Definitely! He knows what he’s teaching, has it all planned, and speaks clearly, smartly, good-naturedly, and keeps ‘right on target.’ He hasn’t the ‘drone’, we find in a few other gardener podcasters, which I frankly detest! Well done! Love them, Ben!
@@ronanogrady7298 You see, Ben doesn’t watch “certain other” gardening podcasts. If he did, he’d projectile vomit at his iPad, the way we would like to.
I’ve got so much growing in my garden the best part of 10 different vegetables, and countless flowers for our pollinator friends! I think anyone who says they don’t have time for gardening doesn’t realise that actually you make time for it because it becomes less of a chore and more of a pleasure? Thanks Ben, your videos along with other TH-camrs are defiantly getting more people of all ages into the game! I’m 23 and while the majority of my friends are in pubs and clubs I’m in the garden doing the jobs that need to be done to keep my crops happy! Only then will I go and see them! Never been much for partying anyway 👍🏼🤣
My hubby said i was 'obsessed' yes, a chore but also a gifted way of life! This second year has been really good for me - I also have lots of stuff this year!
I started all of my plants from seed in an indoor greenhouse and was so excited to watch them grow. Proudly walked them out to the garden and plugged them in with a promise to wake up to my new fence. Awoke the next morning to my garden being eaten!!!! Yup! Baby bunnies
I've just had my first sugar snap peas come out this week! So exciting! This year I have sugar snap peas, strawberries, raspberries, spinach, tomatoes and potatoes 😁
@@kellimoretter-bue3204 this is my first year of strawberries so I don't have any tips yet but i did read that feeding liquid tomato feed helps the berries become nice and juicy. Fingers crossed for you this year 🤞
Well done on all those crops @Beth G. For healthy strawberries @Kelli Moretter-Bue I'd recommend being sure to feed them. Also, the plants become less vigorous after three/four years, so they may just be old and need of replacing. You might find this video on strawberries helpful: th-cam.com/video/xhR7I0ipbSM/w-d-xo.html
I'm in Ireland and I have tiny green tomatoes already forming, cucumber flowering, peppers flowering, watermelon flowering. First year with my newly built green house.
Such a pleasant, super informative, demonstrative podcast! I leave with a smile on my face and a feeling that “I have no fear. I can do anything in the garden!” Thank you so much, Ben❤️. God Bless!
I live in the mountains in Colorado in the US. We just had 2 feet of snow this weekend. I don't think I'll plant out just yet around here. I love all of the information you provide. It's helped me become a better gardener over the last couple of years since I found you. Thank you for your hard work.
Your enthusiasm is absolutely infectious! Your advice is straight forward and easy to implement. Your garden is filling in brilliantly. Looking forward to the next video. Blessings... daisy
Our spring in Spain this year has missed us!! Autumn, winter and virtually straight into summer heat. Hottest may for 77 years apparently. Planted my Amazonka squash in a large pot before I left for a week long visit to the UK and it's grown so well. My tomatoes are also in pots ready to train up our window grills. A few flowers appearing already. It was nice to come back and hear your cheery voice:)
I'm from Eastern Washington state, Spokane, zone 5, and our temps have been unseasonably cold. I am recently retired from teaching and am looking forward to becoming a successful vegetable gardener. I've been growing flowers my entire adult life but have only tried veggies twice with some success. Really enjoy your videos!
Hey, another Spokanite! So far this year I've had the best success with radishes and peas and have a few zucchini started and fairly well established. Good luck!
Can you even believe that they’re roasting in North-Western U.S. States? Up in Canada, we’re still waiting for some decent Spring weather! We had Frost almost EVERY SINGLE NIGHT, including right up-to night before last, May 22! Hey our Safe-Planting day is May 24! What a horrible, super-COLD, windy, frosty, “all daytime wear-a-jacket-or-freeze-your-butt-while-getting-your-garden-planted” gross Spring this is!!They can send some heat, all of our ‘ways’, just even a little bit…Just their extra, just what they have to spare! This Spring is so miserable, that the really, true “CHILL” in the air, feels like Fall, when you know SNOW is coming, to STAY! That is NO joke!
I'm about 2 hours north of you guys in Sandpoint. Idaho. I'm going to take a bit of a risk this may and plant out half my tomatoes and warm season veggies out this weekend. I will need to pay close attention to the Temps in case I need to cover my crops with plastic for a night or 2.
I am in NE Oregon, USA. I think it’s FINALLY safe to plant out the tomatoes. Inside, I just started some some beans 🫘 zucchini and a couple of squash plants for fall. Just put in potatoes today. I don’t have the knack yet for lettuce 🥬 and other greens but I’ll get there. Thank you for all your supportive videos. We are 100s of miles apart but seem to have similar growing seasons.
Ah nasturtium! Beautiful pest control and add a peppery taste to salads. Marigolds around the base of my pepper plants saved them from breaking off during summer storm winds.
Last year my nasturtiums attracted tons of insects, including butterflies. They laid eggs all over my brassicas… hatched into an army of caterpillars and massacred all my crops. 😩😩
@@66REDD66 I watched a butterfly lay eggs on my cabbage one year. I pulled the leaf and took it a good 20 yards from the cabbages. There were more butterflies and more eggs; even caterpillars, but I persisted. I have a good stand of milkweed now and they prefer it to my veggies.
@@anniecorbin7998 Oh wow that’s good news. I love watching the insects but I love my home grown veggies too, but they just don’t want me having any.😁😁.
Here is Western Washington, I live 40 miles from the coast. This spring our weather has been extremely wet, more so than normal. I had my beans out and the slugs decimated them all. I even put out beer traps, and still they snacked them down to nothing. I put seeds in the ground to replace them, just waiting for them to show, plus starting them in the greenhouse too. I am looking forward to your video on slugs! I put out my tomatoes already, plus keeping a few in the greenhouse. Need to get my squashes outside too, but I know the darn slugs will be at them. Thanks again for your very helpful and insightful videos!!
I got my plants out this week. Just in time for a heat wave. But they are doing good. Next week it cools down, as we have about the same climate as you. I use egg shells and Epsom salts on my tomatoes. Being in the country it always makes me smile when you use the chicken manure pellets. I need to gather mine this week, lol. We use a fertilizer of cow manure and water for the squash and cukes. I guess we’ve been organic farmers all my life ! Have a blessed Sunday. Almost time for cutting hay here. Summer is moving on.
Chiming in from western New York. 1/2 mile south of Lake Ontario. I have most of my 200 sq ft vegetable garden in. Now encroaching into my wife’s flower/ perimeter garden. Adding companion plants , marigolds, carrots, bunching onions. Thanks for the additional idea of dill Really appreciate your to the point videos and your enthusiasm
Harvested beets, peas, stinging nettle, chard, large leaf sorrel, radishes, collard greens and turnip greens. I planted tomatoes, peppers, moringa, malabar spinach, Egyptian spinach, okra, marigolds, sunflower, squash, Jerusalem artichoke, taro, eggplants beans and more for summer til fall. I'll be planting sweet potatoes for the leaves and tubers and more flowers for the bees, birds and butterflies. Hoping for a good harvest this year to stay healthy. Thank you for inspiring us to garden! I enjoyed watching other people's garden. ❤️😋
Spring has been a little delayed here in Niagara Falls, Canada, but it has worked out for me as I own a Dance Studio and I am preparing for our first live show (since 2019) for the first week of June! Been super busy and I am NOT used to it because of Covid and lockdowns, but have managed to plant my Spring veggies late April and they are doing ok. Digging and planting has always been a way for me to destress from the demands running a small business, especially during this time of year. Growing potatoes in bags for the first time and they are thriving! Hoping to get my warm crops in this week! I LOVE planting season! Thanks for your knowledge and tips. I have learned so much from your videos. Keep them coming!! Happy Gardening!
I smiled all the way seeing you so excited for the big planting! I have to wait another week or so for that. Today's supposed to be our last frost date so yay! Giving it a buffer time for planting out the warm weather crops but will not wait til our night temp gets to 10°C regularly. That might not happen for another month or more! Haha push things a bit but they always survive and thrive! Great video Ben! Thanks for lifting up our spirits!
Always good to go back and look at older videos from the same time of year for hints and tips. Good to have an easy to follow and infirmative channel that is UK based (so l can relate to the conditions)
We've had a late, dry Spring this year, and now it's getting hot - We'll be getting daily thunderstorms here for the next few days and the rain is very welcome.
Hi Ben! In Ontario, Canada 6b, there was rain in the forecast last week, and the overnight low was 5°C, so I planted a week early! I'm trying radishes beside my tomatoes this year (never grown those before) and they germinated so quickly! There's so much joy for a gardener at this time of year. Ma your harvest be bountiful!
Chicken manure works well with tomatoes and zuchinni, glad to see someone else including it. I enjoy your vids and your enthusiasm for the details without verbally flailing about, thank you from the cool mountains of Japan.
So happy I found your channel! I’m a Southern California gardener (Zone 9B) and fairly new to planting. I’ve learned so much from you so far. I didn’t know that about dill. I will have to direct sow some next to my cucumbers!
You gave me an idea mentioning the cold frame. I have a few large square plastic bins and the old windows that were taken out of my 1910 upstairs windows when they were up-graded. Now I just have to measure to see if they'd match in size. If not, I have plenty of scrap wood to make frames out of. 👍
North eastern 🇺🇸 here, and we have been fluctuating between 65-90!! It’s always crazy here!! But the garden is going in today with rain expected tonight. Thanks for the tip of dill/ beans! I was trying to figure out just where the deal should go and now I know. Really enjoy your channel
Thanks Ben, I absolutely love your videos, and I'm glad to hear I wasn't the only one who had to put their beans out early! I had them in toilet roll containers and their roots were popping out all over so they are now in a raised bed, my first ever, and doing well. My next project is the pallet compost bin. Looking forward to the slug video, think I live in slug central. They don't give my seedlings a chance, caught them destroying my Virginia creeper too, which I had rooted from cuttings last year. Would appreciate some help. Thank you! 😃
Ben I wish I could honestly say Happy Gardening but here in Brisbane Australia this is our best time to plant/ grow & sometimes Harvest. NO WAY in 2022 we have had so much rain & the weirdest temperatures in my 7yrs of growing. It looks like we are going to have the wettest Winter ever & gardens are just waterlogged as it is. But I will keep trying !!! Cheers Denise- Australia
Helloooo Ben! Yes, spring has been very wet, cold and dreary. Today is the day for me to plant out some starts for me as well. Unfortunately, if slug ranching were a thing, I would have a bumper crop this year. Finally, we are getting some sun so as to drive them back a bit. The little #@$^%~# got a bunch of my tomato starts and mowed them down. Fortunately, I had quite a lot, so all is not lost. Happy sunny Sunday!
Thank you for the video. I've been wondering if I could plant more than one variety of cucumber together on the same trellis. I just watched you do it! So I am going to go out and plant my cucumbers!
Great video Ben. Here in growing zone 9b, Sacramento, we are coming to the end of our dill and broccoli because the heat is coming. Tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, zucchini, beetroot, radish, spinach all in and doing great. All my planters are on timed drip irrigation and heavily mulched. Once again we are in a drought in Northern California, actually all the Western States, so drip does the work for me and the mulch keeps the sun off the soil.Next week my family is spending 3 weeks in England visiting relatives etc, so my sons girlfriend is tending my garden. Temps here just went to 100F and high 50'sF overnight so I put my overwintered 2 year old habanero and bell pepper plants out today.:)
Sounds like you're doing all the right things to combat the heat. I hope your son's girlfriend keeps everything ticking along for you while you're away - I'm sure she'll do a great job. Enjoy your trip to England!
We're in the San Francisco Peninsula, seeded tomatoes in January, kept them in a sunny south facing window in the garage, planted them out in April, and fruit is developing right now!
@@everythngandnthng The only one that I don't have that you listed is the superphosphate. I have and use all of the others but I'm extremely light-handed with all of these because I'm so afraid of hurting the plants or the life that I'm trying to build in the soil. I think I need to get over my fear and fertilize rather than a sprinkle here and a sprinkle there. I'm still really excited about my garden! So excited and so committed to learning that I now have my first compost pile, saving kitchen scraps, and thinking about starting a worm bin too. Worm castings are a little pricey for such a small amount but I bought another bag today and sprinkled the whole bag on two 4 ft by 8 ft raised beds. I would LOVE to get skilled enough to sell plants right here from home! Thanks for your reply!
Great video Ben, as usual! I've never thought about utilizing my greenhouse for hothouse tomatoes....I may just have to try it with some of my extra plants this year, along with a movable shade cloth since we can get pretty toasty. Other than my sweet corn and pole shell beans, I've got everything in place. Potatoes, peas, lettuce, spinach alyssum, leeks, onions, kale, and shallots were done earlier, garlic last fall, added sweet peppers, chiles, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, squash, pumpkin, eggplant, green beans, cucumbers, dill, basil, parsley, tarragon, marigolds, calendula, borage, and zinnias this week. Whew. Now....I eagerly await the slug video!!! Grrrr... SLUGS! 🤣 Happy gardening!!
Thank you for your content. I love your approach and have been so inspired. I just built my first ever raised beds and planted tomatoes, peppers, squash, melon, and lots of herbs. I’m in Houston Texas 9b and it’s already reached 100F. We’re in for a hot summer! Cheers!
Every gardener is groaning here in Spokane WA. Our night temperatures are finally up in the 40 F. It has been windy and cold. However, we are finally getting some rain after a very dry start to Springtime. My celery, red cabbage, carrots, onions, and French Spinach, are all doing well despite the grumpy weather.
Mid-west organic gardening has already produced lovely leafy greens and soon to enjoy sugar snap peas. Struggling a bit with our fine feathered friends enjoying the young plants!! Look forward to your next production. Appreciate you !
Great video again Ben! Love the poached egg plant. I have a real mat of it. I smile every time I see it 😀and I'm soooo looking forward to my dill flowering and see what pollinators visit 👍
Lots of great tips. Your planting sees to be about the same as upstate NY climate or within 2 weeks. Cold early spring then excessive warmth recently with rain twice a week. I plan to get the rest of my warm loving plants, zucchini and cucumbers and replant sunflowers, peas and beans that were stolen by chipmunks. I never saw a poached egg plant before. But I had a lot less pests, including mosquitoes, last year due to marigolds in garden and deck. Now to frustrate the chipmunks with netting. They will get some but need to share.
I like watching your videos. We're going into winter here in New Zealand, so I'm weeding and doing much needed maintenance around the place. It's nice watching Spring videos. Lush and green.
Whenever I have tomatoes the size of yours to transplant, I strip off all but the top group of leaves. I lay them down in a trench and cover everything but that top group of leaves. They quickly turn upright, and the root growth on that long stem produces really sturdy plants.
thanks for the cucumber tip im growing them for the first time and wondered why the leaves went crispy i did water them more and they seem better now thankfully
I started gardening aged 6 with my gran 55 years ago. We had pots , barrels and planters. to this day I still plant grans plants in pots , barrels and planters. All my other veg goes into raised beds Ala square foot gardening. Unbelievable how much food can be grown in such a small area. Fruit ..... columnar fruit trees. lift up one patio flag and plant 4 fruit trees. mini orchard for any tiny garden. even at my age, new root stocks or varieties of veg often surprise me.
Glad to see this today. Those were some interesting planting tips. I planted out my runner beans this afternoon, already on their second set of leaves. The potatoes are comming along nicely too.
I learn so much from your videos ! The info that you always includes the "why" . It provides so many ah ha moments, and has helped me be a more confident and successful gardener!many thanks!!!
We have finally started getting rain. My beans were suffering and I didn't realize it until we got the rain. Everything has double, practically overnight. I am so happy. 😄
Enjoyed this video very much, as I do all of Ben's classes. My spring has turned very hot recently (1km from the Catalan coast), so straw mulch a must in the coming months - I don't have grass clippings, so I bought a couple of bales of straw and will add some home-made compost later. Runner beans and dwarf beans will be sown directly this week. Tomatoes already climbing up their supports. Aubergines and peppers went in yesterday.
I’ve got both marigolds and nasturtium nestled between my pots… glad to know dill works well with beans… i’ll start those tomorrow! Also love your tomatoes in the straw bales… very encouraging to know. Thanks! Love your videos!!
I planted my tomatoes, red peppers, pumpkins, cantaloupe and basil seedlings out last week (🇨🇦). I did have to cover them one night when the temperature dropped to 4C. I keep my eye on the weather forecast and fleece handy. Great tip about the tin foil! I will have to try that.
Hi Ben, thank you for a great video today! We've had a major winter storm here, 18 inches of snow and 26F degrees. I covered all the garden and haven't even been able to get out to the chickens yet, so this beautiful garden of yours, and the planting out expertise is most welcome today especially!
I am in Belfast and decided to put my tomatoes in containers around 12 April. This was a risk, but 'Maskotka' is flowering like mad, super vigorous and already set some fruits. I have four other varieties Latah, Zlatava, Stupice and Sprakle. Peppers are growing nicely too, Lipstick pepper is about to flower too. Everything outside, while my place gets the last frost around mid-April summers are cool. For that reason, all varieties are carefully selected for such a climate. So far I am very pleased with Maskotka and Stupice tomatoes.
@@GrowVeg It's all thanks to your advice. I did check my average last frost date which normally is the last week of March in my area but I know in the last few years we had frosty mornings in mid April. Knowing this I was also relying on a long-term weather forecast. Yeah, it's was gamble lol but it was indicating higher than average temps so I decided to take a risk. Young tomatoes were left outside, in front of the South facing wall overnight. Soil thermometer was showing average min temps between 4-7 Celsius, not great but not bad. In the end all plants got a head start which paid off.
Our mild winter brought in an early spring. Here in East Tennessee we are having lots of rain and my beans are ready to transplant. Some are already growing in the covered chicken coop. I've already had to use a shade cloth plus I put on an insect netting because the Japanese beetles were really bad last year. They should be here soon. I have a garden snake helping with the slugs. Bless his stripes! Happy gardening!
Still cold here at night with a mixed bag of rain sun and lots of wind. My cucumbers, tomatoes and beans are growing fast indoors and do need to get in the soil but I'm concerned about the wind so holding off as long as I can. Your video has inspired me to just crack on and get planting outside so fingers crossed. Love your videos always lots of good little tips, going to put some dill along side my beans this year, which will be lovely thanks Ben
Ben is a class act,accurate and precise and well paced. Very well produced and a nice son of a gun 😃
Definitely! He knows what he’s teaching, has it all planned, and speaks clearly, smartly, good-naturedly, and keeps ‘right on target.’
He hasn’t the ‘drone’, we find in a few other gardener podcasters, which I frankly detest!
Well done! Love them, Ben!
Guys, please - stop! You'll make me blush! :-)
@@GrowVeg that's the stuff Ben😃😃
@@ronanogrady7298 You see, Ben doesn’t watch “certain other” gardening podcasts. If he did, he’d projectile vomit at his iPad, the way we would like to.
Something about how you do your gardening is FUN to watch! I don't get bored.
Thanks so much. :-)
"Tickle them in" - best seed sewing gardening term ever Ben! 😂
I’ve got so much growing in my garden the best part of 10 different vegetables, and countless flowers for our pollinator friends! I think anyone who says they don’t have time for gardening doesn’t realise that actually you make time for it because it becomes less of a chore and more of a pleasure?
Thanks Ben, your videos along with other TH-camrs are defiantly getting more people of all ages into the game! I’m 23 and while the majority of my friends are in pubs and clubs I’m in the garden doing the jobs that need to be done to keep my crops happy! Only then will I go and see them! Never been much for partying anyway 👍🏼🤣
That makes you a much more interesting individual. 😉 Happy gardening! 🌿🌸
Good on you mate! Sounds like you've got your priorities right there - so much joy to be had from gardening! :-)
Way to go 😁👍🌻
My hubby said i was 'obsessed' yes, a chore but also a gifted way of life! This second year has been really good for me - I also have lots of stuff this year!
And gardening is just ten minutes here and 15 minutes there. It all adds up. And every time you sepnd ten minutes you get so much reward.
I started all of my plants from seed in an indoor greenhouse and was so excited to watch them grow. Proudly walked them out to the garden and plugged them in with a promise to wake up to my new fence. Awoke the next morning to my garden being eaten!!!! Yup! Baby bunnies
Oh dear - that must have been heartbreaking! Hope the bunnies stay away next time.
I've just had my first sugar snap peas come out this week! So exciting!
This year I have sugar snap peas, strawberries, raspberries, spinach, tomatoes and potatoes 😁
I just had some snow peas! Delicious!👍
Do you have any tips on growing healthy strawberries? I feel like mine have been unhealthy the last two years. The crop has been subpar.
@@kellimoretter-bue3204 this is my first year of strawberries so I don't have any tips yet but i did read that feeding liquid tomato feed helps the berries become nice and juicy. Fingers crossed for you this year 🤞
@@kellimoretter-bue3204 if your strawberries are older than 3 years, replace them as they deteriorate over time. Replace with their runners.👍
Well done on all those crops @Beth G. For healthy strawberries @Kelli Moretter-Bue I'd recommend being sure to feed them. Also, the plants become less vigorous after three/four years, so they may just be old and need of replacing. You might find this video on strawberries helpful: th-cam.com/video/xhR7I0ipbSM/w-d-xo.html
I'm in Ireland and I have tiny green tomatoes already forming, cucumber flowering, peppers flowering, watermelon flowering. First year with my newly built green house.
Ben, you’re my gardening hero! Thanks for all the tips and especially your positivity, you’re helping this new gardener have faith that I can do it!
Great stuff Danielle! So pleased you're enjoying the videos. Happy gardening! :-)
How does the old saying go? ‘Plant one for the weather, one for the birds, and one for you.’
@Noble Neither did the weather. I just had tornadoes and hail. Lol
Wise words!
I've never heard that one before but, boy, does it make sense!
2 for the bug!
One for the pigeon…one for the crow…one to rot and one to grow.
YOU are AWESOME and thank you for making me a better gardener!!🥰
Ah, thanks Karen. Happy gardening to you! :-)
Such a pleasant, super informative, demonstrative podcast! I leave with a smile on my face and a feeling that “I have no fear. I can do anything in the garden!” Thank you so much, Ben❤️. God Bless!
Thanks Elizabeth. :-)
Watching from zone 3 🇨🇦💚
I live in the mountains in Colorado in the US. We just had 2 feet of snow this weekend. I don't think I'll plant out just yet around here. I love all of the information you provide. It's helped me become a better gardener over the last couple of years since I found you. Thank you for your hard work.
And thanks for watching Mary. Hope you get to plant out soon.
Great video, with lots of tips too.👍
TFS GV, & take care too everyone. ❤🙂🐶
Your enthusiasm is absolutely infectious! Your advice is straight forward and easy to implement. Your garden is filling in brilliantly. Looking forward to the next video. Blessings... daisy
Thanks Daisy, that's very much appreciated. Watch out for the full garden tour later in June! :-)
I was thinking I was too late…but I’m not! Thanks for the encouragement.
Our spring in Spain this year has missed us!! Autumn, winter and virtually straight into summer heat. Hottest may for 77 years apparently. Planted my Amazonka squash in a large pot before I left for a week long visit to the UK and it's grown so well. My tomatoes are also in pots ready to train up our window grills. A few flowers appearing already. It was nice to come back and hear your cheery voice:)
Thanks so much Linda. I've heard it's been rather warm in Spain. Seems a lot of the US has also missed spring this year. Happy gardening! :-)
I'm from Eastern Washington state, Spokane, zone 5, and our temps have been unseasonably cold. I am recently retired from teaching and am looking forward to becoming a successful vegetable gardener. I've been growing flowers my entire adult life but have only tried veggies twice with some success. Really enjoy your videos!
Hey, another Spokanite! So far this year I've had the best success with radishes and peas and have a few zucchini started and fairly well established. Good luck!
It's been unseasonably cold here in ohio too! High of 58f today :(
Can you even believe that they’re roasting in North-Western U.S. States? Up in Canada, we’re still waiting for some decent Spring weather! We had Frost almost EVERY SINGLE NIGHT, including right up-to night before last, May 22! Hey our Safe-Planting day is May 24!
What a horrible, super-COLD, windy, frosty, “all daytime wear-a-jacket-or-freeze-your-butt-while-getting-your-garden-planted” gross Spring this is!!They can send some heat, all of our ‘ways’, just even a little bit…Just their extra, just what they have to spare! This Spring is so miserable, that the really, true “CHILL” in the air, feels like Fall, when you know SNOW is coming, to STAY! That is NO joke!
Hi all. Hope your weather settles down soon. @Leann Hooper - so pleased you're inspired to try growing veggies! :-)
I'm about 2 hours north of you guys in Sandpoint. Idaho. I'm going to take a bit of a risk this may and plant out half my tomatoes and warm season veggies out this weekend. I will need to pay close attention to the Temps in case I need to cover my crops with plastic for a night or 2.
Ben, your positivity and wisdom are such a joy! I would love to be out in the garden with you, rain or shine
Thanks so much. :-)
I am in NE Oregon, USA. I think it’s FINALLY safe to plant out the tomatoes. Inside, I just started some some beans 🫘 zucchini and a couple of squash plants for fall. Just put in potatoes today. I don’t have the knack yet for lettuce 🥬 and other greens but I’ll get there. Thank you for all your supportive videos. We are 100s of miles apart but seem to have similar growing seasons.
I spent a year in Portland and remember the weather being very similar indeed!
I am in Kentucky and picked lettuce leaves today for a salad. Planted my garden today.
Ah nasturtium! Beautiful pest control and add a peppery taste to salads. Marigolds around the base of my pepper plants saved them from breaking off during summer storm winds.
Last year my nasturtiums attracted tons of insects, including butterflies. They laid eggs all over my brassicas… hatched into an army of caterpillars and massacred all my crops. 😩😩
@@66REDD66 I watched a butterfly lay eggs on my cabbage one year. I pulled the leaf and took it a good 20 yards from the cabbages. There were more butterflies and more eggs; even caterpillars, but I persisted. I have a good stand of milkweed now and they prefer it to my veggies.
@@anniecorbin7998 Oh wow that’s good news. I love watching the insects but I love my home grown veggies too, but they just don’t want me having any.😁😁.
Here is Western Washington, I live 40 miles from the coast. This spring our weather has been extremely wet, more so than normal. I had my beans out and the slugs decimated them all. I even put out beer traps, and still they snacked them down to nothing. I put seeds in the ground to replace them, just waiting for them to show, plus starting them in the greenhouse too. I am looking forward to your video on slugs! I put out my tomatoes already, plus keeping a few in the greenhouse. Need to get my squashes outside too, but I know the darn slugs will be at them. Thanks again for your very helpful and insightful videos!!
The slugs video will be on Saturday Dani. Hopefully it will offer a few pointers. Good luck for this growing season - happy gardening! :-)
@@GrowVeg Thanks!
11:12 that is what I did with my green bell pepper plants! It worked quite well! Thank you for another great video full of useful tips! ONE LOVE! 🙏
Love your enthusiasm, wishing you a productive garden this season ^^
And you! :-)
I got my plants out this week. Just in time for a heat wave. But they are doing good. Next week it cools down, as we have about the same climate as you. I use egg shells and Epsom salts on my tomatoes.
Being in the country it always makes me smile when you use the chicken manure pellets. I need to gather mine this week, lol. We use a fertilizer of cow manure and water for the squash and cukes. I guess we’ve been organic farmers all my life !
Have a blessed Sunday. Almost time for cutting hay here. Summer is moving on.
Wow summer is moving on for you Tonie. I hope the hay cut goes well. :-)
Chiming in from western New York. 1/2 mile south of Lake Ontario. I have most of my 200 sq ft vegetable garden in. Now encroaching into my wife’s flower/ perimeter garden. Adding companion plants , marigolds, carrots, bunching onions. Thanks for the additional idea of dill Really appreciate your to the point videos and your enthusiasm
Thanks for the kind comments there Tom. Hope your garden is now establishing nicely!
Great episode. Thanks for all the tips. X
Harvested beets, peas, stinging nettle, chard, large leaf sorrel, radishes, collard greens and turnip greens. I planted tomatoes, peppers, moringa, malabar spinach, Egyptian spinach, okra, marigolds, sunflower, squash, Jerusalem artichoke, taro, eggplants beans and more for summer til fall. I'll be planting sweet potatoes for the leaves and tubers and more flowers for the bees, birds and butterflies. Hoping for a good harvest this year to stay healthy. Thank you for inspiring us to garden! I enjoyed watching other people's garden. ❤️😋
What a superbly full garden you'll have. I'm sure it will be a good harvest. :-)
Thanks again Ben!!! It is storming here,so your “sunny attitude”is most welcome. Absolutely love your videos!!
Cheers for that. Keep on gardening! :-)
Such a great video. Love the tip about planting in straw nails. I had not seen that before
Spring has been a little delayed here in Niagara Falls, Canada, but it has worked out for me as I own a Dance Studio and I am preparing for our first live show (since 2019) for the first week of June! Been super busy and I am NOT used to it because of Covid and lockdowns, but have managed to plant my Spring veggies late April and they are doing ok. Digging and planting has always been a way for me to destress from the demands running a small business, especially during this time of year. Growing potatoes in bags for the first time and they are thriving! Hoping to get my warm crops in this week! I LOVE planting season! Thanks for your knowledge and tips. I have learned so much from your videos. Keep them coming!! Happy Gardening!
You've been busy and sounds like you'll have lots of tasty pickings. Happy gardening!
Thank you Ben. This is the video I really need right now.
I smiled all the way seeing you so excited for the big planting! I have to wait another week or so for that. Today's supposed to be our last frost date so yay! Giving it a buffer time for planting out the warm weather crops but will not wait til our night temp gets to 10°C regularly. That might not happen for another month or more! Haha push things a bit but they always survive and thrive! Great video Ben! Thanks for lifting up our spirits!
Nice one! Planting is so satisfying. Has to be the best bit about gardening I reckon. :-)
Always good to go back and look at older videos from the same time of year for hints and tips. Good to have an easy to follow and infirmative channel that is UK based (so l can relate to the conditions)
Glad you find it useful Elliot. :-)
Thank you Ben! 🙏🏻 Here in the middle parts of Sweden i have just planted my squashes and beans 🤗
Happy Gardening!
We've had a late, dry Spring this year, and now it's getting hot - We'll be getting daily thunderstorms here for the next few days and the rain is very welcome.
Hi Ben! In Ontario, Canada 6b, there was rain in the forecast last week, and the overnight low was 5°C, so I planted a week early! I'm trying radishes beside my tomatoes this year (never grown those before) and they germinated so quickly! There's so much joy for a gardener at this time of year. Ma your harvest be bountiful!
Isn't there - it's a time of fantastic promise Jacqueline. Happy harvesting to you too.
Chicken manure works well with tomatoes and zuchinni, glad to see someone else including it. I enjoy your vids and your enthusiasm for the details without verbally flailing about, thank you from the cool mountains of Japan.
You are very welcome. Thank you so much for watching. 😀
So happy I found your channel! I’m a Southern California gardener (Zone 9B) and fairly new to planting. I’ve learned so much from you so far. I didn’t know that about dill. I will have to direct sow some next to my cucumbers!
Nice one! :-)
You gave me an idea mentioning the cold frame. I have a few large square plastic bins and the old windows that were taken out of my 1910 upstairs windows when they were up-graded. Now I just have to measure to see if they'd match in size. If not, I have plenty of scrap wood to make frames out of. 👍
Smart move Leslie.
North eastern 🇺🇸 here, and we have been fluctuating between 65-90!! It’s always crazy here!! But the garden is going in today with rain expected tonight. Thanks for the tip of dill/ beans! I was trying to figure out just where the deal should go and now I know. Really enjoy your channel
Cheers Sharon. Glad you've got everything planted. A great growing season awaits!
I love your enthusiasm of gardening 🤗
Thanks Brenda. :-)
Thanks Ben, I absolutely love your videos, and I'm glad to hear I wasn't the only one who had to put their beans out early! I had them in toilet roll containers and their roots were popping out all over so they are now in a raised bed, my first ever, and doing well. My next project is the pallet compost bin. Looking forward to the slug video, think I live in slug central. They don't give my seedlings a chance, caught them destroying my Virginia creeper too, which I had rooted from cuttings last year. Would appreciate some help. Thank you! 😃
Great stuff Rachel. The pallet compost bin will look the business I'm sure. Good luck bringing those slugs under control. :-)
Thanks for the tip about wrapping squash to deter the squash vine borer!
Ben I wish I could honestly say Happy Gardening but here in Brisbane Australia this is our best time to plant/ grow & sometimes Harvest. NO WAY in 2022 we have had so much rain & the weirdest temperatures in my 7yrs of growing. It looks like we are going to have the wettest Winter ever & gardens are just waterlogged as it is. But I will keep trying !!! Cheers Denise- Australia
Keep trying Denise. It sounds like you've been having very challenging weather over there, to say the least!
Helloooo Ben! Yes, spring has been very wet, cold and dreary. Today is the day for me to plant out some starts for me as well. Unfortunately, if slug ranching were a thing, I would have a bumper crop this year. Finally, we are getting some sun so as to drive them back a bit. The little #@$^%~# got a bunch of my tomato starts and mowed them down. Fortunately, I had quite a lot, so all is not lost. Happy sunny Sunday!
They are little #@$^%~#! Hopefully this weekend's video on slugs will give a few ideas Valerie. Happy gardening! :-)
I can’t wait till the harvesting starts it’s the best part and most of the work!!
Absolutely!
Thank you for the video. I've been wondering if I could plant more than one variety of cucumber together on the same trellis. I just watched you do it! So I am going to go out and plant my cucumbers!
That was so enjoyable and I love your tips for companion planting. 👏👍🙏
I love how cheerful you are as you plant out. I am a few weeks behind you waiting for spring in New York's Long Island.
Great video Ben. Here in growing zone 9b, Sacramento, we are coming to the end of our dill and broccoli because the heat is coming. Tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, zucchini, beetroot, radish, spinach all in and doing great. All my planters are on timed drip irrigation and heavily mulched. Once again we are in a drought in Northern California, actually all the Western States, so drip does the work for me and the mulch keeps the sun off the soil.Next week my family is spending 3 weeks in England visiting relatives etc, so my sons girlfriend is tending my garden. Temps here just went to 100F and high 50'sF overnight so I put my overwintered 2 year old habanero and bell pepper plants out today.:)
Sounds like you're doing all the right things to combat the heat. I hope your son's girlfriend keeps everything ticking along for you while you're away - I'm sure she'll do a great job. Enjoy your trip to England!
I am so looking forward to the episode on slugs!
It's coming out this weekend. :-)
Thanks Ben for another wonderful and informative video. So interesting to see you working away and hearing you share your garden knowledge. Cheers!
Thank you for a brilliant video as always Ben. I just bought dill seeds this weekend for my herb area but will now sow it in with my beans. X
Another enthusiastic episode loved every moment and learn so much. Thank you 🙏🏼
We're in the San Francisco Peninsula, seeded tomatoes in January, kept them in a sunny south facing window in the garage, planted them out in April, and fruit is developing right now!
Wow - that's a great result. You'll be picking very soon! :-)
Wow... its time to plant out our plants that sitting in green house ... its getting warm.. summer is here.. thank you for sharing this videos..
Felt like summer here in Denver until this weekend when we got some snow! ❄️ Will be planting this week.
Hi Ben , I have been planted everything since last week and it’s all doing well, thank you for your sharing 👍
Nice one Yanee! :-)
Spring is later than usual here in Southern Connecticut, USA. Although today it was quite hot so I'm hoping all of my spring veggies don't bolt.
Your seedlings are so much more healthy than mine. My setup is new and I'm new but I'm determined to get it right. Which is why I'm here. Thank you!!
What nutrients for your plants have you been using? Garden lime, blood meal, super phosphate. Fish fertilizer. Are good to add.
@@everythngandnthng The only one that I don't have that you listed is the superphosphate. I have and use all of the others but I'm extremely light-handed with all of these because I'm so afraid of hurting the plants or the life that I'm trying to build in the soil. I think I need to get over my fear and fertilize rather than a sprinkle here and a sprinkle there. I'm still really excited about my garden! So excited and so committed to learning that I now have my first compost pile, saving kitchen scraps, and thinking about starting a worm bin too. Worm castings are a little pricey for such a small amount but I bought another bag today and sprinkled the whole bag on two 4 ft by 8 ft raised beds. I would LOVE to get skilled enough to sell plants right here from home! Thanks for your reply!
I hope you have a great season and a beautiful harvest!!
Great video Ben, as usual! I've never thought about utilizing my greenhouse for hothouse tomatoes....I may just have to try it with some of my extra plants this year, along with a movable shade cloth since we can get pretty toasty. Other than my sweet corn and pole shell beans, I've got everything in place. Potatoes, peas, lettuce, spinach alyssum, leeks, onions, kale, and shallots were done earlier, garlic last fall, added sweet peppers, chiles, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, squash, pumpkin, eggplant, green beans, cucumbers, dill, basil, parsley, tarragon, marigolds, calendula, borage, and zinnias this week. Whew. Now....I eagerly await the slug video!!! Grrrr... SLUGS! 🤣 Happy gardening!!
Wow - loads planted already! Happy gardening! :-)
Thank you for your content. I love your approach and have been so inspired. I just built my first ever raised beds and planted tomatoes, peppers, squash, melon, and lots of herbs. I’m in Houston Texas 9b and it’s already reached 100F. We’re in for a hot summer! Cheers!
Well done on getting start Stacy. Wishing you an abundant harvest!
Very helpful. Thank you!🌱
Absolutely loved this! Love learning from you! 🙌
Every gardener is groaning here in Spokane WA. Our night temperatures are finally up in the 40 F. It has been windy and cold. However, we are finally getting some rain after a very dry start to Springtime. My celery, red cabbage, carrots, onions, and French Spinach, are all doing well despite the grumpy weather.
Wishing you sunshine and warmer nights! :-)
Mid-west organic gardening has already produced lovely leafy greens and soon to enjoy sugar snap peas. Struggling a bit with our fine feathered friends enjoying the young plants!! Look forward to your next production. Appreciate you !
Thanks Mona. Hope your fine feathered friends don't hamper all your plants!
Great video again Ben! Love the poached egg plant. I have a real mat of it. I smile every time I see it 😀and I'm soooo looking forward to my dill flowering and see what pollinators visit 👍
I bet the poached egg plants look sublime!
I am just loving all your videos. Having a binge while I wait for planting season.
Great stuff Elissa - so pleased you're enjoying the videos.
I love your interest in companion plants
Great video again thanks for all the tips. Your pumpkin plants look so healthy.
Lots of great tips. Your planting sees to be about the same as upstate NY climate or within 2 weeks. Cold early spring then excessive warmth recently with rain twice a week. I plan to get the rest of my warm loving plants, zucchini and cucumbers and replant sunflowers, peas and beans that were stolen by chipmunks.
I never saw a poached egg plant before. But I had a lot less pests, including mosquitoes, last year due to marigolds in garden and deck. Now to frustrate the chipmunks with netting. They will get some but need to share.
I hope you manage to fend off the chipmunks this time round. Here's to a bumper crop! :-)
I like watching your videos. We're going into winter here in New Zealand, so I'm weeding and doing much needed maintenance around the place. It's nice watching Spring videos. Lush and green.
Weeding and tidying up is very satisfying Linda. I hope you have a productive time ahead - spring will be back before long.
Whenever I have tomatoes the size of yours to transplant, I strip off all but the top group of leaves. I lay them down in a trench and cover everything but that top group of leaves. They quickly turn upright, and the root growth on that long stem produces really sturdy plants.
That's really great advice Carol, thank you. I may try that next year.
What a joy that was and such an encouragement. Thank you! Coming from Wisconsin where spring is taking it's time.
thanks for the cucumber tip im growing them for the first time and wondered why the leaves went crispy i did water them more and they seem better now thankfully
That's great to hear Susan.
You sure are doing a lot with your space. It looks so open, but there are many techniques going on. Good stuff!
Thanks Michelle. 😀
I started gardening aged 6 with my gran 55 years ago. We had pots , barrels and planters.
to this day I still plant grans plants in pots , barrels and planters. All my other veg goes into raised beds Ala square foot gardening.
Unbelievable how much food can be grown in such a small area.
Fruit ..... columnar fruit trees. lift up one patio flag and plant 4 fruit trees. mini orchard for any tiny garden.
even at my age, new root stocks or varieties of veg often surprise me.
Love your suggestion for a mini orchard - great idea.
I’m just starting to garden again and there is so much info on TH-cam…. I’m glad I found this channel out of all the mess
Beautiful garden!
Glad to see this today. Those were some interesting planting tips. I planted out my runner beans this afternoon, already on their second set of leaves. The potatoes are comming along nicely too.
Great to hear that Robert. :-)
I love to watch passion ❤ you are amazing Ben xxx
Thank you so much, really appreciate it! :-)
I learn so much from your videos ! The info that you always includes the "why" . It provides so many ah ha moments, and has helped me be a more confident and successful gardener!many thanks!!!
Late spring here with too many cold dipping days. Summer came early so everything is late and confused this year 😕. It will all catch up eventually ☺️
love to be as efficient as you Ben..🥰
Our weather has been up and down. This week from 90 to 50s with a chance of frost tonight!! So enjoy your videos🙂
Oof - sorry to hear that Cindy. Hope it settles down a bit for you soon.
We have finally started getting rain. My beans were suffering and I didn't realize it until we got the rain. Everything has double, practically overnight. I am so happy. 😄
It's amazing how quickly things grow once they get going!
Ben, your videos are just excellent!!! Thank you, DA
Enjoyed this video very much, as I do all of Ben's classes. My spring has turned very hot recently (1km from the Catalan coast), so straw mulch a must in the coming months - I don't have grass clippings, so I bought a couple of bales of straw and will add some home-made compost later. Runner beans and dwarf beans will be sown directly this week. Tomatoes already climbing up their supports. Aubergines and peppers went in yesterday.
Sounds like things are already off to a great start there Bill.
I’ve got both marigolds and nasturtium nestled between my pots… glad to know dill works well with beans… i’ll start those tomorrow! Also love your tomatoes in the straw bales… very encouraging to know. Thanks! Love your videos!!
Thanks Nancy - appreciate you watching.
I planted my tomatoes, red peppers, pumpkins, cantaloupe and basil seedlings out last week (🇨🇦). I did have to cover them one night when the temperature dropped to 4C. I keep my eye on the weather forecast and fleece handy. Great tip about the tin foil! I will have to try that.
I planted some climbing french beans outside just yesterday! Got some Beetroot and Spring Onions under the lights too
God Bless All of Us Especially You 🌹🥰🙂💙🏡🌦️Thank You From Lawrence Gladys and Son Simon East London England Handsome and Beautiful. Very Good Garden.
Hi Ben, thank you for a great video today! We've had a major winter storm here, 18 inches of snow and 26F degrees. I covered all the garden and haven't even been able to get out to the chickens yet, so this beautiful garden of yours, and the planting out expertise is most welcome today especially!
Oh wow - that's quite some storm! Hope spring arrives soon for you.
I am in Belfast and decided to put my tomatoes in containers around 12 April. This was a risk, but 'Maskotka' is flowering like mad, super vigorous and already set some fruits. I have four other varieties Latah, Zlatava, Stupice and Sprakle. Peppers are growing nicely too, Lipstick pepper is about to flower too. Everything outside, while my place gets the last frost around mid-April summers are cool. For that reason, all varieties are carefully selected for such a climate. So far I am very pleased with Maskotka and Stupice tomatoes.
Nice ;) Maskotka is one of the easiest tomatoes to grow ;)
Wow - well done on getting such an early start. :-)
@@GrowVeg It's all thanks to your advice. I did check my average last frost date which normally is the last week of March in my area but I know in the last few years we had frosty mornings in mid April. Knowing this I was also relying on a long-term weather forecast. Yeah, it's was gamble lol but it was indicating higher than average temps so I decided to take a risk. Young tomatoes were left outside, in front of the South facing wall overnight. Soil thermometer was showing average min temps between 4-7 Celsius, not great but not bad. In the end all plants got a head start which paid off.
Planted my runners and french beans a couple of weeks ago at the allotment. Found the pidgeons had eaten the leaves today! Back to the windowsill!
They are a huge nuisance Paul, I feel your pain!
Our mild winter brought in an early spring. Here in East Tennessee we are having lots of rain and my beans are ready to transplant. Some are already growing in the covered chicken coop. I've already had to use a shade cloth plus I put on an insect netting because the Japanese beetles were really bad last year. They should be here soon. I have a garden snake helping with the slugs. Bless his stripes! Happy gardening!
How lovely to have a garden snake on the team! :-)
Another fantastic planting out video Ben. It's interesting and informative as your video's always are. Keep safe, well and happy gardening.
Cheers David. Thanks for flagging up the scammer comments - I get a lot of those and just delete them. They are persistent though!
I put my seedlings out too early. Now I'll be making a trip to my local garden shop for tomatoes lol
Still cold here at night with a mixed bag of rain sun and lots of wind. My cucumbers, tomatoes and beans are growing fast indoors and do need to get in the soil but I'm concerned about the wind so holding off as long as I can. Your video has inspired me to just crack on and get planting outside so fingers crossed. Love your videos always lots of good little tips, going to put some dill along side my beans this year, which will be lovely thanks Ben
Thanks Gabby. Try to start hardening off your plants to outside conditions now to prepare them for planting.