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Great video, some great tips, thank you!!
That's miners lettuce shown not purslane?
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Huw, cherry tomatoes are amazing fermented whole. It is like a taste of summer in the winter. We put them on sandwiches because they do mush, but they taste amazing.
Perfect timing, I’m about to spend the afternoon catching up on seeding 😁
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Perhaps this is a matter of different local common names between the UK and the US: here in California, purslane is a succulent in the Portulaca family while what you showed as purslane is called Miner's Lettuce (maybe from the Gold Rush days?) and is in the Claytonia family. Both grow wild here and both are edible. I have unwittingly weeded both out of the garden in the past. 🙄
Ahh makes me all excited to get sowing! Many thanks
It’s fun to watch your videos even though the ground is frozen 3 feet deep in the winter where I am 😅. That’s 91 centimeters for y’all in 🇬🇧.
Claytonia…I sowed that in spring or early summer, forgot that I'd sown it and (because I'd never grown it before) pulled it out when it came up because although I vaguely recognised it I couldn't remember what it was called, nor whether it was edible!
Nice suggestions!
I'm in zone 3 in central Canada, and we've already had our first frosts in early September, so there is very little crossover. I did do an experiment last year with winter sowing several beds. I used up older seeds to make mixes (greens, root vegetable, tall and climbing things, etc.), scattered them in the beds shortly before the ground froze, then heavily mulched them. Some beds completely failed – the tall and climbing bed got destroy by our feral cat colony! – but others did amazingly well. If it weren't for those beds, we would have had next to nothing in the garden this years. Between a spring with hot days and too cold nights, to drought and heat waves, to constant smoke from wildfires, everything planted in the spring was at least a month behind and most just stagnated. Yet we still got things to harvest including, for the first time, kohlrabi. I'd been trying to grow those for years!
This year, I'll be doing it again, in a more organized fashion. I'll be planting our garlic in October, as usual, but will be interplanting probably with spinach and chard before heavily mulching for the winter. Other beds will be winter sown with carrots, beets, radishes (I grow those for their pods), possibly cabbage, choy, peas, etc. Most of my garden will be in before the ground freezes. Flowers, too. Because our winters get so cold, not only will the beds be heavily mulched, but the ones I can reach in winter will get more snow piled on top for extra insulation. In the spring, the mulches will be removed to allow the soil to warm in the sun.
Much of what you're suggesting here can probably be successfully winter sown in our climate zone, to germinate in the spring as soon as the ground is warm enough.
What I notice most is how this video allows time for small details. I try to do the same whenever I film in my garden, because even simple things like moving branches or the sparkle of dew can feel meaningful when watched back.
Haven't had any luck with broad beans at all. The baby beans appear then within a few days they all drop off. I love broad beans and they aren't available in my local supermarket frozen or tinned.
Here in the California desert we are just getting started planting. Summer is our winter and our summer is starting to cool down. Go time!
I have winter pursulane popping up everywhere. I let it go to seed every year and it appears more is popping up every year. I do remove and place some of the plants on beds I want them to spread the following year. I like how easily it can be removed when it is time to make space in the beds.
Lambs lettuce is amother salad I let selfeseed.
My "helpers" have been shown both and warned to not weed it. 😊