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Thank you so much Huw for making this topic easy to understand for us newbies 😀

0:28 Huw was spot on here i used to hate the taste of "fresh" bought tomatoes cos they tasted like metal until I grew some myself last year and man! i just pick them when they look matured but unripe and chew them i can say they tasted like apples very refreshing and just over 20 tomato plants planted I snacked and cooked with it while giving neighbours too , and for about 2-3 months I had tomatoes available ...that's the best thing

last year was my first time seriously growing pepper, long beans and especially the tomatoes was so productive and healthy without any fertilizers i could pick matured but unripe tomatoes and eat them raw and they tasted like apples i never knew tomatoes tasted so good until i planted mine, this year the weather been brutally hot until may it started raining so we go again this time hot peppers and tomatoes with cassava

tree collard is a nice perennial, which you can make some tasty collard greens.

It looks like Heaven.

Just got the book and am planning out my garden construction. What about making a removeable grate top to the regular compost bins that can act as a vegetable washing station? How often should you dampen the compost?

I always start off with a plan, then proceed to buy random seeds and plants and bulbs and just jam them in wherever I can...lol...I've always called it "chaos gardening," then I found out that's actually a thing, albeit a little different than what I do. I always end up with more food than my family can eat, so it works for me.

Starts are better and just as easy. They are more likely to bulb and not bolt but just as easy to plant

My polytunnel isn't 'out of the way of slugs'. It's a draw...

Interesting. I just started using the JADAM method using grass cuttings but avoided using any of the weeds. I'll try using them after watching this video and maybe mulching some of the weeds with my lawn mower and using them as a mulch in my flower beds. Cheers.🍷

The exception to the frost dates would be in Florida. My first and last frost dates are a week apart in February. During the summer it’s just too hot for a lot of annual vegetables.

Do you teally leave your garden tool hanging on your outside fence? I hope it's just for show.

My garden often becomes a groundhog sufficiency garden 😂

Hi huw Richard’s that was amazing veg garden 🪴 you have there and yes I’m a Welsh man 🧍‍♂️ and I can’t stand leeks the wife likes 👍 them but not me sorry 😔 David ❤️🇬🇧👌👍🪴🧍‍♂️

This is very expensive project to do. I am doing something similar. Cost of beds and bark and soil if you don't have good soil. If you need chemicals or seeds there's another cost. Cost of water if you don't have butts. Time and space. WOW it adds up.

I used to catch my well fed german shepard gently pulling the sugar snap peas off the plant then eat them.he loved them.

Analgesic - like aspirin, reduces pain. An-al-JEE-sick

Im pretty sure cardboard is full of microplastic and toxins...

Really??? Oh for heavens sake stop being so literal.

Slugs!!! Yummy Yummy Chewy Chewy

Would using this concoction at full strength burn off a field you want to plant in?

60°F boiling hot???? LMAO thats cold hahah

I'm going to be forced to try this period of neglect as we'll be traveling for a graduation for a handful of days. My concern is that I'm growing in a region of the US where the sun is quite a bit stronger than anywhere in the UK, and my tomatoes may not survive their attempts to find water deeper in the soil. Time will tell. Interesting content as always Huw!

I'm letting my San Marzano gowing wild. I'm soon transplanting cherry tomatoes to go wild too. Let see what'll happen... (Brazil/Paraná/Ponta Grossa)

The economics of growing your own food doesn't matter, It's much better

You can leave more "leaders", if you can feed them. No doubt about the quality of your soil. For me, more smaller tomatoes means lesser weight, which is unfortunate.

Please grow the basil and especially the cilantro in cool weather. It is quite cold hardy. This helps it resist bolting.

Yes, wine caps I’ve been too busy to shop and needed to make dinner from the pantry What a great thing to go cut a pound of wine caps Flavor superior to supermarket types Easy easy easy

Its woodchips, with an S, its plural, there is more than a single woodchip.

I can't lip read, but I still get the idea!

I wonder if tomatoes should be grown in addition to what you just said by letting the stem touch the ground horizontally to get more roots in to the soil? Sort of as a stolon. I once tried growing tomatoes by planting them deeply and roughly at a 45 degree angle and several stems grew roots from parts that weren't touching the soil but were directly above it. My method back then was growing them in grow bags and having those sit on a wicking bed. So after the vines grew a bit too long for my trellis I lowered the plants even further for contact and the stems rooted pretty strongly. Never had any issues with those tomatoes unless it rained and they would then be watered from above instead from the bottom causing cracking issues. Perhaps the most natural way of growing them is horizontally at least for part of the plant?

This video exactly describes my dream for the coming years and I recognize so many of the feelings you talk about Huw! Thanks once more for putting it all into an overview

Keep all stagnant water away from the house or windows as mosquitoes will thrive

Hmmm... I think that growing zones actually have a major impact on self-sufficiency. For example, there no such thing as winter gardens in zone 4, which means that unless one spends thousands of dollars on a heated greenhouse (expensive when it's -40c) there is nothing to harvest between November and May, with rhubarb, some salad if there is no frost, and the start of asparagus. Sure I can grow kale under a plastic bucket but that is not self-sufficiency. There are lots of ways to extend the seasons, but it's still no more than 5 or 6 months of growing season, which greatly reduces the amount if food one will harvest.

Finally, one of the big garden channels singing the praises of the honeycomb tomato. I've been growing it since 2019, it's the best! And it seems like almost nobody knows about it or grows it.

Absolutely agree, I had a volunteer Tom grown in my strawberry bed without pruning suckers a single plant produced over 15kg tomatoes. It was well over 6 feet trailing on the ground without any support. As a result it grew additional roots where it had direct contact with soil.

Mini lod skool greenhouse ❤

i dont think nettles, dandilions and thistles are weeds! ohhh no! they are medicine!

Everyone: stop smoking so much weed Me: There's no such thing as a weed

I got my book in the mail as a surprise for mother's day. I opened the box and literally jumped! Haha I'm super excited to read it and add it to our library!

Just got my book and am very happy with its contents. Its like it cleared a road block I was having with my space. I’m very excited for the weekend to make my first raised beds.

BOOK HELP! Some of the garden structure you say what size you've made for your garden, such as the hoop house, hot beds, and hoop beds. But your other raised beds have left me guessing. I know that I will need to make some adjustments, although I have the land to do your exact layout... for example I need wider paths for a wheelbarrow. But I need a starting point, since you are very exact with your planting (so many cm apart, with one in the middle...). Do you have a layout of your garden beds with measurements? At the very least, what is the measurement of your standard raised bed?

The problem of many yt videos is also that they can lead the beginner to believe that everything is easy and picturesque and that you can fix or correct everything. My garden dreams made me ignore the reality that the only spaces available to me at that time for growing were unsuitable for most of those dreams and not really fixable by means within reason. I ended up putting in so much effort, trying to make it work, rather than say: this is what I have to work with, maybe let's not try to grow xyz, because it is not going to be satisfying or efficient. I ended up giving all my free time of two seasons to a veggie field and the yield was terrible, I neglected myself, during the hot summers often ate at 11 or 12 pm after rescueing and watering everything, stopped other hobbies that had previously brought me joy and since then it is a lot harder for me to relax or enjoy gardening work, during the frustrating seasons I still put myself under the pressure to not give up on that harvest, but I started seeing it as a chore, as something that makes it impossible to go away for even a short holiday anywhere between april and october. so if you just don't have the right conditions, step it down, play it safe, grow things where not much can go wrong or if it does go wrong where at least you didn't put in a whole bunch of time and money and you can always expand next year if you know that it works well.

The mental and physical health gained from gardening and eating organic, regenerative produce, is priceless.

Very true on the first point... I grew my first tomatoes out of curiosity and that was it. Ended up building a whole greenhouse devoted to them and barely eat any out of season now. I will say you can get some okay supermarket tomatoes these days but they're expensive and very inconsistent.

I just walk mine off the property and into the wood opposite ... not all slugs eat our favorite veggies some clean up for us and some eat one another

Oh man, the automatic captions on this video are so, so wrong.

I been using egg shells for decades,does the job

Fenel greens tea is very good against indigestion and trapped gas

Ducks !