Hi Huw & Thanks so much for posting this recording! I love to watch, and it usually can only happen later. So much appreciated:) Also, Congrats on all the new things happening at your garden site! This is such a thoughtful and inspiring set of questions! If it’s ok, I’ll give my answers, in case they help inspire anyone else:)
1. Gratitude!! (Followed closely by Joy)! 2. I want to eat something fresh from the garden every day from April through October- a radish, a handful of herbs added to salad, a carrot, anything:) And, I want to be able to harvest enough flowers/herbs to make one bouquet/arrangement per week to enjoy in my home. 3. Time & Energy to do what I want to do. (I’m solving this though - leaving my job at end February to focus on home & growing things!) 4. Made a better plan to begin with (working on that for this season!) 5. Polyculture planting ;) and Floral designing. 6. Growing garlic actually (while I love it, I can get it locally, so easily! So it frees up a lot of space in my garden!) 7. Top Ten: kale/chard/sweet peppers/tomatoes/peas/beans/carrots/radish/squash/herbs. And because I grow flowers as well: poppies/amaranth/sweet peas/calendula/nasturtiums/sunflowers/marigolds/snapdragons/salpiglossis/nigella. That was tough, lol. 8. Sorry, I have three: The Self-Sufficiency Garden by you & Sam, Sam’s The Nature of Food (both re-reading and making big plans with) & I have your new book on order- so very excited to get that when it’s available! 9. Succession sowing & planting. 10. Participate in Grow-A-Row (our community program where gardener’s share their excess produce with people in need within our community- weekly, from April through October. Thanks for this list! I look forward to seeing your & others’ answers as well! Cheers!
heyy! i would like to share some info that could help with the garden digging done by foxes (as someone asked about this). i read in a permaculture book that donkeys are a good repellant for foxes. so maybe thinking about adopting a donkey if you have problems with predators:). also, after a quick search on google it says that goats also scare away foxes. hope this helps & thanks for the live huw ❄️
Kia ora Huw...NZ flax or harakeke will be a great resource. Multiple uses... Good for low level wind break, border plant, good food source for nectar feeders and can weave it to make so many things! Keep up the great work. 🌻
There is an edible dogwood, Kousa. I just grew the seeds 2 years ago. Proved a bit tender where i am and only have 2 trees left, out of 11 seedlings. (West Coast Canada) Zone 8b
Hi, as regards foxes. Here in Hertfordshire foxes live on our allotment site. They tend to dig up new plantings that have fresher manure. They maybe are looking for worms. When I switched to adding manure/compost in the autumn and not in the planting holes as well they stopped. Hope this helps.
Bummed I missed out. What do you do with medlar? Last season, I saw this tree in the yard that had little fruits and Google lens suggested that it's a medlar. I have zero experience with medlar and forgot about it til you mentioned it! I'm probably too late for harvesting this year. This main thing I see on Google is making jelly...
Hi Huw & Thanks so much for posting this recording! I love to watch, and it usually can only happen later. So much appreciated:) Also, Congrats on all the new things happening at your garden site! This is such a thoughtful and inspiring set of questions! If it’s ok, I’ll give my answers, in case they help inspire anyone else:)
1. Gratitude!! (Followed closely by Joy)! 2. I want to eat something fresh from the garden every day from April through October- a radish, a handful of herbs added to salad, a carrot, anything:) And, I want to be able to harvest enough flowers/herbs to make one bouquet/arrangement per week to enjoy in my home. 3. Time & Energy to do what I want to do. (I’m solving this though - leaving my job at end February to focus on home & growing things!) 4. Made a better plan to begin with (working on that for this season!) 5. Polyculture planting ;) and Floral designing. 6. Growing garlic actually (while I love it, I can get it locally, so easily! So it frees up a lot of space in my garden!) 7. Top Ten: kale/chard/sweet peppers/tomatoes/peas/beans/carrots/radish/squash/herbs. And because I grow flowers as well: poppies/amaranth/sweet peas/calendula/nasturtiums/sunflowers/marigolds/snapdragons/salpiglossis/nigella. That was tough, lol. 8. Sorry, I have three: The Self-Sufficiency Garden by you & Sam, Sam’s The Nature of Food (both re-reading and making big plans with) & I have your new book on order- so very excited to get that when it’s available! 9. Succession sowing & planting. 10. Participate in Grow-A-Row (our community program where gardener’s share their excess produce with people in need within our community- weekly, from April through October. Thanks for this list! I look forward to seeing your & others’ answers as well! Cheers!
heyy! i would like to share some info that could help with the garden digging done by foxes (as someone asked about this). i read in a permaculture book that donkeys are a good repellant for foxes. so maybe thinking about adopting a donkey if you have problems with predators:). also, after a quick search on google it says that goats also scare away foxes. hope this helps & thanks for the live huw ❄️
Kia ora Huw...NZ flax or harakeke will be a great resource. Multiple uses... Good for low level wind break, border plant, good food source for nectar feeders and can weave it to make so many things! Keep up the great work. 🌻
There is an edible dogwood, Kousa. I just grew the seeds 2 years ago. Proved a bit tender where i am and only have 2 trees left, out of 11 seedlings. (West Coast Canada) Zone 8b
Hi, as regards foxes. Here in Hertfordshire foxes live on our allotment site. They tend to dig up new plantings that have fresher manure. They maybe are looking for worms. When I switched to adding manure/compost in the autumn and not in the planting holes as well they stopped. Hope this helps.
Bummed I missed out. What do you do with medlar? Last season, I saw this tree in the yard that had little fruits and Google lens suggested that it's a medlar. I have zero experience with medlar and forgot about it til you mentioned it! I'm probably too late for harvesting this year. This main thing I see on Google is making jelly...