It’s time for garden tour #2 for 2022! This one is packed full of updates, including my reaction to trying raw homegrown asparagus for the first time! I also share some of the experiments I am doing that are related to amendments and turning the concept of crop rotation on its head. I really hope you enjoy this vegetable garden tour and keep your eyes out for another towards the end of May!
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0:00 Opening
0:18 Seedlings
0:57 Beautiful Surprise
1:25 Asparagus!
2:02 Delicious Brassica
2:57 Strawberries and seed bed
3:41 Border bed and soaker hose
4:43 GARLIC!
5:09 Broad Bean Update
5:51 Elephant Garlic & Caraway
6:30 RocketGro Bed
7:23 Swede Rutabaga Experiment
8:14 Amendments Corner
9:10 Polycrub Update
10:16 Self seeded crops
10:58 Purple Sprouting, Fennel and Cima!
11:59 The Perennial Bed
12:45 Peas & JMS Anecdotal Success
13:27 Soft fruit
14:02 Transplanting leeks
14:49 Cold frame and asturian tree cabbage
15:20 Vertical Structures
15:52 Fastest growing crops
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Loving the fade! Great haircut. Also, great video.
Great to see how much you are growing and also that you are letting some of your plants go to flower. I have done with my cabbage, kale and mizuna and the bees absolutely adore it, plus I get vibrant colour and seeds.
I do have a question about your chop and drop. In one of your other videos you mention about keeping the slugs away by not having anything on the beds that they can hide under, keep grass short etc. With dropping the leaves on the beds and leaving them there, have you noticed an increase in slug and snail activity, especially at this time when there are many seedlings and the slugs are hungry?
Many thanks
How does the grass not grow into the beds?
So inspiring. Thank you so much.
Your giggle after tasting raw asparagus is so funny. Chop suey greens are such an unusual and exiting taste in salads. When I realised they bolted into such lovely flowers I was thinking about planting them next to Jerusalem artichokes. Think I will try it this year. Your garden is looking so happy and healthy Huw! Your enthusiasm is so inspiring!!
I love it raw! Almost nutty! Actually that is the ONLY way that my son and daughter will eat it – neither likes it cooked at all! Family story is that for years I kept planting new asparagus plants – 25 at a time – and couldn't figure out why I never seemed to be able to raise it. At the same time, apparently while my daughter was waiting for her school bus to arrive, she would browse through the green pea beds and asparagus beds every morning. By the time I would go out to harvest what should have been a goodly amount of peas or asparagus, there was none left! This went on for years without me catching her in the act! And with her refusing any and all cooked asparagus and green peas! Eventually she owned up to it!
Tried raw Kale flower buds and they were wonderfully sweet and so tasty!
what do you plant if anything inside of the vehicle tires I noticed around the raised beds?
Great to hear some “Huw”-mor! Hahaha
Please forgive me, Huw, if anyone else has already provided this information but the Italian for the turnip tops, "cime di rapa," is "CHEE-meh dee rapa," and a single seed, "CHEE-ma dee rapa." A noun ending in "A" in Italian pluralizes by changing to an "E." The consonant C followed by an "E" or a n "I" creates a "CH" or "tsch" sound immediately preceding the pronunciation of said vowel.
So grateful you post these videos! Informative and inspiring, and you keep me encouraged. Many thanks!
Your garden looks amazing! Excited to learn more from your upcoming videos about what's in those blue barrels. We just put 4 raised beds on our decking and made first batch of nettle + compost tea for the plants. They're loving it so far.. I have a question, why would Mangetout peas suddenly start turning yellow or pale? Should I be feeding them with a tomato feed? Or maybe they need more sun. They only get morning sun for 4 -5 hours..
Your reaction to the asparagus was beautiful! The garden is astonishingly beautiful! Lots of inspiration!!
Enjoyed the tour. The garden looks so good. We're just going into winter here in Australia so it's great to be able to see the opposite season live, as it were. I'll be curious to see if the purple sprouting broccoli, Claret F1, produces seeds. More and more hybrids these days have cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) which means they cannot produce pollen so cannot produce seed on their own. All modern carrot and onion hybrids have CMS bred into them. Fingers crossed that the Claret F1 does not have this trait.
Looking good
I love your channel so much. You are such an inspiration! I also put up my vertical structures well before I plant beneath them because they themselves, add so much interest. And like you said, I envision the crops growing up beneath them and it brings me so much joy.
So beautiful, such a beautiful garden! Obsession at it's best!
Lol, "Tastes like Asparagus and peas had a baby." I also recently tried the same thing because of James P. – delicious!
Hello Huw. What you need to eat at the food garden side are leaves of broad beans ( in Spanish Habas) and pea pod. I expect to translate them well. Their flavor is incredible. Thank you for your tour. See you.
What a beautiful example of God's creation. It is absolutely gorgeous!
Hello Huw, good to see a tour from you and yes water is something that we need to collect or use as little as possible, no water on our site so I am now up to around 13,000 litres of stored rain water which may last if we get no more rain and has you know the last few years we got rain just when we needed it. Have a great growing season my friend.
♻️Happy gardening, Terry King.
I’ve seen many of your videos but this one was definitely you seeming so authentic and showing your funny side! I giggled a lot as you talked about peas, squirrels and your odd obsessions. Funny!!
Love what you do but can stop calling it a no dig garden when it's sheet mulching
Sorry, is there a video on how to make the vertical structures? I'm fairly new the the channel
Yes there is essentially no crop rotation in nature!
I try my best to follow a similar path. Even when it comes to sowing seeds. If you have a bed where you know you are going to plant, let's say kale, fill your seed trays from that exact bed for the kale seeds.
Then all the life in the seed tray soil is exactly the same as their future home in the kale bed!
Why raise seeds in foreign compost and then transplant into a raised bed with a completely different soil microbiome? Forcing the seedling and soil to adjust to a new environment.
Seems like a no brainer to me.
Thanks for your videos, I learn the English language and I learn a lot of new words, about the garden and the plants, I can listen to you and understand you. voice.