begins. The lettuce has bolted, so I'm growing a cutting garden. As you might expect, everything until fall (November) will need shade, plants and people. All gardeners have to adjust to the climate where they grow.
Hi from Germany and thank you for showing your amazing garden. It's such a beauty of abundance. I only have about 5 squaremeters of balcony but enjoy every crop i can grow there. We have salads every other day and had great spinach for lunch today. Some swiss chard, raddish, carrots, and beetroots are ready and the first peas and sugarpods are coming. Peppers, beans, and tomatoes are flowering, zucchini and cucumber seedlings growing, the potatoes look great and i should harvest a couple of strawberries, oh and my first goosberries and white currants here during the next weeks ... it works in a small way. 😊💚🌱
Well done Liz 👍🥰 you have done it , all your hard work looks to have paid off , I was heart in mouth watching your move thinking of the amount of upheaval and starting all over again it was going to be for you from your other place , but your proving it can be done and you have . Good for you 🌸🌸🌸 Enjoy 😊
Thank you so much Andrea. I almost prefer the setting up stage to the maintenance and maturing part. Once the gardens are up and ready and growing, I can see all the things that I could have done better - during the set up stage those things are harder to spot!
Looking great Liz! I’m excited to see your cut flower field as I’m also putting one in this year (alongside a tunnel house) and need more ideas - can’t wait 😁
i have 80ft of mud. unsure to do raised beds, costly wood or just do rows in the mud etc.. lots to learn. inherited several years old asparagus and strawaberries for now
Greetings, Liz, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸 Great tour and I am amazed that you remember every plant and name. Your Latin teacher would be pleased. 👩🌾👍 The aerial view is a treat and sings praises to your precise measurements in the layout. We have had "summer" since the beginning of April so we are ahead of you in growth, but the insects are also thriving. In Central Florida we fight them about 11 months out of the year 🦟🕷🦗 I'm organic and no-dig so I keep my eyes open. Thanks again for your special place tour🌿💚🌿
So pleased that you enjoyed this video Peggy. Remembering the names - I didn't recall all of them and had to pause the camera and rush off to look at labels. The magic of editing allows it to look fairly seamless! I would love a little central Florida sunshine about now, our weather is warming up, but it's been so wet (it's raining again as I type).
Beautiful! A garden to dream of. Just FYI--I planted my potatoes last year and didn't do another thing. No hilling at all and I had a good harvest and no problems.
Wow liz, You have done an amazing job of turning the piece of land into a very beautiful productive garden . The flowers are beautiful too . I’m so glad you’ll hav lots of veggies to use this year . Well done 👍❤️❤️❤️
I have 12 raised beds made from Pallet collars and cloches. Three plaggy Greenhouses and am hoping for good things. Currently I have around 80 bags, buckets planted up with Potatoes - they should end up at the local Soup Kitchen and a couple of beds planted up with Leeks. trying the rest of carrots etc but am using Coco Coir - usually works for me but the weather is against us.
Liz your acer grows over 10 years to 10 foot (3 metres). The red acers like shade and don’t tend to be eaten by slugs, I have three and I have no issues regarding pests to them.
How wonderful! Soon you will have all your fresh vegetables again, so good for taste and health. I used some of your principles of sowing late in summer or september. So I have had vegetables in spring this year, too. :D
Hi Liz, wow you've achieved so much and it all looks fantastic. Maybe you'll encourage me to try and get back into my garden if it ever stops raining. Love to you and Mr J 🥰
I can't believe how much rain you've had this year. It feels like it's swinging from one extreme to another! For a couple of years, we were talking about it being so dry and now you're being drenched all the time!
They were a first for me too and I'm not convinced I did them correctly. The stems seem very short in comparison to others that I've seen. But as always, it's all a learning process 🌼🌼🌼
My word Girl you have done amazing!!! It looks super organised Liz… love the asparagus and strawberry idea I will snatch that one. Are you putting wood chip in the paths ?? If so I would be happy to provide free labour for the day 🤗 just want to see your amazing piece of paradise !!! 🌻
Most of my veg growing videos from our last garden where the equivalent of victory gardens. For this year, these beds will grow vegetables, herbs and fruit together with the flowers. Once the flower gardens are set up, there may be fewer perennial flowers in these beds because I will move them to the new flower garden areas.
Love the layout Liz. My first year growing broad beans but not sure when to harvest. I have some beans already but they seem quite soft so am assuming not ready yet🤔
It's a horrid plastic membrane that I will lift and replace with wood chips just as soon as I can source some. They sell wood chips locally, but I can't afford to buy them, so I'm working on building a good relationship with the local tree surgeons in the hope that they will be able to drop off wood chips to us.
Liz that was a great tour, glad you took your time and explained what everything was, including that elusive Lesser Spotted Garden Rake! Lol! I have a few species similar to it! I'm a bit new to growing beans and thought all Broad beans were really tall? Am I thinking of Runner beans? I have bought some of the Greek Gigante beans you told me about and they are coming up, I hope it's OK to grow them now, our last frost date in the Scotish Borders is later than yours. I'm also trying another new one called Jacob's Cattle, all speckled tan and white. Another question, I like the black tubing you're using, I really don't want blue tubes, can you tell me what they are? Thanks so much!
The holes in the netting are large enough for pollinators to get through but small enough to keep butterflies out. The white netting is a very fine mesh and insects can't get though it. Many vegetables do not need pollinating before they are harvested, so it's not a problem. The central beds are filled with flowers for wildlife and they are not covered with netting.
Hi Liz, I noticed you put weed suppressing membranes down then the compostable membrane under raised beds then compost. Will this be enough to stop perennial weeds coming through, would you ever use weed killer to ensure this doesn't happen, if not (as I know you like to be organic), if that wasn't totally successful what else could you do? In the past I've had trouble with couch grass, horsetail, docks etc and this time want to get it right and avoid getting disheartened and exhausted with weeds.
Frances, I also suffer from getting disheartened, but I'm working on re-thinking all these weed issues. Couch grass is horrid, I can't find a way to get rid of it, so I just pull it out wherever I see it and put the whole plant in a large container with water to rot down. Horsetail - I don't think you can get rid of it, it's a pre-historic plant that has survived because it's so strong. It's a case of cutting back the young growth before it really gets growing and again, putting it into water to rot down. Try not to let it get to the stage where it sets seeds. Also, do a bit of research for the uses of horsetail, you might find some of them useful! Docks can be removed by digging down about 10 inches and removing as much root as you can. This will weaken it and a few attempts like that will usually be enough to get rid of it. HOWEVER, docks are also really useful plants, they are dynamic accumulators that pull nutrients from deep in the ground. The leaves can be used to add nutrients to your soil, chop it into your compost or lay it flat on the ground around your plants - but don't add flower stalks or seeds. Roots can be added to your water bucket to break down, the resulting stinky liquid will be a fantastic soil feed. All these weeds are a pain in the proverbial, but with a bit of clever thinking, we can stop seeing the weeds and start seeing the opportunities to improve our growing spaces - good luck! 💚
@@LizZorab thankyou Liz for sharing your approach, understanding, and solutions. I just love your approach, intuitive, working with nature, not too ordered allowing nature to offer some wonderful surprises and interplanting to support the eco system. I have very limited energy, have a space I can use for about 6 months from now then may have to move as its a temp site, its so late in the year just not sure how to plan, I'm thinking of putting what I can in pots for when I move, as I won't be able to overwinter things.....thinking cap on!! If you have any suggestions love to hear them. I'm so pleased for you and Mr J, you both, getting married, your health improving, becoming an author, finding a dream location and all the wonderful friends you have made along the way. Thankyou for sharing your experience common sense, honesty, and joy with us! Very grateful!
I said shorn in the first 15 or so takes, but I just kept giggling when I said it. Sometimes I have to say an alternative just to get through the recording!
Hello Liz, Everything is doing so well. I can’t believe how much you have accomplished in a short time. I am in Colorado and we just had snow a few days ago. I had to cover everything. I only lost a few cucumbers and one apple tree limb, so I am happy. Are you going to add wood chips over the landscape fabric? Just curious. I love your garden.
Calabrese (pronounced: Cala-bray-say). One of those strange foreign words, Italian. Your paths could have wood chips rather than plastic. Nonetheless, great presentation.
@@LizZorab Hi Liz, I’m learning in gradients from you, Huw, Becky, Dainty Diaries, Garden Ninja, Roots & Refuge & Mossy Bottom. One day I will actually be able to call myself a (novice of novices) gardener but that moment is not yet 😂
Shame about all the plastic. I use all my weedinfs for compost
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The common problem with the plastic is, that it is the cheapest solution. When we had to pay the real price of plastic production - including costs for dealing with pollution, recyclation fee etc., it will change the world. I agree with what you are pointing off - but I do not agree with the way, how you do this. "Shame" on nobody will change the world. Liz, great tour in the garden.
I’m not sure if this is plastic but I know that the plastic looking sheets she used for the trees was actually made from corn starch so that was neat. Liz is pretty awesome about trying to do the best she can for society and the earth.
