00:05Hi I'm Ade and I'm Sophie and together we're Agents of Field. We're on a mission to grow,
00:11forage, cook and eat as sustainably as possible and right here is where the magic happens in our
00:16kitchen garden. So these are our broad beans they're coming along really nicely
00:41they'll be ready in about a month or so looking forward to those and then over
00:46here we have shallots which I think is the first time you've grown them isn't it it's
00:51one of our new things we always try and grow something new each year so shallots
00:55are a new one for us. We've also got some asparagus over there but we're gonna have
00:59to wait a little while for that, a couple of years or so, yes. Well you join me in
01:06the greenhouse and if you hadn't noticed I've gone a little overboard on the
01:09sewing this year that's okay we're living in strange days a time of self
01:14isolation, lockdown and for many of us our gardens are a refuge so I know that
01:20everything I've sown here will get planted out there. This is the garlic bed, very
01:27excited about this because I use garlic in everything. Ade's growing four different
01:31varieties this year, won't be ready to harvest till about July but I use garlic
01:36in everything. I'm sprinkling it raw on a lot of what we eat at the moment because
01:40it's very good for the immune system and I never have enough so this looks pretty
01:45good, should last us all of two months, maybe a bit longer.
01:55So the first thing I learnt about having a kitchen garden is forward planning. Think
01:59about where you're planting things. I'll give you an example, when I had an allotment
02:04I had so much space. I could plant and plant and plant. Now with the kitchen garden
02:09I can still do the same but the space is a premium. I need to think about where
02:13things are going a bit more. Yes, crop rotation but also the accessories, the bits,
02:19the bobs, all the extra things you don't think about. Like last year I had this arch
02:24and up it I put trailing squashes and across here were dahlias. This year this is purely
02:31fruit and veg. So I've got a grapevine going over the top and here is where my peas are
02:37going to go. This year I'm growing two crops of peas, one that I'll go in today which is
02:42about mid to late April and they'll harvest in early summer and then I'll sow a second crop
02:48probably mid to late July and they'll be ready to harvest in autumn. So let's get these into there.
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03:50Potato foliage looks nice.
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