Is your New Year’s resolution to grow your best garden ever? Or perhaps to start a veggie garden for the first time? Well, this one is for you, our green-thumbed friend! 💚 👍 💚
In this week’s episode, Ben shows us the 5 key elements of what you need to know in order to get the BEST RESULTS when starting any new garden. You don’t have to learn from your mistakes: make your gardening work a lot easier by learning the secrets of success from an expert!
To see our videos mentioned in the video, go to:
Supercharge Your Compost Heap: https://youtu.be/4D43HPdYHsA
What to Grow in the Shade: https://youtu.be/9xxaGk31r2I and https://youtu.be/Fo6wr1Dfit4
Coping with Hot, Dry Conditions: https://youtu.be/LYVZbItV9Rs
Ideas for Small, Container Gardens: https://youtu.be/7ZG12pjigTM
If you love growing your own food, why not take a look at our online Garden Planner which is available from several major websites and seed suppliers:
https://www.GrowVeg.com
https://gardenplanner.almanac.com
https://gardenplanner.motherearthnews.com
and many more…
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I enjoy your videos. Just an editorial note, which I'm not positive about, but "zuke" maybe a more exceptable spelling for zucchini than "zook." Just a thought. Cheers!
Thank you for sharing God bless
Excellent information as always Ben, many thanks. I installed two 8ft x 4ft x 20in. raised beds towards the end of last year and have already started planting with onions, shallots, garlic, kale, broad beans and winter-sown peas to get a head start. I've invested quite a bit of dough here so hopefully will benefit, though none of my available planting areas gets close to the optimum amount of sun for most of the year. Plus Aberdeenshire is not the warmest or dryest place in the country by any stretch of the imagination! I do get a good crop of tomatoes, chillies and courgettes from the greenhouse though.
Can you give me any tips for successional growing please,this will be my second year on my allotment,want to learn more about successional growing this year
Where can I find the garden planner you have mentioned in a previous video. Great content by the way!
This was such a deceptive title…..5 things you must know and step one has at least 4 important factors that you have to know. I do like that you came back to the soil in its own step, which also touches on more than just one thing. #2 has another 5 things to know. I do have a sitting area in each of my growing patches. They double as tool storage and raised decking for water barrels. You packed so much more than 5 things in there. I have to say that years ago when we moved here, from the city, I got a free trial of the Garden Planner and used it and it was a life saver. I have started several raised beds, that are raised 28 inches….because old age and arthritis……and purchased the Garden Planner to help me decide where I will put in the new perennial area and to try the square foot method. The new version is so much better than the trial I had in 1998. You should do one for the 5 tools you must have to garden.
Can you tell us which garden planner app you use please?
love your videos! I'm new to gardening and I've learned so much much from you since I started last year!
What is the name of of the garden planner app?
Getting a hose nozzle that is comfortable for your hands is great for some of us . Instead of squishing with my hand, I now have an up an down lever that I don’t have to hold down.
Pinball Preparedness sent me. Thanks. I will try the tool and see how it goes.
Here in the Midwest of the U. S. , it is snowing, perhaps 3" & then some.
My seeds have been ordered & delivered, grow lights are ready, & seed starting soil is inside to warm up. I love your raised beds.
Informed about your channel from Pinball Prepper. Thanks!
Thank you so much for this video! I've followed your channel for a few years now but it's always great to get back to basics and put things into perspective. Happy Winter prepping everyone!
Some weeds are Edible like the Dandelion, it's roots, leaves and flower can go into tea I believe
Thanks for the great video. I am in 9b Sacramento and have seeds of peppers and tomatoes germinating now. Will be a while before transplant but my last frost day is March 30. Ready to enjoy my garden.
Ben, do you post to Twitter?
Maybe you could have raised your beds to a height that would mean you don’t need to continuously bend down.
great advice on having a water source nearby. i have to walk to the stream to get water. im getting two raintons, to make this easier. i loved this video.
I love your attitude, enthusiasm,and very helpful hints. I grow in black lava cinder and add chix manure, composted avocado and coconut leaves, etc.Still getting the hang of feeding the soil and seedlings. In the beginning I had no compost or manure. So things are looking up. Getting into the rhythm of it all. Thank you again for your ideas.
I appreciate all your work. I purchased compost in bulk this year, which arrived yesterday. The garden is taking shape!
No better hobby! However one thing no one told me was after making my pathways with gorgeous wood chippings, is that some crows enjoy digging up the wood hips and having a taste of all the worms! At least I know my soil is full of worms!
Is it me or is that repetetive add of two people on a building site in high vis jackets talking about equal rights… F*****ing annoying and too repetetative.
Wonderful tips!
Question: I have used out so many garden hoses, ones that were quite pricey too. What hose brand or type would you recommend?
I subscribed. Love your videos. No garden last year due to my having a few disabling diseases but my grandkids offered help and we have a garden once again.
Hi I started my first garden lasted year from watching you and I love it. Iv had a problem with cats and now my planter is full of poo and I’m worried that I won’t be able to grow my veg in there this year and also do I need to re fertilise my soil before or after I plant my seeds and sorry for pestering u I just want to get it Wright sorry again and hope u able to give me some advise thank you