All the Vegetables in Kitchen Garden in June | Veg Garden Tour
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Byther Farm is a small organic homestead, being designed and managed using permaculture practices. We aim for self-sufficiency in fruit and vegetables for increased self reliance and better resilience to the modern world. I recognise that we are unlikely to be truly self sufficient, but do the best we can. I share our home with my loving husband, Mr J and our cat, Monty.
We are a fifty-something couple who live on a smallholding in Carmarthenshire, Wales. We are going green and creating a gentler, cleaner and more healthy life for our family.
Having had a highly successful smallholding in Monmouthshire, we hope to recreate the abundance at our new home. There will be a large organic kitchen garden with no dig gardening raised beds and young food forest in which to grown our fruit and vegetables.
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29 Comments
Will you contain the mint in a pot when you plant it in the ground ? I used the flower as a filler flower last year ,, it was beautiful,, your lupins look fabulous 👍🏾
Those puffins made me happy, too!!!
Be careful with your jerusalem artichokes. I am curious how the dwarf variant flowers. In zone 6b we had a gardener plant them at our farm, they grow to be 8 feet tall, but they are so invasive. We have had so much trouble with them invading and coming back year after year.
Thanks for sharing your challenges. It helps enormously to know that someone like you can sow seeds that don't come up. It's not just me!
It’s incredible how much you have organised in a relatively short time, how are you coping with watering I’m in Cornwall we haven’t had rain for five weeks , even the recent storms have passed us by and we still have a hosepipe ban from last year, I’m saving the run off from the showers in buckets washing up water , lettuce washing water and it’s taking two hours to water I’m a pretty fit 75 year old but believe me carrying buckets and watering cans well who needs a gym. But your area is huge compared to mine I don’t know how your managing to grow anything. ❤️
Hi liz we bought a ton of what we call black gold really good compost from the local company making different composts etc. it must have reached very high temperatures and indeed was hot when we tipped onto our plot but the amount of weed seedlings in it is no body’s business. How is that😮?
Thanks for taking us on your lovely day trip. Our family adores Puffins!!!
That's a beautiful variegated thyme.
Everything looks so great Liz, I love watching your tours. I tried rhubarb for the very first time this year and so surprised I loved it!
Thanks for sharing. Your lupines look so beautiful. We tried to sow lupines twice and have failed both times, must be doing something wrong. I really like your idea of adding pretty flowers into the garden. Also really enjoyed that you took us along on your day trip. That island is amazing!
8:54 I'm not entirely sure because the leaf shakes a bit, but those look like freshly hatched ladybirds to me 🙂
Glad you mentioned the parsnips – I was tossing up whether to sow or not – you have sorted my dilemma! So much rain this winter and I'm just getting on top of the weeding! Thanks for the tour – definitely inspirational! Better get out there and sort out those parsnips!
I smiled so much at those puffins. How cute! It's been a tough year for direct sown seed here in Ohio, no rain for over three weeks. After two days of rain, I'm trying again. 😊
Thank you so much for showing us your wonderfull farm and all the progress you make! Every month there is growing so much more, its a real joy to watch your work with all of your experience and knowledge! As I am starting a tiny farm in denmark since a few months, I can also imagine how much work it is but as always the gardening year is also some kind of adventure (concerning weather and so on). And also your trip to Skomer island was so interesting! All that wonderfull nature and the cute birds and seals!! ❤ Thank you so much!! I wish you the very best for the garden year and all your plans!! 🌻🌸🪷
It's so comforting seeing similar progress from a seasoned gardener, I'm only in my first year.
Those puffins are so cute!
I've been using paper coffee filters to get carrots started. I sew the seeds, wet the soil, lay the filters down, and spray water over. When I need to add water, the filters stop the seeds from moving.
I use the same filters as a mulch over the soil around strawberries.
I cut the filters on quarters, lay them on the soil.
Bonus, coffee grounds have nitrogen in them.
Great vid! I always love these tours, and I always come away with thoughts of what I need to do or have been meaning to do, but the interlude of the puffins was magical. Huge thanks for that…and your camera work just keeps getting better and better!
Hi Liz, I have always enjoyed learning from you & might l add, l also like the way you have your hair done, so l went and got my hair done just the same as your style 😀
Hi Liz. I loved watching all your beautiful planting and lush growth. I'm watching from New Zealand, where we're in the cool and damp times. Not sure if you've tried this, but I'm completely sold on burying kitchen scraps in areas like the dry dusty bed. I don't dig, except to bury and I do it because my scraps are free, it changes the soil immediately, it holds water better, worms move in fast, and plants seem to love it, and it's almost effortless. I just make holes as I need them, so miminal disturbance, and put a stone or brick, and maybe a big canna leaf or something on top. I can but dream of longer warmer days, and enjoy your garden tours.
Beautiful garden you have – hundreds of slugs destroyed my seedlings. I tried everything. This is the second year I lost almost all of my plants – despite chickens, wild birds and even a few frogs.
Our carrots and beets are not happy either. 🙁
Oh my goodness Liz, we sowed X5 different varieties of carrots and we also had zero carrots, but lots of weeds appear?! We've never experienced this before. The seeds were in date too? Could it be down to the ridiculous heatwave we've been having in West Wales?
OH OH OH PUFFFFFFINS!!!! What a wonderful surprise! Wasn't expecting that in the video. Thank you! I adore puffins soooo much! I was hoping to visit Skomer again this year, however too busy with work, the bee's and the growing. Maybe next year. Thanks so much for this delightful video addition!
Liz, Carmarthenshire County Council tip are giving away free, yes free 25ml compost. It's not the best stuff tbh, but combined with a load of good ol' well rotted horse manure, it'll be grand! We've collected about 4 tonnes (about 10 dumpy bags) so far!! And they still have plenty left free! Maybe Ceredigion County Council tip are doing the same thing? Worth checking! We can't afford the level of compost we need and so this was an absolute delight to find out about!
Those puffins are adorable!
Just made some Rhubarb crumbles, mine are too young to pick so my son in laws mother had given me an arm full. "Family Affair crumble," is what I called it. I love looking at others gardens I thought I was too late for Parsnips now I know I can get more seeds in. Thank you!!
I have the worst luck with carrots. What I find so funny is that Queen Anne's Lace which is a wild carrot relation, grows like crazy in my garden all around my house but carrots… no. If they ever do get to even a 2 bite size they are so bitter. I just don't know why. I think I'm just not going to try them anymore. I've been away for a while but I love your channel, lots of catching up to do. Thank you Liz for sharing what you do. God's blessings!
Nice wideo