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Thank you, great advice because it does get overwhelming when you're trying to do it all and you're a beginner!
Thanks for such an encouraging and informative video. My plot goal this year is to include winter vegetables .
This is important
Practically-it's growing food into winter, food that can be stored thru winter-early spring.
That's the hard part.
Potatoes, winter squash, onions, food that can be preserved -cabbage, beets, cucumbers.
Fantastic info, great video ❤
Thank you, Huw and Sam, for simplifying things. I always felt diminished in our allotments because my garden tends to have weeds. Last winter i made an overview of all the fruit trees and shrubs of berries there are. They do their job and ask little attention. They produce loads of food. That makes me feel proud. Lots of food with little effort. I build that garden over 20 years. And getting older means you like to harvest a lot with little effort. This year there are 12 sachets so what if i only sow those…and my 60 seed potatoes and a bunch of onions. I might just be happy in my allotment
Beautiful. Thank you, God bless! 🥬
Thanks to you and mostly British garden tube I have decided to give a self sufficiency garden a shot. Growing nutritional tasty food is so satisfying
Borage is brilliant everyone should grow it
Hi huw, I am 14, and I am just starting my first garden do you have any advice for getting a decent amount of food in my first year?
Last year the the only thing I weighed was tomatoes because it took 50 lbs per batch of garlic, basil tomato sauce. After putting 600 lbs into sauce I was begging others to come pick and process for their shelves. I got around 3 bushels of sweet potatoes, 30 bushels of apples, 3/4 bushel of peaches( 4 new trees), I stopped counting but I'm guessing 10 bushels or pears I picked before begging people to come take pears several gallons of the 1st harvest of apricots, several bushels of several varieties of cherries, 2 5 gallon buckets of potatoes, several bushels of assorted peppers, best crop ever of cauliflower freeze dried on shelves and I'm hoping to get the last of the brussels picked today, etc. Last planting season was my 1st year of retirement. Everybody told me how bored I'd be so I planted more and worked more on the food forest. Was I bored? NO!!! Was I overwhelmed? Yes.
My top tip is crown prince winter squash if you have space. Easy tasty nutritious and store well.
Around May last year my daughter and I decided we would weigh the produce that came out of the garden, record it on a spreadsheet & use Tesco prices to see how much we ‘saved’ from not having to buy mainly fresh herbs & summer veg. Without too much effort we produced £436 worth of food. We were very surprised as we didn’t think we’d grown very much.
Here’s the thing though, we’ve set a target of growing £1000 worth this year between us. My daughter has just bought a house that has a front ‘garden’ measuring 1 yard in width. We’ve made it into a herb garden (fresh herbs are quite expensive especially if you’re vegetarian & use a lot of them). We are approaching this to season with great anticipation.
Your videos provide lots of great tips and encouragement.
Perfect Huw. Don't worry. Just start growing. We had a horror Spring and very late Summer cropping here in southern Australia. Tomatoes. Nope. Bees were so unhappy. Just about to plant up for Autumn and Winter.
My book has arrived – it's gorgeous and brilliant, tysm!
Lovely Huw, thanks! A very simple insight that had also helped us to enjoy our garden more, is to not get too hung up on the idea that just because it is your own grown food,, you have to cook with it in a special way. I have too often "stored" my veg or fruit because it felt wasteful to use them in something simple.