This video gives you 10 (lesser-known) ideas for you to use to make your vegetable garden or allotment more productive this year.
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The Idea for quick navigation:
1. Create a monthly planting plan instead of a yearly plan 0:40
2. Make your garden and plants less enticing to slugs 1:39
3. Reduce bare ground in early spring 2:20
4. Dealing with overwhelming tasks 2:49
5. Another way of dealing with overwhelm 4:16
6. Why you must be patient 4:56
7. Know the type of crops that give you multiple types of harvests 5:54
8. Making the most of podcasts and audiobooks as you garden 6:42
9. Surviving cabbage whites this year 7:25
10. Winter vegetables are incredible 8:17
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Don't do the thing of using brambles as a barrier against slugs. It doesn't stop them – they can slime over sharp edges without harm – and there's the risk of the brambles rooting into the bed and growing.
Hi Huw, whilst watching this video I was thinking about my Grandad. He was a career gardener who achieved lofty heights in his lifetime through it, as a child I helped and shadowed him around the garden. One of his mantras that I will never forget (but did not understand quite then, but do now) also ties in with your next video. It was "Hoe every day with a Y in it", when weeds are young you can hoe over most gardens in 20-40 mins, if your hoeing every day, weeds never get too big or become a problem saving you hours of hard work weeding, allowing you to be more productive. Hoeing every day for 5 mins only keeps your garden weed free allowing plants to grow well and the gardener to relax..a little. Steve…:)
Think winter HARVEST rather than winter GROWTH. Eliot Coleman's books on this subject are great. And please remind publishers that a southern hemisphere version of veg growing books should be considered too
Hi Huw! Jonah and I just watched this from Machynlleth. We're looking forward to our growing season. Jonah is going to specialise in cucumbers this year. He liked your bramble hack!
Do you have a link for the month by month garden planner or did you do that yourself on the computer? Looks helpful!
I've pre-ordered my book – looking forward to it! Strangely, Book Depository only had the US edition available (maybe they have sold out of the UK, which is great for you if that is so!)
Great tips here. I combine your podcast and weeding a little, often ideas. I weed once a week for the length of one podcast – and I hardly even notice that I have been weeding!
Thank you for your amazing tips! Never thought of winter vegetables until now after finding beetroots,leeks and parsnips in the veg patch last week. Gave me so much pleasure to dig up and use them for a tasty meal and make crisps. This year I will do it with a proper plan. Thanks once again.
I’ve got my fleece at the ready. Transplants going strong in the greenhouse. My peas in the garden are up, first potato plant has come through, carrots peeking out, beets flying out of he ground. Radishes going strong. Finishing harvesting last years leeks, time to feed our garlic crops. I love this time of the year.
Just watched this video. Great stuff. Love the podcast recommendations. Are they all BBC podcasts. I have a great Irish gardening podcast which I find brilliant but I won't list it here unless you want the name. Great information from you.
I tend to use coarsely ground egg shells to keep the slugs away, sametime they provide calcium to my plants over a period of time. The downside is this process needs to be repeated several times to the shell boundary intact without any gaps.
what do you do to keep possums out?
I made my own diy compst last October. When can I put the compost out into my soil. My compost looks at the moment very wet and it stinks a bit, there are still a bit of veg scraps to see, does that mean I can not use it? What signs should I be looking for?
Hello. Great tips. Why a U.K. and an American edition. I live in Japan.
Thank you, Huw! I have a question about harvesting, which tends to slow me down a bit. As I learn what each plant needs, I sometimes get stuck on what parts I can harvest without damaging the longevity of a crop. Do you have a way (a list or video) to know how many leaves to remove from a root vegetable to eat while the root of the plant grows? Or how much to harvest of those brussels sprouts tops when it goes to flower without getting unwanted bitter parts to eat? Thank you for all your help and fun videos!
I would love a garden journal/planner. It is so difficult to find a good one that contains space for journaling, planning, keeping track of purchases and schedules, etc. Maybe this could be your next book? 🙂
where do you listen to audio books
Wish you were my gardening partner
I have 2 tips for gardeners who are building raised beds this year. 1) Use a fine wire mesh at the bottom of your beds before filling with dirt etc. This will keep the moles out of the beds. 2) Don't put a bed near a tree because the tree will seek out the nutrients and put intensive roots up your garden beds and drain it of nutrients and water. If you have no other choice then put some corrugated tin at the bottom of the bed to block the tree roots and still have the ability to drain the water. Best wishes for everyone's growing season.
Idea#6: PATIENCE is the greatest virtue a gardener must have.
Thanks for all the ideas, happy gardening everyone!
Hi just saw your video's ..brilliant anyhow I saw you were pulling up vegs that comes from New Zealand similari to carrots,but I didn't understand the name.Bye from Sunny Italy..not very sunny at the moment
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The idea of doing chunks of a job to reduce anxiety has worked for me for decades. "Once begun is half done," wisely stated Mary Poppins.
'Killing two birds with one stone' or, as the Italians say, 'One piece of bread, two birds'.
I bought the same modules thanks to Huw's videos. They are really solid and should last years. Thank you.
I like the mindset behind your gardening choices for it speaks to a healthy and positive way of life. Keep up the good work!