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0:00 Introduction
0:48 New Course
1:30 Tip 1
3:21 Tip 2
3:53 Tip 3
4:27 Tip 4
6:15 Tip 5
7:20 Tip 6
8:09 Tip 7
8:53 Bonus Tip 1
9:33 Bonus Tip 2
9:54 Closing
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Mine are:
1. Try to grow enough veggies sow e don*t have to shop for veggies from April – December.
2. Grow more flowers in the garden, including these gigantic sunflowers I am super excited about.
3. Establish 5 new beds in the autumn for next year.
Bonus goal 4: Create all my own compost for the autumn.
One: Control pests more effectively
Two: Build better soil for more, and better produce
Three: Grow more flowers (We had a great lack of pollinators last year)
From a muddle headed gardener, I would like to 1. provide veg all year round by reading the blurb thoroughly on the seed packet. 2. Try and organise my growing area for ease on my arthritic knees and hips. 3. Be more organised. Happy new year to all gardeners who can't wait to get back in the garden. In the coming days I will be able to find mine again when the snows gone
Hi Huw. Any idea where you might fine these fabulous bricks for easy raised beds. https://youtu.be/RLb5W-EZTAE
This year I'd like to get rid of my filler plants that aren't beneficial to the garden, successfully grow from seed without rabbits munching my sprouts first, and learn as much as I can from the experience.
very helpful garden tip, im going to roll around in my garden as so as i can, lets be youtbe mate ?
Great tip on laminating your garden plans! Thank you❤️
Ahhh i think my problem is I have too many goals. I finally have the opportunity to start a real garden and so all of it is goals. Plant more than I ever have. Do no dig, make use of compost. Save seeds, make raised beds, grow vertically as much as possible……
This will be our 2nd year to garden at the spot. 3 goals for the season 2021:
1) get the composting going
2) study the light/wind/temperature conditions etc for proper planning
3) plant more fruit trees & berry bushes
My 3 Goals: (I have just moved home) 1. Try Composting for the first time! 2. Use Succession Planting (I live alone so need less all at once!!) 3. Discover what works best and where. Wish me more successes than failures!
Love your videos, so very helpful. Am very new to gardening, having recently inherited a very large plot of land which was tended to by my father in law and he always grew the best vegetables. I don't know the first thing about growing your own veg so I'm trying to take in as much information as I can and I find your tutorials really friendly and helpful.
1. To learn more about growing from seed
2. To understand what to grow and when
3. To learn what can grow together and what cannot. I gather a fair few things do not get along in the same growing space and that is clearly important to understand. I'm hoping to be able to build some raised beds, revive the existing soil and grow something my father in law would be proud of.
Keep those super videos coming please, they're an absolute life-saver. Am looking at both our course and your new book and hopefully one day soon I can call myself an actual gardener 😀
Fantastic in depth information about growing your own veg. You and Charles Dowding not forgetting the lovely Liz Zorrab are my Gardening heros in the UK. Regenerative / Permaculture Agriculture is the way to a sustainable future.
You have a lot of good tips. One correction; a wigwam is round, built by woodland indians. A teepee is conical, traditional for plains indians. Your beans were growing on a conical trellis, a.k.a. a teepee.
If you want to learn more about perennial vegetables you should get “perennial vegetables” by Eric Toensmeier.
Please don't burn newspaper. It's toxic, containing not only toxic chemicals but also natural rubber latex, which is toxic. (Follow the money- corporations LIE.)
Not only will you be inhaling those aerosolized toxins, if someone with a latex allergy catches a whiff (it can be up to a mile away that someone may be impacted), you can trigger life-threatening anaphylaxis and potentially kill them.
https://non-toxic-home.org/f/is-latex-toxic
Please tell us how to deter rabbits from our plants. What is the netting you use? We’re in Portland Oregon and we get a lot of miles, rabbits and squirrels. Also, how do we get rid of slugs? We’re considering using wood chips in the walkway but we’re told that slugs like them
Hi Huw, watching you from Gander Newfoundland and Labrador Canada! I’m a teacher as well, 31 years now. Retiring soon to The Ole Church 5 Acre Homestead. My wife and I have BIG plans! Take a look!
Underground or sunken greenhouse . Will be the future. No acid rain from chimtrail and dropping gravity independent water sistem . Grow all year around, termo regulated.
1. To create a monthly plan.
2. To beautify the garden.
3. To utilize the new greenhouse using seedlings.
It's spring here in NZ it's my first year of owning my own home and I am rearing to get into the garden, I want more garden beds but I've been told (partner) that I need to fill what we have first
Huw, I love to see how much you've grown as a gardener. Constantly challenging yourself and learning from other gardeners. Bravo. You might consider growing edible flowers as a beneficial pollinator in your garden this year. I used to have a list of 40 edible flowers and how they are best utilized as food. However I've misplaced it at the moment. Ugh. So I have a general list of perennial food that I continue to add to. I'm adding it here just to see if there are any plants that would fit into your plan of adding more perennials to your land. Best wishes and keep up the great work. The following list doesn’t reflect what I have on the property, but rather a list of possibilities.
Vegetables
Asparagus
Artichoke
Jerusalem Artichoke
Lovage
Tree Collards
Tree Kale
Perennial Kale
Perennial Broccoli “Nine Star”
Yacon (excellent prebiotic)
Welsh Onion
Sea Kale
Sea Beet
Good King Henry
Perennial Arugula
Wine Cap Mushrooms
Shallots/Scallions
Hosta
Ostrich Fern
Egyptian Walking Onion
All Peppers
Herbs
Oregano
Thyme
Mint
Sage
Chives
Garlic Chives
French Sorrel (tastes like granny smith apple)
Red vein Sorrel
Richters Herb Sorrel
Echinacea
Horseradish
Fruiting Shrubs/Vines/Canes
Grapes
Blueberries
Blackberries
Raspberries
Currents
Gooseberries
Rhubarb
Honeyberry
Elderberry
Fruiting Ground Cover
Strawberries
Wintergreen
lingonberry
Fruiting Trees
Fig
Paw Paw
Persimmon
Apple
Pear
Peach
Nectarine
Plum
Hazelnut
Walnut
Common Landscape Plants not found in veggie gardens but are edible
All lily flowers are edible.
Angelica
Anise Hyssop
Bachelors Buttons
Bee Balm
Begonia
Borage
Black Locust
Calendula
Carnations
Chamomile
Chicory
Chives (and other alliums)
Chrysanthemum
Clover
Daisy
Dame’s Rocket
Dandelions
Daylilies
Elderflower
Fireweed
Forsythia
Fruit Blossoms (Apple, pear, plum, citrus, etc)
Hibiscus
Hollyhock
Honeysuckle
Hostas
Lavender
Lilac
Linden
Marshmallow
Meadowsweet
Milkweed
Nasturtium
Peonies
Phlox
Rose
Scented Geraniums
Sunflowers
Tulips
Violets
Trees and Shrubs
Fruit and Nut Trees
Fruit bearing bushes
I have some lofty goals for 2022 and I thought I'd share them…..
Plant the beds to avoid disease transfer.
To water using drip irrigation.
Plant only the quantity I will personally use.
To seed save from 4 or more plants this year.
Continue to add perennial food sources to the property.
To amend and grow short season melons successfully.
Turn most of the garden refuse into compost tea.
Intensively plant all greens to harvest as baby greens.
Trellis even more types of plants this year.
Trim all the trees and shrubs for max. Light.
And here is the list of melons I'll be growing out in Aurora, Oregon zone 8b.
Kajari Melon
Griselet (F1) Melon
Escorial (F1) Melon
Brilliant (F1) Melon
Savor (F1) Melon
Ha'ogen Melon
LILLY Heirloom Melon
ALVARO Melon
Mango Melon (Vine Peach)
Infinito F1 Hybrid Melon
Charentais Melon
Ginger's Pride Melon
Bateekh Samarra Melon
Sweet Passion Melon
Petit Gris de Rennes Melon
Orange Silverwave Melon
Madhu Ras, Rajasthan Honey Melon
Kiku Chrysanthemum Melon
Rich Sweetness 132 Melon
Minnesota Midget Melon
Old Time Tennessee Melon
Honeyrock Melon
Aphrodite Hybrid Melon
Banana Melon
Goddess Melon
Golden Jenny Melon
Sakata's Sweet Melon
This is especially challenging as I garden a small house lot that is almost fully shaded on the south, West and North side leaving only the front yard that gets sun until about 5pm. Wish me luck!!!!
Absolutely love your videos.
1. Use companion planting
2. Use square foot planting
3. Learn to recognize what is causing disease or pest damage
I laminate mine blank and use a thin dry-erase marker since I am always making changes!
Hi huw im teaching my old school gardening skill on our allotments im make note of ur advise and im going to buy some ur books as well 1 very useful tip is 2 use creasote and old engine 1 part oil 8 parts creasote to protect all ur wood and raisebeds like they in war times the water lrols off the wood xx