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I love your work smarter not harder way of gardening.
I'm in Alaska, zone 3b. We have an extremely short growing season.
You make great points. It takes time to establish a food supply at home & gain the knowledge & skills required. I’ve cut down my labour significantly by using the Kratky passive hydroponic method for some things such as strawberries, capsicum, tomatoes. I plan to overwinter these & make new plants via cuttings. Planting perrenials such as Perpetual spinach, kale, celery. Choosing everbearing, early cropping, prolific & longer storing varieties. Root vegetables with an abundance of edible leaves such as sweet potato, multiplier onions, radish, beetroot. These types of decisions have allowed me to grow more than I could achieve otherwise
I like the block gardening method.
Love your wooden garden beds. I wish we live in the golden triangle for termites in Australia. Little buggers
Hi Huw, I was looking into cold hardy citrus to grow where I live too. Unfortunately I am in zone 7 and haven't found any good candidates for my zone. The best ones I found would be pushing it in zone 8. Since you are in zone 8 you might have some luck with them outdoors in a sheltered spot like a south facing wall of a heated building, but better still in your polycrub if you have the room.
The most promising ones I have read about are Arctic Frost Satsuma and Satsuma Orange Frost. They are two newish crosses that were developed in Texas and are meant to be cold hardy to zone 8. Both are relatively short trees, 8 to 12 feet tall in the ground, 6 feet in a container. Arctic Frost is the more cold hardy of the two. Other satsuma have similar if not quite the same cold hardiness. Owari Satsuma, Brown Select Satsuma, Satsuma Miho, and Satsuma Seto are varieties that can survive a frost. I am not sure if this is a different name for the citrus you plan to grow, but the one that I read of is the Ichang lemon, which I've read tastes a bit like a lemon and a grapefruit, and has a lot of juice but a lot of seeds. There is an Ichang lemon variety that is supposed to have fewer seeds than the standard called Grand Frost Lemon.
Changsha Tangerines are supposed to be a more cold hardy parent to Arctic Forst and Orange frost, but very seedy with an insipid flavor, so not worth eating. Honey Changsha is still seedy but it is supposed to be a better tasting Changsha and more cold hardy than the satsumas. Sweet Frost Tangerine is meant to be a Changsha variety that tastes better and is nearly seedless, but I am not sure how cold hardy it is.
Anyway, sorry about the wall of text. It's just something I had been looking into but haven't found something that will suit my climate. Maybe some of these will suit yours.
Definitely wisdom being spoken.
Who on earth dislikes these videos? I don't understand people.
Huw.. how are you always so clean in your gardening clips?!?! Anytime I'm in the garden i seem to be head to toe in mud/compost/leaves!
Hi Mr Huw
Very useful update ..
Thank you
Prabhu
From India
I'm going to experiment with growing red okra outside next year so I don't have to buy that (which I presume isn't local or seasonal!) – I've found a variety that is apparently okay to grow outdoors in the UK. Also yellow Siberian tomatoes are apparently super early and good to grow outdoors here. Just takes a bit of browsing seed catalogues!
Wonderful suggestions! Thank you.
Great job
Huw, you have been an inspiration and have helped me in my love for gardening. Through watching your videos, I’ve learnt a lot and got introduced to a lot of other gardeners.
You are so selfless in your approach and make my time in the garden worthwhile.
I will encourage others to watch Huw, a remarkable young man.
Great video. Maybe mention to grow what you actually eat. Seems obvious but gardening can get away from you easily.
dude.. the camera angles, the scripting, the “challenge” approach and its longterm benefits.. you killed this video! your book has already taught me so much and im excited to see whats next!!!!
A huge factor in what my wife and I grow is taste and freshness, for instance before growing our own my wife hated the taste of carrots and would never buy them, but we now look forward to harvesting our own and why we grow most of what we grow.
Brilliant video again huw. I'm now in the process of making couple raised beds from reclaimed decking boards. How many boards high would you use please. Many thanks
Huw, thanks for speaking freedom and permission into our gardening experiences. I appreciate your encouragement for the value of time and balancing that with gardening and the rest of life and for challenging us to think wisely about what we grow so that we can avoid burn-out. As always…your videos are like taking an educational course every week! Thanks, Huw!
Not only the time is the biggest limitation to selfsufficiency, the space that's available for planting is even a bigger limitation. But we have to make the best out of it and enjoy what we're doing.
Hi Huw,im intresded in bying your books but it seem That you are out ,when do you think they Will be avaieble thanks from Canada
Eat in season, but preserve extra for winter.
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I tried planting chickpeas. You're right about the effort vs yield.
A very helpful video (as usual!) thank you Huw.
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Thank you so much for sharing your expertise. You're helping to educate and improve the world and I appreciate your help.