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Tuesday 27th Dec ’22 – harvesting beetroot and turnips and checking how they’ve survived the cold;
Thursday 29th Dec ’22 – today I get on with harvesting all our remaining beetroot as the cold’s really crippled their leaves and I fear that at best they’ll do no more and at worst they may start to bolt with longer days and warmer weather;
Sunday 1st Jan ’23 – it’s New Year’s Day, and obviously another new year calls for another new calendar (from Vital Seeds)! 👍 And I’ve a few unexpected surprises when sorting out the brassica beds – freeze-dried leaves and liquifying stems… and some waffling of my thoughts and hopes for all in 2023.
0:00 Introduction
0:05 Harvesting beetroot & turnips (Tuesday)
9:53 Harvesting beetroot & bed prep Cabbage (Thursday)
19:16 Brassica cares & chat (Sunday – New Year’s Day)
30:16 Endpiece
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27 Comments
🦋 wishing you all a nice veggy year 🐛
Hi Paul, All the very best to you and Richard for 2023, Take care.
Mine all died with our freeze here in North Georgia. Even my cabbages. Happy New Year Paul.
I love to watch you at the plot i pet you cold
Happy New Year and have to agree, my first year of growing my brassicas also succumbed to frost as well as the pesky aphids in the summer 🙄. However onwards and am looking forward to my second year of growing 😊
Nice to have veg you have planted yourself,you and Richard have a nice day
Happy new year to you both. I think everyone is finding extremes on our plots. Yes we could take note and do differently next time but next year could be totally different again. I think I will just carry on as normal and only wen I see it’s changing every year will I change my tactics. But I do think it’s a gradual change. Anyway let’s just carry on gardening👍🙋🏻happy new year and here’s to a new growing season. Just to say Brussels sprouting broccoli and cabbage and kale survived generally my tree cabbages succumbed chard and spinach succumbed. Parsnips great swede ok and celeriac but celery gone. Broad beans are growing garlic and onions and field beans so it’s all good really. We are no dig and a bit of permaculture type growing. Also we thinking on wildlife too so no fertiliser no weed killers or slug pellets it’s just our own compost bit of hay maybe and comfrey that’s it. We grow flowers for all insects bees and butterflies and have made a dead hedge. We have rough areas for small animals and a tiny pond. But we share the land with wildlife and at same time are able to feed ourselves we hope to eventually be self sufficient all year with fruit and veg. We are fruit and probably 90% veg and 50% salads so we are getting there. I have more time starting this new year so I hoping to be more efficient and hoping to blog more myself. It’s new to me and I don’t really know wat I doing🤣but it will be fun.👍💜💜💜
Happy New Year to all. Carry on gardening!
I have one baby cabbage alive as you will see on PV everything mush
Happy New Year Paul.
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💚…Happy New Year!
Friendly reminder that weather isn’t climate 🙂
Happy new year Richard and Paul ✌🏻
What a truly wonderful thing to do,canceling the fireworks as to not frighten the seal 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Paul I have had the same problem with my tree cabbages . I think our temperatures in Cardiff are much the same as yours. I so enjoy these videos. Thanks.
I've had exactly the same with my chard. All the leaves have gone translucent and mushy but I'm hoping they will grow again from the centre. Also one of my Cavolo Nero has snapped off and the stalk is soft. We're in southern Scotland and it got down to minus 11 one night. I like your hair, it coordinates with your jacket and looks very smart!! I've just been out to the recycling bin and found my son in law has put sheets of cardboard in there which I have now got out again. He's in for a telling off when he gets in from work 😂 It's a precious commodity. Have a very Happy New Year Paul and Richard!
My broccoli bolted… but we had a very cool/cold Spring and then a bout of heat for our start to summer. I'm still getting used to it all though so I suspect I will have better luck next time. (I also need to learn to let seedlings have a bit more time in pots before planting out as my last few attempts have resulted in I assume bugs eating the little seedlings.)
There's no winter (outdoor) gardening where I am. I can stretch the spring and fall seasons, but once the snow and cold come in properly, that's it. A big part of it, is also the unpredictability of the weather. We had snow, wind, and -25C temps last week. Tomorrow is going to be rainy and 14C.
when the cold gets down low and stays that way try using a clear plastic to cover the crops – but you will have to uncover them when the temps start to rise or they will get cooked –
Squidgy, I love that word. Just be sure, if writing it in your column, that someone doesn't think it's a typo and replaces it with squishy. That happened to me once in a sci-fi story where I wrote a shuttlecraft scritched across the sand and it was replaced by scratched. Sigh. They could have at least put screeched, but I was not asked.
This winter is not over here, either. My pipes have thawed enough so I can get drips and dribbles of water, so I have containers under them to store. I can't be without my tea!
~ Jon in rural BC, Canada
Well said Paul god willing x
Here in South Australia we sow our brassicas in autumn and harvest in late spring/early summer. We do get frosts in winter but generally they are light although some winters we don't get any. Our biggest problem with brassicas is them bolting or going leggy in the heat.
My brassicas are not happy but I think they have not frozen over. Yet. Our really cold periods are still to come though. I usually lose some and end up starting more. I have so much saved seeds though. I noticed some of my lettuce was starting. I have protected them but we shall see whether these particular ones live. I have cloches over bunches of them and they seem ok so far.
I think humans can be good shepherds of the earth, helping increase the abundance of life already on the planet. Unfortunately, there seems to be a destructive streak that tries to destroy life on earth, that is also in many (most?) humans. Maybe that streak can be channeled/changed. I have no idea. I used to think the destructive people were a small percentage. After America's Orange Jesus though, I think maybe at least 1/2 of humanity feels a need to kill humans and all life. Again, perhaps that is a reaction to stress and can be changed. Whether that is true or not, we shall all find out.
great video Paul Happy New Year to both of you, the walrus has been called Thor
Paul, I agree we must do better. I live in Canada and I too have never experienced conditions like we’ve lived through this past year. In summer devastating wind storms that felled hundreds of trees in my city. A week ago a major blizzard with 30cm of snow on the ground, this week we practically have done. I fear we are at the point of no return but I will not give up hope because what is the alternative?🌟🙂
Thank you for your sweet video…such passion expressed so well…a calm 2023..yes!
As a mid-northern Canadian I feel for you and your fellow gardeners, Paul. We live with hefty winters and garden accordingly. Most brassicas succumb ( the curly and Tuscan kales actually seem to hibernate and develop tender-ish leaves and flowers in spring) but the leaves do 'melt' and we have to replant almost everything. We watch the forecasts like hawks. I have carrot and potato pots in the basement, stored as is. A day or two of freezing night temperatures is fine but several can ruin tubers, roots and greens. They won't come back. 🪦 But your spring is just around the corner 😊 I wish you and Richard a Happy New Year 🎉 🎊!