Hello, I'm Liz ZOrab and this is Byther Farm and this week it's
National Gardening Week!
Erica and I, from Erica's Little Welsh Garden thought it would be
a great idea to create a collaboration to celebrate National Gardening Week and
so today you should find lots of videos all called Homegrown Food. Edible Britain.
National Gardening Week 2019.
And for me growing my own food isn't just about
having the freshest, tastiest, most nutritious vegetables I can find,
there's a financial implication as well. Because I don't go out to work in the
conventional sense anymore, I actually work here on our homestead and I provide
as much food as possible for our family. And about 85% of the food we eat is
grown right here where we live.
My video today isn't so much about what I grow or
how I grow it, there are plenty of videos on this channel about that and
I'll leave a couple of links above and in the description below for you to
explore those.
Now if you have a gardening channel and you're UK-based
and you haven't joined in yet, don't worry, there's still plenty of time.
National Gardening Week is all week, so from now the 29th of April through to
the 5th of May, you can put up your gardening video and just call it
Homegrown Food. Edible Britain. National Gardening Week.
In the information below
you will find the playlist of all the channels who are involved and I'll keep
adding those videos throughout the day and the week. All types of gardeners are
joining in with channels large and small and we're all sharing our experience,
hints and tips or our reasons for growing our own food.
We've been on this
site for three and a half years and in that time what I have learned so much
about gardening. It is just a never-ending experiment and lessons
being learned and I really love it. And the cats come to join me. Hello Monty!
Hello boy, up you come, yes, hello boy!
So I thought today I'd
have a little look back at some of the highs and lows of growing on this site.
And it's jolly wet and windy today and although I'm smiling, I'm smiling
because if I don't smile I'm going to cry.
But this should be up here, about six and a half to seven feet high, and this is
where they are.
So this is what I think I'm probably going to do is just harvest as
many of these as look absolutely ready.
It will just come away, there we go,
well that doesn't look too bad, I'm very pleased with that!
Oh I don't know I want the earwig to go with it, but I'm really pleased with that.
Push down and then lift, you know I can see almost no damage on these, this look great!
I store my seeds in paper envelopes and as you can see I write what they are
and the year that I've collected them.
If you've put a fleece over it and now is the
moment to take it off and leave your parsnips to grow through the season.
So here it is, no, actually that's the baby one!
Here it is, a ridiculously huge parsnip! It's probably quite woody, we're still
going to eat it, I'm going to give it a wash, I'll take it in and weigh it.
It's deep, rich and crumbly and it's moist.
Look how lovely this is!
These are some good-sized spuds here. I think we'll be having jacket potatoes for supper.
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Today I'm going to talk about gardening on a windy site. so when we bought this
place three years ago, this was an open field
it just had posts and wire to mark out the edges of it.
And to add to my collection of extraordinary vegetables I've just
harvested the first jumbo pink banana squash, which is still fairly yellow, but as
it ages it looks more pink. And it's huge! Now my guess is that this is
somewhere between 10 and 13 pounds. It's beautiful, it's absolutely beautiful.
And so wherever you are in the world and whatever you've got planned for today, check
out some other videos in the playlist and I also hope you'll join me again next time.