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Today’s video shares the magic of putting weeds in water for a productive and healthy vegetable garden! It also covers other uses for weeds, what is a weed anyway, and how to deal with weeds that have gone to seed. Happy gardening! How to clear a garden full of weeds blog: https://huwsgarden.com/en-gb/blogs/blog/how-to-clear-a-garden-full-of-weeds The Vegetable Growers…
Compost Moisture Is Vital To Its Productivity! As one of the 4 main factors controlling the speed and efficiency of a compost, moisture is integral to allowing the microbes to successfully break down the raw materials that we keep adding. In today’s Quickie, let’s discover why moisture is so important to our composts, plus learn…
Composting In The Winter Can Be Tricky! As the temperature drops, so too does the efficiency and speed of our compost piles. In extreme winters, your compost pile can actually freeze solid, and stop completely. Of course, this is just fine because when the spring thaw happens, the compost resumes breaking down as microbial activity…
What is the Carbon To Nitrogen, or C/N Ratio? Why is it important, and why do we care? Well, today, let’s find out. In this episode’s Quickie, we explore the relationship between Carbon and Nitrogen in your compost, what components make up what, and what’s the ideal ratio to shoot for so that your compost…
Its that time of year where our garden beds and plots are starting to receive their final harvests. Crops are coming out as the summer winds down and us growers are left with the chores of that end-of-season cleanup. One way to easily and quickly clean out your beds of spent plants is a no-till,…
Sometimes things just go wrong. It’s been a challenging summer, with record breaking heat waves bringing more troubles than just watering woes. Who knew that high temperatures could also entice pests large and small? In this episode, Ben reveals all he has learned from an extraordinary summer and demonstrates what he will do to combat…
This summer has been a hot one! Record temperatures, drought, and many severe conditions still lingering around Canada, the US, and abroad. Now, more than ever, its the little tips and tricks that can keep our garden humming along, with the promises of harvests up until fall! Individual Episode Links: Episode 81 – Fertilizing Peas:…
“If you want organic food, you have to grow it yourself.” -Bill Mollison Today me and Tuck are harvesting the best food in the world, and the great thing about it is that anyone can grow it too if they have the space. Not even kings can get food this good, and when you grow…
10 years ago I started planting fruit trees and other fruiting perennials in my backyard garden. The goal at the time was to create a food forest garden that would be a mixture of both annual fruits and vegetables, and perennial fruits and vegetables. A permaculture garden is one that seeks to not only provide…
Summer Is In Full Swing! I love this time of year because the garden is just massive and the harvests have already started. Early crops are giving bounty daily and the larger fruiting ones are well on their way. To help you guys along your way, here’s episodes 71 to 80 of Volume 8 of…
Juicy and sweet, hard to beat! Everybody loves strawberries, but not everyone has the space to grow them in raised beds. Not to worry! Strawberries can grow very well in containers, and there are many ingenious ways to do this to maximise space. Ben also explains the different types of strawberries and when they crop,…
Caterpillars carnaged your cabbages? Pigeons nibbled your veg plot? Then you’re yet another victim of a brassica massacre! There’s nothing worse than the sinking feeling you get when you go out to your precious garden only to discover that pesky pigeons and creepy crawlies have eaten your dinner before you even had a chance to…
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…
Slugs! A huge problem for many gardeners but comes with a very simple solution that adapts a direct sowing technique, and the best thing about this trick is that it doesn’t cost anything – and you can start using it today! Growing food should never need to be complicated or expensive, and I hope this…
Right before the new season really kicks off, I thought I would make a video outlining my strategy for natural pest control in the garden and provide plenty of tips and actionable steps for you to start implementing too. The best thing about this method of organic pest control is that you don’t sacrifice space…
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…
Today’s video is to mark the fact that the sowing season is starting to gradually pick up! In this video, I demonstrate the simple art of sowing seeds in modules for fantastic harvests. Sowing seeds is so important because it sets up the plant for the rest of its life, however, seed sowing is often…
This is such a wonderful permaculture vegetable garden that demonstrates just how much food can be grown in a small backyard. You will also see hip-height raised beds made from pallets which make gardening so much easier and also more accessible for many. This garden is a true Oasis and was one I stumbled upon…
This video is kindly sponsored by Clipper Teas https://www.clipper-teas.com/ – Today’s video is something I have been wanting to make for a while to really explore how we as vegetable gardeners can help create more space for wildlife, specifically pollinators whilst also improving food production. The 10% rule is a very simple way that we…
“If what you do works, you wont really have to do anything.” Today, me and Tuck take you on a Tour of the Permaculture Gardens we Designed and talk about how Permaculture influenced our Design, leading us to Big Sustainable Harvests. Like Bill Mollison says “If what you do works, you wont really have to…
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The Gardens are looking beautiful, so Me and Tuck want to give you a full overview of all the gardens on the property. Intro- 00:00 Backyard Overview- 00:18 Tasting a Fresh Peach- 00:37 Williams’ Pride Apple- 01:24 Young Food Forest- 01:50 Strawberry Maintenance- 02:05 Annuals and Tuck- 02:14 Harvesting a Carrot- 02:41 Aunt Molly’s Ground…
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…
I’m so excited to share with you my current favourite resource related to growing food, and in this video I explain why I find this resource to be so valuable to home grower. Not only to I highlight the benefits of it, we also get to speak to Nigel Palmer, the author of the resource…
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…
Order Liz’s BRAND NEW book Grounded: https://shop.permaculture.co.uk/grounded.html In my opinion, Byther Farm is one of the best examples of how you can produce a huge amount of food whilst being on a tight budget. This is self-sufficiency in the truest form. Find out how Liz went from being bedbound due to illness to now being…
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…
With the exception of building soil and getting beds ready for winter, here are the 5 key tasks I’m doing this winter to make sure I am all set for the next growing season in the vegetable garden. Winter is also an important time to rest, so make sure you give yourself a well-deserved break…
Lazy composting. It is my favourite way to make fantastic homemade compost and is perfect for anyone looking for a simple way to make compost in your own vegetable gardens. backgardens or allotments. Whilst methods like hot composting have their benefits, they often need a lot of intensive work in a short space of time,…
