With the exception of building soil and getting beds ready for winter, here are the 5 key tasks I’m doing this winter to make sure I am all set for the next growing season in the vegetable garden. Winter is also an important time to rest, so make sure you give yourself a well-deserved break sometime over the next couple of months before returning back to the vegetable garden.
-Huw’s books-
Signed copies of my books: https://huwrichards.shop/
-Clothing-
Awesome clothing designed for vegetable gardeners: https://huwrichards.teemill.com/
-Online Courses-
More Food Less Effort Course: http://morefoodlesseffort.com/
Planting Plan Short Course: https://abundanceacademy.online/p/the-monthly-planting-plan
-Social-
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HuwRichardsOfficial
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/huwsgarden/
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Where did you get your oca starts? I'm in the U.S. (east coast) and don't know of any sources. I'd love to try them, so please let me know where you got them. If you got them online, I'd really appreciate learning your source. Thank you.
Too much winter in Europe.
Planted about 6 different types of Oca which I bought Tom the real seed company…… (heartily recommend the Real Seed company and I particularly liked their Petrowski turnip and the Blue Bannabs squash is amazing.)…grew very well over the year in a raised bed and followed the instructions not to pick them early as they apparently double their weight in last month…. but despite various types of cooking I have to report them as being very pallid and nondescript when it came to eating….. I’m not surprised that history shows that our ancestors chose spuds over Oca…. interesting to note that Oca does not have mush in the way of calories unlike the spud…. however sure their is a market for fancy restaurants for this veg
Honestly love your videos. Honestly because of you I am soooooo excited for my next gardening season. I have learned so much.
Everything is covered with 40cm. of snow. Not a lot to be done outside this season, but I am well up to date with the seeds!
Hi Huw,
How do I access the pdfs in your online course, Productive Planting Plan? I have paid for it and have access to the videos, but there are no pdfs? I have gone back and seen that is is a pre-purchase, available in January?? I have got in a bit too early maybe? Would love to get them, many thanks
Mandi Dittloff
Some great tips, reminded me to start thinking about what to plant
Hi Hue! Where do you live?
Wow, this was a very helpful video. Just wondering how old wS your raised bed the ones that is rotting? Because I am looking into and trying to convince my husband to make me some.
Love the way you organize things before hand. Really good advice! Thanks for sharing.
So hard to get motivated in the cold weather but there’s work to be done.
I hope you have a great 2021 Huw, and thank you for all your videos – I learn a lot from watching you!
One idea I plan to try out this year is a keyhole raised bed. I crunched some numbers on this. Two 4 x 8 beds, 1.5 feet apart, which are made into a keyhole raised bed increases the growing area by 9%, and the cost is about 12% less than for the two 4 x 8 beds. I was excited to find out this trivia, and look forward to seeing how such a bed works out where we live in Florida.
I would love to see how you replace the boards on a raised bed that needs replacing. I've got a raised bed that all four sides/boards need replacing. How do you do that without all the soil falling out?
I like cabbage, collards and celery. But the family likes tomatoes, cucumbers and beets a lot more. So I'm growing less cabbages, more kale, tomatoes and cucumbers.
I can spend easily several hours in the garden. Family wonders what else I could possibly work on for so long. Boy were they surprised when I pulled out my To Do List.
Oh yeah you gotta plan it out when you're using raised beds for sure. If you go about it randomly you'll inevitably run into some kinda issue.
That's neat, I just found a copy of The Lost Orchard in a shop the other day and bought it. Now I see it on your video.
We recently bought a small farm in upstate NY. This is our first Winter here farming. Follow our progress on indoor and then outdoor growing on Insta. sunhillcherryvalley we follow back too to increase our gardening knowledge.
It is better to produce your own seeds to be independent
I overwinter my beds with mustard tatsoi. They make a thick ground cover you can eat as greens and you can turn them under a few months before planting the crops you really want to grow.
Edit: As long as you don't let them go to seed they won't come back.
Hey are you related to Luke the MI Gargener?
If you find an interesting fruit in the grocery store you can try planting seeds from it. Of course save seeds from any crop you plan to grow again. And you can share seeds with gardener friends!
any tips on cauliflower, love it, but my first attempt was a spectacular failure
Brilliant, clear and useful. We will be linking this particular video as our “video of the week” at http://www.foodproducersforum.com. Thanks so much!
당신은 멋진 텃밭을 가꾸고 계십니다. 좋은 영상 보여주셔서 감사합니다. 제 채널에도 놀러오세요. 저는 꽃밭을 가꾸고 있어요.
Your videos have really helped me as a new allotment holder as I know little about growing veg. I have just received your book and it’s really inspired me to sort of think outside the box in using things that may just get land filled that I hadn’t thought of. Hopefully I will get my key to the plot this week and start some actual work instead of. Watching other people do it.
Great plan! Especially with the size garden you have! New to your channel but I’m loving your content! Keep it up! Is the book still available?
Over winter is the perfect time to revitalise poor tired soil, here in Australia the summer sun really takes its toll on the soil quality along with growing so winter is the best time to give the garden a break, add a truck load of manure, mulch well and let rest for a couple of months. The rain can then do the job of making sure those nutrients get in deep and it'll be ready for spring planting