Homestead Garden Tour | Self Sufficient Vegetable Garden | June 2020
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- Homestead Garden Tour | Self Sufficient Vegetable Garden in June 2020. A tour of the vegetables growing on our homestead as we work towards food security and self-sufficiency in fruit and vegetables. Starting with the no dig raised beds and then the market garden.
Veg we are growing this year includes - (as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.)
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Rainbow chard (5 colour chard) amzn.to/30s1qKC
Strawberry plants, Cambridge Favourite, mid season amzn.to/3cS2jP2
Runner bean, White Lady amzn.to/3hhAjb8
Cabbage Savoy, Vertus amzn.to/30wDp4V
Cabbage, Red Acre amzn.to/3hm9ZwG
Lettuce, Salanova amzn.to/30xYWdy
Lettuce Lolla Rosso amzn.to/36xIH1c Little Gem amzn.to/2X4ltg7 Romaine Tricolour amzn.to/2X3xDpq
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Onion, Bedfordshire Champion amzn.to/2AfzLSx
Spring Onion, White Lisbon amzn.to/2YjGMcU
Beetroot, Chioggia amzn.to/2MKMgbk , Boltardy amzn.to/2MQXA5L
Squash, Blue Hubbard amzn.to/2XRlcNH , Butternut Waltham amzn.to/2AgSX2j
French Beans Sonesta amzn.to/3c13OKl Purple Teepee amzn.to/3gj462J
Calabrese bit.ly/3eowRJE
Carrots Solar Yellow amzn.to/3d59SD2 Purple Haze amzn.to/2Xyqz34
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Cucumber Spacemaster 80 amzn.to/3c2yAT9
Courgette Gold Rush amzn.to/3gyUzom Green Bush amzn.to/3c5WCws
Peas Oregon Sugar Pod amzn.to/3eiyxUM Rondo amzn.to/2yyf4Ae
Purple Sprouting Broccoli amzn.to/3elHqNi
Radish French Breakfast amzn.to/2X2lXTI
Spinach Medania amzn.to/2ZKDz8m
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Byther Farm is a small organic homestead, designed and managed using permaculture practices. We aim for self-sufficiency in fruit and vegetables for increased self reliance and better resilience to the modern world. I recognise that we are unlikely to be truly self sufficient, but do the best we can. I share our home with my loving partner, Mr J and our cat, Monty.
We are a fifty-something couple who live on a smallholding in Monmouthshire, Wales. We are going green and creating a gentler, cleaner and more healthy life for our family.
There is a large organic kitchen garden with no dig gardening raised beds and young food forest in which to grown our fruit and vegetables.
We keep chickens and Aylesbury ducks.
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Strawberries- it's both. My dad used have two patches and he would swap them every two years for new shoots. That made them really big. And we had a stream running under the property. They were the biggest and most delicious strawberries I have ever tasted. You can tell also the leaves get really large.
It all looks so very practial, but I must say, in my eyes it's also very aesthetically pleasing! 🌻
You've done a fenomenal job with your garden! 🌱
Thank you so much, I'm really pleased with how it's all looking now - it's taken a few years, but it finally feels like a pretty and productive space 😀
I really like the positivity and enthusiasm you have with your gardening! Your videos are always very inspiring and engaging, and I learn a lot from them as well.
Such a wonderful garden Liz! And what a cute little assistant you have in Monty 😊 Hi from Australia 👋🏻
Hello! Monty is a lovely old boy, he's getting old now, but he's my constant companion (unless the sun is shining and he needs to be rolling around in the sunshine). Thank you for your kind comment about the garden.
That was a brilliant video Liz . Over al of your vegetables pots and advice ❤️❤️
Thanks so much Annie 😊
I would say it's the age of the Strawberry plants. Have two raised beds next to each other. One is three years, the other only made in the Autumn. The Strawb's are twice the size in the new one. Keep up the good work! 👍
Thanks for the info Ian! I'm thinking it's their age too as our newer plants have enormous strawberries on them.
Food Forests are my new Fave.
Little strawberries like this make the tastiest jam because all the flavour is concentrated.
Yes! The flavour is really intense.
I've got Honeyoye strawberries in their first year in my windowbox, which astonishingly seem to be thriving on no rain and minimal watering, an aggressive band of local pigeons, and very poor soil quality (I just moved in so haven't had a chance to do much to it yet). At the moment the fruit aren't ripe but they are getting pretty big!
Wow, what a difference water makes, (Strawberries get bigger) we had a draught last year and everything was tiny, this year it has rained and rained and things including strawberries are huge!
Hi Anne, since filming this video, we have had lots and lots (and lots) of rain and the strawberries have plumped out nicely. Of course, now they've had so much rain and less sunshine they taste more watery - but at least we have plumped out fruit!
Everything is looking glorious, but I can't wait to see the forest garden... (Your hair is looking lovely too...)
Love the support structure made from pallet and corkscrew willow. It is so decorative
I’m going to try leaving a few parsnips and carrots to go to seed this year thanks for the suggestion 👌
Fab tour, lovely to see everything coming along 💚
Hi Ronna, glad that you enjoyed it. I love to look back at these tours (especially in the winter months) to see how lush and green everything looks at this time of year. 😃
I quite wish that we could share some rain water with you right now! We are getting plenty of rain in Oregon, USA. LOVE your videos. You are such a gem and a delight! Keep being you :)
Liz, thank you for the tour and motivation. I relate with your excitement over new areas and plants!!
Thank you for watching - there is something hugely exciting about having a new planting area!
You asked why are the strawbrries small this year. I think you will find it's purely lack of moisture. Most soft fruite especially strawberries and raspberries need the rain.
Hi Liz 💗💗 Your plant look great ! I would thin the Srawberry patch out maybe top soil.soil
Strawberries prob need more potash or surface feeding of the soil. It's easy to forget to feed the soil with perennials. Bit of comfry tea or compost dressing in spring would probably have sorted the issue.
I picked my first strawberry the other day. I hope to have many more. My blackberries are doing very well. It’s a race to Best the birds to them.
Dear Liz - thank you for one of your inimitable vids of relaxed and so informative vids. Sorry that I can't - as a pensioner - afford to subscribe. I've had to choose and have given my subs to your gardening mate - Huw. However, I have to say that your vids are really helpful to both novice and experienced gardener alike. Rogue potatoes. I've found a couple somewhere how they got amid my peas! Thank you. Every good wish and thank you again Paul
Thank you so much!
I just love your approach to productive - and realistic - gardening and provision for the table. You have a gift for being both sensible and creative. Thank you for what you do and what you are! - Paul
Lettuce looks sublime....🤗
It really is!
I have 6 year old strawberry plants and the strawberries were getting smaller and misshapen every year - till this year. My next door neighbour cleans out her chickens every 2 weeks (she's very fussy lol), she bags up the straw and gives it to me, so I popped it all around the strawberries just to see what happened....well I ended up with whoppers, so perhaps if you do the same, it might just feed the strawberries enough to make them recover. I just make sure this year not to eat them straight off the plant lol plus I also watered them with fish and weed tea this year too! Flippin stunk but so worth it haha
Dew points and humidity here in Indiana have been off this year. I had a handful of small strawberries.
I love these videos.
I learned from my dad, to have always two patches... one with new growth (to be planted between Aug 15 and beginning of Sept) and one with plants 2 years old. Repeat every year.
I can do this which is planted with 5 colors of vegetables and 5 colors of fruit trees this garden can produce more fruits and vegetables in more quantity if given a chance i don't have so many resources here Then I got a lot of produce. If I am called there, there are many things that I can get more spicy fruits and vegetables without any poisonous spray.
Hi Liz, love watching your beautiful garden. Happy gardening and love from Malaysia.
Thank you so much 😊
Monty is camera shy. (Grin) It's a shame that you all haven't had some of the rain we keep receiving. It does make a difference, the rainwater, never did understand why. Although it has been explained to several times I just know it makes a world of difference to gardens. Thanks for sharing. Stay safe.
Very lovely garden tour Liz!
Thanks so much! I'm glad that you enjoyed it. Have you found Lorella's channel yet, she's in Missouri and did a great garden tour this week. ruclips.net/video/8sDfxGEY4XE/видео.html
Liz Zorab - Byther Farm yes. Pretty property
Liz, your garden makes me so jealous. Thanks so much for sharing. Cheers!
Hi Kate, don't be envious, it'll be a nightmare if I ever want some time off for a holiday or because I'm poorly. It's a stack load of work to keep on top of the chaos!
You have a great amount of things growing! Nice to see thanks 🙏 for sharing x
Hi Lizzie, yes the garden is definitely picking up now and plants are starting to fill out 😃
Yes same here
Awesome update Liz for sharing
Thanks Linda!
Liz your hair looks amazing! Your garden looks great. sometimes when strawberries dont get enough water or lots of compost they dont do so well. And sometimes its also the temperature. If the temperature fluctuates to much that affects them.This year I lost all my strawberries except one plant due to weather fluctuation. Next year will be better.
Thank you for the kind words. 😃
Lovely garden, so much variety :-)
So nice of you, thank you!
Lovely parsnip flowers, what is the name of the parsnip ? Would like to buy some to plant and produce my own seed.Thanks for all the advice.I have had no luck with broad beans for 2 years now and this year got potato blight!
Lovely to see all the flowers among your veggies. I bet it makes the pest / predator balance healthy.
Hi, the pest / predator balance is improving each year. Developing the Patrons' Garden with it's big flower beds made a huge difference last year, it waves at predators from afar and beckons them into the garden. I've noticed at lot more dragonflies this year, but a distinct lack of amphibians (I'm guessing that they are here, but I just don't see them).
@@LizZorab I think it builds year on year. Lack of frogs may be due to the virus they are suffering from. We noticed a huge drop in population in February in our locale and I haven't got toad spawn in the usual pond either. Not good!
I am guessing we need to plant varieties of veg that can tolerate drought conditions.
Hi Liz 🙋♀️Your garden looks great ! Stay well🙏
Thanks so much, that's very kind of you to say.
I find it all exciting too. Who would have thought it. Anticipating harvesting my first kohlrabi next week.
Hi Liz, great update. We have had strawberry issues too. The crop overall is way down on last year but we got hit with that cold spell a few weeks ago and lost some strawberry flowers. A lot of the fruits are deformed with green blotches on the surface as though they haven't ripened. I suspect parts of the fruit have been hit by the cold too. Hoping that the weather settles soon. Take care
Hi Brendan, it's certainly been an odd year for fruit and veg growing. We had masses of blossom on the wild plums and damsons and then so little rain that many of the fruit have dropped while still tiny and hard. Ah well, the great thing about gardening is that there is always next year!
Garden is looking nice! Sorry to hear we might have gotten your rain here in Portugal
Almost as soon as I finished filming this, the rain arrived and it's been very windy and rainy for the last 36 hours - perfect weather for potato blight! But the ground could do with a really good prolonged spell of rain to allow it to soak into the deeper layers of the soil.
Liz the place is looking fantastically alive. The new area looks great cant wait to see those plants intermingling. As always a super garden tour of your homestead.
🇬🇧 Time to cover the broad beans Liz. Earlier this week black fly arrived on my niece's broad beans.
The ladybirds have arrived now, so I won't worry about covering them. The blackfly don't usually impact on the bean pods, so I just leave them to it
So much on the grow! Good luck with the squash plants!
Thank you! Which varieties of squash are you growing this year?
Potatoes pop up in random places for us too !
With the strawberries you plan to take out - will you be leaving newer runners in - wondering how you will know what to take or leave or if you will just remove the whole lot? Mine are growing vertically in wooden pallets but they dry out far too easily so we have a bed ready for new ones to go in next year. Lovely tour, thanks for sharing with us, I’ll be growing carrots with onions next year...hope it works at keeping the carrot fly away!
Garden is looking fantastic as always Liz!
Thanks so much! It is starting to look pretty full and lush again.
Liz Zorab - Byther Farm your garden really looks better through all the seasons. The texture and structure of it really adds so much to the overall look and feel.
looking great strawberry problem all down to dry weather i think
That does appear to the be consensus, I will make a water retentive bed for them next year so they don't get too dry again.
That was so lovely, thank you for the tour! I only grow on a balcony in the city, so seeing gardens (big gardens like yours) keeps me motivated.
Thank you! I've seen some fabulous balcony gardens, it's amazing how much can be grown in containers. 😃
I'm lucky my strawberries are lovely and big..well not my wee yellow ones, but that figures. Don't have broad beans, but yes, generally produce bolts or grow very slowly this year. Lots of holes in leaves and rust had me lift all leeks and garlic
Looking epic as always Liz!
That's funny because my broad beans have hardly grown at all as well.They were planted out a month ago and have been watered.
I decided to make use of the space for other plants and I harvested the beans yesterday - as luck would have it, the bean pods that were on the plants had some good beans in them, it's just a shame there weren't more of them. Hey-ho, hopefully the second batch that I put in will do a little better.
Your garden looks so beautiful!
Thank you!
Last year my strawberries were truly tiny - very likely because of draught. This year they are bigger, still not as big as they should be. But indeed there was less draught.
Only recently found you but so glad I have. I would much rather watch videos like this than anything on the TV :) PS, I'm also growing beans next to onions - hope it'll be OK. My broad beans are huge this year - I overwintered them in a greenhouse, which seemed to work for me. Strangely they are the only broad beans on the allotment unaffected by blackfly
Hello, sorry about the delayed response, I've been working hard in the garden to try and get lots done before the next round of rain and summer storms (which have just started). I'm so pleased that you like the videos and I hope you'll enjoy getting to know our small corner of the world.
my strawberries are also small liz. they were taken as runners from large fruiting plants last year. some of them are 2 years old. because they are growing no the outskirts of my brassica bed they were fed when the bed was prepared and were never short of water. beats me what the problem is. could it be we haven't had a hard enough winter?....................................brian
I was wondering how many you grow for? Initially when the video began I wondered if it was just for yourself and it would give me an idea of how much produce I need to grow for just myself. Of course any extra can always be shared. But as the video progressed I saw you have multiple gardens so no indication there. Do you have a sales outlet? Or do you store for the winter? Thanks Liz
for some time now I've been thinking about being a member of the channel, but that cute creature in 9:35 just made me go for it heheh
Thank you so much!
@@LizZorab Thank YOU, Liz! For such inspirational, beautifully filmed and always fun to watch videos. I've been dreaming to have access to some land to start my own garden, but for now, watching you and other youtubers is not only a source of inspiration but also a good way of relaxing during these troubled times. good luck with the market garden!
We've had the same problems here in the north east of England due to lack of rain (although rained v heavy on Saturday) and having to grow in raised beds. I'm interested in growing some perennial veg. - what do you recommend and where can I purchase them ?
Hi Jakki, I have a playlist about perennial vegetables with info of suppliers in the video description of each video. ruclips.net/p/PLa6906pLM92n8qDvkCjIYWTwA_qvGKwB4
Hi Liz, I’m looking to buy some new chicks, as you’re from the UK too I was wondering if you knew any online hatcheries maybe to order some or is that just an American thing?? Many thanks, Isaac
Hi, I don't know if hatcheries like they have in the US. I suggest that you join your local poultry group on Facebook and ask if anyone has chicks. I tend to see POL being sold more than young chicks.
Don't you ever water your garden?? You have created so many other clever things for your garden, I'd have thought you would have a water conservation system going too. No?
I love your garden, how it rambles on and on. Mine is a quarter the size, and it makes me jealous that you grow so much more in yours. My strawberries are second year and the biggest and best ever, just huge. And the plants are standing up taller than I have seen others in the past. I have
gotten a lot of rain this Spring and only fed them once with fish emulsion, and they are just going crazy. But even if yours are smaller they still taste like heaven, don't they?
Hi Deborah, I collect rainwater in water butts and huge IBC containers, but there's been so little rain for the last 9 weeks that most of it has been used up. The strawberries have an intense flavour and are delicious!
Great Vid, looks fantastic.
Thank you!
Just wondering if there is a reason you leave weeds on your paths/sides of raised beds, you mention slugs ate the broad beans maybe reduce slug environment? Great video thanks
Lack of time, I have to choose which jobs to do each day and more often than not, weeding the paths is very low down on the 'to-do' list.
Hi Liz, been trying to catch up on your great videos. Where do you get the time? I think you've answered your own question there, 3-4 year old strawberries lose their vigour and a lack of water won't help matters. I have a question if I may, I watched the video on perennial herbs and was wondering, can overwinter thai basil? Please keep the fantastic videos coming.
Hi Chris, honest answer is I don't know if you can over winter thai basil. I imagine that you'd need to bring it inside and keep it warm.
@@LizZorab Thanks Liz, they're in pots so no bother there. I'll probably buy a CFL or LED for a bit of extra light, cut one or two of them back and see what happens. Thanks again mate
Hi Liz, my strawberries are the same in Kent, very small, but very intense flavour and the plants aren't that old, I'm positive it's lack of water
I think I'll be making a new strawberry bed with masses of organic material in and on it to help retain moisture for next year's strawberries. We'll have enough to last the year as long as we don't eat too many at once! Sorry to read that your strawberries are the same.
What sort of mulch do you have around your strawberry plants the best mulch you can ever use with strawberry's is pine needles they love it cheers
We don't have pine needles here on site. The strawberries are planted through a weed suppressing membrane that is now on it's fifth year of use.
@@LizZorab Of course i didn't take into account the fact that you live on the other side of the world also with chicken poo were i am in Australia we get temps as high as 47C in summer so a compost pile can be ready in a very short time in fact i put a chicken carcass into the centre of a compost pile and after 3 days it exploded i had never seen that before pieces of chicken and feathers all over the place and thank you Liz for your reply cheers .
Hey Liz beautiful garden I’m still trying to grow lettuce thanks for the tour
Thank you, I hope the lettuce grows for you!
Liz Zorab - Byther Farm Your welcome and thank you
I have some Mennonite friends who have a berry farm here in Missouri that are having the same small strawberry problem along with their blueberries not producing well.
We've had a very rainy spring so I'm not sure if it's your lack of rain or has the geoengineering of our skies become an enemy of mother nature...?
Did you get the rain last night? In Cardiff it smashed it down last night and refilled our waterbutts. More rain due so I have emptied the water into containers to take to allotment. Fingers cross they refill over the next few days
Still getting it on and off today - I can almost hear the garden breathing a sigh of relief!
As always, beautiful garden Liz!💗 I hope you guys start getting rain over there.🙏
I have to ask... What types of squash are you growing? (I bought and planted a buttercup squash this year, did some research...and became a little obsessed with winter squash😅)
Hi Jessica, I've got blue hubbard, jumbo pink banana, butternut 'Waltham', honeyboat, spaghetti, uchiki kuri and another little one that's the size of a hand, but I can't remember it's name. There are also four that are from seeds that I kept from a squash I grew last year, but I can't recall which one it was - possibly a blue hubbard type squash.
What do you do about slugs? They are decimating my Swede and sprouting broccoli. I refused slug pellets but beer traps have been very successful in killing slugs that dive in, but I am now wondering if they are attracting the slugs to my veg. I pick off scores morning and evening... plus, it costs a lot in beer money.
Hi Maggie, beer traps are best placed away from the plants, otherwise you will attract the slugs to your brassicas. We use the ducks as our slug and snail control, of course we still have some, but the ducks do an excellent job in the water and early spring in the veg garden.
@@LizZorab Yikes! So, in effect I have been putting up signs saying, 'this way slugs for a feast....,' I have given up and purchased organic slug pellets as an alternative to ducks. I am going to trawl back in your vids to when you began and start taking tips from you from the beginning and build up like you have done. If you can succeed in growing surely I can too...
Love your videos
Thank you, so glad that you enjoy them!
Looks fantastic
Thank you!
your awesome
Towards the end, what is that wooden box?
It's a chicken or duck house. This area had previously had chickens and turkeys in it.
Off topic. Any recommendations for an online Apk/downloadable gardener's digital diary to maintain a record of all sowing, planting, harvesting ? I am very hit & miss with my planning & sowing & I want to get more organized ! It's never too late .. ..
Hi Mike, I have used Suttons Garden Planner in the past. It's a subscription based service, but I paid for one year and kept the emails to use as a reminder.
@@LizZorab Thanks
Nice plot
What kind of runner bean do you have that will come back each year?
These ones are a variety called White Lady, there's a link in the video description.
Its all growing, but not as "lush" as we would expect for a tended veg garden, that is just down to lack of water, plain and simple but you already know that the signs are all over your garden...Steve...👍
Absolutely! I hope that the rain we are having now will go some way to helping the plants move on in leaps and bounds.
@@LizZorab Of course the other thing of concern now is too much water all of a sudden, it can and will split tomatoes and potatoes...watering is a double edged sword however you look at it...Steve...👍
I'd like to explore some perennials from next year. Do you find asparagus to be worth the space? Also how do you harvest perennial leeks? You hardly pull the whole thing out like an ordinary leek?
Hi, yes I think asparagus is worth the space especially if you interplant it with something like strawberries. Perennial leeks are harvested by cutting off the 'stem' part and leaving the base in the ground or you can lift the bulb and replant the bulbils that form around the outside of it.
Interesting, thank you!!
Strawberries require a lot of water
They do and they certainly haven't had much up to now. The rain of the last 24 hours might give them a little boost for the next round of fruit picking.
What variety of runner beans is it that you said was coming up for the 4th year?
Hi Sherri, they are a variety called White Lady. They have white flowers and the bean inside the pod is white too.
i used to use polyculture in my old greenhouse. i buried an old parrot in there. lol. ( true ).............brian
4:10 what's the green plants at bottom on video, in garden right of lettuces?
There are red and green lettuces, then a frizzy lettuce then onions tucked in just close to the edge of the raised bed. There's also one self-sown parsnip on the left of the cat's head.
@@LizZorab thabks. I'm interested bin the frizzy lettuce. Do U know the name please? 😊
Is there any reason why your nets are not white? Ours here are all white
If you buy netting specifically for the brassicas, it is usually white or black, but I bought scaffolding debris netting as it was much cheaper and this was the best colour option (it also comes in blue, red and yellow).
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Nice video
Thank you!
The water is in the east of France!!!!! .....The cold as well!!! Would you like to swap?😂
It's cold and wet here today too! It was cool as I was filming despite the sun coming out and then the heavens opened and it's been raining on and off for 36 hours. Perfect weather for blight!
Two dislikes = Jealously
Check out ice age farmer on YT he talks about why crops have been affected this year 😀🌝🌕🌈🌧🌳🌻🌵
Rip the kale out it’s not good for you at all contrary to popular belief
I grow it for my sister and my chickens 😃