My Ultra Low-Maintenance Garden: The Full Tour 

I’m a gardener and I have planted carrots tomatoes Spinach lettuce and peppers and onions and I’m 7 years old 🎉🎉🎉🎉Emmanuel

This channel gives me nerdy dad vibes, and it is so wholesome.

Low maintenance gardening is like having a self-cleaning house - it's every homeowner's dream! Imagine plants that behave like well-trained pets: they stay within their borders, don't demand constant attention, and somehow manage to look fabulous all year round. It's the plant equivalent of having a robot vacuum, but for your garden. And the best part? You can claim all the credit for your garden's beauty while secretly knowing that nature is doing most of the work! 🌿✨

Your videos are a joy to watch Ben. Thankyou! 🌼

Your enthusiasm and joy is such a great way to learn and be encouraged in our garden journeys

I've never seen such a vibrant and lively garden. Pure joy for the eyes! 🌈🌸

love how you actually SHOW us how to do everything!

I just found your channel and am addicted to your passion for gardening. Thank you for all the wonderful information.

You are a relaxed teacher. Loved watching your video.❤

Thank you for your videos! You’ve been my inspiration to go all-in with gardening this year, and it’s been an absolute blast! Can’t wait to see what the rest of the growing season brings.

You are my favorite garden youtuber, you provide so much practical knowledge! Thank you!

A good warm weather spinach is New Zealand Spinach. It can thrives in the summer heat, 35.5C, 96F doesn't phase it a bit. It is also drought tolerant. It will grow, and produce until frost. The only con is it needs frequent pruning to keep it from taking over the garden. Both flavor and texture is good.

I have learned so much from you! Thank you! Your videos are info packed without rambling. Your energy is warm and joyful. I pass on Grow Veg to all my gardening friends. ❤😊

Wow! You've done so many great things to minimize effort and maximize production. Congratulations on a banner year, despite the drought. Thank you for sharing your hard work and beautiful garden!

Your garden is amazing. That rose is spectacular.

What im doing is learning from people like yourself.thank you.

I love these long videos its like i have a friend who is excitedly showing me his garden. Makes me happy every time i watch. Keep up the good work.

As always you have the best time and money saving tips. You show how to make the most of your space, tools/equipment and time often with items you already have; nothing fancy but very organic. I always learn something new on each video. Your garden/beds are beautiful, productive and efficient. I especially appreciate tips for planting in succession as one crop matures and what to replace that space with. As you, I am planning next year's improvements already. Thank you, Ben!!

I also love gardening, it is my passion. I hope you will make more videos for everyone to learn and ask questions. Thanks a lot.

I learn so much from you every time I pop in to see what you're up to. Sometimes, I get key info when you are just making a passing comment! When it's not even the focus of the video. Thanks for all you share with us struggling gardeners. Your little pep talks are invaluable as well. All the best ~

You have such wonderful ideas. I cant wait for springtime!

Very extensive and fertile plantation, thank you for sharing

Wowzera is right Ben, Cheers, fantastic garden !

this channel is massively usefull, and incredibly professionally recorded and such! Keep up the great work

I am loving the extra squash planted in the grass. I did the same thing this year. Growing my garden faster than I grow the structure to plant everything. Battling deer at the moment cause I plant everything in my sunny front yard, so the next project is a fence (as the last fenced area we built filled up quickly. Thanks for the ongoing videos and inspiration. Keep em coming! ❤

Always enjoy your videos & appreciate your honesty in trial & error. My mother told me long ago that T& E is what makes a good gardener. Glad your neighbor is contributing, perhaps he gets a gooseberry pudding 😁. Thanks again Ben, the garden looks marvelous. My garden is marvelous too, I only wish I’d planted more. Tomatoes, red, white & sweet potatoes , banana peppers, sweet peas, pole beans ❤, carrots, zucchini, cucumbers & various herbs, marigolds & wild flowers all just hardy & happy. Thank you for helping me!! Will be my 1st winter garden this year, I’ll be watching your videos for that.

As for so many other commenters, you were the first creator that just clicked for me in terms of knowledge, presentation, and personality. I always enjoy your videos. Thank you for sharing!

I started gardening somw months ago. My space is just enough for my edible plants. Thanks for this video. I learned a lot

Great tour, just shows you what can be produced in a small area, which I have, so I enjoy your videos very much. I've been using grass clipping too. It worked really well on my sandy soil. Protecting from heat & keeping in water, & plants have thrived. My first harvest this week . Shallots & Beetroot. Thanks Ben.

Fantasic! I find this so motivating. I can't even really explain why, I just get vibes that you're a really good guy excited about growing veg!

So happy to see your garden so full ! I now have green tomatoes. Potatoes are starting to blokm, handfuls of t strawberries,greens ,onions,and garlic !! Can't wait until the tomatoes are ready. Nothing that tastes more like an shine to me ! This year I have my own blackberries,and Brussels sprouts !!! And I really believe all the horse manure I've been using is doing the job. Carry on with these great videos !!

Although our climates are very different (I live in Central California and it is very hot and dry), it is fun to watch what you are able to grow and your enthusiasm.

I absolutely love watching your videos! Thank you for doing what you do 😊

I'm starting on this journey of producing food. I have more than 600 ornamental plants. fact that I am migrating. learning everything. your video and your enthusiasm is awesome. I tried to watch the video several times, so much work here. a hug from Brazil

Watching your video reminds me of my parents' garden, a small garden but full of necessary vegetables for the whole family's daily meals. It's fun, economical and special. Extremely clean and safe. Hope you have more videos like this. Growing vegetables and watching them grow every day is wonderful, isn't it?

Thanks for sharing great tips how to make use of your own compost and any kinds of mulch.

I started this year by watching your videos, despite having hope I was almost sure it was gonna be my 2 year of zero harvest and dying plants in my raised beds. Thanks to your knowledge however I have just harvested my first snap peas, green beans, cucumbers and radishes. Still waiting for my tomatoes and kale to be ready : ) Amazing channel and great video as always

You always have amazing videos--they are SO helpful! I also attracted lots of local wildlife when I used Fish emulsion as I watered the garden...BUT, instead of a fish head, I use a whole egg and just barely crack it before placing it in my tomato and pepper holes. I have had really nice success with the eggs!

Have just discovered your channel and I absolutely love it! Favourite garden channel I’ve watched so far. I’m in New Zealand and into my second year in our new place establishing a garden. Most of our back yard is concrete (with small lawn for the dogs) so I’ve been doing quite a bit of building up beds on top of the concrete similar to the method you’ve described above. And have started turning the front lawn into a bit of a food forest. Currently winter here so it’s slow going (except for Cavallo Nero which had gone crazy) but have managed some broccoli from seed (I love the side shooting variety that just keeps giving) and my first cauli is starting to fruit up. Am dreaming ahead to summer and planning my tomato trellis structure, as well as planning to experiment with cucumbers, peppers, corn and a wider range of squash so your videos have been so helpful. I will keep watching with interest.

Good morning Ben, loved your garden tour, you made gardening super interesting. Everything is growing well and looking lush. Vegetable gardening does not need too much water, just sufficient to help them get buy and we can save much water from inside the house to fill our watering cans. It does help a great deal. Those tomatoes I mentioned earlier on, they are still growing and the fruits are looking beautiful, they must now start to change colour as there is nothing like vine ripened tomatoes, their flavour is unique I am sure will agree. I have really surprised myself with this challenge and a challenge it sure is. We are now going to start July which is our coldest month, so I am trusting and hoping everything will go well. Thank you for sharing your garden secrets, it surely brings about a challenge to all us viewers :) I enjoyed you piling the rotten leaves etc., onto the bare bed and finishing it off with the good rotted manure. Just look at the results with very little effort. Enjoy harvesting, take care. Kind regards.

You are the best channel by far for practical advice and inspiration ...

Thanks for the great tips! I am a rather lazy gardener, so I like low maintenance.

Hi Ben i enjoy eatching your videos so much. Your plot is looking great. thanks for your tour. I agree about the grass, it works wonders in my veg patch. It keep moisture in and protects the soil from harsh sun & heavy downpours. Plants seem to love it too. Happy growing x

I am looking at switching my garden from an annual variety to a food forest for ease of maintenance as well as better food security. Love this!

Hi Ben, No rush - we enjoy listening to what you have to say, so, it´s perfectly ok to take it a little bit easier.

I love that you keep seedings "limping along" for a summer planting. I had lots of extras at the end of the first planting and I've been feeling terrible about it and wondering if I should just give up on them.... but now I know that I'm not alone and I don't feel so bad anymore! :D I also have potatoes growing "wild" in my compost bin, as well as basil and some pumpkin/squash plants.

Thank you so much for the step by step info and enthusiasm from a brand new beginner! Such a pleasure to watch your videos

It's looking great! So much inspiration. Thank you!

Your videos always bring so much joy. You have such great enthusiasm and you just "shine". Really enjoyed your tour. Glad to see you had a good spinach year. I had my best one ever this year,....not sure why, but who am I to question. I just enjoyed every bite!

Ben, nice look at your Garden. Thanks for the tour.

Loved this video, so full of information. So far I have had a good crop of strawberries, gooseberries and onions. Cabbage looking good too. This is my second year of adapting my plot to no dig and I can see the difference in the quality of the crops already. I too have starting the lasagne method of starting a bed, dropping all the weeds in the base and topping up with comfrey leaves and then compost. My tip to you, and I’m sure you know this already, is when tying in crops wrap the string around the cane then tie in the stem. That way the string protects the stems from rubbing against the cane and the string doesn’t slip down the cane. Happy gardening.

Wow, Ben and Rosie!😃 Y'all's garden is beautiful! The produce is beautiful!👍I enjoyed the tour and tips. That rose is a showstopper!😃👍

Thanks for this video! I miss the longer videos. This one is superb!❤️❤️❤️🇨🇦👍👩‍🌾. And your enthusiasm is so contagious. I was having my morning tea and just about dropped everything to run to the garden! Lol! I’ll do that in a few minutes. Restraint, eh? 😂

Your garden looks fabulous and I love learning new tips and tricks from you! Looking forward to setting up a couple of new beds in the fall and filling up with nature's yummy leftovers. Thanks for all you share and your enthusiasm has motivated me this Sunday morning to get off my butt and go trim back my tomatoes 🙂

Hi Ben, Just a quick comment to thank you for the great content. Started my own gardening journey this year and learning a lot from your videos.

Excellent gardening tips. Thank you for sharing👍👍🇺🇸

Great video as always Ben. I have put into practice some of your previous tips this year about companion plants and green fertilizer from grass clippings and I am trying to grow some comfrey too. I am able to eat most of my salads from my garden now summer is in full flow. Minted potatoes with garlic, lettuce, radishes, salad onions and the odd strawberry and raspberry. It started as a hobby but now i am hooked.

Garden looks gorgeous! It's the best when you can just walk outside for your food. I want to start composting seriously and growing from seeds next year thanks to your videos, and will look to your videos again for tips! We finished the asparagus just in time for the lettuce to come through, and it was planted in front of the asparagus, so the asparagus ferns have provided some light shade for our lettuce and it hasn't bolted yet and went gotten a good 5 weeks out of it! It's nearing the end, but I'm hoping it will last until the zucchini is ready in the next week or so! Then after that, bell peppers for eating, and tomatoes that will become sauce. My squash is also in random spots and always takes over as we mow around it :) hoping to get our first crop of Asian pears, bartlet pears, golden delicious, grapes, and blackberries this year, and will have raspberries in the coming weeks as well! I love the seasonal shifts of gardening! Best wishes with the rest of your growing season!

As always,you have shared some great ideas. Your garden looks brilliant!! God Bless you and yours and here’s to lots of harvest!!

Another enjoyable watch, as always. We have been struggling with the dry weather too and everything I thought was behind but looking at yours we are on par so actually now not worried any more. Today we covered the purple spouting broccoli as seen some of the butterflies around and I love butterflies but want my veg too lol. . Good to see that my 2 newest beds now have that and cauliflower in the other and all mulched to help with the watering and hell it really is making a difference. Have also gone round and mulched again another 2 beds that needed a top up. Hoping that will help keep the moisture there for the plants. Have potted on the cabbages as not got the ground to put them out in yet and seen as gonna have to bet them too it be easier in a bed then in large pots. So they growing on in the shade of the sun as it’s quite strong and got no surprises atm on the eat cost of the uk it’s warm here. Well these last 3 days it’s got down to 20 but has been 25+ for weeks. So trying to look after myself and a poorly pup and the garden is tricky. But we are slowly winning. Hoping my next lot of peas will soon be up as the last gave up last week due to the heat. Gonna move the pots to somewhere else to let them climb away this time and hope that this next lot will last into the autumn.

We were just travelling through the UK during that drought period you mentioned. Terrible with the additional heat for your farmers and the herds, but great for touristing. Oddly enough, it rained the whole time we were gone from our home in Colorado, which is quite unusual. I am fully onboard with low-maintenance gardening. The crops I grow have to give me max reliable yield for minimal effort, especially because most of my energy goes toward battling the bindweed and mint (amazing how mint can take over). Love watching your videos, and terribly jealous of your climbing roses!

Videos like this get me so excited. Thanks for still uploading. Update on the V shaped pea supports I did. I will keep them more vertical when growing the plants to avoid the constant training and lower the angle of supports when small pods appear. Keep it up ☮️

Your forest garden is growing even more beautiful Ben! You are so happy in your garden realm, and energized! Whew, I have to watch this one again to catch all the tips...

Looking good for the start of summer! That rose is wild!!! Great tips as usual.

I love your enthusiasm. Basil is by far my favourite herb and I always have lots of varieties including Greek and lemon basil, and a few of the large leaf ones from the Naples area have self-set from last year and popped up in a pot on the deck and doing better than in the polytunnel. I want to do an edible forest and also am plagued with Bindweed.

I absolutely love your garden and thank you for all of your wonderful tips and tricks!

Beautiful garden

Gorgeous!

I’m fans of your video and been learning quite lots from this. Thank you so much for sharing the good tips! I think I’m ready for next year when I have more space and fingers crossed 🤞🏼 raised bed 😊

The joy, kindness, and positivity in your video comments is a testament to the wonderful work you are doing. Thank you for sharing and producing such lovely and informative content. Garden lime dusting fish heads will help. Also, if you have a fire pit or burn wood on your property wood ash and biochar (even just charcoal) will do wonders-cake it all over the fish head before bury. Use an auger bit on a drill and bury fish at least 1ft/30cm-use well-rotted compost on top of that to bring planting hole to proper depth for transplant and that will drastically help with animals digging up fish heads. I’ve also found laying physical barrier down around base of plant at soil surface but under mulch layer, like a hardware cloth skirt keeps animals from scratch digging to fish. Keep up the amazing work. Your efforts are making a lot of positive changes in our shared planet.

Looks so good, Ben! Those bean flowers are so pretty!!!!! ❤

HOPEFULLY SOON ILL START MY OWN GARDENING JOURNEY! THANK YOU FOR TEACHING US!

Needed a pick-me-up video in these hot, dry summer days to find the motivation to get out there and keep going.

Superb choices of plants and veg, I have just done year 1 in my new (old) house in Bulgaria and looking to double the beds this winter, never worry about aphids, just wait and the cavalry will always come. I have stone walls and stone underneath the beds which supplies minerals and retains moisture. I am leaving the sunflower roots like you did with the broad beans for nitrogen.

Thank you for consistently putting out such great content. I have been following your channel for quite a while and have been inspired to create my own content and garden with a personal twist. Keep up the great work!

Fish fertilizer drew in skunk and raccoon here in WI, US. Think I read to put lime on top of fish. We have been in extreme drought we finally had an inch and half and I pushed the grass mulch away and it was bone dry. Glad to see your getting produce. It’s been a struggle for many. WOW! That rose is quite a specimen! Beautiful!

What a GREAT garden you’ve got there!! And super tips👍. The garden here is 4 x as big as the one last year so I’ve gotten a bit behind getting the basis started. But chard, strawberries and peas I’ve been able to harvest still so going well all things considered 🙂👍Keep the great vlogs coming 🙏👋

What a beautiful garden ❤❤ thanks for all the advice.

Love that lime thing on fish heads. I sow spinach about now and it stands all winter.

I too, have noticed the uptick in potting soils and fertilizers online. I have been taking a few shovels of garden soil and placing them in a 5-gallon bucket and adding water to make liquid fertilizer. The results are really quick too. I'm using more water sprays with peppermint soap, alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, vinegar and baking soda to attack pests and fungus. Keeping an eye on plants that can be susceptible to sunburn by using shade cloth. I too use insect netting. Your garden looks great! Keep up the good work!

Lovely tour Ben! I smiled when thinking of the neighbor pitching green stuff over the fence because mine does the same for me. Some on my street also text for pick up😊

My lettuce has been awesome! I grew potatoes and garlic for the first time this year. I have beautiful eggplant and have had to spray full throttle hose on the aphids and it has really helped. I have a few ladybugs. I think we have fewer helpful insects because our neighbors spray chemicals on their lawns....our yard is the insect haven of the neighborhood :)

I absolutely love you and your videos! Keep up the good work!

Definitely bromance material... Gardening never felt so good after inspiration here. Thank you! Keep being 😎

Today I harvested a lot of Swiss Chard which I will blanch and freeze, lots of oregano and sage to tie and hang to dry, and some tasty broccoli side shoots. I am trying to not harvest a lovely cabbage which looks so yummy, but could grow on a bit more. Patience is my biggest challenge. ❤

Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden!!!!! As a gardener I have the same excitement! enthusiasm! and energy! Everyday! There's always something new and magical happening... Those who don't garden don't understand. I'm growing....everything! Lettuces tomatoes 7 varieties, three varieties of cucumbers, pumpkins, other squash, carrots, and my corn is silking!!!!! Just planted succession row of corn, the melons are popping out like popcorn!!! the kale looks beautiful, and I'm stepping up my herb game by propagating... Marigolds are almost as tall as me!!! Ive deadheaded them three times. Will grab some today for flower vases...nasturtiums are taking their time...? Excited about sunchokes!!! (my first year growing... ginger, cauliflower beets! Everything is coming along beautifully. I walk outside and smile. My garden brings me joy.

I love you! thank you so much for your joyful presentations. You encourage me.

A very enjoyable video!

Hi Ben, I enjoy watching your video for my daily gardening inspiration. Best, Albert from SF, USA

Your cabbage look exceptional!!!

More gardens for sure !! Me too

i have been working on planting mostly perennials, since my health is unpredictable and i often miss planting windows and etc. but it looks like even with the annuals you are doing treally well! good luck, and may i suggest? for those really dry areas, look into the meditteranean and very drought tolerant plants, and then make a bit more of a rain catch swale or basin for the rest. (of course then it will pour rain...)

Love it my chadwich cherry tomatoes are doing great

Hey, Ben! Beautiful garden! Only thing growing well here are peppers and okra - Temps here in North Florida are in the 90's and fixin' to be upper 90's this afternoon. It's too hot for this old lady to get out to much, so most of my garden is a weedy mess. I'll remedy that in September, when I start planting my Fall crops - Brassicas, beets onions and over-wintered carrots.

Great vid as always love x

*NO WAY* it was Rosie -she's far too sweet and well behaved to dig up rotten fish heads. And that lettuce is the size of YOUR head Ben - God forbid babies were born with that sized head - everyone would be an only child! LOL Oh how I wish my garden was half a good as yours - but you do keep me inspired, so for that, you have my sincere gratitude!! Cheers from Sydney!!

absolutely fantastic! i cant get over the beauty and simplicity, you have shown so many ways to have so much packed into one patch of land! ive learned all your tips over the last couple of years watching your videos and i have made some things in my own garden like yours. i now have a bean arch between two beds like that one. weather here in tennessee is really bad this year tho, and things are so stunted. i wish i had established more last year, it hasnt been a good time to try and put in the new beds. weather reports from all over the country are bad right now. i just wonder about all this weird "fog" that isnt fog and cant possible be wildfire smoke this far south. it has come and gone several times out of nowhere. its just a haze all day long. never seen anything quite like it, i dont even want to be out in it. i hope your garden is doing better than ours over here, from the video it looks amazing!

Beautiful

Very beautiful

Took your tip about growing potatoes in pots and tried it with 5 seed potatoes in 2 largish pots. Harvested a couple of days ago, and got a large number of really nice potatoes. It worked! I just kept filling up the pots with compost,until I got to the top, and watering when dry and voila! Certainly a lot easier to harvest, and also sure to get ALL the potatoes this way, as well.