Huw Richards: 9 Low-Effort Crops for BIG Harvests | Grow Your Own Food at Home
Here are 9 fantastic crops for time-poor or beginner gardeners that need minimal maintenance and give you fantastic harvests! Get my latest book: https://geni.us/ThePermacultureGarden
#1- Garlic No annual beats garlic. Plant in October in cooler climates, and you are done. Deer don't eat them, no bug issues, you can eat almost any part of the plant, and the scapes. Bulbs store well.
There are times I wish I lived in a place where I could grow food/flowers etc every day of the year, yet I do enjoy every season. The snow and cold of winter, the brisk cool Spring season, warm and sunny summers and Autumn when the leaves turn and the soil begins to rest until Spring returns. Guess I will just carry on and garden vicariously through you during my non gardening months. Love your videos!
Great list! Chives also make lovely infusions in vinegar, for salad dressings. I love rhubard and recently moved a plant to my shady border as I've heard they do alright without full sun (which makes sense given the forcing method).
re: the chard, I believe it's the Giant Fordhook variety that also grows a large, edible bulb. They are members of the beet family, so that makes sense.
I actually have a very vivid memory of my Gma eating spaghetti squash because I was very little and was SO FASCINATED at how it scraped out onto the fork like spaghetti.
I once went on one week vacation , having doubts about picking my blackcurrents before leaving. All my gardenbooks said let it be, the birds don't like them. Unfortunately the Blackbirds in my garden had not read those books. I came home to a loss off 5-6 kilos of Black currents. Now I use net to cover🐦🐦🐦
I'm in Canada and there is no place that sells the perennial kales…otherwise that might be the only kale I would growas the others are finicky now with climate changes! If anyone finds a source in Canada please let me know. I found a place with Tree collards in the US but they couldn't ship over the border. Perennial chard is loved too much by slugs here.
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You can make tee ore lemonad with the leaf of black current to. Its awsum!
Oh Huw! Another great video! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!❤
Thank you Huw! 🌿💚🙏💕👵
I love squash I was just planning my summer garden and diet includes lots of veggies and cheese 🧀 ❤
Huw, could you please write down the names of those perennial kales? Are the seeds only available in the Uk?
I love how you present your videos.. Always interesting!
With the perennial kale, do you have problems with cabbage white butterflies?
#1- Garlic
No annual beats garlic.
Plant in October in cooler climates, and you are done.
Deer don't eat them, no bug issues, you can eat almost any part of the plant, and the scapes.
Bulbs store well.
Perennial kale – no nets needed? Are there no pigeons in Wales?
There are times I wish I lived in a place where I could grow food/flowers etc every day of the year, yet I do enjoy every season. The snow and cold of winter, the brisk cool Spring season, warm and sunny summers and Autumn when the leaves turn and the soil begins to rest until Spring returns.
Guess I will just carry on and garden vicariously through you during my non gardening months.
Love your videos!
As always Huw, amazing, quick and too the point.
Great list! Chives also make lovely infusions in vinegar, for salad dressings. I love rhubard and recently moved a plant to my shady border as I've heard they do alright without full sun (which makes sense given the forcing method).
re: the chard, I believe it's the Giant Fordhook variety that also grows a large, edible bulb. They are members of the beet family, so that makes sense.
If you pickle cucumbers ( pickled, not gherkins) try to put one black currant leaf per jar. They are yummy thanks to them.
I actually have a very vivid memory of my Gma eating spaghetti squash because I was very little and was SO FASCINATED at how it scraped out onto the fork like spaghetti.
Tree collard. 20+ years of constant leafy greens 👍
I heard people store their produce in ash from the fire place and just regular old soil.
My grandfather used to use soil to store the potatoes
I had some leftover seed potatoes so I chucked them into two spare buckets this week, may as well!
I can remember as a little girl being giving a stem of rhubarb and a little bowl of sugar to dip it in.
Very informative always
Squash is one of my HIGHEST effort crops. Last year I lost 8 of 10 zucchini plants due to squash bugs.
I once went on one week vacation , having doubts about picking my blackcurrents before leaving. All my gardenbooks said let it be, the birds don't like them. Unfortunately the Blackbirds in my garden had not read those books. I came home to a loss off 5-6 kilos of Black currents. Now I use net to cover🐦🐦🐦
I'm in Canada and there is no place that sells the perennial kales…otherwise that might be the only kale I would growas the others are finicky now with climate changes! If anyone finds a source in Canada please let me know. I found a place with Tree collards in the US but they couldn't ship over the border. Perennial chard is loved too much by slugs here.