It’s time to get GROWING! But where do you even start?! Whether you’re a seasoned gardener wanting to expand your growing area or a starting your very first vegetable garden, Ben has some top tips up his green sleeves for you that will help you get the most out of your budget and your space.
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Great content. You remind me of the guy from chernobyl.
I've always wanted to start my mini garden since the age of 5. Now i've made a list of everything i need to know. Thx this help so much
this is so informative and brilliant… i had these raised beds from the last owner of my house and they are so big and unnecessary and full of weeds! i didn't know what to do with them but now i know. i'm dismantling them and turning them into these lower types you have made. it's perfect and i can make use of all the old amazon boxes and stacks of branches, i have so much garden waste every year and never know what to do with it seeing as we can't make fires here… i think all i need now is a big compost box. one thing i'd like to know… how do we get rid of loads of weeds in good soil? just pick them all out? won't it still be full of seeds and more weeds?
Wonderful video, my girlfriend and I just got our first place together and plan or gardening soon! Great advice
cardboard attracts termites – true or false ?
very instructive video thanks.
Hi Ben, me and my fiancé are going to start our first garden this year! Your videos have inspired and taught us a lot. They make it seem a lot less daunting. Keep up the good work!
Help! I'm pricing wood for raised beds. I have only done container gardens–didn't go well. I want to grow vegetables that I use often–lettuce, tomatoes, beets, potatoes, carrots, eggplant, cucumbers, onions, zucchini… I have had good success with herbs in containers, but not other vegetables. I have a small yard, but I want to use a good portion of it for my vegetable garden. Can you recommend the size boards I need and the metal hardware? I don't have a lot of monetary resources. Thank you.
Started my first seedlings inside, built a small little indoor greenhouse! Super excited and your videos are helping so much with the process! Thank you!
This is the most thorough, detailed, simple and complete step by step fir a new starter like me to learn and follow. Thank you!
I've just turned 28 and I'm using your technique to start plots in my grandma's garden and become more substanable living
Thank you Ben for the video. Yes, I’m hoping to start my first veg planting. Wondering if I could put off cut veg in the bed instead of twit? Thanks.
I have a small garden in a rented house. It has a concrete bed which is just under 3m by 1m which is perfect and one side warms up and I have noticed that on that side plants do grow quicker. But I like to rotate my crops and I have had to remove some fruit trees (pears) because they were deseased with orange leaf spot which also ruined the fruit. I have gotten an old brick pallet. (A pallet with sides) to put where the small tree was to build a raised bed. Just trying to decide what to put in there. In the concrete bed I am doing peas, strawberries, a raspberry bush and radishes and maybe potatoes this year (last year it had peas in the opposite end, corn, squash, courgette, tomatoes, beans and nasturium for ground cover to reduce evaporation. I have started off a lot of cabbages and kale this year and haven't decided whether to grow them in pots of put them in after I lift the radishes yet. I always grow carrots in pots and find that works really well.
Would you mix peas with sweet peas with peas? Is it easy to tell them apart?
On my second year of a raised bed Ben so still need your skills to help me. Don't you need netting? I had slugs, woodpigeons, and caterpillars taking advantage of brocolli and chard. CA T.
Its too expensive for the app. Looks good but 30 quid is a lot of money.
I so enjoyed your video. It was refreshing; you were joyful, simple materials, clear instructions & enjoyed Rosie (so cute)!
What did you do with the grass that was there? Can I put the cardboard directly onto the grass? Or do I have to dig that up and take it out?
Me and my partner recently moved from renting in to our own home and the previous owner was quite the green thumb. She left us two raised beds to utilize. We uprooted the current residents to make way for planting some vegetables and herbs. Thanks for the helpful advice, hopefully we will see a good first harvest this year! If not, there's always next time. Will take in to account of also planting some flowers to attract bees and the rest to help the veggies.
I have wanted to grow my own vegetables for the last 5 years and attempted it 2 years ago only to have to stop (just when I was reaping the rewards of my hard work) because my selfish neighbour decided to use a herbicide which made me abandon my plans to grow for that year.
Now I'm determined to learn how to grow my own veg.
I'm wondering if you could please help me by telling me where you bought your palets/boarders because the majority of the ones I've found have been chemically treated.
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Great work btw, I can only hope to be as good as you one day.
wont the cardboard mold?
What a great video!! I want to start a garden but it seems so intimidating . Excellent tips !
This is awesome! Its going to be my 1st time starting a garden, so i subscribed to learn more with you. Thanks
Hi Ben. I absolutely love your videos. Your personality is so fun & I love your dog too. I live in the US zone 9a. Very sunny and hot. Am going to try growing veg in pots so I can move around with a dolly if plants are getting too much sun. Would love it if you could do a video for my climate.
Where can i buy the garden raised beds?
thoughts on adding something like seasol or other liquid fertiliser?
This is the best channel ever. I learned how to sow all my seeds from here. I hope to have a successful harvest on my 2nd of year growing, i will be digging instead of raised beds. Keep the effort going!!
Hi I’m a novice gardener. And I bought few cucumber and tomato seeds this year. But I am worried as I get very limited sun in my garden. It is south west facing very small garden in London. So only get sun 2-3 hours max. Would this be okay for tomatoes and cucumber? Also I can grow dwarf beans in more shadier part of the garden? Thanks
I overthink everything! Do I need to wait 2 months for the cardboard to rot down before planting? Can I use leaves instead of sticks? Thanks!