Thinly sliced fennel bulbs make a spectacular salad with oranges; I like blood oranges best for this salad. Search "Sicilian fennel salad" for endless delicious variations!

You’ve just reminded me to plant some basil!!

In a food forest, you have to simply do nothing

It's gotta be 'BASIL'. There's a shocker Huw 😂

0:33 Purple sprouting broccoli 2:00 Peas 3:10 Leeks 4:10 Leafy greens - lettuce, perpetual spinach, chard 5:25 Florence fennel (Rondo) 6:36 Winter squash 7:28 Potatoes (lots) 7:54 Basil 8:29 Perennial (climbing) nasturtium

what a lovely lovely lady, such a thoughtful and heartfelt and authentic approach she has. i would give her a big warm warm hug if i saw her live. this video is healing. thank you so much for posting her story. i wish her all the very best. we need more people like her. 🤍🌞

I'm with you! And I say that as a no-dig gardener myself. Dogmatism is unhealthy for everyone involved. I've learned a lot from no-dig ("minimal disturbance" 👍), which in itself breaks some old dogmas, but I'm not religious about it. Same thing with permaculture, which can also become dogmatic, sectarian even. I try to learn and apply the _principles_ of various methods, not simply adhere to any rules they may prescribe. That requires understanding _how_ they work, not just believing blindly _that_ they work. The result is my own style of gardening, which is always evolving from year to year. I only have one quibble with broadforking (every year), that it breaks up the mycorrhiza networks in the soil. I'm sure the fungi will recover if it's not done too often, but I'd be cautious not to overdo it. It's also a very expensive tool, which could make you feel you should use it more often than what's necessary. That said, I'm all for using a broadfork to break up compaction! I've even used a rototiller before establishing no-dig beds, sometimes that is necessary. As long as it's done to improve the soil food web in the long run.

I was excited to see that you had tackled the issue of a garden full of weeds. I've been gradually working on my 1/3rd acre plot that has never been a garden and found some methods of tackling the weeds (especially hemlock and ox tongue) work better than others. It would be so helpful to get your suggestions but the blog post you reference is no longer available. Is this topic one you can re-publish somehow to help those of us trying to create a garden out of a wild and unkempt piece of land?

Champion weeds, and your a champ too mate, great content to help people grow healthy food in the simplest most effective and efficient ways, life can be so simple yet so enriching if we go back to basics, thankyou for being dedicated to show and demonstrate that!

What’s the botanical name of the perennial nasturtium? I’m having no luck googling it. TIA

That was beautiful. She is lovely and her garden is what a garden aspires to be. Loved.

cool

You look like a young Paul Hollywood

Came across this video and I have to say a few things. 1. You're an absolute gem for putting in all that work and working out the statistics. 2. Thank you so much for putting it all in a book for other people to use. 3. I am buying that book and I hope others do too.

I am so thankful for you, Huw! I hear Great Britain may be facing a serious food shortage this year. I hope and pray people are inspired by your videos and workshops and start growing their own food ... and maybe consider growing extra, if possible, to share. Bless you!

Cream of Fennel soup with Pernod is my favourite! Don't knock it 'til you've tasted it. 😍

I understand that dried nettle leaves, brewed as a tea, really helps againsr Hayfewer!😊

I have my US copy of your book on preorder and I’m so excited for it!

You can totally grow your own food. But unless you have big amounts of land, its unlikely to be self-sustainable. The major benefit though, is that you decide what goes into growing that food. If you want it to be pesticide free, you can make it pesticide free. If you want organic, go organic. The best part is that you have almost full control of your own food (excluding the water quality, that's dependent on where you live, unless you use a pre-filter for your farm/garden). I personally grow some things, usually herbs and spices, and small but expensive ingredients.

I am a big fan and believer as I also grow as much as I can for self sufficiency, but, making the comparison for cost with Waitrose is absurd at best (for non UK people, it’s our most expensive supermarket - by a long shot). I’d be curious to know how it would size up against Aldi, I bet the estimated cost would be at least half!

I’m enthralled with your innate talent of making bean plants THE most interesting veg. Great tips!

Dont put your weed in water, silly :D

Marijuana

Anxiously awaiting your book across the pond. I grew leeks for the first time over the winter. Still have a few more to harvest. Like to douse them with olive oil and roast them. Also roasted leek scapes. They taste like asparagus with a hint of onion. Yum.😊

I absolutely love watching your videos. Can't wait to get the book.

Ha I just discovered the plant label hack for myself, although I used one of the large Clover tubs.

I'm from Indonesia, I want to ask about any flowers, please repel the whitefly bugs, the leaves often turn yellow, the leaves wrinkle, camphor fertilizer, which is good to use, fruit, please get another stone, sometimes the roots rot, wilt

Seeing this literally my soul healed

Very nice garden👍

great tips thanks a bunch

Great vid Huw. Just out of curiosity, do you have a new mic? I found it a little bass-y on my end compared to your usual vids. Sounded like you were doing a Brian Blessed impression!

Where can I get these perennial nasturtiums?

OMG - How can anyone take so darn long to get to the point??? Some folks just love to hear themselves talk I think.

Does perennial spinach survive frost?

I was watching the subtitles and it kept saying Neriums while I was looking at nasturtiums. Neriums are deadly poisonous, of course. Please consider writing up your scripts and uploading proper subtitles rather than relying on the automatic nonsense generators. Captions are very important for accessibility for the deaf.

We can't grow purple sprouting brocolli!! Maybe it's too warm here?? They grow enormous and do not flower

I ate raw nettle tips while backpacking the Long Trail in Vermont. They are very prolific all along the southern half of the trail.

Are you freely handling nettle weed??? It stings!

Cheers Huw. ♻️Happy gardening, Terry King.

My wife grew peas last year, but I never had any, as she would eat them all in the garden while picking them... 😢

mate, i think your mic might need a fix

I use nettles in soup (my fav), stewed as sidedish, in pies, pastadough or like lasagna or sauce, gnocchi and the seeds on top of youghurt or in smoothies. Living up north in Sweden we have a short growing season and have to wait for the harvest of veggies so they are a nice contribution to my food in May/June. After a couple of harvest I cut them down, put the stems in a waterbarrel and make fertiliser from them, Then I got a second and fourth harvest from the plants I have cut down. So versatile, love them!

How do you keep the snails off the purple sprouting broccoli? My plants have been decimated despite my best efforts.

Very helpful video again as usual. I’m in Scotland and can’t seem to be able to source Purple Sprouting Broccoli Clarence that you recommended - only Claret F1. I wonder if you can share a link for your source. Many thanks again for all your videos and excellent new book.

I don't thinl we nettles in the tropics. The closest thing I can think of is jute.

Why are you adding the 'value' of the compost to the amount of money you saved? That makes no sense, as the cost of the compost is already included in the produce you buy at the supermarket (the thing you are comparing it to). That would only makes sense when you sell the compost, this way you are double counting it. Good video otherwise

Brilliant as usual and loving your Self Sufficiency book.

I started Nasturtiums from seed a few years ago and haven't had to buy seed since. Or start my own. They've self sown since then!

I am just eating my last Crown Prince from my harvest last year. Truly a wonderful crop.

That's funny... Last year I potted my tomatoes and stuck them inside the greenhouse. I was a little busy in the following week and the weather wasn't super hot so I figured I could get by without watering the plants. Are you telling me that through my act of selfish laziness I may have inadvertantly created stronger plants? Lol Those tomatoes were delicious though!