How to grow MORE food in your garden | Key ideas for self-sufficiency
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- How to grow more food in your garden | Key ideas for self-sufficiency
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Lovely easy watch Liz, your voice is so gentle. You have certainly made lots of progress with your fairly new beds.
Thanks so much! 😊 The veg garden certainly feels like it's got the main shape sorted out and now it needs time to mature (and lots of wood chips on the paths).
Hi Liz, great video. Yes it's always satisfying to see white cabbage moths on the outside of the nets, not the inside! Hoping to get out in the garden tomorrow, you've inspired me.
Hooray, I'm so pleased that you are feeling inspired. I've just posted a short message on Patreon and I'm doing a live chat this weekend. I hope you can join me on Sunday morning (your time).
I've just done something like that for the first time: seeded late string beans in between already maturing garlic. My thinking was that in the beginning, little seedlings would be shaded by taller plants. And when I pull out fully grown garlic, string beans will have a lot of space to grow.
You made me think about what else could I do in this style. Thank you!
your doing great with the garden well done liz
Thank you for all your veg growing advice over the years. I live in Ireland so my climate is very similar to yours, and your timing suits my gardens needs perfectly as well 😘
You are very welcome 🌻
Thank you for another inspiring video! There are so many possibilities when it comes to interplanting. So I often fail to plan enough in advance....but I am still a rookie compared to you!😊
I don't often plan in advance either - thank goodness for a packet of seeds!
Holy cow, that was an inspiring cabbage!
A year ago I asked you why my strawberries were going mouldy! You were right because I moved them to a more open area and with air and wind around them they are going quite well this year with the low sunshine levels.Thanks Liz.
great video, thanks I'm off to look for bed space🙂
Thanks Zoe! Did you find the video or website article about calculating how much food you'd need to grow?
@@LizZorab I completely forgot to look my head was probably still spinning with ideas , will check out both
I grow in succession too, no real plan just popping in where there's a space. In light of food prices and potential shortages I'm eyeing up old raised beds that need some tlc. Thank you, Liz. Another great video. I'm looking forwarded to your 'Grounded' book arriving!! SK
I have done the same with the hoops, and the electricians use some that are light colour and easily bent.. so you can buy them where they sell electric equipment, in all manner of thickness and lengths.
Liz! Please share where you purchased your black heavy mil plastic. I need to cover a very large area and I am looking for your recommendation so that I don't waste money. Thank you for all of your content and inspiration!
Fabulous video! I can't remember the last time I learned so much in 10 minutes time.
Glad you enjoyed it! And thank you for the wonderful feedback 🌻
Great! Thank you 👏💕👍
Glad it was helpful (or entertaining), thank you for watching!
Great video, Liz. We’re having a heatwave here in my area. The heat index was 109. However, I’m growing southern peas and okra and they are thriving. Because of all your great advice I had planted bush green beans under the okra and they are doing great.
So now I’m looking around and deciding on what else I can plant under the okra.
Thank you!
That is awesome! So pleased to read that the beans are doing well 😃
Great vid Liz-Thank you for the lightbulb moment of planting sweet corn among the onions! I'm needing to plant corn now and have a lot of onions maturing slowly.Also ordering the butterfly netting.
What a beautiful view and garden!! Thanks for the tips!!!!
Thanks for visiting Pam 🌻
Thanks!
what a kind deed for your day.
Wow! Thank you so much, that's very kind of you 🌼
CORN! For some reason I was thinking of corn as a long-term crop, which is silly because I read the packet when I planted it...anyway, I only had a small space & planted eight plants, but now I can succession plant more! THANKS LIZ!!!!!
Nice video Liz , I use scaffold debris netting it's a lot cheaper and strong .you can get various widths and lengths and colours :)
I use scaffold netting on lots of the rows. In this new garden I have chosen to go with the soft butterfly netting because I prefer the look of it.
I use black debris netting as it's easier to see the crops and it cheap.👍
Hi liz. Great video again. What do you fill your raised beds with. Thankyou
Great upload 👌 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Great video so much useful information in a 10 minute video. You always emphasize the importance of wearing gloves for gardening. Can you recommend any gloves for use in the garden? Thankyou
Great video Liz!
Thanks
Have you found that laying the mypex mulch between your beds has deterred slugs? And how did you get it to lie so flat?
No, but it does give the slugs a nice smooth path to my veggies! It's flat because I leveled the ground by walking and heeling the lumps down and then I pinned the membrane on one side and pulled it tight before pinning on the other side.
@@LizZorab you must've been stamping and trampling for weeks based on my experience of flattening old pasture!
Very limited on succession growing. Very short growing season here. Zone 3. But if our growing season was longer I would do this.
Do you use plenty of interplanting and multi-sowing of seeds to get more from your space?
@@LizZorab yes
Thank you Liz . Xxx
Annie, thank you so much! Your generosity is much appreciated.
@@LizZorab aww thanks Liz xx
Inspiring! 🇨🇦👍❤️👍🇨🇦👩🌾👩🌾
Thanks so much!
Thank you Liz . I really needed this video and all the great tips . ❤️ I’m sorting out a bed tomorrow that needs new veggie seeds . 🥕🥬🫑🥦🌽
If you put the netting over the plants, how do the bees get to pollinate the flowers? (I'm new to most of this.) When you keep replanting in the same bed, how do you replenish the nutrients in the soil? What do you use for that?
This soft butterfly netting keeps out butterflies and larger creatures, but bees and smaller insects can happily get through the mesh. I hva several videos about replenishing nutrients and what I do at the end of the season.
@@LizZorab Thanks very much.
I've never herd of a cabbage moth I know butterflies lay eggs on them do the moth as well x
Yes, the moth's caterpillar is green, almost exactly the same colour as the cabbage stem, so they are really hard to spot.
@@LizZorab thankyou
Great advice Liz thanks. I’ve just put 2 beds of sweetcorn in and was wondering about my leeks so may try them with the sweetcorn. How do you find the straw? I have had it on my raised beds this year and found that it’s encouraging the slugs and snails. I got 7 double handfuls out the other day when I was on the plot. No wonder my cabbages keep disappearing!! I’ve taken it off for now but do like it as a mulch
I stopped using straw as a mulch a few years ago because of slugs and also because it wasn't organic straw, so I was worried about what chemical residues were in or on it.
@@LizZorab yes I did think about that after. I had spread it over a bed of 20 asparagus plants my new bed. Only 3 fronds have come up. I’m not sure if that’s normal for the first year or the straw has something to do with it 😩
Love it x
Liz, what medium do you use in your seed starting pots? I wasn't happy with the seed starting mix I bought, and I don't want to spending money on it anyway. I find I'm always trying to start from seed direct in the garden, to avoid filling pots, which means everything is always late.
I use a general purpose peat-free compost, not a seed compost.
I was wondering what you do with all your excess produce, do you have a market stall or anything like that?
In previous years I have sold veg boxes. Since moving I am restocking our freezers and stored food this year and will sell again next year. I have also pledged to give 20% (approx) of our harvest to the local food bank.
@@LizZorab that is a great idea. I've realised here in Australia the prices of veggies have skyrocketed. I try to grow what we need but somethings are just so expensive in the shops. Next on my to do list is try to grow brassicas but I watch so many people have so many problems with them but at least i have to give it a try.
good video
Onions wouldn't affect the strawberry flavor? I have issues with aphids on my brassicas. Have you dealt with that?
Not in the few weeks until the strawberries are lifted. It's been shown that growing garlic between strawberry plants can deter (insert something here because I can't remember what it is!). I talk about this in my strawberry companion planting video th-cam.com/video/x10fQtLCbTY/w-d-xo.html
Thanks