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My name is Huw Richards, I live in Wales, UK and I am a teenager who loves vegetable gardening. Unusual right? I love to teach people around the world about growing their own food organically and my end goal is to get as many children as possible to have the experience of growing food which I believe is one of the most important things a child could learn. If you’re new to HuwsNursery then please hit that subscribe button (and also notifications) so you can learn more about growing your own food inexpensively 🙂
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Don't you save your nasturtium seeds ??
My boyfriend and I love watching your videos. Especially whilst settling down with the Marshall’s catalogue. You are fast becoming a gay icon Huw; The Sexy Gardener perhaps. Thank you so much for all your content.
Love your videos and absolutely adore your Welch accent! You’re such a natural, likeable character, who should be gracing our tv screens presenting horticulture programs. Don’t understand why the BBC haven’t snapped you up yet!!
cover crops for overwinter.
Wow your garden is amazing! I am so envious. Enjoy it!
I've just taken over an abandoned allotment. The soil has pretty good structure, seems to be fractionally on the acid side of neutral at 6.5 on my measuring tool. However, although I've dug out some seeding perennial weeds there is a lot of grass and I'm thinking of actually covering each bed in hay from my rabbit hutch, and then covering each bed with cardboard and black plastic to mulch them over winter. Can I plant and edible winter crops through the plastic ? And if so what do you suggest? I can't eat legumes or maize of any sort ( sadly) but love all leafy veg or root crops. Also is there a black plastic you recommend. My plot is south of the North downs in Kent UK. Many thanks
Huw,can you please tell how long the compost took to made?
awesome garden.
Hi Huw what wood do you use for your raised beds?
Hi Huw, I just found your channel and watched for maybe five hours straight 🙂 very good info and nicely put together. I'm really enjoying it.
This video made me wonder, why you carted all that wonderful mulch to the compost pile instead of using it as mulch directly on the raised beds?
You should invest in a shedder!
Thank you!
Brilliant. I love your content Huw. 🙂
Outstanding Huw
Great to see young gardner!
It’s amazing the amount of green mass that comes out of the garden during a season…
It’s a lot of work to dismantle, prep the beds for any winter gardening which I can do because of mild winters and adding in compost for the beds I’m not using until spring. I took a part of what was lawn and turned it into a garden so this year was a lot of work removing grass and weeds…
Loved watching this! So calming
This was really useful, Huw. Watching you do the tasks is really supportive. So many just tell you, start doing it then show you the end product, and you wonder what they did! So thanks. One questions, how long did it take to get that amazing crumbly dark compost that you put on the beds towards the end of the video? Some of what you put on the compost heap, including sheets of cardboard, looked as if it would take a couple of years to get to that perfect state. Also do you dig it over? I would like to know how to compost large amounts of grass and in the autumn, leaves, along with kitchen and garden waste, without digging it over as I don't have the strength to do it. Is it possible? Can you help?
Enjoying some of your older vids. Good value indeed. Compost – what do you use for carbon? I've got eight 'daleks', three of which are already doing their stuff with variable results. What is your favourite source of carbon? Being only a year-old garden, I'm slowly building up my compost momentum. Looking forward to loads of ingredients this season.
all the best – Paul
Does the black plastic method only work for raised beds or will it work for my ground allotment ? Thank you
For winter prep, I’m putting down alfalfa pellets and then covering with wood chips. Hopefully the alfalfa pellets will break down over the winter to feed the soil, as well as help the wood chips break down. Does that seem like a good idea, or should I wait until spring to do that?
I leave roots in over winter. I find it beneficial. Love your videos tho, I learn alot from them
Still learning, for sure. Wondering why there were steps in the 1m x 2m bed, unnecessarily compacting the soil. Seems like like giant no-no.
I'm using worm castings in my soil. I keep my used tea grounds and rabbit droppings from my pet bunny, which I throw in the garden. I also keep my egg shells, crush them and spread them on top to keep slugs and snails away. It's nice to see a teenager interested in gardening! My suggestion to you is to wear gloves so that you don't terrorize your hands. I won't garden without them because of venomous spiders here in southern California.
Great video, just wanted to know if you mulch the beds after the compost. Thankyou
Watched many videos. Didn’t realize that you lived on a 13th century farm til you fed the pigs. Wow.
hey bud i know its 3 years later but i thought u keep the roots?