You’re not late, you in fact are perfectly on time! The next 7 days matter more than the last 7 weeks so go for it!
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For those of you who understand there's plenty of season left, please consider that this video isn't for you!
Hope i wasn't too early(26thApril) with my potatoes(kestrel). Saturday looks like another light frost and a north wind up here in northern England. Might have to get the fleece covers out.
5:24 I hereby dub this plant (is that a cabbage?) the lumbago tree.
This was a great video Huw. It's easy to get wrapped up in comparisons with other gardeners with, as you say, grow lights, heaters etc. It's still early days. Let's not rush the year away ❤❤
I love seeing how much you've got growing right now. We've got a couple more weeks, at least, before we can start direct sowing. Probably a month before we can do the transplanting.
Canadians be like 👀
I’m still emptying my five raised beds (deep metal beds, invaded by tree roots) and refilling them with root proof bottoms. I’ll be finished this week and next week start planting out. I’m sure it will be the best year ever.
You kind of feel like a next door neighbor, chatting over the fence and giving you more zucchini than you could eat. Thank you. This channel feels like being back in my grandparents garden <3
This video did help me feel even better. I've had to skip gardening a couple of years because of life, overwhelm, problems, health, etc. This year I started just one crop indoors (bell peppers) back in February. Barely got the raised bed built and then left it for another month or two without even putting the dirt in…barely a week ago put only a few bags of dirt in, didn't even bother filling it. Two days ago put in 6 out of my 11 pepper plants, then it rained heavily for 2 days. Today I'll put however many fit of the remaining 5 pepper plants, and I have no idea whether anything will live, but at least I tried to do something. And maybe it'll be great. I tried lazy ways of hardening off too, so for me this is definitely a year for seeing how lazy lazy can be and still work. I wouldn't have even sown the bell peppers at all back in Feb if I hadn't been inspired to by Huw's video reminder about it.
All the older gentlemen at the allotment did sharp inhales of breath when I sad I hadn’t sowed any beans or squash yet 😅😂
You are absolutly right, Huw!
The most healthiest plants in my garden always grow this time if the year… to avoid a lot of watering – because of drought in April – almost every year :(, I try to seed in trays, which does not work out as well as direct sowing. …except beans and peas, which are a delight!
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As far as things go with "full bed of one thing or several of a few," I found the latter to be much more manageable in my first year. I grew all SORTS of different veg for the first time, some of which I've never even liked 😂 And I also got a full flower bed going!
Having such a wide range of different plants meant that when one got hit with some sort of blight, I was able to deal with it without panicking and still enjoy the harvest of other, hardier plants. For example, I could NOT save a single dang head of cabbage from the cabbage moths/caterpillars 😭 They were ALL worm food once those things got to them lol But it wasn't such a big deal because I DID manage to save one bok choy hahaha (Maybe the looser leaves of the bok choy made the moths gravitate towards the tighter, spherical heads??).
Also, I had entirely too many tomatoes which I only eat once they're cooked. I gave away literal pounds/kilos at a time to neighbors, friends, family, even a local Lebanese restaurant 🤣I couldn't figure out how to preserve them all, and didn't have the room/jarring equipment necessary to do so if I'd tried. I was happy to give so much away, but I'd have been lowkey sad if I'd only grown tomatoes and wound up with such a surprisingly good first year.
I'm still very much a beginner (this is only my second season; I live in New England, US Zone 7A/6B) so take this with the usual helping of salt lol Not everything went perfectly, but I cast the net so wide that no single hiccup slowed me down.
Here's what I grew last year:
Greens: – Sugar snap peas – Bok choy
Vine: – Tomatoes: Roma, San Marzano, and 100 Sweet (Cherries)
Peppers: – Bell peppers: Had one plant and got two harvests out of it – Tonsss of chilies: Mostly Big Sweet Thai and a single Serrano that survived lol
Root Veg: – Carrots (danvers, rainbow) – Onions – Red potatoes
Herbs: – Red Rubin basil – Dill – Oregano – Rosemary
Berries: – Strawberries – Blueberries
Added: Oh also the berries were both bought new last year so their status is yet TBD haha I planted the blueberry last fall and it rooted 🙌So time will tell if I get a harvest this year or if it stays growing stems/leaves. The strawberries were moved to a grow bag and I now have three crowns from the 1 I started with last year. They are everbearing so I'm hoping they'll be fruiting again by end of summer 🙂
Thank you, this is very reassuring. You inspired me to look into what would be good to plant now
I am new to gardening and I appreciate your commentary about the growers season.
Good on ya. Like the advice. I garden on my balcony…. in an Alaskan like climate. If I can you can. And he is right, you're never late. You are just on time.
"A gardener is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."
We used to direct sow our entire garden in one afternoon. I don't feel like doing that much work in one day anymore.
I love that you are growing in wood raised beds. I don't like the look of the metal ones though I would use a few if I felt like paying for them.
Wise words Huw! This year I chose not to follow the Instagram trends of starting sowing using heat mats, grow lamps, polytunnels etc. Instead I started no early than 1st March and it worked fine for. Next year I may even push it a week later, because as you said, it all catches up with healthier growth. Finally, who doesn't love cheeky plug plants!
Thank you, I needed this encouragement today. NY USA Had a slight frost again last night, now it's raining and 50* F (10* C) and doing things in the garden has been challenging
😂 we are still to cold for the warmth loving crops. even the ten day is cool. SOON! so soon! My tomato starts are knee high and really needing to get out there! Thanks Hugh!
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You can plant most things late and still get a crop. When.I began gardening someone told me not to plant until after the first full moon in June. Of course later on I found they meant not to put tender, warm climate plants outdoors until after the first full moon in June, but at the time, I applied that rule to everything. Peas, beans, onion sets, potatoes — everything! My onions and potatoes were always small, but perfectly edible.
Haha but I'm already harvesting peas with my toddler!
reckon I can still sow dwarf determinate tomatoes and get a later crop, most of mine already flowering but can't go out, hoping it doesn't reduce the yield too much :/
I planted my tomatoes much later than I wanted to, around 20th April and they seemed to take ages to come up but trying not to stress about it as last year was long hot and dry; hopefully all that happens is my first harvests are maybe 3-4 weeks behind. But I have been stressing as everyone else seems so much further ahead than me and it’s hard not to get caught up in everyone saying you’re too late, so thank you for this video, it has really helped me 😊
Thank you Huw!! ❤
I was stressing myself out, because of the Patio,
I've been hand digging out!!
I have left the path in situ,
Though, for some growing space,,,,,
I have been taking up the concrete slabs, cement, sand and aggregates!!
I have two small raised beds, which have Shallots and Lemon balm, garlic and spuds.
And, the flower beds,
around the edges,
are beginning to sprout!!
Today's the day for direct sowing of chard ,beetroot and beans!!
Giant Tree Spinach, Salsify and Carrots.
Around the wildlife pond, I've got Alyssum and Sunflowers, Sweetpeas with the Tobacco plants,
Now , I've watched your video,
the "Ive Left it All Too Late!" panic has fled!!😁👍
Thank you very much again,
I really appreciate your videos and encouragement!!✌️🙂👍