Full Garden Tour | Self Sufficient Vegetable Garden - almost! (June 2022)

[@LizZorab]

Recommended video to watch next kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXuZoaicqp6fqbs How to Fill a Deep Raised Bed | Hugelkultur style raised bed gardening.

[@ShiningStarsOfficial77]

Thanks for sharing

[@exeterbeekeeper]

I have done my own version of this. It will great to compare notes. When starting with a lot of new raised beds this is a useful way on saving on soil and compost in the short term

[@LianaHappens]

Liz, I loved the memories of your dad and the socks-very much. I think it’s magic that you’re walking around in your own gardens, wearing dad’s socks. I wonder if it wouldn’t be a great gift for your children to write some of those pieces of your history somewhere.❤️

[@ShiningStarsOfficial77]

I really enjoyed and want to appreciate your effort. I am sure so many people will get benefits from it and will learn from you. It is very important to grow vegetables and eat fresh. It is also good for stress and mental health problems. My parents also very good in growing vegetables. Best wishes from Aberdeen

[@jamellakhanworrell904]

Liz, no one would know that this is a new garden that you started. Everything looks so beautiful and healthy!

[@Peterharte73]

New garden coming along nicely Liz It's alot of hard work but worth it 👍

[@karenw9996]

Always a joy to watch your gardens progress. What's especially fun is that there seem to be a lot of plants grown in the UK that aren't popular in the US, so I'm always learning about new things I might try. I've learned skirret doesn't grow in my zone, and although I had heard hollyhocks are edible & medicinal, I have never heard HOW you eat them until you mentioned the small flower buds. Mine self-seed and are quite prolific - I would guess easily 75 plants (in a 2500 sq. ft. area), mostly edging my patio and on the dirt pile formed when scraping away topsoil before pouring the concrete for the patio. I'd never tried digging them up but they overran my strawberries this year, so I dug up and gave away nine plants. Most exciting, I have people waiting on seeds in a few months - some will go to the oldest continuously operated family farm (6 generations, I believe) in a neighboring state, and some will go to a woman in Alabama who has been unsuccessful growing them (I'm hoping the vigor of self-seeded-more-than-20-years plants will grow for her). It would be lovely to live in the UK and be able to visit your acreage, and attend classes that you offer, but at least I can see it virtually.

[@sarah369.]

💚Peace joy kindness to everyone listening and Liz 🕊🇬🇧

[@tonymatthews445]

Awesome FYI - my garlic also had rust. My first lot of early potatoes are on my plate, but my courgettes are tiny :(

[@izzywizzy2361]

You are amazingly organised and effective in carrying out your vision! I am in awe

[@LizZorab]

Thank you so much for your kindness. I don't feel as organised as it looks 😂

[@King_of_carrot_flowers]

The Cantebury bells will will be biennial. If you want a perennial campanula for cut flowers, go with the Campanula perscifolia or C. glomerata

[@LianaHappens]

Brilliant name! Signed Neutral Milk Hotel.❤️

[@emdorris3319]

Liz, it looks so great with the wood chips down in your paths. It is very pretty.

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

Red Acre - That's the red cabbage I have. I like it!

[@lynmaunsell4062]

Gosh, you’ve got so much growing after being there for only a short time. Lovely to see it all.

[@LizZorab]

Thanks so much! 😊

[@michelleadams2997]

Not many cabbage whites in my garden either, I’m in the midlands, bit worrying really

[@lynnpurfield9430]

The garden is looking so good already Liz. We still haven't seen cabbage whites yet. June is usually a busy time for them and we have had lots of sunshine.

[@barbarahimmelbauer-mayer340]

Your garden comes along really beautifully! I especially like the mixture of vegetables and flowers!

[@LizZorab]

Thank you so much 😊 The mix means we are already getting pollinators visiting the garden - yay!

[@jaysea4916]

Best video ever! The garden looks amazing!

[@carlyamandaart]

It’s all looking amazing Liz. We had our first cabbage white butterflies this week, here in East Anglia, so they could be with you soon! X

[@judifarrington9461]

Your garden is so beautiful!! I appreciate your sharing how you keep Monty out of your beds. We recently got two new kittens, and well, you know how it is. Lol. Thanks for the ideas!

[@LizZorab]

Awww, kittens!

[@delphinium5555]

So enjoyed seeing so much accomplished in just a year. It's lovely to see in detail what is in each bed, thank you.

[@Mountainviewfarm2022]

Everything looking great liz 😍 👌

[@missourigirl4101]

You are doing fantastic things in the garden. I’m amazed how fast you guys are doing all this. Wow!

[@leatonveg]

Looking great. Kind of garden I’m aiming for

[@LizZorab]

It doesn't take long to make - thankfully!

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

I love the fact you have so much going on in each bed - now I know why Mr J finds it difficult to understand your planning! Looking forward to seeing next month's tour already - it's going to be glorious!

[@ShiningStarsOfficial77]

Oh yes, I am very excited for the next month tour as well. Her garden is fantastic.

[@LizZorab]

Thanks Jane, I do love the look of a neat veg bed, but I like the chaos and jumbly mix of flowers and leaves too. I know which the wildlife prefers 🌻🍆🌼🍓

[@gardenonthemoors]

Loads growing amazingly! I think a lot of people are noticing fewer butterflies this year, we also haven't had any cabbage whites and are further south than yourself.

[@redsoilgardener]

What an awesome garden Liz. Well organised too..

[@LizZorab]

Thanks so much! 😊

[@casey2401]

Precious Liz, you are a treasure as always. You teach & lead with such value & strength. I must tell you that you’re also a soothing soul. I like to play your videos (as I was this one) as calming background sounds. Charles Dowding’s another gem I can do this with. Thank you for sharing & always wishing ya’ll much love & abundance in life. ✌🏻🖤✨

[@LizZorab]

Thank you so much 🤗

[@ShiningStarsOfficial77]

Her work is great and we can easily learn from her videos.

[@cadalot58]

I love the way you mix up your beds, I tend to have beds of a particular plants and I rotate the layout year on year. This year I've made a couple of Square Foot Gardening Beds and I'm trying to do more of the type of planting up you are doing with mixing things up a bit. So wish I had made my Asparagus beds high and like yours to keep the weeds down to a minimum.

[@anapaulacrawford5837]

Such a beautiful garden ypu have ! Everything looks so good . God bless.

[@ShiningStarsOfficial77]

Keep sharing your good work with us please

[@LizZorab]

Thank you, I will 😃

[@ShiningStarsOfficial77]

@@LizZorab thanks very much.

[@sandideak4125]

Lovely garden tour, Liz! You are such an inspiration! Thank you!💖

[@LizZorab]

Thank you so much Sandi!

[@nenemaria-cornfieldsgarden]

Everything is filling in great! Love the mix of edibles and flowers, it looks so bright and cheerful. I've not seen any cabbage whites yet this year either, I don't know if they're late or not but I'm sure we'll all be overrun soon haha.

[@annlewis7279]

I have only seen the occasional cabbage white in my garden in Georgia, USA. They seem to show up every 2 weeks for about two days.

[@BlessingsfromNorthIdaho]

Quite nice!❤️

[@suzannerobinson6086]

Your garden is coming along beautifully.👍😊

[@LizZorab]

Thanks Suzanne!

[@suzannerobinson6086]

@@LizZorab you are welcome 🙂

[@jennyjohnson9012]

It all looks brilliant Liz. I always think its fun when you put something in and it comes up as something else!! My failures are always beetroot and radish. One just doesnt get a decent size and the other is always woody. Any tips? I mix flowers with my veg same as you, its so good for pollinators and looks wonderful. Another great video!

[@rachalnocchi5600]

Your beds look wonderful! I am rather new to gardening and one lesson I learned the hard way is that in my area (Georgia, USA) I need to plant brassicas in the fall for a winter crop. Our spring and summer are just way too hot! I have watermelons, zucchini, peppers and tomatoes going. My herb garden bed is doing wonderful this year! I have sweet mint, oregano, lemon thyme, basil, and bee balm. Not a ton going on, but things I can handle in our intense heat and humidity. ❤

[@LizZorab]

I've heard that it gets incredibly hot in Georgia - not something that happens here very often!

[@rachalnocchi5600]

@@LizZorab Yes ma'am it sure does! Typical for this time of year is 34C (95F) with about 40 to 55% humidity. Ugh!

[@bertibear1300]

My garlic is covered in rust too.

[@matthewphillips778]

Have just planted asparagus as well and Swedes and turnips. Your garden is looking great.

[@LizZorab]

Thank you! Now we both have that long wait until we can harvest any asparagus 🌿

[@bristolveggiebeds5310]

Lovely lupins

[@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead]

A little tip on the swede (rutabaga)...because I was terrible at growing them as well. They just like being left alone, not fussed over, and when you think they're not going to get bigger, they do. I plant them less than the required depth and then thin them to where there's about 6 - 8 inches apart (not the required huge space it says) and they LOOOOOOOOVE water. The more water, the better. I add a little soil up around their root when they get about 6 inches tall and if they look leggy from time to time, I keep doing it, but not much. You don't want to cover where the leaves split off the root. I've figured out kohlrabi are about the same. I love your channel btw. If I had the chance, I'd jump pond in a heartbeat.

[@LizZorab]

Thank you.

[@carolinegray1711]

lovely tour

[@gardentothekitchenwithtracy]

Your garden looks lovely liz,I also have no luck growing swede but still keep trying.Thank you for all the tips I love watching thanks.

[@LizZorab]

Thanks Tracy, your plot looks fabulous too!

[@josephinecronin1195]

We haven’t had any cabbage whites yet either

[@pennythompson4790]

It all looks greatxx

[@stevendowden2579]

all looking great liz

[@LizZorab]

Thank you Steven. I'm so pleased that I filmed yesterday because it's been raining pretty much all day here today!

[@theclumsyprepper]

Your garden looks amazing Liz. Mine is a disaster - it's so cold and wet most of the plants fail to grow. Seems like I will only have onions, garlic, cabbages, apples and some potatoes this year.

[@LizZorab]

It is cold and wet, see my video from two weeks ago in which I talk about this very thing 😃 Gardens usually catch up - usually!

[@ceedee2570]

WOW, it is looking so tidy and lovely. You inspire me.

[@LizZorab]

Thanks so much 😊 It won't stay looking that tidy for long! I'll be pleased when the flowers start self-seeding all through the paths and the perennial veg are bursting out of the beds.

[@ceedee2570]

@@LizZorab I think of that as gardening serendipity.

[@grinnygroggs]

Could you show a flower bed made up entirely of vegetables you’ve grown for their flowers instead of their produce? It would be so Interesting to see the flowers of different plants you usually perhaps pull out of the ground!

[@LizZorab]

Hi Ingrid, the closest that I have is a video I made in 2020 showing how I've mixed lots of vegetables and herbs into an ornamental bed. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKPKiXaEmreZhqM

[@grinnygroggs]

@@LizZorab that’s what inspired my question 💚 it was great, thank you

[@andrewferguson7762]

thanks for the video I learned loads, never ever heard of Yacon, would like to know more, thoroughly intrigued

[@LizZorab]

I have a video coming very soon with more details about yacon and other perennial veg.

[@KH-nn6kh]

Perhaps there were videos about the raised beds, but I could not find them. I know a HUGE and basic topic. I am trying to repair/build garden beds that are neglected, rotting and falling apart, in my parents garden. I am now caring for my Mom who has Alzheimer. I don't have lots of tools. What to consider in building raised beds, including to your hoops and trellis, for climbing veg. Compost and soil a later topic. Perhaps too late this year. But again, a topic of maybe some crop not too late.. and How to prepare for next year.

[@LizZorab]

There are several videos showing how I made the various different raised beds and repaired others. I'll try to put them all in a playlist and then I'll share the link with you.

[@KH-nn6kh]

Ahh, thank you so very much! Too kind!

[@jeannettedsouza1410]

Thank you for this beautiful video dear Liz and for the valuable information that you always provide🤩💐. Please could you advise what is the best food for brassicas, beans and potatoes please, I am growing organic and although not in a rush to see them grow bigger yet I want them to grow tasty. Last year my broccoli and potato did not have much taste into them although they looked really very good. Besides mulch could you kindly advice what are the better ways to feed the plants. Thank you. 🙏🏼

[@LizZorab]

Homemade compost is the best food for almost everything!

[@jeannettedsouza1410]

@@LizZorab thanks dear Liz🙏

[@yeschefeastmidlands5503]

Hi Liz I love your videos as always,your such an inspiration .I was wondering what Camera and mic you use for your videos?

[@julieanderson5184]

Lovely!

[@LizZorab]

Thank you!

[@ninjabrown8560]

hi there! i've been loving your videos :) if i may ask, how many hours would you say you spend a week working on your vegetable garden for it to be truely productive? i know it's kinda how long is a piece of string question but im just curious because i would love to be 90% self sufficient from my vegetable garden one day but i dont know if its possible with a full time job. Thank you for any help :)

[@LizZorab]

The setting up phase, making the raised beds etc. has taken quite a bit of time. After it's ready, the planting, weeding and care etc. probably about 2-4 hours a week. The harvesting and preparing it for storage, on the other hand, can take quite a lot of time, depending on how you preserve it (bung in the freezer is fastest!). I work full-time creating videos and writing, so the garden has to work around those hours, but because I work for myself, I can choose those hours to fit in with my gardening. 😃🌼🌻

[@chrisfiller465]

Hey Liz, loving you garden and all of you vids. Tell me what you would use bergamot for please? Never grown it so don’t know much about it.

[@LizZorab]

I use it in flower arrangements, pot pourri and you can use it to add to infusions (it's the floral scent in Earl Grey tea). Above all, the leaves just smell amazing when you brush against them in the garden and the flowers are incredibly pretty.

[@billiverschoore2466]

and Monarda fistulosa is the medicinal one, very easy to grow from seed 🍀

[@missourigirl4101]

Liz- where did you get your little bed hoops and coverings? So cool and I need some

[@LizZorab]

MDPE piping from a builders merchant and scaffold debris netting or soft butterfly netting (needs to be butterfly netting, not bird netting).

[@pnwgardenergal1325]

Question about your Yacon. Do your Yacon Winter over in the ground ?

[@LizZorab]

No, I treat it as a tender perennial, lift the tubers once the foliage has blackened and store in a cool place, then start them off in pots in the spring to plant out when frost is past.

[@pnwgardenergal1325]

@@LizZorab Thank you !

[@Hhaahland4]

Hi Liz what is the plant with the tall orange spires in bed #7?

[@LizZorab]

It's an Eremurus, the variety is either Cleopatra or Pinokkio (I have both and I'm not sure which it is).

[@Hhaahland4]

That was a quick answer, thank you.

[@Hhaahland4]

Life is full of bizarre coincidences…. I’d just been looking for Foxtail Lily seeds online today and turns out their botanical name is Eremurus 😁 Didn’t know they came in orange.

[@billiverschoore2466]

E. 'Cleopatra' grows to 2m...

[@lamperdsfield]

I’m growing chard for the first time, but I don’t like the taste. Any tips on how to use it in the kitchen?

[@LizZorab]

Use small leaves (up to 4 inches long) in salads. I remove the green leafy bit from the larger stems, chop the stems and then roast them in a tray of mixed vegetables - it has quite an earthy taste, but if you like beetroot, then you might like the roasted stems. The larger leaves I have to disguise in food - stir fry type meals - because I don't like the taste of it much either. I think it's much better as a baby leaf, but the plants are so fantastic when they go to seed that they are worth having in the garden.

[@lamperdsfield]

@@LizZorab thanks, will try as baby leaves with salads 😊

[@adinanicolae9774]

Hi, this year I have a passion for beans, especially runner beans. I am curious If You found out in the meantime what kinds of runner beans can we overwinter. Watching your videos, I saw that You love greek Gigantes, and I went to a lot of trouble to get some seeds, I ordered from Ukraine (🙃) hoping The package will arrive and risking to lose money, because of the war, and then I went to the store ( Mega image) where they have also some greek products, and I found the greek Gigantes, by 500g for so much less money! (0,17 GBP în your money, I live in Romania) I tried with them, soaked them in water and planted them all around the yard! ( I can fool around as I want with 500g soaked beans!! 😀) They grow well, I have them on the fence, the soil is bad, but i am working on it. I am very anxious to see the results, the crop in the end. Thank You for the tip! And the question: do they overwinter? Do You know what sortiments do overwinter? Please let me know! Have a nice day!

[@LizZorab]

Hi Adina, runner beans can overwinter depending on where you are in the world. Here in UK, cut them back at the end of the season and leave about 4-6 inches of stem above the soil. Then give them a nice mulch of compost or used animal bedding (about 4 inches). In early June, move the mulch away from the stems and they often, but not always, regrow. I quite often think that they won't regrow, but they are later to appear than you might think, so don't give up on them until late June or mid July.

[@adinanicolae9774]

Do the greek Gigantes overwinter?

[@ohmystarnes8199]

Hello. With the leeks. Do you push in the soil around the plant after putting in the hole? Or is there a reason you didn’t mention that? Not being facetious I just transplanted my leeks and I’m wondering if I did something wrong.

[@LizZorab]

You can push the soil into the hole, but you don't need to because the water will push a little in and the loose soil makes it easier for the leek to grow wide as well as tall.

[@fivetopsfarm8061]

It's looking fabulous Liz!!

[@LizZorab]

Aw, thank you!