What to Sow in March (That You Can EAT!)

[@GrowVeg]

Yes indeed Huw, you've inspired me to grow 'Honeycomb' this year! Looking forward to that burst of sublime sweetness once again this summer. 🍅😃

[@oregonfelder1]

Best quote - “give it a grow”

[@roberts9565]

Make that into a shirt

[@phirst55]

One advantage to chitting potatoes is being able to control the amount of stems the potato produces,, 2 or 3 stems (or eyes) per potato will give a smaller amount but larger tubers,, leaving 4, 5, 6 stems will give more, but smaller, tubers

[@Concojone5]

Really?! If that's true, that's fantastic! A second advantage I see is accelerating the time to harvest (freeing up the bed earlier to grow additional food). You might say "no point doing that because my last frost date is the limiting factor" but at least by starting the crop indoors the time at which shoots appear above ground should be more consistent i.e. closer to optimal in regard to last frost date)

[@maryconnell888]

Here in Ireland we plant out potatoes on Paddy's Day. I'm growing Roosters this year but I need to catch all the wireworms in the new bed first. I use potatoes to do this, so there goes my first earlies 😂

[@AndreaDingbatt]

Peas and potatoes are so good for improving the soil, They're my two favourite veggies that are usually easy to grow!! ~and they taste sooo much better straight out of the garden!!😎👍👍

[@loyalstar9829]

They improve ?

[@AndreaDingbatt]

@@loyalstar9829 Perhaps I should have used a different term for this?! Just wanted to say that when I first had a garden, the Soil was poor, a little bit of sandy dirt without much nutrition or 'life' , certainly very little Natural microbes or organic material. It had been grown on, but the years of chemical fertilizer and chemical weed/pest control had turned it into a dusty and lifeless patch!! I did a lot of research and work about soil and the living organisms that keep it alive... I grew legumes to help with the nitrogen levels, and the potatoes were also useful to the soil health. Bare earth isn't healthy, and so the peas and potatoes were good as a green compost, (After growing then harvesting.) I would then dig them back into the soil, and keep it in good condition by keeping it covered with a good growth of the natural plants of the area..(As a Green Mulch.) The potatoes helped me get air and compost dug into the soil, and legumes fix nitrogen from the air via the nodules on the roots. A bit more complicated than that, but I'm sure you'll get the picture now!! And I apologize if my first comment was in any way confusing!! Namasté 🙏🕊️ Andréa and Jasper. ..XxX... Ps, *I must apologize for not explaining myself well, English is not my first language.X

[@loyalstar9829]

@@AndreaDingbatt No your ok, that is very interesting

[@AndreaDingbatt]

@@loyalstar9829 Thank you very much for your kind reply!!😎👍👍 Soil health is an interesting subject, especially when you have a garden! Or an Allotment. Peace,✌️ 🕊️ Namasté 🙏💞🤗 Andréa and Critters. ..XxX...

[@brigitteludwig4572]

You work so much. That is a blessing.

[@HuwRichards]

I have a dream job😍

[@ohio_gardener]

Yesterday I planted bunching onion seeds so that they will be ready for transplanting in the garden bed by early April. Next week I'll be starting the kale and brussels sprouts, and in a couple weeks I'll be starting the tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants.

[@flatsville9343]

Thanks for tips on varieties & their resistances. That's important. Sometimes hybrids are best...rather than not having any veg at all because of disease or pests.

[@NorthernLycanthrope]

Really enjoy this channel. Great info and not pretentious like some other channels I've come across. Much appreciated!

[@HuwRichards]

Thank you that's so kind!

[@lexington476]

4:07 I never chit my seed potatoes. It makes them way more vulnerable to rot. I always plant whole potatoes as seed potatoes. Seed potatoes are cheap.

[@journeywithnichole]

Thank you! I live in a zone where last frost is mid may as well. Near the Grand Canyon in AZ, USA. Looking forward to your book.

[@melissagoodwin2602]

Yes, I'm growing what I would eat. Brilliant information

[@monaskau1830]

I have got hold of honeycomb seeds this year (not easy in denmark) and I can't wait to grow and taste them 😁🤩

[@lexington476]

Just checked, my last frost date, depending on the web site, it's just about a week or so ahead of yours 🇺🇸. I tend to be a bit of an aggressive gardener, if the weather is nice the seeds are going in 🙂. Soon as I can work the soil last weekend in March first week in april, the onions and the potatoes are going in... They will survive frost anyways. And well if the carrots die under a blanket of snow, well guess what I got more carrot seeds 😎.

[@AndreaDingbatt]

Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts and information!! I've been back in hospital, again, so I'm absolutely 💯 ready to get growing!! Thank you very much for the recommendations for varieties!! I've got some good seeds saved and bought some in as well!! I love foraging too, so I'm looking forward to getting back to this too. Andréa and Critters. ...XxX...

[@joannc147]

Ah, there is nothing like working in the garden to bring back your health! Good luck to you and please remember to be gentle with yourself during recovery. ❤

[@AndreaDingbatt]

@@joannc147 Thank you so Much~You are very Kind!!💞 You are absolutely right about how much it helps with recovery, to get out into the garden and fresh air!! I hope that everything is going well for you, as well.🕊️ I Gratefully Appreciate your Kind Reply!! Blessings to you and yours. Namasté 🙏🕊️💞 Andréa and Critters. ...XxX... Ps, May I ask you about the 147 in your profile name?! It's almost Synchronicity that this number keeps on turning up in my life!! I've lived at Three houses with number 147!! And it keeps on turning up in ways that many people wouldn't believe!!

[@joannc147]

@@AndreaDingbatt oh my, that’s not my number - youtube simply assigned those 3 numbers after my name. How about that?! There’s something about life sprouting in the garden that’s just magic for our souls ❤ Best of luck from me and my crew - 🐓🐇🐰🐔🐩

[@AndreaDingbatt]

@@joannc147 Thank you again for your kindness!! No problem that's just a KZbin number, it just reminded me of what I've been dreaming about!! (I'm still trying to move back to the Country.) Much love to you and your Crew!! From me and mine!! Andréa and Critters. .XxX..💞🌻😺🐺🕊️🕊️🕊️ 🐔🪿🐥🐇🐇🐰🦔💗

[@tiffcat1100]

Happy & healthy reestablishment ❤️💜❤️

[@beansbrewsandbread]

Bingo! Sarpo Mira mention 😉 Great information as ever. It’s finally sunny here at BBB HQ! Some sowings planned today and a garden tidy up. Cheers, Andy! 👍

[@robertsmithshair4199]

Agree on the Melcourt compost find it very consistent

[@mountaingirl8124]

We live in Tennessee, USA. So glad we share a similar last frost date. Love your channel!

[@HuwRichards]

Thank you so so much!

[@stephaniefritchley9022]

Hello From SW France. I really love your channel, so informative and helpful, without the BS! Just wanted to ask if you ever do a general Q & A session anywhere? I have some problems/questions I am desperate for advice on, but the posted topics never seem to relate to specifics or, if they do, they were perhaps posted ages ago so its too late to get a response to a comment. Many thanks 😊

[@jordy46682]

It's almost book delivery time!!! 🤗

[@gardentours]

Those broad beans with colorful flowers look really nice 🌸👍

[@lexington476]

4:29 yeah, you should have seen the volunteer potatoes last year. in rotating the crops the potatoes get moved to a different bed and the zucchini and tomatoes went into the old potato bed.... I had so many volunteer potatoes from last year popping up you think I didn't even harvest the bed the piror year 🙂. I had so many potatoes planted already, I was pulling the volunteers out and throwing them away 😑.

[@californianorma876]

😮😢😮

[@MuddyBootz]

Hi Huw, I’ve grow Sarpo Mira for 5-6 years now and love the flavour. Trying an additional variety this season …. JAVA. (Sarpo Mira X Valor). This is listed as blight resistant with improved flavour. Worth a try Cheers. Nigel.

[@evanor1296]

Cant find Honeycomb in Sweden anymore. So i saved some small cut outs and have them indoors in growlight.

[@garethhhhh]

My books coming in about 4 hours, can't wait to start reading it. (Amazon) First year with an allotment, guess I'll have to see how it goes 😊

[@mountain.spider]

book coming out soon!!! Can't wait!

[@HuwRichards]

Me neither!!

[@RawLondonGardener]

Just ordered honeycomb, let's do it! Can't wait

[@GardenProverbz]

In my zeal Huw, after seeing Benedict and Alessandros reactions I must confess I purchased accidentally 2 packs of honeycomb seeds. Such was my determination to get it in my garden 😂 Also ordered your book and cannot wait to get stuck in.

[@jeffdavis2096]

see my reply just posted

[@plot1895]

Super Huw.

[@MarianWalsh-vz9fy]

Thank you, really useful information.

[@josee.cisnerosjr.7706]

Hi Huw, It's amazing how different the climates can be all over the world. Always enjoy your videos as they are very informational and I've learned alot from you. Quick question, will your new book be available in a digital format to download?

[@krishnab100]

Your videos are very informative, thank you

[@kinzAngels]

Pre ordered your book :) as a gift to myself :)

[@woodworks2123]

Huw can't wait for the new book. Your books are fantastic. Using your trays and techniques Ive had good success but as I'm up in Dundee our climate is a little different my timings are sometimes a little off as our last frost date is the last week in may. Am I correct in saying if our frost dates 2 weeks behind yours all I have to do is take your sowing dates and add on 2 weeks till I sow them?

[@tiffcat1100]

That sounds logical …

[@BeckiePeacock]

Another great video Huw 😊 I want to pre order your book, can you please tell me if the planting dates etc. are relevant to me in Zone 5b in Canada, Ontario? I'm from the UK originally and am still trying to get to grips with the shift in seasons here 😊

[@BeckiePeacock]

We'll, my hubby just got excited and pre-ordered it for May so it looks like I'll find out myself 😂

[@ystradwoodsfriendowen4843]

Most enjoyable and informative. Many thanks Indeed.

[@HuwRichards]

Thank you so much😊

[@RanknResourceful]

Very informative, thank you!

[@HuwRichards]

You're most welcome!

[@invokalink162]

We've got sarpo mira, sarpo una and java this year. Java are supposed to be even more blight resistant than sarpo mira so Roberts Garden centre tell me. (They said you go there sometimes!?) 😂

[@billbirkbeck4113]

Superb video as always very detailed ... can I start off in seed trays my brassica plants ? Cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli and sprouts this month ? Kent UK.

[@HuwRichards]

Absolutely you can!

[@billbirkbeck4113]

Fantastic thanks ... direct sow or in module trays?

[@HuwRichards]

@@billbirkbeck4113 module trays, direct sow as a seed bed in April onwards :)

[@JessicaReadsThings]

Coming back to this video to ask the community - has anyone in North America found an alternative for the honeycomb tomatoes? I'm specifically looking in Canada, but the closest seems to be a Honey Drop, but all of the vendors I've found so far are in the US. Thanks!

[@jesswelsh9838]

Great video...thank you!

[@HuwRichards]

Thanks Jess!

[@Hamishmcbeth]

I had lots of green zebra toms but I never knew when they were ripe to eat. Flavour wasn’t great of those I picked. Any tip on how to tell when they’re ripe?

[@RealBradMiller]

Had people who were having trouble figuring out when Green Knight Eggplants were ripe. Best way is to experiment! Tag specific fruits and let them mature a certain amount of days, cut and taste, then you can gain your approximate wait time! 🎉

[@CWorgen5732]

I would try the squish test. Just like choosing ripe avocados at the grocery store, give them a slight squeeze and see if they squish enough to feel ripe.

[@CR-rc5ch]

Hi all! Compost? He keeps talking about it. But what would the equivalent be in America? General garden soil? Wont what we call compost burn out the seeds?

[@nickpearson9422]

Hey, i'm in the southern hemisphere, so obviously for me this is not what to sow in march. I'm thinking of ordering your book but was wondering if its all going to be laid out for you northerners? or if it will be more season based?

[@smithy4121]

I'm chomping at the bit to start growing. I am going to buy some seed compost because I'm not sowing much as we're moving so just what can go in containers and look neat while selling, and I don't want insects in my house so I'm hoping that will be less likely. I'm going to be planting some tumbling toms and some lettuce and later on some outdoor cucumbers all in containers. I am actually really impatient to get sold and moved so that I can do what I actually want to in my garden. My one absolute necessity when looking for a house is a garden I can grow in. I've totally got the bug.

[@chrisdaviesguitar]

Have you tried Brads Atomic Grape tomato yet?

[@Carmiszeit]

Hey Huw, wird es dein neues Buch auch in deutscher Version geben? Liebe Grüße aus Berlin

[@LittleKikuyu]

Bestimmt! Bis jetzt wurden alle seine Bücher ins Deutsche übersetzt ☺️ Es wird aber bestimmt etwas dauern 😅 LG aus Berlin zurück

[@OrianJamieson28]

i want them martoes!!!!

[@RealBradMiller]

*In news reporter voice* It's the first of March, can you believe it?

[@now.i.wander]

Does anyone know what hardiness zone he’s in?

[@HuwRichards]

Zone 8, but my last average frost is mid-May and first is mid-Oct

[@BumblebeeAdventure]

🐝Thanks for the great video 🌻 Need to get more seeds!!! triggeredddd

[@FadingPolaroids]

Can't find the 'Honeycomb' in Belgium anywhere! I wish brexit hadn't messed up the fact that we can't order seeds from the UK anymore :(. Anyone willing to send some by mail? 😀

[@LittleKikuyu]

You can get them here in Germany. Can you have them shipped over?

[@kristenphillips5803]

I am surprised that the honeycomb variety tomato is GMO. Do you not think that open pollinated seeds are important for self sufficiency? Genuinely curious, maybe I've learned wrong? I thought hybrids were bad for self sufficiency, for the planet and for our health. I am not an expert though. Thanks

[@HuwRichards]

Hybrids and GMOs are two very different things! Whilst yes you can't save true to seed hybrids, one packet can give you 2 plants for 5-6 years, so the cost is negligible when it comes to the yield. Seed saving is a different skill, and trying to save every single seed of every variety suddenly takes up a huge amount of time and space. Modern day self sufficiency is about choosing what you wish to be self sufficient in, not about trying to do absolutely everything, because then with that mindset you shouldn't buy polytunnel kits, or screws, etc

[@kristenphillips5803]

@@HuwRichards ok that makes sense. Sorry I got the terms mixed up. So are the seeds you use not GMO? I thought that I was supposed to avoid definitely GMO?

[@kristenphillips5803]

And thank you for the reply!

[@kristenphillips5803]

Ok sorry for 3rd reply, I’m not much of a tech person. I did my own reading after your comment and understand more now. Thanks for helping clear it up for me. Seems heirloom are still most ideal but hybrid not the end of the world. Thanks again!

[@Nihlink]

@@kristenphillips5803all tomatoes will become hybrids unless you grow them under isolation. Tomatoes cross pollinate so if you grow a bunch of different tomatoes in one area your seeds will be hybrids. Heirlooms don’t really exist as all modern tomatoes have been hybridized. And the actual heirloom varieties you might buy just mean they are just super old varieties. Doesn’t make them better or worse just different. But just so you understand if you buy heirloom seeds them grow tomatoes and save their seeds you aren’t guaranteed more heirloom tomatoes unless you grew them in a completely controlled isolated space where they couldn’t of been cross pollinated.

[@athomas897]

❤

[@timwells3056]

Great vidio have you tried wicks organic compost £4.00 for 50L it looks good to my eyes love it if you could look at it and try . It’s incredibly cheap

[@ColettesGarden]

I love green zebra tomatoes. My chickens ignore the fruit and keep then free of tomato worms.

[@theantagonist2147]

Giving Green Zebras a try for the first time this year, had some success with Red Zebras last year!

[@tumasdedaan2146]

I question how self-sufficient it is to use F1 seed varieties (like the honeycomb tomato). Obviously in such a small space you can't maintain a heirloom easily for seed saving if you're also growing other cultivars but it seems like picking one to focus on then growing it each year is inevitable in terms of self-sufficiency.

[@rogerspaulding6569]

Really? The cost of seed is not deal breaker!

[@HuwRichards]

If you're more likely to eat it then arguably that's better than growing something heirloom that you're less likely to eat. Of course I mostly grow and prefer heirloom, and the excess food I grew in the self sufficiency garden I sold at my local greengrocer which more than covered my seed order, so yeah still self sufficient I think🌿

[@ml.5377]

I agree. Seed saving is a much needed practice and adapting fruits and veggies to our land is always better than getting seed every year. This year I am growing Cream Sausage tomatoes for the first time and, at 3,000 meters above sea level, they are super sweet. Already saving seed.

[@tumasdedaan2146]

​@@HuwRichardsI don't understand what the cost has to do with anything. I could call a car factory a self-sufficient garden if all that qualifies it as such is that the produce cover the costs of buying in food. Self-sufficient means not having to rely on externalities, which means no buying or selling.

[@HuwRichards]

@@tumasdedaan2146 Probably best I mention that this video was specifically about what to sow, not about self sufficiency

[@jeffdavis2096]

Wow, Honeycomb Tomato has just come BOTTOM of 20 varieties in Which? Gardening cherry tomato comparison test (March 24). Lowest yield and equal bottom flavour. You can never trust personal tastes !!

[@HuwRichards]

Crazy! 19 more flavourful ones to enjoy, or trust 3 actual gardeners😉

[@LittleKikuyu]

Your faces said it all. I‘m convinced 😅 no need for buzzfeed lists 😜

[@sistadreponl7152]

I see, keep acting like you are not absolutely gorgeous