I mow over the leaves to chop them up, collect them, and store them in two trash bins covered with lids. I use the chopped leaves for mulch throughout spring and fall. Two bins full of leaves barely gets me through late spring and summer. As for the rest of the leaves, I use them to top off my compost bin, and refill it as they break down and compact. The weather is finally forecasted to cool down next week starting Wednesday. Then it is planting time again with sowing seeds for cabbage, chives, golden beets, Elephant Garlic, and grocery store mystery garlic. I had to trim back my Cinnamon Basil to give more light for my Late Nagasaki Cabbage., which is doing fantastic. I managed to get Danvers carrots to sprout during the last temperature drop. I have turnips and peppers ready to harvest, more Super Sweet cherry tomatoes soon. My Zucchini is flowering and fruiting. Fungus and powdery mildew got too much for my crookneck squash, and was spreading to my zucchini, so I had to remove it while the fungus on the zucchini was still manageable. It looks super healthy now! My lettuce will be ready to start harvesting from in about three weeks, and my kohlrabi, Pak Choi, Komatsuna, and Yellow Heart Winter Choy are doing well, after giving them a boost with plant food. They are planted in manure compost, and shouldn't need additional fertilizer. As I empty my raised beds, I cover them with leaves. Then in the winter/spring planting season, I cover the leaves with a layer of compost, and plant into it. The soil is about as good as it gets after three years of layering, so the amount of fertilizer needed each year is less and less. My raised beds have a lot of big worms, so I must be doing something right. Next spring I will be adding three fruit trees to my garden, a Lapins cherry tree, and two Santa Rosa plum trees. I will also be growing more fruit, cantaloupe, and Sugar Baby Watermelon. So far, four of eight tomato seeds have sprouted, two Tiny Tim, and two Early Girl-bush. I am experimenting with growing them through the winter in my polytunnel. Alabama, zone 7B
That all must keep you busy! I shred my leaves and make a huge pile, then use it the same, in compost and mulch, so useful. I grew honeydew melons which were surprisingly delicious. I also grew tiny tim tomatoes in 1 gallon pots, next year I think I'll do them in 2 gallons. Butternut squash turned out great as well. The star of my tomatoes were the black beauties and ponderosa pink. Black beauty will be a staple in my garden for years to come.
Last year I pulled up my tomato plants whole and put them upside down in my home, on a wire kitchen rack on the North side of the house (situated up by the ceiling). It was a bit messy and unkempt looking but I was trying an old time technique with what space I had. They were ripening all winter long and I picked good fruit from them in December for a pizza on New Years. The plants dried out in February. I guess I missed ripened fruit as some of my potted plants who winter inside but summer outside had lots of tomato seedlings sprout when I put them back outside.
My cousin and his mom were living in Terrace BC were winters are proper winter - snow on the ground everything frozen solid, but they just put a hay bale. You know the little square bales that any average person can pick up themselves… laid it on top of the carrots, and whatever they wanted to carrots throughout the winter, they’d go and lift it and pull a few out set the bale back And that worked all winter long!
For tomatoes, we cut the whole plant at ground level and hang it from the basement ceiling. This ripens every green tomato perfectly over a few weeks and we eat homegrown tomatoes into November.
Great video Ben. Just green manure for me this winter and some garlic as I have some major projects in the garden over winter and don't want the added stress of worrying about watering and care. but growing green manure is beneficial as it will keep the microbes fed over the colder months
It's magical to me that this morning I discovered a ~6 inch tall volunteer tomato plant in a shady, out of the way nook of the yard. It definitely had to have come from a seed that hit the ground there literally a year ago (last fall that's the area where I chopped up all of my tomato green matter). It sat there all of last winter, all of this spring, all of this SUMMER, and then decided to pop up within the the last week or two. I am so tempted to dig it up and bring it inside and make it my "winter tomato" - even though that's not something I ever do.
So glad you popped up. Getting back into gardening and you are so inspiring with practical , easy to follow knowledge and can I add the dog is hilarious.
Have found another tasty use for those abundant green tomatoes is to add them to a 1/2 and 1/2 mixture of tomatillos while making a salsa. Yummy! Can them up for a wonderful winter treat!
I set my leaf blower to vacuum mode with the bag attached and vacuum up leaves in my yard. As the leaf blower bag gets full I simply empty it into black bags. These I store over the winter in my veggie garden and then use the shredded leaves on top of either cardboard or newspaper as mulch in my vegetable garden in the spring. Works great and provides nutrients for the soil.
Leaf mold is great for your garden but you may want to rethink bagging the leaves. They do break down faster BUT those leaves are full of eggs, cocoons and caterpillars that are over wintering and will be next year's pollinators and good bugs for your garden. Keeping the leaves in an open bin will allow them to continue their process to adulthood. @@GrowVeg
You are so right about garlic. I was at a garlic festival last month in Stratford Ontario 🇨🇦. 300 varieties of garlic! I planted my garlic just yesterday (Zone 6) and I'm looking forward to big bulbs like I had this year. 😁
I suggest that you trim the supporting cane on the cover over your salads flush to the pipe, otherwise it could tear in the wind. Another excellent video!
Love it! Especially the shirred dress. I enjoyed seeing the process, fitting and modifying as you go. I think this is the key to garments that you will love and wear in the end. Looking at a pattern it is hard to tell how it will fit on you, especially cause it also depends on the fabric. It's not like bringing a few dresses into a fitting room and picking one. Also loved your tips at the end. I am finding I would rather use a bodice pattern I already know fits me well and modify that instead of pulling out a new pattern and not knowing how it will fit.
I'm not there yet. We just planted our fall garden. So, I'm excited about this harvest. The tomatoes have blooms, so I will be grateful for whatever we get. As always, thanks, Ben.
I think you covered it all there Ben 👍,it was the third year for my asparagus this year and it was well worth the wait,I’m definitely going to buy more crowns and extend that bed,cheers Ben.
Love the reminders. I think you hit them all😊 I did the same with pallets for compost. I need to build two more and the pallets seem to be harder to find so I started piling without them. And yes, the piles should be at least a 3x3’ square pile so they can breakdown easily. I was noticing you didn’t chop up the additions to your compost and was laughing because I’m glad I’m not turning it. I’ve found never to add long stuff without chopping first because it’s really hard to turn later.😉. We have a little rake like yours from our grandparents. This is the first year I have a bumper crop of rutabagas. We built an above ground root cellar from refrigerator panels and piled high with bark like and igloo. We call it the rootaloo😅. My question is about storing rutabagas. Do I need to wax them? And because they like high moisture and I think belong to brassica family I wonder if they should be stored separate from other vegetables? We are having a very long warm stretch into October and normally would have had frost in September. I think it may be another 2 weeks before I can get those garlic in. Planted those way too early last year and a lot of growth didn’t help before winter. Then I ordered flower bulbs way to late and was chipping frozen ground to get them in😂. And you just reminded me I have still more squash in north garden. That orange one you have I don’t remember the name and is new to us. I thought it was a pumpkin at first.
We are getting a very mild autumn here as well. To store your rutabagas, I would suggest just keeping them in a cool, well ventilated place. Store them a bit like you would potatoes or carrots. So somewhere dark, cool and well ventilated. I have never heard of waxing rutabagas, so I’m not convinced this is necessary!
Not just a new gardener either! I've been gardening for 40 years and I LOVE Ben's videos - always something to learn. And his enthusiasm is infectious.
@@GrowVeg wonderful. This is the world we should be living in. Your calm and passionate - almost childlike - joy and wonder in each of these videos is the tonic we need. 💯 GBBO vibes in terms of relaxing, inspiring pleasure. Long may your channel reign!
Another great video. One job I have at this time of the year is to clear up the garden and any fruit/veg that will attract our neighbourhood rat population from arriving each year at the end of September. It is quite amusing to see them selecting a ripe pear in the tree or helping themselves to the best tomatoes.
Love your videos. The down-to-earth practical ideas and alternatives make gardening sound so less complicated. Started my "compost bin" - we'll see how it does over the winter on board. :) Just set up some LEDs in the forepeak to bring in my herb pots this year as last year it went down to -12° and I lost my sage, thyme, and rosemary. And to start seedlings earlier next year. Tomatoes are out - we only hit 20° - 21° for a couple of days! LOL! My Dad always buried his carrots, potatoes, turnips, parsnips and I've been thinking of doing something similar with sand in large Rubbermaid bins in the forepeak. It would be for carrots and potato storage...but I have to purchase the veggies as I don't have room to grow. Will it work for store-bought? I hate driving in the snow to the grocery shop so if I can stretch it out I prefer. Thanks for all of your fabulous tips and tricks! Cheers from BC!!
Thanks for your lovely comment. I don’t see why this wouldn’t work with store bought vegetables. But just be sure to get the freshest possible and only store the healthiest projects. Hope it all goes well. Sounds like you have had a surprisingly chilly summer. A bit like ours. We are only getting a decent summer right now!
Great video Ben, really informative and interesting. It really is such a busy time of year. So much o do before we can settle down on a cosy evening with a seed catalogue. Happy gardening 😃😃
Thank you so much for teaching us all. Working allour lives. We are now having to learn all we can about gardening. FATHER GOD BLESS YOU BROTHER IN JESUS NAME AMEN AND AMEN ❤
Wow - all the time I’ve already saved myself by not being organised enough to plant any winter salad leaves and not owning a greenhouse or even a cold frame! 🙃
Hi Ben thank you so much another brilliant video! I was going to ask about planting and protecting garlic but I will wait till your garlic video! I have two leaf mold bays made from palettes it is brilliant and I have four plastic compost bins which I find most rewarding! Got given a wormery not so keen on this form of making compost what do you think of them? Thanks for sharing all your knowledge 😊. ☘️☘️☘️☘️
I love my wormery. It took around 7 months to get the first compost after setting it up, but now I get 1 500ml bottle of compost tea a day and half a tray of worm castings a month. The other half tray goes back in the wormery because it's already established and reduces composting time to around 3 months. I store the extra castings in 5L buckets on my fertiliser shelf.
A wormery can produce very rich worm casts, which will really help to enrich things. But yes, a compost heap or pile is a lot easier and can just be piled up and forgotten.
If it is autumn where you are then yes, it's too late to start tomatoes. These are best started in the spring, from seed. More in this video: ua-cam.com/video/sWQM2PhZgWA/v-deo.htmlsi=FGQkmUyjvtOWqoCn
I have a small squash that I bought for my Halloween display last year, it’s been sitting in my kitchen providing lovely eye candy since 😁 and it’s going to go into my display this year! It’s still in very good condition even though it feels a little lighter in weight 🤗
Excellent tips. Thank you! I have good luck with ripening late season tomatoes and peppers indoors on a table. My problem this year is an infestation of fruit flies. Do you have suggestions on how to combat those? This indoor location is my best option, but I'd like to EXCLUDE fruit flies. Thank you for any and all ideas!
I think the best advice is to make sure the area is completely sterilised, to kill off any lurking eggs. And then be sure to cover your tomatoes/peppers using one of those fly cloche covers to keep them out. Something like this: www.amazon.co.uk/Cymax-Reusable-Collapsible-Protector-Mosquitoes/dp/B07NM5QZLV/ref=sr_1_9?crid=3JTNRO2U5DRRO&keywords=food+cover&qid=1696840436&sprefix=food+cover%2Caps%2C85&sr=8-9
Good morning Ben, you collected a lovely harvest of pumpkins, what a lovely display of the various colours of the various varieties! I have garlic growing in a wire cage and they are all looking good, as we are in the southern hemisphere, it does get quite hot, can I protect the garlic plants from the hot sun or should I just leave as it. I would really like to harvest good quality fat garlics not a plant that has a bulb of maybe 3 or 4 small cloves. Should I feed them regularly? Your hands-on advice would be greatly appreciated. Happy gardening thank you for sharing. Kind regards.
Garlic do come from a region with warm and relatively dry weather. So hopefully you should be okay. But if you are concerned there is no harm in giving them a little dappled shade when it is very hot. And also keep them well. Watered to encourage those bulbs to form. You could tickle in a little slow release, organic fertiliser into the soil around the bulbs to help them along also.
@@GrowVeg Thank you Ben, I was a little spare with watering as I thought garlic is like onions not too much wetness, but I am keeping a close eye and trust that they will perform well. Not forgetting to fertilize. Happy gardening.
bonjour I harvested last week some great maize corns on the cob[ i had bought the small plants in a local garden center] When i cooked them, as i do with sold in shops corns, i ended up doubling the cooking[ steamer] time: Yet , the cob was NOT edible! Shiny and so hard! We would have lost our teeth on them!😂 What happened? Some of my friends believe i was given maize, corn for cows… Really? What s the difference?
Ben, when you are storing your carrots in old potting soil in the bin, do you put a lid on once it's full, or leave it open? Do you need to make holes in the bin for airflow?
I keep the lid on, but quite loosely to allow a little bit of airflow. I think if you have the lid entirely on and clamped down, then it could get a bit stuffy in there and potentially mouldy.
Hi Ben. While out dog walking, there are 2 horses that roam free and leave manure. Would it be ok to collect it for fertiliser? The horses eat grass if that makes any difference ? If so, how do I go about drying it out please. Any advice is welcome. Thanks!
I guess the risk of collecting it is that the grass they are eating may have been treated with broadleaf herbicides, which can persist in manure and affect plants where it is spread. That's the risk. It's unlikely though. I would collect what you can and then stack it somewhere out of the way to rot down a bit - so it is less fresh. Leave it for at least six months then once it's broken down a bit and is less 'fresh' it can be spread. But I would maybe spread over a small area to be safe and check that there are no adverse effects over the coming weeks. If not - then use it more widely.
With tomatoes just remove all the leaves apart from too 2. This scares the plant life cycle is over and to ripen qiuckly before pkant dies...... i never believed it till i did it. Within 3 days i had at least a quater of all my tomatoes changing to red👍👍👍
It depends. Not all plants need protecting, but for those that do you could either move them into a greenhouse, cold frame or sunny windowsill. Many plants can be protected where they are, outside. This video should help with that: ua-cam.com/video/PqK0HdZFlMc/v-deo.htmlsi=67e7dg4e7toSFGDx
Yes, you can certainly do that, no problem. It's just if you have loads and loads of leaves that you want to process. It's an option for dealing with, basically, a big glut of leaves all at once.
@@GrowVeg thanks. I do have tons om leaves. In the beginning i composted them in a separate large pile, but I have oak (slow to breakdown) and other types of leaves that tend to clump together (creating anaerobic conditions). Also the stack tended to dried out ob the outside easily. Did not compost well. After that I mix in my leaves with a ton of manure, creating a steaming hot pile that compost faster.
Bonjour Does it make senses to plant - outside-carrots [ sold in garden center]? Or is it too late? Why do they sell them now then? Same for cabbages sold , still , in these Centers…. As for the carrots , leeks, planted in August, will they survive by themselves in the uk,Welsh winter? [ mine did ,last year, but they were so dormants it took ages for us to eat them , they grew again so far late in the spring…] Also: I planted spring onions, 6 weeks ago, though i thought they were just onions[ they were advertised as salad onions and seemed [ in the pic] to be a lot more bigger than the average spring onions] Do i need to protect them with grass clippings? Are grass clippings efficient against cold, or are leaves , needed, because they are better, or do i have now to choose straw ? Also: i did gather alguae in the summer. If i put it too early [ now, in oct] ….will the goodness go, washed away , way before it s needed in Feb? Or does it still nourish the raised beds soil-way before the planting time? 😊 Merci for your knowledge and time….
Hello. Yes, I would say it is too late to be planting carrots now. Unless you can plant them in a container and keep them inside a greenhouse. I am not sure why garden centres sell things like this so late in the season. I guess it is just left over stock they are trying to flog. Either way, not good! Some cabbages can still be planted now, for example, spring cabbages. If your salad onions are a hardy pricey, then there shouldn’t be any need to put clippings or anything like that around them. They should hopefully over winter okay. That said something like a cold frame would definitely help and get them off to a quicker start in the spring.
for the first time this year I had Tomato blight in my greenhouse, apart from washing the glass is there anything else I can do to prevent it coming back next year, I usually grow about 30 plants
I have had blight enter my greenhouse as well. I then grew tomatoes in it, in exactly the same place the following year with no ill effects. I think just giving everything a good clean and perhaps planting them in a new part of the greenhouse if you are able is a good idea.
If your carrots are mature and ready to enjoy, yes, you can dig them up now. Stored in damp potting, mix or sand, they should keep for at least a couple of months, possibly till the end of winter.
I planted a bed with cabbage and beets for a fall garden. Now I have a bed full of potato plants hahaha. Well that's ok I like potatoes better, anyway.
You have the worst bugs in the US. It alwas surprises me. They probably had to become super vicious to survive amongst all the massive agriculture with pesticides and whatnot 😢 I really hope you have better luck sith your garlic soon! 💪❤️
You must be kind of used to translating months internally, right? I always get so confused about seasons in the South. 😅 what an amazing planet we live on! Cheers to you and the other half of the Earth ❤️
Hey i was confused about something, so you're saying put the carrots in the soil if your ground freezes often and they will keep so you could harvest them like usual?
If your winters are relatively mild, then you can just leave your carrots in the ground to harvest as you need them. So long as the soil remains dig a hole and doesn’t freeze over four weeks on end. However, if your winters are severe, then it is worth digging them up now. while you can still manage that.
i cant help but click on your videos when i see them! im addicted! i love listening to them while working from home! thank you x
Thanks so much for your supper Jess - great to be joining you during your work day! :-)
"Could I do with more compost?". The answer is yes. I always have compost shortage in the spring, no matter how heaping tall my piles are in the fall.
So true, you can never have enough compost!
I mow over the leaves to chop them up, collect them, and store them in two trash bins covered with lids. I use the chopped leaves for mulch throughout spring and fall. Two bins full of leaves barely gets me through late spring and summer. As for the rest of the leaves, I use them to top off my compost bin, and refill it as they break down and compact. The weather is finally forecasted to cool down next week starting Wednesday. Then it is planting time again with sowing seeds for cabbage, chives, golden beets, Elephant Garlic, and grocery store mystery garlic. I had to trim back my Cinnamon Basil to give more light for my Late Nagasaki Cabbage., which is doing fantastic. I managed to get Danvers carrots to sprout during the last temperature drop. I have turnips and peppers ready to harvest, more Super Sweet cherry tomatoes soon. My Zucchini is flowering and fruiting. Fungus and powdery mildew got too much for my crookneck squash, and was spreading to my zucchini, so I had to remove it while the fungus on the zucchini was still manageable. It looks super healthy now! My lettuce will be ready to start harvesting from in about three weeks, and my kohlrabi, Pak Choi, Komatsuna, and Yellow Heart Winter Choy are doing well, after giving them a boost with plant food. They are planted in manure compost, and shouldn't need additional fertilizer. As I empty my raised beds, I cover them with leaves. Then in the winter/spring planting season, I cover the leaves with a layer of compost, and plant into it. The soil is about as good as it gets after three years of layering, so the amount of fertilizer needed each year is less and less. My raised beds have a lot of big worms, so I must be doing something right. Next spring I will be adding three fruit trees to my garden, a Lapins cherry tree, and two Santa Rosa plum trees. I will also be growing more fruit, cantaloupe, and Sugar Baby Watermelon. So far, four of eight tomato seeds have sprouted, two Tiny Tim, and two Early Girl-bush. I am experimenting with growing them through the winter in my polytunnel. Alabama, zone 7B
That all must keep you busy! I shred my leaves and make a huge pile, then use it the same, in compost and mulch, so useful. I grew honeydew melons which were surprisingly delicious. I also grew tiny tim tomatoes in 1 gallon pots, next year I think I'll do them in 2 gallons. Butternut squash turned out great as well. The star of my tomatoes were the black beauties and ponderosa pink. Black beauty will be a staple in my garden for years to come.
You certainly are indeed keeping very busy! Great way to be using all those leaves. :-)
Last year I pulled up my tomato plants whole and put them upside down in my home, on a wire kitchen rack on the North side of the house (situated up by the ceiling). It was a bit messy and unkempt looking but I was trying an old time technique with what space I had. They were ripening all winter long and I picked good fruit from them in December for a pizza on New Years. The plants dried out in February. I guess I missed ripened fruit as some of my potted plants who winter inside but summer outside had lots of tomato seedlings sprout when I put them back outside.
Can you elaborate? Or send a link? I'd love to try this
What a superb technique! :-)
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I put my green tomatoes into my mini indoor greenhouse with led lights last year and they ripened up beautifully!
Great job! :-)
My cousin and his mom were living in Terrace BC were winters are proper winter - snow on the ground everything frozen solid, but they just put a hay bale. You know the little square bales that any average person can pick up themselves… laid it on top of the carrots, and whatever they wanted to carrots throughout the winter, they’d go and lift it and pull a few out set the bale back And that worked all winter long!
That’s a great idea. Nice and simple. :-)
For tomatoes, we cut the whole plant at ground level and hang it from the basement ceiling. This ripens every green tomato perfectly over a few weeks and we eat homegrown tomatoes into November.
That is a superb tip, thank you so much. :-)
I’ll try that! 👍
Great video Ben. Just green manure for me this winter and some garlic as I have some major projects in the garden over winter and don't want the added stress of worrying about watering and care. but growing green manure is beneficial as it will keep the microbes fed over the colder months
So true, Tony. Really looking forward to getting my garlic in the ground. Just need it to cool off a bit first! Hope you are all good. :-)
This winter, I’m trying Asian greens, lettuce, garlic, onions, spring onions, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli and parsnip.
It's magical to me that this morning I discovered a ~6 inch tall volunteer tomato plant in a shady, out of the way nook of the yard. It definitely had to have come from a seed that hit the ground there literally a year ago (last fall that's the area where I chopped up all of my tomato green matter). It sat there all of last winter, all of this spring, all of this SUMMER, and then decided to pop up within the the last week or two. I am so tempted to dig it up and bring it inside and make it my "winter tomato" - even though that's not something I ever do.
It's wonderful when you discover volunteers like this - they never fail to surprise. :-)
I love a surprise veg too, in fact a video on how to identify young mystery veg and flowers would be really helpful
So glad you popped up. Getting back into gardening and you are so inspiring with practical , easy to follow knowledge and can I add the dog is hilarious.
That's lovely of you to say Jeanette, thank you. :-)
Have found another tasty use for those abundant green tomatoes is to add them to a 1/2 and 1/2 mixture of tomatillos while making a salsa. Yummy! Can them up for a wonderful winter treat!
What are superb idea!
When I was a kid in Brazil in the 80's people used to put fruits and vegetables in the gas oven.
I did that with a dishwasher 😂
Thank you so much, i love you channel, so many tricks to know ! Sad the volume is low on this one 😞
Thanks for your support, really appreciate it. :-)
I set my leaf blower to vacuum mode with the bag attached and vacuum up leaves in my yard. As the leaf blower bag gets full I simply empty it into black bags. These I store over the winter in my veggie garden and then use the shredded leaves on top of either cardboard or newspaper as mulch in my vegetable garden in the spring. Works great and provides nutrients for the soil.
What a superb method! 😀
Leaf mold is great for your garden but you may want to rethink bagging the leaves. They do break down faster BUT those leaves are full of eggs, cocoons and caterpillars that are over wintering and will be next year's pollinators and good bugs for your garden. Keeping the leaves in an open bin will allow them to continue their process to adulthood.
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Hello From USA zone 7…thank you for the wonderful advised- take care Gardner friend 🪴
And you. :-)
Thank you for the tips on ripening toms! I never realized it was more about warmth than light, and I'm going to find my toms some banana buddies😅
Wow. Your garden is lush. It's so dry over here in Texas. Your garden feels cool and refreshing to me.
It is cool and refreshing - drizzle this morning! I hope you guys get your autumn rains soon and things start to cool down for you.
Green tomatoes - do what my wife did and produce an amazing chutney...
You are so right about garlic. I was at a garlic festival last month in Stratford Ontario 🇨🇦. 300 varieties of garlic! I planted my garlic just yesterday (Zone 6) and I'm looking forward to big bulbs like I had this year. 😁
Wow, 300 varieties! I wouldn't even know where to begin to look!
everything you talked about In your video sounds great I well definitely be planting my garlic and onions before to long
That’s great to hear. :-)
I suggest that you trim the supporting cane on the cover over your salads flush to the pipe, otherwise it could tear in the wind. Another excellent video!
Yes, very good point!
Love it! Especially the shirred dress. I enjoyed seeing the process, fitting and modifying as you go. I think this is the key to garments that you will love and wear in the end. Looking at a pattern it is hard to tell how it will fit on you, especially cause it also depends on the fabric. It's not like bringing a few dresses into a fitting room and picking one.
Also loved your tips at the end. I am finding I would rather use a bodice pattern I already know fits me well and modify that instead of pulling out a new pattern and not knowing how it will fit.
I nearly watched again to see where he’s used a dress in the garden 😂 I think you’ve popped your comment onto the wrong video x
I'm not there yet. We just planted our fall garden. So, I'm excited about this harvest. The tomatoes have blooms, so I will be grateful for whatever we get. As always, thanks, Ben.
Hope you do get some tomatoes eventually! :-)
I think you covered it all there Ben 👍,it was the third year for my asparagus this year and it was well worth the wait,I’m definitely going to buy more crowns and extend that bed,cheers Ben.
Sounds like a very smart move! :-)
You truly make the most enjoyable gardening videos of all time.
Thank you so much, that is incredibly kind of you to say.
Love the reminders. I think you hit them all😊
I did the same with pallets for compost. I need to build two more and the pallets seem to be harder to find so I started piling without them. And yes, the piles should be at least a 3x3’ square pile so they can breakdown easily. I was noticing you didn’t chop up the additions to your compost and was laughing because I’m glad I’m not turning it. I’ve found never to add long stuff without chopping first because it’s really hard to turn later.😉. We have a little rake like yours from our grandparents.
This is the first year I have a bumper crop of rutabagas. We built an above ground root cellar from refrigerator panels and piled high with bark like and igloo. We call it the rootaloo😅.
My question is about storing rutabagas. Do I need to wax them? And because they like high moisture and I think belong to brassica family I wonder if they should be stored separate from other vegetables?
We are having a very long warm stretch into October and normally would have had frost in September. I think it may be another 2 weeks before I can get those garlic in. Planted those way too early last year and a lot of growth didn’t help before winter. Then I ordered flower bulbs way to late and was chipping frozen ground to get them in😂. And you just reminded me I have still more squash in north garden. That orange one you have I don’t remember the name and is new to us. I thought it was a pumpkin at first.
We are getting a very mild autumn here as well. To store your rutabagas, I would suggest just keeping them in a cool, well ventilated place. Store them a bit like you would potatoes or carrots. So somewhere dark, cool and well ventilated. I have never heard of waxing rutabagas, so I’m not convinced this is necessary!
Wow, amazing.
love your vids and your style. THANK YOU
Cheers Mark! :-)
Here’s to your asparagus next year!
Fantastic thank you😁👏👏
Thanks for your clear and useful tips!
Great tips! Always a lot to do in the garden after harvest, also one of our favourite times next to harvesting 😃
Yes indeed, got to love the autumn. So beautiful :-)
I’ve got my garlic: Spanish Rosa, white porcelain, and Russian red. I get it from a garlic grower at our local market. Yum! Never enough garlic!
You can never have enough garlic!
@@GrowVeg - so true. I’d be booted from the polish tribe if I didn’t grown garlic and lots of it.
Fantastic tips as usual 🤗 your channel is invaluable to a new gardener like myself, very grateful 🙏🏻
Not just a new gardener either! I've been gardening for 40 years and I LOVE Ben's videos - always something to learn. And his enthusiasm is infectious.
Thank you so much guys, I really appreciate that! :-)
Grewt tips, really enjoyed this 👌
Wow, so informative and enjoyable. I am glad I found your site.
Glad you found our site also - welcome! :-)
Ben - do you sell your crops or is it all just for family? You have huge yields!!
Thanks for your kind words. We just eat it as a family and give some excess away to the neighbours.
@@GrowVeg wonderful. This is the world we should be living in. Your calm and passionate - almost childlike - joy and wonder in each of these videos is the tonic we need. 💯 GBBO vibes in terms of relaxing, inspiring pleasure. Long may your channel reign!
brilliant video my friend !
Cheers so much Gaz! Really enjoying your recent videos. :-)
Just found your channel and so glad I did. Love your videos !!!
Really delighted to have found a channel. Welcome!
Another great video. One job I have at this time of the year is to clear up the garden and any fruit/veg that will attract our neighbourhood rat population from arriving each year at the end of September. It is quite amusing to see them selecting a ripe pear in the tree or helping themselves to the best tomatoes.
They sound like very discerning rats!
Potato sacks more eco friendly for storing leaves than black bags
Yes, that's a great suggestion.
or paper chicken feed sacks.😊
It’s going in compost anyway 😅 not for eating , won’t make a difference
They don’t work as well. Also, you can reuse the black plastic bags.
Is that paper or hessian types?
Love your videos. The down-to-earth practical ideas and alternatives make gardening sound so less complicated. Started my "compost bin" - we'll see how it does over the winter on board. :)
Just set up some LEDs in the forepeak to bring in my herb pots this year as last year it went down to -12° and I lost my sage, thyme, and rosemary. And to start seedlings earlier next year. Tomatoes are out - we only hit 20° - 21° for a couple of days! LOL!
My Dad always buried his carrots, potatoes, turnips, parsnips and I've been thinking of doing something similar with sand in large Rubbermaid bins in the forepeak. It would be for carrots and potato storage...but I have to purchase the veggies as I don't have room to grow. Will it work for store-bought? I hate driving in the snow to the grocery shop so if I can stretch it out I prefer.
Thanks for all of your fabulous tips and tricks! Cheers from BC!!
Thanks for your lovely comment. I don’t see why this wouldn’t work with store bought vegetables. But just be sure to get the freshest possible and only store the healthiest projects. Hope it all goes well. Sounds like you have had a surprisingly chilly summer. A bit like ours. We are only getting a decent summer right now!
Great video Ben, really informative and interesting. It really is such a busy time of year. So much o do before we can settle down on a cosy evening with a seed catalogue. Happy gardening 😃😃
And happy gardening to you also! :-)
thank you@@GrowVeg
Loved the autumnal outfit!
As someone allergic to garlic I sincerely hope it's not the next big thing, it's hard enough to avoid as it is 😅
That must be frightful! Garlic is seriously sneaking up everywhere these days!
Maybe best to stick to the chilies then? :-)
Nice try, Count Dracula 😂😂😂
Try green chicken enchiladas made with a green tomato sauce instead of tomatillos.
Sounds absolutely sublime!
Thank you so much for teaching us all. Working allour lives. We are now having to learn all we can about gardening. FATHER GOD BLESS YOU BROTHER IN JESUS NAME AMEN AND AMEN ❤
Thanks so much for watching. :-)
very very helpful! thank you!!
This guy a genius
So cool
Cheers so much!
Thank you ❤😊
Wow - all the time I’ve already saved myself by not being organised enough to plant any winter salad leaves and not owning a greenhouse or even a cold frame! 🙃
Next month we'll be planting garlic and fava/broad beans, which are ideal for starting outside, direct in the soil - see you there! :-)
Very good thanks for the information
Hi Ben thank you so much another brilliant video! I was going to ask about planting and protecting garlic but I will wait till your garlic video! I have two leaf mold bays made from palettes it is brilliant and I have four plastic compost bins which I find most rewarding! Got given a wormery not so keen on this form of making compost what do you think of them? Thanks for sharing all your knowledge 😊. ☘️☘️☘️☘️
I love my wormery. It took around 7 months to get the first compost after setting it up, but now I get 1 500ml bottle of compost tea a day and half a tray of worm castings a month. The other half tray goes back in the wormery because it's already established and reduces composting time to around 3 months. I store the extra castings in 5L buckets on my fertiliser shelf.
A wormery can produce very rich worm casts, which will really help to enrich things. But yes, a compost heap or pile is a lot easier and can just be piled up and forgotten.
As always, great advice! I definitely need to expand my composting set up!
I think we all do! :-)
Great! Great! Video Thank you so much!❤
I would love to know where you get your wire panels for your bean and pea supports, Ben, i am so envious!
They're from Agrs: www.agrs.co.uk/products/elegance-round-arch
Excellent video thanks 👍
Is it too late to start growing tomatoes? I never grew anything before and would like to start by sprouting some tomato seedlings.
If it is autumn where you are then yes, it's too late to start tomatoes. These are best started in the spring, from seed. More in this video: ua-cam.com/video/sWQM2PhZgWA/v-deo.htmlsi=FGQkmUyjvtOWqoCn
I have a small squash that I bought for my Halloween display last year, it’s been sitting in my kitchen providing lovely eye candy since 😁 and it’s going to go into my display this year! It’s still in very good condition even though it feels a little lighter in weight 🤗
Sounds like a superb squash! Hope you do a superb display (I’m sure you will!).
Excellent tips. Thank you! I have good luck with ripening late season tomatoes and peppers indoors on a table. My problem this year is an infestation of fruit flies. Do you have suggestions on how to combat those? This indoor location is my best option, but I'd like to EXCLUDE fruit flies. Thank you for any and all ideas!
I think the best advice is to make sure the area is completely sterilised, to kill off any lurking eggs. And then be sure to cover your tomatoes/peppers using one of those fly cloche covers to keep them out. Something like this: www.amazon.co.uk/Cymax-Reusable-Collapsible-Protector-Mosquitoes/dp/B07NM5QZLV/ref=sr_1_9?crid=3JTNRO2U5DRRO&keywords=food+cover&qid=1696840436&sprefix=food+cover%2Caps%2C85&sr=8-9
Very beautiful
Good morning Ben, you collected a lovely harvest of pumpkins, what a lovely display of the various colours of the various varieties! I have garlic growing in a wire cage and they are all looking good, as we are in the southern hemisphere, it does get quite hot, can I protect the garlic plants from the hot sun or should I just leave as it. I would really like to harvest good quality fat garlics not a plant that has a bulb of maybe 3 or 4 small cloves. Should I feed them regularly? Your hands-on advice would be greatly appreciated. Happy gardening thank you for sharing. Kind regards.
Garlic do come from a region with warm and relatively dry weather. So hopefully you should be okay. But if you are concerned there is no harm in giving them a little dappled shade when it is very hot. And also keep them well. Watered to encourage those bulbs to form. You could tickle in a little slow release, organic fertiliser into the soil around the bulbs to help them along also.
@@GrowVeg Thank you Ben, I was a little spare with watering as I thought garlic is like onions not too much wetness, but I am keeping a close eye and trust that they will perform well. Not forgetting to fertilize. Happy gardening.
Great video.
bonjour
I harvested last week some great maize corns on the cob[ i had bought the small plants in a local garden center]
When i cooked them, as i do with sold in shops corns, i ended up doubling the cooking[ steamer] time:
Yet , the cob was NOT edible!
Shiny and so hard!
We would have lost our teeth on them!😂
What happened?
Some of my friends believe i was given maize, corn for cows…
Really?
What s the difference?
That could potentially be what happened. Maize is totally different to sweet corn, so maybe that was the issue?
You're like the Alton Brown of greens!
Thanks (I think!). :-)
Little bit off topic haha I have just taken out my tomatoes from the green house can I plant my spring cabbages where they used to be ?
Yes, you could definitely do that.
Thank you for this video! Do you have to water the winter salad once covered?
Only very occasionally, maybe once every two weeks and then as little as once a month during the depths of winter.
Good job
Lovely video as usual
Ben, when you are storing your carrots in old potting soil in the bin, do you put a lid on once it's full, or leave it open? Do you need to make holes in the bin for airflow?
I keep the lid on, but quite loosely to allow a little bit of airflow. I think if you have the lid entirely on and clamped down, then it could get a bit stuffy in there and potentially mouldy.
Hi Ben. While out dog walking, there are 2 horses that roam free and leave manure. Would it be ok to collect it for fertiliser? The horses eat grass if that makes any difference ? If so, how do I go about drying it out please. Any advice is welcome. Thanks!
I guess the risk of collecting it is that the grass they are eating may have been treated with broadleaf herbicides, which can persist in manure and affect plants where it is spread. That's the risk. It's unlikely though. I would collect what you can and then stack it somewhere out of the way to rot down a bit - so it is less fresh. Leave it for at least six months then once it's broken down a bit and is less 'fresh' it can be spread. But I would maybe spread over a small area to be safe and check that there are no adverse effects over the coming weeks. If not - then use it more widely.
With tomatoes just remove all the leaves apart from too 2. This scares the plant life cycle is over and to ripen qiuckly before pkant dies...... i never believed it till i did it. Within 3 days i had at least a quater of all my tomatoes changing to red👍👍👍
That's incredible - what an amazing tip!
Im new into gardening. How do i protect my plants from cold weather?
It depends. Not all plants need protecting, but for those that do you could either move them into a greenhouse, cold frame or sunny windowsill. Many plants can be protected where they are, outside. This video should help with that: ua-cam.com/video/PqK0HdZFlMc/v-deo.htmlsi=67e7dg4e7toSFGDx
Why separate leaves from other compostable material?
I just mix it in the general compost, usually combined with manure.
Yes, you can certainly do that, no problem. It's just if you have loads and loads of leaves that you want to process. It's an option for dealing with, basically, a big glut of leaves all at once.
@@GrowVeg thanks. I do have tons om leaves. In the beginning i composted them in a separate large pile, but I have oak (slow to breakdown) and other types of leaves that tend to clump together (creating anaerobic conditions). Also the stack tended to dried out ob the outside easily. Did not compost well.
After that I mix in my leaves with a ton of manure, creating a steaming hot pile that compost faster.
Can you store carrots and root crops in vermiculite or perlite instead of potting mix?
I wouldn't say so, no. I think the roots would dry out very quickly like that and get all shrivelled. Best to stick with old potting mix or damp sand.
Bonjour
Does it make senses to plant - outside-carrots [ sold in garden center]?
Or is it too late?
Why do they sell them now then?
Same for cabbages sold , still , in these
Centers….
As for the carrots , leeks, planted in August, will they survive by themselves in the uk,Welsh winter?
[ mine did ,last year, but they were so dormants it took ages for us to eat them , they grew again so far late in the spring…]
Also:
I planted spring onions, 6 weeks ago, though i thought they were just onions[ they were advertised as salad onions and seemed [ in the pic] to be a lot more bigger than the average spring onions]
Do i need to protect them with grass clippings?
Are grass clippings efficient against cold, or are leaves , needed, because they are better, or do i have now to choose straw ?
Also: i did gather alguae in the summer.
If i put it too early [ now, in oct]
….will the goodness go, washed away , way before it s needed in Feb?
Or does it still nourish the raised beds soil-way before the planting time? 😊
Merci for your knowledge and time….
Hello. Yes, I would say it is too late to be planting carrots now. Unless you can plant them in a container and keep them inside a greenhouse. I am not sure why garden centres sell things like this so late in the season. I guess it is just left over stock they are trying to flog. Either way, not good! Some cabbages can still be planted now, for example, spring cabbages. If your salad onions are a hardy pricey, then there shouldn’t be any need to put clippings or anything like that around them. They should hopefully over winter okay. That said something like a cold frame would definitely help and get them off to a quicker start in the spring.
for the first time this year I had Tomato blight in my greenhouse, apart from washing the glass is there anything else I can do to prevent it coming back next year, I usually grow about 30 plants
I have had blight enter my greenhouse as well. I then grew tomatoes in it, in exactly the same place the following year with no ill effects. I think just giving everything a good clean and perhaps planting them in a new part of the greenhouse if you are able is a good idea.
thank you I will try that @@GrowVeg
Wait. What? I can just pull up my not-quite-ready carrots and store them in soil in the garage? How long can they last that way? 4:20
If your carrots are mature and ready to enjoy, yes, you can dig them up now. Stored in damp potting, mix or sand, they should keep for at least a couple of months, possibly till the end of winter.
@@GrowVeg That is so wild. Thanks for the lesson.
I planted a bed with cabbage and beets for a fall garden. Now I have a bed full of potato plants hahaha. Well that's ok I like potatoes better, anyway.
Sounds like it’s all turned out okay in the end! :-)
Timely reminder...garlic now on order!
🥣💫 Fantastic!!!!!!!!
Would that structure last five minutes in the gales we get in the south?
Probably not, unless it is well pegged down. It would be fine in my sheltered garden however.
Remember local rabbit owners will be very happy to have your carrot tops for their pets! They can also go in salad (the tops, not the pets ;.)
Great suggestion!
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How long are the arches?
The arches of the mini tunnel are about 6 foot long
Thank-you!
3 times i fertilised a lady flower on my pumpkin plant and the slugs ate them every time 😭
Oh no - I feel your pain!
Good video, once again, thank you! ✌🏻👍🏼
It looks like you don't really care abosut spilling soapy water all over your plants.. interessting... 😅
Haha - yes, should probably take more care!
Are you related to Alton Brown? The chef
Several people have said that - but no! :-)
Sadly garlic has proven to be anything but bullet proof for me! Major attack of allium leaf miner... West mids area. :(
Oh no, I feel your pain!
You have the worst bugs in the US. It alwas surprises me. They probably had to become super vicious to survive amongst all the massive agriculture with pesticides and whatnot 😢 I really hope you have better luck sith your garlic soon! 💪❤️
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היי זה שוב אני מישראל😊.
אפשר בבקשה שתוסיף תרגום בעברית שנוכל להבין כל מה שאתה אומר?
It would feel great if you titled you very useful video as - “ … mid autumn…” after all you are on a global platform
That's actually the plan for when we re-jig things for the Southern Hemisphere audience via our website.
You must be kind of used to translating months internally, right? I always get so confused about seasons in the South. 😅 what an amazing planet we live on! Cheers to you and the other half of the Earth ❤️
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Nice one!
@@GrowVeg Love your videos. I’m in South-western Ontario Canada so I’m not sure how parallel our gardening is, but I still really enjoy your tips!
Hey i was confused about something, so you're saying put the carrots in the soil if your ground freezes often and they will keep so you could harvest them like usual?
I think he's saying you should dig your carrots up to store them if the area your growing in might get frost or freeze over.
If your winters are relatively mild, then you can just leave your carrots in the ground to harvest as you need them. So long as the soil remains dig a hole and doesn’t freeze over four weeks on end. However, if your winters are severe, then it is worth digging them up now. while you can still manage that.