Kitchen garden tour in June & preparing for winter
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I had a garden the same size in Southport my home town .Makes me kick myself that I didn't realise it's potential way back then Steve .Dream garden 😍
It’s surprising what you can do with a tiny garden, small enough to grow old in but big enough to grow a lot of food and relax and play a lot too
Fabulous and inspiring as usual. Just moved, building the greenhouse and six large raised beds as a start. Your channel is very informative and helps with organising both a smaller and larger growing space. What a wonderful abundance of food in a back and front garden ❤
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Right! Getting ahead of the crowd gets you more points eh? We haven't had summer yet!
not sure what you mean about getting points, but about 2/3 of the garden is already planted for winter, won't be long before I'm 100% winter plantings here, although the allotment is 90% summer plantings
Oh not winter prep 😅. But the garden is looking fab Steve I’d be happy to simply stay in the garden all day. Happy gardening 🧑🌾, Ali 🌞🇨🇦
About 2/3 of the garden is already planted with crops for winter Ali
Great garden thx for the video. Try planting onions and leeks close together. The leeks are abysmal until the onions are picked then they shoot up.
I often cram links in like that, between summer beets, at the edge of brassica beds, between onions etc and yes, they are amazing at their ability to recover from abuse! : All the best - Steve
Looking great Steve. You can never grow too many spring onions. I slice the leaves up with scissors, dehydrate and vacuum seal in glass jars. Makes a great sweet snack. Children like snacking on them too. Preserve as much as you can.
I'd not considered that Steve, partly because we have them fresh every week of the year, how long do they need in a dehydrator and what temp?
@@SteveRichards 55 Degrees C, I never make notes of timings, I just switch it on overnight and check in the morning. I made a note in my diary to build a solar dehydrator for the back garden this year but like most things on my things to do list, I haven’t bothered but at some stage I will build a solar dehydrator which will be especially good for bulkier greens like Pak Choi and kale. I find greens in dehydrators take too much space, surely a DIY solar dehydrator is a better option. Might make use of a low tunnel on decking as a temp solar dehydrator solution.
@@stevekent3991could you share how you do that. I'd be interested in giving it a go.
I don't usually dehydrate greens, as they are so plentiful year round, I just try and avoid planting too many of them. That said kalettes and brussels leaves often go to waste and I have a lot of those : All the best - Steve
looking good Steve
Good show, cheers Steve
I love your chuckles about so many salad onions :)
Great to see how the garden is doing. I'm sure you will find some benefits from having too many salad onions -new recipes or ways of preserving them? You will be so glad when the building work is done. We have that all ahead of us when we have saved up enough to do it! Best wishes
I am so looking forward to the building work being finished, I did the last of the internal gloss yesterday, I just have three oak door to oil now and then the inside of the house is done apart from a few edging strips. Plenty to do outside, but fingers crossed it will be done by the end of July. There's a suggestion in the comments to dehydrate salad onion tops, so we might try that : All the best - Steve
Another great video - well done! Inspiring if slightly daunting!
what makes it daunting Henry?
Well I meant it as a compliment as you have achieved so much but it is a good question as it does not really matter that my asparagus was so poor because the carrots have done just fine and the apples are very promising...it was very wet for months but the land looks fantastic.regards, Henry
Ah, I see, but from my perspective a lot of the work that I did others don’t need to do now as it’s all well documented and now it’s fairly easy, the garden takes only an hour a week (excluding watering) now the infrastructure and systems are in place : all the best - Steve
It looks lovely Steve. I think I might only sow a bulbing variety of salad onions from now on. It'll be a better use of my space than a designated onion bed.
Makes sense most of the year, they don't do very well sown in April though, they just bulb immediately, but the bulbs are tiny and the leaves are very poor quality : All the best - Steve
Hi Steve hope your well, the garden is looking great mate and I noticed in the front you had one of those cat scarers, how do you find them and do they work ?? Stay safe David 👍👍
They do seem too, we have the black cats too, the grandkids hate it
Hi Steve! What size containers are you using for the berry bushes and fruit trees?
Berries are in 35 litres, trees in 80 litre dustbins I think
Hi Steve. What do you do with your potting mix, Do you use it again?
Beautiful garden btw
I generally tip it into the bottom 1/3 of a container, add blood fish and bone and then top up with 2/3 of fresh compost, I put any seedlings that I don't use and other plant waste into that bottom 1/3 too : All the best - Steve
@@SteveRichards ok. Thank you. Do you rotate crops?
@@danielleishman8648 I'm not able to do a strict rotation, I grow too many varieties and too many successions to make it work, but I do try to mix it up as much as I can
What are the upturned cans
They were there to all support the nets, which have gone now, the birds still see the can though and so it puts them off
Morning Steve, would you mind telling me what size your greenhouse is please. We are first time allotment holders and looking to get poly tunnel and or greenhouse now.
All of the details are in my greenhouse guide, here www.notion.so/steverichards/Outgrow-6f57489ae10a4721b48b421826203814?pvs=4#cfde22687e204a40bf8238e3f2da9f20 there's also a polytunnel guide : All the best - Steve
@@SteveRichards thank you
U got lots of onions and spring onions. Your garden looks amazing as always, think my kalates gone to seed which is annoying.
A few people said that, but I’ve grown so many kalettes and not one ever went to seed. Did you sow them in mid March Mark?
@@SteveRichards i think I did mine earlier, I was just seeing how it would grow. My kalete plant is like 6 foot tall lol
if it's that big you must have sown it much earlier
@@SteveRichards I planted one 1 week after I planted the one that went to seed and it like normal size. The one that went to seed just grew so fast.
Always wondered how your crops looked so amazing without netting. Now I know why, you use pesticides 😢...... Obviously you're fully aware of the impact pesticides have on the eco food chain and that they're linked to gastrointestinal diseases. And I'm sure you're aware that BT is banned in the UK for small gradeners. But you don't seem to be telling your viewers of the risks do you? Unsubscribed today, very disappointing.
Bacillus Thuringiensis is useful when you get a bit of an outbreak, like I had this week, I probably used it twice last year and I will probably use it once this year. It's safe and effective and widely used by most organic farmers. I could probably cope without it, but since it's safe and effective I'm happy to use it when I can. I'm not completely sure why it's not been licenced for domestic use in the UK, it is in many other countries, perhaps the market's too small, or perhaps they are worried that people will over-use it and this will result in it becoming less effective for farmers, either way I know how to carefully use it. I'm not sharing the risks, because I'm not aware that there are any, nor am I aware of the environmental risks, beyond reducing the population of caterpillars, which nets do even more effectively. So please feel free to enlighten me, but at this point your comment seems to be quite the over-reaction. As to why my crops are free of pests, that's down to using nets (which I do use, quite extensively) regular inspection and manual intervention, encouraging predators and getting my timings right : All the best - Steve