Easy Ways to Grow More Food | Homestead Garden Tour in May

[@LizZorab]

Which are your favourite plants for growing together in a polyculture or as companion plants?

[@guylamullins3602]

Rhubarb, asparagas and parsley seem to do well together.

[@emmagudge6052]

I would really like to know more about canning. I’ve dabbled a bit but lost my nerve and most of the you tube info is from America. Would you consider an episode on how you do canning, what resources you use etc..? 😊

[@Ceebi7]

Just popping in here to say that you've been a huge inspiration for the way I garden! Thank you for that. I turned our tiny grass patch into 4 raised beds and grow many different foods and lots of native and non native flowers and herbs in them and around of course, the more the merrier! The traditional gardeners are amazed and impressed of the results. One day I hope to do this on the scale you are doing it :) Hope you will have a lovely growing season with not too many slugs and some sunshine, fingers crossed. Kinds regards from The Hague

[@LizZorab]

Thank you so much! Your comment has made my day - yay!

[@jpennturner]

One of my pepper plants was poorly and undersized, so I put some torn up bay leaves in the pot. Three weeks later the same pepper plant was outgrowing all the others so now they all have some bay leaves and are doing well!

[@stevendowden2579]

all looking lovely liz

[@LizZorab]

Thank you Steven, the gardens all seem to have found a level of maturity this year.

[@sinkintostillness]

I've lost so much to the slugs this year! Going to have to buy some from the garden centre this year to fill the gaps. I just plant in whatever gaps I have left. I've not had any peas yet, but picked my first few strawberries today!

[@LizZorab]

First strawberries of the year are always rather special - yum!

[@antonyrobinson528]

Beer traps.

[@kerryl4031]

Slug - a 4 letter word in this house! The cats even get them stuck in their fur! Ugh! All my veg beds are netted - the pheasants love dust baths! Looking lovely and productive on your farm. I'm also learning about forage food - which includes nettle tea etc! Who knew you could eat thistles too! I love your flowers too - something I've not really got around to doing much of. Must do better! xx

[@ninemoonplanet]

Two weeks of rain here and I think I found a way to reduce slugs. I noticed one late evening there were gaps along the outside of the pots. I just pushed soil firmly against the outside. Later that week I found far fewer slugs. Obviously an experiment, but I have continued doing that and even after being drenched there are few slugs. I did put copper tape on the upper side of a raised bed but I connected the tape to the steel braces for creating a small electrical charge mostly because the bed was the main source of slugs. Copper touching another metal creates the charge. Now, hopefully with a possible reduction in rain, I will see how my food plants will do. So far, pretty good.

[@thandekalewis3657]

What a wonderful life. That my dream life❤

[@LizZorab]

Thank you, we really enjoy it and are grateful for our circumstances.

[@dragonmaddie]

The slugs are crazy this year. I think it’s because it has been so warm and wet. I so wish I had room for nettles, I love them as a vegetable and also nettle tea.

[@LizZorab]

I think the slugs hide in nettles too, so perhaps you are saved from another slug onslaught!

[@dustyflats3832]

@@LizZoraband I decided to till the nettles up this year 😅. I planted a ton of various saved flower seeds. I tried making nettle fertilizer but it was too much trouble and stunk.

[@sarahsallotmentjourney]

This year I have sowed seeds direct into the ground . I hope I’m half as successful as you are . What a lovely big space you have

[@kathybolger3939]

Hi liz how are you canning? Is it water bathing or did you manage to get a pressure canner? And what jars and lids did you get ? Can you please do video on preserving your food ?

[@LizZorab]

Hi Kathy, I use a pressure canner for most things. Will consider doing a canning video.

[@kathybolger3939]

@@LizZorab Thank you Liz a canning video would be greatly appreciated and maybe information on where to get the jars and pressure canners please

[@dollyperry3020]

Your lupins are amazing!!

[@cecilialind9474]

Excellent bean structure!!

[@LizZorab]

Thank you, it was designed after years of losing my bean supports to the high winds that seem to arrive in August each year, just when the canes are heavily laden with plants.

[@dustyflats3832]

I’ve revived rhubarb with a handful of bonemeal when I moved them. The plants were nearly goners and they came back huge. They were being taken over by trees and shade so I moved them to full sun.

[@juliehartley3652]

I like to grow rhubarb and strawberries together. And I have also seen that rhubarb is good near brassicas so I am experimenting with that at the moment. Planted some purple sprouting broccoli next to my rhubarb. I also like to plant peas and beans near each other and put some tomatoes close by. I too love to do companion planting - I think that all the same crop all close together encourages pests - so I love to mix things up a bit. Your garden looks really lovely. Thanks for showing us around it. 👍😊

[@LizZorab]

A bit of companion planting, a bit of polyculture, it all helps biodiversity in our gardens!

[@utubemouse]

Enjoyed the tour and tips. The outward-leaning bean support is an idea to try. Thanks!

[@LizZorab]

Glad that you enjoyed it!

[@gardentours]

Polyculture and succession planting is a great way to grow more food 🌝👍

[@millwana]

poppies and lettuce for their medicinal pain killing properties😁 big love

[@tracieharrison3180]

My two eggplants are doing great planted in a raised bed with clematis, basil, stevia and gaura. It seems like everything else is getting eaten by slugs and earwigs. Your garden is beautiful. I enjoyed the tour.

[@margaretsofocleous1999]

Amazing Liz. You really work hard

[@prubroughton1864]

I feed each of my rhubarb plants a bag of animal manure at least per year 😊

[@LizZorab]

Sounds great!

[@bettyadkisson1681]

Cover your rhubarb and black raspberries with munched oak leaves ever winter and spring it feeds them well.

[@nooie99]

Looking good liz. In such a short time. Would love to see a more in depth tour of the poly tunnel. Please.

[@LizZorab]

Will do a tour when it has more going on in it. Around 1/3rd of it is used for teaching purposes and workshops and I didn't feel up to planting it up earlier in the year, so it looks fairly sparse at the moment.

[@nooie99]

@@LizZorab fully understand. Winter not a good time for me. This year gone has been dreadful. Not really planted anything apart from my red peppers. Earlier in year. And only just put a few seeds in. I think this year will be a wash out for mw. Mojo left the building.

[@louise2209]

The slugs are eating almost everything! On the plus side, my rhubarb is (2 year, so no harvest) huge. However, I am on very free draining, warm ground (chalk). It’s mulched with wood chip as it’s in my mini food forest and next to a thornless blackberry.

[@D4ni3773]

Great video!

[@LizZorab]

Thanks!

[@ErnieCG]

We had daffodills growing and tulips grown from the former council tenant and they come up every year.

[@Passionbloom52]

I am trying out Sweetcorn . Peas , cabbages & Brussels this year 😁

[@LizZorab]

Sounds great!

[@evalindell2757]

What material are the black bows you use for netting? So nice compared to my white that are made to be for electrical things! Love the way you mingle flowers and vegetables! 👌

[@emmakavanagh3485]

Just discovered your channel, fab! Do you do videos on how to preserve your produce?

[@ronaldlucas5360]

Nice video 👌

[@LizZorab]

Thanks for the visit!

[@BumblebeeAdventure]

🐝Thanks for the great video 🌻

[@LizZorab]

Thanks for watching, it's much appreciated!

[@hikerlindacanadianrockies8478]

I'm envious of your lupins! I don't do a lot of polyculture - I keep thinking I should try it, but my thinking tends to be a bit linear when I'm planning the beds.

[@wineberryfarm6445]

Liz, the chive and the lupine looks so beautiful. I’ve let my parsnips go to seed. Also, could I plant them this year or do I need to let the seeds winter them over? I love planting basil, my tomatoes and marigolds.💕

[@SkincaregardenKaraB]

I just found your channel and have been binge watching for last couple of days. So far I love it and I will have to order your guide. But, question we have thousands of crickets where we are at. I love your netting idea but, not sure it will keep them out. They have already eaten two rounds of Brussel sprouts and kale. Any clue on what I can do? I have bought Toile and tubing to put up as it’s small wholes. Any other ideas?

[@jpennturner]

Can you make your journal pocket size?

[@LizZorab]

It folds in half lengthways and fits into the back pocket of my jeans.

[@theirishcountrywoman6218]

Seriously it been 3yrs since you moved?? Where is the time going???😮

[@LizZorab]

Yes, 3 years at the end of June! Time goes by so quickly in the summer and autumn and then seems to drag on endlessly during the winter!

[@dustyflats3832]

@@LizZorabI dread the winter here in northern US. And yes, time goes fast-except then.

[@joanneoverstreet72]

😊💚🌱🌻🐝

[@sqeekable]

lol, the black rubber hands are so non organic, freak me out. Look away, look away.