Vegetable Garden in March | Homestead Garden Tour

Vegetable Garden in March | Homestead Garden Tour
How to make broad beans support https://youtu.be/dvIIlxSzn0A
How to grow parsnips https://youtu.be/hSmosdQP_nA
How to grow elephant garlic https://youtu.be/c2SSQ9OaySE
Growing perennial onions https://youtu.be/kBSXndyfICE
Making a hanging raised bed https://youtu.be/rckAR_7JUX0

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Byther Farm is a small organic homestead, being designed and managed using permaculture practices. We aim for self-sufficiency in fruit and vegetables for increased self reliance and better resilience to the modern world. I recognise that we are unlikely to be truly self sufficient, but do the best we can. I share our home with my loving husband, Mr J and our cat, Monty.
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Hello it’s the end of March and it’s time for a vegetable garden tour I’m L zorab and this is by the farm it’s been an incredibly wet and blessy March but I have managed to get out here to do some things I have moved some of the bunching onions

So I’ve lifted some of the bunches and I’ve removed uh all the compost that I can from them and then I’ve teased them apart and pulled them apart to make S of individual plants and then then I’ve put them in in two rows on this side of bed number

One my plan for the other sort of just over a half is that that will have rows of salad in it when it’s time to sew them direct and also to plant some of the salad plants outside beds number two uh three and four have actually had very little

Happen to them other than me to go through and try and weed them although I’m now seeing how many weeds I’ve missed uh but I have got a large number of weeds out from uh in those beds and lifted a lot of the bunching onions from in bed

Four bed five had purple spric and broccoli in it and it’s also got elephant garlic now we’ve had plenty of purple sprice in broccoli which got to say I’m really pleased about and so as that finishes I’m just cutting off the stems I’m leaving the roots in there to

Rot down naturally uh then there are a couple of other brasas which hopefully won’t just run to seed this year but we uh produce produce some gbes we’ll see and I’ve started sewing my seeds of parsnips in here so there’ll be a row in between each of the elephant garlic and

If you’d like some step-by-step instructions of how to grow some of these veg I’ll leave links in the video description and also you can find all of those guidelines over on my website by the farm.com this year beds five and six together with uh the two over there

These are going to be mostly ornamental although they will be some edles cuz there’ll be some herbs in here and possibly some salads as well but I have now got in the standard roses that was given by my husband for my birthday and lots of the ornamentals are really starting to grow well

Now bed number8 has had a big change this week where previously it had brasas growing in it it’s now got broad beans or fa beans and I sewed those beans about 6 weeks ago I let them germinate in the house and as soon as they germinated I brought back to the

Coolness of the poly tunnel and they’ve been growing in root chainers which are designed to allow your plants to grow quite long sturdy Roots before you plant them out into the garden and I’ve let them grow till they’re about 4 to 6 in tall so they’re really robust plants

As you can see it’s covered in netting not to protect it from Birds but to protect it from The Neighborhood Cats because the soil has recently been Disturbed I don’t want them thinking that they can come in and use this as a l so in the next couple of weeks I’m

Going to come and build my support framework for these beans and I do that by using canes and string zigzagged across and around and I’ll make sure that I leave a link to my video that shows you exactly how I do that to me there’s nothing more exciting than when

We start seeing blossoms on trees and this is just a beauty it’s called prunus snow goose and all these beautiful white flowers pure snow white dangle down so when this tree gets bigger and we’re looking at it from underneath this is going to be amazing but for now while

It’s still this small I have to get up close to admire just how beautiful all these flowers are I find it really hard to remember what I planted when and I’ve designed this a vegetable garden planner and journal to be able to keep records of when you’ve sewn plants when you’ve

Transplanted them there’s illustrations there are photographs the sewing guides there’s hints and tips and ideas and inspiration right through it and it’s a great way to keep all your veget garden information in one place and you can order your copy of my vegetable garden and planner either on my website by the

Farm.com or on Amazon and at the beginning of March I decided to turn the compost heap so basically I took everything from that one there and put it into here leaving behind the compost that was ready to use but putting in into here everything that hasn’t yet broken down and needs some more

Time over the next few weeks I’m going to be exploring some other ways to make compost cuz I could really do with an awful lot more compost I’m making at the moment bed number 13 has got some herbs I can see it’s got a very healthy

Dandelion but not anymore uh and I know dandelion are a great crop for lots of people uh we have a huge number of them here there’s lots and lots of them in the field so I’m going to let the ones in the field grow and keep the ones out of the beds

There’s still some sarc to be harvested and there’s plenty of maram growing there I’m really pleased to see how well these beds are coming together how full they’re looking with the perennials that I put in two years ago bed number 14 has got a sage at this end and a time there

And then uh there is a dwarf Jerusalem artichoke here uh I can see it starting to regrow so hope hopefully that’s going to look lovely here is a fennel and I actually think it’s a bulb fennel rather than a herb but it’s regrowing I’m just going to let it grow

Like that and I’ll just use the leaves there’s plenty of manard and agach and I can see some echinops there and uh yet more margar Rams down at this end and then our bed number 50 last year I sewed parps in here and they didn’t really grow well now I can see

Little tiny baby ones uh there’s another asuan tree cabbage there’s some beetroot but most of all there is this wonderful display of rhubarb when you harvest rhubarb you want to pull the stem gently away from the base uh don’t cut it off because that leaves you the potential for

Infections to get in and water to get in whereas if you pull it like this nature does it all very cleverly for you but one thing you do need to remember is to remove the leaves and compost those because these are highly poisonous you don’t want to poison your family for the

Sake of having some lovely rubub sticks and here in bed 16 uh I have some more rubub there’s three of a variety called Victoria and one over here called something seedless there’s another piy here and some Ferns and then lots and lots of herbaceous perennial ornamental plants I’m going to be transferring a

Lot of these into the uh food forest garden this year but right now they’re staying there here in the polyle I’ve mulched one bed with some bought in compost and so now I’m going to plant in some um red Russian kale I’ve sewn uh saded leaves in at that end

I’ve planted in a couple of plants there and yesterday I planted the last three modules of bro beans in here so they would grow quicker and I could have a few to harvest a little bit earlier but now on inspection I found two of the plants have been chewed off

Completely and the other plant has although it’s Got Roots the seed has actually been uh nibbled away and this is the result of some sort of V or rodent that’s been in and helped itself to the beans and this is exactly why I grow them in root trainers raised up off

The ground on my uh swinging bench to try and protect them from this kind of attack and here on my swinging hanging bench uh everything is doing really nicely so things that I have potted on are growing well lots of seeds that have germinated and grown their first and

Second true leaves have been uh separated out and planted into individual modules and I’m remembering to come in and water on a regular basis just here uh are some peas these will be planted outside when they get to about 6 in tall so that they don’t

Suffer the same fate as the broad beans in the poly tunnel and if you’d like to see exactly how I made this hanging table for all my seedlings I’ll leave a link on the screen and if you click on that it’ll take you straight through to

That video and I’ll also leave it in the video description