Homesteading smallholding ideas.
High winds in UK!!!! Idiot plonker didn’t fix his polytunnel cover and regretted it!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20VoZFH4WOM
Fruits to grow in UK, USA and similar climates | Permaculture | Food forest | Orchard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q0yAcGRyeA&t=29s
10 great fruits to grow in cold climates! | Permaculture | Food forest | Growing fruit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXL9VpqMFW8
How to grow Carrots in containers. Sow to harvest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyw5Oz2rrt0&t=8s
How to grow early Summer cabbage. Sow to harvest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f6Td9DpgLk&t=542s
How to grow cauliflower | Allotment garden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_50NdK-_MRo&t=27s
Making compost in a Dalek compost bin! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJCk0Y9KQG4&t=144s
How to make compost effective and quick with proof it works! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3X172XqYTo&t=1594s
How to grow Peaches and Nectarines pruning to harvest | Disease | Pests | Thinning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn50u-pUtRk&t=33s
Grow potatoes simply and easily | Potato growing points https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GefbNvMzclg&t=21s
How to grow Pumpkins | Growing | Harvest | Curing | Storing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSrTAENC6pc&t=734s
How to grow Brussels sprouts that don’t blow!! Sow to harvest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=162dKITGY9c&t=841s
I hope people enjoy the video.
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Greetings all people. I have spoken about many things in this video and you will find more expanded videos on many of these subjects in the description box so fill your boots! Here is one you may like to start with. 10 great fruits to grow in cold climates! | Permaculture | Food forest | Growing fruit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXL9VpqMFW8
Hey! I've just potted up two dwarf blueberries (top hat and horte blue) and am awaiting delivery of a taybery (buckinghamshire) after watching your videos. I also copied how you set up your polytunnel( resting timbers on bricks and staking the corners). I've got perpetual spinach, dwarf butternut squash, courgettes, mini cucumbers and aubergines, green sprouting broccoli, rainbow chard and kale plants growing, as well as cherry tomatoes and some bigger ones, dwarf beans and ever bearing strawberries and potatoes. I'm turning a pallet and some guttering into a growing space for lettuce.
I've just purchased a mini nectarine (fantasy), mini plum, mini, cherry (stella) two mini apple trees and a mini pear.
I notice that you use black plastic pots, is there any reason for this? I've been using fabric pots mostly. I have a small area of raised beds too. I want to use guttering and recycled water bottles to grow vertically. I also want to explore small irrigation systems.
Very interested to watch how the pomegrante tree goes. My nan used to treat me to them when I was a kid 😊 so they bring back good memories
I'm in the UK on the south east coast, so weather's quite mild mostly.
Excellent stuff dude!! All looking very healthy! Im hoping for my first crop this year off my cheap wilko and BnM apple, pear and cherry trees, All in containers, planted 18mnths or so ago.
Is it ok to use rainwater to water through the roots of peaches? I want to copy your model but maybe add a rainwater capture system that self irrigates through the roots.
Adding a tank could mean capturing enough to water in dry periods as well
Great vid! You have answered a question I posted on one of your previous vids.
I have three small peach trees (hoping to keep them to >2m tall), would you recommend a poly tunnel the same size as yours (for the next few years)?
You ever thought about getting chickens? Good for Composting, fertilizer and food lol
Whats with all this homesteading crap in the UK? Its either a garden or an allotment. Its the UK not the USA.
Broad beans – the easiest to grow ever.
Your allotment was pretty amazing, sorry you had to let it go but onwards and upwards with your food forest garden which is also a fabulous growing space! Lots of great information in this video! I second the tip on making sure you use fine netting for the brassicas. The first year I netted I got it wrong and was amazed to see a butterfly get through in flight! I couldn't believe what I was seeing because the mesh was fairly fine, it went through like it wasn't there! Second year I got the correct mesh but didn't fasten it down well enough. The wind created a gap and in they got. Haven't seen a cabbage white yet this year but I have seen other varieties, so they're coming, I'm in North West Cumbria about as far north as you can get in England. You inspired me to try a grape but unfortunately I don't think it likes my greenhouse. It gets off OK and then suffers from some kind of mildew. I pack my greenhouse out with a lot of tomatoes, maybe it doesn't like muddling along with them. I'm just in the process of getting a poly tunnel put up, so I think I'll move it in there. It's variety, Black Hamburg so technically should be quite hardy, it's in it's third year but I trimmed it back in an effort to help it recover from the mildew last year. The only other exotic I grow is lemon and I grow that in my conservatory, variety Sicilian and it flowers and fruits very well. I've got a nice cutting, so will try and establish it in the poly tunnel but it will need protection in winter.
Brilliant as always Dan 😊
Hey, Dan, gutted for you! I'm in a terrace, so everything has to come through the kitchen and living room then up the steps. There is a knack of long bits of wood such as my polly tunnel frame going straight through the living room window and out the back door😂, happy days lol. The polly… well I don't know how they fitted it in! But all I would say is make use of all of your fencing. Maybe use trellis on all of it and climb anything you can, and things you have no room for just put in pots and you can move them about accordingly. Strawberries in hanging baskets, and things like lettuce and herbs in them too (steve's seaside allotment videos), keep trees relatively small and compact. Tower-pots with multi pockets are great too. Good luck, I'm sure you'll do fine!!
My polytunnel didn't survive the storms either… the cover was fine but the cheap frame wasn't!! Mind you, I've seen thicker poles on a tent… so not entirely surprising!
Howdy Dan!👋 I always enjoy your garden tours because you have so much goodness growing, and you pass on your knowledge while taking us around.
I know a lot of folks who downsized their gardens this year…me for one. I'm trying to garden easier and smarter.😃
We are a month past our last frost date; thus, the summer crops have been going in and growing. My popcorn is 18 inches tall. I find corn doesn't mind being planted when it's cool and takes off when the heat hits. We have a bit of strange weather…still dropping into the upper 40s every 2 weeks…just for a night or 2. The plants don't seem to mind.
I hope you will be growing watermelon again this year.😃 Continued fun times in your food forest.👍
Sorry to hear you've given up the plot Dan, however whatever works for you buddy! But I'm glad the channel is still going ❤. Danny 🌱
I'm glad you were able to save your trees. I think feelgooduk should send you a free replacement, your chanel promotes their tunnels in such a good way. I for one bought one after seeing yours. 😊
Hi mate. Sorry to hear that you have had to give up your allotment. Every cloud and that, gives you a great chance to get to work on your new growing projects.
All the best
well done Dan, keep trucking as always.
Greetings from east Suffolk. Has been wet & windy here lately. Not to worry about your allotment Dan, you can only do so much in life without exhausting body & mind. Wow to the pomegranates in Essex ! Great selection of fruit & veg. We've got a couple of cherry trees here, but they need well protecting from the birds otherwise cherries are gone in a flash. Water containers are great – noticed the ? flower troughs standing on them – do you have trailing plants in them ? Giant carrots will be great – have made carrot juice before & added a bit of orange juice to it – makes lovely tropical flavour drink👍
Shame u had to give up the plot Dan but you have your garden so no loss. great video good luck for this year
Hello Dan not been in touch for a while I lost my spirit for stuff life in the way n I didn't even wanna click your vids coz I'm a plonker but I shall click back n watch all cheers Dan n hope your good mate 👍👍
You have a fine gardening space. I am envious of all of your fruit trees. I have not had a garden here in NC or in Maine that cabbage white butterflies did not pester my brassicas. Such is life.
Indiana, USA. I have seen the cabbage white butterfly flying around this week. Trying to cover everything they was to get to. Great video.
love a tour! everything looks fab, I like your trees! I have never grown a tree in pots but I know a few people that have so much success. I have tiny little twigs for trees still I can't wait till they become something more. Im thinking of getting another tree and another 2 grape vines this year.
Hi Dan, Shame about the allotment, but best not to spread yourself too thin (literally – you seem to have lost a little weight and there wasn't much to start with).
Great you got another PT sorted, moving forwards and no looking back.
I have had great results with a grow light propagator from Lidl, seedlings doing much better than those on window sill or out in greenhouse. Think it's because the cold nights and grey skies have put some seedlings into a sort of dormant mode. Some seedlings look like giants compared to their siblings, so I've now swapped them for some of the weak ones, to bring them on a bit. Roll on May, I crave proper spring weather.
Whatever you do in life you will find a way to garden. True gardeners adapt. The inspiration for your viewers has come from how well you have adapted over the years. You mentioned the white cabbage butterfly again which we have more than our fair share of in North Dakota because of the amount of farming done. I was wondering if you also had the yellow ones in the UK. Just as destructive but they do pretty up the swarms.
Sad that you had to give up your allotment.
Don't give up your enthusiasm and power. You should have your own company for plant production.
With both parents very sick and old personally I also had to cut my activities shorter. Am not working for other people's gardens any more. Because of requests from neighbors I added production of decorative flowers.
Ha, your allotment was beautiful
Whoever inherited will love it
I grow loads of blueberries everywhere
With bountiful harvest
Lovely tour Dan
Sorry to hear about the allotment loss. And only a couple of months after you'd done your channel intro😥 I often wish for an allotment when I'm running out of space in the garden, but then I think about how much time it takes just to keep on top of what I do have. Enjoyed the tour…you've managed to pack a lot in. Good luck with the downsized space. Hope you still find time to upload. Cheers, Nick.
Yes cabbage moths! Here in QLD Australia we get them Spring/Summer. I’ve given up on growing brassicas in those seasons. OurWinter is mild. So now in Autumn I have all my brassica seedlings growing. Looking forward to planting them out in another few weeks when they’re bigger
Love all the vids mate inspired me to grow my own food
Hello! We live in USA, NYS zone 5, prolly B. This is our first year of harvesting asparagus. Very good! Gooseberries, blueberries, then trying to keep the squirrels off the plums and pears. Maybe this will be our first mini crop of haskaap and cornelian cherry. Figs. Then there are all the usual veggies: Sweet Million, Beefmaster and a paste tomato that I can’t remember the name. Bell peppers, radish, beets, lettuce eggplants (3 kinds) basil, parsley, celery, and some other stuff I can’t think of…,
Thank you for a lovely video. We all have many plants that were given to us by people who were important influences in our lives and every time we pass them we think of or mention the person, so give them immortality. 💚
Yes wehave been seeing those cabbage whites for a few weeks. Grr. USA z5.
Sorry to hear about the allotment
Yes mate I bought my Blueberry only this year and yet its doing really well, looks like it’s going to be dripping in fruit!