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!
@@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.
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 👍🏼🤣
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!
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 😁
@@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 🤞
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
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
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!
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!
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.
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!
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:)
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.
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.
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.😁😁.
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! ( :
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!!
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.
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. 😄
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!
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
Every gardener is groaning here in Spokane WA. Our night temperatures are finally up in the 40 F. It has been windy and cold. However, we are finally getting some rain after a very dry start to Springtime. My celery, red cabbage, carrots, onions, and French Spinach, are all doing well despite the grumpy weather.
@@everythngandnthng The only one that I don't have that you listed is the superphosphate. I have and use all of the others but I'm extremely light-handed with all of these because I'm so afraid of hurting the plants or the life that I'm trying to build in the soil. I think I need to get over my fear and fertilize rather than a sprinkle here and a sprinkle there. I'm still really excited about my garden! So excited and so committed to learning that I now have my first compost pile, saving kitchen scraps, and thinking about starting a worm bin too. Worm castings are a little pricey for such a small amount but I bought another bag today and sprinkled the whole bag on two 4 ft by 8 ft raised beds. I would LOVE to get skilled enough to sell plants right here from home! Thanks for your reply!
Ben I wish I could honestly say Happy Gardening but here in Brisbane Australia this is our best time to plant/ grow & sometimes Harvest. NO WAY in 2022 we have had so much rain & the weirdest temperatures in my 7yrs of growing. It looks like we are going to have the wettest Winter ever & gardens are just waterlogged as it is. But I will keep trying !!! Cheers Denise- Australia
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.
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 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.
@@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.
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.
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. 👍
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!
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!
Great video Ben. Here in growing zone 9b, Sacramento, we are coming to the end of our dill and broccoli because the heat is coming. Tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, zucchini, beetroot, radish, spinach all in and doing great. All my planters are on timed drip irrigation and heavily mulched. Once again we are in a drought in Northern California, actually all the Western States, so drip does the work for me and the mulch keeps the sun off the soil.Next week my family is spending 3 weeks in England visiting relatives etc, so my sons girlfriend is tending my garden. Temps here just went to 100F and high 50'sF overnight so I put my overwintered 2 year old habanero and bell pepper plants out today.:)
Sounds like you're doing all the right things to combat the heat. I hope your son's girlfriend keeps everything ticking along for you while you're away - I'm sure she'll do a great job. Enjoy your trip to England!
I started gardening aged 6 with my gran 55 years ago. We had pots , barrels and planters. to this day I still plant grans plants in pots , barrels and planters. All my other veg goes into raised beds Ala square foot gardening. Unbelievable how much food can be grown in such a small area. Fruit ..... columnar fruit trees. lift up one patio flag and plant 4 fruit trees. mini orchard for any tiny garden. even at my age, new root stocks or varieties of veg often surprise me.
We're in the San Francisco Peninsula, seeded tomatoes in January, kept them in a sunny south facing window in the garage, planted them out in April, and fruit is developing right now!
Hi Ben! In Ontario, Canada 6b, there was rain in the forecast last week, and the overnight low was 5°C, so I planted a week early! I'm trying radishes beside my tomatoes this year (never grown those before) and they germinated so quickly! There's so much joy for a gardener at this time of year. Ma your harvest be bountiful!
Last week in Texas USA it was near 100 degrees. We broke records for the hottest days on record. A cold front has arrived and we are back to the mid 80’s for now.
Thank you for your content. I love your approach and have been so inspired. I just built my first ever raised beds and planted tomatoes, peppers, squash, melon, and lots of herbs. I’m in Houston Texas 9b and it’s already reached 100F. We’re in for a hot summer! Cheers!
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!
Whenever I have tomatoes the size of yours to transplant, I strip off all but the top group of leaves. I lay them down in a trench and cover everything but that top group of leaves. They quickly turn upright, and the root growth on that long stem produces really sturdy plants.
Lots of great tips. Your planting sees to be about the same as upstate NY climate or within 2 weeks. Cold early spring then excessive warmth recently with rain twice a week. I plan to get the rest of my warm loving plants, zucchini and cucumbers and replant sunflowers, peas and beans that were stolen by chipmunks. I never saw a poached egg plant before. But I had a lot less pests, including mosquitoes, last year due to marigolds in garden and deck. Now to frustrate the chipmunks with netting. They will get some but need to share.
Harvested beets, peas, stinging nettle, chard, large leaf sorrel, radishes, collard greens and turnip greens. I planted tomatoes, peppers, moringa, malabar spinach, Egyptian spinach, okra, marigolds, sunflower, squash, Jerusalem artichoke, taro, eggplants beans and more for summer til fall. I'll be planting sweet potatoes for the leaves and tubers and more flowers for the bees, birds and butterflies. Hoping for a good harvest this year to stay healthy. Thank you for inspiring us to garden! I enjoyed watching other people's garden. ❤️😋
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!
Chiming in from western New York. 1/2 mile south of Lake Ontario. I have most of my 200 sq ft vegetable garden in. Now encroaching into my wife’s flower/ perimeter garden. Adding companion plants , marigolds, carrots, bunching onions. Thanks for the additional idea of dill Really appreciate your to the point videos and your enthusiasm
Thanks Ben, I absolutely love your videos, and I'm glad to hear I wasn't the only one who had to put their beans out early! I had them in toilet roll containers and their roots were popping out all over so they are now in a raised bed, my first ever, and doing well. My next project is the pallet compost bin. Looking forward to the slug video, think I live in slug central. They don't give my seedlings a chance, caught them destroying my Virginia creeper too, which I had rooted from cuttings last year. Would appreciate some help. Thank you! 😃
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.
North eastern 🇺🇸 here, and we have been fluctuating between 65-90!! It’s always crazy here!! But the garden is going in today with rain expected tonight. Thanks for the tip of dill/ beans! I was trying to figure out just where the deal should go and now I know. Really enjoy your channel
Crazy here in South Carolina, in the 90's last week are so. No rain to speak of, so lots of watering to do. Last year at this time had lots of rain. Thank goodness, I put in a drip system last year.
This year i was worried about scorching - so, I planted Phacilia Tanacetifolia green manure, all over the place in March and it has sheltered some of the delicate stuff from the sun - I had to be careful to remove some of it where i didn't want slugs though! When it flowers the bees are just everywhere and especially good on bean beds. I used mustard as well also easy to remove at ground level and left in for a mulch - it cleans the earth and is especially good before potatoes. When you told me i had a split season here in France - I acted hastily and grew from seed - potting everything on early in my tunnel - this has paid off dramatically with hearty healthy plants. I have tons of greens; chard, cabbage, kale and sprouts and cauliflower under cover from butterflies. After the heat I may have to rush in again. Determined to grow bock choy! Keeping my fingers crossed for the corn! The onions are not bulbing up though and don't know how long i should leave them in. Garlic also overwintered.
Sounds like you've got loads going on there - brilliant! Bok choi is definitely worth trying - sow in late summer and it shouldn't bolt (flower prematurely).
Great video Ben, as usual! I've never thought about utilizing my greenhouse for hothouse tomatoes....I may just have to try it with some of my extra plants this year, along with a movable shade cloth since we can get pretty toasty. Other than my sweet corn and pole shell beans, I've got everything in place. Potatoes, peas, lettuce, spinach alyssum, leeks, onions, kale, and shallots were done earlier, garlic last fall, added sweet peppers, chiles, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, squash, pumpkin, eggplant, green beans, cucumbers, dill, basil, parsley, tarragon, marigolds, calendula, borage, and zinnias this week. Whew. Now....I eagerly await the slug video!!! Grrrr... SLUGS! 🤣 Happy gardening!!
Spring has been a little delayed here in Niagara Falls, Canada, but it has worked out for me as I own a Dance Studio and I am preparing for our first live show (since 2019) for the first week of June! Been super busy and I am NOT used to it because of Covid and lockdowns, but have managed to plant my Spring veggies late April and they are doing ok. Digging and planting has always been a way for me to destress from the demands running a small business, especially during this time of year. Growing potatoes in bags for the first time and they are thriving! Hoping to get my warm crops in this week! I LOVE planting season! Thanks for your knowledge and tips. I have learned so much from your videos. Keep them coming!! Happy Gardening!
Niagara zone 6. Having extreme jumps in temps. It has been 27c for 2 days and now going back to 15 tomorrow! A few tomatoes are outside but holding back peppers, eggplant, squash, cukes. And I have backup tomatoes inside! I've got till the end of September so lots of time.
It's interesting to see how much gardeners emphasize growing flowers and companion planting with your vegetables. It used to be that you'd just plant a whole bed of one thing, spray with 7-dust every once in a while, and pray for the best. We've ready come a long way when every gardener now knows to plant flowers for pollinators and to plan companions to help with pests.
I'm just outside of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Spring has been wet and cool. This weekend we are finally getting some 20c weather. The commercial growers say that they are about 3 or 4 weeks behind normal growth. The last frost was about middle of March, it's just been too cool and wet most of the time.
thanks for the cucumber tip im growing them for the first time and wondered why the leaves went crispy i did water them more and they seem better now thankfully
Today was a lovely day for me. I was able to visit my local allotments as they were doing a plant sale. Not so much for the plants but to see the plot set ups. It is a self managed allotment so there was a massive area for manure and wood chips and then another area for green waste. I couldn't resist and i picked up some seedlings - mint, 2 hot chilli pepper seedlings and 2 horse radish for £1! I think it was because we came later and spent time chatting to a lady about garlic and butter nut squash and what we were all growing. I just need to find out how to grow horse radish now. :o) I got home and immediately started taking some photos as we have 4 more courgettes today and some of our strawberries have ripened. We have little raspberries as they have just finished flowering and the red flowers have come out on the runner beans. We also harvested our first rhubarb. We put 2 courgettes in a lasagne and had the rhubarb with some raisins and fennel, cooked in apple juice, a bit of golden syrup and cinnamon. Tomorrow will we have some strawberries and yet more spinach (not getting bored of it every other day yet lol) ! I also gave away a couple of our spare tomato plants as we have already planted out 20 plants over 3 varieties. Going to fertilise the second round of courgettes and butter nut squash as the leaves are getting a bit pale. I gave them some blood fish and bone when i sized up the pot but forgot the tomato feed so thank you for the reminder! Will you be doing a video touring your garden soon?
You've got off to such an impressive start already - nice work! Yes, I've a garden tour coming along at the end of June. Looking forward to showing the (hopeful) progress. :-)
I live in zone the Netherlands, zone 8B. I started my tomato seeds inside, at around 1/30. I planted them out at around 4/15 when they were around 2,5ft already. I planted them around 1,5-2ft deep and right now they area probably around 4-5ft in total already. Highly recommended.
Mid-west organic gardening has already produced lovely leafy greens and soon to enjoy sugar snap peas. Struggling a bit with our fine feathered friends enjoying the young plants!! Look forward to your next production. Appreciate you !
Great video! ...love them all. I am growing from seed for the first time and planting a serious vegetable garden for the first time. I am in USDA Zone 5b and hope to plant everything outside today. My summer and winter squash do have some yellowing leaves just like you mentioned! I didn't know why, but thanks to your video, now I do. I will get them in my straw and hay bales which are already fertilized. I love your obelisk and flat trellises, by the way.
I live in Montana and it is a cold climate here. I sowed my seeds directly in the ground than covered with a heavy plastic till the second of june everything grows great if I do it that way it took me a couple of years to figure out cold climate gardening but I think i got it now love watching your gardening ideas thank you.
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 👍
We skipped the spring season this year in Bulgaria and we are already in the summer... The greenhouse was planted in April and already have cucumbers and small green tomatoes :)
I love my Sunday morning video lesson & gardening adventure with Ben! No matter how many of your videos I watch, I always learn something new (extra compost when planting zucchini). I absolutely cannot WAIT to plant! I have 350 seedlings in my dining room and kitchen that were hardened off but had to come back inside for a week because of the darn snow and freezing this week (Colorado, USA). They are just itchin' to be planted. Thanks for another great video - cheers! p.s. as for adding the chard because you had a little bit of space - I had to laugh because I'm constantly thinking "Oh, one more plant will fit..." :D
Chicken manure works well with tomatoes and zuchinni, glad to see someone else including it. I enjoy your vids and your enthusiasm for the details without verbally flailing about, thank you from the cool mountains of Japan.
Still cold here at night with a mixed bag of rain sun and lots of wind. My cucumbers, tomatoes and beans are growing fast indoors and do need to get in the soil but I'm concerned about the wind so holding off as long as I can. Your video has inspired me to just crack on and get planting outside so fingers crossed. Love your videos always lots of good little tips, going to put some dill along side my beans this year, which will be lovely thanks Ben
Ben I think a great idea would be a live streamed Q&A. You have so much knowledge to give and I’m sure many of us could benefit greatly from a quick response… thoughts? 🤔
How does the old saying go? ‘Plant one for the weather, one for the birds, and one for you.’
@Noble 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!
One for the pigeon…one for the crow…one to rot and one to grow.
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.
"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. :-)
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! :-)
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.
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.
Love your enthusiasm, wishing you a productive garden this season ^^
And you! :-)
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.
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 👍🌼🌷🌻
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. :-)
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! :-)
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.
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.
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.😁😁.
YOU are AWESOME and thank you for making me a better gardener!!🥰
Ah, thanks Karen. Happy gardening to you! :-)
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!
I was thinking I was too late…but I’m not! Thanks for the encouragement.
Watching from zone 3 🇨🇦💚
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. :-)
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! 🙏
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!
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. :-)
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!
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. :-)
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
Every gardener is groaning here in Spokane WA. Our night temperatures are finally up in the 40 F. It has been windy and cold. However, we are finally getting some rain after a very dry start to Springtime. My celery, red cabbage, carrots, onions, and French Spinach, are all doing well despite the grumpy weather.
Wishing you sunshine and warmer nights! :-)
Your seedlings are so much more healthy than mine. My setup is new and I'm new but I'm determined to get it right. Which is why I'm here. Thank you!!
What nutrients for your plants have you been using? Garden lime, blood meal, super phosphate. Fish fertilizer. Are good to add.
@@everythngandnthng The only one that I don't have that you listed is the superphosphate. I have and use all of the others but I'm extremely light-handed with all of these because I'm so afraid of hurting the plants or the life that I'm trying to build in the soil. I think I need to get over my fear and fertilize rather than a sprinkle here and a sprinkle there. I'm still really excited about my garden! So excited and so committed to learning that I now have my first compost pile, saving kitchen scraps, and thinking about starting a worm bin too. Worm castings are a little pricey for such a small amount but I bought another bag today and sprinkled the whole bag on two 4 ft by 8 ft raised beds. I would LOVE to get skilled enough to sell plants right here from home! Thanks for your reply!
I hope you have a great season and a beautiful harvest!!
Ben I wish I could honestly say Happy Gardening but here in Brisbane Australia this is our best time to plant/ grow & sometimes Harvest. NO WAY in 2022 we have had so much rain & the weirdest temperatures in my 7yrs of growing. It looks like we are going to have the wettest Winter ever & gardens are just waterlogged as it is. But I will keep trying !!! Cheers Denise- Australia
Keep trying Denise. It sounds like you've been having very challenging weather over there, to say the least!
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. :-)
I put my seedlings out too early. Now I'll be making a trip to my local garden shop for tomatoes lol
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.
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.
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! :-)
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.
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 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
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!
Great video Ben. Here in growing zone 9b, Sacramento, we are coming to the end of our dill and broccoli because the heat is coming. Tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, zucchini, beetroot, radish, spinach all in and doing great. All my planters are on timed drip irrigation and heavily mulched. Once again we are in a drought in Northern California, actually all the Western States, so drip does the work for me and the mulch keeps the sun off the soil.Next week my family is spending 3 weeks in England visiting relatives etc, so my sons girlfriend is tending my garden. Temps here just went to 100F and high 50'sF overnight so I put my overwintered 2 year old habanero and bell pepper plants out today.:)
Sounds like you're doing all the right things to combat the heat. I hope your son's girlfriend keeps everything ticking along for you while you're away - I'm sure she'll do a great job. Enjoy your trip to England!
I started gardening aged 6 with my gran 55 years ago. We had pots , barrels and planters.
to this day I still plant grans plants in pots , barrels and planters. All my other veg goes into raised beds Ala square foot gardening.
Unbelievable how much food can be grown in such a small area.
Fruit ..... columnar fruit trees. lift up one patio flag and plant 4 fruit trees. mini orchard for any tiny garden.
even at my age, new root stocks or varieties of veg often surprise me.
Love your suggestion for a mini orchard - great idea.
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.
Late spring here with too many cold dipping days. Summer came early so everything is late and confused this year 😕. It will all catch up eventually ☺️
Great video, with lots of tips too.👍
TFS GV, & take care too everyone. ❤🙂🐶
We're in the San Francisco Peninsula, seeded tomatoes in January, kept them in a sunny south facing window in the garage, planted them out in April, and fruit is developing right now!
Wow - that's a great result. You'll be picking very soon! :-)
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
Hi Ben! In Ontario, Canada 6b, there was rain in the forecast last week, and the overnight low was 5°C, so I planted a week early! I'm trying radishes beside my tomatoes this year (never grown those before) and they germinated so quickly! There's so much joy for a gardener at this time of year. Ma your harvest be bountiful!
Isn't there - it's a time of fantastic promise Jacqueline. Happy harvesting to you too.
Last week in Texas USA it was near 100 degrees. We broke records for the hottest days on record. A cold front has arrived and we are back to the mid 80’s for now.
Thank you for your content. I love your approach and have been so inspired. I just built my first ever raised beds and planted tomatoes, peppers, squash, melon, and lots of herbs. I’m in Houston Texas 9b and it’s already reached 100F. We’re in for a hot summer! Cheers!
Well done on getting start Stacy. Wishing you an abundant harvest!
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.
Whenever I have tomatoes the size of yours to transplant, I strip off all but the top group of leaves. I lay them down in a trench and cover everything but that top group of leaves. They quickly turn upright, and the root growth on that long stem produces really sturdy plants.
That's really great advice Carol, thank you. I may try that next year.
I am so looking forward to the episode on slugs!
It's coming out this weekend. :-)
Thanks again Ben!!! It is storming here,so your “sunny attitude”is most welcome. Absolutely love your videos!!
Cheers for that. Keep on gardening! :-)
Lots of great tips. Your planting sees to be about the same as upstate NY climate or within 2 weeks. Cold early spring then excessive warmth recently with rain twice a week. I plan to get the rest of my warm loving plants, zucchini and cucumbers and replant sunflowers, peas and beans that were stolen by chipmunks.
I never saw a poached egg plant before. But I had a lot less pests, including mosquitoes, last year due to marigolds in garden and deck. Now to frustrate the chipmunks with netting. They will get some but need to share.
I hope you manage to fend off the chipmunks this time round. Here's to a bumper crop! :-)
Harvested beets, peas, stinging nettle, chard, large leaf sorrel, radishes, collard greens and turnip greens. I planted tomatoes, peppers, moringa, malabar spinach, Egyptian spinach, okra, marigolds, sunflower, squash, Jerusalem artichoke, taro, eggplants beans and more for summer til fall. I'll be planting sweet potatoes for the leaves and tubers and more flowers for the bees, birds and butterflies. Hoping for a good harvest this year to stay healthy. Thank you for inspiring us to garden! I enjoyed watching other people's garden. ❤️😋
What a superbly full garden you'll have. I'm sure it will be a good harvest. :-)
Felt like summer here in Denver until this weekend when we got some snow! ❄️ Will be planting this week.
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! :-)
Chiming in from western New York. 1/2 mile south of Lake Ontario. I have most of my 200 sq ft vegetable garden in. Now encroaching into my wife’s flower/ perimeter garden. Adding companion plants , marigolds, carrots, bunching onions. Thanks for the additional idea of dill Really appreciate your to the point videos and your enthusiasm
Thanks for the kind comments there Tom. Hope your garden is now establishing nicely!
Thanks Ben, I absolutely love your videos, and I'm glad to hear I wasn't the only one who had to put their beans out early! I had them in toilet roll containers and their roots were popping out all over so they are now in a raised bed, my first ever, and doing well. My next project is the pallet compost bin. Looking forward to the slug video, think I live in slug central. They don't give my seedlings a chance, caught them destroying my Virginia creeper too, which I had rooted from cuttings last year. Would appreciate some help. Thank you! 😃
Great stuff Rachel. The pallet compost bin will look the business I'm sure. Good luck bringing those slugs under control. :-)
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!
North eastern 🇺🇸 here, and we have been fluctuating between 65-90!! It’s always crazy here!! But the garden is going in today with rain expected tonight. Thanks for the tip of dill/ beans! I was trying to figure out just where the deal should go and now I know. Really enjoy your channel
Cheers Sharon. Glad you've got everything planted. A great growing season awaits!
I planted some climbing french beans outside just yesterday! Got some Beetroot and Spring Onions under the lights too
Crazy here in South Carolina, in the 90's last week are so. No rain to speak of, so lots of watering to do. Last year at this time had lots of rain. Thank goodness, I put in a drip system last year.
Perfect timing. That drip system must save you so much time.
@@GrowVeg Yes and thanks for the tips. Keep them coming
This year i was worried about scorching - so, I planted Phacilia Tanacetifolia green manure, all over the place in March and it has sheltered some of the delicate stuff from the sun - I had to be careful to remove some of it where i didn't want slugs though! When it flowers the bees are just everywhere and especially good on bean beds. I used mustard as well also easy to remove at ground level and left in for a mulch - it cleans the earth and is especially good before potatoes. When you told me i had a split season here in France - I acted hastily and grew from seed - potting everything on early in my tunnel - this has paid off dramatically with hearty healthy plants. I have tons of greens; chard, cabbage, kale and sprouts and cauliflower under cover from butterflies. After the heat I may have to rush in again. Determined to grow bock choy! Keeping my fingers crossed for the corn! The onions are not bulbing up though and don't know how long i should leave them in. Garlic also overwintered.
Sounds like you've got loads going on there - brilliant! Bok choi is definitely worth trying - sow in late summer and it shouldn't bolt (flower prematurely).
Great video Ben, as usual! I've never thought about utilizing my greenhouse for hothouse tomatoes....I may just have to try it with some of my extra plants this year, along with a movable shade cloth since we can get pretty toasty. Other than my sweet corn and pole shell beans, I've got everything in place. Potatoes, peas, lettuce, spinach alyssum, leeks, onions, kale, and shallots were done earlier, garlic last fall, added sweet peppers, chiles, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, squash, pumpkin, eggplant, green beans, cucumbers, dill, basil, parsley, tarragon, marigolds, calendula, borage, and zinnias this week. Whew. Now....I eagerly await the slug video!!! Grrrr... SLUGS! 🤣 Happy gardening!!
Wow - loads planted already! Happy gardening! :-)
Such a great video. Love the tip about planting in straw nails. I had not seen that before
Spring has been a little delayed here in Niagara Falls, Canada, but it has worked out for me as I own a Dance Studio and I am preparing for our first live show (since 2019) for the first week of June! Been super busy and I am NOT used to it because of Covid and lockdowns, but have managed to plant my Spring veggies late April and they are doing ok. Digging and planting has always been a way for me to destress from the demands running a small business, especially during this time of year. Growing potatoes in bags for the first time and they are thriving! Hoping to get my warm crops in this week! I LOVE planting season! Thanks for your knowledge and tips. I have learned so much from your videos. Keep them coming!! Happy Gardening!
You've been busy and sounds like you'll have lots of tasty pickings. Happy gardening!
Niagara zone 6. Having extreme jumps in temps. It has been 27c for 2 days and now going back to 15 tomorrow! A few tomatoes are outside but holding back peppers, eggplant, squash, cukes. And I have backup tomatoes inside! I've got till the end of September so lots of time.
Happy planting Trish.
Thank you Ben. This is the video I really need right now.
Thank you Ben! 🙏🏻 Here in the middle parts of Sweden i have just planted my squashes and beans 🤗
Happy Gardening!
Great episode. Thanks for all the tips. X
It's interesting to see how much gardeners emphasize growing flowers and companion planting with your vegetables. It used to be that you'd just plant a whole bed of one thing, spray with 7-dust every once in a while, and pray for the best. We've ready come a long way when every gardener now knows to plant flowers for pollinators and to plan companions to help with pests.
It's great we seem to be living in more enlightened times now. :-)
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. :-)
I'm just outside of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Spring has been wet and cool. This weekend we are finally getting some 20c weather. The commercial growers say that they are about 3 or 4 weeks behind normal growth. The last frost was about middle of March, it's just been too cool and wet most of the time.
Hope things settle down for you now and everything grows away beautifully! :-)
God Bless All of Us Especially You 🌹🥰🙂💙🏡🌦️Thank You From Lawrence Gladys and Son Simon East London England Handsome and Beautiful. Very Good Garden.
thanks for the cucumber tip im growing them for the first time and wondered why the leaves went crispy i did water them more and they seem better now thankfully
That's great to hear Susan.
Today was a lovely day for me. I was able to visit my local allotments as they were doing a plant sale. Not so much for the plants but to see the plot set ups. It is a self managed allotment so there was a massive area for manure and wood chips and then another area for green waste. I couldn't resist and i picked up some seedlings - mint, 2 hot chilli pepper seedlings and 2 horse radish for £1! I think it was because we came later and spent time chatting to a lady about garlic and butter nut squash and what we were all growing. I just need to find out how to grow horse radish now. :o)
I got home and immediately started taking some photos as we have 4 more courgettes today and some of our strawberries have ripened. We have little raspberries as they have just finished flowering and the red flowers have come out on the runner beans. We also harvested our first rhubarb. We put 2 courgettes in a lasagne and had the rhubarb with some raisins and fennel, cooked in apple juice, a bit of golden syrup and cinnamon. Tomorrow will we have some strawberries and yet more spinach (not getting bored of it every other day yet lol) !
I also gave away a couple of our spare tomato plants as we have already planted out 20 plants over 3 varieties. Going to fertilise the second round of courgettes and butter nut squash as the leaves are getting a bit pale. I gave them some blood fish and bone when i sized up the pot but forgot the tomato feed so thank you for the reminder!
Will you be doing a video touring your garden soon?
You've got off to such an impressive start already - nice work! Yes, I've a garden tour coming along at the end of June. Looking forward to showing the (hopeful) progress. :-)
Great video again thanks for all the tips. Your pumpkin plants look so healthy.
I live in zone the Netherlands, zone 8B. I started my tomato seeds inside, at around 1/30. I planted them out at around 4/15 when they were around 2,5ft already. I planted them around 1,5-2ft deep and right now they area probably around 4-5ft in total already. Highly recommended.
Wow - that's a great start!
Thanks for the tip about wrapping squash to deter the squash vine borer!
Thanks Ben for another wonderful and informative video. So interesting to see you working away and hearing you share your garden knowledge. Cheers!
That was so enjoyable and I love your tips for companion planting. 👏👍🙏
Absolutely loved this! Love learning from you! 🙌
Mid-west organic gardening has already produced lovely leafy greens and soon to enjoy sugar snap peas. Struggling a bit with our fine feathered friends enjoying the young plants!! Look forward to your next production. Appreciate you !
Thanks Mona. Hope your fine feathered friends don't hamper all your plants!
another week before anything goes outside. below freezing still and snow yesterday, ... 🇨🇦
Great video! ...love them all. I am growing from seed for the first time and planting a serious vegetable garden for the first time. I am in USDA Zone 5b and hope to plant everything outside today. My summer and winter squash do have some yellowing leaves just like you mentioned! I didn't know why, but thanks to your video, now I do. I will get them in my straw and hay bales which are already fertilized. I love your obelisk and flat trellises, by the way.
Great stuff - I hope you managed to get everything planted. Summer's pretty much here now. :-)
I live in Montana and it is a cold climate here. I sowed my seeds directly in the ground than covered with a heavy plastic till the second of june everything grows great if I do it that way it took me a couple of years to figure out cold climate gardening but I think i got it now love watching your gardening ideas thank you.
Well done on getting it all figured out. I hope you have a very productive summer. :-)
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!
We skipped the spring season this year in Bulgaria and we are already in the summer... The greenhouse was planted in April and already have cucumbers and small green tomatoes :)
Wow - that's very early!
Another benefit of marigold is you can eat them. They look amazing when the leaves are sprinkled over salads
I love my Sunday morning video lesson & gardening adventure with Ben! No matter how many of your videos I watch, I always learn something new (extra compost when planting zucchini). I absolutely cannot WAIT to plant! I have 350 seedlings in my dining room and kitchen that were hardened off but had to come back inside for a week because of the darn snow and freezing this week (Colorado, USA). They are just itchin' to be planted. Thanks for another great video - cheers! p.s. as for adding the chard because you had a little bit of space - I had to laugh because I'm constantly thinking "Oh, one more plant will fit..." :D
Wow - that's a lot of seedlings! You'll have a very abundant garden!
Chicken manure works well with tomatoes and zuchinni, glad to see someone else including it. I enjoy your vids and your enthusiasm for the details without verbally flailing about, thank you from the cool mountains of Japan.
You are very welcome. Thank you so much for watching. 😀
Another enthusiastic episode loved every moment and learn so much. Thank you 🙏🏼
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.
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.
Still cold here at night with a mixed bag of rain sun and lots of wind. My cucumbers, tomatoes and beans are growing fast indoors and do need to get in the soil but I'm concerned about the wind so holding off as long as I can. Your video has inspired me to just crack on and get planting outside so fingers crossed. Love your videos always lots of good little tips, going to put some dill along side my beans this year, which will be lovely thanks Ben
Thanks Gabby. Try to start hardening off your plants to outside conditions now to prepare them for planting.
Ben I think a great idea would be a live streamed Q&A. You have so much knowledge to give and I’m sure many of us could benefit greatly from a quick response… thoughts? 🤔
Thanks for the suggestion. This is something the team here are considering. We'll keep everyone posted! :-)
I can’t wait till the harvesting starts it’s the best part and most of the work!!
Absolutely!