My Raised Bed Vegetable Garden in Early Autumn🍂

[@HuwRichards]

A quick reminder that Sam's incredible recipe book dedicated to us gardeners has less than 3 days to go on the crowdfunder! www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-nature-of-food/x/30114696#/ - 🌿

[@sarkany888]

I just can't believe you are 23. You are like a dad figure to me, and I'm 27 lol.

[@HuwRichards]

Yep 23! If I took off the beard you'd clearly see it;)

[@nima16042]

lol I’m 30! 😂 I can’t believe it 😅

[@dontneedit]

OMG, you are 23 years old ! I 'was sure' you are 30-35! 😂🙈 Mainly because of your thoughtfullness and maturity 😇👍🌿

[@1ANRS]

With regards to your first problem where the rodents had eaten the sweetcorn, a member of my allotment society had a pretty novel solution. He's from Africa and says that it's what they do there - put socks over the developing cobs. Apparently they don't need light so the cobs develop in peace and quiet and are protected that way.

[@adelineparinduri]

You're only 23? Wow Huw! I'm so glad you know what you love to do since a very young age and keep getting better at it as you go. You're my guru in gardening for sure 👍 Garden is looking amazing, as always. Cheers.

[@chelleb3055]

Been watching since he was a teenager. It's amazing to see how quickly he has become a master gardener (and quite handsome, too!).

[@snsmystic]

I'm shocked too! I thought he was in his late 20s or very early 30s.

[@bhalliwell2191]

One of the things I've noticed in comments (and sometimes in books), not just on your KZbin channel but a number of other gardening channels, too, is how many gardeners remark that those veg which ordinarily we think of as green such as pak choi or bok choy or cabbages, suffer less insect pest damage (at least less insect pest damage, possibly less by other critters, too) when those varieties are purple or blue or red, and I have to believe it's the greater levels of anthocyananins which deters them from feasting on your blue, red or purple plants. Some scientific types believe this is because the red, blue or purple color masks or hides the more attractive green.

[@thebirdartistscottage]

“It took me ten years to realize I don’t need a huge amount of kale.” 😂 Some of us are still working on that, Huw! And great job on the new cold frames and mini-greenhouse. Just put one on my Christmas list.

[@anrim7537]

How do you use kale? I remember it from my childhood as a green monster in stew that I had to eat in order to get dessert. Even to this day, tears come to my eyes when I remember the smell 😅 How do you make it edible?

[@louiseswart1315]

I just love the visionary in 12 year old Huw, and even more that he never lost his enthusiasm and resilience.

[@Smiley-747]

The leaves of corn are great for wrapping tamales. You can freeze them for use later

[@PlantesPotager]

Wow!!! These cold frames look amazing!! I bet people in Canada would be really interested in these, as our winter comes pretty early. 😉 I'm in Quebec, and it's on my to do list to build one or buy one in the years to come! Thanks for everything, I really enjoy watching our videos!!

[@tanarehbein7768]

My corn bombed as well. Thank you for this honest, lower production video. You seemed so naturally yourself. That's what we fell in love with.

[@erinobrien8408]

I grow a ton of kales because I adore dried kale chips seasoned with garlic, sea salt, evo oil & nutritional yeast (it really tastes like cheese!)!

[@raymondilokapileo2186]

I pray I marry a guy like u. God bless you for sharing your life with the world.

[@melanieallen3655]

Congratulations on your coldframe production! Exciting!I grow kale for my family AND my chooks, turkeys, guinea pig, mice & birds. The rain drops on the asparagus, is the gardens version of a disco ball!!😀💚I love this!

[@tracilong681]

I am so impressed you've been doing this since or 12!!

[@KatesGarden]

Great video! It was nice to hear your thoughts on your garden and how things went. I’ve been having trouble with my bok choy too, I might see if I can find a purple one to give it a try. I’m also enjoying seeing your humour come through “Amaranth is a funny plant, isn’t it?” 😋

[@nancyhebert5325]

Hi Huw. It sounds like you are struggling with a cold. I hope that you feel better soon. Thanks for all of your videos and exciting projects.

[@rle8255]

Garden's version of a disco ball, Awesome description! 🎉🎉

[@nick27wales]

A couple of years ago my sweetcorn was stripped like that and it was grey squirrels . . . Voles will climb for fruit etc but there would have had to be hundreds of voles to do all that damage I think.

[@AJsGreenThumbLLC]

Simply an amazing garden.....massive production and congratulations on the expanded online store Huw!

[@HuwRichards]

Thank you so much!!!

[@LauraStepney]

Your garden is looking so gorgeous and lush. I got a real kick out of the kale scene that opened on you looking a little perplexed behind a wall of kale. I also have the problem of growing far more kale than my small household could possibly eat. It will freeze though!

[@terrimarks3694]

Thank you! Great video, great garden. My sympathies for your sweet corn. We feel your pain!

[@HuwRichards]

Thank you! It will take me a while to recover...

[@Winter_IsHere]

Harvested my last green tomatoes. What a great year for them. Once they ripe they will make a lovely tomatoes soup. Grow Roma determinant tomatoes too, they don't disappoint you. Parsnip, kale, cabbage, winter radish and leak is probably all what is left. Even lettuce has a hard time to grow. We got used now to have our vegetables as much as possible from our garden. This and next year will be a learning year about growing our own vegetables. One of the things I will miss most during the winter are the cucumbers, they so different from those from the supermarket.

[@lidiasoares5675]

Wow! You're truly inspirational! What a dream garden!

[@HuwRichards]

Thank you so much I am glad you like it!😊

[@annlyder8657]

Hi Huw, I grew fava beans in the Autumn as a cover crop last year and it was very successful. I let some grow on and had loads of beans. You can harvest the tips too so it's a no brainer x.

[@0camellia0]

These Greek beans rinds me of the runner beans variety called "piękny jaś" cultured in Poland in the river Dunajec valley. Because of the low wind force, and frequent morning mists in that region plants are protected against sudden temperature changes. Those beans are so delicious right now before they are fully dried.

[@tamararoberts9307]

Love your idea about the central edible flower garden

[@hadassahhaman7550]

BTW, I LOVE kale... Thank you again for sharing the info, I always learn something new. Big Happy Birthday!!!!!! to Huw. 😊 (a week or so early) Looking forward to fall garden editing here in zone 6 and the next video. Keep'em coming. 😁

[@kateregan8260]

Does anyone know what Huw does with his harvests? Does he supply to local restaurants? I’d love to know! 🥰

[@GardeningWithJohn]

I'm not a great fan of Kale compared to other veg I grow, but it is so hardy, productive and reliable, its hard not to grow lots of it. I start mine late in the year to overwinter and take lots of flower buds off to eat, which I prefer more than the leaves. All the best, John, Hampshire, UK

[@animamartins1102]

Hi, I have been following you since you are a school boy. I get excited to see young people gardening . Wow, you have come so long way from a young gardener to helping people to grow food to having your own gardening books. I encourage young people using you as examples. Last night I had slug catching party. Yes, I use your methods of catching slugs. I have a small terrace garden.

[@chriswren2559]

I have seen where somebody wired bamboo sticks all the way around each ear and that protected them. I have also heard of spraying with capsaicin. apparently voles prefer a lot of cover for them to venture out and if you have hay or grass that they can burrow under to get to your plants that might be encouraging them.

[@rebeccanelson5737]

Oh, that happened to my corn last year! So sad! I think it’s my squirrels! I found 1 ear for my grandkids tho.

[@staceybell7261]

Gutting about the Sweetcorn!!

[@tamararoberts9307]

Your gardens always look so lush ♡

[@HuwRichards]

Thank you! :)

[@kahae9858]

The tree cabbage and corn stalks would be great for chipping, along with globe and Jerusalem artichoke stalks and a heap of other things. (I chip blackberry vines.) Quicker than composting and gives you a thick mulch that suppresses weeds fairly well and keeps soil moist in times of drought. Similar to ramial wood chips. (They can be part of the mix too when you have tree prunings available.)

[@Barbaralee1205]

I’m chuckling… you’re gutter over the corn. So are the voles!! Just not in quite the same way 😊

[@XenobiaF]

I’m delighted that you found a positive in what remains of the corn.

[@BramptonGardener]

coming from @naill Gardens bloopers ahhaha what a great video, nice to meet you.

[@HuwRichards]

Thanks for coming! :)

[@christinamoxon]

Fantastic video Huw. Thank you for sharing the highs and lows. I shall be trying purple pak choi next year, as my green variety has been quite badly ravaged by pests, so thanks for mentioning it. I've also lost one of my wall baskets of lettuce to caterpillars. So netting next time! I don't have your space but my garden looks very similar - lots of green things coming to an end. I'm excited to be planting my spring flowering bulbs soon and planting my winter bedding plants on top for a bit of colour over winter. I will miss my tomatoes though. I don't know why everyone doesn't grow them. They are the best thing in the world to have in a garden xx

[@tassiegirl1991]

Well done Huw on the products I will check them out and hope become available in Aus. Your garden looks great despite the challenges here in the UK this year.

[@critical-thought]

Solar powered electric rodent fence, overlapped with a buried barrier that is embedded a foot or two in the ground (brick, wire mesh, plastic boards, whatever works). Add a fleet of rodent traps around the fence, and you’re golden. The only truly tricky part is the gate … it has to be very tight all round, and also electrified.

[@51rwyatt]

Time to start harvesting those voles

[@HuwRichards]

Hahahaha you're not wrong!

[@FulvioGa]

That amount of plants appears to me, that I am not an expert at all, overwhelming! 🌱🎋🌷🌹🎋🌱🌱🌿🍃💐🌾

[@maiu-marettaidre8059]

Hey Huw and greetings from Estonia. The reason that your purple bok choy is less affected by pests is probably because of their anthocyanin content.

[@EduyunquerA]

Great video and great channel. I am enjoying it so much! Congrats 👏

[@legalyzeit]

Huw you are truly amazing. what a project to take on. This Garden House product launch is really cool. It will help soooo many, also your manufactruring partner and yourself can earn a little for your effort. Beautiful

[@cathiharris5809]

I totally get your disappointment with the sweet corn. I lost all my butternut squash to something, I’m guessing raccoons or squirrels, this year. They ate every baby squash I had. So upsetting! Good luck next year. I don’t plan to let them win!😊

[@gromlynne3550]

Mmm.. beetroot wine sounds interesting! Sorry to see your sweetcorn annihilated.. I would say very large mice..they will be now anyway! You can apparently make flour with dock seeds?? Can't wait for the cookbook...so excited!!

[@dmangela5677]

Totally enjoy your videos. As for the Dock; would be altogether most especially on guard. It is extremely invasive via seed and with a very deep brittle taproot, which tends to break off and reassert the plant. Would carefully remove and discard all seed and each and every piece of root. Reputedly, it should not be eaten. People tend to get it confused with Sorrel.

[@Brisbanegardener]

Learning lots from your channel. Austrian cabbage looks amazing in your garden.

[@pierrecilliers8797]

I love your tips and ideas. Although I am from sunny South Africa with a different climate than Wales all advise is basic. I planted a bed of Buck Wheat but my neighbours Guinea fowls destroyed the whole bed . I used sinter blocks for the raised beds and it seems like there is no slugs or snails inside the beds. I thing the rough surface of the sinter blocks is preventing them from going in. Well good luck and good day.

[@harrysollmer1644]

I believe grow what you need balance

[@jeannamcgregor9967]

Strawberries under asparagus! Thank you!!

[@dianetaylor4791]

I grew Greek Giagantes beans for the first time this year and they've been very successful. I've already eaten some of the first ones that have dried in a Greek recipe. Delicious!

[@tamararoberts9307]

Omgosh I wish I could grow celery that looks as good as yours!

[@valeriehowden471]

put in black beans seeds in late. first came the slugs, then the grasshoppers, and when I was cleaning up the bed, I noticed some pods were buried by squirrels. so much action in the garden.

[@richardosborne8570]

Great fun . Best video yet. Beautiful garden and presentation. Inspirational. Thank you Huw.

[@HuwRichards]

Awh thank you Richard🌱

[@greeny3397]

Mr Squirrel took the corn just like that in my garden, it must have been delicious cause he took the lot.

[@georgepursley2832]

Thanks for the tip on strawberries under asparagus. I was wondering what to do with my runners. With 5 grandchildren in residence, our berries seldom make it to the kitchen! Another bed will be very welcome

[@therevelation19]

Sounds like You^ve got a cold? So I wish You a fast recover.

[@HuwRichards]

Thank you I was on the way out of one here and all better now😊

[@makulewahine]

Your comment about kale made me laugh!! I'm going through the same thing. I have curly kale which is not my favorite and I can't even give it away. Next year fewer plants and a different variety.

[@aimeestauffer2844]

Have you ever eaten massaged kale? Makes it like a wonderful hardy lettuce - my favorite way to eat kale, that with mandrin oranges, craziens, chopped up apple and red onion and feta cheese!

[@makulewahine]

@@aimeestauffer2844 I have and I promptly forgot about it. Will try again with all the goodies you suggested. Sounds wonderful. Thanks.

[@pavlovssheep5548]

buck wheat is good at recirculating the phosphorus in the soil, when composted back into the ground

[@deanwatt]

Like your red pad choi, our red types of kale don't get touched by cabbage moth at all! We net every other type but never the red ones.

[@mitunknowngirl]

Chinese chives are invasive. They come back every year and also they are self seeded very easily. Hope you can contain them for the years to come. We like Chinese chives very much, use them for fillings in dumplings, pancakes, stir fry dishes and etc. They are extremely nutritious. However, they are too invasive. I've been pulling them out, smothering them and also cutting their flowers for some jam sauce we use in hotpot but still they are all over the place. It's just one plant 15 years ago I dig from my friend's garden. Now they are at my front yard, back yard, concrete crevice, between step stones, along my raised bed......

[@homelife8597]

Yup! I grow mine in a container and as soon as I see the flowers, I dead head them immediately.

[@Starlight22215]

I have a kale forest. It’s one of the few things that grows really well in my soil, but I agree it’s crazy to have more than a few plants. I still have my corn but it’s slow to mature. If you pop over you can have some I don’t really like it. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@patriciap4952]

We use kale for our chickens and rabbits. We love it too and plant tons of it. Hold up to snow here In Idaho with out cover

[@this_is_not_my_real_name]

You have a beautiful garden! Sorry about the sweetcorn - the same thing happened to me, but it was swamp hens that ate mine. Every single kernel gone and just the cobs left.

[@CezzaCats]

Your garden is looking freaking awesome btw! I love the idea of having the edible flower bed. The Amaranth really is a funny floppy flower, i adore the vivid deep colour, wouldn't know what to do with it mind. Have you thought about keeping bee's at all? They would love to forage in your garden! X

[@HuwRichards]

Thank you! We actually have a thriving Bee colony already :)

[@Ed19601]

Much of my corn was stripped too. I suspected pigeons but yes mice could be the culprit too

[@Ed19601]

I build my own cold frames, usually from scrap materials. I scorch the wood and treat it with oil. Probably will outlast me.

[@ashleyr3688]

Great tour of your garden man. Enjoyed it.

[@HuwRichards]

Thanks so much Ashley!

[@SuperpowersUniversity]

i DIG no DIG gardens Become a Super Hero

[@carolgrace6573]

Just subscribed as you have the same climate as myself. Very interesting videos. I’m in Ireland.

[@HuwRichards]

Awh thanks Carol! I love Ireland!

[@phylliskrafft]

The chard went crazy...so big.. Must be All that rain

[@garwilliams1]

You should try nasturtium pesto with hazelnuts and virgin rape seed oil. It’s lovely.

[@carolyncarlon9870]

Rape seed oil is actually canola oil…originally created in Canada as a machine lubricant. Very NOT healthy when you consider Omega 3/Omega 6 ratio for healthy fats.

[@harrysollmer1644]

USA wow long transit

[@briandavies7456]

Field bean shoots are edible. It’s a winter green that you pick the shoots with repeat harvests. Steve Richards on KZbin rates them.

[@HuwRichards]

I've spoken about them numerous times on the channel, just watch my last video for example :)

[@darrelldunman3627]

Will see with this hurricane coming what survives. Some places expected to get 12 in. of rain. I think the latest calls for 8 in. where I live. Hopefully my raised beds drain well. I just planted seeds 10 days ago so we shall see.

[@stevendowden2579]

lovely video love the coldframe

[@HuwRichards]

Thank you Steven!

[@ohio_gardener]

Sorry to see your corn destroyed! We quit growing sweet corn because of the raccoons destroying them every year.

[@HuwRichards]

Sorry to hear that! Seems like a lot of people's sweetcron gets destroyed! :(

[@kathya739]

You must not have outside dogs. Another option, without the year-round reponsibility of a dog, is to go to you local dog grooming business and collect the hair, with permission of the business owner. Sprinkle around perimeter of your garden. We use it for our strawberry plants, also.

[@lulajohns1883]

I just received more garlic I forgot I ordered. Now have to make more room to plant them

[@HuwRichards]

What a pleasant surprise haha!

[@ohio_gardener]

😀😀😀😀

[@JohnJones-cj9iq]

Hi Huw, thank you for your videos; so inspiring and helpful. I see you're growing celtuce; can you tell me how high you harvest it? I'm finding that by the time the stalk is high enough for a decent yield, the leaves are too bitter. Thanks, John

[@gordonstewart8258]

So sad about your corn. Ours got “smut” which we harvested, cooked and enjoyed. Delicious! It’s an ornamental pink variety, so we won’t be eating it. Our chicken lady friend will get it. We’ll consume it as eggs. ☺️ We are new at this new approach to gardening. One good source talks of fungal to bacterial ratios impacting your results. Things in the cole family don’t need/like mycorrhizal fungi, therefore they need different growing conditions than beets or corn or squash. Yet in our new garden, begun on subsoil, with varied success among varieties year by year (end of 4th season), with visible improvement in soil quality, we’ve had those varieties growing together. Our kale thrived our first season and has not done as well since, but We’re still puzzling this all out. What’s your experience? We are in Wisconsin, USA, so plenty of snow, some really hot days, some way below freezing days, and some long, cool, wet springs, depending on the year. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ Any thoughts or observations might be helpful to all gardeners.

[@777-To-Inspire.]

Set up cameras to see what or who is pulling up your beans📹📸 You sound like you have the sniffles, Hope you are well God bless 😊🙏👍🏻✨

[@christiegrows2022]

I feel your disappointment on the corn! I managed to grow it for the first time this year and rats had it all 😢 good news is I know I can grow great corn so will spread it between home and plot next season

[@hoosierpioneer]

Please let us know as soon as you know, how you will manage corn next year.

[@nonny9442]

First time I tried to grow field beans after seeing one of your videos saying how great they were - after a touch of black fly and a bit of "rust" I had an absolutely amazing crop. Left them to dry and was hoping to eat over winter - but loads of beans have holes in them and seeing some emerging beetles have put me off (who knows how many beans have bugs in them ?) I've identified them as Fava bean weevil (Bruchus rufimanus) I've planted some for green manure and all coming up fine so germination not affected - but would like to try again as a food crop. Any advise on weevil prevention or natural predators? Thanks

[@bipbip6626]

Seeds wise, when do we ever see the dry seeds , when you live, like me , in North Wales, and my seed plants seem to be overpowered by damp? Where do i dry my seeds heads: DO I PULL THE STEM AND DRY INSIDE DO I KEEP THEM , IN THE DAMP, AND THEY ROT/ What should i do?

[@filipinohomegardeningetc.7065]

thanks for sharing this my friend

[@artsyhonkerful]

I expect the field beans will pull through the winter but the buckwheat will be killed by the first hard frost.

[@azurer7507]

Huw, can you please talk more about the care of your cold compost bins? I started three piles this year and they haven’t really broken down much after several months. I’m thinking I didn’t add enough water when I first built them. I’ve since added water in (had to turn the beds in order to do it), but I’m wondering more about the whole process…do I really just let them sit until they are broken down?? Is there any maintenance work that goes into it?? Please help me on this. Thanks!!

[@emanuelad3534]

I am wondering why u leave the roots of corn plants in the ground? It will be difficult in spring to plant new crop there? Thank u

[@libbyholt3863]

Huw, is there enough heat there in Wales to grow okra? Have you ever eaten or cooked much with it?

[@reneespring834]

Looking for source for the gigantes beans in USA, also the purple sprouting broccoli and the Austrian tree cabbage?

[@angelabyrne154]

*Asturian tree cabbage (would hate for you to look for something under a wrong name).

[@marymcandrew7667]

Huw are those edible docks the same as wild docks growing in our grass? I see the hares eating them.

[@HuwRichards]

No not the same. Good for hares not so nice for humans :)

[@gardenofseeden]

Bro, you should try Turkish Rocket perennial. Not arugula its some bitter leaf and then makes some nice stalks like asparagus.

[@HuwRichards]

Wicked thanks for the recommendation I will track some down

[@tinkeringinthailand8147]

I feel your pain with the corn. All my corn was flattened by a Typhoon this week, I managed to save some tho :)

[@HuwRichards]

Oh gosh! Sorry to hear that! Glad you managed to save some!

[@benteross2677]

I've heard the strawberries are are a little difficult to harvest when grown in an asparagus bed.

[@Kikriba]

The darker leaf plants, red/purple, har a built in sunscreen. That's why they will thrive in drought or sunny spots in the garden.