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I’ll show you the most important first steps in creating a garden that will last a lifetime. Do this before building your raised garden beds, plant your in ground flower garden, or and other type of backyard garden or front yard garden. The process of properly preparing the foundation and underground utilities for a garden…
Starting a new garden this growing season? Want to avoid the most common pitfalls and guarantee success? Avoid these 5 mistakes and you’ll be well on your way to munching your way through your home-grown produce. Yum! If you love growing your own food, why not take a look at our online Garden Planner which…
In this video I will demonstrate and explain how I’m pruning my backyard fruit trees two years after planting them. I’ll be pruning peach, nectiplum, aprium, apple, fig, pear, Jujube and more. I’ll also show some examples of last years pruning and the results of those pruning cuts. For more information about this backyard orchard,…
Spring is around the corner and it’s time to supercharge your soil, ready for the growing season. It’s important to top up your soil’s nutrients at this time of year, every year. but where do you start and how do you do it? All your questions are answered in this week’s episode. Want to get…
Winter getting you down? Can’t wait to get growing? In this week’s episode Ben warms our hearts with his selection of vegetables that you can start sowing in February. You can feel really smug knowing that you’re getting a head start on the growing season and there’s a surprisingly wide variety to choose from. But…
Learn how to grow kohlrabi from seed to harvest with this complete tutorial! In this video, we show you how to germinate kohlrabi seeds in eggshells, care for the seedlings, and transplant them into larger pots and a raised bed. Follow along as we take you through the entire process, from start to finish. Whether…
Prep your garden for winter with these tips from the squad: Kevin, @jacquesinthegarden @fluentgarden320 and @Blossomandbranch. Our goal is to give you comprehensive winter tips, no matter what your growing zone. IN THIS VIDEO → Seed Starting Trays: https://growepic.co/3B7mmId → Birdies Beds: https://growepic.co/3irfxe1 → Birdies Urban 9in1 Short: https://growepic.co/3H6j5ww → GardenStraw: https://growepic.co/3FjmaYV → Felco 2…
Today’s video shares the magic of putting weeds in water for a productive and healthy vegetable garden! It also covers other uses for weeds, what is a weed anyway, and how to deal with weeds that have gone to seed. Happy gardening! How to clear a garden full of weeds blog: https://huwsgarden.com/en-gb/blogs/blog/how-to-clear-a-garden-full-of-weeds The Vegetable Growers…
For warmer-climate growers, now is the best time to get your potatoes in the ground to grow over the mild winter and wake up to a beautiful spring harvest. If you’re in a cold climate, follow along for instructions for spring! IN THIS VIDEO → Power Planter: https://growepic.co/3UtA0wU → Felco Hawksbill Knife: https://growepic.co/3NYFNsc → Birdies…
In this video, I show you 10 Vegetable crops I’m growing in October. Go here to get Birdies Raised Garden beds in the USA, Canada, and UK: https://shop.epicgardening.com/ and use SSME2020 for a 5% discount. In Australia, go to https://birdiesgardenproducts.com.au/ and use Code SSMEbird for a 5% discount. In New Zealand, go to https://birdiesgardenproducts.co.nz/ and…
Wait! It’s not quite time to hang up your boots for the season yet. There’s a crop you can still sow that will give you some of your earliest harvests of 2023 if you get them in now! It’s the vegetable that time forgot, the humble broad bean or fava bean. The long lost legume…
There’s a group of plants that you can plant once and harvest year in year out. They’re called Edible Perennials. Many of these plants are not commonly known, but they deserve to be because not only do they practically grow themselves but many of them are delicious and beautiful too. In this week’s episode, Ben…
Fall Gardening Has Its Advantages. With the cooler temperatures and general slowing down of the gardening activities, the keen grower turns his/her attention to fall planting. With winter looming, the clock is ticking and some growers are a bit apprehensive about starting new crops at this time. Will there be enough time? Will the crops…
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How much could you slash off your grocery bill by growing your own vegetables? Find out which crops are the most beneficial for your wallet as Ben counts down his top 5 crops that are the easiest to grow, most nutritious and the best value for money. Ben has calculated the average prices of vegetables…
Fall Planting Made Easy! No question, spring and summer growing get all the attention. At the end of long growing season we often think more about cleaning up and taking a break than we do growing even more plants. But that could be a mistake because Fall Gardening is some of the most rewarding planting,…
Worldwide Community Garden Bed Phase 3! The joint venture where you guys pick the crop and I do all the work! We harvested Peas and Radishes in the last video, and kept the momentum going by planting even more crops! Our job today will be to harvest all the remaining plants and clear the bed…
We are in the back-to-school season, and that means fall! Don’t pull out your garden, plant it! With things like cucumbers, broccoli, carrots, beets, lettuce, spinach, beans, peas, swiss chard, and more! In this episode I will be going through all the things we are planting in our garden for a fall harvest. Get fall…
Come along with me on a tour of my garden as I return after three week away fighting wild fires here in Northern California. I’ll show you my tomato garden, a few of the trees in my orchard, my blueberry collection, and some unique tropicals and subtropicals that I’ve been collecting for an upcoming project.…
I’m delighted to announce the pre-order launch of my colleagues book; the nature of food. Secure your copy today: https://igg.me/at/natureoffood For years I have had so many comments from gardeners asking for recipe ideas to help them enjoy their amazing harvests, and on many occaisions have requested I write a cookbook! Well fear not because…
In this video, I give you my 6 TOP CROPS to grow at home in the vegetable garden to save you from starving! Harvest Right freeze dryer website: https://affiliates.harvestright.com/1099.html For Australian freeze dryer purchase info use the same link above and then contact Harvest Right directly. Go here to get Birdies Raised Garden beds in…
Think you can’t sow in late summer? Think again! In fact, by sowing follow-on crops, you can maximise your growing space to give you two crops for the space of one. Sound good? Then watch this week’s episode as Ben reveals the many crops you can plant. Don’t worry, it’s not too late to start…
Eggplants are related to tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes – but they require a LOT more heat and are a bit funky to grow. Learn exactly what you need to know to grow absolutely massive, delicious aubergines. 00:00 – Intro 00:10 – Background 00:37 – Size & Color Variability 01:37 – Species 02:32 – Eggplant Care…
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In this video, I show you my sweet potato harvest in just one small part of a raised bed. Go here to get Birdies Raised Garden beds in the USA: https://shop.epicgardening.com/ and use SSME2020 for a 5% discount. In Australia, go to https://birdiesgardenproducts.com.au/ and use Code SSMEbird for a 5% discount. In New Zealand, go…
Zucchinis Are Best Grown Alone. I love companion planting and interspecies crop rotating, don’t get me wrong. But not all plants play well with others and some are just an outright terrible choice for it. Today, I got 3 reasons why you should never companion plant Zucchinis. Even though they are one of my favorite…
Unlike animals, plants can’t move around to find a mate, so they have to rely on pollination, mainly from insects. It’s how they reproduce. The question is, are your plants getting enough? Our job as gardeners is to help our plants to achieve pollination, so that we can increase our chances of a bumper crop…
Nothing Beats An Epic Harvest. It feels good to know all that hard work finally paid off and we have reaped the rewards. But the work isn’t over. Our soils need our help to recover. For crops like tomatoes and peppers and even peas where we simply pick the fruit leisurely and cut the plants…
I will show and explain why and how to prune fruit trees during their summer growing period. In this easy summer pruning demonstration I’ll be pruning my Spice Zee Nectaplum, but this pruning process can be adapted to a wide variety of fruit trees including peach trees, cherry trees, plum trees, apple trees, persimmon trees…
It’s only early summer and already there is an abundance of tasty pickings in Ben’s garden. Follow Ben as he leads us around his garden showing us everything he has growing and sharing his knowledge. He’ll even show us the bits we don’t usually get to see, including his food forest, his ornamental border and…
