Hope you get a great harvest 💚 where abouts are you/has it been the weather conditions that has made it later or did you plant later? Happy harvesting ✌️🌿
Just watched the Garlic harvest from 2 years ago. Interesting the drop off in size of your soft necks. Rust is the easy culprit but I too have the same drop off in size from home saved garlic and I do not get rust....... Just an observation !!....... PS. your Aussie looks like an exact clone of ours.... he´s called Bruce and also likes to help out in the garden.
Oh interesting - we’ve been saving seed for at least 4 yrs now I’d say and this is the first year it’s had rust and the first year it’s got smaller - so will be interesting to see how the next harvest goes, ideally with no rust to gauge 🤞🤞🤞 Bruce sounds lovely - Murphy is a collie from Australia lines, he moved back from NZ with me 🐾✌️🌿
I think it's allium leaf miner, sorry. My garlic had it bad and it all split like that. I planted a bit late in November and harvested early, about 2 weeks ago. Bulbs were smallish. Update: I've been reliably informed that the splitting could be from being left too long. Whether the leaf miner contributes is unclear.
@@AliW-xu4lv I have been growing garlic since before we had allium leaf miner in this country. I can remember bulbs still splitting like this. I'm not convinced by that allium leaf minor hypothesis.
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Hi - Great to know you are watching in the Philippines - so good to know 💚 We LOVE growing our own food - Happy growing to you too and thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿
I've had alium leaf miner for the past few years now - i pack plants in way too tightly and i'm sure that doesn't help. The main giveaway clue for me to the pests presence is the stems wilt and flop over. They're a right pain and the only solution (temporary) that i've found is to stop growing alium crops for a season. Leeks are worst affected for me, but the garlic is also impacted somewhat. Lots of waste unfortunately and my garlic harvest this year easily fits into a small shoe box!
Thank you for sharing you observations Tony, sorry to hear your garlic harvest wasn't great this year - My French Garlic is defo smaller than normal, which I think is due to the rust, which in past years I have only had a little of, feeling the prolonged rains was poss what mad it worse this year. Its a hard one with the leaf miner, as Alliums are such an important crops for us, ever year im actually growing more and more in our main growing area!!! 😬 So far though the damage we have been experiencing hasn't actually written off any of our crops, just meant a few more layers have to come off mainly, with the odd leek, being a bit too loose to use. I hope the rest of your crops do better for you. THanks for watching and messaging Tony 💚✌️🌿
I give alot of produce to a small farm shop things like broad beans sell really well as you dont see them in the shops so much also fruit like gooseberries dont take long to sell because of the same reason they only have a small stand at the gate but do well
Thats really lovely - It would be great if I could find somewhere local to take a our surplus - I must find time to get something like this sorted - Thank you for sharing what you do and thank you for watching 🙏✌️🌿
We're almost a month behind you in the garden up here, half-way up Finland 😅. Still around 3 weeks until any chance of harvesting garlic. Only harvest so far is leafy greens, radishes, asparagus, chives, pea shoots, haskaps/honeyberries and wild strawberries. Well, found my FIRST cultivated strawberry today 😍! Weeding and being extremely annoyed at birds destroying my crops 😂, all the while loving the lush of the garden and the early flowers.
Sounds like you've got some great harvests happening already!!! We are yet to get honey berries - next year should be the year though - super excited for those. There sure is always a challenge in the garden, it is fustrating for sure ... also what keeps it kind of exciting though too ... the uncertainty/suprise. Thanks for watching and sharing too 🙏✌️🌿
Wish you all the best with your plans to sell. People are getting more aware of the good they eat so hopefully you will find a decent market in your area!
This is very good to know- I am glad to be hearing that this may not be due to the allium leaf miner after all! I do plant it earlier than I used to and have harvested earlier in the past so this makes a lot of sense when this didn’t happen only been happening more rescently. Thanks for watching and commenting 💚✌️🌿
Took me a few years to figure this out with my crops, so frustrating. Apparently harvesting two weeks after the scapes show is the right timing. @@freedomforestlife
Thanks Jonette - this is a really good tip to remember, I will start checking at 2 weeks from scapes, they may need an extra week or 2 on that here in the UK compared to the favourable climate of Aotearoa - My first scapes began on 9th May, so was around 6 weeks later I harvested! 😬 Sounds like a good rule of thumb to remember - Thanks you. 🙏
Great midsummer harvest. Just wondering if you’ve had issues with pests in the last couple of months. A lot of people have had issues with slugs. I didn’t because I’ve been particularly vigilant in clearing any potential home and getting rid of dead and diseased leaves. This said I suffered some from rust - first time ever so harvested all my garlic (including elephant) a couple of weeks ago. The smallest harvest yet. I noticed bees and other beneficial insects in early April but they disappeared and are only just coming back. I think it has to be due to the weather so experiencing black flies on my shallots and chives. Tried hosing down with water but they come back in full force. I’m so glad the weather is much warmer now and beneficial insects can do their thing.
Our slugs havent been too bad here, we did loose a few carrots early on, hoping the sowing I've just done will be less effected now it is drier, but we are defo being more vigilant for them this year too! Still lots of insects around, we are seeing bees for sure, perhaps not so many as normal though now you mention it, the hover flies are starting to come in now which is good. Some years we have noticed a bit of a delay with the ladybirds coming after the black/green fly, so far this year its been good here though too ... did notice some today on Rhurbarb though! I feel having the Food Forest here really helps us with the diversity and volume of insect. Thanks for sharing your experiences 💚✌️🌿
Hey Jack - We have had a few questions about this over the last week (which is a little worrying) We still have bee's and a good selections of other insects - now we have been paying attentions, perhaps less overall than normal, but they are still here. 🙏
Hi, I like to plant garlic any time from mid sept to end of October, definitely getting it in whilst the soil is warm still gives it a ahead start into winter I feel 💚🧄 such an amazing crop indeed - as you can prob tell, I would not be without it ! Thanks for watching/commenting ✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife Thank you for what you share. This year I will set aside a bed to plant them because I really want to harvest them when they become big tubers
Thank you for the awesome video. You two are class. I thought the best time to prune fruit trees was when it’s dormant in the winter? Can you please further explain? Is this something specific to cherry plum? Do you think cherry plum will grow for me in Wales in exposed ground on a hill?
Hi, so glad to hear you enjoyed the vid 🙏 stone fruits are best pruned when the weather is warm/active growth, they heal up and less chance of getting diseased - apples pears etc, best pruned in winter (whilst dormant) for main prune. Best not to prune any trees whilst sap rising as leaves emerge. Cherry plums are hardy as, we do loose a lot to birds though 💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife bless you! Thanks so much for the information. I planted an orchard a few months ago. We’ll see how it gets on. Can I also ask, what’s that hedging next to you that’s the wind break? Looks ideal. I’ve planted some willow but semi regretting it
Hi Jay, the hedging we have here is Cherry Laurel - Is controversal with some being non-native/can be invasive in some situations, well maintained though, its perfect, if you we need decent screening/protection, like us. Is evergreen and fairly fast growing ... It grows well in our soil type here too (slighly acidic). Good to look around when out in your local area and identify what you like the look of and what looks healthy - can be a good starting point ... Willow can be a good option too, depends how you use it/let it grow. Good on you for what you are doing with your family, the way forward it feels for sure 💚✌️🌿
Good grace, what kinda bamboo is that in your background? 😍😍😍 I'm just getting rid of mine coz even after 5 years they are still so darn spindly, I want thick ones like yours!!! 😍😍😍
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Just harvesting garlic this week …….. this yer we are about 3 weeks later than usual😊
Hope you get a great harvest 💚 where abouts are you/has it been the weather conditions that has made it later or did you plant later? Happy harvesting ✌️🌿
Just watched the Garlic harvest from 2 years ago. Interesting the drop off in size of your soft necks. Rust is the easy culprit but I too have the same drop off in size from home saved garlic and I do not get rust....... Just an observation !!....... PS. your Aussie looks like an exact clone of ours.... he´s called Bruce and also likes to help out in the garden.
Oh interesting - we’ve been saving seed for at least 4 yrs now I’d say and this is the first year it’s had rust and the first year it’s got smaller - so will be interesting to see how the next harvest goes, ideally with no rust to gauge 🤞🤞🤞 Bruce sounds lovely - Murphy is a collie from Australia lines, he moved back from NZ with me 🐾✌️🌿
I think garlic splitting is due to late harvest? Perhaps check bulbs in the weeks leading up to harvest?
Hey thanks for this - makes sense - thanks for sharing and thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿
I agree I think it needed to come out earlier but they sure are impressive!
I think it's allium leaf miner, sorry. My garlic had it bad and it all split like that. I planted a bit late in November and harvested early, about 2 weeks ago. Bulbs were smallish.
Update: I've been reliably informed that the splitting could be from being left too long. Whether the leaf miner contributes is unclear.
@@AliW-xu4lv I have been growing garlic since before we had allium leaf miner in this country. I can remember bulbs still splitting like this. I'm not convinced by that allium leaf minor hypothesis.
Charles concurs... th-cam.com/video/ihDpZ00nrJs/w-d-xo.html
Formidable vidéo bravo
A bientôt 😊
Thank you - glad you enjoyed it 💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife de rien c'est avec plaisir
I'm so thankful to TH-cam for recommending your channel.Your garden is so Beautiful keep up the good work.l love to see people being self sufficient not defending on government ❤. Here is my subscription to you❤❤❤🎉
Hi, so glad you found us and are enjoying our vids 🙏 we LOVE the independence of self sufficiency -hugely empowering and rewarding 💚💚💚 thanks for your lovely comments and for subscribing ✌️
What a lovely video and garden. Thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it Maria - thanks for watching as always 🌟✌️🌿
Hello 👋 awesome video. Thats also what im trying to do, growing my own food. Your videos are reaching Philippines btw. Keep going😊
Hi - Great to know you are watching in the Philippines - so good to know 💚 We LOVE growing our own food - Happy growing to you too and thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿
I've had alium leaf miner for the past few years now - i pack plants in way too tightly and i'm sure that doesn't help. The main giveaway clue for me to the pests presence is the stems wilt and flop over. They're a right pain and the only solution (temporary) that i've found is to stop growing alium crops for a season. Leeks are worst affected for me, but the garlic is also impacted somewhat. Lots of waste unfortunately and my garlic harvest this year easily fits into a small shoe box!
Thank you for sharing you observations Tony, sorry to hear your garlic harvest wasn't great this year - My French Garlic is defo smaller than normal, which I think is due to the rust, which in past years I have only had a little of, feeling the prolonged rains was poss what mad it worse this year. Its a hard one with the leaf miner, as Alliums are such an important crops for us, ever year im actually growing more and more in our main growing area!!! 😬 So far though the damage we have been experiencing hasn't actually written off any of our crops, just meant a few more layers have to come off mainly, with the odd leek, being a bit too loose to use. I hope the rest of your crops do better for you. THanks for watching and messaging Tony 💚✌️🌿
I give alot of produce to a small farm shop things like broad beans sell really well as you dont see them in the shops so much also fruit like gooseberries dont take long to sell because of the same reason they only have a small stand at the gate but do well
Thats really lovely - It would be great if I could find somewhere local to take a our surplus - I must find time to get something like this sorted - Thank you for sharing what you do and thank you for watching 🙏✌️🌿
so good, my friend❤❤
Thank you 🙏✌️🌿
I’m going to use your idea with hooks on the overhang part of your shed, thanks 👍🏻
Hey wendy - so pleased to hear this 💚 thanks for watching ✌️🌿
We're almost a month behind you in the garden up here, half-way up Finland 😅. Still around 3 weeks until any chance of harvesting garlic. Only harvest so far is leafy greens, radishes, asparagus, chives, pea shoots, haskaps/honeyberries and wild strawberries. Well, found my FIRST cultivated strawberry today 😍! Weeding and being extremely annoyed at birds destroying my crops 😂, all the while loving the lush of the garden and the early flowers.
Sounds like you've got some great harvests happening already!!! We are yet to get honey berries - next year should be the year though - super excited for those. There sure is always a challenge in the garden, it is fustrating for sure ... also what keeps it kind of exciting though too ... the uncertainty/suprise. Thanks for watching and sharing too 🙏✌️🌿
Wish you all the best with your plans to sell. People are getting more aware of the good they eat so hopefully you will find a decent market in your area!
Thank you Nneka, I reallt need to get on it and learn the value and start speaking to a few local businesses re interest, whilst its all drying 💚
Please can you tell me what cultivar that giant bamboo is? I'm also in the UK and would LOVE some huge bamboo like that!
Hi, its 'Phyllostachys vivax f. aureocaulis' Its fabulous isn't it 💚 Dan loves bamboo - Thanks for watching ✌️🌿
The splitting is definitely due to harvesting too late. On the elephant garlic. Two weeks early and they will be perfect.
This is very good to know- I am glad to be hearing that this may not be due to the allium leaf miner after all! I do plant it earlier than I used to and have harvested earlier in the past so this makes a lot of sense when this didn’t happen only been happening more rescently. Thanks for watching and commenting 💚✌️🌿
Took me a few years to figure this out with my crops, so frustrating. Apparently harvesting two weeks after the scapes show is the right timing. @@freedomforestlife
Thanks Jonette - this is a really good tip to remember, I will start checking at 2 weeks from scapes, they may need an extra week or 2 on that here in the UK compared to the favourable climate of Aotearoa - My first scapes began on 9th May, so was around 6 weeks later I harvested! 😬 Sounds like a good rule of thumb to remember - Thanks you. 🙏
Great midsummer harvest. Just wondering if you’ve had issues with pests in the last couple of months. A lot of people have had issues with slugs. I didn’t because I’ve been particularly vigilant in clearing any potential home and getting rid of dead and diseased leaves. This said I suffered some from rust - first time ever so harvested all my garlic (including elephant) a couple of weeks ago. The smallest harvest yet. I noticed bees and other beneficial insects in early April but they disappeared and are only just coming back. I think it has to be due to the weather so experiencing black flies on my shallots and chives. Tried hosing down with water but they come back in full force. I’m so glad the weather is much warmer now and beneficial insects can do their thing.
Plant nasturtiums close to any crop with blackfly and they'll migrate to the nasturtiums, leaving your crops alone.
Our slugs havent been too bad here, we did loose a few carrots early on, hoping the sowing I've just done will be less effected now it is drier, but we are defo being more vigilant for them this year too! Still lots of insects around, we are seeing bees for sure, perhaps not so many as normal though now you mention it, the hover flies are starting to come in now which is good. Some years we have noticed a bit of a delay with the ladybirds coming after the black/green fly, so far this year its been good here though too ... did notice some today on Rhurbarb though! I feel having the Food Forest here really helps us with the diversity and volume of insect. Thanks for sharing your experiences 💚✌️🌿
Great info - thank you for sharing 💚✌️🌿
Fantastic vid the forest is looking fantastic! Have you also noticed a severe lack of bees?
Hey Jack - We have had a few questions about this over the last week (which is a little worrying) We still have bee's and a good selections of other insects - now we have been paying attentions, perhaps less overall than normal, but they are still here. 🙏
Growing garlic takes a lot of time but the results bring great joy. Is the best time to plant garlic in the fall?
Hi, I like to plant garlic any time from mid sept to end of October, definitely getting it in whilst the soil is warm still gives it a ahead start into winter I feel 💚🧄 such an amazing crop indeed - as you can prob tell, I would not be without it ! Thanks for watching/commenting ✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife Thank you for what you share. This year I will set aside a bed to plant them because I really want to harvest them when they become big tubers
Thank you for the awesome video. You two are class. I thought the best time to prune fruit trees was when it’s dormant in the winter? Can you please further explain? Is this something specific to cherry plum? Do you think cherry plum will grow for me in Wales in exposed ground on a hill?
Hi, so glad to hear you enjoyed the vid 🙏 stone fruits are best pruned when the weather is warm/active growth, they heal up and less chance of getting diseased - apples pears etc, best pruned in winter (whilst dormant) for main prune. Best not to prune any trees whilst sap rising as leaves emerge. Cherry plums are hardy as, we do loose a lot to birds though 💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife bless you! Thanks so much for the information. I planted an orchard a few months ago. We’ll see how it gets on. Can I also ask, what’s that hedging next to you that’s the wind break? Looks ideal. I’ve planted some willow but semi regretting it
Hi Jay, the hedging we have here is Cherry Laurel - Is controversal with some being non-native/can be invasive in some situations, well maintained though, its perfect, if you we need decent screening/protection, like us. Is evergreen and fairly fast growing ... It grows well in our soil type here too (slighly acidic). Good to look around when out in your local area and identify what you like the look of and what looks healthy - can be a good starting point ... Willow can be a good option too, depends how you use it/let it grow. Good on you for what you are doing with your family, the way forward it feels for sure 💚✌️🌿
Good grace, what kinda bamboo is that in your background? 😍😍😍 I'm just getting rid of mine coz even after 5 years they are still so darn spindly, I want thick ones like yours!!! 😍😍😍
Its "Phyllostachys vivax f. aureocaulis" It is a particular variety that grows big! Dan LOVES Bamboo ! Thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿