In order to maximise what you can achieve from your vegetable garden, you need nutrients! This video shares the art of nutrient harvesting which is a way to help you make the most of every single element needed for growing success, as well as why I compost some of my crops rather than eating them! There is no waste in a garden, only nutrients expressed in different forms. Happy International No Dig Day by the way! Find out more about the day here: https://charlesdowding.co.uk/3rd-november-2022-no-dig-day/
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What a brilliant way to see the big picture! Thank you! I try to think that way when I put anything that would be hard for me to compost, like woody bits or thorny rose clippings or seedy weeds, into my city compost bin. I can then go to the spot where the city returns those as finished compost and load up my car for free, so nothing is wasted!
Seems so simple but I love the idea of the mixed salad bed, I struggle to sow enough successions of salads in modules, it gets very faffy! I could probably just keep direct sowing throughout the season and would always have abundance even once the slugs get their share. Will be doing this next spring.
We are doing many of the same things you cite here. We've made a big effort to organize and simplify the garden into a more efficient setup like you discussed. With that and the perpetual loop JADAM and KNF principles we picked up from your channel, we are consistently producing top notch, very nutritious food in abundance without working ourselves to death during the garden season.
Time is definitely an issue for me as I work 40-50 hours a week (on top of my other obligations). It's difficult to find time for all the garden work, harvesting and preserving food.
I completely agree with composting perfectly good fruit. I came to this conclusion early this year when I was worried about having too much when a plant produced at it's peak. Then I reasoned that the worst case scenario is I compost it and have those nutrients for next year. It's not waste if you compost rather than going to the landfill.
Happy No Dig Day!
I live in the Peruvian Andes, so I can grow food all year long. Once you learn how to work with the dry and rainy season and the sun, a constant garden is possible. Compost is a challenge so I am a lazy composter who relies on worms and gets nice humus. Coarse particles after sifting are used as mulch. Rice hulls and wood shavings are used to cover seeds and seedlings or as mulch. I also ferment weeds, rabbit poop, etc. for fertilizer. I do direct seed unless the birds are too much of a problem… and they can be a real nuisance. Have a 2x2m greenhouse for badil, peppets, tomatoes, hierbaluisa, etc.
Having a garden is an adventure filled with constant learning and adapting.
Just like to compliment you on not only the content but also the presentation. You have the gift of making things easy to understand and do, it's always inspiring to listen to, wherever we are in the world. This one in particular is great. Thanks so much.
Not just regular compost, but also vermi compost and BSF composting are wonderful help with all the garden needs.
Oh no I've been digging the dancing queen all day …..
Thank you for this video – putting the 5 steps of gardening abundance all together in one place! I would love to keep the winter harvest in the ground but…we have rats (forest rats) in BC so although the weather allows us to keep things in the ground year round, I've carrots, beets, potatoes, etc…and once they find a source they totally clear it out in a night 🙂 Maybe in the future you will have a video on how to devise covers that are impenetrable to them. Also the beds etc you sell on your website are amazing…will you have a distributor in Canada any time soon? thanks so much
Huw you give me the knowledge I need to garden with Confidence
I have no problem putting 'good' food on a compostheap. In fact I grow stuff especially for compost, like broadbeans
Extra veg can be shared with neighbours or food banks ?
I completely see your point about composting edible produce, and if I were gardening in another setting, I would wholly concur. But in my setting in NW England, I'm not close to making all the compost I need, so I'd rather give my 'overages' to a food bank. That seems to me the best way to feel good about the time and resources that go into my garden and the abundance it gives back in return.
Why do you remove the leafs and dont you let them laying there as mulch? 2:18
Also the appletree feeds itself with its own leafs and apples
Thank you ! We live in the US in zone 5. Our ground freezes solid. Would it be feasible to leave leeks and parsnips in all winter and harvest as we need them? Might be tricky to get them out of frozen soil. Does your ground freeze during the winter in Wales?
I use my chickens as an intermediate step in nutrient cycling. It particularly reduces my guilt at not eating everything.
happy no dig day ….
I actually understand most of what you said today,and it made sense to me.which I agree alot of stuff people say I don't always get or I get part of it wrong.
But I thing I fully understand this and I'm gonna save it to watch again so I can do more of what you say. To make my garden better and more food for my family,not at my house but we grow here as others gardens are not the size or face south like mine does so my garden is the best for growing veg and fruit.
Its only new to us in this last year really. So hopefully we will learn more and get better as we do.
Thanks Huw
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Great video! Mother nature doesn't think twice about dropping perfectly edible food/fruits on the ground to enrich next years growth, and neither should we!
Another terrific story of flowing with and for the most important aspects. Thanks. And Huw: did you really slip in "winter crops are CHILL?" LOL! from southern USA.
All my extras we can't eat or give away mostly go to our chickens and them back to the garden
I run a daycare so I never have a glut of anything. Thanks for the time saving tips. It is also nice to know about the winter crops. I am still experimenting with these.
There is another step. Nitrogen recycling by recycling urine.