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Welcome to my final video of the recent self-sufficiency series celebrating the launch of my latest book: https://geni.us/SelfSufficiencyGarden – I look forward to seeing you guys next week where it is head down for a new growing season! I hope you find the results as interesting as I did!
You forgot to figure in the cost of a psychiatrist (at least in the USA)- makes it all worth the money spent on the garden! lol
Hello! Making your own seed allows you to select and adapt varieties to your very own garden… That way, after a few years, you have consistently good yields and few pests on your crops!
Thanks for the video,
Cheers
Would the succession planting plan in the book be helpful if i live in an arid climate (Siwa Oasis, Egypt)?
Is the book going to be translated to Dutch? And if so, when can we be expecting it? I really want to buy the book, but I prefer my own language.
I devoured the book and put pen and paper to it! Today is my first day applying your method on my brand new 80 m2 allotment 😊
Hey Hew. Maybe you missed it not to complicate things but what about the taxes you saved by not purchasing the food. Every pound one spends in the market was earned after paying the dues to the government…i guess that means plenty more in value saved….
This is my second year gardening. I'm incorporating a lot of your advice this year to maximize my yield, namely the succession sowing and throwing plants in when plants come out! Super excited to see how much I grow this year <3
Great job 🏞️🍓
I grow about 90% of our fruit and vegetables now. It's taken a few years to get the soil healthy, but now I get really good results. Busy times for me are April, and then the harvests, preserving and planting late season and winter crops in July and August. I love it, and at the very least you know what you'r eating. Everything is pesticide free and no artificial fertilisers used.
Any tips on fences to keep the cows out? 😅
Very useful bits of information.
Great achievment Huw, and a fine example and benchmark to follow, do you have a figure for total bed area excluding the paths?
Fantastic video Huw! 🙂
Waiting on your book in the US. Working to be self sufficient in veg and some fruit. There are some things I do have buy like avocados and the odd apple. While I do have an advantage in that I garden all year, I need to figure out how to grow some of my favourites when the weather is too hot or too cold such as greens in the summer and tomatoes & cucumbers in the winter. Otherwise, I am trying to eat seasonally. May try setting up a temporary greenhouse situation. Cheers.
And don’t forget the value of barter. I’ve gotten lovely avocados and numerous seedlings by sharing my harvest. Today, someone I share fruit and veggies with is coming to plant my strawberries.
I love the financial breakdown, that probably helps a lot of people conceptualize something that feels very theoretical if they haven’t done it yet. And even for experienced gardeners, sometimes we undercut just how much actual money we do save by growing food. We’ve all seen the memes about dropping $1000 on all the stuff to start a garden and then getting a single salad in return…and it can feel that way in the beginning, but fortunately the expensive infrastructure lasts through the seasons and the gardener gets more skilled every year. Add in the fresh air, exercise, pride, confidence, etc and of course the true value of growing food is priceless 😊 especially when you reach a point of excess and can give food to others as well.
I preordered the book and can't wait to get it! I'm in the US though so still have to wait a while. All of our raised beds are made out of super nice pallets made out of decking boards and we got them all for free. It was more work to build compared to one long board but I'll take free any day. Our big cost was topsoil and compost. We have goats that contribute lots of fertilizer for beds but we'll still have to buy some for a large no till area we are adding on this year.
I run 80 allotment plots and always start new gardeners of with a half plot, Its amazing what can be produced out of that size area. Great Video Huw 🙏🌱🌱
Amazing video.
Than you very much!
This may have been said, but is the one I preordered on Amazon in the United Stated a USA version? aka – in dollars?
Don't forget that growing your vegetables is TAX FREE!
When you buy food from the store in the States, you are paying income taxes on the money you spend on that food and in all but 1 or 2 states you are paying sales tax. That adds about 20-30% to the cost of buying groceries.
What a polite and efficient way to slap down all the naysayers 😁👌 great book and video, thanks Huw 👍😊
Glad you liked the review.
Very encouraging and honestly the numbers are exactly what I would expect from my own experience in our climate. For these purposed of course you have to account time as a cost but we all know it is actually pleasure, exercise, mini wildlife safari and therapy!
I have saved an enormous amount of money buying at auctions. I have bought tools, compost, perlite, fertiliser, shredder, rope, fence pins, hoses, loping pruner and on and on. A few months ago I hit the jackpot and bought what I thought was a couple of dozen seed packets only to discover literally hundreds of packets. I make compost mainly from stable waste. My growing areas are raised and I do this by keeping an eye open for house improvers and taking away their solid wooden doors obviously after getting permission. My larger seeds are sitting in compost filled Costco cups and my grow lights are industrial units from Screwfix. Once you start thinking like this more ideas dawn on you.
Just ordered the book , I have been looking forward to this 😀 , picked a cauli, purple sprouting and a savoy today. Resullltttt.
Can we order the self-sufficient book in Europe?
Amazing content yet again, can't beat growing your own veg. Some veg may be wonky, but I love it, it's your home grown lovely stuff
Hi Huw. are you planning any book launch events?
Very inspiring Huw. I highly recommend your book, I received my copy over a week ago and it is excellent, extremely well put together, as well as being easy to use and understand, me being a novice gardener.
I suspect that seeds will eventually become very hard to obtain, at least open pollinated ones. I save seed from everything I'm able to successfully grow out. I always more than I need (more or less), so I don't mind giving up some production for seed saving.
Hi Huw, i 've been enjoying your contributions for a couple of years now. THANKS for that! In this movie you talk about the costs, which is interesting, of course, but I wonder what the benefits of your approaches are for the nutritional value of your harvest compared to what you can buy in supermarkets. I would love to hear and learn about these kinds of things.