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Huw is so right, you have to have a vision. I've recently taken on an Allotment, and at the moment, I am getting it set up with raised beds etc., which it's taking quite a bit of time, because I'm a five foot two 49 year old woman, doing it on my own, with no access to a car, and so I'm transporting everything by hand, using just a gardening cart, and my own two legs lol.
I'm also slowed down by the fact that I have very little money, so I am needing to scavenge free stuff, like pallet wood etc =9, and I'm not able to get some things, like Topsoil, to easily fill my beds, because its just too heavy for me to transport by hand. So necessity had bred ingenuity, and I have found, that if I dig down each of my raised beds as far as I can, and then fill in the bottom of my 'future' raised bed, with the plant matter, that I have taken off of the top of it, and then back-fill the soil, that I have dug out, back in on top of the layer of plant matter, then it is enough to raise the beds up by a good 6 inches, which is all that I need, for e decent raised bed, and means, that I can have a raised bed, without the need for extra topsoil. =DDD
But a lot of my fellow Allotment growers keep saying things like 'It would be so much quicker and easier, if you didn't have raised beds.' But I say to them, 'Yes. it would. But I have a vision, of how I want my Allotment to look by the Spring, and I would feel as if I had cheated myself, if I didn't put in the extra effort, to get it as close to that vision, as possible, and I don't mind the extra effort, because the sense of achievement at the end, when it is looking how I see it, in my mind, will be worth it.' But a lot of them just don't 'get it' lol.
Yes, it's not 'easy', but its worth it =DDD…I would also like to say a HUGE THANK YOU to gardeners like Huw Richards, who have helped me NO END, with their know-how, and experience, to avoid a lot of the pit-falls, that relatively new gardeners, like myself, often fall into, through inexperience, because you guys have helped me soooo much !!! =DDD
Love it how many times you say 'vision' in this video. 😀 Did anyone keep count?
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Thank you so much for this Huw I’m starting my first serious garden and was feeling a bit overwhelmed.
I'm binging Huw right now!
Thanks for this information, it is very uplifting and positive!
Thanks for the info Huw great channeldo you add any minerals or natural additives at the end/start of the year?
Thank you for your words of wisdom.
I am trying to establish a vegetable garden and I needed a little encouragement.
love Gratitude Compassion is the greatest thing for our life in the garden . Thanks I subscribe.
This nice, relaxed approach is perfect, very inviting and reassuring for the first time gardener, along with the visual images of you working in your lovely garden. We will be featuring this video in March on our website, http://www.foodproducersforum.com as our “video of the week,”. Thanks, Huw!
What an inspiring film. With today's changes in the weather, gardening is becoming a bit of a lottery. I've been growing veg for decades in a very amateurish way but putting food on the table and the difference in taste from supermarket stuff is a joy. When buying seeds look closely at the harvest period. Last year I put leeks in that were an early cropper. My mistake !! I wanted veg to stay in the veg plot to keep us going through the winter months. Again, planting in a rush caused me many a failure so attention to detail is important. I'm only just learning that your choice of leek seed variety, etc can have a different growing period. Thanks Huw. Great words
How have you looked into Grand Solar Minimum? Fewer days of sun worldwide and colder and shorter summers.
Thank you for your encouragement and your vision.
I feel like I’m right there with him when he talks – I agree, very hospitable video
Did someone die at 11:25? I thought gardening should make me a happy camper?
Just kidding, Huw. I love your videos and learning a great deal from them!
One of your best vids. How do u make ripping out beans into a full on inspirational talk? Awesome!
Thank you so much Hugh. I really appreciate your videos. This one really "spoke" to me. When I first came accross you I was not sure how much help you would be as I live in a totally different climate, Gauteng South Africa, yet I found that I was soon following you. Your easy manner and speaking on the many of the issues I have related to vegetable gardening that I dont pay a lot of attention to or dont even think about properly as addressed in this video are more readily absorbed. Its as if I can identify with you as a person, a human, if you will. We are all trying to do our best. These videos through you an inspiration. Thank you so much for what you do for all of us.
I would say it’s bad to forget because that means to repress your memories ect . , so it’s really about facing your failures head on and accepting that they exist and that it’s okay to remember them in order to learn from them but never forget them, as you would be unable to learn from them if you forget
Forget = repress
This year I just planted. There was no organization or preparation beyond a couple raised beds. Now that I have learned so much I will be organized for next year.
As a writer, you withdraw and disconnect yourself from the world in order to connect with it in the far-reaching way that is other people elsewhere reading the words that came together in this contemplative state. What is vivid in the writing is not in how it hits the senses but what it does in the imagination. A garden offers the opposite of the disembodied uncertainties of writing. It's vivid to all the senses, it's a space of bodily labour, of getting dirty in the best and most literal way, an opportunity to see immediate and unarguable effect. At the end of the day if you dug, how much you dug is clear and definite.
– Rebecca Solnit