One thing about all of the Cosmos, which we have a lot of, is that it freely reseeds itself and each spring new plants emerge from the over wintered seeds. Even if the bed is disturbed by digging in new compost or amendments, the Cosmos seeds still germinate and grow healthy.
Thank you for showing things that have gone to seed. My experience this year too. I started to think of it as a failure, but we’ve had more than enough food so in reality it’s just a learning curve.
Expect your pole beans to get really, really tall. For a while I lived on the ground floor of a 3 story apartment building and grew Kentucky Blue pole beans in a large planter box for a privacy screen on the back patio. We had one plant that made it half way up the railing on the third floor before fall die back.
AMAZING!! Absolutely love your channel, it has inspired quite a bit of my planting journey that I document on my channel :) Can't wait for next video 😊🌱💚
Hey Marine, just watched your beginner plants video and I really like it! Different from Huw but good nonetheless :) looking forward to part 2. Loved the video Huw!!
You must have the prettiest veg garden ever! It’s lovely 😍 I’m up in Aberdeenshire, so we are a bit behind everyone else. It’s my first year of growing ‘properly’ so thanks for the inspiration Huw .....loving the no rules 👍
Beautiful garden! Your tour took about half an hour. I gave one of my friends a tour of mine yesterday. It took two minutes! Hopefully next year will be better. I followed your online course recently and can't wait for autumn/winter to get started on my expansion using your wisdom. Love your channel.
Hi Huw, I hope you are well and keeping safe. This was a great catch up on how your intuitive gardening is going, I think we have all been trying to just make as much use of our spaces as we can. Thankyou for all the ideas, tips, and tricks you share with us, they really do help. :-)
Hi Huw, lovely garden, it looks so lush and colourful and sunny. I have just got back from my plot soaked to the skin from torrential rain and freezing cold after putting up a net to protect my Brussels sprouts as they had got too tall for their original mesh, hating the english summer and the slugs, grump, grump, grump, 😫 and your video has really cheered me up!
Wow, great info Huw and many ideas I’m going to try next season. I’m a beetroot fan too and would love some recipe ideas. You mention a bit on ways to serve your harvests, would love to see a recipe ideas video from you! 🙏🏼🤞🏼
Yes I find it almost the end of... Just I asked earlier than I seen. :-) Maybe... But if just started to flowers it's no have enough time to ripe, but you can harvest in green, or cut of whole plant and hang in warm place it will ripe that way. 😊 Your garden is fabulous. I really like it. Next year I will try to grow cosmos, it's look very nice. ♥️ Well done!!!
Your garden is HUGE Huw. Thanks for sharing. Great place to learn about the greens. There is enough food for an entire Australian town (a small one like the one where I live) :-) Keep it up.
More perennials! Awesome, that's my plan too! As spring approaches in the southern hemisphere, I'm watching my seeds sprout with excitement! I even cold stratified some red hot poker seeds and they've sprouted first try! Thank you for another dose of inspiration Huw!
I loved the meal ideas you shared. I'm always interested in new, simple ideas of ways to use fresh vegetables. I hope you continue to do garden tours- even straight through the winter. I know there's not as much to see, but inspiring all the same.
A treat every time!! Thanks so much:) As a swiss person, I have to tell you to give this swiss chard plants a bit more air... they can grow really big. Hope they will!!!
Hi Huw I just found your channel and enjoy it immensly. Your heritage blue peas at 20:30 are quite popular here in the Netherlands. They're mostly sold dried, rehydrated and overcooked in cans, but fresh they taste much better. If you expect them to taste like peas you will be disappointed, because they're not as sweet. I usually ad them to stirfries or a veggy omelet. If you eat meat, you can fry them with onion and bacon.
Fantastic stuff! Sounds like you need a good hedge to reduce the effect of wind! I put two kohl rabi in the greenhouse where they grow a lot quicker, harvested end of June with a 6" diameter, and then moved capsicum into the void left in the greenhouse.
I was thinking that I'd love a video on propagating the strawberry runners as I also planted strawberries this year and need to deal with the runners. I finally checked out the patreon page and see one there! Joining now!
I love your approach to gardening, I'm doing pretty similar on smaller scale. There are two super beneficial plants that IMHO are missing: French marigolds and comfrey. I'd really recommend growing them, even instead of that lovely cosmos ;) and I hope you know why!
I have loads of comfrey plants outside of the garden but I think I should bring some in, and yeah I definitely agree with you regarding the French marigolds😉
Great tour. Thanks for sharing your successes and the not so muchs. My Kohlrabi was decimated by caterpillars in three days while I was busy. Yours look great!
Does your camera-man have a set-scheudele to film, or is it just "come quick the sun is out"? cause you always talk about how windy it can be and how it rains a lot, and yet, in every video it's a bright blue sky! 🧐 You guys make a excellent job though! Always entertaining to watch! And your accent is just great! I love the way you say "lettuce!"
Hahaha great question 😂 We plan filming days according to the weather, so basically whichever day in the week looks best we will film! I don't fancy filming in the rain! I'm so glad you enjoy the videos☺️
beautiful garden Nice harvest Your are so knowledgeable and humble. I like to incorporate flowers in my garden too. I have cosmos, marigolds, nasturtiums, sweet peas and zinnias. I like the zinnias most.
That's so annoying when you suddenly lose a plant that's growing well! We had that happen with two of our Summer Squash/Courgettes this year, but manage to root and re-plant the tops of each plant! We were quite surprised it worked, so made videos of the process for our UA-cam Channel. We also re-planted seeds, but the tops yielded fruit much quicker!
Lovely video again, FYI I have a yellow Zucchini as well and the leaves are yellow - I did try to feed it but now realize that it is supposed to be like that.
Wow Huw - how many "spare courgettes" do you have? Warm regards from Niagara Falls Ontario Canada! One of my favorite things about your videos, is when you point out something you've done (or not done!) out of the ordinary and add "why not?" I've also learned that I've been intuitively gardening all my life: it never occurred to me that there was a name for it :) That being said, I've tried to have babies ready to fit in harvested/cleared out areas. Love your videos - I will sign up with Patreon.
Interesting change, how will it effect productivity? You are lucky in having so much prime growing space. I’m restricted to about 150 sq feet of beds, will be growing in fabric grow bags and pots to extend growing area and grab some full sun locations. I love your leek planting setup, do you have it explained in a video? It’s how you set up/plant the seed bed -where the leek seedlings are all in tight bunches, that I can’t figure out, you showed the second part in a video. Love your videos
Interesting you don't grow onion from seed because of the extra fuss. I would never bother growing them any other way now as I find I get bigger healthier plants. I find it the best fuss free way to do it. I direct multisow them and don't have to do anything to them other than the usual things like watering and feeding. I always get a great germination rate. No need to waste time growing them first in module or anything and plant out then wait til they get over transplant shock. I just direct sow the seed and leave them to do their thing.
Your successes and "failures" are such an inspiration! I was wondering, How should I prepare my globe artichokes to overwinter here at the base of the Rocky Mountains? We're at 6500 feet in altitude (2100 meters?)
Absolutely beautiful! About the wind - have you considered using a Chestnut fence along the windy side? I think it would suit your aesthetics. // Ingela
Very Interesting you have the same issue with the yellow courgette variety. I have in the same bed a yellow and a white variety and the yellow it’s becoming yellow as the leafs grow. I though was bad nutrition or too much water (Lot of rain this year in Somerset). But the white courgette is very big, green and healthy, both courgettes are producing fruit so I’m happy anyway. No signs of pest or deseases. Would be great if you found out what’s the issue with yellow courgettes as I didn’t find anything in internet. Thanks for your videos!!!
It’s been a strange summer for courgettes. My friend has a tiny garden and usually finds one plant serves her needs; however she has only had male flowers. No fruits. My garden has a little more space but I still have two plants with only male flowers and a very poor harvest from my other plants. No more than two courgettes from each other plant. I’d like to know your experience.
Wow. What a beautiful garden. I saw you have fennel. I tried.growing fennel this year for the first time. It grew beautifully but they were flat they just didn't bulb up and I don't know why. They were nice large plants. I started them indoors and then planted outside. They were Florence Fennel. They were in the ground for over 3.months. did I get too patient and pull them out too early? Or can you think of anything else I can try. Any help would be much appreciated.
I noticed you have bunches of nasturtium growing here and there. Do you ever use those in a salad, or eaten in any other way? I planted climbing nasturtium late, and just waiting on them to take off (they are only about 2 feet tall currently). Also, I took your advice and planted a patch of Jerusalem artichoke / sunchoke (planted 20, of which 19 made it, not sure what happened to that last tuber). Those sunchokes are going absolutely crazy! They are already about 9 feet tall, with an abundance of new stems, and have taken over the bed they were planted in (haha, I thought I'd be able to grow some dill in between the two rows, but that poor dill never had a chance.)
Great video, love the flowers. Can you tell me what sizes are the beds showed in the video? Like what size is the one that is slightly larger than the one that is 1,2m/3m? and based on what did you do the math? Based on what is to be planted there? For what are you using those beds? Thank you!
Do you eat hosta shoots? It was my first time planting radishes and I love the flowers so much I"m thinking of planting some only for the flowers next year! (and the pods I guess)
Huw- did you ever find out what the story was with your yellowing courgette? I ask, because I have intermittent yellowing in a variety of things this summer, which I've not seen previously. I have two Waltham butternut squashes in different parts of the yard, and one is almost completely yellow. It is growing next to a Sweet Meat squash which shows no signs of yellowing. It's also sporadic in my flower borders. I've never seen anything like it. Have you figured out what it is?
Beautiful veg garden. Topinambur is a loved and a staple veg here, but the name jarusalem artichoke really bothers me. It is native to North America (nothing to do with jarusalem) and it is a root veg (nothing to do with artichokes). So why still call it jarusalem artichoke? I think earth apples ,sunroot,sunchoke or topinambur is a better choice ..😊😊
Huw, how do you deal with whiteflies? They are on the under leaves of my hibiscus. I have sprayed with Apple Vinegar and a little sunlight dish soap in water.... but they keep on coming back.
And here I lay depressed in my couche with my one growing bed overcome with hedge bindwind. The rest has been damaged by snails... Pffff hopefully next year better for me. Yours looks impressive though!
Aw, slugs stole my sallads this year, so I can relate! 😔 But WE shall not be defeated!! Next year we'll conquer the little monsters and we will be so much more appreciative of what we have then! 🥕🥦🍉
@@DenUil but hopefully you had a great time while in the planning process, and found some joy at least in the beginning. That counts! At least i'd like to think so! :)
@@HuwRichards Thanks Huw, a great inspiration! I turned my concrete front garden into a raised bed and container vegtable garden in a few months. And when it comes to filling in the gaps of the raised beds, I think I'm going radish mad 🙃😀.
How do you stop ants eating everything or nesting, without using chemicals? I have new black currant plants and the ants keep trying to make what looks like nests in the plants, how to stop them??
Which flowers, apart from cosmos?, would you recommend to plant to attract bees for pollination? (fast growing). Is it too late to plant them if you want to grow vegetables till November/December or all year around?
Elena, one flower I always plant on the edges of the raised beds is Sweet Alyssum. It hangs beautifully over the edges of the bed, blooms up until frost kills it, and it attracts beneficial insects including the Aphid Wasp.
Yeah you're a bit late for courgettes now, but you can start sowing for autumn and winter harvests: non-hearting lettuces, spinach, chard, beets, swedes, kholrabi, winter kale, asian greens like pakchoi and tatsoi, as well as mustards, and radishes, and you could even sow peas for shoots (for salads)
@@a.b.1184 Pushing it for some, I'VR already made my last sowings for August. But that included: pak choi, kohl rabi, purslane, corn salad / lamb's lettuce, spinach, coriander, sorrel, beetroot, claytonia, sweet cicely, good king henry, and radish. It's a bit early but you can also start looking for garlic bulbs to plant for harvest next summer. You also might still have time to sow some quick cropping carrots
aphids and thrips really dont like the smell either, i put the fan we have in our pollytunnel 50cm before the flowering coriander plant, and it really keeps them out of the space,: edit, the plant is about 250+cm height at this time of year and will just come back next year, the longer we let it flower the bigger the plant will be next year, so i keep it flowering untill its all stem i tie all the stems together so they stay straight. always grow a 2nd coriander plant outside during summer for actually harvesting the leaves. also great to create shade in a greenhouse/pollytunnel
Watching in January, dreaming of July
I can see the owner is very confident and proud of his Vege Garden ,always use "massive success " " a success story "
In other words: “behold my beautiful garden of chaos.”
Beautiful job my man. You, downing, and Mark were my inspiration.
One thing about all of the Cosmos, which we have a lot of, is that it freely reseeds itself and each spring new plants emerge from the over wintered seeds. Even if the bed is disturbed by digging in new compost or amendments, the Cosmos seeds still germinate and grow healthy.
Thank you for showing things that have gone to seed. My experience this year too. I started to think of it as a failure, but we’ve had more than enough food so in reality it’s just a learning curve.
I have to say, it's nice seeing your garden with many things going to seed. Intentional or not, I feel like I don't see that much. Bravo.
Thank you so much Tristin! :)
I love how abundant and just a smidge wild your garden looks. The cornflower and sweet pea areas are my faves. Those kholrabi are cool looking, too.
Your voice is so calming 😊
Expect your pole beans to get really, really tall. For a while I lived on the ground floor of a 3 story apartment building and grew Kentucky Blue pole beans in a large planter box for a privacy screen on the back patio. We had one plant that made it half way up the railing on the third floor before fall die back.
AMAZING!! Absolutely love your channel, it has inspired quite a bit of my planting journey that I document on my channel :)
Can't wait for next video 😊🌱💚
Awh thank you very much I'm so glad to hear it! I'll check it out 🌱
Hey Marine, just watched your beginner plants video and I really like it! Different from Huw but good nonetheless :) looking forward to part 2.
Loved the video Huw!!
@@HuwRichards thanks for much 💚💚
@@1beaupseudo thank you!!
You must have the prettiest veg garden ever! It’s lovely 😍 I’m up in Aberdeenshire, so we are a bit behind everyone else. It’s my first year of growing ‘properly’ so thanks for the inspiration Huw .....loving the no rules 👍
Beautiful garden! Your tour took about half an hour. I gave one of my friends a tour of mine yesterday. It took two minutes! Hopefully next year will be better.
I followed your online course recently and can't wait for autumn/winter to get started on my expansion using your wisdom. Love your channel.
Hi Huw, I hope you are well and keeping safe. This was a great catch up on how your intuitive gardening is going, I think we have all been trying to just make as much use of our spaces as we can. Thankyou for all the ideas, tips, and tricks you share with us, they really do help. :-)
The garlic are enormous. And the garden looks really healthy and well taken care of. 💐
Hi Huw, lovely garden, it looks so lush and colourful and sunny. I have just got back from my plot soaked to the skin from torrential rain and freezing cold after putting up a net to protect my Brussels sprouts as they had got too tall for their original mesh, hating the english summer and the slugs, grump, grump, grump, 😫 and your video has really cheered me up!
Wow, great info Huw and many ideas I’m going to try next season. I’m a beetroot fan too and would love some recipe ideas. You mention a bit on ways to serve your harvests, would love to see a recipe ideas video from you! 🙏🏼🤞🏼
Im in awe, looks amazing! 😍 Try radish kimchi, add the leaves too, just as awesome as cabbage!
Yes I find it almost the end of... Just I asked earlier than I seen. :-) Maybe... But if just started to flowers it's no have enough time to ripe, but you can harvest in green, or cut of whole plant and hang in warm place it will ripe that way. 😊
Your garden is fabulous. I really like it. Next year I will try to grow cosmos, it's look very nice. ♥️ Well done!!!
Awh thank you very much Jetta! Time will tell with the outdoor tomato hehe. You should absolutely try to grow cosmos! 🙈
@@HuwRichards I will next year. When did you saw them?
Don't you grow peppers? I'm tried but slugs and snails eat them up outside. 😂
This looks to be your best garden ever. Well done.
Your garden is HUGE Huw. Thanks for sharing. Great place to learn about the greens. There is enough food for an entire Australian town (a small one like the one where I live) :-) Keep it up.
More perennials! Awesome, that's my plan too! As spring approaches in the southern hemisphere, I'm watching my seeds sprout with excitement! I even cold stratified some red hot poker seeds and they've sprouted first try! Thank you for another dose of inspiration Huw!
I loved the meal ideas you shared. I'm always interested in new, simple ideas of ways to use fresh vegetables. I hope you continue to do garden tours- even straight through the winter. I know there's not as much to see, but inspiring all the same.
Did anyone else think Huw was saying "cell phone" lettuce or tomato instead of "self sewn"? LOL
What a gorgeous garden! So glad I found your channel!
A treat every time!! Thanks so much:)
As a swiss person, I have to tell you to give this swiss chard plants a bit more air... they can grow really big. Hope they will!!!
Perhops, perhops, perhops... Very funny. Love the garden tour!
Your plot looks incredible Huw 👏🏻
Thank you ☺️
Felicitaciones tu huerto es hermoso vello por donde lo mires una belleza poder ver esto saludo desde uruguay
Hi Huw I just found your channel and enjoy it immensly. Your heritage blue peas at 20:30 are quite popular here in the Netherlands. They're mostly sold dried, rehydrated and overcooked in cans, but fresh they taste much better. If you expect them to taste like peas you will be disappointed, because they're not as sweet. I usually ad them to stirfries or a veggy omelet. If you eat meat, you can fry them with onion and bacon.
Those onions are impressive!
The garden looks awesome Huw! My garden update is out this Wednesday! 😁
This garden is amazing!!!!!
Fantastic stuff! Sounds like you need a good hedge to reduce the effect of wind! I put two kohl rabi in the greenhouse where they grow a lot quicker, harvested end of June with a 6" diameter, and then moved capsicum into the void left in the greenhouse.
I was thinking that I'd love a video on propagating the strawberry runners as I also planted strawberries this year and need to deal with the runners. I finally checked out the patreon page and see one there! Joining now!
I love your approach to gardening, I'm doing pretty similar on smaller scale.
There are two super beneficial plants that IMHO are missing: French marigolds and comfrey. I'd really recommend growing them, even instead of that lovely cosmos ;) and I hope you know why!
I have loads of comfrey plants outside of the garden but I think I should bring some in, and yeah I definitely agree with you regarding the French marigolds😉
Great tour. Thanks for sharing your successes and the not so muchs. My Kohlrabi was decimated by caterpillars in three days while I was busy. Yours look great!
Outstanding Huw! So healthy and beautiful!! From Nova Scotia
I really enjoy your videos. Very inspiring and nice to watch. You have such nice persona and way of editing the videos. Great job! All the best to you
Does your camera-man have a set-scheudele to film, or is it just "come quick the sun is out"?
cause you always talk about how windy it can be and how it rains a lot, and yet, in every video it's a bright blue sky! 🧐
You guys make a excellent job though! Always entertaining to watch! And your accent is just great! I love the way you say "lettuce!"
Hahaha great question 😂 We plan filming days according to the weather, so basically whichever day in the week looks best we will film! I don't fancy filming in the rain! I'm so glad you enjoy the videos☺️
@@HuwRichards I figured! 🙂 That's neat!
😂😂😂 letting it go to flower but why not just cracked me up, again and as always great video 🇨🇦🥕🙏😷👌🌶🌻🥬
beautiful garden
Nice harvest
Your are so knowledgeable and humble.
I like to incorporate flowers in my garden too. I have cosmos, marigolds, nasturtiums, sweet peas and zinnias. I like the zinnias most.
Thank you :)
Great video, Huw. Thank you. Keeps me inspired. 😃
That's so annoying when you suddenly lose a plant that's growing well! We had that happen with two of our Summer Squash/Courgettes this year, but manage to root and re-plant the tops of each plant! We were quite surprised it worked, so made videos of the process for our UA-cam Channel. We also re-planted seeds, but the tops yielded fruit much quicker!
Lovely video again, FYI I have a yellow Zucchini as well and the leaves are yellow - I did try to feed it but now realize that it is supposed to be like that.
Wow, it looks incredible. Love the intuitive gardening method.
Thank you so much!
what a great garden well done
your garden has never looked better. but i'm biased
Hi Huw I just got your book love it, can't wait to get an allotment to get started
you know how to make Borsch! Wow i like you even more now 😉
Nice selection of veggies...Steve...👍😁
Wow Huw - how many "spare courgettes" do you have?
Warm regards from Niagara Falls Ontario Canada! One of my favorite things about your videos, is when you point out something you've done (or not done!) out of the ordinary and add "why not?" I've also learned that I've been intuitively gardening all my life: it never occurred to me that there was a name for it :) That being said, I've tried to have babies ready to fit in harvested/cleared out areas. Love your videos - I will sign up with Patreon.
Interesting change, how will it effect productivity? You are lucky in having so much prime growing space. I’m restricted to about 150 sq feet of beds, will be growing in fabric grow bags and pots to extend growing area and grab some full sun locations. I love your leek planting setup, do you have it explained in a video? It’s how you set up/plant the seed bed -where the leek seedlings are all in tight bunches, that I can’t figure out, you showed the second part in a video. Love your videos
Beautiful garden. How many people help maintain the garden?
Interesting you don't grow onion from seed because of the extra fuss. I would never bother growing them any other way now as I find I get bigger healthier plants. I find it the best fuss free way to do it. I direct multisow them and don't have to do anything to them other than the usual things like watering and feeding. I always get a great germination rate. No need to waste time growing them first in module or anything and plant out then wait til they get over transplant shock. I just direct sow the seed and leave them to do their thing.
Wow. Just ..wow. 😁
Your successes and "failures" are such an inspiration! I was wondering, How should I prepare my globe artichokes to overwinter here at the base of the Rocky Mountains? We're at 6500 feet in altitude (2100 meters?)
Great video as always Huw!
Thank you so much!
Very nice video.😉👍
Absolutely beautiful!
About the wind - have you considered using a Chestnut fence along the windy side?
I think it would suit your aesthetics.
// Ingela
Very Interesting you have the same issue with the yellow courgette variety. I have in the same bed a yellow and a white variety and the yellow it’s becoming yellow as the leafs grow. I though was bad nutrition or too much water (Lot of rain this year in Somerset). But the white courgette is very big, green and healthy, both courgettes are producing fruit so I’m happy anyway. No signs of pest or deseases. Would be great if you found out what’s the issue with yellow courgettes as I didn’t find anything in internet. Thanks for your videos!!!
It’s been a strange summer for courgettes. My friend has a tiny garden and usually finds one plant serves her needs; however she has only had male flowers. No fruits. My garden has a little more space but I still have two plants with only male flowers and a very poor harvest from my other plants. No more than two courgettes from each other plant. I’d like to know your experience.
Wow. What a beautiful garden. I saw you have fennel. I tried.growing fennel this year for the first time. It grew beautifully but they were flat they just didn't bulb up and I don't know why. They were nice large plants. I started them indoors and then planted outside. They were Florence Fennel. They were in the ground for over 3.months. did I get too patient and pull them out too early? Or can you think of anything else I can try. Any help would be much appreciated.
I noticed you have bunches of nasturtium growing here and there. Do you ever use those in a salad, or eaten in any other way? I planted climbing nasturtium late, and just waiting on them to take off (they are only about 2 feet tall currently). Also, I took your advice and planted a patch of Jerusalem artichoke / sunchoke (planted 20, of which 19 made it, not sure what happened to that last tuber). Those sunchokes are going absolutely crazy! They are already about 9 feet tall, with an abundance of new stems, and have taken over the bed they were planted in (haha, I thought I'd be able to grow some dill in between the two rows, but that poor dill never had a chance.)
Great video, love the flowers.
Can you tell me what sizes are the beds showed in the video? Like what size is the one that is slightly larger than the one that is 1,2m/3m? and based on what did you do the math? Based on what is to be planted there? For what are you using those beds?
Thank you!
Another great video Huw, thanks. What make are your boots, I could do with some just like them?
I love your content, I'm about half way through your course now and loving it! Curious about the dwarf jerusalem artichokes! Did they do alright?
Thank you so much!! Yes they did great! I decided they needed a slightly sunnier position though, but great to grow and yielded decent tubers
Such beautiful Garden ... A piece of heaven on the earth. What are those small pots up side down around the raised beds for?
Thank you! For holding the netting over the strawberries and stop the net ripping on the bamboo :)
@@HuwRichards thank you. I guessed but not sure .
So Good idea ☺
Do you eat hosta shoots? It was my first time planting radishes and I love the flowers so much I"m thinking of planting some only for the flowers next year! (and the pods I guess)
Huw- did you ever find out what the story was with your yellowing courgette? I ask, because I have intermittent yellowing in a variety of things this summer, which I've not seen previously. I have two Waltham butternut squashes in different parts of the yard, and one is almost completely yellow. It is growing next to a Sweet Meat squash which shows no signs of yellowing. It's also sporadic in my flower borders. I've never seen anything like it. Have you figured out what it is?
Beautiful veg garden. Topinambur is a loved and a staple veg here, but the name jarusalem artichoke really bothers me. It is native to North America (nothing to do with jarusalem) and it is a root veg (nothing to do with artichokes). So why still call it jarusalem artichoke? I think earth apples ,sunroot,sunchoke or topinambur is a better choice ..😊😊
What wood do you use for your raised bed and what size us the timber. Great video thanks
Huw buddy How do you keep you peas upright. I tried two bamboo trellises but the plants just fall over. Cheers Sean Swansea
Huw, how do you deal with whiteflies? They are on the under leaves of my hibiscus. I have sprayed with Apple Vinegar and a little sunlight dish soap in water.... but they keep on coming back.
Me gusta tu canal y el de Charles Dowding porque veo comida, lechugas, zanahorias, remolacha, cebollas.... en otros veo teoría, hiervas y mas teoría.
Hi Huw
Can you help please my carrots have gone into flower what do I do next
Many thanks
Hi Hew is it hard to grow fennel. When is it planted and harvested. Marion
And here I lay depressed in my couche with my one growing bed overcome with hedge bindwind. The rest has been damaged by snails... Pffff hopefully next year better for me.
Yours looks impressive though!
I'll keep my fingers crossed for you 🤞
Aw, slugs stole my sallads this year, so I can relate! 😔
But WE shall not be defeated!!
Next year we'll conquer the little monsters and we will be so much more appreciative of what we have then! 🥕🥦🍉
@@MakeupMornings it's always the same, I take too many projects at once until my hobby projects become tasks, and than I collapse again
@@DenUil but hopefully you had a great time while in the planning process, and found some joy at least in the beginning. That counts! At least i'd like to think so! :)
Hi Hugh nice video, can you recommend a paticular brand of compost for raised beds as my compost is not ready yet?
Thanks :) Melcourt Sylvagrow Organic and Dalefoot are both great
@@HuwRichards Thanks Huw, a great inspiration! I turned my concrete front garden into a raised bed and container vegtable garden in a few months. And when it comes to filling in the gaps of the raised beds, I think I'm going radish mad 🙃😀.
Do you have cucumber beetles and squash bugs to deal with?
How do you stop ants eating everything or nesting, without using chemicals? I have new black currant plants and the ants keep trying to make what looks like nests in the plants, how to stop them??
Nothing wrong with ants on the garden, let them nest :) I probably find 4-5 ant nests a day but I leave them in peace.
What will you use to support the Asparagus?
Aren't you risking it planting lettuce next to slug/snail magnet hostas?
What's life without risk? Bland :)
Which flowers, apart from cosmos?, would you recommend to plant to attract bees for pollination?
(fast growing).
Is it too late to plant them if you want to grow vegetables till November/December or all year around?
Elena, one flower I always plant on the edges of the raised beds is Sweet Alyssum. It hangs beautifully over the edges of the bed, blooms up until frost kills it, and it attracts beneficial insects including the Aphid Wasp.
Marigold and nasturtium
Comfrey and borage, and foxgloves
Thank you all for your advices. I noted it down.
get the hops going
How do you build your solar tunnel that you have in your videos?
your garden looks beautiful! uwu
Thank you ☺️
oh, btw. could you recommend something to plant from seeds now? is courgettes to late to start? I have UK climate :)
Yeah you're a bit late for courgettes now, but you can start sowing for autumn and winter harvests: non-hearting lettuces, spinach, chard, beets, swedes, kholrabi, winter kale, asian greens like pakchoi and tatsoi, as well as mustards, and radishes, and you could even sow peas for shoots (for salads)
@@seraaron I just saw this now! Thank you! :) Would it be too late now for those listed?
@@a.b.1184 Pushing it for some, I'VR already made my last sowings for August. But that included: pak choi, kohl rabi, purslane, corn salad / lamb's lettuce, spinach, coriander, sorrel, beetroot, claytonia, sweet cicely, good king henry, and radish. It's a bit early but you can also start looking for garlic bulbs to plant for harvest next summer. You also might still have time to sow some quick cropping carrots
I wish most of that would grow up north in a heavy soil.
How do you cope with caterpillars on your not covered brassica?
My veg garden looks like a jungle...just from 3 days or rain. Now I'm exhausted just pulling weeds....
Hard to get onion sets in nz..
How on earth do you keep the weeds down? I mulch heavily with straw and still have to weed weekly.
No Dig and that's it :)
What is the variety of sugar snap peas that you are growing and love and save seeds? Thanks
I think he said, ‘Norli’.
Thank you stshnie.
Wonderful garden! How big is it?
I need to measure it again as I've forgotten 😉
@@HuwRichards hahaha it always happens with me as well but with planting varieties
"Lovely smell of coriander" flower? Each to their own i suppose. I find the smell a bit strong
aphids and thrips really dont like the smell either, i put the fan we have in our pollytunnel 50cm before the flowering coriander plant, and it really keeps them out of the space,: edit, the plant is about 250+cm height at this time of year and will just come back next year, the longer we let it flower the bigger the plant will be next year, so i keep it flowering untill its all stem i tie all the stems together so they stay straight. always grow a 2nd coriander plant outside during summer for actually harvesting the leaves. also great to create shade in a greenhouse/pollytunnel
Perhops.. perhops.. perhops 😂
The garden is sooo beautiful♥️. Mine haven't been so green yet lol
Thank you very much Lito :)
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Wish you could help my garden 😊, you're garden is lovely thanks for the information!
You're very welcome Jen! :)