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[JohnnyMotel]

My strategy is to grow those foods that are the most expensive in the shops.
Soft fruits, green beans, broccoli, peppers, plum toms, cherry toms, etc etc.

[izzywizzy]

Hi Hugh I love your enthusiasm and the sight of your garden is a delight. I am no longer young and ambitious, my goal is to grow as much healthy seasonal food as I can and enjoy the process of growing, cooking and preserving and taking delight in the renewed sense of purpose in my life…

[christydalgaard]

Great tips thx :) do you have a degree in horticulture or farming or something like that?

[richards]

The biggest strides I've made towards "self sufficiency" have come from embracing "community sufficiency" instead. For example, I grew almost 40 pounds of onions this year, which my family wouldn't be able to eat fast enough before they start going bad, so I gave 5 pound bags of onions to several coworkers and friends. My parents likewise grew an abundance of squashes, so now I have several on my table waiting to make meals in the winter.

[andreat]

Haha, that's pretty much what I'm doing. Cook and eat whatever's available in the garden at that time. Simply because I'm kind of lazy when it comes to making plans and organize things. Gardening is my counterpoint to the stress the rest of my life tends to give me. It helps me to relax and for some reason too much planing and organizing would kind of destroy that. Keep up the wonderful work you do! Love from Germany, Andrea

[yahushaismyshepherd]

Well done. This year I did trial by fire. Tripled my garden size. Learned a lot this season. Glad I did it. Had lots of room to plant vegetables I had never eaten before. Kohlrabi is my new favorite. Also learned what vegetables I need to grow more of and less of. Short season zone 3. Excited for spring.

[CurlyProverbz]

Loving the consistent quality content Hew 👊🏽😊

[catico]

Hello from Costa Rica. You might find it unusual that somebody follows you living in a tropical area, but believe me I learn sooo much from you! Thank you very much for sharing! 🙏🏼

[sjk]

Hi Huw, this is a great point you're making. One suggestion: don't go down the road of clickbait bossy titles. Instead of "Do THIS..., " how 'bout what you said at 1:50? "Embracing part-time self sufficiency." Love from UP of Michigan USA.

[patricko]

dude.. the camera angles, the scripting, the “challenge” approach and its longterm benefits.. you killed this video! your book has already taught me so much and im excited to see whats next!!!!

[BloosSelfReliance]

It really does help when you make videos like this. It's so easy for people with different spaces and different accessibility to growing areas to feel over whelmed and not good enough and to simply give up because they aren't doing everything every one else is doing.

[niallgardens]

I really enjoyed your take on this! I think it's what I needed to hear - I tend to fall into the trap of looking at self-sufficiency as a binary thing, all or nothing, when actually it doesn't have to be. Love your view on part-time self-sufficiency - so it's time to ease up on myself a bit!!

[cmcsears]

"Simply in season" is a cookbook that has helped me a lot in this regard!

[richardfrankland]

Some very wise words here. Watching this in NZ and thinking what a long way you have come from your first videos. I have used lots of your ideas, just have to remember to translate the seasons lol. This video really struck a chord and I will watch it again. Great stuff, thanks for posting. Cymru am byth!

[africaeyesandears]

let’s remember people - the most revolutionary thing you can do is grow your own food. Let’s all just do it

[PandaLoui]

Hey Huw, thanks for making this video definitly food for thought... no pun intended. Touching on what you said about finding alternative varieties or sub-varieties that better suit your growing climate. Do you have or can suggest suppliers within the UK that you recommend looking at for their selection of unusual varieties or standards of adapting these varieties to the British climates??

[darinbennett]

Huw, thanks for speaking freedom and permission into our gardening experiences. I appreciate your encouragement for the value of time and balancing that with gardening and the rest of life and for challenging us to think wisely about what we grow so that we can avoid burn-out. As always...your videos are like taking an educational course every week! Thanks, Huw!

[ronk]

Hi Huw, I was looking into cold hardy citrus to grow where I live too. Unfortunately I am in zone 7 and haven't found any good candidates for my zone. The best ones I found would be pushing it in zone 8. Since you are in zone 8 you might have some luck with them outdoors in a sheltered spot like a south facing wall of a heated building, but better still in your polycrub if you have the room.
The most promising ones I have read about are Arctic Frost Satsuma and Satsuma Orange Frost. They are two newish crosses that were developed in Texas and are meant to be cold hardy to zone 8. Both are relatively short trees, 8 to 12 feet tall in the ground, 6 feet in a container. Arctic Frost is the more cold hardy of the two. Other satsuma have similar if not quite the same cold hardiness. Owari Satsuma, Brown Select Satsuma, Satsuma Miho, and Satsuma Seto are varieties that can survive a frost. I am not sure if this is a different name for the citrus you plan to grow, but the one that I read of is the Ichang lemon, which I've read tastes a bit like a lemon and a grapefruit, and has a lot of juice but a lot of seeds. There is an Ichang lemon variety that is supposed to have fewer seeds than the standard called Grand Frost Lemon.
Changsha Tangerines are supposed to be a more cold hardy parent to Arctic Forst and Orange frost, but very seedy with an insipid flavor, so not worth eating. Honey Changsha is still seedy but it is supposed to be a better tasting Changsha and more cold hardy than the satsumas. Sweet Frost Tangerine is meant to be a Changsha variety that tastes better and is nearly seedless, but I am not sure how cold hardy it is.
Anyway, sorry about the wall of text. It's just something I had been looking into but haven't found something that will suit my climate. Maybe some of these will suit yours.

[anajuanco]

from april on, we'll gonna have thick beans fresh for months (planted in autumn '21) & jerusalem artichokes & cabbages - so there's almost no hunger gap, only in variety.

[kaasiksilver]

There is a fruit called Chaenomeles that is called "northern lemon" here in Estonia. It is sour as hell and we but it a tea just like a lemon. We also preserve it in a sugar syrup for winter.