5 Winter Tasks for a Productive Vegetable Garden Next Year | Permaculture Gardening
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- 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 sometime over the next couple of months before returning back to the vegetable garden.
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End of December--early January: 5 winter tasks for your garden for summer abundance
1.) Pick 3 new things to grow: Push outside your comfort zone. Look for something new/unusual to grow New Zealand yam.
2.) Get seed order in by early January. Make a note of all the crops you want to grow next year. Cross reference that with your seed storage to make sure that you have it. Put a little red dot next to the seeds you need to order. Try a new variety with a few different crops. Who knows, it may outperform your tried and true.
3.) Make a month-by-month planting plan:
4.) Garden checkup: Focus on how the garden works as a whole rather than whether the plants are growing. Start with the boundaries and work inwards. Check fence post for rot with a little wiggle, hoses for leaks, raised beds for deterioration, compost bins, water infrastructure, tears or rips in fabrics.
5.) Read more about gardening.
Thank you!
One thing that has impacted my plan for next year is to take a good look at what the family wasn’t very interested in eating... or what they wouldn’t miss if I didn’t grow it. Swiss chard and celery seemed to be the least interesting. Frees up some real estate for next season. I totally agree with spending the down time learning, consuming content.
agreed my son and i share an allotment , he likes to grow veg that i wont eat so he has applied for his own this year
Made my first raised bed this past season (june-bearing strawberries). I figured the side boards would eventually rot. So, we took down an old out-building on the property that had cinder blocks for the base that we will use for larger beds next season. Our soil is mostly clay. Raised beds is the way to go.
I am totally new to gardening and today I ate a couple of radishes that I had grown myself. That's a first for me. It was a nice experience! Many thanks for your great videos.
Well done and welcome to the facinating and rewarding world of gardening!🌱👍💚
They're a much better flavour, and more peppery, than the shop bought version. It's hard to go backwards when you've tried that. Good luck trying new veg.
Celtic Whisper try the white radish.....oh my I got some from Baker Creek and they are so tender and mild! Cannot remember variety off top of my head butwill look up and get back to you. Soooooo tasty!
Try pickling a bunch of radishes. Having a jar full of good-tasting meal enhancers in the fridge is very satisfying, especially once you start to up your productivity and build up your own food stores.
No wondet you are green in the face... just kidding!
I'm keeping up with my gardening reading this winter with a the horticulture romance novel "The Wives of Mr. Green Bean." It's great.
I read that too fast as "The Wives of Mr. Bean" 🤣 doubletake!
Thank you for the inspiration, and brighten the dark days of winter for us.
It's my absolute pleasure! :)
Greetings from Down Under Huw! I like your ideas in this video and the Monthly Plan is one that I have adopted earlier this year. I have been maintaining a Garden Diary and a Lessons Learned both of which I intend to review when completing my Monthly Plan for next year. I never really had any documentation to fall back on before when it came to gardening and it is very helpful and satisfying to go back and see exactly how much I have achieved in the garden over the year. Yesterday, we had some Wales-like weather when we received 32.4mm of rain in one day. I so enjoy this change in the weather at this time of the year as it generally lowers the temperature a little and gives us some respite from the heat. The idea of challenging myself in the garden is also something I have adopted more frequently than yearly. It seems to coincide with weekly trips to my garden center and I see something that I have never grown or eaten before. Thanks for the time you put into your videos as I always seem to learn something despite us being on opposing sides of the equator. Cheers!
Thanks for your videos, I grow with my son but do struggle over winter, I am currently looking at ways to improve my soil for a better growing season next year
Hi there Hayley! I LOVE huw richards and came across your msg. Carrots and kale, radishes and collards, parsnips and turnips! These root veggies are wonderful to grow in winter! I have an indoor herb garden and grow parisian carrots, lettuces and microgreens indoors.
Hope your winter gardening will be better for you! Hadassah zone 6 STL 😊
Thank you! Here in Quebec, snow is already covering everything...and cold is coming (-20 this week). Your videos help me go through winter. :) Have a nice day! :)
Awh thank you so much and you too! :)
You make gardening even more exciting than I already knew it to be! Your approach/methods are unfailingly sensible, precisely because they don't leave the human interface out of the process. So love your channel, your energy and great wisdom.
Excellent tip to order seeds early!
Can't have any of you guys missing out!
That bed of kale @ 9:33 looks like a mini rain forest.
As a new gardener, just love the useful bits of knowledge, here to a bountiful 2021.
I'm so glad to hear it Jay! Best of luck with all of your growing ☺️
Purchased your veg in one bed book today and then come home to this upload! Its been a pretty wonderful Sunday for all things growing and prepping the allotment knowledge!
Over winter is the perfect time to revitalise poor tired soil, here in Australia the summer sun really takes its toll on the soil quality along with growing so winter is the best time to give the garden a break, add a truck load of manure, mulch well and let rest for a couple of months. The rain can then do the job of making sure those nutrients get in deep and it'll be ready for spring planting
This winter I am putting in fruit trees and berries. This is a first for me, I've only had an annual garden in the past. Trying new things keeps it interesting!
I have gardened forever and really started getting into fruit a few years ago. Very rewarding.
Loved your video. I also enjoy doing most of those things during the winter in Maine which is very long and very cold. However I have never done a wellness check and I think that is a great idea but I’m not sure my husband who would have to fix all of those things will think that such a great idea. Reading and researching during the long winter is what helps me to survive until spring. Already have my seats ordered because I know with all the new gardeners now there will be a large shortage of seeds. Hope you have a wonderful holiday and happy winter.
Honestly love your videos. Honestly because of you I am soooooo excited for my next gardening season. I have learned so much.
Fantastic ideas. Thank you so much. Every year I add compost to my beds in the mid to late winter.
Love the way you organize things before hand. Really good advice! Thanks for sharing.
Great advice Huw. I love your content, it's always so informative and helpful 👍 I've taken on my first allotment plot a few weeks ago and I'm applying a lot of your methods and principles from previous vlogs of yours... Keep them coming please and thank you
Hello Huw
I find all your posts so helpful. I've ordered my seeds already, this season I'm going to be on top of things. (I've said that every year though!) Your kale is amazing. My goal is to start seeds this season I've only done transplants from the nursery. And to plant my beds with the precision you have. This upcoming season our community garden have created a program to bring children into gardening and raising vegetables for several charities that prepare meals in the community. Your books and videos and suggested resources are a great help. Stay well.
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As always a very inspirational video, you always set me thinking about how I can improve my small garden veg beds.
Thank you so much Lynda!
Such a great message. Now is the time to prepare and plan and learn. Bravo and Merry Christmas!
Thank you, I'm just getting started, looking forward to growing my own food🤩🤩 moved to the countryside of Japan recently ^^
Sounds amazing - ganbatte!
Gambattekudasai! :)
@@MC-ko2mx thank you! 😄Arigatougozaimas!☺️
@@vudi2103 Arigatou gozaimas!😊
Read Fukuoka’s One Straw Revolution, a wonderful book, amazing man.
Your videos have really helped me as a new allotment holder as I know little about growing veg. I have just received your book and it’s really inspired me to sort of think outside the box in using things that may just get land filled that I hadn’t thought of. Hopefully I will get my key to the plot this week and start some actual work instead of. Watching other people do it.
my garden has recently had a problem with raccoons and o couldn’t bring myself to put up traps so now I feed raccoons on my porch every night so they leave my garden alone... but it works!!!!
Raccoons hate ebson salts we spread it everywhere its good for plants too
Thank you for the video Huw. I'm going to be using your gardening plan this year as I came a bit unstuck with not being sure what to plant when. I am new to any gardening beyond growing some tomatoes and cucumbers in pots so you live and learn as they say.
Cool video! I'm a very small garden channel, and for Christmas I'm watching/liking/commenting on other small garden channels. Hoping to help the algorithm recommend great garden channels! I realize this isn't a small channel but thought you fellow gardeners may be interested. There are some great new channels out there!
Some great tips, reminded me to start thinking about what to plant
Thanks for the video. It mostly reinforces what I have done. I already have ordered seeds and 90% of them have arrived. Among those seeds are a few new things to try. I have already started work on infrastructure, making 5 new tote beds, and I will be moving one large bed as soon as the lettuce in it is done. I already have a garden plan for spring. But the video makes a good suggestion to make others. Perhaps a summer and fall plan now when I have lots of time. Since most of my garden is only a season old there isnt much repair work, but I will look into it.
Thank you so much for your inspiring garden videos! You are in my personal "top three" of garden youtubers and maybe my favorit one! I wish you a very "gardenny" Christmas and a rich crup from new inspiration! Katrin from Southern Germany
I hope you have a great 2021 Huw, and thank you for all your videos - I learn a lot from watching you!
Awh thank you and all the same to you mate!! ☺️
I love your videos, they are very inspirational.
Great tips. I'm doing well at taking a break at least!
Thank you for posting! Great tips. Cant wait to see your new beds.
Timely video, Huw! I just finished bedding down all of my raised bed for winter yesterday. Then I put wood chips down in the walkways between the raised beds and on the Back to Eden part of the garden.
Oh wow great job!! Now you can have a deserved rest :D Thank you so much for watching
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Lots of great info here. Personally i tend to learn from my failures the most. It makes research what went wrong.
Great tips! I’ve never seen New Zealand yam, but now I will be keeping an eye out for it. They look delicious!
Hello Huw, I start my repair projects earlier in the fall bc of our long period of below freezing temps. I was able to expand my growing area just a bit and have layered in the compost to be ready in spring. When the temps plumet, thats' when I research my new crops to try the next year..so I am a year ahead..doesn't always work but alot of times it does, failure 1 year can be success the following. God bless.
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Top man - love this channel 👍
As always informative video! For the past two years I order all my seeds by November ...ok well I may sneak another order in late winter. Reading lots about food preservation and medicinal gardening. Garden planning my favorite thing to do over winter so I can hit the ground running come early spring!! thanks! ~jc
i was going to wait until march to order my seeds, but you make a good point about ordering them early! i might go do that now haha :D
Do not wait until March... slim pickings. Order December/January.
Yes! There's already websites that are on hiatus to fill out all the seed orders. Best to get them asap.
One idea I plan to try out this year is a keyhole raised bed. I crunched some numbers on this. Two 4 x 8 beds, 1.5 feet apart, which are made into a keyhole raised bed increases the growing area by 9%, and the cost is about 12% less than for the two 4 x 8 beds. I was excited to find out this trivia, and look forward to seeing how such a bed works out where we live in Florida.
Thank you for continuing to make videos during winter, many of us do garden over winter in hoophouse, etc! 😀 Even though I live in the U.S., most of the gardening channels I watch are in the UK, and I have noticed that 'everyone' plants the same things year after year, perhaps because you are more tied to tradition?? I have always tried new things every year, I LOVE variety!
Good advice ,thanks Huw.
My pleasure!
That's neat, I just found a copy of The Lost Orchard in a shop the other day and bought it. Now I see it on your video.
Me encanta! Muchas gracias! 😃
This video makes me look forward to the winter months because these five tasks are just what I need!
So hard to get motivated in the cold weather but there’s work to be done.
Favourite You Tubers; Huw, Liz and Erica!!!!!!
Great selection there Jane! :)
Thanks for the lovely video; I appreciate your wonderful efforts.
Help me to act ahead for my garden...!
Well planned garden and very informative vlog. I love gardening and started small raise bed gardening and vlog. I will adopt your great idea and hopefully I will better grow next year.
Lovely video as usual
I've grown some veg in the past but I'm still new to it, just had 5 years without a garden, renovated a new house which has a large back garden, however I'm only allocated 1/4 of it for a veg plot, overload on you tube vids, move in next week, after Xmas make a start can't wait.
GREAT VID, YOUR GARDEN ALWAYS LOOKS SO NICE. HOPE YOU HAVE A LOVELY CHRISTMAS, MICK FROM SURREY.
Thank you for your videos! I have been trying to learn about starting potatoes & plants outside of the lettuce family that can be started, grown & then harvested in spring. I would be very interested to see a video from you on that sibject! I'm in zone 6b.
Hi I'm trying ying yang beans next season for the first time plus I've got all my seeds that I need ordered so well in advance of last year
Thank you for sharing this video. I learned a lot from your videos.
Its was a bliss your video, thank You 👌
My pleasure! :)
Hi Huw 🙂 Fab vid again sooo inspiring. My seed list is done & as I've previously said, I'm excited to try Winter sowing for 1st time & have already made a start on prep'ing the mini greenhouses - suspect I'll run out 🤣 Wishing you & family as happy a Christmas as possible this year Bless you for your advice +++ mxxx
Thank you for the top tips :) it would be great so see how you replace the worn out beds. Whilst mine are new (built this autumn) but I know at some time in the future they will require replacing. I'm also working on connecting with others locally so we can seed & seedling swop in the spring. I have very limited propogation space, so I'm weighing up & researching, the pros & cons of a totally removable lid on a raised bed / a removable poly tunnel type structure / a zip up plastic greenhouse, as well as sourcing / saving / upcycling what could be used as cloches, seedling starters, and seed trays. I'm also working hard on making enough compost - sourcing topsoil & compost was an issue when I built my raised beds, I've also heard some has doubled in price this year alone. Learning about seed saving is also on my 'need to learn' list :) Looking forward to the next tips ......
The amazing Charles Dowding has loads of resources on no-dig garden beds, if you're interested.
He recently replaced the last wooden-sided bed on his property:
ua-cam.com/video/9xCAZIghQmg/v-deo.html
Spoiler: He chose to remove the sides completely :)
@@MC-ko2mx Thank you, I follow both on UA-cam, mine are min of 300mm high to 450mm as my garden slopes. So no sides isn't really an option for me.
Both Charles & Huw are fantastic, as are other gardening youtubers. They are definitely educating and inspiring a lot of people esp this year.
Congrats on your Yam crop.
Thank you!
Great tips. Thanks
Great suggestions Huw, really useful.
So pleaser to hear ☺️
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I'm very very new to vegetable gardening. My long term plan is to move out into the countryside and farm for a living. 2 months ago I decided I'd take the first step, so I've been watching your videos and lots of other useful channels as well. What I love about most of the channels I watch is how honest and genuinely helpful you all are, and you share your mistakes as well, which is so so helpful and appreciated.
I've built 4 raised beds (around 8 sq metres in total, and will do a couple more) in my 60x40 foot garden, and filled them in, ready for my first plantings in spring!
I'm starting off slow, and if all goes well I'd love to move to a bigger plot and become self sustained. Just got to persuade wife and kids...
Thanks again Huw, wishing you all the very best.
lovely video
If you find an interesting fruit in the grocery store you can try planting seeds from it. Of course save seeds from any crop you plan to grow again. And you can share seeds with gardener friends!
When you have a video suggestion, could you please put a link in the video description? I don't want to leave this video in the middle, but it can be hard to find the right spot for the link once I'm ready. Thank you for the great content! 😊
Great point Joy I'll be sure to always do that in the future ☺️
Great video. Thanks so much.
My pleasure!
Thank you very helpful.
I’d add rabbits to your garden. All that kale you were tossing could be green feed. Rabbits have a very low feed to meat ratio. Ducks would love up that kale too. Best eggs ever.
Thank you. Great info.
great tips as always
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134,730 views•Dec 12, 2020 That's Awesome. I want to make a Pitch for your book softcover. I think it would be Fun for anybody doing a home garden. The Journal was a very cool surprise.
Greetings Huw, great idea doing a garden *check-up*. How about catching up with gardening friends as another point? Then we can compare notes and maybe do some seed or plant swaps as well. Maybe something that didn't work for them may work fabulously in your garden. Great video, really enjoyed this ☺
That's a Great idea! Always good to check in and compare notes :) Thank You
Nice
Great plan! Especially with the size garden you have! New to your channel but I’m loving your content! Keep it up! Is the book still available?
Good information 👍
Thank you!!
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Planted about 6 different types of Oca which I bought Tom the real seed company...... (heartily recommend the Real Seed company and I particularly liked their Petrowski turnip and the Blue Bannabs squash is amazing.)...grew very well over the year in a raised bed and followed the instructions not to pick them early as they apparently double their weight in last month.... but despite various types of cooking I have to report them as being very pallid and nondescript when it came to eating..... I’m not surprised that history shows that our ancestors chose spuds over Oca.... interesting to note that Oca does not have mush in the way of calories unlike the spud.... however sure their is a market for fancy restaurants for this veg
I would love to see how you replace the boards on a raised bed that needs replacing. I've got a raised bed that all four sides/boards need replacing. How do you do that without all the soil falling out?
You can heap it over to the opposite side/end to replace 1 side & end at a time. If it has a bit of rooty structure to it you may not have to move very much. Or maybe heap it all up into the middle?
I overwinter my beds with mustard tatsoi. They make a thick ground cover you can eat as greens and you can turn them under a few months before planting the crops you really want to grow.
Edit: As long as you don't let them go to seed they won't come back.
Huw - yet another excellent video / and recommendation to give it a break for now. Meanwhile, question, please .... which month did you plant the OCA in your raised bed. I am mostly keen to learn 1. how late I can plant them? 2. Are they a perennial or can one save tubers or “seeds” from one season for the next?? Thanks I have seen loads of your tutorials and your Welsh accent is also a real bonus!!
New to this channel great video very informative
Awh thank you!
any tips on cauliflower, love it, but my first attempt was a spectacular failure
the way u exlplains is really cute i do zero budget gardening in india ,nice to know u
Love your videos!! Here in Ontario my raised beds are already snow-covered but I'm keeping a couple things alive in the kitchen window like lettuce and lavender. One question I do have is where did you get your seed storage boxes!?!? I must get those! They look awesome!
nice
I want to challenge you to try another vegetable - Jerusalem artichoke. Before the potatoes in Europe this vegetable was been use it very often. The interesting thing about it is that you can grow it from the peel.
I've been growing them for 15 years and have featured them heavily in many videos :)
so nicei like this video
How big is your garden area? I love your videos and you inspire me to create a beautiful space.
Hey Huw!
Thanks for another nice video.
I wonder always: „He grows amazing amounts of vegetable! Is he and his family all eating this themselves??“
Of course, I think, you‘re going to preserve a lot of it for winter.
If so, it would be nice to see, how you do that.
My curious question: Do you also sell it to neighbours or so?
Best regards from Bavaria!🤗
Great Video! Your videos inspired me to start a gardening channel. Any tips will be appreciated.
Everything is covered with 40cm. of snow. Not a lot to be done outside this season, but I am well up to date with the seeds!
look up 'shou sugi ban' its a japanese technique to help preserve wood could be helpful to make the raised beds last a bit longer
My luffas failed too. Am trying again next year.
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Love your garden and your kale looks great kale is one of my favorite vegetables to grow among others. and what did you call that vegetable you harvested it looked like fingerling potatoes
I like cabbage, collards and celery. But the family likes tomatoes, cucumbers and beets a lot more. So I'm growing less cabbages, more kale, tomatoes and cucumbers.
I can spend easily several hours in the garden. Family wonders what else I could possibly work on for so long. Boy were they surprised when I pulled out my To Do List.