Liz, garlic chives bloom late summer (mine bloom in July). Star of Bethlehem (Ornithogalum) blooms this time of year, and its leaves look similar to garlic chives. All parts of Star of Bethlehem are poisonous! They contain cardiac glycosides, which could damage the heart. PLEASE make sure it is garlic chives before eating it! It would be horrible if you or one of your viewers became ill from eating the wrong plant. Cheers and thank you for sharing your beautiful garden with us!
Thank you so much for letting me know this. I have eaten it , it tasted of garlic so I hope it was garlic chives! Pinning your comment so that others see it.
@@LizZorab I wouldn't worry, they don't look like star of Bethlehem, and garlic chives seem to typically bloom from June, so I'm not surprised to see them blooming now - as many flowers have been early this year. However, there are similarities to star of Bethlehem, so still useful for people to be aware that it could be mistaken.
I love your videos. I too started gardening because of my health. I’ve lost 70 pounds because it snowballs the gardening helps you want to eat veggies. I light up inside gardening and this year I kept gardening in winter under lamps. Thanks to you and Huw Richards I know so much more and love it even more
hey liz your brambles can be a boon prune them black to where you want them to be, then train main stems horizontally and then each year when you pick the fruit cut back to those horizontals as you pick. dried bramble is the best fire lighter and if you shredded it for composting it boosts the fibre of your compost.
Thank Junnie, so pleased that you enjoyed it. I don't think it matters how many beds we have (or the size of them), just so long as we are enjoying the process
You know one of the things that really struck me here Liz was the wonderful way that you are working 'with' the plants rather than trying to control them - volunteer parsnips 'yay!' I wish we could get any at all! Seeing your artichoke has made me realise that maybe mine hasn't survived the winter as it hasn't even popped it's head back up out of the soil yet. And the Rowan tree - one of my favourites - so beautiful in the Autumn but I hadn't really considered how pretty it looked in Spring. And as for the ducks - awwwwww ....
Hello Jane, you'll be featuring on my podcast this week! I have some artichoke seeds if you'd like me to send them to you, so that you can grow some more. I'm just about to harvest my first artichokes of the year, so it does sound like yours hasn't made it - that's a shame. Yes I'm working with the plants, I don't have time or energy to battle with things, not even weeds most of the time, but I may need to eat my words if all the weeds get totally out of control like that hideous blackberry plant at the end of the garden!
@@LizZorab Oh now I'm looking forward to that - I do hope I'm making sense at least some of the time! Can you share the link on my FB page when it's out? And yes please - I'd love to give them another go - our plot neighbour's are huuuuuge so I thought there might be an issue. Sounds like you've got an ongoing battle with that blackberry though - I think you should call it Boris and then you'll have an extra level of satisfaction each time you chop it down ... ;)
@@JanesGrowingGarden Volunteers are lovely. I had found one of my paths covered in some really agressivly growing weed ... on closer look that was the salad from last year that I had let go to seed. Transplanted it into a whole bed, about a hundred lettuce vigorously growing because they decided when it was time.
To better deal with those brambles. Consider using a "weed trimmer", preferably with a mulching blade. I believe an area like that, with some expedient operator. Would account for 15 to 30 minutes of your time! If considering buying one, get a 4 stroke engine, like Honda! The smallest is enough for a small farm. For what it's worth I consider it an indispensable tool in a farm/homestead. If electricity is available on site. An electric version is dirty cheap and perfect for grasses! Cheers.
I just love how you think of pollinators and of having plants for them. This is so thoughtful and, sadly, lacking amongst many gardeners. We can't forget the land belongs to the other creatures too. It's not too difficult to have some consideration and respect for them and include borage as you did. Thank you for that! I too have a vegetable and herb garden with lots of fruit trees and always include plants and flowers for butterflies, their caterpillars and the bees. I currently have a huge (huge!) borage that self-seeded and, you're right: the bees absolutely love borage flowers! It's so relaxing to watch them as is watching your videos.
I tried the no dig potatoes method of covering potatoes with grass clippings. I did add a layer of compost and the crop is delicious, I harvested them last week x
I'm really enjoying watching your videos - I only have room for a few pots on a tiny balcony and my windowsills, so I feel like I am gardening vicariously!
Wow Liz . Your garden is flourishing so beautifully. Thank you for these amazing updates. It’s nice to see how far along everything is coming up and what mulches your using. I’m gaining so many useful tips and handy tricks from you xx can’t wait for the flower 🌹 🌸 🌺 tour xxx
It really is! They seem to have gone from looking sad and slightly empty to filling out and ready to feed us - woop woop! I hope you'll give us a tour of your plots before too long.
hahahaha "is that very greedy? yes. am i going to apologise for that? no." made me chuckle. thank you for your pure honesty, and i enjoy your 'confession time' moments. there aren't enough garden / smallholding youtube channels like yours, displaying everything that happens in the garden. big fan of your channel and your laidback approach.
Hi liz. Loved the tour my other half is Cypriot and going to his mums house there was always raw kohlrabi and artichoke on the table peeled sliced up and drizzled with lemon juice and a slight sprinkling of salt, absolutely fab!
I love kohl rabi! It's been a staple in our garden since I was a kid. I haven't been very successful at growing it without losing some to pests, though. This year I am building a high bed, so hopefully the grubs won't find my jewels.
The garden looks great Liz. I think you will love the Kolrabi. I planted it for the first time last year and loved it. I was hesitant because my memories of it as a kid were not pleasant. I ate it raw last year and found it simply delicious!
Loved this video! Your best yet ;-) Loved seeing each bed fully and honestly described, mistakes and happy-mistakes too... My Egyptians are almost walking, bulbils are about to burst open. I have a permanent bed for all such plants. I overwintered plain chives which are flowering now... Those (imoh) didn't look like Star of Jerusalem... (but good to see you're still standing!!!)
Hi Andrew, I am still standing and yes someone else said they looked like Star of Jerusalem - see the pinned comment. So pleased that you enjoyed the tour, seems like lots of viewers have enjoyed it, I hope you'll enjoy the June tour as much. 😃
I'm in N Florida, so very different growing conditions, but I still learned some tips. Your garden is beautiful. I especially enjoyed the random flowers, and the "happy accident" self-seeders! I'm really looking forward to the flower garden tour. Stay safe!
Wow ! 20 beds ! I didn’t know you did market gardens. I like your respectful attitude toward plants that have decided to grow in a particular place, self sown or what have you.. I’m the same way.
Borage has become one of our intentional weeds, it sprouts everywhere. If it's not in my way, I leave it, because I can always use more bees! I have heard that in Spain, there is a dish made with potatoes and the peeled borage stems, preferably from plants that haven't bloomed yet. I haven't tried it, but someday I intend to. Your artichokes are beautiful! Mine are about 2 inches tall...
I watch your channel from Sweden and really love your work! I grow Autumn Raspberrys to and at this time of year i cut some of them back and it gives me 3 stems instead if 1 so.. tadaa loads of more to harvest :). Thanks for the tour Liz !
Liz Zorab - Byther Farm Usually end of may here in Sweden. When they show good growth and are around 40 cm high, icut them back to about 25 cm above a strong node.. Try some of them not all :)
I'm a gardener in Australia so we are worlds apart as far as planting and harvesting, however I really enjoy watching your channel and getting ideas about what to plant in seasons ahead. Thanks for a wonderfully spent 30mins walking through your garden, you have given me such a happy start to my day 🥰
Thanks for dropping by Caroline, I will do a tour of the food forest properly later in the year. Very soon I'll have a video of some friends' garden that has a 30 year old food forest and it is amazing!
8:11 Quack! Quack! Quack!.... LOL They were talking over you and it was hilarious. Your garden is growing quickly now. I do wish I hadn't got ill and could have started a garden. If I continue to heal I may get one yet. Thanks for making me smile, ducks! Stay safe.
Sorry to hear you're ill. I too have bad health but I manage to garden in small amounts. Have a try but don't over do it. Maybe start with a few large pots? Xx
Hello. I dont have a garden. I just have a concrete yard so I have to grow in containers and started growing for the very first time this march. I really like your videos
Thank you for the garden tour. Absolutely gorgeous and inspiring! I'm so envious of your growing season and mild winters! You guys are so blessed! I'm in southern Alberta Canada and the weather is so finicky here 😅 ...I'm currently babying garlic and green onions, and waiting on my kale to sprout...🤞 About two more weeks and it will be safe to plant out the rest here. Waiting is the hardest part 😅
Hi Jessica, absolutely waiting is the hardest part. I keep thinking I'll plant out the French beans and courgettes, but there is still a risk of frost for a couple more weeks.
@@LizZorab yes finished, it was very interesting. I achieved a High Distinction, thinking of doing Science of Gardening 2 when it is offered later in the year.
Every time I watch, your channel, you amaze me all that you grow. I like Kohlrabi raw, cut up in salads. I haven't tried it cooked with a white sauce yet. Thanks again and blessing for USA state of Indiana.
beautiful garden! I grow a bed of hardneck garlic for scapes and leave a bunch of flowers for bulbils for planting. I find the leaves are all bite and little flavour maybe its our hot days and cold nights making the flavor so sharp. when i divide up big patches i like to brew the little cloves into vinegar for winter salads so i dont need to peel all the little fiddly cloves. nothing compares to dried heads of garlic for me though.
Cloves from garlic bulbs are certainly the best for making garlic butter (yum!), For a free accidental patch of garlic, I am really happy with the ones in the garden, it'll be interesting to see what they are like by the end of this growing season.
Hi Liz....I enjoyed your tour! I have never planted artichoke.....love them, so I need them in my garden. This year I have tried a row of bok choy...hope we like it! Looking forward to your flower garden tour....LOVE FLOWERS! ❤ But I am really trying to growing more veggies! ❤
Hi Gerri, I love flowers too, but unfortunately there are all that many we can put on our plate to fill our tummies, so veggies it has to be. I hope you like bok choy too, it's always a shame when we grow things and then don't like them, but if we don't grow them we will never know if we are missing something wonderful!
I hope so too! I've tucked the plants in the polytunnel to bed tonight and have my fingers crossed that they'll be okay. Everything planted into the garden is hardy, so should be fine with a touch of frost. We are due 4C tonight, 1C tomorrow and 4C on Wednesday, so hopefully by next weekend the cold snap will be over and we can get on with planting out the more tender plants for the summer. Fingers crossed that your plants survive!
HI Liz , i am growing Khol Rabi too for the first time this year . I had it in a salad a few years ago and have wanted to try growing them ever since . I am enjoying watching them grow , i have mine in a big planter by my front door , i have been getting lots of comments about them , so i will have to share them with a few neighbours it seems :)
I have tried setting up an herb bed!! By seed!! Do you think I could!! I had onions...spinach and parsley and basil all planted in the one bed!! So far...only the onions have come up...and I thought well fine then...I'll plant some more onions!! Herb beds are not easy to get to the good looking stage...that's for sure!! LOL!!
do you grow greek gigantic beans as a perennial? Im trying them for the first time this year. where can I get perennial kale from ? I haven't seen any on garden sites. I am finding all your tips very useful as its only our 2nd year on our half plot, we waited 9yrs for it.
Your plot is looking fabulous! Jealous, moi! LOL! I think your "garlic chives" are ramsons, the wild garlic - we have been eating them like spinach - very yum. I think you can eat the flowers too. I remember you bought some plants last year.
Hi Kerry, the wild garlic is growing in the pots that I planted them in last year and so it's not those. Interestingly the wild garlic didn't grow at all during 2019 so I thought it had died before doing anything, how wrong could I be as it's now flowering away and looking lovely.
Ah yes, the ramsons have wider leaves. I think if it smells garlicy, then it must be fine. Other bulbs don't have that I gather. Years ago our school had an orchard and at the bottom was a steep bank full of wild chives - we went home with our breath smelling of onions. I've been told off many a time about not eating something that I didn't know what it was. My mum went crazy when I discovered sorrel in the lawn and started chomping on that! LOL! I did know it was sorrel though. ;)
So someone just mentioned to me on Facebook about getting Egyptian Walking Onions and literally 10 mins later they pop up on your video, must be a sign :)
I hope that you like it! The plants that I lifted last year have started sprouting again in the polytunnel, it won't be too long before I put them out into the garden. Please come back at the end of the year and let me know what you thought of them.
Hi Liz! Great update as usual :) hope you guys are doing alright. Great to be able to avoid the ships with c19 going on when you grow your own ^^ I'm still curious about the over wintered broad bean plant! Was it one that was chopped at the base after you finished picking in autumn and mulched on top. The following year it re-appeared? So tempted to give this a go with mine this year :) Kind regards
Hi Mark, it's the runner beans that I'm growing as perennials. I noticed today that they are again coming up - 3 years in a row and counting! Greek Gigantes are also a type of runner bean (although you only eat the bean inside the pod) and they too are growing again from the roots. If you decide to give it a go, it's worth planting a few beans in the spring to be an insurance policy in case they don't come back up - you can always add them to your framework if the ones you left in the ground grow back nicely.
@@LizZorab great! I'm excited about this because the roots must be so established by then compared to ones sown that spring! Coincidentally I transplanted my broad beans into my new perennial bed because I do t have enough to fill it this year. Maybe some of them will stay in there after all 😉 thanks loads! Mark
Hi miss Liz I'm sorry to bother you with questions but I was curious as to how much land you have .?.. Also just wanted to say that I love your info and videos keep up everything you can manage your amazing and inspiring
Wonderful production Liz. I,m finding that allowing vegetables to self-seed brings all sorts of surprises the following year. Lettuces, italian parsley, fennel and tomatoes are all coming up on their own this year. Do you sell produce locally?
Hi David, yes the surprise veg all over the place are wonderful and a jolly good reason not to hoe the beds all the time. I sell veg boxes to local residents on a CSA basis (community supported agriculture), they commit to having veg from us for the whole season and pay for their share in the harvest in spring. This way I know how much to grow and I know that it's all sold and nothing will go to waste. Members of the veg box scheme get to know the farm, so can be confident about how and where their food is growing. It's a win-win situation.
It is lovely Debra, have you seen the white one? I show it on videos now and then, but it will be featured on the flower garden tour when I get that completed.
i think most of us have un-named plant varieties in our gardens. most times because they've been gifted from other peoples gardens or we've inherited them......................brian
Liz, Please include the link you promise in your video. I have noticed before that you promise a link to a different video but don't include it. In this case the link is for how you support your beans. I would be grateful.
I often change links over time and I've also noticed that some modes of playback don't show the links. But point taken, I'll try to remember to leave links that I refer to!
17:41 Without a cover on the bed, the salad greens may not get eaten. The cover would have given herbivores a place to hide from predators. Raspberries has to be one of lowest maintenance and easy to grow fruits.
Liz, garlic chives bloom late summer (mine bloom in July). Star of Bethlehem (Ornithogalum) blooms this time of year, and its leaves look similar to garlic chives. All parts of Star of Bethlehem are poisonous! They contain cardiac glycosides, which could damage the heart. PLEASE make sure it is garlic chives before eating it! It would be horrible if you or one of your viewers became ill from eating the wrong plant. Cheers and thank you for sharing your beautiful garden with us!
Thank you so much for letting me know this. I have eaten it , it tasted of garlic so I hope it was garlic chives! Pinning your comment so that others see it.
@@LizZorab I wouldn't worry, they don't look like star of Bethlehem, and garlic chives seem to typically bloom from June, so I'm not surprised to see them blooming now - as many flowers have been early this year. However, there are similarities to star of Bethlehem, so still useful for people to be aware that it could be mistaken.
we have Alium ursus blooming this time year as well
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"Next generation of pest control" - Loved this 😂
We've just come back inside after completing TNG's new palatial house, I hope that they appreciate it!
Don't fret, I'm sure the wild life love that neglected area. The birds singing in the background are evidence 🙂
You should try eating your carrot greens as well! I use mine mixed in salads. They are much higher in Vitamin C than the root is.
You pulled that carrot out like a boss, weren't even looking! I enjoyed this tour, thanks Liz.
Thanks Stew, I enjoyed your food forest tour yesterday!
what a lovely lady and human being you are liz ive enjoyed all your work and teaching God bless Dee from ireland
Thank you so much, that's very kind of you.
I love your videos. I too started gardening because of my health. I’ve lost 70 pounds because it snowballs the gardening helps you want to eat veggies. I light up inside gardening and this year I kept gardening in winter under lamps. Thanks to you and Huw Richards I know so much more and love it even more
I didn't realize you had only been there for four years! I love your garden; it is one of my favorite RUclips gardens, great work!
So nice of you Angela, that's very kind. 😃
I love your hair here. Love your garden. So inspiring
Your garden looks absolutely gorgeous ❤️
Thank you so much 😊 - another few weeks and it will start filling out properly and then I'll be a truly happy woman!
hey liz
your brambles can be a boon
prune them black to where you want them to be, then train main stems horizontally and then each year when you pick the fruit cut back to those horizontals as you pick. dried bramble is the best fire lighter and if you shredded it for composting it boosts the fibre of your compost.
I so enjoyed your tour. I have only four raised beds but I do love gardening and love discovering new methods! Thanks for sharing!
Thank Junnie, so pleased that you enjoyed it. I don't think it matters how many beds we have (or the size of them), just so long as we are enjoying the process
I really like ur smart bean trellis system 😃 anything that makes harvest (or any other task) easier is a big plus 🤗
You know one of the things that really struck me here Liz was the wonderful way that you are working 'with' the plants rather than trying to control them - volunteer parsnips 'yay!' I wish we could get any at all! Seeing your artichoke has made me realise that maybe mine hasn't survived the winter as it hasn't even popped it's head back up out of the soil yet. And the Rowan tree - one of my favourites - so beautiful in the Autumn but I hadn't really considered how pretty it looked in Spring. And as for the ducks - awwwwww ....
Hello Jane, you'll be featuring on my podcast this week! I have some artichoke seeds if you'd like me to send them to you, so that you can grow some more. I'm just about to harvest my first artichokes of the year, so it does sound like yours hasn't made it - that's a shame. Yes I'm working with the plants, I don't have time or energy to battle with things, not even weeds most of the time, but I may need to eat my words if all the weeds get totally out of control like that hideous blackberry plant at the end of the garden!
@@LizZorab Oh now I'm looking forward to that - I do hope I'm making sense at least some of the time! Can you share the link on my FB page when it's out? And yes please - I'd love to give them another go - our plot neighbour's are huuuuuge so I thought there might be an issue. Sounds like you've got an ongoing battle with that blackberry though - I think you should call it Boris and then you'll have an extra level of satisfaction each time you chop it down ... ;)
@@JanesGrowingGarden Volunteers are lovely. I had found one of my paths covered in some really agressivly growing weed ... on closer look that was the salad from last year that I had let go to seed. Transplanted it into a whole bed, about a hundred lettuce vigorously growing because they decided when it was time.
To better deal with those brambles. Consider using a "weed trimmer", preferably with a mulching blade. I believe an area like that, with some expedient operator. Would account for 15 to 30 minutes of your time! If considering buying one, get a 4 stroke engine, like Honda! The smallest is enough for a small farm. For what it's worth I consider it an indispensable tool in a farm/homestead.
If electricity is available on site. An electric version is dirty cheap and perfect for grasses! Cheers.
Love the way you talk about your beautiful garden and farm oh and the ducks too. Mark from self sufficient me got rid of his this year 2022 😁
I just love how you think of pollinators and of having plants for them. This is so thoughtful and, sadly, lacking amongst many gardeners. We can't forget the land belongs to the other creatures too. It's not too difficult to have some consideration and respect for them and include borage as you did. Thank you for that! I too have a vegetable and herb garden with lots of fruit trees and always include plants and flowers for butterflies, their caterpillars and the bees. I currently have a huge (huge!) borage that self-seeded and, you're right: the bees absolutely love borage flowers! It's so relaxing to watch them as is watching your videos.
I tried the no dig potatoes method of covering potatoes with grass clippings. I did add a layer of compost and the crop is delicious, I harvested them last week x
So pleased that it worked well for you!
The garlic tops are great for using in almost all recipes
I'm really enjoying watching your videos - I only have room for a few pots on a tiny balcony and my windowsills, so I feel like I am gardening vicariously!
louloureads good for you for planting as much as you can regardless! Best wishes for maximum success!
I’m so glad I found your channel Liz. I love your garden and the free spirited way you allow it to grow. Thank you. Take care and stay safe.
Thank you so much! That's really kind of you to say 😊
Wow Liz . Your garden is flourishing so beautifully. Thank you for these amazing updates. It’s nice to see how far along everything is coming up and what mulches your using. I’m gaining so many useful tips and handy tricks from you xx can’t wait for the flower 🌹 🌸 🌺 tour xxx
Thank you Annie, I didn't think this video would be of much interest to people, but it seems that it is - hooray!
Loads of practical advice in your videos. Thanks for sharing, your experience:)
Great tour Liz. Lots going on and amazing how the gardens have changed over the past few weeks
It really is! They seem to have gone from looking sad and slightly empty to filling out and ready to feed us - woop woop! I hope you'll give us a tour of your plots before too long.
Happy Monday ❤❤
hahahaha "is that very greedy? yes. am i going to apologise for that? no." made me chuckle. thank you for your pure honesty, and i enjoy your 'confession time' moments. there aren't enough garden / smallholding youtube channels like yours, displaying everything that happens in the garden. big fan of your channel and your laidback approach.
Hi liz. Loved the tour my other half is Cypriot and going to his mums house there was always raw kohlrabi and artichoke on the table peeled sliced up and drizzled with lemon juice and a slight sprinkling of salt, absolutely fab!
Sounds delicious!
Liz Zorab - Byther Farm did the same with raw cauliflower!
I love Kohlrabi, especially fresh and raw :)
Lovely! I'm adding some pollinators this year, so hoping I have better luck with zucchini and such.
I could look at your ducks the whole day!! They are so beautiful 😍
I've made a few videos with 10 minutes or more just watching the ducks!
I love kohl rabi! It's been a staple in our garden since I was a kid. I haven't been very successful at growing it without losing some to pests, though. This year I am building a high bed, so hopefully the grubs won't find my jewels.
The garden looks great Liz. I think you will love the Kolrabi. I planted it for the first time last year and loved it. I was hesitant because my memories of it as a kid were not pleasant. I ate it raw last year and found it simply delicious!
That is good to know, thanks Bettina!
Loved this video! Your best yet ;-) Loved seeing each bed fully and honestly described, mistakes and happy-mistakes too...
My Egyptians are almost walking, bulbils are about to burst open. I have a permanent bed for all such plants.
I overwintered plain chives which are flowering now... Those (imoh) didn't look like Star of Jerusalem... (but good to see you're still standing!!!)
Hi Andrew, I am still standing and yes someone else said they looked like Star of Jerusalem - see the pinned comment. So pleased that you enjoyed the tour, seems like lots of viewers have enjoyed it, I hope you'll enjoy the June tour as much. 😃
I'm in N Florida, so very different growing conditions, but I still learned some tips. Your garden is beautiful. I especially enjoyed the random flowers, and the "happy accident" self-seeders! I'm really looking forward to the flower garden tour. Stay safe!
Wow ! 20 beds ! I didn’t know you did market gardens.
I like your respectful attitude toward plants that have decided to grow in a particular place, self sown or what have you.. I’m the same way.
Borage has become one of our intentional weeds, it sprouts everywhere. If it's not in my way, I leave it, because I can always use more bees! I have heard that in Spain, there is a dish made with potatoes and the peeled borage stems, preferably from plants that haven't bloomed yet. I haven't tried it, but someday I intend to. Your artichokes are beautiful! Mine are about 2 inches tall...
I watch your channel from Sweden and really love your work! I grow Autumn Raspberrys to and at this time of year i cut some of them back and it gives me 3 stems instead if 1 so.. tadaa loads of more to harvest :). Thanks for the tour Liz !
That sounds like a great idea, what time of year do your cut them back?
Liz Zorab - Byther Farm
Usually end of may here in Sweden. When they show good growth and are around 40 cm high, icut them back to about 25 cm above a strong node.. Try some of them not all :)
Good for you re artichokes they have super good for you with health qualities 💪🏻😉
I'm a gardener in Australia so we are worlds apart as far as planting and harvesting, however I really enjoy watching your channel and getting ideas about what to plant in seasons ahead.
Thanks for a wonderfully spent 30mins walking through your garden, you have given me such a happy start to my day 🥰
Thank you so much! I'm so pleased that you are enjoying the videos. 😃
This is amazing, thanks for the video and all of the new ideas, loved it! from a smaller gardening youtuber :)
You're so welcome!
Very interesting to see what you've currently got in the garden, thanks Liz! Also love that you call it a food forest heheh
Thanks for dropping by Caroline, I will do a tour of the food forest properly later in the year. Very soon I'll have a video of some friends' garden that has a 30 year old food forest and it is amazing!
Really enjoyed your garden tour
Glad you enjoyed it!
I’m a new viewer...love your videos and love hearing the ducks trying to upstage everything 🇨🇦😊❤️
Thank you Liz for a little normality
I figure that we all know what's happening out there, so I don't need to add to the stress that we are all feeling 😃
8:11 Quack! Quack! Quack!.... LOL They were talking over you and it was hilarious.
Your garden is growing quickly now. I do wish I hadn't got ill and could have started a garden. If I continue to heal I may get one yet. Thanks for making me smile, ducks! Stay safe.
I hope you recover enough to start a garden very soon, even if it's only a few bits and pieces. Sending positive vibes to you across the ether x
It's never too late. Even if it's just a few things in pots. Gardening, fresh air, sun shine all improve your health!
Sorry to hear you're ill. I too have bad health but I manage to garden in small amounts. Have a try but don't over do it. Maybe start with a few large pots? Xx
Great video. You're a good presenter too xx
Absolutely brilliant, you’ve got loads going on. Thanks for the video
All the best
Kit
Thanks Kit, yes lots going on in the garden. How is your growing coming along this year?
Nice place with the ducks and the young ones too,nice plot
Thank you!
Hello. I dont have a garden. I just have a concrete yard so I have to grow in containers and started growing for the very first time this march. I really like your videos
Thank you for the garden tour. Absolutely gorgeous and inspiring! I'm so envious of your growing season and mild winters! You guys are so blessed! I'm in southern Alberta Canada and the weather is so finicky here 😅 ...I'm currently babying garlic and green onions, and waiting on my kale to sprout...🤞 About two more weeks and it will be safe to plant out the rest here. Waiting is the hardest part 😅
Hi Jessica, absolutely waiting is the hardest part. I keep thinking I'll plant out the French beans and courgettes, but there is still a risk of frost for a couple more weeks.
It's all looking great Liz, and so are you. Cheers for the tour ❤
Thanks so much! 😊 How is the course going? Is it nearly finished yet?
@@LizZorab yes finished, it was very interesting. I achieved a High Distinction, thinking of doing Science of Gardening 2 when it is offered later in the year.
Every time I watch, your channel, you amaze me all that you grow. I like Kohlrabi raw, cut up in salads. I haven't tried it cooked with a white sauce yet. Thanks again and blessing for USA state of Indiana.
Thank you so much!
beautiful garden! I grow a bed of hardneck garlic for scapes and leave a bunch of flowers for bulbils for planting. I find the leaves are all bite and little flavour maybe its our hot days and cold nights making the flavor so sharp. when i divide up big patches i like to brew the little cloves into vinegar for winter salads so i dont need to peel all the little fiddly cloves. nothing compares to dried heads of garlic for me though.
Cloves from garlic bulbs are certainly the best for making garlic butter (yum!), For a free accidental patch of garlic, I am really happy with the ones in the garden, it'll be interesting to see what they are like by the end of this growing season.
what a lovely video
Thank you, I'm so glad that you enjoyed it.
Everything looks great! Thanks for the tour. :)
Hi Liz Those beans do sound like butter beans my favourite
They are a runner bean with huge white beans in the pods. They are about 4 times the size of any butter bean that I have seen. 😃
Hi Liz....I enjoyed your tour! I have never planted artichoke.....love them, so I need them in my garden. This year I have tried a row of bok choy...hope we like it! Looking forward to your flower garden tour....LOVE FLOWERS! ❤ But I am really trying to growing more veggies! ❤
Hi Gerri, I love flowers too, but unfortunately there are all that many we can put on our plate to fill our tummies, so veggies it has to be. I hope you like bok choy too, it's always a shame when we grow things and then don't like them, but if we don't grow them we will never know if we are missing something wonderful!
Great tour! I hope everything survives the frost's due on Sunday/Monday next week!
I hope so too! I've tucked the plants in the polytunnel to bed tonight and have my fingers crossed that they'll be okay. Everything planted into the garden is hardy, so should be fine with a touch of frost. We are due 4C tonight, 1C tomorrow and 4C on Wednesday, so hopefully by next weekend the cold snap will be over and we can get on with planting out the more tender plants for the summer. Fingers crossed that your plants survive!
Great tour loved the freezing ideas!
Big love from a remote area of Northwest Washington State! I feel like we have quite similar growing conditions and love seeing what you do.
Hello Valerie and welcome!
HI Liz , i am growing Khol Rabi too for the first time this year . I had it in a salad a few years ago and have wanted to try growing them ever since . I am enjoying watching them grow , i have mine in a big planter by my front door , i have been getting lots of comments about them , so i will have to share them with a few neighbours it seems :)
I love your channel!
Thank you so much!
I have tried setting up an herb bed!! By seed!! Do you think I could!! I had onions...spinach and parsley and basil all planted in the one bed!! So far...only the onions have come up...and I thought well fine then...I'll plant some more onions!! Herb beds are not easy to get to the good looking stage...that's for sure!! LOL!!
Hi Liz, your garden is wonderful! I love artichokes too 😆
Thank you Harry!
👍Thank you Liz, great tour hope you are both well. I've subscribed to your newsletter.
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loved this! thanks for sharing :)
You're so welcome!
Looks gorgeous!
Thank you!!
Try dehydrating your parsley and herbs, for later use?
do you grow greek gigantic beans as a perennial? Im trying them for the first time this year. where can I get perennial kale from ? I haven't seen any on garden sites. I am finding all your tips very useful as its only our 2nd year on our half plot, we waited 9yrs for it.
Your plot is looking fabulous! Jealous, moi! LOL! I think your "garlic chives" are ramsons, the wild garlic - we have been eating them like spinach - very yum. I think you can eat the flowers too. I remember you bought some plants last year.
Hi Kerry, the wild garlic is growing in the pots that I planted them in last year and so it's not those. Interestingly the wild garlic didn't grow at all during 2019 so I thought it had died before doing anything, how wrong could I be as it's now flowering away and looking lovely.
Ah yes, the ramsons have wider leaves. I think if it smells garlicy, then it must be fine. Other bulbs don't have that I gather. Years ago our school had an orchard and at the bottom was a steep bank full of wild chives - we went home with our breath smelling of onions. I've been told off many a time about not eating something that I didn't know what it was. My mum went crazy when I discovered sorrel in the lawn and started chomping on that! LOL! I did know it was sorrel though. ;)
If you have any rowans left after the birds have had their fun, you can make jam out of them. If that’s your thing.
Hi Josephine, oooooh thank you for this tip, I didn't know that and yes, jam made from hedgerow plants is absolutely my thing!
So someone just mentioned to me on Facebook about getting Egyptian Walking Onions and literally 10 mins later they pop up on your video, must be a sign :)
Deffo a sign that you need to get some!😊
I bought a yacon because of you. I'm so looking forward to it
I hope that you like it! The plants that I lifted last year have started sprouting again in the polytunnel, it won't be too long before I put them out into the garden. Please come back at the end of the year and let me know what you thought of them.
@@LizZorab thanks Liz I will
I really enjoyed the video Liz. Thanks xxx Margaret
Thank you Margaret. I hope you are both keeping safe and well.
Love your place looks great what you are doing
Thanks so much!
Oh garlic chives...just started growing them
Liz, this was very encouraging for me! ; )
Oh good, I share about stuff that doesn't work as well as the successes, none of us are perfect gardeners!
Do yu ever put any of yor fruit/veggies entered in the local fair?
7:25 they are telling you they will give you some wonderful compost for your bed! 😍
Yes!
Hi Liz! Great update as usual :) hope you guys are doing alright. Great to be able to avoid the ships with c19 going on when you grow your own ^^
I'm still curious about the over wintered broad bean plant! Was it one that was chopped at the base after you finished picking in autumn and mulched on top. The following year it re-appeared? So tempted to give this a go with mine this year :)
Kind regards
Hi Mark, it's the runner beans that I'm growing as perennials. I noticed today that they are again coming up - 3 years in a row and counting! Greek Gigantes are also a type of runner bean (although you only eat the bean inside the pod) and they too are growing again from the roots. If you decide to give it a go, it's worth planting a few beans in the spring to be an insurance policy in case they don't come back up - you can always add them to your framework if the ones you left in the ground grow back nicely.
@@LizZorab great! I'm excited about this because the roots must be so established by then compared to ones sown that spring! Coincidentally I transplanted my broad beans into my new perennial bed because I do t have enough to fill it this year. Maybe some of them will stay in there after all 😉 thanks loads!
Mark
Such an inspiration, thanks for this vid
Hi miss Liz
I'm sorry to bother you with questions but I was curious as to how much land you have .?..
Also just wanted to say that I love your info and videos keep up everything you can manage your amazing and inspiring
Hi Connie, this video tells you lots about what it's like where we live ruclips.net/video/EYk-CCp29Fs/видео.html
Excellent video Liz! Your garden is looking great!😁
Thanks Owen, the nice thing about our (windy) site is that it has a very mild microclimate.
Liz you and your channel are awesome
Thank you very much, it's very kind of you to say 😃
❤️ love your channel and I’m going to do the potato method
Sharing your video.
You have the best garden.
My daughter loves to eat garlic chives. She stinks constantly.
I've never had kohlrabi either.
Thank you Robert! I'm sure your daughter smells lovely, garlic is a great aroma. 😊😃
Love your videos.
Thank you Sophie, I'm so glad you are enjoying them. 😃
Self sown do you just mean you leave them over winter to flower?
I'd love to plant carrots in the autumn for spring. When did you sow them, what sort did you use, and were they given any protection?
Must try this!
Hey liz, can’t you use the strawberry plants for runners to get new plants? X
Hi Michelle, absolutely you can! The strawberries I showed in this video are prolific runner producers.
Beautiful gardens! Well done!
Thanks Lorri!
Amazing channel!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you for sharing Liz
You are so welcome!
Wonderful production Liz. I,m finding that allowing vegetables to self-seed brings all sorts of surprises the following year. Lettuces, italian parsley, fennel and tomatoes are all coming up on their own this year. Do you sell produce locally?
Hi David, yes the surprise veg all over the place are wonderful and a jolly good reason not to hoe the beds all the time. I sell veg boxes to local residents on a CSA basis (community supported agriculture), they commit to having veg from us for the whole season and pay for their share in the harvest in spring. This way I know how much to grow and I know that it's all sold and nothing will go to waste. Members of the veg box scheme get to know the farm, so can be confident about how and where their food is growing. It's a win-win situation.
Borage is my favorite!
It is lovely Debra, have you seen the white one? I show it on videos now and then, but it will be featured on the flower garden tour when I get that completed.
@@LizZorab I didn't know there was a white one!
i think most of us have un-named plant varieties in our gardens. most times because they've been gifted from other peoples gardens or we've inherited them......................brian
Absolutely! And often they taste the best 😃
Very informative 👏
Thank you Christina, so pleased that you found it of value.
Liz, Please include the link you promise in your video. I have noticed before that you promise a link to a different video but don't include it. In this case the link is for how you support your beans. I would be grateful.
I often change links over time and I've also noticed that some modes of playback don't show the links. But point taken, I'll try to remember to leave links that I refer to!
17:41 Without a cover on the bed, the salad greens may not get eaten. The cover would have given herbivores a place to hide from predators.
Raspberries has to be one of lowest maintenance and easy to grow fruits.
Raspberries, blissfully low maintenance, high yield and hideously expensive to buy in store!