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I love the way you do your vids-laid back, just talking to us, telling us ways you've found to improve your gardening experience. No distracting booming music, just natural sounds & a soothing, friendly voice. Thank you!
I really needed this today! I love my garden and everything about it, but sometimes it feels overwhelming! The Garden, Harvest and Processing in good timing! Being alone on Five acres as a widow in my 60's becoming an empty nester is a huge adjustment! Grateful for my garden and chores! Just wish I could enjoy the housework as much as my garden chores! Thanks again with Blessings ❤️🙏😇😊🙋♀️
Making those significant transitions can really be disorienting! So glad that you have this wonderful opportunity, and that you are doing it! I hope that it is healing and nurturing for you. And that the decisions you make are your own (not from undue pressure from someone else.) Gardening does include "failures" and we should not be defined by our "failures". Stay strong and stay you. AND, if for some reason it doesn't end up being a good fit, I hope you can make the necessary changes. Be well.
Have you discovered the youtube sites "Liz Zorab - Byther Farm" and "Off Grid with Doug and Stacy"? They're both great for helping to break chores/tasks down into manageable steps. I love how Huw does that as well.
garden boots Ahhh... Thanks so much for your encouragement!!! Very helpful!!! I invite friends over to share with as much as possible! I am grateful for all of these families and what they share! I have been subscribed and have my earbuds in most of the day and evening listening, enjoying and making it happen throughout my day! You are right... I had my Bonus Daughter here for a month and it was Glorious to reconnect and share time and chores! She helped with so much! She's back to her Sisters working a job now that they can work some again! My son will be home from Alaska job, first of August to help with some! I pray daily to have the self discipline to make my home chores as much of a priority as needed! Gardens cannot be put on hold this time of year! Thanks again! One bite at a time!!!😁
“All is not lost because you’ve enjoyed the whole process.” Thank you for that reminder, Huw. Failure in the garden is inevitable, and being in a new climate and growing zone this year has been very difficult and discouraging. However, you are so right. I needed that 🥰
I justed started again from scratch this year. It was rough, and many things failed, but I have to remind myself that it will get better year after year now that I've put in the work to prepare everything.
“All is not lost because you’ve enjoyed the whole process.” Your videos are both very aesthetic and educational. You are also very humble and pleasant to listen to. Thank you for great quality videos.
Darn you Huw. Started gardening for the first time this year after watching your videos all winter. Lockdown happened and I had a bit of time, I have overdone it. I had no idea how much veg I could grow as a beginner. I thought tis year would be a leaning year, it turned out to be almost self sufficeint in veg from three small beds. The secret was cardboard 😉 Courgettes, tomatoes, runners, kale, calibrese, sunflowers, leeks, peas, herbs, chinese cabbage, spuds, pumpkins, strawberries. It's a jungle out there. Keep up the good work, mate.
Oh, and I DO enjoy visiting my garden - just for pleasure too. I place my garden chairs in different areas of my garden to view it fm different places. I listen to my birds chatter, call, and fly thru and around my garden and around me. I watch my dragonflies hunt and in doing so, I get many ideas what changes I may want to make later.
And my bees, I'm amazed watching how hard they work. They don't bothered me even when they insist on being on my flowering plants while I'm working amongst them. 😃
Really appreciate your garden philosophy of gardening for pleasure rather than just focusing on production. I've taken your advice to spend time observing my garden and thinking about what I want to do, improve, change, very much to heart. I've spent more time just enjoying my small garden (sitting with a cup of tea and observing) than ever before, but have gotten more done in my garden than ever before. A strange paradox but it works! Thank you for your excellent videos!
Wow Anne this is exactly what I wanted other people to experience and I'm so glad you have done just that! It sounds like it's going so well and thank you for sharing that ☺️
You are me!! My husband just built me a raised bed garden and I planted some seeds yesterday. I do have a spot just for me...a chair where I sit , sip some tea, listen to music and visualize my garden full of veggies. It'll be insane when the seedlings pop up...
@@sandy-rr1by it is a video of his garden; I use Facebook a lot and people are always doing that so I don't usually click on those links; people even send me private messages on WhatsApp with unexplained links and I almost always ignore them
Huw and Charles D, Mark (self sufficient me) and MIgardener are my absolutely favorites! Thank you for another wonderfully thought out video. Your videos always have fantastic tips but always that little extra 'food' for thought.
I thank you so much for the back half of this video, Huw. I've been stressing out over planting plants, polyculture tables, and seed lists for days, despairing about how on earth I shall fit all these different seeds friends gifted me for Christmas & birthday into my rather limited growing space of 27 m². After watching your video, I've decided that I'll just grow what I like most, and IF there's open spaces later, I'll start adding other plants in. Don't overthink, that's the lesson I'm taking from this video, thank you!
Huw, I really enjoy your videos. Your information is reliable. Your presentation is top notch, and your voice so very easy to listen to. How about a video of your favourite tools? I keep trying to see the end of the hoe you use and never can. It looks very different. Thanks & keep up the good work!
Thank you Huw and Charles you have turned me into a gardener! This is year 2 nd year and ive harvested my onions and Garlic (20lb of each roughly!) and ive replaced them with Carrots and Swede (although a little late) Planted out my winter greens last week. Toms and cucumbers are ripening, Havnt bought salad leaves since last year due to succession planting! Beetroot, swede, radish in empty space! Her indoors never thought i would stick it and she is more proud of the garden than i am! No dig is great for the lazy gardener! The taste is awesome!
I am a Southern California transplant to the plains of Kansas: incredibly hot summers and (usually) very cold winters. Over the past several years I’ve watched your channel and while I have not had the success with your comparatively balmy weather I’ve still been able to learn so much and appreciate all the different cycles of the garden. You are a great teacher and help us all to Enjoy the failures and successes as we learn!
Jayke Gaming 2020!!! I’ve been gardening for years and I can tell you that there’s always something to learn but you will find your rhythm. You’ve got this 🤘🏼
How have I not found you before? I hung on your every word, packed full of relevant information, you keep your tools clean, my eyes just drink up all that thriving green, references to Charles Dowding methods, temperate climate... a lot to like. I have started vegetable gardening in a rental home in Melbourne, Australia. I'm starting to get down about the lack of success I am having. Our seasons have been inconsistent since last summer, wild temperature swings. I have Endive and beetroot seedlings that have just sat on pause at 1 inch tall for 2 months! hoping I can learn some things from you for a productive spring and summer
You are right mate. I have dug a ton of rock out of my bit of ground, Proper hard work, Got some veg growing in it now and i am well happy. Worth it. Mentally and physically. : )
I love how much you promote the Welsh leek 🏴 excellent, informative video as aLways Huw I love your candid honesty regarding motivation. You’ve made me feel better about those days when I, too, have put too much pressure on myself to achieve certain goals in the garden
I needed to move some rose bushes, so I could redesign an area to grow more flowers. I put them in a bed I normally use for vegetables and thought I'll plant them out at the end of the year in their permanent place. But I ran out of space for my vegetables! So now the roses share their bed with a squash, courgette and pumpkin plant... They seem very happy together and the roses look very healthy, beautiful flowers and plenty of them 🌹🌹🌹
I always get something out of your videos. Thank you! Sometime, could you talk about how you store your vegetables after you harvest them. Somethings are easy like peas that can go in the freezer and I can my extra tomatoes. You mentioned just leaving your beet roots in the ground. Do you leave the leeks in the ground? What about onions and potatoes which obviously get harvested?
Haha. I encountered many failures! Being over 50 and only starting my gardening experience at this age isn't easy, but I love being in the garden! Slowly improving the soil! Still not winning with onions! But I pray I'll get it eventually ! Thank you for this lovely video! You are very encouraging.
Thank you, Huw for this video. As I sit here, pulling bind weed out of my tomato bed, I thought of your comment of gardening for pleasure. As a keeper of animals, basically a dog and a horse it is quite evident that they can pick up on my mental state and well-being. I believe, that it goes the same for plants. If you’re out in your garden, and you start out stressed, the garden helps me to relax. Especially when I get the dirt under my fingernails. So I don’t see why plans would pick up on my energy as far as having fun. We all give out energy and I don’t see any reason why are plants and animals are not affected by how we feel. Thank you again for this great video. Happy gardening to you.
Well, aren't you the resourceful guy! I started a TH-cam channel, Peggy Helbling's Garden What You've Got and guess what, I'm 70 and I've been Gardening for over 50 years and still learning. It's amazing how enjoyable it is to pick your food daily! You are doing so well. I'm enjoying your channel so much 👍
I love your videos! I have been working as a horticulturalist for a few years and struggle sometimes to have enough enthusiasm to invest in my kitchen garden when I get home at the end of the day. I get excited again after watching your tips!
What you say it is so true, the man who loves his job never has to work again. My daddy always said that. I wish my garden was as beautiful as yours, good job. God bless you real good 💚
I'm thinking of starting a vegetable garden for the first time and your videos are very helpful. thank you for sharing your knowledge about gardening this motivates me even more.
Huw, I just discovered your channel a week ago and have been bingeing your content. I love your clear, organized way of describing your processes and your excellent production value. I especially enjoy the way you address the philosophical and emotional aspects of gardening. I’m a newbie gardener about to create my first raised veggie garden and am grateful for everything I’m learning from you. Thank you!
I grow what I like eating, and flowers, for the bugs, and now I've started to landscape my garden into a cottage type food garden. I've found since I've just started chilling it's more fun, but that comes with knowledge and being able to do things the easy way. Now I find that there's no work to do in the backyard because I've already done it all, time to plant more plants.
I love your videos. A very great fun experience. I started growing vegetables 4 yrs ago. I am slightly disabled with bad balance, have a balcony 3 and half metres by 1 and a half, started by growing flowers and tomatoes. Now I experiment with everything. Use the no dig method, Westminster Council has made a growing area for the elderly, they have rows of raised beds. With 3 or 4 in a row and they are split for three or 4 people. It is on the 4th floor with a slope instead of stairs, that gives me some exercise. Everyone has one or two boxes 2 metre by 1 and a half metre. I grow everything i can there, have a lot of pots with aubergines, peppers, chillies, corgets and tomatoes. I try to take full advantage of the sun and any empty spaces. I have potatoes in bags. 35 litre bags. I love what you do. My only comment when I watched this video was may be the potatoes could have stayed in the ground for two or 4 wks more, the leaves looked very healthy but when you pulled them out there were several tiny ones on the roots. Just observed it, you don't have to do it. The leaves should turn yellow and that is a sign that the potatoes will not grow any more. I would love to send you some photos of my allotment and the balcony. Thank you for all the information, advise and the pleasure you bring to a lot of people.
I love your insight into gardening for more fun and pleasure vs. the pressure of having to be more productive. This is a learning I've been coming to as well. Reversing the time/production pressure to instead appreciate the beauty and learning, watching things grow on their own and the cooperative nature of the process... so much more joy to be had!
Thanks Huw! We have such a short season here in Zone 3 Saskatchewan Canada. I usually fill empty spots with radishes throughout the summer. Will be doing some succession planning definitely next year! Growing a garden is a wonderful hobby for the mind, body & soul!
We lived in zone 2 and very flat areas for most of my life and just moved to a brand new zone 3 sloped plot in town last May. 125 frost free days!!! I feel like I won the lottery! Now to plan my raised beds on my sloped hill! Still have a couple feet of snow and about a month of minus 20 before it starts warming up, but I'm so excited to learn this new climate and use a lot of these tips. Good to see some Northern Canadian action on here:) I'm from Northern BC.
@@juanitaglenn9042 I could totally see how that would be very exciting for you if you enjoy gardening. I"m sure northern BC must be a beautiful place to live. My channel is all about gardening in cold climates if you haven't already checked it out. Happy Gardening
What a great video, thank you for reminding us that “All is not lost” gardening is my passion and it’s easy to get frustrated when things don’t work out! Thank you for sharing🌼
It's all looking good and lush. My 1st crop of peas have been abysmal this year but everything else is great. My fun is exploring companion growing and planting my beloved herbs and beneficial flowers amongst the vegetables. So far the benefits have been amazing in terms of pest control and production.
hugh i LOVED your third tip!! just to sit in my garden and enjoy the beauty, the butterflies, the birds and everything that grows, made it grow better! i really start to believe in elemental beings that react on the joy and positive energy of us human beings... thank you for your wonderful videos and books!!!!!
i couldn't agree more.i put in 6 grape vines out front, hoping only to decrease traffic noise. 4 of them died and i was going to extract the other 2.didn't give them a notice last year other than to say "well not dead yet" this year i have grapes on both. I have decided sometimes an i don't care attitude is necessary. maybe i was over reacting to everything, it seems so much better to be laid back about the perennials than to be constantly paranoid.
Thanks for this, am learning so much and gardened all my life. Gave your book on veg from one bed to daughter in law, who wanted to start growing some veg with the grandchildren. Currently unable to do much (due to illness) and was worrying about all the plants I have ready to go into the garden. So, some will be ok and some will be failures. I enjoying growing them. So not a loss. Thanks for the mindshift.
Well what could be better than starting the day with a video by Huw. Yesterday I had a tooth pulled out but I forget all about it as I watch Grow Food Organically. I will cycle down to my allotment and enjoy the first year of really getting things to grow. Turnips, peas and strawberries. Thanks for sharing Huw!
Great vid! Totally agree, cymatic expression of joy, the gardener nourishing nature, bringing the plants to their whole expression, replayed in the joy, that early morning serene of happy ladies growing.
I am glad you did this video: I used to watch your videos but the gardening you did was more like "duties" and too regimented - glad to hear you now go for fun and enjoyment! I garden and experiment and have a ball, and enough food to last me the entire year.
Thank you,I realize this is an older video but I have enjoyed it very much, maybe I have missed a video about your composting method but I will look for it
Thank you Huw. I have just harvested snap peas, lettuces and radishes for the first time... Potatoes, tomatoes and beetroot on their way. I started growing veg 4 months ago for the first time... 4 new raised beds later... My garden looks so alive with healthy veg, plants and flowers. Thank you for making growing reachable for beginners and very enjoyable. 2 other of my family group have also started growing veg and we are all reading your 'grow veg for free' book. Keep doing what you are doing... Its very inspired and very important. Catherine
Thank you for another great video! My husband and I have been learning from you and Charles Dowding about no dig and planting in modules. Yesterday I pulled my potatoes all out and planted my sweet corn plants. We are amazed at how fun it is to see one crop in the morning, and by night time there is a completely different planting, growing up beautifully. We used to only direct seed everything, and had to wait for things to come up, and then there would be gaps in the plantings, or areas needing thinned. This saves so much time and effort in that regard. I have no gaps, my plants are strong, and I have a two week head start on my crop. We live in zone 6B in the USA, and frosts normally wait until November here. Thanks for your good advice. We appreciate you. Blessings! --Janet and Dane
Huw, I love the way, you treat your plants always with love and respect! Well, the garden IS pleasure and harvesting food pure fun. What I love in the whole process: Nothing is lost, no waste at all. Watching the seedlings growing every spring opens my mind and heart, watching them flowering or harvesting the fruit and vegetables is so much fun and what is left goes to the compost to feed the soil the following year. There is the Elton John song which comes to my mind, when I think of the whole process during garden-year: The Circle Of Life. How true!
There's just something about watching a potato harvest... It's exciting to see how much was produced, but also to see all that lush green cleared away and tossed into the compost is just so satisfying! 🤓🤓🤓 My garden has had a fair amount of failures so far this year, and I think in years past I would have 💯 gotten discouraged. But now having learned about succession planting I just keep going...planting and trying something new!🙌🌱
Experiencing failures is a really enjoyable thing, with the right mindset! If something goes wrong, I like to take some extra time to analyse the things I´ve done, the enviroment and anything else. Learning from nature is so pleasing, much better than fighting her!
That is the biggest key, being patient and learning year on year. I had to pull down my peas this year due to root rot, I salvaged what I could first, now I have an empty bed and felt disappointed. But this is only the first year, so need to focus on what we have enjoyed so far. It'll be better next year (I've been binge watching you and Charles Dowding) and I have a better idea of my micro climate for each bed. I also know that I can not expect to direct sow everything, I need to set up seed trays too so i can succession plant successfully. Thank you for your advice Huw, incredibly valuable.
We've enjoyed our new potatoes over the past month and maincrop doesn't seem far behind. Already planted 3 brussel sprout and 4 aubergine plants in their place! Planted little gems in a few spaces where my raspberries and gooseberries are but they aren't looking as good as the ones I planted in their own space. Good experiment though! Thanks Huw
Number two, I've been doing and was my favorite of the three. I enjoy just mosh-poshing the garden with anything and everything wherever I find space to put it. It was nice to see you mention it rather than being so organized as books will mention. Number three was for me though as I need to enjoy the whole process a bit more. The journey and time outside is where it should be. Much appreciated from Newnan, Ga. America.
My gardening plan is to not have a plan. I set out what I want to grow, bed by bed, then wander around wondering what to put in the empty spaces. Another thing I like is making weeds of the small annuals. When it's about production, it becomes something you "HAVE TO" do. When a task becomes something you have to do, it becomes work, and no longer fun.
13:00 and onwards. Brilliantly perceptive Huw. Yes, the crucial elements are pleasure and fun with this leading to positive motivation. This also applies to every aspect of life. 'Find a job you enjoy and you will never work a day in your life'. I am really enjoying (and respecting) the direction that you are taking with your content. Not only thought provoking but inspirational.
Brilliant video! I found it funny when you said you transplant leeks when they're pencil sized... Mine were that size when I harvested them in February! 😂😂
Owen Harries - The Welsh Gardener i have always waited for veges to reach full size but some of the you tube gardeners showed harvesting smaller veges like leeks, garlic for stalks and so on and now I deliberately over plant and pull out the young plants for eating and leave others to get bigger. Don’t worry, you are on trend😃. Many fine restaurants now serving those very young veges. Good luck for next season.
I have planted potatoes all over my veg patch. The entire site. It's full of stones and on a slope. When the pots are dug I am hoping to put in a retaining wall and level the area for a small polytunnel. That's the fun of living over an old coal mine.
Your videos have helped me SO much in increasing the yield from my small garden, encouraged me to add raised beds for asparagus this year and just generally elevated the joy I have from veg gardening. Thank you very much! Anybody have an idea what I can still sow/ plant now into a 2 sqm garden bed in the ground either for harvest by late October or to overwinter? I failed to prepare any seedlings as the bed came up rather spontaneously... Thanks!
Your garden looks so beautiful and neat! Garden goals/garden dreams right there. The Polly tunnel looks fantastic as well. You can tell you're very experienced with your advice on planning ahead
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I love the way you do your vids-laid back, just talking to us, telling us ways you've found to improve your gardening experience. No distracting booming music, just natural sounds & a soothing, friendly voice. Thank you!
I really needed this today! I love my garden and everything about it, but sometimes it feels overwhelming! The Garden, Harvest and Processing in good timing! Being alone on Five acres as a widow in my 60's becoming an empty nester is a huge adjustment! Grateful for my garden and chores! Just wish I could enjoy the housework as much as my garden chores! Thanks again with Blessings ❤️🙏😇😊🙋♀️
get a sharecropper , they can pay rent and help with growing , buying stuff from town etc
Making those significant transitions can really be disorienting! So glad that you have this wonderful opportunity, and that you are doing it! I hope that it is healing and nurturing for you. And that the decisions you make are your own (not from undue pressure from someone else.) Gardening does include "failures" and we should not be defined by our "failures". Stay strong and stay you.
AND, if for some reason it doesn't end up being a good fit, I hope you can make the necessary changes. Be well.
Have you discovered the youtube sites "Liz Zorab - Byther Farm" and "Off Grid with Doug and Stacy"? They're both great for helping to break chores/tasks down into manageable steps. I love how Huw does that as well.
garden boots Ahhh... Thanks so much for your encouragement!!! Very helpful!!! I invite friends over to share with as much as possible!
I am grateful for all of these families and what they share! I have been subscribed and have my earbuds in most of the day and evening listening, enjoying and making it happen throughout my day!
You are right... I had my Bonus Daughter here for a month and it was Glorious to reconnect and share time and chores! She helped with so much! She's back to her Sisters working a job now that they can work some again! My son will be home from Alaska job, first of August to help with some! I pray daily to have the self discipline to make my home chores as much of a priority as needed! Gardens cannot be put on hold this time of year!
Thanks again! One bite at a time!!!😁
@@debsenritchedrefuge603 flylady, the secret slob and Diane in Denmark are very good TH-cam sites for prioritising housework and encouragement.
“All is not lost because you’ve enjoyed the whole process.” Thank you for that reminder, Huw. Failure in the garden is inevitable, and being in a new climate and growing zone this year has been very difficult and discouraging. However, you are so right. I needed that 🥰
I justed started again from scratch this year. It was rough, and many things failed, but I have to remind myself that it will get better year after year now that I've put in the work to prepare everything.
“All is not lost because you’ve enjoyed the whole process.”
Your videos are both very aesthetic and educational. You are also very humble and pleasant to listen to. Thank you for great quality videos.
Darn you Huw.
Started gardening for the first time this year after watching your videos all winter. Lockdown happened and I had a bit of time, I have overdone it. I had no idea how much veg I could grow as a beginner. I thought tis year would be a leaning year, it turned out to be almost self sufficeint in veg from three small beds. The secret was cardboard 😉 Courgettes, tomatoes, runners, kale, calibrese, sunflowers, leeks, peas, herbs, chinese cabbage, spuds, pumpkins, strawberries. It's a jungle out there. Keep up the good work, mate.
I did the same!! I’ve been feeding the overstock to our local food bank. That has made me happier than just enjoying the produce ourself!
Oh, and I DO enjoy visiting my garden - just for pleasure too. I place my garden chairs in different areas of my garden to view it fm different places. I listen to my birds chatter, call, and fly thru and around my garden and around me. I watch my dragonflies hunt and in doing so, I get many ideas what changes I may want to make later.
And my bees, I'm amazed watching how hard they work. They don't bothered me even when they insist on being on my flowering plants while I'm working amongst them. 😃
We harvest potatoes for extended season by no removing the plant, but gently removing the potatoes underneath.
That's great! I do that sometimes, but mostly use container potatoes for that. I prefer to harvest the raised bed all in one go :)
@@HuwRichards I've learned never to harvest potatoes with green leafes, they have to be yellow or brown. 🤔
Really appreciate your garden philosophy of gardening for pleasure rather than just focusing on production. I've taken your advice to spend time observing my garden and thinking about what I want to do, improve, change, very much to heart. I've spent more time just enjoying my small garden (sitting with a cup of tea and observing) than ever before, but have gotten more done in my garden than ever before. A strange paradox but it works! Thank you for your excellent videos!
Wow Anne this is exactly what I wanted other people to experience and I'm so glad you have done just that! It sounds like it's going so well and thank you for sharing that ☺️
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@@shawtop what is the purpose of a link with no explanation?
You are me!!
My husband just built me a raised bed garden and I planted some seeds yesterday. I do have a spot just for me...a chair where I sit , sip some tea, listen to music and visualize my garden full of veggies. It'll be insane when the seedlings pop up...
@@sandy-rr1by it is a video of his garden; I use Facebook a lot and people are always doing that so I don't usually click on those links; people even send me private messages on WhatsApp with unexplained links and I almost always ignore them
Hello Huw.
You have really helped me start my garden and I am very grateful.
Your garden looks great!
From Órla,age 12
Awh thank you so much!
Whaou ton potager est tellement vert! Ce jardin me fait rêver !
Never a truer word said, "A happy worker is a productive worker". Agree wholeheartedly.
This applies to life in general. Great advice all the way around.
Huw and Charles D, Mark (self sufficient me) and MIgardener are my absolutely favorites! Thank you for another wonderfully thought out video. Your videos always have fantastic tips but always that little extra 'food' for thought.
I thank you so much for the back half of this video, Huw. I've been stressing out over planting plants, polyculture tables, and seed lists for days, despairing about how on earth I shall fit all these different seeds friends gifted me for Christmas & birthday into my rather limited growing space of 27 m². After watching your video, I've decided that I'll just grow what I like most, and IF there's open spaces later, I'll start adding other plants in. Don't overthink, that's the lesson I'm taking from this video, thank you!
Huw, I really enjoy your videos. Your information is reliable. Your presentation is top notch, and your voice so very easy to listen to. How about a video of your favourite tools? I keep trying to see the end of the hoe you use and never can. It looks very different. Thanks & keep up the good work!
Thank you Huw and Charles you have turned me into a gardener! This is year 2 nd year and ive harvested my onions and Garlic (20lb of each roughly!) and ive replaced them with Carrots and Swede (although a little late) Planted out my winter greens last week. Toms and cucumbers are ripening, Havnt bought salad leaves since last year due to succession planting! Beetroot, swede, radish in empty space! Her indoors never thought i would stick it and she is more proud of the garden than i am! No dig is great for the lazy gardener! The taste is awesome!
I am a Southern California transplant to the plains of Kansas: incredibly hot summers and (usually) very cold winters. Over the past several years I’ve watched your channel and while I have not had the success with your comparatively balmy weather I’ve still been able to learn so much and appreciate all the different cycles of the garden. You are a great teacher and help us all to Enjoy the failures and successes as we learn!
This is really useful and makes me feel not so overwhelmed and defeated when I have fails as I only started my gardening journey 2 months ago
I'm so glad it is useful and good luck with all your growing! Remember, grow for pleasure☺️
There are no mistakes or fails in gardening, only experiments that didn't work. Keep experimenting!
Great tips and video! Like your tunnel. I was wondering where did you get from? Thanks
Jayke Gaming 2020!!! I’ve been gardening for years and I can tell you that there’s always something to learn but you will find your rhythm. You’ve got this 🤘🏼
@@ohio_gardener, the same goes for life, doesn't it?
Great perspective on crop failures and the importance of enjoying the process of gardening. Thank you Huw.
My pleasure Lynn, thank you so much for watching :)
How have I not found you before? I hung on your every word, packed full of relevant information, you keep your tools clean, my eyes just drink up all that thriving green, references to Charles Dowding methods, temperate climate... a lot to like. I have started vegetable gardening in a rental home in Melbourne, Australia. I'm starting to get down about the lack of success I am having. Our seasons have been inconsistent since last summer, wild temperature swings. I have Endive and beetroot seedlings that have just sat on pause at 1 inch tall for 2 months! hoping I can learn some things from you for a productive spring and summer
You are right mate. I have dug a ton of rock out of my bit of ground, Proper hard work, Got some veg growing in it now and i am well happy. Worth it. Mentally and physically. : )
Our garden was exactly the same, hard work, but so worth it now, seeing everything growing 😁
Thank you Huw for your smiles and your humbleness. We follow you from Australia and enjoy every video!
That's so kind of you Andrew, thank you so much!
The ad hoc spaces can also be used for some annual flowers - to add diversity, etc.
I do the same Huw I grow for the pure enjoyment and getting a great harvest is a super bonus 🌻😷🙏🌶🇨🇦🥕🥬🐌🌱
your philosophy about The Joy of your task is so wise! You are the Gorgeous Gardening Guru!
Your garden always looks great Huw! Your videos are always inspiring! Thanks!
Thank you so much for your kind words☺️
it is about loving the land , i love it , great escape
Love to see the way’s that other people live. I find it so Enjoyable, thanks for letting me in to your life.
I love how much you promote the Welsh leek 🏴 excellent, informative video as aLways Huw I love your candid honesty regarding motivation. You’ve made me feel better about those days when I, too, have put too much pressure on myself to achieve certain goals in the garden
I needed to move some rose bushes, so I could redesign an area to grow more flowers. I put them in a bed I normally use for vegetables and thought I'll plant them out at the end of the year in their permanent place. But I ran out of space for my vegetables! So now the roses share their bed with a squash, courgette and pumpkin plant... They seem very happy together and the roses look very healthy, beautiful flowers and plenty of them 🌹🌹🌹
Picked my first harvest today - potatoes and beetroot! Thanks for all your advice 😃
Amazing and huge congratulations Karen!
I always get something out of your videos. Thank you! Sometime, could you talk about how you store your vegetables after you harvest them. Somethings are easy like peas that can go in the freezer and I can my extra tomatoes. You mentioned just leaving your beet roots in the ground. Do you leave the leeks in the ground? What about onions and potatoes which obviously get harvested?
Haha. I encountered many failures! Being over 50 and only starting my gardening experience at this age isn't easy, but I love being in the garden! Slowly improving the soil! Still not winning with onions! But I pray I'll get it eventually ! Thank you for this lovely video! You are very encouraging.
What smart suggestions! We so appreciate your smarts and kindness!
I have been learning so much from you and Liz about vegetable gardening in the U.K.. Thank you
My version of this is to sow seeds most weeks and pray for gaps to appear 🤣 so far so good!
Also, try micro greens in your gaps 👍🏼
There's only so much microgreens I enjoy eating :)
The last thing you spoke about was deep Bro your videos are so thoughtfully made and a delight to watch and share
Thank you, Huw for this video. As I sit here, pulling bind weed out of my tomato bed, I thought of your comment of gardening for pleasure. As a keeper of animals, basically a dog and a horse it is quite evident that they can pick up on my mental state and well-being. I believe, that it goes the same for plants. If you’re out in your garden, and you start out stressed, the garden helps me to relax. Especially when I get the dirt under my fingernails. So I don’t see why plans would pick up on my energy as far as having fun. We all give out energy and I don’t see any reason why are plants and animals are not affected by how we feel. Thank you again for this great video. Happy gardening to you.
Well, aren't you the resourceful guy!
I started a TH-cam channel, Peggy Helbling's Garden What You've Got
and guess what, I'm 70 and I've been Gardening for over 50 years and still learning. It's amazing how enjoyable it is to pick your food daily!
You are doing so well. I'm enjoying your channel so much 👍
I love your videos! I have been working as a horticulturalist for a few years and struggle sometimes to have enough enthusiasm to invest in my kitchen garden when I get home at the end of the day. I get excited again after watching your tips!
What you say it is so true, the man who loves his job never has to work again. My daddy always said that.
I wish my garden was as beautiful as yours, good job. God bless you real good 💚
I'm thinking of starting a vegetable garden for the first time and your videos are very helpful. thank you for sharing your knowledge about gardening this motivates me even more.
So therapeutic. just watching your beautiful garden. Thanks Huw. xx
Huw, I just discovered your channel a week ago and have been bingeing your content. I love your clear, organized way of describing your processes and your excellent production value. I especially enjoy the way you address the philosophical and emotional aspects of gardening. I’m a newbie gardener about to create my first raised veggie garden and am grateful for everything I’m learning from you. Thank you!
Wise words that apply as much to life itself as gardening..thank you Huw! Your videos are so professional these days; a real pleasure to watch
I grow what I like eating, and flowers, for the bugs, and now I've started to landscape my garden into a cottage type food garden.
I've found since I've just started chilling it's more fun, but that comes with knowledge and being able to do things the easy way.
Now I find that there's no work to do in the backyard because I've already done it all, time to plant more plants.
I love your videos. A very great fun experience. I started growing vegetables 4 yrs ago. I am slightly disabled with bad balance, have a balcony 3 and half metres by 1 and a half, started by growing flowers and tomatoes. Now I experiment with everything. Use the no dig method, Westminster Council has made a growing area for the elderly, they have rows of raised beds. With 3 or 4 in a row and they are split for three or 4 people. It is on the 4th floor with a slope instead of stairs, that gives me some exercise. Everyone has one or two boxes 2 metre by 1 and a half metre. I grow everything i can there, have a lot of pots with aubergines, peppers, chillies, corgets and tomatoes. I try to take full advantage of the sun and any empty spaces. I have potatoes in bags. 35 litre bags.
I love what you do. My only comment when I watched this video was may be the potatoes could have stayed in the ground for two or 4 wks more, the leaves looked very healthy but when you pulled them out there were several tiny ones on the roots. Just observed it, you don't have to do it. The leaves should turn yellow and that is a sign that the potatoes will not grow any more. I would love to send you some photos of my allotment and the balcony.
Thank you for all the information, advise and the pleasure you bring to a lot of people.
I love your insight into gardening for more fun and pleasure vs. the pressure of having to be more productive. This is a learning I've been coming to as well. Reversing the time/production pressure to instead appreciate the beauty and learning, watching things grow on their own and the cooperative nature of the process... so much more joy to be had!
Thanks Huw! We have such a short season here in Zone 3 Saskatchewan Canada. I usually fill empty spots with radishes throughout the summer. Will be doing some succession planning definitely next year! Growing a garden is a wonderful hobby for the mind, body & soul!
We lived in zone 2 and very flat areas for most of my life and just moved to a brand new zone 3 sloped plot in town last May. 125 frost free days!!! I feel like I won the lottery! Now to plan my raised beds on my sloped hill! Still have a couple feet of snow and about a month of minus 20 before it starts warming up, but I'm so excited to learn this new climate and use a lot of these tips. Good to see some Northern Canadian action on here:) I'm from Northern BC.
@@juanitaglenn9042 I could totally see how that would be very exciting for you if you enjoy gardening. I"m sure northern BC must be a beautiful place to live. My channel is all about gardening in cold climates if you haven't already checked it out. Happy Gardening
Hello form Sweden.
I found your channel some days ago. Love it! A great inspiration!
Awh thank you so so much Inger!!
What a great video, thank you for reminding us that “All is not lost” gardening is my passion and it’s easy to get frustrated when things don’t work out! Thank you for sharing🌼
It's all looking good and lush. My 1st crop of peas have been abysmal this year but everything else is great. My fun is exploring companion growing and planting my beloved herbs and beneficial flowers amongst the vegetables. So far the benefits have been amazing in terms of pest control and production.
Thank you Juli! :)
The reframing and mind shifts- this is what wisdom sounds like!
This is one of my favorite garden videos. Especially tip #3.
Do you have help with that enormous garden? It's impressive!
If you enjoy what you do you will never work a day in your life! It works on so many levels. Thank you for your great content. Best wishes.
hugh i LOVED your third tip!! just to sit in my garden and enjoy the beauty, the butterflies, the birds and everything that grows, made it grow better! i really start to believe in elemental beings that react on the joy and positive energy of us human beings... thank you for your wonderful videos and books!!!!!
A good reminder that pleasure, and not just yield, is a product of our gardens.
i couldn't agree more.i put in 6 grape vines out front, hoping only to decrease traffic noise. 4 of them died and i was going to extract the other 2.didn't give them a notice last year other than to say "well not dead yet" this year i have grapes on both. I have decided sometimes an i don't care attitude is necessary. maybe i was over reacting to everything, it seems so much better to be laid back about the perennials than to be constantly paranoid.
Getting the balance right and enjoying the process is just 👌agree totally
Thanks for this, am learning so much and gardened all my life. Gave your book on veg from one bed to daughter in law, who wanted to start growing some veg with the grandchildren.
Currently unable to do much (due to illness) and was worrying about all the plants I have ready to go into the garden. So, some will be ok and some will be failures. I enjoying growing them. So not a loss. Thanks for the mindshift.
Well what could be better than starting the day with a video by Huw. Yesterday I had a tooth pulled out but I forget all about it as I watch Grow Food Organically. I will cycle down to my allotment and enjoy the first year of really getting things to grow. Turnips, peas and strawberries. Thanks for sharing Huw!
Great vid! Totally agree, cymatic expression of joy, the gardener nourishing nature, bringing the plants to their whole expression, replayed in the joy, that early morning serene of happy ladies growing.
BBC Gardeners World will be calling soon. Great content and professionally presented.
I think I'll be waiting all my life😉
Really love your gardening philosophy...
I am glad you did this video: I used to watch your videos but the gardening you did was more like "duties" and too regimented - glad to hear you now go for fun and enjoyment! I garden and experiment and have a ball, and enough food to last me the entire year.
another great video
Thank you,I realize this is an older video but I have enjoyed it very much, maybe I have missed a video about your composting method but I will look for it
Thank you Huw. I have just harvested snap peas, lettuces and radishes for the first time... Potatoes, tomatoes and beetroot on their way. I started growing veg 4 months ago for the first time... 4 new raised beds later... My garden looks so alive with healthy veg, plants and flowers. Thank you for making growing reachable for beginners and very enjoyable. 2 other of my family group have also started growing veg and we are all reading your 'grow veg for free' book. Keep doing what you are doing... Its very inspired and very important. Catherine
Thank you for another great video! My husband and I have been learning from you and Charles Dowding about no dig and planting in modules. Yesterday I pulled my potatoes all out and planted my sweet corn plants. We are amazed at how fun it is to see one crop in the morning, and by night time there is a completely different planting, growing up beautifully. We used to only direct seed everything, and had to wait for things to come up, and then there would be gaps in the plantings, or areas needing thinned. This saves so much time and effort in that regard. I have no gaps, my plants are strong, and I have a two week head start on my crop. We live in zone 6B in the USA, and frosts normally wait until November here. Thanks for your good advice. We appreciate you. Blessings!
--Janet and Dane
Huw, I love the way, you treat your plants always with love and respect! Well, the garden IS pleasure and harvesting food pure fun. What I love in the whole process: Nothing is lost, no waste at all. Watching the seedlings growing every spring opens my mind and heart, watching them flowering or harvesting the fruit and vegetables is so much fun and what is left goes to the compost to feed the soil the following year. There is the Elton John song which comes to my mind, when I think of the whole process during garden-year: The Circle Of Life. How true!
There's just something about watching a potato harvest... It's exciting to see how much was produced, but also to see all that lush green cleared away and tossed into the compost is just so satisfying! 🤓🤓🤓
My garden has had a fair amount of failures so far this year, and I think in years past I would have 💯 gotten discouraged. But now having learned about succession planting I just keep going...planting and trying something new!🙌🌱
Experiencing failures is a really enjoyable thing, with the right mindset! If something goes wrong, I like to take some extra time to analyse the things I´ve done, the enviroment and anything else. Learning from nature is so pleasing, much better than fighting her!
That is the biggest key, being patient and learning year on year. I had to pull down my peas this year due to root rot, I salvaged what I could first, now I have an empty bed and felt disappointed. But this is only the first year, so need to focus on what we have enjoyed so far. It'll be better next year (I've been binge watching you and Charles Dowding) and I have a better idea of my micro climate for each bed. I also know that I can not expect to direct sow everything, I need to set up seed trays too so i can succession plant successfully. Thank you for your advice Huw, incredibly valuable.
You can also plant a patch of carrots where you have ripped out a dead or finished plant
We've enjoyed our new potatoes over the past month and maincrop doesn't seem far behind. Already planted 3 brussel sprout and 4 aubergine plants in their place! Planted little gems in a few spaces where my raspberries and gooseberries are but they aren't looking as good as the ones I planted in their own space. Good experiment though! Thanks Huw
Number two, I've been doing and was my favorite of the three. I enjoy just mosh-poshing the garden with anything and everything wherever I find space to put it. It was nice to see you mention it rather than being so organized as books will mention. Number three was for me though as I need to enjoy the whole process a bit more. The journey and time outside is where it should be. Much appreciated from Newnan, Ga. America.
Great video! It keeps me looking to my plants how are they 😄
My gardening plan is to not have a plan. I set out what I want to grow, bed by bed, then wander around wondering what to put in the empty spaces.
Another thing I like is making weeds of the small annuals.
When it's about production, it becomes something you "HAVE TO" do. When a task becomes something you have to do, it becomes work, and no longer fun.
Well it is work when your trying to grow for food. And its fun growing food....everybody diffrent.
What a beautiful garden - well done
13:00 and onwards. Brilliantly perceptive Huw. Yes, the crucial elements are pleasure and fun with this leading to positive motivation. This also applies to every aspect of life. 'Find a job you enjoy and you will never work a day in your life'. I am really enjoying (and respecting) the direction that you are taking with your content. Not only thought provoking but inspirational.
You are super cool. Love the way you speak, you explain ..I am completely a beginner and love learning from you :)
Great! So happy to help! Best of luck with your growing :)
Those containers are awesome. Thank you for the recommendations. I bought every size. No more cheap rubbish containers/pots for a decade👍
Brilliant video! I found it funny when you said you transplant leeks when they're pencil sized... Mine were that size when I harvested them in February! 😂😂
Thanks Owen! Hahaha oh no 😂 Hopefully they'll be better for you this year?
@@HuwRichards I've not sown any this year, I forgot to!😬 I've got Swedes in the space where they were supposed to be!😁
Swedes are delicious!
@@HuwRichards a good three root mash is a favourite of mine!😋
Owen Harries - The Welsh Gardener i have always waited for veges to reach full size but some of the you tube gardeners showed harvesting smaller veges like leeks, garlic for stalks and so on and now I deliberately over plant and pull out the young plants for eating and leave others to get bigger. Don’t worry, you are on trend😃. Many fine restaurants now serving those very young veges. Good luck for next season.
Enjoy harvesting, trying new produce this year and hoping they work out, thanks for all your life learnt tips.
You are obviously a deciple of the master Charles dowding the one and only
I have planted potatoes all over my veg patch. The entire site. It's full of stones and on a slope. When the pots are dug I am hoping to put in a retaining wall and level the area for a small polytunnel. That's the fun of living over an old coal mine.
I've got your mind set on just filling in gaps with whatever you have to plant. I never seem to have enough space for my little guys. 😎💗👍
Cilantro is great for filling gaps
Thank you so much Huw xxx.
Your videos have helped me SO much in increasing the yield from my small garden, encouraged me to add raised beds for asparagus this year and just generally elevated the joy I have from veg gardening. Thank you very much! Anybody have an idea what I can still sow/ plant now into a 2 sqm garden bed in the ground either for harvest by late October or to overwinter? I failed to prepare any seedlings as the bed came up rather spontaneously... Thanks!
Fantastic video, THANK YOU. New subscriber from Australia 😊
Your garden looks so beautiful and neat! Garden goals/garden dreams right there. The Polly tunnel looks fantastic as well.
You can tell you're very experienced with your advice on planning ahead
Thank you, i'm happy you said it, i was afraid your so beautiful gardening was going to only gravitate around productivity.
Thank you for sharing! I need you to come to Gulfport, Mississippi and work your magic in my back yard! Lol! I’m a new gardener.
Excellent video, thank you for the great advice. Been following you since the beginning and I am happy to see your success and progress.
Do you sell your vegetables? It seems a huge amount of food for 1 family.
I do love the lushness of your garden. Very inspiring!
Wonderful and thoughtful Thank you so much.
Loved this video and the tips on succession planting and inspirational gardening. Thank you
Your wild plant hanging over the edge of your potato bed looks like Kennelworth Ivy. It likes shade and
will self seed.