Vegetable Garden Tour | Late May in Our Organic & Permaculture Inspired Kitchen Garden

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thinly slice radishes and marinate them in lime juice, olive oil and salt for 3-6hours in the fridge. Makes them much tastier. You can use them to top salads, soups or sandwiches

[@ohio_gardener]

Huw, it is fascinating to see a young man like yourself so interested in gardening. Reminds me of myself 50-some years ago. And, all these years later I still love gardening.

[@HuwRichards]

Awh thank you so much! And I'm so glad to hear you still love it!

[@karlataylor1172]

All of your vegetables and plants look so healthy! Like a garden from a story book 📚

[@whipbirdenvironmental]

You have such a wonderful space. I look forward to seeing it again in a couple of months.

[@HuwRichards]

Thank you very much :)

[@lailamonreal4817]

Very nice garden huw.

[@HuwRichards]

Thank you Laila :)

[@deanablythe9394]

It is a shame for the damage done to your garden by frost/voles/mice and flea beetles, but I think it is important to highlight these things because if you are going to grow plants in your garden such things do happen and it is in this way we gain experiences and become better gardeners and to see it happens to others gives us all heart to carry on. Thank you for sharing and I look forward to seeing the July tour of your garden.

[@ManuelAngerer]

Hi Huw, I just wanted to say that you are such a warm and lovely being :)

[@HuwRichards]

Thank you, that's very kind!

[@sharayalee3376]

I learned from one gardener (I think James P) that birds mainly like berries for the water, so he did two things: put out bird baths and painted some red rocks which he placed out a month or so before the berries developed so the birds “learned” that the berries wouldn’t give them water and then they left the berries alone once they came along

[@infidelcastro5129]

Thanks Huw. Your advice (via this channel and your amazing book) has helped us turn our modest garden into a veritable vegetative victory! And being up in the Cotswolds, the weather you enjoy/suffer tends to reach us about 3 hours later, so thanks for the warnings lol

[@HuwRichards]

Hahaha you're very welcome Andrew - I'd love to see pictures of it all! Could you direct message me on Instagram? Best wishes

[@infidelcastro5129]

@@HuwRichards I'm a luddite - I can barely use KZbin and Facebook properly!! But luckily my wife is adept at such modern mysteries as Facegram and Instabook, so I'll get some pics and send them over via her account, or maybe using the account she set up the other day for our dogs. Yes - even our dogs are more tech-savvy than me lol

[@ladybirdstarshine4692]

Thank you...!😀 for answering my railroad tie question..😁🙏

[@rosemarielamothe2733]

Hi Huw, from Chile , South America, here. Those Shetland black potatoes called my attention. Here in Chile, down South, there is an island called Chiloé. It is famous for its coloured potatoes. Really about 8 different colours and flavours of potatoes, including a black potatoes variety. Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge. 🌹

[@SpaceLifeSelfSufficiency]

Thanks for sharing, amazing to see all of your different veggies and fruits!

[@HuwRichards]

It's my pleasure :)

[@JasonSmith-tv2zw]

Thanks Huw, I love your enthusiasm for growing, good to see you're getting the same good weather in Wales as we are in England, it would be nice to know what you use your produce for and any Welsh recipes would be welcome, just to add to your appeal. I have had a very renowned chef move next to me at my allotment and he is amazed at what we can grow and is always talking about how he can use this stuff in recipes, Take Care God Bless

[@MC-ko2mx]

The garden is looking absolutely glorious!

[@lonefoxbushcraft]

Holy shit...thats allot of sweat and no dought tears..admire and respect for that.

[@WormholeGarden]

So helpful for what we're developing in our own Wormhole Garden!

[@jf9335]

Huw are one of my favourite gardeners! 😉 Keep the awesome work, editing skills are also on point 👌🏼

[@fionnualakane2626]

My potatoes took a hit from the frost that night. And my pumpkins & cabbages. at least the potatoes are coming back thank God. Seeing yours has given me hope that they are in fact ok. I nearly cried that morning when I found them. Thanks for all your great tips. My garden is my therapy. The kids are really getting into it too. We went picking nettles yesterday. Nettle stew is brewing!

[@inglishhomeandgarden8386]

I like how tidy and pretty your garden is. It shows you pay attention to details. (The 'Ch' in Chioggia is pronounced 'K'.)

[@hannahjones8992]

What a super garden, thank you for sharing your enthusiastic love affair with soil and growing👍🙏🏻💖💖

[@joedwards9027]

:Love your book - Veg in one Bed, and your videos. As a 62 yr old newbie gardener I am learning so much from you, thank you!

[@bungiecoocoo]

“These flowers are growing here. I don’t know where they came from, but I like them” Classic Huw

[@shawtop]

Oh definitely, don't you just love it when a plant appears from no where 🤷🏻‍♂️😂😂

[@cassieoz1702]

Great tour and so good to see you struggle with pests too. My greatest challenge are birds; parrots (cockatoos and rosellas are vandals) and magpies (which just pull seedlings out of the ground). I have to keep bird netting over all my raised beds, year round now.

[@ladysarah6198]

Hi Cassie, I’m in Australia as well. Just wondering what alternate natural food sources are around for the native birds? Are you in an urban or rural environment?

[@beepee31]

Add possums to the mix! I had 3 blissful years before they discovered my veg patch

[@karlataylor1172]

Looks like a dream to me 🐝

[@VikingInspired]

Great garden Huw, Maybe you should try doing a monthly planner, that way you will know what to grow in that Pea space :)

[@HuwRichards]

Hi Paul, I created a video earlier this year all about a monthly Planting plan. This year I'm trying a different way of gardening which will be revealed in the next garden tour video :)

[@vladbura3729]

Richard ay like very much your garden,god jobs my frend 👍👍From Roumenia (Transylvania).

[@matthewkyle7763]

Thank you for making this video showing us what you are growing in your garden and so many different things perfect and the video you just made had a nice lady giving great advice on how to grow one plant with another to help keep bugs away great thinking my friend I used chilli to grow in between keep bugs away and I just add chpped up chilli to water in a spray bottle and all bugs go away from anything I spray it on and I use bicarbonate of soda in a sprwy bottle for any mold or mildew build up around the place. Chilli flakes only cost a few dollars and add 2 or 3 tablespoons to a big container of water wait 24 hours the whole bin or whatever you use for watering and spray bottles to be refilled with over time and water anywhere you are having trouble like the carrots and they will never return. Everything hate chilli my friend take care and stay safe and keep up the great work God bless you and your family and friends peace be with you all.

[@COOKINGBIRD]

This is so beautiful.. So relaxing views .. Thank you so much for sharing this video my friend!

[@car9140]

I love it! God has blessed you. I wanted to thank you. You gave me an idea on a previous video. I had a large failure area this year, but I filled it with a mix of transplanted seedlings from thinning other spots.

[@thisorthat7626]

Carlina C, that is a great idea so you don't waste seedlings. I hope you have a great crop from your experiment.

[@Chamseibnmasood]

Well organised and neat beautiful garden love it keep up the great work👌🏾💯!!!

[@elladunnet]

These are my favourite videos of yours. It's nice to fully see your garden and to feel that I am on time in mine :')

[@aenorist2431]

All my radish bolted, but then again I didn't water them and we had two months of sweltering heat and no rain. Sacrificed for tomatoes, the choices you have to make when a few rainbarrels are all the water you got.

[@mollyphemister6075]

I have had my greatest flea beetle struggles when I've had too much N rich compost in a bed for the crop in question to handle. You mentioned that it was drier than usual and that you were associating the intensity of the flea beetles with the drier conditions. Given the ease with which N will wash out of a bed in high rain seasons, you might be seeing a variant of what I was seeing: maybe your N is staying put and thus there's more of it / too much of it for that particular crop.

[@laurenmariebishop8409]

Beautiful flowers.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

I had the same problem this year with the carrots but I am not giving up .Resow and now I am waiting for the best :)

[@unserekleinefarminschweden8899]

Thank you for this video,so great ! We need rain too here in sweden 🇸🇪

[@ThirdCoastGardening]

The garden looks good!

[@macjarvis2882]

Your garden is stunning! I’m moving house and this is great inspiration! I love it !!!

[@TheDougies]

Wow, very impressive!

[@christinaanderson27]

Thank goodness that you are very honest in your gardening. I don't feel as bad with some of my things that died from our 2 week late frost. Good looking garden

[@lonefoxbushcraft]

I fpund 2 huge cumfrey plots in a disused land next to me i staked it watered it...now its full of bees!! And i can take leaves off to make liquied feed.

[@thisorthat7626]

Lone Wolf, great use of a plant that is helpful and needed some help. Blessings.

[@Bernie5172]

Your garden is looking great Huw . An excellent presentation also.

[@andreahorsch286]

Have you ever planted a castor bean plant to repel moles and rabbits? I just put in a small one in the corner of my garden this year.

[@thomas.szokoljasmine.krisz2913]

Loving it! You're doing a wonderful job in your garden! Greetings from Hungary.

[@IzzyMatko]

OMG, garden is outstanding 🤩🤩 thank you for advices 😊

[@jeremysaunders9003]

Very nice looking garden great video, picked up your book a few weeks back very enjoyable and informational, nice 👍

[@namthomson1124]

Very lovely 🥰

[@dianeladico1769]

New subscriber here-you have an absolutely beautiful garden. Thank you for the tour.

[@markhedger6378]

For a few years now I have been putting out shallow dishes of water at different heights all around the veggie garden for birds and other predators ,they have kept the flea beatle ,slugs and snails at bay ,voles still a bit of a problem but have seen 2 Owls ,so can't use poison

[@valeriehowden471]

I feel the vole pain. Have lost blueberry plants, a strawberry bed and perennial herbs etc etc to them over the past 3 years. We have a pair of the buzzers but they are far from effective so we resorted to bait this spring. When I found out they also carry Lyme Disease, I didn't feel so bad. I love animals but this was the final straw. Catnip is perennial in our area so I planted to encourage the local kitties - none of which have used the raised beds as litterboxes. After the frost this morning, a week later than the usual, I hope flea beetles will be minimal.

[@micheleyates3625]

So enjoyed the tour and hearing of your successes and challenges. Good learning. Thanks!

[@capybara6810]

Lovely garden and tour. Ordered both books cannot wait :)

[@billyandrew711]

Hope next year, my vegetable garden will be atleast half as good as yours. Happy gardening and stay safe..

[@eriklane4808]

Awesome tour! Seems like the whole northern hemisphere got hit by a late frost this spring! Maybe all this cleaner air is cooler 🤔 I’m still battling flea beetles too (although they’re not terrible yet). Good luck on the pest front, And with the garden, Huw!

[@gardenboots7464]

I'm curious as to why you are growing hostas in your veg garden. There must be a beneficial reason. Do tell!

[@teresadaniels7207]

garden boots Hosta leaves are edible. Mix them with your saladleaves

[@theirishcountrywoman6218]

Love it Huw, great video as always, your garden looks amazing!

[@badass5413]

perfect garden

[@juliahamilton2]

Great tour! Sorry for the flea beetle problem. Been there. Good to see what is working and what is not. Thanks for sharing.

[@va3cpm]

HUGE HUGE fan. My garden is inspired by you and others. limited by my compost i will slowly expand every year. I need a green house but I have success with simply starting seeds in flats moving them in and out of the house as weather permitted. Thank you so very much for your videos.

[@PleasantPrickles]

What an amazing garden! Well done! 🌱🌱🌱🌱😀

[@freedomforestlife]

Veggies and beds are looking really great - amazing footage too (loving the drone) I've managed to get parsnips going really easily this year, but struggling with carrots!! ... opposite to last year!!! Every year has a different success' and challenge's I find! Peace and plants xx

[@colleenmoore1741]

I grew Shetland black a few years back and it was a great experiment for some cool spuds, but to be honest, I won't be doing it again. In Ireland blight is a big issue for this variety

[@bettyadkisson1681]

The volos have been Eatting my sugar peas and potatoes and all cucumbers and winter squash.

[@Leo_S94]

😂 hot at 25 degrees. Here in Australia our Comfrey literally melts in the summer at 40 degrees. 25 would be absolutely beautiful in a summer! Lucky you mate! Love your channel btw

[@maikeadam5354]

Here in wales we are lucky to get 25 degrees! Some years we hardly get a summer at all, when my daughter was little she used to tell people we live in south wet wales! Lol

[@arriesone1]

Sauvage94 Ok we all know how hot it gets in Oz. To you 25 is a pretty cool temp but it’s all to do with what you get acclimatised to in your life. I’d rather have 25 than 45 😉

[@susannemoore3254]

I wouldn’t like your winters though. But yes 25 is a mild day here.

[@arriesone1]

susanne moore Winters are not all awful in UK contrary to popular opinion, we can have some beautiful cold crisp days, clear sunny christmas days, it’s the tremendous variety of our year-round weather that I love.

[@danarusticcoophomestead7813]

I have my Luffa starts that I grew in my greenhouse several weeks back and I have been hardening them off the last 2 weeks. Our weather patterns have been all over the place. They are finally just about ready to be transplanted into my garden. They are a long summer crop, so here's to hoping this year 👍 My first time too.... I hope yours does well too Huw 🌱🌱🌱

[@marumary2393]

Wow,soon I will have the same garden 🤗

[@innerstream]

My sweet peas say hi to your sweet peas 😊🇨🇦

[@HuwRichards]

Hahaha great 😉

[@innerstream]

Huw Richards - Grow Food Organically received your book in the mail btw! ( I ordered 3...2 for gifts) I love it. Well done!

[@toneyjohnson8910]

The garden us looking great.

[@tahirdoha5911]

happy life sir👍️😀😆😎

[@georgyevans]

Great stuff! And so interesting to see how you organise the veg beds. Very inspiring and helpful - thank you.

[@roseramjit7084]

Beautiful garden

[@bbsaid218]

Beautiful garden 🙏🏼🙏🏾

[@Fazendinha_TAS]

Huw, love the footage, in particular the aerial shots (which drone did you use for that?). The garden is really loving beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

[@HuwRichards]

My pleasure! It's the Mavic Air 2

[@Fazendinha_TAS]

@@HuwRichards Looks excellent, well done

[@stevendowden2579]

all looking great

[@theflamingpearl]

I just purchased your new book online 💚💚💚

[@pamfromwashington]

Hi there, In one of your videos you mentioned some big troubles with Voles and how you were dealing with them. There was the stake thing that is supposed to be a deterrent. Wonder if it was effective? I planted a new bed of seedlings and keep stomping down the vermin trail and hoping they don't ruin my seedling efforts. Thanks for any input. Happy gardening!:)

[@laurieanne9712]

Try roasting your radishes! It takes out the "bite" and they are delicious!

[@avenirpalchevskyi7475]

It looks so good.

[@wej-rv4zn]

Do you have a video on how you pman out what goes where in your beds?

[@laribimourad412]

Wonderful, thank's for sharing

[@shawtop]

Superb garden, ill get there one day. 💯 Its awesome when a plant appears from no where haha. I got a few commen comfrey which I believe is good?

[@AG-fi3ry]

Let's talk about irrigation solutions.

[@growyourownfreedom2191]

Nice!

[@aminayoub242]

Huw, I love what you're doing and can't get enough from youre videos. Small question I live in Belgium and whatever I start sowing inside now to transfer mid march is going leggy. Any tips on what time of the year would be a good time to sow seeds indoors?? Although I am doing this on the right side where the sun hits most of the day. But ya am sure youre familiar with cloudy climates at this part of the world. Any help plz so I don't waste time and be ready before it's too late? Tons of thanks

[@alcurtis93]

Be careful with the lupins as they do like to spread themselves out a little like Japanese anemones. They will add nitrogen into the soil though which is a bonus and they are beautiful. I had some last year but I killed them this year by disturbing the roots (they weren't flowering in a pot this year)

[@guylamullins3602]

Lupines are pretty

[@clr977]

Love your videos guy, been having a flea beetle invasion on my eggplants (aubergine) was really hoping you touched on that or what you were doing to combat it, I’ve made homemade liquid deferents with alcohol/peroxide and water, next I’m trying talcum powder if the liquids do not work. Would love to see a general video on common pest deterents 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@spoolsandbobbins]

Ewwwww! Just so inspiring. Lovely to watch especially when the mosquito drops black flies keep me out of my own garden. Sorry about the moles, we have issues too, as well as mice. Caught 7 so far this year. Poor little guys!

[@tolnaijani]

Really nice garden :)

[@HuwRichards]

Thank you! :)

[@FruitsForLife]

Excellent tour mate. Please could you do a video about your Solar Tunnel? So far there is only one source in Surrey selling it and there isn’t much information on KZbin or internet about it (not in English). I know you had it for years and it also looks like you have recently changed the cover? Please consider this request. Many Thanks, Vinny

[@HuwRichards]

Hi Vinny, I will definitely try mention it more in a video! We haven't changed the cover since we got it (about 10 years ago). Best wishes, Huw

[@leoclarke6462]

Really interesting thank you

[@kerengil]

Great demonstration of your garden. I am wondering how you water all of these beds, manually? I don't see any irrigation system. And another question, why do you wet the leaves when you water? Doesn't it cause diseases? Thanks from Israel!

[@lucymadden9889]

I have read that onions should not grow near broad beans and I have pulled out a third of my crop since it shared a bed with onions and had no beans on the plants. The rmaining two-thirds are doing well elsewhere. But you seem to have beans in close proximity to your onions........can you comment?

[@glynisreynolds446]

Is it possible to share photos of 2 new uses of plastic bottles in the garden with you?

[@ferguscostello]

Hi huw Lovely garden tour and lots of exiting stuff including lots of Experiments. How much time do you use on the garden.

[@dhirenheisnam9992]

Please do let me know how and when and what variety of pakchoi is good to plant in UK specially London

[@katipohl2431]

The blue blossoming flower looks like a wild species of #Veronica.

[@TheGeotube23]

Man your garden is so big. How many hours does it take to manage? Life goals

[@HuwRichards]

About 10 hours a week☺️

[@meg4185]

Your garden is beautiful! What do you do with all the produce? Is it strictly for your family, sold at a market or...? I’d love to have such a large garden but I’d drown in so many vegetables!

[@JV1986]

You have great channel going, keep up the great work! Quick question Huw, what ratio of compost to soil should I use for a garden planter bed?