This is the easiest way I’ve come across to propagate valuable plants in your garden which you can use to not only save money, but also swap for other plants etc! Just allow nature to do the propagation for you!
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That’s awesome to be talking about preparing for plant swaps. Throw out a pot? Why?!? Give people what already grows well in that area!!! Maybe they give your plant pots back with stuff they have that you don’t!! You’re awesome thank you for making this and hopefully it propagates through the culture!!!
Awesome tips. Love the channel
My forstbyear growing so not knowledgeable enough to know what is weeds and what isnt however I will do this once I can identify more
That's wonderful what you have there in the garden. Everything is still green and beautiful!
Mine are cosmos, sunflower and red amaranth, all over one bed of the plot 😍 oh and a few nasturtiums
Ha I’ve just spent the last hour doing this!
Got about 30 extra gooseberries, sorrel, strawbs, ramsons, and what I think is rosemary and thyme !
We’ve been eating self seeded lettuce and self seeded chard. And it’s looking like the majority of my tomato plants will be from seedlings from the compost. Also, if anyone wants (what I think) are rowan trees….
We are actually organising a plant and seed swap event at our community garden – for the third time now! Pretty successful and it is always amazing to see, what other people have as date plants 😁
Here in the US, we have jumping worms in some soils… can't be sharing infected soil! (their eggs are the size and color of black pepper seed in the spring). But I need to find a good (free?) plant ID- I sometimes leave the mystery plants too long that I can't readily identify… ideas?
I love this! We were getting our tomatoes in their beds and in the in ground gardens yesterday. Also, having my boys do a four sisters garden as this year's seed to harvest project so we popped the corn in place yesterday. I noticed so many little extras that had returned from last year!
A friend just gave me starts from her currant and gooseberries. Do the you know those were illegal here in the US for a spell…and I think may still be in some areas? Anyway, great video! Thanks
Yup, I've literally just dug out half a dozen random squash plants and I've got some borage seedlings to move next. As I have limited space, I'll be giving most of them away.
I love this. If that mixed tray of seedlings you were holding was offered for sale as a group as a 'starter garden' at a plant sale I would snap them up – what a fabulous way to add some diversity to a garden! 😊
This is what I have been doing this week. Moving volunteers off my walkways. Calendula, chamomile, walking onions, nasturtium, feverfew and many more.
Great vid
Blessings Abound
And here I am, pulling fireweed and forget-me-nots by the bucket
Love it! I hate weeding out self-sown seedlings plus I've spent a lot of money on seeds of some very interesting plants. If I can swap them for something I don't have, I will be more than happy to pot up the "weeds".
Next time I go weeding the allotment garden I'll take some empty pots with me …
The reality Is that if I do, I will propagate mostly weeds. One should have a very good knowledge of plant seedlings for this to work. And he should have grown a garden like yours to have all that seedlings around. Not clickbait but yet not much of use
I frequently find volunteers in last year´s tomato bed, starting to pop up in mid to late April.
They catch up quickly, but are usually a few weeks behind the tomatoes that I start inside.
Anyway I could still get a decent tomato crop just from those volunteers If I wanted to.
When I first had my greenhouse, I imported topsoil and various compost brands. I had been sowing yellow rattle around our field with a view to being able to add wild flowers the following year. I saw a seedling in the greenhouse, no grass, but hey ho it must have liked it and likely was brought in on my boots. Thought nothing more of it but intended to replant in the field when it was a bit bigger. There was an unpleasant smell (to me) in the greenhouse. A few weeks later the greenhouse reeked with that odour. Then I saw the leaves on the yellow rattle. It was NOT yellow rattle. So in a panic I dug it up, chucked it on the compost bin. Then decided to get it out and mow it to death and then put it in the compost bin. I realise I have led a very sheltered life, so now I'm very wary of what I let grow if I don't recognise the plant! But it's not happened since. Had to have been in the compost!!!
maybe a good idea is that if you find a plant you dont want to dig now, but later. then put a label with a date, plant name etc and what plans you have for it
saves you coming back and wondering….
I love doing this, it’s like shopping in my own garden! 🤗
So funny, I saved some seedlings to, today!
as usual, Huw is a mind reader! careful weeding reveals plenty of baby plants. i have difficulty germinating parsnips, but last year's crop seems to have generated quite a few happy little plants.
SPOT ON! I seeded probably double what I needed for my own garden this year. Happily gave them away by the dozen. Lots of us trade and share!
Fantastic. Putting up raised beds & need to do a lot of transplanting from the old beds as they are replaced. Was worried about all the new things sprouting – many I don’t yet recognize. 😂 Time to get out the pots! 😁
I just potted up some borage volunteers today, and it's quite unhappy. It takes weeks for it to bounce back for me, if it does at all.
My celery has all been self seeded for the last 3 years. I collect my self seeded calendula seedlings and donate them to my garden club to sell.
I love your giddiness over what you found. Your love of what you do shows and it's why you're one of my favourite you tubers.
We call those self sowed plants "the unplanted".
Also we call that style gardening "subtractive gardening".
Thanks for sharing. 🍀
Huw you are writing a new book already even if you don't realize it. Think about what you are doing in this video. It's like another method by you striking out on your own and not following what's trending. I love your work. End of story