Get ready for summer! ~ What I'm sowing in April preview
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Hi Steve, thank you for the weekly newsletter! i find it really helpfull and a great addition to your video's here on yt. Happy growing!
Thanks for the feedback Stephanie, much appreciated : All the best - Steve
Your guides to sowing are superb. A place to aspire to. We aim to provide veg for our family but you take it to another level. You show how effortlessly we can continue to grow stuff. Big thanks for inspiring us to fill our garden (big or small) 🤩❤
I wish it was effortlessly , but it does take at least one day a week : All the best - Steve
I'm always amazed, and a little bit mystified, as to why such a superb, willing to experiment, knowledgeable gardener who has created one of THE best gardening/allotment channels and indepth data repository, continues to only have around 25k subscribers Steve mate! There are "gardening" channels out there with well over 100k subscribers and the content is woeful, sketchy, lacking detail and go as deep as showing you how to grow spuds!
Congratulations mate. I've followed you for over 4 years now and you are my absolute Goto for weekly advice and checkins - infact you produce too much stuff sometimes lol
...how you do that onto of the gardening and your leisure time is beyond me!
Thanks and keep up the fantastic work mate 😉👌
Hi Martin, so that it a very good question and the answer might surprise you! There are three really big reasons. The first is that I'm making videos that show the reality of year round gardening, a great many of the 'famous' gardeners with manicured gardens, growing on perfect soil, with no weeds and who live down south, make it look way too easy, they never talk about their 60 hour weeks etc. Second I won't play the youtube game, no imploring people to like/subscribe/click bells, no click bait titles, no attention grabbing thumbnails, no over-inflated promises. Third I don't want to be too successful, just enough so I feel what I'm doing is worthwhile and to pay my expenses, I don't want fame, or to earn enough money to change my simple life for the worse. So I intentionally do things to put off the casual viewer, for example I use my favourite landscape photo of the week for my thumbnail, I try and keep my content educational and not a gardening magazine or comedy show. I film and edit everything on my phone, no fancy gear, I try to keep everything real. I only talk about things that I actually do myself and I focus on providing a complete system, including the evidence of my success or otherwise. I also only watch two gardening youtube channels, so I don't get lots of "you watch me, if I watch you" likes and comments. Thanks for the lovely feedback as well : All the best - Steve
@SteveRichards well I'm bloody glad I stumbled across you a few years ago, and you've not put me off...yet lol
Seriously - well deserved feedback and here's hoping we are always aware that every day is a school day, especially vegetable gardening. lol.
Thanks once again for the superb channel and all-around effort 👌
I absolutely adore sweet dumpling squash. A perfect size for 2 people and it is what it says- sweet- absolutely delicious roasted. I can't remember when i sowed mine last year, but I had 6 lovely fruits off my plant. I sowed NZ spinach 4 weeks ago and no sign of germination and then a lovely surprise today - they are germinating. Never grown them before so looking forward to trying them out. My perennial leeks, Poireau Perpetual ,and cottagers kale are germinating- also new to me. So excited to be growing new varieties. I haven't sown my melons yet- I plan to do that this week. I like yours idea of staggered sowings so as not to get a glut of melons. Nice to have a couple available for harvest every week over an extended period rather than be left with melons that we couldn't possibly eat. My first lot of peas are germinated. I grow oregon too- a bountiful harvest with the pods available to eat as well as the peas. We don't eat many potatoes and I've chitted them but not planted yet. I have a nice lot of celery growing- pink and tango. No carrots sown yet. Not in ny rush- we can buy organic carrots cheap enough and we still have Eskimo in the ground. I didn't know beetroot are a heat loving crop. I will have to bare that in mind when planting out. Thank you. I am growing honeycomb for the first time this year instead of Sungold. Happy gardening 😃
You have a lot on the go! I've just been potting on today so every square inch of growing space is full now. So all I can do is sow seeds and hope that by the time I get around to pricking them out that I have a lot planted out! : All the best - Steve
@@SteveRichards Yes indeed. I am waiting to sow my flower seeds but need to get stuff out of my little greenhouse and in to the ground, to make space. I call it the seed shuffle dance, lol! Have a great week
I’m way behind on my seeding this year due to having a new potting shed built - flooring finally arrived today though, so I can get flooring and benches done tomorrow and will have my seedling production line going at the weekend!
Your not really that far behind Pip, unless you have a really good reason to sow early, almost everything does fine from a March/April sowing, I suspect you will be surprised at how well you do this year : All the best - Steve
It's great to be planting seeds. I am not going as nuts this year. More effort into less.
ha .. I'm doing less effort into less, but really doubling down on trying to find the 20% of effort that gives me the 80% of results : All the best - Steve
I try to sow chard throughout the year. Hotter months in semi shade Smaller leaves when it goes to seed are wonderful in salads
I tend to do beetroot in spring and then I don't have to bother with it going to seed : All the best - Steve
It’s really helpful to see the range of plants you are sowing and growing. How big is your plot?
About 200m2 of growing area : All the best - Steve
Hi Steve what is the make of the heater you will be using in your greenhouse in April
The details are in this chapter of my ebook under 'Heating' steverichards.notion.site/Greenhouse-Design-and-Growing-Guide-b3bf5d6ee29f4feaaa1671b0ea0a42f9?pvs=4
Hi Steve, I have to pull my broudbeans they are full size and have blossoms or transplant them in another bed. Do you think they will servive? the community garden is under new management and I have to downsize from 6 to 3.
They will probably survive given how wet it is, you could also transplant the roots and cut off the tops and they wll regrow new shoots from the roots : All the best - Steve
Wonderful and great news. Thank you Steve
Do you mind reminding me how many ppl you are currently feeding with these plant amounts? Is it still more than 10?
Only 9 over winter, not sure about this spring probably 10-12 : all the best - Steve
@@SteveRichards Thank you so much! Still trying to dial in the number of plants I need to feed 6 year-round (continental US climate). Different mix of veg priorities yet your numbers (and sowing/growing experiments) remain very, very helpful. Thanks again!
You probably need a little more than I do, because although I feed more, not all of them are self-sufficient year round : All the best - Steve
Also I have this chapter of my ebook, which I wrote a couple of years ago, it might be useful steverichards.notion.site/How-much-space-time-do-you-need-97c72254b81242728b3c7f1aba62a834?pvs=4
@@SteveRichards Thank you for taking the time to respond (again)! I do need to grow more plants but am constrained by lack of space (I appear to have about a quarter of the total space you have) and some health/stamina considerations (I'm looking to learn all of your time/labor-saving strategies!). I'm trying to maximize every inch I can and am using a mix of beds (with "square foot gardening" spacing), containers and a small amount of indoor grow space (a few shelves/a card table in the kitchen). Last year, I grew the number of pepper and eggplants I needed, put them in the beds (and pots) and ran out of space for many other things, for example. I've adjusted my timing and succession sowing plan, as well as what plants will get bed space vs only/mostly pot space, to get a bit more success. I really need to grow as much as possible budget-wise. I've been reading your newsletter and looking at your spreadsheets to compare to my own garden journal/notes. I'm confused by some tbh but really grateful for all you share. I haven't had a chance to look at your latest round of database updates. Looking forward to it. And thank you for the ebook link. I will take another look!