I have found sowing beetroot in the greenhouse first then putting in garden once they are well established I get a better result, the last couple of years we have had issues with rats eating them since our neighbours got chickens.
Gosh Liz, you look 20yrs younger...how well you doing...just like your garden. What a good move it was to buy byther farm...it’s your health farm. Best wishes for a great season ahead!
.. and whatever you are doing today Liz, I hope it's a good one! Watched again this year, timely reminder to make sure I've not forgotten anything and always lovely to hear your soothing voice and happy smile x
It sounds like I have similar weather to you over here in Vancouver Canada...so so so much rain. Your video is getting me excited to plant! I am patiently waiting. I may have to invest in a garden tunnel...cuz I would live to extend my season in both ends. Thx for the inspiring videos all the time!
Hi Vincent, I've just sploshed my way around the garden, the paths are under two or three inches of water. It's not nice out there at all. I hope your plot drains okay over the coming weeks and you can plant something other than rice this year!
@@LizZorabthanks for giving us further information and inspiration too.. just had a complete facelift throughout winter/spring & we're developing swales and berms down the slant garden which is my permaculture/pond-nature filled food forest.. works wonders for water retention & means very little watering is required, even throughout drought periods in uk summer. Keep up with the wonderful garden x
HI Sarah, I'm enjoying your presentations. I'm in Melbourne so I'm taking advice from your March production. So am sowing peas, swede, carrots, lettuce and spinach at the moment and coriander on a heat mat. Melbourne is in Stage 4 lockdown so I am very grateful for my garden. Stay well and safe. Christine
Thanks! I used to make whole videos out of our mistakes and bloopers - I must have got much better at saying things right the first time as the blooper folder on my pc is looking very thin!
This is so high quality and handy thank you I will be sowing away this month and next and will pop back to see ur April sowing guide you deserve à show (on tv.
Thank you Liz, a very handy guide for March, and great to have it shown in advance so I can get some seeds - I think i have most mentioned, but am definitely missing sprouts! Very much appreciate the monthly seed advice, I am off to watch February now. Nice to see the sunshine, and loved your cabbage outtake at the end 😂 ps have signed up for the newsletter and am looking forward to receiving these secret website links 😊😎
Hi Emma, so pleased to read that the guide is helpful, I know I keep going on about not sowing too early, but a guide isn't much use at the end of the month as I'd be saying 'well what you should have done is...' Crabbages rule!
Hi Liz! First I streamed it on the telly then came to my computer to drop in a comment! Ty for the month by month this is perfect!"Blessings of Bounty and May Your Gardens and your Life always Bring You Joy , Inspiration and Abundance!" - Hope
Great video Liz, we are about 6 weeks behind you normally here in Nova Scotia. I am chomping at the bit to get going though, I must be patient! You gave me a great idea on what to use one of my raised beds around my greenhouse house for, a seed bed, so cheers 😀
Hi Steve, I've just been reading about it being very windy in NS at the moment. Patience is a wonderful thing, something I'm not very good at practicing though! My seed bed system worked really well last year, baby plants popped up just waiting to be transplanted.
Hi Liz, great video as always. I grew the Oregon Sugar Pod peas for the first time last year, they are lovely and are definitely on my grow list for this year :-)
Another fab video and I love the crabbage, I will have to buy some seed for them lol! Your videos are so accessible and a joy to watch. Thanks Liz and btw, you look really well ❤
Hi, thank you for your kind words and I'm so pleased that you are enjoying the videos. Those crabbage seeds are pretty rare, let me know if you find any! 😜
Thanks for the great video. I should have watched this video last week, as i have jumped the gun and started a bunch of seeds but they are protected in my home and greenhouse.
Thank you Huw, ah yes, the mangetout seeds, let's hope it's a bumper crop this year! As you are a bit further north and at a higher altitude - do you sow any peas or mangetout outside in March or do you wait until April? Or do you only sow them into guttering inside to transplant?
I'm so glad I found your channel and have enjoyed many videos. Thank you! I plan to put a large blanket over my garden area today to warm it up so I can get seeds in the ground in the next couple weeks.
@@LizZorab it's not wet and soggy at this time but we have had our share of rain in North Georgia over the past few weeks. I did manage to get outside and get my garden blankets down to warm up my ground. I did get more seeds started in my "craft room" in my home as I don't have a hoop house or greenhouse up yet. But I'm hoping to get one this year! Thanks for all the ideas from you, Huw and Charles. I enjoy all of your videos!
Hi Roo, yes it is lovely to have a glimpse of what's to come over the next couple of months, but not today, today it's disgusting out there again and I see 70mph winds forecast for the weekend - deep joy!
@@LizZorab yes sadly today we're back to wind and driving rain, we had sleet and snow here this morning too. But yesterday was glorious and I'm holding on to that 😊x
Looking so lovely Liz. I love the length of your hair right now it really suits you. I'm chomping at the bit to start seedlings but I'm trying to be patient as I'm still 6 weeks from feeling safe moving them outside.
If not me (and obviously we'll give them a go) my chickens surely will. They look like a straightforward crop with few pests and I can crop through the winter. No brainer.
Hi, thank you for watching more, it means a lot to me that you have sent the message to CZcams by viewing some more videos. Crabbages - I think they will forever more be crabbages in my head!
Thank you this wonderful video. Thank you for making time for us to learn how to sew seeds. We have now subscribed and look forward to watching more. Love from; Rocsi 8, Taurel 6, Kenzi 4, Nile 3 and Hezekiah 6 months. Xx
I was very excited to see that cabbage and mangetout were in the list . Our mangetout didn’t make it to the kitchen last year as they were so plump and delicious we had them every day in the garden . Excellent video Liz. You look lovely 💖
Great content, great vids thank you. Any advice for an allotment newbie? My plot needs A LOT of work, it's strewn with rubbish and scrap but the soil is lovely. All the best Nige
Goodness, just got hit with a nasty snow/ice storm and this totally provoked me to jealousy lol😅🌱🌄☕ Love spending time with you xo luv from Ashes xo Ontario Canada
Sorry to read about the ice and snow storm, how horrid! When I filmed this yesterday (Thursday) it wasn't much above freezing outside and I walked to the polytunnel with three layers of thermals on (because I'm a wimp), but once inside with the sun shining on it the air was toasty warm. We have a storm coming through again today. 😬
@@LizZorab I understand lol I layer up like a crazy person! Lol 21 days till spring 🌄😅 I hope your storm isnt a bad one! And doesnt harm what you have out already. Have a great weekend Liz! ☕💕
LifefromAshes from Nova Scotia here, not as extreme weather as you guys get, but it makes me very impatient to get going seeing Liz and the other UK gardeners ahead of us 😀
March all ready. Lovely lettuces. Thanks for list of seeds. I must try and get yellow and the pick beetroot one's this year to try. It's been a few years now that I have not seen them in the shops. And would like to try them again.
Hi Stephen, I've seen quite a few companies doing mixed colours of beetroots in a packet and our local garden center (not much help to you I realise) had beetroot Chioggia seeds last year, so maybe they are coming back again.
😁 It's so lovely to see your channel ! And when I look outside here, we still have 90 cm of snow 😁 But then we will have very intensive summer with 24 h sun light 🌞 All the best to you 👍
Hello, it sounds like you live somewhere in the far north, where are you based? I can't imagine it being light for 24h a day, but wow you could get so much done!
Here in Kuusamo, northern Finland 66.3 ° we have real winter till end of April. Then nice summer, can be 20°C - 26° C. But cause it's so much sun light the growing season is very fast....But i still envy your long summer... 😍😍😍😁
Hi Liz. I really enjoy your informative videos. I just want to say how much I liked your Q & A session yesterday with Huw. Your collaborations are really instructive and positive. Thank you for sharing your skills and knowledge. I've learned so much from both of you. I'm trying to turn my allotment in to no dig. I've had some very negative comments from some "traditional" gardening method plot holders, so I'm finding you and Huw motivational. Please pass this comment on to Huw. Thank you. Jan
Thank you Jan, I've just copied your comment to Huw for him to read. I think some people find the idea of no dig gardening hard to grapple with especially if they have been digging for years (and after all who wants to hear that what they've been doing could be counter-productive?!). I encourage you to stick with it, the results are just so worth it for so much less effort!
Good afternoon from Bolton, loved the video, I'm guessing it was rather warm in the poly tunnel, 😂, and I loved the outtakes at the end made me smile take care
Hi! Yes it was toasty warm in the polytunnel and three thermal layers weather outside of it! I hope you don't get too battered by the storm this weekend.
A lot of rain this month!!!!! Lucky you. Yikes it's rained here most days since October. It's flooded everywhere and I went across to Glastonbury today and many fields could be lakes. My garden is like a sponge. I shan't be growing anything outside until it dries out a bit. Greenhouse only for me. I like your optimism though lol.
If we don't have optimism we won't have much else, as like you, my garden is a soggy mess that is totally saturated with rainwater. Even the ducks are starting to wonder when it's going to stop! Inside the polytunnel however, I can pretend that it's not 4 degrees and blowing a hoolie with torrential rain. I ran outside yesterday when I saw the sun shining and filmed this video really quickly. By the time I had packed up my camera it was raining again. Ah well, the sunshine was nice while it lasted.
Hi Liz, nice video, thanks, I find those Evesham brussel sprouts to be very peppery, put me off sprouts for this year. As for bitter kale if you chiffonade it then sprinkle plenty of salt on it leave it for 10 mins , rinse well to remove salt you'll find the bitterness is taken away.
Thanks for the tip about the bitter kale and what a shame that you were put off Brussels sprouts, please try another variety and hopefully you won't find them so strong.
Ordered seeds on Friday night & arrived yesterday! Red Zebra, Summerlast, Corazon & Peardrops tomatoes to go with what I hope will be my final purchases, but who knows? 😉
I have just picked up Huw Richards book and i am thinking you should write one as i will buy that - My soil is like 5 inch under water here in Cleethorpes so putting things into pots and there is plenty of time - good video TY.
Hi Max, aw thank you for your kindness, I am working on something, but don't hold your breath as I am juggling many projects at a time and so progress is slow. Sorry to read that you are under 5 inches of water, I've just been to put the birds to bed for the night and there's a mini-lake in the duck enclosure and about 2-3 inches of water on all of the pathways. I'm now very pleased that I put the asparagus in such a deep bed, their toes won't be getting wet!
@@LizZorab Thankfully it is just my garden and not my house - i kept all my plants inside but all us gardening types want to plant them out - hopefully this is our last storm and next weekend i can go out and plant - thanks for the reply and thanks for all the tips you provide.
Hello and welcome, I've just popped over to your channel for a look and have shared it in my FB group, so hopefully a few other folks will come over and say hello to you.
i can strongly reccomend cabbage " vertus ", liz. i remember years ago when i first tried it, my allotment was at it's height of club root. the cabbages formed perfect heads, despite being hit by club root....................brian
Hi Brian, oh that's good to know, I do love a bit of cabbage (especially red or Savoy) and as I get older I'm liking the spring and summer varieties too. I'm not sure I'll ever love ordinary kale though, I just find it so bitter.
It’s looking very summery in your poly tunnel. Much of what you can sow in March there I can in my area of Australia as we head into the cooler months. I can’t grow Brussel sprouts as it doesn’t get cool enough & I must say I haven’t tried crabbage 😅
Can u recommend a best way to prepare beetroot? Tried roasted last fall, not a fan of that way..... Going to try traditional pickling this year but their so healthy/good for u, I would love to use it more. 🌞🌿😃
I’ve never been patient enough to actually grow head lettuce or cabbages. I do open leaf only. I just know I won’t get good heads/hearts so I like doing the cut and come again method for my greens. ❤️ Just about time to sew miners lettuce! ❤️❤️❤️
I bet you loved wearing the short sleeves in this video! Looking very slim too! Have you ever used any low tunnels inside your poly tunnel to help extend your growing season on things or to help improve seed germination with a little extra warmth?
Hi Julie, I can't express how happy I was to remove the three layers of thermal clothes that I was wearing when I went into the polytunnel. It was like having a hour of summer - until I had to put the layers back on to go back out and then it seemed even colder outside! I have the poly and the piping to do just that, but I haven't got around to it - as with so many things! I think I might create a small one over the weekend to help the few seeds that I have sown to stay warm in this next blast of cold weather.
Liz Zorab - Byther Farm I meant to ask the low tunnel question after a prior video in the poly tunnel. I think you had some seed starts for peas (or something anyway) that you said seemed to be going very slow. If you were doing only a single tray you could even use a clear plastic tub upside down. Also, I think you had the tray sitting on the ground. Maybe having it raised up off the cold ground would help too? I’ve seen a video where a guy in a very cold climate with snow has all of his stuff in raised beds. During winter he has stuff inside a poly tunnel with some low tunnels inside. But he also has like a double low tunnel over a regular raised bed outside. I love learning about things like this even if they may not apply to me much since I live in a very warm climate (southern Georgia USA). I figure anything I can learn may help spark me to think of ways to improve my own garden.
I grow most of my veg in large containers ,no dig with 2 inches of home compost per year the soil is warmer few weeds ,results are good, it's so easy but watering is vital in dry weather
If no dig gardening had been more popular when I was young, I'm sure that more people would have got into it. Those endless hours of digging and double digging were so off-putting!
I haven't your videos in awhile cause I lost it. You have really lost weight congratulations. I am still trying to lose weight. Love your vids glad I found you again. 🙂
Hello again Debra, welcome back 😃 Yes I'm still going to be losing a bit more weight, I paused during the late autumn and winter as I find getting through winter hard enough without the added pressure of weight loss, but this week I'm back on it again and hope to be at my target weight by mid summer.
Hi there - great video with useful information, thank you. I am a new subscriber and a very amateur grower. I tried growing potatoes last year in my small front garden which is NW facing (I live in NE Scotland). Out of 6 plants we only got enough for one meal. Is that because there wasn't enough sun (less than usual last year) or simply because it is generally shady throughout the day, i.e just not warm enough for long enough? Also, in order to be more self sufficient, (back garden very small also), what can I grow that *does* like shadier areas? Thanks so much ~ Mo
Lots of the leafy greens are happy in some shade (although not very heavy shade), so you could try cabbages, kales, broccoli, kalettes, collards, swedes etc.
not a chance to even think about it here. It's very cold in general and so wet. We've got another storm tomorrow and the land is saturated. Mainly what is stopping me is the cold temperatures and the wet.
You might get better drainage with raised beds, or even consider Hugelkultur, which you may know are mounds of soil atop piled up branches. I plan to build some, using 2 years of saved up bags of junk mail, cardboard, fall leaves & 2 years worth of kitchen scraps, which were cold composted in 2 storage bins, plus purchaced compost & aged manure, all worked into a trench, filled with mounded branches. In time, the branches with ground contact will rot down, & the height of the mound will be reduced over time, but I could dig out a 2' deep trench on the top, & add more branches, junk mail & leaves & soil on top of that, each fall. In spring, I may need to add more compost & aged manure, as some soil will have moved down into air pockets formed in among the branches, with months of rain & snow. If built in a north/south direction, lower plants could be grown on the south end, with taller plants to the back/north end. I'd like to start out with veggies & flowers. After the wood begins to rot, I could consider trees & shrubs, with some ornamentals & flowers along the western edge, as it's along a property line. I have new neighbors, as of February 2020, so if they decide to build a fence on that boundary, I may have to choose a different location for my Hugelkultur, or mound it differently, & choose a different planting pattern. It might be more useful & attractive to do a curved mound on the slope in my back yard. Then the bed could be deeper, filling soil in to somewhat level the slope behind the curved mound! The slope up to the large Oaks & a few Rhododendrons in my back yard, if leveled, to the north side of the curved mound, could be planted with lawn. Then I'd want to upgrade the current, old beaten down lawn areas, to tie in with the newly planted lawn area. This would provide a south facing, curved bed, with full sun until late in the day. I may have enough trimmed & fallen branches to do both, & still have some firewood! In the past I've just dug a trench & put in alternating layers of junk mail & leaves, then cardboard, then a thin layer of cold composted kitchen scraps, lawn, weed & shrub trimmings, then added several inches of soil, watered that in, & repeated with a few more layers. In time it was all converted to soil, except for those thin plastic windows in envelopes, to view addresses. I haven't the time or patience to keep tearing those all out - though I used to. When I turned the soil, I raked a few up, & found that ice cream & milk cartons don't break down. Live & learn. In composting, paper & leaves are both carbon sources, which are useful. I don't like saving up papers for so long, but since I was recovering from a leg & ankle & foot injuries, now have a lot to work with at one time - now including trimmed & fallen branches! Waste not - want not. Can hardly wait to get started. We have a warm spell coming up too!
Hi Liz can you mention how to grow sweetcorn and melons on one of your videos please as would like to give those a go this year? Also I have a boggy area of garden although it does dry up a bit in the summer, can you recommend growing any veg in it? Thanks
Hi Emma, all your requests have gone into my video planner to make sure that they get covered in the next couple of months. I am growing sweetcorn and melon this year, so they will be covered in a seed sowing guide and I'll also talk about plants for a boggy area. Great suggestions/questions!
We are in zone 5A and are a little new to gardening. We did ok last year but we know we have the capability of doing much better. You mentioned warming the soil with the black plastic covering. Just thinking out loud here. We just got 2 inches of snow and appears weather is warming up. Thinking maybe we could cover the area for a couple of weeks and then plant our beet seeds?? Looking at time to harvest for possible CSA boxes if we plant beets in March we could possibly have a harvest in May and use that as a bi-rotational crop? Is this too optimistic? Sorry for the lengthy comment we are newbies!!
For Zone 5A I think it is still much too early to be sowing seeds outside. Once the snow is melted, then you could look at warming the soil, but in the meantime, you can sow some seeds inside as long as you have lights, heat and a place to grown them on. Much as though I don't want to send you to a different channel, I think it is worth you checking for a what to sow video that is aimed at your zone and your climate (oceanic, high dessert, mountainous etc).
As a new gardener, I've started zero seeds so far, eventually the mad scientist in me will overcome the fearful procrastinator self and I will get seeds in .
Thanks for the response Liz, I don't have beds though, am growing everything on ground so far not looking to make any raised beds. Recently we cut our pine trees and all dried leaves it hold became a great mulch but it is not sufficient for all yard obviously. Looking for similar fine mulch to buy.
Hi! If you soak the peas in water in the house before sowing they will plump up and be ready to germinate a bit faster. They don't like drying out so keep the soil moist - not wet and they don't like root disturbance so planting where they are to grow is best or in a piece of guttering like you see in the video. Good luck and please let me know how you get on!
This video is about growing from seed. I think it depends what vegetables you are thinking of and what your local climate is like. Growing from seed is cheaper and just as easy for many vegetables.
Can anyone help... liz has mentioned an exotic / rare seed site and I can't find where you mentions it... anyone help? Thank you if you can from my garden to you
We are in the equivalent of hardiness zone 8b, but that only refers to the temperature range at the lower end (how cold it gets). It's a mild temperate climate.
Related to zones I've been wondering about last frost dates. I'm in the Highlands so know that I'll be later than you Liz but not sure how much. My last frost date is second week of May (according to gardenfocused.co.uk) and I'm probably at the colder end of hardiness zone 8a. Any idea how much later I should plant my seeds vs what you do down in (South?) Wales?
UPDATED WITH NEW LINKS OF THE VEG SEEDS (WHERE POSSIBLE) FOR 2021.
Nice of you. Thanks
I have found sowing beetroot in the greenhouse first then putting in garden once they are well established I get a better result, the last couple of years we have had issues with rats eating them since our neighbours got chickens.
Glad to know I am not the only one to eat the pea pods before they get in the house. My dog even likes them too.
I'm the same with peas that we've grown to eat the peas inside the pods, they never seem to get as far as the kitchen either!
Loving the look of the Winter Density lettuce.
I love these monthly sowing videos Liz, they’re really useful!..the beet leaves sound great, will definitely give those a bash 👍🏻...take care, Mark
Gosh Liz, you look 20yrs younger...how well you doing...just like your garden. What a good move it was to buy byther farm...it’s your health farm. Best wishes for a great season ahead!
Thank you! Yes it was a great idea and I could never imagined how good it would have been for both myself and Mr J. Thanks for watching!
I am so excited to bring my new garden back to life! You inspire me, Liz.😀
One of the most moist chocolate cakes I ever ate had grated beets in it. No taste of the beets at all, but so moist.
.. and whatever you are doing today Liz, I hope it's a good one! Watched again this year, timely reminder to make sure I've not forgotten anything and always lovely to hear your soothing voice and happy smile x
I remember filming that video, it was chilly outside in the wind, but as soon as I got inside the polytunnel it was warm!
Huge garden, I see a lot of work..appreciate your patience
Love u Liz
last frost date april 12...I am going crazy wanting to putter in the garden. So I cleaned out my compost and topped off the raised bed.
such a lovely relaxed way of giving information i could watch all day
It sounds like I have similar weather to you over here in Vancouver Canada...so so so much rain. Your video is getting me excited to plant! I am patiently waiting. I may have to invest in a garden tunnel...cuz I would live to extend my season in both ends. Thx for the inspiring videos all the time!
Beautiful
smashing video
Thanks for dropping by again Steven!
Looking at my plot yesterday I may sow Rice this year
Hi Vincent, I've just sploshed my way around the garden, the paths are under two or three inches of water. It's not nice out there at all. I hope your plot drains okay over the coming weeks and you can plant something other than rice this year!
Wow, that's interesting
Ditto. South Wales, UK. Have to grow in raised beds and buckets.
@@LizZorabthanks for giving us further information and inspiration too.. just had a complete facelift throughout winter/spring & we're developing swales and berms down the slant garden which is my permaculture/pond-nature filled food forest.. works wonders for water retention & means very little watering is required, even throughout drought periods in uk summer. Keep up with the wonderful garden x
Thank you, your videos are very informative, I share them to fb xx
Thank you for the list Zil very helpful and those lettuce look amazing for this time of year
Thank you! The lettuce are a welcome addition in the kitchen at the moment. 😊
HI Sarah,
I'm enjoying your presentations. I'm in Melbourne so I'm taking advice from your March production. So am sowing peas, swede, carrots, lettuce and spinach at the moment and coriander on a heat mat. Melbourne is in Stage 4 lockdown so I am very grateful for my garden. Stay well and safe.
Christine
Thank you so much 🌻
Great job as always Liz. Glad you showed the funny bloopers at the end. The fun of making some videos is not always seen. Great stuff!
Thanks! I used to make whole videos out of our mistakes and bloopers - I must have got much better at saying things right the first time as the blooper folder on my pc is looking very thin!
great vid liz,i wish the wind and rain would stop so i can get my pollytunnel up!
Excellent update and even though I've been growing for some time, these videos are perfect - thank you very much
Thank you Nick, that's very kind of you to say so.
This is so high quality and handy thank you I will be sowing away this month and next and will pop back to see ur April sowing guide you deserve à show (on tv.
Thank you very much! I'm glad that you found it useful. If you would share it with your friends, I would appreciate it very much.
Hi Liz good info thanks for sharing 😊
Thanks Carole!
Oh my God, you are so calm in the way you talk through the whole video that I had to subscribe just so I can watch more of ur videos.
Thank you so much!!
Thank you Liz, a very handy guide for March, and great to have it shown in advance so I can get some seeds - I think i have most mentioned, but am definitely missing sprouts! Very much appreciate the monthly seed advice, I am off to watch February now. Nice to see the sunshine, and loved your cabbage outtake at the end 😂 ps have signed up for the newsletter and am looking forward to receiving these secret website links 😊😎
Hi Emma, so pleased to read that the guide is helpful, I know I keep going on about not sowing too early, but a guide isn't much use at the end of the month as I'd be saying 'well what you should have done is...' Crabbages rule!
Hi Liz! First I streamed it on the telly then came to my computer to drop in a comment! Ty for the month by month this is perfect!"Blessings of Bounty and May Your Gardens and your Life always Bring You Joy , Inspiration and Abundance!" - Hope
Thank you so much for coming over to make a comment, it's very much appreciated!
💗🌿exciting to get started
Thanks very informative
Great video Liz, I too enjoy sugar snap peas but I don't think I have space for a packet that size 😂😂. Take care, Bethan 😊
Loved this video. Thank you!
Hello Leslie, thank you, I'm so glad that you enjoyed it!
Great video Liz, we are about 6 weeks behind you normally here in Nova Scotia. I am chomping at the bit to get going though, I must be patient! You gave me a great idea on what to use one of my raised beds around my greenhouse house for, a seed bed, so cheers 😀
Hi Steve, I've just been reading about it being very windy in NS at the moment. Patience is a wonderful thing, something I'm not very good at practicing though! My seed bed system worked really well last year, baby plants popped up just waiting to be transplanted.
As always very interesseting
Hi Liz, great video as always. I grew the Oregon Sugar Pod peas for the first time last year, they are lovely and are definitely on my grow list for this year :-)
Thank you, yes the Sugar Pod have a fabulous taste, so sweet and much too good to take them all to the kitchen!
Another fab video and I love the crabbage, I will have to buy some seed for them lol!
Your videos are so accessible and a joy to watch. Thanks Liz and btw, you look really well ❤
Hi, thank you for your kind words and I'm so pleased that you are enjoying the videos. Those crabbage seeds are pretty rare, let me know if you find any! 😜
I think "crabbage" could stand in perfectly well in place of the term"a rant"!
Beautiful!
Thank you!
Thanks for the great video. I should have watched this video last week, as i have jumped the gun and started a bunch of seeds but they are protected in my home and greenhouse.
Liz you look fabulous!! I love your channel!
Thanks Linda, a little warmth from the sun on the polytunnel and I'm a happy woman!
Great content as always Liz 👍😘
Thank you Joanne!
Amazing video Liz yet again!!! I love the size of the mangetout seed packet😂
Thank you Huw, ah yes, the mangetout seeds, let's hope it's a bumper crop this year! As you are a bit further north and at a higher altitude - do you sow any peas or mangetout outside in March or do you wait until April? Or do you only sow them into guttering inside to transplant?
@@LizZorab I hope so too! I sow them in mid-March undercover in modules and gutters and transplant outside mid-April:)
I'm so glad I found your channel and have enjoyed many videos. Thank you! I plan to put a large blanket over my garden area today to warm it up so I can get seeds in the ground in the next couple weeks.
Hi Jennie, it's so wet here today that there's a risk any cover would just float away! I hope it's not this wet and soggy where you are.
@@LizZorab it's not wet and soggy at this time but we have had our share of rain in North Georgia over the past few weeks. I did manage to get outside and get my garden blankets down to warm up my ground. I did get more seeds started in my "craft room" in my home as I don't have a hoop house or greenhouse up yet. But I'm hoping to get one this year! Thanks for all the ideas from you, Huw and Charles. I enjoy all of your videos!
Lovely video, it's great to be getting going again, Roo 😊 xx
Hi Roo, yes it is lovely to have a glimpse of what's to come over the next couple of months, but not today, today it's disgusting out there again and I see 70mph winds forecast for the weekend - deep joy!
@@LizZorab yes sadly today we're back to wind and driving rain, we had sleet and snow here this morning too. But yesterday was glorious and I'm holding on to that 😊x
Another lovely video Liz :)
Thank you!
Great video Liz!
Thank you Saronne! 😃🌱
Looking so lovely Liz. I love the length of your hair right now it really suits you. I'm chomping at the bit to start seedlings but I'm trying to be patient as I'm still 6 weeks from feeling safe moving them outside.
Thank you Sherri. Oh I was just about to book the hairdresser to come and cut all my hair off again! LOL Yes be patient, the plants will catch up!
Lots of good stuff there. Wonderful lettuce. Just ordered some leaf beet seed on your prompting. Thanks.
Hi Paul and thank you! I hope you'll enjoy the leaf beet 😃
If not me (and obviously we'll give them a go) my chickens surely will. They look like a straightforward crop with few pests and I can crop through the winter. No brainer.
Great advvice. i'm just waiting impatiently before I let looseon that garden. two or three green cra what? Yes, thanks. Will watch more....
Hi, thank you for watching more, it means a lot to me that you have sent the message to CZcams by viewing some more videos. Crabbages - I think they will forever more be crabbages in my head!
Those Tamar Organics brown seed packets make me feel wholesome just looking at them!
Hi Jack, they are lovely! I'm always happy with my seeds from Tamar Organics. 😃
Thank you this wonderful video. Thank you for making time for us to learn how to sew seeds. We have now subscribed and look forward to watching more.
Love from; Rocsi 8, Taurel 6, Kenzi 4, Nile 3 and Hezekiah 6 months. Xx
Thanks and welcome!
Very informative video so clear and informative 👌👌
Thanks Ashley!
Your videos are geting better and better 👩🌾🌷😀
Thank you Ana, that's really kind of you to say.
Fab video Liz, im glad its not just me who cant get her words out sometimes lol Jen x
Hi Jen, I have no idea why that just wouldn't come out of my mouth! I think we all have moments of not being about to say the words we want to. 😜
I was very excited to see that cabbage and mangetout were in the list . Our mangetout didn’t make it to the kitchen last year as they were so plump and delicious we had them every day in the garden . Excellent video Liz. You look lovely 💖
Lol crabbage
Crabbage rocks!
Liz Zorab - Byther Farm 😂😂😂
My chickens wear snorkels
carl eatwell I'm giving mine swimming lessons. I shall be making little wing bands and rubber rings.
I have 2 purple sprouting cabbages flowering in my poly tunnel. Did try cabbages but they are growing very leggy but edible
Great content, great vids thank you. Any advice for an allotment newbie? My plot needs A LOT of work, it's strewn with rubbish and scrap but the soil is lovely. All the best Nige
Goodness, just got hit with a nasty snow/ice storm and this totally provoked me to jealousy lol😅🌱🌄☕
Love spending time with you xo luv from Ashes xo Ontario Canada
Sorry to read about the ice and snow storm, how horrid! When I filmed this yesterday (Thursday) it wasn't much above freezing outside and I walked to the polytunnel with three layers of thermals on (because I'm a wimp), but once inside with the sun shining on it the air was toasty warm. We have a storm coming through again today. 😬
@@LizZorab I understand lol I layer up like a crazy person! Lol
21 days till spring 🌄😅 I hope your storm isnt a bad one! And doesnt harm what you have out already. Have a great weekend Liz! ☕💕
LifefromAshes from Nova Scotia here, not as extreme weather as you guys get, but it makes me very impatient to get going seeing Liz and the other UK gardeners ahead of us 😀
I'm delighted I found your channel.
Hello Teresa and welcome, I hope you'll enjoy getting to know our small corner of this beautiful world.
@@LizZorab Thank you.
March all ready. Lovely lettuces. Thanks for list of seeds. I must try and get yellow and the pick beetroot one's this year to try. It's been a few years now that I have not seen them in the shops. And would like to try them again.
Hi Stephen, I've seen quite a few companies doing mixed colours of beetroots in a packet and our local garden center (not much help to you I realise) had beetroot Chioggia seeds last year, so maybe they are coming back again.
@@LizZorab Thanks Liz will look out for those. And of course how you are getting on. Noreply. Later.
I'm subscribing to your channel just for videos just like this one
You look amazingly fit Liz, hard to believe that you ever had a weight problem, gardening is magic I tell you!
Thank you, that's very kind of you!
😁 It's so lovely to see your channel ! And when I look outside here, we still have 90 cm of snow 😁 But then we will have very intensive summer with 24 h sun light 🌞 All the best to you 👍
Hello, it sounds like you live somewhere in the far north, where are you based? I can't imagine it being light for 24h a day, but wow you could get so much done!
Here in Kuusamo, northern Finland 66.3 ° we have real winter till end of April. Then nice summer, can be 20°C - 26° C. But cause it's so much sun light the growing season is very fast....But i still envy your long summer... 😍😍😍😁
@@LizZorab My Insta: mja pyy 👍
Hi Liz. I really enjoy your informative videos. I just want to say how much I liked your Q & A session yesterday with Huw. Your collaborations are really instructive and positive. Thank you for sharing your skills and knowledge. I've learned so much from both of you. I'm trying to turn my allotment in to no dig. I've had some very negative comments from some "traditional" gardening method plot holders, so I'm finding you and Huw motivational. Please pass this comment on to Huw. Thank you. Jan
Thank you Jan, I've just copied your comment to Huw for him to read. I think some people find the idea of no dig gardening hard to grapple with especially if they have been digging for years (and after all who wants to hear that what they've been doing could be counter-productive?!). I encourage you to stick with it, the results are just so worth it for so much less effort!
Good afternoon from Bolton, loved the video, I'm guessing it was rather warm in the poly tunnel, 😂, and I loved the outtakes at the end made me smile take care
Hi! Yes it was toasty warm in the polytunnel and three thermal layers weather outside of it! I hope you don't get too battered by the storm this weekend.
@@LizZorab me too lol same too you
A lot of rain this month!!!!! Lucky you. Yikes it's rained here most days since October. It's flooded everywhere and I went across to Glastonbury today and many fields could be lakes. My garden is like a sponge. I shan't be growing anything outside until it dries out a bit. Greenhouse only for me. I like your optimism though lol.
If we don't have optimism we won't have much else, as like you, my garden is a soggy mess that is totally saturated with rainwater. Even the ducks are starting to wonder when it's going to stop! Inside the polytunnel however, I can pretend that it's not 4 degrees and blowing a hoolie with torrential rain. I ran outside yesterday when I saw the sun shining and filmed this video really quickly. By the time I had packed up my camera it was raining again. Ah well, the sunshine was nice while it lasted.
Hi Liz, nice video, thanks, I find those Evesham brussel sprouts to be very peppery, put me off sprouts for this year. As for bitter kale if you chiffonade it then sprinkle plenty of salt on it leave it for 10 mins , rinse well to remove salt you'll find the bitterness is taken away.
Thanks for the tip about the bitter kale and what a shame that you were put off Brussels sprouts, please try another variety and hopefully you won't find them so strong.
Ordered seeds on Friday night & arrived yesterday! Red Zebra, Summerlast, Corazon & Peardrops tomatoes to go with what I hope will be my final purchases, but who knows? 😉
Have you grown Choy Sum Liz?
I have just picked up Huw Richards book and i am thinking you should write one as i will buy that - My soil is like 5 inch under water here in Cleethorpes so putting things into pots and there is plenty of time - good video TY.
Hi Max, aw thank you for your kindness, I am working on something, but don't hold your breath as I am juggling many projects at a time and so progress is slow. Sorry to read that you are under 5 inches of water, I've just been to put the birds to bed for the night and there's a mini-lake in the duck enclosure and about 2-3 inches of water on all of the pathways. I'm now very pleased that I put the asparagus in such a deep bed, their toes won't be getting wet!
@@LizZorab Thankfully it is just my garden and not my house - i kept all my plants inside but all us gardening types want to plant them out - hopefully this is our last storm and next weekend i can go out and plant - thanks for the reply and thanks for all the tips you provide.
Very cool, we live in the same zone as you!
Hello and welcome, I've just popped over to your channel for a look and have shared it in my FB group, so hopefully a few other folks will come over and say hello to you.
@@LizZorab how wonderful! That is a pleasant surprise. Thank you!
😂😂You can't beat Crean Crabbett!
i can strongly reccomend cabbage " vertus ", liz. i remember years ago when i first tried it, my allotment was at it's height of club root. the cabbages formed perfect heads, despite being hit by club root....................brian
Hi Brian, oh that's good to know, I do love a bit of cabbage (especially red or Savoy) and as I get older I'm liking the spring and summer varieties too. I'm not sure I'll ever love ordinary kale though, I just find it so bitter.
It’s looking very summery in your poly tunnel. Much of what you can sow in March there I can in my area of Australia as we head into the cooler months. I can’t grow Brussel sprouts as it doesn’t get cool enough & I must say I haven’t tried crabbage 😅
Oh Lyn, you definitely need to try crabbage, it's a very rare and wonderful thing!
Liz Zorab - Byther Farm I’ll lookout for seeds 😂😂
Can u recommend a best way to prepare beetroot? Tried roasted last fall, not a fan of that way.....
Going to try traditional pickling this year but their so healthy/good for u, I would love to use it more. 🌞🌿😃
I’ve never been patient enough to actually grow head lettuce or cabbages. I do open leaf only. I just know I won’t get good heads/hearts so I like doing the cut and come again method for my greens. ❤️
Just about time to sew miners lettuce! ❤️❤️❤️
I bet you loved wearing the short sleeves in this video! Looking very slim too!
Have you ever used any low tunnels inside your poly tunnel to help extend your growing season on things or to help improve seed germination with a little extra warmth?
Hi Julie, I can't express how happy I was to remove the three layers of thermal clothes that I was wearing when I went into the polytunnel. It was like having a hour of summer - until I had to put the layers back on to go back out and then it seemed even colder outside! I have the poly and the piping to do just that, but I haven't got around to it - as with so many things! I think I might create a small one over the weekend to help the few seeds that I have sown to stay warm in this next blast of cold weather.
Liz Zorab - Byther Farm I meant to ask the low tunnel question after a prior video in the poly tunnel. I think you had some seed starts for peas (or something anyway) that you said seemed to be going very slow. If you were doing only a single tray you could even use a clear plastic tub upside down. Also, I think you had the tray sitting on the ground. Maybe having it raised up off the cold ground would help too?
I’ve seen a video where a guy in a very cold climate with snow has all of his stuff in raised beds. During winter he has stuff inside a poly tunnel with some low tunnels inside. But he also has like a double low tunnel over a regular raised bed outside.
I love learning about things like this even if they may not apply to me much since I live in a very warm climate (southern Georgia USA). I figure anything I can learn may help spark me to think of ways to improve my own garden.
I grow most of my veg in large containers ,no dig with 2 inches of home compost per year the soil is warmer few weeds ,results are good, it's so easy but watering is vital in dry weather
If no dig gardening had been more popular when I was young, I'm sure that more people would have got into it. Those endless hours of digging and double digging were so off-putting!
Great video loved the blooper
Thanks Tony!
I haven't your videos in awhile cause I lost it. You have really lost weight congratulations. I am still trying to lose weight. Love your vids glad I found you again. 🙂
Hello again Debra, welcome back 😃 Yes I'm still going to be losing a bit more weight, I paused during the late autumn and winter as I find getting through winter hard enough without the added pressure of weight loss, but this week I'm back on it again and hope to be at my target weight by mid summer.
Wish the weather was like this today!
Hi Lisa, yes it would be nicer than the torrential rain and winds we've got for this weekend (why are all the storms at the weekends?).
@@LizZorab I think we've had our fair share of rubbish weather now!
She sells seashells on the sea shore 😂 Liked the tongue twister at the end Liz! Great video again 👏 really helpful for me as a newbie seed grower
Hi there - great video with useful information, thank you. I am a new subscriber and a very amateur grower. I tried growing potatoes last year in my small front garden which is NW facing (I live in NE Scotland). Out of 6 plants we only got enough for one meal. Is that because there wasn't enough sun (less than usual last year) or simply because it is generally shady throughout the day, i.e just not warm enough for long enough? Also, in order to be more self sufficient, (back garden very small also), what can I grow that *does* like shadier areas? Thanks so much ~ Mo
Lots of the leafy greens are happy in some shade (although not very heavy shade), so you could try cabbages, kales, broccoli, kalettes, collards, swedes etc.
You r looking good lady !
Thank you!
@@LizZorab we are waiting for another garden vedios. I'm adam from Israel.
Thank you!
not a chance to even think about it here. It's very cold in general and so wet. We've got another storm tomorrow and the land is saturated. Mainly what is stopping me is the cold temperatures and the wet.
Yup, us too, but as it's only a monthly guide, we can hope that by the end of March we might get something into the ground - fingers crossed! 😀
You might get better drainage with raised beds, or even consider Hugelkultur, which you may know are mounds of soil atop piled up branches.
I plan to build some, using 2 years of saved up bags of junk mail, cardboard, fall leaves & 2 years worth of kitchen scraps, which were cold composted in 2 storage bins, plus purchaced compost & aged manure, all worked into a trench, filled with mounded branches.
In time, the branches with ground contact will rot down, & the height of the mound will be reduced over time, but I could dig out a 2' deep trench on the top, & add more branches, junk mail & leaves & soil on top of that, each fall.
In spring, I may need to add more compost & aged manure, as some soil will have moved down into air pockets formed in among the branches, with months of rain & snow.
If built in a north/south direction, lower plants could be grown on the south end, with taller plants to the back/north end.
I'd like to start out with veggies & flowers. After the wood begins to rot, I could consider trees & shrubs, with some ornamentals & flowers along the western edge, as it's along a property line.
I have new neighbors, as of February 2020, so if they decide to build a fence on that boundary, I may have to choose a different location for my Hugelkultur, or mound it differently, & choose a different planting pattern.
It might be more useful & attractive to do a curved mound on the slope in my back yard. Then the bed could be deeper, filling soil in to somewhat level the slope behind the curved mound!
The slope up to the large Oaks & a few Rhododendrons in my back yard, if leveled, to the north side of the curved mound, could be planted with lawn. Then I'd want to upgrade the current, old beaten down lawn areas, to tie in with the newly planted lawn area.
This would provide a south facing, curved bed, with full sun until late in the day.
I may have enough trimmed & fallen branches to do both, & still have some firewood!
In the past I've just dug a trench & put in alternating layers of junk mail & leaves, then cardboard, then a thin layer of cold composted kitchen scraps, lawn, weed & shrub trimmings, then added several inches of soil, watered that in, & repeated with a few more layers.
In time it was all converted to soil, except for those thin plastic windows in envelopes, to view addresses. I haven't the time or patience to keep tearing those all out - though I used to.
When I turned the soil, I raked a few up, & found that ice cream & milk cartons don't break down. Live & learn.
In composting, paper & leaves are both carbon sources, which are useful. I don't like saving up papers for so long, but since I was recovering from a leg & ankle & foot injuries, now have a lot to work with at one time - now including trimmed & fallen branches!
Waste not - want not. Can hardly wait to get started. We have a warm spell coming up too!
Hi Liz can you mention how to grow sweetcorn and melons on one of your videos please as would like to give those a go this year? Also I have a boggy area of garden although it does dry up a bit in the summer, can you recommend growing any veg in it? Thanks
Hi Emma, all your requests have gone into my video planner to make sure that they get covered in the next couple of months. I am growing sweetcorn and melon this year, so they will be covered in a seed sowing guide and I'll also talk about plants for a boggy area. Great suggestions/questions!
@@LizZorab That's great, thanks Liz
Liz when you pick peas for shoots can you then let them grow to pods?
You could indeed!
We are in zone 5A and are a little new to gardening. We did ok last year but we know we have the capability of doing much better. You mentioned warming the soil with the black plastic covering. Just thinking out loud here. We just got 2 inches of snow and appears weather is warming up. Thinking maybe we could cover the area for a couple of weeks and then plant our beet seeds?? Looking at time to harvest for possible CSA boxes if we plant beets in March we could possibly have a harvest in May and use that as a bi-rotational crop? Is this too optimistic? Sorry for the lengthy comment we are newbies!!
For Zone 5A I think it is still much too early to be sowing seeds outside. Once the snow is melted, then you could look at warming the soil, but in the meantime, you can sow some seeds inside as long as you have lights, heat and a place to grown them on. Much as though I don't want to send you to a different channel, I think it is worth you checking for a what to sow video that is aimed at your zone and your climate (oceanic, high dessert, mountainous etc).
@@LizZorab thank you for the info. Much appreciated!
What garden zone are you in there in Wales or what is your last frost date?
We live in the equivalent of hardiness Zone 8b.
@@LizZorab I am in 8a here in SC.
As a new gardener, I've started zero seeds so far, eventually the mad scientist in me will overcome the fearful procrastinator self and I will get seeds in .
I think procrastinating is a good thing until towards the end of March, then the scientist will need to get their skates on and sow, sow, sow!
Can you suggest on good mulch? many of stores here in US has big wood chunks with color and I don't think they become nutritious in next 10 years.
Are you looking for suggestions for covering pathways or for your growing beds?
@@LizZorab, Yes for growing beds.
Thanks for the response Liz, I don't have beds though, am growing everything on ground so far not looking to make any raised beds. Recently we cut our pine trees and all dried leaves it hold became a great mulch but it is not sufficient for all yard obviously. Looking for similar fine mulch to buy.
Have you lost weight?? Looking good Liz!! Ohhh great clip btw!! :-)!!
Liz I feel like peas take forever to germinate. I always worry they won’t pop up. Any advice?
Hi! If you soak the peas in water in the house before sowing they will plump up and be ready to germinate a bit faster. They don't like drying out so keep the soil moist - not wet and they don't like root disturbance so planting where they are to grow is best or in a piece of guttering like you see in the video. Good luck and please let me know how you get on!
Do you sell heirloom seeds? We live in the Ammanford area in Carms, so we follow you because you are in the same climate.
Hi Chris, no I don't, try Real Seeds for a really great selection of organically grown interesting seeds.
Is it best to grow from seeds or plants. Which is best
This video is about growing from seed. I think it depends what vegetables you are thinking of and what your local climate is like. Growing from seed is cheaper and just as easy for many vegetables.
Can anyone help... liz has mentioned an exotic / rare seed site and I can't find where you mentions it... anyone help? Thank you if you can from my garden to you
Links to seeds are in the video description. You may be thinking of Real Seeds www.realseeds.co.uk
You can make beetroot cake so I have heard
You can indeed, it's delicious!
2 or 3 what was that Liz ? 🤣
What zone are you growing in Liz?
We are in the equivalent of hardiness zone 8b, but that only refers to the temperature range at the lower end (how cold it gets). It's a mild temperate climate.
Related to zones I've been wondering about last frost dates. I'm in the Highlands so know that I'll be later than you Liz but not sure how much. My last frost date is second week of May (according to gardenfocused.co.uk) and I'm probably at the colder end of hardiness zone 8a. Any idea how much later I should plant my seeds vs what you do down in (South?) Wales?