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Try super sugar snap peas if you can find them. They are even sweeter than sugar snap. My new favorite. And thank you Steve , for your wealth of information. You are helping so many gardeners all over the world. Love your E-book too.
Thanks for the feedback Lacey, I've not heard of super sugar snaps, although I'd probably struggle to cope with anything sweeter! : All the best - Steve
Another great one Steve.
Well done.
Definitely no hungry gap out there 😂😂😂
Thanks, can't really have a hungry gap when you're self sufficient, unless you resort to eating frozen food, which isn't really an option for me : All the best - Steve
Your harvest always amaze me, just how much and how healthy it looks
Thanks Mark, what I'm really trying for is the range of different fruits and veggies, so if you have anything I don't have let me know! : All the best - Steve
@@SteveRichards I'm trying two different tomatoes this year, brandy wine and a marshmallow one. Really looking forward to seeing how they turn out
Debbie and I don't have the tomato loving gene, so I'm quite boring when it comes to tomatoes : All the best - Steve
@@SteveRichards I see, my partner watched a gardening programme. She said U got to grow brandy wine lol so that why I'm growing it lol.
30 different types of veg a week is amazing I'll have to check out your other video's amazing growing area
Sometimes I don’t quite make it in winter, maybe drop down to 20 home grown and have to top up the rest from the supermarket fruit isle
Thanks, Steve. I found that really useful seeing how you go about harvesting. I sowed my brassicas on Sep 27th, p;anted out March 21st. only one calabrese out of 6 has started to flower up, no sign of flowers on Orkneys yet and the red cabbages are growing tall with big leaves spaced up the stem rather than hearting up. Any suggestions? All the plants look healthy though. I have other successions of each in pots in the polytunnel.All my kales are about ready to harvest, just as most of spinach going to seed so still happy with progress. Glut of fabulous lettuces and salad onions coming along nicely as are the peas/mange tout. Masses of flowers on raspberry bushes, so looking forward to those. Thanks for continued inspiration. Glad you seem to be recovering well. Best wishes, Justine
Hi Justine, you would have better results planting out a lot earlier than March 21st, the cauliflowers I'm harvesting were planted in December and January, they put on a huge amount of growth between then and late March. Is there any particular reason why you waited so long to plant them? The red cabbages will grow taller than if you sowed them in Feb/March but they should be showing signs now of forming heads, if you planted them when I did, they should have small heads by the end of June and big heads in July, so you get them two months earlier than a March sowing. Sounds like you will have an abundant June, also Caulis/calabrese make heads incredibly quickly, they come from nowhere in a couple of weeks : All the best - Steve
That's really useful, thanks for the advice Steve. My brassicas were still really small when you planted yours out. I used a compost that was recommended by many, but the growth just stalled. I think light levels were possibly too low too. I repotted rather that planting out as they seemed too weak and vulnerable then. They soon put on growth after that thankfully. I'll let you know how they progress.
ah, that explains it, you do need to plant out under cover and to get good growth by January light and frost free helps, but you don't need much extra light : All the best - Steve
Gorgeous. I think you have conquered the hungry gap. I have a success or two despite the ridiculous rain we have gotten. I was feeling quite smug about my white cauliflower until I saw your purple ones. But then I didn’t sow the seeds until the end of January. It can be quite a challenge to get them through the winter here. Anyway, thanks for the vlog.
oh do tell me more! I've not heard of anyone harvesting cauliflowers in mid-May from a late Jan sowing, how did you manage it? It's usually mid June : All the best - Steve
@@SteveRichards I sowed variety “Amazing” (68 days to mat) inside Jan. 26, planted out into raised bed March 2, only 4 plants, first one harvested May 22. Two more today with the last one still quite small and I don’t know why. I don’t know your weather specifics but ours can be challenging because of extremes. The average cold here is 5°F (-15C) though obviously it can be colder) and the heat in the summer about 90°F (32°C). I also have no ability for a tunnel or greenhouse. So I use covers and frames to attempt winter growing which is new to me. That is why I am intrigued by your growing success. The challenge is to grow something all year. I have been growing for decades but just summer. I want to see if I could do it if it were necessary instead of just for fun.
@PamsMountainGarden there must be a lot of power in the sun in spring!
@@SteveRichards Yes. I have thought a lot about this. Because we are in the mountains, until the sun is fairly high in the sky, our light is low. I have wondered if I might get the same results waiting a month. Once the sun is high enough, it is very hot. That is when the cauliflower really got going. In a week’s time this spring we had both freezing temps and days in the low 80’s. I am certain, with experimentation, I can harness these conditions. Thank you for all the info you provide; it helps me think about all this. ( I wonder if you have read any of Eliot Coleman’s books. He gardens all year(!) in Maine. We spent 9 years there and that is where I began to consider how to grow in winter.)
Yes, I've read all of his books, but his light levels are so much higher than mine, if I remember correctly he has the same light levels as Paris, it makes a huge difference to whats possible. He was actually inspired to grow year round after studying the Parisian market gardeners : All the best - Steve
Beautiful cauliflower! Everything looks so good!
Fab spread
good grace, may i ask what variety that cauliflower is? 🤩I'd love to grow that big but mine never gets to that size. Congratulations on that, by the way! 👍
Thanks, it's called Graffiti, cauliflower does great in spring from a September sowing : All the best - Steve
What a beautiful hungry gap harvest ❤
Thanks, the table is definitely a lot more colourful this year, I finally have tomatoes now, so my salads are all home grown, apart from the grapes, which have to wait for autumn : All the best - Steve
Good show, cheers Steve
Absolutely amazing video as usual, fully informative and I love seeing how well your veg grow.
Is there any chance you could do a video on growing yakon please. I've looked on your database and the growing guide is great and has all the information to help me with my first time growing it, however could you do a video because I'm a little unsure with the harvesting of the tubers and keeping the smaller probation roots for next year's planting. That probably sounds self explanatory in itself I know but as a first time grower of it, I'm a little unsure. I know it's a long way off but any help would be gratefully appreciated xx
I can do a video in autumn, the reason I don't have a video is because I try not to make videos until I have a system that's proven at least twice, ideally three times before I make videos and this is my third year, but last year was a disaster due to the big freeze we had in the previous December which killed nearly all of my tubers : All the best - Steve
That would be amazing if you could Steve, thank you. That sounds a great strategy so I understand why you've not done one yet. And yes that big freeze was a bad winter. I'm glad to hear you had some surviving tubers to plant on. Thank you, I'll look forward to seeing your video in autumn 🥰🥰 take care Steve xx
I lost nearly all of my tubers, two just pulled through but were very weak, but I’m well stocked again now!
just out of curiousity. With that many vegetables a week, is it a market garden?
lol, no just a standard sized allotment, food for my local family
How old is your Asparagus bed? Very impressive yield.
It's eight years old, so I've been harvesting it for 5 years : All the best - Steve
I am having such a hard time with flea beetles om my brassicas outside right now, do you have any advice?
beautiful harvest 👏
Fleece and/or plant them out as bigger plants