With spring approaching (hooray!) it is starting to get very exciting for us vegetable gardeners. However it is still a bit early for the hardcore seed sowing season, but this gives us a special opportunity to get as many things together as possible to ensure the most successful and productive growing season yet. It’s my hope that this video helps you get that ever bit closer to your vegetable gardening goals and dreams.
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Ideas for weekly challenges
– Clean out all the water tanks
– Organise all the pots and trays
– Make sure all the tools are good to go
– Treat yourself to something that will make your growing season that extra more enjoyable
– Create a beneficial insect planting border
– Get the polytunnel beds ready for planting
– Wipe down/clean the polytunnel cover
– Make sure there are no holes in the fence ( I need to do this! )
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Why did you put cardboard under the bushes?
This will be our first growing season here in Central Portugal, so a lot to learn as the growing season starts much earlier. However, since the New Year started we have had no rain…. now I find myself looking for rain clouds.
In Central Texas, I have direct sowed lettuce and bachelor's buttons. Since I am a city gardener, my growing space is limited, especially since trees take up a lot of the space, but the trees provide lifesaving shade in brutal summer heat. I've adopted no dig methods, but have to buy compost. I started my snapdragons with the winter sowing method and have some seedlings already. Our hibernation season is July through September when working outside can be dangerously hot. This is my 1st year for a cutting garden, a boon of retirement.
Thank you for such a helpful vid Huw. I have been meaning to ask, where you are in the UK, does it snow? I dont recall seeing any of your videos w/snow or winter weather. I’m in Western NY USA, so unfortunately i cannot work in the yard till at least March as it is 19 Fahrenheit & the ground is frozen.
Ha! Love your videos, Huw, and find them inspiring. However – I can do nothing in my garden right now – it's 5ft deep in snow, which won't leave until April – ish! But still – here in Alberta Canada I can dream …
What you have just shared is so inspiring and helpful – not just for our garden “management” but also for how we manage our home, our work, our time – and so precious to have watched this even as we reach the end of the first month of the year. Thank you Huw!
Oh my gosh, great inspiration it is! It's so hard to watch a video like this and know I am just now getting started on compost, and making my raised beds plus my ingrow lights much needed in southeast Texas.
Let me just say… I want it all! I can smell it! I dream it! And I am going to accomplish!
Thank you for the info! God bless!
I can't wait for the weather to warm up a bit, then I can really get going on my allotment.
So excited for the new book, but why oh why couldn't it release ahead of the new season like February at least ?
Great video Huw, really got me pumped to work on a plan for this year! Time to head back into the garden and start prepping!
I am a new subscriber in the U.S. My question is whether or not you use grow lights for seed starting. They seem on-trend these days. But my grandparents had a successful farm many years ago. I do not think they used grow lights back then and yet they had abundance everywhere. I only have two raised beds. Also, I am older, and I have serious eye problems (cataracts which hate glare and glaucoma). I worry about the effect of the lights on my eyes when I go in to check on everything. Is there any way I can direct seed most things if I am willing to wait later in the season to plant? I will start the tomatoes and peppers indoors if necessary, but I would like to direct seed everything else. And while I am at it, can I direct see tomatoes and peppers, too. Thank you so much for the excellent videos.
Oh dear. I have a second question. I watched your watering video. It did not appear that you use drip watering, which is also on-trend. It seemed like you mostly water overhead with cans and a hose. Is that right?
Huw you are the cutest!
See also this amazing African organic garden: https://youtu.be/oG_k-pqeX4E
you can make more videos with subtitles in Spanish it would be very useful
Hi, Huw.
I am so inspired by your "chop and drop" method. I just did it few days ago to transform weeds in my garden into next planting season's fertilizer.
Nice
I still need to get my homemade compost spread… I've done it on my empty beds but still have a few winter veg in… I'm going to relocate my winter veg this year as where it is now it doesn't get much sun in the winter months so growth has been slower then expected.
Brown sugar for the Fermented nettles is unnecessary, just use plain sugar as it's cheaper and will do pretty much the same job.
Now i have problem for my rose.rose tree give only less rose .how i can do for let rose tree have more rose
Do,es anyone else grow comfrey to use as fertilizer , grow mine round the ede of my allotment the cut it back and put some in a waterbutt the rest on my compost heap
I envy your greenhouse soo much
well the things about biochar is that if u using a fermented fertilizer with molases/sugar always make ur soil acidic so u gotta improve ur soil by using biochar to up ur soil ph.
I would like to thank you for the way you speak. I am a foreigner and you speak slowly and clearly. Thanks to this, I can watch your videos and understand most of the information. If I don't understand something, the subtitle help me.
Hi huw! I’m curious as to how you feel about ollas in the garden as water sources? I live in the American south which means we have either drought or downpours all summer. It’s hard to keep water levels right and these seem like a great option. I don’t know anyone who’s tried them and wonder if you have? Would love some advice before I start investing in making them out of terracotta pots.