Due to the huge popularity of this method I have turned it into a 10 lesson online course which goes into a lot more detail on how to create a monthly planting plan, and features extras such as my master sowing list which I use to guide me when filling a planting plan. Find out more about the course here: planforabundance.com/ & use coupon code UA-cam20 to get 20% off!
This is great - I'm sold! One question though... do you have other videos explaining tips for designing your annual veg garden in the first place? I'm at the very early stages and I'm thinking rectangular beds are easier. But I'm not sure if there's anything I'm missing. Also - do you sell the permie ethics sweatshirt you're wearing?!
Hi Huw, I'm a big fan of your videos and also have your book. I'm keen to try the course but before enrolling could you clarify which software we need to use if we do it digitally? do you use powerpoint, excel or something else? Thank you kindly
This kind of quality information is why you are on a very short list of experienced gardeners I chose as the direction I wanted for my family’s garden. There’s a dizzying amount of information out there but this is a realistic approach and in line with the way I want to have a relationship with the food and land that I expect to nourish my family. Thank you for being a rich source of information and delivering it clearly and thoroughly.
Thanks for the Video! Sorry for butting in, I am interested in your initial thoughts. Have you thought about - Proutklarton Alive Products Plan (probably on Google)? It is a good one of a kind product for creating your greenhouse of saffron anywhere in the world without the hard work. Ive heard some decent things about it and my work buddy finally got astronomical results with it.
Have been a fan for about 6 months and have just found this video and found it so uplifting! Being retired for 3 years and now I am HAVING to try growing our own food I was so anxious on where to start and in what order until seeing this. Due to health reasons it was unlikely I would be able to DIG a garden so when I came across Huw and Co talking about no dig it has given me a new enthusiasm for gardening. I have 2 dalek compost bins already full so will start off with 1 or 2 beds of cardboard on grass and compost. Please keep them coming.
Thank you so much Huw. You have completely demystified the whole succession thing. I was losing the will to live with the bare soil patches in my my little plot for long periods of time. I watched many of your video on no dig, as a gardener of 64 I needed to change my usual tack and make things easier for myself. I couldn't bare not growing things. No dig works really well for me and it so much easier to spread successions in a smaller area, but the mixing of crops and knowing when to sow things a ready to transfer wasn't very synchronized. I feel truly enlightened, see your never to old to learn. Keep up the good work, as i'm very interested to see how the chop and drop goes.
You are the only one I’ve seen that really shows how to organize all the moving parts of seeding, transplanting succession planting, so we don’t lose valuable time! Thank you so much!
So in May we need to build a wigwam (16:15). I thought "what in the world is a wigwam for?" My first thought was in case any native Americans happened to be passing by my property. Then I went to your main page and put "wigwam" in the search line. Makes sense now. LOL. I learned MORE than one thing from this video.
Great idea, Huw! Because I also have several fruit trees, perennial bushes and chickens, I will be adding a couple of areas to the side of the beds (Crops to Harvest and Maintenance Tasks) so I have everything in one place and I don't end up being overwhelmed by tasks and I make sure my tools and garden beds are ready for the next crop.
Loved this video! I've been making a monthly plan and I'll never do a yearly one again either. I use a spreadsheet, though, with each month separate. Then rows telling me when to start a crop indoors and when to plant it out, or when to direct sow. Another row with the germination time, another with the harvest time, another with notes on what'll follow that crop. Then general notes about it, and finally a row reminding me where I bought the seeds or plants, in case I have any questions if I bought them elsewhere. That way I see everything at a glance and have a definite month-by-month plan. It works wonderfully for me. I still have an insane amount of food growing out there now in February, so much that I'm going to have to get some family, friends and neighbors over here to take away all the excess they can use, so I can start the beds fresh for this season. I spend the cold season, when there's not much to do out there but harvest, planning, planning and planning. I never plan TOO inflexible though, since sometimes I'll change my mind and think, "You know, I think I'll put the second crop of broad beans over there instead of here.", haha! I really, really like your way of planning, though, it's a lot more visual and will help a lot more people than my spreadsheet method. And yes, definitely going to buy your book. The first one was wonderful, so I'm looking forward to this one. :)
again one of the most valuable gardener videos I've ever seen. Why? information in a nutshell that I can use directly. Was always struggeling with yearly plans, but as well having none! appreciate that! thanks man!
This video is a goldmine of information, and it’s free!!!! Love love love it. Thanks Huw for all your help and information I’ve learnt so much from you. Keep up the good work. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Love it! The only thing I'm going to add, until I know more about maturity times, is something like month 1 of 2, month 2 of 2 etc for each crop so I can see at a glance how long each has been there and how much longer they'll be there. Thank you so much!
Thank you! So timely for me! I've been learning about succession planting in the same beds within a season for multiple harvests and although I have a fairly organized plan, I couldn't quite figure out how to get it all out of my head and onto paper. I'm starting my monthly worksheet tonight!
Its a 4th year that im having a gardening diary, and I make planner based on it. I like to cut each month by ten days and plan jobs for each part accordingly. I like this idea of adding an actual map to that!
This is awesome-but for other reasons for me. Why? I love to get involved so much with my gardening that I need something to do monthly or it drives me 🍌's!!! I'm outside every day do a bit of this and that. Thanks again Huw. I can tell you really think things through and it shows!!!
Absolutely brilliant - well done Huw. I recommended your channel to the group I had at the weekend for a 'Getting Ready to Grow' workshop in my garden. Thank you for all you do to help people get started.
I am starting a veggie patch. I will have six raised garden beds, with potatoes, beetroot, carrot, peas, beans and spinach. This is really helpful advice.
I have always enjoyed gardening but wasn't making the most of my limited space. I completed this course and it was freeing for me. I have a plan now. It's all laid out for me to follow along and tuck things in at the right time, and move on to something else. Yes, I know things will not always go smoothly but this has removed a ton of stress for me. And I truly enjoyed the planning process. Thank you!
I love your videos.... Long I was searching for the best way planning my vegetable garden... This year I already realized many of your ideas... They were the missing link in my way of doing it.. so a warm thank you from austria
Thanks for this one, Huw. I am planning our raised beds now and thinking of adding a trellis and am making my plan right now. Great timing for this video
Hi! The time stamps are helping a LOT, BUT after a recent update you can create chapters with it, accessable from the video itself, you just have to START with chapter one at 0:00, put the stamps in front and the chapter magic works. I hope you see this and we all can enjoy even more. Your videos are so inspiring!
This has been my first year of veggie growing and your advice helped me realise I needed a plan! No wonder I was always running out of things to harvest and waiting for things to grow. I’m much more focused on when and how because of you wonderful advice, thank you our bellies appreciate it!
Thanks Huw. Was just going to plan a season to season but now I'll attempt month to month. I'm fairly new with 3 raised beds. Love reading the comments and I look for replies and read those first. You answer questions I may not have even thought about. I imagine this plan is like planning weekly dinners at home which I recently started doing. Makes my week so much easier. Now my months will be easier. Cheers from Melbourne.
Your right! So many things can happen in one Season. In the last year we had 4 Weeks a very cold weather and the tomatoes and the chillies and Physalis stoped growing-so i had to wait to plant the next Generation plants. Monthly is super!
Thanks for this. I'm a techie - I happily spent years working on the soil and let the plants take care of themselves with the help and planning of my partner. Now I'm on my own, I've got to become and end user with thinking it's boring!
That’s a great idea. I have never done succession planting. Living in Canada zone 6, we have abt 6 months of growing season. I plant my summer veg and wait for them to grow and produce. That’s it. For Leafy greens I just cut the leaves I need and leave the plants to produce more leaves. I will try your idea for maybe radishes, beets, carrots, and bok choi. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this video! This is so helpful. I am very overwhelmed every year and this will help me to simplify and get a better handle on how to rotate/succession plant.
Love Your Down To Earth Teaching With Sooo Much Practical Help..Also Bought Your Book....You Have Inspired Me By Taking Away All The Barriers and Giving People All The Possibilities That we Can Achieve Growing Our Own Vegetables.. Thank You Huw ..look forward to reading your book and gleaning from it.
Feel like im late to the party!! Bought your book Grow Food For Free a week ago, now I've fallen down the Huw Richards rabbit hole... you tube, Instagram, books.... loving it! Thank you for taking the time to share so much with us.
Thank You for so great improvement. I used for 2 years a list on 1 A4 paper with numbers of my raised beds from 1-13 classified in months and in every month I had written what to put there, sow, transplant and so on. You'rs system I will try this year, thank You :D
I usually map my garden for spring, summer, fall-winter (I use my greenhouse, a hoop house, and cold frames). But I am trying to transition this year to a more productive plan--with succession and intercropping. The challenge for me is to plan ahead--what transplants do I need to go in next? It's tricky when you've not done it before. I made a master list on Excel with all the info I need for each plant. I want to put that into this planting plan. I think this is the next piece of the puzzle I need. Thanks for such excellent videos! I'm always learning something new from you!
Great information. I'm sitting here starting my plan on this holiday. My timeline for speciflic plants will be different from yours since I am in 7b southeast USA (hot, humid summers) but this is brilliant! Your channel is a fount of sound information. Thank you.
Hello to you too Huw. Always a pleasure watching your videos. I started an allotment 3 years ago as a noob and i'm getting good at growing fresh veg thanks to your great advice. You are most inspirational. Look forward to watching more of your great vidz. Keep up the great work my dear gardening friend. HAPPY GARDENING 2020👍😃👍
......GROUNDBREAKING. People always talk about planting/growing annually and I’ve always wonder why there isn’t a different way to keep crops in rotation? Excellent tips, I’m so excited to get your book!
Yes Mark from Self Sufficient Me is on the top of my youtube list and your up there now with Calikim too, I am off the kitchen table to read all the months of planting on the packets and sort out my monthly planner....Absolutely a great way for beginner's to start and novalists trying to work out succsession grops to follow...Rozzie...Brisbane...Australia...:)
Hi Rozzie. If you haven't already, have a look at the website gardenate.com You can choose your area of Aust and see what you can grow each month. Each food plant on the list is a clickable link that will take you to its own page to show you how to care for the plant, how long until harvest, companion plants and so on. You can also sign up to get an email each month or fortnight with what to plant in your area. I've been using it for years and love it (there's an app as well of course) We're in Central Vic (ps, that website was Aussie to start but now shows other areas of the world)
I'm rather new to the gardening for food game, I've grown ornamental plants and flowers for years! This was such a helpful video, and it was presented so clearly, that I was able to understand how to make a monthly plan. I struggled this year, I was late for many crops, (everything turned out just fine) but I love being able to think month by month and know what needs to be done ahead of time. I like thinking that way, I'm a planner. This really made sense to me. This year was an experiment as well in knowing what I do want to grow. Now I know how I can plan it all out, and hopefully not miss out on timeframes and to make the most of the beds I do have (We are already planning on expanding our 3 raised beds to at least be 6) Thank you so much!
Never mind the miserable weather hopefully will end soon and we can start gardening. It's just something we have to put up with. Enjoy the rest in the meantime because once the better weather comes all the gardener's will be busy.
David Mcgregor We have had a bad summer for gardening here in Victoria Australia due to the bushfires, even though we are not close to the fires. The smoke has blocked out the sun and we have had rain consisting of red mud which coated the vegetables and reduced the yield considerably. Usually our tomatoes keep producing until April/May but they are nearly finished as are the cucumbers. However, sadly many of my fellow Australians have nothing left neither house or garden. We have been sharing our crops with others who don’t have a garden or a high income. “
Thanks so much for this Huw. Would never have been able to start growing food if it wasn't for your great videos. Bought your book right away, absolutely full of amazing advice and will recommend it to anyone interested in growing veg!
I love this! Thank you for your generosity in sharing it!! I’m totally going to use this and listen to it again and again! Thanks Huw!! From Nova Scotia
Excellent service, thank you! I was sitting at my table with about 30 packets of seeds and wondering how to deal with them! This brilliant video has just helped me to tackle the planting and I’m certainly going to put them in a monthly order and hope I will have food abundance this year. Please carry on with the good work and Bless you for helping!
This is super helpful! I'm moving to a new place and we'll finally have a small tiny yard for gardening. I was feeling so overwhelmed with how to plan our garden and this helped so much! Thank you!
Thank you so much Huw for simplifying garden planning. As a new gardener I hope that in your future videos you will refer to the plan each time you sow plant or harvest veggies. Thank you again
This is brilliant! I make a yearly plan every year, and it just becomes irrelevant because things don't go by season. When did I plant, was the crop quick or slow with the weather, etc. So many things affect when what gets done. Monthly is so much more accurate and nimble! Thank you.
Love this! I am in my second year of growing and I found that in my first year, I didn't maximise the space and account for gaps as things were harvested. Thankyou for taking the time to do this and showing the steps so it was understandable - I will definitely try this now :)
Hello from snowy, COLD South Dakota, U.S.A.! This is a good video, I like the mix of talking, showing your action in the garden, and the computer shots. I needed to see this, as I have not been good about succession planting. I'm in a new location and starting a new garden this year, so I hope I can manage this better. I surely wish I had a more temperate climate and could grow year-round like you! But here, I don't have to have a greenhouse to grow tomatoes! There is always a trade, right?
Suzi, I'm next door in Montana. This is my first year exparimenting with extending my grow season with hoop houses over a couple of my beds and heavy hay mulch inside. I am loving Huw's monthly tracking plan because finally I have a longer season, at least for my cold season crops, and for the first time a chance to grow more than one crop in a space per year. Have fun experimenting!
@@tanarehbein7768 Hi Tana! I will also be using "season extenders", like a low tunnel over one of my 4'x16' beds. I'm also building a shed which will have a greenhouse extension on the South side. I won't be able to heat it, but it will still give me some more growing time at each end of the season!
@@afghanbunny1 oh soooo jealous of the thought of a greenhouse! I'm trying to scrape together the money to fence the elk out of my garden. I have a cheep and simple rolled wire and metal t-post fence which is working fine but my home owners association says I need some thing more decorative that goes with the style of my house. That is code for spend more money 😏. Right now I have eight 4' shelves with grow lights in my garage filled with micro greens, spinach, lettuce, beets, onions, celery, herbs, and flowers all started from seed. I can't wait till spring!😁
I like this. I am a market gardener. Last year was my first year selling at the farmers market and I know there were things I wanted to do differently like succession planting. Just going month to month like I do my budget makes it look less complicated. I am also going to try to like the three sisters to max out my 1/3 of an acre land
Thank you so much for the monthly plan for me start the yearly plan. I left small potatoes from last year and they are just starting produce and I think I will but carrots and parsnips next too them and bed of each garlic & onions.
I'm so glad to have found this video today. I am in the planning stages for upcoming 2021 garden and wanting to make thr most of my space. I am fairly new to gardening and planning a yearly garden is overwhelming me. This idea will help.
Very informative. I started monthly plans back in December 2019. At the mo they are hand written excel forms while I see how it works out. Mine doesn't include bed plans but I have an online system that does that. Key extras I have is when to prune shrubs (garden, not allotment/veg growing) and when to get things growing on heat; both worked badly last year for me! I have seen somewher online it will take most folk around three years to get this right; we all have to start somewhere :) August is key for getting the over wintering / Christmas veg in the ground I believe. Someone must have done a video ...
I’m in the states and although I don’t have a big area I am excited for the new veggie bed this year! This monthly planning is brilliant as I have a lot of ideas but till now it hasn’t really come together! Thank you so much! I’m going to draw mine on paper and then photo copy pages for a three ring binder! This is more cardio rehab for me as I had a bypass three years ago May! I can’t wait for that first harvest!!
Hi. Thanks for the idea of a monthly plan. I've set up a spreadsheet and it's much less daunting planning month by month . I've had my allotment for two years and it's getting better each year. Your advice has been really useful. Thankyou
This sounds like a really practical and good working planning. I try for my next year planning and see how it works for me. Thank you for sharing this idea!
Brilliant, as usual. I have been subscribed to your channel for some time now and following much of your advice. The most helpful has been breaking tasks into small chunks which is helping me not only to gain more control over my food growing areas but also the rest of my garden. Thanks Huw .
Ordered your book today! Ao excited for the upcoming season and think I will be more succesful than last thanks to your channel. Very inspiring and encouraging! Ty from 🇺🇸
BRILLIANT!!. Huw, have just started watching your vid's. You deliver them in such a great way/manner that you seem to never forget the begginor!. The simple tips, the planning, no waste system, always full of of ideas and so on and so on. You are truly up there with the Greats!. Long may you continue to bring us more damn good vid's. Take care.
This kind of info is invaluable Huw, thanks so much. I've never been able to manage the yearly planning without getting myself tied up in knots and getting overwhelmed. This is so much better and I can't wait to try it out.
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Due to the huge popularity of this method I have turned it into a 10 lesson online course which goes into a lot more detail on how to create a monthly planting plan, and features extras such as my master sowing list which I use to guide me when filling a planting plan. Find out more about the course here: planforabundance.com/ & use coupon code UA-cam20 to get 20% off!
Oooh, Photoshop is a terrific planning tool; InDesign might work well, too. Thanks for all of the excellent info, Huw!
Thanks 🖒
This is great - I'm sold! One question though... do you have other videos explaining tips for designing your annual veg garden in the first place? I'm at the very early stages and I'm thinking rectangular beds are easier. But I'm not sure if there's anything I'm missing. Also - do you sell the permie ethics sweatshirt you're wearing?!
Nice video, but do you have for the people like me a video where you explain how to plant in a raised bed and what can be in it?
Hi Huw, I'm a big fan of your videos and also have your book. I'm keen to try the course but before enrolling could you clarify which software we need to use if we do it digitally? do you use powerpoint, excel or something else? Thank you kindly
This kind of quality information is why you are on a very short list of experienced gardeners I chose as the direction I wanted for my family’s garden. There’s a dizzying amount of information out there but this is a realistic approach and in line with the way I want to have a relationship with the food and land that I expect to nourish my family. Thank you for being a rich source of information and delivering it clearly and thoroughly.
Wow thank you so much Nikki! I am so grateful for this kind comment and that you appreciate my videos so much.
I completely concur! Well done, sir. Well done!
@@mrmacgregorshomestead233 Me too
Thanks for the Video! Sorry for butting in, I am interested in your initial thoughts. Have you thought about - Proutklarton Alive Products Plan (probably on Google)? It is a good one of a kind product for creating your greenhouse of saffron anywhere in the world without the hard work. Ive heard some decent things about it and my work buddy finally got astronomical results with it.
Have been a fan for about 6 months and have just found this video and found it so uplifting! Being retired for 3 years and now I am HAVING to try growing our own food I was so anxious on where to start and in what order until seeing this. Due to health reasons it was unlikely I would be able to DIG a garden so when I came across Huw and Co talking about no dig it has given me a new enthusiasm for gardening. I have 2 dalek compost bins already full so will start off with 1 or 2 beds of cardboard on grass and compost. Please keep them coming.
I am a long term gardener. This is so simple and brilliant! It is March, and seed starting time, so the monthly garden plan is in the works!
A monthly plan makes it "sow sow easy" :)
Thank you so much Huw. You have completely demystified the whole succession thing. I was losing the will to live with the bare soil patches in my my little plot for long periods of time. I watched many of your video on no dig, as a gardener of 64 I needed to change my usual tack and make things easier for myself. I couldn't bare not growing things. No dig works really well for me and it so much easier to spread successions in a smaller area, but the mixing of crops and knowing when to sow things a ready to transfer wasn't very synchronized. I feel truly enlightened, see your never to old to learn. Keep up the good work, as i'm very interested to see how the chop and drop goes.
You are the only one I’ve seen that really shows how to organize all the moving parts of seeding, transplanting succession planting, so we don’t lose valuable time! Thank you so much!
So in May we need to build a wigwam (16:15). I thought "what in the world is a wigwam for?" My first thought was in case any native Americans happened to be passing by my property. Then I went to your main page and put "wigwam" in the search line. Makes sense now. LOL. I learned MORE than one thing from this video.
Planning is so important and allows you to make the most of the space. Great tips for gardeners here
Great idea, Huw! Because I also have several fruit trees, perennial bushes and chickens, I will be adding a couple of areas to the side of the beds (Crops to Harvest and Maintenance Tasks) so I have everything in one place and I don't end up being overwhelmed by tasks and I make sure my tools and garden beds are ready for the next crop.
Thank you so much Harriette! Oh I love that idea! Good luck this year and have a wonderful growing season.
Agh I’ve just been sitting trying to work my beds out for this year and come on here and you’ve done it for me almost!!!! Thank you thank you 🙏 🤗
You are very welcome Susan! :)
This is just what I need. Planning my first veg garden has been a bit overwhelming but this approach really tames the frenzy! Thanks!
Loved this video! I've been making a monthly plan and I'll never do a yearly one again either. I use a spreadsheet, though, with each month separate. Then rows telling me when to start a crop indoors and when to plant it out, or when to direct sow. Another row with the germination time, another with the harvest time, another with notes on what'll follow that crop. Then general notes about it, and finally a row reminding me where I bought the seeds or plants, in case I have any questions if I bought them elsewhere. That way I see everything at a glance and have a definite month-by-month plan. It works wonderfully for me. I still have an insane amount of food growing out there now in February, so much that I'm going to have to get some family, friends and neighbors over here to take away all the excess they can use, so I can start the beds fresh for this season.
I spend the cold season, when there's not much to do out there but harvest, planning, planning and planning. I never plan TOO inflexible though, since sometimes I'll change my mind and think, "You know, I think I'll put the second crop of broad beans over there instead of here.", haha! I really, really like your way of planning, though, it's a lot more visual and will help a lot more people than my spreadsheet method. And yes, definitely going to buy your book. The first one was wonderful, so I'm looking forward to this one. :)
again one of the most valuable gardener videos I've ever seen. Why? information in a nutshell that I can use directly. Was always struggeling with yearly plans, but as well having none! appreciate that! thanks man!
This video is a goldmine of information, and it’s free!!!! Love love love it.
Thanks Huw for all your help and information I’ve learnt so much from you. Keep up the good work. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Love it! The only thing I'm going to add, until I know more about maturity times, is something like month 1 of 2, month 2 of 2 etc for each crop so I can see at a glance how long each has been there and how much longer they'll be there. Thank you so much!
Thank you! So timely for me! I've been learning about succession planting in the same beds within a season for multiple harvests and although I have a fairly organized plan, I couldn't quite figure out how to get it all out of my head and onto paper. I'm starting my monthly worksheet tonight!
Thank you so much Judy! I hope it all goes so well :D
Its a 4th year that im having a gardening diary, and I make planner based on it. I like to cut each month by ten days and plan jobs for each part accordingly. I like this idea of adding an actual map to that!
I know this is a gardening channel, but.... i'm loving your beard Huw.❤❤
Thanks for your help! It is much appreciated. I and my wife are just starting our first bed and we find all your videos useful!
This is awesome-but for other reasons for me. Why? I love to get involved so much with my gardening that I need something to do monthly or it drives me 🍌's!!!
I'm outside every day do a bit of this and that.
Thanks again Huw. I can tell you really think things through and it shows!!!
Absolutely brilliant - well done Huw. I recommended your channel to the group I had at the weekend for a 'Getting Ready to Grow' workshop in my garden. Thank you for all you do to help people get started.
Thank you so much!!! I'm so unhappy about my beds and all the successionplating gave me headaches. Breaking it down your way helps a lot!
I am starting a veggie patch. I will have six raised garden beds, with potatoes, beetroot, carrot, peas, beans and spinach. This is really helpful advice.
I really appreciate the time stamps. It makes it so much easier to review the information in this video. Thank you.
I have always enjoyed gardening but wasn't making the most of my limited space. I completed this course and it was freeing for me. I have a plan now. It's all laid out for me to follow along and tuck things in at the right time, and move on to something else. Yes, I know things will not always go smoothly but this has removed a ton of stress for me. And I truly enjoyed the planning process. Thank you!
I love your videos.... Long I was searching for the best way planning my vegetable garden... This year I already realized many of your ideas... They were the missing link in my way of doing it.. so a warm thank you from austria
Great! You're very welcome :)
Thanks for this one, Huw. I am planning our raised beds now and thinking of adding a trellis and am making my plan right now. Great timing for this video
Hi! The time stamps are helping a LOT, BUT after a recent update you can create chapters with it, accessable from the video itself, you just have to START with chapter one at 0:00, put the stamps in front and the chapter magic works. I hope you see this and we all can enjoy even more. Your videos are so inspiring!
Mar: fruits & grasses
Sep: greens & beans
Dec: roots & brassicas
Exactly what I needed as a second year gardener. Tnx so much. I bought your first gardening book recently and will buy the new one soon for sure!
You are very welcome Pauline! Yay thank you so much!
I love the simplicity and transparancy of this approach.
This has been my first year of veggie growing and your advice helped me realise I needed a plan! No wonder I was always running out of things to harvest and waiting for things to grow. I’m much more focused on when and how because of you wonderful advice, thank you our bellies appreciate it!
This is awesome. I'm super organized by nature, and this method makes my soul sing. I'm gonna try it tonight!
That's great to hear! Good luck with it :)
Thanks Huw. Was just going to plan a season to season but now I'll attempt month to month. I'm fairly new with 3 raised beds. Love reading the comments and I look for replies and read those first. You answer questions I may not have even thought about. I imagine this plan is like planning weekly dinners at home which I recently started doing. Makes my week so much easier. Now my months will be easier. Cheers from Melbourne.
What a wonderful way of planning a garden and it makes so much sense. Totally appealed to me. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much Brenda!
Your right! So many things can happen in one Season. In the last year we had 4 Weeks a very cold weather and the tomatoes and the chillies and Physalis stoped growing-so i had to wait to plant the next Generation plants. Monthly is super!
Month to month plan is a great idea. Thank you from Crewe Virginia USA.
Thanks for this. I'm a techie - I happily spent years working on the soil and let the plants take care of themselves with the help and planning of my partner. Now I'm on my own, I've got to become and end user with thinking it's boring!
That’s a great idea. I have never done succession planting. Living in Canada zone 6, we have abt 6 months of growing season. I plant my summer veg and wait for them to grow and produce. That’s it. For Leafy greens I just cut the leaves I need and leave the plants to produce more leaves. I will try your idea for maybe radishes, beets, carrots, and bok choi. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this video! This is so helpful. I am very overwhelmed every year and this will help me to simplify and get a better handle on how to rotate/succession plant.
Best gardening channel on youtube. I always learn something. Thank you, Huw!
Awh Thank you so much! That's lovely to hear :)
Fab, clear and simple explanation of perfect planning for a garden full of abundance. Thanks for sharing your knowledge again Huw.
Awh thank you so much Liz and no problem at all I am glad you enjoyed it :)
Love Your Down To Earth Teaching With Sooo Much Practical Help..Also Bought Your Book....You Have Inspired Me By Taking Away All The Barriers and Giving People All The Possibilities That we Can Achieve Growing Our Own Vegetables.. Thank You Huw ..look forward to reading your book and gleaning from it.
Feel like im late to the party!! Bought your book Grow Food For Free a week ago, now I've fallen down the Huw Richards rabbit hole... you tube, Instagram, books.... loving it! Thank you for taking the time to share so much with us.
Thank You for so great improvement. I used for 2 years a list on 1 A4 paper with numbers of my raised beds from 1-13 classified in months and in every month I had written what to put there, sow, transplant and so on. You'rs system I will try this year, thank You :D
OMG. This soo much sense. I never saw anything like this. I love it. Thank you.
I usually map my garden for spring, summer, fall-winter (I use my greenhouse, a hoop house, and cold frames). But I am trying to transition this year to a more productive plan--with succession and intercropping. The challenge for me is to plan ahead--what transplants do I need to go in next? It's tricky when you've not done it before. I made a master list on Excel with all the info I need for each plant. I want to put that into this planting plan. I think this is the next piece of the puzzle I need. Thanks for such excellent videos! I'm always learning something new from you!
Great information. I'm sitting here starting my plan on this holiday. My timeline for speciflic plants will be different from yours since I am in 7b southeast USA (hot, humid summers) but this is brilliant! Your channel is a fount of sound information. Thank you.
Hello to you too Huw. Always a pleasure watching your videos. I started an allotment 3 years ago as a noob and i'm getting good at growing fresh veg thanks to your great advice. You are most inspirational. Look forward to watching more of your great vidz. Keep up the great work my dear gardening friend. HAPPY GARDENING 2020👍😃👍
Awh thank you so much I am so glad that you find these videos to be very useful! :)
I am jumping in at the deep end trying to get my veg plot sorted and this will save me a whole lot of head scratching. Top man.
......GROUNDBREAKING. People always talk about planting/growing annually and I’ve always wonder why there isn’t a different way to keep crops in rotation? Excellent tips, I’m so excited to get your book!
I almost never comment on videos.........this is outstanding for practical common sense. Thanks.
Brilliant. And here I am writing all my notes, going to do it your way. 😆 Thank you!
Yes Mark from Self Sufficient Me is on the top of my youtube list and your up there now with Calikim too, I am off the kitchen table to read all the months of planting on the packets and sort out my monthly planner....Absolutely a great way for beginner's to start and novalists trying to work out succsession grops to follow...Rozzie...Brisbane...Australia...:)
Hi Rozzie. If you haven't already, have a look at the website gardenate.com
You can choose your area of Aust and see what you can grow each month. Each food plant on the list is a clickable link
that will take you to its own page to show you how to care for the plant, how long until harvest, companion plants and so on.
You can also sign up to get an email each month or fortnight with what to plant in your area.
I've been using it for years and love it (there's an app as well of course)
We're in Central Vic
(ps, that website was Aussie to start but now shows other areas of the world)
I'm rather new to the gardening for food game, I've grown ornamental plants and flowers for years! This was such a helpful video, and it was presented so clearly, that I was able to understand how to make a monthly plan. I struggled this year, I was late for many crops, (everything turned out just fine) but I love being able to think month by month and know what needs to be done ahead of time. I like thinking that way, I'm a planner. This really made sense to me. This year was an experiment as well in knowing what I do want to grow. Now I know how I can plan it all out, and hopefully not miss out on timeframes and to make the most of the beds I do have (We are already planning on expanding our 3 raised beds to at least be 6) Thank you so much!
Great video to watch on our washed out weather day.
Awh thank you! Yeah it has been pretty awful!
@@HuwRichards i really cant wait to move house in a few years and have my own pollytunnel. Im holding off till March this year for sure. Thanks Huw.
Never mind the miserable weather hopefully will end soon and we can start gardening. It's just something we have to put up with. Enjoy the rest in the meantime because once the better weather comes all the gardener's will be busy.
David Mcgregor We have had a bad summer for gardening here in Victoria Australia due to the bushfires, even though we are not close to the fires. The smoke has blocked out the sun and we have had rain consisting of red mud which coated the vegetables and reduced the yield considerably. Usually our tomatoes keep producing until April/May but they are nearly finished as are the cucumbers. However, sadly many of my fellow Australians have nothing left neither house or garden. We have been sharing our crops with others who don’t have a garden or a high income. “
Great ideas! I'm sketching as I watch. This is going to increase production massively. Thank you so much!!!
Thank you Huw, for explaining the monthly planting plan. It will make my effort less confusing.
Thanks so much for this Huw. Would never have been able to start growing food if it wasn't for your great videos. Bought your book right away, absolutely full of amazing advice and will recommend it to anyone interested in growing veg!
I love this! Thank you for your generosity in sharing it!! I’m totally going to use this and listen to it again and again! Thanks Huw!! From Nova Scotia
So informative! Thank you! I hope I can gain some confidence to do more in my garden with this plan! 💕
Excellent service, thank you! I was sitting at my table with about 30 packets of seeds and wondering how to deal with them!
This brilliant video has just helped me to tackle the planting and I’m certainly going to put them in a monthly order and hope I will have food abundance this year. Please carry on with the good work and Bless you for helping!
This is super helpful! I'm moving to a new place and we'll finally have a small tiny yard for gardening. I was feeling so overwhelmed with how to plan our garden and this helped so much! Thank you!
Thank you so much Huw for simplifying garden planning.
As a new gardener I hope that in your future videos you will refer to the plan each time you sow plant or harvest veggies.
Thank you again
This is brilliant! I make a yearly plan every year, and it just becomes irrelevant because things don't go by season. When did I plant, was the crop quick or slow with the weather, etc. So many things affect when what gets done. Monthly is so much more accurate and nimble! Thank you.
Love this! I am in my second year of growing and I found that in my first year, I didn't maximise the space and account for gaps as things were harvested. Thankyou for taking the time to do this and showing the steps so it was understandable - I will definitely try this now :)
This video is so good that we don't need any navigation.. 😇😇
Yes! Thank you! I have 10 new beds this year and this planning month to month helps so much!
Oh that is wonderful to hear - thank you for watching!
Steadfast Trail Farm- Psalm 108 Ministries oh man, 10 new beds! That sounds wonderful 😀 I wish you an abundant year, happy planting 😁
@@nikkicooper485 thank you!!! very excited although now I think I will need more seeds 😂
Steadfast Trail Farm- Psalm 108 Ministries I should think so 😋
Hello from snowy, COLD South Dakota, U.S.A.! This is a good video, I like the mix of talking, showing your action in the garden, and the computer shots. I needed to see this, as I have not been good about succession planting. I'm in a new location and starting a new garden this year, so I hope I can manage this better. I surely wish I had a more temperate climate and could grow year-round like you! But here, I don't have to have a greenhouse to grow tomatoes! There is always a trade, right?
Hi Suzi! Thank you so much I am glad you like the format! Good luck with your new garden :)
Suzi, I'm next door in Montana. This is my first year exparimenting with extending my grow season with hoop houses over a couple of my beds and heavy hay mulch inside. I am loving Huw's monthly tracking plan because finally I have a longer season, at least for my cold season crops, and for the first time a chance to grow more than one crop in a space per year. Have fun experimenting!
@@tanarehbein7768 Hi Tana! I will also be using "season extenders", like a low tunnel over one of my 4'x16' beds. I'm also building a shed which will have a greenhouse extension on the South side. I won't be able to heat it, but it will still give me some more growing time at each end of the season!
@@afghanbunny1 oh soooo jealous of the thought of a greenhouse! I'm trying to scrape together the money to fence the elk out of my garden. I have a cheep and simple rolled wire and metal t-post fence which is working fine but my home owners association says I need some thing more decorative that goes with the style of my house. That is code for spend more money 😏. Right now I have eight 4' shelves with grow lights in my garage filled with micro greens, spinach, lettuce, beets, onions, celery, herbs, and flowers all started from seed. I can't wait till spring!😁
I like this. I am a market gardener. Last year was my first year selling at the farmers market and I know there were things I wanted to do differently like succession planting. Just going month to month like I do my budget makes it look less complicated. I am also going to try to like the three sisters to max out my 1/3 of an acre land
Thank you so much for the monthly plan for me start the yearly plan. I left small potatoes from last year and they are just starting produce and I think I will but carrots and parsnips next too them and bed of each garlic & onions.
i actually had something similar in mind but wasnt quite sure how to get it on paper. thanks for inspiring me!
Philly Wister same here. Very well explained.
I do seasonal plans (spring garden, summer garden, fall garden etc...it's rough, but it works)
I'm so glad to have found this video today. I am in the planning stages for upcoming 2021 garden and wanting to make thr most of my space. I am fairly new to gardening and planning a yearly garden is overwhelming me. This idea will help.
Very informative. I started monthly plans back in December 2019. At the mo they are hand written excel forms while I see how it works out. Mine doesn't include bed plans but I have an online system that does that. Key extras I have is when to prune shrubs (garden, not allotment/veg growing) and when to get things growing on heat; both worked badly last year for me! I have seen somewher online it will take most folk around three years to get this right; we all have to start somewhere :) August is key for getting the over wintering / Christmas veg in the ground I believe. Someone must have done a video ...
You’re a likable dude. You make good content.
Loved the video and as moving from growing in back garden to a proper allotment will be following this method
Ah fantastic thank you so much James!!
Thank you. This was really helpful to a complete novice!!!
This is amazingly helpful! Thanks for sharing your wonderful knowledge! I love your videos!
I'm sort of new to the raised bed of gardening and this video has helped me understand how the month by month growing season works. Da iawn.
So smart. I keep trying different systems but this simplifies what I was trying to do...sooo helpful. Thanks Huw!
It's my pleasure and thank you for watching!
I really appreciate that you share your wisdom with us, people of the Earth!!! God bless your Heart! Thank you so much! 🙏 🤗
I’m in the states and although I don’t have a big area I am excited for the new veggie bed this year! This monthly planning is brilliant as I have a lot of ideas but till now it hasn’t really come together! Thank you so much! I’m going to draw mine on paper and then photo copy pages for a three ring binder! This is more cardio rehab for me as I had a bypass three years ago May! I can’t wait for that first harvest!!
Thank you so much Laurie! Wow sounds like an awesome plan and I wish you a succesful growing season :)
So smart and simple. Thank you so much, Huw,! Already started to use it!
We've been doing monthly (2 monthly at times) planting plans. Life is dynamic and cannot be controlled by being a hobby grower.
Paul Newman Very well articulated and true.
That is so true Paul :)
Great video! I am planning my garden now and the month to month planning totally simplified it. Thanks for sharing such a wonderful idea!
You are so welcome! :)
Hi. Thanks for the idea of a monthly plan. I've set up a spreadsheet and it's much less daunting planning month by month . I've had my allotment for two years and it's getting better each year. Your advice has been really useful. Thankyou
Good stuff Huw, Im a first year gardener and will definitely be giving this a shot.
This needs to be your next book!!!!!!!!
Awh thank you! It will be included in my next book actually! :)
This sounds like a really practical and good working planning. I try for my next year planning and see how it works for me. Thank you for sharing this idea!
Brilliant, as usual. I have been subscribed to your channel for some time now and following much of your advice. The most helpful has been breaking tasks into small chunks which is helping me not only to gain more control over my food growing areas but also the rest of my garden. Thanks Huw .
Ordered your book today! Ao excited for the upcoming season and think I will be more succesful than last thanks to your channel. Very inspiring and encouraging! Ty from 🇺🇸
This is SO helpful! Thank you Huw!
BRILLIANT!!. Huw, have just started watching your vid's. You deliver them in such a great way/manner that you seem to never forget the begginor!. The simple tips, the planning, no waste system, always full of of ideas and so on and so on. You are truly up there with the Greats!. Long may you continue to bring us more damn good vid's. Take care.
This is exactly what I needed.. I have Charles Dowdings " Diary" and now the Lightbulb has gone in ! I'm gonna get right on this...Thankyou
This kind of info is invaluable Huw, thanks so much. I've never been able to manage the yearly planning without getting myself tied up in knots and getting overwhelmed. This is so much better and I can't wait to try it out.
Thanks so much for your clear and concise teaching! Wish you were in Texas!!
Excellent video, shame we don't get this standard on the tv
Stud!
This is a ridiculous amount of valuable information.
Thanks!
Great! :) glad it's helpful