Early Summer Planting Tips:☀️ The BIG Plant Out! 🍅
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- Опубліковано 20 тра 2022
- 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 for how to plant all sorts of veggie delights from tomatoes to squashes and beans. Ready, set, GROW!
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How does the old saying go? ‘Plant one for the weather, one for the birds, and one for you.’
Birds didn't get the memo
@@AfterEarthHuman Neither did the weather. I just had tornadoes and hail. Lol
Wise words!
I've never heard that one before but, boy, does it make sense!
2 for the bug!
Ben is a class act,accurate and precise and well paced. Very well produced and a nice son of a gun 😃
Definitely! He knows what he’s teaching, has it all planned, and speaks clearly, smartly, good-naturedly, and keeps ‘right on target.’
He hasn’t the ‘drone’, we find in a few other gardener podcasters, which I frankly detest!
Well done! Love them, Ben!
Guys, please - stop! You'll make me blush! :-)
@@GrowVeg that's the stuff Ben😃😃
@@ronanogrady7298 You see, Ben doesn’t watch “certain other” gardening podcasts. If he did, he’d projectile vomit at his iPad, the way we would like to.
Yes more plants than space, I've tried to persuade the other half to forget about having a nice lawn and let me put in more beds. No luck.
Keep persisting! :-)
Who is doing the gardening? You or him? If its you, then you should just go ahead and do it!
Maybe a compromise is needed? Or use part of the lawn for wildflowers (still has to be mown 2-3 times a year) & next year use a bit of it for edibles ;)
"Tickle them in" - best seed sewing gardening term ever Ben! 😂
I’ve got so much growing in my garden the best part of 10 different vegetables, and countless flowers for our pollinator friends! I think anyone who says they don’t have time for gardening doesn’t realise that actually you make time for it because it becomes less of a chore and more of a pleasure?
Thanks Ben, your videos along with other UA-camrs are defiantly getting more people of all ages into the game! I’m 23 and while the majority of my friends are in pubs and clubs I’m in the garden doing the jobs that need to be done to keep my crops happy! Only then will I go and see them! Never been much for partying anyway 👍🏼🤣
That makes you a much more interesting individual. 😉 Happy gardening! 🌿🌸
Good on you mate! Sounds like you've got your priorities right there - so much joy to be had from gardening! :-)
Way to go 😁👍🌻
My hubby said i was 'obsessed' yes, a chore but also a gifted way of life! This second year has been really good for me - I also have lots of stuff this year!
And gardening is just ten minutes here and 15 minutes there. It all adds up. And every time you sepnd ten minutes you get so much reward.
Something about how you do your gardening is FUN to watch! I don't get bored.
Thanks so much. :-)
Don’t take Ben too literally. The guy at the nursery looked at me funny when I said I needed a “mere suggestion” of seed planting mix
I've just had my first sugar snap peas come out this week! So exciting!
This year I have sugar snap peas, strawberries, raspberries, spinach, tomatoes and potatoes 😁
I just had some snow peas! Delicious!👍
Do you have any tips on growing healthy strawberries? I feel like mine have been unhealthy the last two years. The crop has been subpar.
@@kellimoretter-bue3204 this is my first year of strawberries so I don't have any tips yet but i did read that feeding liquid tomato feed helps the berries become nice and juicy. Fingers crossed for you this year 🤞
@@kellimoretter-bue3204 if your strawberries are older than 3 years, replace them as they deteriorate over time. Replace with their runners.👍
Well done on all those crops @Beth G. For healthy strawberries @Kelli Moretter-Bue I'd recommend being sure to feed them. Also, the plants become less vigorous after three/four years, so they may just be old and need of replacing. You might find this video on strawberries helpful: ua-cam.com/video/xhR7I0ipbSM/v-deo.html
Your enthusiasm is absolutely infectious! Your advice is straight forward and easy to implement. Your garden is filling in brilliantly. Looking forward to the next video. Blessings... daisy
Thanks Daisy, that's very much appreciated. Watch out for the full garden tour later in June! :-)
Love your enthusiasm, wishing you a productive garden this season ^^
And you! :-)
Ben, you’re my gardening hero! Thanks for all the tips and especially your positivity, you’re helping this new gardener have faith that I can do it!
Great stuff Danielle! So pleased you're enjoying the videos. Happy gardening! :-)
I've never been so busy. HAPPY GARDENING TO YOU ALL👍😀👍❤🌻🌷🌼
Yes, it's a busy time for us gardeners but that's ok because we enjoy it.
@@davidthescottishvegan 👍🌼🌷🌻
I started all of my plants from seed in an indoor greenhouse and was so excited to watch them grow. Proudly walked them out to the garden and plugged them in with a promise to wake up to my new fence. Awoke the next morning to my garden being eaten!!!! Yup! Baby bunnies
Oh dear - that must have been heartbreaking! Hope the bunnies stay away next time.
Such a pleasant, super informative, demonstrative podcast! I leave with a smile on my face and a feeling that “I have no fear. I can do anything in the garden!” Thank you so much, Ben❤️. God Bless!
Thanks Elizabeth. :-)
YOU are AWESOME and thank you for making me a better gardener!!🥰
Ah, thanks Karen. Happy gardening to you! :-)
I'm in Ireland and I have tiny green tomatoes already forming, cucumber flowering, peppers flowering, watermelon flowering. First year with my newly built green house.
I'm from Eastern Washington state, Spokane, zone 5, and our temps have been unseasonably cold. I am recently retired from teaching and am looking forward to becoming a successful vegetable gardener. I've been growing flowers my entire adult life but have only tried veggies twice with some success. Really enjoy your videos!
Hey, another Spokanite! So far this year I've had the best success with radishes and peas and have a few zucchini started and fairly well established. Good luck!
It's been unseasonably cold here in ohio too! High of 58f today :(
Can you even believe that they’re roasting in North-Western U.S. States? Up in Canada, we’re still waiting for some decent Spring weather! We had Frost almost EVERY SINGLE NIGHT, including right up-to night before last, May 22! Hey our Safe-Planting day is May 24!
What a horrible, super-COLD, windy, frosty, “all daytime wear-a-jacket-or-freeze-your-butt-while-getting-your-garden-planted” gross Spring this is!!They can send some heat, all of our ‘ways’, just even a little bit…Just their extra, just what they have to spare! This Spring is so miserable, that the really, true “CHILL” in the air, feels like Fall, when you know SNOW is coming, to STAY! That is NO joke!
Hi all. Hope your weather settles down soon. @Leann Hooper - so pleased you're inspired to try growing veggies! :-)
I'm about 2 hours north of you guys in Sandpoint. Idaho. I'm going to take a bit of a risk this may and plant out half my tomatoes and warm season veggies out this weekend. I will need to pay close attention to the Temps in case I need to cover my crops with plastic for a night or 2.
Loads of fun in the garden with you today, Ben! ( : Lovely plants! And I look for multiples in the pots when I grow to buy starts. Here we pay almost $5 per potted starter plant. When I find multiples I feel like I'm getting my money's worth. ( :
We are planting for summer - hot summer weather. I pulled my onions last week and planted cowpeas in those containers. They are already popping up! ( : The cowpeas can take the upper 90s to 114 temps we get during the summer month. I also have popcorn, okra luffa, and other things planted that don't mind the heat that will be here soon.
This morning I found I've got a vine borer in my trap plant for the squash bugs - a Blue Hubbard. I wrapped the stem near the ground, but the moth will still lay eggs farther up. I'm going to do a little surgery this evening - try digging the caterpillar(s) out. If I get them all and pack dirt around the wound, the plant should grow on. ( : I'm already looking forward to next week's video! ( : Continued happy gardening! ( :
I hope you've managed to excavate those vine borers. Sounds like you know what you're up to there. Happy gardening to you. :-)
Spring is later than usual here in Southern Connecticut, USA. Although today it was quite hot so I'm hoping all of my spring veggies don't bolt.
Another great video Ben, thanks. Will be signing up in the near future. Can't wait to get started with the garden planner. Wishing you a great season and a bountiful harvest.
Cheers Shane - and you too. :-)
Our spring in Spain this year has missed us!! Autumn, winter and virtually straight into summer heat. Hottest may for 77 years apparently. Planted my Amazonka squash in a large pot before I left for a week long visit to the UK and it's grown so well. My tomatoes are also in pots ready to train up our window grills. A few flowers appearing already. It was nice to come back and hear your cheery voice:)
Thanks so much Linda. I've heard it's been rather warm in Spain. Seems a lot of the US has also missed spring this year. Happy gardening! :-)
Spring has been running late for me, hopefully that means summer will be too. I have some lettuce, onions, peas and such in the ground, but impatiently waiting to get tomatoes and peppers, corn, and squash in. Hopefully it warms up soon
God Bless All of Us Especially You 🌹🥰🙂💙🏡🌦️Thank You From Lawrence Gladys and Son Simon East London England Handsome and Beautiful. Very Good Garden.
Ah nasturtium! Beautiful pest control and add a peppery taste to salads. Marigolds around the base of my pepper plants saved them from breaking off during summer storm winds.
Last year my nasturtiums attracted tons of insects, including butterflies. They laid eggs all over my brassicas… hatched into an army of caterpillars and massacred all my crops. 😩😩
@@66REDD66 I watched a butterfly lay eggs on my cabbage one year. I pulled the leaf and took it a good 20 yards from the cabbages. There were more butterflies and more eggs; even caterpillars, but I persisted. I have a good stand of milkweed now and they prefer it to my veggies.
@@anniecorbin7998 Oh wow that’s good news. I love watching the insects but I love my home grown veggies too, but they just don’t want me having any.😁😁.
We've had a late, dry Spring this year, and now it's getting hot - We'll be getting daily thunderstorms here for the next few days and the rain is very welcome.
I live in the mountains in Colorado in the US. We just had 2 feet of snow this weekend. I don't think I'll plant out just yet around here. I love all of the information you provide. It's helped me become a better gardener over the last couple of years since I found you. Thank you for your hard work.
And thanks for watching Mary. Hope you get to plant out soon.
You gave me an idea mentioning the cold frame. I have a few large square plastic bins and the old windows that were taken out of my 1910 upstairs windows when they were up-graded. Now I just have to measure to see if they'd match in size. If not, I have plenty of scrap wood to make frames out of. 👍
Smart move Leslie.
Thank you for the video. I've been wondering if I could plant more than one variety of cucumber together on the same trellis. I just watched you do it! So I am going to go out and plant my cucumbers!
My last frost date was in theory the 17th, but it got down to freezing last night. Good thing I have been running behind and didn't get my babies in the ground yet.
Lucky escape Diane!
I was thinking I was too late…but I’m not! Thanks for the encouragement.
I smiled all the way seeing you so excited for the big planting! I have to wait another week or so for that. Today's supposed to be our last frost date so yay! Giving it a buffer time for planting out the warm weather crops but will not wait til our night temp gets to 10°C regularly. That might not happen for another month or more! Haha push things a bit but they always survive and thrive! Great video Ben! Thanks for lifting up our spirits!
Nice one! Planting is so satisfying. Has to be the best bit about gardening I reckon. :-)
Absolutely loved this! Love learning from you! 🙌
Thank you Ben. Lovely video!
Planted my runners and french beans a couple of weeks ago at the allotment. Found the pidgeons had eaten the leaves today! Back to the windowsill!
They are a huge nuisance Paul, I feel your pain!
Beautiful garden!
Such a great video. Love the tip about planting in straw nails. I had not seen that before
That was so enjoyable and I love your tips for companion planting. 👏👍🙏
I am in Belfast and decided to put my tomatoes in containers around 12 April. This was a risk, but 'Maskotka' is flowering like mad, super vigorous and already set some fruits. I have four other varieties Latah, Zlatava, Stupice and Sprakle. Peppers are growing nicely too, Lipstick pepper is about to flower too. Everything outside, while my place gets the last frost around mid-April summers are cool. For that reason, all varieties are carefully selected for such a climate. So far I am very pleased with Maskotka and Stupice tomatoes.
Nice ;) Maskotka is one of the easiest tomatoes to grow ;)
Wow - well done on getting such an early start. :-)
@@GrowVeg It's all thanks to your advice. I did check my average last frost date which normally is the last week of March in my area but I know in the last few years we had frosty mornings in mid April. Knowing this I was also relying on a long-term weather forecast. Yeah, it's was gamble lol but it was indicating higher than average temps so I decided to take a risk. Young tomatoes were left outside, in front of the South facing wall overnight. Soil thermometer was showing average min temps between 4-7 Celsius, not great but not bad. In the end all plants got a head start which paid off.
Great video, with lots of tips too.👍
TFS GV, & take care too everyone. ❤🙂🐶
Thank you Ben. This is the video I really need right now.
What a joy that was and such an encouragement. Thank you! Coming from Wisconsin where spring is taking it's time.
Great video Ben, Everything is starting to take off in my allotment,so much on the go,great time of year👍 looking forward to the slug video.
I learn so much from your videos ! The info that you always includes the "why" . It provides so many ah ha moments, and has helped me be a more confident and successful gardener!many thanks!!!
Thanks Ben for another wonderful and informative video. So interesting to see you working away and hearing you share your garden knowledge. Cheers!
Lovely video! And very informative and easy to follow. Love your enthousiasm!
Another enthusiastic episode loved every moment and learn so much. Thank you 🙏🏼
Great video again thanks for all the tips. Your pumpkin plants look so healthy.
Ben, your videos are just excellent!!! Thank you, DA
I love how cheerful you are as you plant out. I am a few weeks behind you waiting for spring in New York's Long Island.
Wow... its time to plant out our plants that sitting in green house ... its getting warm.. summer is here.. thank you for sharing this videos..
Helloooo Ben! Yes, spring has been very wet, cold and dreary. Today is the day for me to plant out some starts for me as well. Unfortunately, if slug ranching were a thing, I would have a bumper crop this year. Finally, we are getting some sun so as to drive them back a bit. The little #@$^%~# got a bunch of my tomato starts and mowed them down. Fortunately, I had quite a lot, so all is not lost. Happy sunny Sunday!
They are little #@$^%~#! Hopefully this weekend's video on slugs will give a few ideas Valerie. Happy gardening! :-)
Thank you Ben! 🙏🏻 Here in the middle parts of Sweden i have just planted my squashes and beans 🤗
Happy Gardening!
Thanks Ben your so helpful a lovely vlog xx
I love your interest in companion plants
Felt like summer here in Denver until this weekend when we got some snow! ❄️ Will be planting this week.
I got my plants out this week. Just in time for a heat wave. But they are doing good. Next week it cools down, as we have about the same climate as you. I use egg shells and Epsom salts on my tomatoes.
Being in the country it always makes me smile when you use the chicken manure pellets. I need to gather mine this week, lol. We use a fertilizer of cow manure and water for the squash and cukes. I guess we’ve been organic farmers all my life !
Have a blessed Sunday. Almost time for cutting hay here. Summer is moving on.
Wow summer is moving on for you Tonie. I hope the hay cut goes well. :-)
Great episode. Thanks for all the tips. X
Thank you for sharing your ideas,lovely garden❤
Thanks for the great tips Ben.
Just been looking for some ideas for early summer planting...came across your video great tips thanks
Always good info! Thank you
Thank you for a brilliant video as always Ben. I just bought dill seeds this weekend for my herb area but will now sow it in with my beans. X
11:12 that is what I did with my green bell pepper plants! It worked quite well! Thank you for another great video full of useful tips! ONE LOVE! 🙏
Thank You, Ben!
Thanks for the tip about wrapping squash to deter the squash vine borer!
Just discovered this channel. Thanks, so helpful. 😀
I always wait for your upload. Thanks for another great video... I'm doing my backyard garden now as well. Happy gardening 👍🥰👍
Happy gardening Tessie.
I am in NE Oregon, USA. I think it’s FINALLY safe to plant out the tomatoes. Inside, I just started some some beans 🫘 zucchini and a couple of squash plants for fall. Just put in potatoes today. I don’t have the knack yet for lettuce 🥬 and other greens but I’ll get there. Thank you for all your supportive videos. We are 100s of miles apart but seem to have similar growing seasons.
I spent a year in Portland and remember the weather being very similar indeed!
I am in Kentucky and picked lettuce leaves today for a salad. Planted my garden today.
Watching from zone 3 🇨🇦💚
Very helpful. Thank you!🌱
I’m stoked with the beefsteaks I grew last year! Hope I have the same luck this season.
Gotta give this a try
Thanks again Ben!!! It is storming here,so your “sunny attitude”is most welcome. Absolutely love your videos!!
Cheers for that. Keep on gardening! :-)
Thanks so much for your videos
Another fantastic planting out video Ben. It's interesting and informative as your video's always are. Keep safe, well and happy gardening.
Cheers David. Thanks for flagging up the scammer comments - I get a lot of those and just delete them. They are persistent though!
Here is Western Washington, I live 40 miles from the coast. This spring our weather has been extremely wet, more so than normal. I had my beans out and the slugs decimated them all. I even put out beer traps, and still they snacked them down to nothing. I put seeds in the ground to replace them, just waiting for them to show, plus starting them in the greenhouse too. I am looking forward to your video on slugs! I put out my tomatoes already, plus keeping a few in the greenhouse. Need to get my squashes outside too, but I know the darn slugs will be at them. Thanks again for your very helpful and insightful videos!!
The slugs video will be on Saturday Dani. Hopefully it will offer a few pointers. Good luck for this growing season - happy gardening! :-)
@@GrowVeg Thanks!
Thank you for this.
love to be as efficient as you Ben..🥰
Great video again Ben! Love the poached egg plant. I have a real mat of it. I smile every time I see it 😀and I'm soooo looking forward to my dill flowering and see what pollinators visit 👍
I bet the poached egg plants look sublime!
Great channel learning so much thanks
I’m just starting to garden again and there is so much info on UA-cam…. I’m glad I found this channel out of all the mess
I love your enthusiasm of gardening 🤗
Thanks Brenda. :-)
I am just loving all your videos. Having a binge while I wait for planting season.
Great stuff Elissa - so pleased you're enjoying the videos.
I'm new to gardening and I found your channel and the garden planner really useful and friendly - thank you so much! :)
Wonderful Omer - thanks so much for watching.
Ben, your positivity and wisdom are such a joy! I would love to be out in the garden with you, rain or shine
Thanks so much. :-)
Thanks Ben
Glad to see this today. Those were some interesting planting tips. I planted out my runner beans this afternoon, already on their second set of leaves. The potatoes are comming along nicely too.
Great to hear that Robert. :-)
We have finally started getting rain. My beans were suffering and I didn't realize it until we got the rain. Everything has double, practically overnight. I am so happy. 😄
It's amazing how quickly things grow once they get going!
Hi Ben , I have been planted everything since last week and it’s all doing well, thank you for your sharing 👍
Nice one Yanee! :-)
I love to watch passion ❤ you are amazing Ben xxx
Thank you so much, really appreciate it! :-)
I like watching your videos. We're going into winter here in New Zealand, so I'm weeding and doing much needed maintenance around the place. It's nice watching Spring videos. Lush and green.
Weeding and tidying up is very satisfying Linda. I hope you have a productive time ahead - spring will be back before long.
I put my seedlings out too early. Now I'll be making a trip to my local garden shop for tomatoes lol
Your videos are really a pleasure to watch. They are very informative and helpful, espacially you showing us how to actually do stuff (like planting and sowing) is so helpful for beginners as well as more experienced gardeners. Also you must be one of the last UA-camrs that are able to fluently speak complete sentences without using jump cuts all the time ;-) Your obvious success is well deserved.
Bless you, that's incredibly kind of you to say. Really appreciate that! :-)
Hi Ben, thank you for a great video today! We've had a major winter storm here, 18 inches of snow and 26F degrees. I covered all the garden and haven't even been able to get out to the chickens yet, so this beautiful garden of yours, and the planting out expertise is most welcome today especially!
Oh wow - that's quite some storm! Hope spring arrives soon for you.
You make me so happy.
Thank you so much - I'm really happy these videos make you happy! :-)
Mirgold flowers are also very edible!
Thank you for your great video
So happy I found your channel! I’m a Southern California gardener (Zone 9B) and fairly new to planting. I’ve learned so much from you so far. I didn’t know that about dill. I will have to direct sow some next to my cucumbers!
Nice one! :-)
Thank you for the great video!! Your advice is very sound and you explain things very well. I really enjoyed the mention of the straw bale garden. We have had an SBG for four years now; it is so great to recycle the compost every year!!
It's a wonderful resource and a lot cheaper than grow bags etc.
Always good to go back and look at older videos from the same time of year for hints and tips. Good to have an easy to follow and infirmative channel that is UK based (so l can relate to the conditions)
Glad you find it useful Elliot. :-)
I planted some climbing french beans outside just yesterday! Got some Beetroot and Spring Onions under the lights too