Why You MUST 'Just Keep Planting' in Summer

[@HuwRichards]

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[@lejlagoran762]

Hello Huw. Can you please tell me, how long fermented plant juice can be stored?

[@katiepayne2479]

Love this, absolutely. Huw you're such an influence in my life. Nine years ago I was a novice gardener. In 2022 I've got barrels, buckets, and an in ground raised bed flourishing. I keep chopping and dropping, starting seeds, and filling the gaps here in SW Ontario, zone 6b. Thanks for all the wonderful content, I've learned tons from you.

[@anitast.9043]

I am in north eastern Ontario in Zone 4. It's challenging for sure! Huw certainly is an inspirational person ❤

[@HuwRichards]

Awh thank you so much! That's great to hear! Glad to help :)

[@notillgrowers]

Whoa, thanks for the shoutout, Huw! Great work as always

[@marking-time-gardens]

Thank you Huw!!! I now see weeding as "harvesting"... my FREE source of fertilizer! And this attitude makes weeding so much more fun... LOL! Blessings on your day Kiddo!🥰🌻🐛

[@mapofthesoultagme7143]

I mostly just have dandelions but I harvest the leaves to eat.

[@marking-time-gardens]

@@mapofthesoultagme7143 Absolutely! And you can eat the flowers too! Heidi on Rain Country yt talks about harvesting all kinds of plants for many different uses in addition to eating. Also how to preserve them too.🌻

[@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists]

We encourage our clients to plant food crops along with the wildflowers on the edges of our lakes and ponds. The fertility and water come passively from the open water. It is also fun to see vines with things like pumpkins reaching out from the floral meadows. This way you don't have to worry about your garden when you go on vacation.

[@Just-Nikki]

I’m still planting / transplanting almost every day. Maybe it’s just tucking a few herbs or another perennial somewhere or maybe I find seeds online that I just can’t live without but it’s fun and I get to see life flourishing before my very eyes. I’m rewarded with wonderful food, flavors, colors, medicine, flowers etc for my efforts. A fair trade if you ask me.

[@Silvereagledude]

Continuing planting throughout the year has been an important upgrade in my gardening game….thanks for the knowledge, Huw

[@uzumakit5872]

Yes.. That IS heartfelt Music 😃

[@organicgardenmamavictoriab2768]

I love your channel . You taught me how to make raised beds for free with heat treated pallets. Thank you.I never thought I could do that . You made it easy.

[@tinkeringinthailand8147]

I feel so lucky to live in a climate where I can plant almost any veggie crop all year around. My problem can be the heat and intense sun, along with pests, but I have somewhat overcome this with shade cloth and neem oil ;) Cheers Huw.

[@sajmt1414]

Thanks for the encouragement. It’s going to be over 100 degrees for the next nine days- HOT and humid.

[@tysondundas1947]

I think you do a great job explaining but think a series of plant now for 1/2 months ahead would help the beginners far more than I've grown from seed and planting out now.

[@LawdDemRangz]

On top of getting continuous harvests throughout the seasons, it’s just fun to be in the garden all the time. Establishes great habits, too; tended plants are happy plants.

[@marilynbook4211]

Just came in from replanting peas, lettuce and cucs to see this video up. great timing.

[@sarahjohnston1576]

Such a simple strategy to follow but one to remember. As a Gardner it’s amazing how applying one new strategy a season can even make a difference. Thanks for always having such meaningful content.

[@edwardhammock24]

I ignored this video last year😢 In my opinion this has to be one of the most important vids of the year. Seed is so cheap that I'm now sowing continuously to the end of the year. 👍🏻

[@dannyhughes4889]

July and August are very hot months in my part of Israel and no longer being young or needing quantities of produce I tend to stick with standards such as Corn, Pumpkins etc.. I am using mainly Comfrey and Moringa to make Green Fertilizer and all the plants seem to perk up as soon as I get close to them.

[@fancythat5136]

I planted Beets today and started Italian Tromboncino Squash seeds, 70 days and they keep very well.

[@jamesrichey]

There is no planting in the summer where I am at. I am in Texas where the temperature is reaching 109ﾟ. That is 43ﾟC. So, I must wait to start my plants around August 15th. I can only start putting them out around September 15th once the temperature gets down to 35ﾟC. It is in these months I envy your climate.

[@kaysoutdooradventures955]

Im going to try with shadecloth this year

[@umiluv]

I highly recommend shade cloth. I’m in E Tennessee and this past June it was 97F feels like 107F with humidity for the almost the entire month. My plants in May looked awful (and wasn’t even that hot yet!) so I made sure to put a shade cloth up by Memorial Day. I wish I had put it up sooner! After I put up the shade cloth, my tomatoes stopped looking spindly and the peppers and herbs shot up. When I went outside, it was blazing hot but under the shade cloth it was definitely 5 to 10 degrees cooler. So not 107 but 97 under the shade cloth lol. Brutal still but the plants are doing much better. I have containers on the patio and even putting up an umbrella to shade out afternoon sun has been helping a lot. Heavily mulching also does a lot to keep the roots moist and cool. Good luck!

[@mochamommyATX]

Shade cloth and hot weater plants like MALABAR SPINACH, Okra, cherry tomatoe, passion fruit and jelly mellon. They LOVE the heat.

[@tracycrider7778]

@@kaysoutdooradventures955 have one just got to figure out how to set it up, tomatoes growing up my cattle panel! Lol

[@dkleath8697]

Zone 9b California > Temps too high to grow without shade-cloth > Winds too constant and High to put up shade-cloth! Patience IS a Virtue! AGAPE2ALL!

[@paulp4452]

My wife is korean so we eat a lot of kimchi. Fermented vegetables are extremely good for your health.

[@greenfingers9437]

Oh my goodness Huw, I have been watching all of your videos from the very first one, you were just a little school boy! But how interesting I even loved your sketches! You have matured into a very knowledgeable young man, I still have a lot of videos to watch from 10 years ago 🙂 I don’t have a greenhouse or polly tunnel so would love more videos on what can be grown outside through the year! Thanks in advance Margaret

[@Howwerelivingfishing]

I did a bunch of planting today! Lots of beets, some more herbs to fill in space, some zucchini, some bush cucumbers,and some queen of malinalco tomatillos

[@gardentours]

Keep on planting is really a good advice 👍 2 days ago I managed to plant leeks and kohlrabi into a garden bed where I took the peas out.

[@robhunt-watts8908]

Our polytunnel extends the growing season. Planting out seeds this week to fill the polytunnel beds as soon as they are emptied and fertilised.

[@valeriehowden471]

Our spring was a write off and then the weeds started to take over. Got my indoors starts planted - tomatoes + peppers- however missed out on lettuce patch. Almost gave up on the garden this year until I went crazy for bean planting. Lettuce will wait for the fall. Ironically, I had a volunteer lettuce plant amongst my weeds. After the weeding, the lettuce bolted cause the weed shade was gone.

[@xSunshinex4206]

Absolutely love that overview at the start of the video. So green, sunshine and beautiful crops and flowers growing, gorgeous!

[@adventussaxonum448]

Good on you, showing that it doesn't always rain in Wales. Just planted my lettuce seedlings in the shade of my purple sprouting broccoli. The garden looks fantastic. Best wishes from the Brecon Beacons.

[@51rwyatt]

I'm doing more planting this year throughout the season. Nice to have more production for longer, and just weeding all the time gets old fast.

[@evelynknox6475]

You continue to inspire me, even after gardening for 50 years. Got to go now.......& plant more seeds. EJK from 🇺🇸

[@rinnin]

These videos just keep getting better & better. Thank you Huw!

[@homesci3596]

Your garden is a paradise

[@wickedrocketelvispel]

I needed to hear this message, clearly! I will take this advice to heart ☺️ Lost so much to slugs this Spring and early Summer. Was feeling discouraged and feeling a little more hopeful now 😁

[@niallgardens]

Just harvested a load of things from the veg garden and was thinking I needed to get a wriggle on a fill the gaps! Cheers for the video! ☺️

[@paulrichter2886]

I live in northern Germany very near the coast. It's proven a challenge since starting last year in the garden. But we keep trying, and will keep trying. Your videos help. At least the compost is hot.

[@AJsGreenThumbLLC]

A beautiful video Huw...great practices to follow throughout the growing season! Now come to think of I see many areas I can fill in with extra crops! Thanks for sharing

[@HuwRichards]

You're welcome :)

[@myAmericanGirlLife]

I still need to learn how to time everything! Especially seed starting. I would love to see a video of "a year in the life" of your greenhouse 😅

[@gardenonthemoors]

Absolutely, that has been my mission this year to try and keep that veg bed filled with something that I can harvest later in the year

[@hschwartz9277]

we've had days of 100+ temps (next tuesday is gonna be 110 degrees or more) so I'm just trying to keep stuff alive. On the bright side my sunflowers already have heads opening & the honeydew are starting to get fat lol

[@TheRainHarvester]

Same here in central Texas. I planted a watermelon seedling and some beans in the shade. So far they look good.

[@mochamommyATX]

ATX. I am growing under a shade cloth

[@TheRainHarvester]

@@mochamommyATX how do you suspend the cloth in the winds?

[@hschwartz9277]

@@TheRainHarvester That's it right there. "It's so hot we plant our watermelons in shade" lol. I'm just above you in central Oklahoma. Tip-o-the-hat, neighbor.

[@yeevita]

Yeah, I always have started plants. However, 100+ deg F, dry, is too hot, even though I still try just because I continuously have plants. Almost everything needs some amount of shade though. Still, it lives. Just keeping things alive and covered until the weather breaks in a couple months.

[@noemin1076]

I am very curious of the quinoa, please make an update on that later. I have sown quinoa (from supermarket) and my plants are the same size as yours🤞🏻 Your garden looks beautiful !

[@preppernut]

This year is different for our garden as well, as soon as something comes out, I put something else in. Yesterday, a bush tomato branch which normally would have been pruned and discarded, was stuck into a spare spot, and half of it was buried. So at least six weeks of growth was saved, and we have ten more weeks for it to produce fruit. Broad beans can handle the cooler weather in the fall, can't they? I sure hope so, because they are everywhere. At the beginning of July, I put some small cucumber plants in amongst the garlic in the greenhouse. (garlic was a very late gift and it was the only place that wasn't covered in snow.) We just pulled them two days ago, and the cucumbers can continue growing undisturbed.

[@katblyth8153]

Great stuff as always, thank you Huw.

[@mamazeeto623]

As always - thank you ! 😊

[@HuwRichards]

You are so welcome!

[@KateVeeoh]

Thanks for this, Huw! I missed sowing season here in Belgium (March - May) as I was away, but I decided to sow some fast growing chili peppers, tomatoes, peas...yesterday 😄 beetroot, chard, purple sprouting broccoli... will go in after this heatwave 😵

[@trishgreydanus7004]

Next two weeks are the hottest of the year in sw ontario zone 6b but I have a tray under grow lights inside with broccoli, rutabaga, kohlrabi starting

[@patriciagibbons6964]

Another excellent blog, thank you Huw xx

[@karma8001]

I no till over 5 acres but not for me for deer and wildlife. In August we broadcast winter rye on half and brasicas on the other half. The buckwheat is ready to crimp over. U know them brasicas especially the tillage radish in the spring makes it look like u tilled the soil

[@epicherbalism]

Thanks for the reminder!

[@andreafirth577]

I wear my t shirt with pride Huw , your doing fab keep up the good work 👍🥰

[@ruthmaryprays8455]

Sadly had to stop planting vegetables this month. The soil is just way too dry in my garden. My neighbour has a willow, walnut and chestnut tree that suck all the ground water. Even with constant watering it just disappears out of my beds. I mulch heavily, but made little difference this year. I may just turn to perennials that will cope better in the heat and lack of water.

[@backtonature433]

I love that cucumber city👌👌👌🤗🤗🤗

[@petragarrard6419]

Can you please post a link to the tubs you use to grow potatoes. I used the under hay method and lost 50% to rodents🙄. Thought I'd try the tub method. Thank you!

[@chobiluck]

Really appreciate your videos! Such a inspiration for gardening!

[@peggytso7259]

A bit a of a rookie question maybe, but how do I know when my plant is near the end of its life and should be replaced with the next? For example a head of lettuce or kale that I've just been harvesting the outer leaves of or runner beans. Thanks in advance!!! Learning so much!

[@caffeinekid]

Footage is gorgeous as always!

[@HuwRichards]

Thank you so much Teddy😊

[@charlotteseden9303]

Love your garden.

[@CompulsoryReading]

I'm excited to see how those quinoa do in your climate. I've been tempted to try it in a similar climate, but I have no idea how it will go so I haven't.

[@mattwalker8230]

Great video Huw, as usual 😉 very perceptive and thought provoking 👍

[@GreenSideUp]

I could not agree more, keep sowing and growing! Successional sow and plant indoors and outside too...Steve...🙂

[@HuwRichards]

Absolutely :)

[@kellylynnstudios2185]

It’s so hard when it is over 100 degrees F for days on end!

[@pazwidmer8005]

Wonderful! Like always 😊👌

[@lindasands1433]

Hi Huw. Would you consider making reference to a season instead of (or as well as) a month? We definitely can't plant anything here in July as it's winter in New Zealand. So I'm guessing it's towards the end of summer where you are?

[@0anant0]

also, a 'south facing wall' becomes a 'north facing wall' in your area :-)

[@christinebrooks6364]

Hi Huw, great video thanks for sharing and take care 🙂

[@rollacoast]

Following your other videos on this subject I've got a load of plugs ready to go in and hoping for good results. Thanks.

[@HuwRichards]

Brilliant! Best of luck :)

[@6648rome]

How do you keep your seeds sorted. It takes me so much time looking through them. And figuring timing and what to seed in bed or what to seed as seedlings

[@nicoleharter1852]

This video made me get up and go plant!

[@HuwRichards]

Perfect! :)

[@christinecumberland6317]

Could you put the link to the fermentation videos please. Many thanks

[@alicevillasenor8338]

I thought leeks were alliums, so they shouldn’t go near beans. I am happy to be corrected, since I’m trying to figure out where to transplant my first set of leeks.

[@caly6527]

Huw. Some vids on preserving please.im wasting so much crop thatbi can't freeze and can't give away

[@roadmap5351]

Hi Richard and thank you for your videos and information. I live in zone 4b Montana and we have about 6-7 weeks of growing season left before we get a freeze. With tomatoes, would you recommend topping them so that they put their effort into the tomatoes and flowers that are on the vine so they have time to ripen?

[@sbarr10]

This is amazing !

[@chrisoliver6690]

Huw you legend!

[@irasemacalvillo6851]

I love your garden!!! Question...how do you know what to plant in between your existing plants?

[@maryelizabethcalais9180]

My curiosity has gotten the best of me :). Do you not have a watering system for that huge gardening area? I see you using a can sprinkler in your videos. BTW, I learn sooooo much from you.

[@FortviewFarm]

It probably rains enough in Wales that he doesn't need a watering system . He just needs the watering can with the added comfrey and nettle teas etc every so often. I'm guessing. I live in Ireland (which has a similar climate to Wales)and we definitely don't need a watering system 🌧🌧🌧

[@SiebMab]

Such an amazing video ❤️

[@HuwRichards]

Thank you so much! :)

[@johnhamilton9229]

Thank you.

[@1jw298]

Those were some chunky beans!! What kind were those? 1:34

[@runningwarrior5468]

Hey, are you okay over there? News about the crazy heat in the UK has got your USA fans wondering and praying for you!

[@meeganneville1205]

Just a query Huw, I thought nettle was for leaf growth and comfrey aided fruiting?

[@stevendowden2579]

another smashing video huw

[@Gardendish]

Wonderful information thank you. I noticed that your gardens and the gardens of others that you’ve showcased there are no visible means of protection from garden-loving critters. Are they not a problem where you live?

[@haseebdailyvlogs2207]

Good joop bhai thanks for sharing 👍🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@lafamillecarrington]

Slightly off-topic, but I am adding two extra raised beds (and renovating the four I already have), and wondered if there is any evidence about the effects of lining the sides with plastic? I have seen articles saying that it can decrease the longevity of boards by trapping moisture, whilst others say it makes them last longer. Any help would be very gratefully received.

[@harryshouse007]

Thanks for your post here. I’m about to do the same and would like to know where Huw is on this.

[@lafamillecarrington]

@@harryshouse007 I finally decided to use heavy duty fabric membrane (cut with a soldering iron to minimise fraying). It should keep the soil in, weeds out, and prevent moisture building up between the liner and wood. I'll let you know if it works in a few years!

[@davidrutherford6347]

Hey Huw, great video as always, I've got alot of sowing to catch up on this week. Quick question but how often do you use FPJ on your plants, we currently only use a FPJ once a week but can / should we be doing it more often?

[@mapofthesoultagme7143]

What annual veggies can I grow outside from seed if my city's average frost date is September 15? I live in Calgary, Canada and the winters are so cold and have a lot of snow; all of my yard's perennial plants are dormant and I couldn't find any annual veggies that could survive outside.

[@aina8318]

That is a lot of produce. Do you have a large family, are you able to eat it all up? Do you share with friends, family or neighbors?

[@michellecheyannelake998]

What kind of wood do you use to build your boxes? Treated wood?

[@moonorchid9242]

Great video. I’m in the process of trying to figure out how many seeds to start for my summer garden (I’m in Aus lol) Really disappointed to see there’s not even a rough guide anywhere (at least that I can find) of what to sow when. I’m going to use the next couple of years to try and work out my own planting schedule for seed starts and direct sowns so I can sit down at the start of the year and draw up a plan. I’m also going to grow a lot of varieties of things to figure out which one i like best that also produces well.

[@lindasands1433]

Sounds like a good plan. I've been living in the same place, starting a garden around 2015 & I'm still working out what, when & where to plant in this microclimate. I'm enjoying the results when something works well.

[@yoginimichelleh]

I’m based near where the yt channel ‘Growing in the Garden’ is located, and she has a calendar I ordered that gives me a month-by-month planting guide for my area. Wish I knew who to point you to for Australia. But ‘Self Sufficient Me’ yt channel is in Australia. Maybe you could follow him for some guidance? He’s quite good, and wildly entertaining, too!

[@Just-Nikki]

Clyde’s garden planner is a little calendar with a sliding scale based on your frost dates. It’s not all inclusive but it’s a great little guide. It has the most common veg and from there it’s not hard to figure out what isn’t on there based on crop likeness. For instance it has turnips but not kohlrabi but if you can plant turnips, you can plant kohlrabi because they’re both quick growing cool season brassicas. It tells you when to start seeds inside, when to plant them out, what to direct sew, when and how long you can expect to harvest by weekly excrements. It’s also roughly $10 US so it’s not expensive. It’s been one of the best guides for me. I’m in year 6 ( and never grew anything previously ) I now grow enough to sell at market on less than 1/2 an acre. Don’t give up, you will figure it all out 😀

[@marking-time-gardens]

Maybe this challenge is something you and other gardeners in your area could collaborate on and develop a guide like "Clyde's" here in the US. Maybe use his as an outline and reconfigure it for the reversed seasons in the beautiful land down under! Just a thought! Blessings on your cold winter's day Kiddo!😊🌻🐛🌼

[@Just-Nikki]

Yeah, there’s a spring side and a fall side, you would just reverse it I would think. Also…increments…not excrements 😜

[@jaclynbrown8641]

Thank you!

[@HuwRichards]

You're welcome!

[@farnabyurquhart6970]

Is it too late to grow yellow climbing French beans?

[@umiluv]

I don’t think so! It depends on when your first frost day is. I just planted some French bush bean seeds this past week indoors and I plan on putting them out very soon. My first frost date is Oct 15 so I calculated that I have enough time based on the maturity date on the seed packet.

[@Sheepdog1314]

snails and slugs destroyed almost all of my seedlings and young plants - here in the north-eastern US

[@chrisshepherd8708]

Those garlic that you have in the video.........are they just picked? It looks like most all the frawns are dead.........Is that the time you pick them? Are they hard neck?

[@cathywyman8103]

What is the greens you put down on top?

[@brucetidwell7715]

Huw, when is your first frost? In the Southern US, mine is not until the second week in November.

[@mapofthesoultagme7143]

I live in Calgary, Canada and this city's average frost date is September 14 or 15.

[@judycheney9882]

what are you putting down as mulch?

[@Msrojo1004]

How do you stop the snails and slugs from eating your young plants?

[@Waumalu]

About cucumbers, we saw them en harvesting them now. But.... the taste is bitter. Is it the kind of seed, watering, sun, nutrition?

[@couragefish]

Are they bitter even after peeling? I picked some pickling cucumbers to eat fresh and found the peel bitter but once I peeled it it was delicious.

[@Waumalu]

@@couragefish I have to try that again

[@freebeacher]

What is nettle feed? Is it organic?

[@oliverobama3279]

We have a heatwave in france and most garrdens are suffering and plants are dying.

[@debbiet5130]

😪

[@kensmaman]

Yes I had planted so many seedlings and a huge amount of them died. The sun is just blazing hot and there is just no rain at all.

[@matthewsalyers4625]

It's been 100-114 every day for months and no rain since March. Just keep planting doesn't work here.

[@TheRainHarvester]

Same here,central Texas!

[@shleegar]

Does it stay warm enough in the Winter for cool weather crops?

[@TheRainHarvester]

@@shleegar with a plexiglass cover, spinach and lettuce are possible.