Garden Checklist: 10 Tasks To Set You Up For Your BEST Growing Season
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- Опубликовано: 1 мар 2024
- Are you ready for your BEST growing season ever? Or perhaps your'e just starting out. Either way, this is a VERY exciting time of year for gardeners. The days are getting longer, the birds are getting busy and so must we!
But where do we start? There's so much to do! Relax. In this series Ben reminds us of all the essential jobs to be done month by month, so you can follow along and rest assured that you have all bases covered. Don't worry, Grow Veg has got your back!
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I realized why I love this channel. It's like the great British baking show, but about gardening. Not one negative vibe in the whole thing. They should give this guy his own show on Netflix all about gardening. Hear that , algorithm?
Algorithm brought me here yesterday. I will never leave again.
sounds like you need to watch gardeners world, also by the beeb, unsure how you would get that in the us
That would be awesome! Would definitely watch it ❤
@@SasaFraz89 yes! I recently discovered it on my Roku and yeah it's pretty cool!
Cheers for the kind words guys, I appreciate it! :-)
Your enthusiasm is infectious, Ben. Thank you for stoking my gardening fire! Greetings from the west coast of Canada.
Thanks so much. Happy gardening! :-)
Okay, tomorrow will be garden day. Thank you from Belgium.
I’m in south west france and looks like we’re going down to -1 this week We’ve had so much rain that my veg plot is a bit waterlogged. I planted carrots and parsnip seeds a week ago when it was nice, but wouldn’t be surprised if they’re washed away now. We’ll see!😮.
Thank you Ben. I’m adapting that saying to you - “listening to you is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes” 😁😁👍
Haha - I love that saying - very good! Hope things dry out for us soon! :-)
Just waiting for the ground to dry a bit. Pouring down yet again today here in Yorkshire 😢
What an inspiring, wholesome, wonderful channel. A real gem which I discovered a few weeks ago.Love it. Thank you so much!
I like the idea of allowing the bugs to escape . I’ve always wondered why hornets and wasps try their hardest to get into agapanthus stems .
I'm less than 10 seconds in - LOVED that short shot of the starling!
I'm sure I'll love the rest too - thanks.
We’ve had so much heavy rain here in North Yorkshire that my garden is still a bog! All I’ve been able to do is start seedlings indoors. Nowhere near able to do any mowing :( I’m so far behind!!
Same here in York, just wet dirt instead of lawn
Same in East Yorkshire sigh
Same in Cornwall
Same in West Yorkshire, poly tunnel entrance is a mud pie 😅
Aww Tracy* you will catch up
Ah, take care of those insects! I’ve got oodles of bugs and they seem to keep a lovely balance on my property - no infestations anywhere. Love your support of the untidy garden.👍🏻 Protects the soil from erosion, supports the insects, and provides hiding area for my free-range hens. Where is Rosie today? Guess most of your subscribers are American? You can actually say “secataurs”, we know what they are! 🤣🤣 Another stellar presentation, thank you!
We have rose chafers here, and their larvae can be found in the composting pile around this time. I had to learn to differentiate them from Maybug larvae and I'm not good with soft earth creatures, but selected and kept the unharmful rose chafer ones in the pile. The things we do for nature! 😆
Yes indeed, so important to consider wildlife in the garden too. And talking of 'wildlife' - I think Rosie was just chilling inside the house in this video. She'll reappear in future videos, worry not! :-)
Thank you, Ben! Still too cold and wet for me to get outside but it won't be long!
I keep an old bucket planted with stinging nettle so its out of the ground, I like it as a tea
I keep an old bucket with stinging nettles soaked in water, for compost tea!
Nettles are free 'cut and come again' fertilizer. And very healthy indeed. There is no such thing as too many nettles in my opinion.
Another great motivating video! Thanks Ben keep them coming. Too much water logged soil here in my Irish garden to even think of mowing the grass yet 🙈
Yes, it's been epically wet here too! :-)
Love your enthusiasm for spring planting--I'm with you!!
Hello All* Gardening Is All About Being Creative & Being At One With Nature*😊 It's still too Wet! here in the West Midlands so in-between the showers & mud* the other day in my Wellies i was tidying a water logged area of the garden, my foot lost a wellie in the mud lol,,Yes over the past few weeks my finger nails look like crap, everyone tells me to wear gloves but i love to feel the dirt lol ,I'm preparing my Raised Beds / Re newing the soil* / Pottering in the Greenhouse* Small signs of Life Appearing* the 🌞 is short lived at the moment,,,Hopefully Those sunny mornings will arrive shortly* At the moment my Onions & Potato's are tucked up nicely in the Greenhouse* Good luck to all the Gardener's Out there, May your harvests be plentiful* We never run out of jobs to do in the Garden* Rain or Shine* You fabulous Ben! very inspiring ty
Hoping it will dry out a bit for all of us soon! :-)
Fingers crossed for this year 💪
my lawn is more moss than grass, it is wonderful to walk on. I love it and the birds seem to as well
Hi Ben, as always, some great tips for this time of year! Thanks for sharing and take care 😊
No mowing here in VA yet. Barely coming in. Wish I could find some shallot seeds around I'm gonna have to order some. But...flowers are up, garlic looking good. Onions are going in soon as I get my fence up on Wednesday. My chickens will dig them up if I dont,lol. Still too early to put out any plants, we are not done with cold. But I'm raring to go !!!
Thanks for all your time and tips !!!
Great to hear you're all set to go there Tonie! :-)
If in Scotland, probably start 3- 4 weeks later.
Wildflowers are blooming here in Houston Texas area, and my buckwheat is sprouting nicely. Will be transferring out tomatoes and peppers soon as the ground is ready!
I do like your enthusiasm about gardening 😊.
Thank you very much for a nice video.
I love these videos and I love Ben's enthusiasm. He provides so much useful information in such a positive way.
Thank you for your wonderful videos!
Thank you. Appreciate your enthusiasm.
I can't wait for the spring to arrive her, Thanks for inspiring us.
Ben you give us inspiration x
I think i have the same mower. 😆
Love your content so very much! Blessings to you and your family as well as your garden.
It's a very solid mower! :-)
You have made such a beautiful garden, and I'm inspired by your huge knowledge. I've got 300 seedlings in my greenhouse, as it's still cold & frozen here. And a disaster, all the seeds I started from one company failed to germinate, they sent them in the winter and didn't package them carefully so they froze, I think. But they're making it right and replacing the seeds and I'm very grateful for that. I'm going to start garlic, whole bulbs, in water so they'll have great roots by May, since none of the fall-planted bulbs came up. Carry on with your fabulous enthusiasm and teaching skills, we are so lucky to have you~~
I hope you manage to get your seedings out and into the ground soon. And I hope your replacement seeds germinate well and catch up - it's still early in spring, so I'm sure they will. :-)
@@GrowVeg Thank You so much, it is early in Colorado, last frost date is usually May 4th...it's hard to be patient when the garden is out there calling!
I just love this guy!!!!
Cracking on with a great episode 😊
Great Video Ben, as always. The perfect list of jobs 🤩
Love your videos! Love the information, love that you get to be yourself!
Love your videos and gearing up to start planting. Thanks for the checklist at the start of the video. Allows me to take one screenshot versus 10.
Thank you Ben for your videos full of great tips and how to's. I've watched quite a few different gardening channels over the last 2 years but due to all the time now needed to garden the list has reduced significantly. Your enthusiasm, knowledge and content puts you up at #1.🌱🌷👌
Oh wow - that's high praise indeed. Thank you so much! :-)
Your cauliflower music was quite soothing!
“Raise their hideous heads” love it! ❤ nettle and bindweed city in my place!
Hello, Ben! Great checklist.👍 Thanks for keeping us on our toes when keeping up with the seasons.😃
I'm having all kinds of gardening fun as well!👩🏾🌾 It's already time for us to start squash, melons, cukes, etc.💃
Spring's moving along nicely already. :-)
you're getting me stoked to clear snow to build my garden beds all the way over in Carson City, NV USA.
Watching gardening channels from different countries to vicariously live through them while I'm sitting in zone 5 where it's still too cold to do anything, even if it's been the warmest winter in years lol
I do the same thing! Armchair gardening?
@@hypnodream kinda! I'm not doing a veggie garden this year because the yard of the house I moved into is a mess, so I have to focus on that first, but maybe next year!
Im loving that trellis chair and other wire trellises you put up a while back. Really aging well. I appreciate the vid with no new seeds to sow today...just the scutwork. Im really enthusiastic about my garden this year, so many new solutions i hope will be moving me forward. Charcoal and such in the soil and some overwintered tomatoes and peppers to get me that big head start.
This time of year - all the optimism and excitement to come - is just the best! :-)
Thank you for reminding us to take care of the bugs too!
I've recently just found your youtube channel and between you and Dowding channel I got more hours of knowledge that i can ever hope to finish :D Being in a struggle with current work and thinking about starting an food forest your channel has been really pushing me to take a next step (not quite an food forest) but let's try a full year of vegetable garden and enjoying the outdoors. I love your enthousiasm and will watch many more of you movies.
So pleased you found this channel - and you can never go wrong with Charles' channel either - he's a real oracle of knowledge. Hope you enjoy growing vegetables - I know you will. :-)
Grand plants😊 tanks!😊
🐝Thanks for the great video 🌻 always so many handydandy tips thanks Ben !!
Full support 🎉🎉🎉
Always connected with you 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Je vous souhaite la bienvenue ❤
Ben, i want to add to the litany of positive comments by applauding your holistic approach to gardening and wildlife. You encourage us to think about the insect life, and in other videos you have shoen us how to make frog ponds and reuse items to use when gardening. You show us not only how to feed ourselves and others from our gardens, but to be careful custodians of it too.
Thank you so much for your kind words. It's a privilege to have this platform to share wildlife-friendly approaches to gardening. :-)
Great video keep up the good work
so excited for growing! saw a big bumblebee in the garden today, great sign :D
my broad beans, garlic and onion seeds doing well so far. still feasting on chard, leeks and suede and lots of foraged wild garlic
I am going to try twine with the cucumbers, nice tip!
Nice sharing
Love your videos. You've helped me improve my gardening success! I will be try fall sowing onions and cauliflower this year to get an even earlier start for 2025 and to keep my hands in the dirt over the winter. Lol
Won't need much watering outside after all that snow followed by rain: everywhere totally sodden! Did do me a favour though: Snow scraped all the verdigris off polytunnel; saved me a job! :)
We use nettle for compost tea. Tomatoes love it!
I'm fairly new to gardening and I love it so much that I made a RUclips channel so I can post videos of me gardening and what I'm up to! 😂🌱Your tips are great!! Thank you!
Being new to gardening is incredibly exciting. So much promise and bounty to look forward to! :-)
Thank you for the lesson on how to set up hanging cucumbers.
Thank you Ben always cheers me up watching your knowledge videos . How did you grow your cornflowers so well over winter I’ve no idea mine are a lot smaller
I sowed them in October (from memory) and kept them in the greenhouse to grow on, potting them on at one stage. We have had a very mild winter, which I think helped.
hello, I will try tomorrow🥰👍
I sowed some lettuce and carrots today at my new house, which has an amazing garden space. It seems like England has a similar climate to where I am, in the Pacific NW of the USA. Cold and rainy days have kept me inside, but today I had a break in the rain and was able to get some weeding and planting in.
Yes indeed, we have very similar climates. :-)
Great info and I love how positive you are! Thank you!❤
yeah - resting after work is essential ;)
The first cut is the deepest!
Nettle is a super food!! I leave mine and they are amazing in an area where we have tree stumps that refuse to come out and it’s too bogy
This is my first time gardening lol. I bought everbearing strawberries in September. I did minimal protection or pruning. I lost half and gained more from runners so I'm hoping for a nice spring.
Hope you have a great crop this season. :-)
Cheers for another great video, a bit too wet at moment, feels like motorbike race reving engine's waiting to get going 😂😂😂
Haha - I know the feeling! :-)
My garden is currently quite a soggy muddy mess (southwestern Ontario 🇨🇦 zone 6) but I have been yanking out weedy vines and tufts of grass that are creeping into my garden beds. If and when I find any nettles I'm going to make nettle tea for my garden. I enjoy your channel and always add 2 months at least to your garden to-do list. 😁
Nettle tea is sublime - a great idea! :-)
And netle also makes a great compost tea. I always combine it with rhubarb leaves and comfrey. Makes a great boosting juice.
I'm liking your mix of leaves - sounds like a fab brew. :-)
I really like your video
My last frost date is mid May. I’m just planning, getting my seeds sorted and doing a tiny bit of clean up. It snowed a bit north of me last week!
Hope you get to sow soon. :-)
I absolutely love your gardening tips, which is probably why my beds were successful last year.
I had one issue in that my outdoor tomato plants were riddled with caterpillars (I think from a moth) that they destroyed all 10 plants. Any tips for this year please? 😊
It sounds like you may have had hornworms (I'm assuming you are in North America somewhere - if not let me know via a new comment so I can dig further into this). Hornworms can be picked off and plants should be inspected regularly to spot them in time. More here: www.growveg.com/pests/us-and-canada/tomato-hornworm/
Winter is coming here in South Africa June July it will be snowing in the bergs. I need to focus more on winter or plants that grow in winter. Great video
You might want to check out our other sowing/jobs videos - renamed by season. :-)
Youre such a fuckin jedi master
Cheers so much! :-)
Ben, is your greenhouse heated? I’m in Scotland and whilst we have had some sunny days it’s so cold at night I have hardly anything growing in mine. Yours is prolific!
My greenhouse isn't heated and, in fact, is quite chilly as a glass pane is missing. I guess it must be that much warmer down here! :-)
Nettels are so nutritious and delisious in soups and as a tea.
I always look forward to your videos. I live in Virginia zone 7 here. What is your growing zone? You seem to be at least a couple of weeks ahead of us. We are still having low 20°'s Farenheit. Far too cold to plant things I think. I also want to plug your garden planner. I've been using it for several years now and find it very useful.
Thanks so much for your kind words! I'm in zone 8, but we get much milder winters than maybe you experience (though much cooler summers!). :-)
LOVE Your Videos Ben - EXCELLENT information ALWAYS! but - Stinging Nettles are EXTREMELY NUTRITIOUS greens & medicinal - Young nettle in soups stews even salads etc
Yes indeed, they're a fab and free extra green. :-)
I see the video as an idea for my next spring since now I have to go through a fall and a winter. In my area, which is humid and has a temperate climate, frosts are not frequent. What I have noticed is that during the summer many leaves of my plants have shown signs of sunburn. I assume that the sun's rays have been very strong during the summer. And that we have many trees...it is dynamic but very enslaving.
Ah yes that first start for the mower. I start mine each time it rains just to blow the rainwater out of the intake; if you dont have cover for your mower rainwater gets into the carb and rusts those delicate parts so just start er up a few seconds seems to be working.
I deliberately grow nettles, docks, dandelions along with the usual suspects like comfrey partly to attract bugs away from plants or to encourage those who prey upon the ones I'd rather not entertain, and partly to make various feeds for the garden/veg plants. I also process various ''weeds'' for my own medicinal use in tinctures, teas, seeds, and ointments. Nettles are especially health boosting in all forms.
Consider embracing nettles. They are a good replacement for spinish/chard.
Hi Ben.
I see you are letting your mown grass lie where it falls. We harvest ours and even some of our neighbors’. We spread and dry it, then use it for mulch. Need lots of much here in southern US. It gets HOT.
Thanks for all of your great tips and inspirational videos.😊
Kim
Yes indeed, most is left to just return to the soil. That way I don't have to feed the lawn. Some gets spread on the vegetable beds as mulch though. I can see how this would be useful where you are! :-)
I have the exact same shirt. Now i need to get my gardening channel super famous so we can twin up in a video. I have successfully made three of the most boring gardening videos in the history of youtube. I swear I'm not boring and can even use real words for things. Apparently no one told my videos that. :)
Haha - we'd have to coordinate shirts if we ever did a collaboration! :-)
I’m afraid it will be a few weeks yet before our lawns dry out they have become swamps, it’s not stopped raining here in Cornwall for weeks , so mowing is out and even the raised beds are cold and wet, spring feels weeks away, even my beautiful Helibores have been flattened by the wind and rain and hail of this weekend. It’s all a bit demoralising , even the plants in the greenhouse are not growing much. So I love watching you enthusiasm but sadly can’t get going yet. It’s Sunday third of March and it’s hammering down😟
Hoping the current dry spell (or not raining at least) holds for a few more days! :-)
Found you recently, Ben and am thoroughly enjoying your content, as a newish gardener. I put a carpet of mulched leaves over my raised beds at the end of the season thinking they would have fully integrated into the soil but they seem to still just be sitting atop, despite several sessions of mixing them in. Should I just remove the layer before planting seeds? Put soil on top of it? Something else? Input welcome from other posters bc I know Ben is busyyyyy! (Zone 6, Boston MA, USA)
Thanks you for your kind comment. I would just scrape away/remove any undecomposed leaves in order to sow. They can always be returned again as a mulch around plants, once they're a touch more established. :-)
So.much.weeding. This year has started off with a real bang, as all the weeds in started off germinating in January/February and never got frosted off...
Hope you manage to get on top of them before sowing and planting gathers pace. :-)
What was the first 😅😅😅😅😂😂😂 so many things brilliant video
I should add where I live - the east coast of Canada. Our season starts a bit later.
Yes, a touch later there. :-)
I prefer moss over grass personally...
Love the show.why is it that gardening shows from England are the ones that show you how to garden? Ones from America are just big commercials or spend most of the time talking, not teaching.
Nettles are good for you.
A gas mower, Ben? Time to go electric/battery!! Thanks for another stonking great video!
I know, I know. But it is SO strong and reliable. I don't mow that often (once every three weeks on average) so it's not too bad. But the next mower will be electric. :-)
We are expecting some super cold -10-20 C nights here in finland in the end of march 😔 and im running out of space for my seedlings in my apartment 🤣 i do have a balcony that has windows and i live in southern finland so that helps a bit...lets hope sping comes here "early" 🤞
Hoping spring arrives soon for you! :-)
I love your content, but I still have about 80cm of snow outside - so I'll stay inside for now :P
Spring will be with you soon I'm sure! :-)
Ben, love your videos and advice and I try to follow it as much as possible. I am admiring your metal trellises in this video, can you please tell me the brand or supplier? I've tried many types of supports for my cucumbers but they always end up running along the ground and hiding the cukes until they become dirigibles!
Of course. :-) They're from Agrs: agrs.co.uk/products/elegance-round-arch
Thank you! I see they have a US store too; I can't wait to shop!
Ben, there are many beady eyed pigeons around where I live. I'm hoping to get a few raised beds on the go soon. Said birds would scoff up my vulnerable plants in a jiffy 🙈
Would you mind telling me where you purchase your netting and tunnel structures from please?
Thank you so much for your enthusiasm & knowledge 😊🌿🌱🐞
The netting is just bought by the metre from my local garden centre, and the tunnel structures are made using alkathene pipe by the roll, which I then just cut into hoops - piping like this here: www.amazon.co.uk/Coil-Blue-Water-Mains-Supply/dp/B07KRNBQ4H/ref=sr_1_6?crid=3DUEPI16MHM7Q&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-nTJLFhLNcvY2fVOdGFBfFt0mpMI-K6SnCDeFYl-Zq-8ANysUztr67TmiCsp9QhS8ZU-8--M9inMDEuGMbu7XjZC8CIYV9LmT9ZWkQEOLf7Dzv3E9WG4rEpBczq_8GiQryJPa9uoocGMziGUhKebIh76xZUyx5LwpOVnkTuppLd-F12UVi3HXXfE1m94WGxYE7FK8GUwIQml6Z040m8_K2QkqSYmA48O6XI1gEpazaGmerP4Feg9RrvTXAIEcgg1BMStaRmI3yD6rdEJhrI3SHlKoServD9gwxqY_kBeQ0U.V1YAQtSbijyuN9JeYJJnBG70w0m1qlC9NYKlPgGW5dg&dib_tag=se&keywords=alkathene+pipe&qid=1709636236&sprefix=alkatene+pipe%2Caps%2C87&sr=8-6
@GrowVeg Thank you so much Ben! That's really kind of you🙂 Happy gardening 👌🌿🌱🍀🪻
weve just had rain and rain and frost , up here in lancashire its still raining now my garden is like one huge sponge ,im just dying to get out there , stupid weather needs to give us a break .
Aye that! :-)
Nettles are supposed to be medicinal as well great fertilizer
Hi.
What is on the green house glass to protect plants in the summer from the sun?
That - somewhat embarrassingly - is just algae/dirt that needs scrubbing off!
Where I live there is now again snow on the ground.
Hoping spring arrives soon for you. :-)