Get my soft fruit bundle: directplants.co.uk/the-huw-richards-potted-soft-fruit-bush-and-plant-collection-by-directplants/
@John.Doe-OG Жыл бұрын
Huw, most of the links to your website give a 404 not found error.
@HuwRichards Жыл бұрын
Sorted - thanks!
@ArtemisSilverBow Жыл бұрын
I've bought your seed starting trays and seeds, which are awesome. So glad you offer curated products 😊
@mizsparkie5479 Жыл бұрын
For your posts: in the US, gardeners will put a mailbox on a post in the garden as a place to keep hand tools like trowels and secateurs. If you are walking around with a coffee (or a beer) and see something that needs snipped or dug, you don’t have to go all the way back to the shed to grab a tool.
@connormurphy3085 Жыл бұрын
Huw, you should put bee houses on top of 4 of the poles so you can add more nesting sites for mason, leafcutter, and other types of bees that nest in holes
@JHaven-lg7lj Жыл бұрын
I was thinking hummingbird feeders, too!
@sandraconner6968 Жыл бұрын
People thought I was crazy when I included flowers and dwarf trees into my veggie garden, but it works, and it's beautiful. The addition of ornamental is inviting to people and pollinating insects!
@MB-co6qj Жыл бұрын
For the kitchen, hang a rack there with some hooks to attach kitchen stuff to, like mugs :)
@christinamoxon Жыл бұрын
And maybe a few hanging pots of herbs that make good tea.
@jennythomas4607 Жыл бұрын
This Place just makes me happy. Well done.
@patriciamoore3166 Жыл бұрын
I love that you are positively giddy in this video. The amount of giggling - you are too cute! Love to see all the progress you and the team are making!!
@SiljeMeum Жыл бұрын
I totally agree! Life lacks lustre if you have to contain your giddyness! We are all alowed to enjoy are passions and should do in all ways :D
@PL-wi8rd Жыл бұрын
I had to chuckle about your voice reaction to entering the garden! Now I know that I am among a like minded master gardener! Interacting with our gardens is supreme!!! I love your emphasis of having fun and daring to experiment creatively! Thank you so much, you jus uplifted my whole day😊
@Gardeningchristine Жыл бұрын
I was just about to hop in the shower and needed something to listen to. Perfect timing. I’ll actually watch later. But lovely soothing voice!
@tammyyoung5279 Жыл бұрын
For the posts that you have, have you thought about attaching a rain gutter planting of strawberries? Or herbs? You could attach the rain gutter close to the top, so the strawberries and the underplanting could get lots of sunlight?
@Gardeningchristine Жыл бұрын
@@tammyyoung5279 you put this as a reply to my post. Might also want to post it right in the comments so he might see it.
@darinbennett3638 Жыл бұрын
Huw, I am really enjoying the new videos with both 'relaxed Huw' and 'Professor Richards'! Seeing your gardens at this time is very inspirational for all of us as we near 'go time' in most planting zones. As always, happy for you and proud of you.
@jeanfrancoisfauveau7046 Жыл бұрын
Lov this format ! Way more natural and so warm and personal. Kind of a private tour with you !🤩
@christinamoxon Жыл бұрын
If you're looking for more decorative ideas, those posts would look lovely with solar lights on, or a string of them or bunting between. Not very practical, but pretty 😊 I love the huge amount of progress you're making Huw. You and your team are going amazing work. Thank you for helping those with small growing spaces to make the most of the space to grow. It's a huge benefit for us all. Looking forward to seeing the David Austin roses. I love mine. Xx
@misssummer6387 Жыл бұрын
I agree it might look nice but unfortunately light (light pollution) really messes with a lot of insects, so please look into this and consider the impact.
@guylamullins3602 Жыл бұрын
I love the plotting bench. Good idea. I have metal poles left from the need to move a satellite dish. I could remove them but I use them for planting strawberries in hanging baskets to keep the neighbor’s dog and chipmunks out.
@ButterflyLullabyLtd Жыл бұрын
I'm with you Huw with regards to the peas. My Dad used to grow them in our garden 🏡. As a child I loved to forage for them. Freshly grown peas you can't beat the taste.
@winslowschoolofdance Жыл бұрын
I love the idea of a plotting bench! I must create one how fun and ingenious is that because one does need a place to sit and Hutch new ideas with a visual of the garden. Brilliant!
@chultampala7143 Жыл бұрын
I love these videos. I sometimes imagine I'm witnessing the evolution of a sustainable, ecological friendly corner of Utopia.
@gesahihi5024 Жыл бұрын
Regarding the posts, you could use them to hang some insect hotels. They‘d love your veggies’ blossoms and you‘d get more hard working polinators. 🐝
@lydiabond5393 Жыл бұрын
U are so right! If you hang out more for fun you will see and do more. Having mobility issues at moment but just sitting outside near my raised bed and enjoying the weather lets me see the small weed i otherwise would have passed over.
@AlexBowers Жыл бұрын
For the posts against the polytunnel, growing some espalier apple trees and pear trees could look really good on there. Have it go about 2/3 up the post and connect wires between the posts and then train the fruit trees to grow only along them. RHS Harlow Carr had some really good examples of this
@HuwRichards Жыл бұрын
Great suggestion thank you so much!!
@marijeb278 Жыл бұрын
great one! Those step-over kind of espalier fruit trees are so lovely, and if you can keep them out of reach of rabbits, produce quite good harvests! Keeping the post nearest the entrance of the poly tunnel long, with a few hooks and/or a basket on it is also quite handy. When I'm out and about in the garden, I'm always in need of handy places to put clothes, gardening gloves, seed packets and such.
@sarahtrew9331 Жыл бұрын
Was also thinking maybe adding some bug ‘hotels’ or something for birds; but love the tree idea 😊
@ellenkracikhoffman9530 Жыл бұрын
I was about to comment with a similar idea, only using grape vines on the wires. I love the espalier idea too. Maybe both could be used in tandem. :)
@LeahLovelessWasHere Жыл бұрын
It might be kind of magical to hang some solar lighting from post to post around the tunnel.. maybe some other areas throughout the garden as well. I love lighting around my gardens at night.
@misssummer6387 Жыл бұрын
Please don’t do this or at least limit the time you have the lights on as the artificial light really messes with insects. Please look into the effects of light pollution on wildlife!
@derek-press Жыл бұрын
your videos are so relaxing ,I've got all my potatoes planted and my peas are looking so green and healthy about 6 inches already,chard and onions looking great,I love gardening!
@Evangelon Жыл бұрын
About the posts near the pollytunnel. Run wires and plant steps over apples or grapes.
@hikerlindacanadianrockies8478 Жыл бұрын
I did a potato tower a few years ago, and it did quite well, production wise. This was in Calgary, Alberta Canada, season was end of May to end of September.
@lauraburger8378 Жыл бұрын
Interesting concept. Did you have to fertilize the potato tower regularly? I’m from a town west of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 😊
@sallyweiner4180 Жыл бұрын
Love your channel. Thank you. Here in Chicago we are twiddling our thumbs with impatience for the weather to get just a hair warmer!!!
@marking-time-gardens Жыл бұрын
Amazing progress at the new gardens! So excited to see how the new season comes out! Blessings on your day Kiddo! 🥰🌻🐛💕
@jenniferlroberts5994 Жыл бұрын
Yes! Beautiful functionality. I have a "Camelia Corner."
@rowanwhite3520 Жыл бұрын
The garden is turning out amazing! I would be careful with Hops next to the Japanese Maples. It will ENGULF everything! I have been trying to get rid of it in my garden for years now. It spreads like crazy underground!
@tigercasey1554 Жыл бұрын
Love your gardening - especially the plotting bench😅
@fletchybabe6172 Жыл бұрын
Lovely Japanese Maples, my favourite trees, however, they will get hammered by the wind being out in the open 😕🌱☀️
@emillythomas9161 Жыл бұрын
Love your enthusiasm ❤
@7zerobakes Жыл бұрын
Strawberry towers going up the posts, with maybe a small solar light on top of each. 🍃🍓🍃
@rowanwhite3520 Жыл бұрын
Keep the posts and maybe plant some Clematis at the base of each one. They would be amazing with the David Austin Roses.
@francescopping3810 Жыл бұрын
There is no such thing as an unacceptable amount of peas! lol. There's nothing better than freshly picked peas!
@hoosierpioneer Жыл бұрын
For the poles, hummingbird feeders.
@Uainebmd Жыл бұрын
I love Leonbergers. I have had Bernese Mountain dogs for years, but if I want to change large breed dogs the Leos would be it. Enjoy!
@lynnpurfield9430 Жыл бұрын
Lovely vlog. So impressed with the hot bed 😮😮😮😮
@peterfrance702 Жыл бұрын
Hah! I too invested in a Magnolia 'Susan' this year and a few Japanese Maples.) Also experimenting with 'taters. OK, back to the video,
@lynnpurfield9430 Жыл бұрын
The food serving area looks so smart Huw.
@annettevanderklippe1653 Жыл бұрын
Those posts would be handy for tying a rope across to keep the exuberant plants in a bit. I would put either solar lights on top or maybe birdhouses! You and your gang are really creating something lovely!
@janecosh3590 Жыл бұрын
Depending on the aspect - how about a grape vine on wires between your larch poles? or train stepover apples?
@anyat8115 Жыл бұрын
Your mini poly-tunnel for tomato seedlings is brilliant!
@ninemoonplanet Жыл бұрын
I finally found a blackcurrant bush this year, so now I have 2 varieties, white and black. Plus raspberries, all in pots. Mint, I have Corsican mint, so tiny but very truly a mint. I found an English mint perennial, and have already spearmint and peppermint. Corsican mint grows laterally, with a height of 4 cms. Herbs are the one thing I can grow because they are able to grow in pots. Just for something different, maybe use pots on a spiral rock or earthen hill and interspersed with low growing flowers. For some reason children love spiral paths to go up higher. Fun things like that add whimsy.
@carlyfischer1425 Жыл бұрын
Huw, when you have say new gardens are they parcels of land you aquire, parts of your own land you decide to utilise or say a community project garden, how many do you have? find your videos very inspiring, we're just getting started, i'm watchin gall these videos in awe and trying to absorb all of this knowlege. we purchased our property nearly 2 years ago, we have two acres for our horses, and the back parcel of land is .8 ac so we will split it into 3 alpaca grazing/duck,geese and hen enclosure, then the back 1/3 our veg patch, we have spent all this time reclaiming land from overgrown brambles and all sorts, have finally made some raised beds, put up the greenhouse we bought a year ago and made compost enclosures, we're a bit lost on where to place everything 😵💫🤯
@juanitaglenn9042 Жыл бұрын
Nice! Ruth Stout method potatoes. I tried that last year on our clay soil and it was great! I had a bare patch of clay by my greenhouse so I just took my storebought potatoes that were sprouting/chitting and layed them right on the hardpack clay and just mulched them. I didn't water, weed or hill...just threw leaves, grass clippings, etc on it over the summer. Not a huge harvest but it grew potatoes. 👍
@alexandraderry7086 Жыл бұрын
I have seen people trellis peas through a twine weave between poles like that, you could keep them and plant peas along the edges of the bed, - what is your plan with the bed on the outside edge of the high tunnel?
@spoolsandbobbins Жыл бұрын
Awesome Huw!!!!!
@TheVeganicGardener Жыл бұрын
Acers are so beautiful but they suffer terribly from wind burn so becareful of yours in such an exposed area 🙂
@ThatBritishHomestead Жыл бұрын
thats a lovely size pollytunnel, i love the little seed area i thinnk thats ingenious
@CamperVanTango Жыл бұрын
You could put wires along to connect the posts by the polytunnel and grow espalier fruit trees it would cover the sides of polytunnel a bit and give blossom flowers and fruits
@lysmalls658 Жыл бұрын
I’m loving the Vision and Visuals Huw
@user-lr7cd8vn8p Жыл бұрын
Hi! Huw Richards good moruiug.
@anafd25 Жыл бұрын
I am amazed by your garden every time again I see the new video 🥰 My idea of perfect garden is similar to your garden - raised beds with various vegetables, herbs, soft fruits, flowers and flowers everywhere 😍 This week we just built some new raised beds so now I have 14 in total, although it is only three of us in the family 🤭 And also, I love peas - and am one of the few who enjoyes the process of peeling them🤗 Best regards from Croatia 🙂
@saltburner2 Жыл бұрын
Your enthusiasm is infectious!
@HuwRichards Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
@smallurbangarden Жыл бұрын
Red maple is very often on my mind - it is growing right in the middle of my very small urban yard and is the only non-edible thing out there. I have planted it 4 years ago when I had no idea what I want from that space and now is right there in the middle 🙈 am so tempted to relocate it into a container and move it elsewhere 🙃
@Crina-LudmilaCristeaAuthor Жыл бұрын
That's a great bundle of plant beings!🤗💛🤗
@valeriehowden471 Жыл бұрын
Almost ready to plant some cool crops in the garden. Thanks for showing the spring growth cause I'm a little inpatient this year. Note to self - plant more peas! Gorgeous dog! What breed?
@carolthomas770 Жыл бұрын
Beautiful, bountiful garden, love your dog!
@HuwRichards Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Figo is my colleague's dog☺️
@joanweightman2275 Жыл бұрын
Wires across the posts for thornless brambles or rasps, train them in
@heatherpfeil2939 Жыл бұрын
On the posts you could hang pots for strawberries or flowers.
@Pixieworksstudio Жыл бұрын
Hi Huw - the posts... you could put a piece of wood across the top of each pair and hang baskets of something on them. Strawberries, or yellow and red tumbling tom maybe?
@livechangechallenge Жыл бұрын
I love Huw’s garden diaries 😊
@samanthavazquezsanmartin498 Жыл бұрын
Borage can be eaten as a vegetable as fritters, sauteed, boiled stalks... you can check Spanish or Italian traditional recipes
@Om_garden Жыл бұрын
There is no such thing as an unacceptable amount of peas 😂 they are my favorite garden veggie
@themrmanguy7912 Жыл бұрын
2”x2”x10’ sticks to make a “makeshift” lid for that ‘mater grow house would make the caring for them easier next year. Just a thought. Everything is looking awesome man!
@TheRosangela9369 Жыл бұрын
Between the poles, maybe dwarf trellis fruits near the polytunnel, like a lifted hedge or a fence? Height approx. 1,2m... You are not planting only peas, but peace too!
@meadows.simplicities Жыл бұрын
Good Morning 🙂 🌱
@salsakrs Жыл бұрын
at 6:00 min you can see a fruit tree in the background, probably newly planted (or last year). Needs definitely pruning to get into shape!
@The_heirloomgardener Жыл бұрын
For the posts.... espalier grapes could be a fun addition ...or garden lights .. like string lights or maybe solar lanterns ...no real use for them I guess ..but it would look pretty 😊
@mompuff Жыл бұрын
I love your videos!! Learning so much from you!! Blessings from Kentucky 🙌🏻🐎🇺🇸
@HuwRichards Жыл бұрын
Thank you!:D
@robynstone4049 Жыл бұрын
Maybe put sweet peas on the posts near the poly tunnel
@MrHorserider15 Жыл бұрын
8:37 You could have solitary beehives, ladybird towers attached to the posts
@jayneteal-jeffery6283 Жыл бұрын
Love the fruit collection♥️
@ausfoodgarden Жыл бұрын
Japanese maple flowers are edible. Only use the young ones though as they become very fibrous later. They are used in a number of cooked Asian dishes and are nice in small amounts in a salad.
@Randeb86 Жыл бұрын
Wow, what an incredible talent you are, your videos are so informative, I see you have daffodils blooming all over, here in the southern USA we had them blooming a month ago, most pollen is finishing up, my peas are blooming and climbing well, I have three chickens in my garden working and fertilizing as I speak lol, thanks for your videos for us rookie gardeners.❤
@derek-press Жыл бұрын
your peas are blooming already? wow mine are just starting ,about 6 inches but nice dark green healthy
@Randeb86 Жыл бұрын
@@derek-press I’m in Georgia, temps in the high 70s and lows in the 40s , hopefully I will have some pods soon, where are you located?
@derek-press Жыл бұрын
@@Randeb86 Hi Hubert ,we are in Germany about 30 miles south of Frankfurt am Main,just in the last week we finally have night temperatures above 4 to 5 deg C so we can hopefully this weekend get our tomatoes outside,they are taking up half of the conservatory,and are already about 30-40 inches ,we went a bit crazy on tomatoes sorts this year and have about 10 varieties ,potatoes are already planted and the onions and chard,happy gardening Hu..edit oh our day time highs now are hitting 15 deg C so everything is springing to life! :)
@lesliekendall5668 Жыл бұрын
Sure you can. Maple leaves are edible. There's even a little Asian gal who sells them tempura at her little cook stand.
@michellecape8136 Жыл бұрын
Magnolia is a food tree, the flowers and buds can be pickled
@jeanettebot193 Жыл бұрын
Esparcette is a very nice perannual and good for bees
@mariongeib821 Жыл бұрын
I love this video. I can't walk in the garden without planning what to plant in every available space. I love that dog!!! What's its name. Can you have her/he in more videos? I can't wait to see the rose garden. David Austin roses are my favorite.
@eternalmistress Жыл бұрын
I would plant some type of thornless caning fruit and use the poles for wire.
@verasohnikratochwill6314 Жыл бұрын
Looking good!
@melinda3196 Жыл бұрын
Omg...I want to try that potato method!
@fjalar4856 Жыл бұрын
Vegan hotbed👏👏👏
@marijeb278 Жыл бұрын
with regard to the posts: since you want to use the bed for pollinators; perhaps you could use some of the posts to install a few insect hotels?
@postbump4085 Жыл бұрын
Great video huw! How about espallier grapes on wires between the posts?!
@mandytaylor1008 Жыл бұрын
That’s a really very long leek but then you would expect that in wales🤣
@MyFantasyHomestead Жыл бұрын
Looking forward to the rose garden! Are you going to do single colour scheme for them or just throw all the colours in? 😊
@HuwRichards Жыл бұрын
Signle colour scheme for the walkway and then multiple colours for the archway section :)
@MadameMuerbs Жыл бұрын
@@HuwRichards I missed the roses, in your garden and I m curious how they will be doing. I have several Austin roses in my garden in south Germany, they are very popular here. sometimes they re behaving a bit like princesses, don t like too sunny places in our hot southern summer, but never mind, their Beauty is worth the effort. David Austin has inspired so many rose breeders, also German like f. i. Kordes who created wonderful roses following the David Austin "path" adding beauty and scent to the typical north German hardiness of their roses. Everybody should plant at least one English Rose in the garden to honor David Austin. . Thank you!
@winslowschoolofdance Жыл бұрын
How about sunflowers planted in with your barrage along the tunnel. I have found that they received even though they're not perennials and they attract mass quantities of bees.
@RachelWarren66 Жыл бұрын
What about putting big houses on a couple of the poles?
@anndean6817 Жыл бұрын
I believe honey berries need a pollination partner so having only one in the pack won't produce fruit.
@HuwRichards Жыл бұрын
No they still produce fruit, it just won't be as much.
@DomFurlong Жыл бұрын
Avoid anything in the garden centres with 'Kamatachita' in the name, they do not self pollinate, look for varieties that came from the university of Saskatchewan, the more varieties the better. I got mine from Stewart Arbuckle, Dundee.
@emilybh6255 Жыл бұрын
That's a great idea for what to do with an over-abundance of mint which has taken over two raised beds and crowded out things I wanted to grow. I was just wondering how I would get rid of it. I'm going to dig and pot them up and put then in cardboard boxes in a corner of the yard until I can give them away.
@HuwRichards Жыл бұрын
Excellent I am glad that hgas helped solve an issue! :)
@ritalr15 Жыл бұрын
Can you show how the ibc tanks are set up with the posts at the 15.25 part of the video
@marygorchidsmore2058 Жыл бұрын
Hi, great video, love to see all those new growths on your vegetables! How come there is not single snail or slugs in your beds? How do you control them?
@susanamal7418 Жыл бұрын
Looks amazing but could you also explain garden size, I live in London and space is an issue?
@tristyquesadilla Жыл бұрын
The hydrangea is pronounced (pulls out notepad) "oh-no-mama-petrol-heiress", got it, thanks lol.
@raymondkyruana118 Жыл бұрын
Dude here in the US they would try to sell that honey berry for $30-40. Today I saw tiny little (non-select variety) paw paw seedlings for $99. I couldn't believe the absurdity that these nurseries are somehow getting away with. It's actually disgusting! I dug up some much healthier paw paws for free, started some from seed, and also paid about $10-20 from some small scale farms a little further from the city. Wish we had something like Direct Plants here in the states. Online prices are pretty absurd too SMH
@cannymoose Жыл бұрын
When they get big, can you tap for maple syrup?
@sallygiles132 Жыл бұрын
Great videos atm. And what a gorgeous dog Huw 😍😍🥰. What breed is he please ?
@daphne7897 Жыл бұрын
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@elzbietabiernacik7682 Жыл бұрын
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@oliesbw Жыл бұрын
How many honey berries do you have? I have one in the garden i put in the first year i was here and wondered why it only produced three berries. apparently if you grow a second and maybe third variety in close proximity you get a deluge. I planted another one a month ago and it has a few flowers. fingers crossed there is some cross pollination happening. I also took about 20 cuttings last season and have many honeyberries to hand out to friends this year. Hopefully next year i will be able to do the same with the other one so they too have mixed varieties.
@DomFurlong Жыл бұрын
I have Giant Hearts, Aurora, Strawberry Sensation, Blue Treasure, Boreal Beauty, Boreal Beast and Boreal Blizzard. They are the best varieties for the UK climate. The more varieties the better. Purchased from Stewart Arbuckle Dundee in 2018. I am not exaggerating, they are truly amazing.