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Today’s video features the incredible new kitchen garden at Raithwiate Sansend Hotel which is just outside Whitby, North Yorkshire, England. This no dig garden is an inspiration to anyone who only has a slope to work with, and it defies the odds by also being north-facing! I hope you get inspired by this as much…
Companion Planting, Should We Plant Our Crops This Way? Which ones? What plants go together? What plants do we avoid? So many questions. Honestly though, other than a few hard rules and plants to avoid combining together, Companion Planting is not hard at all. You just need to get started. And in today’s video we…
Today’s video is a tour of my no dig permaculture kitchen garden, showing you all the things happening in late May just before the whole garden fills right up in June. I really hope you enjoy this and get some ideas about what you can do in your vegetable garden. May is definitely my favourite…
Head to https://fvrr.co/HuwRichards to check out the services available to you and use code HUWRICHARDS for 10% off! Today’s video sets out my approach and mission to improve no dig gardening, and exactly what 5 aspects I will be focusing on for my new growing project that I will also apply to the kitchen garden.…
Broccoli: Cartoon trees full of GOODNESS! What’s not to like?! Broccoli is a powerhouse of antioxidants, vitamins and fibre. It comes in all sorts of shapes and colours and each variety can be sown and harvested at different times, meaning you will have a something tasty to pick all year round…if you know how! Ben…
“Eat your greens!” they said…and they weren’t wrong! Kale, (like all leafy greens) are some of the healthiest foods you can eat. Nutritious, delicious… and so easy to grow! What’s not to like? In fact, they’re so delicious that it seems everything in your garden wants to eat them too… Ben teaches what to look…
In this video of the series, we visit Stephanie Hafferty who has just moved to her new property and has set up her backyard kitchen garden in no time at all using no dig gardening methods. Stephanie has a huge wealth of knowledge and experience of no dig, and has managed numerous no dig gardens…
Vegetables need friends too! Nature works in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways, and with a little know-how you can harness the powers of nature to boost and protect your crops as well as wildlife. Ben reveals some of his treasured secrets in this week’s episode. Our team of passionate plant nerds have been…
Calling all leaf-munching, salad-snaffling lettuce lovers! We know you’re out there, longing for luscious leaves of lovely lettuce. We hear you! This week, Ben reveals his top tips for growing your very own long lasting supply of lip smacking, pest-defying, super salads. Lettuce begin! If you love growing your own food, why not take a…
Is your New Year’s resolution to grow your best garden ever? Or perhaps to start a veggie garden for the first time? Well, this one is for you, our green-thumbed friend! 💚 👍 💚 In this week’s episode, Ben shows us the 5 key elements of what you need to know in order to get…
For anyone who watches this channel, they’ll know that no dig vegetable gardening is the foundation to the way that I grow food. I realised that I don’t actually have a video summarising my take on what no dig is, and to talk about the history, core principles, key benefits and also the limitations no…
How to make a gardening water bottle. Gardening ideas for home and the best out of waste or in this case recycled plastic bottles planter can be used in an urban garden or terrace gardening with a slight modification for vertical gardening or a balcony especially when you have limited space, epic gardening starts when…
This video is an end of summer tour of the vegetable garden to show you how things are looking and to use as a comparison when I make the full summer tour of the garden later in July or August depending on how this weird season goes! I really hope you find it interesting seeing…
Today is all about weeds and how they seem to overrun the garden if we look the wrong way. Fortunately no dig presents a fantastic way to mitigate and reduce weed pressure in the vegetable garden, which is what I explain in this video. I also go on to explain how to deal with the…
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Before I got too far into this new growing season I wanted to make a video to outline the new direction I’m taking when it comes to growing food, and the reasons behind this. I have felt constricted by only adopting certain methods of growing, and after much research and learning and questioning I feel…
I question I’m often asked is what can I grow in shady areas and also what else can I do with them in order to get the most from this space? In this video I outline the top crops for growing in shade, and also introduce 3 key alternative opportunities that shady corners provide us…
This video is all about no dig vegetable gardening in raised beds that have sides. There has been much discussion recently about if raised beds should or shouldn’t have sides so I thought I would explain how I do it effectively in a wet slug-prone climate and the benefits and drawbacks of sided raised beds.…
Today’s video is a complete guide to how I start seeds off in module or cell trays to ensure the best germination possible for the least effort possible. Sowing seeds is such a wonderful thing to do but it is often overcomplicated, therefore this is the simple method I use to start all my vegetable…
If you are new to growing food, or are looking to start a vegetable garden then this video is for you. I give my honest and frank advice when it comes to starting a food growing journey, with the hope that it will greatly help you achieve your vegetable growing dreams. The goal with this…
In this last video of the winter permaculture mini-series, we visit the inspiring no dig market garden Glasbren, located in Carmarthenshire Wales. Abel Oakenshade and Steffan Lemke-Elms have transformed a steep, poor-quality piece of marginal land into an abundant & thriving 1 acre market garden, inspired by permaculture principles and regenerative growing. This is one…
Adam Jones from @adamynyrardd Instagram account shares with us his inspirational backgarden that is full of food abundance, nature, and joy. Give Adam a follow here: https://www.instagram.com/adamynyrardd This video showcases his fantastically productive backgarden that combines raised bed no dig kitchen gardening, with keeping poultry like quail, ducks and chickens as natural pest control and…
This video is of Tim and Maddy Harland’s beautiful no dig permaculture kitchen garden in Hapmshire UK. Tim and Maddy are the founders of the fantastic @Permaculture Magazine and have a tranquil vegetable garden, meadow and food forest at their home that has been maturing for 25 years! I hope that this is a prime…
In celebration of World Soil Day (FAO), I collaborated with @Charles Dowding on building a new no dig garden in my climate here in San Diego. Charles built a new bet in the UK, and we compared notes and strategies. If you’d like to see Charles’ version of this video, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW2aVZkjJa0 As I’ve…
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