This video covers all of the things I am doing this autumn to ensure that my undercover growing space stays productive and the soil stays healthy ready for spring next year. From growing winter crops under tomatoes to experimenting with avoiding crop rotation after a disease, I share all my thoughts and ideas with how I am approaching winter. Most of all though having a polytunnel, greenhouse, or in this case a polycrub, is a wonderful way to enjoy vegetable gardening whilst protected from the elements.
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I don't have space for a polycrub or polytunnel, so I grow my winter salad in raised beds covered with hoops and Thermacrop (a double-layer mesh that insulates like fleece but allows air and rain in more easily) – the oriental leaves did really well and I got loads of salad in early spring. My garden is in warm dry East Anglia, though, so YMMV!
The Pokycrub is fantastic! Another useful video Huw. Love the LAB treatment of the bed. Thanks for sharing your wisdom again.
Hi Huw a great video, I built a grow house here in my yard, i have no soil only hard core so my beds are above ground beds, 2 beds at ground level and 2 beds 10ft up on a mezzanine. I made the soil with old manure and added worms and there manure. It's my first year and it's going fairly well. Top beds are full of peppers, chillies, lemon grass passion fruit turmeric and a miniature lemon and orange tree's. I'm ordering your book today and really look forward to reading and learning. I forgot to say I have put in a wood stove and have underfloor heating in 3 of the beds.
Could you give me the measurement of the polycrub? LxBxH?
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Downy mildew spores are airborne. And everywhere. Endemic in the environment. Leaving those roots in the ground will be fine. They won't be the culprit spreading it to the new cucumber plants next season.It's everything else growing within miles and miles of you that is spreading it.
Huw, I reckon your beetroots, silverbeet, kale, and Bok choy's will grow fine in your polycrub over winter. Here in Melbourne, I plant those in fall outside in the garden beds once the summer crops have finished, our winter days are 8-12C and our nights drop to freezing some nights and they all grow through, albeit slower than in summer and you'll have greens all through winter. 🙂
Also, I've been using intuition with my LAB and it's nice to see you and I are on the same page with it all. I've found that 1-2 spoons in a 9L watering can is plenty, any more and it's too much, and that it's much better before planting than during the growing period, and it does speed up compost – I mostly use my LAB for that to be honest. Great tip with a brand new bed to get it going better before planting in it the first time. 🙂
I didn’t realise lactic acid was so useful; I make my own yogurt so often have a jar or so if I strain the yogurt to make Greek style or labneh; now I’ll know not to throw it away. Thank you.
The LAB sounds very interesting, may be especially useful in our hot often humid summers with powdery mildew abounding. I'll check it out. Thanks for a great gardening session as always.
"undercover growing space" wouldnt it just be easier to say greenhouse?
Wow, awesome – that looks like a really stabil alternative for greenhouses. We are having more and more pretty stormy or strong rainfalls and hails here in Germany during the last years. Several greenhouses crashed every year, didnn't matter if they were made from glass or plastics. Such a greenhouse might be strong enough to last.
Your tips for space planning are really practical. Thank you!
hey! where u get ur seeds? whats online reliable good websites to get? cheap and all?
I really enjoy your videos, and relay planting is an area I am really trying to work on to support a continuity of harvest. However, I love your last thought about including a place to sit in your winter garden, for me, gardening is as much about growing myself and my family, as it is about food, so this is a key point for me to remember.
Great vid Huw and some fab ideas.
My first year over wintering in a polytunnel and got some great ideas from this one
Hi Huw, just a question really… I'm shredding some bits of conifer tomorrow, and need to know what I can do with the shreddings please. I'm a bit worried about where to put them. I have 6 compost bins, should I share them out, or can I use them directly on beds? Thank you
Love putting the strings on sticks. So much easier than putting nails in the bed plus you can easily switch it up if you’d like. Thanks!
Hi Hugh, any advice what I could grow in my green house over winter in Scotland?
Where do you store all your veggies?
I'm really learning a lot here. Thanks for your gardening knowledge.
Would sauerkraut juice or lacto-fermented veg juice work as an alternative to milk?
Hi Huw, can you talk a bit more about LAB and how do we make it? Can we just pop a probiotic capsule into the water?
I am srilankan your video is very useful thank you
I'm convinced that every cucumber on planet earth this year had powdery mildew