Plans plans... chillis in the greenhouse for sure. Hope the potatoes do better this year. I did like doing them in buckets this year, but only because I had the compost available... Best of luck for 2025 growing Nik 💕💕
It is my first time on your channel and I have just subscribed. Thank you so much for sharing. Keep up the good work. All the best on this journey. Happy New year🙏🙏🙏
Happy New Year You grow so much but the way you preserve your harvests is inspirational. . Definitely ups your productivity and year round productivity Loved the sowing in your pjs ❤️
I grow Andalusian Tree Cabbages (From Real Seeds). They grow huge and you can crop the leaves all year. Mine are on their third year now. Taste just like cabbage, but so much easier. I have two plants which keeps two of us in cabbage all year with plenty of leaves to give away too.
Sounds great! I need to try that! I've put on my seed shopping list. I love stuffed cabbage leaves! So that would be perfect for that. Is it annual or perennial?
Happy New Year 🎉 id love to see the list that you've put together of what you need for a year for your family 😊 I am hoping this year to grow enough salad leaves/lettuce, peas, peppers, cucumber, onions, garlic and soft fruits for our family of 3 and am so eager to get started but hanging off for a couple more weeks as can't find my grow lights to start things indoors at the moment 😢 I've only got limited outdoor growing space but have received 2 greenstalk planters for Christmas so hoping they help us to achieve our goals 😊
That's epic I'm like that every year too! Can't find anything I put away. I have a seed tent! (Think drug den set up) and have all the lights in my our building with a little heater and a fan. Bob says I'm defo getting raided one day. But if the police come over they are not leaving till they see all my plants and an allotment tour! It be 3 hrs in and I'd be like oh! What there is more!
Successional sowing helps avoid summer gluts. Also you can sow different varieties that mature at different times of year. For example I am growing winter,summer and spring harvesting cabbages and cauliflowers. I am also growing an early and late harvesting variety of purple sprouting broccoli this year (for the first time, normally only the late variety). Lastly I grow for the summer and the winter crops. Autumn/summer harvested crops like butternut squash, borrlotti beans, celeriac and onions that keep over the winter without freezing etc. Also winter harvested crops like sprouts, swede, purple sprouting broccoli, parsnips, lambs lettuce, lettuce and leeks. It is my first year with a polytunnel, built in September. Inside I have onions, peas, lambs lettuce, spring cabbage, lettuce, carrots and swede. I have September sown calabrese in pots to harvest hopefully in April. Plus I have started sowing my cold tolerant crops. Heat loving plants will be sown between January and April depending on the vegetable using a propagator, South facing conservatory and grow lights. You can get two or three crops out of the same ground in a year. For example I grew first early potatoes followed by purple sprouting broccolli interplanted with dwarf French beans. Some crops are half season crops that allow a winter crop to be planted afterwards. IMHO people do not grow enough winter vegetables and end up with summer gluts and nothing for the winter. (I know that you have grown for the winter).
That was the name of the Calabrese you sowed in September. I'm looking for one that produces massive heads. I love have gluts. I know most people hate it but I like having a stash of food lol we have 4 freezers and a walk in pantry but yes we do we fresh things too!!! And I also have stored onions, garlic, and frozen veggies. I did frozen parsnips and I swear I eat them more just coz they are there! lol funny coz I never use frozen sauces so have to can them!
@@ThatBritishHomestead I am enjoying the extra things that I can do and how quickly things grow in it. I had a multi cell seed tray of swede plants that I left for about three weeks after planting the rest of the swedes in the ground. I was not expecting much but put them in the polytunnel. They are doing better than the ones planted earlier outside. Everything else in the polytunnel is doing better than expectations.
@ThatBritishHomestead I sowed it in the pokytunnel ans potted into pots. It is an experiment, Steve on Steve's seaside allotment said he sows for an April harvest. I did sow last year indoors in January, getting a crop at the end of May. The variety that I grew is Marathon. I have had good success with this for about the last three years. If I am trying out new varieties, I look for varieties listed on the RHS website. I pick from their AGM list (Award of General Merit) Those varieties have shown to do well at their gardens with different soil types, so a good starting point.
Happy New Year! I've seen most TV gardeners growing peaches against a wall to give them some protection. Have you made passata with your tomatoes too as this can be bottled. I garden in Mid Wales where we always seem to have a late frost and in autumn, an early one so our season is shorter. I dug up my unproductive veg patch in the autumn and turned it into a wildlife pond for the frogs I regularly see in the garden .The birds love having baths in it too. I'm thinking of getting a polytunnel as neighbours have good success with growing in them in our climate. Good luck this season. How lovely that your children are growing up gardening too; I loved doing so! 😊
@ thanks so much for your kind words and yes I really messed up with the tree. I do plan to move it next year! But right now it lives there 🙃 I love peaches so much. I don't do passata but I can a lot of roasted tomatoes. I use them in everything from salas to curry and back again! I love them on pizza! But it's a very good ideas!
@@ThatBritishHomestead Yes, just a soft brush. A soft childs paint brush or something similar would be idea. Just gently brush the male part of the flower and then the central female part. With peach you probably will end up doing both at the same time, which does not hurt. This year my dwarf pear tree was in flower and the weather was too cold for insects. I hand pollinated one side of the tree and left the otherside alone as an experiment. I had a heavy crop on the hand pollinated side of the tree and hardly anything on the otherside.
You have so much food going on there! What is the overall size of your growing space? I’m also with you on peas-I seem to struggle to get a decent crop. Maybe I will this year…
Beautiful video young lady:-) I like how you have your baby with you. Very nice garden! Do you practice crop rotation at all? I'm not an expert but may I suggest planting beans and snow peas?:-)
Thanks so much for your kind words. I do with some things. But I tend to plant my tomatoes and squash in the same places. So I'll rotate the potatoes this year as they had issues. I am not sure if I'll rotate the squash. Maybe! I do think there is an impact to yeild. And I going to double down on peas and beans! Thanks so much for your suggestion I appreciate it
@@ThatBritishHomestead Hey, you are a lovely and smart young woman. Thank you for making this video. I always enjoy listening to and speaking with other fellow gardeners. I am so glad to see you helping yourself and your family. What you're doing and learning is something everyone else should be doing and learning. We all know how important food in our lives. I so wish I could own property close to someone like you. We would have fun. I remember hearing about the times when neighbors used to help each other when help was needed and truly cared for and respected each other. We don't see enough of that these days. I encourage you to keep making more of these awesome videos.
Basil in the greenhouse 🎉
Yh? I was thinking your peppers?
Happy New Year Nik!
Happy new year! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Plans plans... chillis in the greenhouse for sure. Hope the potatoes do better this year. I did like doing them in buckets this year, but only because I had the compost available... Best of luck for 2025 growing Nik 💕💕
I did them in buckets before but they dried out so much... perhaps I'll give it a go? And yes! I'm think peppers and chillis
Happy New Year Nik and family here’s to many more happy days of growing, Ali 🌞🥶🇨🇦
Thanks so much Ali
Awesome Video my friend!!!!!
Thanks is much! Hope you're keeping well! Been loving your crafts. Wish I was as creative
It is my first time on your channel and I have just subscribed. Thank you so much for sharing. Keep up the good work. All the best on this journey. Happy New year🙏🙏🙏
Thanks for subbing! Glad you liked it. I look forward to sharing my journey with you
Happy New Year
You grow so much but the way you preserve your harvests is inspirational. . Definitely ups your productivity and year round productivity
Loved the sowing in your pjs ❤️
lol you can't get out of the pjs on Xmas day!! lol
@ definitely not! ❤️
A peach in the greenhouse! That would be awesome. And lemon verbena. That’s my favourite herb.
I've not heard of that herb is it similar to Lemon balm? And that be epic but I'd need a MUCH bigger greenhouse!
Happy New Year from Maryland, USA!
Happy new year!
I grow Andalusian Tree Cabbages (From Real Seeds). They grow huge and you can crop the leaves all year. Mine are on their third year now. Taste just like cabbage, but so much easier. I have two plants which keeps two of us in cabbage all year with plenty of leaves to give away too.
Sounds great! I need to try that! I've put on my seed shopping list. I love stuffed cabbage leaves! So that would be perfect for that. Is it annual or perennial?
@ It’s perennial and some of the leaves are huge, so perfect for stuffing x
@ you have convinced me! I'll be doing it this year! So excited
Happy New Year 🎉 id love to see the list that you've put together of what you need for a year for your family 😊 I am hoping this year to grow enough salad leaves/lettuce, peas, peppers, cucumber, onions, garlic and soft fruits for our family of 3 and am so eager to get started but hanging off for a couple more weeks as can't find my grow lights to start things indoors at the moment 😢 I've only got limited outdoor growing space but have received 2 greenstalk planters for Christmas so hoping they help us to achieve our goals 😊
That's epic I'm like that every year too! Can't find anything I put away. I have a seed tent! (Think drug den set up) and have all the lights in my our building with a little heater and a fan. Bob says I'm defo getting raided one day. But if the police come over they are not leaving till they see all my plants and an allotment tour! It be 3 hrs in and I'd be like oh! What there is more!
Successional sowing helps avoid summer gluts. Also you can sow different varieties that mature at different times of year. For example I am growing winter,summer and spring harvesting cabbages and cauliflowers. I am also growing an early and late harvesting variety of purple sprouting broccoli this year (for the first time, normally only the late variety).
Lastly I grow for the summer and the winter crops. Autumn/summer harvested crops like butternut squash, borrlotti beans, celeriac and onions that keep over the winter without freezing etc. Also winter harvested crops like sprouts, swede, purple sprouting broccoli, parsnips, lambs lettuce, lettuce and leeks.
It is my first year with a polytunnel, built in September. Inside I have onions, peas, lambs lettuce, spring cabbage, lettuce, carrots and swede. I have September sown calabrese in pots to harvest hopefully in April. Plus I have started sowing my cold tolerant crops. Heat loving plants will be sown between January and April depending on the vegetable using a propagator, South facing conservatory and grow lights.
You can get two or three crops out of the same ground in a year. For example I grew first early potatoes followed by purple sprouting broccolli interplanted with dwarf French beans. Some crops are half season crops that allow a winter crop to be planted afterwards. IMHO people do not grow enough winter vegetables and end up with summer gluts and nothing for the winter. (I know that you have grown for the winter).
That was the name of the Calabrese you sowed in September. I'm looking for one that produces massive heads. I love have gluts. I know most people hate it but I like having a stash of food lol we have 4 freezers and a walk in pantry but yes we do we fresh things too!!! And I also have stored onions, garlic, and frozen veggies. I did frozen parsnips and I swear I eat them more just coz they are there! lol funny coz I never use frozen sauces so have to can them!
You are doing an amazing job! How you liking the polly I want one so bad
@@ThatBritishHomestead I am enjoying the extra things that I can do and how quickly things grow in it.
I had a multi cell seed tray of swede plants that I left for about three weeks after planting the rest of the swedes in the ground. I was not expecting much but put them in the polytunnel. They are doing better than the ones planted earlier outside. Everything else in the polytunnel is doing better than expectations.
@ThatBritishHomestead I sowed it in the pokytunnel ans potted into pots. It is an experiment, Steve on Steve's seaside allotment said he sows for an April harvest. I did sow last year indoors in January, getting a crop at the end of May. The variety that I grew is Marathon. I have had good success with this for about the last three years.
If I am trying out new varieties, I look for varieties listed on the RHS website. I pick from their AGM list (Award of General Merit) Those varieties have shown to do well at their gardens with different soil types, so a good starting point.
@@KPKENNEDY just love the level of research bossing it
The range of foods you grow is commendable! ❤
Thanks so much! I try hard to get more and more every year!
Happy New Year Nik to you and your family
Happy new year!
Happy New Year! I've seen most TV gardeners growing peaches against a wall to give them some protection. Have you made passata with your tomatoes too as this can be bottled. I garden in Mid Wales where we always seem to have a late frost and in autumn, an early one so our season is shorter. I dug up my unproductive veg patch in the autumn and turned it into a wildlife pond for the frogs I regularly see in the garden .The birds love having baths in it too. I'm thinking of getting a polytunnel as neighbours have good success with growing in them in our climate. Good luck this season. How lovely that your children are growing up gardening too; I loved doing so! 😊
@ thanks so much for your kind words and yes I really messed up with the tree. I do plan to move it next year! But right now it lives there 🙃 I love peaches so much. I don't do passata but I can a lot of roasted tomatoes. I use them in everything from salas to curry and back again! I love them on pizza! But it's a very good ideas!
Peach trees often blossom before any insects are around. Suggest you try to hand pollinate the Peach tree it does help lots.
That's such a good Idea I never thought of that! How do you do that, with a little paintbrush?
@@ThatBritishHomestead Yes, just a soft brush. A soft childs paint brush or something similar would be idea. Just gently brush the male part of the flower and then the central female part. With peach you probably will end up doing both at the same time, which does not hurt.
This year my dwarf pear tree was in flower and the weather was too cold for insects. I hand pollinated one side of the tree and left the otherside alone as an experiment. I had a heavy crop on the hand pollinated side of the tree and hardly anything on the otherside.
@ ok you have sold me! I am doing this this year! Do you have leaf curl issues?
@ThatBritishHomestead Yes, unfortunately
@@KPKENNEDY same. But you get fruit?
You have so much food going on there! What is the overall size of your growing space? I’m also with you on peas-I seem to struggle to get a decent crop. Maybe I will this year…
500 square meters or 2 allotment plots. Which they say should feed 8 people year round! So hopefully it will!
Such a variety that you grow.
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Hedge our bets not ‘edge’😊
lol the Londoner in me can't say h or g at the end! lol and there's me trying to do me dead posh voice lol ❤️❤️❤️🤣
Beautiful video young lady:-) I like how you have your baby with you. Very nice garden! Do you practice crop rotation at all? I'm not an expert but may I suggest planting beans and snow peas?:-)
Thanks so much for your kind words. I do with some things. But I tend to plant my tomatoes and squash in the same places. So I'll rotate the potatoes this year as they had issues. I am not sure if I'll rotate the squash. Maybe! I do think there is an impact to yeild. And I going to double down on peas and beans! Thanks so much for your suggestion I appreciate it
@@ThatBritishHomestead Hey, you are a lovely and smart young woman. Thank you for making this video. I always enjoy listening to and speaking with other fellow gardeners. I am so glad to see you helping yourself and your family. What you're doing and learning is something everyone else should be doing and learning. We all know how important food in our lives. I so wish I could own property close to someone like you. We would have fun. I remember hearing about the times when neighbors used to help each other when help was needed and truly cared for and respected each other. We don't see enough of that these days. I encourage you to keep making more of these awesome videos.