With the climate changing and becoming unpredictable I am trying to focus on my garden being as resilient as possible. This is very useful. Your plants are all looking so strong and healthy!
I'm doing the same, though I'll always try my luck at growing things that are a bit more sensitive to climate and pests. Having fail safe crops is insurance, though :)
Beets are something I will have to try again. Some years ago, when I was living in the tropics, I had a plot in a community garden and tried out some different beets of many colours (bull’s blood, chioggia, golden.) Despite it being monsoon season, when it was cooler than the rest of the year, only one survived (bull’s blood,) and even that was micro-sized, because of the heat! Now I am living in the Med region, where we have winter, so am going to try again. I got turnips (Falco F1) last year and those were lovely, so will have to try the beets again! Can’t wait to see how they turn out, even though I do not even eat beets! I do like the greens, though and I get an immense satisfaction from growing my own produce from seed that I don’t find when buy plant starts from my local nursery.
Good luck! But I'd recommend buying fresh beets first and experimenting with recipes. There's no point growing veg that you won't eat. As for liking beet greens, you can grow ruby chard instead and get many more harvests from a single plant 🙂
@@LovelygreensYep, already got my rhubarb chard ready to transplant into the garden. My Mum loves beetroot and so do my Aunt and Uncle who will be visiting, when they are ready. So I'll only put in a few in. Last year, I made the mistake of bringing rhubarb chard to the zoo where I worked. We fed it to the lemurs and the next day the people who paid for the lemur experience, so they could play with them, got red poop stains all over them! OOPS! Lesson learned!
Hello lovely green!!!,for me it would be wild Rocket,the same as rubarbe,once you have it in the ground,it keeps coming,it has lovely yellow flowers which the bees adore,they are also delicious....it goes dormant during the coldest winter months .
I'll be sharing this with my Granddaughter...17 and this spring into growing food, she's even talking about what to plant now. Your place looks amazing in the short time you guys have been there.
I've tried spring onions and they never germinate. I sowed some Welsh onions this year and they're doing great. The Isle of Man seems to be plagued with slugs and snails - I'm down in Port Erin and all my pak choi was eaten overnight, all my brassicas have been snaffled, they've even climbed up my sunflowers and destroyed most of them! The best thing I've grown this year is bambino pumpkin - it went mad and if I hadn't broken off the growing tips it would have taken over the entire lawn by now! I'm looking forward to harvesting them later this year.
I watched a video on RUclips where a gardener (I think he was Welsh,) trapped lots of snails and slugs, let them mingle with each other in a bucket for a few days, then put water in the bucket to drown them. Then used all of that nasty water to water around his garden beds. Turned out that some snails carry nematodes that kill them, so letting them mingle meant that some infected snails and slugs passed the nematodes onto others, drowning them let out those now-numerous nematodes into the water and then watering with the water inoculated the soil around the plants. So the exercise served to control the population of the snails and slugs in the long-run. I can see how doing this yearly would help minimized the population in your garden and if your neighbours did it too, say if you were part of a community garden, then it would have a protective effect for everybody.
Hi Tanya. I will just say that while rhubarb is usually a very fail-safe plant(my mum had it growing in her garden in England for over 40 years). Where I am in County Kerry, S.W. Ireland, I have twice tried to grow rhubarb from either 1 yr old plants or via an established divided crown and on both occasions they have died eventually within a year, yielding no pickable stalks due to an insect called a dock bug which you won't find any mention of being a pest in any garden growing book I've come across. These bugs have both fed off the stalks and leaves along with laying their eggs in and around the plant and in spite of using an organic pyrethrum spray on the plants it had no effect on stopping their demise. I don't know if this is at all a problem in the isle of Man or UK yet, but just thought I'd forewarn you that growing rhubarb isn't completely cast iron problem free. Oh and if by any chance you've heard of this dock bug problem and know of an organic solution to combat it please do let me know as I love rhubarb. Cheers!
Shallots, I plant them at the same time as garlic. I always get a great harvest. 5 bulbs produced 74 more. Save bulbs for seed next fall. Stores for a year, after curing in produce bin in frig. Always makes me smile.😊
I am trying a few new (new to me, as I haven't grown them before) fall crops this year. Copenhagen Market Cabbage, Italian Red of Florence bunching onion and Golden Beets. I don't know if I will like the Golden Beets, but if I grow it I know I will try it. I am looking forward to seeing how your Borlotti beans do. I have tried them before at a friends house, but they weren't home grown. Thank you and congratulations on your 200k subscribers! It won't be long before you are at 300k.😀 ♥🐝
Thanks so much, Lisa! As for golden beets - they are delicious. I grow a type called Burpee's Golden and it's sweet and mild and doesn't stain your hands pink when preparing it :)
Hello Tanya! Wondering how your Dyer's Woad faired and would love to see how you process it for use with dying fabric or wool. In my garden, on the east coast of Canada, the cabbage white butterflies decided it was a favorite of theirs as well!
Boysenberries. They're perennials and once the plants get started the berries are prolific. What is definitely not welcome are blackberry canes, they're a scourge here taking over acres/hectares of productive land. (Pacific Northwest area). Mint, it's easy, doesn't create problems if grown in containers. Spearmint is the favourite.
Okay we will totally trying the silverbeet because oh man my greens get smashed by insects and I'm currently just going to buy netting . We learned a lot as always! Thank you!
Great video Tanya, loved all the extra info re cooking, bolting etc. thank you. I’m growing veg this year but haven’t a clue how to cook some of it such as Chard 🤪🤪 fennel, beets, turnips. So when seasoned growers tell me how to cook it, I give it it a go. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Chard is great chopped up into 1" pieces, stem and all, and sautéed. I love it with garlic. Beets, roasted - check my Instagram Stories from today. When it comes to growing veg, grow what you like to eat, though. Best buy it first, experiment with recipes, then decide to grow it or not.
Hello Tanya Lovely Greens. Great video as always . I had some Red Cabbages growing in a big planter though i covered them in netting those pesky butterfly catterpillers still managed to get in there and ate the lot just about . Do you know anybody who wants to buy two jars of Sarsons pickling vinegar. LOL😆
A major pest I have is white tail deer. They definitely like my Jerusalem artichoke leaves and this year have taken a liking to rhubarb, they’ve eaten a few leaves off of mine but left the stalks but they ate my neighbor’s mature rhubarb right to the ground 😳 ! Last year the potato plants were on their menu 🤦🏻♂️.
Thank you for your tips, I was surprised to see rhubarb on your list as my garden can’t grow it, I’ve tried it all over my garden and it lasts for 2 years max then dies. I grow on very heavy clay, I used to have a very healthy patch in my last garden so I’m flummoxed as why it won’t grow here ?.
One thing that can help is creating a barrier around the base of the plant. A 2L plastic drinks bottle works well if you cut off the top and bottom. Push it into the ground at the base of your plants, and it can help repel slugs long enough for the plant to grow taller.
Is that tree spinach Cnidoscolus aconitifolius or Chenopodium giganteum? I grow chenopodium giganteum, it has the same purple on the younger leaves, but does not grown any more than half a foot, where I am. It is a nice tasting alternative to spinach, but the leaves do not get very big at all, so I’d have to grow lots of it in order to get a meal out of it. It self seeds as well, but I think the heat here, which is a problem for most of the year, keeps it small and stunted. The slugs and snails also love it, so spinach of either variety seems to struggle to become established and do well. I found the same when I used to grow New Zealand spinach, which did not taste like spinach, in my opinion it was nowhere near as nice as regular spinach. I am looking for amaranth seeds, to see if I can grow red and white amaranth. When I used to grow that in the tropics, though, it was really hard to keep under control, as it really did self-seed! Maybe in a climate that is more arid like Cyprus is, it would be harder for them to take over?
Hi Julie, mine is Chenopodium giganteum, the same as yours. I've grown both of my large plants individually and in very rich soil. The tall one outdoors was actually started off in the Polycrub in spring before I planted it out. Maybe those tips help? I also get metre tall lambs quarters (a weedy relative of tree spinach).
@@LovelygreensThat's cool. I'll try it in my shade house. It stays cooler than outside in the summer (had the tree spinach outdoors in full sun, since I thought it would grow tall) and stays a few degrees warmer in there than the outside, during winter. Never tried it during winter, actually. We don't get any frost or snow, so it might be okay. I'll make sure to provide it with very rich soil! Thanks!
Great video Tanya. I have a courgette plant in a tub and I haven't had any edible fruits yet. The flowers develop in to fruits but instead of getting bigger they wither at one end and turn yellow. What am I doing wrong?! I'm in Ireland. Thanks
I don't see why not, as long as you harvest the cabbage before spring and don't disturb the garlic when harvesting. The green sprouts will need at least some light over winter, too, so keep that in mind in regards to the cabbage leaves potentially covering them.
@@Lovelygreens Central Florida. 100°/37° today. 48 % humidity. We water daily. I'm in my 4th year of woodchips now so things are looking up, maybe it's time to try them again
@@melissab8500 I've just read that Jerusalem artichokes prefer to grow between 65-90F. It may be best to focus on crops that will love your sub-tropical climate instead!
I'd love to grow tropical fruit, but that's not realistic here. Everything else that's suited for my climate grows well - it's just understanding what each plant needs.
i tried growing swiss chard from seeds in my indoor garden under really bright LED grow lights but haven't found success yet. The seedlings grow around 2 inches tall and then fail to live on. Any tips for swiss chards?
You are a most beautiful teacher. Your husband is one Lucky Guy... Love your vids. Keep 'um coming.
With the climate changing and becoming unpredictable I am trying to focus on my garden being as resilient as possible. This is very useful. Your plants are all looking so strong and healthy!
I'm doing the same, though I'll always try my luck at growing things that are a bit more sensitive to climate and pests. Having fail safe crops is insurance, though :)
@@LovelygreensThere's a certain satisfaction from 'beating the odds.' But you are right, having fail safe crops, too is just common sense.
Dobrze, że jesteś. Oglądam Ciebie i sprawiasz,że świat jest lepszy. Dziękuję.
Thank YOU 🙏
This is a great list of veg Tanya, I was nodding frantically with each suggestion!
I'm sure you grow most, if not all, too 🙂
Beets are something I will have to try again. Some years ago, when I was living in the tropics, I had a plot in a community garden and tried out some different beets of many colours (bull’s blood, chioggia, golden.) Despite it being monsoon season, when it was cooler than the rest of the year, only one survived (bull’s blood,) and even that was micro-sized, because of the heat! Now I am living in the Med region, where we have winter, so am going to try again. I got turnips (Falco F1) last year and those were lovely, so will have to try the beets again! Can’t wait to see how they turn out, even though I do not even eat beets! I do like the greens, though and I get an immense satisfaction from growing my own produce from seed that I don’t find when buy plant starts from my local nursery.
Good luck! But I'd recommend buying fresh beets first and experimenting with recipes. There's no point growing veg that you won't eat. As for liking beet greens, you can grow ruby chard instead and get many more harvests from a single plant 🙂
@@LovelygreensYep, already got my rhubarb chard ready to transplant into the garden. My Mum loves beetroot and so do my Aunt and Uncle who will be visiting, when they are ready. So I'll only put in a few in. Last year, I made the mistake of bringing rhubarb chard to the zoo where I worked. We fed it to the lemurs and the next day the people who paid for the lemur experience, so they could play with them, got red poop stains all over them! OOPS! Lesson learned!
Thank you! I love Jerusalem artichokes. But I also find Oca really easy, and Yacon. Just amazing to grow
Agree! Almost too easy, all three 💚
Hello lovely green!!!,for me it would be wild Rocket,the same as rubarbe,once you have it in the ground,it keeps coming,it has lovely yellow flowers which the bees adore,they are also delicious....it goes dormant during the coldest winter months .
@@LovelygreensSo true, Tanya. I can't wait to harvest them. It's those underground secrets I find pretty exciting.
I'll be sharing this with my Granddaughter...17 and this spring into growing food, she's even talking about what to plant now. Your place looks amazing in the short time you guys have been there.
That's amazing! You must be such an inspiration for her 💚
I've tried spring onions and they never germinate. I sowed some Welsh onions this year and they're doing great. The Isle of Man seems to be plagued with slugs and snails - I'm down in Port Erin and all my pak choi was eaten overnight, all my brassicas have been snaffled, they've even climbed up my sunflowers and destroyed most of them! The best thing I've grown this year is bambino pumpkin - it went mad and if I hadn't broken off the growing tips it would have taken over the entire lawn by now! I'm looking forward to harvesting them later this year.
It's been a very wet summer, and wet = slugs! They can be voracious
@@Lovelygreens It's a pity they don't like eating weeds.
I watched a video on RUclips where a gardener (I think he was Welsh,) trapped lots of snails and slugs, let them mingle with each other in a bucket for a few days, then put water in the bucket to drown them. Then used all of that nasty water to water around his garden beds. Turned out that some snails carry nematodes that kill them, so letting them mingle meant that some infected snails and slugs passed the nematodes onto others, drowning them let out those now-numerous nematodes into the water and then watering with the water inoculated the soil around the plants. So the exercise served to control the population of the snails and slugs in the long-run. I can see how doing this yearly would help minimized the population in your garden and if your neighbours did it too, say if you were part of a community garden, then it would have a protective effect for everybody.
Okra is my nearly fail-proof crops. I love to eat them when they are small right from the plant.
Hi Tanya. I will just say that while rhubarb is usually a very fail-safe plant(my mum had it growing in her garden in England for over 40 years). Where I am in County Kerry, S.W. Ireland, I have twice tried to grow rhubarb from either 1 yr old plants or via an established divided crown and on both occasions they have died eventually within a year, yielding no pickable stalks due to an insect called a dock bug which you won't find any mention of being a pest in any garden growing book I've come across. These bugs have both fed off the stalks and leaves along with laying their eggs in and around the plant and in spite of using an organic pyrethrum spray on the plants it had no effect on stopping their demise.
I don't know if this is at all a problem in the isle of Man or UK yet, but just thought I'd forewarn you that growing rhubarb isn't completely cast iron problem free. Oh and if by any chance you've heard of this dock bug problem and know of an organic solution to combat it please do let me know as I love rhubarb. Cheers!
I've never heard of it, but thanks for drawing my attention to it!
Shallots, I plant them at the same time as garlic. I always get a great harvest. 5 bulbs produced 74 more. Save bulbs for seed next fall. Stores for a year, after curing in produce bin in frig. Always makes me smile.😊
What a harvest!
Thanks for the Welsh onion tip! Great video. 👍
Thanks and you're welcome!
Recently moved and I have a large garden again. Looking forward to trying a few of your suggestions. Thanks Tanya 👍
My pleasure - happy planting!
I am trying a few new (new to me, as I haven't grown them before) fall crops this year. Copenhagen Market Cabbage, Italian Red of Florence bunching onion and Golden Beets. I don't know if I will like the Golden Beets, but if I grow it I know I will try it. I am looking forward to seeing how your Borlotti beans do. I have tried them before at a friends house, but they weren't home grown. Thank you and congratulations on your 200k subscribers! It won't be long before you are at 300k.😀 ♥🐝
Thanks so much, Lisa! As for golden beets - they are delicious. I grow a type called Burpee's Golden and it's sweet and mild and doesn't stain your hands pink when preparing it :)
Excellent information, enjoyed the video.
Thanks for the video 💞🌺
I had my best garden ever here in Missouri, USA.
Hello Tanya! Wondering how your Dyer's Woad faired and would love to see how you process it for use with dying fabric or wool. In my garden, on the east coast of Canada, the cabbage white butterflies decided it was a favorite of theirs as well!
The indigo video will be coming out in a few weeks 🙌 😊
@@Lovelygreens Thank you!
Boysenberries. They're perennials and once the plants get started the berries are prolific.
What is definitely not welcome are blackberry canes, they're a scourge here taking over acres/hectares of productive land. (Pacific Northwest area).
Mint, it's easy, doesn't create problems if grown in containers. Spearmint is the favourite.
I've not had boysenberries in years 😍 Bramble (blackberries) are a problem here on abandoned land, too. So invasive
My fail proof is thornless blackberries.
Wonderful vegetables .
You too looking so pretty in blue.
Thank you so much 😊
Okay we will totally trying the silverbeet because oh man my greens get smashed by insects and I'm currently just going to buy netting . We learned a lot as always! Thank you!
You're welcome! They still get a little nibbled by slugs but bounce back so easily once the plant is mature.
Another amazing video thanks for sharing your experience with your fantastic garden 🪴.
You're most welcome 🙂
For me Egyptian walking onions and alpine strawberries have been indestructible
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Great video Tanya, loved all the extra info re cooking, bolting etc. thank you. I’m growing veg this year but haven’t a clue how to cook some of it such as Chard 🤪🤪 fennel, beets, turnips. So when seasoned growers tell me how to cook it, I give it it a go. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Chard is great chopped up into 1" pieces, stem and all, and sautéed. I love it with garlic. Beets, roasted - check my Instagram Stories from today. When it comes to growing veg, grow what you like to eat, though. Best buy it first, experiment with recipes, then decide to grow it or not.
This was a fabulous video!!! I really learned a ton. Thank you so much 😇.
P.s. Your garden is looking amazing! Wow! So much healthy growth!
Glad it was helpful!
Hello Tanya Lovely Greens. Great video as always . I had some Red Cabbages growing in a big planter though i covered them in netting those pesky butterfly catterpillers still managed to get in there and ate the lot just about . Do you know anybody who wants to buy two jars of Sarsons pickling vinegar. LOL😆
They can be so sneaky and lay their eggs through the netting! I had that happen this year too.
A major pest I have is white tail deer. They definitely like my Jerusalem artichoke leaves and this year have taken a liking to rhubarb, they’ve eaten a few leaves off of mine but left the stalks but they ate my neighbor’s mature rhubarb right to the ground 😳 ! Last year the potato plants were on their menu 🤦🏻♂️.
Those deer must be really hungry - Rhubarb leaves are toxic/poisonous for both people and deer. Wow.
@@Lovelygreens , They must be part goat judging by their eating habits ! 😂
The feral deer even eat the new growth on my fig trees. The sap doesn't put them off.
Need a list of foolproof perennial flowers please. I have killed quite a few plants now.
Are the welsh onions similar to Egyptian onions? I have those and love them.
I see they are on your next video of perennial crops. Thank You Tania
They don't create top set onions, but you can use them in a similar way :)
lovely video tanya
Thank you!
Thank you for your tips, I was surprised to see rhubarb on your list as my garden can’t grow it, I’ve tried it all over my garden and it lasts for 2 years max then dies. I grow on very heavy clay, I used to have a very healthy patch in my last garden so I’m flummoxed as why it won’t grow here ?.
What are the symptoms of it failing to thrive, and at what time of the year does it die?
Knee high beans are still a struggle for me with slugs 😢
One thing that can help is creating a barrier around the base of the plant. A 2L plastic drinks bottle works well if you cut off the top and bottom. Push it into the ground at the base of your plants, and it can help repel slugs long enough for the plant to grow taller.
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Is that tree spinach Cnidoscolus aconitifolius or Chenopodium giganteum? I grow chenopodium giganteum, it has the same purple on the younger leaves, but does not grown any more than half a foot, where I am. It is a nice tasting alternative to spinach, but the leaves do not get very big at all, so I’d have to grow lots of it in order to get a meal out of it. It self seeds as well, but I think the heat here, which is a problem for most of the year, keeps it small and stunted. The slugs and snails also love it, so spinach of either variety seems to struggle to become established and do well. I found the same when I used to grow New Zealand spinach, which did not taste like spinach, in my opinion it was nowhere near as nice as regular spinach. I am looking for amaranth seeds, to see if I can grow red and white amaranth. When I used to grow that in the tropics, though, it was really hard to keep under control, as it really did self-seed! Maybe in a climate that is more arid like Cyprus is, it would be harder for them to take over?
Hi Julie, mine is Chenopodium giganteum, the same as yours. I've grown both of my large plants individually and in very rich soil. The tall one outdoors was actually started off in the Polycrub in spring before I planted it out. Maybe those tips help? I also get metre tall lambs quarters (a weedy relative of tree spinach).
@@LovelygreensThat's cool. I'll try it in my shade house. It stays cooler than outside in the summer (had the tree spinach outdoors in full sun, since I thought it would grow tall) and stays a few degrees warmer in there than the outside, during winter. Never tried it during winter, actually. We don't get any frost or snow, so it might be okay. I'll make sure to provide it with very rich soil! Thanks!
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Great video Tanya. I have a courgette plant in a tub and I haven't had any edible fruits yet. The flowers develop in to fruits but instead of getting bigger they wither at one end and turn yellow. What am I doing wrong?! I'm in Ireland. Thanks
Sounds like the female flowers aren't being pollinated. Try dusting a little paintbrush on the male flower and then the female.
I agree with Sam - they need help with pollination.
Can I plant my garlic between my winter cabbage?
I don't see why not, as long as you harvest the cabbage before spring and don't disturb the garlic when harvesting. The green sprouts will need at least some light over winter, too, so keep that in mind in regards to the cabbage leaves potentially covering them.
What type of garlic would you recommend pls?
Any! Though it's best to plant garlic that does better in your climate, for example, hardneck varieties in colder climates.
If you happen to have any spare red Jerusalem Artichokes I would gladly buy some from you .
You can easily plant the ones you can find in shops, just like potatoes and garlic. I remember them being in the shops around November in the UK.
Amanda is right and that's exactly where I got mine to grow :)
@@Lovelygreens Me too :) 2 different kinds as well.
only reason i asked is we don't see many of the reds around hear for some reason @@Lovelygreens
Another great video! Thank you...please can we stop calling it climate change and start calling it 'climate intervention' 😏
Where do you get the seeds?
Various places. Which ones are you after?
I tried them, but i think it's too dry here. They did not come back :/
Jerusalem artichokes, that is
Ha! You must be in a pretty arid place for them not to take over. You need irrigation, I think.
@@Lovelygreens Central Florida. 100°/37° today. 48 % humidity. We water daily. I'm in my 4th year of woodchips now so things are looking up, maybe it's time to try them again
@@melissab8500 I've just read that Jerusalem artichokes prefer to grow between 65-90F. It may be best to focus on crops that will love your sub-tropical climate instead!
@@Lovelygreens I plant everything-if it dies it dies. There have been some surprises
Is there a crops that is the opposite for you? Something that you really really want to grow but that gives you (too) much problems?
I'd love to grow tropical fruit, but that's not realistic here. Everything else that's suited for my climate grows well - it's just understanding what each plant needs.
i tried growing swiss chard from seeds in my indoor garden under really bright LED grow lights but haven't found success yet. The seedlings grow around 2 inches tall and then fail to live on. Any tips for swiss chards?
Other crops such as tomatoes grow amazing under the same lights though.
Swiss chard is a reliable grower with few problems. Try direct sowing it where it is to grow. Keep moist, protect from slugs, and you can't go wrong.
Swiss Chard is easy grow direct seeding into soil
Growing indoors was difficult