Starting My Micro Homestead Journey | Permaculture in Shropshire 2025
Welcome to my micro mini suburban homestead in Shropshire! In this video, I’m sharing my exciting 2025 plans to transform a small suburban space into a thriving permaculture garden. Using permaculture principles, I’ll show you how I’m designing a sustainable, self-sufficient lifestyle.
Whether you’re curious about suburban homesteading, starting a micro homestead, or learning how to apply permaculture gardening techniques in small spaces, this channel is for you! Follow along as I plan, plant, and grow my dream homestead, one tiny step at a time.
If you’re interested in small space gardening, permaculture for beginners, or sustainable living in the UK, be sure to subscribe for weekly updates and tips. Let’s grow together!”
Chapters
00:00 – Intro Shropshire Garden
02:50 – Outside Greenhouse
04:06 – Greenhouse Tour
08:16 – Central Lawn
11:12 – Worst Area Of Garden
12:45 – Back Border
13:29 – Back Patio
14:57 – David Austin Rose Walk
17:23 – Lower Patio
18:49 – Utility Area
19:16 – Front Garden
22:15 – Front Border
23:01 – Garden Plans Roundup
#homestead #permaculture #gardenplanning
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Starting My Micro Homestead Journey | Permaculture in Shropshire 2025
Welcome to my micro mini suburban homestead in Shropshire! In this video, I’m sharing my exciting 2025 plans to transform a small suburban space into a thriving permaculture garden. Using permaculture principles, I’ll show you how I’m designing a sustainable, self-sufficient lifestyle.
Whether you’re curious about suburban homesteading, starting a micro homestead, or learning how to apply permaculture gardening techniques in small spaces, this channel is for you! Follow along as I plan, plant, and grow my dream homestead, one tiny step at a time.
If you’re interested in small space gardening, permaculture for beginners, or sustainable living in the UK, be sure to subscribe for weekly updates and tips. Let’s grow together!"
Chapters
00:00 – Intro Shropshire Garden
02:50 – Outside Greenhouse
04:06 – Greenhouse Tour
08:16 – Central Lawn
11:12 – Worst Area Of Garden
12:45 – Back Border
13:29 – Back Patio
14:57 – David Austin Rose Walk
17:23 – Lower Patio
18:49 – Utility Area
19:16 – Front Garden
22:15 – Front Border
23:01 – Garden Plans Roundup
#homestead #permaculture #gardenplanning
Love winter jasmine
Pampas grass
Love the budlea too❤
Thank you Elliot for showing us around your gardens. My husband built a pergola on our upper garden with a swing. I have trailing plants growing up it & its also my bird feeding station. Against my fences I grow bamboo– it grows very quickly, can be pruned easily & looks gorgeous throughout the year. Love springtime in the garden.
It will beautiful❤️❤❤❤
I think adding veg is a great idea , I did something similar in my first home , and I found carrots and potatoes and rhubarb grew really well, and it helped improve the soil . My husband has an allotment now , separate to the house, so he does a small veg selection in there along with his" show" leeks . I would love to have fruit trees, but our space is limited. Your plans sound really good .
Very ambitious and interesting plans, Elliot, I look forward to seeing it progress 😊
Loving hearing your plans and seeing this bloom into a beautiful mixed garden.
If you are interested in companion planting, a very good classic book are the Louise Riotte books, Roses love garlic and carrots love tomatoes among others. We used them in our organic gardening classes in college, I can vouch for their usefulness, but I am certain there are many others. And with the interest in gardening so prevalent in England I would imagine your horticultural associations are an encyclopedia of knowledge. There are "miniature" fruit trees that will produce fruit and not take up so much footprint, the bane of fruit trees is the massive footprint and need of more than one tree by some species to be able to have fruit. A warning we found out during class it is that tomato plants are extremely hard to grow from seed even with the best of greenhouses, it is the one plant I buy as seedlings from an accredited nursery, I do use organic and heirloom seeds that grow best in the grow area I live in. I am not sure how many grow areas you have in GB.
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Yes. Having a lovely garden and outdoor space that you have created, is so good for one's spiritual and mental health. Thanks for sharing.
For some reason the volume is very low! I never miss your videos!
I really enjoy watching you guys. It’s such a refreshing change and you’re both so witty and funny without knowing it x
It sounds like spring with all the happy little critters having their say in the program! You are growing a very happy garden! ❤🐿🐦❤
Yay, Gardening! My favorite! I can’t wait until Spring when I can play in my flower garden! I have about 20 hydrangeas I have been growing from cuttings to put out. ( we are lucky to have 5 acres in Pacific Northwest). I am planning to grow sweet peas and cosmos from seed this year. Dreaming and planning your garden is half the fun. Love hearing from you, Elliot.
Very nice garden review, Elliot. Looking forward to seeing your garden plans bloom!
Was the sound quite or is me speaker dead .
I think the volume needs adjusting on your side, dear Elliot!! From what I could hear, you have some wonderful, ambitious plans~ ❤❤❤ Be well, Joan
You have a lot of great ideas for your garden. I really enjoy gardening myself so I look forward to seeing your garden grow.
Hi, lovely video, looking forward to to it all. 😊
Elliot, thank you for the sharing your vision of your garden. I look forward to seeing more.
Enjoyed it, but would've appreciated a couple of photo inserts of the Rose Walk in full bloom and the bluebells out & fuchsia flowers just to see a bit of colour. 😊
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I am excited to go on this journey with you.
It’s so weird watching your garden in winter when we are in summer lol
My mum brought me a tunnel house for my birthday/Christmas so I’m enjoying my first summer with that… have cucumbers galore at the moment lol
Last year I planted a dwarf peach tree, mandarin tree, lemon tree, lime tree, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, feijoa trees.
This year I’ve added a plum tree and more blueberries and strawberries.
Still wanting to add some raspberries, apples, pear, apricots, oranges etc
Elliot, you look fetching in your plaid, jeans, and wellies. Like a sexy Alan Titchmarsh! ❤
Very interested and good luck. Have a very small space Elliot, but grow veg and flowers from seed and transplant into pots…..
I quite like the Gardman bird feeding stations. They are metal and quite sturdy. When buying a bird feeder station with bird bath and feeding tray included, make sure the bowl bit for the bath and the tray can be popped out of their metal hoops attached to the pole part of the feeder for cleaning. Hope that makes sense. 😊
I can’t wait 🌳🌷🌺🪻🍅🍓🫑🌶️
We use a metal hanging flower hook pole with two hooks for my birds
Struggled with the audio on this video. Look forward to seeing the ideas come to life. 🪴🌱 Caution with planting trees 🌳⚠️
Great video – very inspirational. I look forward to seeing how your garden progresses 🪴
I think you have a wonderful space there to grow lots of vegetables an herbs. I don’t have a very large space to garden so I am always tucking in a veggie plant or some herb in near my flowers. I haven’t had an issue so far butterflies and bees seem to like it also!
love this! we have almost our whole yard in gardens. some flowers for the poliinators and hummingbirds, rest is herbs and veggies. two biggies for immunity are sage , oregano and thyme. also basil and rosemary. here in illinois, I can't winter over rosemary, but I bet you can. thyme makes a great tea….specially lemon thyme. herbs DO NOT like fertilizer soil, or wet soil. they like it hot, sunny and DRY. on to the veggies….personally I think cauliflower/broccoli are a waste of space for what you get. we grow tomatoes, garlic, cucumbers (there are bush ones) squash (we grow winter ones. butternut. but also zucchini) and we grow cabbage as we make sauerkraut. on to the trees…..I think you could grow Espaliered apple and peach trees. use your fences. may I make a suggestion on the bird feeding areas? bring those extra slabs from the back, and put them for the feeding area. put the feeder pole off to the side. the seeds the birds scatter will land on the slabs. you can sweep up the seed hulls. why? birds poo. and it will affect your plantings. you can hose off the poo. and dilute it. grass isn't affected. we built an arbor, and the feeders are there, easily cleaned. looking forward to garden videos. right now we have around 14 inches of snow on the ground!
I really enjoyed the tour of your garden, can't wait for the next One 😊❤
Struggling yo hear with vol on max. Its all double dutch to me due to lavk of volume! Gave up!!!!
Loved this planning your garden video! Thanks Elliott!
Yes can’t way xxxxxxx
Loved this video Elliot!Thankyou 🥰
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Excellent idea. 🇦🇺
Elliot, your incredible love for gardening is the reason why I began mine during the pandemic's lockdown! That was the best therapy during that year, and I named a section of it, Elliot & Matt. I am looking forward for this one!!❤❤
A major thing with growing vegies is sun light- you can check on line for the amount of sun each need- some plants need full sun others like some shade. Vegies that li cooler to grow are peas, cauliflower broccoli for an example – peppers and tomatoes like it warm
Why not use your greenhouse for herbs and veg?
It promises to be wonderful! Fills me full of ideas for spring! Im already planning!