Homestead Garden Tour | Self Sufficient Vegetable Garden (October 2020)
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- Homestead Garden Tour | Self Sufficient Vegetable Garden. A full October garden tour of the no dig raised beds and market garden looking at perennial and annual vegetables growing in our homestead garden as we continue our journey to self-sufficiency in fruit and vegetables. This tour covers what is growing in the October vegetable garden and what has grown in each bed throughout the year to show you how easy it can be to grow your own food.
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About Us.
Byther Farm is a small organic homestead, designed and managed using permaculture practices. We aim for self-sufficiency in fruit and vegetables for increased self reliance and better resilience to the modern world. I recognise that we are unlikely to be truly self sufficient, but do the best we can. I share our home with my loving partner, Mr J and our cat, Monty.
We are a fifty-something couple who live on a smallholding in Monmouthshire, Wales. We are going green and creating a gentler, cleaner and more healthy life for our family.
There is a large organic kitchen garden with no dig gardening raised beds and young food forest in which to grown our fruit and vegetables.
We keep chickens and Aylesbury ducks.
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Yes, I have been sharing your videos
Been watching your videos for ages now
Congratulations on your book another fabulous achievement!
Finally!!😁 I've done it.Whilst watching your new video.. I stopped washing my dishes and planted about 50 garlic cloves.( still listening to your video.)🤞🤞🤞
Great job! LOL and still I was chatting on about the plants!
Liz you are like Cinderella with your Robin friend following you around. So sweet ❤️
Love seeing the robins. They remind me of my late mum
Hi Liz! Love your videos, had a chuckle when you introduced your resident Robin, then mentioned about your resident toad. I have a resident American Toad, and a House Wren thats' quite the socialite while I'm in the garden. I leave caterpillars in the walk way and he grabs them greatful for the snack..lol. your garden is beautiful and peaceful, God bless.
Oh how lovely! A resident robin 😍 and a resident toad 👏👏. So nice to hear the shoutout to Australia's Self Sufficient Me 🙂 English relatives used to send us Christmas cards with snow and little red robins, and it seemed so amazing.
Thank you! 😊
Amazing how friendly robins are, they are very territorial as well 😊
Another lovely escape for half an hour. Can't wait for the book to come out 😁 keep up the great work
Thank you so much Dan, that's really kind of you!
mediterranean orzo salad. Walmart's deli sometimes sells it. baby spinach, orzo, sauteed minced white or yellow onion, a few sliced scallions, capers, chopped sun dried tomatoes, and some grape tomatoes dressing: olive oil, I put some caper water in it and the oil from the sun dried tomatoes a bit of vinegar maybe a dash of vegetable oil garlic powder, salt and pepper. You can put basil and parsley and/or basil oil. the key is no flavor is dominant. It took me forever to figure out there were onions. I make it a little oily, , but walmart is not. You can barely tell there is dressing. because of the pestoish basil oil. oh wait, feta. Soooooo good. I make it all the time. Making some now without the spinach. Subtle for all the flavors. but all together it's wonderful.
Thanks Liz . A beautiful video .
I’m always in awe of your vegetable gardens . You put in such a good effort and your garden always rewards you .
I love the sound of those cabbages that don’t have heads just lots of leaves .
The robin is beautiful. What a nice bird 💖💖💖🌻
I had the same thing happen to me with swedes and I'm sure it was the seed as the prior year they did great. Similar thing happened with boltardy beetroot
Bless your Robin!!
I'm in America, zone 5b, Northern Illinois and I adore watching your videos. Yaaa a book, I can't wait. Thank you!
Thank you Liz. I know when I come on and a new vid is up from you I will have a lovely time, I won’t see what you do and feel I can never compare to what you do because you tell us warts and all what is going on! I love that about you.
Thank you for your kind words Sandra. I'm glad that you are enjoying the videos.
Liz Zorab - Byther Farm please re-read these comments when the sun is low in January and February! I have seasonal affective disorder too and it’s hard to grab happy things, you have to make yourself. Now if I can only take my own advice.
Hi Liz, have recently discovered your collection of videos which I’ve found so inspiring and helpful. I’ve been enjoying developing my vegetable garden in South East Wales, based on permaculture principles, since retiring in 2018. I’m now beginning to see some real progress 🙂
Thank-you for your wonderful video Liz, you are inspirational.
I get serious overwhelm when I feel I can't/don't do things perfectly and your videos are helping me feel more confident.
I have just finished your book, which i loved, and I realized that we have a lot of things in common.
Stay brilliant. Very grateful you decided to create your wonderful, fun and educational channel x x
I found one turnip that was growing on top of the ground the size of a soft ball. It was from seed from last year . And my broccoli and cauliflower are put off again. I have too put my poly tunnels before frost coming. And growth of small cabbages after first cabbages cut off. So nice heads.
Thanks for the reminder! need to plant some garlic.
I miei complimenti!! Signora Liz.
I like the way you intercrop and mix all your veg in together ,, so productive ,, all your hard work and compost is working wonders Liz,, thanks for taking the time to make and share the video ,, best wishes, Lisa
I love that you have a resident red robin who insists on checking out the newly uncovered bed. And chatters the whole time 😂
Hi Liz
in denmark we spray 1/3 part fat milk mixed with 2/3 part water, with such a pump with spray function, 3-5 liter container that many use for poison (they do not cost very much) the milk mixture is then sprayed on the leaves with mildew, it lasts a few days, and then you repeat, it's pretty good at the end of the season, so you can just get the last of it
I stumbled across you vlogs one day when I was looking for a specific problem with some squash and I have been hooked ever since. I live near Atlanta, Georgia and am looking forward to ordering your book from Amazon! Thanks for the wonderful inspiration.
Hi Laura, so pleased to read that you're enjoying the channel. I will announce as soon as I know that the book is available to order via Amazon USA 😊
Great info! I was wondering how to get your book in the USA!
Good to look over missed videos
How do you not get overwhelmed by it all. 😀 So lovely and lush!
Here's a video from two weeks ago about how I avoid getting overwhelmed by it all th-cam.com/video/r27Rw23pelM/w-d-xo.html
Thanks Liz! I always learn so much from you, especially about chilling out over what goes wrong in the garden...that there will be ups and downs. You teach us that gardening should be enjoyed.🙂
You are so welcome!
Another brill video, your perfect mix of wisdom and humility! Thank you for sharing your experience!
Thank you for your kind words, they are much appreciated. 😊
most enjoyable video again well done liz
Thank you Steven - I really enjoyed making this one, even though I kept getting rained on!
Oh that cheeky Robin!! I had a hard time concentrating on what you were saying because of the robin!! LOL!! Star of the show and he knew it too!! LOL!!
Yes - he kept catching my eye too!
Really enjoyed this tour Liz. A perfect way to spend time with our Sunday morning cuppa. Always interesting and entertaining (hello Mr Robin!) and gives us plenty of food for thought. Looking forward very much to reading your book in due course. 😊
Lovely watch for me this Saturday evening. Swiss Chard is one Vegetable I cannot get enough of, I must eat copious amounts of it at least 4 days a week in stir-fry meals. I am pondering over starting a perennial area for the collards as it's always a nice thought to have some bulletproof greens in the depths of winter..... Thanks Liz for the look around. Andy M (Lincs - UK)
I really enjoyed that video. I garden in County Wicklow in Ireland ...literally your next door neighbour across the Irish Sea! Interesting this year that your weather matched ours really well and your successes and failures were much the same as well, e.g. beans didn't do terribly well and turnips(Swedes) better than last year. In fact we've had the best Swede year ever and some gigantic ones from a crop of volunteers scattered all over! Thanks Liz and looking forward to getting 'Grounded' next year.
Liz, thank you for a great video! I can sincerely recommend the Polish variety of yellow courgette Atena Polka F1. It is a hybrid variety, but bred at a Polish agricultural university and promoted by Polish small seed companies. This year we had a rainy and cool summer in Poland, and each Atena Polka courgette bush produced a huge amount of beautiful fruit :D
I wish I lived clseby because I would love acutting of such agoodlooking perennial kale. Another great video. Great, thanks for the links for the seeds I love that tree cabbage as well.
You are so welcome!
Awesome update Liz
Thanks for watching Linda!
Beautiful and abundant garden! It is so rewarding to grow your own food. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! Yes it's incredibly rewarding to have our food store in the garden 😊
Your videos are so insightful, thanks for sharing your garden and knowledge with us!! Xx
So nice of you, I'm glad that you are enjoying them.
I am so interested in trying perennial edibles like the cabbage and kale. I will have to do my research over the winter.
Thank you for video I have allotment in north london very I teresa ing and useful, l
i made a potato and chard frittata last night not being sure what to use the chard for, and it was lovely 😍 i will grow it again , love the channel ,Thanks for all the info Liz 🥬🍓🥕
Sounds great! I'm pleased that you enjoyed it.
Thank you for the beautiful garden tour.
Lovely garden tour Liz, thank u. Wish my allotment looks more like yours one day 😁
So nice of you Kristina, it's taken a bit of time, but I am really pleased with how the garden has turned out.
I'm always amazed by your garden & your knowledge. Thanks for the video!
Thank you Deb, that's very kind of you 😃
That little robin! 😍
Fantastic tour Liz!
I can definitely empathize with you about the wind, as that is a major challenge here too.😅 (I'm trying to figure out how I can grow some glass gem corn next year and have it actually survive the wind.)
& love your little robin friend! What a curious and brave little sweetheart!🧡
Hi Jessica, I've grown corn on this site for the last four years and it's been fine - yes it gets blown down, but usually not before it's been pollinated and is forming nice cobs of corn. 😃
So much to see at Byther, i don't know how you keep up with it all, I struggle with 4 small raised beds lol. Pity about the bean support, we get strong winds here too. Think you have a friend in the robin🐦 You look lovely in pink by the way xx
Thanks Nicola - the pink jumper is my attempt to have something bright and cheery during the grey months. I've ordered a bright green jumper too, but it hasn't arrived yet. I don't keep up with it all, there are always so many areas that are just chaos and covered in weeds!
You mentioned "wintering over" a number of vegetables. I had never heard of doing that before I started watching your videos. I knew that garlic is planted in the fall, but I am clueless about any other plants that I can plant now and have come up in the spring. Would you kindly do a video explaining some of that, or direct me to where I can learn more about it. I just built a new bed and it seems awfully lonely with nothing growing in it. I have a packet of Fava Beans that says I can over-winter them, but I don't know how to do that.
Thank you again for all the information you impart to the rest of us. I treasure the videos that you share.
Everything is so beautiful. I wish you could help me. Ive tried and tried. My veggies will not grow well. I just dont know whats wrong. Ive battled alk sorts of pest but i didnt give up but now i just want one harvest...this is my second year. Thanks for sharing your lovely garden. Absolutely beautiful 😍
I know the struggle...but i know that my place lacks of enough sunlight because of big old trees in front of my yard.Pests also see my garden as a buffet for free.It starts with flee beetles in the spring,then aphids on the young plants followed by spider mites in midsommer because of the heat.But not on every plant...therefore i try to plant as many different types of plants as possible to reduce the damage.I highly recommend the use of neemoil...it works good with sucking and biting pests and is harmless to bees,as long as you avoid spraying them directly.Against caterpillars BT or DE is also really effective(BT=Bacillus thuringiensis /DE=Diatomaceous earth)So please don´t give up...gardening is a learning process and it takes some patience to get results
Delicata are SO YUMMY!! I hope you enjoyed them! ♥
I did! Yes, they were very nice, I'll be growing them again next year.
Hi Liz! LOVE your channel! Can you tell me more about the white lady beans??
You talked about the volunteer pheasant berry(?). I've never heard of this. What is the berry used for?
Hi Beth, the berries are edible (they need to be cooked as far as I know and you need to start by eating just a little at a time). The birds love them and they like the shelter the plants provide. I plan to make wine from them.
Really enjoyed this thank you we have a very small veg patch in the garden me and my 2 year-old have been trying to grow some veg. Between her pulling up any thing she thinks she can eat and the slugs we have dirt just got out onions and garlic in. Going to try a pumpkin next year thank you for all the advice
Hi Victoria, how fabulous that your daughter is experiencing fresh homegrown veg - even if a little earlier than would be usual for it to be harvested!
Really enjoyed this - I’m finally near the top of our allotment list, so this winter I get some of the fun of planning what to grow next year without being constrained to pots on the balcony! I love beans and definitely want to give the Greek gigantis a go when I finally have space.
How exciting - I hope you get your plot before the next growing season starts. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you
I’ve added a couple of arches at the plot in the hope of growing squash up and over them next year..I’m not holding out much hope but we’ll see. 😅 Lovely to see your robin following you around.
We've had some great successes with growing spaghetti squash over arches, I think that next year I'll go back to growing those up a framework and leave the smaller squashes to grow on the floor.
Love the variety of plants to eat in your wonder garden. Amazing the amount of intercropping and self seeding plants. Please would you do a video on your ducks?... how much commercial feed and how much green plants a duck eats. Also could you give us a tour of the compost area... what you put in it and when and how you apply compost to the garden. How close is it to the beds? What do you have for a water supply? Is it town water? I loved your new duck mansion.
Hi Ann, I can answer some of those questions right away. I have made a series of videos about keeping ducks - th-cam.com/play/PLa6906pLM92mUEPG7lIM95LpHvA0NmLHD.html, they eat around half a pound of organic poultry layers pellets per bird per day. The compost bins are in the fence that surrounds the veg garden, so it's never more than about 10 feet away from a raised bed. I also have some compost bins in the fence that goes through the food forest and more in the market garden - so they are close to where I will want to use it. For water I collect rainwater in containers, but also use mains water when that runs dry.
@@LizZorab Just spent lots of hours being entertained with your ducks and chickens ..I love the slow motion communal bathing and when the brown ducks come for a visit.
Your comment about the weird weather was interesting because that was my experience too. I am situated at the 49th parallel (about that of Paris) and I am on the Pacific. Yet we also had weather in "chunks" - all wet, all dry, cooler than normal, hotter than normal, then topped off by the smoky spell. Overall, I can't complain though as I keep busy with putting up my harvest. I pulled all of the remaining tomatoes yesterday because pouring rain is coming and we are getting cool quickly. I have an entire apple box full of green tomatoes to ripen indoors and a huge batch of spaghetti sauce processing. I really have to build a high tunnel for my tomatoes!
Hi Valerie, I'm usually at a bit of a loss to know what to do with green tomatoes. Some years they ripen okay, but this year it has become cool so quickly. Mr J bought some bananas today so I can put them in with the tomatoes to see if that helps them ripen faster.
@@LizZorab
If they stay green, you can take a page from the American South. Slice them, bread them with cornmeal/flour and fry them as you would eggplant for eggplant parmesan.
@@LizZorab Also, green tomatoes make wonderful chutney. I have a friend who grows most of her toms late just for green tomato chutney. Thank you for a wonderful garden tour. I've been inspired to do a bit of late sowing to overwinter. And I've just started an early seed search for some of the brassicas you mentioned. The tree cabbage sounds particularly intriguing.
@@LizZorab Oh that is a wonderful idea! Thank you.
Hi Liz I love dropping in to your channel although I must admit that I have been watching the weedy gardener a bit of and on! But I have learned so much from you and Tony O’Neil! So I am torn between you all.
Hi Lizzie, I don't think you need to feel torn, you can spread the love and watch all of us! LOL David's channel (The Weedy Garden) is very good!
A brilliantly diplomatic reply thank you 🙏 x
Another great video, Liz, I am enjoying watching and learning from your videos. I have just ordered your new book and I'm looking forward to receiving it next spring. 💞
Thank you so much Mary, I hope you'll enjoy the book as much as the videos.
I know I will Liz , thank you. The garden has become my sanctuary in these difficult times and I am enjoying all the work and the delicious vegetables that I am growing. I still have a lot to learn and am looking forward to receiving your book.
Any idea if you can use perennial cabbage to make sauerkraut or kimchi?
Love this vid Liz and congrats on your book!
Would love to know more about the meals you prepare with the food you grow. 'Grounded' is an excellent book title btw, especially in these strange and often difficult times xx
Great video 🥰, loved the tour, glad I’m not the only one who had trouble with turnips this year.
Hey Aine, I've had trouble with so many veg this year, I think I may have to rethink what and how I grow some things.
absolutely stunning garden 🤩
Thank you so much, its taken a few years to get it looking so lush, but I'm really happy with it now. 😊
@@LizZorab as you should be 💚
very interesting videoxx
You need metal tposts for your beans.
Hi Liz 💞we have an asparagus patch too. We get asparagus beetle bad. Besides cutting down when yellowing. Any other treatments for beetle to prevent infestation? Thank you!
Awesome video as always, well I began my gardening experience this year and tried my hand at peas, beetroot, carrots, peppers and tomatoes, and strawberries, and sunflowers, the sunflowers grew beautifully and are still flowering atm lol. My peas did well until they got powdery mildew begin, I had two strawberries from the 5 new plants I got from bare roots. The other items didn’t grow apart from the peppers that are now growing lol, so may need to bring them inside, it’s been great learning and experimenting as well. I’ve learnt so much on youtube from gardeners so thankyou for sharing with us here.
It sounds like you've done really well for a first year of veg growing. I think my first couple of years were pretty disastrous!
@@LizZorab thankyou, your videos helped me a lot including when to plant things as well. I know winters hard due to sads for us both so making ourselves go outside helps and the veg and gardens make us enjoy when we do go out, and my light helps also. Next week I’m digging compost which has been composting for 5 years lol should keep me busy,n
Thank you. Another great video.
good videos
Great video Liz I like to eat turnips raw, the robin that visits our garden sits on my head and arms he follows me into the greenhouse and shed
Wonderful to see your garden again now going into autumn! I'm expanding my allotment next year and definitely will watch some of your videos again in winter for some tips and tricks. My bean frames with the dry beans have collapsed as well this year, so sad. Will be trying something else next year for those. Greetings from the Netherlands.
I love your garden tours! I want my new channel to be as lovely as yours as I get more experience 💛
Wow so much still growing. All I have are some kale, spinach and chard. I'm drying mint for tea and the land cress is making a comeback. I use it a lot for pesto sauce but everything else is dying back as my site doesn't get a lot of sun in the winter.
That robin will eat all the worm off the broccoli' s our cardinals and wrens do too. Please how doin find Italian bean seeds. There good for my sister too keep her sugar in tack.
Does anyone else know the rhyme 'Beans, beans, the musical fruit...'?
Yes, but in Melbourne we say, Baked Beans are good for you heart, the more you eat, the more you fart. The more you fart, the better you feel, so eat baked beans with every meal!!
Good grief! Those cabbage leaves! 😳
You’ve given me hope for my sad little leeks Liz .....I had just about given up on them. My celery on the other hand....RUBBISH 😩🤷🏻♀️
Had a real mixed year on my veg plot.
Great advice as always x
Lynn, it's been an odd year - in so many ways! Hey ho, there's always next year. 😉
Wow ! Amazing. Love this video.
Glad that you've enjoyed it Tracy, it was a bit of a marathon, but I did want to share all of the veg garden in one sitting!
A lot of my veg has been really slow this year sadly 😐 weird weather I guess. Lovely to watch your garden tour
Yes, a lot of ours was slow too, I think the weather has been really difficult over the last couple of years (or more). Never mind, there's always next year!
Same here, bit of a quandary re veg varieties as I'm not sure if it's been the hit & miss weather or simply the varieties aren't great performers.
Liz Zorab - Byther Farm Yes, true. It just seemed cooler and wetter here. Well I guess it’s all just part of it. I’m setting up a small polytunnel and hopefully some low hoop tunnels that might help to extend seasons next year. Really relax and enjoy your videos, thank you 😊
Always love your videos
Thank you so much, I'm glad that you are enjoying them.
Hi liz just wondering if yr book will be in audible as we are both dyslexic can't read properly lv Carol and heather xxx
Hi Liz hello from my Garden in Ontario Canada!! I’m curious why you don’t eat the large leaves of the char?
It's simply that I don't like the taste.
Fair enough!! 🥰
I have serious garden envy!! We have been playing with it the last two years but have 2 toddlers so some plants got trampled and the strawberries rarely got chance to turn red before they’d been swiped by the kids!! A lot of the instructions on plants/seeds suggest big spaces between plants but yours all seem fairly close together, can you/do you plant different plants in between each other? We’ve not a lot of space so want to make the most of it next year. Thank you 😊
If you have a shady area, I'd really recommend planting a couple of alpine strawberries. They produce small, but delicious fruit from about March, we're still findinga few here and there. We planted one from an Aunt's garden a few years ago, and it has become hundreds of plants. They are delicious if we can get a few, but mostly they act as a fantastic distraction for kids and the dog, who all hunt happily for them, so we get to serve our regular strawberries with cream as a dessert.
Melanie Francis thank you think that’s what Granny has outside her house and the kids raid that too (well they used to 🙄 bloody covid) I’ll see if we can getting a runner/cutting when we’re allowed to visit again
Great vid, thanks Liz. Have you seen the Wyse Guides channel? He creates a great variety of videos, I think that you may like him. I love Mark from Self Sufficient Me too! You'll always be my number 1 though Liz! Love that the little robin is your number one fan 😍
Do you have termitesin your farm. If so how do you protect the raised beds from termites.
No termites, only some ants. 😃
Thank you liz for another great informative video 👍when did you sow the purple sprouting broccoli? Is it the early or late variety? I always get confused with the 2. How wide if your bed for the purple sprouting. Broccoli? I’m setting a bed for brassicas, not sure the width 1.2m or wider?
As usual very interesting. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it Terry!
@@LizZorab I made the plum wine. Just recently racked. I tasted it but it was very dry. Don't think I used enough sugar. I'll still bottle it. My son and his wife like dry wines. Have to keep trying. I'll go back and watch the video again.
I live in the Pacific Northwest of the IS in Washington state. Our climate is very similar to yours, zone 8a. Where can I get your great gigantic white runner bean seeds? I would love to grow some.
They are often sold in food stores for the kitchen, but can be planted in the garden.
Beautiful
Thank you!
Lovely video as usual
Loads of asparagus fern, loads for next yrar
Thank you, yes lots of asparagus next year by the look of it! Yum!
@@LizZorab I have three pots myself of asparagus, first year, so went to fern and I am hopeful as well for next year
If not, I have to pop over the border to yours and get some
From Ireland enjoy following Do you leave parsnip in ground to go to seed to helf seed
Hi David, yes I leave one or two parsnips each year so that I have fresh seed with a better germination rate.
@@LizZorab I'm going to try it
Do you have any on information on how you made your greenhouse if not where did you get you clear plastic covering and what length and width of (the plastic) many thanks
Here's my video about making the polytunnel th-cam.com/video/-zuN9GG0Ag8/w-d-xo.html
Do you have increased pest pressure with the perennial vegetables?
Diversity decreases pest infestations.
Hi can you tell me the name of your headless cabbage? I have not been able to find in online in the US. Thank you so much.
The animals get used to you. The gray Jays do that to me.
That tree cabbage sounds interesting
Looking good👍🏻
Thank you!
I've just put a few garlic cloves in in an area of the garden I don't use to see what happens. If I get good results I might do it every year with more cloves :D
That's a good idea, nothing to lose really if it's space that you don't use for other things now.
I have never seen cabbage leaves so large! Do you take a few and cook them and just eat that way?
Hi, yes just one or two leaves are enough for the two of us for a meal. They are super plants and just keep on giving!
Hi Liz, is tree cabbage same as tree collard?
I'm so sorry, but I don't know. I think collards have quite a strong taste and this one is a mild cabbage taste.
Whats the difference between swede, turnip and rutabaga?
Hi, swedes are rutabaga - they just have different names in different countries. A turnip is usually smaller, slightly less strong in taste. I seem to recall reading somewhere that a swede is s Swedish turnip - but that could have been made up by someone.
Where I grew up in the UK we called the large yellow one Turnips and the small white ones swedes. I was quite confused when I went south to Uni. When you think about it, we traditionally use "turnips" for the heads on Scarecrows surely not the tiny ones? I have heard some in the USA call the rutabaga "yellow turnip" too, and they often use English terms that are archaic. So I continue to call the big yellow ones turnips, sorry! Maybe its because I'm a northerner.
Do you market garden? Otherwise, what on earth do you do with your abundance?
Yes, I run a Community Supported Agriculture veg box scheme. Here's a video about the veg boxes th-cam.com/video/yNaFOji1VXA/w-d-xo.html
How do you make the beans be perennialized? Do you cut them back, just leave the vines, or something else?
Hi Melinda, I explain in this video th-cam.com/video/N14BBUXIVW8/w-d-xo.html
@@LizZorab Thank you so much. I missed that one during my binge-watching escapades last fall.