What I’m sowing in October ~ quite a lot surprisingly
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2023
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Hi steve we grew the permaculture way this last summer. We didn’t use any fertilisers slug pellets etc we didn’t cover with fleece or mesh to protect from birds or butterflies. We did water now and again with our homemade comfrey feed. We grew as we always do lots of flowers around the plot that encourage all the beneficial insects and leave plants to flower and go to seed. We are no dig so most plants we cut off at ground level leave the roots in. Like you as it’s been so wet we have had more problems with snails and slugs than anything the most eating half of our maincrop potatoes and they were really big ones aswell. But also some of our seedlings got munched so for instance we don’t have any swede I sowed 2-3 times aswell. But…. Mostly everything has done amazingly well and some growing in abundance much more than we could have imagined. So although one or two failures it was a great success this way. Defo the way forward for us. I still watch and learn from you tho steve👍🙋🏻♀️
I'd like to grow more flowers, but not allowed on our allotments Mandy. As you know I'm not a fan of nets, but some form of fleece is great in late winter and early spring. The need for fertiliser depends so much on your soil, if you're self sufficient, don't use fertiliser and grow on sand you risk your health, if you grow on clay/silt you are probably ok : All the best - Steve
I've seen a few people who grow that way, especially the let everything go to seed. I have way too little space for that though unfortunately. I do let a few things go to seed, like purslane, but it takes an enormous amount of planning to do that and still get multiple successions to work out : All the best - Steve
Thanks Steve, you are one in a billion! 👍🏻
Wow, thanks! Thats a lot to live up to though ;-) at least
Very good planning 😊
Amazing video u have so much going on. I really need to get out and do some sowing been so busy lately. Have a lovely week
Oh, fava beans!
By the way, thank you for the top on trimming beet leaves. I was a bit worried but they look great now Steve.
It’s scary the first time, but it works great : all the best - Steve
Thankyou, consistently amazing content 🙂
Hi Steve another great video 🎉 I was thinking whilst watching you that if growing was an Olympic sport you would win gold all the time. If I was lucky I might scrape a bronze. Watching your videos keeps me motivated to keep going not matter how much I sometimes feel demoralised when I have had horrendous failures 😢😢😢
Sorry to hear about the failures, last year was my worst, I lost 80% of my kalettes and about the same 80% of my onions. This year, so far, no losses, so we have so much stuff. Thanks for the compliment, but there are so many better gardener's than me. My Olympic event is perhaps, harvest/hour spend gardening, in the small gardening category : All the best - Steve
Thanks again steve …..can’t believe how much I’ve got seedling wise, after following your last months’s advice. I’ll go again this month. The only thing that didn’t do well were the lettuces that came in the vials. I’ll resow. I think I need to invest in some grow lights! Appreciate all your meticulous advice and the emails too! Diolch o Gymru! Can’t believe you can’t grow flowers! Comittee?
Thats worrying, those Salanova are expensive and I’ve just restocked mine! Almost all my seedlings are planted now, everything that will be harvested this year is in the ground : all the best - Steve
The cos are up - the salanova one out of four! I’m using John innes seed compost… I’ll go again! See what happens… it’s a gardening gamble lol 😅
make sure you get your money back!
I tried planting spare broad bean seeds in early July.
As of today, there's been plenty of flowers but ZERO set pods.
I'm not surprised, Luz De Otono are the only variety that I'm aware of that's bred for an autumn harvest. We grew it for a few years, but it's less reliable and less prolific than winter/spring sown varieties and so they didn't make the cut for us. Only for the true broad bean lover.
my "orkney " cauliflowers are doing ok at the moment, but it's early days yet. i'll probably grow them in the polytunnel.................brian
2:03 2:07 I go out at night to catch the Spanish slugs and have even found them mating!!
That works better in your own garden, it’s a drag to go slug hunting on an allotment
Thank you for your really useful inspiration. Very helpful.
I’m off to plant out a new strawberry bed using my potted on runners, which have rooted very well. Just 4 plants gave me 40 new plants which I was very impressed with. I’ve never had a full outdoor strawberry bed & have never planted out at this time of year, so it’s a bit of an experiment. Intending to put a few rows of garlic in amongst them to see how that goes.
I only have an 8 pole plot so space is precious.
I have a very small 6x8 poly tunnel/greenhouse so undercover space is very limited. Wondering if my small calabrese plants will survive over winter if I put them out now with no cover, any thoughts? I’m in Windsor, Berkshire. I do have some net houses to keep pigeons off but no actual poly covers.
It’s the right time of year to plant strawberries, so you will be fine. As for the calabrese maybe they will survive, but they probably won’t put on enough leaf growth to grow a big head in spring, but you can try : all the best - Steve
I had a go at field beans but found they got quite scrappy in the ground, probably didnt harvest enough. I will try them as microgreens as I read someone was doing it as successfully as pea shoots.
Yes, you do need to keep on top of harvesting them, so you are only eating the newly grown and hence - non scrappy - tips : all the best - Steve
Great video Steve. I’m following along from a distance. Have you done a video on how you store/organize your seeds?
Not on how I store them, they are just in a wardrobe (in the dark) in an unheated, cool bedroom : All the best - Steve
Do you do micro greens for stir-fry or salads as well as the leaves you grow in the beds? I find it a good way to use up old seeds of brassica and beets for an extra crop of salad leaves during December and January.
I’ve not really had anywhere to grow them, but when I get the new greenhouse I was thinking about giving them a try. Where do you grow yours?
@@SteveRichards a shelf in the polytunnel as per the late Steve from Greenside Up or the greenhouse when it gets really cold
Ah ok, my new greenhouse should work then
Can you send me a link to your field been packet database? In the US I only find field peas.
Search for “fava beans green manure” and you should find them, here’s an example territorialseed.com/products/bean-small-fava
Im starting to plant up the polytunnel shelving with baby leaves into compost bags. Made a start on claytonia, spinach, kales, broccoli, tatsoi (far easier than pak choi) trying red and green perilla for the first time and chinese celery. I have salad onions, b.sprouts, chervil, parsley and chives coming ready.
Im finding with sowing regular trays of microgreens I always have something ready I can prick out so its proving to be very efficient on time and compost. I started microgreen beets that are really slow growing but will probably prick out some for the bags in the polytunnel as they do look lovely and have a better nutrition profile than chard (which has gone mad in the greenhouse).
Im wondering if there is a fast growing onion variety for use as baby green?
I have a tray of sprouting broccoli microgreens coming to and end and wonder if I am too late to pot on for a spring harvest? Also, does anyone know if it is the same genetically as callabrese?
Microgreens is a whole new world for me to explore. We used to do a lot of bean sprouts 30 years ago when we didn't have any garden, but that's my totality of experience. Except a few experiments I tried a couple of years ago, I found them so much more work than growing in the ground, but I didn't have a good setup. I've no idea about PSB sown so late, my guess is that there would be nowhere near enough time for it to develop enough leaf growth, to support much flower growth in April/May : All the best - Steve
@@SteveRichards sprouts are a lot of work and there are more failures because of mould and slow growth.
Microgreens are super easy and with your grow light set up in the conservatory you can block out light with card for a couple of days then blast with lights for a couple of days then move them somewhere like the greenhouse. Youll nail in 1.
Hi Steve, are you sowing in doors or outside. Thank you.
Sowing inside Hugo, then germinating on a shelf in the conservatory, then moving to the polytunnel once they are about a week old, finally planting out under polythene, in either cold frames, low tunnels or a high tunnel. The database shown in the video describes each of these for each type of veg I'm growing : All the best - Steve
Do you think growing onion sets inside a polytunnel would work ?
Yes it works just fine, but plant them a bit later otherwise they will go to seed in spring. If you want to eat them in spring though you can plant them now : all the best - Steve
@@SteveRichards Great cheers 👍when do you think would be a good date to do so ?
November
@@SteveRichards cheers 👍