How to Start a Container Garden: The Complete Guide
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 2024
- There are so many good reasons to start a container garden! Perhaps you have small space or you're just starting out and want a taste of gardening. Perhaps you like the idea of raising up your containers to go easy on your back, or you just like the look of colorful pots of tasty treats around your plot.
Whatever your reason, in this week's episode Ben walks us through step by step starting a container garden from scratch. Helping his neighbor along the way, he'll be answering all the questions you might want to ask while covering a range of delicious crops suitable for beginner growers and to growing in pots. You'll learn how to tailor-make your potting mixes to what you want to grow and he's got a few tricks up his sleeve for making them look the business too!
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Rosie, the absolute star of the channel!
This video got me off my duff & to the charity shop where I bought 4 baskets, a galvanized bucket, 2 tin containers (one very large, another smaller), and a pretty painted tin waste basket with feet.
I was feeling a little "meh" today, but this video and my new containers have put a little pep in my gardening step. Thank you! Brilliant video! 😊
So true - Ben has that infectious 'pick-us-all-up' mannerisms when he does a video. A great distraction for getting any of us interested and up
& moving with growing. 👍
@@julieh4288 He really does. 😊
Well done for getting cracking on your new containers - that's brilliant! Brighter (and tastier!) days ahead! :-)
Wow! Well done you👍🏻👏🏻
Oh! How I wish that you were my neighbour.😊
Me too! Brilliant!
My father used to say to me about frost and tender plants, 'Never cast a doubt until May is out'.
Wise words! :-)
Wow! Your neighbour has a beautiful garden. Will we get a follow up video, to see how her veg are doing in containers? I love the fact your mixing old compost with new compost, to make it go that bit further. This year I have decided not spend any money on compost. Instead will be using my own sieved compost, and old compost from last year. Ben this video was a real treat🤗. I would Like to thank you and your neighbour for inviting us into her fabulous garden🙏🏻🙌
I have a couple of compost piles. I also mulch leaves and then place those directly on the garden beds. There are lots of trees on my property that I leave some leaves on the ground in the wooded areas and collect the leaves off of the grassy areas. Of those I mulch, some are designated for use in the compost piles and some go directly on the garden beds. One season, I gathered up the leaves and dumped them in a ditch or shallow ravine, and they have mostly turned into some lovely dark soil with worms 👍for adding into garden beds.
I've never dumped soil and not reused it! Always gets revived and used again.
Thanks for the lovely comment. It's great to use your own compost if you can - it's really rich stuff and plants love it of course. I may well revisit later in the season at some point. :-)
@@GrowVeg 🙏🏼 I am on a big learn curve. On my day of work I binge watch your videos. Especially liked the one on making compost that was excellent! In two years I have come a long way and grown in confidence on growing my own fruit and veg. 😆 I no longer watch gardeners world, so boring🥱
That yard just says peace, tranquility, beauty, and lots of vegetables!❤
Such lovely and beautiful neighbour Sharon is. Wonderful video.
She's pretty amazing! I'm very lucky to have great neighbours - always willing victims for my bean and courgette gluts! :-)
I absolutely love this episode. It shows beautifully that anyone can grow edibles no matter what sort of space you have, provided you have a container.
This is going to be so helpful. Currently, my small city garden is just a lawn, but some building work is going to mess it up pretty badly this year so it's a good opportunity to convert to a produce garden. Starting with a container garden is a nice first step.
People like the producers and host of GrowVeg make dreams come true.
I just love Rosie! She’s precious.
You are a great neigbour Ben.
Fabulous
Greetings from Oklahoma!!🌳🌷🌳
Hello! Great to have you watching! :-)
That yard is a stunning piece of freedom and serenity. Very blessed to be out of the subdivision and concrete 😉
Enjoy your new gardening journey! Greetings from California. You have one of my favorite RUclips pros leading you! I'm sure you'll experience tremendous success. I'm 4 years in with my veggie growing experience and my only regret is not having started sooner! Cheers!! 💚
What fun this was. Your neighbor is lovely. Please give us an update later of the garden results. Thank you. ❤
Awesome Ben, I'm sure the neighbours love having you for help and advice.
What a beautiful setting to work in.
What a gorgeous garden!
Such an enjoyable video!
Woohoo !!! New video !!! I’m so glad spring is here! Warmer weather and time to plant!
This is an very good idea , this summer I will plant one flower plant on my tomato container 😍
This looks like fun way to add to my in ground garden!
Ben, Rosie, and Sharon, what an exciting episode.😃 Beautiful garden...lovely garden lady.🦋 Happy gardening, Sharon!🍅
That was really sweet! Great job Ben!
Taking over tv gardening now, Ben 😜 watch out Titchmarsh!!!
Loving this video, and in such a lovely garden, Sharon.
I've grown my veggies in containers, too. I built four 3'x1', double level planters (so 3'x2' in one container) out of offcuts and pallets, and added heavy-duty casters to each one. They're 18" deep on both levels with the hügelkultur in mind (logs/wood/leaf litter and bigger things down at the bottom) and plenty of depth for the root veggies. They're easy to manoeuvre, even when full, which means I can put them anywhere in the yard.
Adding some old flexi piping to the corners and some old green wire fencing has meant the beans and peas have somewhere to climb on the top levels, with beetroots, onions and other shade loving veggies growing below them.
I've got fruit trees and canes growing in pots too; with a good mulch and compost top ups, they do well every year, and I'm looking forward to the Apricots, plums, cherries and peaches this year! 🤞
Good luck to your veggie potting garden too, Sharon!!
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They sound like amazing planters you've made - top work! :-)
So cool, I’d love to see a later video to see how these plants are doing 😊
I enjoy watching your videos so much - very encouraging and inspiring! Ben, please come and help me create a vegetable garden in pots - you are very welcome! I will make you coffee while you work....🪴☕...just make your way to South Africa 🤣🤣🤣
Haha, thanks so much Carla! :-)
Very inspirational... but now I need to find more containers.
Your enthusiasm is contagious Ben, and you are a joy to watch!😘
How fun and exciting for her! She exudes joy to start her veg garden. And such a great location surrounded by her beautiful garden.
Loved this video on container planting.❤ I learn something new on each of your videos.👍
I just love how you expand on your explanations and are so clear. I've just subscribed.
Welcome to the channel! :-)
Good morning Ben, you are so kind to help your lovely neighbour and sharing garden knowledge and show how to do things right. It was a great variety and most popular stuff to grow, so the leaves will put on a grand show, i.e. the oak leaf lettuce and the scalloped edges of the cilantro, it will put on a smart show when matured. It is just fabulous when neighbours can share and plant together. It was most enjoyable to watch. Great ideas. Many blessings, kind regards.
Great pot ideas! Going to keep an eye out for wicker baskets now and get some hessian
Your neighbour has a glorious garden luv all the fritillaria plants too, a great video with such good tips ❤
The snake's head fritillaries are gorgeous aren't they?!
@@GrowVeg I've 2 of the snakeshead but my soil isn't right for them so I have them in pot's but your neighbour obviously has the perfect soil ❤️❤️
Your videos are extremely informative & helpful. You earned a new subscriber :) 💫
Thank you for this helpful video! We have used a good portion of our garden, so we are now restricted to containers. Therefore, this information is perfect 👍🏻 ❤
I was always wondering why the UK struggled with tomato blight so much... until I finally traveled there last year🤣 your climate is so rainy and mild compared to the midwest where I live!
Yes, those wet, mild periods spell disaster when it comes to blight!
Wonderful episode ❤❤❤
Great ideas you have given me about lining baskets and growing things in those.. I've got some deck rail planters that I can grow spices and lettuces in, not just flowers, and they are shallow and will be up off the ground and away from the rabbits.
Ben, I rarely comment on your thoroughly enjoyable and immensely helpful videos but may I say, what an utterly lovely human you are and of course, your dog is a sweetheart, too.
Thank you so much, that's such a kind thing to say. So pleased you enjoy the videos. :-)
I totally agree with you. His enthusiasm is infectious 🙌
🐝Thanks for the great video🌻 What a pritty garden!!! love the pots
I love your enthusiasm, it's so infectious!
What a lovely neighbour, great you are inspiring them & us to grow our own and to show a great use of unused space, it really transformed her garden and she will have some tasty treats I’m sure 😋🤗👩🌾. Invaluable tips and hints as usual, thanks 🙏🏻
Thanks so much Anna. :-)
One of the best videos I've watched on tube, brilliant, I'm heading out to the garden right now.........
I appreciate the uk/north anerican translations. Thanks from Canada!😊
The herb baskets are just amazinggg
Another Great Video your enthusiasm for gardening inspires us to get out there and Garden I’m Creating a New Vegetable Garden with some Fruit trees to be planted in amongst it too,thanking You for Your work and Video Cheers Wendy 😊 from 🇦🇺
Hope your new vegetable garden goes to plan - enjoy the whole process of starting it off. :-)
Beautiful inspiration! ⚘️⚘️
WoW !
What a lucky neighbour she is !
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I love the use of baskets, I am now planning to do something for myself in a basket.
Great video Ben. Always new ideas and interesting to see others peoples gardens and how to use containers in them.
You know which 'container' I actually love best (and have had great success in?) Those felt bags! The material lets air flow to the root system, as well as hold moisture in when needed. I have grown full indeterminate tomatoes in them! So great.
I love the pots with the handles.
so beautiful so elegant🎉🎉
Wow! Lovely new direction, you should do more of these
Thanks for this, we are growing a container garden this year and this was really helpful
A fabulous 'how to' video. Sadly, I only have two places nearby to get plants. One, only has very forlorn looking shrubs, The other doesn't have many fruits, vegetables or herbs .
Wow! You are a great neighbor to have ❤️
I spent time yesterday doing all my container planting. Thanks. Also, I love your videos where you go on the road to other gardeners. I'd love to see more of those.
Hoping to go on the road again this summer - watch this space! :-)
What a brilliant video, I'm going to plants some pots today. We are moving this year so pots are a great idea. 👍🌼🌸
Looks lovely, great ideas. Congratulations on your new vegetable journey Sharon! 🎉
It’s good to see people starting to realize they are going to need a steady food supply.
People that always figured flowers were more important now understand differently.
We all feel something has changed. We do not know what’s coming but we feel it anyway.
We all here understand just what it means to have a backup when It comes to food or many
Other things we will need soon. But you need to tell your neighbors and family to start a garden.
The sooner the better.
Good video
I never thought of Rosemary being a king!
Regal rosemary!
Wonderful, as always. And she asks the BEST questions. Thank you for posting.
This is a wonderful video. Great job and beautiful garden.
Thank you for this great video. All those containers look really lovely. Here's to great harvests!
We love Rosie! She is so much fun to watch! 😊
Wow that looks great 😊I am going to try this again weed mat great idea
Love your channel, thank you very much for your content. From Brazil!
Great video and ideas for growing in containers.
My spuds are doing really well in sacks ,love this channel ❤
Love this. I’m patiently waiting to get my garden started. Still cold here! Thanks for the video.
I did this potato method but staggered and stratified. It works a real treat!
Great video, I was same going to flowers, confidence. Got tons of flowers this year they go hand in hand. .
It's so practical and aesthetic
Wish I had a neighbour like that
This was super helpful for me. I'm gardening for the first time this year and, as we're moving soon, I'm having to start in pots (including old wellies, thick cardboard boxes and plastic tubs!).
Brilliant ! Excellent ideas …..
Thank you!
Thank you Ben ! I love the idea of using the lining in the pots & using different types of containers too. Someone on the comment thread mentioned the thrift shop! Such a great inexpensive way to get unique containers & pots for the garden. I learned alot from this video & enjoyed watching your neighbor get excited too! An update before she harvests would be wonderful! God bless ! 😊👌🏽
Thanks so much. Yes, thrifting is a great way to stock up on great (and often unusual) containers. :-)
Loved the hessian idea for the less pretty containers!
Hi there really enjoyed video going to grow more in pots ,I might stand more chance of what ever eating my seedlings great advice thank you
Great channel.❤
Love this video, absolutely potty about it. Great excuse to sit down and watch it with a cup of tea. In fact all your videos are blooming marvellous. Excuse the puns. I cant seem to stop digging them up.❤
Thanks so much. A good cuppa is just the thing to accompany this video I reckon. :-)
I love this! ❤😂 Now I know why my peppers did so well.
What a wonderful video and wonderful neighbour! 🥰 You need to change the title to „Rosie and I helped our neighbour“ though 😉😂
Haha - yes indeed - we probably should! :-)
Great video!
Ah. So now we know what 'cilantro' (sp?) is. I've seen it on other food videos and assumed it was parsley, but coriander makes more sense :)
'It's not champagne, it's tomato feed' lol
Legendary present!
All good stuff! :-)
Great stuff Ben, a treat indeed!
I'm also just beginning my gardening this month in a garden that now mostly has dead areas since it was abandoned for a deca.
I wish you could make a lovely visit (based in Purley) and we could make an episode for those who would be in the same position and add further variety to your channel 😊
Thanks so much for your kind words. I hope your garden gets off to a great start. :-)
Hi! I took your advice from a previous video comment and put my tomatoes our into the unheated polytunnel. Just wanted to thank you for your help. My sungolds already have flowers!
That's fantastic to hear - they're well ahead, nice work! :-)
nice ... thanks
The Why Files exit music got me for a second
Great tip about covering the utilitarian black containers with hessian , I’m definitely going to do that with mine ASAP. In an ideal world all my containers would be glazed terracotta but unfortunately , like most gardeners, I’m not a billionaire!
I had lilies in a plastic pot, They were getting decimated by slugs, I found an air pocket where a slug was chewing on the stem, I was furious. They really can't leave anything alone can they? I feel like all my pots have to be full of grit, as they stay too wet. I really hope it survives, I dusted root hormone on the stem in hopes it would heal it, i know that's probably not how it works but I do know it has anti fungal properties. Last year the same thing happened to my sunflower, a slug climbed 5 feet up the stem and chewed the neck then left, they know how to wind up humans I think!
Those slugs have a lot to answer for!
I hope there's going to be a follow up episode, so we can see how all the plants look later in the year when they've grown a bit.
Lol thats the why files theme tune 😂 i like gardening and conspiracies 😂
How many potatoes did you put in the pot? Looked like only 2 from the video...just trying to gauge how many should be grown in that size of pot. Great video, very inspirational. Looking forward to more. Thank you
I put two in, but I could have planted up to four by staggering them over two depths. As explained in this video: ruclips.net/video/A6zhvmVuPZc/видео.htmlsi=yNUIAeCSJ-rqAxMr