April tour from my no dig permaculture garden
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- April is such a busy month here at my half acre homestead: sowing, planting, mulching, weeding - and trying to keep plants warm during what has been a very grey, cool and wet spring.
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Nice one Stephanie. Thanks
We had a very dry February but wet since then. It makes sunny day even better 😂
Sunny here this morning, heading outside because rain is forecast for later on!
The comfrey flowers really are beautiful.
Such a stunning purple
what a fab fruit cage. one day will get that for the area where they are!
lovely to see all the lambs in the background!
I managed to move all my asparagus out of poly tunnel into garden and seems to be good as lots of spears have come up! as they were grown from seed only last year I was surprised but wont be picking any! I must have missed moving some as a small fern has appeared in the poly tunnel now so might just leave it!
wonderful update and tour of your garden, thanks
Oh happy day! Another visit to Wales.
Thanks Ruby!
Great to get an update from your garden Stephanie. I'm nearly to my first frost here in Australia so will be looking forward to seeing your garden blossom over the coming months as mine slows down for winter. Thanks for sharing!! Cheers Linda
Hi there Linda from Ruby in Tassie! My first frost came late this year, the middle of March. I'd love to have the luxury of a "last frost date". Even though Steph's garden is about 12 degrees of latitude further from the equator than mine, her growing season is much longer, but her winters are colder. Perhaps.
Isn't it encouraging to vicariously enjoy spring blooming in northern gardens as we drift into winter? It keeps my spirits up through frigid soggy blowy gloomy months.
Thank you Linda. Every day there are new flowers here, spring is such an enchanting time
Love seeing your garden. So much inspiration. Thankyou Stephanie!
Thank you Jenny
Real, informative and inspirational! Thanks for the tour.
thank you
Christ alive Steph your Timperley is loving life on & in the hugl 🤭😁
Glad to hear your courses are doing well 👍
Fingers xd we get some decent prolonged weather, think we've all had enough of winter now grr
I've been away in Oxfordshire for a few days and the weather has been gorgeous there. Now back at home and it's looking fairly sunny. Nights are warmer, thankfully. Going to risk sowing the runner beans today.....
@@stephaniehaffertyhomesteading Oxford is lovely whatever the weather 😁
😬 So it'll be your fault should we get snow 😜🤭
@@johnmccarthy115 🤣
Lovely to see it all coming along 💚I'm just having a little tea break and watching you and then I'm getting back outside potting up my tomatoes cucumbers and sweet peppers ......it is just a tad warmer down here in Cornwall ....... just a tad mind ...it's the wind that can be cruel here ...so I too am ready with the covers .🐝🐝 Have a lovey weekend Stephanie and bee happy 🐝🐝x
Thank you Daisy. It has been such a gorgeous day here
My Taunton dean died from frost too and my tree cabbages fortunately I had taken some cuttings in the ground which have survived👍
I've planted the replacements today, and will certainly remember to take cuttings in the autumn this year, just in case
Really enjoyed your garden tour. Looking forward to the next one. Quick question do you have water butts? You could set them up from your barn/bar.
Yes I have loads of them. They are not as yet attached to the barn/bar (there's guttering and a down pipe at the back in readiness) simply because the weather has been too windy, and then when it isn't I have to pot on, or sow, or prick out :-)
Lovely tour, can’t wait to be there in June to attend your no dig course 🙂🐝
Looking forward to welcoming you here
Beautiful ❤
Thank you
Nice to see how you have dealt with the weather, I'm also similar last frost date so no rush to get the delicate crops out yet.
I'm not as brave regarding putting tomatoes under extra protection out yet.
Lucky to have the heritage comfrey;
I ran out of room in the greenhouse. They are not planted, still in their pots under the cloche inside the polytunnel
Good to hear from you! Great tour.Q: would you, where you are, be able to put out beet shoots if you covered them with fleece?
Small beetroot plants? Yes, there are some under the fleece in the back garden, and some to one side of the row of peas. I uncovered them yesterday and the under-the-fleece beetroot is about 3 times the size of the plants that were not covered.
@@stephaniehaffertyhomesteading - thank you for such a clear and quick reply. I’ll name my beet bed after you. ❤️❤️