This video shows you 10 tips to maximise food production in a small vegetable garden. Having a small area doesn’t mean you can’t grow lots of food, in fact per square foot/metre, small gardens are often far more productive than larger vegetable gardens. This video is a collaboration with Tim and Maddy Harland from the Permaculture Magazine, and have an inspiring small scale vegetable garden designed using permaculture principles. Check out their fantastic channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/PermacultureMedia
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Was interested to see that you are growing in used tyres. The current thinking is that you should not do it, chemicals leaching out etc. I'm nearly 70 and have always done it as did my grandmother and we all seem to have suffered no ill effects.
12m*15m is almost a full allotment! A small garden is 30-50sqm.
I have a garden of 30-50sqm growing space and the biggest factor I have found is that you need to disregard traditional spacings and plant closer together. I can grow 1 month's supply of salad onions in an area of 0.5*0.5m, 1sqm will grow me 23 parsnips, enough to last a winter as they grow big in a 20*20cm equilateral triangle lattice. I sow radish and carrots far closer than recommended and get excellent yields. Focussing on yield per square metre is more important than yield per plant. This year I am trying a four crop successional growing strategy on 1sqm. I got 10lb of radish (6lb after topping and tailing) in May, this month I will harvest 36 beetroots, I have sown spring onions to plant out 70 modules in late July and will put out Valdor lettuce in mid September to hopefully get a crop in mid to late November.
@ Maddy Harland, can you tell me what those striking orange flowers are (in front of you when you are talking about the potatoes in the wheelbarrow)?
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It's great seeing smaller gardens as a majority of people dont have large gardens but want to grow food more of this pls so many channels have huge amount of space
Who else see a ‘hyena’ on the side of the shed at 6.51?
Thanks to Tim, Maddy and you, Huw. Wow. I've gardened for decades and have learned many tips in this video.
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It is amazing how much you can grow in a small space if you put your mind to it.
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Me encantaría que tuvieran traducción al español los videos no entiendo el inglés pero con las imágenes igual entiendo algo del contenido es interesante
New ideas – very precious! Thanks!
The free ghost supply divide because cement problematically fail throughout a bitter division. sulky, solid joke
12×15 metres IS NOT A SMALL GARDEN 36 feet by 45 feet is huge. I wish I had a garden that size!! More people than ever are growing their own which is fantastic. Great video
Does this bloke actually water his garden with jugs and watering can….. It's the 21st century mate use a bloody hose.
instead destroying trees we can be able to use Forest as building blocks then tearing blocks. I love the Teal colors. I hope you can this wise advise why? We can be able to change the world in 2 ways not just 1 we can be able to grow gardens in trees and grow them on the trees and we could make a new species
Hello Huw, first of all: I LOVE your videos, they do help me on my personal gardening journey. I just wondered about the tires and plastic bottles of water. In another video you tried to change fleece into jute because of trying to use as little plastic as possible. We do also have huge water storage in plastic (but no tires) and I wondered if the plastic does get into the water. Espacially with heat. Sorry if my english is not very good, I am from germany. =)
Actually I don't think salad is that expensive to buy! My local Aldi has been selling Iceberg lettuce for around 50p for months. There are many reasons to grow your own vege/salad but I don't think saving money is one of them. – Chris Johnson, The Lincolnshire Bucketeer.
Unrelated question…how do you pronounce your name? Huw?
Good stuff, Huw
Always get new ideas. Thank you for putting in the time to find fresh content
I love this couple so much. Their triangular bed is what I’m planning for our new home. How do they get into their brassica cage?
Also do potatoes need full sun or partial?
Always great videos. Thank you!
I have large space available, but am a beginner gardener. My partner has been growing vegetables commercially since he could walk lol. We clash on ideas re: spraying and visual appeal. I love abundant gardens with raised beds and a variety of plants of different heights. He seems to be more straight lines and practicality with hefty doses of chemicals and commercial fertilizer. I have started very small with some flowers and herbs in a tiny space. I am thinking to start small like this video. I hope to prove wrong the belief there are only straight lines and huge boring plots for high yield.
Is it ok to have a Tortoise? Is there any benefit?