Edit again! Now audio temporarily isn't matching, It's because KZfaq is still processing the cut, I can't do anything about it I'm so sorry So sorry about the missing sounds during the squash shot! Thank you for all the comments letting me know. I've removed that part that has no sound on KZfaq editor but may take a while for that change to happen to thank you for your patience! Edit: turns out end screens also become available when processing the changes so here is the missing link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eKh5gLOlrMydc5c.html

my 15mo loves nasturtium leaves and when she hears the flowers buzzing she puts her little face right up to them "The BEEEEEEEZ!"

My reseed gang is Solar Flare lettuce, dill, cilantro, Giant Red Mustard, Arugula, Bloody Dock, Curled Moss Parsley, Chives, Chamomile, Chervil, Pepper cress, and Ragged Jack Kale. Playing with adding more, but the last few years I have beds just come up covered in greens and herbs every Spring with zero effort. I call it growing my own weeds, acts as a cover crop and easier to remove for space, wakes the soil up before I seed and plant it.

Never have to buy again: I’m a new gardener and I think I’m a perennials guy rather than annuals. It’s just so great when perennials come back bigger and better in the second year, with zero effort from me. 👍🏼

Hey, I'm a business woman and more stressful with my designing and fabric store.when I go to bed at night for sleep, I watch your videos and suddenly get deep sleep. May be due to your gatden and your voice. thank you so much for give me stressless sleep. Greetings From Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 ♥️

Borage flowers replenish their nectar every 2 to 5 minutes, they are absolutely one of the best feed flowers for nectar feeding insects

I really like the way you laid out this video instead of just showing seed packs and actually showing your garden. Much more interesting and effective. That's the prettiest patch of Borage I've ever seen .😂

Absolutely love this format of videos, Huw! It's great to click on a video not sure what you're going to get and always getting great insight, tips and and inspiration!

We've had the same thing with some of our heirloom tomatoes that we had attacked by some blackbirds and shat out seeds all over our neighborhood and cars that have now grown rogue everywhere in the middle of winter 😂

I’m big on herbs. Even if I don’t use them, someone will and my turkeys, chickens and rabbits are happy to eat whatever I give them from clippings. Nothing goes to waste!

I follow a similar plan, allowing some plants to self-seed, then transplanting the seedlings to areas where I want them, either in the garden, or in the larger yard as landscaping. Several plants that lend themselves to this process are flowers called lamb's ear, domestic amaranth varieties, and hollyhocks. I let them grow in the garden for their showy colors and to attract pollinators. I do the same with various fruit and veggie crops, like coriander, chives, strawberries and raspberries, when they spread outside their allotted space. Even some weeds receive a better reception in my garden than most: tender young leaves from Lambsquarter, Pigweed and Wild Lettuce are all pleasant additions to salads in late spring, when domestic lettuce is not yet abundant. When the domestic crops grow large enough to need the rootspace, I pull the weeds and add them to the compost piles, where they are a welcome source of nitrogen.

The borage stunned me to tears of joy. And it's so encouraging when you share your struggles too. . This instill hope that one day I will get there.

How what a beautiful life ❤ your video makes me relax looking at it and I admire your passion and knowledge is amazing. Thank for your hard work .

So much that I buy once & never again - strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, honeyberries, fruit trees, peas, tomatoes, beans, asparagus, marigolds, loads of herbs… In fact, I’d probably do even more if I had the patience & time to prevent cross-pollination of cucumbers, courgettes & squashes… And one of these days I will actually manage to collect ALL the potato harvest so it doesn’t leave random plants growing in beds of other stuff the next year! As ever, I encourage using good heritage & heirloom seeds to enable lots of seed saving.

I love your videos. I have a lot of pain and find them so calming. I also learn tons and am inspired. Thank you for what you do Huw.

Although our climate here in Atlantic Canada is different from yours, most (if not all) of the perennials you mention thrive here as well. Very useful video. A big help on my way to self-sufficiency and less work for me in the future. Thank you again.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge, experience and passion. I do appreciate it so much. 😊

Thank you Hugh for making the correction. I would like to extend a random THANK YOU to you. My garden is beautiful this year. It's my happy place and of the numerous gardeners I've followed and learned from you're my absolute favorite. ❤ My health is everything to me so the more I learn and understand the more accomplished I can be at this. Thank you. Thank you for sharing and teaching. I appreciate Sam's recipes and input as well however, U DA MAN HUGH! Thx. Love. H

Your videos are inspiring, relaxing and filmed beautifully. It would be super helpful if you could also add the names of the plants on the video or add it on the description below. I hope you consider this suggestion. Thank you.

In my garden this year that I didn’t plant: sunflower, borage, nasturtium, coreopsis, marigolds, cosmos, poppy.

Bought your latest book Hugh. Its as if it was written from my own conversations & questions in my head ! Incredible Insights. Although I am only now starting seriously at this, aged 60 I am totally focussed on Low maintenance permaculture, Self seeding Edible plants & flowers & low maintenance huge return herb, vegetable, fruit and nuts specific for the climate in South wales . My 800sqft polytunnel should be also producing on 2 tiers from cuts & seeds - Hopefully learning every day from nature and your excellent focussed advice. I have a long way to go to come up to your ankles in your skills and ability.

I absolutely delight in the joy you have in this video. Thank you for sharing your passion and experience with all of us!

Love how the chickens 2:49 , are making the "food we are happy sound"

Loved the video a lot and I saved it for later . I have a huge balcony and a terrace. Id love a little garden but im grateful for what I have. Remodeling my house so in a near future I ll start a garden , for that reason I save videos that I know they r gonna b useful for me :) Loved a lot the moment feeding the chickens .... gorgeous !

Perfectly imperfect gardens! Love it! Thank-you very much Huw. 💖🦋🐝🐞🌱

I really ❤ the colour science you're using in your video, guys . It's perfect !

Radiccio Lettuce grows back from the root in my Unwatered front yard, Artichokes grow back from the root anywhere, green onion and chives grow from the root, garlic and strawberry can sprout from roots also, tomatos and cilantro are good at sprouting from seeds in the compost. Woodchip Layer does it all.

Lost the sound about halfway through but it came back. I love the flowers to eat.

One look at your Borage patch, and I immediately ordered some seeds. Your garden is always so lovely and inspirational.

Thank you so much Huw. I've got Field Beans ready to sow on your recommendation and I'm really looking forward to seeing them grow.

I have a self sown borage next to one of my strawberry plants, and that plant has produced the best strawberries I have ever tasted. Next year I will grow borage all thru my berry patch!

Thx for the explanation Huw. I'll rewatch in a couple of days. Maybe all will be good by then.

Absolutely loved the video, so peaceful and summery ❤

Very nice video I tried dead heading the marigolds and saved jars and jars of seeds this year planted them they are flourishing so well!!

Was the yellow rose called “gently?” The time you spent inhaling it’s scent was a lovely bit of film and quite endearing. I find many of your videos to be so meditative. They are full of great information, insight and inspiration, but also are just so lovely. Very well done, Huw!

This is wonderful- I love your approach, thank you 🙏🏼

Lemon basil is amazing. It makes a wonderful cold tea!

Another great video - thanks Huw 😊

Callaloo is another terrific edible self-seeder.

In a hot summer climate, Bidens alba (great for pollinators too) and amaranth/pigweed. Talinum and purslane (edible weed) work well if sunny. Never succeeded with Tropaleums (nasturtiums), probably because of hot, continental summers, and chervil bolts/dies in 3 weeks, which is a shame because it is one of the few veggies that taste really good. Outside of Florid and deserts, dandelions (edible weed) seem reliable. Sow thistle (edible weed) comes back reliably in spring/summer in the Midwest US and in Oct. to March in FL.

So delightful to see glimpses of the garden! That borage hedge with the foxtglove: stunning. I would love to hear tips on growing basil! Mine just struggles year after year.

Thank you, Mr. Huw, thank you.

Your ideas are good and you are a happy gardener 💕

Could you say the names of the plants a few times and/or list the names in the comments section. Thank you.

Thank you for your wonderful video's

That vertical garden area definitely has a savanna look. It’s great.

I love a forage hedge!

Great video great work

I need to try and encourage a borage hedge. It's self-seeded very enthusiastically around my garden and allotment but not in an orderly fashion like yours!

Wow! I love it.🙂

Huw are the one I ❤🌲😆😉🌲

I went searching for cape gooseberries and realized, oh, he means ground cherries! 😁

Very cool

You have some amazing gardens and they are beautiful! Thank you for making this video and showing them. Quick question: What variety of field beans are you growing at the end of the video? I've never seen a bean which grows off the main stalk like that and I'm very curious. Thank you.

Ooh cape gooseberries yum

Calendula! A self seeding champion.

Cape gooseberry I wouldn´t recommend letting seed itself (at least it does not work at all in Germany, you will only harvest VERY little, you usually propagate it as early as January!), unless you mean the smaller, related varieties, that are not quite as tasty and smaller and lighter in colour but ripen much faster

Good Morning...Thank You 😃 🫛🌱

Hi Huw, as it's coming up to garlic harvesting time, is there any chance you could squeeze in a garlic video along with some trouble shooting advice on "stem cloves"... i live in the south of france, up in the black mountains, zone 8bish I believe. I decided to plant garlic for the first time late last autumn and protected them with a good layer of leaf mulch. We had 2 weeks of solid snow in January, so they sat there, quite happily I thought, under 50cm of snow, for all that time. They looked absolutely fine come early spring and starting shoting up, all looking good. We've had an exceptionally wet may and june up here though, and I noticed a couple of weeks or so ago, a bulge start appearing further up the neck of the garlic. I've dug them all up today and every single one has these "stem cloves"... any advice or tips as to what's caused them and how to avoid them in the future would be great if you could please. 😊

I’d love some of that borage! 🤣

Creeping Thyme or bleeding hearts 💕 would look so nice as a cascade in front of the nasturtiums. I learned rosehips have a lot of vitamin c more than oranges

Heart spotted on the leaf bottom right hand corner 💚1:27

Snake heaven in Australia!

Hi Huw, can you cover making jidan foliar spray in detail again please? I have had two failed attempts. 🤔Mine just goes mouldy and no liquid. Lovely to see the chickens. Great video. 😁

Cape gooseberries seed like mad. Only found out this last season, to my delight.

I love plants that re-seed and grow again, but there is a fine line between re-seeding and invasive for some plants, such as Borage. Nasturtiums are beautiful when they are streaming over the edge of the raised bed, but this year they keep coming up where the cucumbers are planted on the arbor and are continuously having to be pulled out to give the cucumbers a fighting chance.

Hello from in Zonguldak

Lemon basil is my favorite basil so far. I use a lot of the regular basil but the lemon reminds me of fruit loops cereal! So tasty in tea☕️

Nice. Thank you.

Greetings from sweden. Love your videos❤ I wonder, how do you keep cabbage worms out of the nasturtiums? 🐛

Woah, Huw, how is your nasturtium so much ahead of ours here in the German Rhine Valley!? Yes, we had an unusuallycold and wet spring, but it has been 25°C - 30°C with lots of sun and no rain for 5 weeks now, and my nasturtium stillis only 30 cm high and doesn't show any signs of flowers yet. 🙈

I've just sown borage because of you! Well, because of the pollinators I want to attract. My biggest pollinators is my Spirea bushes! I can't believe the amount of bumble bees that are so happy there! The pink flowers with the yellow green leaves are so lovely.

Can you tell me please what kind of rose that was? I would have liked to see more about it, looks like something I'd like. Thanks!

its hard for me to deal with re seeding annuals because i cant tell weed from not weed until its a bit late. i strongly prefer perennials. however i am certain others will use this.

The only herb i have succeeded with so far on my first year is Korean mint :) my parsley looks so yellow like its dying so i think maybe i have time to try again and do a bit more research into it :) , this whole year has been an experiment so far , got about 20+ variety's of veg growing so i have my work cut out 🙈

Wow, that borage is looking spectacular.

There's a part with no sound just after you feed the hens

Hey Huw and team, I was wondering whether you can share some good (online) sources to get a nice variety of seeds since most my local sources only sell the same types of lettuce and carrot seeds for example. Thanks!

Rocket, and by rocket I mean the thin, jagged leaved arugula (I call the round-lobed plant arugula, and this one rocket, rightly or wrongly). It grows for me in NE Ohio (6A) best in spring and into summer before going to seed, and if I keep it fairly short clipped, it produces for a very long time. Having let my rocket go to seed for the last 2 years, it now has covered a good portion of one bed to the extent it looks like a weed or, in my view, a very tasty cover-crop (and as I tend to walk on it, it pops right back up the next day). It is a tough decision to remove/relocate (or just eat) from around my tomatoes as water becomes an issue, but seeing as how I save all my greens-washing water in 5 gal buckets and use it on the garden, this year I've decided to see if the mass of rocket affects my tomato production. I'm thinking it won't, and honestly, it is a rare thing to *not* have more than enough tomatoes, so a slight reduction is fine if that means loads of self-seeding rocket. Do wish I had some chickens! One day, one day...

Any advice on what to do about voles?

I saw a short video you did about Australian tree cabbage. I can not locate seed, can you suggest a source?

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It’s called … Gentle Touch!

Hi Hugh. Great video. Just to let you know , audio I'd missing from 3.30 to 4.20. Love your show.

Does your netting catch any birds? I've had problems with mine doing that.

I never plant perpetual spinach after giving some to my pet rabbit and found it dead the day after. No marks or injuries at all. It must have been oxalate poisoning from the high oxalic levels in the spinach beet.

Somehow this 'never again' prospect doesn't happen for me - except for nettles which seed and grow from incredible root systems couch grass of course, dandelions and buttercups in various sizes, and hemlock. 'June daisies' and and a few native wild flowers grow, but all your glorious self-seeders have long gone. Hares, rabbits deer and many visiting birds come for buds and leaves that could kill them and don't: but they don't eat clematis!

Great content,what country are you in??

Horseradish comes up every year. Rocket also.

What variety of field beans are they please mate

Any way I can get the seeds shipped to the UK?

this guy is always making friends with bumblebees

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Huw, Which variety of "field beans" were featured in the vid? (I don't recognize them. They seem like big producers. Ideal for my growers group food giveaway.) Thnx in advance.

4:13 sound is back

#1 of Your Best Videos. Date in my journey the 1st year ,maybe post the date with the plant . Great pic Great sound . I’m studying about Gut to Brain Health one of the Best way to keep Good healthy micro biome is Gardening, With out heavy chemical of course. Advice from Dr.Sabine Hazan , clinical research . Has seen many people’s Health Change . Thank You for helping me Grow .

@6:45 is that sugar snap peas? OMG

Can you put text up on the videos of the plant names when you introduce them?

Hi, there's no sound from 3:30 through to 4:13 just in case you want to reupload.

Unfortunately the sound is off for most of the video. Would love to watch it again when it is all fixed.