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Container Gardening Made Easy! A lot of our backyard veggie crops are versatile and can be grown both in beds and in smaller containers. A select few however, really excel in container setups which is something we can use to our advantage! In today’s Quickie, let’s look at my top 7 crops to grow in…
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…
If you enjoy my videos then consider supporting me by https://www.buymeacoffee.com/YouPlantTube https://youplanttube.blogspot.com/ Get ready to grow your own delicious and healthy asparagus with “Growing Asparagus Spears – Seed to harvest”! In this comprehensive and informative video, you’ll learn everything you need to know to successfully grow a Perennial Vegetable such as growing asparagus from seeds…
Seed starting can be a confusing topic, but it doesn’t have to be! We are answering your top burning seed starting questions to help you grow BIG! Start growing! Visit our online store for $2 heirloom seeds, custom blend fertilizers, and gardening tools & we ship worldwide! http://www.migardener.com/ Our daily blog: https://migardener.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MIgardener Instagram:…
Understanding what fertilizer is, how it helps your plants, and what makes it up, will help you pick a fertilizer that will work best for your garden. We do more than, JUST, YouTube! Check more MIgardener below: Start growing! Visit our online store for $2 heirloom seeds, custom blend fertilizers, and gardening tools. We ship…
I will show you just how simple it is to grow your own sweet potato slips from store bought sweet potatoes. It will save you tons of money too! We do more than, JUST, YouTube! Check more MIgardener below: Start growing! Visit our online store for $2 heirloom seeds, custom blend fertilizers, and gardening tools.…
Just starting out? Let’s start at the very beginning, with starting seeds. Sowing seeds isn’t quite as simple as A, B, C but with these easy to follow tips, you’ll be growing in no time! In this week’s video, Ben explains everything in this comprehensive guide to successful seed starting. Look no further! Everything you…
We are growing lettuce in containers, in this episode, we will discuss how to to grow them, and how you too can grow tons of lettuce in just containers! We do more than, JUST, YouTube! Check more MIgardener below: Start growing! Visit our online store for $2 heirloom seeds, custom blend fertilizers, and gardening tools.…
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…
During the off season of gardening we learn and take care of houseplants. In this video, we go through some of the misconceptions people think about houseplants. ________________________________________________________________________ We do more than, JUST, YouTube! Check more MIgardener below: Start growing! Visit our online store for $2 heirloom seeds, custom blend fertilizers, and gardening tools. We…
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…
Want to make your gardening jobs easier? Want to save time and find short cuts? Well this video is for you, our muddy-fingered friend! In this week. Ben reveals 10 of his best hacks to lighten your gardening load and help ensure you success in your garden, including some not-so-obvious lightbulb moments. It’s short and…
Want to start a new veg garden in 2023? Or perhaps you’ve already got a few growing seasons under your belt but you want a few tips on how to improve your layout. In this week’s episode Ben walks us through his garden and shows us everything we need to think of to plan the…
Grow your own groceries with me in 2023! I’ll show you how to grow, harvest and eat from your own garden grocery store in a quick, simple, and inexpensive way. The new series kicks off January 3, 2023. Subscribe to our channel, so you don’t miss a single episode. 🍅CLEARANCE SALE: 50% off all CaliKim…
___________________________________________________________________________________________ We do more than, JUST, YouTube! Check more MIgardener below: Start growing! Visit our online store for $2 heirloom seeds, custom blend fertilizers, and gardening tools. We ship worldwide! Website/shop: http:www.migardener.com/ Our daily blog: https://migardener.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MIgardener Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MIgardener send garden snail mail to: MIgardener 1426 Oakland Ave. St. Clair, MI 48079 Our book…
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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…
In this video, I give you our best five tips and tricks to maximise harvests in your vegetable garden so you can grow a ton of veggies! To see the other 5 tips from Kevin go here https://youtu.be/HKqNCjNAU6I Go here to get Birdies Raised Garden beds in the USA, Canada, and UK: https://shop.epicgardening.com/ and use…
On a north-facing mountainside in South Wales, Liz Zorab is creating the garden of her dreams that defies the odds. Using her years of growing experience, her new raised bed kitchen garden is full of food, flowers, and wildlife. I visited her back in the summer to pick up some great tips for any gardener…
Do you hate waste, but love online shopping? Of course, we recommend shopping locally whenever possible, but on the occasion when all that packaging that comes through our doors, what can we do with it all?! Bubble wrap, polystyrene and cardboard boxes can be a nuisance to recycle. Fear not! Ben has lots of clever…
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Peppers Can Be Stubborn! The nights are getting colder, yet you still have dozens of immature peppers on the vine, taking their sweet time to ripen. And unlike tomatoes, you can’t pick them and ripen them indoors so easily… Well, in today’s Garden Quickie, I got 3 ways for you to ripen those peppers faster…
We do more than, JUST, YouTube! Check more MIgardener below: Start growing! Visit our online store for heirloom seeds, custom blend fertilizers and gardening tools. We ship worldwide! website/shop: http:www.migardener.com/store our daily blog: https://migardener.com/blog facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MIgardener instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MIgardener send garden snail mail to: MIgardener 1426 Oakland Ave St. Clair, MI 48079 Our book is out!…
___________________________________________________________________________________________ We do more than, JUST, YouTube! Check more MIgardener below: Start growing! Visit our online store for $2 heirloom seeds, custom blend fertilizers, and gardening tools. We ship worldwide! Website/shop: http:www.migardener.com/ Our daily blog: https://migardener.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MIgardener Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MIgardener send garden snail mail to: MIgardener 1426 Oakland Ave. St. Clair, MI 48079 Our book…
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…
___________________________________________________________________________________________ We do more than, JUST, YouTube! Check more MIgardener below: Start growing! Visit our online store for $2 heirloom seeds, custom blend fertilizers, and gardening tools. We ship worldwide! Website/shop: http:www.migardener.com/ Our daily blog: https://migardener.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MIgardener Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MIgardener send garden snail mail to: MIgardener 1426 Oakland Ave. St. Clair, MI 48079 Our book…
Peas Are Literally The Perfect Beginner Crop. Just starting out with your gardening journey this year? Maybe you’ve tried a few things and they didn’t take or the harvests were poor? Well, even if you have little space or acres of land or just a few raised beds, Peas are the crop for you! In…
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…
___________________________________________________________________________________________ We do more than, JUST, YouTube! Check more MIgardener below: Start growing! Visit our online store for $2 heirloom seeds, custom blend fertilizers, and gardening tools. We ship worldwide! Website/shop: http:www.migardener.com/ Our daily blog: https://migardener.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MIgardener Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MIgardener send garden snail mail to: MIgardener 1426 Oakland Ave. St. Clair, MI 48079 Our book…
