Plan Your 2024 Garden in 10 Easy Steps 

If you're interested in the free 7-day trial of the Garden Planner, you can find that here: www.growveg.com/garden-planner-intro.aspx (It's best on a PC, Mac or iPad so you have plenty of room for planning, though we added support for phones in late 2023 so you can also now plan on a phone, or view and edit your plan outside). What are you planning in your garden this year? Comment below...

My wife and I bought our first house in Texas this time last year and we have a large backyard and 1/2 an acre, or about 23k square feet. We installed a pond and 4 raised beds last year and had a decent little garden. Now, in 2024, we are literally going to turn the entire backyard into a micro homestead. We have designed everything and now have to build and place the following before spring (we have not done anything yet), so 4 months to do all this: 4 more raised beds, 5x 20ft in-ground garden rows for significantly more garden room, a 1,000 square foot wildflower garden with a 20 frame bee hive facing it, 5 peach trees, 5 blueberry bushes, grapes on our gazebo, a chicken coop and run for 6 chickens, a 100 gallon rain collector, an irrigation system for it all, and an 8'x10' greenhouse. 4 months is gonna go by fast.

Such amazingly useful information! I also appreciate how you speak and enunciate. Not too fast tempo and it's clear enough for even my damaged hearing to follow. I really appreciate it.

I’m an Aussie living in rural Japan. I’m very happy to have found your channel and to start implementing your tips. I’ve had more failures than successes growing fruit and vegetables here. Love your friendly manner and motivating videos already! 👍🏻🌱

A reminder (as I have learned) is to have a backup plan in your mind just in case. Where I am in Canada (and much of the Northern US), had a Gypsy moth invasion and suddenly my cooler garden spots were gone as the moths stripped every leaf off every tree. I had to race to put together shade cloths and ways to hold them up (I used old sheets which presented some issues). Now this month heavy wet snow took down a large shade branch over another spot so I will have to plant things differently to accommodate that come spring. Nature is always switching things up on us in one way or another so your garden plan will have to also, some times last minute. Great video as always and I'm going to try your garden planner, looks fun, thanks.

This is by far my favorite ad for anything. I am rewatching this video because I am completing an assignment for my marketing class about my "favorite promotion" Just adding another comment to help boost your RU-vid stats. I'm loving the garden planner! Thanks!!

Hi Ben. Your garden videos are hands down my go-to for garden planning and advice. I was trying to figure out what it is about your videos that make them so appealing. Very well edited and produced, but I think the thing for me particularly is; No annoying unrelated back ground music. Just a clear explanation of what to do. Big fan. Cheers.

Hey Ben! This video is a breath of fresh air! Your enthusiasm for gardening is contagious

Thank you for thinking about us, sad shade gardeners, as well ❤

Happy New Year 2023 Ben! I wish you and your family the best this year. Thank you for all of the videos, tips and hints, teaching and encouragement and making the time to give so much to all of us. Along with my large kitchen garden I'm making a new 40'x40' in-ground garden and I want to thank you for teaching me a lot of things I'll put to use in it!

Thank you for all your help throughout the year. I am still very much a beginner but am getting there with your help. Every blessing to you and your family for 2023.

oh my goodness its all about planning! your completely correct! and preparation

This is exactly what I was looking for! simple steps to plan my first vegetable garden? Thanks for the clear explanations and the handy garden layout tip, Ben.I feel much more confident about getting started now.

Your description of the different vegetables growing personalities makes me chuckle 😂

Great info! Happy new year! Grow on, 2023!

Read my mind today! Thanks for showing us your process!

As always, you are a wealth of information and inspiration. Thank you.

Your garden is STUNNING! Thanks for sharing this one!

I just started the trial for the garden planner - it is INCREDIBLE! The intro video has me so excited! This is our third year with a garden and we've expanded it ti 45' by 30' and this planner will be invaluable. Thank you so much!!

Your app made my garden planning a breeze this year! Thank you 😊

I love my garden panner, going into my 3rd year using it. So glad I found it, I've been gardening for years and used old school paper plan. The garden planner is way better. Thanks for coming up with it! Also thanks as always for sharing useful information on gardening.

Love all your advice for the garden Ben ❤ Hope you have a wonderful new year, and hope to see many videos next year

Happy New Year, Ben! Thank you for all the inspiration and practical tips. I look forward to learning more in 2023. You've already given me a few ideas.

I have the grow veg garden planner and it has been so worth the investment. I used it last year and I'm already setting it up for this coming season - even though I can't plant out until basically May!

I love the garden planner- have used it for years !

Wishing you and your family a very Happy New Year Ben,, and thank you for all the videos you put out each and every year.

The garden planner is making it SO much easier to plan! I love the companion planting, because I want to minimize my use of artificial fertilizer and pest control!

Ben, your garden is always so inspiring. I love the garden planner - I'm in elevated beds so don't use it as fully as some might, but I do enjoy having the rotation, companion, and square foot information for easy reference as well as the plant tabulator. Well worth the cost even for the little bit I use it.

Ben, thank you so much for including the sequence of plants to position (fussy, vining etc). Very excited to use these principles as I plan my new garden space. Thank you for your cheery disposition & for sharing your knowledge!

This video comes at a perfect time. 2023 will be the year I'll start a small vegetable garden. Thanks for all these top tips! Happy new year to you!

Thank you, Ben! We have a pretty shady yard with not much flat area but we grow what we can.

Ben I’m watching this at the stroke of midnight. First video I’ve watched this year. 😁Can’t wait for the new growing season this new year. Best wishes for 2023!! 🎉

Thanks for sharing this video, Ben. Great information and reminders.

Thanks for the 2023 plan!

You've gotta be my favorite gardener now 👌💯 thanks for the time you take to help inform us.

Happy New Year Ben, family and crew. I'm going into my second year using the garden planner! I'm moving my entire garden this winter and I'm very excited to see how much more I can plant. 🙂

New home, new garden in Nova Scotia, Canada, zone 5. Spent last year making beds and converting an old 8’ x 12’ shed in to a greenhouse. I’m keen to get started but it’s only January 😆 Thank you for such great ideas and information! Happy new year 😊

Very good video. Thank you so much.

My plan for this year in the garden is to set my mum up for success with a more low maintenance space. Making some proper raised beds, and getting a good amount of woodchip in for pathways. I'm getting married and finally moving out for good, so she won't have her personal vegetable grower around any more.

Happy New Year Ben and your love ones, wish you all the best and good health! Thank you for all the hard work and excellent videos 👍👩‍🌾🐰💥 HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!

1st gardener here (we’ve had some patio herbs & peppers before) My fiancé built us 6 raised planters- I’ve been planning all winter (and have gotten impatient and have grown in whiskey barrels) Safe to say I’ve over planned, over planted, and now impatiently awaiting harvest. Thx for your wholesome videos, can’t wait to see your garden this spring/summer!

I didn’t care for the garden planner. I found it better and more flexible to draw my garden plans by hand on paper.

Greetings Ben from across the pond. Hope your holidays with the familily were awesome and hugs to Rosy. I'm going to try this garden planner plus I'm going to grow eveything under the sun that I can lol. Have a blessed New Year and happy, prosperious garden from our familiy to yours.🥕🍆🥔🧄🥬🥒

Thank you Mr Ben : ) Wishing you and your family a wonderful, fruitful New year : )

Hi Ben! Happy and healthy New Year 2023! Thank you so much for your descriptions. I love it! Have a nice evening. Greetings from Martina.

Borage is a wonderful bee attractor and it seeds it's self for the next year!!

Thank you so much for your help 🪴🌿🌱

Happy New Year, thank you for all youre tips/tricks and vids in 2022... the year my own food garden went interstellar, (the netherlands, so more or les same weather/climat) i learned alot from the vids you made, and that resulted in a very big harvest. Best wishes for 2023... and hope for more nice content in the coming year.

This was so helpful, thank you! 🌱

the BEST video out there for planning a veggie garden for beginners. great job!

Thanks Ben! I love the garden planner! It's a great help for an inexperienced gardener like me!

Wishing you, your family and all your subscribers a very fruitfull 2023!!!!

Merry Christmas and happy new year !

Thank you so much Ben. I had to watch this a couple of times, it's so helpful and educational. My anxieties calmed down about our garden bed design because I have a long narrow spot that has 12+ hours of sun in summer and 4+ hours in winter which is a dramatic shift for what to do between seasons to keep growing crops.

Brilliant sound advise and tips Ben,I Guess as gardeners,we will always learn something new,which I think is fantastic and very welcoming 👍God bless and God willing,a successful 2023 to everyone ❤️

Happy New Year to all. Thank you for video.

getting ready ready to start again. The old place was so layered in organic stuff, I could grow rocks from a pebble. I miss the asparagus already. Thanks for the inspiring videos. BTW... I just had to log in again for the planner. Since 2015. Cheers and happy gardening.

Ben, watch every video. Love your enthusiasm and great knowledge. All the best From Bill, rural Hertfordshire.

wow learned a lot thx

Awesome information!

Happy new year to everyone involved with the channel, here's to a wonderful 2023

Fabulous, informative video! Wishing you & loved ones all the very best for the coming New Year ✌️🤗🙏 Can't believe that Spring is nearly here eeek! 🥳

Happy new year Ben, I’ve been growing veg for 5 years now and learned a lot from you. I would just say though to people just starting out , I have to grow on the north side of my bungalow, so only the parts farthest away from the building get about 6 hours in summer and other bits get less, I do have some beds on the south west side which do get about 4 -5 hours, by mixing my crops so beans get the most sun and lettuce get the least I grow a large range of crops, so don’t be put off if your space isn’t perfect.

I love using the garden planner! Well worth the cost in veggies!

Great video, Ben, thank you. 2022 was my first stab at growing vegetables, and I'm already planning a slightly tweaked layout this year - keen to grow corn and some new chillies!

Hi Ben, great video with lots of helpful information too. Thanks for sharing and take care 🙂

Thank you Ben, can’t wait to get started with raised beds. I have enough room for four plus I have a mobile raised bed. Happy New Year.

Thanks for your Information and the good english writing below the video. It helps a lot to understand it. Thanks!! A lot!

Sooo! Helpful and Interesting. Thankyou! 😊👌

I've been using your planner for 3 or 4 years now and I'm really happy to see you've added a touchscreen capability! As someone who rarely uses a computer I'm literally overjoyed by this 👍

I had great success trellising honey nut squash and courgette last year! I used hog panel for a trellis!

Again enjoyable and informative video to watch. Missed my garden days and your videos really helps.

Hi Ben. I enjoy your channel so much! Thank you! I'm in Kentucky. Very humid summers. My favorite big delicious beefsteak tomato is called Supersteak. Most disease resistant variety I've ever grown. Huge, sweet red. And largely carefree toms!

The best accent of any youtube veg gardener! Great info as always

Feliz 2023. Y le felicito también por este vídeo, me ha resultado muy interesante.

Happy New Year from down here in South Africa. Best to you and yours and thanks for the excellent content. 😎

Love your garden 🪴 ❤😊🎉 I learned a lot ❤ thank you!

Happy New Year Ben and Family! This is a very useful video for new gardeners! I like to print out graph paper so i can scale my beds and draw it out first as our main bed is not exactly straight and we have reused "crazy paving" slabs. We have a dwarf Acer (Japanese maple tree) at one end, so to try and make it straight, would mean some plants would be in the shade. We also have our composter behind it. Love your planner as i think it will help new growers with spacing and the charts will help with succession planting timings. Santa got me some cool gifts this year! A collapsible X gardening/ fishing stool but that's not all. It has a popper attached gardening bag with tool holders! The bag has thick handles and is made with the study backpack type material. Looking forward for a dry day to fix stuff from the wind and rain, after the artic weather. Will let you know how it goes. It is low about 2ft/ 60 cm i think, perfect for low raised beds. I also got a personalised 30cm/12"/1 ft wooden ruler with my name on it but it has holes in it along the middle. I would argue some of the printed "suggested" veggies. It looks pretty. It is stained and a slight reddish wood (I am better at identifying minecraft woods tbh lol). Maybe maple? About 5mm thick. A great gift for a gardener. Apparently, Santa asked the Elves to make this 3 weeks before Christmas but we only received it on the 30th. Santa and the Elves are clearly over worked and underpaid with so many people to deliver to now. I can probably look them up for links if interested but i think Santa was looking at Not on the high street stuff to give the Elves ideas. Anyway, with the bad weather i was put off ordering the framework stuff for the beds so something on the list. 2022 was very not good with us on a personal level. Christmas wasn't the same and we have felt very down. It has been very hard for us this year.

Here in 2024! Great Video ❤

Learning so much from you sir

Very excited to try this planner! Seems to have functions I very much need and have not been able to find in one app. I’ve moved from a south facing condo balcony garden to a north facing residential garden so I’m intrigued to see how this app will help me plan for my new-to-me conditions. Many thanks to you for this channel!

Great content, high spirits! Good man

Happy New Year! The artic storm devastated my winter garden with temps ranging from nighttime lows as low as -12C to daytime highs of -5C. It was too many days of subfreezing temperatures. It survived the worst part of the storm, the first three days, but on the fourth day I woke to heavy damage, and the fifth day brought 95 percent devastation. A few odd plants survived, and weeds. Not a single weed died in the freeze-just my garden veggies. It has been 42 years since a storm this severe hit our area, Talladega Alabama. Next year, I'll try rear round gardening again. Also, I will be adding a 3.5m x 3m x 2m poly tunnel greenhouse to my garden with three raised beds 244cm x 60cm x 24cm inside it. For now, I am pulling weeds, and covering the raised beds and grow pots with a thick blanket of leaves. In about a week, I will be ordering Albion Strawberry plants for my GreenStalk tower, and purchasing lumber for the greenhouse base and raised beds.

a very fertile and spacious plantation garden, thank you for sharing information about agriculture and plants

I can't wait to start planting again. I started growing swiss chard. I love it

Great video!

Thank you! Just the right amount of information. Not too much. 😅 As a beginner Gardner, I get snowed under pretty quickly with all the tips and info.

Hi Ben hope you had a great Christmas brilliant video I do find it's more guide lines I tend to just plant what I can where I have the space I do find this the be much more sufficient stay safe and all the best in the new year

those are all great tips ben your garden looks great I hope It was a successful one In 2022 I am looking forward to It being a successful one for me as well In 2023 I hope you have a happy new

great video ❤❤❤

Another great content, thanks!

This is my 3rd year gardening BIG and I couldn’t do it without your GrowVeg planner. It’s so helpful and I recommend it to all my beginner gardening friends. Thanks Ben!!!

I have two plots of 9ft wide to 2ft deep on the verge of the back garden. One is protected by a conservatory, the other at the far end of the garden gets the most amount of sun, even with it being north facing. So not a huge amount of room and not ideal placement and yet just with a little planning last year I had a bumper harvest and this year I have 10 main crops to grow outside, as well as the regular tomatoes, aubergines (first time) inside the conservatory and plenty of flowers in and amongst the plots. First time using a propogator station and a cold frame which should be interesting to see the result of them both. This will be the first year I am doing everything from seed as well so its going to be an exciting year, even if some of it fails, its worth a go regardless. I cannot stress enough how joyful it feels to conceptualise the garden of your dreams (and budget/time) and nurture it along to enjoy! Thank you for all that you do Ben, you certainly inspire this budding gardener!

Did I miss it? We won't be able to put a seed in the ground for 2 & a half months in Mid America, southerly. So I start indoors. I am debating on a small greenhouse verses a small shed with heat & lights for seed starting. Or a combination of the two. Thanks for these tips. I will take notes. The best to you & yours this coming new year. God bless.

again, awesome video. good ideas all over! personal exp at planning: > plans abundant due the ever changing situations/ crappy accidents along the way, such as unmovable plants (decade old berry bushes) blocking entire areas, bees building a damn nest under the highbeds, aggressive hornets or wasps being wasps, strong winds and invasive weeds. > yes. oh the joys of gardening. I'll be looking forward to your other videos - good ideas there.

This great, so much tips and hints -well done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😊

Ok good jobs thanks

These are Great steps to take, to Garden well this Year. Looking like nothing but Frogs will grow with all this Rain. Lol. TFS Ben, take care, & Happy New year to you and yours too. 🎉❤️🙂🐶

I love the planner and have used it now for the last 6 years. It really helps to make the most of the space in my allotment. Also it's improving all the time and becoming more intuitive. It could do with a few more flower varieties in it as I just have to use ones that look similar and change the name labels!!

Happy New Year, what a wonderful way for me to start of 2023 with your video! Grateful for all the knowledge you have shared as I have learned so much. Going into year 5 with the Garden Planner, I love it! Got it open on another page right now as I see if I can copy your nasturtium tower for this season. Have you ever grown them over an arch? That's how I currently have it set up. Thank you!