BARREN FIELD to PRODUCTIVE PLOT | Organic fruit & vegetable growing in Mid Wales
Watch us transform a barren hillside field into a productive fruit and vegetable garden over a period of several seasons. Our patch is on a terraced hill with some history attached! The leftovers of the Welsh woollen industry locally have given us a head start in creating our wonderful fruit and veg garden. (You can also find out why our YouTube channel is called The Tenterhook Times).
Over the years we experimented with numerous crops until we found our favourites and now each season has settled into a regular routine of propagation, growing, watering and harvesting.
Our organic garden is on a steep hillside in the Upper Severn Valley near Llanidloes in Mid Wales in the UK where we enjoy a temperate climate.
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0:00 Introduction
0:52 A little bit of history
1.58 Fruit & veggie terraces - the origins
2.10 First steps - creating the veggie terrace
3.32 Soil fertility
4.17 Planning crops & keeping records
4.45 The fruit terraces
6.33 Polytunnel
7.07 Passive solar greenhouse
7.24 Garden shed
7.32 Irrigation
8.13 Crops
10.02 Challenges
11.41 Tips
14.01 In conclusion
Tune
William Titley's Waltz played at a traditional music session at Welsh Mountain Cider near Llanidloes in February 2023.
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