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!
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😊
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.
I would LOVE to see an in-depth video covering varieties of popular crops and what resources to use to help decide what fits best in your garden, I love how you explain things and it would be soooooo helpful
The most important tool for me in preparation for the upcoming year is a piece of paper with a plan of what I am going to plant where, plus succession planting for the later part of the season. I take my time, come back and often refine my plan, but by the time spring comes, I am all set.
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. :-)
I just wanted to come say your planner is a lifesaver. I've been using it since 2021 and there's nothing better. From the specific location able to detect your closest weather recording center for your first and last frost to the options for both spring and fall varieties. It's pure genius and a work of love. Thank you so much :)
This is our 2nd official year planting a garden. Definitely learned what grows well here in Wyo. We're planning on adding more things like blueberries and lots of medicinal herbs. And also adding chickens! 2024 is gonna be a good year for our garden. Happy growing everyone
Just wanted to say how much I love your channel. I have a container only garden, but I still find your content so helpful. I grow veg outside on my rooftop patio all year round in zone 8b. With limited space and ambitious goals, I go all out when it comes to planning and companion planting. Thank you for sharing what you know in such a charming way. Good luck with the coming growing season!
Happy 2024! GrowVeg is astonishingly influential in my garden the laste few years. I love your positive attitude and dog. I'm getting ready to try again this year to make some food and herbs in my garden outsite my home. Thank you so much for your lessons and demonstrations. Your channel is perennially wonderful!
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.
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 😍
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.
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.
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! ;)
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.
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!
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!💕
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.
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.
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.
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.
Love this and all your inspirational videos. I’m growing vegetables mainly in containers in 2024 as my garden has limited space (I have 3 3x1ft raised beds). Here’s to a successful 2024!
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.
We'll be putting this video up as an article on our website in the next few days, so you should be able to reference the details of sunshine hours from there: www.growveg.com/
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 !!
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!
good tip about putting the leafy spinach behind the beans. I do live in a hot climate and hopefully that will help. Well, we will do tomatoes for sure.
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!
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.
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
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!
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.
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 ❤
Hey Ben, you have a very shiny trowel don't you? 😅 I've already been doing some planning for next year. This morning I made a list of all the seeds I have and noted their planting dates. Currently I am doing a plan in my manual gardening diary, it's a good record of how things are going in the garden. I'm really looking forward to the lighter days, but until then your channel keeps me smiling. ☺
I once had a large and productive garden, but life (full time job and being a caregiver) kept me from doing anything. When I finally retired and my caregiver duties ended, I now had to contend with the fact that my neighbor's pine trees had now grown tall enough to cast a lot of shade on a large portion of my garden space. I'm very excited to re-start my garden, having a custom greenhouse built from reclaimed lumber and a used Harbor Freight greenhouse, adding some raised bed (a couple tall ones as I'm getting older) and re-thinking how to utilize the smaller, sunny area of my garden. Since I have friends who farm organic veg as their business, I will be growing what they don't: peas, asparagus, artichoke, pole beans, garlic (the one thing I kept growing all these years), parsnips and a lemon tree! I'm in zone 7A in the US. Please tell me where you're located these days and how it compares with my growing zone. Love your videos and I've really been making good use of the Garden Planner - a valuable tool for someone who hasn't had a garden in a very long while!
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! :-)
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.
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.
I took tenancy on my first allotment in October and have spent a LOT of time clearing it of 7 foot brambles that have been growing for a decade. My plan for the coming year is to get my shed, fencing, compost bins and a small covered area in place. After that I want to get the rest of the bramble roots dug out and the soil levelled and covered. If I get just one bed of anything growing this year, I'll be happy as a pig in poop :-)
Little poochie was almost invisible against the fully wood shavings. Nice episode-loved the way the graphics animated over the beds to illustrate what you were saying.
As Doc Brown once said: "Plans? Where we're going, we don't need... plans." (An unused take, probably) I've planted 3 types of garlic, which are doing well so far; well, 2 types of true garlic + elephant garlic for fun. I've also got a lot of seeds left over from this year, plus some I've bought for the coming year. New seeds for the coming year are: mammoth dill, rainbow quinoa, mixed grain amaranth, tromboncino Summer squash, Summer savoury and stringless emergo runner beans. It's only my 3rd year of growing food in the garden and I'm using it as an excuse to try new things. I sowed globe artichokes this year and next year should be the first year I get anything from them; should they survive. I've never eaten artichoke before, so I hope I like them, but if not I'm sure the bees will love them.
Wow - you've got some fab things to try there. And very impressed you've managed to grow artichokes from seed. I hope you get to enjoy a good crop. :-)
This video made me think about how shade tolerant plants would fit better in a Morning sun garden like Clematis, potatoes etc., and how they might actually need one extra hour of sun if they will get only morning sun. On the other hand a garden that gets only Afternoon Sun will fit better hot climate plants like tomatoes. And yet the worst gardens are the ones that get only midday sun, with maximum Sun Light stress. If by 13-14 hours they get shade they could still grow more shade oriented plants. Peppers can be somewhere between tomatoes and potatoes from my experience.
I always enjoy your videos, but this one was the best. I have dabbled in growing stuff for years but never manage to plan my garden as I have undiagnosed ADHD and trying to plan what goes where is just a nightmare, but this video helped a lot. My garden is a blank canvass this year (it's actually a jungle but I'm hoping to sort it out in the next few weeks) and I'm hoping to grow salads, tomatoes, courgettes, onions, peas, herbs, beneficial flowers, radish, beetroot, leafy green vegetables but I'm just going to start with a handful of 1.2m beds to start with so as not to overwhelm myself!!! Thanks again for the great videos. p.s. the little dog was camouflaged on the pathway at one point!
I love how you use a spirit level in this video on how to setup your raised beds, but then further in in the video you can see your beds at various angles 😂 oh the joys of gardening. Makes it harder for the slugs to walk up hill I suppose, or should I say slither. All my beds are still covered over for winter. 👍
Haha - yes indeed! I think I'm better at levelling beds now - the others at the back are older and weren't level. I know better now! Happy gardening! :-)
I plan on growing lots of goodies one to be exact Is greens I love greens there so healthy for you and maybe some Radishes and beets carrots spinach and my tomatoes can,t forget those your garden Is so awesome looking I love the layout
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!
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. :-)
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!
😂looks like you just got done covering your paths. Looked like the pup 🐶 enjoyed it on her feet 🐾🐾😊 So you can plant garlic in the spring where you are? It is some crazy warm weather here in US, but we just went from 50s to 30s (Fahrenheit) and a dusting of snow. All December it’s been 15-20 degrees above normal and rain on Christmas Day-worried plants would start budding. Now we are back to strong El Niño pattern of a long dry stretch and still severe drought-almost 8” down on precipitation. Hope we get the needed snow for spring moisture. The temperatures swing too drastically and think many have to change their way of gardening. Timing, location, shade cloths and for some plastic tarps to help protect from the crazy weather. Lost a grape last year and knocked back many plants from too much heat early spring and the late frost. I need to figure out why nasturtiums seem to be so finicky. They stayed teeny tiny. I did try new varieties or it could be the temp swings, but they grew well last year and not this year. Thanks Ben for keeping us entertained during cabin fever season. 🌶️🥕🥬🥦🥒🥗🍆🌽🥔🍠🧄🧅🍅🫛🫑🌶️🥕🥬🥦🥒🥗🍆🌽🥔 🎉🎉Hope we all enjoy a healthy, prosperous and peaceful New Year🎉🎉 🌶️🥕🥬🥦🥒🥗🍆🌽🥔🍠🧄🧅🍅🫛🫑🌶️🥕🥬🥦🥒🥗🍆🌽🥔
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. :-)
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! :-)
For hand tools and gloves, I found a mailbox in the garden is perfect! I attached mine to my compost bins. They keep your tools handy and dry.
What a great idea! :-)
Your videos make a novice gardener feel like anything is possible. Thank you! Looking forward to planning and planting my 2024 garden!!
Happy gardening! :-)
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!
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!
I would LOVE to see an in-depth video covering varieties of popular crops and what resources to use to help decide what fits best in your garden, I love how you explain things and it would be soooooo helpful
Thanks for the suggestion. We'll certainly consider this for a future video.
The most important tool for me in preparation for the upcoming year is a piece of paper with a plan of what I am going to plant where, plus succession planting for the later part of the season.
I take my time, come back and often refine my plan, but by the time spring comes, I am all set.
That's the way to do it. :-)
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. :-)
I just wanted to come say your planner is a lifesaver. I've been using it since 2021 and there's nothing better. From the specific location able to detect your closest weather recording center for your first and last frost to the options for both spring and fall varieties. It's pure genius and a work of love. Thank you so much :)
I'm so pleased you're enjoying it. :-)
This is our 2nd official year planting a garden. Definitely learned what grows well here in Wyo. We're planning on adding more things like blueberries and lots of medicinal herbs. And also adding chickens! 2024 is gonna be a good year for our garden. Happy growing everyone
How exciting to be adding chickens! They'll bring wonderful personalities to the garden I'm sure. :-)
My husband and I love your videos. Thank you for sharing your passion with us! Happy Growing!
And you! :-)
Just wanted to say how much I love your channel. I have a container only garden, but I still find your content so helpful. I grow veg outside on my rooftop patio all year round in zone 8b. With limited space and ambitious goals, I go all out when it comes to planning and companion planting. Thank you for sharing what you know in such a charming way. Good luck with the coming growing season!
I hope you have a fantastic growing season also. Happy gardening! :-)
Happy 2024! GrowVeg is astonishingly influential in my garden the laste few years. I love your positive attitude and dog. I'm getting ready to try again this year to make some food and herbs in my garden outsite my home. Thank you so much for your lessons and demonstrations. Your channel is perennially wonderful!
Thanks so much for your kind words. Here's to a very productive 2024! :-)
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. :-)
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. :-)
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. :-)
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! :-)
Ben GREAT INFORMATION! I especially LOVED your personality coming thru in this video, you had me laughing out loud, literally!!! God Bless!
That's so lovely of you to say. Happy New Year! :-)
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. :-)
Looking forward to a wonderful 2024 and a quick return to the garden, in springtime. Good luck everyone wishing you all a Happy 2024!
And to you! :-)
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. :-)
Perfect video for winter, while dreaming of spring!
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 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
Leisurely admiring your reflection in your little shovel 😂 I love it.
Thank you for a great gardening video! 💚
Thanks so much 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. :-)
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. :-)
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! :-)
Loved the added animations! Really helped me visualise what you were planning!
Thank you! For sharing how to prepare a new garden in 2024, very satisfied.
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! :-)
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.
Thank you for sharing.It's great to see the tree growing day by day
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! :-)
Awesome Ben, happy new growing year.
And to you! :-)
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
Love this and all your inspirational videos. I’m growing vegetables mainly in containers in 2024 as my garden has limited space (I have 3 3x1ft raised beds). Here’s to a successful 2024!
Absolutely - hope you enjoy an abundant year!
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! :-)
Garden looking nice and ready with some very bright mulch to brighten up a dull dreary day. Great video, Happy New Year to you and your family Ben
Cheers Tony. Cheating a bit putting down wood shavings, but we needed something to liven things up! Happy New Year to you and yours also. :-)
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. :-)
Your garden looks ready to go, beautiful. Love your cute dog.
Just waiting for spring to arrive now!
Another wonderful video that is chocked full of great information. Thank you!!
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching. :-)
Would LOVE a pdf of that Hours Of Sunshine chart that was flashed at around 6 minutes…😊😊😊
We'll be putting this video up as an article on our website in the next few days, so you should be able to reference the details of sunshine hours from there: www.growveg.com/
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! :-)
I really love the graphics in this video. Great touch! Definitely is inspiring me to pull out my garden journals!
Another excellent video really helpful thanks xx
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. :-)
Thank you for your expertise
Thanks for watching. :-)
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! :-)
Lots of alliums and other carrot types is what I love to grow along with other greens
Superb video!
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! :-)
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! :-)
Loved the way you present. Thank you
Thank so much. :-)
Rosie is just so adorable.
Thank you as always for a great video. Happy New Year to you.
And to you Jane. :-)
good tip about putting the leafy spinach behind the beans. I do live in a hot climate and hopefully that will help. Well, we will do tomatoes for sure.
Glad this helped. Here's to a productive season coming up. :-)
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. :-)
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 . :-)
Always top notch content!
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. :-)
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! :-)
Your videos are always great❤
Thanks so much! :-)
I wish you guys would bring the app back. That was fantastic
Happy new year sir! Let's all pray to the weather gods for a better year than last! 😉
Definitely! :-)
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. :-)
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! :-)
Hey Ben, you have a very shiny trowel don't you? 😅
I've already been doing some planning for next year. This morning I made a list of all the seeds I have and noted their planting dates. Currently I am doing a plan in my manual gardening diary, it's a good record of how things are going in the garden. I'm really looking forward to the lighter days, but until then your channel keeps me smiling. ☺
That's really lovely to hear. Gardeners are always happy folk! Thanks for watching. :-)
I once had a large and productive garden, but life (full time job and being a caregiver) kept me from doing anything. When I finally retired and my caregiver duties ended, I now had to contend with the fact that my neighbor's pine trees had now grown tall enough to cast a lot of shade on a large portion of my garden space. I'm very excited to re-start my garden, having a custom greenhouse built from reclaimed lumber and a used Harbor Freight greenhouse, adding some raised bed (a couple tall ones as I'm getting older) and re-thinking how to utilize the smaller, sunny area of my garden. Since I have friends who farm organic veg as their business, I will be growing what they don't: peas, asparagus, artichoke, pole beans, garlic (the one thing I kept growing all these years), parsnips and a lemon tree! I'm in zone 7A in the US. Please tell me where you're located these days and how it compares with my growing zone. Love your videos and I've really been making good use of the Garden Planner - a valuable tool for someone who hasn't had a garden in a very long while!
Thanks for the kind words. I'm in zone 8, so pretty similar to your zone.
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! :-)
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! :-)
I'm hoping to grow more flowers along my vegetables.
Loving this channel and helpful tips!
I’ve started on 4 large pots of carrot seeds, I’d saved for the first time from last year 😊
That superb - closing the loop there with your own seed. Love it! Happy New year! :-)
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. :-)
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
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! :-)
Oooooooo yessssssss bring on the spring time
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
❤I've just discovered your channel this morning and I love it! Thank you for your informative and entertaining content.
So pleased you've found the channel - a very warm welcome to you! :-)
I took tenancy on my first allotment in October and have spent a LOT of time clearing it of 7 foot brambles that have been growing for a decade. My plan for the coming year is to get my shed, fencing, compost bins and a small covered area in place. After that I want to get the rest of the bramble roots dug out and the soil levelled and covered. If I get just one bed of anything growing this year, I'll be happy as a pig in poop :-)
That would be amazing to get those brambles cleared. Good luck with them! :-)
Little poochie was almost invisible against the fully wood shavings. Nice episode-loved the way the graphics animated over the beds to illustrate what you were saying.
Thanks so much. Rosie enjoyed camouflaging with the shavings!
Funny and informative, l love your videos Ben. Gardening is fun and you make it look fun too
As Doc Brown once said: "Plans? Where we're going, we don't need... plans." (An unused take, probably)
I've planted 3 types of garlic, which are doing well so far; well, 2 types of true garlic + elephant garlic for fun. I've also got a lot of seeds left over from this year, plus some I've bought for the coming year. New seeds for the coming year are: mammoth dill, rainbow quinoa, mixed grain amaranth, tromboncino Summer squash, Summer savoury and stringless emergo runner beans. It's only my 3rd year of growing food in the garden and I'm using it as an excuse to try new things. I sowed globe artichokes this year and next year should be the first year I get anything from them; should they survive. I've never eaten artichoke before, so I hope I like them, but if not I'm sure the bees will love them.
Wow - you've got some fab things to try there. And very impressed you've managed to grow artichokes from seed. I hope you get to enjoy a good crop. :-)
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! :-)
Very good beautiful sharing full watch video
Thanks so much. :-)
This video made me think about how shade tolerant plants would fit better in a Morning sun garden like Clematis, potatoes etc., and how they might actually need one extra hour of sun if they will get only morning sun.
On the other hand a garden that gets only Afternoon Sun will fit better hot climate plants like tomatoes.
And yet the worst gardens are the ones that get only midday sun, with maximum Sun Light stress. If by 13-14 hours they get shade they could still grow more shade oriented plants.
Peppers can be somewhere between tomatoes and potatoes from my experience.
Yes, afternoon sun (stronger) definitely best for those heat-loving crops.
I always enjoy your videos, but this one was the best. I have dabbled in growing stuff for years but never manage to plan my garden as I have undiagnosed ADHD and trying to plan what goes where is just a nightmare, but this video helped a lot. My garden is a blank canvass this year (it's actually a jungle but I'm hoping to sort it out in the next few weeks) and I'm hoping to grow salads, tomatoes, courgettes, onions, peas, herbs, beneficial flowers, radish, beetroot, leafy green vegetables but I'm just going to start with a handful of 1.2m beds to start with so as not to overwhelm myself!!! Thanks again for the great videos. p.s. the little dog was camouflaged on the pathway at one point!
I'm so pleased you enjoyed this video. I hope you grow lots and enjoy a bountiful harvest! :-)
Happy new year to all my friends across the pond! I have 5 more hours to go!
Happy New Year to you! :-)
I love how you use a spirit level in this video on how to setup your raised beds, but then further in in the video you can see your beds at various angles 😂 oh the joys of gardening. Makes it harder for the slugs to walk up hill I suppose, or should I say slither. All my beds are still covered over for winter. 👍
Haha - yes indeed! I think I'm better at levelling beds now - the others at the back are older and weren't level. I know better now! Happy gardening! :-)
Love your enthusiasm 😊
Thank you so much. :-)
I plan on growing lots of goodies one to be exact Is greens I love greens there so healthy for you and maybe some Radishes and beets carrots spinach and my tomatoes can,t forget those your garden Is so awesome looking I love the layout
Some lovely things to look forward to there. Thanks for the kind words on the garden. Happy New Year! :-)
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!
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! :-)
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. :-)
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. :-)
Really informative video... thank you!
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. :-)
😂looks like you just got done covering your paths. Looked like the pup 🐶 enjoyed it on her feet 🐾🐾😊
So you can plant garlic in the spring where you are?
It is some crazy warm weather here in US, but we just went from 50s to 30s (Fahrenheit) and a dusting of snow. All December it’s been 15-20 degrees above normal and rain on Christmas Day-worried plants would start budding. Now we are back to strong El Niño pattern of a long dry stretch and still severe drought-almost 8” down on precipitation. Hope we get the needed snow for spring moisture. The temperatures swing too drastically and think many have to change their way of gardening. Timing, location, shade cloths and for some plastic tarps to help protect from the crazy weather. Lost a grape last year and knocked back many plants from too much heat early spring and the late frost.
I need to figure out why nasturtiums seem to be so finicky. They stayed teeny tiny. I did try new varieties or it could be the temp swings, but they grew well last year and not this year.
Thanks Ben for keeping us entertained during cabin fever season.
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Thanks for all your support in 2023. Here's to a superb new season. Happy gardening! :-)