Good to know I'm not the only one that gets giddy about trying a new plant 😄 Top of my fall to-do list is installing a bat box next to my garden - the mosquitoes are out of hand this year in our area!
I love your enthusiasm for gardening and the way you make gardening look possible for everyone. Thanks. Keep up with your inspirational you tube videos.
I really appreciate your videos. Please keep them up over the winter. I need to find ways to keep busy indoors when it rains here in Wales, and outdoors on the rare occasion it doesn't. Gardening in the winter is the main way I keep my mental health sound.
It is still hot in central Alabama, making seed germination difficult. I haven't had any luck getting Brunswick, or Hilton Cabbage to sprout, and it is past my window for sowing them, but I might try again in a few days anyhow. I sowed seeds for Danvers carrots last week, and am waiting for signs of germination. On the positive side, my pepper plants are producing, and giving me weekly harvests. I have turnips that are ready to harvest, and will be sowing a succession crop next Wednesday when the temperature is forecasted to be a bit cooler. My seedlings for kohlrabi, Pak Choi, Komatsuna, and Yellow Heart Winter Choy are doing well. A volunteer Super Sweet 100 cherry tomato has started producing, and so far, seven of eight comfrey root sections have sprouted. I am waiting on late season tomato seeds to sprout for a winter experiment. Lastly, I have Elephant Garlic, and grocery store mystery garlic cloves that I will plant next week. Happy Gardening!
Interesting about the oyster plant. I bought some seeds this year and tried growing them in late winter but no luck! I’ll give it another go. And yes, they really do taste like oysters! I nibbled a leaf in my local nursery.
You explain and demonstrate great just the right amount of detail from how to prepare the soil to how to sow and varieties of seeds…. So enjoy your enthusiasm- many thanks from Ladysmith, Canada
Hi, Ben! This old lady has been starting Fall brassicas here in the N. Florida Panhandle. I'm trying to grow enough to last until next year, so I start mine in the 162 cell Proptek trays. The broccoli and cauliflower are about 1" tall right now, and I'll be starting some cabbages, kale, collards and lettuces tomorrow. I also started some short-day onions to plant out in mid-November to over-Winter. Those I started 338 cell Proptek trays. These trays are expensive, but well worth the price, as I've had 5 of them since 2017, and they'll still be okay to use for 5 or 6 more years at least! Fall/Winter gardens are tricky here, but well worth the effort. I'll soon direct seed peas, snow peas, carrots and turnips, too.
Fantastic video, I'll have to go see if there are some oyster leaf near me, I'm in coastal Scotland! One thing that would be interesting is a series in seed saving. F1 hybrids are strong but you always need to buy them... I'm a heritage variety fan myself
Good morning Ben, lovely to see your method of preparing the veggie beds, especially planting a winter crop to keep feeding the soil with natural growing material. Here by us, we have to grow onions in autumn through winter as they do not like too much water. Salad onions we can grow almost all year round. Thanks for all the garden advice Ben, it is always good so we can try ourselves. Happy autumn preparation until next time. Kind regards, take care.
Planted direct arugula and iceberg seeds in a cardboard box and spring onions as well in a cardboard box ….. I’ll put all 3 boxes inside another box to keep warm…. Being in middle ga we still get warm days here but night time temps will drop soon..40-50 at night …. I did this last yr and it works out great…. Lettuces for months and the bugs had no idea lol….. thx for your videos…… end of month will start broccoli and kale in the raised bed…… right now radish n garlic cloves I just planted….. radish will b ready for harvest in a wk or so…. Hello brassicas! Have a great wkend
For my unusuals this year I have grown Samphire which is doing remarkably well and I am trying Pirella after watching a Korean fella's channel who's family are farmers. I have also gotten turmeric from the market to root and grow leaves and am trying ginger next.
Thank you , Ben for another inspiring and informative video ! I live in SE Oregon with a challenging growing area . We’ve already had some freezing temps at night . Our daytime to nighttime fluctuations are pretty extreme throughput the year . Usually a 40 + degree drop . I struggle with knowing how to adapt to our climate , from the information I receive from people with normal temperatures and seasons . But I keep working on it , season after season !!!
I always overwinter my garden bi yearly. Adding a lot of bio mass and carbon to refresh it. Topping it with straw, wood chips, dried leaves and fresh grass clippings. If I'm not doing that, it's garlic and green onion time. Sometimes hardy flowers for the bees. As always, appreciate the wisdom.
chuckle. I can tell you don't get multiple feet of snow on your garden in winter :) Good advice all in all. Just have to adjust for our particular locations ;)
Great info. I have never attempted to grow spring onions over winter. Here in S.W.Indiana USA, winters are pretty unpredictable. They have become milder in the last 20 years,but still have deep freezing times. I think I will try it this year. My Dad had 2-3 cold frames when we were growing up. He framed and hinged the windows so when he opened them for air flow he didn’t have to worry about them sliding off. I have been intending to build one like that…. Need to get off my duff and do it. Lol God bless you and yours Ben.
Love your energy! Your so educational, I’ve learned so much for your channel. I will be making cold frames to add to my space. Can’t wait to see what happens with the oyster plant.
I love your videos. I live in Oregon, USA and our climate is very close to yours. You are very inspiring! I usually have a great crop of kale that lasts me all winter, with a little coverage. This year I have a terrible infestation of gray plant lice. It is pretty much sucking the life out of my two kale beds. I’ve done a little research but not convinced how to solve this. Ic you have any ideas I would be so grateful! Bless you!
By plant lice I'm guessing you mean aphids - probably cabbage aphids given their color. Usually a good frost will kill them off, but more advice here: www.growveg.com/pests/us-and-canada/cabbage-aphid/
Fantastic video... they way you present your enthusiasm in everything you grow, I'm sure people In high rise concrete flats want to grow veg after watching your show ... 👍🙂
I'm growing a vegetable I've never heard of this year called salsify, it's like a parsnip but with leaves more like a leek and it supposedly has an oyster flavour too. I'll find out when I come to harvest them in October 😊
How is that going? I never realy had any succes with them, always very low germination rates. And the ones that came up are now in my flower meadow as a perennial flower
At least i know why i suck at growing onions. Possibly al my seeds are too old. This spring i only got one variety to germinate. So look like im gonna need to by some new seeds
Yes, worth starting with fresh seeds if in doubt. Or you could do a quick germination test on those seeds you have: www.growveg.com/guides/a-simple-germination-test-for-seeds/
I had never heard of this Mertensia maritima before. It sounds and looks really interesting and it might even survive here in south Finland! I have to try that too next year. Thanks for the tip!😊
Dear Ben Thank you for sharing the fantastic information as always. I work in a school that a interested in sustainability. We're want the children to plant foods that are easy to grow and harvest. Please could you help- we're looking for produce that could be grown by 5 year olds upto 11 year olds. We don't have a ground space as soil in the ground to access. All things that we have grown has been in pots. If you kindly provide foods that can be grown eat season. Thank you for your support.
For children I really recommend quick-growing crops - salad leaves, especially salad leaf mixes, are really superb and ready to harvest within term time. Also finger-sized carrots and radishes. If someone is around to look after veggies during the holiday/vacation period, then zucchini/courgettes and climbing beans are a hugely popular choice. For more on growing with children, do check out this video: ua-cam.com/video/3L9jF-J-MPk/v-deo.htmlsi=gEAR9-jMbREjMsqg
It’s staying so warm this fall I think many of us are missing a growing opportunity in the US. I seen a recent post that Montana is already 2 weeks past first frost date. So simple to create a mini cold-frame how you showed. I think I will need to grow lettuce in cold frame and peas as the baby rabbits seem to know when I have them planted. I need to finish bottom of fencing with chicken wire.🙄. There seems to be no time we don’t have bunnies. Our neighbor who just visited his vacant lot asked me why I don’t have a large greenhouse and that I could be growing cucumbers. He apparently loves cucumbers and not much else. I do have cucumbers still growing and I’m just waiting for seed from those and the crisper is full. It’s just too hot here in this microclimate to mess with growing inside a greenhouse. A small high tunnel would be nice for green peppers though for the fall as that’s when they don’t have enough time and they are doing well till the all too soon frost hits them. For me my lean to greenhouse works perfectly for how I use it. It’s small enough to reasonably heat to start seedlings. Next year I will start all but onions much later as it just doesn’t pay to have anything else planted too soon as I’ve learned you can miss a lot of pest pressure by late planting. I would like to add a heat sink and new polycarbonate panels. In the late summer I use shade cloth over it and cure root crops. 😂we recently had another friend comment on do we ever stop gardening 😂 as our garden is still producing carrots, rutabagas, beets, green beans, tomatoes, peppers and kale among others. I guess I don’t understand as we go as long as we can. Most of the root crops I’m waiting for cooler weather along with the squash as a light frost gives better flavor and we may store some root crops in ground and some in our new experimental root cellar. We can only preserve and eat so much at a time that I see no need in having a large greenhouse (mine is just a tad smaller than yours). Just like the example you showed of how small an area lettuce or onions take and how much you will get especially in succession plantings, so really no need to have a large area. I’m trying a couple areas that are vacant with cover crops this year because of all the hype about it. Was given some pea/oats and buckwheat and all are doing well. Thanks for all you do! Yippeee! Have to tell you how excited we were to learn that the bees arrived back to our neighbor’s vacant lot hives!!! I just said we seen a few honeybees about 3 weeks ago and he told us they came back👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼. He lost them two years in a row and they didn’t dare well over winter by putting the hives in garage. I said I hope you just leave them outside this year and he said Yes!👏🏼👏🏼. He made sure they had plenty of food going into winter and I think they will stay now👏🏼👏🏼😃
Do you plan to revisit this episode during winter so we can see what to expect during winter and spring. I'm in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where our winter can be quite severe. I'd like to compare your winter to ours. Really looking forward to the next video.
I'll be doing videos throughout the winter, no doubt checking in on some of the earlier sown crops I'm sure. Our winters are pretty mild, but we do get a week or two of very frosty, penetrating cold most winters.
Great video, with straight to the point information. My one-time experience with this same green manure mix (from the same supplier) was not good - very poor germination, seemingly not worth it. It was just one try with new seed, though. Not to be defeated, I tried buckwheat (from the same supplier) this year, and germination and growth rate were outstanding. About 6 inches tall now, I'll let the elements do the rest. All I need now is better luck with a nitrogen fixer, maybe crimson clover? Thank you for your video.
Thanks for sharing your experiences. Everything seems to have germinated well, but let's see how things progress. Crimson clover is a really superb choice for crimson clover and can be sown under a lot of other crops, such as squashes or corn.
Thanks for another great video, Ben, I had good success using the old window pane method to get carrots to germinate after my previous attempt failed, I just put it directly on-top of the soil and removed once they popped up, gonna do that again next year, good luck with the oysters 😁👍🏻
😂well in my little green house,the slugs must have wings and fly at night as all my seedlings have disappeared....eventhough they were on a shelve,on a height😅
Thank you! This was so helpful. It didn't occur to me to grow a cover crop for winter so I'm going to try to get my hands on some of those seeds. And the oyster plant sounds amazing! The flowers look so pretty, too. Very curious to see how they'll turn out. Your greenhouse looks gorgeous as well. Many thanks again!
Hi, really enjoying your program as usual. Good idea with the old window pain but to keep up the circulation of air. Perhaps you might leave the end boards off and only have the supporting side boards - just a suggestion!
Oyster plant (oyster leaf in North America) germinates irregularly, and the plant is particularly attractive to snails, just so you know. My understanding is, this plant does well in containers, theoretically to thwart snails or slugs. Snails and slugs where I live aren't all that easily thwarted, I wish you good success with your Mertensia maritima.
@@GrowVeg Eh! Mine will be crossed for your oyster plants, too. Irregular germination requires patience (and according to some, cold stratification before sowing), but deterring the the slugs and snails.... Again, good success to you!
Hi Ben it ms Caroline Barton here from hucknall outside Nottingham my back garden I move my Raised bed get to old take few out new one plus back break job need do but at times
Hello there! GREAT info! Thx so much again. It's been some time since I posted here but I'd mentioned some time ago that I've moved from a small allotment I started last year to a much bigger one this year. I've not much time to be TRULY gardening as I'm once again laying the groundwork for the new garden. That said I'd planted some crops that actually need the winter to continue growing but where they're planted will be all renovated for the new garden in the coming month or two. SO - I've got to once again seed my califlower for example. You show in this vlog how to do that this time of year. Maybe dumb question but I'm still rather new to all of this - if I start my plants from seed now, you mention that they should be ready in the early spring to put in the ground. I'd think they'd be already TOO big to wait that long but I presume because it's much cooler that they grow slower so thus are more or less the right size next spring. Correct? Thx so much for a comment/ answer. 👍👋
Yes indeed. As we move into the autumn growth slows dramatically - and plants will pretty much stop growing. So in this way you are basically getting the cauliflowers started now, then pausing things over winter, then once they start off again in late winter they will be putting on that final push of growth before planting out.
I've grown salsify (aka vegetable oyster) for years. Leaves are more like a leek. It has a cousin, Scorzonera (aka Black salsify or black oyster plant) which is more probably a close cousin of a flower (daisy? not sure, need to check) whose leaves look altogether different - and actually more like what you were showing. I suspect that the plant you were discussing is an altogether different plant (seed does NOT look the same). Salsify seed is long and thin and rather large and takes FOREVER to germinate (about 30 days). Scorzonera tends to look more like some flower seeds - rather chunky and short - but again very visible and also seems to take 30 days (or longer) to germinate. If planting either of them - plant radishes to mark the row(s)
Great advice on starting off salsify and scorzonera. The oyster leaf plant is completely unrelated - I'd like to eventually try salsify and oyster leaf plan side-by-side to compare oyster tastes.
Yes indeed, I'm very conscious of that. We will be changing the month names of the videos to season names once the month is over, so that our viewers in the Southern Hemisphere can enjoy these videos when the appropriate time comes.
Love your videos, they are so helpful without being overly complicated. One question - I have harvested something shaped like butternut squash but it's green and yellow, I'm wondering if I've harvested too early? And what it might be lol?? 😂
Sounds like a different type of squash! Now is the time to be harvesting squashes (at least here in the UK). I guess the only way to be sure is to tuck into it and try it. :-)
I’m always confused when it comes to winter brassicas in relation to crop rotation. Do you plant them in the current years bed. Or do you plan for next years. I only have room for 1 bed of each plant type. Great videos always enjoy them.
We have done a video on growing squashes more generally. But thank you for the suggestion. I may try and grow a mega pumpkin next year and do a video on it!
My spring onions have survived winter here in New Zealand but I planted as young plants. All my onions, red, white and leeks and spring onions all looked like spring onions with no bulb. Now Spring is here, will they develop more?
I guess the main thing is to check the minimum temperature that the garage plunges too, though it will be a lot warmer than outside I'm sure. I'm sure most cold-season crops would do just fine. You would also need to ensure there is good airflow, perhaps by opening up the garage on milder days.
Love this video Ben, thank you. I've most our beds cleared and just love salad onions so will be getting some sown at the weekend. I do have a heated propagator for the windowsill, could I give them a head start first before planting direct in the ground? 👩🏼🌾👍🏽 Rach
I bought my cover crop/green manure seeds from my local garden centre, but you can buy them from most seed suppliers online too. In spring I will hoe off the cover crop and sort of jab it into the soil to rot down. I'll do this a few weeks before planting time.
Any tips for helping little seedlings from falling over? so many of my tiny baby crops just get crushed by rain or... gentle wind... and subsequently die... toothpick trellaces? 😅😢
'Misly' do you mean miserable? We in S France are having lots of sun (and mosquitos!) We have just pulled up about 25Kilo potatoes - and have another third to pull up as yet! I am not using rye this year as found it really difficult to kill! I am using vetch and mustard this year all an experiment i know though mustard is wonderful and easy to kill! I can't get hold of any unusual veg here. I ordered elephant garlic on Amazon and oops - they are seeds!!!!!
Longtime fan of your videos - and I also know how UA-cam titles work - but I’d still feel less stressed if you said ‘should plant…’ rather than ‘must’…😅
1 winter onions - make a cold frame
2 winter lettuce
3 cauliflowers - need protection like a cold frame
4 cover crop / green manure (winter mix -winter tares grazing rye)
5 Oyster leaf plant - start under a cold frame - 50/50 soil & sand/grit.
Mertensia maritima
Thank you
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Fab info
Good to know I'm not the only one that gets giddy about trying a new plant 😄 Top of my fall to-do list is installing a bat box next to my garden - the mosquitoes are out of hand this year in our area!
Crikey!
Try Delicata squash, lovely
Hope the bats move in - they'll make a good impact I'm sure!
Bonus: free bat guano!!
I love your enthusiasm for gardening and the way you make gardening look possible for everyone. Thanks. Keep up with your inspirational you tube videos.
Thanks Charlotte - I will do. :-)
What a beautiful sight seeing all the tomatoes and vines and marigolds growing in the green house!
he has great videos!
I really appreciate your videos. Please keep them up over the winter. I need to find ways to keep busy indoors when it rains here in Wales, and outdoors on the rare occasion it doesn't. Gardening in the winter is the main way I keep my mental health sound.
So no what you mean about gardening and mental health. Definitely helps during those dull, drab months.
It is still hot in central Alabama, making seed germination difficult. I haven't had any luck getting Brunswick, or Hilton Cabbage to sprout, and it is past my window for sowing them, but I might try again in a few days anyhow. I sowed seeds for Danvers carrots last week, and am waiting for signs of germination. On the positive side, my pepper plants are producing, and giving me weekly harvests. I have turnips that are ready to harvest, and will be sowing a succession crop next Wednesday when the temperature is forecasted to be a bit cooler. My seedlings for kohlrabi, Pak Choi, Komatsuna, and Yellow Heart Winter Choy are doing well. A volunteer Super Sweet 100 cherry tomato has started producing, and so far, seven of eight comfrey root sections have sprouted. I am waiting on late season tomato seeds to sprout for a winter experiment. Lastly, I have Elephant Garlic, and grocery store mystery garlic cloves that I will plant next week. Happy Gardening!
Sounds like you're doing really well there! Hope the weather cools off a bit for you soon though.
Thank you for the reminder to grow greens over winter!
Interesting about the oyster plant. I bought some seeds this year and tried growing them in late winter but no luck! I’ll give it another go. And yes, they really do taste like oysters! I nibbled a leaf in my local nursery.
Thanks for confirming the taste of them. Hope you get better luck this time if you decide to re-grow them. :-)
Thanks for sharing.
I like the idea of “Do this in X” monthly video series.
So pleased you're enjoying these videos. :-)
You explain and demonstrate great just the right amount of detail from how to prepare the soil to how to sow and varieties of seeds…. So enjoy your enthusiasm- many thanks from Ladysmith, Canada
He does move right along in explaining and showing! Ladysmith caught my eye as we have a town in Wisconsin, US with same😊
Thanks so much. :-)
Love how clear and relaxed you are when it comes to explaining to the viewers.
Subscribed, Thanks
Super stuff - thanks for the sub. And a warm welcome to the channel! :-)
Love your videos. Great idea for a temporary cold frame. Thanks!❤
I love that temporary cold Frame Ben. Such a simple but clever idea.
Thanks so much - it's really handy. :-)
Lovely nasturtiums in your garden 😃
They are winners aren't they!
Hi, Ben! This old lady has been starting Fall brassicas here in the N. Florida Panhandle. I'm trying to grow enough to last until next year, so I start mine in the 162 cell Proptek trays. The broccoli and cauliflower are about 1" tall right now, and I'll be starting some cabbages, kale, collards and lettuces tomorrow. I also started some short-day onions to plant out in mid-November to over-Winter. Those I started 338 cell Proptek trays. These trays are expensive, but well worth the price, as I've had 5 of them since 2017, and they'll still be okay to use for 5 or 6 more years at least! Fall/Winter gardens are tricky here, but well worth the effort. I'll soon direct seed peas, snow peas, carrots and turnips, too.
Sounds like you're off to a superb start for fall there. It's so worth investing in good trays - they pay themselves back through their longevity. :-)
You can plant radish and beats and kales and carrots and even tomatoes and chard and so much more
Thanks, Ben. I need to get out and move my fall plants into their growing home. Another exciting growing season.
I was out clearing my greenhouse of the tomatoes this morning, I’m going to make tomato chutney with them tomorrow
I'm making tomato chutney right now. Will be jarring it all up shortly. Hope yours goes well, too.👍
@@flamingdonut9456Thank you 😊
Hope you've made a superb chutney - I'm sure you have! :-)
@@GrowVeg It’s delicious! So much better for being made from my own vegetable garden produce x
Fantastic video, I'll have to go see if there are some oyster leaf near me, I'm in coastal Scotland!
One thing that would be interesting is a series in seed saving. F1 hybrids are strong but you always need to buy them... I'm a heritage variety fan myself
Thanks for the suggestion. You're not the first person to ask for a video on seed saving, and it's on my list to do for a future video. :-)
Your energy and video editing is on point ❤
Thank you so much! :-)
Good morning Ben, lovely to see your method of preparing the veggie beds, especially planting a winter crop to keep feeding the soil with natural growing material. Here by us, we have to grow onions in autumn through winter as they do not like too much water. Salad onions we can grow almost all year round. Thanks for all the garden advice Ben, it is always good so we can try ourselves. Happy autumn preparation until next time. Kind regards, take care.
Happy autumn preparation to you too - thanks for watching! :-)
Planted direct arugula and iceberg seeds in a cardboard box and spring onions as well in a cardboard box ….. I’ll put all 3 boxes inside another box to keep warm…. Being in middle ga we still get warm days here but night time temps will drop soon..40-50 at night …. I did this last yr and it works out great…. Lettuces for months and the bugs had no idea lol….. thx for your videos…… end of month will start broccoli and kale in the raised bed…… right now radish n garlic cloves I just planted….. radish will b ready for harvest in a wk or so…. Hello brassicas! Have a great wkend
What a great technique to get your seedlings started. :-)
Thank you for including the inch measurements 😊.
For my unusuals this year I have grown Samphire which is doing remarkably well and I am trying Pirella after watching a Korean fella's channel who's family are farmers. I have also gotten turmeric from the market to root and grow leaves and am trying ginger next.
What a great list of unusuals - that's super! Watch out for my video on ginger coming out in a few weeks.
Thank you , Ben for another inspiring and informative video ! I live in SE Oregon with a challenging growing area . We’ve already had some freezing temps at night . Our daytime to nighttime fluctuations are pretty extreme throughput the year . Usually a 40 + degree drop . I struggle with knowing how to adapt to our climate , from the information I receive from people with normal temperatures and seasons . But I keep working on it , season after season !!!
The weather certainly keeps us all on our toes. But those are some pretty big swings in temperature where you ar!
I always overwinter my garden bi yearly. Adding a lot of bio mass and carbon to refresh it. Topping it with straw, wood chips, dried leaves and fresh grass clippings. If I'm not doing that, it's garlic and green onion time. Sometimes hardy flowers for the bees. As always, appreciate the wisdom.
Sounds like a really super system you have there. :-)
No one is talking about cauliflower! Thanks friend 🥰🌱
Cauliflower needs some love! :-)
Love your enthusiasm for the oyster plant. Will be interested in how that does for you.
Looking forward to seeing how it does too. :-)
Thank you Ben its wonderful what we can do to over winter
It really is - still lots to be started at this time of year.
chuckle. I can tell you don't get multiple feet of snow on your garden in winter :) Good advice all in all. Just have to adjust for our particular locations ;)
Yes indeed!
Seeing one of your videos in my feed always makes me smile before I've even clicked it, keep up the good work Ben!
Cheers matey! :-)
Great info. I have never attempted to grow spring onions over winter. Here in S.W.Indiana USA, winters are pretty unpredictable. They have become milder in the last 20 years,but still have deep freezing times.
I think I will try it this year.
My Dad had 2-3 cold frames when we were growing up. He framed and hinged the windows so when he opened them for air flow he didn’t have to worry about them sliding off.
I have been intending to build one like that…. Need to get off my duff and do it. Lol
God bless you and yours Ben.
Definitely worth recreating those cold frames if you can - they'll definitely help to extend the season. :-)
I have a cold frame, I grew squashes in it during the summer but they’re done. I will try the onions and some Winter Density lettuce, too!
These videos are so well-planned... Like your gardens! Bravo
Love your energy! Your so educational, I’ve learned so much for your channel. I will be making cold frames to add to my space. Can’t wait to see what happens with the oyster plant.
How fantastic to be adding cold frames. Hope that goes well.
this is the best gardening video I've ever seen. Hi. I'm from Philadelphia.
Wow - high praise indeed, thank you! :-)
I love your videos. I live in Oregon, USA and our climate is very close to yours. You are very inspiring!
I usually have a great crop of kale that lasts me all winter, with a little coverage. This year I have a terrible infestation of gray plant lice. It is pretty much sucking the life out of my two kale beds. I’ve done a little research but not convinced how to solve this. Ic you have any ideas I would be so grateful!
Bless you!
By plant lice I'm guessing you mean aphids - probably cabbage aphids given their color. Usually a good frost will kill them off, but more advice here: www.growveg.com/pests/us-and-canada/cabbage-aphid/
Love Oregon btw. Best state in the Union! :-)
@@GrowVeg it is a beautiful State. My family came here in the 1800’s by wagon train.
Fantastic video... they way you present your enthusiasm in everything you grow, I'm sure people In high rise concrete flats want to grow veg after watching your show ... 👍🙂
Thanks so much, happy gardening Frank! :-)
Love everyone of your episodes!👍👍🇺🇸
Thanks so much! :-)
I'm growing a vegetable I've never heard of this year called salsify, it's like a parsnip but with leaves more like a leek and it supposedly has an oyster flavour too. I'll find out when I come to harvest them in October 😊
How is that going? I never realy had any succes with them, always very low germination rates. And the ones that came up are now in my flower meadow as a perennial flower
@@gardentogrill970 They seem to be doing really well, I'd say about 80% of them germinated. The seeds were a free gift from Marshalls.
Never grown salsify but have heard it has an oyster favour also. You'll have to let us know how you get on and what it does indeed taste like. :-)
At least i know why i suck at growing onions. Possibly al my seeds are too old. This spring i only got one variety to germinate. So look like im gonna need to by some new seeds
Yes, worth starting with fresh seeds if in doubt. Or you could do a quick germination test on those seeds you have: www.growveg.com/guides/a-simple-germination-test-for-seeds/
Greetings from Denmark. This channel, your guidance is falling into my needs just as I need it. Thank you, you’ve got my subscription 👍
Thanks so much - and a very warm welcome to the channel! :-)
Here in NM these are our winter crops. The temperature can be 100 in early April
Yes, most of these will definitely prefer the cooler temps of winter where you are.
I'll be watching to see how those oyster leaf plants grow. They look really cool.
Great stuff - looking forward to trying them!
hang on mate spring has just begun 😁
great vid thanks fore the hard work
Just at six months to everything! :-) Glad you enjoyed the video anyhow. Have a great start to spring.
Am writing your selection into my vegetable diary. But am married to a fussy eater.
Well, hopefully your partner will like some of them. :-)
I had never heard of this Mertensia maritima before. It sounds and looks really interesting and it might even survive here in south Finland! I have to try that too next year. Thanks for the tip!😊
Definitely worth a try. I think it may do just fine in southern Finland.
Dear Ben
Thank you for sharing the fantastic information as always.
I work in a school that a interested in sustainability.
We're want the children to plant foods that are easy to grow and harvest.
Please could you help- we're looking for produce that could be grown by 5 year olds upto 11 year olds.
We don't have a ground space as soil in the ground to access. All things that we have grown has been in pots. If you kindly provide foods that can be grown eat season.
Thank you for your support.
For children I really recommend quick-growing crops - salad leaves, especially salad leaf mixes, are really superb and ready to harvest within term time. Also finger-sized carrots and radishes. If someone is around to look after veggies during the holiday/vacation period, then zucchini/courgettes and climbing beans are a hugely popular choice. For more on growing with children, do check out this video: ua-cam.com/video/3L9jF-J-MPk/v-deo.htmlsi=gEAR9-jMbREjMsqg
It’s staying so warm this fall I think many of us are missing a growing opportunity in the US. I seen a recent post that Montana is already 2 weeks past first frost date.
So simple to create a mini cold-frame how you showed.
I think I will need to grow lettuce in cold frame and peas as the baby rabbits seem to know when I have them planted. I need to finish bottom of fencing with chicken wire.🙄. There seems to be no time we don’t have bunnies.
Our neighbor who just visited his vacant lot asked me why I don’t have a large greenhouse and that I could be growing cucumbers. He apparently loves cucumbers and not much else. I do have cucumbers still growing and I’m just waiting for seed from those and the crisper is full. It’s just too hot here in this microclimate to mess with growing inside a greenhouse. A small high tunnel would be nice for green peppers though for the fall as that’s when they don’t have enough time and they are doing well till the all too soon frost hits them.
For me my lean to greenhouse works perfectly for how I use it. It’s small enough to reasonably heat to start seedlings. Next year I will start all but onions much later as it just doesn’t pay to have anything else planted too soon as I’ve learned you can miss a lot of pest pressure by late planting. I would like to add a heat sink and new polycarbonate panels. In the late summer I use shade cloth over it and cure root crops.
😂we recently had another friend comment on do we ever stop gardening 😂 as our garden is still producing carrots, rutabagas, beets, green beans, tomatoes, peppers and kale among others. I guess I don’t understand as we go as long as we can. Most of the root crops I’m waiting for cooler weather along with the squash as a light frost gives better flavor and we may store some root crops in ground and some in our new experimental root cellar.
We can only preserve and eat so much at a time that I see no need in having a large greenhouse (mine is just a tad smaller than yours). Just like the example you showed of how small an area lettuce or onions take and how much you will get especially in succession plantings, so really no need to have a large area.
I’m trying a couple areas that are vacant with cover crops this year because of all the hype about it. Was given some pea/oats and buckwheat and all are doing well.
Thanks for all you do!
Yippeee! Have to tell you how excited we were to learn that the bees arrived back to our neighbor’s vacant lot hives!!! I just said we seen a few honeybees about 3 weeks ago and he told us they came back👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼. He lost them two years in a row and they didn’t dare well over winter by putting the hives in garage. I said I hope you just leave them outside this year and he said Yes!👏🏼👏🏼. He made sure they had plenty of food going into winter and I think they will stay now👏🏼👏🏼😃
So pleased for you and the bees, Regards, from Maureen southern England
How fantastic to hear about those bees! Really pleasd for you - and it sounds like you're having a superb growing season! :-)
Do you plan to revisit this episode during winter so we can see what to expect during winter and spring. I'm in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where our winter can be quite severe. I'd like to compare your winter to ours. Really looking forward to the next video.
I'll be doing videos throughout the winter, no doubt checking in on some of the earlier sown crops I'm sure. Our winters are pretty mild, but we do get a week or two of very frosty, penetrating cold most winters.
Great video.. inspiring Thank you.
I am looking forward for the mini polythene tunnel!!!!!
Fab stuff. Here it is: ua-cam.com/video/YLdikcPK8u0/v-deo.htmlsi=z_wy0HP5HiPcXxgj
Thank you Ben always for the helpful videos
Thank You Very Much. I Enjoy Your Videos!! Look Forward To The Next One! I Wish You So Much Joy Forever
Thanks so much - and you. :-)
@@GrowVeg Out Planting And Using All You Tips . Keep Up All Your Wonderful Works
Great video, with straight to the point information. My one-time experience with this same green manure mix (from the same supplier) was not good - very poor germination, seemingly not worth it. It was just one try with new seed, though. Not to be defeated, I tried buckwheat (from the same supplier) this year, and germination and growth rate were outstanding. About 6 inches tall now, I'll let the elements do the rest. All I need now is better luck with a nitrogen fixer, maybe crimson clover? Thank you for your video.
Hi, thankyou @twdnawrat9312.
I had same experience as you when I tried same manure mix, from same supplier too so may well try the buckwheat too.
Thanks for sharing your experiences. Everything seems to have germinated well, but let's see how things progress. Crimson clover is a really superb choice for crimson clover and can be sown under a lot of other crops, such as squashes or corn.
Thanks for another great video, Ben, I had good success using the old window pane method to get carrots to germinate after my previous attempt failed, I just put it directly on-top of the soil and removed once they popped up, gonna do that again next year, good luck with the oysters 😁👍🏻
Thanks for the good luck. Great to be using the old window pane method also. :-)
😂well in my little green house,the slugs must have wings and fly at night as all my seedlings have disappeared....eventhough they were on a shelve,on a height😅
Oh no - that's disheartening! Sorry to hear this!
Thank you! This was so helpful. It didn't occur to me to grow a cover crop for winter so I'm going to try to get my hands on some of those seeds. And the oyster plant sounds amazing! The flowers look so pretty, too. Very curious to see how they'll turn out. Your greenhouse looks gorgeous as well. Many thanks again!
Thanks for watching. Definitely worth growing a cover crop if you can. :-)
Another great video
October is our first avg frost date in North part of USA!
Im jealous of your hardiness zone... no sowing in autumn for me 😂😂
Hopefully spring isn't too far off for you now though. :-)
Hi, really enjoying your program as usual. Good idea with the old window pain but to keep up the circulation of air. Perhaps you might leave the end boards off and only have the supporting side boards - just a suggestion!
Yes, good idea - or have the window slight at an angle so there are gaps for the air to get in.
As always, fabulous video & great to see a happy face 🤗
Bless you - thank you for watching! :-)
Great video! I was wondering what kind of veggies I could sow in the coming cold season. Thank you!
Loved your content, great video 👏👍👍
Thanks so much!
Great Video Ben, Oyster plant that's a new one on me!
And me - looking forward to trying it. :-)
Oyster plant (oyster leaf in North America) germinates irregularly, and the plant is particularly attractive to snails, just so you know. My understanding is, this plant does well in containers, theoretically to thwart snails or slugs. Snails and slugs where I live aren't all that easily thwarted, I wish you good success with your Mertensia maritima.
Thanks so much for the warning. Fingers crossed they do okay!
@@GrowVeg Eh! Mine will be crossed for your oyster plants, too. Irregular germination requires patience (and according to some, cold stratification before sowing), but deterring the the slugs and snails.... Again, good success to you!
Hi Ben it ms Caroline Barton here from hucknall outside Nottingham my back garden I move my Raised bed get to old take few out new one plus back break job need do but at times
Great to keep on gardening if you can. Making raised beds a little higher can really help with bending and saving the back. :-)
Thanks for the great ideas!
Thanks for sharing
Great educational video.
Love thi channel you're so helpful and informative 👏👏
Thanks so much! :-)
Hello there! GREAT info! Thx so much again. It's been some time since I posted here but I'd mentioned some time ago that I've moved from a small allotment I started last year to a much bigger one this year. I've not much time to be TRULY gardening as I'm once again laying the groundwork for the new garden. That said I'd planted some crops that actually need the winter to continue growing but where they're planted will be all renovated for the new garden in the coming month or two. SO - I've got to once again seed my califlower for example. You show in this vlog how to do that this time of year. Maybe dumb question but I'm still rather new to all of this - if I start my plants from seed now, you mention that they should be ready in the early spring to put in the ground. I'd think they'd be already TOO big to wait that long but I presume because it's much cooler that they grow slower so thus are more or less the right size next spring. Correct? Thx so much for a comment/ answer. 👍👋
Yes indeed. As we move into the autumn growth slows dramatically - and plants will pretty much stop growing. So in this way you are basically getting the cauliflowers started now, then pausing things over winter, then once they start off again in late winter they will be putting on that final push of growth before planting out.
ofc you need to fertilize if you dont even let your soil rest for one season
I would love to, but Forecast of Snow three months Early.
I've grown salsify (aka vegetable oyster) for years. Leaves are more like a leek. It has a cousin, Scorzonera (aka Black salsify or black oyster plant) which is more probably a close cousin of a flower (daisy? not sure, need to check) whose leaves look altogether different - and actually more like what you were showing. I suspect that the plant you were discussing is an altogether different plant (seed does NOT look the same). Salsify seed is long and thin and rather large and takes FOREVER to germinate (about 30 days). Scorzonera tends to look more like some flower seeds - rather chunky and short - but again very visible and also seems to take 30 days (or longer) to germinate. If planting either of them - plant radishes to mark the row(s)
Great advice on starting off salsify and scorzonera. The oyster leaf plant is completely unrelated - I'd like to eventually try salsify and oyster leaf plan side-by-side to compare oyster tastes.
Remember, your viewers aren't UK ( or northen hemisphere) only🌍. Hardus - Barberton South Africa
Yes indeed, I'm very conscious of that. We will be changing the month names of the videos to season names once the month is over, so that our viewers in the Southern Hemisphere can enjoy these videos when the appropriate time comes.
May try some mustard for digging Iater
Do you have your own TV show? If you don't, I am very surprised. Your videos are great! Much love from the USA. (Also Zone 8 ;) )
Is he in zone 8? I’ve been reading comments looking if someone already asked.
Thanks so much, that's incredibly sweet of you to say! :-) I am indeed zone 8 - a great zone IMHO!
Love your videos, they are so helpful without being overly complicated. One question - I have harvested something shaped like butternut squash but it's green and yellow, I'm wondering if I've harvested too early? And what it might be lol?? 😂
Sounds like a different type of squash! Now is the time to be harvesting squashes (at least here in the UK). I guess the only way to be sure is to tuck into it and try it. :-)
sand now theres a good idea for aeration
5 seeds?! How big do they get? Will it even be enough for a decent side dish?
That's a good question. This plant is new to me too, but I think they can get fairly big, sprawling to perhaps a few feet across. We'll see!
This was my first season of tying to grow a few things. None of my tomatoes have ripened.
There's still time hopefully. Watch out for our video coming out on Saturday that offers a few ideas for ripening tomatoes (and using green ones).
Like your potting mix. Looks good enough for breakfast! What part of the UK are you?
Thanks so much! I'm in southern England, on the edge of The Cotswolds, in Oxfordshire.
It would be nice to know what zones you are planting in. I never know if what you are doing is even close to possible in northern Colorado.
Sorry, I should have mentioned that. I'm in zone 8 - similar climate to the Pacific Northwest.
Bummer, won't work in my zone 5. Thank you for the reply.
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I’m always confused when it comes to winter brassicas in relation to crop rotation. Do you plant them in the current years bed. Or do you plan for next years. I only have room for 1 bed of each plant type. Great videos always enjoy them.
I would plant them in a new bed if you can, considering they will be in the ground early next spring. But just rotate the best you can.
I have zero space available my garden. How I would love to have that kind of space.
There’s plenty that can be grown in containers. :-)
can you (I'm sure you have before probably many times) let us know the growing zone you are in? Thank you
Yes of course, I am in zone eight.
Hi Ben, will you ever do a video on growing pumpkins? I always seem to have one viable one.
We have done a video on growing squashes more generally. But thank you for the suggestion. I may try and grow a mega pumpkin next year and do a video on it!
I live in zone 6 in the US. I don't think I can grow anything during our winter but garlic.
You could sow more things under cover/with some protection.
good content
My spring onions have survived winter here in New Zealand but I planted as young plants. All my onions, red, white and leeks and spring onions all looked like spring onions with no bulb. Now Spring is here, will they develop more?
Yes indeed they should - things should start growing away with spring and looking more like they should.
Could I sow clover as a cover crop at this time of year?
What advice do you have for growing colder crops in a grow tent in the garage? I'm in zone 5
I guess the main thing is to check the minimum temperature that the garage plunges too, though it will be a lot warmer than outside I'm sure. I'm sure most cold-season crops would do just fine. You would also need to ensure there is good airflow, perhaps by opening up the garage on milder days.
Love this video Ben, thank you. I've most our beds cleared and just love salad onions so will be getting some sown at the weekend.
I do have a heated propagator for the windowsill, could I give them a head start first before planting direct in the ground?
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Rach
Yes, you could certainly do that. Get them germinated indoors as quickly as possible, but as soon as they are up move them outside.
@@GrowVeg thanks, I'll do that tomorrow 👩🏼🌾
Jekka McVicar has been selling oyster plants for the last few years….sadly mine only survived 18 months😱
That doesn't sound too bad! Worth trying again perhaps?
Where do I find the cover seeds, and what do you you do in spring? Literally dig it over and into the soil?
I bought my cover crop/green manure seeds from my local garden centre, but you can buy them from most seed suppliers online too. In spring I will hoe off the cover crop and sort of jab it into the soil to rot down. I'll do this a few weeks before planting time.
Any tips for helping little seedlings from falling over? so many of my tiny baby crops just get crushed by rain or... gentle wind... and subsequently die... toothpick trellaces? 😅😢
If you can protect them from wind a little bits perhaps? I find setting up simple, low tunnels, covered with polythene or similar works well.
@@GrowVeg Good idea. Maybe just a wall on the bad side. Have also started doing toothpick trellaces x)
'Misly' do you mean miserable? We in S France are having lots of sun (and mosquitos!) We have just pulled up about 25Kilo potatoes - and have another third to pull up as yet! I am not using rye this year as found it really difficult to kill! I am using vetch and mustard this year all an experiment i know though mustard is wonderful and easy to kill! I can't get hold of any unusual veg here. I ordered elephant garlic on Amazon and oops - they are seeds!!!!!
What a superb weight of potatoes there! By 'misly' I mean a cross between mist and drizzle - something very common in my part of the world!
Longtime fan of your videos - and I also know how UA-cam titles work - but I’d still feel less stressed if you said ‘should plant…’ rather than ‘must’…😅
Haha yes indeed - good point! May I emphasise all the recommendations are just that, and there's no burning urgency on any of them! ;-)
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