Your father did a good job!

That's a wonderful memory 😊

How long did Dad go to?

Thats just awesome!

That is a LOT of potatoes 🤣

A variation on a theme, good is not the enemy of perfect

I think the Flylady uses it

No such thing.

Well Said! I appreciate that!

I could listen to him talk all day !!!!

It's a great reason to garden Alexander! Different people have different needs from the garden so your comment is totally valid!!

I'm the other way around. The breathing fresh air, playing in the dirt, hearing nature, and enjoying the fragrances of the outdoors are all wonderful, but I garden mainly for the good health and amazing flavor that the high-quality food provides. Both are good for body and soul.

I garden to put food on the table but everything you've said is still valid. In my old tiny garden in the city I grew a lot of food but I loved just being out there with my morning coffee. I miss that and I'm working toward that now that I'm in the country, adding dedicated flower beds and sitting areas into the vegetable patch. It can absolutely be both.

Even if you rely on it for sustenance, there is that other crop to harvest--the crop of self-satisfaction and feeling connected to the natural world. There is so much peace among plants and soil. It's really a win-win.

Even if you rely on the garden for food, this is a mindset that is still helpful when blended with vigilance of care and guarding.

I dont call them failures. I call them, "Interesting developments".

@@joshjohnson2460 I will make a quote out of this! Thx guys :)

To me it seems that experiments are just for that: does it work, how, and how well---or not at all? So there are no experiments which don't work, only experimenters who don't learn what the results might teach them.

Oh wow! I'll have to make a signboard with this quote for my potting bench! 😄

I'm going yo have to use that quote

My pleasure, about time I ramp up that side of things😉

@@HuwRichards I agree that many gardeners especially in the US waist a lot of money on things they don't need but you don't recommend using things like Bt or any Bio insecticides or Bio fungicides?

So simple but so true. You cannot learn much from success. You learn so much more from failure and you learn to pay more attention to the details the next time.

@@matthewking2209 true !! I live in the USA and people talk about how expensive gardening is 🤷🏼‍♀️ I do my best to explain to as many as I can that it can be expensive or cheap !! I spend very little because I save seeds, mix up my own “pesticide” with onions, garlic, baking soda, vinegar, milk, dish soap and things like that if needed, i scavenge for supplies at the dump and along side the road because people throw away perfectly usable items and I gather up stuff to compost. I did buy some need oil last year because out of the blue I got a terrible infestation of potato beetles on my ground cherries, it didn’t work so I ended up covering them with black plastic and killing the plants and solarizing the soil, worked like a charm :))

@@matthewking2209 Work on improving your soil rather than treating symptoms.

I'm fairly new to your channel and just want to say how much I appreciate this wisdom put forth here in this video and all others I have watched. These truths are a necessary lesson to learn in all of life. I have learned without the proper foundation there will not be much success. I have resolved to concentrate on the compost, but I have bought a lot of seeds ☺️🌱 I never understood why my skills with flowers and houseplants did not translate into vegetables. I'm excited for the season with the proper knowledge. Blessings from America 🇺🇸 P.S love your book. 💗

OOo I need captions, it helps me to audio process the sounds

Same happened to me 😂 Slow and steady this time round

So glad to hear you didn't give up! Wishing you better success in the coming season!

Thank you for encouraging everyone

If you have the availability, tree crews will gladly deliver wood chips. Let them break down for a season and this makes an awesome layer. Ash from the fireplace, leaves and untreated grass clippings are awesome free layers. In the beginning its okay to buy materials then just start building what you already get from yard waste. Last year we started collecting all of our grass clippings and layering them on top of the soil. Our soil is extremely sandy but after a few seasons of layering leaves, grass, wood chips, compost and ash, our soil is really improving. We used cardboard over the lawn to start new beds and just layered materials in top. No digging!! And its great exercise!!! Good luck!!

I read it 25 seconds after you posted it Ivan! You're so very welcome. Wow that's extremely kind of you to say and I really appreciate it greatly. All I want is for as many people as possible to enjoy that feeling of growing. So glad to hear it's going well and good luck with this next growing season :D

@@HuwRichards crazy to hear you been gardening since the age of 3. My son will be 3 in a few months and loves helping us in the garden. We try to involve him as much as possible helping us out. So he will also know about gardening at a very young age. Have an awesome day Huw and keep up the great work!

Thank you Lito! That sounds so fantastic and you're going to love the process of gradually easing in to growing more and more crops! :D

I'm absolutely looking forward to it, Huw! 🥰

Hi Peggy, I’ll check out your channel!!

@@imbrudedsoul thanks Chris 👩‍🌾👍

Thank you. That's great to hear! :)

Me too! Just rewatched this video. Hope you are having a good time on your gardening adventures!

Thank you so much! :)

freeangel378, are you planning on having animals as well? Do you know how you are going to start - an acre or two or are you planting trees first? Curious as 22 acres is a lot of land! Good luck and I hope everything works out for you.

Oh you lucky duck, that's a lot of land to play with. I only have 0.5 acre so very limited in what I can do but I'm still establishing a small food forest. Best of luck to you 😊

@@thisorthat7626 hello.... I live in a hilly area somewhere deep in the Himalayas. Im conserving the upper half of the land (about 10 acres) for water source and you know, a little tropical forest in it's natural form. The bottom half has already been cleared for cultivation. I'm planting bamboos on all the slopes to prevent soil erosion. Still, lots of trees. My cultivation area in total is actually confined to about 6-8 acres. I am not particularly interested in raising livestock. We have lots of earthworms so we're doing vermicomposting already. Thanks for the interest!

@@theclumsyprepper hey there, I wish I could send you an acre or two 😊 will try to do my absolute best with all the land I've been blessed with. Good luck to you too!

@@freeangel378 Sounds like you have a great plan. Bamboo is very useful along with stabilizing soil. Good luck to you!

Ahh thank you😉

How are you getting on? ❤️🇳🇿

Absolutely the learning experience is everything! The good thing about Veg in One Bed is you only have a few things to focus on every month which will help make it nice and manageable 😊 Best of luck!

@@HuwRichards we are also following your book as a guide - very much as new Gardeners’ with our L plates on!

I used this book last year for my first vegetable garden. It was brilliant, so structured, instructive and nicely paced so you never feel overwhelmed. I'll be following it again this year with a few adaptations to try different crops. I did have some failures but I had so many successes and learnt so much. Good luck 🌱

@@lindseybush2775 really encouraging to hear this - thanks - it’s good to have something positive to focus on just now - just built our first raised bed and also dug out our first pond with a view to encouraging wildlife into the garden - exciting times!

Hi there @lindacano437 I hope you are doing really O.K, as we will not be alone in this way of thinking 'As I get older and fight bad health, I realize each garden I try to put in may be my last'. As I am approaching 77 in a few weeks time and found that this winter has been one of the hardest I have ever had, because of the cost of living increased so much and in particular the cost of trying to afford greater increased costs for internet and the energy bills along with greatly increased vet insurance for my lovely cat, that has encouraged me to try and get out there into garden, more in hope to form/grow more including memories to share with my two disabled adult son's, along with produce for the table, is where our good health is needed. The fact that Huw Richards, has made this video face what life throws at us becomes more realistic from other then financial point of view but by becoming greatly more important is gaining food growing knowlege and has highlighted the fact that there is so much more out there that can help to produce increased crops that has not got to cost us anymore than than becoming knowledgable of how to obtain this by our own efforts and by making use of his wise and very helpful information, so staying physical fit and healthy for us is our first port of call and having KZfaq alongside us and internet with people like Huw Richards and Charles Dowding has made this all more accessible/available that was never available to our parents. Also the fact that we are still with our piece of land/home, means a great deal has actually been achieved whether containers or other, and needs to be remembered for giving us so much more than our parents ever had and we have to be greatly thankfull for this being achieved. Thankyou very much Huw for being there for us, Maureen Englan/UK

Brambles would be a great base layer for your compost bin as they will create air pockets that help the bacteria break down the material. Ideally it should be onto of soil even if it's bad quality so that worms can get access to the bin. I hope this helps.

Bit by bit, eh? Some now, a few more later on, and some even after that.... You'll get there.