What Crops to Sow in June for Self-Sufficiency
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- Опубликовано: 19 дек 2024
- What crops to sow in June for self-sufficiency.
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I love your videos sir, you are making a huge difference in the lives of rookie gardeners like me, I’m going to lead a small group from church on gardening thanks to you, blessings on you sir.
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Oh goodness, where I live in Canada (Alberta), many of us are only JUST getting our seedlings planted out from late May through early June! When your average last frost date is May 28th you take your chances! 😂
Same here in northern Michigan in the US
I love this video. Where I am, our allotment has suffered terribly from extremes. I planted out in the cool and very wet, then, no rain for weeks and 29 degrees! Gardening is learning and we ‘lost’ onion beds and beetroot crops and more! The only thing thriving on our allotment is the weeds. Extreme weather is good for sunburn and weeds 😊
I truly appreciated all of the experience you bring to us. I've seen some of your videos when you were very young and you're still educating us. I appreciate you, Huw!
Never would I have thought , my extended vegetable garden would provide our family with such abundance. Thank You young fella for adding to my recipe of life. With my harvested grouse & whitetail deer my stores & freezer your video adds to my knowledge 👍 we freeze a lot of the veg through our minus 40s winters 74+🍁hunter Yorkshire expat
You have so much energy, you are so productive...the crops and fieldbeans, too. You have a very special connection to the nature. Thanks for sharing!
1 minite in and you've answered loads of things for me. Well explained and inspiring thanks!
Couldn’t agree more about the tomato-basil combo!
I wasn't a fan of basil until this year when I grew CINNAMON BASIL it's really tasty.
Pak Chois, if you will just use them for everyday eating, just cut the leaves, leave the middle part for more future growth. It lasted for two months for me
I love those second chance crops. My carrots didn't germinate this spring. Love that I can try again. Thanks Huw! 😊
Nor did my first sowing. Hoping this second sowing will do better
@@annrenee3265 I hope you get a bumper crop!
@Disabled-Megatron I love watching the wildlife. I try to grow enough to share. I am a bit nervous though...we have black bears moving into the area. I guess they enjoy gardens too.
Carrots never seem to come up these days, last several years. Never used to be a problem. Perhaps they do something different to the seeds now?
@@nicholaspostlethwaite9554 I always buy organic or even Demeter seeds (Bingenheimer is the best!), never had any issues with carrot seeds.
I had never heard of germination under planks but its exactly what I need for my carrots in this hot and windy weather when the soil surface dries out so quickly.
Traditional Welsh method
PS works well for parsnip too.
What about slugs? Won't they live under the plank and eat the seedlings?
@@ximono yes I'm sure they would, especially this year
Thank you so much Huw. I'm growing red Pak Choi for the first time this year and it is growing so well and tastes lovely.
Nice video, Huw, thank you for being so encouraging and excited about the garden. Your enthusiasm is contagious. Out to plant more lettuce, pak choi, and radishes ❤
Thank you so much!
I love the idea of naming the kohlrabis!! So cute. Thank you for your content😊
I live in south Texas and I grow all year around every thing!! Some I start inside the house and transplant but with hay and mulching there is nothing I can't grow.
I live off of perpetual spinach here in the Abruzzo region of Italy. With our climate it grows every single month of the year. And makes these plants that look like spinach trees almost. I have some new plants that I’m starting right now but there is so much of it all over the place here that I can actually forage a lot of it from abandoned lots. We also have a type of board here along with the purple kind that gives fuchsia flowers. It still tastes like celery it just has different flowers to it. Great video though. A lot of these plants grow naturally and all over the place where I live. Once I start taking over the family farm next year I’m definitely gonna be watching a lot of your videos.
My spinach all died off yesterday and what ive read online is they dont like high temperatures? Im in the south of england, its about 25 here, but from what you say they should be fine. How do you keep them? Are they in the shade?
Hmmmmm ...... I think it might be a different variety of spinach then and not this particular perpetual spinach. This stuff is extremely hearty and it can be in full shade, full sun, partial shade. Mine is in an area where it is in the sun half the time and in the shade the other half of the time and the temperatures in central Italy where I am are significantly higher than yours on average. As I said, you might have a different variety or you might look into a possibility that there was a disease issue Because that sounds strange to me. This perpetual spinach stuff can seemingly grow almost anywhere and is extraordinarily durable unlike anything I’ve ever seen before moving here. I had never seen this variety of spinach in the United States. From my experience with other varieties of spinach however, too much direct sun isn’t the best.
Hmmmmm ...... I think it might be a different variety of spinach then and not this particular perpetual spinach. This stuff is extremely hearty and it can be in full shade, full sun, partial shade. Mine is in an area where it is in the sun half the time and in the shade the other half of the time and the temperatures in central Italy where I am are significantly higher than yours on average. As I said, you might have a different variety or you might look into a possibility that there was a disease issue Because that sounds strange to me. This perpetual spinach stuff can seemingly grow almost anywhere and is extraordinarily durable unlike anything I’ve ever seen before moving here. I had never seen this variety of spinach in the United States. From my experience with other varieties of spinach however, too much direct sun isn’t the best.
@@misspomerol Ive found out that Perpetual spinach is infact NOT spinach, but a leafy variety of Chard. This explains their hardyness!
@payneadams-mp2zz oh well maybe this is it. I had never seen this before I moved to Italy. I’m even wondering if it’s some sort of spinach and chard hybrid that has a volunteer over time. First I thought it was a type of chard myself . It’s definitely whatever is in this video. The plant is an exact match. But it is super durable and I don’t think that the less intense temperatures of a place like the United Kingdom wouldn’t give it any sort of problems at all so the person asking me the question must have a completely different plant from whatever is in the video. They must have a more delicate variety of traditional spinach. Like the spinach I was used to in the United States.
hi sir.. I like your garden.. 😊it's beautiful.. your soil is very rich.. and your plants are beautiful and healthy
I just discovered your name on a book whilst at a nursery here in the states. I went home and purchased 3 of your books, titled “Veg in One Bed”, “Grow Food for Free”, and The Vegetable Grower’s Handbook”. Loving the illustrations. I didn’t know you had a RUclips site - oh my! The abundance of home grown food in videos! Thank you for sharing your passion. Much Aloha!
He's written books? Wow! Thanks for the info. I will look for them.
Still very cold in Middle Europe - growth is 2 weeks delayed despite lots of sunshine. Soil warms up very slowly... Thank you! Ralf (Author of 'Garden Communities')
Thx for the reminder- just sewed more carrots, and newly sewed chick peas & climbing beans as well.
There is something really soothing about seeing these shots of such a lush garden! Especially at his time of year when the leaves still have that freshness to them.
The nights have been unusually cold over here in the Netherlands, so the annuals are all still quite tiny, but I'm really looking forward to the moment the growth will really kick in.
I'm trying your carrot-sowing method this season! I'm very curious to see how it goes.
Love the when to what to and how to nature of your videos Huw, and thanks for the reminder to sow more carrots.👍
You are welcome!
Which country are you residing at?
@@mercyntswalo4601 they live in england they mentioned in a comment they live in cornwall
Thanks!
Thanks for the info. I planted a garden around the first of May but it has been hailed on and rained on with heavy monsoon rains. I replanted but some of that is not coming up. So I may try replanting again. I don't have a high tower or anything like that, my garden is just out in the full air and full sun.
I love carrots. I feel I’m running out of garden days. It’s been tuff weather here in Wisconsin, US. We haven’t had measurable rain in over a month and add smoke cover from CN, freak frost, extreme cold and hot spring-I don’t know what we’ll get. I’m tired of watering and I have 2 large gardens. If I can ever get the hose out of my hand I could put energy into something else, like actually enjoying gardening. I hope for a decent rain as I’m worried about trees as well.
Brilliant video which has given me a lot of confidence as I’ve just sown many of these seeds ❤. Thank you 🙏
Good Morning...Happy June!!! 😃
What ever I do with pak choi it bolts. Always thought heat played a factor so I've tried earlier in the year but it still bolted relatively quickly. Although not as quickly as the year before. Maybe not though if you get success at this time. The other factor I assumed was the long days so will try again in dappled shade and see if that helps
Same. I might have to give it another try though. Huw's pak choi looks stunning.
They bolt when the days get longer i believe so a good option is to sow in June/juli
I live zone7a and grow bok choy successfully 10% of the time , fall or spring . I keep lots of seeds . The Hmong can’t grow it well here either . LOL
@@Papawcanner ha ha. Yes, at least its got pretty flowers that are good for the bees if nothing else ;)
Lol. Our crop planting just began in Michigan.
Back on track! Thank you for sharing!
It's winter over here in Cap Town, South Africa. Things grow slower, but being a Mediteranean climate I grow almost anything and some stuff I over winter outside in the weather.
This year has been cold til May and now we have strong sunshine with cold northerly winds so the ground is very dry and the plants have windburn. Hoping my carrots will grow. Great video as ever Huw, thanks
Maybe some mulch would help?
I'm in zone 6b and have had to plant my zucchini, cucumber, peppers and winter squash in pots so I can bring them in at night...last night we got down to 40F. Hoping to get them in the ground next week... but will still have to watch night temps & cover stuff.
Same zone here. I’ve lost so many seeds and plants already this year. Very discouraging!
I’m in zone 3b Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Fact- Cold air drops. My tomatoes are out and blossoming.. I planted them in a raised bed in the bottom of a 3 L vinegar container. (Bottom and top cut off just the sides remaining.) It holds some heat in around the stem and buffers some cold. My zucchini I planted against the house. Already one is blooming.
Brilliant video, glad I've found your channel. Subscribed! Very informative, to the point and well edited. Great work, thank you.
Hello, I have been enjoying learning with your videos and books I have some confusion as to how to store seeds ...as there's a lot of different contradictory ways around the web.would love to see a video made for it ...or even a short explanation..thank you for the lovely content that you put out there .
I love the shits of your garden they are an inspiration
Hi, thank you for your video, what is the name of the perpetual spinach, please?
I tried growing pak chou in pots last year, and it had eggs on it from both the green shield bug and a white butterfly species. There were aphids and ladybird eggs too. Then there were slugs and woodlice chomping on them. They proved to be a good wildlife plant!
A total failure of the harvest though. I love pak choi to give it another go once I have some veg beds prepared.
I added spring onion beside pak choi, water them in the morning not at night... slugs and snail feast at night.
@@Issy1997I'm infested with snails and slugs. They're disgusting but I just found something at Walmart to kill them. As soon as the rain stops I will be happily murdering them
Great video. Can I ask a rookie question? I had to do a second sowing of carrots as my first one was completely massacred - I was advised this would have been slugs, which like the young carrot seedlings. If you use a plank of wood on your carrots to encourage germination, like you show, wouldn't that encourage slugs? Every bit of wood I've lifted in the garden had slugs stuck to it! I'm a little confused!
Keep as much low grass around the area, good in a raised bed because the sides of of the bed are really dry, discourages them from climbing up there, and get rid of as much shade from junk/things lying around where they hide in the day, best advice to be honest is grow them in deep buckets on a patio type area that gets good sun and the slugs don't go, also go out early evening and get rid of any slugs you find! Check daily for slugs :)
On another site, the dude recommended laying thorny canes (such as those from blackberries or certain roses) horizontally on the soil at the perimeters of one's bed. He suggested using a few overlapping canes to prevent slugs & snails gaining access to the gardens.
The Invertebrate Lady at the University of British Columbia recommends the grisly yet ironically HUMANE leathal method of cutting the snails and slugs in half (when you espie them under said planks) to reduce their predations.
I forwarn you, the neighbours will be HORRIFIED if you hack them apart (or conversely toss hard shelled snails in the road where they are LOUDLY killed by passing cars), but the expert urges you to not use salt or poisons as it causes a lengthy and excruciating death.
Perfect timing and thank you I received the book and it's been fun using it.
Fantastic video as always! Thank you for sharing🪴
Such a useful video, I’m trying to make the most of my space so these will be a good way 👍
Good morning sir another fantastic video
What do you think of using a plastic cover over carrots to create condensation?
A question: Can you use pine needles as mulch in a vegie garden?
Yes❤
@@tracycrider7778 💚 Thank you. Have a great day!
I walk around the neighbourhood collecting abandoned Christmas trees in January 😁.
I let most of the needles fall off and collect them for sprinkling all over the allotment. The wood I compost if small enough or burn for the larger branches and trunks (wood ash is a good "brown" for the compost bin).
@@1ANRS Thank you for your comment.
Thanks Huw.
Thanks Huw very interesting.
Hi might I ask where you got your green metal planters
how to you stop you pak choy from flowering. my have started to flower. What is the best soil for carrots as my seeds are not germinating
You are obviously not experiencing the bitterly cold winds that we are in France....all my bean and pea plants have wind burn, and no seeds that I have sown direct have germinated. It's a tough year so far, but your smallholding looks wonderful.
How about planting fruit trees or bushes and then putting your annuals downnwind of them? They would not only break the wind but also there tends to be a little halo of warmth right around the drip line of the tree. That's just a thought if you are able to play the long game and aren't planning to move in the next couple of years.
We are having wind and cold problems here in the UK too. My outdoors peas are looking dreaful and wind blasted. I have a few earlies under cover that are now coming to an end and yet the outdoor ones are no where near cropping. I have also got my french beans under cover, theres no point trying outside
@Linda Cutler I'm in France and my potager is in full swing, started harvesting mange tout last week, on my second planting of salad leaves. Really depends which part of France you are.
Thinking our gardens all need trellis and covers, whether for wind, sun scorching, or chilly temperatures. Crazy climates are all here...and happen every century or so. Praying for good food abundance for all!!
My pak choy never looks like that!I just harvest by taking the leaves with stalks but it never "folds" as u have shown. Always bolts before getting to this stage.is this a specific variety of pak choy? Thanks huw. Ur videos are always so helpful
I planted a few potatoes out that had started sprouting, they grew lovely and big. The day before I was going to dig them up I found out a rat had been coming and digging them, and ate half of the biggest one. I took them all out, but more have grown back, how has this happened, I'm now really worried about rats coming again. I'd love to grow my own potatoes, carrots and parsnips but am scared to have more rat problems. I also have a plum tree and rats even climbed up there and ate them. Do you not have any problems with them? Any idea's?
beautiful video from a beautiful man. thank you for the good vibes
Thank you for the wonderful information.
Question..i stated cucumbers in the Greenhouse a couple of months ago. Plants are healthy and have lots of flowers flowers. No cucumbers yet. Do they need pollinators or self pollinating?
Pollinators, so make sure you have door/windows open. Bees love cucumber flowers, they will be buzzing with them!
This gives me hope!! ❤
Everytime i see this vid in my feed it makes me feel like I'm behind on planting. I keep adding stuff all the time to my garden. Still have 2 beds that are mostly empty. Plently of time left to grow. Pumpkins won't go in til July
Hi, what kind of strawberries do you grow . Is it better to grow June berries or day neutral or ever bearing 🍓🍓🍓 in UK, THANKS 🤝🏼
I'd say it depends on what you want, they have their pros and cons. I chose day-neutral/everbearing, as I want a steady supply of strawberries over the summer. June bearing gives you a slightly higher yield, but all at once, in June. It also depends on your climate, June bearing is more risky with late frosts. Day-neutrals are an "improvement" (taste, size) over the old everbearing varieties, but you can think of them as roughly the same type. You need to prune and manage them slightly differently, so I recommend reading up on the type you choose. I use a rotating transplant system with the single hedgerow method, but you could also use matted row. Yeah, strawberries can seem overly complicated. I find it's easier to just follow a system like one of those I mentioned, it makes it pretty straight forward.
Thanks for the vid, Is it to late to start planting purple sprouting broccoli?
Great question. I'd love to know the answer, too. I'd also like to know how to make them germinate!
I would say NO you are not too late
A great video again Huw and everything looks so big and healthy. I struggle with getting my veg to grow like yours. I've had an allotment for 15 years and make my own compost, occasionally source horse manure and have in the past used feeds (bf&b for example) but nothing on my plot is even a quarter of the size of yours! I don't water much as we don't have a water supply so have to rely on collecting rain. Is this where I could be going wrong? Also I can't use planks to help with carrots. I put one plank on a 4 foot row and the next day, I collected 23 slugs from underneath it!
Spinach - please what is that for variety? I can't get it right from the video.
Good job
Huw Richard What Plantzone are you in?. I am in Zone 8a.
I am not sure I can start plant same time as you. ? Henrik
I live in Northeast Georgia, USA, zone 7. I am wondering if these recommendations would also apply here in June. Does anyone know?
Is it too late to re sow my squashes and cucumbers? They all bit the dust yesterday because of freezing cold winds 😩
No, it's not too late. I live in the Ohio Valley and have to direct sow most of my crops this year because my indoor seedlings didn't do well. I have warm weather until early to mid October, so I still have some wiggle room for starting certain crops. I probably won't have my first harvest until August. 😞 I wish I had a proper green house!
Not at all!
Late to the season? I’m not sure we are going to have much of a growing season this year. Weve hardly had any nights over 10 degrees and no rain for over a month. Finally have a few days where it’s actually warm in the day (Essex, UK)
In NW PA we have not even planted yet. Too soon.
What climate or zone are you in?
Huw, I'm shocked you listed Pak Choy. I've tried it for the first time this year and it's been a bit of a failure. They bolt like no other. How do you keep yours compact and not bolting?
Don't grow the red variety! And grow in partial shade :)
@Huw Richards I struggle with bolting too. Thanks for the tip. I'm heading out now with my seeds.
@@HuwRichards I feel like I'm living in backwards land. My red Choy is doing great. But my bright green pak choy is not.
I think it's the shade. The raised bed is in full sun. I will try partial shade. Thanks Huw!
I fail at kholerabi every year, can't get it past its transplant.
Hi, please can you tell me what you do with all your harvest? You’ve inspired me to turn my 3 acres commercial grass fields into a permaculture site. But I’m worried about not being able to manage all the produce. Maybe I’m being too optimistic. 😂 Thanks and please keep your videos coming. Love the filming style too Sam! 😊
Time to look into fermenting and canning. What a good position to be in!
Definitely start small so you don’t get overwhelmed, and maybe dedicate an acre to pollinater friendly flowers as well so you don’t have to worry about too much harvest or maintenance as flowers pretty much look after themselves. Also second canning and fermentation. Welcome to the permaculture community :)
@@ninjabrown8560 Thank you so much for your tips. I love the idea of flowers too. Canning and fermenting, I will start saving all my jars! 🥰🥰
Huw has written a book together with a cook on that topic.
Can you please specify what growing zone are you in? Growing in England is a lot different than growing in Arizona or Los Angeles.
I am not an english native speaker, what was the spinach-like plant?
Good stuff
How about kale for winter harvest?
Definitely!
Pak Choi is a MASSIVE slug magnet. Mine were decimated last year.
bowl with cheap beer will get rid of them
Hi Huw, here in northern Germany it has been very dry weather last few weeks.
I harvested the first 12 Kohlrabis as i allways plant them.early february. So easy and simple. What do u do with them? We just eat them raw as a snack.
Salads are going really well
Cucumbers and tomatoes in the greenhouse are doing quite well in the greenhouse.
My beetrootplants are quite sad looking to be honest and i think i will hv to sow some more this week.
My brocolli and cauliflower arent doing great either, maybe too warm?
Thanks for all the interrsting videos. I just love the months of may and june!!
Greetings from northern Germany between Hamburg and Bremen!
very helpful, thank you :)
I like the idea I have more time . I am a beginner and haven’t a green house. Is it possible to grow outside ?
Where do you buy perpetual spinach seed?
Hi Huw, I have got maybe a stupid question, but I am new in gardening :). How could seedlings appear when plank is upon them?
Seeds actually don't need light to germinate. But they need certain temperature and moisture. So as soon as you see the little seedlings popping up, then you need to remove the plank to allow the light. Hope this helps.
@@renatakozakova4955 Ďakujem za odpoveď, podľa mena usudzujem, že si budeme rozumieť aj v rodnej reči. Mne len nešlo do hlavy to spojenie "seedings appear", keďže ak bude na nich lata, tak sa žiadne sadeničky neukážu ...
@@martins.7021 rozumiem :) tak myslí sa tým, že semienka pod doskou treba priebežne sledovať a keď sa začnú objavovať zelené lístočky, doska sa môže odstrániť. Snáď je to už jasnejšie :)
Termites in my raised bed....what to do.please help
Just wondering how do you stop your pak cjoi from being eaten. They slugs mangled mine!
Would have been good to know your location . Pretty critical for sowing different parts of the world.
What a file you could put it in your "about" section
I live in zone 3 but I can plant some of the greens.
Still have not got the books from the funding project. I think I won’t be getting them now.
I live in the U.S. zone 8, so i grew kohlrabi over the winter. Will it not be too hot to plant in June???
My pak choi all booked o at the same time... I went against the old advice of sowing after midsummer
Huw I don't know if you respond to subscribers but I wanted to buy a polly tunnel but bought a green house and with this years weather my tomatoes are dying and I water them and still the leaves are shrivelling .... are the roots rotting (which I can't believe as the soil is drive every hour).... I love tomatoes but the UK weather is a new learning curve ???
My Pak Choi always goes straight to seed! What ami doing wrong?
Excellent👍👍🇺🇸
All my pak choi bolted cos it got so hot so quick :(
Which country are you residing at?
Could you put the latin names of the plant you are talking about please ?
Looks like I will be getting the Pak Choi seeds out
John 15:13 KJV
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
What is perpetual spinach? I can't figure it out in my language so latin name would be appreciated.
What about corn?
I don't know how you do it...I could NEVER grow lettuche unprotected 😢
My pak choi went to seed?? So now sow?
i like your video