Homestead Garden Tour | New Food Forest in February (2022)
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- Опубликовано: 23 фев 2022
- Homestead Garden Tour | New Food Forest in February. The young food forest on our new homestead is in the equivalent of US hardiness zone 8.
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Byther Farm is a small organic homestead, being designed and managed using permaculture practices. We aim for self-sufficiency in fruit and vegetables for increased self reliance and better resilience to the modern world. I recognise that we are unlikely to be truly self sufficient, but do the best we can. I share our home with my loving husband, Mr J and our cat, Monty.
We are a fifty-something couple who live on a smallholding in Carmarthenshire, Wales. We are going green and creating a gentler, cleaner and more healthy life for our family.
Having had a highly successful smallholding in Monmouthshire, we hope to recreate the abundance at our new home. There will be a large organic kitchen garden with no dig gardening raised beds and young food forest in which to grown our fruit and vegetables.
We keep a few sheep and Aylesbury ducks.
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Have you got any plants springing into life in your gardens? Let me know and also, which part of the world you live in (don't give your exact location!).
My second or third year activity working an overgrown goat pasture moving to food forest, elderberry sprouts, tulips, brassica babies, we planted pecan, and will take willow cuttings...
I live in Germany. So far snowdrops and yesterday the crocuses started to flower. We've had bad storms here too, with wind up to 120km/h. My polytunnel was destroyed before I managed to plant anything in it.
We have daffodills growing in a place near Glasgow scotland.
Happy to say in Llandovery I have lots of Snowdrops, primulas, wild primrose and crocus in flower just waiting for the 800 daffs I planted to raise their glorious heads. Brightens the spirits after the storm tree damage we've had.
First year pussy willows! NH, USA. Zone 5b.
Greetings, Liz, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸
We are expecting 85°F today ☀️
It's been a warm week here in Central, Florida.
I uploaded a video yesterday on repotting my Amaryllis bulbs. This is the 14th repotting for some of these bulbs.
I'm planting seeds for my veg garden. This is our Spring and a great time for growing.
I'm a Worm Mom and have kept a Can-O-Worms since 2009 and swear by Worm Castings for your soil health. 👩🌾🪱👍
I love watching you, Niall, Huw and Erica. 🌿💚🌿
Wildlife corridors are one of the most simplest and most important help nowadays you can do, I think.
Glad you didn't suffer too much from storm damage. You need a Quadbike and a little trailer for moving stuff around the farm, perhaps eventually invest in electric quadbike and set up a solar system to charge it. I have Daffs in bloom, crocus and snowdrops and the bluebells greenery is there but the flowers will be later, Sutton Surrey.
The hardest task like woodchip (for me it is stone) I do a little here and there. Each time I walk in that direction I bring a load or a few stone (bucket or two of chip. It will be done before you know it.
Calendula brave little 🌺
The view at your property is amazing, with your plants grown you're going to have a paradise there :)
Denmark here! So far only snowdrops, winter aconite and hazel bushes showing signs of spring.
Oh I love winter aconite. There are none here, perhaps I should find some 😃
It is looking amazing Liz. Its going to be stunning as it matures
Thanks Tony, I think in a couple of years it's going to be settled into the hillside and look like it was meant to be there 😃
It’s coming on Liz, I’m sure once warm weather arrives everything will explode into life, I have Helibores , crocuses daffodils and wallflowers and primroses in the banking that separates my garden from the neighbouring field it’s so heartwarming to see this new life in my flower garden .In the veg garden the purple sprouting , calabrese , kale and other goodies are thriving in spite of the storms . Surely spring is on its way. Great watching your progress on your holding.
Ontario, Canada - it was -18 when I got up this morning and everything is covered with deep snow still. I envy your green garden.
Oh Cindy, that's mightily chilly! I guess it'll be a while before your spring kicks in.
We just got into the low 20°s F in Cheyenne Wyoming. We have been in the negatives, down to -25 with wind chill.
@@devon932001 yikes. That’s cold. I guess you’re like our Prairies, which get quite cold too.
What a wonderful view from your garden. There's something exciting about creating a whole new space. We have the cheery early splash of colour from primroses, daffodils and crocus. The tree buds are swelling too, waiting to burst into life.
Cornwall south West of Uk. Spring flowers primroses tulips just poking through crocuses a few leaves on trees coming into bud. Lots of frog spawn. Evening drawing out. Thank heavens.
Yes the evenings are noticeably lighter now - thankfully!
Liz when I walk into my garden I am armed with my siccartes sissors giggle as I know I will never remember to return to do my trimming pruning etc and I only have a small garden 🪴
The garden is looking fab! Looking forward to the spring so much!
Thank you! 😊
At five seconds in, had to freeze the video and just take in that magnificent hillside view.
Can't believe how much you've done already! So much fun to watch your farm take shape, and is a serious antidote to world events right now; so, thank you for sharing progress. 💖
While there are other angles that I could film from, this angle with the hills in the background is by far my favourite. I have lost so many hours just stopping, just watching, just taking in that ever-changing vista.
It's looking amazing! We lost a huge amount of snow in the last week with several days near 60. But we are back to normal temps, and expecting 8-12" of snow tomorrow. I can take comfort it won't last long though. The sun is much higher in the sky for longer each day, so it should melt as we get back to 40's. I am so ready for spring!
its all coming along well done liz
Thanks Steven, slowly but surely it's starting to feel like it could be as lovely as our old garden space.
You have done masses since moving in. Enjoy your cup of tea!
For the hoops I use rebar knocked into the ground and the pipe over the rebar
Love the plans, especially the native hedge with fruit trees acting as standards 🙂
Thank you very much!
First view and comment! Looking good and very lucky with the lack of wind damage. I know that you're considering an ATV or small tractor but in the meantime what about a vintage rotavator / 2 wheeled tractor, not for the rotavation of the soil but as a power plant to move things, such as a trailer? You can get some that a only few hundred pounds and they often have other attachments that will be useful even though you are no dig. Take care and stay safe, Mike.
I'm in North East Kent and have the early spring bulbs flowering, Marbella plums just blooming and wall flowers about to open. We've also had the odd marigold flowering all year
I don't know what it is about marigolds, but they always make me smile!
Beautiful garden! I can’t wait to see how it grows this spring!
Thank you. I'm hoping that it will as nice in reality as it is in my imagination!
Lovely!
I'm in Texas, USA. I have peaches blooming, Japanese Magnolias, and redbud trees.
The mayhaw trees are blooming. Those are in the hawthorn family and fruit end of April first of May.
Unfortunately, my loquats bloomed and had small fruit during a long warm spell we had so the freeze got most of them. My whitebud tree also got confused in the warm spell and bloomed but usually it would be blooming now.
I noticed a small bud on my dwarf mulberry tree yesterday. Wild violets are blooming and elderberry is leafing out.
We can plant out in April usually so I have seeds started inside. A yellow Jubilee and a Cherokee purple tomato are peeking through.
Really enjoyed this tour - so nice getting to see how your place is growing and evolving into something that’s going to be pretty magical!
I enjoy watching all the wonderful trees and plants you have been planting. Pat yourself on the back Liz great work .
Thank you, I will!
Austria; tulips just poking through. I usually forget which variety I planted where. So I get a surprise every year. 😊
Gardening surprises are so lovely. It's like rediscovering something year after year!
Buds coming to life on my rose bush my begonia plant that was indoors in Wales but now survives and thrives outside . I am enjoying cyclamen and the hyacinths in bloom . The petunias in there hanging baskets are already outside and flowering as are some other things in pots that I have forgotten their names. The bus are coming out on a very small fig tree that at the moment is in a pot but the mandarin did not do anything this winter as it is still too young and I must buy a very big pot for it. Lovely to see your daffodils coming up quickly considering they were planted later than you meant to plant them . A fantastic tour . Thank you Liz. Xxxxxx Margaret in Cyprus
I'm so curious to see if the non-lined pond will continue to hold water. Clay soil is something we have a lot of here!
I'll keep you updated!
Good ideo
Fabulous initial view as you walked through the rose arch Liz. So much progress, be very pleased. I have all kinds of things springing into life on my allotment. Particularly pleased with the large bed I turned over to flowers to attract pollinators. Native primrose taken from my front lawn and the first of the snake's head fritillary is nodding away looking beautiful. Time in the fresh air with nature is so special.
Oooh, I'm envious of your fritillary, I just love them!
What progress Liz! I live in southern Scotland and I have lots of snowdrops blooming, mini daffs all ready to flower, a few crocus out. My Viburnam has lots of new leaves, but no flowers again and I dont know why! Lots of other plants starting to poke through. I've been working on my allotment too, no dig up there. Everything going ok. Put an apple and a pear in yesterday. Cant wait for the next video.
Thanks for sharing! You are inspirational!
So much going on! Good stuff indeed.
it looks greatxx
Lovely video, but had to watch it twice as I kept getting distracted by the beautiful view behind you!
So inspiring! Great video Liz, you've inspired me to add more to my garden!
There is almost always room for one more plant!
Hi Liz, looking fabulous. Will be so exciting to see all the buds come spring. The colour on the hills in the distance just stunning. Been torrential rain here for days, some flooding expected so my garden is just saturated.
Saturated garden? That's so different from the last four or five years of sharing news of the garden. Has it made the growth all lush and lovely or are you starting to get fungal issues from the damp?
Liz! Everything is amazing, I am in awe of the work you have done. I can't wait to watch this forest grow. (Also, THAT VIEW!) I am in USA, zone 6, nothing growing and snow on the way.
Thank you so much! I'm really looking forward to seeing how it looks and feels this summer and autumn. After I had uploaded this video I noticed that there are some tiny daffodils in flower in a pot and I didn't notice them to include in the video, what a shame!
@@LizZorab That is the best moment, those sweet daffodils promising us that we are becoming once again.
Waw so much work and progress already 🤗 well done both, looking forward ti visit, Anna 🚎🧜♀️🏄♀️
Thank you! 🤗
Beautiful farm and a stunning view.
Thank you and yes the views are fabulous.
Good video
I'm not sure how you get any work done with that view Liz, its so perfect, it looks like a fake backdrop 😂
It is beautiful, and yes I lose plenty of time while staring at the ever-changing view across the valleys.
Очень классное видео ! 👍 Super🤗
Hi Liz, nothing is growing here in the mountains of North Idaho, USA. We’re still under several feet of snow and have been in a cold snap with day temps in the teens and night temps in the single digits, some negatives. I did start tomatoes, onions, & leeks.
Sounds very chilly to me! Stay warm.
You have done such a lot in such a short time.
Thank you! I'm really looking forward to seeing it in the summer 😃
Nice view!! :-)!!
It sure is!
Here in NSW Australia ST Johns Wart is a designated weed that has taken over in the countryside. We are constantly pulling it out or mowing over it before it flowers! Or bigger properties resort to spraying it. The old story of a weed is a plant in the wrong location....
if the sheep never moved I would have asked if you had them stuffed on the other side of the fence but they eventually moved 👍😃 thanks for sharing
Yes they were fairly static while I was filming, I think they were watching and wondering what on earth I was doing!
thank you for a good view of your homestead! would love to know where you buy your fruit trees but also where you buy the hedging from. I had read in your book that in your last place you got from The Woodland Trust, Thanks in advance! lots of my various daffodils are now coming out in flower, and crocuses too! we lost an apple tree last Wednesday to storm Dudley but not at the root but snapped halfway down - uncertain if its salvageable with help from a tree surgeon or not! I live on edge of Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire with views across to the Severn and the 2 bridges in places!
Here's a video showing the unboxing of lots of trees and plants for the food forest. ruclips.net/video/VbrqaGzT-K0/видео.html Yes, hedging is from the Woodland Trust, but I've also bought some from wholesalers because of the sheer volume of trees and hedging plants needed.
As someone who has studied permaculture since the early 1980s, I’m not a big fan of straight lines. However, i understand why you are going that route in your food forest. I would like to suggest, if you have the time, Living Web Farms videos on youtube. Three in particular you might find useful are “producing high bionutrient crops,” “restoring the independent farmstead,” and “no till methods.” You might also look at “hands on tools” before you commit to a big tractor. I hope this helps you going forward. I find the Living Web Farms video series to be quite interesting and often useful.
Ps, i am currently in southern Louisiana, USA. and the strawberries are blooming.
I don't see them as straight lines, I see them as the basis for the future wandering and meandering of plants that will grow in clumps, spread outwards from a starting point. Actually, the reason I'm using straight lines is because the corn starch weed suppressing membrane comes in a long roll with straight sides and I needed to start somewhere. Our previous home's food forest was much less planned and I just put in plants anywhere I saw a gap. It looked great, but it was a health hazard to walk around as trees quickly outgrew the space I'd given them. In this food forest, I'm starting by giving the trees much more room between each one. As the years go on, I will add width to each of the rows in a softer, curved shape, but for now, with only me creating a 4.5 acre garden, I'm doing the basics and then can expand over the years.
@@LizZorab yes. I have been watching. I understand why you are going that route. On video, it looks like the trees are still too close. But the land also looks flatter than it really is. So i didn’t say anything about that because I have no way to know. You are doing a great job so far. Though, as they say “you don’t have too many slugs, you have a duck shortage.” I would say you don’t have too many rabbits, you have a ferret shortage. But you may not be interested in harvesting the rabbits to keep the population in check and just leave it to myxomatosis.
The rows with the trees are 30 feet (9.16 metres) apart and there are 13-18 feet (4-6 metres) between the trees in the rows. Most of that trees are on small to medium rootstock, so shouldn't grow too big. It's one of those situations where the camera just doesn't do the space justice. 🌳🌳🌳
Hi Liz, is your hair getting darker? It seems so…all that farm fresh produce perhaps? You give me hope. I have stage 4 cancer which forced me to stopped working. Being a firm believer we all should do something, I started a container garden. So if you are getting better, the same thing could happen to me. 😊😊😊 🙏🙏🙏I watch your channel for inspiration. Thank you for inspiring us.🌱🪴🌸
I think my hair often looks darker at this time of year. It hasn't been kissed by the sun for so many months!
@@LizZorab still…you looking good Liz 😊🌸🌱
Thank you so much for your videos, they always cheer me up!. Since C...d got to our house now and 'm feeling quite under the weather, it was a pleasure to watch some videos from you. Loved this walk through and see everything that's in your head now growing and coming together on your new place! One question though, do you have a kind of overview photo or drawing. It is so big I get quite confused where the shown areas are in relation to each other . Greetings from The Netherlands, Debbie
Hi Debbie, the piece of land we show you is a rectangle divided into four paddocks. The duck field and food forest on the higher side and the cut flower (?) field and former veg garden on the lower side.
@@LizZorab thank you, I will rewatch this video with that in mind! I hope you're having some sunny days as well. Here in the Netherlands we have some now and although very cold, it is lovely to enjoy some sunshine again. Much better for my mood ;-) Seems spring is on the corner now, hooray!
Hi Liz it’s all looking great! Can I ask: what is the plan for the grassed areas in between the rows? Just eventual planting areas or will it be left as grass? Cheers
? Liz, why don’t you have chickens anymore? But you still have ducks. I have chickens and was thinking of also getting ducks. Any specific reason I should not have ducks with chickens?
My chickens and ducks lived very happily together. They even shared the same shed. Never had a problem
If you are in UK, you'll need to have separate accommodation for them in winter during the poultry lockdowns. I don't have chickens at the moment because I got fed up with dealing with red mite in the chicken houses. Also, our drake kept trying to be amorous with the chickens, this could be fatal for the chickens as they have different anatomy.
In the UK, they have to be separated during the bird flu lockdown. We had the problem with the overly amorous duck.
Surely if you're in the U.K. its a smallholding not a homestead?
Just saying.
My largest audience is in USA, most of whom are not familiar with the term smallholding.