See How MUCH You Can Grow in a Family Garden!
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- It's amazing just how much you can grow in a family garden of just a few raised beds!
In this video, join Ben as he shows us around his family garden and find out what has been going well - and what hasn’t!
And some links, as promised, to freezing, canning and preserving your delicious produce...
Freezing: • Top Tips for Freezing ...
Canning: • Water Bath Canning Ste...
Preserving: • Preserving Herbs: How ... and • Apple Storing and Proc... and • How to Preserve Herbs,...
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What a wonderful way to live boy you’re so lucky to have all the land to do what you’ve shown. Anyway, I had the best corn crop this year thanks to you. I kept tapping the corn stalks for pollen and boy did I have some large ears. Not all large but the sweetest corn. Thanks for the lessons on how to raise corn. I have shared your suggestions to many many friends and educated them on growing a garden. The love of growing things is very contagious. Next year I intend to grow more flower baskets to sell and I just increase the room in my greenhouse to hang them. I love watching you everyday before my day starts. You can’t imagine how you light up this 76 year old man’s day. Keep doing what you love and I will keep sharing your videos to every and every one who will listen to me
That is so lovely to hear, thank you for your lovely comment. Great you’ve got great corn this year - top job.
Your beautiful personality makes your garden tours such a joy...all your other videos too.🙂
Your garden is thriving with health and yumminess! It's lovely! So glad you are having a great year in the garden.
In Central Texas still planting summer squash, cucumber, etc. I have my fall-winter seeds sown in starter cells to go out in a month or so.🙂
Thank you Valorie. It sounds like you have a great feast to come from your fall seeds - lots to look forward to!
I totally agree with all you've said about this delightful gentleman and his gardens ❤
Glad I'm not the only one bringing out a chair, sitting in the beans and tomatoes, joyfully looking out on the greenery. This is a particular treat as we're balcony gardeners in the middle of Berlin. Sadly, it has been windy and cloudy for days now so things are a bit slow.
Don't forget to bring back in the chair. I did that when I was harvesting my hops off my balcony with a mountain top view last year and I left it outside and forgot about it. I ruined the finish when it rained on it. Now I get to refinish it so it's in my workshop.
Me too! My husband asks what are you doing?
My response: looking at my plants! Hehe
Being surrounded by greenery is a real joy!
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Me too! I drag a chair out to admire my 3 small gardens. Lol
Your genuine enthusiasm is both appreciated AND inspiring. Thank you from Nova Scotia. 🇨🇦
Cheers so much! :-)
GrowVeg, you inspire my garden of the future. You are honest, truthful and show the harvest. Best youtube gardening channel of 2022? It's my gold medal winner. Thank you, you are wonderful.
That is so kind of you to say - thanks so much for watching!
I’m in my second year growing and loving it more and more. I have a pumpkin bigger than a bowling ball, tomatoes turning red, I’ve still got strawberries forming, and I get to cook with my own grown onions and garlic. I’ve learned so much this year that I can take forward and make next year better. I ALWAYS need more French beans! I so wish I had a big area to build a kitchen garden like yours but I am in 6th place for an allotment!
I hope you get your allotment soon - that will certainly keep you busy and your fingers dirty!
This man is so pure
I would try spicy garlic dill gerkin with a usual brine for dill pickles but add more garlic and a cayenne pepper or other hot pepper in the jar.
Scapes are our favorite! We use them in omelettes, pesto, stir fries, salads... Yummmmy!!
Yummy indeed!
Thank you for this tour, so glad I'm not the only one so crazy in love with growing our food, we truly appreciate what you do!
Thanks Anthony!
Your enthusiasm is contagious. Beautiful garden.
Thanks Beth. :-)
Beautiful and inspiring lovely garden.
As always, I love your energy and the way you teach us all! Looking forward to the gardening season!! Thank you SO much Ben!
You're very welcome - cheers for watching!
I have been watching and re watching loads of Ben's videos. Very informative, energetic, enthusiastic and quite meditative at the same time. Keep up the good work. 👍
Mmmmm....beautiful garden, & loved the new trick of self pollinating the 🌽 & tomatoes 😀 especially useing an electric toothbrush 😂.
But yes l like the shake...shake...shake of the corn, never thought of it. Even self pollinating the tomatoes as l only knew about self pollinating the 🎃, squash,& 🥒 cucumber but l suppose one has to self pollinate anything then reamy that has a 🌼.
Thankyou so much for sharing, am really envious of your lovely garden & especially your bean archway 🤗
Thankyou so much for sharing.
Greetings from South 🇿🇦 Africa.
Thanks for watching Rina. Yes, tapping the corn to pollinate is the best tip I've learnt recently. The cobs had such a better fill.
Thank you very much for this video :) I start from scratch in a smaller garden and I need all the inspiration I can get! /Anneli, Sweden
It's so cool that you've been to Portland! It's always a surprise to hear people mention it 😄I hope when you were there you got a chance to pop over to Hood River and visit the Fruit Loop! My family loves to go there and pick cherries in the summer (there's nothing like eating fresh sun-warm cherries right off the tree while you pick huge buckets full!) But of course there's all kinds of berries and fruits, especially apples and pears towards fall.
Lovely part of the world it really is. Missed Fruit Loop while I was there but will have to pop over to take a look when I next visit - sounds fab! 🍎
@@GrowVeg Yeah! I hope you get a chance to see it 😄 I It's a really pretty drive as well - as the name suggests, it's a 35-mile "loop" of roads that connects all these farms, fruit stands, vineyards, and tasting rooms, all with breathtaking views of the other side of Mt. Hood (it looks so different from the side you see from Portland!). Also, I've never been able to try it myself, but apparently they have amazing pear wine and all sorts of fruit wines at the wineries. And on your way down to Hood River from Portland, I definitely recommend stopping at Multnomah Falls and the Vista House at Crown Point! They're both two of the jewels of the Columbia River Gorge 😄
I've not had the time to spend at the allotment that I wanted this year, so my partner has been popping over every few days to water the greenhouse... I've been rewarded for my neglect with monster marrows, leeks and celery, gluts of tomatoes and beetroot and so much rhubarb I can't make crumbles quick enough! It's not always hard graft that does the trick :D
Some crops you just can't hold back!
Incredible! We never get the sizes that you do. This year, the deer, the chickens and the slugs have all taken a toll.
Gardening always feels like a bit of a battle against other hungry mouths!
I've grown some lovely open flowered dahlias from seeds. There in pots and the bees love them!
This yet is my 3rd seeing planting the tubers. now 3 Hugh ones... that developed after I grew some from seed originally. In fact they generally have fared better than standard dahlias that either got eaten by slugs or as this year rotted b4 they cud flower.🙈
Wonderful production of vid and garden! Going to look at the veg canning and freezing vids. 💚
Garlic scapes! One of the treasures of the veg garden. I recommend grinding them up into pesto with some pine nuts, oil, and lemon zest. I freeze for making winter calzones and pastas, but it's also a good spread, or dip flavoring.
Sounds totally delicious!
I recommend eating them straight off the plant.
Thanks for sharing, sounds really good
never heard of calzones
Thank you for your honesty. Everything of mine is at least 3-4 weeks behind what it usually is. I find it reassuring that someone on RUclips shows the reality of a slow season. That being said, your garden is wonderful and the beans and corn are tremendous! Pickle variations - why not try star anise rather than dill? I also pickle rhubarb (for next year?) Thank you for your uplifting videos.
Thanks for the encouragement - and I love star anise, so might try that as you suggest.
I LOVE to watch your super informative videos! I thoroughly enjoy your enthusiasm and knowledge. I’m a fairly new gardener and refer to your information often. I love listening to you speak and seeing Rosey help! Thank you so much for your time and information!!
You're very welcome Staci - thanks so much for watching.
Really enjoy watching your garden tours, passion and tips. Your garden looks lovely and full of delicious fresh food. Thank you for all the useful tips and sharing your garden with us
You're welcome Gabby - thanks for watching.
hi, im yuor follower in the philipines your my idol.
Thanks for watching Analyn. :-)
Late spring here in south texas saw lots of promise with my peppers, tomatoes, chard and herbs. was able to harvest some carrots too. June hit with a vengeance and we’ve had over 20 days with over 100 degrees (we normally have only 3-4). with heat index numbers running as high as 125 my motivation to get outside has waned and will be yanking everything soon and wait for fall.
So sorry to hear you've been having such a savage summer. I do hope it cools off for you soon.
Really enjoy these videos! They inspire me and sometimes even educate me. After 40 years of gardening, there's not a lot I haven't experienced in a small vegetable plot. We pickled some cukes, daikon radish and beets this week. Didn't take too long and it wasn't too warm a task for our hot Oregon days.
Your pickles sound delicious Barb.
Lovely garden
Another lovely enthusiastic tour, thanks a lot Ben! I'm fortunate to be up in the Algarve hills where the heat-lovers, the tomatoes, peppers and aubergines especially, have been cropping profusely for some weeks now. One of the varieties of tomatoes I've been growing for the last few years in tomberry, a tiny variety which makes the cherry varieties look big! Has anyone tried this type? They're delicious thrown whole in green salads. I also wondered if you had tried growing in your greenhouse two plants which are doing very well here this year out in the open, tomatillo (physalis) and okra (or ladies' fingers). Tomatillo is the basis of a delicious Mexican-style 'salsa verde' and young okra is delicious cut into small chunks and tossed in salted olive oil.
I haven't tried either tomatillos or okra, but would love to do so. I think that me be a project for next growing season Alan.
@@GrowVeg Keep in mind okras grow very large and need to be harvested frequently. Line up a group of friends with whom you can share or prepare to eat gumbo and sautéed okra by the bucketload for several weeks.
Your videos always put a smile on my face! Love your garden!!
Thanks Bobbie, that's very kind of you to say.
You should do a video on small spaces or apartment/city dwellings.
How lovely is your yard btw.
Thanks so much for that. Please do check out our playlists on container gardening: ruclips.net/p/PL3VEy0_tuFgQhuPkhdjRZKB4CpzqDGKUl and vertical gardening: ruclips.net/p/PL3VEy0_tuFgRqQHH9WVw7SeIKevTnVzYh
Yes, this is our reward time! Great garden this summer overall. Have 2nd planting corn 5' high already & 2nd planting tomatoes to go into the fall, hoping diseases from the first planting do not spread. Watermelon a total bust. Have 2nd planting in, hoping for a go. Zone 7b USA.
Hope those second plantings do you proud!
Zone 8a USA here! My watermelon was a bust as well.
Thanks to you and you great tip I have just ordered 2 tonne of soil to fill my beds to plant more crops and hope they all settle in well
Great job! Bets of luck getting it all spread and growing more. :-)
@@GrowVeg thanks to you and your great tip I have gone mad this yr and loving every minute of watching and wait for all my crops to grow and talk to than lol thanks Ben for your great tips much appreciated and will have alot more planned for later
I am starting to really enjoy my garden now, our summer was horrific- the rain & weird weather was just so hard. We are now in Autumn so all the brassicas etc will take off. Wish I could grow beetroots but having struggled the last couple of attempts, it won't deter me from trying again though. Cheers Denise- Australia
I've been using your garden planner for years now and I can honestly say if I don't use it my garden is always a mess. Thanks for creating such a useful product that's easy to use and so very effective. God bless.
So pleased it's so useful - that's really great to hear. :-)
@@GrowVeg Just curious, is that only for the UK? Or couldn't it work for the US too? Thank you very much for helping 🙏❤️
That's hardly an average garden ! its enormous compared to the pocket handkerchief plot that is usually at the back of most modern boxes !
The bed area is relatively modest, but yes, I'm very lucky to have a good sized garden. :-)
I've just found your channel and I must say I'm so enjoying your enthusiasm and outlook when it comes to gardening. =D
Thanks so much! :-)
Watching your video this morning was so uplifting - thank you.
I am afraid that although I have and use your garden planner, I still over plant 😕. I grow too much and then have to find somewhere to put it, and the result of this of course is over crowding. I kick myself every year but never seem to learn. When a new year comes around my enthusiasm out weights my ground space. Bearing in mind I grow all my veg on an allotment (it’s not a big one, just 20m x 20m) you would think I would do better.
I particularly love your runner bean arch and if I can cadge some old pig netting from someone I will be making one next year. It would also be good for the butternut squash - think I will need some strong poles and cross beams to hold them up though. My sweet corn should have been shaken - like an idiot I left the wind to do it and some of the cobs are not particularly good. I would like to say we live and learn - for some reason that bypasses me 😬. Thanks again for your happy and informative video - happy gardening and eating.
I have a small urban garden n never manage to leave appropriate space around plants...I wish I had more space as I seem to spend most of my time playing chess with them to try to fit them in. I'll try the garden planner Ben suggests but fear it will only,,'allow' me one or two plants,!!!
The Garden Planner is really useful for getting spacings right. It's often frustrating knowing I can't plant as much as I'd like, but it does discipline you into planting at the right spacings so plants thrive.
The bean arch was great fun to make and looks really great once covered - a real feature. It's quite easy to make one.
Thank you for sharing this video, I love your garden❤️
What a beautiful little kitchen garden. I wish I would have so much space to grow vegetables. My balcony has a propper size for some pots and little high beds - but not enough for real self sufficiency. So I use the height to grow beans, peas, gherkins, zucchinis, tomatoes, peppers and some eggplants. Next year I wanna try Sugar Baby watermelons because my balcony has full sun from late morning till sunset and gets pretty hot in summer. 😉
Here in southern Germany, we had the same trouble with longtime cold till freezy spring until end of may. So planting and sowing outside was really late. My indoor sown plants became long and longer so I put them outside during the day and back inside most evenings to keep them propper growing.
June was very hot and dry. So many plants grew hardly and threw off their flowers. Beetroot and cellery stayed small with little bulbs. July was too cold and much too wet. Nevertheless plants grew a little better. Good summer season started mid August till Octobre. This was the time tomatoes got red, eggplants got fruits to ripen. Late summer was the best time of the year. Salads and spinach grew well in autumn.
Tomatoe blight was no problem for me because of the covered balcony. Others lost most of their plants in the gardens. Additional I could keep some plants inside till the fruits became completely red. So I have fresh cocktail tomatoes in Decembre. That's cool.
I hope next year will work a little better. I'm allready planing my sowing and planting for next season while I'm still harvesting some fresh little autumn carrots, beetroots and salads from my balcony pots now in mid Decembre. We allready had pretty much snow. I covered the pots with mulch, use bubble foil over night and as a rain shield. I just tried and hoped it would work. It does. 😊 It's my first time winter gardening.
I just found your channel and look forward to see more of your gardening videos.
It sounds like your balcony is really productive Christiane. Well done on getting so much from your space - that's inspirational, it really is. It's great to have you watching the channel - really appreciate your support. Happy gardening! :-)
I got over 600 tomatoes from six varieties, 18 plants total. I've made 60 pints of tomato and spaghetti sauce which I've frozen in the deep freezer. Its been a good season with carrots, lettuce, chard, cornfield pole beans, crowder and black eyed peas and butternut squash.
Do u make green tomato chutney?
Wow - that's a lot of sauce, but well done for getting all processed - that must have been quite a task.
Ben I forgot to say that I have been using Epsom salts on some of my veg this year. When I planted my tomatoes and peppers I added a scoop to the potting mixture and they have been tremendous. You can still use it now by sprinkling a tablespoon around the roots or dissolving it in water and spraying the foliage. Used it on my courgettes and butternut squash too and they have gone crazy.
I thought salt on plants was a big no no?! Are Epsom salts different...I use them for their magnesium in a bath but....
@@le2584 I have to admit that it does sound that way from the name, but Epsom Salts is a natural mineral compound of magnesium and sulfur - often referred to as magnesium subcategory. Apparently, Epsom Salt is highly soluble and easily taken up by plants when combined with water and sprayed on leaves. When added to soil additive it becomes soluble with soil moisture and is drawn up through the roots.
I have to admit that I am not that clever! I just like reading up on stuff - most of which I have forgotten by the time I stand up 🤣. BUT this year I used it on my tomatoes and peppers and they have seriously out performed all other years. One of my beef steak tomatoes weighed 1.255kg. I wish I could attach a photo. Give it a go!
@@vanessataylor4125 Sounds great! How much Epsom salt do you use please, when you mix it with water? I'd like to try that 😊
@@traceytaylor2041 For foliar spray during the season, add two tablespoons (42 grams) of Epsom salts to a gallon (3.8 litres) of water and mix well, then put it into a sprayer and spray once a month. Or if you want to spray more often, half the quantity of Epsom Salts and dissolve in one gallon of water. If you can find a website called Harvest to Table you will find this info and more. Happy growing 👍😀
Interesting Vanessa. I've never used Epsom salts myself but have heard great things about it. I may give it a try next year - sounds like it does wonders!
I do 💚 your enthusiasm!! I feel the same! Who inspired your love for gardening? Where did you learn about celery being a bog plant?? So coooool! Thank you! Cheerio ☺️
Every day is a learning day as a gardener Prisilla!
I love your videos. I've been working on my flower garden too. Thanks for sharing
You're very welcome - thanks for watching.
My summer is going terribly 😔 we have made loads of mistakes including over crowding right the way to late planting. We did manage to get some really nice mixed lettuce and even made £3.50 selling to the neighbours 😀 I need a better way to plant and manage planting better but working my way through your videos with are a major help 😀 maybe next year will be better. We are looking into multiple crops grown with one year to help with crop rotation and yield but its not a massively common subject
There's always next year as you say. Gardening is very much a learning process and, honestly, the more I learn the more I realise there's so much more to learn!
Hi, I’m going to be a complete beginner next January. Bed are made. Soil and compost is to be delivered next week.
Love your enthusiasm, it’s very contagious.
Do you have a cooking channel too 😁
Hi Tammy - very best of luck with your new gardening journey. Most importantly, enjoy it! We don't have a cooking channel, but if you look among our videos we have a few cooking/preserving-themed videos. Check out the most recent video on green tomatoes - two stellar recipes in there for fried green tomatoes and green tomato chutney.
Appreciate your videos! Probably suggested before but I let my leeks flower beside my pumpkins, unbelievable amount of bees turned up, no interference with light, perfect companion?
I think you may be onto something there, for sure. Leek flowers are beautiful and, as you say, the pollinators love them!
Thank you for the tour. I would love to see a video on Fall square foot planting.
I live in TN (USA) and this is my first year planting a garden.
Thanks for that suggestion Helen - I'll add it to our list of potential topics. In the meantime check out our existing video on square foot gardening: ruclips.net/video/f2FxJimob84/видео.html
Love your channel thanks very much
Cheers for watching Stuart. :-)
Not sure about anywhere else but I know sweet corn is a staple for Americans in summer. Salt pepper and butter right off the cob. Can’t wait till I can get some seeds in the ground! I have also heard to not cover the roots on the bottom that get exposed??? Interested to hear if you have heard that. I didn’t last year and they did very well. Great videos and thank you!
Thanks for sharing that. I was always told to cover them to offer support, but interesting you've heard the opposite. I may leave them as they are this year to compare, thanks.
Really enjoyed this, thank you.
Another great video ty
Beautiful video Ben ☺️
Thanks Jennifer. :-)
Roast the scapes. Cut them into 6" (15-16 cm) long pieces, toss them in a bit of olive oil, lightly salt, then - after roasting (hot oven) - grind a bit of pepper on them. They're amazing just like that or cut up into a salad or stirred into a bowl of grains. One of my favorite summer foods.
Sounds totally delicious Noelle, thank you for sharing.
@@GrowVeg you are most welcome. Bon appetit!
Good advice on corn pollination - thanks a lot for that! 'm overwhelmed by my garden right now - way too much for someone who works more than full time to handle! Also, I pulled out my fava beans and have been trying to plug celtuce that I started on my deck in their place - I started way too many, but maybe it was for the best, as every day I check on them at least half have been eaten by slugs or maybe earwigs. This has been going on for over a week, and it's really annoying!
Slugs are such a nuisance. I hope some of your celtuce comes good for you.
I live in the Netherlands, nuff said.
So lovely. Thank you
Great Scott, Ben! You have such an abundance of goodies growing there! Here in North Carolina, we are getting ready to plant our cool season crops. The summer crops were a bit disappointing, but we just keep moving forward and hope to get better with each new opportunity.
Yes, doesn’t everything taste better with butter!
Continued blessings...daisy
Thank you daisy. Butter is wonderful stuff but I try to resist when I can!
You can also dry them and powder for any application, soups and meats and such.
Garlic caps
Ah super, thanks for the heads up on that.
wonderful garden, great work
Thanks William. 😎
[watching on the winter solstice] I miss short sleeves.
Spring will return in the blink of an eye
Excellent video :)
Corn is amazing
Believe it or not my granddaughter she's 7 has a liking for shop baught girkins, so I'm planning a space so we can make or own girkins in a jar, one of the high lites of the coming season
What a great idea Alan!
Prune your squash, it helps.
I make Scape sauce with sharp cheese & oil whizzed to smooth, Great on Chicken
Sounds yum!
@@GrowVeg it is so
Rosie can get away with anything 😍🤣🐶
Potatoes I am scared of digging them up, my wife loves potatoes, this is whare I get hit with a rolling pin 🤣🤣 frightens me every year 🤣
Can you tell us about your tomato plants that seem to be growing in hay bales please?
I haven't got any tomatoes growing in straw bales this year - the ones this summer are just mulched with a thin layer of grass clippings to help retain moisture. But you can grow them very successfully in bales, which I did last summer. More on growing in bales here: ruclips.net/video/qxaRo49-ios/видео.html
Please make a video on how to grow amaranth/ sorghum
Thanks for the suggestion Bianca.
You mentioned linking to videos about freezing, canning and preserving your bounty. I don't see the link(s). Would you please share them? Thank you. It's a happy problem to have--an abundance of great veg, herb, flowers, and even fruit.
Apologies for that. Here are some links. As you say, it's a lovely problem to have!
Freezing: ruclips.net/video/XmZCxXKAcCk/видео.html
Canning: ruclips.net/video/ABzE2jI3YpM/видео.html
Preserving: ruclips.net/video/XAUgDGZ_vyM/видео.html and ruclips.net/video/5cwrDcq4FXA/видео.html and ruclips.net/video/ic0V5xWqzoY/видео.html
@@GrowVeg Thank you. I'll use the winter to plan improvements to my garden and learn how to preserve it well. Some things (peas and cherry tomatoes) never make it inside. Wishing you continued bounty in 2022!
your garden looks great but not all of us have had great success with out garden. Here in New England we had almost the entire month of July with rain. We had so many mosquitos we could barely get near our garden. Lots of weeds from lots of rain.
We got a lot of rain recently and the weeds have really grown - a lot! You're not alone there Linda.
Who enjoys beets? How do you cook them? I'm going to attempt to grow them this year and I'm hoping they will taste better from my garden.
They will! I roast mine with some oregano. Delicious!
Hi Ben, loved watching this, thank you for such an informative and helpful video, as always 😊 Do you happen to have taken a video showing us how you made your bean arch, I would love to have a go at something like that 🤔😃
Of course - here you go: ruclips.net/video/V9JAY6H95mM/видео.html
I love the succession gardening. But how do you help/amend your soil between plantings? Excited for your input!
If you put down a good layer of organic matter in the autumn/winter (at least 1cm/0.5in) then that should be enough to support all plants throughout the following growing season. That said, a top-up of organic matter as a mulch mid season will certainly help to feed the soil and do wonders for your follow-on crops.
@@GrowVeg I hear hot climates may require more, but this is a helpful starting place. Thanks so much!! I appreciate you sharing your garden with us! We love your videos!
Do you have a video on creating the raised beds? I love the small square ones you have. Where do you get the materials from? Thank you!
This video shows how I made them: ruclips.net/video/SSjn6c5pGHY/видео.html
Wow
Wow! Your veg are amazing. I've had big problems with slugs and snails this year. I've had to re-sow my runner and French beans 3 times because the plants have been demolished each time and now I have no plants at all. Previously, over 30 years of gardening, I have always had at least a reasonable crop. The beetroot, on the other hand, have been amazing!
Try nematodes.. Alto pricey they saved my gardening sanity and I think they worked really well for me this year for probably the first time. Usually my experience is the same as you describe but no probs at all this year until the company had stock problems so last batch were late. Now all my daisies have been munched,!
I had to re-sow my beans this spring as well - very frustrating.
Your garden is beautiful and bountiful! What type of soil do beets thrive in? Do you plant seeds directly or do you grow seedlings to transplant? I'm able to grow most things, but beets just fizzle out for me. The maximum size I can get is only about 2 cm and super slim. I've tried five different varieties, and none prospered. I love beets but think something must be missing in my soil. I'd welcome any ideas on how to turn this around.
I grow them in ordinary garden soil mixed with compost - although the beds in the video were recently filled, so it would be more like majority compost. They need light and space - this is important - and proper watering in warm weather. I have sown direct but now tend to sow them in small clusters to plant out as a bunch of three to five seedlings, which all grow on to give roots. I think space and watering are probably the two biggest considerations for beets.
@@GrowVeg Thank you very much. I love roasted beets and also use them to make hummus.
Can you do a video on the mosaic virus? I'm in France and the whole area is rife this year. In my veg garden literally all plants got it now! Lost 50 or more baby cucumbers, tomato plants, etc etc...Even the beans and pumpkins, butternuts got it.
Thanks for the suggestion - I'll add that to our list of potential video topics. Sorry to hear your loss - how frustrating!
@@GrowVeg Thanks!
One year ago was January, how did you grow that in the Winter?
Hello! I love your edible garden. Is it possible to know what varieties of corn, pumpkin and tomatoes are the ones you have in this video?
From memory, the corn I planted is 'Earlibird' - a variety ideal for my cooler, temperate climate. Pumpkins/squash were 'Marina di Chioggia'. And the tomatoes were, from memory 'Red Pear' and I think something reliable like 'Moneymaker'.
How do you know what height to pinch top of tomatoes at?
I pinch out the tops once four trusses of fruit/flowers have formed or, for the greenhouse tomatoes, simply when they reach the roof.
Hi. I enjoy really of your garden. BTW can you give me tip that why for the second year my all zucchini plants have just male flowers?
I had no harvest from my small terrace 😣
How frustrating. Check out our recent video on getting squash and zucchini to fruit: ruclips.net/video/4Baj4vUXFMA/видео.html
@@GrowVeg thank you
We planted tons of beetroot but the beet leaf miner has destroyed most of the leaves. We sprayed with neem oil but they have taken over. Do you have any other tips for us? Will the root still swell even tho the leaves are no good? Thanks in advance. 👍🙂
Often plants recover from leaf miner damage. Mine got quite severely affected but then grew threw it to still produce good-sized roots. They should swell if there are enough leaves, even if they're a bit damaged.
Funny you should mention chamomile as it is everywhere this year!
Is that the white flowers,?I have them but thought they were daisies,!?
@@le2584 Yes, that's the ones I was talking about.
Do you ever grow okra?
I've never grown it as my climate is a bit on the cool side, but I may try it one year in the greenhouse.
I didn't get to do much (#renterlife) but I did get a couple everbearing strawberries back in April. Unfortunately, one died from multiple causes and the other keeps having the flowers eaten. I still have no idea what's been getting at them! And due to the recent rains, that one holdout is probably going to die from rot.
I'm sorry to hear that. Growing strawberries in containers can help to raise them above potential slug damage.
Unfortunately, these are container berries, I believe that it might be tarnished bugs or something similar, so I don't have much hope for berries before the frost. Next year I'm trying June-bearing instead.
Do you get a lot if mouskitos bites?
No I don't - guess I'm lucky!
Chard smoothie! Can you elaborate on that for me? Thx.
Of course. Basically I put it in a mixture of fruit, usually including a banana for smoothness. But I also add a generous handful of greens - usually chard but sometimes spinach, kale or even lettuce. Top it all up with water and perhaps a dollop of yoghurt, then blitz. A creamy and delicious way to get a punch of vitamins!
2 jaar geleden was het een fantastisch moestuin jaar
Tot nu toe is mijn 2e tuin een zwembad ik kan daar nog niks beginnen behalve rijst verbouwen misschien 😢
Het is een uitzonderlijk nat voorjaar!
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I think I’m the only person that can’t grow crocosmia, my uncle won’t have it in his garden he said it’s an invasive weed😂 I love it but can’t get it to do well at all.
It seems to do well in the sunshine and fairly well-drained soil.
How big of a land do you have?
In all about a third of an acre, or just over 0.1 hectares.
I make scape pesto
Great video!! Thank you
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I was looking for something pleasant to watch on this Sunday morning, and found your totally delightful garden tour from a few months back. Your garden is lovely (I'm sitting in a chair and enjoying it on screen!) and your enthusiasm is infectious. Thank you so much!
You're so welcome Gayle. Thanks for letting me be a part of your Sunday morning. :-)
The envy of seeing such a beautiful garden is taking over me. Competition invades me too and my waist says enough! Thank you very much for sharing the success of your endeavor!
I’ve been using this garden planner for several years and absolutely love working on it when the cold winter days keep me inside. Daydreaming about the following summer’s garden.