Welcome to another week and another entry to my Garden Diary series! Join me today as we tour the garden and discuss a bunch of my favourite crops that just keep giving. These crops are the best for self-seeding and coming back year on year, providing you, your garden, and your neighbourhood pollinators with abundance and flavour for (potentially) the rest of your life!
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Edit again! Now audio temporarily isn't matching, It's because YouTube is still processing the cut, I can't do anything about it I'm so sorry
So sorry about the missing sounds during the squash shot! Thank you for all the comments letting me know. I've removed that part that has no sound on YouTube editor but may take a while for that change to happen to thank you for your patience! Edit: turns out end screens also become available when processing the changes so here is the missing link: https://youtu.be/BBIMPtGf9Cc
I saw a short video you did about Australian tree cabbage. I can not locate seed, can you suggest a source?
Heart spotted on the leaf bottom right hand corner
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Creeping Thyme or bleeding hearts 💕 would look so nice as a cascade in front of the nasturtiums. I learned rosehips have a lot of vitamin c more than oranges
Calendula! A self seeding champion.
Hey, I'm a business woman and more stressful with my designing and fabric store.when I go to bed at night for sleep, I watch your videos and suddenly get deep sleep. May be due to your gatden and your voice. thank you so much for give me stressless sleep. Greetings From Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 ♥️
I love nasturtium. They were planted at my garden entrance years ago and every year they return from fallen seeds. We like to make poor man's capers with them in a pickle jar for a tasty condiment and vitamin C source. Very cool Huw. Great video!
Your strawberry look amazing Huw. You will have some great fruits very soon. Excellent
Don't plant sweet corn in a border. They need to grow in clusters to help wind polenate themselves
We've had the same thing with some of our heirloom tomatoes that we had attacked by some blackbirds and shat out seeds all over our neighborhood and cars that have now grown rogue everywhere in the middle of winter 😂
Can you tell me please what kind of rose that was? I would have liked to see more about it, looks like something I'd like. Thanks!
I love your videos. I have a lot of pain and find them so calming. I also learn tons and am inspired. Thank you for what you do Huw.
I’d love some of that borage! 🤣
Borage flowers replenish their nectar every 2 to 5 minutes, they are absolutely one of the best feed flowers for nectar feeding insects
Great video great work
Your videos are inspiring, relaxing and filmed beautifully.
It would be super helpful if you could also add the names of the plants on the video or add it on the description below. I hope you consider this suggestion. Thank you.
I have a self sown borage next to one of my strawberry plants, and that plant has produced the best strawberries I have ever tasted. Next year I will grow borage all thru my berry patch!
Woah, Huw, how is your nasturtium so much ahead of ours here in the German Rhine Valley!?
Yes, we had an unusuallycold and wet spring, but it has been 25°C – 30°C with lots of sun and no rain for 5 weeks now, and my nasturtium stillis only 30 cm high and doesn't show any signs of flowers yet. 🙈
Your ideas are good and you are a happy gardener 💕
how about never buy, and everyone share with thy neighbor? barter/trade
Rocket, and by rocket I mean the thin, jagged leaved arugula (I call the round-lobed plant arugula, and this one rocket, rightly or wrongly). It grows for me in NE Ohio (6A) best in spring and into summer before going to seed, and if I keep it fairly short clipped, it produces for a very long time. Having let my rocket go to seed for the last 2 years, it now has covered a good portion of one bed to the extent it looks like a weed or, in my view, a very tasty cover-crop (and as I tend to walk on it, it pops right back up the next day). It is a tough decision to remove/relocate (or just eat) from around my tomatoes as water becomes an issue, but seeing as how I save all my greens-washing water in 5 gal buckets and use it on the garden, this year I've decided to see if the mass of rocket affects my tomato production. I'm thinking it won't, and honestly, it is a rare thing to not have more than enough tomatoes, so a slight reduction is fine if that means loads of self-seeding rocket.
Do wish I had some chickens! One day, one day…
You have some amazing gardens and they are beautiful! Thank you for making this video and showing them.
Quick question: What variety of field beans are you growing at the end of the video? I've never seen a bean which grows off the main stalk like that and I'm very curious.
Thank you.
Very cool
I love a forage hedge!
its hard for me to deal with re seeding annuals because i cant tell weed from not weed until its a bit late. i strongly prefer perennials. however i am certain others will use this.
Was the yellow rose called “gently?” The time you spent inhaling it’s scent was a lovely bit of film and quite endearing. I find many of your videos to be so meditative. They are full of great information, insight and inspiration, but also are just so lovely. Very well done, Huw!
Huw, you are a bright light on youtube and a great example as a gardener and as a person. I read your book The Vegetable Grower's Handbook in one go. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and inspiration. Greetings from the Netherlands 🙏
Thank you Hugh for making the correction.
I would like to extend a random THANK YOU to you.
My garden is beautiful this year. It's my happy place and of the numerous gardeners I've followed and learned from you're my absolute favorite. ❤
My health is everything to me so the more I learn and understand the more accomplished I can be at this. Thank you. Thank you for sharing and teaching. I appreciate Sam's recipes and input as well however, U DA MAN HUGH!
Thx. Love. H
I never plant perpetual spinach after giving some to my pet rabbit and found it dead the day after. No marks or injuries at all. It must have been oxalate poisoning from the high oxalic levels in the spinach beet.
Thank you, Mr. Huw, thank you.
Loved the video a lot and I saved it for later . I have a huge balcony and a terrace. Id love a little garden but im grateful for what I have. Remodeling my house so in a near future I ll start a garden , for that reason I save videos that I know they r gonna b useful for me 🙂 Loved a lot the moment feeding the chickens …. gorgeous !
Horseradish comes up every year. Rocket also.
Amazing, unique tips as always 👍just one thing: you removed the roots. Youre a permie guy so I found that strange…
Hey Huw and team, I was wondering whether you can share some good (online) sources to get a nice variety of seeds since most my local sources only sell the same types of lettuce and carrot seeds for example. Thanks!
Hi Huw, can you cover making jidan foliar spray in detail again please? I have had two failed attempts. 🤔Mine just goes mouldy and no liquid. Lovely to see the chickens. Great video. 😁
Lemon basil is amazing. It makes a wonderful cold tea!
@6:45 is that sugar snap peas? OMG