What to do in garden January | Monthly gardening guide.
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:47 Garden housekeeping
3:15 Garden planner and journal
4:00 Prune roses
5:18 Wild bird care
5:51 Planting
8:31 Check supports
8:54 Prune fruits
10:34 Prepare potatoes
11:34 Propagate plants
12:10 Force rhubarb
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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.
We are a fifty-something couple who live on a smallholding in Carmarthenshire, Wales. We are going green and creating a gentler, cleaner and more healthy life for our family.
Having had a highly successful smallholding in Monmouthshire, we hope to recreate the abundance at our new home. There will be a large organic kitchen garden with no dig gardening raised beds and young food forest in which to grown our fruit and vegetables.
We keep a few sheep and Aylesbury ducks.
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What are you looking forward to doing in your garden this year?
I have two climbing roses that I want to lift and re plant else where in the garden. When is the best time to do this? And should I also cut them back. Thank you ❤
Great video with loads of useful information and reminders for us gardeners. I have put another poly tunnel up mainly in the future for propagating so looking forward to making some benches for that. Thanks liz and happy,healthy new year.
A good video for me to start sowing some seeds – I have invested in 2 heated propagators so keen to start some aubergines and chillies in these.
nice video liz
Happy new year, I put bowls of water for the birds ,black birds and magpie came,good video
You looking fabulous Liz.
I received your book The Seasoned Gardner & your journal for christmas & I'm loving them so informative & I love the fact that the journal isn't year specific & i can use it every year xx
Thanks Liz, your video has been very useful, since I have almost forgotten about my cranberry and gooseberry bushes 😅
Hello Liz, Happy New year. I have a question – How do you manage to keep a veg patch with snow cover, should I remove the snow off or will the over veg that is there survive the snow.( leeks, Parsnip, Asparagus, Beetroot)
Having grown veg in the past it has been Australia so no snow
My beds are currently under 14 inches of snow, 1" of ice, and due 6 more inches of snow Friday. More snow called for Monday and Wednesday. So I will be ordering seeds, and drawing it out.
Getting out in the warm weather, hearing the spring birdsong and smelling the soil after a spring rain : ). Just being out in the garden/ greenhouse makes my heart happy. I have new flower and veggie seeds to try along with my favorites. You're right, we don't know when we'll discover our new favorite.
What I am looking forward to are growing blue sunflowers, bronze sunflowers, achochas, tromboncino, beetroot, raspberries, boysenberries and peaches, as all of these are new things at the moment that we haven’t grown until now, and so it is really exciting to see what happens.
What are wild black raspberries? They seem to fruit from midsummer/June to August. I have been pruning them shorter and get better yield?
Adding more perennials or ones that save seed easily like more parsley.
Just starting my allotment journey but i have a small garden at home so finding your video very helpful
Liz love your videos, you say it as it is 😊