Permaculture Vegetable Gardening – A Little Bit of Time Every So Often!!

Sometimes I have to spend a chunk of time in the vegetable garden to get a task done, usually in the summer growing season, but most of the time I pop out there to do a few small things which all add up to keeping on top of a thriving garden.

In todays video I do a little bit of planting, weeding and mulching – not too much time or effort. Add this to all the other times I spend an hour or less in the garden and the garden remains mostly under control.

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hi there I’m Linda and this is Hutton Valley permaculture in the veggie garden today I’ve got a little bit of Maintenance to do I’ve got a row of comrey that I want to chop down and use as mulch I’ve got to do some spot weeding cuz there’s some weeds that are growing and we’ll soon go to seeds I’m going to get those down and in the pantry I found some of my onions starting to grow so I’m going to make the most of them and get them planted for seed before we get into all of that let’s have a look around the garden it’s the start of winter I’ll show you what the garden’s producing this is a patch of winter veg which if you recall I planted back in about February now I’ve just harvested one beautiful head of broccoli from this plant here and I’m hoping it’s a sprouting variety but I’m not sure it might be um a walam which mightn’t Sprout but I’ll leave it in place also in this Garden I’ve got kale that I can to harvest from that’s a curly Leaf kale there and I do have a tusen variety but that’s not quite big enough I’ll let that one get a bit bigger before starting to harvest it I’ve got plenty of that Curly Leaf kale going on in here now some of the cauliflower just bolted really quickly before I’d even really realized that it had come up but I’ve got some others that are just starting to get their heads going going there now you can see in there this one is coming along although I will have to watch it for um oh caterpillar caterpillar alert we’ll get that one off there now before it makes too much a mess of this cauliflower head that’s what I do with them and I’ve got a few other little cauliflower plants coming along in here as well and plenty of broccoli now the flowering plants here the little yellow flowers are from bok choy I did harvest bok choy earlier on you know a couple of months ago cuz that’s quite fast growing and now it’s send up these flowers which keeps my bees pretty happy on these Sunny winter days and I don’t know it creates a bit of Beauty in the garden as well there are a few bok choy that haven’t gone to flower yet yet which is nice and I’ve got this impressive mustard green which I often just grow for the color in the garden but you can Harvest those leaves and chop them up and add them to a stir fry and in other areas of the garden I’ve got different types of kale coming along this is red Russian kale and that really volunteers very easily in the garden this one here is a Brasa hybrid really I’ve let it grow but it’s um not really a cabbage or a kale but I do Harvest all those leaves and throw them to my chickens I’ve got radishes here these are all volunteer path nit plants now it would be a good idea to get round it and thin those out a little bit so that they create really good roots also in this Garden I’ve got Swiss chard that’s growing beautifully and I’ve still got my chilies which are are still ripening because we’ve had quite a mild start to winter at this point just along the path a little bit further I’ve got some volunteer plants here I’ve got um sort of an Asian green that you can put into a stir fry and some Mauna here as well now this is the the green variety of Mauna I do have a nice red variety volunteering elsewhere but these two plants are taken over in this space also volunteering is some inve these are the curly leaf inve and they’re really lovely tender little leaves especially when you um Harvest them from you know the complete plant and take the middle and I’ve also got plenty of Rico volunteering in the garden along with the curly leaf and dive Rico is part of the chory family this family of plants sends up beautiful purple flowers which I love to leave in the garden and you end up with masses of little volunteers like um these curly leaf plants right here which I just love this bed here has got my green manure in it which is really growing well but as you can see there’s still plenty of uh the Swiss chard volunteering in this space to give plenty of food not only to myself but also for my chickens at the other end of my garden I’ve got celery plants that are getting to the size that I can Harvest from these plants were planted back in January so they’ve had plenty of time to get to this size also planted back in January was this row of I think there SEO cabbage and uh they’re actually feeling really firm so it won’t be long before I can Harvest them those and I’ll probably be making a nice batch of sauerkraut with those just behind the cabbage and the celery I’ve got my bean trellis there’s still a few beans on my bean plants but as you can see the cold is starting to affect them and I doubt whether I’ll be getting any more flowers now that um it’s become quite chilly and just here that is a Swiss chard Beed with my oldest plants they’re really quite large I’ve been grabbing lots of those leaves and feeding it to my chickens who adore it don’t you just love the colors of these Swiss chard plants and amongst the Swiss chart I do have a couple of Tusk and kale which is a bit further along than the one we saw earlier and I could just about Harvest from that one now and just here is my bed of carrots that I’m still sharing with the mice and the other rodents in the garden but there’s still plenty for me as well just across from our carrots is a patch of the the mustard greens that I spoke about earlier that’s a Mauna and that’s the uh Crimson variety and there’s plenty of those little plants in this area it kind of makes a nice addition to a salad at this size if they do get bigger I’ll add it to a stew fry and now we’re down this end of the garden let’s start some work for the day the first job is to clear this garden bed and I’m going to plant these onions that are growing from store cupboard onions now if I plant those now they should just go to flour and they should be able to produce plenty of seed from this lot so what exactly are we clearing today well there’s plenty of borage that has just volunteered in this area my Zak plants here well there’s one little zucchini left on it it’s essentially finished it’s too cold for that to keep going and that’s about it really I’ll leave the Holly hawk in the corner because that’s not really impacting on the rest of the space and that will give us plenty of room to plant these onions yes it’ll be ashamed to get rid of the borage in this area of the garden but we still have another little patch over here for the bees sickle in hand it won’t take long to get this area cleared well that didn’t take too long a few grasses yet to clear some dock plants and some other wedy varieties and we’ll be ready to plant our onions the garden bed is cleared and ready to plant into now we do have a pile of compostable ingredients which like all the tomato plants that I cleared in the last veggie garden video will be waiting until I clear this path get that compost off and onto the garden and I’ll redo this Garden Path as a compost path start of winter and look at the color these plants are still giving me now I’m just going to lay all of these out first now I don’t know how well these all grow but I don’t want to throw them out I’m going to plant them see if they grow and if they do because they’re kind of in the second season they’d already bulbed up they should produce seeds they should go to flour fairly quickly and uh produce seeds so I can grow some more onions another season now I haven’t done this before and like many things in my garden it is an experiment so together we’ll see if we succeed in getting some great seeds well it’s nice to have those all planted and out of the Pantry one thing I really want to get done in the Garden today is clear weeds like this these weeds are flowering and producing these seeds these are still green once they turn black they’ll be viable so I really need to be clearing these out of the garden so all I’m going to do today is spot weed these sort of plants that will be a problem soon if I don’t do anything about it and I’ll be throwing these plants into the hot compost just to make sure those uh seeds aren’t viable and this area looks much better [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] there’s still plenty more weeds in the garden but these were the most pressing to get out so good to get that done the last thing I want to get done today is chop and drop of my comfrey border soon these leaves will be just uh breaking down in place with the cold coming so I’d rather chop them down and put them where I want them and that will help build the soil all along this perennial garden bed and these chop leaves I am just going to use to heavily mulch my perennial plants which are the globe Arch choke and also the asparagus plants and while I do it I’m hoping not to upset these little fellas too much amazing at the start of winter these plants are still growing now this one’s just a young plant but I’m hoping the comfrey will not only feed it but um build the soil around it and um help to hold the moisture in once we get to Summer [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] that whole row of comery has been chopped and dropped you really doesn’t take much time at all to go through and use it as a mulch for your higher value plants and it’s quick and easy because you’ve just got it right next to where it needs to be now there were no seed heads on these plants I am quite wary of where I put seeding comy but when it’s like this and there’s no seeds on it you can kind of spread it around anywhere sort of in the the rest of the garden if you choose but for the moment just mulching these asparagus and artichokes is really a fantastic thing to do with this wonderful material people often comment to me that it must take a lot of time to manage this garden and it really doesn’t as you’ve seen today it’s quick and easy to do some mulching do a bit of weeding and get some planting done it just takes a little bit of time every so often I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s video thanks so much for watching and bye for now