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We all dream of a garden brimming with delicious abundance, yet the reality often falls short. But there are several simple techniques that even new gardeners can use to grow bumper harvests.
Think strategically and plan your garden with care, and you’ll enjoy a truly prolific plot with lots to pick!
In this short video we share six proven strategies to boost productivity, turning your garden from average to high-yield in just one season.
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Aahh F man what is that terrible screeching noise? You trying to reset my brain or sth?!
Seriously, extremely high pitched beep..
Great tips, thanks! I have found that on very hot sunny days I must cover many vegetables with shade cloth as otherwise I will lose some of the vegetables to sunburn or heat stress. It's summer where I live (Melbourne, Australia) and the only tomato plant that I left uncovered in our recent extremely hot weather shrivelled up into a crinkly sad thing with a few remaining boiled tomatoes on it! At the start of the summer, I cut up rolls of 50% UV reduction shade cloth into different size rectangles, push some cane or timber stakes into the soil at the ends of various veggie beds, and drape a shade cloth rectangle over the stakes, making sure not to squash taller plants. Pushing a tall support such as a cone shaped frame or obelisk into the centre of the bed at the start of the growing season gives a circus tent look once the shade cloth is draped over the centre frame and border stakes. Attach the shade cloth here and there to the stakes with clothes pegs which are easily removed as needed. Watering can still take place as the water goes through the holes in the shade cloth although if you are fussy you can remove, water, then replace. You will have to leave gaps at the edges for the bees to get under the cloth and pollinate so don't tie the whole thing down to the ground. I sometimes find a cabbage moth butterfly under there stuck at the end of the day and have to free it. Remove the shade cloth when the temperature is merely hot – rather than super hot. This sheltering from the hot sun definitely increases yield if you face extremely hot sunny weather!
Thank you so much for another great video. Any help in learning how to grow more food in our garden is always appreciated. Have a great day! Happy Gardening! Catherine
I've been missing gardening, I'm so excited about the new growing season!
What great ideas!
Awesome ideas! Definitely going to be trying out these in my garden this year!
I love to grow flowers as well as vegetables. Do you know of any planning sites online that also offer flower selection, not just exclusively vegetables? This would come in so handy!
Too much time spent trying to flog their spreadsheet – I got bored and switched off before the finish.
coldframe. easy. Extend growing season just like a cloche or polytunnel like you have there.
Thank you for these tips. Happy gardening!
You can get plant lights that fit into normal light bulb sockets at Walmart and most Hardware or farming stores. I replace the overhead lights in my dining room with these lights in late winter/early spring and I start a good number of my seeds inside before I plant them out in my garden. I usually pre-seed about twice as many as I'll be able to fit in my garden, because you never know what's going to sprout, or how many of them will actually grow. You don't need a special Greenhouse or room with lots of Windows to pre start your seeds, just a little creativity. I give extra plants that I don't need to my friends.
I didn,t know!
on the garden planner we can select the dates the veg is in the ground but what about when it's in the ground after December like lots of over wintering veg how do I put that in my planner
I appreciate all the work to produce this very informative video. Great ideas to make use of land when the first crop finishes. Great software with neat visuals too!
Very informative thank you
Great! One question: on 1,55 min , which are the variety of the beans, I like the colour of the flowers, never seen it, only white 🙂
Nice to see crops as we start out the season
I enjoy all input, I have had gardens over the years however this year I will have a lot more time to dedicate to this project. I am starting what I am calling a Recovery Garden. This garden once its ready for planting is for the benefit of recovering addicts and alcoholics. One's that are struggling financially, going to school, single moms, seniors for example. This is not a free handout they will be asked to help with the planting, the weeding etc. Their reward is of course the produce. Any produce left over will be given to organizations that provide free meals. This is the first year we are looking forward to this 100ft -100ft garden. We welcome any suggestions and input. Have a great garden this year.
How to I get the computer planner that you used in your video? Do you have a link?
At long last discovered that growing Leeks in my 1 4-6 hours direct sunlight garden bed was the perfect veggie after years of disappointment.
bought a childs $10 plastic swimming pool & cut drain holes, use it to grow replacement Leeks. When I pull a large leek, the next day come back make a 1-1/2" hole 3" deep then drop in a previously started Leek which is generally 6 to 8" tall. Never back fill the hole, instead allow the sediment to gradually backfill & the leek will root in the bottom then grow in circumference to the size of the hole. This method lengthens the length of the edible white portion growing a thicker Leek.
I've been using the Garden Planner software for 3 years, and today is the first time I realized that adding the "grow cover" icon to my bed plans actually changed the planting schedule! Cool insight!
That's ok, I thought you can use the idea for yourself and if you want, to share with others in your clip. Also another idea, I get a lot of wind here from the sea all around us (live on a stormy island)so I use old TV glass stands ,I take apart the TV stand and use the thick heavy toughened glass as wind breakers here. The plants suffer less stress. Old TV stands can be picked up from the rubbish tip or very cheap in charity shops. I got the idea from seeing old Victorian garden pictures where they had little sheets of glass to protect the plants, using thick toughened glass will last longer and if you do fall over I hope they don't break so easy and if they do break then they shatter to tiny pieces, ordinary glass can cut into shards. Difficult getting glass with wire in it here. Door toughen glass is thinner than TV stand toughen glass. Either stand them upright or form them into triangles type for covering plants, like a house roof.
I love these videos, easy to follow and understand for the likes of me who knows very little about growing veg!Im moving home very soon and our new place has all the room i need, to grow plenty of food!I cant wait to get in and start planning using your veg planner!Keep up the good work.UK here.
About the Garden Planner layout strategy (placing plants individually and staggered instead of in rows): it would be nice if there was an easy way to do this with a specific variety selected. I can copy and paste each individual plant so a certain variety is copied, but that takes a long time. I can use Cntrl to place many quickly, but then I have to open the panel for each plant to select the variety. In a future version could you make it so Cntrl works with the paste option?