Something special about this channel is that it always leaves me with less garden anxiety. Most channels in this realm tend to induce paranoia. Love the positivity
Much as I love this channel and Ben is a hero, I find their transition towards clickbaity ‘You MUST do this in June!’-style headlines is having the opposite effect on me
@@CindyPakme too! Once some of these RU-vidrs start getting more viewers & subscribers they start to become salespeople! It’s a turn off and I also unsubscribe! We get enough commercials in the movies, on tv & radio! I love his channel because he gets right to the point and breaks down everything so simple, great upbeat personality too! Hello from New York! 👋🏽 Happy Gardening! 😊😁
I find that, too. Same with Charles Dowding and Huw Richards. All top men. There are some women gardeners that are the same. Emma from Emma's Allotment Diaries is my favourite. She's not a 'how-to' channel but she's a ray of sunshine, hilarious, and produced a wonderful yearly allotment planner.
You are amazing. Reading the comments, you clearly impress a lot of us to grow our own food. I hope this is a sign of the future and how we will all eat real food, not chemical laden rubbish.
I let my parsley go to seed last year and was happy to see one plant go to so many. I did have to spread them out a bit more, but well worth it. I even had enough to gift to friends.
Hi Ben I kept on checking if I turned on the notification button or not,I was waiting for you to upload a video,your videos are healing me slowly and I'm starting to do gardening again
I love this channel. Always gets me inspired to begin gardening. I just wish I had the space. Apartment living doesn’t provide new with the needed space to grow much 😔 But if I was going to be growing I’d grow some year squash, maybe zucchini. Chili pepper and bell pepper. Maybe a blackberry or raspberry bush.
Try looking for container or dwarf varieties of veg and herbs to grow on a window sill or even under a grow light in a dark corner? I feel the pinch of small space just like you 😭 but I stubbornly still trying hahah. Good luck to you!
I just transplanted my peppers, tomatoes and eggplants. I still have plenty of broccoli and cabbage starts to transplant. But now I will sow cucumbers, summer squash, cilantro, sugar snap peas, lettuce and kobocha squash. Kobocha is my favorite for pumpkin pie and squash soup because it is so sweet, you don't have to add sugar.
Hi Ben, another snapshot of your allotment year, brilliantly explained, thank you. So, last month I told you the mice had snaffled all my courgettes, you advised plant again, so I did! They're up,up and away!!! Loads more peas and beans sown, germinated and ready for transplanting. My companion flowers are ready for planting out too. At this rate I'll need to till another bed!!!! Thanks again Ben
Love the gardening videos. It is getting to be time to plot out my fall garden. I have all the seeds I need, I just need to decide on what I am, going to plant where. For now, it is harvest time. Thursday. I harvested out my shelling peas, snow peas, and potatoes. Friday, I harvested the kohlrabi and Swiss Chard. My mustard greens are ready for their third reaping, and I have crookneck squash, lemon squash, zucchini, cucumbers, salad onions, and Hungarian Yellow Wax peppers ready to pick. I have potatoes chitting for planting fall potatoes on July 2nd. In july, I'll start seed starts for cabbage, in August, seed starts for brocolli, cauliflower, and Nappa Cabbage. Tunips and carrots will probably replace my Hearts of Gold cantaloupe and Sugar Baby watermelon. In a coupel of weeks, my garlic will be ready to pull up. My onions won't be ready until August or September leaving that bed open for planting. My tomatoes are flowering and loaded with ripenng fruit. I just planted seedlings for late season tomatoes, and have two more ready to transplant. I'll probably up pot them and wait until some of my determinant tomato plants have been harvested, and are ready to come out of the ground. It won't be long. I'll be harvesting the first tomatoes of the season in a couple weeks. I have two peach trees to add to my orchard, and a Prarie Fire crabapple tree coming in the post with an estimated delivery date of Tuesday. Dang garden keeps getting bigger! LOL. Happy gardening!
Loved this video! Thank you for sharing. I just harvested my potatoes, and unfortunately lost the crop due to a slug worm infestation. But I’ve turned the bed over, removed the slugs, and sowed some okra seeds!
I bought another covered planter trough a few weeks ago to grow some funky carrots - round like golfballs. I have my first couple of little sprouts! I'm finding it very exciting 😁 and they're protected from the pigeons, squirrels and starlings!
I'm a little behind since our country is currently swimming in rainfall.... AND SNAILS! All I'm growing at my plot is grass which I can't mow due to the rain.. 😅😂 Ah well.. Let's get some beans and corn sown in pots and ask my daughter where she has left the nasturium seeds, which she gently sown around the garden. 😊😅
Okra and basil are being planted this weekend. One important thing I have to keep reminding myself is to label the trays when I plant the seeds! Hot and sweet pepper plants look alike as well as many cole crops.
My plan is to try broccoli again, as last year I lost all of mine to the cabbage white caterpillars. So I’m going to have to go back over your older vlogs to see if I can find out how to protect them and maybe I’ll try growing some winter cabbage.
Hmmm Kohlrabi is delicious! One of the only veggies I really liked as a kid- my family always cooks it in a white sauce out of flour roux, milk, Salt and pepper until it is soft 🤤
Gracias Sr. por otro video lleno de experiencia y imformacion, e aprendido mucho con sus videos ud es una inspiracion para mi.. Saludos desde Guyana. Dios lo Bendiga 🙏
Thanks for saying that dill is a good companion for tomatoes. I had read otherwise and was upset when my husband planted a large patch of dill next to the tomatoes. I can relax now. I have failed in the past with fennel, not even germinating. I just planted it again and will also plant some parsley. Love to watch your channel.
Thanks for the great tips and reminders 🌱 I have the worst time getting dill to grow but I keep trying. I’m going to plant some in between my tomatoes today.
It's June already, but round my place we're still talking less than 20 degrees Celsius for most days and mainly rain. In a week or so I am hoping for sunshine though, so I'll definitely sow dill around the tomatoes (who are doing surprisingly well given the cooler weather), parsley and coriander. I also have some artichoke seedlings on the go which I am going to "flood" the garden with, once it gets a bit warmer). I might also get some mange-tous and various beans going as well.
Hello Ben, You are an amazing gardener! So knowledgeable! I love your passion and enthusiasm. I am near Portland, Oregon and I am learning to farm. Your videos have been incredibly helpful! Thank you. Please keep the videos coming!!
Hello again! After the failure of runner beans and peas I decided to wait until the weather gets cooler to try them again 🧐 Instead I have started sowing malabar spinach and mung beans and they're doing quite well so far, developing their first leaves already 🥳 Also Kohlrabi is very popular here in Vietnam but I never found its English name before so thank you for the English lesson 🤩
I think beans and corn are the only things I'll be sowing in June. Everything else is at least in a seedling tray indoors if not outside. I might do more flowers, though. Thanks again for another lovely, positive video!
Hi Ben - thank you for another great gardening video. After I come back from my holiday I am going to be sowing more carrots, more borage (though I am not sure if it will be too late) perhaps some more marigolds too. Also lettuce and coriander. I have already got some purple sprouting broccoli seedlings and also some nine star broccoli seedlings too. It's my first year growing nine star so it's exciting. 😊
😢 I sowed and grew PSB all winter and then a horrible cold spell hit so I fleeced it all in the poly and created a rat Airbnb. Lesson learned 🤦🏼♀️. Great update as always Ben have a fantastic week, Ali 🌧️🌧️🇨🇦
Im enjoying having soil for the first time. Burying rotting wood chunks and charcoal in my compost really stabilized moisture and oxygen and got all my not quite soil yet materials all nice n soily, little clumps of fungal structure etc at last yay
Howdy, Ben! I so enjoy your videos, even when I can't plant what you are planting. We are getting ready to go into our upper 90s to 100+ temps. Shade cloth time.👩🏾🌾
Thank you for the to-do-list for June, just in time. I actually find fennel easy to grow (north-west pacific climate - similar to the UK) and I had great success with winter sowing. They don’t seem to mind being transplanted but, of course, we will need a couple of more weeks until harvest.
Have some runner beans in the veg patch covered with hay that I bought from a local plant shop, they was already growing in pots of 6, still got 2 more pots to plant in yet, will get a chance to soon, and 3 pots of tomatoes I have re-potted into bigger pots, put them into the greenhouse and cover with hay again. Hoping to keep my eye out for cucumber pots and corgette pots too. Like this channel btw, very informative.
So delighted to read this. I hope you manage to thwart the grey squirrels. Not sure what to suggest on this other than adding mesh over the beds when the plants are young to keep them off.
Here on the Oregon coast is a bit cooler and moist though we are looking at our dry season coming soon. I'm sowing a second batch of bush beans and will also be doing some more broccoli etc. I haven't grown kolrabi in years but it does well here. Perhaps it's time to try some again. Thanks for your insights and inspiration.
@@GrowVeg We are out in the middle of nowhere, in Powys, surrounded by the black mountains. Our is a fish out of water story. A family of townies, moved to the country, determined for a better and healthier lifestyle. Do you have any video about the correct garden tools.
Summer greens, Cilantro, Carrots, Basil, more Summer squash, more cukes, Winter squash, Bush beans. Maybe some brassicas at the end of the month. Thats my list 😂
@@dawnbradford7361 nope, not Texas. I’m in Pacific Northwest, on the coast. My nighttime temps still dip below 50F. My summers are very mild, I can grow leafy greens year round with no shade cloth. Brassicas and cilantro still bolt in my climate, likely from the daylight hours rather than heat. I wait until late May/June to plant summer crops because it’s just too cold and wet here. I tried to plant early cucumbers this year and it’s the saddest thing ever
Oooooh I almost forgot about kohlrabi! Gotta go find a spot for it! Last year when I planted some out, one of them ended up being definitely NOT kohlrabi lol - it was some strange leafy green with an extremely strong flavor, something like a cross between a rutabaga and mustard. It was very hearty though, and my chickens enjoyed it. 😆
I have a question. I watched your video on how to recycle plastic bottles. I loved the idea of using them for watering. My question is how far apart do you put the bottles in a bed? I've saved many bottles and ready to bury them. Thank you for your reply! I do enjoy and have learned so much from your videos. Thank you for sharing your expertise.
Always good value, Ben! Relieved to see you don’t feel the need to net your carrots - I’ve trying some Resitafly this year without any other pest protection, fingers crossed they do exactly what they say on the tin! Separate note but have you done a video before on best way to extract seedlings from plug trays at planting-out time without destroying half the root ball in the process?
Haven’t done a video specifically on that. But to avoid damaging seedlings from plug trays be sure to carefully poke them out from the bottom with a pencil or similar rather than pulling from the top. 😀
Love your videos. I'm in the newer England though and broccoli wants to bolt in late May/June so I was surprised to hear you saying to plant that now as temps are climbing. How are you avoiding premature flowering?
It's the sprouting broccoli I'm sowing now. My summers are fairly cool, so if you're worried about bolting you could maybe delay sowing by another month or two.
When you thin out your seedlings; what do you do with the pulled one's? My Nana raised us kids if it sprouted it was supposed to be; so don't kill it gives to your neighbours or donate to community garden. The bonus part is you can feed more than just yourselves...
Love the videos however I’m in the US in Georgia zone 8b and my brassicas bolted on me even my sprouting broccoli. It’s so hot here so I’ll wait until the fall .
I find soaking your corriander seeds for 24 hours then potting out dramatically speeds up the process. I bought a sack of seeds in Thailand for about £1.50 which goes to show you the insane mark up price seed companies charge here in the UK.
Good job you weren't caught by customs bringing seeds into the country! But your right about seed companies, and if they're not putting their prices up, they're reducing the number of seeds in a pack - often both.
@@lifestapestry2968 Wouldn't work here. All imported seeds for cooking are irradiated to ensure spores, viruses etc are destroyed. It's never a good plan to bring any plant material into the country from abroad, because you don't know what passengers they may be carrying.
Exactly, pests or harmful plants are spread that way. One way of international warfare is sending seed packages by mail to strangers in foreign countries, and most who receive, plant them simply due to curiosity. Chinese started doing this to random US nationals a while back, and probably this is still ongoing... One of such invasive, dangerous and destructive plants is giant hogweed/"cow parsley", you can check videos of hired teams in the US trying to get rid of these monsters wearing hazmats suits 😢 A single seed mixed among other seeds is enough to get it going...
It,s not summer yet 15th of June in the Europe hey 😂 but I still like your video,so BTW I plant the carrots that are 2 close together in a different spot and the all grow verry well never trow seedlings away
It’s all about timing isn’t it? I’m finding the weather to mess with timing crops this year as we had very warm winter into spring. I decided to try brassicas under a low tunnel and they are doing very well. It was the first ever successful Bak Choi harvest and Napa cabbage. I noticed something strange also was the cabbage moths were here in abundance and then disappeared. Maybe they didn’t like the netting.😅 Generally I start fall seedlings of brassicas in June. With La Niña weather returning I’m wondering if our winter will be earlier and colder. It makes a huge difference as I waited quite late to put garlic in last year as the temps kept increasing all the way to Christmas.😮 My biggest hurdle is keeping better records of how much we really need for food preservation to prevent over/under planting and allow more room for seasonal crops. Last year I tested tomato varieties and this year its peppers. Then I can concentrate on the mainstays. Quite disappointed in many heirloom tomatoes last year and may just need to get hybrids. Trying a few more along with hybrids this year in hopes I like one to save seeds. I should try fennel and thanks for the reminder about parsley as I need to restock herbs. Lol, I leave the dill and coriander reseed everywhere-it’s a perennial. However I have Dukat dill for more leaf production. Has anyone purposely planted potatoes in the fall? I’m just curious because I seem to have a perpetual potato planting going on and they are some of the largest harvests. Volunteers everywhere and I waited too long to harvest last year and couldn’t find them all. I figure if they grow that great I wondered if they could be planted at the same time as garlic?
@@GrowVeg I recently dug the volunteers out and had a small harvest. Didn’t want them crowding other plants like last year. Last year the potatoes tasted fine at end of season and not sure what new potatoes are like but these were extra firm and some I think too young with a sweet taste probably because they weren’t ready yet. I do know if potatoes freeze they turn sweet and not sure if it was because they weren’t ready or from being in the ground all winter. I will have to purposely try planting a potato this fall and see.
Sowing some sweet corn and pole beans here in zone 8b. We will have to keep them well-watered with the heat. I have heard that a lot of the storage vegetables for the winter do better when past the solstice because the shortening days trigger that storage of nutrients for the upcoming winter. Have you found that to be true as well?
I haven’t exactly found this to be the case, no. I usually have to sew before the summer solstice due to the lack of growing season later on in the summer.
I would love if you could do a video on sweet potato, that's if you've ever tried to grow it in the UK? :) I've noticed you haven't done one yet 👍 Many Thanks
Thank you so much, I feel rsther left behind,,Ive just moved house and my lovely new home has a back and front garden,,,sadly the patios cant be taken up for a year,,,,so Ive got to grow in containers,,,, of which I have none yet!! I Also,,, have no compost,,yet, Etc.. ~Any cheap ideas for containers anyone? TIA!!
@@GrowVeg Thank you, Im collecting milk bottles, easy to collect a lot of them,rinse and drill drainage holes into them!! And thinking of bags that will be suitable for root veggies, like potatoes and Ive made a start on my compost too now! Thank you for your encouragement and kind reply!! This is The Best Gardening Channel on RU-vid!!🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
