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Liz you have a lovely lettuce crop. If you haven't already tried it, lettuce makes a delicious creamy soup that is amazing with a crusty loaf of bread. I love your videos informative and entertaining. By the way I'm in the USA ( Alabama).
Happy to share this video with friends and family on Facebook. We have just acquired half an allotment plot and as beginners in vegetable growing we’re going to follow your blog. Thank you for sharing, tips advice and videos 😊
wow this is great because we are in zone 8b in lower Alabama USA. This is my first time finding your channel. Love your voice.You are very knowledgable about your seeds great! Thankyou!
In the UK you guys are so much better at Four Season Gardening than we are in the states,But I am striving to encourage everyone here to start. It is almost as if some one cuts power to the garden here in America. I decided this year to push my boundaries hard , because noone cuts power to your appetite in Winter so why shouldn't we also grow on?I am going to watch all of your winter gardening series and I have read the venerable Mr. Coleman's book, I also am watching the esteemed Mr. Dowding. I am not up to speed, yet, but I am a fast learner. I appreciate your teachings. I feel like Ruth only I am gleaning Knowledge. Thank me so much for teaching us allover the world, wherever we reside, we all can grow, and learn-Hope
Advice for anyone growing garlic: If you plant a sprouting clove, allow it to form a flower and let the flower dry on the plant. Once it looks papery, pick it and scrunch it in a container. There will be loads of tiny pink mini bulbs, called bubils, they will all grow into full bulbs of garlic, they are super hot in flavour. However, as these garlic grow do remember to keep cutting off any other flower bulbs that form to allow the plant to focus its energy under the surface and not above. These flower stems are a great vegetable in their own right.
Liz, Thanks so much for these monthly sowing guidelines. I've just started a veg garden in 2019 with mixed luck. I finally figured out that I've been planting most things too late for full maturity. This monthly series is just what I've been missing. I live outside of Seattle in Washington State, USA. We have similar weather to you but maybe slightly longer days in the Winter.
Thank you Liz , im growing Tomatoes in my tunnel and im shocked ! when i pulled my last carrots i found a random tomato plant growing from the compost , i dug it up and potted it , it grew to 6 feet and flowered , i thought "hmm thats not right" its now got around 12 tomatoes on it , some are golf ball size ! i wait in anticipation to see what happens .
Hello Liz ! It's still a little cold here in Ky for starting seeds but I am getting anxious The weather has not been favorable the last year for gardening but I will try again. Hoping to get a good watering system set up. Love your videos ! Keep up the goodwork.
Hi Carole, it's still too cold here really for me to get going with planting, but this video was requested by so many viewers that I felt it would be good to offer some ideas. I hope you get the watering system sorted, it makes such a difference when we can water our plants without too much fuss. Happy New Year!
Looking forward to 2020 the Year of Plenty! Cutting 5L water bottles into mini cloches ready for sowing some early seeds. Thanks for your timely inspiration. Happy Hogmanay from Dorset.
This broad bean are very big to cooking the very best are when they are more little and tender, fried slowly with oinon with olive oil are delicous and with fried eggs are superb.
started following you in June 2019 and I have learned so much from your channel. My first ever garlic has appeared and it gives you a good feeling when crops you have planted start growing. Happy new year to you and Mr J
Hi Peter, I'm so pleased to read that you are getting value from the videos - yay! Great news that your garlic has appeared, I keep going outside and looking for ours but it hasn't appeared as yet. Happy New Year to you too!
@@LizZorab I planted garlic and shallots in large pots outside a month ago. They are now like 10 inch tall. Is it good or not? Are they suppose appear (propagate) or should be in soil till spring?
Hi Tori, yes it's a lovely sound. So pleased that you are enjoying the videos, I've been planning some of the videos for 2020 and hopefully you'll enjoy what I produce throughout the year ahead.😀
I didn’t realize you could plant half these things. Thanks so much for this video. I’ve never tried pea shoots so I’m definitely giving them a go . And some cauliflower for summer . 🌘💖
I still think it's a bit early for getting the seeds in, I'm going to wait for a couple of month except for the onions and some salad leaves (and the peas of course!).
I’m new to England so this was very informative. Thank you so much. I look forward to watching more of your videos. If you have any suggested videos, I appreciate the advice.
Hi Liz I’ve just come across your channel after seeing various other sites mention your name, and I must say this video was really great with the easy relaxed way you described everything, and for a relatively newbie gardener it was very much appreciated. I shall try and catch up with some of your other videos, stay safe David 👍
Great video, lots of info, I'm not a winter fan, short dark. cold, damp, days, but this video has cheered me up ,i am going to to start planting some seeds love your videos thanks Liz .
Hey Liz, Happy New Year! I just wanted to say how good you look. Not so sure how you are feeling in this time of gray dampness, but you are really looking great! Keep doing whatever you are doing, the results are just amazing.
@@LizZorab Well I am happy to say that the shortest day of the year is now behind us, and that's something to celebrate! Keep plodding along a bit longer and it will be Spring and we can celebrate that, too. I can see your sparkle is missing, but I know you will find it again and I can hardly wait to see what you will bring to the season. I do appreciate your work. If I was closer I'd bring you some tea. Stay well.
I got my tomatoes,carrots,oregano and Tyne all planted late December all growing well ,going to put some of your plants you mentioned down as well. Thanks great video and always worth a try at early planting as what's the worst that can happen lose a few seeds at worst.
Hi Emily, I won't be sowing much until the end of January and then it will only be the salads and shallot seeds. I keep thinking we are due some really cold weather to go along with all the rain we've been having. I'm itching to get the growing year started :-)
Thanks for that. I’ve a few salad leaves in, plus broad beans...the husband thinks I’m nuts! I also have herbs and some decent-sized tomato plants in a lighted hot box I made...never give a girl her own cordless power tools and access to UA-cam! Cheers xxx
You are such a sweetheart, what a lovely way to start my morning! Making myself some cold frames at the moment, can't wait to try out some of your suggestions, especially those beans!
Thanks for watching. It's now so cold and frosty here that I am definitely waiting a little longer before I start off many seeds. They either won't germinate or if I start them inside they are likely to get stunted if I put them out in the freezing fog and thick white frost we have here!
I noticed that you're planting stuff in a piece of guttering. Whta sort of stuff does well here? Any January planters for the gutter? THanks. Keep up the good work! Bob
Hi, there are several videos showing the greenhouse where I start most of my seeds. I don't use a set up with lights and heating as I feel most plants will catch up anyway when sown in early spring in a cool greenhouse.
We've just subscribed from the southern side of leprechaun land :-). We've just invested in 2x10 meter polycarbonate tunnels much warmer and tougher than your normal poly tunnels, keep up the good uploads
Happy New Year Liz, im loving your channel. Im very new to gardening but you make it so much more enjoyable! Please do more of these type of grow along together type videos i find them great to learn what works for now!! X
Hello Clare, so pleased that you are enjoying the channel. Welcome to the wonderful world of gardening! I started the month by month sowing guide in August and will continue until we get to August again. Then I have something planned that I hope will be a bit special and be of great help to everyone who loves gardening.
Great I've started indoors,. I need to heat my green house as plants are taking over, its. my next mission getting bubble wrap, and the propane gas, I've also started building a hoop house !! Thank you..🥦🥬🥒🌶🥕
hello love this series as someone new to allotment life … but could you advise please which part of the UK you are in - we are in the South East. Thank you and good luck with future films.
I'm weary, we're getting warm January and cold February/March. vI used to start quite a bit in the first week of the year to see them knocked back or killed in Spring. Also I'm still water logged.
Oh yes the water logged thing is happening here too (see next Friday's video). I don't imagine too many folks will start their seeds just yet, but I'd been asked to make the video and I've enjoyed creating this series of month by month what to sow videos. I hope you have a peaceful start to the new decade :-)
nice thank you, I've found that if I sow legumes now, themice will get them ALL as they're hungry too, had to build kind of a chicken wire inside to my cold frame, didn't stop them lol
Hi, I'm with you on this thought. I usually wait until the last week in February or early March to sow the broad beans or they get eaten, not by mice but by slugs!
I agree, but if you have a heated space and/or live in the very south of the UK, folks may want to try some seeds earlier. I don't sow my main batch of seeds until March and April.
I'm in Colorado USA zone 6. We would love a green house but we are in a bit of a windy area so it would have to stand up to the wind. So January is just for seed shopping 😋. But in February I will start some seeds in my mudroom for transplant outdoors. Happy New Year to you and Mr. Jay!
Hi Sherri, we regularly get 55 - 65 mph winds and the greenhouse stands up to it pretty well. Since we put up the polytunnel we've had two storms blow through at 70mph and I was so relieved to see it still standing the next mornings. 😀
Hiya Liz. With the cauliflower, if you start your seeds now, when do you plant to plant them outside? What is your idea temperature for planting them out? I’m in Chicago so I’m trying to gauge the difference in climate. I have some cauliflower in the ground now from a September transplanting, and so far it is surviving under a mini plastic greenhouse. But we haven’t reached our coldest temps yet, so I’m curious to see if it will survive.
Hi Ritzi, we garden in the equivalent of US hardiness zone 8b. I grow the cauliflowers on under cover until mid-late April and then plant them out under fleece or netting. Our last frost is usually 2nd or 3rd week in May.
She, until you have heating mats and proper LED lights I wouldn't As they tends to get too leggy So would not have enough resistance when growing Next month will be better to start them
Hi, you could use it for other things. The main point of growing peas in guttering is that it makes it easy to transplant them into the garden without disturbing the roots (because peas dislike root distubance).
Hi Anna, it's purely a matter of taste, we prefer the inner leaves and rather than let them go to the compost I can feed them to the birds before their droppings go into compost - win, win!
@@LizZorab OK thank you. I thought it might be because they taste bitter. I love greens, and grow collard greens, but I eat everything except the stalks and the flowers. There's a slight difference in taste, in that the big leaves are stronger.
@@LizZorab My point is that, if you live south of Birmingham, you may get a great crop, but it will be more difficult f you live, say, in Manchester, or further North. I live in SW Scotland, &, although I'm too late to get any to try it this year, I may try a few next year.
Hello new subscriber here, just a question about growing pea shoots do we just eat the shoots and not let them grow any taller with pea pods on? as you can guess new to growing veg 😊
Hi, I do indeed know. We are in the equivalent of zone 8b (it's always worth checking the info box of my videos as I give extra info for viewers there) 😃
Hi, if you are in the UK, they can be sown indoors with some gentle heat during January - I'd wait until the end of the month as we are having a cold snap at the moment.
@@LizZorab I have limited space so was going to wait a few weeks and do brassicas and winter lettuce in greenhouse. And then the others that need a bit more heat indoors. Yes I'm in Somerset. Also when do you move indoor sown plants to cold greenhouse??
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Liz you have a lovely lettuce crop. If you haven't already tried it, lettuce makes a delicious creamy soup that is amazing with a crusty loaf of bread. I love your videos informative and entertaining. By the way I'm in the USA ( Alabama).
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Happy to share this video with friends and family on Facebook. We have just acquired half an allotment plot and as beginners in vegetable growing we’re going to follow your blog. Thank you for sharing, tips advice and videos 😊
January is mid-summer for me - 35 degrees C - Please specify season :)
wow this is great because we are in zone 8b in lower Alabama USA. This is my first time finding your channel. Love your voice.You are very knowledgable about your seeds great! Thankyou!
In the UK you guys are so much better at Four Season Gardening than we are in the states,But I am striving to encourage everyone here to start. It is almost as if some one cuts power to the garden here in America. I decided this year to push my boundaries hard , because noone cuts power to your appetite in Winter so why shouldn't we also grow on?I am going to watch all of your winter gardening series and I have read the venerable Mr. Coleman's book, I also am watching the esteemed Mr. Dowding. I am not up to speed, yet, but I am a fast learner. I appreciate your teachings. I feel like Ruth only I am gleaning Knowledge. Thank me so much for teaching us allover the world, wherever we reside, we all can grow, and learn-Hope
Advice for anyone growing garlic:
If you plant a sprouting clove, allow it to form a flower and let the flower dry on the plant. Once it looks papery, pick it and scrunch it in a container. There will be loads of tiny pink mini bulbs, called bubils, they will all grow into full bulbs of garlic, they are super hot in flavour. However, as these garlic grow do remember to keep cutting off any other flower bulbs that form to allow the plant to focus its energy under the surface and not above. These flower stems are a great vegetable in their own right.
I'm new at this , and these month by months are so helpful, especially when they come a few weeks early , so I can get on it. thanks liz !!
Thank you for your time and sharing with us all . Respect .
So nice of you!
Liz, Thanks so much for these monthly sowing guidelines. I've just started a veg garden in 2019 with mixed luck. I finally figured out that I've been planting most things too late for full maturity. This monthly series is just what I've been missing. I live outside of Seattle in Washington State, USA. We have similar weather to you but maybe slightly longer days in the Winter.
I'm so pleased that they are of use to you. There's a whole year (or more) of veg sowing guides on the channel 😀
Thank you Liz , im growing Tomatoes in my tunnel and im shocked ! when i pulled my last carrots i found a random tomato plant growing from the compost , i dug it up and potted it , it grew to 6 feet and flowered , i thought "hmm thats not right" its now got around 12 tomatoes on it , some are golf ball size ! i wait in anticipation to see what happens .
so all the leaves have died but the toms are going red , the skins are really tough though! i call it good !
Best wishes from Ireland 🇮🇪and thank you for all the time you take to teach me 😁
Hello Liz ! It's still a little cold here in Ky for starting seeds but I am getting anxious The weather has not been favorable the last year for gardening but I will try again. Hoping to get a good watering system set up. Love your videos ! Keep up the goodwork.
Hi Carole, it's still too cold here really for me to get going with planting, but this video was requested by so many viewers that I felt it would be good to offer some ideas. I hope you get the watering system sorted, it makes such a difference when we can water our plants without too much fuss. Happy New Year!
Looking forward to 2020 the Year of Plenty! Cutting 5L water bottles into mini cloches ready for sowing some early seeds. Thanks for your timely inspiration. Happy Hogmanay from Dorset.
I hope you had a lovely evening of celebration and happy new year to you too!
This broad bean are very big to cooking the very best are when they are more little and tender, fried slowly with oinon with olive oil are delicous and with fried eggs are superb.
Thanks, Liz, love your accent. Your voice is very soothing.😌
Oh thank you!
started following you in June 2019 and I have learned so much from your channel. My first ever garlic has appeared and it gives you a good feeling when crops you have planted start growing. Happy new year to you and Mr J
Hi Peter, I'm so pleased to read that you are getting value from the videos - yay! Great news that your garlic has appeared, I keep going outside and looking for ours but it hasn't appeared as yet. Happy New Year to you too!
@@LizZorab
I planted garlic and shallots in large pots outside a month ago. They are now like 10 inch tall.
Is it good or not?
Are they suppose appear (propagate) or should be in soil till spring?
I find your voice quite calming......fantastic video........👍
Thank you Nancy.
Love that lovely crunch from the grey hound outer leaves being broken off. As always, loving your videos
Hi Tori, yes it's a lovely sound. So pleased that you are enjoying the videos, I've been planning some of the videos for 2020 and hopefully you'll enjoy what I produce throughout the year ahead.😀
@@LizZorab I'm sure that I will
I didn’t realize you could plant half these things. Thanks so much for this video. I’ve never tried pea shoots so I’m definitely giving them a go . And some cauliflower for summer . 🌘💖
I still think it's a bit early for getting the seeds in, I'm going to wait for a couple of month except for the onions and some salad leaves (and the peas of course!).
Anna williams Pea shoots are delicious in salads, and also sunflower sprouts! I grow both year round as microgreens indoors. :)
You have me dreaming about gardening again!! I cant wait!
Only a couple or so months to go before we can start getting ready for the season ahead.
I know I cant wait to get going in the garden! Live it!
what Zone are you in? I love all of your videos that I have watched !! Iam 3 yrs into growing for self sufficient family .
Here's an explanation in my FAQ video ua-cam.com/video/HAM0n-sNjto/v-deo.html
Thanks, Liz!
You are so welcome!
I’m new to England so this was very informative. Thank you so much. I look forward to watching more of your videos. If you have any suggested videos, I appreciate the advice.
Hi Liz I’ve just come across your channel after seeing various other sites mention your name, and I must say this video was really great with the easy relaxed way you described everything, and for a relatively newbie gardener it was very much appreciated. I shall try and catch up with some of your other videos, stay safe David 👍
Welcome aboard!
I got some more seeds and 2 heat pads for Christmas, and I am going to try do microgreens and seed starts in our basement. So excited!
Ooooh, please let me know how you get on with growing them!
Hi hope you're having a good time today
Great video, lots of info, I'm not a winter fan, short dark. cold, damp, days, but this video has cheered me up ,i am going to to start planting some seeds love your videos thanks Liz .
Thank you Tracey, so pleased that you are enjoying them!
In my area of Australia it’s too hot to sow anything during January & February. I see March as the start of my gardening year. Happy New Year.
Yes same here Lyn, Happy New Year cheers Nicola xx
Hi Lyn, it's too cold here until March to sow much really! I hope that this year brings you more rain and cooler temperatures. 😀
Wonderful video...thank you!
You're so pleasant to listen to and watch:)
Thank you Leah, that's very kind of you.
Hey Liz, Happy New Year! I just wanted to say how good you look. Not so sure how you are feeling in this time of
gray dampness, but you are really looking great! Keep doing whatever you are doing, the results are just amazing.
Thank you Deborah, that's very kind of you. Inside I'm feeling a mixture of hopelessly lost and willfully determined to get through the winter! 😆
@@LizZorab Well I am happy to say that the shortest day of the year is now behind us, and that's something to celebrate! Keep plodding along a bit longer and it will be Spring and we can celebrate that, too. I can see your sparkle is missing, but I know you will find it again and I can hardly wait to see what you will bring to the season. I do appreciate your work. If I was closer I'd bring you some tea. Stay well.
I am excited to do leeks this year.. eilliot coleman plops them in deep holes to help blanch the ends.
Hi Jesse, I do the same thing - here's my video about how I grow leeks. ua-cam.com/video/9FAesGn64UY/v-deo.html
Beautiful veggie garden great presentation easy to listen to thanks
Who knew when you first made that video , how things would be one year on. Looking back has kept me going so thanks Liz
I got my tomatoes,carrots,oregano and Tyne all planted late December all growing well ,going to put some of your plants you mentioned down as well.
Thanks great video and always worth a try at early planting as what's the worst that can happen lose a few seeds at worst.
Love these videos it prompts me to get planting 🌱 😊 picked up one of them tall shelf green house things from the tip for £2 to start my seeds in x
Hi Emily, I won't be sowing much until the end of January and then it will only be the salads and shallot seeds. I keep thinking we are due some really cold weather to go along with all the rain we've been having. I'm itching to get the growing year started :-)
Thankyou Beautiful Guardian saving Lives and sanity. Peace
Happy new year to the two of you,take good care.
Thank you Patrick, happy New Year to you too!
Thanks for that. I’ve a few salad leaves in, plus broad beans...the husband thinks I’m nuts! I also have herbs and some decent-sized tomato plants in a lighted hot box I made...never give a girl her own cordless power tools and access to UA-cam! Cheers xxx
I have one too and it drives my son crazy because I do my own jobs. Lol
Do you have a play list of each month? Loving your calm easy way you explain how to grow things. 🌻🌶🙏🌱🥕👌😷
Here you go Month by month seed sowing guide ua-cam.com/play/PLa6906pLM92nazdkurdCOc-zI_Ck9oULG.html
You are such a sweetheart, what a lovely way to start my morning!
Making myself some cold frames at the moment, can't wait to try out some of your suggestions, especially those beans!
I hope the cold frames work out well for you! And, thank you for your kind words.
Oh goody, thank you for the tips. I have been preparing a planting area and now I know some plants to start now. Thanks you for the post!!
Thanks for watching. It's now so cold and frosty here that I am definitely waiting a little longer before I start off many seeds. They either won't germinate or if I start them inside they are likely to get stunted if I put them out in the freezing fog and thick white frost we have here!
I noticed that you're planting stuff in a piece of guttering. Whta sort of stuff does well here? Any January planters for the gutter? THanks. Keep up the good work! Bob
Love your garden, it's beautiful! And wonderful to hear about all the planting you're doing in January!
Thank you! Sorry not to reply sooner, I've been away for a few days but now back on the farm and back to youtube :-)
Thanks for another informative video Liz. May I ask which variety of corn salad you have there? I’ve never seen one with leaves so large!
I'll have to dig out the packet Sandra, I'll come back to you in a couple of days :-)
I love you videos do helpful
Where can I buy seeds from am in London and don’t now where to start
There is a list of seeds sources in the video information box.
I can’t wait to start seeds!!! Do you have a video of your indoor setup?
Hi, there are several videos showing the greenhouse where I start most of my seeds. I don't use a set up with lights and heating as I feel most plants will catch up anyway when sown in early spring in a cool greenhouse.
3.40 cracking greyhound. Outter leaves my chucks would fight you for them.. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
We've just subscribed from the southern side of leprechaun land :-). We've just invested in 2x10 meter polycarbonate tunnels much warmer and tougher than your normal poly tunnels, keep up the good uploads
Thanks for informative video liz.
Nights are drawing out now and spring is not far away 👋👋 winter blues.
Happy New Year to you and yours🎊🎊🎊🎊
Thank you Catherine and HNY to you too!
Happy New Year Liz, im loving your channel. Im very new to gardening but you make it so much more enjoyable! Please do more of these type of grow along together type videos i find them great to learn what works for now!! X
Hello Clare, so pleased that you are enjoying the channel. Welcome to the wonderful world of gardening! I started the month by month sowing guide in August and will continue until we get to August again. Then I have something planned that I hope will be a bit special and be of great help to everyone who loves gardening.
Hi. Great ideas! Wishing you n your a HAPPY NEW YEAR !! Peace to you and yours
Hello Kiki, thank you and happy New Year to you and yours too!
hello from California!! Merry Christmas. thank you for the information
You look so much healthier and younger now than 2 years ago. 😯
I guess it's because of the good self grown food.
I think I just learnt more in this vid than I did at Sparsholt…….
That's very kind of you to say. I'm glad it was useful.
Great I've started indoors,. I need to heat my green house as plants are taking over, its. my next mission getting bubble wrap, and the propane gas, I've also started building a hoop house !! Thank you..🥦🥬🥒🌶🥕
Happy New year to you and Mr J. You are looking so good Liz. Great video.
Thank you Elizabeth, happy New Year to you too! 😀
Thanks for some great ideas Liz!! Hyohad a lovely Christmas and that 2020 is a happy and healthy year for you xxx
Thanks Jen and the same to you and yours! I look forward to seeing what you grow in the coming year. 😀
@@LizZorab hopefully a lot more than last year! 😁 Fingers crossed. X
I love this video. Will say more later...right now I am craving a garden fresh salad
Nice fresh vegetables 👌
Well done Liz Zorab . Best Wishes for your endeavors in 20 20 . Howie
Thanks Howie, happy New Year to you and yours!
hello love this series as someone new to allotment life … but could you advise please which part of the UK you are in - we are in the South East. Thank you and good luck with future films.
Hi, I'm in south east Wales, so timings should be similar.
Wishing you all the very best for 2020 my friend. Looking forward to more great stuff in the year to come.
Thank you! A happy and abundant year to you too.
Awesome update
My kale stayed all winter with no cover til the rabbits chewed them back and now this spring they are growing back out.
I'm weary, we're getting warm January and cold February/March. vI used to start quite a bit in the first week of the year to see them knocked back or killed in Spring. Also I'm still water logged.
Oh yes the water logged thing is happening here too (see next Friday's video). I don't imagine too many folks will start their seeds just yet, but I'd been asked to make the video and I've enjoyed creating this series of month by month what to sow videos. I hope you have a peaceful start to the new decade :-)
Your greens look wonderful Liz. Thanks for the share.
Thanks Kate, it is really nice to have some bright fresh green leaves during the winter. Happy New Year!
@@LizZorab Happy New Year to you my friend, may it be all you wish it to be.
nice thank you, I've found that if I sow legumes now, themice will get them ALL as they're hungry too, had to build kind of a chicken wire inside to my cold frame, didn't stop them lol
Hi, I'm with you on this thought. I usually wait until the last week in February or early March to sow the broad beans or they get eaten, not by mice but by slugs!
Cards by Maaike mice ate my broad beans. Some seem to have survived but it's very annoying.
Mice can easily squeeze through chicken wire. Hardware cloth is the ultimate barrier for rodents.
These what to sow when videos are so helpful
Glad you think so!
love your vids, thanks
I would say it's best to wait until the last week of January to start sowing anything, as to hopefully miss the coldest weather
I agree, but if you have a heated space and/or live in the very south of the UK, folks may want to try some seeds earlier. I don't sow my main batch of seeds until March and April.
@@LizZorab I understand that, but I always try to get an extra early start, lol
Thanks for the tips, Liz!
Hi Cymbre, thank you for dropping by again. It's probably a bit early for you to be planting seeds I would imagine :-)
I'm in Colorado USA zone 6. We would love a green house but we are in a bit of a windy area so it would have to stand up to the wind. So January is just for seed shopping 😋. But in February I will start some seeds in my mudroom for transplant outdoors. Happy New Year to you and Mr. Jay!
Hi Sherri, we regularly get 55 - 65 mph winds and the greenhouse stands up to it pretty well. Since we put up the polytunnel we've had two storms blow through at 70mph and I was so relieved to see it still standing the next mornings. 😀
Just curious.... did you have any heating in your polytunnel over winter?
No heating in the polytunnel, but it offers protection from the chilling winds. A polytunnel doesn't hold warmth as much as a glass greenhouse.
Must get on with some of those seeds thanks for the prompt Liz
Hello Malcolm, thanks for watching, I hope you growing goes well in 2020, happy New Year!
Thank you for the vidoe, admiring your green netting, where could I get some? for myself
Hi Amanda, you can find the debris netting online, here's a link to it on Amazon (affiliate link) amzn.to/39xkwSt
Always handy tips - thanks Liz xx
Hi hope your having a good time today
Do you wait until you are out of Persephone?
Happy new year to you , hope you have a wonderful 2020💚 can’t wait to start planting 😊
Thanks 🙏 for this
Happy New Year xx
Happy New Year to you too Lizzie!
Hiya Liz. With the cauliflower, if you start your seeds now, when do you plant to plant them outside? What is your idea temperature for planting them out? I’m in Chicago so I’m trying to gauge the difference in climate. I have some cauliflower in the ground now from a September transplanting, and so far it is surviving under a mini plastic greenhouse. But we haven’t reached our coldest temps yet, so I’m curious to see if it will survive.
Hi Ritzi, we garden in the equivalent of US hardiness zone 8b. I grow the cauliflowers on under cover until mid-late April and then plant them out under fleece or netting. Our last frost is usually 2nd or 3rd week in May.
Thank you so much!!!🌸💐🌸
Would you sow your January leeks in an unheated Polytunnel or do they need a little heat?
How do ypu feed the outer leaves to the birds?
I just throw them into the duck enclosure and into the chicken run.
@@LizZorab I realised this a bit later 😅🤣 I was at first imagining you sliding them up for the blackbirds and such 🤣😅🤣😅🤣😍😍
Nice video thank you for sharing.Happy New Year to you and your husband.😊
Thank you Carole, happy New Year to you too!
Can you start tomato growing in January indoors for a couple of months before putting them in the ground outside in March?
She, until you have heating mats and proper LED lights I wouldn't
As they tends to get too leggy
So would not have enough resistance when growing
Next month will be better to start them
@@AAHomeGardening Thank you
@@she3381 you're welcome
I love that you are growing in a gutter...is that only suitable for pea shoots or could I use it for anything else?
Hi, you could use it for other things. The main point of growing peas in guttering is that it makes it easy to transplant them into the garden without disturbing the roots (because peas dislike root distubance).
Brilliant tutorial Liz thank you
Thanks Matthew, I'm pleased that you found it useful.
Great info Liz, thank you 👍👍
Happy New Year.
Happy healthy new year to you both
Thank you Lisa, a very happy and healthy new year to you and yours 😀
Very helpful as always thank you. Xxx
Great site. Thank you, again. Please state your location/climate, at start of every video.
Why do the outer leaves of the cabbage go to the birds and not get eaten? Did you grow them for the poultry?
Hi Anna, it's purely a matter of taste, we prefer the inner leaves and rather than let them go to the compost I can feed them to the birds before their droppings go into compost - win, win!
@@LizZorab OK thank you. I thought it might be because they taste bitter. I love greens, and grow collard greens, but I eat everything except the stalks and the flowers. There's a slight difference in taste, in that the big leaves are stronger.
great vid, im off ot sow seed now
Senshyu are an autumn-planting cultivar.
Yes they are, they also gave me a huge crop from the January planted sets 😀
@@LizZorab My point is that, if you live south of Birmingham, you may get a great crop, but it will be more difficult f you live, say, in Manchester, or further North.
I live in SW Scotland, &, although I'm too late to get any to try it this year, I may try a few next year.
Hello new subscriber here, just a question about growing pea shoots do we just eat the shoots and not let them grow any taller with pea pods on? as you can guess new to growing veg 😊
Hi Emma, yes just keep harvesting the growing tips (3 or 4 inches long) to add to salads or a stir-fry. They taste of fresh peas 😃
Great video I'm new to gardening and this had some great info
Buon anno 2020 e che Dio la benedica!
Buon anno anche a te. Grazie per aver guardato!
Liked and subscribed- great video
Liz I absolutely love the videos ,Dear! Do you know what your zone is in relation to the U.S zoning codes (IE 6a,6b etc.)
Hi, I do indeed know. We are in the equivalent of zone 8b (it's always worth checking the info box of my videos as I give extra info for viewers there) 😃
This is my 1st full season of growing. Do these seeds that you mentioned need sowing indoors on a windowsill or can they be sown in a cold greenhouse
Hi, if you are in the UK, they can be sown indoors with some gentle heat during January - I'd wait until the end of the month as we are having a cold snap at the moment.
@@LizZorab I have limited space so was going to wait a few weeks and do brassicas and winter lettuce in greenhouse. And then the others that need a bit more heat indoors.
Yes I'm in Somerset. Also when do you move indoor sown plants to cold greenhouse??
My leaks are weak. Should i add more compost?