December 3, 2024

VIDEO: How to Grow Chocolate M&Ms – Free Chocolate from Your Garden!

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Whether you’re encouraging your kids to start gardening, or just want to save money on your grocery bills, growing your own chocolate makes a lot of sense. It’s well known that chocolate can be a difficult treat to grow, especially getting the fruit to mature with the…

VIDEO: Container Gardening – Top Tips for Success

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Whether you’re planning to grow a small kitchen herb garden, or to produce enough food to feed your family, containers can add the flexibility which helps make your garden a success this year. Growing in containers is very popular, and the variety of containers available is constantly…

VIDEO: Square Foot Gardening (SFG): Growing More in Less Space

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. If you don’t have a lot of time available to weed, water and maintain your vegetable garden, then efficient gardening techniques such as Square Foot Gardening could be the answer. With simple and well-defined instructions, Square Foot Gardening is a great way to start growing your own…

VIDEO: Gardening Disasters and How to Avoid Them

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Growing your own food can be a frustrating experience when crops fail, so a little planning can help you produce a healthy and productive garden. It’s easy to get caught up in planning how successful your garden will be this year, but spending some time considering potential…

VIDEO: How to Grow Healthier Seedlings Using Grow Lights

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Starting plants indoors can help you get a head-start on the growing season but it can be hard to give seedlings the light they would normally get during later months. If you want to ensure rapid, healthy growth of your seedlings after germination then using grow lights…

VIDEO: How to Plan a Vegetable Garden: Design Your Best Garden Layout

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. A well planned vegetable garden is a productive vegetable garden. In this video we guide you through the process of producing the perfect design for your garden, including 5 key questions you should ask as you plan what you will grow. We start by demonstrating how to…

VIDEO: How to Plant a Fruit Tree – Essential Steps

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Whatever the size of your growing space, with a little planning and maintenance, you can grow beautiful, productive fruit trees in your garden. In this video we demonstrate essential early tasks when planting a fruit tree, which will greatly improve the long term health and fruit production…

VIDEO: Preparing Your Garden For Winter

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. It’s sometimes difficult to motivate yourself to garden when the growing season is over, but there are many reasons you should… Clearing away diseased and dying plants can help avoid recurring diseases and reduce the amount of pests already in your garden at the start of next…

VIDEO: 7 Ways to Use Leaves in Your Garden

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Would you like to save time, effort and money spent on your garden while also improving your harvest? Clearing up fallen leaves is hard work, but those leaves can protect and feed your plants, as well as reducing the amount of watering, weeding and digging you need…

VIDEO: Saving Seed – How to Save Your Own Seed From Tomatoes, Peppers, Beans etc

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Using seeds from your own plants connects you with the earth’s natural cycles, and many gardeners find this activity rewarding, especially as it helps to preserve heirloom varieties and promotes genetic diversity. In this video we show how to choose which plants you should save seeds from,…

VIDEO: How to Start a School Garden – Help Kids Grow Healthy Food!

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Children who grow vegetables, eat vegetables. That’s why we have rounded up the best tips and advice on starting a successful School Garden. In this video we present lots of great ideas to inspire and enrich the curriculum with a school garden. We demonstrate how to start…

VIDEO: Natural Pest Control for Healthy Plants in your Vegetable Garden

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Watching as your plants are being destroyed by pests like slugs, aphids or cabbage worm can be very frustrating. However, there are many ways to use nature’s own organic pest controls to avoid your crops being damaged in this way. This video demonstrates simple pest control techniques…

VIDEO: Easy Weeding – How to Get Rid of Weeds in Your Vegetable Garden

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Weeding can take up the majority of your time in the garden. However, it is possible to reduce the time spent weeding AND increase the amount you harvest from your vegetable garden. This video demonstrates simple weeding techniques which can help you to rid your garden of…

VIDEO: Planning Irrigation for your Garden

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Supplying adequate water to plants is essential to having a successful garden. In this video we demonstrate the best ways of watering your garden to give maximum benefit to your plants. We present an easy way to use old plastic bottles to keep plants well watered during…

VIDEO: How to Use Raised Beds in Your Garden – Raised Bed Gardening

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. There are plenty of things to consider when planning raised beds – location, materials, cost, soil, drainage and how long they will last. In this video, we explain what you need to know to get the best from raised bed gardening. From how to build the beds,…

VIDEO: Growing More in the Space You Have

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Most gardeners want to grow more in the space they have – a more productive garden gives a bigger harvest with less time spent weeding. This video presents 5 tried-and-tested methods for getting more from the growing area you have. We also demonstrate how our online Garden…

VIDEO: The Best Vegetables to Grow in Your Garden – Choosing the Tastiest, Easy-to-Grow Plants

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Choosing which vegetables to grow in your garden can be tricky – there’s an overwhelming choice of different crops and varieties available. This video presents a simple 3-step process to help you choose the best types to grow for maximum success. We also demonstrate how our online…

VIDEO: Crop Rotation Made Simple – Rotate Your Vegetable Beds for Healthier Produce

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Crop rotation is key to a successful vegetable garden after the first year. It’s also difficult to organize well, particularly if you are growing different amounts of a variety of crops. This video explains a simple colour-coded method of crop rotation that makes the whole process much…

VIDEO: 3 Common Garden Planning Mistakes (and how to avoid them)

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. When planning a vegetable garden it’s easy to ignore problems that can occur when plants are in the ground. In this video we look at 3 common mistakes gardeners make when planning their gardens and give simple solutions. Making sure your plants are spaced correctly, using companion…

VIDEO: Garden Plans Gallery – find vegetable garden plans from gardeners near you.

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. The best way to plan a successful veggie garden is to look at what other gardeners have planted and see what works for them. The Garden Plans Gallery helps you find garden layouts from gardeners near you, or garden with similar conditions to yours. Browse through recently…

VIDEO: Printing and Sharing Your Garden Plan

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. The Vegetable Garden Planner makes it easy to plan out all types of garden plots. This video explains how to print plans for maximum clarity and also how to share a garden plan via email, Facebook, Twitter, Google+ etc. Publishing a plan to a web page is…

VIDEO: Rename or Delete a Plan in the Garden Planner

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. How to rename garden plans or delete them using the Vegetable Garden Planner. We also describe when you should create a ‘Follow-on’ plan to help with crop rotation rather than changing the year of a plan.

VIDEO: Starting Next Year's Plan and Crop Rotation (with Captions)

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. The Garden Planner can copy your garden layout from previous year’s plans making it easy to start a plan for subsequent years. It remembers where vegetables were planted in previous years and automatically advises on crop rotation so you don’t need to refer back to previous plans…

VIDEO: Adding Notes in the Garden Planner (with Captions)

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. How to add notes to your plans created in the Garden Planner. This video shows how you can keep track of how your vegetables, fruit and herbs did over the growing season, add notes about varieties and review what you wrote in previous years. The Garden Planner…