Liz Zorab's Top Tips for Starting a Veg and Flower Garden

Organic gardener, homesteader, RUclipsr and author, Liz Zorab, shares her top tips for growing your own veggies and how to get started in your own garden.
Liz grows her own fruit, veg, flowers and herbs at her smallholding Byther Farm, and documents her journey at ‪@LizZorab‬
Over the years Liz has created several new gardens, each time she's moved home, and here she shares the best ways to get started, including:
*How to prepare the ground
*How to feed the soil
*How to reduce weeds
*What veggies to grow
*And how to choose produce and varieties to give year-round food.
Liz is the author of two book, 'Grounded: A Gardener's Journey to Abundance and Self-Sufficiency' and 'The Seasoned Gardener', both available via our online shop: shop.permacult...

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I found in a hoop house where voles had become a difficult neighbor to share with that the moles moved in the next year and competed for the area and were then the dominant burrowing animal and didn’t seem to munch on any crops but helped us from the peaked vole population! No intervention involved on our part.
Additionally, when finding voles nests I have come to realize me stomping on a few baby voles is not going to get rid of all of them, and is also quite a cruel way to live and navigate the world. I literally just uncover the nest so the babies are exposed, and within about 20 minutes the mother will come and move them one by one. I think this disturbance is enough to preoccupy them and let them know it is not a safe place to have their children, of course with the expectation this isn’t going to push them out just make it more difficult for them. It’s all about growing food successfully and if they end up eating a few potatoes or carrots that is absolutely okay.