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Highly practical advice as always Huw. G Good luck with the American launch.

Runner ducks are the best slug Eaters.

Hi from California. Preordered your book months ago & it arrived today, only got to quickly flip through it so far & it looks fantastic. Excited to see how things change as you move towards perennials in this garden.

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I live in zone 11b and it really sucks when I want to grow root crops like radishes/ carrots and beets and get only leaves and no roots. Also with our humidity 75-80 per cents leads to fungal diseases already in End May - Middle June ( almost impossible to grow cucumbers).. So hardiness zone yes matters.

Just got my preordered book! Even though I am growing in a zone 3 (very short growing season - like 4 month) with very low succession planting rate, still find some useful tips from the book. This year trying to interplant to get early crop before the mane plant get to mature. Anyway you can garden in any zone! Happy gardening!

My book arrives tomorrow for my birthday ❤

We don’t get frost in southern Florida - Zone 11 - how do you adjust to match the book’s timeline? Just got mine in the mail.

I’d love to be self sufficient in salad crops all year. But it’s hard with a winter, and I have had so many snails eating everything during the rest of the time ☹️😒 maybe it’s down to choosing the right varieties?

My husband has been building me a disability garden after a nasty car accident nearly a year ago. Today I was able to roll my wheeled cart into the garden for the first time. We planted a tomato and a few seeds in the vey tall raised beds. My tears watered the soil. Its not the same as before of course but its huge to have my hands in the soil again. He rigged a water spigot I can use and put the flower pots on blocks so I can smell the blossoms. He also made access path so I could collect the eggs from the nesting boxes. It is my magic garden, built with love. It was fitting that your book arrived today.

Yes, I learned that too. It's more for perennials. I am lucky I can grow asparagus here in North Carolina. I have to be careful with tomatoes just because of all the rain, lol.

My book is supposed to be here Saturday 🎉. TeresaSue

Thank you Huw... great encouragement video! Receiving your book soon! Very excited... can hardly wait! Blessings on your growing season Kiddo!🌻🐛🌿💚

What about grass clippings from my lawn mower?

I received my copy of the book today. Thank you. We shall move on much more enlightened...

Just got my copy of the book! A quick thumb-through has been ready to dive-in. 😊

Wow, such a beautiful patch! I do square foot gardening in two of my beds! It really makes a difference!

This year in the Laurentians of Québec, our average last frost day is June 1. Our actual last frost day was weeks ago. Very weird spring. The cows are calving females like crazy (18-2 so far), and they're all incredibly docile while tagging. The wretched Canada Geese that have infested fields here were fewer than usual, and the residents have all but vanished. So anyway, this year I'm both late and early no matter when I plant ...

“Nettles” 😉 don’t have to lie to us you sly dog

We are 5b and I will say it's been pretty accurate for what I can typically grow and not grow. Every year I'll try some watermelon, and every 4-5 years it's warm enough to get a few, but most years, nothing.

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I live in Tennessee, USA and have been checking my mailbox all day for the book! 😍

Best wishes on the North American launch 🙂

Nettles are such useful and wonderful plants. And all that is so true about not using garden space unnecessarily. Nettles is good as a staple green; dame’s rocket takes the place of broccoli; milkweed is like asparagus; dandelion; cleavers for a good vegetable broth. I don’t even know how many kinds of wild green I eat, there are so many. So I’m better off focusing on trying to grow staples that my climate doesn’t offer in abundance, like starches and fats. And if anyone is thinking of growing celery, you may want to look around to see if there’s any bishop’s weed/ground elder growing around. They are similar to celery, but grow in great abundance, especially near rivers. The stalks are excellent to nibble on the way home, and the leaves taste good and are best cooked. Look for the shinier, more wrinkled leaves in the patch, as those will have the tenderest leaf blades and stalks. My garlic patch also functions as a greens patch because I harvest so many of the leaves for cooking. They are good and tender, and I think the garlic is more vigorous when grazed that way.

My book came while I was watching this video! Eeeeek! Thank you for writing everything out SO CLEARLY. it really helps my literal brain to have precise instructions.

Once you know what your average frost dates used to be, get on a good weather forecast and see if you can push your season a few more weeks. I've done this for the past three years and it gives me about two to three weeks head start to what growing dates used to be decades ago. Climate change already has expanded my growing season about four weeks from what it supposedly is. Depending on the source I am located somewhere between USDA zone 7a and 8a. My frost dates are supposed to be as you mentioned them Huw, but by now I can safely plant out in latest April and keep tender plants comfortably outside until early to mid November. Cheers

Just got your book in the mail… (I had pre ordered it here in Canada from Amazon). It’s a lovely book! I can’t wait to read it. The lay out is great and I really do love the mat finish in the cover.

So it's seems like nobody mentions simply killing slugs any more - wonder why that is? Sometimes it needs to be drastic when the population is booming and everything gets eaten...

Interesting that you made the price comparison with Waitrose? Notably one of the most expensive supermarkets in the UK.

I got my book today!!! Yeah!!

My pre-ordered copy just landed on my doorstep! 😁 Off to my greenhouse I go to sit and have a read 🥰

Huw! I just got my book today here in Wisconsin USA!

🐝thanks for the great video🌻

finally received your new book in the states. after a brief scan, I'm so excited to go through it with my highlighter. thanks for all your hard work.

So are you going to prune off those suckers later or just let them go? I've always wondered if pruning the suckers really does affect the size or the fruit or not. I didn't prune my Green Zebra last year and I got a lot of tomatoes and they were the size they normally are. Maybe towards the end of the season they got smaller but that's to be expected with later flushes....

Just got my copy delivered today!

I do not agree. We had some years with the first frost in the beginning of October and then spring temperatures until christmas. The range is too wide to be safe, sorry.

I've made comfrey teas for 2 years now and was wondering, out of interest could you make a a similar tea with cleavers/sticky willy. The back portion of my plot is covered with it.

I am in Barbados in the caribbean , we are averaging 82F , someone needs to come out with a book for hotter climates of the world, we dont have seasons, just continuous sun, we have rainy season or dry season, years ago it use to get cooler around December into January February now it is hot all year around.

Welp, I just bought the book.

Growing window in Qld australia…..autumn (March) to the second month in summer(Jan) too hot and humid to grow anything.

Do you still work with the heat bed? And would you still recommend that?

I'm in the hills of southern Oregon and we're already having a solid week of 80°F/26°C, so if I leave the greenhouse door closed until 9:30 am, it's up to 90°F/32°C. Our last frost date is next week, and last week we had a night of 34°F/1°C! I'm losing my mind trying to decide when to plant warm weather crops 😂

I don't care about how good you say Nettles are, it's the time of year that I have started to wear shorts on my mountain bike. Them F%&^ing nettles have started to make my legs hurt.

Huw, have you ever looked into Sonic Bloom or electroculture? might be worth an experiment!

My pre-ordered copy of “The Self-Sufficiency Garden” arrived today! Thank you, Huw and Sam… I can’t wait to dive in!

I'm so excited. Your book arrived today!

my book is out for delivery right now. I pre ordered last year.

Great information! I use my hoophouse and covers to harvest greens, beets, radishes and carrots earlier and later in season than if planted outside. Don't be afraid to experiment , You may fail or may succeed. Remember that seeds packages are not expensive. So go for it.

Videography is so good