How to Plan Your Perfect Garden in 2024
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Planning makes perfect! Whether you’re hoping to start your first garden or tweak an existing one, taking the time to properly plan it out will pay tasty dividends later on.
Ben gets our creative juices flowing with a back-to-basics look at vegetable garden planning, including practical considerations behind positioning a new garden, and how and where to locate crops within it. Get your garden off to a flying start this growing season!
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Your videos make a novice gardener feel like anything is possible. Thank you! Looking forward to planning and planting my 2024 garden!!
Happy gardening! :-)
This is such a perfect welcoming in for 2024, and you admiring yourself in the trowel is laugh-out-loud funny. I love it. And what a magical thing to bring the garden planner into the beds. I'm overwhelmed by planning my garden already. Thank you for giving all of us the incentive to get to it!
Hope this video offered a few ideas anyhow. Here's to a very productive 2024! :-)
Just love how you used the picture add-ons of the vegies... really helps to envision what is going on. Good job!
Thanks so much - I'll pass that on to our very talented video editor!
Many thanks to Ben and his family for all the fantastic content. I purchased Bakers Racks (truthfully, someone was throwing them away & I had a friend help me get them), I have a few grow lights and was given a heat mat or two. I have some white foam core board (may be too much insulation for seed starting). I'm hoping to get started January 2nd, 2024. The days here are between 42° & 62° farenheit. The nights are chilly & some below freezing! I have rainbow chard, kale varieties and brassicas still growing. No coverings at all! Crazy weather but I wanted to thank Ben. Last year I followed the channel intently no matter where I was. So many thanks to Ben & the others involved with this channel. My Cancer cells have been on the decline since I started watching this channel. I also watch The Rusted Garden with Gary P. Both of you are wonderful humans. So many "Thanks" for you both!
Thank you for watching the channel and all of your support. I hope your cancer cells continue to decline and 2024 bring you lots of bounty and happiness. :-)
My husband and I love your videos. Thank you for sharing your passion with us! Happy Growing!
And you! :-)
I loved the garden planner graphics "magically" appearing on the beds! This year I'm trying dwarf sunflowers among my pepper plants to help prevent sunscald and putting a zucchini in the corner of my tomato bed just like you are so it can trail down onto my path. Love your fluffy wood shavings too😊
Sounds like some well thought out planning going on there. :-)
I’ve always been told not to plant sunflowers amongst my plants because they are such heavy feeders they’ll steal nutrients from other plants. I guess I need to do some research to find out how true that is.
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Sunflowers to prevent sun scald is so smart!
Good morning Ben, a lovely informative video and so much gardening ideas and encouragement. Thank you for sharing and showing and advice. Love the fresh gravel alongside the raised beds now doggy do not get muddy paws :) So according to a calendar, today is the last day of 2023, so here is wishing you many hours of enjoyable time in your garden, may 2024 again offer you good rewards on harvesting. All the very best to you and your family. Many blessings - Kind regards.
Thank you so much. And a very happy New Year to you and your family also. :-)
Perennial sunflower for a friend who recently passed. Currants, and sea kale, and strawberries, and a new hosta. Taking out the grass that the locals keep complaining about being too tall. Replacing it with tall, decorative grasses (spite-scaping). Gonna take all of our autumn pumpkins and gourds and bury the remnants along a sunny stretch of our yard to see what wants to volunteer.
Sounds like an exciting season ahead. :-)
I love your channel! New to gardening and so excited to be starting to plan veg ... you are a great teacher! Enthusiastic ... and you explain everything in such a grounded way... thanks so much ... I have tried to watch others to learn but you are the one I resonate with while you teach us... thank you so much.. I’m binge watching your different shows.
That is so lovely of you to say. I'm sure you will do a great job of this season's garden. Happy gardening! :-)
planning underway here- nice to see tomatoes and peppers can live together in a bed..thanks for bringing up companion planting. I made the effort last year to incorporate it as much as possible.
Definitely worth incorporating companion planting - makes life a lot easier too. :-)
Your videos keep getting better and better!! And thank you for the wonderful graphics to show what you are planting, that was brilliant! I was laughing and enjoying every minute, and love your adorable dog 😍
That's so kind of you to say, thank you. Really appreciate your support. :-)
Really loved how you did this video. The examples of where things are growing with the visualitations really help. Id love to see a follow up video on succession planting in beds, getting that timing tight for many many crops and more examples of different interplantings would be amazing! ;)
Thanks for your kind comments. We'll certainly look into a video like that - great suggestion. :-)
Thank you for this, really helpful info on the companion planting! This year I am attempting cauliflower, brassicas have scared me but I'm going for it!
Definitely go for it! This video might help you avoid brassica pests: ruclips.net/video/-NYVacngcXw/видео.htmlsi=K6lTi5hvKmHnpr_G
I love it, Ben, when you are playful! It gives me a little chuckle while I am also educated! God bless!
Thanks so much. I really value your support. Happy gardening! :-)
Thank you for your expertise
Thanks for watching. :-)
Happy 2024, Ben and Rosie!🎉
It is such an exciting time preparing for the new growing season!👩🏾🌾
I plan to grow luffa, 2 varieties of winter squash, summer squash, 2 or 3 varieties of watermelon, 3 varieties of cantaloupe, 3 or 4 varieties of tomatoes, 2 varieties of sweet peppers, green beans, lime beans, peas, okra, popcorn, cucumbers, lettuce, collard, kale, chard, sorrel, potatoes, herbs, grapes, figs, mulberries, strawberries, lemons, and a lot of different flowers.😃
I hope you have an amazing year!💕
Wow - that's such an extensive list of crops. You'll have plenty to pick! Happy New Year! :-)
GREAT video!!!!❤
I will definitely be referencing this again over the next few weeks when planting out this spring.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!😊
You're most welcome! Thanks for watching and here's to a very successful 2024 growing season. :-)
Happy New Year GrowVeg! Yet another great video - laying the veg graphics over the beds was brilliant. In 2024 I’m growing lettuce, sorrel, arugula, chamomile and alyssum, zucchini, tomatoes, eggplant, peas, beans, Kazakh melon, cucumbers, beets, lots of herbs, flowers for pollinators/butterflies/hummingbirds and berries such as blueberries, raspberries and ground cherries. Thanks for sharing your wonderful garden experience, it’s helped me loads over the years.
Thanks for watching Helen. Happy New Year to you! :-)
Perfect video for winter, while dreaming of spring!
Mate, this is a really well-executed 101 introduction to backyard gardening. I wish this video existed back when I felt overwhelmed with all the information out there on the net. I will recommend this clip to friends starting their own gardens as you cover all the basics and present it in an easily digestible format. And always remember: try to disturb the soil as little as possible, add heaps of organic matter like compost and or manure - and plant cover crops - just grow something in the bed and you can always chop it down and it bec omes free compost! Yay.
That's so kind of you to say. And yes, great advice on avoiding disturbing the soil as much as possible! :-)
You sir is why RUclips is great,I was looking for such a video,you giving dimensions and diagrams was most informative. Thank you
So pleased you found the video helpful. Happy gardening! :-)
I like the layout and arrangement of my garden into neat boxes like this. This year I renovated my garden into 5 long rectangular boxes and also planted different types of vegetables together. I've been adding some flowers to my garden recently. The smooth wood you use along the way I also really like. I was really absorbed in your video until the last words, thank you for sharing a very useful and scientific video.
Thanks so much for your kind words. I hope have you have a very abundant 2024. :-)
Thank you so much! Happy new year!@@GrowVeg
Loved the way you present. Thank you
Thank so much. :-)
I will be coming back to this video (memory fading) I need to pack in as much as possible in smaller beds.
Thanks Ben. God Bless you and yours. May the new year be your best ever.
And to you and yours also. Thanks for watching. :-)
you're connected to thousands of years of household gardeners, must be so cool to explore the UK and see where we've been toiling away for millenia
Another wonderful video that is chocked full of great information. Thank you!!
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching. :-)
Leisurely admiring your reflection in your little shovel 😂 I love it.
Thank you for a great gardening video! 💚
Thanks so much for watching. :-)
Getting a bit "Cheeky" but really like your laid back, and welcoming approach to gardening Any one who gardens understands that Mother Nature (and all her little citizens) makes gardening interesting and your videos provide great comfort and support to those who do not mind a bit of dirt er, I mean soil, under our fingernails.
Last year my entire garden was started from seed for the first time - with some successes and some disappointments. It has been a while since you did a video on how to find seeds and what to look for when looking for seeds, Do you plan an update on this topic?
Thanks for all you do to help us have healthy gardens
Thanks for those kind words. I will be doing a video on improving germination/seed starting in the middle of January - so watch out for that. Happy New Year! :-)
Im going back to basics this year, no more weird stuff. Just what we know we like and lots of it to preserve or share.
Rosie!! Love seeing that sweet face in the new year. I just spent the afternoon building raised beds . I am very excited to start my first garden outside of a few containers and an herb bed.
That's wonderful to hear. Best of luck with your new garden - and enjoy! :-)
Awesome Ben, happy new growing year.
And to you! :-)
With all the rain, my allotment is pretty under water and I've not managed to get all my compost spread yet. I'm hoping for a dryer January to finish off the spreading and also to do my winter pruning. All seeds have been ordered ready. This year I am going to have a go at growing oca. I may have a few problems as I'm due to go away at the end of the year but can't lift them until after we have had frost. This year it was mid Nov when we got a couple of days of frost and nothing since, so may have to protect them from wet and keep my fingers crossed. Hoping for a warmer and dryer 2024.
Yes indeed - some let up in the rain would be very welcome! Happy New Year . :-)
My garden is sill growing strong. I have garlic, and Elephant Garlic growing in one of my raised beds. I plan on adding ginger and four varieties of peppers to it in the spring. I have one and a half raised beds with turnips growing, many of which are forming root bulbs. In another area of my garden, I have Navone Gold Rutabagas ready to pick, and I still have a bit of Yellow Heart Winter Choy, Komatsuna, and Nagasaki Cabbage that I can harvest from. I started seeds for hothouse tomatoes two weeks ago. Nine of Twelve seeds have sprouted. I just reseeded the sells that didn't germinate this morning. They are for early hot house tomatoes that will go in the ground around March 1st. In two weeks, I will be sowing hundreds of seeds for a spring plant sale, and my garden. I'm going very big this year. I am expecting three cherry trees to be delivered in about three weeks. I've already planted two plum trees. I have a mound that is about 10 ft x 20 ft that is going to be a dedicated herb garden. I already have a big patch of lemon thyme growing in it. I have one strawberry tower filled with 42 Seascape Strawberry plants, and two GreenStalk towers that will be utilized for pepper plants (10 varieties/60 plants). I have about 30 growbags (10-30 gallon), 8 raised beds, and a polytunnel greenhouse, so a lot of space for plants. I have most of my garden planned out, with one 2 ft x 8 ft raised bed open for overflow planting.
Wow - so much still going strong there! Awesome result! :-)
Thank you! For sharing how to prepare a new garden in 2024, very satisfied.
You sir are the Steve Irwin of gardening with your passion and enthusiasm. Thank you for the awesome videos!
That's so kind of you to say - thank you! :-)
Oooooooo yessssssss bring on the spring time
So excited for my vegetable garden! Your videos have helped me a lot the past year, Ben!
That's really great to hear. Here's to a very productive 2024! :-)
Always top notch content!
We just got home from the garden center nearby and I bought rocket seeds, spinach, carrots, kale and rainbow chard. What a timely video! Thanks
Great job - lots to be getting on and sowing soon. :-)
Every time I watch your videos I get excited about gardening. You do a great job. Thanks for doing these.
That's so kind of you to say - thanks for watching. :-)
Thank you for sharing.It's great to see the tree growing day by day
I was planning my 2024 garden the other day!! 3rd year and changing things every year!
thank you for your video it gave me some ideas for companion planting !!
So pleased you enjoyed the video. Hope your 2024 garden is very abundant. :-)
New mulch! Great video. We’re lucky enough to be extending the plot this year (at home) which we’re working on now. A busy year planned, looking forward to hearing more of your progress and what you’re growing in 2024. Tracy
Thanks so much Tracy. Here's to a fantastically productive 2024 for all of us. :-)
Your videos are always great❤
Thanks so much! :-)
Brilliant video as usual. You are so funny. Thank you for your time and effort. 😊
That's so kind of you to say. Thanks for watching! :-)
I have just pulled the last of my carrots, which will last another 2 months 🙂. all ready growing Kale and doing well. Like the VL's
I'm hoping to grow more flowers along my vegetables.
My granddaughter, who is 5 years old, bought me seeds for Christmas. I have sunflowers, bush beans, carrots, onion, sweet peppers, tomatoes, a culinary blend, and sugar snap peas. Her fav!
What a lovely granddaughter you have! :-)
Glad you can do gardening this time of year. Here you best just forget that unless you have a hothouse.
Yes, I'm very lucky with our mild climate. Would love a 'decent' winter though! :-)
I really love the graphics in this video. Great touch! Definitely is inspiring me to pull out my garden journals!
This year I'm going to have a cut flower garden bed and I am trying to grow roses from seed. I also have a loofah plant that I am growing indoors under grow lights because our summer 🇨🇦 isn't long enough. I'm going to have a kitchen garden in containers on my deck for salad, cherry tomatoes & herbs.
Sounds like an abundant year ahead. :-)
So far I've planted two dozen senshyu onions, two weeks apart, the same of garlic and red onions.
I'm hoping to grow french beans, sweetcorn, salads, potatoes, carrots, parsnips and leeks. I tend to harvest them then do a giant cookup, making soups, stews and curries, for the freezer over winter. It's helping me to save money for the fuel bills. Haven't tried the planner yet, but off to have a go! PS, I love these videos, they're a useful addition to the magazine, keep on keeping on, it's brilliant!
So pleased you enjoyed this video. I hope you have a very productive start to 2024. :-)
Very good beautiful sharing full watch video
Thanks so much. :-)
Superb video!
Glad to see someone else using wood shavings in the garden. I'm doing the same with pellets, but will add some shavings to my paths, never thought of this. Great job. Happy New Year!
And you! :-)
Funny and informative, l love your videos Ben. Gardening is fun and you make it look fun too
Thank you as always for a great video. Happy New Year to you.
And to you Jane. :-)
I appreciate the garden companion planting and light requirements tips! I’m planning to try to grow sweet potatoes and small gold potatoes for the first time this year.
Hope they grow well for you. :-)
You should dig a pond or a well to make use of that water for the garden. I mean you got a spring that's gold to have so close to the garden.
That's a great idea. :-)
Once again a fantastic video, thank you.
New to my planting plan this year will be sweet potatoes and tahitan melon squash.
Hooe everyone has a successful planting and harvesting season ❤
What fantastic new additions to your planting plan! :-)
Love the planner! I think it’s great to remind gardeners how individualized their particular growing areas can be, as you did here. I tried all of those flowers this past summer with alyssum working the best for my Ohio garden BY FAR. However - Ben - Do you recommend a specific variety of marigolds? Every kind I have tried, even French, grow to be at least three feet tall!!!
The French marigolds are the ones to go for. They shouldn't really grow to more than about a foot tall, so three foot is very tall! Look for the Tagetes patula ones, and make sure they are definitely described as shorter/dwarf!
I have aphids in my PSB in the poly tunnel 😱. So excited for the new season 2024. Great video as always Ben. Happy New Year to everyone, Ali SW 🇨🇦
And to you - thanks for all your support in watching the videos. :-)
I do love beans and potatoes. I wish I had a garden with not so many snails and slugs. The end of my garden in chainlink and a railway line where they come from.
Slugs are one my nemeses! This video might offer a few ideas for their control: ruclips.net/video/VJvUwkFZeOM/видео.htmlsi=virlZRIR8eKrmbg_
Really informative video... thank you!
Your Dog perfectly blends in with that gravel XD
Haha - dog camouflage!
Love watching your videos Ben! This is a request for consideration for a topic. They have recently changed growing zones and being in New England rather than Jolly Ole England, would like to know information about how to translate from your zone to mine (was 6b now marginally 7a).
Thanks for the suggestion. The whole zones thing is an area we should cover at some point. I'll put my thinking cap on on how best to approach this - thanks for the idea. :-)
I found out that there are some cold hardy pomegranate trees! I can't wait to see how they do!
That's fab - hope they grow well for you.
We actually recently got a greenhouse, not big it's about 1,85 x 1,85 x 2,04m, but hopefully we can finally grow paprika (bell pepper?) and some chili peppers in there this year!
That's great to hear. That will certainly help. :-)
I think you were enjoying those shots lying back on the table admiring your trowel just a little too much, Ben! 😄
Haha - yes probably so!
Happy new year Ben 🎉x
And to you! :-)
My salad greens did miserably last season. Too hot and dry too soon and everything bolted away from me. This season I'll be sure to give enough shade, and water and even make sure I get going sooner so I might get something leafy to eat eventually. :D I'll also try my hand at succesion planting properly. So far it's been a bit too haphazardly done and not very successful. I wish everyone an amazing growing season next year. Green thumbs up!
Green thumbs up to you also. Happy New Year! :-)
This'll be my first year growing. Trying some herbs in pots, and maybe some peas or beans on a southern facing wall on our deck (again in pots).
Aside from that, carrots are going to be a mainstay, and maybe courgette in our south facing small side garden. And some sunflowers.
Very much trial and error I suspect.
Lots of gardening is trial and error. I'm sure you'll get some lovely harvests. Best of luck with your veggies. :-)
beautiful
If it is not taking a liberty to say so, you are a new year’s gift.
Oh bless you - that's very kind of you to say! Happy New Year to you! :-)
Greetings from Vancouver Island. This will be my 3rd year in this garden. I have learned lots about what will and will not grow here. And I have been wandering through the seed catalogues to winnow the options down for this year. Greens grow well here all year round and we are still eating the brasicas that were planted 18 (?) months ago. I am assuming they will need to be replaced this year, but I was wrong about that last year. Lettuces are still growing but I am going to start some more seeds in the next 2 weeks for the summer crop. Tomatoes are iffy here as are most nightshades. Annoying, but I will keep looking for the perfect varieties for my locationand see if I can find out 'why'. Onions are in. They don't grow well here either - except leeks - they grow like weeds. And I need to renew the soil as soon as. It is a process. Love your show - your enthusiasm is wonderful. Take good care in the coming growing year.
Thanks for watching. Hope you get better luck with the tomatoes. They do like plenty of sunshine and space - but I'm sure you know that already. Here's to a very productive 2024 anyhow. :-)
Great video! Can't wait for the new growing season! This year I want to try growing melons and sweet potatoes for the first time in my greenhouse. I've treated myself to some ollas in the Black Friday sales, and I'm just putting together some new raised beds too :)
Fantastic plans ahead! Those ollas will make a big difference I'm sure. :-)
Happy New Year Ben! Thanks for starting my year off right with another great video. I am sort of new to GrowVeg but I LOVE the software! I used it to plan my garden last year. Unfortunately, I spent a great deal of time in the hospital and did not have the success I hoped for but that certainly had nothing to do with anything but my ill self! I used the software to redseign my new garden and have already got it "planted". Now, all of the containers are not filled yet but it sure looks great on paper..lol. Thanks again and happy planting!
Great to have plans all made up - you'll be in for a very productive growing season I'm sure. :-)
Ben on your water logged area why don't you put in a wild pond this helps with wildlife and all so can help with the watering plus you can put over flows from your barrel's into the pond. I done this some time back and now I've got a healthy frog collany plus hedgehogs and dragonflies and other insects love it.
That's a great idea, thank you. I do have a little wildlife pond a little 'downstream' from there though. A great boon for wildlife - love the dragon and damelflies.
Great vid!
A question for Ben and Everyone…
What high value crop would you plant if you had just a few metres of growing space on a very windy plot? Light & sunny (Irish sun!) spot but deadly wind with no space for much of a wind break!
I would try something like chard and kale. Also carrots (if soil is well-draining) and beetroot. Potatoes could be good too. You may be able to set up temporary wind breaks with netting stretched between posts?
@@GrowVeg good ideas, thank you 😊
Love your videos...cant wait to grow with u in 24
Great to have you along! :-)
This is our first year of using the garden planner, so far so good! The subscription isn't too bad price wise either. We're much looking forward to expanding our garden this winter with both it's help and yours! Thank you for yet another great inspirational upload.
P.S. We're going to give an outdoor hot bed a go (as per Jack First's book) as well this year, not sure if the garden planner offers a hotbed option?...
So pleased you're enjoying the Garden Planner. The Planner doesn't have a hot bed option, but you could lay out a 'normal' bed and label it as such. Really great idea to add it in though - I'll suggest this to our development team! :-)
@@GrowVeg Awesome, many thanks. It would be amazing if they could for the season extension it adds would skew the growing season significantly and would mess with your planting plan considerably.
Still loving the planner though, would they consider adding a 'Birdies' style oval raised metal bed option too please, as we have several. Thank you! 😁
Am trying garlic and raspberries for the first time this year (garlic already poking up through the soil, which is encouraging). Broad beans are already in, too.
Not so many courgette plants for me this year after last summer's glut, and hoping for a little more sun and warmth to help my chillis along!
Hope you get a decent crop of chillies this year. :-)
Diggin your animation, bud.
Cheers so much - the video editor will be chuffed! :-)
Excellent
Thanks for sharing. Please can you share where you buy your ready made raised beds, and where you buy your archways from in the UK
The arches are from Agrs: www.agrs.co.uk/products/elegance-round-arch
The beds are widely sold as 'pallet collars'. Look for them online on Ebay or Gumtree or Facebook Marketplace.
hi i love the planing for garden i have a 3x3 garden and still working on it
I love planning also - so many possibilities! :-)
Great information. Thank you. What should be planted with cauliflower and broccoli?
Good companions to cauliflower and broccoli include onions, celery and many insect-attracting flowers like alyssum.
Ben, you are adorable. I bet you keep your wife laughing often. I, too, have a bog in my garden in the winter. And Spring. And rainy season...I have raised it 10" over the last three years using organic matter, but now I have an issue with root rot. Any suggestions besides raising it up with beds?
Thanks so much - that's very kind of you to say. It sounds like you're doing the right thing - adding organic matter to improve drainage and gradually raise things up. The only thing I can really suggest is to not plant too soon in the season when the soil is still very wet from the winter. You could also look to deploy low tunnels/cloches to keep the soil a bit dryer, which is what I have done on one bed over the winter. Other than that, keep adding your organic matter. :-)
Suggestion, can you try Electro-Culture on your plants to see how well that does? Others say it works very well. But would like to hear your view on it. Thanks
Thanks for the suggestion. I've never tried this before.
I’m new to your channel. Must say I’ve become quite a fan. I’m planning my very first ‘kitchen’ garden and your tips have been very helpful, thank you.
Quick question - I’m in South Africa which is obviously the opposite growing periods to you in the UK but can I work on the same seasonal plantings - so when you say plant in spring then I plant in our spring (which is September)?
Yes, that’s right, just add another six months onto the end! We have a series of videos on sowing each month, and when the month is over for the northern hemisphere, we swap the title over to be applicable for the southern hemisphere. E.g. Sow in June reverts to Sow in Early Summer. A very warm welcome to the channel. Lovely to have you on board. :-)
Jealous of that space! love your vids
Thanks so much for watching. :-)
Could you do a video on companion planting in pots? Also wondering if you've ever tried making a herb spiral, especially the types with a small pond incorporated into them. Happy New Year from a very windy and rainy Winchester.
Happy New Year to you also. Great idea for a video, thank you. We have done various companion planting videos, and the same theories would apply to growing in pots - particularly when it comes to attracting beneficial insects and pollinators using nectar-rich flowers like alyssum, French marigold and zinnia. Haven't tried a herb spiral - one day!
I’ve never wanted to buy a garden trowel more…have you considered modelling? 🤣
Haha - maybe one day!! :-)
This is so helpful, thankyou. Where did you get your metal arches from please?
The arches are from Agrs: www.agrs.co.uk/products/elegance-round-arch
Fantastic vid. I was wondering whether you plant mallow? While many feel its a weed: i dont for many reasons one of them being it can be used in salads, i am hoping to grow it this year both for myself and my tortoises. But i havent found a decent video for this. I am also looking to expand my veg growing.
I haven't grown it yet but it is a stunning plant and would be worth a space in the garden for sure. :-)
what plants or netting for raised beds to keep the cats out ?
Any strong butterfly netting would be perfect.
nice video
great job
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Bless you, that's very kind! :-)
Can I ask what you do to prevent these getting eaten or picked by birds, even squirrels. They come all the time and dig anything they see, I'm always covering things!
The pigeons are the big nuisance in my garden. I just have to put netting or fleece over vulnerable crops. More on that in this video: ruclips.net/video/29xCQ1m_xTw/видео.htmlsi=bLwGsrO6CHfrBHGx
This will be my 2nd year of growing and I’m planning on putting another raised bed in to try and grow more this season.
Like you my garden in water logged and I also need to figure out how I can keep my dog off the beds as well, as he’s partial to the odd lettuce or three and he also destroyed my last lot of potatoes I planted, so it’s urgent I figure this out.
Any ideas will be a great help.
Not sure what to suggest to keep him out other than barriers. I have similar problems from time to time with Rosie, but she's not too destructive. Hope you have a great start to the coming growing season. :-)
Are you planting beans and potatoes in December - January? Isn't it too cold?
No, they'll be planted in spring. This video's just showing my plans for the coming growing season. Most things won't be started off until much later.