9 KEY Opportunities for Homegrown Self-Sufficiency in Autumn🍂

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[@lemonyskunkketts7781]

I have implemented just about every style of bed into my garden. Raised beds, in ground, hill bed, sublevel in ground bed, and worm bed. My favorite raised beds are well stacked stones and filled in. The stones create homes for predator insects and small lizards, as well as crickets, which keep the lizards around. Very scenic. Never stop creating and growing! Happy Autumn

[@socloseagain4298]

That sounds so cool! But how do you stack the stones so they dont just fall apart?

[@lemonyskunkketts7781]

@@socloseagain4298 You make sure you have some stones that are protruding towards the inside, and as you stack layer by layer, you gradually fill it in with soil. The soil will act like the glue that holds it along with the weight. Water it in as you go. Eventually you have a round, or whatever shape, garden bed made free with just cost of labor.

[@lemonyskunkketts7781]

@@socloseagain4298 You must groove the most correct stones together, eventually they will all hold each other. It takes some time.

[@socloseagain4298]

Thanks for the tips 🙂@@lemonyskunkketts7781

[@UllricLex]

Sounds cool. Did you collect all the stones in nature. Must be a lot of hauling 🙂

[@angieburrell5373]

Hey Huw, You do so much for the gardening world. Perhaps you need to take a break over the winter months and not push yourself so hard. So many achievements this year.... I recognise the signs... give yourself a break before it catches up with you healthwise. Sent with care and concern.

[@HuwRichards]

Sorry I was just trying to do a one take video and I really enjoyed filming it but sadly that might not have come across😂 I feel incredibly good and energized, perhaps more than ever before to be honest

[@joannc147]

Seeds = Currency…… yes, Sir! lovely presentation today. The notes are a nice touch! 👍🏻

[@georgeasgautr]

Thanks for clearing up what those things are that fall off trees, always wondered what they were, learn something new everyday 😁

[@lydiabond5393]

😂

[@luisa_4120]

LOVE you videos (and your accent 😂) cant get enough of them! Thank you

[@paulamcgivern8552]

Thank you Huw, Im loving your style atm so free, curious and real. My allotment plot looks messy - Im told!- compared to the dug, flat, brown, cleared traditional (sad looking )plots and allotments and your plot is like a bigger version of mine, though I havent yet got my polytunnel.Maybe my autumn project? Happy Autumn

[@myrustygarden]

😂😂 9 well 11. I’m clearing beds and mowing my lawn/leaves too this week. Lovely update Huw have a great weekend, Ali 🌧️🌦️🌦️🇨🇦

[@socloseagain4298]

Mr Huw, I miss your more frequent video uploads so much! 🙂

[@growinginportland]

Hi my name is Aaron from growing in Portland. I’m learning to save seeds much to learn. Hope all is well. Take care.

[@elizabethfairhead3405]

So inspired by all your ideas, thank you! I’m spreading the hedge clippings on my veg garden paths, deciduous and evergreen. No time to chop them, but I did it last year and they broke down eventually.

[@NorthbertR]

Just got my allotment :-) I was wandering what can I do to prepare it for next spring :-) Thank you for that video.

[@Snappypantsdance]

He has so many videos that you’ll want to go back and binge on:).

[@grossindecency]

Easy answer? Mulch. Cover crops are a healthier alternative. And a cover crop WITH mulch is just crazy enough to work.

[@tompearce3610]

We tried no-dig, never looked back. Over the top of whatever weeds are growing, double layer of cardboard, overlapping so no light. Layer of compost on top. All the weeds rot, feed the soil and plant life. Maintains soil structure so you can walk on it all year round and just trowel to plant module seedlings for almost everything or direct sow. Because the soil isn't disturbed, few weeds through season. Compost an outlay initially so some just use cardboard and when planting just remove any that isn't rotted - you start the season with a weed free plot - saves hours even if you like to dig. Huw has covered this and Charles Dowding whose videos on this topic are good. The other thing we learnt for paths was cardboard then wood chip on top - no mowing nor environment for slugs, snails, leather jackets, etc. Can also put things to compost underneath as rots and feeds the soil.

[@helenstewart2085]

Whenever a crop/plant finishes if the chooks can eat it, they get it, my vegetable area in the autumn only needs tomato, pumpkin/Curbits, climbing beans and corn plants to be removed either to compost or burn pile. Once removed areas either raked ready for the next crop or mulched/composted.

[@RestoredNaturalLiving]

This is great! Love your videos. We just built what we call a sunhouse, similar idea, we can go there in the winter as well 🥶

[@Silvereagledude]

Good stuff, Huw

[@cassieoz1702]

I dont end up with as much compost as i should because the housecow and chickens eat the plants i pull out 😉. Of course, I get manure in return. Very few deciduous trees here too. I get to minus 8C here but my veg garden grows actively all winter (leeks, onions, brassicas, chard and cold tolerant lettuce).

[@UllricLex]

Would be so cool to visit you in Wales together with other people. I laughed a lot when I read in your newsletter that your colleague Neil is so exited about a new shed and had 3 dreams cause of this shed 😂

[@ewahay7909]

A quick question- how, where and for how long do you store your comfrey "molasses", please? Would love to try it straight away and do not want to ruin it. Have been learning from you for over two years now - can not even express how grateful I am. Thank you so much and take care!

[@gardenonthemoors]

Great tips! Thanks for sharing

[@invokalink162]

Love Autumn! The most beautiful season. Been chopping up scavenged wood for the winter fires in our pit. Roll on Nov 5th! The compost pile is high but can always be higher! The seed box is ram packed! :) Am i crazy or... Did i see you drive passed us at the Teifi pools a few weeks ago?

[@HuwRichards]

It really is so beautiful!! No it was definitely me, or most probably as I go there every few weeks:)

[@invokalink162]

@@HuwRichards I bloody knew it!?!?! 🤣KZbinr in the wild! 🤣 What a wonderful place it is. Have you been to the other end to the Edan valley? Gorgeous too, but rather more touristy of course. 😉 The isolation of Teifi pools is what makes it so special. We're keen history nuts and first came across it when visiting Strata Florida. Soon became one of our favourite places. 🙂

[@anika4858]

Could you please do a video on how and when to propagate berries and other perennials.

[@GARDENER42]

Sow multisown leeks 3-4 weeks later than single plantings. That way they don't go to seed.

[@shawnamuschamp8972]

💙💙💙

[@hannaolsson3445]

❤

[@sherriarnone-wheat3634]

What material(s) could you use besides plastic to cover that polytunnel? I'd like to put one in my backyard. I'm in zone 4-5.

[@locke6531]

👍

[@meloniestewart2940]

🙏🏼👍

[@ChrisJohnson-pd4hh]

What were those things that fell of the trees called again?

[@HuwRichards]

Can't remember 😂

[@LahuertadeDonato]

Subtitule Español 🙏

[@60new]

Huw your not yourself 😢 hope whatever happening in your life I pray 🙏🏾 for healing ❤️‍🩹…

[@HuwRichards]

I'm great we were just trying to do a one take video. I've literally never felt better in my life at the moment too. So obviously I won't do one takes again if it gives incorrect impressions