Edit again! Now audio temporarily isn't matching, It's because UA-cam is still processing the cut, I can't do anything about it I'm so sorry So sorry about the missing sounds during the squash shot! Thank you for all the comments letting me know. I've removed that part that has no sound on UA-cam editor but may take a while for that change to happen to thank you for your patience! Edit: turns out end screens also become available when processing the changes so here is the missing link: ua-cam.com/video/BBIMPtGf9Cc/v-deo.html
My reseed gang is Solar Flare lettuce, dill, cilantro, Giant Red Mustard, Arugula, Bloody Dock, Curled Moss Parsley, Chives, Chamomile, Chervil, Pepper cress, and Ragged Jack Kale. Playing with adding more, but the last few years I have beds just come up covered in greens and herbs every Spring with zero effort. I call it growing my own weeds, acts as a cover crop and easier to remove for space, wakes the soil up before I seed and plant it.
Hey, I'm a business woman and more stressful with my designing and fabric store.when I go to bed at night for sleep, I watch your videos and suddenly get deep sleep. May be due to your gatden and your voice. thank you so much for give me stressless sleep. Greetings From Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 ♥️
Never have to buy again: I’m a new gardener and I think I’m a perennials guy rather than annuals. It’s just so great when perennials come back bigger and better in the second year, with zero effort from me. 👍🏼
@azmrl oh I so agree! Have a few amazing perennials with ever changing annuals for accents 😍 I'm planning to do this once in my forever home. The annuals can reflect your personal changes or current faves! But I must admit there is just another level of awe I have with perennials 😍
There is no such thing as zero labor. Sowing seed typically requires less labor where I live than weeding. Aside, perhaps, from thugs (kudzu for livestock--don't plant; Anredera for summer spinach) that need to be thinned back themselves, weeds are just as much trouble in perennial as in annual beds. I even get grasses invading chives. The chives continue to dominate, but I don't want to put grass in my potatoes or soup thinking they are chives. (Some grasses even form mycotoxin symbioses with fungi, to reduce herbivory). In some ways it is easier to weed annual beds, because they are periodically empty and can thus be disked/hoed.
@erikjohnson9223 such interesting information. I have so much to learn. Because I've heard some things people consider "weeds" are actually nice companion plants 😊 It's strange, but as I got more removed from biology class through the years, I just though of plants as something that live in soil and just need water and sun to live. Then wondered why half my plants suffered! 😅🤡 I am so interested in this side of things, but there is much to learn! Thanks for your insight. 😊
@@Erewhon2024 I mulch heavily around my perennials and have almost no weeds. When a weed does pop up, I cut it off at the base, tamp the soil and shift more mulch to that spot. The key is not disturbing the soil. Some perennials like black eyed susans grow so densely they form their own ground cover.
Absolutely love this format of videos, Huw! It's great to click on a video not sure what you're going to get and always getting great insight, tips and and inspiration!
I really like the way you laid out this video instead of just showing seed packs and actually showing your garden. Much more interesting and effective. That's the prettiest patch of Borage I've ever seen .😂
I planted borage plants for the first time this year. Looking forward to seeing what it will do. I like the flowers to eat. 😂 I don’t eat them though because I want them to reseed as much as possible. It isn’t a very big plant.
I’m big on herbs. Even if I don’t use them, someone will and my turkeys, chickens and rabbits are happy to eat whatever I give them from clippings. Nothing goes to waste!
Thank you Hugh for making the correction. I would like to extend a random THANK YOU to you. My garden is beautiful this year. It's my happy place and of the numerous gardeners I've followed and learned from you're my absolute favorite. ❤ My health is everything to me so the more I learn and understand the more accomplished I can be at this. Thank you. Thank you for sharing and teaching. I appreciate Sam's recipes and input as well however, U DA MAN HUGH! Thx. Love. H
Loved the video a lot and I saved it for later . I have a huge balcony and a terrace. Id love a little garden but im grateful for what I have. Remodeling my house so in a near future I ll start a garden , for that reason I save videos that I know they r gonna b useful for me :) Loved a lot the moment feeding the chickens .... gorgeous !
I follow a similar plan, allowing some plants to self-seed, then transplanting the seedlings to areas where I want them, either in the garden, or in the larger yard as landscaping. Several plants that lend themselves to this process are flowers called lamb's ear, domestic amaranth varieties, and hollyhocks. I let them grow in the garden for their showy colors and to attract pollinators. I do the same with various fruit and veggie crops, like coriander, chives, strawberries and raspberries, when they spread outside their allotted space. Even some weeds receive a better reception in my garden than most: tender young leaves from Lambsquarter, Pigweed and Wild Lettuce are all pleasant additions to salads in late spring, when domestic lettuce is not yet abundant. When the domestic crops grow large enough to need the rootspace, I pull the weeds and add them to the compost piles, where they are a welcome source of nitrogen.
Although our climate here in Atlantic Canada is different from yours, most (if not all) of the perennials you mention thrive here as well. Very useful video. A big help on my way to self-sufficiency and less work for me in the future. Thank you again.
Bought your latest book Hugh. Its as if it was written from my own conversations & questions in my head ! Incredible Insights. Although I am only now starting seriously at this, aged 60 I am totally focussed on Low maintenance permaculture, Self seeding Edible plants & flowers & low maintenance huge return herb, vegetable, fruit and nuts specific for the climate in South wales . My 800sqft polytunnel should be also producing on 2 tiers from cuts & seeds - Hopefully learning every day from nature and your excellent focussed advice. I have a long way to go to come up to your ankles in your skills and ability.
So much that I buy once & never again - strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, honeyberries, fruit trees, peas, tomatoes, beans, asparagus, marigolds, loads of herbs… In fact, I’d probably do even more if I had the patience & time to prevent cross-pollination of cucumbers, courgettes & squashes… And one of these days I will actually manage to collect ALL the potato harvest so it doesn’t leave random plants growing in beds of other stuff the next year! As ever, I encourage using good heritage & heirloom seeds to enable lots of seed saving.
We've had the same thing with some of our heirloom tomatoes that we had attacked by some blackbirds and shat out seeds all over our neighborhood and cars that have now grown rogue everywhere in the middle of winter 😂
Your videos are inspiring, relaxing and filmed beautifully. It would be super helpful if you could also add the names of the plants on the video or add it on the description below. I hope you consider this suggestion. Thank you.
Radiccio Lettuce grows back from the root in my Unwatered front yard, Artichokes grow back from the root anywhere, green onion and chives grow from the root, garlic and strawberry can sprout from roots also, tomatos and cilantro are good at sprouting from seeds in the compost. Woodchip Layer does it all.
So delightful to see glimpses of the garden! That borage hedge with the foxtglove: stunning. I would love to hear tips on growing basil! Mine just struggles year after year.
Sow in moist compost modules, sprinkle very lightly with compost. Leave in a sunny spot, water as necessary, BUT do not soak! They cope really well on a drier soil, sitting with wet feet, kills it. I grow lemon, lime, naples and purple basil every year.
I have a self sown borage next to one of my strawberry plants, and that plant has produced the best strawberries I have ever tasted. Next year I will grow borage all thru my berry patch!
Yeah, I've had a packet of seed since 2019 and have planted it several times to no avail. Now that I made the move from NC to Ohio, they actually sprouted, and have grown and flowered quite well, same with my nasturtiums!
Was the yellow rose called “gently?” The time you spent inhaling it’s scent was a lovely bit of film and quite endearing. I find many of your videos to be so meditative. They are full of great information, insight and inspiration, but also are just so lovely. Very well done, Huw!
I'm in Hawaii. Another gardener planted malabar green spinach that did well. She stopped gardening and pulled her crops. I watered all the beds and up comes the malabar. It gree for that season til it went to seed. Pulled it all out. Bam it came up for the 3rd time in less than 2 years. Tomatoes popping up everywhere.
You have some amazing gardens and they are beautiful! Thank you for making this video and showing them. Quick question: What variety of field beans are you growing at the end of the video? I've never seen a bean which grows off the main stalk like that and I'm very curious. Thank you.
Hi Huw, as it's coming up to garlic harvesting time, is there any chance you could squeeze in a garlic video along with some trouble shooting advice on "stem cloves"... i live in the south of france, up in the black mountains, zone 8bish I believe. I decided to plant garlic for the first time late last autumn and protected them with a good layer of leaf mulch. We had 2 weeks of solid snow in January, so they sat there, quite happily I thought, under 50cm of snow, for all that time. They looked absolutely fine come early spring and starting shoting up, all looking good. We've had an exceptionally wet may and june up here though, and I noticed a couple of weeks or so ago, a bulge start appearing further up the neck of the garlic. I've dug them all up today and every single one has these "stem cloves"... any advice or tips as to what's caused them and how to avoid them in the future would be great if you could please. 😊
In a hot summer climate, Bidens alba (great for pollinators too) and amaranth/pigweed. Talinum and purslane (edible weed) work well if sunny. Never succeeded with Tropaleums (nasturtiums), probably because of hot, continental summers, and chervil bolts/dies in 3 weeks, which is a shame because it is one of the few veggies that taste really good. Outside of Florid and deserts, dandelions (edible weed) seem reliable. Sow thistle (edible weed) comes back reliably in spring/summer in the Midwest US and in Oct. to March in FL.
I love plants that re-seed and grow again, but there is a fine line between re-seeding and invasive for some plants, such as Borage. Nasturtiums are beautiful when they are streaming over the edge of the raised bed, but this year they keep coming up where the cucumbers are planted on the arbor and are continuously having to be pulled out to give the cucumbers a fighting chance.
Cape gooseberry I wouldn´t recommend letting seed itself (at least it does not work at all in Germany, you will only harvest VERY little, you usually propagate it as early as January!), unless you mean the smaller, related varieties, that are not quite as tasty and smaller and lighter in colour but ripen much faster
I need to try and encourage a borage hedge. It's self-seeded very enthusiastically around my garden and allotment but not in an orderly fashion like yours!
Creeping Thyme or bleeding hearts 💕 would look so nice as a cascade in front of the nasturtiums. I learned rosehips have a lot of vitamin c more than oranges
Hi Huw, can you cover making jidan foliar spray in detail again please? I have had two failed attempts. 🤔Mine just goes mouldy and no liquid. Lovely to see the chickens. Great video. 😁
its hard for me to deal with re seeding annuals because i cant tell weed from not weed until its a bit late. i strongly prefer perennials. however i am certain others will use this.
Rocket, and by rocket I mean the thin, jagged leaved arugula (I call the round-lobed plant arugula, and this one rocket, rightly or wrongly). It grows for me in NE Ohio (6A) best in spring and into summer before going to seed, and if I keep it fairly short clipped, it produces for a very long time. Having let my rocket go to seed for the last 2 years, it now has covered a good portion of one bed to the extent it looks like a weed or, in my view, a very tasty cover-crop (and as I tend to walk on it, it pops right back up the next day). It is a tough decision to remove/relocate (or just eat) from around my tomatoes as water becomes an issue, but seeing as how I save all my greens-washing water in 5 gal buckets and use it on the garden, this year I've decided to see if the mass of rocket affects my tomato production. I'm thinking it won't, and honestly, it is a rare thing to *not* have more than enough tomatoes, so a slight reduction is fine if that means loads of self-seeding rocket. Do wish I had some chickens! One day, one day...
Diplotaxis tennuifolia (perennial arugula) runs by stolons as well as seed. Always ready before I have anything mild with which to dilute it (it's too strong for me). It can be smothered out by dense growth (shade) but is otherwise quite weedy.
The only herb i have succeeded with so far on my first year is Korean mint :) my parsley looks so yellow like its dying so i think maybe i have time to try again and do a bit more research into it :) , this whole year has been an experiment so far , got about 20+ variety's of veg growing so i have my work cut out 🙈
My parsley also turned yellow and died. Never had this happen before. Other plants just wilted and died, even though the ground was moist, while the neighbor plant, same kind, was doing fine. I am guessing I messed up the chemical balance of the soil with too much of some additive in certain plant holes.
I never plant perpetual spinach after giving some to my pet rabbit and found it dead the day after. No marks or injuries at all. It must have been oxalate poisoning from the high oxalic levels in the spinach beet.
Woah, Huw, how is your nasturtium so much ahead of ours here in the German Rhine Valley!? Yes, we had an unusuallycold and wet spring, but it has been 25°C - 30°C with lots of sun and no rain for 5 weeks now, and my nasturtium stillis only 30 cm high and doesn't show any signs of flowers yet. 🙈
Hey Huw and team, I was wondering whether you can share some good (online) sources to get a nice variety of seeds since most my local sources only sell the same types of lettuce and carrot seeds for example. Thanks!
I got better by using google reverse search or having pictures on my phone with sprouts and young leaved plants of what im looking for. I think its helping me a lot because now i keep spotting things from across my dang yard haha
I wish these little seeds grow faster than the rate at which I forget. My raised bed: pop pop pop ..new seedlings every year Me: ever growing list of mystery plants in my garden planner🤣😂🤣
@@TheMomGeneral It is because the video cut is processing, end screens aren't available so here is the missing link: ua-cam.com/video/BBIMPtGf9Cc/v-deo.html
@@rogierdikkes just come back in like 6 hours when hopefully UA-cam has sorted it! I didn't realise it would be this bad otherwise I would have taken it down
We also had problems- always bolting to seed and withering away. Solved by letting it go to seed and just leaving them. The dropped seeds came up when they wanted, and it's been fine since
Any tricks for corn vs deer….3 years trying and 3 years of deer jumping my7ft fence to eat the sunflowers and corn. I will not do chemicals, and I can tell you that human, dog, and cat hair doesn’t work, neither does Irish spring soap, cayenne, garlic spray….either I give up on corn or I may have to figure out how to grow them indoors. Any advice is welcomed !
Try some kind of scare. Ive heard of people using those motion sensor holoween displays. They dont like to return to soon if they think something will jump at them again.
Fedco Seeds once suggested growing a wall of milk thistle (4' wide) completely around it. I think they were addressing raccoons, but it might work. When you need to get in, lay boards over the thistle and walk across the boards. (If you don't need a crop, locally native thistles would be more ecologically reasonable. ) On research plots connected with my work, they use 12' fence, but that isn't cheap.
@@Erewhon2024 thanks….I have a side of the garden that it will work wonderfully. And hopefully keep the rabbits out too…I just plant extra for the rabbits but would love to be able to actually eat the Italian dandelions that we love so much.
@@121homestead9 Honestly some animals are just oblivious as hell to a lot of human objects when they live in close proximity to us. The squirrels and birds and my yard are way too comfortable with me and act like im not even there half the time. I hope you do find a good deterrent for the garden though. Its so frustrating to lose plants when your raising them well
Of Borage, wiki says: "The leaves contain small amounts (2-10 ppm of dried herb) of the liver-toxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PA) intermedine, lycopsamine, amabiline, and supinine and the nontoxic saturated PA thesinine." Is it then safe to eat?
@ArtemisBeneGesseritTrouble is, PAs aren't excreted. They are cumulative toxins. I can see borage for the bumblebees (needed for nightshade crops like tomatoes and Capsicum) but won't eat anything in Boraginaceae (or groundsel or Joe Pye Weed tribes of daisies, or Crotalaria peas) myself.
Huw, Which variety of "field beans" were featured in the vid? (I don't recognize them. They seem like big producers. Ideal for my growers group food giveaway.) Thnx in advance.
Somehow this 'never again' prospect doesn't happen for me - except for nettles which seed and grow from incredible root systems couch grass of course, dandelions and buttercups in various sizes, and hemlock. 'June daisies' and and a few native wild flowers grow, but all your glorious self-seeders have long gone. Hares, rabbits deer and many visiting birds come for buds and leaves that could kill them and don't: but they don't eat clematis!
Do you have recommendations for a perennial garden or self-seeding garden in a four season location in the U.S. with brutal summers on a property that is highly shaded by maple and oak trees? We've lost everything in our gardens for the last five years that we've tried because most seeds don't even germinate in the shade and those that do get leggy and die. Even the comfrey is tall with few leaves and never gets bushy. Turkish rocket and Good King Henry doesn't go beyond 5 leaves at most. I need help growing food. I do have a patch of sunchokes that seems to be getting on alright, but I'm not really eating from it until it gets established. This is its second year. I started with 5 plants and now there are about 15-20. I'm also trying scorzonera, salsify, and arat root in tubs but they only get about 3-4 hours of early morning light. HELP! I need ideas for shade LOVING food.
@ArtemisBeneGesserit Thank you, it does! I will try to find them. If I scroll back more than 3 years in the videos list, my computer just gives up and freezes. LOL
I have daylilies all around my house and even on the north side they grow and flower well. The young leaves are a nice stir fry ingedient and the buds and the flowers delicious as well. Very hardy plants as well, I once dug up a bucket worth of their rhizomes and forget to plant them over the winter, put them in in spring and they were still alive. I also have salads in pots in spring in the sun (sprouted indoors) that wander undeneath the trees in summer to prevent too quick drying and bolting.
@Disabled.Megatron Are hostas edible? I do have 5 but they come back and never get bigger than the size of a large dinner plate. I will definitely try currants. We do have strawberries in one sunny area but they seem to have mostly died off after producing well for a couple of years. I have no idea why. All the greens and herbs just get leggy and fall over and die. there must be something I can do.
@@mirabellegoldapfel6256 We did have dallies but they seem to have disappeared and I'm not sure why. I've tried shade greens but they just get leggy and fall over or grow a few leaves and then stop growing. I'm not sure how to get things to not get leggy and die.
Take the hostas and divide them in Fall. I love being able to go out and pick my greens...and know they will be back next year and the next and the next. Use them chopped up for cooking or raw. Great as a leaf in a sandwich.
Edit again! Now audio temporarily isn't matching, It's because UA-cam is still processing the cut, I can't do anything about it I'm so sorry
So sorry about the missing sounds during the squash shot! Thank you for all the comments letting me know. I've removed that part that has no sound on UA-cam editor but may take a while for that change to happen to thank you for your patience! Edit: turns out end screens also become available when processing the changes so here is the missing link: ua-cam.com/video/BBIMPtGf9Cc/v-deo.html
Still no sound from 3:36-4:12. Thank you for the video and fixing the sound :)
@@sn232 It takes UA-cam a few hours to update a small change, please don't keep reminding me of the mistake😂
No problem! I was wondering why are the chickens so quiet! 😅❤
The closed caption works during the silent part, so turn it on and you won't miss anything!
@@HuwRichardsjust pretend you are doing a segment for deaf people
My reseed gang is Solar Flare lettuce, dill, cilantro, Giant Red Mustard, Arugula, Bloody Dock, Curled Moss Parsley, Chives, Chamomile, Chervil, Pepper cress, and Ragged Jack Kale. Playing with adding more, but the last few years I have beds just come up covered in greens and herbs every Spring with zero effort. I call it growing my own weeds, acts as a cover crop and easier to remove for space, wakes the soil up before I seed and plant it.
Amaranth to add
@ksroopa prem I do grow it, bit it hasn't taken off on a reseed yet.
@@SeeStuDo try a different variety. They are pretty hardy but it might just be too much for that specific one.
Hey, I'm a business woman and more stressful with my designing and fabric store.when I go to bed at night for sleep, I watch your videos and suddenly get deep sleep. May be due to your gatden and your voice. thank you so much for give me stressless sleep. Greetings From Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 ♥️
Borage flowers replenish their nectar every 2 to 5 minutes, they are absolutely one of the best feed flowers for nectar feeding insects
Wow I didn’t know that!
I have a patch of garden about 10 foot by 10 and have filled it with borage. Sooo many bees and bumblebees 😊and they last for months
Good to know.
How what a beautiful life ❤ your video makes me relax looking at it and I admire your passion and knowledge is amazing. Thank for your hard work .
Never have to buy again: I’m a new gardener and I think I’m a perennials guy rather than annuals. It’s just so great when perennials come back bigger and better in the second year, with zero effort from me. 👍🏼
Be both; there’s no reason to go binary.
@azmrl oh I so agree! Have a few amazing perennials with ever changing annuals for accents 😍
I'm planning to do this once in my forever home. The annuals can reflect your personal changes or current faves!
But I must admit there is just another level of awe I have with perennials 😍
There is no such thing as zero labor. Sowing seed typically requires less labor where I live than weeding. Aside, perhaps, from thugs (kudzu for livestock--don't plant; Anredera for summer spinach) that need to be thinned back themselves, weeds are just as much trouble in perennial as in annual beds. I even get grasses invading chives. The chives continue to dominate, but I don't want to put grass in my potatoes or soup thinking they are chives. (Some grasses even form mycotoxin symbioses with fungi, to reduce herbivory). In some ways it is easier to weed annual beds, because they are periodically empty and can thus be disked/hoed.
@erikjohnson9223 such interesting information. I have so much to learn. Because I've heard some things people consider "weeds" are actually nice companion plants 😊
It's strange, but as I got more removed from biology class through the years, I just though of plants as something that live in soil and just need water and sun to live. Then wondered why half my plants suffered! 😅🤡
I am so interested in this side of things, but there is much to learn! Thanks for your insight. 😊
@@Erewhon2024 I mulch heavily around my perennials and have almost no weeds. When a weed does pop up, I cut it off at the base, tamp the soil and shift more mulch to that spot. The key is not disturbing the soil. Some perennials like black eyed susans grow so densely they form their own ground cover.
Absolutely love this format of videos, Huw! It's great to click on a video not sure what you're going to get and always getting great insight, tips and and inspiration!
Thank you, Pedro, that means a lot! It is a fun way of filming:D
@@HuwRichards😂😂😂😂😂😂🎉
my 15mo loves nasturtium leaves and when she hears the flowers buzzing she puts her little face right up to them "The BEEEEEEEZ!"
I really like the way you laid out this video instead of just showing seed packs and actually showing your garden. Much more interesting and effective. That's the prettiest patch of Borage I've ever seen .😂
The borage stunned me to tears of joy. And it's so encouraging when you share your struggles too. . This instill hope that one day I will get there.
Isn't it just stunning.
@@HuwRichards (tearfully) Yes....yes it is
I planted borage plants for the first time this year. Looking forward to seeing what it will do. I like the flowers to eat. 😂 I don’t eat them though because I want them to reseed as much as possible. It isn’t a very big plant.
I love your videos. I have a lot of pain and find them so calming. I also learn tons and am inspired. Thank you for what you do Huw.
I’m big on herbs. Even if I don’t use them, someone will and my turkeys, chickens and rabbits are happy to eat whatever I give them from clippings. Nothing goes to waste!
Same. I planted many perennials for my chickens.
Thank you Hugh for making the correction.
I would like to extend a random THANK YOU to you.
My garden is beautiful this year. It's my happy place and of the numerous gardeners I've followed and learned from you're my absolute favorite. ❤
My health is everything to me so the more I learn and understand the more accomplished I can be at this. Thank you. Thank you for sharing and teaching. I appreciate Sam's recipes and input as well however, U DA MAN HUGH!
Thx. Love. H
Loved the video a lot and I saved it for later . I have a huge balcony and a terrace. Id love a little garden but im grateful for what I have. Remodeling my house so in a near future I ll start a garden , for that reason I save videos that I know they r gonna b useful for me :) Loved a lot the moment feeding the chickens .... gorgeous !
I follow a similar plan, allowing some plants to self-seed, then transplanting the seedlings to areas where I want them, either in the garden, or in the larger yard as landscaping. Several plants that lend themselves to this process are flowers called lamb's ear, domestic amaranth varieties, and hollyhocks. I let them grow in the garden for their showy colors and to attract pollinators.
I do the same with various fruit and veggie crops, like coriander, chives, strawberries and raspberries, when they spread outside their allotted space. Even some weeds receive a better reception in my garden than most: tender young leaves from Lambsquarter, Pigweed and Wild Lettuce are all pleasant additions to salads in late spring, when domestic lettuce is not yet abundant. When the domestic crops grow large enough to need the rootspace, I pull the weeds and add them to the compost piles, where they are a welcome source of nitrogen.
I absolutely delight in the joy you have in this video. Thank you for sharing your passion and experience with all of us!
Although our climate here in Atlantic Canada is different from yours, most (if not all) of the perennials you mention thrive here as well.
Very useful video. A big help on my way to self-sufficiency and less work for me in the future. Thank you again.
Love how the chickens 2:49 , are making the "food we are happy sound"
Perfectly imperfect gardens! Love it! Thank-you very much Huw. 💖🦋🐝🐞🌱
Bought your latest book Hugh. Its as if it was written from my own conversations & questions in my head ! Incredible Insights. Although I am only now starting seriously at this, aged 60 I am totally focussed on Low maintenance permaculture, Self seeding Edible plants & flowers & low maintenance huge return herb, vegetable, fruit and nuts specific for the climate in South wales . My 800sqft polytunnel should be also producing on 2 tiers from cuts & seeds - Hopefully learning every day from nature and your excellent focussed advice. I have a long way to go to come up to your ankles in your skills and ability.
So much that I buy once & never again - strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, honeyberries, fruit trees, peas, tomatoes, beans, asparagus, marigolds, loads of herbs…
In fact, I’d probably do even more if I had the patience & time to prevent cross-pollination of cucumbers, courgettes & squashes…
And one of these days I will actually manage to collect ALL the potato harvest so it doesn’t leave random plants growing in beds of other stuff the next year!
As ever, I encourage using good heritage & heirloom seeds to enable lots of seed saving.
We've had the same thing with some of our heirloom tomatoes that we had attacked by some blackbirds and shat out seeds all over our neighborhood and cars that have now grown rogue everywhere in the middle of winter 😂
I'm always amazed how tomatoes come up everywhere, after I have already planted.
Your videos are inspiring, relaxing and filmed beautifully.
It would be super helpful if you could also add the names of the plants on the video or add it on the description below. I hope you consider this suggestion. Thank you.
Yes, I agree it would be helpful if huw added the names of the plants ❤😊
Radiccio Lettuce grows back from the root in my Unwatered front yard, Artichokes grow back from the root anywhere, green onion and chives grow from the root, garlic and strawberry can sprout from roots also, tomatos and cilantro are good at sprouting from seeds in the compost. Woodchip Layer does it all.
Very nice video I tried dead heading the marigolds and saved jars and jars of seeds this year planted them they are flourishing so well!!
So delightful to see glimpses of the garden! That borage hedge with the foxtglove: stunning. I would love to hear tips on growing basil! Mine just struggles year after year.
I hear you ! I've yet to have successful basil.
Sow in moist compost modules, sprinkle very lightly with compost. Leave in a sunny spot, water as necessary, BUT do not soak! They cope really well on a drier soil, sitting with wet feet, kills it.
I grow lemon, lime, naples and purple basil every year.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, experience and passion. I do appreciate it so much. 😊
I have a self sown borage next to one of my strawberry plants, and that plant has produced the best strawberries I have ever tasted. Next year I will grow borage all thru my berry patch!
In my garden this year that I didn’t plant: sunflower, borage, nasturtium, coreopsis, marigolds, cosmos, poppy.
One look at your Borage patch, and I immediately ordered some seeds. Your garden is always so lovely and inspirational.
Yeah, I've had a packet of seed since 2019 and have planted it several times to no avail. Now that I made the move from NC to Ohio, they actually sprouted, and have grown and flowered quite well, same with my nasturtiums!
Try the white borage too, absolutely beautiful!
Lemon basil is amazing. It makes a wonderful cold tea!
Lost the sound about halfway through but it came back. I love the flowers to eat.
Thanks for letting me know, have cut that bit out just may take a few hours for that change to update:)
I really ❤ the colour science you're using in your video, guys . It's perfect !
Was the yellow rose called “gently?” The time you spent inhaling it’s scent was a lovely bit of film and quite endearing. I find many of your videos to be so meditative. They are full of great information, insight and inspiration, but also are just so lovely. Very well done, Huw!
I think it’s Tottering-By-Gently English shrub rose
Was it a rock rose?
Thx for the explanation Huw. I'll rewatch in a couple of days. Maybe all will be good by then.
I'm in Hawaii. Another gardener planted malabar green spinach that did well. She stopped gardening and pulled her crops. I watered all the beds and up comes the malabar. It gree for that season til it went to seed. Pulled it all out. Bam it came up for the 3rd time in less than 2 years. Tomatoes popping up everywhere.
Heart spotted on the leaf bottom right hand corner
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Absolutely loved the video, so peaceful and summery ❤
Thank you for your wonderful video's
Thank you for watching Tanya!
Thank you so much Huw. I've got Field Beans ready to sow on your recommendation and I'm really looking forward to seeing them grow.
You have some amazing gardens and they are beautiful! Thank you for making this video and showing them.
Quick question: What variety of field beans are you growing at the end of the video? I've never seen a bean which grows off the main stalk like that and I'm very curious.
Thank you.
Hi Huw, as it's coming up to garlic harvesting time, is there any chance you could squeeze in a garlic video along with some trouble shooting advice on "stem cloves"... i live in the south of france, up in the black mountains, zone 8bish I believe. I decided to plant garlic for the first time late last autumn and protected them with a good layer of leaf mulch. We had 2 weeks of solid snow in January, so they sat there, quite happily I thought, under 50cm of snow, for all that time. They looked absolutely fine come early spring and starting shoting up, all looking good. We've had an exceptionally wet may and june up here though, and I noticed a couple of weeks or so ago, a bulge start appearing further up the neck of the garlic. I've dug them all up today and every single one has these "stem cloves"... any advice or tips as to what's caused them and how to avoid them in the future would be great if you could please. 😊
This is wonderful- I love your approach, thank you 🙏🏼
In a hot summer climate, Bidens alba (great for pollinators too) and amaranth/pigweed. Talinum and purslane (edible weed) work well if sunny. Never succeeded with Tropaleums (nasturtiums), probably because of hot, continental summers, and chervil bolts/dies in 3 weeks, which is a shame because it is one of the few veggies that taste really good. Outside of Florid and deserts, dandelions (edible weed) seem reliable. Sow thistle (edible weed) comes back reliably in spring/summer in the Midwest US and in Oct. to March in FL.
Thank you, Mr. Huw, thank you.
I love plants that re-seed and grow again, but there is a fine line between re-seeding and invasive for some plants, such as Borage. Nasturtiums are beautiful when they are streaming over the edge of the raised bed, but this year they keep coming up where the cucumbers are planted on the arbor and are continuously having to be pulled out to give the cucumbers a fighting chance.
Tomatoes too have hundreds popping out of nowhere
I love a forage hedge!
Another great video - thanks Huw 😊
Cape gooseberry I wouldn´t recommend letting seed itself (at least it does not work at all in Germany, you will only harvest VERY little, you usually propagate it as early as January!), unless you mean the smaller, related varieties, that are not quite as tasty and smaller and lighter in colour but ripen much faster
I saw a short video you did about Australian tree cabbage. I can not locate seed, can you suggest a source?
I need to try and encourage a borage hedge. It's self-seeded very enthusiastically around my garden and allotment but not in an orderly fashion like yours!
That vertical garden area definitely has a savanna look. It’s great.
Could you say the names of the plants a few times and/or list the names in the comments section. Thank you.
Creeping Thyme or bleeding hearts 💕 would look so nice as a cascade in front of the nasturtiums. I learned rosehips have a lot of vitamin c more than oranges
Bleeding hearts in the USA means Dicentra and its close relatives. Pretty, but deadly toxic (like his Digitalis in his borage).
Greetings from sweden. Love your videos❤
I wonder, how do you keep cabbage worms out of the nasturtiums? 🐛
Can you tell me please what kind of rose that was? I would have liked to see more about it, looks like something I'd like. Thanks!
Hi Huw, can you cover making jidan foliar spray in detail again please? I have had two failed attempts. 🤔Mine just goes mouldy and no liquid. Lovely to see the chickens. Great video. 😁
its hard for me to deal with re seeding annuals because i cant tell weed from not weed until its a bit late. i strongly prefer perennials. however i am certain others will use this.
Does your netting catch any birds? I've had problems with mine doing that.
Wow! I love it.🙂
Thank you!
@@HuwRichards It's OK. Thank you very much.🙂
Callaloo is another terrific edible self-seeder.
Rocket, and by rocket I mean the thin, jagged leaved arugula (I call the round-lobed plant arugula, and this one rocket, rightly or wrongly). It grows for me in NE Ohio (6A) best in spring and into summer before going to seed, and if I keep it fairly short clipped, it produces for a very long time. Having let my rocket go to seed for the last 2 years, it now has covered a good portion of one bed to the extent it looks like a weed or, in my view, a very tasty cover-crop (and as I tend to walk on it, it pops right back up the next day). It is a tough decision to remove/relocate (or just eat) from around my tomatoes as water becomes an issue, but seeing as how I save all my greens-washing water in 5 gal buckets and use it on the garden, this year I've decided to see if the mass of rocket affects my tomato production. I'm thinking it won't, and honestly, it is a rare thing to *not* have more than enough tomatoes, so a slight reduction is fine if that means loads of self-seeding rocket.
Do wish I had some chickens! One day, one day...
Diplotaxis tennuifolia (perennial arugula) runs by stolons as well as seed. Always ready before I have anything mild with which to dilute it (it's too strong for me). It can be smothered out by dense growth (shade) but is otherwise quite weedy.
The only herb i have succeeded with so far on my first year is Korean mint :) my parsley looks so yellow like its dying so i think maybe i have time to try again and do a bit more research into it :) , this whole year has been an experiment so far , got about 20+ variety's of veg growing so i have my work cut out 🙈
My parsley also turned yellow and died. Never had this happen before. Other plants just wilted and died, even though the ground was moist, while the neighbor plant, same kind, was doing fine. I am guessing I messed up the chemical balance of the soil with too much of some additive in certain plant holes.
I never plant perpetual spinach after giving some to my pet rabbit and found it dead the day after. No marks or injuries at all. It must have been oxalate poisoning from the high oxalic levels in the spinach beet.
Woah, Huw, how is your nasturtium so much ahead of ours here in the German Rhine Valley!?
Yes, we had an unusuallycold and wet spring, but it has been 25°C - 30°C with lots of sun and no rain for 5 weeks now, and my nasturtium stillis only 30 cm high and doesn't show any signs of flowers yet. 🙈
Hey Huw and team, I was wondering whether you can share some good (online) sources to get a nice variety of seeds since most my local sources only sell the same types of lettuce and carrot seeds for example. Thanks!
Once you leave seeds and come back in the new year how do you not mistake them for weeds? Do you keep note of where everything was?
The young plants are distinctive, especially once their true leaves appear it is so easy to tell the difference
@@HuwRichards lol I need more time knowing what they look like. This is my first year growing and it hasn't been so easy.
I got better by using google reverse search or having pictures on my phone with sprouts and young leaved plants of what im looking for. I think its helping me a lot because now i keep spotting things from across my dang yard haha
I wish these little seeds grow faster than the rate at which I forget.
My raised bed: pop pop pop ..new seedlings every year
Me: ever growing list of mystery plants in my garden planner🤣😂🤣
@@HuwRichards Tomatoes are the only ones I recognize.
Great video great work
What variety of field beans are they please mate
Hi, there's no sound from 3:30 through to 4:13 just in case you want to reupload.
Thanks for letting me know, have cut that bit out just may take a few hours for that change to update:)
Any advice on what to do about voles?
Hi Hugh. Great video. Just to let you know , audio I'd missing from 3.30 to 4.20.
Love your show.
I didn’t see the link mentioned at the end?
Thanks for letting me know, have cut that bit out just may take a few hours for that change to update:)
@@TheMomGeneral It is because the video cut is processing, end screens aren't available so here is the missing link: ua-cam.com/video/BBIMPtGf9Cc/v-deo.html
@@HuwRichards thank you!
Cape gooseberries seed like mad. Only found out this last season, to my delight.
Trouble is, the seedlings look the same as Solanum nigrum, a common weed here.
There's a part with no sound just after you feed the hens
Thanks for letting me know, have cut that bit out just may take a few hours for that change to update:)
Hens ate that too. They’re voracious 😂
And video cut short
@@rogierdikkes just come back in like 6 hours when hopefully UA-cam has sorted it! I didn't realise it would be this bad otherwise I would have taken it down
That’s the sound of bliss ….. serenity in such a lovely space !
I always have trouble with coriander….. what’s the name of your seed choice? S
We also had problems- always bolting to seed and withering away. Solved by letting it go to seed and just leaving them. The dropped seeds came up when they wanted, and it's been fine since
Slow coriander in autumn, it is cold hardy and hates summer heat where I am.
Calendula! A self seeding champion.
Any tricks for corn vs deer….3 years trying and 3 years of deer jumping my7ft fence to eat the sunflowers and corn. I will not do chemicals, and I can tell you that human, dog, and cat hair doesn’t work, neither does Irish spring soap, cayenne, garlic spray….either I give up on corn or I may have to figure out how to grow them indoors. Any advice is welcomed !
Try some kind of scare. Ive heard of people using those motion sensor holoween displays. They dont like to return to soon if they think something will jump at them again.
@@4thdimensionalexplorer I will try it, I know that shiny pinwheels are literally thrown about when they jump into my veggie garden
Fedco Seeds once suggested growing a wall of milk thistle (4' wide) completely around it. I think they were addressing raccoons, but it might work. When you need to get in, lay boards over the thistle and walk across the boards. (If you don't need a crop, locally native thistles would be more ecologically reasonable. ) On research plots connected with my work, they use 12' fence, but that isn't cheap.
@@Erewhon2024 thanks….I have a side of the garden that it will work wonderfully. And hopefully keep the rabbits out too…I just plant extra for the rabbits but would love to be able to actually eat the Italian dandelions that we love so much.
@@121homestead9 Honestly some animals are just oblivious as hell to a lot of human objects when they live in close proximity to us. The squirrels and birds and my yard are way too comfortable with me and act like im not even there half the time. I hope you do find a good deterrent for the garden though. Its so frustrating to lose plants when your raising them well
Ooh cape gooseberries yum
Good Morning...Thank You 😃 🫛🌱
Horseradish comes up every year. Rocket also.
Horseradish is perennial
I went searching for cape gooseberries and realized, oh, he means ground cherries! 😁
I’m trying to add those this year. Fingers crossed!
I’d love some of that borage! 🤣
Hello from in Zonguldak
Hello!!
Of Borage, wiki says: "The leaves contain small amounts (2-10 ppm of dried herb) of the liver-toxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PA) intermedine, lycopsamine, amabiline, and supinine and the nontoxic saturated PA thesinine." Is it then safe to eat?
@ArtemisBeneGesseritTrouble is, PAs aren't excreted. They are cumulative toxins. I can see borage for the bumblebees (needed for nightshade crops like tomatoes and Capsicum) but won't eat anything in Boraginaceae (or groundsel or Joe Pye Weed tribes of daisies, or Crotalaria peas) myself.
I hear no sound between 3:45 and 4:15 ( winter squash ).
Thanks for letting me know, have cut that bit out just may take a few hours for that change to update:)
Great content,what country are you in??
Huw, Which variety of "field beans" were featured in the vid?
(I don't recognize them. They seem like big producers. Ideal for my growers group food giveaway.) Thnx in advance.
Lemon basil is my favorite basil so far. I use a lot of the regular basil but the lemon reminds me of fruit loops cereal! So tasty in tea☕️
Wow! Sounds yummy
@@KatySimpsonLive I planted some last year and have a couple volunteers this year.
@6:45 is that sugar snap peas? OMG
Very cool
Can you put text up on the videos of the plant names when you introduce them?
There seems to be a section in the middle with no audio, any possibility of some subtitles so I can know what you're saying?
Thanks for letting me know, have cut that bit out just may take a few hours for that change to update:)
Snake heaven in Australia!
Somehow this 'never again' prospect doesn't happen for me - except for nettles which seed and grow from incredible root systems couch grass of course, dandelions and buttercups in various sizes, and hemlock. 'June daisies' and and a few native wild flowers grow, but all your glorious self-seeders have long gone. Hares, rabbits deer and many visiting birds come for buds and leaves that could kill them and don't: but they don't eat clematis!
Any way I can get the seeds shipped to the UK?
4:13 sound is back
Yes, the beans have bean through a lot. 🤭
Nice. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
@@HuwRichards my pleasure. Will show this to the children in the gardening classes at school.
@@elizabethflynn8455 Oh that's amazing!!!☺️
Do you have recommendations for a perennial garden or self-seeding garden in a four season location in the U.S. with brutal summers on a property that is highly shaded by maple and oak trees? We've lost everything in our gardens for the last five years that we've tried because most seeds don't even germinate in the shade and those that do get leggy and die. Even the comfrey is tall with few leaves and never gets bushy. Turkish rocket and Good King Henry doesn't go beyond 5 leaves at most. I need help growing food. I do have a patch of sunchokes that seems to be getting on alright, but I'm not really eating from it until it gets established. This is its second year. I started with 5 plants and now there are about 15-20. I'm also trying scorzonera, salsify, and arat root in tubs but they only get about 3-4 hours of early morning light. HELP! I need ideas for shade LOVING food.
@ArtemisBeneGesserit Thank you, it does! I will try to find them. If I scroll back more than 3 years in the videos list, my computer just gives up and freezes. LOL
I have daylilies all around my house and even on the north side they grow and flower well. The young leaves are a nice stir fry ingedient and the buds and the flowers delicious as well. Very hardy plants as well, I once dug up a bucket worth of their rhizomes and forget to plant them over the winter, put them in in spring and they were still alive.
I also have salads in pots in spring in the sun (sprouted indoors) that wander undeneath the trees in summer to prevent too quick drying and bolting.
@Disabled.Megatron Are hostas edible? I do have 5 but they come back and never get bigger than the size of a large dinner plate. I will definitely try currants. We do have strawberries in one sunny area but they seem to have mostly died off after producing well for a couple of years. I have no idea why. All the greens and herbs just get leggy and fall over and die. there must be something I can do.
@@mirabellegoldapfel6256 We did have dallies but they seem to have disappeared and I'm not sure why. I've tried shade greens but they just get leggy and fall over or grow a few leaves and then stop growing. I'm not sure how to get things to not get leggy and die.
Take the hostas and divide them in Fall. I love being able to go out and pick my greens...and know they will be back next year and the next and the next.
Use them chopped up for cooking or raw. Great as a leaf in a sandwich.
It’s called … Gentle Touch!