Early summer in the Vegetable Garden | Beautiful Food Growing

Early summer in the Vegetable Garden | Beautiful Food Growing
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What to Sow in August https://youtu.be/EkCvNpvL6XI

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Byther Farm is a small organic homestead, being designed and managed using permaculture practices. We aim for self-sufficiency in fruit and vegetables for increased self reliance and better resilience to the modern world. I recognise that we are unlikely to be truly self sufficient, but do the best we can. I share our home with my loving husband, Mr J.
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Music from Epidemic Sound.

hello the temperatures in June were pretty low and in July they haven’t been very much better and so everything in our garden is really quite far behind where I’d expect it to be but I thought today we’d have a look at some of the things I have managed to get done in the garden over the last two or 3 weeks I’m L sorab and this is by the farm [Music] so we’re actually going to start with U the most recent things and work our way backwards these beans were planted uh earlier in the year they weren’t overwintered ones um I found it’s too wet here to overwinter beans they just get eaten by slugs so these were sewn early in Spring [Music] now I could just harvest the beans on the the lower part of the plant which will be the bigger beans but actually I kind of want to clear some space in here for the next Harvest to go in now I wouldn’t normally uh pull up a plant but I just wanted to show you this so on the roots here you may be able to see these tiny little white lumps little nodules and these are uh these are nitrogen nodules because beans uh and all the plants in the bean and pea family all produce uh nitrogen fixing nodules and they’ll fix the nitrogen into the ground which then makes it available for other plants to use a later date but not if you pull the whole plant up you need to cut the plant off and leave this end in the ground and actually as far as I understand if the plant has gone to flower uh it would have used up a lot of the nitrogen but it’s still worth leaving them in the ground cuz there will be some I’m just going to harvest uh this row here and maybe some from the middle row there’s three rows of beans in here I’ll leave the ones at the back because they’re on the North facing side so they really will have had much less sun to develop now when I put these be in here uh in the spring I alternated red and white cabbages between the plants uh the red cabbages have done okayish uh the white cabbages have really been nibbled by slugs but they all look like they could do with a lot more light and that’s because they would have been shaded out by the bean plants so once I’ve processed those beans I’m going to come back through I’ll remove uh some of the calendula I’m not going to throw them out I’m just going to uh move them to somewhere else and in the garden so there’s fewer places for Slugs to hide and uh and then I will plant some more brassas in here I have got some more that I’ve been growing on in the poly tunnel so going to add the beans into uh this hot composter um this is its second uh batch that I’m creating here and very shortly I’ll show you how I got on with the first first batch that I put in [Music] unless it’s been absolutely pouring with rain uh I’ve been out most mornings to do a bit of Dead Heading and with loins usually if they’ve got over halfway uh the flower stem with making seeds uh I’ll take them off and let the younger ones come through partly this is about me managing my time because I’ve got a lot of loopin and I don’t have a lot of time so I’ll just make a judgment call and go okay well I don’t get to enjoy that bit I leave these on the floor and absolutely the pollinators will still find them and because the plant hasn’t received messages to say oh I’ve produced seeds and they’ve actually got to maturity and drop to the ground it will carry on producing flowers now you’ll see uh bags all around the garden um this one is from our local Council it’s a peak Free Soil improver uh it’s certainly not a compost I want to start seedlings off in but it’s great for using as a mulch and then once the bags are empty I I’ll turn them inside out or I haven’t with that one but usually I’ll turn them inside out and then as I weeding I’ll put weeds into them I’ll tie them off um and then I know that those weeds have got weed seeds in them and that they need to be composted at heat or we can take them to the local Municipal tip and then eventually they’ll come back here as soil improver while we’re in this part of the garden I just wanted to point out how well the beans doing they’re flowering they’re almost at the top of the poles uh these are my Greek gigantis beans so I won’t be picking these no Harvest until the end of the season but I’m really pleased that they have started flowering which means we will have some beans this year every year I am asked about uh two plants in particular uh one is this red flowering uh nausea and I will leave links in the video description and also on my website so uh to tell you more about this and the other plant is uh this one and this is an Asurion tree cabbage it doesn’t form a head it does these enormous leaves only need to harvest one or two leaves for a meal uh and it’s a short live perennial and I’ll also leave information about this and Links of where you can buy the seeds in the video description [Music] we need some potatoes for the house so I’m just going to lift one plant here and one plant further along the row and let’s see how they’re [Music] doing well we have some potatoes so that’s good but not very [Music] many ha that’s a nice one and now I’m lifting from the other end of the [Music] [Applause] bed and that’s the seed potato [Music] there lots and lots of little ones so really need to be left longer but um we need some for the potatoes for the kitchen right now so [Music] [Laughter] [Music] so there we go these are really nice good size potatoes uh and a few little ones these are smaller but more of them [Music] these are the potato plants I’ve just lifted and harvested and I thought there’s still lots and lots of baby potatoes on them so why don’t I uh take a pot Place one of the plants in in the pot can you see there’s still some baby potatoes there so I’m going to put it in I’m going to cover it over with soil and this is just mole hill soil and we’ll leave them a few weeks and come back and see if they’ve grown [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and if you want to know what you can sew in your veg Garden during July and August well I’ve made a video or two and I’ll leave links uh on the screen and also in the video description and if you click on those links it’ll take you straight through to those videos