I have just found you, thanks to the amazing Huw Richards who I have been watching for a few years now. I just love what I have seen so far! Thank you!
@@freedomforestlife... same here, found you through Huw Richards, too and I love your garden and your videos! You are such a beautiful inspiring couple... And your dog is so sweet, too! Finally a garden channel with a dog lying in the beds eating Yakon 🤣... It seems most garden youtubers have cats... 🤔🤣
After watching your previous video about growing Yakon, I decided to have a go I ordered from a local supplier and to be honest was disappointed with what I received tiny little plug plants. But wow I've just dug 2 plants and for a first year crop I am very impressed I got about 4kg of tubers and still another 7 plants to harvest from. Keep up the great videos and a merry Christmas from central France.
Hi Paul, so pleased to hear your Yacon has grown well for you. It is a pretty reliable cropper we find! Enjoy & thanks for your lovely message - Merry Christmas to you too 💚✌️🌿
Lovely plot of land. It's great to see kindred spirits thriving and following their passions. We're just starting our self-sufficient journey. Greetings from our off grid Homestead in Ireland 🇮🇪
Hello Dan and Lauri (I hope I spelled your name correctly), I found you via the wonderful vid that Huw Richards' released 11 hrs ago. 😊 You have a beautiful garden. Looking forward to watching your vids. Cheers and blessings.
New homesteader here, thank you for this information, I’m going to I integrate some perennial veggie and fruit plants now, while I build the annual garden as well:)
I love watching your videos. It is such a blessing. The compartments/areas are a fantastic shelter like going from one room to another. Yacon is one of my favourite plants. Like you, I will be increasing my stock and hope to sell some growing tips as well as the dried leaves for tea, which, by the way, is delicious! The Yacon flower is my signature mark, as you can see. I am also increasing my my stock of madeira vine, with both leaves 🍃 and tubers that are edible. ✌🏾🪴🙏🏾💚
Great to read your comments 🙏 and always nice to hear of fellow Yacon lovers 🙌 So glad you are enjoying our vids - means a lot 💚 We appreciate you watching 🍀✌️🌿
Wow! I’ve heard you speak about yacon before. However, didn’t realise the benefits that they provide, awesome👌 We planted rhubarb this year and unfortunately the stalks have died. Keep up the amazing work, and great videography too👌👏
Hi Paul & Vanessa, Glad you enjoyed the vid and seeing the Yacon 💚 Rhubarb does natually die back to just a kind of burnt looking crown (clump) in the winter ... is this what yours has done perhaps? ✌️🌿
I’ve often wondered how long you’ve had the land and how long you’ve been growing food. Now I know! What a lot of hard work but what a beautiful place you have established. Thanks for the video
Yay - exciting Su - such a beautiful crop to look forward to… I honestly can’t believe how long it’s taken me to get my act together with Asparagus considering how much I LOVE it 💚✌️🌿
Thanks - I'll try and remember to explain more in a future video - I think Dan talks about the inspiration behind it in this video here 👉 ruclips.net/video/k8mFwbEdYWE/видео.html Thanks for watching ✌️🌿
Hi James, a 'simple backyard' can still be an edible treasure trove - good on you 💚 Charles Dowding has been such an inspiration to us too. appreciate you watching 🙏✌️🌿
Just harvested my first yacon plant of the season yesterday.....a healthy crop but the tubers only weighed in at 1.5kg. My fault as i pack them in too close and don't nurture them as well as i could do. Still, very happy to have tubers curing indoors now, 4 rhizomes potted up in the shed ready for next year, and 5 plants still waiting to be harvested over the next few months. Due to lack of space I'm going to try growing a few in 30 litre pots next year. Seaside Steve has good results with this method, so it should hopefully increase my yield. (ps - if you are in a position to sell any mashua tubers at the moment you could probably do a roaring trade. I'd certainly be interested if you've got any available).
HI Tony - glad you are getting to enjoy some Yacon and finding ways to get it growing better for you 🙌 We haven't actually harvested our Mashua yet ... or Oca ... Both of whIch I am very keen to get on to - particularly the Oca has I feel the mice sometimes start on them and I am keen to see how the variety has done which I spread out?! I think Huw Richards is planning on Selling a few Mashua soon... we really need to get ourselves organised to do this too for sure ! 💚✌️🌿
I have been growing asparagus on very heavy clay in Somerset for forty years. It grows well in raised beds filled with 20 to 25 cm of compost. It is very prone to dying in the first couple of years for no apparent reason, but after that it just goes on and on. I have a very mixed lot of varieties, whatever I could find when a space came free. This has an advantage of staggering the crop. I haven't found a variety I prefer. I know plant a row of insect attracting flowers down the middle of the asparagus beds, which helps to keep down the asparagus beetles. I have a wild asparagus doing well in my food forest. One of the big seed companies supplied it. It has thinner stems with a stronger taste. I hope this is useful and wish you well.
Hi Peter, thanks for the info - really helpful - I do hope our Asparagus survives 🤞 I will look for seed for the wild Asparagus too - thanks. What variety of flowers do you plant? I am definitly keen to try that 💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife I replied yesterday, but it seems to have disappeared. The flowers I use are calendula, tagetes, wild chicory, borage, oriental poppy and nastutium. The wild asparagus I bought as crowns.
i really liked your video and it is great to see how you go about expending your garden. i live in greece and i am just starting , i planted some trees last year and in spring i will start with the first vegetable beds. i also plan to use as many perennials as possible and aspargus and rhubarb are on my list, although the rhubarb might not like our heat here. keep up the good work
Good to know - Thanks. We do have some ive grown from seed in trays still in the green house, that I hope to plant next Spring, so will be interesting to compare 💚 Thanks for watching ✌️🌿
With the drastic changes in the climate, have you looked into plants which can cope with drought in the hot times, maybe which ones will store better and give the most energy per square metre, for example?
I'm in SW France and grow aspargus which needs no watering during our hot dry summers despite being on very well drained chalk. I just give it a mulch of composted leaves or manure once a year.
Hi Stephen, generally, Perennials are actually hardier and less demanding than annual crops. We only water when we really have to already with all of our outdoor plantings ... the Yacon for example, we have never watered by hand ever 💚 appreciate you watching ✌️🌿
Hi guys; i just came across your channel and i love it. We moved back to Romania after a life in the Uk(17years) to fulfil our dream of being self sufficient(we bought a hill). i was wandering if you can share the places/websites where you bought the plants from this video as well as the yacon. God bless you.
Hi, so glad to hear you are following your dream 💚 Good on you. Some of the Rhubarb and Asparagus were bought from a website called 'Gardening Dreams' and some Asparagus from 'Sutton's' I think.The Yacon we originally bought on Ebay I think, 'Pennard Plants' and 'Real seeds' do sometimes sell it though too ... Most UK sites no longer ship to the EU though anymore unfortunately. I hope you can find some though 🤞 All the best for your new adventure ✌️🌿
Always worth watching right to the end 😃 🙌 Is it the Trenching Mattock/Hoe ? the other thing he used was a mini (short handled spade) which we also apsolutely LOVE. Appreciate you watching 💚✌️🌿
Rhubarb is one of my favourite things to eat, I love a rhubarb crumble pie, pie base and crumble top … mmmm I get as much as I can from my 5plants I think it is now and mum cooks it and freezes it ready to add to pies etc whenever I want. I’m my mind there’s never enough of it lol. We have also tried it with apple mixed from our apple tree and that is lovely, natural sweetness from the apples.
Nice ideas Cheryl - Thanks - defo looking forward to an abundance of Rhubarb in the future 💚 A friend of mine recently made a Rhubarb and Ginger Chutney too, which was lovely ✌️🌿
@ we have found the more regularly you water with a high amount of water the longer the stalks get, found this from Tony, can’t remember his channel but he is in wales
Hi, I wonder where you are in South of England. I am a maintenance gardener in and around Exeter, would love to visit you guys some time. Perry's Garden Maintenance.
@freedomforestlife excellent, I think a real life, hands on experience, carefully managed, would be very beneficial for those who are inspired by your set up. Look forward to hearing about that. If you Google gardener Exeter, you can find my website and contact me directly if you like. Keep up the good work.
Thanks again for this great video! I’m just thinking a lot about my perennial beds and aspargus & rhubarb defenately will be a part of it… i had Yacon this year for the first time, It is frost hardy? 😳 hmmm… 🤔 i dug it out and put them to sleep in a pot with soil in the cellars as my friend who gave it to me, told me… we’re plant hardiness zone 7b here in North-Eastern Croatia…
Hi Kristin, Yacon is hardy down to -5 oC keep the pots on the drier side to avoid the crowns/growing tips rotting over winter. We leave ours in the ground all winter here with a tick mulch of woodchips. 💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife thank you for your quick answer! ❤ That’s great! 👍🏼 Ok, I think I will try it, once I have enough plants 😅… we usually don’t get very deep temperatures here, but we often get a lot of rain in the winter…
Do any of your yacon videos cover how far north it will still grow? I'm at 54N. About the same as York. Hard frost possible from about mid October, but usually just minor until November.
Hi Kirsty - we only have experience growing it in our area, it would largely depending on what you lowest temperature get to and for how long ? and a deep mulch can help a lot of difference too 💚✌️🌿
Hi Guys...what an inspiring channel. You have an ansolutely amazing plot ! Is any of this possible in a small suburban garden please? We too are in the SE of England, however, like the majority of us townies, we are sadly severely limited by space. Are there perennial veg that may be suitable for the majority of us without acres please? Thank you ever so much and have subscribed to see more !
Hi Steve - So glad you are finding our videos inspirational - that is exactly what we hope for 💚 And YES absolutely ANY of what we do here can be scaled down and grown in small areas, we just go OTT with things, largely ... because we can! 😬🤪😂 For example, most people who like to grow Yacon, would only grow 1-2 plants instead of the 20+ we have, which would still give you a rewarding enough harvest and the same with Rhubarb, 1 or 2 plants would give you a nice suppliment of homegrown goodness. You can still pack a lot into a small space with thought - and I often say to Dan I feel we are sometimes less efficient with our bed space, because it is not a restriction - We could grow enough to feed 3 families easily across our growing areas, with more hands and tighter space management. Permaculture teaches us to look at what we have available in each individual situation and work with that, no one design is necessarily right or wrong, its about making the most of what you have available, rather than following a fixed list/plan - this goes for materials as well as space, i.e we can get woodchip very easily, so we use that a lot a mulch ... you may have a rabbit hutch/waste bedding or have access to lots of leaves in Autumn, so that could be your perference for mulch ... Sorry long answer - I hope it helps and makes sense though 💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife Hi Guys, thanks for taking the trouble to reply, it is much appreciated. Shall get cracking with some plans for our small garden and keep watching your videos for inspiration! Take care and roll on Spring...!
great video - please may I ask what part of the country you are in - or maybe for the sake of your privacy, what is the average rainfall in your area? I follow several channels, but also seem to be in the West - either Wales or the West Country. I live in one of the driest areas of the country - Kent on a mix of chalk and clay. Just interested to find someone growing in similar conditions.
Hi Kim, we are central south coast/Hampshire - we have clay base, no chalk in our particular spot, although many areas not far from us would have that, we are actually slightly naturally acidic here. I would say we do experience the better/drier of the uk’s weather here, don’t actually know our average rainfall (probably should) seems a little irrelevant that last couple of years anyway, as I am sure our rainfall has been way higher than average by how our stream has been flowing 😬 weather wise I would say we would be more similar to you than wales though for sure 💚 thanks for watching and messaging and hope that helps 🙏✌️🌿
Add some gypsum ( a natural material ) to the clay. It will break it down and cause flocculation and free drainage it happens naturally as a chemical reaction in the gypsum which provides calcium ions to the soil and therefore displaces the sodium ions are bound to the clay particles😊
Hi, we’ll hopefully if they all grown on as well as this year will have enough to gift to our family and neighbours, I’ll make rhubarb & ginger chutney and I’ll strew lots down and freeze it for use in the winter too 😋 thanks for watching💚✌️
@ thanks for answering, just found your channel and it’s great! I live on a small farm in Sweden (3.6 hectar) and this will be my second year of growing food. I’m excited to find new ideas 😊
Hi, I drop a video link in here where we did a taste test recently with Huw Richards - off season for them too - pretty sure its in some of our other vids too along we discussions on how we like to use them, I'll put our Yacon playlist link in for you, theres a video in there on how we make Yacon Syrup ... its a pretty old vid now - but the method is still the same - will do a remake when we have our new kitchen up and running 💚✌️🌿 Rest taste test ; ruclips.net/video/7eo6ld47W-8/видео.html Playlist ; ruclips.net/p/PLOidPRQofoMO7DbnFE7dT9EQBNsKncF72
There is a little truth in this, the benefits are far greater than any possible risk though, it also depends what trees for its from - Perennial veg in particular love it - you are effectively re creating the forest floor - which is always the best soil! We've been using woodchips for year and can honestly say they are AMAZING for soil. Check out some of our other vids about it for more, I'll drop some links in 💚✌️🌿 ruclips.net/video/NPtATCwfXos/видео.html ruclips.net/video/Ksfd2BKeTu4/видео.html
Hi, yeah, canna tubers can be eaten for sure, certain varieties taste better than others, think it’s Canna Edulis, which is seen as the main edible one, which we do have here as well - Dan loves Canna’s, along with any other tropical looking flower or plant, but they do absolutely double as a survival food if ever needed! 💚✌️🌿
I have just found you, thanks to the amazing Huw Richards who I have been watching for a few years now. I just love what I have seen so far! Thank you!
Hi Brigid, Great to have you with us. So glad you enjoyed this video - Hopefully you'll find some more to enjoy - happy watching 💚✌️🌿
Great to have you with us to Adrian - Hopefully you'll find lots of inspiration in our vids... Happy watching 💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife... same here, found you through Huw Richards, too and I love your garden and your videos!
You are such a beautiful inspiring couple... And your dog is so sweet, too! Finally a garden channel with a dog lying in the beds eating Yakon 🤣... It seems most garden youtubers have cats... 🤔🤣
@@KristinGasser Murphy is very happy he is getting some appreciation 😂💚🙏
Same here! Huw sent me!
After watching your previous video about growing Yakon, I decided to have a go I ordered from a local supplier and to be honest was disappointed with what I received tiny little plug plants. But wow I've just dug 2 plants and for a first year crop I am very impressed I got about 4kg of tubers and still another 7 plants to harvest from. Keep up the great videos and a merry Christmas from central France.
Hi Paul, so pleased to hear your Yacon has grown well for you. It is a pretty reliable cropper we find! Enjoy & thanks for your lovely message - Merry Christmas to you too 💚✌️🌿
Try growing different berries some of them are expensive and hard to find in stores as well as herbs too fresh herbs really make difference in cooking
Love your videos, your garden is a paradise.
Hi, stoked to hear you are enjoying our vids - appreciate you watching & commenting 💚✌️🌿
Lovely plot of land. It's great to see kindred spirits thriving and following their passions. We're just starting our self-sufficient journey. Greetings from our off grid Homestead in Ireland 🇮🇪
For sure 🙌 Happy growing to you guys for the season ahead 💚✌️🌿
Greetings from USA. I’m a new subscriber! I saw your video on Huw Richards’ channel. I’m enjoying your videos.
Hi - Great to have you with us, so lovely to hear you are enjoying what we share too - Appreciate you watching & messaging 💚✌️🌿
Hello Dan and Lauri (I hope I spelled your name correctly), I found you via the wonderful vid that Huw Richards' released 11 hrs ago. 😊 You have a beautiful garden. Looking forward to watching your vids. Cheers and blessings.
Hi Michelle, great to have you with us 🙏 hope you find lots of our videos interesting too. Happy gardening 💚✌️🌿
New homesteader here, thank you for this information, I’m going to I integrate some perennial veggie and fruit plants now, while I build the annual garden as well:)
Hi, Great to hear - glad you got a few ideas from this video, we grow lots of annuals too - defo a place for both still 💚✌️🌿
Great work again😊
💚 Thanks Rick 🙏✌️🌿
the garden is very beautiful! Have fun everyone!
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I love watching your videos. It is such a blessing. The compartments/areas are a fantastic shelter like going from one room to another. Yacon is one of my favourite plants. Like you, I will be increasing my stock and hope to sell some growing tips as well as the dried leaves for tea, which, by the way, is delicious! The Yacon flower is my signature mark, as you can see. I am also increasing my my stock of madeira vine, with both leaves 🍃 and tubers that are edible. ✌🏾🪴🙏🏾💚
Great to read your comments 🙏 and always nice to hear of fellow Yacon lovers 🙌 So glad you are enjoying our vids - means a lot 💚 We appreciate you watching 🍀✌️🌿
Hello dear friend I have found you .Great video +❤full support nice sharing
Great to have you with us, hope you enjoy many of our videos - Thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿
Wow! I’ve heard you speak about yacon before. However, didn’t realise the benefits that they provide, awesome👌 We planted rhubarb this year and unfortunately the stalks have died. Keep up the amazing work, and great videography too👌👏
Hi Paul & Vanessa, Glad you enjoyed the vid and seeing the Yacon 💚 Rhubarb does natually die back to just a kind of burnt looking crown (clump) in the winter ... is this what yours has done perhaps? ✌️🌿
@ Ah, thats good to hear. I’ll check tomorrow, thanks once again guys👍🧡
Love it so much. Feel peacefull!
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Good work🎉my new friend🎉
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wow, your garden is so beautiful
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I’ve often wondered how long you’ve had the land and how long you’ve been growing food. Now I know! What a lot of hard work but what a beautiful place you have established. Thanks for the video
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Peace and plants guys ❤
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Wow wow wow im a farmer and ❤❤❤ nature , im will make the garden look like forest❤
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I’ve tried yacon before but I didn’t realize the growing tip was all I needed to over winter in our cold winter. I think I will try them again.
Hi, so glad you learnt this from our video 🙌 Makes it an even better Crop, being able to harvest 100% 🙌 Thanks for watching & happy growing 💚✌️🌿
I really love your garden, it’s absolutely wonderful.!
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Brilliant, as always!! I planted asparagus, yacon and rhubarb 3 years ago...so hoping to pick my first asparagus in spring!!!
Yay - exciting Su - such a beautiful crop to look forward to… I honestly can’t believe how long it’s taken me to get my act together with Asparagus considering how much I LOVE it 💚✌️🌿
I love watching you videos, can you do one about how and why you section off your growing areas and which hedge plants you use? Thanks
Thanks - I'll try and remember to explain more in a future video - I think Dan talks about the inspiration behind it in this video here 👉 ruclips.net/video/k8mFwbEdYWE/видео.html
Thanks for watching ✌️🌿
Lovely garden and great video folks!
Thanks Trevor - glad you enjoyed the vid - appreciate you watching 💚✌️🌿
Wonderful video. I just have a simple backyard garden in Texas. I started with the inspiration of Charles Dowding. Best of luck on yours!
Hi James, a 'simple backyard' can still be an edible treasure trove - good on you 💚 Charles Dowding has been such an inspiration to us too. appreciate you watching 🙏✌️🌿
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Just harvested my first yacon plant of the season yesterday.....a healthy crop but the tubers only weighed in at 1.5kg. My fault as i pack them in too close and don't nurture them as well as i could do. Still, very happy to have tubers curing indoors now, 4 rhizomes potted up in the shed ready for next year, and 5 plants still waiting to be harvested over the next few months. Due to lack of space I'm going to try growing a few in 30 litre pots next year. Seaside Steve has good results with this method, so it should hopefully increase my yield.
(ps - if you are in a position to sell any mashua tubers at the moment you could probably do a roaring trade. I'd certainly be interested if you've got any available).
HI Tony - glad you are getting to enjoy some Yacon and finding ways to get it growing better for you 🙌 We haven't actually harvested our Mashua yet ... or Oca ... Both of whIch I am very keen to get on to - particularly the Oca has I feel the mice sometimes start on them and I am keen to see how the variety has done which I spread out?! I think Huw Richards is planning on Selling a few Mashua soon... we really need to get ourselves organised to do this too for sure ! 💚✌️🌿
I have been growing asparagus on very heavy clay in Somerset for forty years. It grows well in raised beds filled with 20 to 25 cm of compost. It is very prone to dying in the first couple of years for no apparent reason, but after that it just goes on and on. I have a very mixed lot of varieties, whatever I could find when a space came free. This has an advantage of staggering the crop. I haven't found a variety I prefer. I know plant a row of insect attracting flowers down the middle of the asparagus beds, which helps to keep down the asparagus beetles.
I have a wild asparagus doing well in my food forest. One of the big seed companies supplied it. It has thinner stems with a stronger taste.
I hope this is useful and wish you well.
Hi Peter, thanks for the info - really helpful - I do hope our Asparagus survives 🤞 I will look for seed for the wild Asparagus too - thanks. What variety of flowers do you plant? I am definitly keen to try that 💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife I replied yesterday, but it seems to have disappeared. The flowers I use are calendula, tagetes, wild chicory, borage, oriental poppy and nastutium. The wild asparagus I bought as crowns.
Another superb vlog. Do you also make a few extra quid cloning Aussie Collies, or have you been and stollen my dog ??😃😃
Murph is indeed a collie from Australia lines - he came back from NZ with me. Would love to see a pic of your collie 💚 glad you enjoyed the vid 💚✌️🌿
Murph is especially adorable in this video ❤
He says thanks!! 🤩 🤣 🐾
i really liked your video and it is great to see how you go about expending your garden. i live in greece and i am just starting , i planted some trees last year and in spring i will start with the first vegetable beds. i also plan to use as many perennials as possible and aspargus and rhubarb are on my list, although the rhubarb might not like our heat here. keep up the good work
Great to hear you are expanding your garden - Happy growing & thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿
Love this video!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿
The bonus Murphy content at the end 💚
💚 I knew you’d love that 💚 think he was having a super cute day!! Xxx
beautiful garden
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Glad to have found you through Huw Richards
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Nice, never knew about yakon.
Hello 👋 I founf my seed grown asparagus outperforms my ones grow from crowns. Cool vid
Good to know - Thanks. We do have some ive grown from seed in trays still in the green house, that I hope to plant next Spring, so will be interesting to compare 💚 Thanks for watching ✌️🌿
I’m going to get some yacon. Sounds more interesting than potatoes!
Its great having the diversity in crops and flavours 💚 happy growing & thanks for watching ✌️🌿
We here in South Africa can grow even more different plants
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With the drastic changes in the climate, have you looked into plants which can cope with drought in the hot times, maybe which ones will store better and give the most energy per square metre, for example?
I'm in SW France and grow aspargus which needs no watering during our hot dry summers despite being on very well drained chalk. I just give it a mulch of composted leaves or manure once a year.
This is good to know Anne - Thanks for sharing 💚✌️🌿
Hi Stephen, generally, Perennials are actually hardier and less demanding than annual crops. We only water when we really have to already with all of our outdoor plantings ... the Yacon for example, we have never watered by hand ever 💚 appreciate you watching ✌️🌿
@freedomforestlife thanks, I've just been looking at yacon to buy for growing in spring
Hi guys; i just came across your channel and i love it. We moved back to Romania after a life in the Uk(17years) to fulfil our dream of being self sufficient(we bought a hill).
i was wandering if you can share the places/websites where you bought the plants from this video as well as the yacon.
God bless you.
Hi, so glad to hear you are following your dream 💚 Good on you. Some of the Rhubarb and Asparagus were bought from a website called 'Gardening Dreams' and some Asparagus from 'Sutton's' I think.The Yacon we originally bought on Ebay I think, 'Pennard Plants' and 'Real seeds' do sometimes sell it though too ... Most UK sites no longer ship to the EU though anymore unfortunately. I hope you can find some though 🤞 All the best for your new adventure ✌️🌿
Wasn't expecting that endings! That was cool. Whats that tool Dan was digging with?
Always worth watching right to the end 😃 🙌 Is it the Trenching Mattock/Hoe ? the other thing he used was a mini (short handled spade) which we also apsolutely LOVE. Appreciate you watching 💚✌️🌿
This is great guys ❤
I would deffo like to buy some tips 👀
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Rhubarb is one of my favourite things to eat, I love a rhubarb crumble pie, pie base and crumble top … mmmm I get as much as I can from my 5plants I think it is now and mum cooks it and freezes it ready to add to pies etc whenever I want.
I’m my mind there’s never enough of it lol. We have also tried it with apple mixed from our apple tree and that is lovely, natural sweetness from the apples.
Nice ideas Cheryl - Thanks - defo looking forward to an abundance of Rhubarb in the future 💚 A friend of mine recently made a Rhubarb and Ginger Chutney too, which was lovely ✌️🌿
@ we have found the more regularly you water with a high amount of water the longer the stalks get, found this from Tony, can’t remember his channel but he is in wales
Maybe thats why our grow so well in its first year - we had so much rain this summer - we never watered them once after initially planting out! 🤣
Hi, I wonder where you are in South of England. I am a maintenance gardener in and around Exeter, would love to visit you guys some time. Perry's Garden Maintenance.
We're about 2.5 hours or so from Exeter ... Hope to do a few garden tours per year in the future with a little more planning, so stay in touch 💚✌️🌿
@freedomforestlife excellent, I think a real life, hands on experience, carefully managed, would be very beneficial for those who are inspired by your set up. Look forward to hearing about that. If you Google gardener Exeter, you can find my website and contact me directly if you like. Keep up the good work.
Love what you are doing. What type of hedging is bordering the area you are currently planting?
Its Cherry Laurel - An evergreen hedge 💚✌️🌿
Thanks again for this great video! I’m just thinking a lot about my perennial beds and aspargus & rhubarb defenately will be a part of it… i had Yacon this year for the first time, It is frost hardy? 😳 hmmm… 🤔 i dug it out and put them to sleep in a pot with soil in the cellars as my friend who gave it to me, told me… we’re plant hardiness zone 7b here in North-Eastern Croatia…
Hi Kristin, Yacon is hardy down to -5 oC keep the pots on the drier side to avoid the crowns/growing tips rotting over winter. We leave ours in the ground all winter here with a tick mulch of woodchips. 💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife thank you for your quick answer! ❤ That’s great! 👍🏼 Ok, I think I will try it, once I have enough plants 😅… we usually don’t get very deep temperatures here, but we often get a lot of rain in the winter…
Do any of your yacon videos cover how far north it will still grow? I'm at 54N. About the same as York. Hard frost possible from about mid October, but usually just minor until November.
Hi Kirsty - we only have experience growing it in our area, it would largely depending on what you lowest temperature get to and for how long ? and a deep mulch can help a lot of difference too 💚✌️🌿
Hi Guys...what an inspiring channel. You have an ansolutely amazing plot ! Is any of this possible in a small suburban garden please? We too are in the SE of England, however, like the majority of us townies, we are sadly severely limited by space. Are there perennial veg that may be suitable for the majority of us without acres please? Thank you ever so much and have subscribed to see more !
Hi Steve - So glad you are finding our videos inspirational - that is exactly what we hope for 💚 And YES absolutely ANY of what we do here can be scaled down and grown in small areas, we just go OTT with things, largely ... because we can! 😬🤪😂 For example, most people who like to grow Yacon, would only grow 1-2 plants instead of the 20+ we have, which would still give you a rewarding enough harvest and the same with Rhubarb, 1 or 2 plants would give you a nice suppliment of homegrown goodness. You can still pack a lot into a small space with thought - and I often say to Dan I feel we are sometimes less efficient with our bed space, because it is not a restriction - We could grow enough to feed 3 families easily across our growing areas, with more hands and tighter space management. Permaculture teaches us to look at what we have available in each individual situation and work with that, no one design is necessarily right or wrong, its about making the most of what you have available, rather than following a fixed list/plan - this goes for materials as well as space, i.e we can get woodchip very easily, so we use that a lot a mulch ... you may have a rabbit hutch/waste bedding or have access to lots of leaves in Autumn, so that could be your perference for mulch ... Sorry long answer - I hope it helps and makes sense though 💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife Hi Guys, thanks for taking the trouble to reply, it is much appreciated. Shall get cracking with some plans for our small garden and keep watching your videos for inspiration! Take care and roll on Spring...!
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great video - please may I ask what part of the country you are in - or maybe for the sake of your privacy, what is the average rainfall in your area? I follow several channels, but also seem to be in the West - either Wales or the West Country. I live in one of the driest areas of the country - Kent on a mix of chalk and clay.
Just interested to find someone growing in similar conditions.
Hi Kim, we are central south coast/Hampshire - we have clay base, no chalk in our particular spot, although many areas not far from us would have that, we are actually slightly naturally acidic here. I would say we do experience the better/drier of the uk’s weather here, don’t actually know our average rainfall (probably should) seems a little irrelevant that last couple of years anyway, as I am sure our rainfall has been way higher than average by how our stream has been flowing 😬 weather wise I would say we would be more similar to you than wales though for sure 💚 thanks for watching and messaging and hope that helps 🙏✌️🌿
Add some gypsum ( a natural material ) to the clay. It will break it down and cause flocculation and free drainage it happens naturally as a chemical reaction in the gypsum which provides calcium ions to the soil and therefore displaces the sodium ions are bound to the clay particles😊
Thanks for the info - yep - defo something we could try! Appreciate you watching 💚✌️🌿
What will you do with all that rhubarb? I have one plant and don’t know what to do with all of it 😅
Hi, we’ll hopefully if they all grown on as well as this year will have enough to gift to our family and neighbours, I’ll make rhubarb & ginger chutney and I’ll strew lots down and freeze it for use in the winter too 😋 thanks for watching💚✌️
@ thanks for answering, just found your channel and it’s great! I live on a small farm in Sweden (3.6 hectar) and this will be my second year of growing food. I’m excited to find new ideas 😊
I'm a postman and noticed your rhubarb and asparagus was delivered by royal mail.. I'd love it if i was your postman haha
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lets see a yacon recipe / taste test!
Hi, I drop a video link in here where we did a taste test recently with Huw Richards - off season for them too - pretty sure its in some of our other vids too along we discussions on how we like to use them, I'll put our Yacon playlist link in for you, theres a video in there on how we make Yacon Syrup ... its a pretty old vid now - but the method is still the same - will do a remake when we have our new kitchen up and running 💚✌️🌿
Rest taste test ; ruclips.net/video/7eo6ld47W-8/видео.html
Playlist ; ruclips.net/p/PLOidPRQofoMO7DbnFE7dT9EQBNsKncF72
Which County if Near you B& B Facilities @ Modest low budget .
Lovely video again although it makes me feel soo behind
Glad you enjoyed the vid. You have a whole blank canvas to work with - lots of fun planning over winter for you 💚✌️🌿
❤😊 GOOD job👍👍👍👍❤😊❤😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I LIKE YOUR VIDEOS👍🌿❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
I thought woodchips arent suitable for vegetables because it changes the ph-? of the soil? Why do you use it?
There is a little truth in this, the benefits are far greater than any possible risk though, it also depends what trees for its from - Perennial veg in particular love it - you are effectively re creating the forest floor - which is always the best soil! We've been using woodchips for year and can honestly say they are AMAZING for soil.
Check out some of our other vids about it for more, I'll drop some links in 💚✌️🌿
ruclips.net/video/NPtATCwfXos/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/Ksfd2BKeTu4/видео.html
@freedomforestlife thanks a lot!
I guess you grow so many canna because they're edible too. Is that right?
Hi, yeah, canna tubers can be eaten for sure, certain varieties taste better than others, think it’s Canna Edulis, which is seen as the main edible one, which we do have here as well - Dan loves Canna’s, along with any other tropical looking flower or plant, but they do absolutely double as a survival food if ever needed! 💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife thanks, I'll get some next year
So off grid means no paying tax or income tax to government
What type of eucalyptus do you use for your shelter belt ? Thanks.
Hi, Its Eucalyptus Nitens we mainly grow here - hope that helps & thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿
@freedomforestlife thanks very much, keep up the good work.