This video got me off my duff & to the charity shop where I bought 4 baskets, a galvanized bucket, 2 tin containers (one very large, another smaller), and a pretty painted tin waste basket with feet. I was feeling a little "meh" today, but this video and my new containers have put a little pep in my gardening step. Thank you! Brilliant video! 😊
So true - Ben has that infectious 'pick-us-all-up' mannerisms when he does a video. A great distraction for getting any of us interested and up & moving with growing. 👍
Wow! Your neighbour has a beautiful garden. Will we get a follow up video, to see how her veg are doing in containers? I love the fact your mixing old compost with new compost, to make it go that bit further. This year I have decided not spend any money on compost. Instead will be using my own sieved compost, and old compost from last year. Ben this video was a real treat🤗. I would Like to thank you and your neighbour for inviting us into her fabulous garden🙏🏻🙌
I have a couple of compost piles. I also mulch leaves and then place those directly on the garden beds. There are lots of trees on my property that I leave some leaves on the ground in the wooded areas and collect the leaves off of the grassy areas. Of those I mulch, some are designated for use in the compost piles and some go directly on the garden beds. One season, I gathered up the leaves and dumped them in a ditch or shallow ravine, and they have mostly turned into some lovely dark soil with worms 👍for adding into garden beds.
Thanks for the lovely comment. It's great to use your own compost if you can - it's really rich stuff and plants love it of course. I may well revisit later in the season at some point. :-)
@@GrowVeg 🙏🏼 I am on a big learn curve. On my day of work I binge watch your videos. Especially liked the one on making compost that was excellent! In two years I have come a long way and grown in confidence on growing my own fruit and veg. 😆 I no longer watch gardeners world, so boring🥱
This is going to be so helpful. Currently, my small city garden is just a lawn, but some building work is going to mess it up pretty badly this year so it's a good opportunity to convert to a produce garden. Starting with a container garden is a nice first step.
Enjoy your new gardening journey! Greetings from California. You have one of my favorite UA-cam pros leading you! I'm sure you'll experience tremendous success. I'm 4 years in with my veggie growing experience and my only regret is not having started sooner! Cheers!! 💚
Great ideas you have given me about lining baskets and growing things in those.. I've got some deck rail planters that I can grow spices and lettuces in, not just flowers, and they are shallow and will be up off the ground and away from the rabbits.
Thank you for this helpful video! We have used a good portion of our garden, so we are now restricted to containers. Therefore, this information is perfect 👍🏻 ❤
You know which 'container' I actually love best (and have had great success in?) Those felt bags! The material lets air flow to the root system, as well as hold moisture in when needed. I have grown full indeterminate tomatoes in them! So great.
It’s good to see people starting to realize they are going to need a steady food supply. People that always figured flowers were more important now understand differently. We all feel something has changed. We do not know what’s coming but we feel it anyway. We all here understand just what it means to have a backup when It comes to food or many Other things we will need soon. But you need to tell your neighbors and family to start a garden. The sooner the better. Good video
What a lovely neighbour, great you are inspiring them & us to grow our own and to show a great use of unused space, it really transformed her garden and she will have some tasty treats I’m sure 😋🤗👩🌾. Invaluable tips and hints as usual, thanks 🙏🏻
I was always wondering why the UK struggled with tomato blight so much... until I finally traveled there last year🤣 your climate is so rainy and mild compared to the midwest where I live!
I'm in the PNW and follow a lot of UK growers because our climate and seasons are so similar! Definitely a lot different than the Midwest where I'm originally from so I had to re-learn pretty much everything.
I spent time yesterday doing all my container planting. Thanks. Also, I love your videos where you go on the road to other gardeners. I'd love to see more of those.
Hi Ben, thanks for thanks for the kudos. Could you possibly tell me what material you line them with? I just found a couple and am really eager to use them. Best!
It is nice to have lettuce greens...you go out and pick how much you need and when you need it. And in the sunlight at lunchtime, if you pick at this time (and try it) you can almost feel it nutrinating you. You can grow varieties they do not have in stores too. No guilt or $ loss when it just goes to nomansland in the fridge. Also no plastic packaging or those luscious trips to the compost...lol. I really enjoy growing my own lettuce...picking it in my yard was ceremonious event. There is nothing like red oak leaf lettuce.
Thank you Ben ! I love the idea of using the lining in the pots & using different types of containers too. Someone on the comment thread mentioned the thrift shop! Such a great inexpensive way to get unique containers & pots for the garden. I learned alot from this video & enjoyed watching your neighbor get excited too! An update before she harvests would be wonderful! God bless ! 😊👌🏽
Nice to see you recommend Lizzano, 2years back 6 plants gave me 15 kilos of cherry tomatoes....it was a lot more,but I got fed up of weighing them! This year though,not so good,I strongly suspect the weird cold early summer in the UK was responsible.
Fantastic ideas! Use caution with certain woods and metals tho. I’ve had wood containers rot through super fast and metal ones rust on the inside killing my roots.
Hi! I took your advice from a previous video comment and put my tomatoes our into the unheated polytunnel. Just wanted to thank you for your help. My sungolds already have flowers!
How many potatoes did you put in the pot? Looked like only 2 from the video...just trying to gauge how many should be grown in that size of pot. Great video, very inspirational. Looking forward to more. Thank you
I put two in, but I could have planted up to four by staggering them over two depths. As explained in this video: ua-cam.com/video/A6zhvmVuPZc/v-deo.htmlsi=yNUIAeCSJ-rqAxMr
Great tip about covering the utilitarian black containers with hessian , I’m definitely going to do that with mine ASAP. In an ideal world all my containers would be glazed terracotta but unfortunately , like most gardeners, I’m not a billionaire!
Great vid. Can you tell us what the soil mixture was that you used for the carrots, chard, and beans? It looked like compost (potting soi) with the coconut shavings. Am I right? My garden will include bush beans and carrots, both in containers, so I want to ensure I have the proper mixture. Thank you!
It was just an all-purpose potting soil (compost). It's a peat-free one though, so may have some coir/cocounut fiber already added. But it's just the basic bagged potting soil.
Never thought of growing tomatoes outside? That comment caught me off guard. Is it not common to grow tomatoes outside? I’ve watched a few garden shows from the UK, and most people grow them in greenhouses, and I never really thought much about it. I’ve never grown tomatoes inside, always outside, and have had wonderful harvests. Are peppers something else that is generally grown inside? Different gardening practices for different areas. Your weather is much milder than ours here in Atlantic Canada, growing zone 5/6, where temperatures get down to -20 Celsius. Very interesting, thank you.
I did grow some tomatoes outside. But our summers are a lot cooler and wetter than yours. So while we have milder winters, the summers make up for it! And for this reason, they are best grown indoors in the UK at least.
Don’t we have to put the carrot seeds into the soil ? You are brilliant ! I’d love to follow all these step by step. But where and when to start ? If I can’t make it , how to stop? I would cry then 🙏🏻
Smaller-rooted varieties of carrot do just as well in pots. Most vegetables grow well in containers if they are big enough for what you are growing. :-)
Thanks for the suggestion. This is something we might revisit. In the meantime this video may offer a few ideas: ua-cam.com/video/HSZB0DyxlfI/v-deo.htmlsi=9ODhIaJg6eqchZ5J
Another great video Ben. Thanks so much for some really handy tips. Could I ask what size pot you used for the potatos? It looked like it might be 25 or 30L. And where did you get it? TIA!
Just be sure to remove any dead material and any debris lying around so there are fewer places for them to hide. You could also do regular searches in and around your pots to pick off any you find, which will help to make a dent in their population. You could also try smearing petroleum jelly around the rim of the pots - this makes it harder for the slugs to get in from the top.
How many seasons do you think the baskets will last? My first thought was the rain would destroy them. I do seem to acquire baskets (that I have no desire to keep)!
I would say they should last two seasons. You could try lining them with plastic (punctured at the bottom for drainage) and then raise the basket off the ground slightly. This should prolong the life of it quite a bit.
Ben, if my gardening center doesn't carry sand, would perlite do the same in that rosemary potting mix? I'm not sure where to buy anything but "play sand", which isn't suitable for growing food as it has some other components in it that aren't in horticultural sand.
Yes indeed, you could just add in some perlite to help open it out a bit. And opt, if they have it, for a soil-based potting mix (often sold as 'John Innes' here in the UK).
@@GrowVegno need to dumb yourself down for our sake! I highly doubt anyone who's xenophobic enough to be upset by UK spelling would be watching your videos anyway.
I enjoy watching your videos so much - very encouraging and inspiring! Ben, please come and help me create a vegetable garden in pots - you are very welcome! I will make you coffee while you work....🪴☕...just make your way to South Africa 🤣🤣🤣
Hello Ben and Rosie 🐶 and Sharon 👋🏻. Thanks you so much for your videos! I am so happy that I have come across your channel ❤. And, of course, subscribed 😊. I have been unwell for few years now but, thank God, I am recovering 🙏🏼. I am sooooo kin to start gardening/growing vegetables next year. Hence, I have been binge watching 👀 your videos. They give me hope that growing my own stuff it isn't scary and overwhelming. 😅🤣 I have just got a little question, if I may, please? Before putting compost in a pot, I suppose I need to make sure that there drainage holes at the bottom. If there are none, I will have to make some. But how many? And how wide? Like that metal bucket in the video at 20:27 min. Sorry, I know, stupid question 😅🤣....... And one more question, please? Do I need to put some small stones at the bottom prior filling up with a soil, again, for better drainage? It's just, many years ago I tried to grow tomatoes on a pot and epically fail as the roots started rot at the very bottom (not enough hole, I suppose). 😵💫🫢. Big thank you again for all your hard work for us, viewers. Yana ❤
Hi Yana. Not a stupid question at all! I never add pebbles or small stones into the bottom of containers/pots, as this isn't necessary and can actually exacerbate the drainage situation. Instead, just make holes in the base. I would add at least five or so holes, maybe at least a quarter to half an inch (1cm) wide to be sure the moisture can escape. It's hard to have too many drainage holes though!
@GrowVeg Hello Ben 👋🏻. Thank you ❤️ so much for answering my question! I really really appreciate your advice and your videos to help me with my veggie garden. It's gonna be an exciting next year (I am so excited 😁) for our family, especially our cat Vasya. He loves chilling 😎 in the garden. There is one good thing about having a cat...... he won't allow any other cats using my veg plot as their toilet. Also won't use it for himself. And one big problem is already solved! 🤣
Taking over tv gardening now, Ben 😜 watch out Titchmarsh!!! Loving this video, and in such a lovely garden, Sharon. I've grown my veggies in containers, too. I built four 3'x1', double level planters (so 3'x2' in one container) out of offcuts and pallets, and added heavy-duty casters to each one. They're 18" deep on both levels with the hügelkultur in mind (logs/wood/leaf litter and bigger things down at the bottom) and plenty of depth for the root veggies. They're easy to manoeuvre, even when full, which means I can put them anywhere in the yard. Adding some old flexi piping to the corners and some old green wire fencing has meant the beans and peas have somewhere to climb on the top levels, with beetroots, onions and other shade loving veggies growing below them. I've got fruit trees and canes growing in pots too; with a good mulch and compost top ups, they do well every year, and I'm looking forward to the Apricots, plums, cherries and peaches this year! 🤞 Good luck to your veggie potting garden too, Sharon!! x
This video got me off my duff & to the charity shop where I bought 4 baskets, a galvanized bucket, 2 tin containers (one very large, another smaller), and a pretty painted tin waste basket with feet.
I was feeling a little "meh" today, but this video and my new containers have put a little pep in my gardening step. Thank you! Brilliant video! 😊
So true - Ben has that infectious 'pick-us-all-up' mannerisms when he does a video. A great distraction for getting any of us interested and up
& moving with growing. 👍
@@julieh4288 He really does. 😊
Well done for getting cracking on your new containers - that's brilliant! Brighter (and tastier!) days ahead! :-)
Wow! Well done you👍🏻👏🏻
Wow! Your neighbour has a beautiful garden. Will we get a follow up video, to see how her veg are doing in containers? I love the fact your mixing old compost with new compost, to make it go that bit further. This year I have decided not spend any money on compost. Instead will be using my own sieved compost, and old compost from last year. Ben this video was a real treat🤗. I would Like to thank you and your neighbour for inviting us into her fabulous garden🙏🏻🙌
I have a couple of compost piles. I also mulch leaves and then place those directly on the garden beds. There are lots of trees on my property that I leave some leaves on the ground in the wooded areas and collect the leaves off of the grassy areas. Of those I mulch, some are designated for use in the compost piles and some go directly on the garden beds. One season, I gathered up the leaves and dumped them in a ditch or shallow ravine, and they have mostly turned into some lovely dark soil with worms 👍for adding into garden beds.
I've never dumped soil and not reused it! Always gets revived and used again.
Thanks for the lovely comment. It's great to use your own compost if you can - it's really rich stuff and plants love it of course. I may well revisit later in the season at some point. :-)
@@GrowVeg 🙏🏼 I am on a big learn curve. On my day of work I binge watch your videos. Especially liked the one on making compost that was excellent! In two years I have come a long way and grown in confidence on growing my own fruit and veg. 😆 I no longer watch gardeners world, so boring🥱
Rosie, the absolute star of the channel!
That yard is a stunning piece of freedom and serenity. Very blessed to be out of the subdivision and concrete 😉
You are a great neigbour Ben.
This is going to be so helpful. Currently, my small city garden is just a lawn, but some building work is going to mess it up pretty badly this year so it's a good opportunity to convert to a produce garden. Starting with a container garden is a nice first step.
Such lovely and beautiful neighbour Sharon is. Wonderful video.
She's pretty amazing! I'm very lucky to have great neighbours - always willing victims for my bean and courgette gluts! :-)
Enjoy your new gardening journey! Greetings from California. You have one of my favorite UA-cam pros leading you! I'm sure you'll experience tremendous success. I'm 4 years in with my veggie growing experience and my only regret is not having started sooner! Cheers!! 💚
What a beautiful setting to work in.
I just love Rosie! She’s precious.
The herb baskets are just amazinggg
Wow, their interaction was so fast, furious, natural, so easy and so relaxing to watch that I hope they do more!
Great ideas you have given me about lining baskets and growing things in those.. I've got some deck rail planters that I can grow spices and lettuces in, not just flowers, and they are shallow and will be up off the ground and away from the rabbits.
So cool, I’d love to see a later video to see how these plants are doing 😊
One of the best videos I've watched on tube, brilliant, I'm heading out to the garden right now.........
Woohoo !!! New video !!! I’m so glad spring is here! Warmer weather and time to plant!
Very inspirational... but now I need to find more containers.
Ben, Rosie, and Sharon, what an exciting episode.😃 Beautiful garden...lovely garden lady.🦋 Happy gardening, Sharon!🍅
I appreciate the uk/north anerican translations. Thanks from Canada!😊
This looks like fun way to add to my in ground garden!
This is an very good idea , this summer I will plant one flower plant on my tomato container 😍
Thank you for this helpful video! We have used a good portion of our garden, so we are now restricted to containers. Therefore, this information is perfect 👍🏻 ❤
Your enthusiasm is contagious Ben, and you are a joy to watch!😘
I love your enthusiasm, it's so infectious!
Great pot ideas! Going to keep an eye out for wicker baskets now and get some hessian
Wonderful episode ❤❤❤
You know which 'container' I actually love best (and have had great success in?) Those felt bags! The material lets air flow to the root system, as well as hold moisture in when needed. I have grown full indeterminate tomatoes in them! So great.
🐝Thanks for the great video🌻 What a pritty garden!!! love the pots
It’s good to see people starting to realize they are going to need a steady food supply.
People that always figured flowers were more important now understand differently.
We all feel something has changed. We do not know what’s coming but we feel it anyway.
We all here understand just what it means to have a backup when It comes to food or many
Other things we will need soon. But you need to tell your neighbors and family to start a garden.
The sooner the better.
Good video
What a lovely neighbour, great you are inspiring them & us to grow our own and to show a great use of unused space, it really transformed her garden and she will have some tasty treats I’m sure 😋🤗👩🌾. Invaluable tips and hints as usual, thanks 🙏🏻
Thanks so much Anna. :-)
I love the pots with the handles.
I just love how you expand on your explanations and are so clear. I've just subscribed.
Welcome to the channel! :-)
I was always wondering why the UK struggled with tomato blight so much... until I finally traveled there last year🤣 your climate is so rainy and mild compared to the midwest where I live!
Yes, those wet, mild periods spell disaster when it comes to blight!
I'm in the PNW and follow a lot of UK growers because our climate and seasons are so similar! Definitely a lot different than the Midwest where I'm originally from so I had to re-learn pretty much everything.
I hope there's going to be a follow up episode, so we can see how all the plants look later in the year when they've grown a bit.
I spent time yesterday doing all my container planting. Thanks. Also, I love your videos where you go on the road to other gardeners. I'd love to see more of those.
Hoping to go on the road again this summer - watch this space! :-)
Your videos are extremely informative & helpful. You earned a new subscriber :) 💫
Wow! Lovely new direction, you should do more of these
WoW !
What a lucky neighbour she is !
❤
I never thought of Rosemary being a king!
Regal rosemary!
Thanks for this, we are growing a container garden this year and this was really helpful
Wow! You are a great neighbor to have ❤️
so beautiful so elegant🎉🎉
Ah! Apple boxes...square containers. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant for space if you're a container gardener. Thank you!
Hi Ben, thanks for thanks for the kudos. Could you possibly tell me what material you line them with? I just found a couple and am really eager to use them. Best!
It is nice to have lettuce greens...you go out and pick how much you need and when you need it. And in the sunlight at lunchtime, if you pick at this time (and try it) you can almost feel it nutrinating you. You can grow varieties they do not have in stores too. No guilt or $ loss when it just goes to nomansland in the fridge. Also no plastic packaging or those luscious trips to the compost...lol. I really enjoy growing my own lettuce...picking it in my yard was ceremonious event. There is nothing like red oak leaf lettuce.
People like the producers and host of GrowVeg make dreams come true.
What a brilliant video, I'm going to plants some pots today. We are moving this year so pots are a great idea. 👍🌼🌸
Thank you for this great video. All those containers look really lovely. Here's to great harvests!
Wish I had a neighbour like that
I did this potato method but staggered and stratified. It works a real treat!
Thank you Ben ! I love the idea of using the lining in the pots & using different types of containers too. Someone on the comment thread mentioned the thrift shop! Such a great inexpensive way to get unique containers & pots for the garden. I learned alot from this video & enjoyed watching your neighbor get excited too! An update before she harvests would be wonderful! God bless ! 😊👌🏽
Thanks so much. Yes, thrifting is a great way to stock up on great (and often unusual) containers. :-)
Wow that looks great 😊I am going to try this again weed mat great idea
Thanks, all!
Great channel.❤
Love this ❤
Thank you!
Brilliant ! Excellent ideas …..
Nice to see you recommend Lizzano, 2years back 6 plants gave me 15 kilos of cherry tomatoes....it was a lot more,but I got fed up of weighing them!
This year though,not so good,I strongly suspect the weird cold early summer in the UK was responsible.
Love this. I’m patiently waiting to get my garden started. Still cold here! Thanks for the video.
That yard just says peace, tranquility, beauty, and lots of vegetables!❤
The Why Files exit music got me for a second
Loved the hessian idea for the less pretty containers!
My spuds are doing really well in sacks ,love this channel ❤
Hi there really enjoyed video going to grow more in pots ,I might stand more chance of what ever eating my seedlings great advice thank you
Fantastic ideas! Use caution with certain woods and metals tho. I’ve had wood containers rot through super fast and metal ones rust on the inside killing my roots.
Great video and ideas for growing in containers.
Thought I was listening to The Why Files for a second..that free music😂
Hi it is my first time on your channel and I have just subscribed to you. Thank you so much for sharing. Keep up the good work.
Welcome and thank you! :-)
Hi! I took your advice from a previous video comment and put my tomatoes our into the unheated polytunnel. Just wanted to thank you for your help. My sungolds already have flowers!
That's fantastic to hear - they're well ahead, nice work! :-)
nice ... thanks
It's so practical and aesthetic
I love this! ❤😂 Now I know why my peppers did so well.
I am trying out a roughly 50/50 mix of succulent and cactus mix with regular potting soil for rosemary, thyme, and sage this year
Definitely worth a try. Let us know how you get on with it. :-)
'It's not champagne, it's tomato feed' lol
Legendary present!
All good stuff! :-)
How many potatoes did you put in the pot? Looked like only 2 from the video...just trying to gauge how many should be grown in that size of pot. Great video, very inspirational. Looking forward to more. Thank you
I put two in, but I could have planted up to four by staggering them over two depths. As explained in this video: ua-cam.com/video/A6zhvmVuPZc/v-deo.htmlsi=yNUIAeCSJ-rqAxMr
Great tip about covering the utilitarian black containers with hessian , I’m definitely going to do that with mine ASAP. In an ideal world all my containers would be glazed terracotta but unfortunately , like most gardeners, I’m not a billionaire!
Great vid. Can you tell us what the soil mixture was that you used for the carrots, chard, and beans? It looked like compost (potting soi) with the coconut shavings. Am I right? My garden will include bush beans and carrots, both in containers, so I want to ensure I have the proper mixture. Thank you!
It was just an all-purpose potting soil (compost). It's a peat-free one though, so may have some coir/cocounut fiber already added. But it's just the basic bagged potting soil.
Never thought of growing tomatoes outside? That comment caught me off guard. Is it not common to grow tomatoes outside? I’ve watched a few garden shows from the UK, and most people grow them in greenhouses, and I never really thought much about it. I’ve never grown tomatoes inside, always outside, and have had wonderful harvests. Are peppers something else that is generally grown inside? Different gardening practices for different areas. Your weather is much milder than ours here in Atlantic Canada, growing zone 5/6, where temperatures get down to -20 Celsius. Very interesting, thank you.
I did grow some tomatoes outside. But our summers are a lot cooler and wetter than yours. So while we have milder winters, the summers make up for it! And for this reason, they are best grown indoors in the UK at least.
You used the theme music from the Why Files!
Don’t we have to put the carrot seeds into the soil ?
You are brilliant !
I’d love to follow all these step by step.
But where and when to start ?
If I can’t make it , how to stop?
I would cry then
🙏🏻
Smaller-rooted varieties of carrot do just as well in pots. Most vegetables grow well in containers if they are big enough for what you are growing. :-)
@@GrowVeg
Thank you 🤩
You’re the Best ! ❤️
🍎
I think I plant seeds too deep. 😢
Hi, can you please make a video on how to avoid plastic ideas? Especially on alltoments it is good to avoid.
Thanks for the suggestion. This is something we might revisit. In the meantime this video may offer a few ideas: ua-cam.com/video/HSZB0DyxlfI/v-deo.htmlsi=9ODhIaJg6eqchZ5J
Another great video Ben. Thanks so much for some really handy tips. Could I ask what size pot you used for the potatos? It looked like it might be 25 or 30L. And where did you get it? TIA!
Yes indeed, they're 30L pots. :-)
@@GrowVeg many thanks Ben! 🙏🏽
Going to try to grow stuff in pots next spring, but how can I stop slugs and snails munching on everything?
Just be sure to remove any dead material and any debris lying around so there are fewer places for them to hide. You could also do regular searches in and around your pots to pick off any you find, which will help to make a dent in their population. You could also try smearing petroleum jelly around the rim of the pots - this makes it harder for the slugs to get in from the top.
Hi Ben. What sort of compost did you plant the strawberries in please? 🍓Is it best to use ericaceous? Thank you for the lovely video.❤
I just used a standard peat-free multipurpose compost.
Is it more common to grow tomatoes indoors in England? That was an odd statement to me lol.
Yes, indeed, it is more common to grow them in a greenhouse. The reason is tomato, polite, which is very prevalent here in the UK.
Touching chicken poo with my bare hands is a step I'm not willing to take 😂
It’s all good stuff! :-)
Do the buckets have to have holes?? As for air and oxygen???
Yes, that's right, they need holes in the bottom so excess moisture can drain through and the roots don't sit in water and rot.
Can I ask about the sand/grit please? Does it have to be a horticultural sand or would a a bag of sharp sand from B&Q do the job?
Some sharp sand (a few handfuls) would be fine.
@@GrowVeg thank you!
How many seasons do you think the baskets will last? My first thought was the rain would destroy them. I do seem to acquire baskets (that I have no desire to keep)!
I would say they should last two seasons. You could try lining them with plastic (punctured at the bottom for drainage) and then raise the basket off the ground slightly. This should prolong the life of it quite a bit.
You’re just the inspiration needed to get me to clean out some of my containers and plant some cuttings! 🪴
Ben, if my gardening center doesn't carry sand, would perlite do the same in that rosemary potting mix?
I'm not sure where to buy anything but "play sand", which isn't suitable for growing food as it has some other components in it that aren't in horticultural sand.
Yes indeed, you could just add in some perlite to help open it out a bit. And opt, if they have it, for a soil-based potting mix (often sold as 'John Innes' here in the UK).
@@GrowVeg Thank you!
What zone is this
We're in zone 8. :-)
pa
A white shirt with an oversized collar and a shaved head, and you're Harry Hill. The only difference is that Ben is likable.
Sorry to be a nit picker but PLEASE don’t go down the route of Americanising spelling. The word is neighboUr
Just trying to be understood internationally - most of our viewers are American. But I take your point. :-)
@@GrowVegno need to dumb yourself down for our sake! I highly doubt anyone who's xenophobic enough to be upset by UK spelling would be watching your videos anyway.
I enjoy watching your videos so much - very encouraging and inspiring! Ben, please come and help me create a vegetable garden in pots - you are very welcome! I will make you coffee while you work....🪴☕...just make your way to South Africa 🤣🤣🤣
Haha, thanks so much Carla! :-)
Hello Ben and Rosie 🐶 and Sharon 👋🏻.
Thanks you so much for your videos! I am so happy that I have come across your channel ❤. And, of course, subscribed 😊.
I have been unwell for few years now but, thank God, I am recovering 🙏🏼. I am sooooo kin to start gardening/growing vegetables next year. Hence, I have been binge watching 👀 your videos. They give me hope that growing my own stuff it isn't scary and overwhelming. 😅🤣
I have just got a little question, if I may, please? Before putting compost in a pot, I suppose I need to make sure that there drainage holes at the bottom. If there are none, I will have to make some. But how many? And how wide? Like that metal bucket in the video at 20:27 min. Sorry, I know, stupid question 😅🤣.......
And one more question, please? Do I need to put some small stones at the bottom prior filling up with a soil, again, for better drainage?
It's just, many years ago I tried to grow tomatoes on a pot and epically fail as the roots started rot at the very bottom (not enough hole, I suppose). 😵💫🫢.
Big thank you again for all your hard work for us, viewers. Yana ❤
Hi Yana. Not a stupid question at all! I never add pebbles or small stones into the bottom of containers/pots, as this isn't necessary and can actually exacerbate the drainage situation. Instead, just make holes in the base. I would add at least five or so holes, maybe at least a quarter to half an inch (1cm) wide to be sure the moisture can escape. It's hard to have too many drainage holes though!
@GrowVeg
Hello Ben 👋🏻.
Thank you ❤️ so much for answering my question!
I really really appreciate your advice and your videos to help me with my veggie garden. It's gonna be an exciting next year (I am so excited 😁) for our family, especially our cat Vasya. He loves chilling 😎 in the garden. There is one good thing about having a cat...... he won't allow any other cats using my veg plot as their toilet. Also won't use it for himself. And one big problem is already solved! 🤣
Oh! How I wish that you were my neighbour.😊
Me too! Brilliant!
Taking over tv gardening now, Ben 😜 watch out Titchmarsh!!!
Loving this video, and in such a lovely garden, Sharon.
I've grown my veggies in containers, too. I built four 3'x1', double level planters (so 3'x2' in one container) out of offcuts and pallets, and added heavy-duty casters to each one. They're 18" deep on both levels with the hügelkultur in mind (logs/wood/leaf litter and bigger things down at the bottom) and plenty of depth for the root veggies. They're easy to manoeuvre, even when full, which means I can put them anywhere in the yard.
Adding some old flexi piping to the corners and some old green wire fencing has meant the beans and peas have somewhere to climb on the top levels, with beetroots, onions and other shade loving veggies growing below them.
I've got fruit trees and canes growing in pots too; with a good mulch and compost top ups, they do well every year, and I'm looking forward to the Apricots, plums, cherries and peaches this year! 🤞
Good luck to your veggie potting garden too, Sharon!!
x
They sound like amazing planters you've made - top work! :-)
Loved this video on container planting.❤ I learn something new on each of your videos.👍