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Some great advice. Yet again. Grow what you like. Remember, that you are in control.
P.s sad to hear you live by yourself. You would make an excellent partner for someone.
Idea for showing the entirety of what you grow/harvest in the pace in a year
You should have a position up high you can attach a camera, looking down at a field / lawn /space etc. Then every time you harvest lay the food out in that space starting from left to right, and as the year goes on you can comp all the images footage together and display the entire years haul in one shot.
yes also in north of Italy, it's been raining a lot in the last 3 months!! the growing is very slow, we are way back …
How large is your kitchen garden in square meters? Very interesting approach!
Pre-order book came today from Amazon. I am so excited that I took both old dogs outside with me to read. NOPE! Now I am trying to talk myself into following my plan to weed or throwing that out to read your book!! Nk
Good stuff
Hi from California. Preordered your book months ago & it arrived today, only got to quickly flip through it so far & it looks fantastic. Excited to see how things change as you move towards perennials in this garden.
Hi Huw I would like to make a fence for my kitchen garden like yours, what did you use to make it?😊
What width beds do you find best? Thanks
What width beds do you find best? Thanks
What width beds do you find best? Thanks
pls keep us updated I am so excited to see how this looks. florals within veg areas look beautiful, and your camera work is brilliant so I can't wait to see what you do :))
Such a cool project! I really like where you are going with it. I love the idea of growing only on what I really want to eat, but it seems I keep adding more explorations and trials!
Got your book through Amazon yesterday. Love how it's laid out and presented, very easy to learn from and follow. Our weather here in my part of Canada has been the same, cool and wet so far. Really hoping for warmer weather soon, it's been too cool to put my tomatoes and peppers out so far.
I got my book yesterday in the states. It looks like a really well done book so far.
Just got my book and am very happy with its contents. Its like it cleared a road block I was having with my space. I’m very excited for the weekend to make my first raised beds.
This video exactly describes my dream for the coming years and I recognize so many of the feelings you talk about Huw! Thanks once more for putting it all into an overview
This is very expensive project to do. I am doing something similar. Cost of beds and bark and soil if you don't have good soil. If you need chemicals or seeds there's another cost. Cost of water if you don't have butts. Time and space. WOW it adds up.
My garden often becomes a groundhog sufficiency garden 😂
tree collard is a nice perennial, which you can make some tasty collard greens.
last year was my first time seriously growing pepper, long beans and especially the tomatoes was so productive and healthy without any fertilizers i could pick matured but unripe tomatoes and eat them raw and they tasted like apples i never knew tomatoes tasted so good until i planted mine, this year the weather been brutally hot until may it started raining so we go again this time hot peppers and tomatoes with cassava
Your new garden space is about the same size as what we are currently growing in, so I am super excited to watch as you grow different crops in it so I can get new ideas! I have been slow in adding perennials so I am also super excited to see what you plant so I can gain some inspiration for my own garden ❤
What is the new metal raised bed please? I didn’t catch the brand name.
please adopt me – I promise to save you from all that excess veggie harvest!
I grew globe artichokes on my allotment – impossible to get rid of once you've grown them once.
My family called them "fartichokes" for obvious reasons. They taste ok but the side-effects are embarassing
Beautiful and inspiring garden Huw! And I'm loving your book, which just arrived a few days ago ❤
Love your style Huw – great stuff and super inspiring thanks …. New Home and currently designing a new Organic Gardens atm …. Quick question regarding raised beds – Would you recommend Recycled plastic or untreated wood from local Sawmill – I'm a little bit skeptical about the plastic leaching although I'm told it's certified as fit for Organic use (?) Cheers ….
Huw, I really have to admit, I hate your garden because it's not in my yard, however I am really inspired by it. Just have to allow my wind break to hurry up and grow, as whatever I create will be torn apart.
Can’t wait to read the books!❤️🙌🏻🙏🏻✝️
Hi Huw,
I see that you have signed copies of your book "The Self Sufficiency Garden for sale, before I make the purchase, is there any way to get a personalized copy? My wife and I are big fans, but live in the US and i would love to give her something special for her birthday.
I just ordered the north American version of your book 😁
🇨🇦 I’m loving your book.
How do you grow brassica without netting? Mine get attacked by pigeons, cabbage white and flea beetles. I would love not to use netting….
The Huw man doing the garden upright. are you going to do pumpkins this year? I am a fan of table pumpkins.
Glad to hear that I am not the only one who does not care lettuce because everyone recommends them. I really like the concept of having the garden work as hard for you as you work for it and year round gardening is great for that!!
Thank you, emotional connection , experimentation and joy- that’s my kind of gardening but it never fit the standard garden profile.
I really enjoy your videos. I only wish you were in a similar climate to mine. I am in the south eastern U.S. where it gets hot and humid and there aren't any decent permaculture practitioners in a similar setting. Really impressed with your videos.
After watching this I've decided to give up and hand the plot back!!!!!!
Absolutely unreal! Amazing 👏
🐝thanks for the great video🌻
Hey Huw, question about your planting plan. On the drawing the lower side was the north side right? I see raspberries and sunchokes on that side, which are quite sun loving. Do you get enough sun through the fens for this? Would I still be able to do this even if i had a neighbouring yard blocking sun?
Thanks so much for all the inspiring videos. Im on my first growing year❤
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No offence but I would not enjoy working in a garden of this design. The alleys are WAY too small to service them with a wheel barrow, and are uncomfortable to move around. So you have to carry heavy loads and manage tools etc over longer cramped distances. Your beds are WAY too low. Who wants to be bent over all day? They'd be so much more comfortable at table height. If you're looking to reduce your output, this might be a good opportunity to rethink the management/access components of your design and weigh them up against sheer output. Your future self will thank you. 😊
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Great watch! Do you have a list of the perennials you want to plant as an inspiration?
Nice arrangement… You should try growing safflower lits eaves are so flavorful you make salad too
Grow fennel you can make almost anything to everything from fennel bulbs and fennel leaves, fennel seeds are edible ,fennel buds is expensive spice😊
I just bought your book. What height are your raised beds?