9 Low-Effort Crops for BIG Harvests | Grow Your Own Food at Home

Thank you!

I'm missing Jerusalem artichoke. Easy and tasty.

Thank you!!

You can make tee ore lemonad with the leaf of black current to. Its awsum!

Oh Huw! Another great video! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!❤

Thank you Huw! 🌿💚🙏💕👵

I love squash I was just planning my summer garden and diet includes lots of veggies and cheese 🧀 ❤

Huw, could you please write down the names of those perennial kales? Are the seeds only available in the Uk?

I love how you present your videos.. Always interesting!

With the perennial kale, do you have problems with cabbage white butterflies?

#1- Garlic
No annual beats garlic.
Plant in October in cooler climates, and you are done.
Deer don't eat them, no bug issues, you can eat almost any part of the plant, and the scapes.
Bulbs store well.

Perennial kale - no nets needed? Are there no pigeons in Wales?

There are times I wish I lived in a place where I could grow food/flowers etc every day of the year, yet I do enjoy every season. The snow and cold of winter, the brisk cool Spring season, warm and sunny summers and Autumn when the leaves turn and the soil begins to rest until Spring returns.
Guess I will just carry on and garden vicariously through you during my non gardening months.
Love your videos!

As always Huw, amazing, quick and too the point.

Great list! Chives also make lovely infusions in vinegar, for salad dressings. I love rhubard and recently moved a plant to my shady border as I've heard they do alright without full sun (which makes sense given the forcing method).

re: the chard, I believe it's the Giant Fordhook variety that also grows a large, edible bulb. They are members of the beet family, so that makes sense.

If you pickle cucumbers ( pickled, not gherkins) try to put one black currant leaf per jar. They are yummy thanks to them.

I actually have a very vivid memory of my Gma eating spaghetti squash because I was very little and was SO FASCINATED at how it scraped out onto the fork like spaghetti.

Tree collard. 20+ years of constant leafy greens 👍

I heard people store their produce in ash from the fire place and just regular old soil.

My grandfather used to use soil to store the potatoes

I had some leftover seed potatoes so I chucked them into two spare buckets this week, may as well!

I can remember as a little girl being giving a stem of rhubarb and a little bowl of sugar to dip it in.

Very informative always

Squash is one of my HIGHEST effort crops. Last year I lost 8 of 10 zucchini plants due to squash bugs.

I once went on one week vacation , having doubts about picking my blackcurrents before leaving. All my gardenbooks said let it be, the birds don't like them. Unfortunately the Blackbirds in my garden had not read those books. I came home to a loss off 5-6 kilos of Black currents. Now I use net to cover🐦🐦🐦

I'm in Canada and there is no place that sells the perennial kales...otherwise that might be the only kale I would growas the others are finicky now with climate changes! If anyone finds a source in Canada please let me know. I found a place with Tree collards in the US but they couldn't ship over the border. Perennial chard is loved too much by slugs here.

A South Korean gentleman taught me how to gently pull the hardneck garlic scape out of the plant while supporting the plant in the soil with your feet. The part within the plant is the most tender part.

Has anybody tried the perennial kale in Canada?? Near the Great Lakes, more specifically?

birds decimated my blackcurrants last year

What's the name of that pink rose that you have in your garden?
Love watching all your videos!

Noice ❤

Another use for rhubarb: plant it densely in a row at the edge of a bed and it makes an impenetrable barrier to weeds. It’s also beautiful in a mass planting. Works against crab grass too, at least in my zone 5 garden in Southern Ontario, Canada.

Blackcurrant fool 😋

Wow!! That's so inspiring. After 6 years spent discovering I'm way better at growing fruit trees than annual veggies,I'm just starting a faff-free self seeding polyculture veggie garden at my place -you've given me something great to aspire to😄

Huw you've doing a great thing promoting all these greens - 1) absolutely vital for health yet 2) bought from the shops they're really not so tasty and there is a lack of variety and seasonality 3) the ones you mention are so easy to grow compared to the old fashioned practice of relying on succesion grown lettuces, raising seedlings for winter greens year after year, or the annual 'oh my summer spinach has bolted already' fiasco. fantastic stuff.

I had a large patch of chives for a long time, but they died this past winter. I have been planting more chives, but so far nothing.

Huw, after watching your video on using fresh grass clippings and cardboard to make a compost heap, I tried your idea. I now have some lovely, rich and dark compost. Trouble is there is an ant's nest in it with a lot of ant eggs, too. My question is, can I use the compost regardless of the ants and eggs mixed in it?

Karens maje gardening difficult to impossible.. they are evil. Pure evil

Karens have outlawed fennel. I rhink they should be charged with murder.

Pigeons,around my garden, absolutely love blackcurrants!!

I love BlackCurrant, 
thank you for the tip 👍🏻✨️

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Hey Huw, you mentioned blight being a problem for potatoes and that is true. I was told by an organic gardener that if you put straw down after you plant your potatoes it can prevent blight. Supposedly, blight comes from the ground, and when it rains, the splash of the rain can cause the blight to go onto your potato plants. So, by having the straw there, you are preventing that splash coming from the rain and the soil prevent preventing blight. I have tried it, and it seemed to work, however, I’m not sure if this information is accurate or not I would like to have your opinion opinion and advice on it.

Enjoying your video's so much!! Thank you for all the tips of returning plants. It makes it so much easier to make a lot of food from the garden

We also have currant plants, white and red, but they don't compare to the smell and taste of the black ones. I'm looking forward to the ripe fruit soon 😁

I watch Huw's videos and can only conclude he must have full time security guards fighting off the wildlife 😅 In our London garden we seem to lose a majority of what we grow to the squirrels, pigeons, magpies and foxes that outnumber us many times over. Not to mention the slugs and such -- close to giving up, a real shame. We've tried most of these : Kale and brassicas gets demolished by pigeons, all berries are a squirrel's feast, squashes and lettuces get munched by the slugs early and last year foxes decided pumpkins were worth digging into 😞

Hey Huw, love your garden and all your videos! I only have 2 balconies to garden on so I always have to choose my container sizes. Can you tell which size is good for each of them? Thanks

Thanks Hue, excellent presentation and suggestions.

I would love to leave my perennial kale open to birds, are there any pigeons?

Can rubharb leaves be composted?