After a week of freezing weather, and with more to come, see how the plants are surviving. Winters here are normally temperate, so this is unusual for us in zone 8, south-west England.
You also see no dig beds prepared and ready for planting in the spring. It's quick and easy with few weeds to worry about.
Filmed at Homeacres by Nicola Smith, 14th December 2022.
00:00 Introduction, and some info on upcoming events
00:55 Broad beans for a cover crop
01:38 Rye plants, some with wireworm damage, and mustards - Synapsis Alba
03:18 Spring onions
03:45 Endive and lettuce, coming to the end
04:11 More mustard, later sown, interplanted with garlic
04:43 Savoy cabbage, a brilliant winter vegetable
05:12 Purple sprouting broccoli, covered with netting against pigeons
05:40 Vegetable storage in the shed - all frost tolerant veg…
06:47 …except fennel
07:38 Pigeon damage to Brussels sprouts
08:21 Lamb’s lettuce and swede
08:51 Spinach, Medania variety
09:22 Beetroot Boltardy
09:49 Compost, just spread, with some bits of wood
10:52 The three-bay pallet system
11:50 A pile of fresh wood chip, compare it to 10 months old woodchip
13:07 Another bed of mustard, and garlic
13:31 Fruit radish - Shawo fruit, Sakurajima and Green Luobo
14:26 A different type of Brussels sprout, Red Bull, a non-hybrid
14:54 Broad beans under thermacrop, and Aalsmeer cauliflower under mesh
15:51 The dig and no dig trial beds
16:24 Broad beans just planted in the trial beds
17:01 This year’s harvesting results from the trial, see webpage below
17:38 The greenhouse, with plants under fleece
20:42 The Small Garden, and a look at coriander
22:09 In the conservatory - oca recently harvested
22:40 Tomato plant, F1 hybrid Rosada, propagated from a sideshoot
23:31 I cut open a leek, Philomene, harvested the same morning
24:15 Two fruit radish, recently harvested - Green Luobo and Shawo fruit, the latter with cabbage root fly damage
25:32 Outro
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