Vegetable Gardening | Straight Talk for People Starting to Grow Food
Vegetable Gardening | Straight Talk for People Starting to Grow Food
If you are new to growing food, or are looking to start a vegetable garden then this video is for you. I give my honest and frank advice when it comes to starting a food growing journey, with the hope that it will greatly help you achieve your vegetable growing dreams. The goal with this video is to give you a mental and strategic toolkit to ensure the best possible success from the get go. It also is to help ensure you don’t fall into any traps along the way, and that you have a positive and realistic journey forward.
Resources mentioned:
-Diversity video (companion planting etc)-
-Channels-
Liz https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe0Ha5QljsCV5UqIkobBrcQ
Charles https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB1J6siDdmhwah7q0O2WJBg
-Composting-
Making your first compost https://youtu.be/kt6mIoKK6wE
Art of Lazy Compsoting https://youtu.be/swLkA1cHJ4Y
With a huge thanks to Sean Tucker for the inspiration behind this video. If you are interested in the deeper meaning of photography and creativity, check out his incredible videos here: https://www.youtube.com/user/seantuckermerge
-Huw’s books-
Signed copies of my books: https://huwrichards.shop/
-Clothing-
Awesome clothing designed for vegetable gardeners: https://huwrichards.teemill.com/
-Online Courses-
More Food Less Effort Course: http://morefoodlesseffort.com/
Planting Plan Short Course: https://abundanceacademy.online/p/the-monthly-planting-plan
-Social-
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HuwRichardsOfficial
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/huwsgarden/
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i do agree with you
I feel grateful to have found your channel. It’s my first year gardening and I am excited to start out organic. I am applying the advice on feeding the soil to my lawn as well, which is on compacted clay, by top dressing. It will be a lovely lesson in patience to achieve good results later on.
Halfway through this video I got an advertisement for fertiliser 😳
Fantastic honest advice. Thank you Huw
I really enjoy all your videos Huw, thanx for rhem! I have a question regarding rised beds – if you add a thin layer of compost to them each year, in a couple of years you’ll end up having them full, how do you cope with that? Or is the old compost just…totally breaking down to a small amount of ashes..? Don’t know if that makes sense but please answer if you get what I mean.
I’ve had a vegetable garden in some form almost every year of my life. Failures don’t bother me at all and I am receptive to trying new things in the garden. For example, seeded corn inside under grow lights for this spring to get a jump on corn before it gets too hot and the corn earworm shows up. When I have failures, it’s normally because I get too busy with worklife and ignore the garden. Last fall we grew bush green beans and they did great but we ate zero of them. We were out of town for a couple weeks right at the harvest time for those.
My love in life is the garden I have a level 5 cert in gardening .I found your (you tube ) a few weeks ago,And just love them,You put thing,s so beautifully,I have become addictive to watching your work, no ego, such a gent,
I believe you,r work is done in Wales is this correct,Looking forward to each and every video you put out.Many thanks and best wishes to you.
This was the first year I could really commit to a garden. I went into it as a learning process. If I got a harvest,great. That would be less I have to purchase at the grocery. I had several blank spots because I didn’t plan very well and frankly I didn’t know what I should do. I was excited and got a solar tunnel and learning new challenges. Plenty of failures and some real successes. Now making new plans for next season. Who knows, maybe trying some things over winter.
Thanks for this video. Glad i click on it. So much to learn from you guys.
Empty gas. What a self-important man this is! First ‘tip’ doesn’t arrive until 16:29 minutes. If you want good advice about no-dig permaculture, seek out Paul Gautschi and his film Back to Eden. Or Charles Dowding. Both give down to earth advice that’s more about the land and less about themselves.
When you say "no dig" does that include mixing your compost heap? Or are you just saying to not till the soil within the planters? I think I don’t really get what "dig gardening" is haha
Thank you so much for this video I have been wanting to start growing more of my own fruit and veg little by little i have been adding plants to my garden. I did think I would need feeds for my tomatoes and other fruits but you have proved that you don’t need them xx
The saying "You are what your forefathers ate" is also true. Glad to hear him talking about the importance of Organic Gardening, slightly surprised I didn’t hear the word ‘Salvestrol’ being mentioned, ahwell.
Hi Huw, thank you so much for this video. I have a question. My garden is a newbuild. So the builders filled it and all the other houses with rocks and then covered it with a layer of a grass. We have been painstakingly going through the rocks and then adding compost to plant something. My question is can I apply ‘no dig’ to this type of garden full of rocks? Thank you.
Great video huw. I’m now getting into veg growing. Guna build a few raised beds on the no dig system and start next season
I’ve got 3.5 massive piles of compost going right now. All at different stages. I so looking forward to starting my no dig garden. I’m doing my best to spend little or nothing on my garden (except some seeds to get started). Not always easy but it is so rewarding when you get a great harvest from just hard work. My compost piles will never stop growing and will continue to use chop and drop and use what I have on hand to grow what I need. So far a great success and I am learning more everyday. 🙂 Start with the easy vegetables and the success will motivate you to try more difficult crops. Tomatoes are still a challenge here in the tropics but I am trying 4 different methods to see what works this year. Good luck to everyone.
I agree with all of this except "no dig" at the beginning. If native soil is poor quality like most of us have (clay) you need to amend that first with gypsum and compost. Then after you have a decent base, then no dig is good.
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This is, over all, the best gardening video I have ever seen, and I have watched hundreds! Much gratitude and respect!
This is bloody awesome to hear and see a video like this.
I have no idea what I’m doing
I am making my space at the moment covering dead grass area with a load of cardboard and wood chip . The on to the first raised bed 1 at a time is what so many youtubers have suggested so start small and grow with time is how I’m starting 😁 thanks for the boost 😀
You helping me tremendously. This video was very important indeed, a great reminder.
Love Huw’s video which are informative and educational. I have got an allotment plot in April. The plot has not been cultivated for 2 years. I heard about no dig method but the ground is so uneven I need to level it by digging! Also how to know if the soil is healthy? My Pak Choy are very small and weak. I thought I have to wait longer to let them grow bigger but they become too old and the stem are as tough as leather. So apparently the soil is not rich enough. What should I do for the next crop?
Man… Can’t say enough ”thank you” for this honest speech. You trully kept me up right now, and this is a charisma. ./hi5
Do you have a video on how to select a site for a new garden? We just moved and have lots of space…I have my spot picked out but after observing the location it seems quite windy. Does that matter?
I was a silly starter myself. Now i have decided to focus on 1 new type of perennial each year, and 1 type of new veggie each year. It helps to focus and observe.
Really good chat. A great reminder, even for us auld ones. I am a Permaculture designer myself. I was more inspired by this conversation than a dozen hippie navel-gazing meetings at the local permie group.
Thanks.
you are truly my miyagi of gardening! any news on the next batch of your books? much love!
When I began my gardening journey more than 25 years ago, I used the odd fertilizer, but I’ve been natural for more than 10 years . I’ve just recently started no dig (2 years) and I’m loving it!
I met Sean Tucker in South Africa in 2002 at a camp.We have a mutual friend in SA .wow what a blast from the past.I didn’t realise how talented he is .
Words of wisdom!
Mark 4:8
And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.
thanks for your video’s. i have a jungle of a garden (28ft wide, 75ft long) with waist high reedy type grass and head high type bushes. im hoping to turn it in to a vegitable garden one day but it is hard getting started, my family have absalutly no interest in it so its up to me. I have asthma, moderate to sever copd, carpal tunnel syndrome and i, like millions of other people around the world, have been housebound because you know why! well thanks to your insperation and straight talking, i am now more determind to start my garden adventure, even if it kills me (not literally!) so starting now i will be sitting down to plan out my ‘Victory’ garden, then i just have to work on getting everything cleared out so i can get my raised beds and pollytunnel in, i plan on making my own pollytunnel using rebar rods, wood and brackets, and square wire pannels. Wish me luck, im going to need it lol
Chemical free gardening! Yes! We have a duty to our sacred land and our sacred selves to be in harmony with the natural state of both 🌏
I’ve learned a lot of important things from your videos and thank you for them. All of them are good, however I think this one has the very best information for starting gardeners – me. I did plant a few herbs last year and had enough success with them to have enough to dry for teas during the winter. This year I’m planting veggie seeds for the first time. I’m keeping a notebook about what I’m doing, as you suggested in one of your videos, so can see what works or not this year. Thank you again for this upfront, much needed and very honest video!
This is the 10th year I have tried to grow a garden. Last January I harvested my first harvest in an indoor garden.
Here is a question I hope someone could help me with. I was wanting to start with composting, but the cost of composters seems high for the amount of compost you get. I thought I would try to make my own by buying a 55 gallon drum (steel), putting it on wheels to turn it (perhaps getting something like a bike pedal to turn it), and punching a bunch of holes in it for air flow. Being metal, I would think it would increase the temperature, and even could paint it black to help.
Would that work?
Dear Huw,
you said that you recommend to leave the roots in the ground when removing old plant. Will those roots break down in the soil or you remove them later before the beginning of the next growing season?
This is so inspiring. Thank you for the awesome video.
I’m at a new beginning of designing a garden in our first country home with my wife and kids, I’m also a photographer and follow/enjoy Sean Tucker and I’m almost more excited about composting than I am making fine art photography and lunch out of our produce! Thanks for the world’s colliding online experience and the learning and inspiration Huw!
This is such great advice – another awesome video! Thanks again!
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For me the most important things are timing and fertilising. The guy on the next allotment is fantastic. If he sows a row of seeds I rush out and do the same.
May I say, there’s much wisdom and poetry in your words. 👋 from Italy
patience is a must xxx
Hi Huw, I love your videos, I get a lot of information and inspiration from you. I have a question about not digging the soil. What if in my garden there’s a lot of rubble and big stone flags buried in the ground? I was going to do no dig in my garden but I can’t even stick the fork in the soil…. Thanks !
I really love your videos – your words and messages really go straight to my heart!!!! Thank you for your work 🌞
I’m ready to start a large garden but feel super overwhelmed by everything that goes into it.
Thanks for the great motivation.
Great vid! I have been using organic methods for 5 years now and things are getting better and better. I totally agree with all your info dependence on chemicals will always let you and your ecosystem down. The age of agriculture is gone and dead and needs a revive ty for your vid.
Wonderful words. Thanks
One question. I’m super new to this, I bought some fish blood and bone fertilizer a few days back. I just thought I’d try it as maybe as a one off just to get a bit of a head start, would you consider fish blood and bone to be one of those unnatural things to avoid introducing to the soil?