The season is changing – our gardens are beginning to look different as the weather changes and what we grow and harvest seems to transition very naturally. I’m now thinking Roots, Tubers, Greens and all the hardy hearty crops that will see us through Winter like Jerusalem Artichoke and Yacon (which has grow MASSIVE here this year). Its a gentle adjustment, it sneaks up, everything begins to slow down gradually (me included), it feels so wholesome to move with the Earth’s natural cycles and not resist. I love the changing seasons and Autumn is possibly my favourite season 🧡
Other Videos Mentions & Links:
How to Plant Garlic & Methods for Reducing Rust 👉 https://youtu.be/nj-jUFTqvRs
YES! You CAN Grow SWEET POTATOES in the UK – 6yr Timelapse 👉 https://youtu.be/_u68dgswM3Q
We are Dan & Laurie and our land is called Freedom Forest – Its 3 acres in the South of England where we are creating an edible oasis and trying to provide as much for ourselves, from our land as possible, where we are completely off grid.
Our food growing journey began together in 2017 when we created our first No dig lasagne bed. Every year we grow more and more and now we are currently around 60-80% self sufficient in ALL of our food needs.
Our style and methods are inspired by permaculture and we try to be thoughtful about how and what we do, to be as gentle on the planet as possible.
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The year of the Yacon! Your beds are gorgeous, so lush in October, something I aspire to. The curved, contoured beds add to the asthetics, its a really well designed space. Then the double use of the Bean area, outstanding. I will be very interested in seeing how the Elephant Garlic / mustard get on as they both mature.
It is a beautiful garden even as things start to die down. Those yacon leaves 🍃 are luscious, just right for picking and drying for tea.☕️ ❤✌🏾
Beautiful garden, thanks for the tour. Just one question, you mentioned the bags of green waste by your old potato patch. Can you tell me where you got the green waste in bags from please? Thanks
Can I ask why you still grow garden hedges between the growing areas? Would seem like wasted space and something else to take care? Is there an advantage or it just that you like having them?
You must have an energy force etha over that yakon or its getting a healthy run off of water!
How wide are them market garden borders/beds ?
Your pink Chard row is just gorgeous. My Yakon is still growing too, very different from previous years. Never seen the plants this big. It seems they love this years weather. My J Artichoke finally flowered some weeks ago. I hope this translates to a good harvest. My Oca flowered also for the first time this year. Again, I think the weather played a major role. As always, thanks for the tour and update. Your piece of paradise looks very beautiful and lush for this time of the year!
Thank you for the tour, looking great and abundant, the weather has been favourable for you as well.
Nice to hear the carrots are growing on the fine wood chip, makes sense especially if moist as carrots need that moisture to germinate. Thankfully in Australia we don’t have the carrot fly, you covered so you should be fine otherwise in a high garden bed because they can’t fly high.
It’s been warm in Sydney, second year in a row, things going to seed earlier, onions especially but fruits are plentiful , experimenting with late garlic planting in pots whilst ones started in February in garden beds are still growing fine, plus using the onion root and replanting them in trays just because I can, they grow greens quickly, but I want to see if onion bulbs will appear, have planted 2nd year onions just for more seed, which was successful last year too😊
Beautiful ❤🤗🇦🇷👏🏻💪🏻👏🏻💚
Superbe vidéo 😊
A bientôt
Did you cover your bananas plant in the winter?
Khu vườn của bạn thật tuyệt vời ,cây trồng trong vườn của bạn được chăm sóc tốt cây trồng phát triển tươi tốt quá ,cảm ơn bạn đã chia sẻ khu vườn với mọi người cùng thăm quan .
Love the drone footage ❤
Where did you buy your taro from?
Those pants are so beautiful 👍 Very creative 🌝 I love the autumn colours as well 🌻 🍂🍁🍂 This year they are very intense 🌼
Beautiful and peaceful space, fresh air. Harvesting your own vegetables and fruits helps you relax and heal. Thank you for sharing your wonderful moments with everyone.
Beautiful 😊
Seguo da un po ,il vostro canale, e ho constatato che coltivate molte varietà di verdure e frutta.
Io da qualche anno coltivo il CHYOTE (SECHIUM EDULE) i primi tempi come annuale, poi ho scoperto che piantandolo in un terreno riparato più aggiungendo in autunno abbondante pacciamatura di fieno posso coltivarlo come perenne aumentando di molto la resa.
Pensate di coltivarlo, anche voi in futuro?
Io abito in Piemonte a 364 metri sul livello del mare.
Saluti dall'ITALIA 🇮🇪
Anazing space. I would love to see a video showing how much time you both spend weeding and managing the area, and processing your harvest.
Stunning looking row of chard. My yacon is also growing very strongly above ground this year….fingers crossed that translates to a correspondingly larger sized tuber harvest in the next 6 weeks or so. I've also been harvesting outdoor cape gooseberries for the last few weeks (first time i've grown them) and they've been a successful experiment….lots of fruit and taste better than the shop bought. And the leaves are soft as velvet.
Thanks again for another beautiful and inspiring tour video 💚 You guys have some funny proverbs in England, like "the proof is in the pudding" 😉 I really love that! Greetings from Switzerland 👨🌾🍁🌿
I’d love to see a list of all that you grow and ideas of what to do with it ❤
inspirational! – many thanks
Your vegetable garden is so lush. How did you treat the soil to make it so loose?
This is the closest thing to paradise I’ve ever seen.❤
I love this video and am so happy to have discovered you.
0:04 the garden is ideal
Im from Brasil 🇧🇷