See How MUCH You Can Grow in a Family Garden!
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2021
- It's amazing just how much you can grow in a family garden of just a few raised beds!
In this video, join Ben as he shows us around his family garden and find out what has been going well - and what hasn’t!
And some links, as promised, to freezing, canning and preserving your delicious produce...
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Garlic scapes! One of the treasures of the veg garden. I recommend grinding them up into pesto with some pine nuts, oil, and lemon zest. I freeze for making winter calzones and pastas, but it's also a good spread, or dip flavoring.
Sounds totally delicious!
I recommend eating them straight off the plant.
Thanks for sharing, sounds really good
never heard of calzones
Your beautiful personality makes your garden tours such a joy...all your other videos too.🙂
Your garden is thriving with health and yumminess! It's lovely! So glad you are having a great year in the garden.
In Central Texas still planting summer squash, cucumber, etc. I have my fall-winter seeds sown in starter cells to go out in a month or so.🙂
Thank you Valorie. It sounds like you have a great feast to come from your fall seeds - lots to look forward to!
I totally agree with all you've said about this delightful gentleman and his gardens ❤
Glad I'm not the only one bringing out a chair, sitting in the beans and tomatoes, joyfully looking out on the greenery. This is a particular treat as we're balcony gardeners in the middle of Berlin. Sadly, it has been windy and cloudy for days now so things are a bit slow.
Don't forget to bring back in the chair. I did that when I was harvesting my hops off my balcony with a mountain top view last year and I left it outside and forgot about it. I ruined the finish when it rained on it. Now I get to refinish it so it's in my workshop.
Me too! My husband asks what are you doing?
My response: looking at my plants! Hehe
Being surrounded by greenery is a real joy!
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Me too! I drag a chair out to admire my 3 small gardens. Lol
What a wonderful way to live boy you’re so lucky to have all the land to do what you’ve shown. Anyway, I had the best corn crop this year thanks to you. I kept tapping the corn stalks for pollen and boy did I have some large ears. Not all large but the sweetest corn. Thanks for the lessons on how to raise corn. I have shared your suggestions to many many friends and educated them on growing a garden. The love of growing things is very contagious. Next year I intend to grow more flower baskets to sell and I just increase the room in my greenhouse to hang them. I love watching you everyday before my day starts. You can’t imagine how you light up this 76 year old man’s day. Keep doing what you love and I will keep sharing your videos to every and every one who will listen to me
That is so lovely to hear, thank you for your lovely comment. Great you’ve got great corn this year - top job.
Boy you make every day for me. Your excitement is so amazing and you get me excited to run out to the garden. Thanks again for your videos I only wish I lived near you to be at your side learning. I’ve learned so much from you and my garden is the best I have ever had thanks to your suggestions. My tomatoes are 4 feet tall already and the peppers are blossoming as well as the tomatoes. Don’t get me started on my zucchini great great garden thanks to you. Keep the videos coming
Oh wow - sounds like you are off to a great start this summer. Keep up the good work! :-)
Ben, you are right about picking the sweet corn and then RUNNING to the boiling pot. However … there is an even BETTER way! I grew up in corn country, and run & dunk was what we always did. Then I learned about roasting and it changed my life! (Well, that may be a bit of hyperbole!!!)
I don’t grow corn, but I have a fresh supply just up the street, and on holidays in farm country I can get corn that’s very fresh as well. Here’s what I do:
1. Put the corn (in the husks) into a bucket of water. Let the ears soak for a few hours.
2. Prepare a fire - it can be a grill, a campfire, a fire pit - it doesn’t matter.
3. When ready to cook the corn, put them on a grill on top of the fire or, if it’s a camp fire and you have no grill, straight into good coals.
4. Roast until most of the leaves are quite brown to just black.
5. Shuck the corn, placing the leaves into a bag or other container.
6. Roll the ears in butter, season with salt, pepper or whatever seasoning you prefer.
7. Enjoy, wipe the butter off your face and grab another ear!
That does sound delicious - and several others have recommended a similar method. I'll be trying it out for sure!
I’m in my second year growing and loving it more and more. I have a pumpkin bigger than a bowling ball, tomatoes turning red, I’ve still got strawberries forming, and I get to cook with my own grown onions and garlic. I’ve learned so much this year that I can take forward and make next year better. I ALWAYS need more French beans! I so wish I had a big area to build a kitchen garden like yours but I am in 6th place for an allotment!
I hope you get your allotment soon - that will certainly keep you busy and your fingers dirty!
your content is the best for me traditional farmer to learn a lot 🇲🇨
I would try spicy garlic dill gerkin with a usual brine for dill pickles but add more garlic and a cayenne pepper or other hot pepper in the jar.
Your genuine enthusiasm is both appreciated AND inspiring. Thank you from Nova Scotia. 🇨🇦
Cheers so much! :-)
The envy of seeing such a beautiful garden is taking over me. Competition invades me too and my waist says enough! Thank you very much for sharing the success of your endeavor!
GrowVeg, you inspire my garden of the future. You are honest, truthful and show the harvest. Best youtube gardening channel of 2022? It's my gold medal winner. Thank you, you are wonderful.
That is so kind of you to say - thanks so much for watching!
I’ve been using this garden planner for several years and absolutely love working on it when the cold winter days keep me inside. Daydreaming about the following summer’s garden.
That was beautiful, Ben! As you mentioned, the best thing is the surprise when you discover something has popped out or ripened where there was nothing a few days ago.
I was looking for something pleasant to watch on this Sunday morning, and found your totally delightful garden tour from a few months back. Your garden is lovely (I'm sitting in a chair and enjoying it on screen!) and your enthusiasm is infectious. Thank you so much!
You're so welcome Gayle. Thanks for letting me be a part of your Sunday morning. :-)
10:36 …they’re big, beautiful, ballsy tomatoes!😅 I love the descriptions of your garden growth!
Haha - thank you! :-)
I retired and moved into a very small valley in the mountains of eastern Oregon US. The tiny backyard had a wooden deck and two abandoned raised beds. I’m working hard and thanks to your videos it’s going on 3 years of lovely food and flower beds, a joy to sit and watch it grow ( as well as eat ). Funny you would mention Portland in this video. The best garden video host I’ve found. Thanks so very much for your smile and information. 🤗
Thanks so much for your kind words. It sounds like you have a lovely garden. :-)
I love your enthusiastic nature. Beautiful garden and thank you for all the tips. Many people in my family are great gardeners but they don't teach me a thing. So I'm learning from you! Thank you for sharing. 🌈
You're very welcome Diana. Thanks for watching. :-)
My mouth is dropping with excitement! You see I live in southeast Texas. In July or August everything is no no other than hot peppers. Even the seeds packageds are so wrong. My only hope is 3 months from now.
Thank you for making my day. Lovely garden! God bless!
In the Finger Lakes of New York State we've had a crazy year for gardening. We had late frosts followed by drought and heat. July was one of the wettest ever with 6" of rain in 4 hours. That was followed by rain every other day with high temps. August began a bit cooler with lots of sunshine and now (the 2nd week) it's cooler by about 20 degrees and rain predicted for every other day again! Nothing produced well until the last 2 weeks and now I have.cherry and heirloom tomatoes, peppers and miniature peppers, cucumbers and green beans. The eggplants have finally started to grow and I am keeping my fingers crossed for late frosts.
Sounds like a bit of a challenging summer! Ours has been very cool and wet, unlike southern Europe!
Mmmmm....beautiful garden, & loved the new trick of self pollinating the 🌽 & tomatoes 😀 especially useing an electric toothbrush 😂.
But yes l like the shake...shake...shake of the corn, never thought of it. Even self pollinating the tomatoes as l only knew about self pollinating the 🎃, squash,& 🥒 cucumber but l suppose one has to self pollinate anything then reamy that has a 🌼.
Thankyou so much for sharing, am really envious of your lovely garden & especially your bean archway 🤗
Thankyou so much for sharing.
Greetings from South 🇿🇦 Africa.
Thanks for watching Rina. Yes, tapping the corn to pollinate is the best tip I've learnt recently. The cobs had such a better fill.
Thank you for sharing this video, I love your garden❤️
Thank you very much for this video :) I start from scratch in a smaller garden and I need all the inspiration I can get! /Anneli, Sweden
Absolutely love these videos! Please keep them coming. It is almost as much fun as having another enthusiastic gardener tour my oun garden or hers.
wow .. great gardening
Lovely garden
Corn falling over? Here's something to try ... make yourself a vertical trellis. Works great for small home growers
Wonderful production of vid and garden! Going to look at the veg canning and freezing vids. 💚
So good to see such abundance after a very slow start , I’m thrilled to have been harvesting some lovely vegetables already this year in my garden too.
Everything looking really good
Shuck the outer leaves off your corn cobs, but leave about two layers. Soak your corn for an hour or so in water, then place them on the grill. The leaves might burn off and leave some marks on the kernels, but the steaming in the leaves with some grilling really tastes nice. If the corn is past its prime, then the roasting gives the kernels a nutty flavor. Mmmmm.
What a great tip - thanks for this! :-)
Beautiful and inspiring lovely garden.
As a teen, I was lucky enough to have grilled corn on the ear fresh from the farm field at a party. Great treat.
I've not had the time to spend at the allotment that I wanted this year, so my partner has been popping over every few days to water the greenhouse... I've been rewarded for my neglect with monster marrows, leeks and celery, gluts of tomatoes and beetroot and so much rhubarb I can't make crumbles quick enough! It's not always hard graft that does the trick :D
Some crops you just can't hold back!
Your so clear on your instructions, thank you for your wisdom. ❣️🙏
You are right. It is a busy time of year. Harvest time is so much fun.
the garden planner is absolutely amazing
So lovely. Thank you
This is really inspiring. I am sure that so many others will agree with me that your enthusiasm is really inspiring and encouraging. Absolutely love this video.
This man is so pure
I’m in full blown garden envy! I live in coastal South Texas - zone 9b. Looking forward to my garden fleshing out come October/November!
With pickles, the sky is the limit!
I always add fresh herbs, and not just dill, to my pickles. I also like to add a small hot pepper or garlic, sometimes both, to my pickles. Plus, I always cold can ferment mine. I’ve never written down a recipe for them, I just make sure that I add 1 full table spoon of salt to each quart jar I fill.
Sounds like you're a natural at it Tondria. :-)
As always, great video Ben.
Love the garden planner 👍
Cheers mate!
Thank you for this tour, so glad I'm not the only one so crazy in love with growing our food, we truly appreciate what you do!
Thanks Anthony!
Scapes are our favorite! We use them in omelettes, pesto, stir fries, salads... Yummmmy!!
Yummy indeed!
Your videos always put a smile on my face! Love your garden!!
Thanks Bobbie, that's very kind of you to say.
Really enjoyed this, thank you.
When you tapped the Sweetcorn stems it reminded me of keeping plates spinning on rods :)
Haha yes, I know what you mean!
I really enjoy your tips on gardening...
Thanks! :-)
This made my heart smile.
Thanks Lisa - so pleased you enjoyed it. :-)
The cobs look fantastic 👍
Really enjoy watching your garden tours, passion and tips. Your garden looks lovely and full of delicious fresh food. Thank you for all the useful tips and sharing your garden with us
You're welcome Gabby - thanks for watching.
New sub here too!! Wow, you've got a gorgeous garden!! Look at those veggies!! We just ordered a greenhouse and I can't wait to get my hands on planting veggies and pottering around. Am sooo excited. In the meantime I will watch all your great videos!! Cheers from france🙂
Thanks so much for the sub - and very best of luck with your new greenhouse! What a treat to look forward to!
I love your videos. I've been working on my flower garden too. Thanks for sharing
You're very welcome - thanks for watching.
Pickle the nasturtium seedpods along with the gherkins. Add some dill and a bayleaf with peppercorns and mustard seeds. What varieties of tomato do you recommend for outside?
I did not know that about nasturium seeds! I have nasturium everywhere, we eat them in salad. I harvest seeds from almost everything for next seasons garden. Saves $ € £ ¥!
They usually self seed in abundance. You can also East every part of them.. Flower, leaf, seed... But they can b very spicy,!!
There are so many outdoor tomatoes you could try, and it really depends on where you are in the world, as some varieties are better suited to some areas than others. I grow 'Moneymaker' a lot - an old, tried-and-tested variety.
@@GrowVeg Thanks for the tip! Great channel, very informative.
hi, im yuor follower in the philipines your my idol.
Thanks for watching Analyn. :-)
I LOVE to watch your super informative videos! I thoroughly enjoy your enthusiasm and knowledge. I’m a fairly new gardener and refer to your information often. I love listening to you speak and seeing Rosey help! Thank you so much for your time and information!!
You're very welcome Staci - thanks so much for watching.
I really enjoy your fantastic mix of pure enthusiasm as well as a sort of calmness to your narrating. It is quite therapeutic to watch your videos, as well as really inspiring and educative. Keep up the great work :)
What a lovely chap - fizzing with the enthusiasm of a gardener in mid summer. I can relate!
Cheers for that!
Thank you for the very informative video!
Excellent, Ben. Always enjoy your videos. Today it's throwing it down here in Johannesburg so we are housebound - no digging in the dirt today, but the rain always brings on a spurt of growth. Something to look forward to when the weather breaks!
That's super Douglas - lots of fresh growth to look forward to.
I've just found your channel and I must say I'm so enjoying your enthusiasm and outlook when it comes to gardening. =D
Thanks so much! :-)
Another great video ty
I love watching your video first year for us growing our own fruit veg herbs saled and we've had loads so far my kids are loving it bless you for all your help and tips 😊🙏
What a great experience for your kids - they'll be so much happier and healthier for it I'm sure. :-)
Awesome job, great videos.
Beautiful Garden 🐈🤣🤣🤣
💚🌿🌿 impressive garden. New subscriber.
Thanks for the sub - and a warm welcome to you!
Always a joy to watch your videos and see how well your garden is doing,
I’m erecting new trellis for my climbers and tilled the soil ready for a wide a range of wild flowers on four separate plots in and around both the front garden and back garden.
Hopefully by mid year they should all come into bloom and my veg crop will be on the way too, it’s lovely to hear from all the other gardeners and what they’re doing 😁
Sounds like you are going to have a stunning garden this year. Keep up the good work also. :-)
As with the flowers in your beds, your videos spread summertime joy, thank you for sharing your garden tour! I wish I remembered to remove the tops of my indeterminate tomatoes as they are 6-7' high now. Congrats on your fabulous garden!
Thank you - and thanks for watching!
I didn't realize this was from a year ago - I hope this year's bounty has been just as exuberant! What a lovely start to my rainy morning here in Guelph, Ontario Canada. I must admit my garden did not go according to plan, though if gardens could be sown purely on the optimism of the gardener, I would have heaps of goodness!
Next year I think I will move to raised bed/container gardening to cut back on the amount of weeds. I look forward to more of your informative and inspiring videos, Ben!
Thanks so much for your lovely comment. As you say, gardeners are an optimistic bunch and this year's disappointments are next year's inspiration to do better! :-)
Really enjoy these videos! They inspire me and sometimes even educate me. After 40 years of gardening, there's not a lot I haven't experienced in a small vegetable plot. We pickled some cukes, daikon radish and beets this week. Didn't take too long and it wasn't too warm a task for our hot Oregon days.
Your pickles sound delicious Barb.
I am starting to really enjoy my garden now, our summer was horrific- the rain & weird weather was just so hard. We are now in Autumn so all the brassicas etc will take off. Wish I could grow beetroots but having struggled the last couple of attempts, it won't deter me from trying again though. Cheers Denise- Australia
I love gardening. I am making gold tomato salsa tomorrow and this week I will start a ferment of my red cayenne and ripe jalapeños to make a slightly sweet hot sauce my family is bonkers for.
Your enthusiasm is contagious. Beautiful garden.
Thanks Beth. :-)
As always, I love your energy and the way you teach us all! Looking forward to the gardening season!! Thank you SO much Ben!
You're very welcome - cheers for watching!
I have been watching and re watching loads of Ben's videos. Very informative, energetic, enthusiastic and quite meditative at the same time. Keep up the good work. 👍
I've grown some lovely open flowered dahlias from seeds. There in pots and the bees love them!
This yet is my 3rd seeing planting the tubers. now 3 Hugh ones... that developed after I grew some from seed originally. In fact they generally have fared better than standard dahlias that either got eaten by slugs or as this year rotted b4 they cud flower.🙈
Great video!! Thank you
Thank you for the tour. I would love to see a video on Fall square foot planting.
I live in TN (USA) and this is my first year planting a garden.
Thanks for that suggestion Helen - I'll add it to our list of potential topics. In the meantime check out our existing video on square foot gardening: ua-cam.com/video/f2FxJimob84/v-deo.html
I'm with you on the corn. First I grew sweet corn. Then I grew a grain corn. Lately I pick up lots of animal corn at work. Next year is going to be awesome.
Incredible! We never get the sizes that you do. This year, the deer, the chickens and the slugs have all taken a toll.
Gardening always feels like a bit of a battle against other hungry mouths!
I loved!!!
So exciting in the garden this time of year. I have never made pickles but you could ferment the gerkins.
Great idea, thank you. :-)
Where's the "Super Like" button for this??? Loved this video
Cheers for that! :-)
So heartening to see pictures of your beautiful garden in the midst of my winter. It give me hope for the coming months, that the sun will still shine and the Earth will again warm...
It will soon. In the meantime we can dream!
Hi there,love your garden ..its amazing
Thank you! :-)
Glad to see i was not the only one cursing the late start we got last year. I thought i was just being useless but to see you note it to eases my green fingered anguish. Lovely presentation Ben, good luck with your garden this year.
Thanks so much. Feels like spring has sprung already!
I love all your videos ... so inspiring and very educational. I've grown a bumper crop of tomatoes this year in Portland, Oregon, despite (or because of?) record heat waves. I do need to thin them out, as they are a dense mess. I love how tidy your garden is. Thank you so much for the tour. Looking forward to seeing more this fall.
and just to add to the above .... it's not just your wonderful garden but your enthusiasm for gardening and positivity that are so infectious.
Thanks Elizabeth, that's very kind of you to say. Tomatoes do love the heat, so they may have responded well to that heat. I've seen how hot it got in Portland this summer - and it's quite scary.
Thanks to you and you great tip I have just ordered 2 tonne of soil to fill my beds to plant more crops and hope they all settle in well
Great job! Bets of luck getting it all spread and growing more. :-)
@@GrowVeg thanks to you and your great tip I have gone mad this yr and loving every minute of watching and wait for all my crops to grow and talk to than lol thanks Ben for your great tips much appreciated and will have alot more planned for later
I've got a galinsoga plant thriving. I guess the wind carried its seeds to my pots. I read that its leaves can be used in salads. My tomatoes are growing slowly but have beautiful leaves so I guess I must pinch out the tops as you showed in this video. Purslane is also invading a lot of my pots (I only have a balcony) but it's also good for salads so it doesn't require much work on my side and I'm letting it grow. :D
I really enjoyed your video. What lovely flowers you have!
Thanks Sandra. I hope your tomatoes fruit soon - some of mine are showing signs of blight alas!
Wow, I love your garden! I'd love to have that many flowers in mine. I've had a few tragedies this year: verticillium wilt killing potatoes and powdery mildew killing squash, but overall it's been a good year. In June I commented that my Swiss chard didn't seem interested in growing more than 5 inches, but that has really changed! It's been my most successful leaf vegetable this year. I'm also enjoying excellent harvests of beans, okra, and tomatoes.
Once chard gets going, there's nothing to stop it. Glad it came good in the end.
It's so cool that you've been to Portland! It's always a surprise to hear people mention it 😄I hope when you were there you got a chance to pop over to Hood River and visit the Fruit Loop! My family loves to go there and pick cherries in the summer (there's nothing like eating fresh sun-warm cherries right off the tree while you pick huge buckets full!) But of course there's all kinds of berries and fruits, especially apples and pears towards fall.
Lovely part of the world it really is. Missed Fruit Loop while I was there but will have to pop over to take a look when I next visit - sounds fab! 🍎
@@GrowVeg Yeah! I hope you get a chance to see it 😄 I It's a really pretty drive as well - as the name suggests, it's a 35-mile "loop" of roads that connects all these farms, fruit stands, vineyards, and tasting rooms, all with breathtaking views of the other side of Mt. Hood (it looks so different from the side you see from Portland!). Also, I've never been able to try it myself, but apparently they have amazing pear wine and all sorts of fruit wines at the wineries. And on your way down to Hood River from Portland, I definitely recommend stopping at Multnomah Falls and the Vista House at Crown Point! They're both two of the jewels of the Columbia River Gorge 😄
You are so fun to watch!!! We have a pretty amazing pickling recipe! We tweaked it so it is sugar free and low salt. People go nuts over them. We made about 34 jars this year!
You've been busy!
The zucchini are taking over. 3 varieties. Time to share! My garlic harvest was awesome. Onions not bad, was a bit wet for them. Both are hung to dry. Carrots good. Tomatoes good. Winter squash and corn coming along nicely. Loads of other stuff on the grow. Thank you for the tour!
Glad you've had a productive season. My onions have sadly just got struck with mildew, but they're still useable at least.
You should do a video on small spaces or apartment/city dwellings.
How lovely is your yard btw.
Thanks so much for that. Please do check out our playlists on container gardening: ua-cam.com/play/PL3VEy0_tuFgQhuPkhdjRZKB4CpzqDGKUl.html and vertical gardening: ua-cam.com/play/PL3VEy0_tuFgRqQHH9WVw7SeIKevTnVzYh.html
I love your garden
Thank you :-)
Thank you for your honesty. Everything of mine is at least 3-4 weeks behind what it usually is. I find it reassuring that someone on UA-cam shows the reality of a slow season. That being said, your garden is wonderful and the beans and corn are tremendous! Pickle variations - why not try star anise rather than dill? I also pickle rhubarb (for next year?) Thank you for your uplifting videos.
Thanks for the encouragement - and I love star anise, so might try that as you suggest.
Excellent video :)
Such a beautiful garden space! I have had good luck trellising squashes, not courgettes yet, but Acorn, Spaghetti, and Butternut squash.
I do, also remove all the lower leaves off my tomatoes. Brings in more ventilation and staves off molds and other fungi.
Yes, that's a smart move to remove some of lowest leaves on tomatoes. Thanks for watching. :-)
Beautiful video Ben ☺️
Thanks Jennifer. :-)
Love your channel thanks very much
Cheers for watching Stuart. :-)