Land enough for a polycrub is the dream. Moved from 1 acre to a condo... allotments aren't a thing here. I've offered multiple folks land rent for a corner of their large properties...it's just not done around here. But...the condo is temporary (1-3 years) then back to a place with land as soon as the hyper real estate market calms down. In the meantime, room enough only for four 2x4 elevated planters 🌱

@CurlyProverbz

2 жыл бұрын

Even that is a blessing sis. I wished to have the space for just one bed for years. All the best on your journey xo

Yeast from grocery store mix with water 100g +10L water or milk 1L + 10 L. Water cucumbers and tomato once in a month help with powdery mildew. pumpkin and zucchini will benefit too.

I've never hear it called relay planting before, usually I hear it as intercropping. Love the polycrub.

*_SMART GARDENING STYLE, WOOOOOWW!!!!, HUW RICHARDS, You are teaching me to be patient with plants,we will not get tired of watching this video, please don't stop gardening, continue like this, GO GO GO GOOOOOOOOOO!!!_*

@HuwRichards

2 жыл бұрын

Great! That's so nice to hear, glad you find it helpful :)

Hello my friend. You have been growing food in your family's vegetable garden following organic and sustainable principles for the last 15 years. You are now on a mission to help as people as possible to grow their own food inexpensively. It is such a fun and rewarding process which you hope everyone can expenticence. Growing food involves so many fun activities which can be as easy as you want. There is nothing betters than harvesting some of our own home-grown produce. That's a wonderful sharing. I like your big garden. It is so beautiful and peaceful. In there, you plant a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables, look after them carefully. I think life begins the day you start a garden and a garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness, it teaches industry and thrift, above all it teaches entire trust. Besides, the single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sun, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the word. And the garden suggests there might be a place where wr can meet nature halfway. You love gardening, me too. Maybe gardening adds years to your life and life to your years. There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments. And gardening is how we relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors. Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. You are an intelligent, hard-working and friendly gardener. Gardeners, i think dream bigger dreams than emperors. Tipd to maximize undercover growing over winter. So great. I learned many things from you and i will use this useful informations for my garden. Thank you for sharing. Have a good day. Stay health and safe.

Wow, awesome - that looks like a really stabil alternative for greenhouses. We are having more and more pretty stormy or strong rainfalls and hails here in Germany during the last years. Several greenhouses crashed every year, didnn't matter if they were made from glass or plastics. Such a greenhouse might be strong enough to last. Your tips for space planning are really practical. Thank you!

I would love a polytunnel eventually. For now though, since I live with my parents I’m using a cold frame filled with containers to produce tons of salad leaves every week. I used a thick under layer for it so hopefully I can continue to grow through winter. Also plan on trying to over winter my favourite tomato.

I really adore your way of gardening and how you could explain it thoroughly. Thanks, Huw!

@HuwRichards

2 жыл бұрын

You're so welcome! Thanks for watching and commenting! :)

Unfortunately I've already started sowing and planting! Serves me right for being in such a hurry to start. Thank you much Huw. I love your videos and all the great gardening knowledge you share. thanks very much.

The Pokycrub is fantastic! Another useful video Huw. Love the LAB treatment of the bed. Thanks for sharing your wisdom again.

@HuwRichards

2 жыл бұрын

Thank You! :)

I love your videos, thank you for sharing your knowledge and great tips and tricks! Several have been used in my garden. And I really love your Polycrub, will have to get one, it's amazing.

I don't have space for a polycrub or polytunnel, so I grow my winter salad in raised beds covered with hoops and Thermacrop (a double-layer mesh that insulates like fleece but allows air and rain in more easily) - the oriental leaves did really well and I got loads of salad in early spring. My garden is in warm dry East Anglia, though, so YMMV!

Love putting the strings on sticks. So much easier than putting nails in the bed plus you can easily switch it up if you’d like. Thanks!

Seeing those bright and lovely tomatoes when it's only 5 degrees F here, had me wishing for spring! Love the polycrub.

Always makes me chuckle watching your videos. 😃

Hi! I am really enjoying your channel, learning so much from you and have been loving all the great, packed information you are teaching. There is something so magical about having a garden and I feel that energy through your videos. You have inspired me to expand my garden with the no dig method and wow am I digging it! ha 😅 May you have a blessed, warm day. Many blessings 🌻💫

The LAB sounds very interesting, may be especially useful in our hot often humid summers with powdery mildew abounding. I'll check it out. Thanks for a great gardening session as always.

This is great. Relay planting is something I want to try and creating a little outside hideaway is dreamy. Thank you!

@HuwRichards

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!:)

Also, I've been using intuition with my LAB and it's nice to see you and I are on the same page with it all. I've found that 1-2 spoons in a 9L watering can is plenty, any more and it's too much, and that it's much better before planting than during the growing period, and it does speed up compost - I mostly use my LAB for that to be honest. Great tip with a brand new bed to get it going better before planting in it the first time. :-)

Great vid Huw and some fab ideas. My first year over wintering in a polytunnel and got some great ideas from this one

@HuwRichards

2 жыл бұрын

Great! So glad it was helpful :)

I've never heard it called Relay planting before, intercropping is the term I have always used when doing it and it is so vital for continuity of crops...is "relay" what they call it in the Korean style of gardening? The crubs are very impressive and very interesting how they came about, the ultimate in recycling. LAB is something new to me and I must read up on that, cheers Huw...Steve...😃

@coolwater55

2 жыл бұрын

We call it relay planting. 🇨🇦

Huw, I reckon your beetroots, silverbeet, kale, and Bok choy's will grow fine in your polycrub over winter. Here in Melbourne, I plant those in fall outside in the garden beds once the summer crops have finished, our winter days are 8-12C and our nights drop to freezing some nights and they all grow through, albeit slower than in summer and you'll have greens all through winter. :-)

Thank you Huw 🌱we are just starting into our growing season being Spring 🌼 🧤👒🐨🦘🇦🇺Karen from Australia 🐝

@HuwRichards

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! Good luck with your harvest :)

I'm really learning a lot here. Thanks for your gardening knowledge.

@HuwRichards

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! That's great to hear! Glad to help :)

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Hola Richard buenísimo ahora sí está en español 🙏 podré aprender un poco más ✍️me apasiona , que paisajes maravillosos 🌱🌱🌼🌻 muchas gracias , abrazo enorme desde 🇦🇷

Huw I have last week planted some dry Batchelor peas 60 p all sprouted for green pea shoots 5 more sowings in the pack

Thanks for sharing the tips! I especially like the one about creating space to hang out in the winter months. 😊 I have a question for you: if you suspect that your tomatoes had blight, is it still okay to cut the plants off leaving the root system in place?

So Amazing, Thanks for u Information and share it

Wow 😮!

Thanks, Huw.

@HuwRichards

2 жыл бұрын

You're Welcome! Thanks for watching!

I am srilankan your video is very useful thank you

@HuwRichards

2 жыл бұрын

You're Welcome! Thanks for watching :)

I’ve got polygrub envy. They look amazing.

Beautiful garden

@HuwRichards

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

WOW Loving your poly tunnel We had 1 nothing like this just a normal kind. We had horrendous winds ( live in Gwynedd) Next day it had gone blown away, the whole thing not just the outer shell. 🤨😟😤😱 was gutted

Awesomely informative . 🌎🌸

@HuwRichards

2 жыл бұрын

Thank You! That's great to hear :)

another great video huw

@HuwRichards

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed :)

Hi Huw a great video, I built a grow house here in my yard, i have no soil only hard core so my beds are above ground beds, 2 beds at ground level and 2 beds 10ft up on a mezzanine. I made the soil with old manure and added worms and there manure. It's my first year and it's going fairly well. Top beds are full of peppers, chillies, lemon grass passion fruit turmeric and a miniature lemon and orange tree's. I'm ordering your book today and really look forward to reading and learning. I forgot to say I have put in a wood stove and have underfloor heating in 3 of the beds.

@luckypenny312

2 жыл бұрын

I have a green house/wood structure and have been considering a wood stove. Is this what you did?

@richardkelly419

2 жыл бұрын

@@luckypenny312 hi yes I put in a wood stove with back boiler and heat the beds and the air at the same time

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That’s good news, all I have to do is keep relay cropping continuing on since I’ve (tried) to do that outside all year. So figure that plan out and start seeds to have ready to pop in when the first comes out. Sounds awesome. Until I already have 12 outside beds plus what’s under, and I haven’t kept all of those straight. Oh and keep up with each type of crop’s needs for food and pest deterrent. I’m not sure. Does any one person ever manage this well? Or am I killing myself? Lol

As this is a 2 year old video, I am very interested to know wether you got a good crop of cucumbers without the mildew the next year. Is there an update video? I will be looking for it myself too.

Love your channel! I watched Charles Dowding and he is not a fan of wooden sides on raised beds due to slug pressure. I have tons of slugs and snails and wooden raised beds in my small urban garden. What is your experience with this? Thank you!

Greetings from Hawaii! Your videos are great! Question: for clear panels on a covered growing structure, is it best to go with a UV blocking material or not? I have researched and have seen there are benefits to go either way and wanted your opinion. Thanks!

I didn’t realise lactic acid was so useful; I make my own yogurt so often have a jar or so if I strain the yogurt to make Greek style or labneh; now I’ll know not to throw it away. Thank you.

@HuwRichards

2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic! Nothing goes to waste. You're welcome! Thanks for watching :)

Would love to have a Polycrub. We are preparing the beds for the first frost, which usually comes during the 3rd week of October. If Polycrubs were available in the U.S., they could keep us gardening year-round. 😃

@ArtemisSilverBow

2 жыл бұрын

You can get them in the US. I live in Ohio. They call them polytunnels here. I'm currently in CO looking at one outside this cabin window.

@nancytabor8302

2 жыл бұрын

I am making a polytunnel using arched cattle panels covered with six mil plastic per videos I have seen.

@theirishcailin333

5 ай бұрын

​@ArtemisSilverBow although it's the same concept, polycrubs are way stronger than polytunnels.

Hi Huw, can you talk a bit more about LAB and how do we make it? Can we just pop a probiotic capsule into the water?

Great

Hi Huw, What I don't understand is how they get pollinated without bees or butterflies In tunnels. Your advice is always valuable to me and I follow you god knows when and you inspire me to start for gardening. Do you have any video about it that I couldn't see?

Hi Hugh, any advice what I could grow in my green house over winter in Scotland?

Hi Huw… first time I’ve heard of LAB. Would/could you use this in raised bed Not in a greenhouse? I live in the high desert USA , have raised beds that I’ve been amending with all natural things so was wonder if this would help my beds & if so how to use LAB. Always love seeing your technique & beautiful garden! Have a wonderful day 👵🏻👩‍🌾❣️🇺🇸

I'm convinced that every cucumber on planet earth this year had powdery mildew

The polycrub is so cool. I wish I would get gifted one, too. :)

@HuwRichards

2 жыл бұрын

If you spend 10 years building a KZread channel and obtain and audience of hundreds of thousands and they pay for a trip to Shetland and spend 4 days of your time filming up there and also pay for a few days work for both carpenters to assemble it - then you could get a gifted one too :)

@therevelation19

2 жыл бұрын

@@HuwRichards , sorry, I´m just jealous. It´s such an solid and great construction! Would be glad if I could find some mesurements of the pipes are used. Then I can maybe build one myself some day. And, not to forget, You deserve it!

Hi Huw, how did you find the Polycrub in the extreme heat we had last year? Really love the idea of one but fear it may be too hot (based in the fens) if we keep having summers like that.

I really enjoy your videos, and relay planting is an area I am really trying to work on to support a continuity of harvest. However, I love your last thought about including a place to sit in your winter garden, for me, gardening is as much about growing myself and my family, as it is about food, so this is a key point for me to remember.

Hi Huw. Ive seen in a few videos you rank the value of your growing spaces with Covered by the highest. Explaining to an absolute novice Is there a reason why all of the garden wouldn't be covered. Thanks! :)

Fantastic greenhouse. Is this a current video ore filmed earlier in the season?

@HuwRichards

2 жыл бұрын

Filmed 10 days ago, been too busy to get it out earlier!

Hi Huw, just a question really... I'm shredding some bits of conifer tomorrow, and need to know what I can do with the shreddings please. I'm a bit worried about where to put them. I have 6 compost bins, should I share them out, or can I use them directly on beds? Thank you

I have a problem with my poly... what you have here. At night we have -1C already. But days are sunny and if I go to work early in the morning and forget to open that thing up I find +37C in there when I get home. The spinach are not happy but holding on. The salads went bitter instantly. Do you have an easier way to manage temperatures inside that structure? The automatic open the window system only works till 0C it has to be taken out afterwards to keep it from breaking.

Downy mildew spores are airborne. And everywhere. Endemic in the environment. Leaving those roots in the ground will be fine. They won't be the culprit spreading it to the new cucumber plants next season.It's everything else growing within miles and miles of you that is spreading it.

Has always, the informations are really interesting! The video stop rather abruptly tho 😅

@HuwRichards

2 жыл бұрын

Forgot to film an outro🤣

I just moved from a flat to a house with a huge garden, I've been watching your videos for over a year and can't wait to get busy! Are there any other words for Polycrubs? I'm looking online, but i can't find them in the Netherlands

@HuwRichards

2 жыл бұрын

Polycrubs are only produced in Shetland and their link is in the video description:)

@Toothless_Fairy

2 жыл бұрын

@@HuwRichards ok thank you :)

Where do you store all your veggies?

Would sauerkraut juice or lacto-fermented veg juice work as an alternative to milk?

How to control orange beetles that eats the flowers and leaves of creapers like cucumber, bottle gaurd and water melon.

How do we heat such a structure?

What is this plant in the first few seconds of the video ? Right in the middle? I have it in our undercover space and I don’t know what it’s for

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so do you not pull the roots up from the tomatoes and just leave the roots in to rot? Aren't they very woody and take a long time to break down?

hey! where u get ur seeds? whats online reliable good websites to get? cheap and all?

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Hola, puedes por favor activar los subtítulos en español? Gracias

Mi faswn wrth fy modd yn dy ardd i gael dysgu mwy. Diolch am rhannu .

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Could you give me the measurement of the polycrub? LxBxH?

Goodday Huw, could I please email you about something? i have a proposition for you

"undercover growing space" wouldnt it just be easier to say greenhouse?

Great

@HuwRichards

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!