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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…
Want to grow fruit, but think you don’t have the space? Grow in containers! in this week’s episode, Ben demonstrates how to plant three types of berries that you can get into pots at this time of year: Raspberries, Currants, and Blueberries. Nutritious, delicious and packed full of goodness! For more on growing berries, see…
The BIG Plant Out! 
Get your trowel at the ready. It’s TIME to PLANT! What started out as a few hopeful seeds have now turned into a forest of triffids, raring to get out their pots and into the ground. Help! Never fear! Ben our backyard gardener is here to guide us through his tips, tricks and tasty tid-bits…
Refreshing the paintwork? Fitting new carpets? Updating the decor? Never mind all that! How about pimping your garden! Join Ben as he transforms his vegetable garden. There are new raised beds to install and fill, a beautiful bench, arbour and arches to install, and some clever screening to put in place. Garden. Pimped. Our hugely…
Keep Growing!It’s the end of the growing season… or is it?! Ben takes us on a tour of his garden and shows us some essential jobs to do and some essential crops to grow this autumn, to keep you growing right into spring. For yummy and ingenious ways to store your produce over winter, check out…
The autumn leaves are falling, and it’s time to reap the Roots of your labor! Think of all those tasty roast dinners, cottage pies and rooty stews to come over the winter. Delicious! But how do you keep your veggies from going off between now and when you want to use them? Ben has some…
Get 2 months FREE if you sign up to Readly, then only £7.99 a month thereafter. Sign up here: https://readly.me/huwrichards – A huge hanks to Readly for sponsoring this video. August is when the vegetable garden is the most full of delicious food, and it is essential that I put as much as possible in…
Find out about the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx Many people have shady areas of their garden, yet the standard gardening advice is to grow most vegetables in ‘full sun’. If you’re wondering how to grow delicious fruit and vegetable despite the shade in your garden, this video is for you. In it Ben…
Grab some raised beds for your 2021 garden: https://bit.ly/3bj6OFh – I’m BACK with an update on the Epic Homestead and the progress that’s been made since I moved into my new house in late Fall 2020. Here’s a full garden tour, showing everything I’m currently growing and plan to grow in 2021. 0:00 – Intro…
Planting Cauliflower In The Fall. Cauliflower loves the fall. The cooler temperature produces the sweetest florets and the cleanest, pest-free harvests! Join me today as I plant a raised bed from start to finish, using the no-till, no-dig method of gardening to plant Cauliflower starters in a raised beds. No music and no commentary, just…
In this video, I outline a great planting method that extends cropping and also increases the productivity of your vegetable garden. Succession sowing and succession planting is a wonderful vegetable gardening technique that should be used wherever possible, and there are a few different types of succession planting which I cover in this video. Want…
This video shows you 10 tips to maximise food production in a small vegetable garden. Having a small area doesn’t mean you can’t grow lots of food, in fact per square foot/metre, small gardens are often far more productive than larger vegetable gardens. This video is a collaboration with Tim and Maddy Harland from the…
Growing your own food is a hugely exciting journey! But it is important that you are armed with the right knowledge so you don’t fall into any pitfalls along the way and to also help guarantee fantastic vegetable gardening success. In this video, I share my top 15 vegetable gardening tips every beginner gardener should…
Sign up to my online course: http://morefoodlesseffort.com This video is all about simple tips and techniques I have learned and use to help establish long-term food abundance from the vegetable garden. Hopefully, you will find these ideas to make your vegetable garden more productive in the long-term useful, and if you do have any questions…
This video is about a skill that holds huge potential to ensure long-term food abundance of your garden. It is a skill that is very separate from your usual planting techniques because it involves the bigger picture and taking a very different approach. One benefit is that is is very easy and only needs around…
In the episode of Brew City Gardener I show you how to grow your potatoes in straw using the lasagna garden method. Some may refer to this as the “Ruth Stout” gardening method. Whatever you call it; it yields amazing results so make sure you subscribe to see what we harvest in late summer! Check…
I love Justin Rhodes permaculture chickens gardening technique, but I don’t have any chickens. So instead, I’m talking about stacking function and using your resources to the best of your abilities, and highlighting the differences and similarities between our vegetable gardens. I’m excited for the summer garden, and for checking out The Great American Farm…
See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Gardeners are a pretty thrifty bunch and it’s in the garden where repurposing old items into new really comes into its own. From transforming tins into planters to repurposing old furniture for storing produce, there are countless ways to put worn out or unwanted items to good…
