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Does anyone else wish he had a channel that shows us how he prepares and uses all these incredible veggies? Roasted leeks?! SHOW US!!! Never even heard of it! He'd have such a lovely cooking show!
Try roasting leeks with fennel - leeks cut to 1cm slices, the fennel sliced lengthways, toss in olive oil,sea salt and black pepper, a crushed garlic clove snd a shot of dry vermouth ('cinzano' or 'martini') - wide shallow roasting dish, about 30 mins at 180c. Great with fish or lamb.
Succession sowing is my big goal this season! In previous years, I have never had a plan for what happens to my beds after I harvest the main crop. Now, I have an array of turnips, beets, pak choi, mibuna and chard seeds ready to fill out the vacant spaces left by garlic, potatoes etc. Thanks for making this video! It's so uplifting to see that the fun of sowing doesn't have to stop when spring is over.
I also noticed an experienced gardener at our community garden growing daikon radish after garlic. I tried it and liked it. I also successfully tried white turnip and not so successfully the rutabaga. I'll stick to white and salad, my favourite.
With cilantro you get so much seed I end up harvesting and using it as a continual covercrop during the summer. Pollinators love it for when it flowers, and it protects beds from being bare during turnovers. During this major heatwave we had here in western Canada my cannellini bean starts were protected by cilantro that was growing all around it. Doesn't matter if it is bolting all the time just keep throwing down the seed and pull when you want to make space in a bed.
How and when do you harvest the pollen? I imagine you have to let the plants over winter and then go to seed and season 2, if they are biennial like carrots, is that right? Does the bulb get woody at that point, so that you are essentially sacrificing the bulb for the pollen? So many questions! 😄 I'd be interested in trying it even if just with one plant!
Thank you - I'd never heard of that. Now I HAVE GOT to try to it! I grow perennial fennel, no bulb. I'm going to try to collect some pollen from it and see what it's like. At least it sets pollen reliably every year, so fingers crossed! 😋
@@that_auntceleste5848 Just cut yellow flowering heads early, before they get seedy. Chop and cut into butter or add to pickles, or sprinkle on salads or pastas as a pretty garnish. I use fennel seed in many things i cook also - pasta sauces, roasting pans, stuff i boil, like rice. Use it in breads, or a pinch raw raw to soothe your stomach - and sweeten your breath. Sprinkle the fennel seed on pizza while it is hot...sweet and savory go great together. More like that!
This is the first year I am planting in modules now for mid-July planting. I am zone 8, and we had too much rain and very cool temperatures this last spring, so everything is a bit behind, but they do catch up. I intercrop quite a bit, which is amazing to see. I struggle with beats for some reason, so I will see how they do planting now (in late June), to see if I have better luck than in early spring or autumn to winter over. Thank you Huw for everything you have taught me - Sean from the US state of Oregon, in Portland.
What a wonderful way to wind down a particularly stressful week, sipping a nice dirty martini and listening to Huw's soothing voice. Wonderful video sir!
@@wayneking9997 that’s very true! There have been times where I wanted to give up because vegetables wouldn’t grow but gradually understood the reasons why.
Yes, I'm in zone 8, think it's way too early to sow the ones that like cool weather. Most of my summer stuff has died, so I don't know what to do. Maybe try another round of squashes, see if they do better the 2nd time...
Just go by the average first frost dates, remember to add a couple weeks to days to maturity since stuff grows slower as it turns to fall. You have to get it in the ground or a pot if you want to have time to get a harvest. Use microclimates, dappled shade, morning and late evening sun and shade cloth to your advantage.
Thank you 😊 for the Gardening advice. I am learning so much from others that garden 🪴 Here in Nova Scotia Canada 🇨🇦. And online. Just loving 🥰 homesteading.
It´s interesting to see the diferences between several countrys. I´m living in Germany, which isn´t that far away from you, and we sow kohlrabi out in march. and i harvested the first one this week.
Companion planting with lavender, rosemary, marigold helps. I recommend researching integrated pest management sprays using biodegradable soap, citric acid and essential plant oils.
Kale is my absolute favorite!!! We had them outside last year. All through winter we had great harvest. Actually all of our cabbage plants lasted through the winter and grew very well.
I can share oregano plants and beet seed with anyone in Portland area. Happy to get some of your excess figs, squash or Kale in trade. Our chickens love compost scraps. We'll have Plums to swap in August also. 8b is our zone, and we always get a cool rain 3rd week of August, so that helps plants limping along in drought, or that we can get started in summer. Our rain barrels are now empty, and I tote grey-water out from sink and shower containers daily. Weekly deep watering is fine for most plants, once established.
Not related at all but I somehow got the urge to say that while I'm waiting for my first harvest of raspberries, I'm picking wild raspberries growing in our neighbour's hedge. I can't wait to taste the real deal though!
Oh I wished I lived where you at. To hot in south east Texas. So July is about getting ready for winter. Like October, even then is so hot like in the 90s. Beautiful garden you have!
I had never tried the black radish or parsnips before but the radish has done well in one corner of my garden it just keeps reseeding its self and just found out the parsnip has done the same witch I thought was carrots so this year I will enjoy all 3 and have plenty of seeds. This year was the first year I grew everything from seed in my green house and this year I will house inside tomatoes 3 different ones,and tricolored peppers. And my heirloom large cherryl tomato volunteered again and all tomatoes are just blooming. Its been a growing curve this year . Frost in May and not much rain so I've been making comfrey& purselane tea too boost some growth I'm planning on having a row comfrey around the whole fence areas that way when I fall plow I can add the cuttings into the soil for good composted soil.
I grow fennel for my daughter and personally have no experience using it in the kitchen. She makes a fennel soup each year that I have yet to taste. I do make fennel tea on a rare occasion. I cook all my meals but the truth is I spend so much time in the garden that I'm hard pressed for a creative flare when it's time to cook. Luckily I have a nice variety of fruit and veg that I can snack on in the garden while I'm out there.
Sorry to reply to a 7 month old comment..... but I used to make fennel soup all the time - its absolutely delicious! 1 Bulb fennel to six cloves garlic to a thumb of ginger. Serve with crusty (garlic) bread!
I've just harvested my onions and most of my lettuce and planted some calabrese in their spot, I've also sown some more garlic chives for indoors as I still have chives out doors in shaded area
I live in the UK and Swiss chard is my favourite year round vegetable, especially in the cooler months when not much else is growing. Easy to grow in containers and very little care needed. I just cut what I need and it springs up again.
I’m in zone 7b in Northwest GA (USA). We have our hottest weather in July and August . I’m planning an autumn garden this year but we don’t get any cool-down until at least September.
Containers gardening with side holes and made layers sticks, leaves, top soil, compost, cow poo or earthworm castings and premium container soil, easy to protect and movable. Cover with tulle. I put my containers in chairs or on bricks off ground. Instant , movable beds
Great video. We just planted new plants and here in San Diego the soil is too warm for root vegetables so we grow mostly tomatoes, onions, peppers and eggplants
Thanks Huw, excellent recommendations. I had planted a couple already but I loved some of the other suggestions, particularly the Sarpo Mira potatoes. Looking forward to experiment with them this year.
That garden looks lovely! Unfortunately my veggie growing has all but stopped. And I can only eat one of those crops mentioned, Italian kale. Since finding out I have high oxalate levels and have to avoid high oxalate foods, nearly all fruit and veg is off the menu. I am sad, but now I grow more flowers instead.
Hi. We are 3 months into having our allotment and really enjoying it. We are due to dig up our first early potatoes next week (we were late planting them as we didn’t get the plot until April) my question is what can I plant in their place and will I have to dig in some manure again. Thanks so much I really find your videos invaluable.
This may be a dumb question, but I am so inspired by your way of gardening and would like to emulate your methods as closely as possible. How does your growing zone breakdown compare to US growing zones? I'm in US zone 9a. We can get down into the low teens in winter, but on average we're 28- 36° F at night in winter, and in Summer we often have heat waves where we're between 105° and 110° F with long stretches of upper 80s and 90s during the day and upper 60s and 70s at night. I've lived on the family homestead for almost 50 years and hotter and drier is the definite trend here. You mention zones 7-8 so if your zones are similar to US zones, your winters are colder, and your summers too, right? I might not be able to grow some of these things you mention but there are likely some warmer weather swaps I could make, I'm thinking. As you can tell, I am relatively new to gardening. I failed pretty spectacularly the first year and so so the 2nd, better last year and this year looks promising. So glad I found you! You inspire me to keep trying!
Have you tried keeping some beetroots all winterlong and maybe even for more than one year ? I did, and they are giving me seeds, to begin with, but also they keep making leaves all along, here in Brittany, just like your turnips. The tip comes from an old italian lady that told me that when she was younger, her family never ate the roots, to make sure to always have food. We always have food but... never enough green in winter. And it provides some. ^^
Oh dear I think I used very bad compost, it seems to be attracting small black flys and greenfly, but now lately I’m seeing big black flys walking around the soil, ( I’ve my veg in buckets 🪣) Are they laying eggs, they don’t seem to fly off when I lift leaves outta the way, This is my first time growing HELP 😂
I've been trying to grow dill will only little success for about two years. I'll occasionally cook Borsch with red cabbage and beetroot, and though I should grow the dill for it. Unfortunately the slugs and snails are too fond of it. Watching this video, I had one idea, that I could take multi-cell trays, and sow one seed of something like a mangetout pea every day in each cell.
This video is great for those who live in zone 7 or 8 but for those of us in zone 2& 3 I don’t think these planting tips will quite work. I replant fast growing things like spinach and radish a few times but by the end of the September everything needs to be out of the garden...
QUESTION: Parsley can be microwaved to quickly dry it. Then you can gently crumble the leaves and store just like store bought parsley. BUT does that destroy or deminish it's vitamins and minerals?
With starting seeds in module trays during the summer , do I leave the module trays outside ? Shade ? Sun ? I’m only used to sowing in trays in early spring under lights in the house . Sumner sowing is new to me !
Another great video. Thank you so much. You’ve mentioned herbs. Do you have any tips for growing them? I live in zone 7, so fat I’ve tried putting parsley, coriander and dill seeds in the ground, in containers and in modules and nothing seems to be working. Another vegetable I’m struggling with too is celery, it sprouts but it seems to be 3mm tall forever😄. It would really help some info
@@andreahorsch286 I am here in Ohio, too. I am amused... and a bit jealous..when so many UK gardeners refer to their U.S. zones! They are milder all the way around, with more like zone 7 or 8 winter temps but summer highs far lowers than ours. Of course, our warm summers means we find winter squash, melons, sweet potatoes, and eggplant easier to grow ( lots of U.K gardeners have tips on creating warm microclimates for those, but we just plop them in the ground!), so I can accept that our pea and salad season is so much shorter! :) I learn so much from this channel and Charles Dowding on general garden principals, but I watch an Ohio gardener, Growfully With Jenna, who gives seasonal growing tips more appropriate for our climate. She has a similar video out now for June. I am hoping for a July or August one soon. ruclips.net/video/t5dRO1knU5k/видео.html She does mention.. on Instagram I think... That this is the time for planting brassicas like cabbages and broccoli in starter pots so they will be healthy and strong to go in once the weather cools off enough for them. And I know I am sowing a lot of bush beans still because they mature so quickly and I like to have staggered harvests so every couple of weeks I plant another couple more feet of them. Though... The patch I did this weekend is probably the last. We still have quite a lot of time left in our growing season before first Frost. Depends on the area but anywhere from 75 to 90 days and if we have a late first Frost it's even longer. But as you point out the bigger issue is how hot it is for us. This past week of 90° days has been really rough on the plants and I'm just glad that it's rained. So we really don't do the whole get ready for winter stuff for another month but if we want to fall garden and we like to plant from seedlings it's good to put those things in pots now so that we can plant them in 6 weeks or so.
Your garden always looks great! Getting ready to start second round of beans & zucchini.. see what happens. High desert zone 5/6 with triple digit temps 🥵🥵 so prob better wait on cool crops a bit longer 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
I wanted to ask about slugs, they are enjoying almost everything I planted, is there any good and safe for plants tips to get rid of them? I tried beer in low dishes, ashes , egg shells, but looks like nothing can stop them 🤣 🤗 thank you for this helpful video and your garden is so beautiful 💕 love it
I go out at night with a torch (UK) (flashlight in USA) and sprinkle a bit of salt on them. They shrivel up and die ! I am not wasting my Guiness Stout on those buggers !
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Does anyone else wish he had a channel that shows us how he prepares and uses all these incredible veggies? Roasted leeks?! SHOW US!!! Never even heard of it! He'd have such a lovely cooking show!
I wish that literally every time I watch a video!
Try roasting leeks with fennel - leeks cut to 1cm slices, the fennel sliced lengthways, toss in olive oil,sea salt and black pepper, a crushed garlic clove snd a shot of dry vermouth ('cinzano' or 'martini') - wide shallow roasting dish, about 30 mins at 180c. Great with fish or lamb.
Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!
@suzanneknight Adding carrots would be great too.
Succession sowing is my big goal this season! In previous years, I have never had a plan for what happens to my beds after I harvest the main crop. Now, I have an array of turnips, beets, pak choi, mibuna and chard seeds ready to fill out the vacant spaces left by garlic, potatoes etc.
Thanks for making this video! It's so uplifting to see that the fun of sowing doesn't have to stop when spring is over.
Add leaf lettuce to your list. Both Black Seeded Simpson and Buttercrunch can start providing salad leaves in just a month
I also noticed an experienced gardener at our community garden growing daikon radish after garlic. I tried it and liked it. I also successfully tried white turnip and not so successfully the rutabaga. I'll stick to white and salad, my favourite.
I forgot to mention that the turnips went in after the adjacent bulb onions.
With cilantro you get so much seed I end up harvesting and using it as a continual covercrop during the summer. Pollinators love it for when it flowers, and it protects beds from being bare during turnovers. During this major heatwave we had here in western Canada my cannellini bean starts were protected by cilantro that was growing all around it. Doesn't matter if it is bolting all the time just keep throwing down the seed and pull when you want to make space in a bed.
Fennel pollen is absolutely delicious too, for the record. My ex is a chef and used to use it in pasta dishes with leek and peas. So good.
How and when do you harvest the pollen?
I imagine you have to let the plants over winter and then go to seed and season 2, if they are biennial like carrots, is that right? Does the bulb get woody at that point, so that you are essentially sacrificing the bulb for the pollen? So many questions! 😄 I'd be interested in trying it even if just with one plant!
@@that_auntceleste5848 sorry, no idea. He had a tin of it, so we didn’t grow it ourselves. I’m keen to experiment though, because it was SO good!
Thank you - I'd never heard of that. Now I HAVE GOT to try to it! I grow perennial fennel, no bulb. I'm going to try to collect some pollen from it and see what it's like. At least it sets pollen reliably every year, so fingers crossed! 😋
@@that_auntceleste5848 Just cut yellow flowering heads early, before they get seedy. Chop and cut into butter or add to pickles, or sprinkle on salads or pastas as a pretty garnish. I use fennel seed in many things i cook also - pasta sauces, roasting pans, stuff i boil, like rice. Use it in breads, or a pinch raw raw to soothe your stomach - and sweeten your breath. Sprinkle the fennel seed on pizza while it is hot...sweet and savory go great together. More like that!
@@erinobrien8408 Thanks for sharing that. I had no idea fennel could be perennial. Is that because of your zone or is it the variety?
Turnip greens have long been a staple of southern cooking.
1. Kohlrabi
2. Beet Root
3. Fennel
4. Swiss Chard
5. Kale
6. Winter Radish
7. Annual Herbs (Coriander, Parsley, Dill)
8. Greens (Lettuce, Spinach)
9. Turnip
10. Potatoes (blight resistant variety ex Sarpo Mira)
Perfect!
Absolutely excellent saved me a lot of time
This is the first year I am planting in modules now for mid-July planting. I am zone 8, and we had too much rain and very cool temperatures this last spring, so everything is a bit behind, but they do catch up. I intercrop quite a bit, which is amazing to see. I struggle with beats for some reason, so I will see how they do planting now (in late June), to see if I have better luck than in early spring or autumn to winter over. Thank you Huw for everything you have taught me - Sean from the US state of Oregon, in Portland.
What a wonderful way to wind down a particularly stressful week, sipping a nice dirty martini and listening to Huw's soothing voice. Wonderful video sir!
You really started giving me the passion of starting my own vegetable garden. The information and knowledge you give is great! Thanks a lot!
It's great having the passion to start gardening but it's about keeping the passion to garden when things might not go your way just remember that
Same here... 🙌🙏
@@wayneking9997 that’s very true! There have been times where I wanted to give up because vegetables wouldn’t grow but gradually understood the reasons why.
@@cptnickaviation I think we've all had those moments but it's through learning that you gain experience
isnt weed a good plant to grow?
Wow, your climate cools in August? That's the hottest part of the season for me.
Wtf... It has not even been warm here in July and now storm destroyed the whole garden to pieces...
Yes, I'm in zone 8, think it's way too early to sow the ones that like cool weather. Most of my summer stuff has died, so I don't know what to do. Maybe try another round of squashes, see if they do better the 2nd time...
Just go by the average first frost dates, remember to add a couple weeks to days to maturity since stuff grows slower as it turns to fall. You have to get it in the ground or a pot if you want to have time to get a harvest. Use microclimates, dappled shade, morning and late evening sun and shade cloth to your advantage.
Thank you for the information. Live in Zone 9, USA. Will be using your guide starting in August.
Thank you for giving the recommended Zone for this video. Super helpful. Love your videos.
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What a brilliant resource you are. Thank you 🙏🏻
So nice of you! Thank you :)
Succession sowing: my best achievement of this growing season; thanks for the continued inspiration.
Great as usual, Huw….you see, it was so good, I watched it again
Thank you 😊 for the Gardening advice. I am learning so much from others that garden 🪴 Here in Nova Scotia Canada 🇨🇦. And online. Just loving 🥰 homesteading.
It´s interesting to see the diferences between several countrys. I´m living in Germany, which isn´t that far away from you, and we sow kohlrabi out in march. and i harvested the first one this week.
Your garden is always beautiful and never buggy!! What are your tips for insect control?
Yes! I was watching this thinking of all the flea beetles who would be happy if I planted my winter radishes now 🤦🏼♀️
Companion planting with lavender, rosemary, marigold helps. I recommend researching integrated pest management sprays using biodegradable soap, citric acid and essential plant oils.
Perfect timing. I pulled up 40 broadbean plants and cleared a raised bed today...some good ideas on what to do with the space. Thank you.
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Thank for the list, enjoyed visiting your garden this morning. I am in Texas, we are having never ending rain. Should be a good time for sowing
I grow bronze fennel in the flower garden! It’s so beautiful!
Herbs are great and I am about to create a new herb bed in the garden. Its the one thing I never concentrate on but its time to amend that
Kale is my absolute favorite!!! We had them outside last year. All through winter we had great harvest. Actually all of our cabbage plants lasted through the winter and grew very well.
I can share oregano plants and beet seed with anyone in Portland area. Happy to get some of your excess figs, squash or Kale in trade. Our chickens love compost scraps. We'll have Plums to swap in August also. 8b is our zone, and we always get a cool rain 3rd week of August, so that helps plants limping along in drought, or that we can get started in summer. Our rain barrels are now empty, and I tote grey-water out from sink and shower containers daily. Weekly deep watering is fine for most plants, once established.
Not related at all but I somehow got the urge to say that while I'm waiting for my first harvest of raspberries, I'm picking wild raspberries growing in our neighbour's hedge. I can't wait to taste the real deal though!
Lovely video Huw and team. Visually stimulating as well as very informative thank you. Do not know how I missed this one first time around.
Thank you , I love your videos they are so straightforward and really give practical tips 😊
Roasted fennel bulb is such a treat! 😋
Fennel was a staple veg growing up in Switzerland. Mum boiled them and served with a bechamel (white sauce) delicious..
Oh I wished I lived where you at. To hot in south east Texas. So July is about getting ready for winter. Like October, even then is so hot like in the 90s. Beautiful garden you have!
I had never tried the black radish or parsnips before but the radish has done well in one corner of my garden it just keeps reseeding its self and just found out the parsnip has done the same witch I thought was carrots so this year I will enjoy all 3 and have plenty of seeds. This year was the first year I grew everything from seed in my green house and this year I will house inside tomatoes 3 different ones,and tricolored peppers. And my heirloom large cherryl tomato volunteered again and all tomatoes are just blooming. Its been a growing curve this year . Frost in May and not much rain so I've been making comfrey& purselane tea too boost some growth I'm planning on having a row comfrey around the whole fence areas that way when I fall plow I can add the cuttings into the soil for good composted soil.
Some great ideas here - thanks. This is only the third season growing from my ten raised beds, with still a lot to learn!
Foxgloves looks so stunning in your garden.
Great idea to grow kale in an unheated greenhouse over winter. Pigeon proof as well. Worth a try. I can compare to outside grown Kale.
It has bigger leaves and is much more tender. I grow it every winter.
This is so very timely! Thank you so much for such useful information. For beginners like myself, your channel is indispensable! 🤗
Did I miss parsnips? Sometimes, we leave in the ground all winter so they will be sweeter
Nope, for me I find july is too late to sow them as they are slow to germinate and slow to develop
@@NarjunGuillas will do 👌👌
Hi Huw, will home made nettle fertiliser make house smell if i use for indoor plants?
That's a neat idea about storing the potted potatoes into winter.
Thank you So much for stating at the beginning what zone your suggested seeding of vegetables was for. Saved me a lot of time.
I grow fennel for my daughter and personally have no experience using it in the kitchen. She makes a fennel soup each year that I have yet to taste. I do make fennel tea on a rare occasion. I cook all my meals but the truth is I spend so much time in the garden that I'm hard pressed for a creative flare when it's time to cook. Luckily I have a nice variety of fruit and veg that I can snack on in the garden while I'm out there.
Sorry to reply to a 7 month old comment..... but I used to make fennel soup all the time - its absolutely delicious! 1 Bulb fennel to six cloves garlic to a thumb of ginger. Serve with crusty (garlic) bread!
We love your channel, Huw!
I've just harvested my onions and most of my lettuce and planted some calabrese in their spot, I've also sown some more garlic chives for indoors as I still have chives out doors in shaded area
Wicked video and so timely huw! I feel like the July sowings this year will be the best crops of the year
I live in the UK and Swiss chard is my favourite year round vegetable, especially in the cooler months when not much else is growing. Easy to grow in containers and very little care needed. I just cut what I need and it springs up again.
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Never eaten Swiss chard. I may have to give it a go
Do you just cut off the stems, and the plant grows again? How much in inches of the stems do you leave?
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excellent just built a raised bed, thanks
I’m in zone 7b in Northwest GA (USA). We have our hottest weather in July and August . I’m planning an autumn garden this year but we don’t get any cool-down until at least September.
It would be really great if you can add a video on how to prepare your beds between plantings. Thanks!
The weather's been so upside down this year, I'm worrying we will get a heatwave in autumn or something
Containers gardening with side holes and made layers sticks, leaves, top soil, compost, cow poo or earthworm castings and premium container soil, easy to protect and movable. Cover with tulle. I put my containers in chairs or on bricks off ground. Instant , movable beds
So inspiring. Many thanks Huw as always. 👍🏻
I've never heard the phrase "hungry gap" before. Perfect way to describe that time!
Great video. We just planted new plants and here in San Diego the soil is too warm for root vegetables so we grow mostly tomatoes, onions, peppers and eggplants
Yep... good idea to seed again for a fall harvest. I just planted beets and radishes 8 )
Thanks Huw, excellent recommendations. I had planted a couple already but I loved some of the other suggestions, particularly the Sarpo Mira potatoes. Looking forward to experiment with them this year.
Thank you Huw a lovely vlog l will be sowing my seeds this weekend thank you again xx
That garden looks lovely! Unfortunately my veggie growing has all but stopped. And I can only eat one of those crops mentioned, Italian kale. Since finding out I have high oxalate levels and have to avoid high oxalate foods, nearly all fruit and veg is off the menu. I am sad, but now I grow more flowers instead.
Dr. Eric Berg (youtube) advises that for high oxalate levels, lemon juice can be helpful.
Thank you! I actually have a packet of black radishes so am going to plant those today :)
Excellent video and good seed selection for sowing in July Huw Richards.
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i feel I am just planting to feed the slugs, I see your spinach, lettuces. mine never get a chance to grow like that.
I agree. Maybe he can afford nemotodes?
Fantastic video as always, thank you Huw👩🏼🌾
Hi. We are 3 months into having our allotment and really enjoying it. We are due to dig up our first early potatoes next week (we were late planting them as we didn’t get the plot until April) my question is what can I plant in their place and will I have to dig in some manure again. Thanks so much I really find your videos invaluable.
This may be a dumb question, but I am so inspired by your way of gardening and would like to emulate your methods as closely as possible. How does your growing zone breakdown compare to US growing zones? I'm in US zone 9a. We can get down into the low teens in winter, but on average we're 28- 36° F at night in winter, and in Summer we often have heat waves where we're between 105° and 110° F with long stretches of upper 80s and 90s during the day and upper 60s and 70s at night. I've lived on the family homestead for almost 50 years and hotter and drier is the definite trend here. You mention zones 7-8 so if your zones are similar to US zones, your winters are colder, and your summers too, right? I might not be able to grow some of these things you mention but there are likely some warmer weather swaps I could make, I'm thinking. As you can tell, I am relatively new to gardening. I failed pretty spectacularly the first year and so so the 2nd, better last year and this year looks promising. So glad I found you! You inspire me to keep trying!
You absolutely can start cool season crops in 90+ temp, just have to watch them, keep them watered and use/create microclimates
Have you tried keeping some beetroots all winterlong and maybe even for more than one year ?
I did, and they are giving me seeds, to begin with, but also they keep making leaves all along, here in Brittany, just like your turnips. The tip comes from an old italian lady that told me that when she was younger, her family never ate the roots, to make sure to always have food.
We always have food but... never enough green in winter. And it provides some. ^^
Thank you brother, regards from Indonesia
Lovely video thanks for that!! Got to get planting!!
Thanks for the advice.
Awesome update my friend
I'm so sad! My starts of golden beetroot, chard, cilantro and kohlrabi all died when our zone 8 weather hit 48°c (119°f) 😢🥵
That's so sad!! We had a rough time here too! Hope you and your garden recover quickly!!
@@hlegler Thanks! I'm going to start another round of seeds, set up some shade cloth and hope for the best! Good luck to you too!!
I've never had rainbow chard bolt. It just keeps growing and growing all year for me. (Zone 5-6)
Great video 👍🏻
I had bad luck with beets this...lots of foliage but when I pulled up a couple of them...no beets..
Me gustan mucho esos cultivos
I love your each video..bless you dear 🇫🇷🗼❤
You look so young! Is your vegetable diet making your age reverse? 🤗
Oh dear I think I used very bad compost, it seems to be attracting small black flys and greenfly, but now lately I’m seeing big black flys walking around the soil,
( I’ve my veg in buckets 🪣)
Are they laying eggs, they don’t seem to fly off when I lift leaves outta the way,
This is my first time growing HELP 😂
Me too! They havent seemed to bother the plants though.
I could listen to you all day long, Huw, but even *you* couldn't get me to eat 1/2 of these veg! lol
Fantastic info thank you
Thank you for your videos. They are so informative!
I really appreciate that!
Good information. Thanks!
I've been trying to grow dill will only little success for about two years. I'll occasionally cook Borsch with red cabbage and beetroot, and though I should grow the dill for it. Unfortunately the slugs and snails are too fond of it.
Watching this video, I had one idea, that I could take multi-cell trays, and sow one seed of something like a mangetout pea every day in each cell.
May God bless you more
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I have dill on my fence in a hanging style tub it's doing grand x
Great ideas!
Thank you for this video, valuable as always!! 😍🌻
Fantastic as always 😊
Thank you 🙏🏼
This video is great for those who live in zone 7 or 8 but for those of us in zone 2& 3 I don’t think these planting tips will quite work. I replant fast growing things like spinach and radish a few times but by the end of the September everything needs to be out of the garden...
Great vid huw! What about carrots too? I've just put in chard, beetroot, carrots and spring onions onto my freed up garlic bed 😁
Good question. I was planning on carrots in pots in greenhouse for winter
Great, thanks for the video. Please, what are the violet flowers at the beginning of the video? I need to have them! 😁😍
very helpful and i love vital seeds !!!
Great .
Please type of camera that you can filmed
QUESTION: Parsley can be microwaved to quickly dry it. Then you can gently crumble the leaves and store just like store bought parsley. BUT does that destroy or deminish it's vitamins and minerals?
No idea I've never owned a microwave unfortunately 😉
As a fellow Welsh woman, what zone are we in? Or did you state the zones for the lovely Americans? ☺️
Also fab list- thanks!
It would help if garden video utuber's would tell us what zone you are in. Good luck finding potato starts now, I'm using grocery store potatoes.
With starting seeds in module trays during the summer , do I leave the module trays outside ? Shade ? Sun ? I’m only used to sowing in trays in early spring under lights in the house . Sumner sowing is new to me !
precioso jardin ..👍
Another great video. Thank you so much. You’ve mentioned herbs. Do you have any tips for growing them? I live in zone 7, so fat I’ve tried putting parsley, coriander and dill seeds in the ground, in containers and in modules and nothing seems to be working. Another vegetable I’m struggling with too is celery, it sprouts but it seems to be 3mm tall forever😄. It would really help some info
Fantastic video
Growing all that dill and caraway you're half way to being Latvian ;)
Thank you
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What do you use caraway for? I've grown a lot of it knowing it's edible but then haven't found any recipes :D
@@catherinekevin6252 there’s a couple of recipes on my channel that include caraway. It’s used a lot over here in cooking and baking.
Awesome! What's the hottest it will get at your garden between now and fall?
Hahaha that's a tough question because it could be 24degrees C or 31 degrees C :)
@@HuwRichards I am in Ohio, USA and we still have probably 37-38C ahead of us
@@andreahorsch286 I am here in Ohio, too. I am amused... and a bit jealous..when so many UK gardeners refer to their U.S. zones! They are milder all the way around, with more like zone 7 or 8 winter temps but summer highs far lowers than ours. Of course, our warm summers means we find winter squash, melons, sweet potatoes, and eggplant easier to grow ( lots of U.K gardeners have tips on creating warm microclimates for those, but we just plop them in the ground!), so I can accept that our pea and salad season is so much shorter! :)
I learn so much from this channel and Charles Dowding on general garden principals, but I watch an Ohio gardener, Growfully With Jenna, who gives seasonal growing tips more appropriate for our climate. She has a similar video out now for June. I am hoping for a July or August one soon. ruclips.net/video/t5dRO1knU5k/видео.html
She does mention.. on Instagram I think... That this is the time for planting brassicas like cabbages and broccoli in starter pots so they will be healthy and strong to go in once the weather cools off enough for them. And I know I am sowing a lot of bush beans still because they mature so quickly and I like to have staggered harvests so every couple of weeks I plant another couple more feet of them. Though... The patch I did this weekend is probably the last. We still have quite a lot of time left in our growing season before first Frost. Depends on the area but anywhere from 75 to 90 days and if we have a late first Frost it's even longer. But as you point out the bigger issue is how hot it is for us. This past week of 90° days has been really rough on the plants and I'm just glad that it's rained.
So we really don't do the whole get ready for winter stuff for another month but if we want to fall garden and we like to plant from seedlings it's good to put those things in pots now so that we can plant them in 6 weeks or so.
Thank you really enjoyed this video. 👍
Your garden always looks great! Getting ready to start second round of beans & zucchini.. see what happens. High desert zone 5/6 with triple digit temps 🥵🥵 so prob better wait on cool crops a bit longer 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
I wanted to ask about slugs, they are enjoying almost everything I planted, is there any good and safe for plants tips to get rid of them?
I tried beer in low dishes, ashes , egg shells, but looks like nothing can stop them 🤣
🤗 thank you for this helpful video and your garden is so beautiful 💕 love it
Diatomaceous Earth has worked for me.
I go out at night with a torch (UK) (flashlight in USA) and sprinkle a bit of salt on them. They shrivel up and die ! I am not wasting my Guiness Stout on those buggers !