'No Rules' Vegetable Gardening | A Different Way of Growing Food | An Introduction

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  • In this video, I explore the method of intuitive gardening, which can also be called 'no-rules ' gardening as a different approach to growing food. I explain how the way I am gardening this year is a complete experiment and the reasons behind it. This is the first video for a mini-series that looks deeper at this way of vegetable gardening.
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  • @LizZorab
    @LizZorab 4 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    I really looking forward to seeing your thoughts at the end of the year and to find out whether you'll continue with no rules gardening or head back to a more planned garden. Thank you so much for inviting me to be a part of this series.

    • @SteadfastTrailFarm
      @SteadfastTrailFarm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Enjoy your channel as well!! Love the collaboration!

    • @ValerieHarristhefoodiemedic
      @ValerieHarristhefoodiemedic 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I love this. This is a lot of what I do. Currently, I do not have one dedicated space for my veg gardening. I have a pea patch plot that is near my home and a friend lets me use half of her garden plot (which is not a blank slate). Rather than a carefully planned layout, at least in the pea patch, it ends up being more like a patchwork quilt. I can do more of a market garden style in the friends plot but I end up cramming everything very close and say a prayer because, it's not that big. I have a couple of short videos on my channel if you care to have a peek. I love watching you both.

    • @LizZorab
      @LizZorab 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @TruthHertz I love how David lets squashes grow here, there and everywhere and his composting book is fabulous!

    • @cpnotill9264
      @cpnotill9264 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@LizZorab I love that here and there growing style! It's so carefree and half of our gardens are done this way. The bees, birds love it too and it's so carefree! ❤️👍🌱

    • @jamesbowden6922
      @jamesbowden6922 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi Liz. Huw said to say hi. love both your vids. Thank you. Setting up no dig begs at our new house in the back garden at the moment this year. We are blighted with Mare's tail. Let's hope if i keep pulling them from the beds they will give up like Charles says. any tips with this dreaded weed?

  • @flatsville1
    @flatsville1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    When I was a kid, my father had the "junk garden" where the excess odd seeds, transplant or seedling ended up when he couldn't fit it in the main "row" garden. It was more fun to play in & look at than the other garden. I think he intuitively managed companion planting & succession cropping without realizing it. Having been raised in the Depression, it was a "waste" issue rather than a conscious effort.

  • @rachelbrown7198
    @rachelbrown7198 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Intuitive gardening, I like that! I've just been calling it winging it. Nature always knows best anyway as proven by the volunteer tomatoes that are a foot taller than the ones I nurtured like babies.... typical haha.
    Great vid as usual both of you 😊

    • @HuwRichards
      @HuwRichards  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Winging it definitely works too haha!

  • @MajaElise95
    @MajaElise95 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This year has been my first attempt at gardering. I only have a balcony that I share with other people to my disposal, so it’s taken a few years to find the courage and motivation to start. I finally got started when a friend gave me some of her plants.
    I very deliberately have not been doing much research and have instead treated it as a fun experiment. I very much just put things in dirt and wait to see what happens. To my delight I’ve discovered that I know a fair bit about gardening! I used to follow my grandma around her garden and my mom around the house as she tended our plants and I learned a lot of basic principles for how things grow.
    While I have started doing some research now it’s all because I just love doing research. My plan for next year still is to just put things in dirt and see what happens. I don’t expect to get maximum yield, I expect to make loads of dumb mistakes, and I expect to have loads of fun doing something I enjoy.
    I don’t have very strict routines for anything, especially not watering (I’m fairly disorganised in general). I spend time with the plants and when they seem displeased I look for what need is not being met.

  • @BioGartenReich
    @BioGartenReich 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It took me about 2 years of gardening to learn the basics. Since then I have been gardening intuitively. For me this is the best form of gardening and nature is the best teacher and gardener. :)

  • @tasgardener7923
    @tasgardener7923 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I've been growing food for years and have never made a garden plan in my life. Not doing so has always been highly successful for me. I just let things go as they please and leave many things in the ground rather than pull them as you're apparently supposed to. They spring back each year and much of what's in my garden over the spring and summer is from self seeding. Nor do I bother with neat rows. Things get mixed in together in all sorts of ways (even plants you're not supposed to plant together according to the 'rules') and produce in abundance. I rarely have any pest problems and the odd time I do heaps of different types of insect predators appear and take care of the problem so for several years now I've not had to do a single thing when pests come in for a munch. I can't remember the last time I had any major problems with disease among the plants other than powdery mildew on certain things coming to the end of their life cycle, which is not a major issue since the plants are finishing anyway. I am going to get rid of the winter lettuce tomorrow as they're done for now but have been harvested repeatedly over our autumn and winter. replanting the lettuce and any greens for that matter is as simple as scattering some seed wherever there's room. I only have small area and it's been it's been so successful for me I wouldn't even consider going to more planned, 'follow the rules 'type of gardening. Why would when I get an abundance by doing it the way am.

    • @HuwRichards
      @HuwRichards  4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That pest control factor is a huge part of this type of gardening, especially when we grow lots of different things in a small space. That is actually going to be my next video where I explore this in more detail. I love the sound of how you garden and how successful it has been for you!

    • @tasgardener7923
      @tasgardener7923 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@HuwRichards I have found it to be a highly beneficial way of gardening particularly in small spaces. I f can fit way more in using this method because I'm not allocating specific beds for just one kind of plant. If I did that I wouldn't be able to grow half as much. I also high density garden due to the limited space and it works really well with the 'no rules' method as long as you care for your soil properly. The diversity in plants brings in the insect diversity and the pest/predator ratio balances out nicely. Also because the majority of what grows is from my own seed which is now several generations along, the plants are well adapted and I think much stronger and healthier. This year I've bought some seed to add some different varieties in our coming spring which I do now and then. Overall, after ten years of using this method I find it just works very well and a great way of natural pest control without chemicals. Even if I had more space I wouldn't change the way I do it. It produces more than enough for m
      e and I'm very happy I'm able to give what I can't use (which is a lot) to my local food charity for those doing it tough to be able to access fresh organic produce.
      The one thing i will say though is this method is long term investment in the garden. While you get produce the benefits when you first start doing it, it's over time, you will really start seeing the rewards of using such a method.

    • @kingjames4886
      @kingjames4886 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I love to just sprinkle a bunch of seeds into a patch of garden in the spring and see what I get. usually there are radishes first that once picked make way for some greens which when picked make room for a root crop such as carrots or beets to fill out.

    • @VK-qo1gm
      @VK-qo1gm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tasgardener7923 I love how passionate you are about your gardening, it obviously works. I'm going to try to go 'rogue' in some areas of my veg garden. I also have quite a few vertical structures to grow beans, pumpkins,etc easier to pick & they don't take over huge areas on the ground, leaving alot more space for other veg to grow. Thx for your valuable input ! Cheers 🇦🇺

  • @fzjohnson
    @fzjohnson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    There are some very beautiful and orderly gardens on TH-cam, and I've benefitted a great deal from the wisdom shared. But my microclimate isn't their microclimate, and I'm not growing to sell. This means there comes a point when awe and admiration starts to become a bit depressing. Am I the only gardener with sawfly larvae decimating gooseberries? Complete annihilation overnight (or so it seemed). Twigs, no more leaves 🙄. There goes my dream of beauty and order. 🤣 Your video with Liz was EXACTLY what I needed to watch. 😊 Thank you. It was a real tonic. You two work really well together. I think you could easily have a shared TV series and books. Brilliant. Love the podcast episodes with you as her guest, too. What a team!

    • @HuwRichards
      @HuwRichards  4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      We get sawfly every year on our gooseberries haha! I am so glad you found this video useful and yes I would absolutely love to do something like a TV show with Liz - it would be so fun!!

  • @MakeupMornings
    @MakeupMornings 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Your collabs with Liz Zorab are just great!! 😊
    She seems like such a sweet person to just have tea with and wonder about life!

    • @HuwRichards
      @HuwRichards  4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      She is the most fantastic and inspirational person!

  • @RebelShell
    @RebelShell 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I don't remember if I discovered your channel through Liz's, or hers through yours, but I really enjoy both of you and appreciate your collaboration, sharing of information and audiences. This is my first year gardening, having finally moved to a large farm property in Nova Scotia, Canada. I have read a lot, watched a lot of youtube videos, and have just gone out there and adapted in a no rules kind of way. I am loving the experience of learning by experimenting!

  • @chrisannm5240
    @chrisannm5240 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love your new path in the veg garden! I have spent my gardening life of 40 years doing things intuitively! After watching a year's worth of YT garden videos I was starting to feel like a rebel and wondered if I needed to start 'following the rules'... now I know I do not need to change a thing!! 😊

    • @HuwRichards
      @HuwRichards  4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thank you so much! I guess the most important thing is to stick to what makes you happiest in the garden too :)

  • @annelyle5474
    @annelyle5474 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I'm already a subscriber to Liz's channel, but this was a great guest spot! I'm not really confident enough yet to throw my plan out of the window, but I do let it evolve with the garden. I always grow extra seedlings in case of failures, and if I have more than will fit in the planned space, I shove them into any old gaps I can find 😃Now I have marigolds thriving where my sorrel failed to germinate, and "sacrificial" kale around the courgettes to keep the butterflies and pigeons happy!

    • @HuwRichards
      @HuwRichards  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Liz is just awesome! Don't worry about not feeling you have the confidence yet, that is absolutely okay and every season you learn loads more. Once you are armed with tons of experience then intuitive gardening will come a lot more natural. Thank you for watching and commenting Anne :)

  • @izzywizzy2361
    @izzywizzy2361 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi Hugh, I prefer the more relaxed approach you and Liz are describing here. I tend towards feeling I should do everything perfectly so when my plants aren't growing perfectly as planned I can look at the negatives and get downcast. The productive yet closer to being guided by nature way of growing and celebrating diversity leaves fewer traps for getting overwhelmed and provides more opportunities for celebrating happy surprises!

  • @sjrp407
    @sjrp407 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    She's just incredibly sweet and knowledgeable 🥰 you can just see her love for gardening 💕

  • @SteadfastTrailFarm
    @SteadfastTrailFarm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you for this video! I think I do both! Planning and then plugging in holes here and there! Just did that this morning, putting in seeds in spots to "see what happens". It's hot here in Va but I miss my spinach so I sowed some in between archways...maybe it will grow, maybe not but I'll soon find out!! Some flower seeds I never got planted, as planned ,ended up being sprinkled in various blank spots ! Brings back fun to the gardening especially when some garden failures take up to much space in my head! lol!

  • @tinanicholls5988
    @tinanicholls5988 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you Huw for sharing your video with everyone and sharing your video with Liz,I'm learning so much from both of you

  • @santalisaq
    @santalisaq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Liz and you are my two biggest role models of gardening.. Love the wisdom and the peacefulness you both transmit

  • @lifeofajeany4501
    @lifeofajeany4501 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’ve been watching your video since I started gardening in our backyard in Canada! I’ve been doing no rules gardening for 2 years. It’s really been abundant harvest this tear especially my potatoes and but my cauliflower did not turn out well this year because of rainy weather! I am really inspired how you do your gardening! Also I like how you mentioned other gardeners channel and so I did get some ideas and followed them as well.

  • @beautyforashes2230
    @beautyforashes2230 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I love this! That's how I've been gardening for a few years and have tremendous success with it. :)

  • @kitdubhran2968
    @kitdubhran2968 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lovely. This is an amazing video! Thanks for posting this. It’s how I’ve been gardening for ages. I walk around with a potted plant, meandering in roughly the right light levels and just pick a spot that we both think will be a nice place for it to go. It’s helped me replace most of the front lawn with plants, both perennials and annuals, edibles and beneficial. I love how it’s turning out. And even letting my bits of lawn do what it wants have led to a wild polyculture of native meadow plants and I love it too. (Even if grass drives me crazy)
    Thank you both so much for this video!

  • @cynthialouw2970
    @cynthialouw2970 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you Liz! Thanks Huw. I have spinach plants that have been producing for over 12 months. I also have a couple of tomato plant roots that regrew and are reproducing!

  • @therevelation19
    @therevelation19 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Why dig out roots? Roots are producing soil. Whatever I harvest, except root vegetables, I cut everything a bit above the ground and leave the roots there, so the soil life can remain a bit longer and hopefully, finds a home in the roots of the following plants. On the other hand, the remaining roots will be compopsted right beneth the new plants.

    • @Playinz4kidz
      @Playinz4kidz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Would this apply to tomatoes in raised beds?

    • @Playinz4kidz
      @Playinz4kidz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cut at ground level and a nice heavy mulch for the winter?

    • @therevelation19
      @therevelation19 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Playinz4kidz , I do it with all plants that way, even tomatoes in raised beds.

    • @therevelation19
      @therevelation19 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Playinz4kidz , yes or plant a fall/winter crop to extend the use of Your raised beds.

    • @Playinz4kidz
      @Playinz4kidz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@therevelation19 thanks man

  • @livvig
    @livvig 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hi Huw. I must say. Your the most amasing young man and you tuber. You have all my respekt. The way you chose to lift up other you tubers , is just amasing , so spesial. Just want to give you all my love ,for that. :)

  • @AfonbachDesigns
    @AfonbachDesigns 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fabulous video, 2 for 1 👍

  • @miekvandervloet9415
    @miekvandervloet9415 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is how I want to garden 🤩

  • @theyounggrower-benthornton5502
    @theyounggrower-benthornton5502 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    only 2 minutes in and already loving what your saying, this is the gardening I do just never knew what to call it, I see my gardens as a blank canvas to create what feels right at the time 🧑🏼‍🌾🖤🙌🏼
    thats why I do all this to encourage other to try this way of growing its better for everyone and wildlife. speak soon ben🧑🏼‍🌾

  • @bristolveggiebeds5310
    @bristolveggiebeds5310 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I always just put things in where it seems right! Even if I make a plan I generally don't stick to it!

  • @rosea830
    @rosea830 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I start every gardening year with an idea of what I want grow and I will write down what I intend to plant in each bed. Things happen, the garden and mother nature have their own plan, and I end up planting things where they fit, in conditions that work for them.

  • @juliecarey-downes600
    @juliecarey-downes600 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow this has been so useful, especially as I grow veg in small garden for food for family, especially leeks which we love, came across you channel after given one of your books as present, been growing for many years but love learning new techniques and ideas. Living in Somerset came across no dig many years ago as live near Charles Dowding and lovely Steff Hafferty. Now loving your channel and and learning new ideas. 💖

  • @thegreenwoodelf8014
    @thegreenwoodelf8014 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant; unchained gardening .....next level on remembering The Garden

  • @saskiaguy1940
    @saskiaguy1940 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you, Liz, for giving me permission to ‘play’ and relax in my vegetable garden 🩵☺️👌🏼🌱

  • @ohio_gardener
    @ohio_gardener 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love Liz's philosophy, "Don't think about what should be done, but think about what could be done." Rules might say you can't plant this near that, but there is an open space there so I will plant them there.

  • @treesagreen4191
    @treesagreen4191 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Given the mad weather we've had this year, I think this is the way forward. And as climate change kicks in, it will be useful to know how to adapt your own growing to deal with it.

    • @HuwRichards
      @HuwRichards  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You've raised a very valid point there!

    • @mosheshekelsteinspanbergbl5624
      @mosheshekelsteinspanbergbl5624 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The real climate change is a mini ice age.

    • @thisorthat7626
      @thisorthat7626 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mosheshekelsteinspanbergbl5624 not necessarily. increased volcanic activity due to the poles migrating is throwing a lot of ash into the atmosphere. That can cause warming. It might be a race to see what actually happens so we had best plan on things changing. Cheers.

    • @thisorthat7626
      @thisorthat7626 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Teresa Green, I think you are correct. Plans are great when weather is predictable. Spring was cold and wet instead of the lovely warm weather we typically get. I am all for trying a lot of plants and letting the plants decide where they want to live. At least that way something should grow.

    • @mosheshekelsteinspanbergbl5624
      @mosheshekelsteinspanbergbl5624 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thisorthat7626 , an ice age or a mini ice age, is not what is depicted in hollywood or the fake science taught in schools. It is a shortage of growing degree days. For most food and feed crops, (as well as most insects), the peak growing temperature is 86°. Thus for example: If two days last year were both 86° , and this year one of those days is 72°, and the other 100°, even though the average temperature remained the same, it has gotten colder in terms of growing degree days.

  • @haroldgolden5437
    @haroldgolden5437 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think that you are onto something here, Huw. To me at least, intuitive gardening is fun gardening. I hope your book has a chapter on this method.

  • @mariekelly2016
    @mariekelly2016 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is my kind of gardening I have been mixing my flowers and veg for a year now and I love the way it looks, I have a small back garden that is south facing and my results are ok so far I'll be watching for more information 😊

  • @kingjames4886
    @kingjames4886 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    next spring mix up a pile of radishe, lettuce, spinach, chard/kale, and carrot/beet seeds. broadcast them in a bed. re-sow greens and radishes as required and enjoy food all year with minimal weeding. you'll get radishes, then tender greens, then hardy greens and root crops in the summer/fall.

  • @BrighidsGarden
    @BrighidsGarden 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’m so glad I’m not the only one 😆 I try to make plans but I always end up off piste. The plants tell me where they want to be 😊

    • @HuwRichards
      @HuwRichards  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hahha that's brilliant ;)

  • @Starlight22215
    @Starlight22215 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I threw out the rules 30 odd years ago. Works for me. To be honest I've done it with life not just gardening. Go with the flow, plan nothing. It's so much less stressful. Never disappointed because I never planned anything.

  • @jennychuang808
    @jennychuang808 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is real gardening!
    Thank you !

  • @ranchoraccolto
    @ranchoraccolto 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I have changed from intuitive gardening to monthly plan as i was losing lots of yield but, there was a lost of the fun part, so by the 3er month i started a mix between both...

    • @HuwRichards
      @HuwRichards  4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I am leaning towards a mix between both too, perhaps monthly plan for the staples, but then leave plenty of breathing space for everything else

    • @Playinz4kidz
      @Playinz4kidz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Definitely huw, you obviously to some degree have to have some idea of what's going in and when, but focus on staples like you said and let everything else just happen, I love your method of filling in gaps, I went around my new veg patch today and any beds that had a gap I planted some spinach beet I had sown In modules, I love spinach beet or chard and cannot get snuff so hopefully I'll be in for plenty more, If not that's fine too, thanks huw you have really helped me

    • @Just-Nikki
      @Just-Nikki 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      David Figuereo that’s what I do. I start with a plan but I always do last minute changes and think of something I like better on the spot.

    • @ranchoraccolto
      @ranchoraccolto 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Huw Richards - Grow Food Organically I have found is best the balance between both

    • @ranchoraccolto
      @ranchoraccolto 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nikki Cooper indeed! The main focus is to have a yield and still enjoy while doing it

  • @lindaphelps4673
    @lindaphelps4673 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great gardening ideas and however you go about it you get to eat the results. Great videos which we very much enjoy.

  • @carolineholland4178
    @carolineholland4178 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have been enjoying your vis since I first saw you as a guest on a Charles Dowding video. You are always a great source of advice, inspiration and motivation. Thank you so much for the work that you put into this. You talked about overwhelm a while back and this made me feel more able to cope with the large allotment that I love. When you became intense on planning I became a bit overwhelmed. Mother nature dosn't seem to have the same plan. I am loving your combination of keeping things planned and under some controll with being more relaxed, letting nature do it's thing. I admire your honesty and willingness to share your experiences and not getting stuck in your ways. I am loving your more relaxed and intuitive approach this year. Thankyou!!

  • @ilearn8950
    @ilearn8950 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh, this is how i garden, haha, more by accident than design. I just today planted leeks at the front of a flower bed, in front of sweet peas, bookended by lavenders. My tiny garden is chaotic because i love watching the wildlife. Beetroot lines the path to the back gate and runners are wigwamed in the middle of the flowers. They're great for height among the perennials. Im going to leave them in this year now though, sounds like a fab idea!

  • @lynnrushton7458
    @lynnrushton7458 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This makes me very happy! Rules have gone completely out of the window this year for me!
    So now I can stop stressing about it!
    Thanks Huw & Liz 🙏 x

    • @HuwRichards
      @HuwRichards  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No stress needed Lynn, thank you so much for watching!

  • @gizellebichard2313
    @gizellebichard2313 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love this ❤️

  • @ghatonn78
    @ghatonn78 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just started gardening and this is how i did it, i just went for it but still had to plan a little. This video has come just at the right time...talk about intuition.

    • @Just-Nikki
      @Just-Nikki 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      George Hatton I think there has to be a little planning but I hope you enjoy it and continue with it. I have been amazed with how much I love it. Now I’m trying hydroponics 🤞🤞🤞happy planting!

  • @gardenboots7464
    @gardenboots7464 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent video Huw and Liz. Love the intuitive gardening.

  • @somaroychoudhary7705
    @somaroychoudhary7705 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I grow my plants with my inbuilt mom instinct 😃 all the plants I grow in my garden are my babies 😄 I love them, take care of them and let them do their natural things 😊 having said that I really enjoy watching the gardening videos with quality content!

  • @nickysmith164
    @nickysmith164 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic, Liz, Huw. Already growing a Permaculture garden. Aside from perennialising our gardens, great stuff, to re-jig how we all think about gardening/how we live/approach it all. Garden (R)Evolution goes forward. Thankyou both 😍😍

  • @kris8584
    @kris8584 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Looks like I have already been doing intuitive gardening. I like a it when it all goes wild with a mind of its own.

  • @NickMusselle
    @NickMusselle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    brilliant video Huw, I'm experimenting because I live on a mountain in North Wales and there is a wind most days, found my french beans don't like the wind.

  • @OnLongIsland
    @OnLongIsland 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I listen to all the “rules” and then do what works best for me and the space. 😊 Pretty much what you and Liz are talking about.

    • @HuwRichards
      @HuwRichards  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah that is how it should be done I think :)

  • @Lets1008
    @Lets1008 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I loved this video! It's like listening to the garden and finding what suits it best. Greetings from Spain

  • @micah864
    @micah864 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is exactly what I needed to watch at the moment

  • @saskiaguy1940
    @saskiaguy1940 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ‘It turns out the plants haven’t read those rule books’ 😆 Love it!! 🩵🌱👏🏼👌🏼

  • @Cheyne4Chelsea
    @Cheyne4Chelsea หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is one of my favourite gardening videos. I'm trying to find my personal goldilocks zone between "chaos gardening" and a very regimented approach as well as between gardening for food production and for native pollinators and wildlife
    Have some of Liz's videos in the queue and plan to watch her regularly. And I hope to see more videos from you on this and similar notes. Obviously this is 3 years old so they might already be out there. But I have yet to see them

  • @SeeStuDo
    @SeeStuDo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Digging Huw lately, such a relaxing voice.

  • @alb5346
    @alb5346 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This makes me happy huw, I was very daunted by your earlier videos that insist you must have a month by month plan. If your a beginner in a new growing space, you have no idea how specific plants reacts to your soil or micro climate. This way of doing things allows you to learn a huge amount about your area, your weather and your soil and ultimately be more productive.

    • @HuwRichards
      @HuwRichards  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I wasn't insisting, just very much recommending it off you want maximum productivity from a plot, and it isn't suitable for beginners :) I am glad this video helped though and good luck with all of your growing!

    • @therevelation19
      @therevelation19 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@HuwRichards ,never felt it like insisting. For me was ist always a "..may be good." . I´ve no time to make plans or so, I plant what is ready to plant or to sow direct and I´m fine. And on this way I learn the most of how to do it or try it next time an other way. All gardening books, and of course I like Your´s very much, and videos are just a rule of thumb. You have to adapt everything to Your own circumstances, to Your environment and possibilities. And that is, what will give You the reward of an acceptable crop.

  • @ukpaul9221
    @ukpaul9221 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    A really super vid. Liz helped me to relax more than a little over attitude to the garden. I am grateful for that. I am just beginning to cotton on the fact that I'll have a lot of space once the peas, onions and beans are done and so I'm frantically (less so since the vid) sowing replacements. Thank you both so much for the encouragement and advice. Best wishes as always to you both. Paul (and Liz, look after your health in these hazardous times)

  • @billybowen3023
    @billybowen3023 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow Huw....... what can i say! I am so impressed with this video! I guess I've been doing this for two year having no idea that other people are doing the same! I aim to keep has much growing as possible, grow different plants together, minimize soil disturbance and maximize soil cover. Its a journey gardening like this, and it frees your mind. Thank you 👍

  • @suburbanhomestead
    @suburbanhomestead 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Intuitive gardening, flowers amongst vegetables, a beard: I think you are becoming my twin Huw

  • @coldwhitespring5004
    @coldwhitespring5004 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I can't plan anyway, so I always do it intuitively.

  • @louiseanderwin1
    @louiseanderwin1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This I exactly how I garden. You do need knowledge of how each plant grows, but each year I simply observe the plants and the weather and garden according to observations and instinct. You won't find straight rows of plants in my garden, but many polyculture plantings, and lots of experiments, most of which are successful.

  • @guylamullins3602
    @guylamullins3602 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The purple bean flowers are pretty.

  • @PopleBackyardFarm
    @PopleBackyardFarm 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love this ... I am constantly telling my gardening buddies break the rules on what someone told you about gardening

  • @davidthescottishvegan
    @davidthescottishvegan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video and I made a plan for my allotment this year but it never quite worked out due to either weather or the pandemic or other environment issues.

  • @nataschajudson7509
    @nataschajudson7509 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for this video... Liz is very encouraging.

  • @melindaedgington7390
    @melindaedgington7390 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I found this style of gardening has really worked for me since becoming a parent and not having loads of time to give my plants.

  • @lorraineg8134
    @lorraineg8134 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    To be honest, i boldly havent stuck to any plans most times, reason being is i dont plan. If something doesnt work i enquire why, example asking about the leeks and followed the info. On most parts i go by trial and error and kind of wing it at times, i do follow lots of you gardeners on here, go with my gut feeling.
    Great colab Huw and Liz. Thankyou.

  • @Playinz4kidz
    @Playinz4kidz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great knowledge as always, lots of ideas

  • @ferdinandgluck2723
    @ferdinandgluck2723 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    You speek really out of my heart.... my garden lookes in the moment more like a mixed boarder than the planned combinations on the sheet hanging in the kitchen:)

    • @HuwRichards
      @HuwRichards  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you Ferdinand, I am sure it looks super beautiful!

  • @pausefornature8489
    @pausefornature8489 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video Huw, as always very helpful and informative! ☺️

  • @skypilgreen7376
    @skypilgreen7376 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Such a great video! Thank you!

  • @CliffsidePermaculture
    @CliffsidePermaculture 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love it! What a great evolution and fun thing to try out. Thank you for sharing!

  • @melissa7777
    @melissa7777 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love this video, Ive been doing the same thing lately. I read the instructions on how to sow seeds recently for this season spring, and if it involved anything which doesn't happen in nature naturally , then I ignored the instructions and stuck to how it would seed itself in the wild instead. I want to garden natures way, not mans ways of cultivating their gardens.... I think we can learn a lot more from nature if we spent more time intrigued to learn from Gods design of things, instead of enforcing our way of doing things, which is contrary to original design.

  • @soultrekcentral
    @soultrekcentral 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    lol, at this point im glad Ive got 3 potato plants and 1 aloe vera still alive in my garden!

  • @danennis3078
    @danennis3078 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Liz was fantastic. Looking forward to the rest!

  • @Vanessa-bk4nv
    @Vanessa-bk4nv 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this! It is my style of gardening, although I love Charles Dowding's no dig method, but it doesn't work on my site, due to an extreme bindweed infestation. My style is a mix of a bunch of methods that have worked for me, and each new growing season is a learning experience with successes and failures, and a whole lot of knowledge gained 🙂

  • @ScowlingWolf
    @ScowlingWolf 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    love Liz

  • @fredblogs9076
    @fredblogs9076 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Loved it.

  • @kelleydebettencourt2140
    @kelleydebettencourt2140 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    She is wonderful!!!!

  • @ecocentrichomestead6783
    @ecocentrichomestead6783 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The main thing about this type of gardening is, you need to be able to be ruthless in weeding and pruning.
    It won't work for people who want weed free gardens and if cutting back wanted plants without the express purpose for harvest gives them strife.
    I have food plants volunteering all over and many times I just have to pull them up and throw them in the compost.

  • @mackenzieholtog4866
    @mackenzieholtog4866 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have tried over and over to have a garden “plan,” and have ultimately come to the conclusion that planning is highly overrated! I am absolutely an “intuitive gardener.” Why fight it? Growing a garden is a constantly evolving, and often unpredictable process. When your expectations of your garden are flexible, that’s when nature will surprise and delight you. I feel strict planning does little but set you up for disappointment. Is my garden the most highly productive? Not by a long shot. However, it is a source of immeasurable joy.

  • @RainSoundsIncognito
    @RainSoundsIncognito 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love this vid!! 🤩

  • @kamilosvip1
    @kamilosvip1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this

  • @annettechinnery1714
    @annettechinnery1714 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Idea for videos, monthly cook the veg from the garden into meals ideas for us, would be very helpful❤️

  • @guylamullins3602
    @guylamullins3602 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I grow leeks for the baby form. I don’t like the ones in the store that are huge and sometimes too woody. The baby ones are good to make potato leek soup.

  • @ericaslittlewelshgarden
    @ericaslittlewelshgarden 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video! 😊

  • @Dimora
    @Dimora 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm interested in seeing how this does year over year. You guys have much nicer soil and could handle heavy feeders in the same spot, i imagine? This was our first somewhat successful year gardening with our poor, sandy soil and I've been wracking my brain to come up with a good plan that will build soil and replenish nutrients (rotation, cover crops and lots of herbs and flowers intercropped). The permaculturist in me far prefers the intuitive approach but I haven't had much luck with that dealing with a poor foundation of deficient soils. Maybe someday I'll get there :3

  • @ketikochladze
    @ketikochladze 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Interesting :)

  • @mirandaf2112
    @mirandaf2112 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is my kind of gardening :)

  • @KyriaNunNuit
    @KyriaNunNuit 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The only problem with this is that you have to be a MASTER to pull it off. For me, it would be like trying to dance the lead part in Swan Lake with the little experience in amateur dance I have 😃, but I'm sure these Masters will make a success of it 😃😃 I mean, just look at the magnificently garmonious ballets they've got going in their gardens! Still, I love the basic message of "Don't let perfectionism get in the way of doing things".

  • @federicobracamonte76
    @federicobracamonte76 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting program!

  • @plants4ever48
    @plants4ever48 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is just the ticket Huw! Love the food forest ideas like those espoused by Morag Gamble here in Australia👍🌱

    • @HuwRichards
      @HuwRichards  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Food forests are great fun aren't they?! :)

    • @plants4ever48
      @plants4ever48 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@HuwRichards Thanks Huw, also really enjoyed watching Morag visit your garden last year on one of her videos! 🌱

  • @tanarehbein7768
    @tanarehbein7768 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love this idea- garden the way nature does. It's God's garden. I just beat back a few weeds

  • @TTimeConscious
    @TTimeConscious 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ❤️❤️❤️

  • @Playinz4kidz
    @Playinz4kidz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I loving this way of gardening, I went round today filling in any gaps in my garden with some spinach beet I'd sow in modules, instead of having just one bed for them now I could possibly get much more, let's wait and see! And I'm done with worrying about everything having to be in neat rows all divided, I'm going to mix it up abit still planned abit but also using instinct and opportunity. Thanks huw love your work. Do you have away I could make a small donation to your work

  • @standbyme6395
    @standbyme6395 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Make a plan change the plan. Can't tell you how many plants I've moved this year.

  • @finflwr
    @finflwr 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lovely video. I'm definitely onboard with going with the flow of nature : ) She'll feed us if we let her.

  • @gyanwei7402
    @gyanwei7402 4 ปีที่แล้ว

  • @patriciareginadeguzman6484
    @patriciareginadeguzman6484 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ❤️🌱